Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Fun and pizza for kitties

SCRAPS holds third annual Yowling Halloween Pizza Party

Glady Bell, president and founder of the Band City Stray
Cat Rescue and Protection Society (SCRAPS), plays with
a service dog with the Moose Jaw Police Service outside
of Pizza Hut on Oct. 28, 2014. The dog was a special guest
at SCRAPS' third annual Yowling Halloween Pizza Party.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Tuesday night was a yowling good time and it came with a few surprises.

The Band City Stray Cat Rescue and Protection Society (SCRAPS) held their third annual Yowling Halloween Pizza Party fundraiser at Pizza Hut.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Finding interim hospital financing

Brian Acker, the city's director of financial 
services, talks about hospital funding at the 
Oct. 27, 2014 executive committee meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


There is a discrepancy regarding city funding for the new hospital.

The city’s financial commitment timetable and the collection period for funding don’t line up. What this means is the City of Moose Jaw needs to find an interim financing source to fulfill the commitment to the project.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Goodbye to hourly mid-day bus service

Executive approves reverting bus schedule to 30-minute mid-day service

Mark Sture, transit manager with the
City of Moose Jaw, speaks about reverting
the transit schedule back to the 30-minute
mid-day service at the Oct. 27, 2014
executive committee meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

There are two changes coming to the bus schedule.

As of Nov. 17, buses will revert to running every 30 minutes for mid-day service instead of running every hour. At Monday’s executive committee meeting, Coun. Dawn Luhning’s motion included running the service from 7:15 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. on Monday and Tuesdays and from 7:15 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It was passed.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Transit trouble

By Lisa Goudy


It was mid-October when Judy Havers had an unpleasant experience with Moose Jaw city transit.

“I felt like a nobody,” she said. “The way the bus drivers talked to me, it was just the rudest thing I’ve ever been through. The handicapped bus drivers, they were really nice, but these drivers, that’s ridiculous to talk to somebody like that and treat people that way.”

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: All the Trimmings and more

(From left clockwise) Bernadette Meegan, Maria
Meegan, Linda Myers and Aidan Meegan sit down
to dine at the All the Trimmings Christmas dinner
on Oct. 26, 2014 at the Yvette Moore Gallery.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

First came the spinach and arugula salad, topped with blood orange vinaigrette.

This was followed by apple and sage brined turkey with bacon cider gravy along with pancetta with apple and leek sourdough stuffing, roasted garlic cream mashed potatoes, brown sugar and pecan crusted sweet potato bake and honey and thyme roasted root vegetables. This was accompanied by Saskatoon berry and apricot cranberry sauce with honey.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Scary delights at Haunted Village

The Voodoo Witch Doctor David stands at his guard
as the gatekeeper prior to a tour of the Haunted
Village at Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and
Museum on the evening of Oct. 25, 2014.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Screams echoed on the wind in the dark abyss of night.

A long line of people huddled together in line, waiting for their turn, not knowing what to expect. The brisk air caused shivers to run up the spine. It was the perfect night for virus infections, the ideal moment for the haunted village to come alive.

“I nearly had a heart attack,” said one of the kids, Kolby Tatum, after the tour. “I’m not going to sleep tonight.”

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Continuing the correct disposal cycle

Envirotec workers sort through the various
hazardous materials dropped off at the city
complex during the City of Moose Jaw's Household
 Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Oct. 25, 2014.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


As of 1 p.m. Saturday, Duane Grado hadn’t seen any “odd ducks” this year in hazardous materials.

“We haven’t seen any bomb shells or ammunition. We were prepared for it. We would work with the city police,” said Grado, the city’s public works manager. “We’ve got a couple unknown substances. We’ll try to figure out what they are so we can deal with them accordingly.”

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A Whistlestop into the Christmas Spirit

Andrew Wingrove, president and CEO of Bee by
the Sea, stands with Anne-Marie Beaudoin at
the 2014 Whistlestop Craft Sale at the Moose
Jaw Exhibition Grounds on Oct. 25, 2014.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Andrew Wingrove grows sea buckthorn on his farm.

Six years ago, his company, Bee by the Sea, began and sold only one product. Now there are seven - face cream, body cream, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap and lip balm.

“In Saskatchewan, it’s becoming quite popular over the last 10 or 15 years. It’s an herb and it has little orange berries on it. It may have as much Vitamin C in one little berry as you get out of an orange. That’s kind of the key component to it,” said Wingrove.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Moostletoe offers a peek into artists’ studios

Landscape artist Russell Mang talks with Theresa
Fuhr of Estevan during the 2014 Moostletoe
Artists Studio Tour on Oct. 25, 2014 at Monicats
Artist Studio. Behind Mang is some of his work.
 Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

Theresa Fuhr and her companions drove 235 kilometers to take part in the fourth annual Moostletoe Artists Studio Tour on Saturday.

