WINONA, Minn. – The Winona ty Council voted 6-1 against accepting the acronym ARC as a new name for the city’s historic Masonic Temple. In effect, the Council told the City Creative Commission to come up with something better. The Commission had recommended ARC, short for “arts, recreation and culture,” which indeed are purposes to which the building is being converted. The city acquired building after freemasons abandoned their Wiona lodge activities 1978. Among Council objections to “ARC” was the officious and off-putting feel of the acronym.
Against “ARC”
George Borzyskowski (4th Ward, East End)
Jerome Christenson (at large)
Jason Dicus (at-large)
Jeff Hyma (2nd Ward, West Side)
Sam Zierden Shortridge (3rd Ward, downtown)
Scott Sherman (mayor)
For “ARC”
Steve Young (1st Ward, West End)