Auditor Judy Ferguson's report, released Thursday, considered two recently approved and controversial projects in Wascana Park.
Leslie Gavel says she is irritated when people insult her hometown of Regina. She says no one should have to apologize for where they live or have lived.Leslie Gavel says the legislative building in Regina and the beautiful surrounding scenery are a few of the reasons the city doesn't deserve the scorn some people aim at it. This First Person article is written by Leslie Gavel, who lives in Calgary and is originally from Regina.
I worked for my dad for a year, then moved to Calgary to go to university and never left. In some ways it feels like yesterday I was skipping school, hanging out at the local confectionery, enveloped in a haze of cigarette smoke. In other ways it feels like forever ago — years mired in the minutiae of the day-to-day, building a life that resembled adulthood.Now, 48 years later, I'm returning to catch up with the friends who were such a big part of my life from elementary school to this day.
I rarely fly on these visits from Calgary to Regina. I like to stop in Swift Current, Sask., which is on the way, to visit my mom and grandparents' graves, but I think I would choose to make the eight-hour drive anyway. I want to soak up the endless skies, the boundless land, the arresting sunsets and the lusty smells of soil and grass.
Once in Regina I'm awash in more nostalgia: going downtown to the library on Saturdays, browsing the bookmobile parked adjacent to my schoolyard, trekking to school with the snow drifts swallowing my boots, playing for hours with my pals on Motherwell Crescent, visiting the colourful carpet of flowers at the legislature and dressing up to go to the golf course for supper.
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