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Theresa Wells, a blogger/writer, mother, wife – and passionate advocate for Fort McMurray/Wood Buffalo, put up a great post yesterday regarding the latest in a series of tragic incidents on Highway 63. Here is a small excerpt from “An Open Letter to Premier Alison Redford – Fort McMurray and Highway 63“:
Please read the entire letter. The fact that this is still an issue in our region is hurting our community deeply. These head-on tragedies are 100% preventable. And the Alberta Government has stood by and watch this happen. Continue reading “A Brilliant Open Letter – #TWIN63″ »
Familiar QuoteI’m hearing a lot of apathy and frustration amongst locals regarding the looming Alberta Provincial Election. It mostly revolves around a lack of satisfaction with the candidates running or the parties they are running for. It also doesn’t seem to matter if it’s the Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo or the Fort McMurray-Conklin constituency, residents seem dissatisfied and just don’t know who to vote for. And you can include me in that group. This is a problem. But there is a solution. Continue reading ““I don’t want to vote for any of them…”” »  courtesy of YMM Podcast Last week I joined fellow LWB cohortian (?!?) and TEDxFortMcMurray Organizing Committee member Michelle Landsiedel on the YMM Podcast for Episode 37: Rock The Vote. Continue reading “MOS meets YMM Podcast” »  TEDxFortMcMurray Speakers and Organizing Committee A little project called TEDxFortMcMurray has recently taken over my life, which has caused many of my online feeds to dry up and become like long-lost friends… but this is to let you know I’ll be coming back soon. Starved for more of my poor writing? Here’s an excerpt from my blog feed over at TEDxFortMcMurray.com: Continue reading “It’s been a while, but I’ve been busy ;-)” »  No, the tank at the Fort McMurray Legion is not a rational option for combatting traffic. Source: Matt Youens. Points go to Ken Chapman who sent me to a recent post on the Oil Sands Question And Response (OSQAR via Suncor) entitled “How to keep things rolling in Fort McMurray”. Here’s an excerpt:
The Suncor Energy Centre for the Performing Arts (our new world-class, high definition, LEED-certified facility don’t-cha-know), will be hosting the The Metropolitan Opera performing Mozart’s Don Giovanni this coming Saturday. Who knew? . . . → Read More: If you build it, they will come: The Met comes to Fort McMurray on Feb 4th  Our "friends" in the Media: (from left to right) Bianca Jade, Nolan Haukeness, Morgan Modjeski and Chandra Rempel. Photo courtesy of Alexandra Tarasenco of Leadership Wood Buffalo. Last week, a crop of regional enthusiasts (also know as the Leadership Wood Buffalo Cohort of 2011/2012) got up-close and personal with members of the media – so much so that a microphone came very close to being a pre-lunch appetizer! Media maven and municipal councillor Russell Thomas gave the group a very interesting lesson in “Managing the Message” while being interviewed by the media.  Russell Thomas releasing his dogs of war (note the Sauron-like eyes!)Photo courtesy of Alexandra Tarasenco of Leadership Wood Buffalo. Russell led us through the basics with his sidekick, Rock 97.9 radio personality Nolan Haukeness, then split us into groups, gave us all cases to announce/defend/play-hot-potato and pulled inspiration from a classic when he let slip his dogs of war: Morgan Modjeski of the Fort McMurray Today, the aforementioned Nolan Haukeness of Rock 97.9 and the deadly combination of Bianca Jade and Chandra Rempel of Shaw TV Fort McMurray. Continue reading “What does a microphone taste like? Leadership Wood Buffalo knows!” »  Leave a comment  Fort McMurray  #ymm, @Nolan_H, Bianca Jade, bieber, Chandra Rempel, dogs of war, Fort McMurray, fort mcmurray today, justin bieber, leadership, leadership wood buffalo, lwb, media, media scrum, message, Morgan Modjeski, nolan haukeness, regional municipality of wood buffalo, rmwb, Rock 97.9, Russell Thomas, rvthomas67, sauron, Shaw TV Fort McMurray, wood buffalo
But the jury will be out until history can be the judge. And do you know what history will be judging? History is going to be judging a TEDx event in our community! Talk about advantage me! Continue reading “X Marks the Spot: TEDx is coming to Fort McMurray” »  Portland Tram - courtesy of compujeramey via Flickr A while back the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo was asking residents to chime in, to enter into the collaborative spirit of things to help improve our community, to make it a healthier and happier place. And so of course I chimed in, both in person at the Mac Island launch and via the Big Idea website (bigideawoodbuffalo.ca). Crazy Idea No. 1 – Aerial Tram from Thickwood to Mac Island
My Crazy/Big Idea that I entered into the RMWB website came from a recent trip to the States. Mrs. MOS and I went on a bit of a road trip this past summer, and our furthest destination was the city of Portland. We spent just less than a week kicking around and taking Portland in, and one of the extremely geeky things we wanted to do was ride the Portland Aerial Tram that runs from the South Waterfront to the OHSU Center for Health & Healing. And ride it we did. And awesome it was. A few quick facts (taken from the website):
But back to the idea part: Better connect the “northern communities” of Fort McMurray to what is fast becoming the heart of our city – Mac Island. Skip Highway 63, skip the congestion of Thickwood or Confed, skip that accident on the bridge… just grab your over-due library books or hockey bag and jump on the tram. Three to five minutes later, BAM! Enjoy Mac Island and jump back on for the ride home. Combine the tram with the steadily improving transit system and you might just have yourself a winner here. Continue reading “Two Big Ideas – Traffic In Fort McMurray” » Leave a comment Fort McMurray, RMWB #ymm, #ymmtraffic, Aerial Tram, Bigideawoodbuffalo.ca, city planning, compujeramey, Conferderation Way, counterflow lane, Doc Brown, Emmitt Brown, highway 63, OHSU, OHSU Center for Health & Healing, OR, Oregon, Portland, portland aerial tram, public transport, regional municipality of wood buffalo, reversible lane, rmwb, Thickwood Boulevard, thisisbossi, traffic, twitter, Wikipedia |
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