By Lisa Goudy
Sidewalk Days has arrived for yet another year. With it comes street closures.
“Main Street is going to be closed
from Oxford (Street) to Manitoba (Street),” said Marlin Stusek,
engineering technologist with the city. “The east/west running streets
like Oxford Street, Ross Street, Caribou (Street), Athabasca (Street)
and Fairford (Street) will be open to traffic heading east and west.”
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Rod Montgomery appointed as new fire chief
By Lisa Goudy
“It’s an exciting challenge,” he said. “I was honoured that they selected me.”
The city announced on Tuesday that Montgomery will begin the new position on Aug. 15 when fire chief Garth Palmer retires. Montgomery has been the deputy fire chief and the city’s emergency measures organization co-ordinator for the past three years. From 1989 to 2010 he was a firefighter with the city.
Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Strange sightings in Moose Jaw skies
By Lisa Goudy
It was 10:45 p.m. on Saturday when local resident Inez White saw nine light orbs in the sky.
“I was just getting ready for bed. So I looked out the window and I saw all these lights in the sky and they were like a football field apart or maybe a little bit more,” she said. “They were all yellow and kind of orange and they were going not at a really fast speed but kind of in unison …. It was just the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.”
She added the orbs moved from east to west and turned north before disappearing. White, who lives in the complex at the end of Wolfe Avenue, said at first she saw six of them but then more came. She said it wasn’t a plane because there weren’t any red or green flashing lights visible.
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It was 10:45 p.m. on Saturday when local resident Inez White saw nine light orbs in the sky.
“I was just getting ready for bed. So I looked out the window and I saw all these lights in the sky and they were like a football field apart or maybe a little bit more,” she said. “They were all yellow and kind of orange and they were going not at a really fast speed but kind of in unison …. It was just the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.”
She added the orbs moved from east to west and turned north before disappearing. White, who lives in the complex at the end of Wolfe Avenue, said at first she saw six of them but then more came. She said it wasn’t a plane because there weren’t any red or green flashing lights visible.
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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: West Nile risk to increase by mid-July
By Lisa Goudy
Mosquitoes are out again, but so far nothing’s tested positive for West Nile virus.
“It’s somewhat of a guessing game (on the risk) until we start seeing positive mosquitoes,” said Dr. Mark Vooght, medical officer for the Five Hills Health Region. “Right now everyone is fully aware there are a lot of nuisance mosquitoes around, mosquitoes other than Culex tarsalis which is the most efficient at transmitting the West Nile virus organism to humans.”
He said the Culex tarsalis mosquitoes will feed more regularly and lay more eggs when the weather is hotter. He said those mosquitoes require the "right amount of heat” to thrive.
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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Lisa's Corner: Perspective can help us garner empathy
By Lisa Goudy
Sometimes we could all use some perspective.
It is impossible for anyone to know exactly what it’s like for someone else in his or her specific situation. We can’t know exactly what a person has gone through, is going through or will go through.
I think we need to recognize we have our differences and our experiences are uniquely ours by way of what happens or by how we choose to react to what happens.
While we can never truly know, perspective can help us try and understand and empathize with other people. For a lot of negative associations with someone’s situation, I believe we will be enlightened if we ourselves have experienced that.
For example unless we have experienced the kind of flooding such as in Alberta, we cannot possibly imagine what that’s like to lose everything because of a natural disaster.
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