Edmonton Headlines for September 9
sigh
For me, it was the leaves this morning.
There’s that point, in every season, where one just accepts it’s time to accept the new season. I don’t like to let summer into my heart until I’m really, really, sure it’s actually arrived. (Which is usually the second or third week of July.)
And while it’s been chilly a few mornings, and I’ve seen my breath on walks to work, it was the burgeoning carpet of leaves (seen above) that made me realize summer is done and we’re onto fall.
If only winter could wait as long as summer to confirm its existence.
from the Edmonton Journal:
Boyd leaves mixed legacy as top cop (Boyd had a good public image, and put a better shine on the EPS, but officers never totally backed him.)
Back-to-school crowd jams Edmonton LRT (And we thought nobody liked to ride transit…)
Hands off utility franchise fees, Mandel tells province
Local building permits down 19% in month (They’re down and they’re also up year-over-year.)
Committee endorses Edmonton cattle drive for rodeo (Downtown is going to smell like horse poop.)
from the Calgary Herald: Calgary to get 132 hospital beds (Shh…don’t tell Sherwood Park.)
from the Edmonton Sun:
Election candidates warned over sign etiquette
from Metro Edmonton:
Public voices concern over city’s transit plans
from the Edmonton Examiner:
EFCL to celebrate Community League Day (It’s September 18, so find yourself a local party.)
from 630CHED/iNews880:
Stress injury clinic to benefit military, police
from CBC Edmonton:
Review of airport needed: Alta minister (Nothing government likes doing more than reporting on reports.)
Jasper Ave. bar plan takes another step
from CTV Edmonton:
Wall, Stelmach defend Canadian oil to Pelosi
from Vue Weekly:
River City sexuality (Told you we were a sexy city.)
from SEE Magazine:
Making it work (Part two of four in a look at Alberta cultural industries. This time it’s magazines.)
And SEE’s Fish Griwkowsky (though he does way more than just SEE stuff) is on Twitter.
Summer art
With the Art Gallery of Alberta announcing their fall lineup today, it’s a good time to check out their summer offerings, if you haven’t done so already.
Exhibits winding down their time at the AGA include M.C. Escher: The Mathmagician, The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons, and Jonathan Kaiser’s Celestial Bodies. These shows will be gone when most of the new ones are open to the public.
November will bring with it more changes, so if you want to see any of the current showcases, you better find some time in your dayplanner.
Also, don’t run down to the AGA after you read this. They aren’t open Mondays.
Fall Fotos
Was spelling photo with an F too obvious? Can I still blame all the turkey I ate this weekend? I’ll be back on my A-game soon. (Once the turkey leftovers are all gone.)
I had mentioned a little ways back (before this snow) that I wanted a few glimpses of fall. I had no idea it was going to be so brief…
Anyway…here are some shots from me, from EdwardMonton and Janine Edwards, and me again. Let’s call it: Edmonton Fall.
While I’m talking about photos, our first blast of winter was captured well by Alex Abboud.
These bags are only happy when they are full of leaves.
Letter from the Editor – Falling over you
This is one of my first glimpses of autumn.
We don’t ask a lot of you here, at the edmontonian.
(Oh, except that you read our stuff, keep coming back to the website, contribute your own stuff, tell your friends about the website, give us money in birthday cards, tell us we’re pretty…)
But I’m feeling very fally (is that a thing?) and think we should try and put a positive spin on the changing of the seasons.
The leaves are changing colours, and dropping quite quickly, and the summer warmth is quickly fading to memory. But we don’t have to be sad (though it’s our choice to mope).
No, we can embrace the golds and yellows of fall, enjoy the crunch under our feet and witness the slow build up of clothing layers.
If you happen to catch any of that with your camera, let me know. I’d love to feature some of your visions (or video) of fall in Edmonton right here. It might just be enough to get us to the Thanksgiving long weekend with a smile.
(We already got one photo, capturing the summer fading away, here, from our friend Deja.)
Sign #73 summer is over
I know summer is just about over, and fall upon us, when the grass at a certain school gets its first cut of the summer.
Let’s just call it “Shrandin Matholic School.”
All summer the grass grows and grows…
That tree is actually just for grass height measurment.
Then, when school is about to start, it gets a nice cut.
Staff, students and lawn mowers are back to school.
I hope the money saved on lawn maintenance goes into tater tots for school lunches.
Where’s my bus?
Dude, where's my bus?
Ah, fall.
There’s a crispness to the air, the leaves are changing colours, and your bus is nowhere to be seen this morning.
Now, before you go firing off angry e-mails to your city councillors, let’s just check and see that things haven’t been changed with your regular bus route with the ETS Fall Service Changes. You might find you’ve got time to do this, while waiting forever for that next bus…
Holy crap that is a lot of changes to a lot of routes. Thanks a lot, kids going to school.
Oh, alright, some of those changes are NOT just summer-to-fall changes, but permanent. (ETS: Improving stuff, eventually.) One of the biggies involves 102A Avenue closing to traffic, between 99 and 100 Streets.
p.s. stay in school
