Hey Pam, Moose Jaw is the centre of the universe today. Morningside is coming from there; dedicating a cafe to Peter Gzowsky; Ferguson officially launching 'Beauty Secrets from Moose Jaw'; and tell us about this spa.
way to go moose jaw
LOL........will later gotta go to work! Son's High School was the center of our universe today.... DS received Rotary Award for Highest Standing in Grade 10 at A.E. Peacock!! :D
Also amongst his awards was perfect attendence.....hasn't missed a day of school in over 8 years. Only absences prior to that were for family funerals.
Temple Gardens Mineral Spa: http://www.templegardens.sk.ca/
renowned Temple Gardens Mineral Spa, named after a popular dance hall that was built in 1921 and stood in the vicinity for more than half a century.
The spa is the engine and symbol of the downtown rejuvenation. It's a four-and-a-half-star (Canada Select) resort hotel featuring geothermally-heated mineral water from sources almost a mile beneath the city. Its large indoor/outdoor hot pool, luxurious suites, refined eateries and an "oasis" featuring an expansive array of therapeutic and relaxation treatments has made it a hit with visitors from near and far.
Quoting:
Spas
Copyright 1996 by Edward Willett
Since ancient times, humans have been in hot water--literally. Soaking in hot, mineral-laden water has long been used to ease aches and pains and even touted as a cure for far more serious conditions.
The Romans and Greeks built many spas in places where hot springs bubbled to the surface, and in Europe, many famous towns exist primarily because of a source of natural mineral water: Vichy, France; Bath, England; Baden-Baden, Germany. Recently, a new town joined that distinguished list: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
The new Temple Gardens Mineral Spa is pretty typical of the spas being built today (and spas have seldom been more popular). Today, you can not only soak in hot mineral water, you can also take a mud bath or get wrapped in algae (which never appealed to me, since, as a hardy soul who has swum in Saskatchewan's shallow lakes, I have been wrapped in algae quite enough already, thank you very much).
Unlike most places where spas are built, Moose Jaw doesn't sit on a natural hot spring. Instead, the water in the Temple Gardens comes from an underground source that would never have found its way to the surface if someone hadn't been drilling for oil back in 1910. Small amounts of oil and natural gas did emerge from the well, but what chiefly emerged were vast amounts of water laden with minerals (about 10,000 parts per million). The well had tapped into water-soaked porous rock, the remnants of an ancient sea bed.
For many years the water was piped into Moose Jaw's swimming complex, the Natatorium, but the well was sealed off in 1971 because the wooden casings were deteriorating. For the Temple Gardens, a brand new well was drilled to a depth of 1,350 metres. The immense pressure at that depth forces the water to the surface at a rate of 760 litres per minute, so that no pumps are needed to make it flow through an 800-metre insulated pipe to the spa.
The water is warm--45 degrees Celsius--because, although we think of underground structures as being cool, the fact is, the deeper you go, the hotter it gets. Rocks three or four kilometres down are hot enough to boil water. The heat within the crust and upper mantle of the earth comes primarily from the decay of radioactive elements. A few more kilometers down, it's so hot that the rock itself is molten. In places where this molten rock is closer to the surface than usual, you get volcanoes, geysers--and hot springs. But as the Moose Jaw spa shows, even in geologically stable areas like the Great Plains, the heat starts to build just a few hundred metres under our feet.
In Moose Jaw, though, the water is actually cooled before it's pumped into spa's pools. Dissolved iron is removed and the water is purified (by passing it through a fine clay filter) before it is reheated and released into the pools.
Water that circulates out of the pools is purified again, then reinjected into a different geological formation through a second well, insuring that a supply that is already considered "virtually inexhaustible" remains that way.
The water in Moose Jaw and other spas contains many different minerals simply because water, given enough time, can dissolve almost anything, including the rock that surrounds it. The water in the Temple Gardens spa, for example, contains significant amounts of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, bicarbonate and sulphate, plus lesser amounts of boron, bromine, fluoride, iron, silicon and strontium, and trace amounts of arsenic, barium, copper, iodine, lead, lithium, manganese, nickel, phosphate, rubidium, sulphide, tungsten and zinc. Some of these elements combine to form compounds: magnesium sulphate, for example, better known as Epsom Salts.
