(Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
On the same day crews were starting significant work on McCarthy Boulevard, the City of Regina announced its plans for the 2021 construction season.
During a media conference Monday at City Hall, officials revealed the city is to invest $112.6 million in transportation, water, wastewater and drainage projects this year.
“To invest over $100 million is not only essential to improving infrastructure throughout our community, it also creates jobs that contribute to our economic recovery as we look forward to coming out of this pandemic,” Mayor Sandra Masters said in a media release.
“This year’s construction season improves essential infrastructure while addressing city priorities.”
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This is the story Huddy Bell never would have told.
The Regina-born Bell, who died in 2009 at age 83, was as private as he was successful.
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He led a colourful life despite resolutely eschewing the spotlight, often going to extraordinary lengths to ensure that he was neither photographed nor quoted.
Bell’s daughter, Lisa Wolfe, recalls one fine day when a Phoenix TV crew was dispatched to her father’s Arizona residence in the hope that he would do an interview about the donation of land to Grand Canyon University — which in turn had awarded him an honorary doctorate.