Edmonton tweeters came out to raise money for YESS at Twestival Local Thursday night.
Does everyone else kind of get weirded out when they see today’s date?
It’s kind of odd to think about the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. I know they happened in my lifetime, I remember waking up and seeing the smouldering towers on TV. Sometimes it feels like something that happened before my time; the footage just another piece of newsreel from another era.
Anyway, there will still be stories all around about that day, today. Here are some Edmonton-centric stories for you.
Oilers confirm casino site as best place for new arena
Gravel-pit proposal may be parked
Crime report panned (by #toncat)
Privatization of Epcor’s power generation challenged
MADD against free $20 for student drinkers (at Union Hall)
Mill Creek pool open for the weekend (enjoy the hot weather!)
Bosco shutting down Alberta operations (not just in Strathcona County)
Traffic change in store for next phase of 23 Ave. interchange
Health care cuts (it centres around Alberta Hospital and an AUPE petition, it’s in the “stories” link)
I’m pretty sure that’s it and that’s all for today. Let me know in the comments if I missed something, or just what you think of this selection.
NOOOO don’t build the arena on the baccarat! where will i get my $5 french toast?
Stupid question, but isn’t MADD getting, um, mad about the $20 being given to students kinda just acting as free promotion for Union Hall? I didn’t know about this until I read the article, and I’m betting that I’m not the only one…
p.s. where were you at when you heard about 9/11? I was at home getting ready for school when I heard the news about the first plane. At that point nobody really knew what was going on, and the reports that I’d heard were calling it a small passenger plane rather than a big jumbo jet. At some point during my trip to school, the second plane had hit; I walked into class and everyone was looking very sombre and serious & I had no idea why… The profs ended up finding a TV and letting everyone watch CNN for a couple of hours, then sent us all home.
It was supposed to be my day off from the newsroom (college) and when I woke up the first plane had already hit. Quickly checking my phone I realized I was already called in to help out with our coverage.
It was surreal to be working in news on such a cataclysmic story, so early on. It was weird to run to the Mac’s across from school for some food and hear ABC News instead of top40.
The newsroom even called in trauma experts after the fact to help anyone feeling sad, etc… That’s something I’ve since heard about at other newsrooms.
My wife and I were getting ready to head out the door, she yells at me from the TV room, “Hey Jason come see the Twin Towers are on fire”. The second plane had just hit when I saw the TV. Then they started talking about the Pentagon on fire and I thought this was going to be a crazy day.
At Access most of us were watching CNN as the towers collaped, former CareersTV producer Dan Carle comes up to us and says “I blew a tire on my bike on the way here, and I thought I was having a bad day.”
i was at a friend’s house, being an unemployed loser… i ultimately became one of those people who were chained to the TV 24/7 for days, until other people intervened and were like “dude, that’s not healthy”.
i was going to zing sally, but out of respect for all of the Nine-Elevians, I think we should declare today a zing-free day.
when we cannot zing, the terrorists have won!
Jason’s mention of the flat bike tire makes me think about the day before September 11, 2001.
I was out doing a story on a new indoor paintball centre (hard-hitting journalism has ALWAYS been my forte) and the guy gave me a stack of free passes. Like, a giant stack.
Anyway, on the way back to school the bus comes upon a car-motorcycle crash and I get off to check things out. I left all the free passes on the bus. The radio station peeps didn’t let me hear the end of that all night.
I felt like that was the worst thing ever. You know, until the next day.
I was at work WAY up north and heard the story over the radio. We all huddled around the radio for a few minutes and one of the other guys on my crew finally piped up with the question we all wanted to ask: “So does this mean we get the rest of the day off?”
The answer, of course, was no. Back to work we went.
When I got back to my hotel room that night, EVERY channel was playing the clip over and over again. I remember sitting there thinking, “Crap. How long is this going to screw up regular programing?”
Because, really, when horrific acts of violence are perpetrated on innocents, what it all boils down to is “How does this impact me directly?”