By Lisa Goudy
Meryl Streep wrote letters this week and that's been making headlines.
She sent a letter to each member of Congress, saying "I am writing to ask you to stand up for equality - for your mother,
your daughter, your sister, your wife or yourself - by actively supporting the equal rights amendment."
She added that, "A whole new generation of women and girls are talking about equality - equal pay, equal protection from sexual
assault, equal rights."
Streep included a copy of the book Equal Means
Equal by Jessica Neuwirth, president of the ERA Coalition. That
coalition campaigns
to update the U.S. Constitution to include an amendment to
prohibit discrimination against women and girls under the law.
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Friday, June 26, 2015
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Hyperbaric chamber location is set
Hospital opening on track with hyperbaric services by end of 2015
By Lisa Goudy
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| The new hospital is seen on June 25, 2015. Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald |
By Lisa Goudy
Dr.
Fred Wigmore has no concerns over the move of the hyperbaric chamber into the
new hospital.
"The
construction, et cetera, won’t interfere with our opening or our flow of the
hospital, so we think it will fit in nicely in that manner and the flow won’t
be disrupted at all and it’ll still be a complimentary service,” said Wigmore,
senior medical officer with the Five Hills Health Region. “We look forward to
having it up in our new hospital and still providing that service.”
On
Thursday, Health Minister Dustin Duncan confirmed the location of the
hyperbaric chamber in the new hospital.
Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Relief on the way at Providence Place
Rental A/C unit expected to be operational by end of day Friday
By Lisa Goudy
When Kim White moved her grandmother into Providence Place in January, she didn’t expect the air conditioning to fail.
“I’m just concerned and I don’t want to have another protest. I just want to get the air unit in,” she said. “The heat and the dehydration just takes a toll on these old people. It takes its toll on me and I’m 35.”
White, who has been visiting her grandmother and other residents every day, said her grandmother requires 24-hour care. She added she is moving her grandmother out of Providence Place on July 20.
In March, workers discovered the air conditioning unit wasn’t working in the long-term care facility.
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Providence
Place is pictured on June 25, 2015. A rental air conditioning unit is anticipated to be operational by the end of the day on June 26. Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald |
By Lisa Goudy
When Kim White moved her grandmother into Providence Place in January, she didn’t expect the air conditioning to fail.
“I’m just concerned and I don’t want to have another protest. I just want to get the air unit in,” she said. “The heat and the dehydration just takes a toll on these old people. It takes its toll on me and I’m 35.”
White, who has been visiting her grandmother and other residents every day, said her grandmother requires 24-hour care. She added she is moving her grandmother out of Providence Place on July 20.
In March, workers discovered the air conditioning unit wasn’t working in the long-term care facility.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Brick by brick
Claybank Brick Plant to hold annual Heritage Day celebrations
By Lisa Goudy
Brick used in the boilers of the Corvette warships in the Second World War came from a plant about an hour's drive from Moose Jaw.
"It was used in the fireboxes of the locomotive that brought the settlers out west. The face brick that was made here was used in another national historic city, the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City," said Hilda Maier, executive director of the Claybank Brick Historical Site.
"Some of the brick that was produced here was used in the launch pads at Cape Canaveral for the moon shots in the '70s. So this little brick plant in the middle nowhere has got connections to very many worldly things."
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By Lisa Goudy
Brick used in the boilers of the Corvette warships in the Second World War came from a plant about an hour's drive from Moose Jaw.
"It was used in the fireboxes of the locomotive that brought the settlers out west. The face brick that was made here was used in another national historic city, the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City," said Hilda Maier, executive director of the Claybank Brick Historical Site.
"Some of the brick that was produced here was used in the launch pads at Cape Canaveral for the moon shots in the '70s. So this little brick plant in the middle nowhere has got connections to very many worldly things."
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Moose Jaw Times-Herald: New server training in Sask.
Anyone selling or serving alcohol will need SIRS training
By Lisa Goudy
Having worked in the serving business for 35 years, Terrylynn Drysdale believes every server should have server intervention training.
Soon, every person in Saskatchewan who serves and sells alcohol in licensed establishments will need to complete the Serve it Right Saskatchewan (SIRS) course, as the Government of Saskatchewan announced on Monday.
“I think it’s a terrific idea. I’m 100 per cent for it,” said Drysdale, a supervisor at Bugsy’s Irish Pub. “It’s a really informative course. It’s just a one-day course, but it teaches you the different signs.”
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| Terrylynn Drysdale gets ready to serve a beer at Bugsy’s Irish Pub on June 22, 2015. Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald |
By Lisa Goudy
Having worked in the serving business for 35 years, Terrylynn Drysdale believes every server should have server intervention training.
Soon, every person in Saskatchewan who serves and sells alcohol in licensed establishments will need to complete the Serve it Right Saskatchewan (SIRS) course, as the Government of Saskatchewan announced on Monday.
“I think it’s a terrific idea. I’m 100 per cent for it,” said Drysdale, a supervisor at Bugsy’s Irish Pub. “It’s a really informative course. It’s just a one-day course, but it teaches you the different signs.”
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Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A new face
Wilbur McLean hired as city’s first communications manager
By Lisa Goudy
The City of Moose Jaw is looking to connect more with the residents.
Wilbur McLean is going to help with that as the city’s first communications manager. McLean, who spent a number of years as a communications officer with the City of Medicine Hat, will start in Moose Jaw on Wednesday.
“They need to know more about what it is we do and how we do it and why we do it the way we do it. I guess what we’re looking for is a little bit more transparency and accountability,” said Matt Noble, city manager. “As well, we’d like to get ahead of some of the issues.”
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By Lisa Goudy
The City of Moose Jaw is looking to connect more with the residents.
Wilbur McLean is going to help with that as the city’s first communications manager. McLean, who spent a number of years as a communications officer with the City of Medicine Hat, will start in Moose Jaw on Wednesday.
“They need to know more about what it is we do and how we do it and why we do it the way we do it. I guess what we’re looking for is a little bit more transparency and accountability,” said Matt Noble, city manager. “As well, we’d like to get ahead of some of the issues.”
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Friday, June 19, 2015
Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Exploring implications of genocide
Storyteller Peter Midgley will be at the 2015 FOW
By Lisa Goudy
Peter Midgley grew up at the tail end of apartheid in Africa.
“That, of course, shapes a lot of what I write about. Actually in Counting Teeth, which is a book in which I take my … daughter – she’s 18 at the time – and we go back to revisit Namibia, the country where I was born. So it’s partly to show her where I was born, but at the same time, to look at what has happened in more or less 20 years of independence,” he said.
“At the time that I go back is when they agreed with the German government to return 70 skulls that had been taken to Europe during the genocide of 1904 to 1908.”
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| Peter Midgley will be doing an editing workshop and Storytime for Little Ones at the 2015 Saskatchewan Festival of Words. Submitted photo |
By Lisa Goudy
Peter Midgley grew up at the tail end of apartheid in Africa.
“That, of course, shapes a lot of what I write about. Actually in Counting Teeth, which is a book in which I take my … daughter – she’s 18 at the time – and we go back to revisit Namibia, the country where I was born. So it’s partly to show her where I was born, but at the same time, to look at what has happened in more or less 20 years of independence,” he said.
“At the time that I go back is when they agreed with the German government to return 70 skulls that had been taken to Europe during the genocide of 1904 to 1908.”
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