At Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery’s 70th anniversary event last week, I was taken by Monica Tap’s larger-than-life landscape “Road to Lily Dale I”. In a decentralized region such as ours, with few unifying symbols, the Grand River shows up as something that links us all.

Plus photos of some of the incredible public art in my neighbourhood.

Public art and publicly accessible galleries are not just a nice-to-have in #WaterlooRegion, they are part of what makes a neighbourhood worth living in.