March 3: Taylor's Ticket Tour - Day 9

As the sun shines and the snow begins to melt, as it did on Day 8 of the 2010 Ticket Tour, it just feels like people are starting to think about spring

And when you think about spring, you automatically think about baseball, so Tuesday was a great day for our Goldeyes Ticket Tour.

We opened the day by dropping in on the folks at my MP’s office. Shelley Glover is back in Ottawa but her right-hand woman at the constituency office in St. Boniface was very charming and said she’d pass on our 2010 ticket offers to the Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages.

After spending the morning in the office, we headed out for a luncheon meeting at Hu’s Asian Bistro on Ellice with Darrell Boughton from First Canadian Insurance and then began our trek through some of the businesses around the airport.

We stopped in at NAPA Auto Parts, visited Meditek on Ellice and then dropped in on Traction Heavy Duty Truck Parts before heading over to see our old friends at Lonestar Harley-Davidson.

Sharon and Marge Danylchuk are in the midst of a $300,000 renovation of their showroom on Oak Point Highway and we had a nice look around the new facility. It’s going to be spectacular when it’s finished.

We also spent some time talking about the motorcycle promotion they did on the Canwest Park concourse a couple of years ago, a season when their sales manager had to return to the park three times to change bikes – because he sold the bikes that were displayed on the concourse. I imagine we’ll visit again.

After our tour, we dropped in on an old friend, Larry Desrosiers, at Ecco Heating Products. In 1978, Larry and I played on the Southdale Pizza Place Falcons, the Winnipeg Intermediate Fastball League champions. Larry looked like he could still play. I suspect we’ll see plenty of Larry at the ballpark this summer.

We finished the day by having a visit with the boys at JS Furniture Gallery on Ellice and ran into our old pal Burnett Konsmo. Burnett was one of the really dedicated sports collectors in the province and he and the guys from the old Sports Collectors Club are still running auctions on the internet and by mail. Burnett is a regular at Canwest Park every summer. I just hope he can convince his fellow workers that a night at the park is more fun than a new sofa in the showroom.

All in all, a nice afternoon on Tour and we now have 92 business cards in our draw for that beautifully framed Roman Swiderek print.