'Let us take our little brick once it's closed off and have that special memory.'
Calgary’s Olympic Plaza will close for construction at the end of December and, with the end of an era approaching, some Calgarians are once again calling on the city to reconsider its plans for the bricks. Meghan Cobb has more.“We were down here with our newborn son to do the medals, we did the fireworks, we did the torch run,” Love said of the 1988 Winter Games. “This really was an amazing spot to be during the Olympics.
Click to share quote on Twitter: "It's not just a piece of the history of Calgary — it's part of our personal, family history."It’s a part of Millie Hartviksen’s family history as well. Her parents and sister both have bricks at Olympic Plaza and would like to find a way to save them, rather than see them lost to the plaza’s redesign.
“We’d like to be able to find a way where we might work with the city,” says Love. “So, the few of us, or many of us, who want our bricks because it has a special memory for us to be able to get our bricks.”Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi leave U.S. in wake of election: reports
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