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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
The Civic Theatre in Ossy was due to be officially opened by the Mayor on 4th September. Britcliffe asked if Malcolm would step down in favour of him opening it instead and when he refused he simply cancelled the opening.
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Please get your facts right before dragging the Civic Arts Centre into this.
For a start it was not the Civic Theatre that was due to be officially launched, it was the newly refurbished Civic Arts Centre.
The original date was the 12th not the 4th and the official launch event has been postponed - not cancelled.
The Centre is very much Open and there was an Open Day on the 22nd August. The Centre is up and running and very much open, please don't go round saying that the opening has cancelled as that implies that we're not operational and we are.
The official launch event was POSTPONED because there are three big projects happening in the run up to the event (two already happened) and the third next week. The Board and I decided that we didn't have time to do the Official Launch Event the justice it deserved so have bought our selves more time. Plus, some of the board were unable to attend the date of the 12th, so the Board of the Arts Centre made the decision to POSTPONE the event.
Peter Britcliffe will undoubtedly be a huge part of the rearranged Official Launch event (and was always intended to be) as it was he that has championed this project from day one and it's in his ward. Don't forget, the Labour Party opposed this project and voted against the capital expenditure.