Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Trip of a lifetime for four mentally handicapped

Sharon and Alvin Cole took four mentally handicapped people living at their home to Mexico from April 13 to 20.  Photo courtesy of Sharon Cole

By Lisa Goudy

Sharon and Alvin Cole knew there would be challenges to taking four mentally handicapped people living in their home on a trip to Mexico.

“I wasn’t quite sure whether it was a big mistake to attempt it. It’s a big undertaking, takes a lot of planning ... but it was really worth it,” said Sharon. “I think it is an opportunity to let people know that you can do it and it went really well.”

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Hard work to prepare for local dance festival

Jessica Froehlich rehearses one of her dances for the Moose Jaw Festival of Dance. Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

Dancing is a way for Jessica Froehlich to discover herself.

Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

“You kind of got to go to that place where you can be alone and find yourself so that you can let people relate to you. So I think that’s what makes for the best dancing,” said 15-year-old Froehlich, a dancer at Dance Images by BJ since she was six. “If you just go on stage and dance and smile it can be entertaining, but when you go on stage and you know what your story is and you know what you want to tell people, then that’s when it really touches them.”

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A ballet class at Dance Images by BJ rehearses for the Moose Jaw Festival of Dance. Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

Moose Jaw Festival of Dance


Dance Images by BJ

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Lots planned for Mosaic Place this summer

By Lisa Goudy

The Warriors hockey season is finished, but many other events and shows are booked at Mosaic Place this spring and summer.

“Things do slow down in the summer months,” said Scott Clark, general manager of Mosaic Place and the Moose Jaw Field House. “But we’re kept fairly busy. We’ve got a lot of different things we’re looking at too for the summer. We’ve got a lot of different opportunities for evaluating what makes sense and what doesn’t make sense.”

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Additional comments:

"We've got a lot of different stuff booked into Mosaic Place," said Clark. "The programming changes a little bit to reflect the spring and summer and reflect kids later on being out of school."

Mosaic Place

Moose Jaw Field House

Imagine Your Future

Moose Jaw Band and Choral Festival

Saskatchewan Roughriders' training camp

Moose Jaw Times-Herald - Lisa's Corner: Crazy weather all the more reason to get outside

By Lisa Goudy

The sun shone brightly in the sky, its ultraviolet rays penetrating my skin. A slight breeze brushed my cheek as I took a walk down Main Street earlier this week. It was another gorgeous summer day, with the temperatures easily in the mid-to-high 20s.

By the time I returned to the office, it occurred to me that not even a week ago, I had woken up to a Winter Wonderland, with white snow covering the grass and lining the rooftops. Not to mention that by the next day or two after the snow, there were puddles from the rain gathered in the streets. The day after I took the walk, the weather was cold and dreary. So what’s with this weather?

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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: PSSD revokes changes to Eyebrow School boundary

Board highlights found on the PSSD website (see below)

By Lisa Goudy

A motion put forward to the Prairie South School Division (PSSD) to move the West catchment boundary for Eyebrow School was rescinded.

“We decided ... that the best thing would be to rescind the motion that was presented in January so that we could better look at the entire school division,” said PSSD board chairman Colleen Christopherson-Cote.


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The PSSD website

Highlights of the PSSD meeting

The PSSD's revised transportation policy online can be found here. 

The PSSD's revised policies regarding academic integrity and student responsibility can be found here.

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Sidewalk Days in "desperate need" of volunteers

By Lisa Goudy


Planning for Sidewalk Days is well underway, but co-ordinators are looking for more volunteers.


“We’re in desperate need of volunteer groups, meaning there’s a lot of groups out there that want to fundraise and make some money,” said Teresa Gillis. “We’re in need of them to come down, fill in an application and we’ve got a whole bunch of odd jobs where they can actually make some money.”


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Volunteer group, sponsorship, entertainer and vendor applications can be found here or by emailing info@sidewalkdays.ca. For more information, contact Gillis at 690-8451.

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Mock vehicle crash shows risk of impaired driving

Central Collegiate students watch as members of the Moose Jaw
and District EMS and the Moose Jaw Fire Department remove a
victim from a mock car crash.

Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

Jacob Laboccetta had never been arrested before, until he played the part of an impaired driver in a mock vehicle crash at Union Hospital on Monday.

“Being arrested hurts. It’s not fun,” said the 15-year-old student from Central Collegiate. “I don’t know why anyone would want to put themselves in a position to do it.”

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Central Collegiate students watch as members of the Moose
Jaw Fire Department drill open a car door in a mock car crash.

Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

Some figures (from Ray Francis, a paramedic with the Moose Jaw and District EMS and the director of community relations):

• Saskatchewan has the most injuries per capita in Canada
• In Saskatchewan, the death rate for unintentional injuries is 40 per cent higher than the national average
• In Saskatchewan, approximately 9,800 hospitalizations from injuries occur a year, 800 a month and 26 a day. These statistics are twice the national average.
• In ages 1 to 44, the leading cause of death is unintentional injury
• People aged 15 to 24 are 2.5 times more likely to be hurt or killed in a motor vehicle crash than any other age group
• In Saskatchewan, preventable injuries cost the people of Saskatchewan more than $1 billion a year
• The survival rate of cardiac arrest from trauma is less than one per cent

PARTY program website (Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth)


More about the PARTY program from the PARTY website:


"Intentional and unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for people aged one to forty-four years of age and truly are a silent epidemic in Canada and most countries around the world.


Sunnybrook RBC First Office for Injury Prevention was established in 1986 within Sunnybrook's Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care department.  The office aims to prevent traumatic injuries and injury related mortality across all ages through community education, collaboration and awareness. 

Our office delivers multiple programs and resources both independently as well as with an extensive team of collaborators.  We currently deliver the P.A.R.T.Y. Program, work to highlight issues of pedestrian safety throughiNavigait and work collaboratively with community partners through the Toronto Area Safety Coalition." (Source: PARTY)