Month: June 2016
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MLHS year has had challenges and triumphs
The Mack Laing Heritage Society held its Annual General Meeting and Art in the Park, behind Shakesides in Mack Laing Park, on June 11, 2016, and reflected on a year that brought both challenges and triumphs. Despite the disappointment of watching Baybrook demolished, the group focused on Laing’s second house, Shakesides. At the eleventh…
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Public opinion is very clear: Save Shakesides and honour Mack Laing’s Will!
The online petition by the Mack Laing Heritage Society has produced strong support for preserving Shakesides. It also reveals considerable outrage at Comox Council for apparently refusing to honour Mack Laing’s Will and use the Trust funds he left the Town as he wished – to create a natural history museum in Shakesides. A selection…
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Where is the “Trust, respect and honour” our Mayor promised?
Letter sent via individual hard copy to Mayor and Councillors, copy to Mack Laing Society -posted with permission) Re: Saving Shakesides, the honouring of our elders and love of place. First: I draw attention to the Mayor’s inaugural address. “As I noted on election night, this is all about trust – what the voters and…
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MLHS declines to be present at Committee meeting
Statement to Mack Laing Nature House Advisory Committee, Friday June 10, 2016 by Angela Burns, representative for the Mack Laing Heritage Society (Note: Chair Terry Chester disallowed this comment) I declined to be present at this meeting because I saw no benefit to the MLHS in attending yet another session where I and the…
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Advisory Committee dismisses obvious option for Shakesides
The suggestion was relatively simple: Renovate and repurpose Shakesides into a small “Nature Interpretive Heritage House” to meet the intent and bequest of Hamilton Mack Laing. (He did not wish to aggrandize himself, but to educate and inspire future generations to appreciate nature) Shakesides could become a focal point for small, changing educational nature displays…
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Questions arise about Town of Comox accounting of Mack Laing Trust Fund
The Town of Comox’s report on the Mack Laing Trust, a bequest it accepted in 1982 on the death of Comox naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing, has significant discrepancies, according to professional accounting report obtained from a private citizen by the Mack Laing Heritage Society. Kent Moeller (CPA, CA) of Moeller Matthews in Campbell River, disputes…
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Mack Laing Society holding Art in the Park, AGM – Saturday, June 11, 2016
The Mack Laing Heritage Society (MLHS) invites everyone to its ‘Art in the Park’ and plein air Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 11, 2016 from 10 am to 4 pm, behind Shakesides house in Mack Laing Park. This will be an art-making day at the site of Mack Laing’s former home. There will be…
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Mack Laing Society holding Art in the Park, AGM – Saturday, June 11, 2016
The Mack Laing Heritage Society (MLHS) invites everyone to its ‘Art in the Park’ and plein air Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 11, 2016 from 10 am to 4 pm, behind Shakesides house in Mack Laing Park. Read our press release for more information.