The person, allegedly, responsible for a hit and run on Broadway Street West a couple of weeks ago has been located and a court appearance is slated for next month. I will watch with great interest because a recent case in Saskatoon whereby two accused individuals who were street racing received 26 and 11 months respectively for their role in the death of a retired school principal. To me, it shows that a life in Saskatchewan isn't worth a whole lot, so if someone in Yorkton hits two people, who ultimately survive, we can't expect the punishment to be significant at all. How sad.
Punishments are so weak that there really isn't a deterrent to anything anymore. In Saskatoon over the weekend, a 13-year-old girl was arrested after allegedly stealing a pick up truck and crashing it into an apartment complex. Where are mom and dad in this instance?
Full marks and big praise to Ottenbreit Sanitation for their gradual program of providing each residence in Yorkton with its own dumpster. Nobody likes to do chores, but I really despised taking the garbage out. If it was at all wet outside (this year, that was every day), the back lane at our place was a mud bog. The dumpster, itself, (for reasons unknown) was raised above ground and somewhat difficult to lift heavy items into. Furthermore, it was quite common for the dumpster to be full from a neighbor's trash one or two days after garbage day. In fact, our house was to blame for that on occasion. To my amazement, I have talked to some people who don't totally support this change, but I chalk it up to people not liking change of any kind and not people who don't want to use their own personal dumpster.
I don't know much about this BHP bid to gain control of the potash, but I do feel this should be a Saskatchewan Government decision and not one that involves the federal government. If the bulk of the potash was in Quebec and that province said 'no', you can bet the feds would back so far away they may fall off a cliff.
The SJHL Hall of Fame inductions take place at the end of this month in Humboldt and there are six individuals/teams going in, all of them with connections to Humboldt. People have been somewhat critical of the decision to enshrine only Humboldt based people, but you have to understand this is not the National Hockey League and there is very little fanfare that can be gained by putting Darrell Spelay into the SJHL Hall Of Fame when the event is hosted by the Broncos. When Yorkton hosts, I would bet my house that Spelay will be the first person enshrined. Keep in mind, I use Spelay as an example, I haven't necessarily heard from disgruntled Yorkton people. However, to me, Spelay should be the first to go in from this area because he holds almost every meaningful career record in the league and it, surely, will never ever be broken.
I had a short debate on my blog with a Roughrider fan who, basically, implied that if I don't like some of the shenanigans that go on in the crowd then maybe I shouldn't go to the games. I couldn't disagree more. Saskatchewan Roughrider games should be family entertainment, and, therefore, not a place where my 9-year-old son can witness brand new swear words, or see a fight in the stands a minute into the game, or some dork run onto the field six minutes into the game. Both of those things occured on Saturday and while I understand an environment of 30,000 people with alcohol present can pose certain problems, that was pretty early in the game to have to deal with that. The guy that ran onto the field didn't even look like someone who had purchased a ticket, excuse me for passing judgement on one's appearance.
Canadian taxpayers forked over $860-million on G8 and G20 summits. According to the Toronto Sun, here's where some of the waste went: $3,039 for woven shawls by Huntsville' artist Marni Martin and $2,362.50 for crystal CN Tower replicas for the leaders' spouses; $2,560 for eight Hudson Bay blankets to give as gifts to political directors; $8,422 for Kanuk Umbrella coats in midnight blue for a march photo op with G8 Foreign Ministers; $32,000 on G8 and G20 lanyards, $24,297 on G20 lapel pins and zipper pulls; $750 for canoe paddles; $11,000 for a handmade Lindgren Pottery dining set for 24; $11,000 for pens; $3,136 for biodegradable pens; $8,267 for baggage handling carts and more than $1 million on IT equipment. I voted for the Conservatives in the last election, but now that I see how liberal they really are, perhaps I should just spoil my ballot next time.
Nice person mentions this week to Mitchell Blair, Doug McRae, Randy Gorecki, and Doug Arnett.