The purported health benefits of soaking in mineral water have sometimes verged on the miraculous, but the fact is, there's little scientific evidence that soaking in warm mineral water is any more healthful than soaking in ordinary warm water. That alone, however, is a good way to treat strains, sprains, fatigue and backache, and most of all, to reduce stress, which has definite health benefits.
Those people who claim that soaking in mineral water cured them of this or that are probably enjoying the well-known placebo effect: they think the water has great restorative powers, and so for them, it does.
Which means that, in Moose Jaw and other spas around the world, people will continue "taking the waters" for many years to come.
Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw: Travels In Search of Canada
Author: Will Ferguson
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?Item=978067697643&Catalog=Books&Lang=en&Section=books&zxac=1
(for those that were wondering) ;)
Peter Gzowski http://www.cbc.ca/news/obit/gzowski_peter/letters.html
a wonderful tribute to a very special Canadian.....whose last Morningside production was aired from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Quoting:
I first met Peter in Moose Jaw when he was working for The newspaper (Moose Jaw Times Herald) - our one and only. I was just out of high school and working in the Advertising Department at Sears, ending up as the "Advertising Manager" when the "real" Advt. Mgr. left! I was also doing drama and tried out for one of Peter's productions. He told me I was good, but needed experience and to "go out and find life"! I did. And I never regreted listending to Peter. The best part was he listened to me.
Now I am 62 and have been listening to Peter for years. There are so many memories I don't know where to begin. However, what we will miss is his bringing Canadians together over the airways. We all listened attentively, not always agreeing but respecting his views. When he signed off in Moose Jaw, you knew there were tears throughout the Country.
We as a country will miss him greatly, and each and everyone of us will cherish those memories and stories we have of him.
God Bless you Peter, wherever you are .... a candle will always shine for you.
Nanciann Magnee
Pam, that Temple Gardens Mineral Spa sounds mightly fine to me right now. I could use a nice spa treatmnet and massage. My feet hurt!
Congrats to your DS. Quite an accomplishment and nice to see his efforts acknowledged with awards. You and your DH must be doing something right! :)
Thanks Donna! :D DS has made it pretty easy on us tho'.... self driven and likes to keep very involved in school activities (hardly see him until summer rolls around and then he drives us crazy). ;) Found out that at next years awards the previous years Grade 11's, with the higher marks, will get a full scholarship (tuition and books) given to them ... DS's eyes lit up when he heard that little piece of news. So did DH's and mine since DS is currently eyeing Optometry or Pharmacy or Teaching (but who knows). ;)
My DD did her first of Optometry (Science) at Waterloo University in Ontario. At the time, we were living in Edmonton (Sherwood Park) and the only University tha offered it was Waterloo. I don't know if that has changed or not now. Anyway,after a year there, she was soooo homesick that she came home, switched her faculty to Rehabilitation Medicine, and spent the last 4 years at the University of Alberta and is now a practicing Physical Therapist in Summerland, B.C. Now that everyone is yawning, I'll add that I get carried away sometimes, and when I saw that your son was thinking of Optometry...away I went!! :D
Congrats Linda. What a great kid you must have. If that had happened to any of mine, I'd still be shouting it from the roof tops, 20 years later.
Some of the Morningside programmes were totally amazing. Red River Rising, After John Lennon died was another one. All Morningsides were really special. I remember his last show so well.
Our morning guy here, Terry worked on MJorningside for quite awhile.
Boy, do I miss Peter. And now they have cut back Shelagh Rogers in the AM and are not letting her interview any really interesting people, and as for Bruce Richardson , miss him too. Think that CBC is really trying to go so very 'middle of the road' trying to get younger listeners hooked in.
I buy CDs of Peter G. whenever I find them and put them into my computer before I give them as Christmas prezzies or sometimes just 'I love you" gifities.
The next thing will be the end of AIH.
