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City launches ‘Get a Life’ by moving to Moose Jaw campaign at Regina airport By Gordon Edgar - Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com
The City of Moose Jaw James Bogusz, president unveiled a new marketing and CEO of the Regina Internacampaign on July 28 in cotional Airport (YQR), greeted operation with the Regina everyone present and explained International Airport. The why the event was held at YQR. campaign tagline is “Get a “The Regina airport is Life” and will focus on proMoose Jaw’s airport. In fact, moting the advantages of we serve a catchment area of moving to Moose Jaw. over 500,000 people here in the “I think it’s time to probeautiful province of Saskatchmote our city as a place to ewan,” Bogusz said. “As one of move to, to get a job, raise a the largest population centres family, have a good quality of outside of Regina, Moose Jaw life,” said Mayor Clive Tolley. is critical to the economy of this “Moose Jaw has got an ecoairport ... It’s a symbiotic relanomic advantage over most tionship and one that we’re very other places in the world. Your proud of. And I want to thank dollar is going to go further, the our partners at Moose Jaw for housing is less expensive, cost considering hosting this aweof living generally is just less some event here today.” expensive.” Trish Martynook, the chair Present in addition to of the YQR Airport Authority (l-r) Moose Jaw Mayor Clive Tolley, Regina Airport Authority board Mayor Tolley were Moose Jaw chair Trish Martynook, city communications manager Craig HemingMLAs Greg Lawrence and Tim Moose Jaw to hold that posiway (kneeling), Moose Jaw North MLA Tim McLeod, founder and CEO McLeod, city councillor Doug of MemoryKPR Jessica McNaughton, Moose Jaw Wakamow MLA Greg tion. She spoke during the event Blanc, several members of Lawrence, and Oliver (Lawrence’s service dog) about her life in Moose Jaw and Moose Jaw city administration, representatives of the Downtown Moose Jaw Association, Moose Jaw She emphasized how moving from Toronto to Moose Jaw had given her & District Chamber of Commerce board members, representatives from much more time in her life thanks to the enormous difference in commutMoose Jaw’s tourism industry, and the Moose Jaw Multicultural Council, ing times. Most things in Moose Jaw are only 5 to 10 minutes away - 15 which is responsible for integrating newcomers to the city. minutes at the most. “I moved here 40 years ago and I got a life, and a great one,” Martynook said. “I think Moose Jaw is the best place I could imagine to raise a family, to work, live, get involved in politics. It has everything any big city has to offer, so I’m thrilled that they’re doing this.” “We’ve been promoting Moose Jaw collectively as part of our job,” McLeod said after the event concluded. “Everybody that lives in Moose Jaw knows how great it is. This is a great campaign to get the word out.” Lawrence said that many of the activities that have been important to the Air Cadets, and volunteering with the Métis, were possible because of how much time living in Moose Jaw affords. “Coming out of the pandemic, there has been an emphasis on people
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city communications manager Craig Hemingway. “Moose Jaw offers a lot of what people are looking for ... With the cost of living in bigger centres going up, people are getting priced out of those markets, so we felt this is a great time to start this messaging.” Learn more about the new campaign by visiting www.moosejaw.ca/ GetALife.
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