Story_2008

In 2008 Albury is celebrating a number of milestones – the first birthday of the LibraryMuseum and centenary of the Albury Town Hall which is now the Albury Regional Gallery. You’re invited to use these events as inspiration for your contribution to the community story to be launched on Monday 16 June 2008. Please add your contributions below. Just click the Edit This Page icon.
 * Community Story – A Reason to Celebrate**

Milestones? Perhaps kiloclicks would be a better measurement, given that we have long been metric and the digital enhancements available at the new LibraryMuseum. Having celebrated so successfully with its Kiewa street party, the LM ...life model? link maker ? ... can now turn around to celebrate Albury's sesquicentenary by opening access to once was civic, now is QE2 square ... will be? With one corner of Albury reinvented, is it not time to continue the story by reinventing its central space, to determine to celebrate a meeting place?

Rachel had always seen QEII Square as a place to pass through. Dragged on her mother’s hand from the bakery on Dean Street to pre-school reading time at the library, and in the other direction from the long term parking into the heart of the town. Rachel realised belatedly that for her the heart of the town meant the shops. And that was sad. Hearts were such precious things and surely there was room in the town’s cockles for more than retail. She came to the realisation because she was forced that day to think quite pointedly about hearts. It was a ironed-flat blue sky day, she was only passing through, but she noticed there were more people than usual in the square. There was something happening. A celebration by the looks of it. There were men with hair neatly combed and women walking in cacoons of expensive perfume. With shoes shined and scarves flung elegantly around shoulders.

Rachel would have kept walking and bought those new boots, only the man fell in front of her onto the ocean of green grass which was centre of QEII. He was clutching his heart. Like his heart was breaking. It was unrequited love or a medical emergency.