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7/29/2010
Envision Edmonton has provided us with a letter to Mayor Stephen Mandel, asking that next week's closure of a runway at the City Centre Airport be delayed.
Improved poll results are cause for optimism for the group that wants to keep the airport open.
It needs to collect 80,000 signatures on a petition by the middle of next month, to force a plebiscite on the future of the airport in this fall's municipal election. As of Thursday, it had about 45,000.
Envision Edmonton's Chuck Allard thinks the publicity is working and all that ''face time'' at various festivals is paying off.
"The undecided level has got off the fence and started siding with us, so it's gone from 46 to 52 percent," says Allard, "but, when you add some of the other subject matters, then it goes up to 70-74 percent and then the democracy argument is very, very high."
The letter above (Click to enlarge) touts those poll numbers, stresses the need for Medevac services and asks for time to let the petition drive run its course. The mayor's office reports that , by the end of the business day Thursday, the letter had yet to arrive. (sj, kn, ccg)More from iNews Now:
Edmonton.ca: City Centre Airport Review
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