The worst thing CBC ever did was canning This hour has 7 days. And then to think that Patrick Watson ended up running CBC -till he got bored with trying to cope with cutbacks. And Laurier La Pierre is a Senator.
CBC has lost/slashed so many good things. Even Air Farce is not very funny these days.
Ginny with her usual CBC rant.
echoes
Nov 20, 2004
Ginny is sooo cultured, have no idea what she is talking about. What is CBC?
Will Ferguson in *Moose Jaw*. Also saw Shelagh Rodgers and Peter Gzowski's daughter Alison. Really great interview between Shelagh and Will.......will be on CBC next week and they did the interview in the NUDE!!!
Will was a fascinating speaker......talked about underwear (and lack of) and whether he wears thongs or boxers, Polar Bears, being being naked at spas, camping trips, towns with cement Elephants (somewhere in Ontario there is a town with a cement statue of Jumbo the elephant that died there), Be sure to tune into CBC next week!! ;)
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My copy.....
I'm with you echoes...
Thank you Ginny I am pretty close to "shouting from the rooftops"!
Donna it would never bore me....I think Waterloo is where DS is eyeing once he finishes three years of science here. Congrats to your DD as well! :D
echoes
Nov 20, 2004
Well, Pam I guess the point is - congratulations to your son. Well done! and to his parents, who had something to do with his success and all.
Oh and echoes he also had to talk about those looooooooooooooooong Canadian drives and dem Canadians that race through the prairies (Alberta, Saskatchewan AND Manitoba) as fast as humanly possible.
Mind you he has actually visited Moose Jaw 4 times!!! ;b
LOL...thanks echoes we are very proud of DS accomplishments!
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Perfect attendance - that's something you don't see too often! Congrats to him.
One of my co-workers took several days' leave last year specifically for going to the Temple Gardens spa in Moose Jaw. Sounds like a good place.
Didn't Morningside set up shop in Moose Jaw when Peter was interviewing Elly Danica? She was living in a church in the area, I think, during her recovery from abuse. Heart-rending series of interviews, very sensitively handled by Peter.
My personal memory of Moose Jaw involves marching down the main street in a big parade with the rest of my high school band, a "number" of years ago :-) And then getting in some kind of rowdy trouble in the hotel that evening....my memory's foggy.....
ordered my copy of beauty secrets last week - am looking forward to its arrival
I too miss peter a great deal - cooked his 60th birthday dinner here
sheila is great - not an anna maria fan
love bill richardson - although with the new time slot I don't get to hear him much
am getting used to his replacement on sad goat and have become a fan of DNTO although it did take a while
i guess you are either a CBC groupie or you aren't and I definitely am
congrats to your son Pam and to you and your husband - how's mum
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOUR SON!!!! and those who made him!!! What an honor and accomplishment.......
echoes
Nov 20, 2004
I'm not a CBC groupie, but gotta love em for my Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
Oh, dear! I am the traitor in the group. I am just not a CBC fan at all. :(
What?!?! Not a CBC fan! Heresy! :-) I am a CBC radio groupie, but not crazy about CBC TV, except for their sports coverage. The People's History of Canada was pretty good too, and the Nature of Things.
Well, as long as you don't mind putting up with some of us talking about it now & then :-)
I knew that Shannon. You even mention it in your profile. I am sorry! Can't help it! Goes back years and years. I am an American channel watcher. The only thing I watch on Canadian television is the news and the weather. Used to watch Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour has 7 days, but now we don't watch them either. To be truthful, we don't watch a lot of TV anyway. Never watch anything after the morning news, and then watch news from 5 until 7 in the evenings (BC, Edmonton, The National) and then from 7 - 9:30. After that it's bedtime for us, 'cause we are really early risers. Please forgive me! :(
Ohhh.....o-KAY Lol! :-) I included that link on my profile only because it's a good Canadian news source, & I check it several times a day. I don't watch a lot of TV either - the quality isn't much these days, is it? BTW if I ever take a half-decent photo in my life, I'll put one up too, as you have. After the round-up, at least most of us will be able to put a face to the name.
