During our tour of Mosaic Stadium earlier this week, we got to “tour” the gift shop as well and Sasha loved that she was able to put her own name on a jersey (and I loved that we could go all the way to the last step without clicking “Order” and spending over a hundred bucks on a jersey!)
I didn’t get a picture of it but she even put her last initial so her name was “Sashah”. 😉
Thinking of our tour of the new Mosaic Stadium yesterday, here’s a pic from a game we went to a few years ago in the old Taylor Field (not sure how we got such great seats – think we bought them last minute off Kijiji?)
Had a great “Behind The Scenes” tour of Regina’s Mosaic Stadium tonight, courtesy of the alumni association for Luther College at the University of Regina and Luther High School.
We weren’t allowed into the Riders’ locker room (only the Visitors’ locker room) but we did get to take a family photo in front of the doors…
“Migrants” – Sam Baker
One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect:
One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely tomorrow, sometimes by the same person who wrote them today. So ultimately, what you need to ask yourself every day, every transaction is ‘What am I doing to help the person standing in front of me?'”
If only we lived in a world where everyone realised this instead of the world we have now.
I didn’t think to get a picture with all the dads who were around our camp site this weekend but did get separate pictures of Shea’s parents (including her dad) and my parents (including my dad *and* me) so we’ll count that as a worthwhile Father’s Day post!
A Poster Created By One of the Participants
This idea is increasingly common in other public libraries across Canada but it’s very cool that that Regent Place where I work was the first public library branch in Regina to offer a Drag Queen Storytime as part of the Pride Festival.
The idea isn’t without controversy in some circles but I was pleasantly surprised that the vast majority of comments I saw on social media and that I heard elsewhere were inclusive and positive.
For example, as I write this, the CTV News story on FB has 178 reactions – 107 Likes, 41 Loves, 24 Mads (whom I assume are mad because they couldn’t attend!) ;-), 3 Laughing, 3 Sads (again, probably because they had other plans that day) and 28 shares.
Out of 31 comments on the FB story, the one that got the biggest reaction (numerous Likes & Loves) was as follows:
That an article about people reading to others at a library can inspire such hate and bigotry is beyond me.
This is one of the few uplifting pieces of news, it would be nice if everyone could keep their negative/bordering on disgusting comments to themselves.
On a related note, I was also excited to see on social media that RPL was named “Ally of the Year” by the Pride Festival for this event and RPL’s many other actions – from our programs to our policies to our hiring practices – not just during the Pride Festival but throughout the year.
It’s become a bit of a family tradition to take the kid (and now “kids”) to a small parking lot fair that sets up every June at the Northgate Mall, close to our house, instead of the bigger, busier, more expensive Queen City Ex later in the summer.
Here’s a pic from when Pace was younger on the Ferris Wheel. In comparison, last night, I couldn’t get him off The Fireball, the scariest, most intense ride they have!
