Fountain Park vendor announced Skybox Café will take over operations of the concession at Fountain Park next Saturday. The city had previously run the concession there. A news release this week announced the change-over date of March 21.
Fountain Park vendor announced
Skybox Café will take over operations of the concession at Fountain Park next Saturday.
The city had previously run the concession there. A news release this week announced the change-over date of March 21.
The move comes as the city continues to swap out city-run concessions to third-party vendors across the city. The concession at Akinsdale/Kinex Arena was leased out last summer, also to Skybox. Skybox also operates at Servus Place.
Next up for a vendor swap is the concession at Woodlands Water Play Park and Grosvenor Outdoor Pool. The successful bidder to lease that space hasn't been announced yet.
Defamation lawsuit
The city manager's defamation lawsuit against an anonymous blog is going ahead.
Court documents show Patrick Draper's statement of claim was amended on Feb. 23 to name Gordon Hennigar and Richard Stringham as defendants in the case, in addition to John Doe and ABC Corporation Ltd.
The suit seeks $100,000 in damages, alleging that Draper was defamed by content in posts on the St. Albert Third Floor News blog that appeared online last spring.
Last July, council authorized Draper to take personal legal action and use money from the city's stabilization fund to pay for the lawsuit. He's supposed to donate any proceeds back to the city.
Draper had no comment on the filings since the matter is currently before the courts. None of the allegations in the suit have been proven in court.
Hennigar provided a written statement that says he did not have anything to do with the creation or maintenance of the blog. He said he received an anonymous email about the website launch and did advise some people it was going online.
“But when I saw the nature of the articles on that Website … I did not consider them to be appropriate political dialogue – and thereafter had nothing further to do with that Website,” Hennigar writes.
He says he plans to file a counter-claim against Draper.
Stringham could not be reached immediately for comment before deadline on Friday. He was later reached on Monday and said he had nothing to do with the blog.
