The late Neil Peart grew up in the St. Catharines, Ontario community of Port Dalhousie, the lakefront home of Lakeside Park which inspired the lyrics to the 1975 Rush song of the same name. Back in 2020 the St. Catharines City Council, with the full support of the community, voted to name the newly rebuilt pavilion at Lakeside Park the Neil Peart Pavilion at Lakeside Park in honor of the hometown icon who passed away over 3 years ago no in January of 2020. The Council also established the Neil Peart Commemorative Task Force, with the objective to commission a public work of art commemorating Peart's life and legacy. Back in January of 2021 the Task Force officially began welcoming artists to submit requests for pre-qualification via the city's website, and revealed the finalists in September of 2021 along with the launch of a fundraising campaign for the Memorial. This past November the Task Force finally revealed that the artist who will have the honor of creating the memorial is Morgan MacDonald of The Newfoundland Bronze Foundry. The project and its timelines are contingent on the Task Force raising the $1 million required for completion, and donations of any size can be made online at stcatharines.ca/neilpeart. Neil Peart's sisters Judy and Nancy and the Peart Family Memorial Fund have jumped in to help raise funds for the Memorial with a number of charity events planned that they've dubbed their Legacy in Bronze Campaign. The first of these fundraising events will take place tomorrow evening from 8-11PM at The Rockhouse in St. John's, Newfoundland. The event will include a performance by local Rush tribute band Limelight, a silent auction, door prizes and more. The Peart sisters along with MacDonald and Limelight band member Erin O'Mara were recently interviewed by NTV's Rosie Mullaley to promote the event, and you can watch the video news story at this location. Tickets for the event are $20 with doors opening at 7PM.