I forgot to publish this last Thursday when City of Yellowknife crews painted and rearranged the road lines. New turning lanes have been added to the intersection at Woolgar and Kam Lake Road. If you have already driven through the area, be aware that lanes are now different.
On another note, I also saw, what I assume to be, someone counting vehicles at the intersection of Finlayson Dr and Kam Lake Road. Are studies being done as to if another set of traffic lights need to be added. What are your thoughts on adding another set of traffic lights to Kam Lake Road?
If you drove from the Fire Hall towards the Winks gas station over the weekend you would have noticed the construction happening. City of Yellowknife crews repaved the 2 lane road with new “flatter” asphalt in hopes to get rid of some of the heave in the road.
Asphalt was laid over the old heaved and patched asphalt. Crews first went over the road and leveled it as best as possible and then finished with a thick layer of fresh asphalt. Hopefully this improves this part of the road for at least a couple years.
A couple of months ago I added a poll to the sidebar to fill a space. I didn’t think it would take very well, I never liked polls myself, but nonetheless it was there. The question I asked was, “What Do You Prefer.” With two options, Bullock’s Bistro and Wildcat Cafe. The entire time the poll was open, Bullocks kept a slight lead, never more than a couple percent. Now I don’t know why that is, but I thought it was a good sign that both restaurants were fairly close the whole time.
Another Funnel Cloud was reported to have appeared around Yellowknife – possibly Back Bay, can anyone confirm – around 11am this morning. Kim Mac, a storm chasers with her husband, said her husband saw the one a few weeks ago and when she saw the interesting cloud this morning she went and grabbed her camera.
She went on to say she started to drive towards the cloud until she came around a corner and saw the “finger” of the funnel cloud forming. She pulled over and got onto the roof of her car and started to take pictures. While taking picture she said she could see the bottom of the funnel coming up to the meet the top. She ended the email by saying it was SUPER EXCITING and hasn’t stopped grinning since.
Someone mentioned a hot air balloon was floating over City Hall Friday evening. Unfortunately I’m vehicle-less this month and didn’t get over to take a peak. Luckily though, one of our Facebook Fans has posted a photo and an explanation about why the balloon is in town.
Here’s a photo of a hot air balloon in Sombe’k Park on Friday night. It was brought from Quebec and was being tested out for the French Cultural Association 25th Anniversary celebration this week-end. It will be out again this evening (Saturday) and Sunday from 5:00 to 8:00 pm as part of the festival taking place in the park. Come check out this unusual site in Yellowknife – Gordon Poultney
You may also be able to see more photos here on Facebook. Or you can see it this evening and Sunday at the French Cultural Association 25th Anniversary celebration
The new store Artistic Hound got a rude afternoon call, as a truck came through the front of the store. According to the CBC article (found here) it is still unsure as to how this happened, but RCMP were investigating. It appears that no one was hurt, although I did hear there was an incident with some birds, not sure on that one.
UPDATE: Looking at the pictures closer, did the truck actually go into Artistic Hound, it looks more to be the Property Management Office (which could be associated with the pet store).
Thanks to some community members I get some photos passed along:
Late this morning many residents and businesses found themselves with no running water. Information was passed around that a water main had burst by either blasting or by back hoe at the end of School Draw Ave, where the new condos are being constructed.
The burst in the pipe caused a rather minor flood down hill along School Draw Ave. Only about 30 minutes later, the burst was isolated, rerouted and water services to the City’s downtown core were restored.
Thanks to a loyal reader, who was curious about the flood, he sent in these photos that indicate that water did indeed go rushing down School Draw.
Around noon today a Funnel Cloud formed over Yellowknife and swirled around. I, at the time, did not think much of it, I was into some other work. I did notice that a picture taken by Val Pond was circulating Twitter and Facebook, but still didn’t think much of it.
Then two hours later I received a call from a reader who informed me that he had chased the swirling cloud. He said he followed it out to Giant Mine, where it finally dissolved. Unfortunately, he said, he didn’t have a camera with him at the time and wondered if I had any photos.
The photo below, by Val Pond, is the only one I have seen. If you have pictures of the Funnel Cloud send them in to yellowknifeonline@gmail.com and I’ll post them for others to see, crediting you of course.
Taken by Becca Kroeger (YKbeach.com Event Organizer)
There have been a lot of public events held at the Somba K’e Civic Plaza already this summer. I think the area is great for big events or just lunch in the sun. It is open and there are benches and grass. And for the most part the grass looks pretty good. Except for that mysterious ring of dead grass in the middle of the lawn.
The ring resembled a track, a miniature track. I couldn’t figure out what or why this happened. I thought maybe it had to do with where snow was piled throughout the winter, but I was wrong. Actually I was on the right track though.
While at the Aboriginal Day Fish Fry I over heard the Mayor in a conversation about the ring of dead grass. Apparently at one point over the winter a Skating Oval was built. Whether or not the skating oval worked is beyond me, but as you can see the result of clearing and then flooding the lawn killed the grass.
The picture was taken during Aboriginal Day and it you noticed during Canada Day the grass is slowly coming back. It is a good things to, I remember last year when it was first put in we couldn’t even walk on it.
Over the last couple days an area in the playground of the NJ MacPherson School has been cleared, dug, and leveled. At first I was unsure of what would be occupy the space, whether a new playground or portable. Once they built a ramp from the road to the platform I assumed it was for a portable that would be going in.
Sure enough today, Friday, they brought in the portable classroom. When I tried to call the school and school board to find out why this new portable was being put in I couldn’t reach anyone. I didn’t think it was needed and with St. Joe’s School now fully open again, I thought Yellowknife School might be back to normal. Please if me in if I am wrong. St. Joe’s School just got their old portables removed, remember.
Something thing that I question though, is what was the hurry to put this new portable classroom building in. They had to fence off a large area of the playground while the school is still in. Kids have to play around it at recess, now. Why did they just wait a week until school was out for the summer? hmm…
UPDATE: Thanks to a parent/daycare owner, she informed me that NJ MacPherson will have 3 Kindergarten classes come fall. The four new portables will house some of the classes that will not fit into the main school. A commenter below also says that the portables are for the Montessori School, rather that YK1 (NJ MacPherson).
UPDATE: A commenter who actually works for the YK1 School Board commented below that they are moving the Montessori out of NJ MacPherson School into the portables, which have been moved from St. Joe’s School.
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