The Nelson Daily readers give 'two thumbs up' to heron sculpture
By Nelson Daily Staff
The blue heron has landed on the Nelson waterfront.
And if The Nelson Daily readers have anything to say about the eight-metre tall bronze sculpture, it should stay thank you very much.
In a recent The Nelson Daily poll 60 per cent of voters like the $200,000 donated heron.
Of the voters, nine percent like the sculpture, just not on the waterfront whereas 31 percent don’t like the new piece of art at all.
City staff erected the eight-metre tall bronze sculpture of a blue heron, created by internationally recognized artist Jock Hildebrand on the waterfront at the Lakeside Soccer Pitch.
The sculpture was supposed to sit in the plaza of a condo complex in Kelowna, but the developer and condo owners got into a disagreement and the $200,000 heron wound up in storage in Calgary.
Council approved the acquisition of the sculpture at the July 7, 2011 meeting – the same meeting where they reviewed the new Sustainable Downtown and Waterfront Master Plan.
