March 11: Taylor's Ticket Tour - Day 12

Battling the rain and muck isn’t always fun but it does send a message: If it’s plus five and sloppy in Winnipeg in mid-March, baseball season can’t be that far away.

On Day 12 of the 2010 Goldeyes Ticket Tour, we once again brought along our student job-shadower, Chelsea Larsen, as our sales assistant and she did another outstanding job.

In fact, Chelsea got to handle a couple of solo efforts, paying a visit to both Glenn Harrison at General Paint and Heather Morris at First Avenue Office Furnishings Ltd. I’m sure they enjoyed Chelsea’s appearance a lot more than they would have enjoyed mine.

Meanwhile, we dropped in on Glenn Lepp’s people at Custom Woodworking, the receptionists at Kern-Hill Furniture, a terrific guy at Speedy Auto Glass on Nairn who said he’d be seeing his boss, Jim Capek, later in the day, a very nice young lady at Jade Transport Ltd., who said she’d be sure to hand our ticket package to company president Larry Dyck and an extremely pleasant lady at Paramount Windows who told us she’d make sure Tim Dudeck (who handles their advertising and what not) would see the ticket package right away.

We had a terrific visit with Chris Smith at the Rent-All Super Centre on Nairn who told us the best thing about Canwest Park is that he can walk home after the games. That is one of the great things about downtown baseball.

We talked to Rich at ICI Paints who told us store manager Darren Kuhlman was a big Goldeyes fan and that head groundskeeper Don Ferguson (aka Fergie) had purchased paint there in the past.

And Eric Hastie at Tool World told us they’d had a group outing at the ball park a couple of years ago and looked forward to another one this summer. Fergie told us he’s purchased a number of tools at Tool World.

We look forward to seeing all our new friends at Canwest Park this summer. Meanwhile, there are now 135 business cards in our draw for that sensational framed print by Roman Swiderek.