Coming from Estevan, Fuhr first heard of the tour about a month ago when she was in Moose Jaw. She regularly purchases pottery for her store through the Parsons Dietrich studio. It was the first place her group visited on the Moostletoe tour.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A trip to the Bluebird Cafe

Victoria Banks performs a song at the Mae
Wilson Theatre on Oct. 24, 2014 as part of the
A Night at the Bluebird Cafe benefit concert
for the Moose Jaw Health Foundation.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


A keyboard, two guitars and three voices was all it took to create a blissful ambiance in the Mae Wilson Theatre on Friday night.

“There’s something so amazing about hearing a songwriter sing their own material and it’s very moving, I find,” said singer/songwriter Victoria Banks before Friday’s show. “It’s an emotional experience, hearing the songs coming from the people that wrote them and what they mean.”

Joined by fellow singer/songwriters Phil Barton and Emily Shackelton, the trio created harmonies and sounds comparable to what anyone would hear at the Bluebird Café in Nashville, a place all three Nashville-based artists perform often.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: From bylaws to appeals

City clerk/solicitor’s department submits third quarter report

City clerk/solicitor Myron Gulka-Tiechko
presents his department's third quarter
report at Monday's council meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

The city clerk/solicitor’s department finalized four bylaws from July 1 to Sept. 30.

Those bylaws are the procedure bylaw amendment, the remuneration bylaw amendment, the property maintenance and nuisance bylaw and the noise bylaw. City clerk/solicitor Myron Gulka-Tiechko presented his department’s quarterly report at Monday’s council meeting.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A faster method for development review process

At Monday's council meeting, Michelle Sanson,
manager of planning and development services,
presents the department's third quarterly report.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

City staff members from various departments have formed a development review committee.

The internal committee will look at applications as they come into the city.

“It’s more just to help speed up the process and to get answers to the builders and developers a little quicker,” said Michelle Sanson, manager of planning and development services with the City of Moose Jaw.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Lisa's Corner: Spoiler alert

By Lisa Goudy


I’ve never understood people’s obsessions with spoilers.

When I read a book, I don’t want to know the ending before I get there. The same thing goes for a movie or for a TV show. I want to experience all of it as it’s meant to be experienced, which, if you ask me, is to read or see something in sequence that it is presented to us.

And with many TV shows getting us hooked and leaving us hanging after each episode, there are some people who can’t stand the wait, who need to know more now and end up looking on the Internet for spoilers.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Empathizing with those in poverty

Police Chief Rick Bourassa talks about his
experience with the Poverty Costs Challenge
at Riverside Mission on Oct. 23, 2014.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Police Chief Rick Bourassa has learned he wouldn’t make it far if he was impoverished.

“I learned how spoiled I am … I’d be a horrible poor person,” he said. “Good nutrition and good food is something I took for granted.”

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Extinguishing and mitigating fires

Council receives fire department’s third quarter report

By Lisa Goudy

Fire Chief Rod Montgomery delivers the
Moose Jaw Fire Department's third quarterly
report at Monday's council meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

Fire Chief Rod Montgomery sees the significance of apartment buildings and business inspections.

“I think the importance of this is certainly to mitigate things before they happen and identify problems,” he said. “The work that we do there is so important to bring the number of fires down and I commend our crews and our inspector on the work that they do there.”

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Firing up the kilns

Artist Monica DeCampo stands by some of her porcelain
work on display at the Mosaic Gallery at the Moose Jaw
Cultural Centre on Wednesday. The red bowl was
originally green before a reduction technique was
applied. The show is on display until Nov. 22.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

As Monica DeCampo picked up a red porcelain pot, she noted how it was originally green.

“It’s a copper green that turns red because the gas in order to burn energy will steal the oxygen from the pots. So that’s how you get lustres and so forth,” she said. “It’s called reduction.”

It is one piece of many in her new exhibit called Seven: An Adventure in porcelain on display at the Mosaic Gallery at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre until Nov. 22.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A village full of haunts at Sukanen Ship

By Lisa Goudy


Anyone looking for a scare is guaranteed to get it on Saturday night.

The Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum will host its annual Haunted Village, designed to frighten and surprise with 13 or 14 scare points.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A misunderstanding about pedestrian crosswalks

Coun. Patrick Boyle shares his thoughts about
installing a pedestrian crosswalk overhead with
push buttons at Monday's council meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


It’s been three months since councillors approved Coun. Patrick Boyle’s motion to install overhead crosswalks with push buttons.

Crosswalk signs were put up quickly at 11^th Avenue Northwest and Thatcher Drive. However, overhead crosswalks with a push button haven’t been installed.

