20 Replies to “Jack FM Calgary Contest”

  1. Who would want all the hassle of travelling to tired old cities like London,Moscow or Athens when Regina beckons?…Plus,with a tall enough ladder,you can still see Calgary from Regina! 🙂

  2. Maybe I should call my kids and make sure they enter. It would be nice to see them without having to pay for the trip. Oops, probably shouldn’t have said that out loud, now there will be an extra 20 or 30 thousand entries!

  3. I have stayed at the Hotel Saskatchewan on business. Nice place. I sat in the lobby and drank pints of Bushwakker beer while reading the paper.
    Golf’s Steakhouse and The Diplomat Steakhouse are right nearby; highly recommended if you can get the boss to pay for it.
    I’m surprised no one has said “first prize is 2 nights in Regina. Second prize is 5 nights in Regina.”

  4. Hey, why not the Saskatchewan Penitentiary
    http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/facilit/institutprofiles/saskpen_e.shtml
    Visit sunny Prince Albert, choose steak or lobster for your Christmas meal!! Visit with the LIEBeral of your choice.
    Or how about Nipawin, tubing on the hydroelectic facilty?
    Nipawin came from the Cree word “nipawin” which meant “a bed, or a resting place”
    http://interactive.usask.ca/ski/tourism/secrets/nipawin.html
    Alternately, beautiful Carrot River for the sportsmenlike fishing!!
    http://www.town.carrotriver.sk.ca/recreational.htm
    Regina indeed, so passe’! Kate you need to travel more.

  5. Hey, it could have been a weekend in Delisle! And of course Kate would be on the road for that weekend so you couldn’t even have a good discussion over your favorite beverage or three
    ;-(
    Sorry, just had to…

  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delisle,_Saskatchewan
    In 2005 the Hospital was torn down to make way for a club house for the new Golf course which runs along the north end of the town. Plans had been made for converting the aging, though structually sound hospital into a luxury club house, but unfortunately vandals prevented those plans by lighting fires, starting floods, and slashing open bags of grass seed. To the dismay of many, vandals also desecrated the Cenotaphe – stealing the helmet and breaking off the period rifle which had been set into the top of the memorial.
    OH OH, vandals on the Cenotaph as well!!
    The HUNS are at it again!!
    Kate, grab your flag and musket!!

  8. Well, my brother lives there so it can’t be that bad…
    Oh yeah, it is the Home of Rider Pride! I knew there was something good to say about it 😉

  9. I was born in Regina, being deemed too dumb and ugly to be a citizen I was quickly spirited away to Alberta.
    I have entered the contest, I just hope they have paper bags at the border, the last time I went there I had to wear a plastic one, and it pretty near killed me!
    I am just a poor dumb ugly Albertan, but hey I have good health care, good roads, and a good job!

  10. In 2005 the Hospital was torn down to make way for a club house for the new Golf course which runs along the north end of the town.!!! May as well, – there are no doctors to work in the hospitals anyhow.
    I wonder what the NDPs have planned for the roads. (You know – those things between the ditches, the trees, the fields – the somewhat level areas that are tempting to motor on). I was there this weekend – to Turtle Lake, – Highway 3 east from Turtleford. What A FRIGGIN’ MESS!
    The gov’t guys were patching on Tuesday, and grading the asphalt. NICE NEW Trucks though.
    crb

  11. I have two experiences about a weekend in Regina. We were in Saskatoon at the time.
    Experience #1:
    We (my wife and two children) went to Regina to see The Phantom of the Opera and decided to stay over Saturday. Went to Golf’s for dinner. There was a private party in an adjacent private room – a 50th wedding anniversary. As we were moving to desert, people streamed out of the private room looking ashen. Minutes later, the fire fighters arrived. Moments later, the EMS guys arrived. Seconds later, they wheeled out an elderly man (the groom) who had evidently had a heart attack. We were offered free desert and free cognac (not the children) to compensate for our trauma.
    Experience #2:
    A couple of years later, we (my wife and son) were in Regina for a baseball tournament. Went to Golf’s for dinner. Chatted with the waiter about our previous experience. As we were approaching desert, there was a disturbance in the same private room. This time it was a wedding between two people in their 80s. People streamed out of the room looking ashen. The fire fighter arrived … etc. … etc. And they wheeled out the elderly groom, looking dead. The waiter looked at us and immediately offered free desert and cognac. He suggested that we might want to find another restaurant the next time we were in town.
    We are now afraid to go to Regina. And even more afraid to go to Golf’s.
    Andy

  13. Who wouldn’t want to visit Tommydouglasgrad.
    Drop by the Duma on the edge of Wascana and see the history.
    This place is so…… equal, so boiled cabbage. Drop by our state of the art 1940’s Eugenics facility, or have our staff come out to sterilize you in our outpatients clinic located in the Fort Qu’apple hotel.
    Just living the dream or our dear leader, if you never want to aspire to anything, come here. Regina !!!!

  14. Well it’s been a couple of decades or so, but my story of Regina is a good memory.
    A friend and I were driving from Ontario to Alberta for work, (you know the ‘go west young man’ even though we were female students looking for lucrative work for the summer), when suddenly just outside of Regina we had car trouble, there we were suddenly stuck on the side of the road, seemingly in the middle of nowhere.
    Almost right away, a family stopped and then -seeing we were a couple of young ladies, offered to take us to a garage they knew of. So off we went, then the garage owner drove us back to the car to tow it in for repair, then invited us to have dinner with his family they even offered to house us that night, but we felt we’d imposed enough and stayed at a hotel. Very nice people, beautiful family. He said he hoped someone would treat his children, when they struck out on their own, that way if they ever needed it. I’ve never forgotten that act of kindness. Today I do make the effort in keeping with that man’s example in helping others.
    Only took one day to repair the car and they didn’t over charge, we were on our way the following day. That clunker of a car finished the journey, drove all summer all around Calgary, did a 7 day camping tour to BC and back to Ont in the fall without incident.
    The special touch of a caring Regina mechanic?
    I think so.
    Anyway thanks Kate, good memories for me.
    p.s. Is there a road that circles the city called ‘ring road’? Or is my memory lacking?

  15. I’m surprised no one has said “first prize is 2 nights in Regina. Second prize is 5 nights in Regina.”
    Posted by: Mississauga Matt at July 6, 2006 01:18 PM
    Imagine. Someone from Mississauga trashing Regina … or anywhere!

  16. Hey! Aside from our home-grown terrorists, it’s a pretty nice place.
    Where do you live, Axeman?

  18. Isn’t trashing Regina reserved for those of us who lived in Saskatoon??
    lol…j/k
    This is Saskatchewan, if you want to trash Regina, you need a license from the government, and then you may have to pay a fee. I don’t see any permit holders above… I’m calling the KGRCMP!!
    : )
    Cheers!
    Leto

  19. “Take golf’s off my dining list…”
    TC – I know I’ll be taking it off my Anniversary Party location list!

  20. Regina,Saskatoon and all of Saskatchewan looks great. Everything is so green. Visitors can’t get over how clean Sask is. I think can and bottle recycling help a lot. It should be the law across Canada. We started a good thing here. Recycling is not done in all provinces.We were one of the first.

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