Nude calendar exposes road neglect
They're an unlikely group of calendar centrefolds -- one owns a pharmacy and another a grocery store -- but these pinups have come together to raise awareness about a pressing issue: potholes.
Eleven men and one woman from Leader, Sask., have bared all in the 2007 Highway 32 Pothole Calendar.
One man is pictured riding in a canoe in a pothole, another plants potatoes in a pothole and a third has a strategically placed hubcap. In the background a sign reads "Lost: Highway Paving Crew. Last seen 10 years ago."
It's a humorous approach to a serious problem, calendar organizer Gord Stueck said in a phone interview on Tuesday.
"Highway 32 from Leader to Swift Current was so bad ... you were driving all over the road trying to avoid these potholes," said Stueck.
It was so difficult to travel, Stueck said, that ambulances were forced to take alternate routes. "You couldn't transport patients that were cardiac patients or fracture patients."
Saskatchewan Highways Minister Eldon Lautermilch said a nude calendar won't solve the problem. "They're very creative people," Lautermilch told reporters. "But I don't think a calendar is going to rebuild a road."
Funds from the $20 calendar will go to the Leader Lions Club.
3 comments:
Didn't they already make a movie like this? The one called Calendar Girls sounds a lot like this idea.
Nobody may want to see it but it could be an important component in the Global O as long they're focusing on World Peace while they're out on the highway.
I figured that's a worthy cause to contribute positive energy for a brighter future so to help spread the message I made some T-shirts, Thongs, Hats and Boxer shorts for people to use that would remind them of what they could accomplish. You can get them here:
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I’m not sure they’re focusing on world peace, I think they just want their potholes fixed.
They’re probably more focused on not getting hit by a car while sitting in a pothole, naked, getting their pictures taken.
That’s a lot to focus on right there :>
Good point but part of the idea is about the connection to the enviroment and channeling positive energy.
I'm betting that doing that will help with the potholes and what cars are near them since that kind of focus takes in a lot more of the relationships between parts of the whole than is normally used.
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