Council to review new sculpture, heritage building and awards program
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It’s a meaningful slate for City of North Battleford this evening with items on the agenda for council resolution that have profound historical and social ramifications.
Among the presentations to be discussed include the heritage designation for the North Battleford Carnegie Library-Allen Sapp Gallery, the donation of sculpture “Annie Peyachew” in honour of both survivors and those who died in residential schools and the city awards program featuring the order of merit and the youth award of excellence.
The gallery – the only one in the country to be dedicated to an Indigenous artist – is to be presented for the council to resolve whether it will receive provincial heritage designation status. According to the agenda, the library received municipal heritage designation in the 1980s. Should the council pass the motion, the building would have legal protection, be added to the official heritage property website and join a group of less than 60 heritage properties in the province.
The sculpture of who would become Annie Peyachew was commissioned in 2020 by Lionel Peyachew for the Battlefords area. The 82nd call to action as part of the Truth and Reconciliation is to “to commission and install a publicly accessible, highly visible, Residential Schools Monument in each capital city to honour Survivors and all the children who were lost to their families and communities.” The sculpture is completed and ready for installation. It will be donated by the Battlefords Industrial School Commemorative Association. The presentation recommends that the sculpture – set to be unveiled in September be installed in Central Park.
