Early Birds, January 28, 2021

From Dan Kennelly - and especially for Dave Hicks, a funny Geico commercial that illustrates some problems in a homeowner's "pipes."

From Don Doolan - another "watch" recommendation, the "Tiger" series on HBO, available via Crave in Canada.

Via Mel Gibson - word that Trans-Canada Highway work between Golden through Kicking Horse Pass will begin on a 6 week-on, 6 week-off sort of schedule.

From the info.news.ca site, the details were:

"Work on Phase 4 of the Kicking Horse Canyon construction project will require a month-long closure of Highway 1 just east of Golden this spring.

The closure will run from April 12 to May 14 and traffic on Highway 1 from Golden to Castle Junction will be rerouted via highways 93 and 95, which will add up to 1.5 extra hours of travel time. (Ed. note: More like 3 hours)

The construction zone will be opened briefly to local and commuter traffic twice daily, escorted by a pilot vehicle during one half-hour period beginning at 7 a.m. and one half-hour period beginning at 4:30 p.m. Similar escorts will be provided for school buses so students will have uninterrupted access to school. Emergency vehicles in response mode will be provided escorted passage on short notice."

Mel recommended the Regional District of East Kootenay site as one good place for current road information. Their information is here: https://www.rdek.bc.ca/.

Tom Olson also recommended calling Kootenay National Park: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/bc/kootenay.

Dwayne Vinck passed along his thanks to Sean Baylis for the opportunity last week to participate in the event featuring RBC's Jim Allworth. Dwayne's key takeaway was the refreshing change in tone that Jim provided: "optimism", to sum it up in one word.

Sean has graciously offered up the link and password to see the one-hour presentation if you'd been unable to make it.

Jim Allworth Global Insight Replay

The password to access the presentation is: 2rRp579t

Last thing before the recording, Tom Olson re-recommended Andy Lockhart's recommendation of a funny BBC show called Still Game. As Andy mentioned, you might want to have the subtitles on. The brrrrrrogue is fairly thick, as you can hear yourself in this trailer for the current season of the series.

Finally, the video of the meeting. We're thinking of buying George Doherty a desk lamp so he doesn't appear to be speaking from another dimension. 😏 That being said, it's been terrific to see George these past two weeks, and this week he discusses some of the issues facing property owners at Sylvan Lake that might have a negative effect on property values.