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Canada )cna Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association Portrait gallery hope loses focus yet again There can be no greater symbol of Ottawa dysfunction than the money pit sitting right across the street from the Parliament Build- ings, which has sucked up more than a million dollars of public money just in maintenance costs while it's been sitting vacant. It's long past time to put the for- mer U.S. Embassy building at 100 Wellington St. to good use. Thurs- day, the Liberals kicked off three weeks of consultation about what, exactly, should go there. Conspicu- ously absent from the six options on the table is the idea that's been associated with that building since the Jean Chretien era: a national portrait gallery. There's a more vague "gallery," to showcase "artwork of national sig- nificance." How that would differ from the National Gallery of Can- ada is unclear, which, says its director's message, houses the "world's most comprehensive col- lection of Canadian art." Of course, a portrait gallery could be a part of this larger gallery. At any rate, the consultations are deliberately vague to find out precisely what those consulted would like. Of the six options, the govern- ment should pick gallery -- that is, a portrait gallery. This stately, historic and central building is an ideal place to show off Canada's impressive national collection of portraits. Most of that collection is in storage, although special shows and initiatives across the country have allowed some Canadians to look at the faces of this country's past. The National Gallery of Canada. You can see them online at the Library and Archives portrait por- tal, which draws on more than 20,000 paintings, drawings and prints and more than four million photographs, among other items. It goes far beyond sombre official paintings of politicians. You can see, for example, an astonishing photograph that hints at stories of the Second World War that we sel- dom hear: a Mi'kmaq woman working in the Pictou shipyard with her baby on her back. In 2006, the Conservative gov- ernment killed the plan to put the portrait gallery in this building, despite the fact $11 million had already been spent. It then toyed with the idea of putting the portrait gallery in Calgary, and then planned a bidding process for other cities; they never went anywhere. This was wasteful and pointless behaviour. There was never any Postmedia files good reason not to go ahead with the original plan to put it on Wel- lington Street. A national portrait gallery is precisely the kind of thing that belongs in a capital city, near the seat of government. Let those faces staring down from the walls be a reminder to politicians and public servants about the import of their daily work. A country is built by people and their stories. - Postmedia Network FROM THE ARCHIVES 15 years ago... • Brucefield United Church celebrated their 125th anniversary. • A story from the News Record helped a woman from New York discover relatives in Clinton. The woman from New York sent photos to the News Record that she had found in an old photo album in her mother's attic. The photos were taken in Brussels and Blyth, so she sent them to the paper in search of their iden- tity. A couple in Clinton saw the strong resemblance of their fam- ily in the photos, and after looking back at their family tree, real- ized they were related and got in touch with the woman. They were delighted to both be able to fill in gaps in their family trees by learning about each other. • Two Canadian rock 'n' roll icons played at the Clinton slots — Lighthouse and The Stampeders. 25 years ago... • A traffic accident claimed the life of a five-year-old Blyth boy and sent 18 other to a hospital when a cube van holding 23 peo- ple hit a car. The van was meant to hold 23 people and everyone was wearing their seatbelts. • For the first time, the Bayfield Fall Fair was set to start on Friday instead of Saturday, adding an extra evening to the event. 35 years ago... • A small plane crashed four kilometers north of Seaforth killing one man. The 20 -year-old pilot died when the plan clipped a tree and crashed into a soybean field. • A London resident rescued a Clinton man from death after pulling him out of a buming 1971 corvette that had flipped over and was on fire. The London came across the corvette when he drove by it. He pulled the unconscious man out just before the entire car was engulfed in flames, and the Clinton man only sustained minor inju- ries. Thoughts, observations or concerns about this community? Share them with Clinton and the surrounding area. Email your letters to the editor to Justine at jalkema@postmedia.com. CLINTON NEWS RECORD - HOURS OF OPERATION MONDAY: 9:00-5:00 • TUESDAY: CLOSED • WEDNESDAY: 9:00-5:00 • THURSDAY: 9:00-5:00 • FRIDAY: 9:00-5:00 • SATURDAY & SUNDAY: CLOSED ADVERTISING DEADLINE: FRIDAY 2:00 RM. ADVERTISING BOOKING DEADLINE: FRIDAY 1:30 P.M. www.clintonnewsrecord.com