A more positive meeting
A couple of days ago I wrote about a rather disappointing meeting organised by Groundworks, the company carrying out the canal improvement scheme on behalf of Stone Market Town Initiative and British Waterways. Well, it is obvious that my views were shared by several others because yesterday I was asked to attend another meeting - and what a difference!
Instead of just three schools being involved, Groundwork are now hopeful that an invitation can be sent to all Stone schools and many other local groups and organisations in the hope that they too might wish to take part in the scheme. This is a major breakthrough and answers many of the criticisms raised at the first meeting.
We also discussed the location of the piece of artwork and a proposal of a different location was received with interest. Obviously, others need to be consulted but I came away feeling a lot more optimistic. We have another meeting arranged for next week when hopefully firm decisions will finally be made.
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