No fountain of joy for council, Lions club


	No fountain of joy for council, Lions club

greg naylor

4-13-2008 11:45 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/526a4f5b-b2e2-4bd9-ac26-1fc06743a8d7/E62B527A-95AF-4BD7-A98B-1D9504000CFA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory02n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory02n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory02n.htm"><P>THE water fountain at the entrance to Merriwa Park looks set to become the centre of a tug of war between the Rural City of Wangaratta and the local Lions club.</p> <P>The fountain, set up by the Lions Club of Wangaratta in 1963, is in a sad state at the moment, and council has ear-marked it for removal.</p> <P>Council wants to replace it with the "<B>Two Can</B>" jazz sculpture which is currently located at the corner of Ford and Ovens St in front of the soon to be demolished Wangaratta Town Hall.</p> <P>The current building will be replaced by the Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre, with no room on the tight site for the sculpture.</p> <P>Council had identified the Merriwa Park entrance as an ideal spot for the sculpture, and had contacted the Lions club with a view to removing the old fountain.</p> <P>However, the club is standing on its dig and has told council that it has plans to restore the fountain to its former glory on the current site.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E62B527A-95AF-4BD7-A98B-1D9504000CFA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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