Shelagh and my cousin shared a house when they were in Kingston. they both became involved with the Queens station because there was no classical music and no children's hour so.... they started them. It was great fun choosing the Sunday am classical discs. Still have some tapes from the Children's Hour.
Echoes, we will get you hooked - one of these winter days.
Ginny
Thanks Lynn, Connie and Shannon! :)
Shannon poor memory is sometimes a blessing ;) ...tho' I do remember the Band Festivals very well and miss them terribly.
Lynn visited Mom this evening and she seems much better.....will be released and back at home on Sunday. :) Very happy to hear the news about her Grandson and she was heading out the door to share the news with everyone on the floor....... (forgot to say good-bye to us). ;)
MJTH had this to say about the cafe that was named after Gzowski.
"We hope this will be a place where people can have coffee and visit and listen to some of the Peter Gzowski tapes and go back in history. We hope that his memory will live on for a long time."
"The spa [where the cafe is located] stands on the former site of the Harwood Hotel, where Gzowski would sometimes head after work when he was editor of the Times Herald in 1957."
"Gzowski's daughter, Alison Gzowski, attended the opening, says she's often been thanked for the contributions her father made to Canada and the places he's lived in, but she made a point of thanking the people of Moose Jaw for what they gave him."
"It's the place my father had his start, it's where he finished his show and it's also the place he and my mother had their first date," she said. "So I owe Moose Jaw a lot"
Lynn I'm not surprised that your restaurant hosted Gzowski's 60th Birthday party!
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wasn't a party Pam, just a table of two. I think it was in between wife one and Gillian becoming his complete significant other.
I'm not a CBC telly fan either. But for anyone who spends as much time driving as I do and really isn't interested in todays variety of talk radio or music for that matter, CBC radio keeps me informed of what's happening in the world better than any other source.
More congrats in order - Saskatchewan is officially one of the 3 count em 3 have provinces in Canada!!! We three have to support the rest of the country??? is that how it is suppposed to work. How do they figure this out anyway. Plus I understand Newfoundland would be a 'have' province if they got the revenue from churchill falls instead of Quebec. What a country, eh.
Hard to believe isn't it?!?!?!? Saskatchewan a *have* province!!! ;D
Fill me in Lilypon...what is a "have" province?
So that makes SK, Alberta and Ont. Right? Guess we haad better get some wind turbines going here, along with our hydro, then maybe we will be a 'have' province too.
Weeds. This is a political thing here. Some of our provinces & territories have a much higher income due to -for instance oil (alberta) Ontario (Manufacturing) so some taxes are put into the pot by our federal govt. and then divided up between the 'provinces. Some are very 'have not' due to low population, not too much in the way of natural resources etc etc. The have not provinces have more taxes returned to them than they have paid.
So Alberta with no deficit may not get any of these taxes returned to it. Didn't know that SK was now a have province. Is that because of potash, Lilypon?
Newfoundland is trying to get a higher percentage of its offshore oil income. So far the Feds say no. Will be interesting to see what happens with that.
Inanda
We gots money.........rots of money!! :D Not as much as Alberta tho'! ;)
edited to say it's oil here too Ginny.......sure isn't from our crops that rotted in the fields! :(
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Go Saskatchewan!! That's great - the province deserves some wealth. (and it's not just a native Saskatonian bias talking....lol)
LOL ;)
DH just phoned and said he was pretty sure CBC was going to have Will Ferguson's interview on air this am. RIGHT NOW
http://www.cbc.ca (chose live radio link at top of page.....radio one)
Mainly Moose Jaw - Yay
I was just going back on to say the same. If you want to hear the entire thing, then go to CBC Calgary at the top of the hour, or CBC Vancouver an hour later.
Think Monday was changed because of the death of dear David Grierson. Shelagh went to Victoria on Monday after she recorded in Vancouver for Sounds of Canada.
Ginny
Think it killed Regina (our connection) to admit they're just down the road from us! ;)
Barry and Nancy are my cousins.....they pushed for Peter to come back here.