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Tisdale May 2005 |
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| FTLComm - Tisdale - Tuesday, May 3, 2005 | ||||||
 We have perhaps, made it through yet another winter and though we have all aged a bit many of us still have a lot of life still left in us, well at least we hope so. This afternoon a field was being planted within sight of the town and the anhydrous amonia trucks are rumbling around about their business. Its time to put away the parkas and look whistfully in the prairie sky with hope and positive expectations about the new year. The experts are reporting that we can, even if a good crop is produced, |
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 expect to see very low prices for commodities while the continuing BSE issue for beef producers is now believed to be turning positive as more jobs have been created here in Canada as processing is no longer being shipped away. In Tisdale the streets were teeming with activity this afternoon and the town has begun installing the Delorme Industries created waste baskets for the new sidewalks. The downtown renewal project is getting underway once more as town crews were slicing the pavement around several intersections in preparation for the curbing crew to begin reshaping both sides of the completed area of the town's main street, one block each way from the town square. With the snow behind us a few projects are |
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 getting started. Materials are piled up at the Elementary School for a major upgrade to the roof of the structure. This is an interesting project because the schools of the whole province are all caught in something of a sort of limbo with forced combination with neighbouring school divisions will change the ways schools are run throughout the province. Like the health regions we can expect arbitrary centralised decisions to come forth in one community after another and the enforced devolution of rural Saskatchewan will no doubt excellerate. Few experts expect any improvement inservices, no savings or efficiency is ancticipated and bureaucracy will emerge as the primary element of the |
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 system. In the retail industry Tisdale's SAAN store will reopen Wednesday, May 4th with clothing and now a line of hardware as it becomes a kind of department store. Speaking of department stores, the Tisdale Mall was busy today despite the huge unfilled void in its west end as there is no hope or prospects in sight for a possible occupant of the Zellers area which has stood vacant since early fall. In Swift Current one of Saskatchewan's largest former Zellers stores has been levelled, rather than let the huge space stand empty the mall developer simply destroyed the building. |
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 When winter arrived the stucco crew had wrapped the Mapleridge building in wire and today they began the process of putting on the mud that will form the exterior of the now occupied building. As I understand it only two of the condominiums in the building are left unsold. Developers expect the four lots immediately west of this building to be sold and then on the south west corner of the old TUCs field it is expected that another building like the Mapleridge will be constructed. Today the ice cream stand opened at the ESSO service station ready for another season. With warm weather expected this weekend it would seem like a great idea to christen the new season with a visit to this stand for a bit of spring/summer indulgence. |
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 There was a huge crowd on hand today at Schapansky's as they were holding their "clean-up" sale. It was absolutely perfect weather for such an event. Last night the neighbour was standing in his new yard with the landscaper going over plans for making some improvements to the lot with its new house. It seemed perfectly fitting for this time of year. A time fo plan and lay out some promising expectations. My wife and I have been thinking about camping equipment as we consider the coming vacation now only four weeks away. Aw yes, a new year has begun. |
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| By the way, the flag in the cenotaph park has been ruined by the wind and the harsh conditions of winter. It is wrong to let a flag fly in such conditions. If your flag looks like this one, do something about it, better to take it down than let if fly tattered. | ||||||
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by: Timothy W. Shire |
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