Landmark fountain to make way for city’s jazz sculpture


	Landmark fountain to make way for city’s jazz sculpture

greg naylor

4-18-2008 4:12 AM

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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/7935e431-ba9b-4fa9-81c3-660e3ee5b294/F6560076-D552-4D4F-B342-9D389B1A380E/" 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/chStory09n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory09n.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/chStory09n.htm"><P>THE fate of an historic water fountain at the entrance of Merriwa Park was sealed at a Rural City of Wangaratta council meeting on Tuesday night.</p> <P>Despite objections from its founders, the Lions Club of Wangaratta structure will be replaced with the "<B>Tin Kan 2</B>" jazz sculpture currently located at the corner of Ford and Ovens streets.</p> <P>It was the belief of councillors that the fountain, which used 2500 kilolitres of water a year, was not compliant with council’s sustainable water use plan.</p> <P>"<B>It has been 45 years since the fountain was put in and back 45 years ago, water wasn’t an issue as it is today,</B>" Cr Don Joyce said.</p> <P>"<B>It was a great project by the Lions club and it provided a great entrance to the city in those times.</B></p> <P><B>"<B>When it was going and lit up it certainly was a wonderful thing to see, but times have changed.</B>"</B></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/F6560076-D552-4D4F-B342-9D389B1A380E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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