The issue came back before council at Monday’s meeting with a request for council to clarify its intention and to sole source the contract with RGM Incorporated for a cost of up to $50,000 because the company is currently in the city doing traffic signals under a contract.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Curbside recycling debate heating up

Coun. Brian Swanson outlines his reasoning
for council to not issue a request for proposals
for the city to implement a citywide curbside
recycling program at Monday's council meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

Forty minutes of discussion at Monday’s council meeting included a councillor changing positions and a disagreement on morality.

The dispute began when Coun. Brian Swanson requested a revote on the motion executive committee passed last week to issue a request for proposals (RFP) for a citywide curbside recycling program operated by a private contractor and to decommission the recycling depot on North Hill that will not be replaced.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A Moostletoe artist tour

By Lisa Goudy

Anyone who stops by Sole Connection on Saturday will get a chance to chat with Christy Schweiger about her clay sculpting work.

“I will be just talking about my work that I have ongoing currently and I will also showcase some of the work I’ve done in the past,” she said. “(It’s) just the opportunity to talk to some people who are interested in art making and tell them what I’m doing.”

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Living life with an autistic child

Eight-year-old Liam Atkinson plays at
McDonald's recently. He was diagnosed with
autism just before he started kindergarten.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Erin Hidlebaugh’s eldest son Liam knew his A-Zs at age 18 months before he could speak.

“He was saying a few words, no sentences or anything, but he could identify the alphabet,” she said. “When he was little, his obsession was letters and words and books …  and then it was Angry Birds and now it’s Minecraft.”

Liam, now 8, was first diagnosed with autism just before he started kindergarten at age five. This diagnosis wasn’t a surprise for Erin and her husband, Corey Atkinson, as they’d seen signs of it for a few years.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Lisa's Corner: Our world, our fight for zero hunger

By Lisa Goudy

There is good news and bad news when it comes to food.

The good news is that, according to the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 report, the number of hungry people is down by 37 million. The bad news is there are still 805 million people who are hungry.

The WFP, which is the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger in the world, has a goal of “zero hunger.” This message was marked further on Thursday, which was World Food Day.

I would love to see that happen. If we could live in a world where no one was hungry and where every child who went to school had a lunch, it would be a far better world.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Going once, going twice, sold

Chair-ity Auction raises $6,400 for children’s programs

Christy Schweiger, education co-ordinator at the
Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, sits in Chelsey
Dirkson's chair, called Literachair, as auctioneer
Glenn Hagel gets the bids started for this particular
chair at the Chair-ity Auction at the Sportsman's
Centre on Thursday night. The chair sold for $600.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


The chair Anna MacDonald designed fits into the palm of a hand.

“I’m a silversmith or jewelry designer and my chair’s made out of silver and it’s very teeny-tiny. This one is a map of the area around the gallery. I’ve been working with maps since 2005. Everything’s hand-pierced,” she said. “I just love challenging myself to create something that somebody might consider beautiful.”

It ended up receiving the highest bid at the annual Chair-ity and Art Auction at the Sportsman’s Centre on Thursday night, put on by the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery (MJMAG) and Hunger in Moose Jaw. 

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Buy lunches for kids

By Lisa Goudy


Four years ago, Carol Acton’s goal of fundraising $50,000 in 50 days to feed hungry children didn’t seem likely.

“I didn’t even think it was possible and this community is fabulous and so generous to us,” she said. “What a world of difference it makes to have the support. The last two years we’ve actually reached our goal.”

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Applying for disaster assistance

Coun. Patrick Boyle speaks at Tuesday's
executive committee meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


On June 18, 30.4 millimeters of rain hit Moose Jaw. On Sept. 3, 57 millimeters of rain came down from the sky.

While the municipal buildings or infrastructure didn’t sustain any damage, some individuals reported issues with their property thanks to the rain.

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Looking at curbside recycling

Executive committee votes to issue an RFP for city recycling program

Councillors discuss curbside recycling options at
Tuesday's executive committee meeting at city hall.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

For Mayor Deb Higgins, it’s overdue for the city to have a recycling program.

“We’ve talked about this since long before I was on council and it’s important to a big chunk of our population that recycling be part of services here in the city,” she said. 

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Thinking about feral cats

By Lisa Goudy


When anyone sees a cat, it’s important to know what type of cat it is before making a call.

“They have to make sure it’s a feral cat and just not a stray cat that’s tame that belongs to somebody,” said Glady Bell, president and founder of the Stray Cat Rescue and Protection Society (SCRAPS).

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Top 10 Thanksgiving Jokes

By Lisa Goudy

Looking to eat a turkey and not be a turkey this Thanksgiving? Well, here’s a compilation of the top 10 Thanksgiving jokes to use this weekend to entertain family and friends.

10 – What’s the best thing to put into a pumpkin pie?
 Your teeth.

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