Longtime NDP member, former Sask NDP party president and candidate for office and party leader, Yens Pedersen, won the byelection in Regina Northeast yesterday to boost the number of Saskatchewan NDP MLAs to 13.
My first introduction to Pedersen was when he competed against Ryan Meili for Leader of the Saskatchewan NDP in 2009.
At the time, Ryan ended up placing second to the eventual winner, Dwain Lingenfelter, but both of the other contenders – MLA Deb Higgins and Yens Pedersen – threw their support behind Meili during the voting rounds and to this day, I often wonder how the Saskatchewan NDP might be different in terms of party renewal and revitalization if Meili had managed to pull off the upset.
Anyhow, here’s another picture to show the long history Pedersen and Meili have together – this one from a Ryan Meili book launch that was held at Regina Public Library in September 2012 when, if memory serves, Pedersen introduced Meili.
Packing up our seasonal camp site for the final time this summer and pulling out our camper from the spot that’s been its home for the last five months…
I started at Regina Public Library on September 8, 2008 so this year is my ten year anniversary at RPL.
Traditionally, people have thought of thirty years as a “typical” career in a workplace and though I worked for a decade in another sector before librarianship and though I also spent a couple years in a regional system after getting my MLIS, I guess this means I’m now entering my second decade at RPL and am now officially a mid-career librarian! 😉
Sadly, this poorly posed shot is my only photo of that day!
