Report: Oshawa Claims First Place In KISS Online Tour Routing Poll
June 30, 2009, 15 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Adrian Morrow from TheStar.com:
Oshawa (Ontario)'s loud campaign to bring KISS to a city hushed by auto-plant layoffs may have paid off.
Voting in an online poll to determine KISS' route for a fall tour closed today, with Oshawa far in front with 14,573 votes, with Winnipeg next at 12,929. Organizers have said they'll weigh the results to take into account the size of cities in the running. Toronto is in eighth place with 5,304 votes.
The result caps a two-month campaign by Oshawa to win the contest, with residents urged to vote early and often - by radio ads, a Facebook web page and a booth at the Oshawa Centre mall.
Robert Lutczyk, the city councillor who spearheaded the effort as a way to give Oshawa an economic boost, through everything from taxi rides to hotel rooms, was happy with the results - but now wants multiple KISS shows.
"We don't just want to be another city on the tour - we want to be the double-double," said Lutczyk, who wants the band to play two gigs at the start of the tour and two at the end.
So far, KISS has not announced the dates for its fall tour, but Lutczyk said it would begin in September.
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