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Mrs.Greg

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Naked calendar gets results; Sask. government to pave potholed road
26/03/2008 8:02:00 PM







REGINA - The citizens of southwest Saskatchewan have learned just how influential a middle-aged man with a camera standing naked in a pothole can be.


Tim Cook, THE CANADIAN PRESS
The provincial government announced Wednesday that it will fix Highway 32 - a broken stretch of blacktop between Swift Current and Leader - a year after people in the area doffed their clothes and made a calendar to draw attention to the state of their crumbling road.

"My daughter still won't speak to me, but it was very much worth it," said Gord Stueck, or Mr. January.

Stueck owns a pharmacy in Leader and was the driving force behind the cheeky protest.

Stueck's photo features him standing in a pothole in his birthday suit, a long-lens camera strategically placed to cover his manly parts.

"It's a good thing it was cold that day," Stueck jokes.

Other pictures feature a man in the buff riding in a canoe in a pothole and a nude man planting potatoes. The lone woman in the calendar is seen hiding behind a bright yellow danger sign while another man covers his stripped self behind a broken windshield.

The 2007 calendar became a hot commodity, Stueck said. It was featured in news stories across the country and around the world. The man planting potatoes actually had an admirer call him from northern Alberta, inviting him to come for a visit.

The 3,000 copies were sold for $20 a piece and ended up raising $40,000 for the community of Leader.

"How this took off we're not sure. Other naked calendars have been done. I like to think it's because of the models," Stueck said. "I believe it's because everybody has a road to hate so that's why it took off. Picking on the government. Everybody loves to pick on the government."

That picking will stop for now, Stueck said.

That was welcome news to Highways Minister Wayne Elhard.

"The originator of the naked pothole calendar developed quite a reputation," Elhard said. "I don't want to be the subject of his next public relations campaign."

It will take three years to complete the work on the 50 kilometre stretch of road that is in the worst shape.
 

codymccue

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in my neck of the woods instead of fixin the road that comes up this way they put a sign at each end"warning,surface failures next 56km"

at least they warn us now,for a while they just moved the potholes around so you couldn't memorize em...

I'll stick to the gravel and slow rollin,me...
 

Mrs.Greg

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Well cody I'll tell you,I went to Beechy Sask a year and half ago for a wedding and didn't see ONE naked man in all those potholes :(
 

Shelly

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I've been on that highway 32, it was BAAAAAADDDDDDDDD!!! You couldn't swerve enough to miss the potholes, you'd swerve to miss one just to hit another one. And these weren't your every day run-of-the-mill potholes, they were craters!
 

Mrs.Greg

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Shelly said:
I've been on that highway 32, it was BAAAAAADDDDDDDDD!!! You couldn't swerve enough to miss the potholes, you'd swerve to miss one just to hit another one. And these weren't your every day run-of-the-mill potholes, they were craters!
Shelley...was that you behind the yellow warning sign? If so send calendar to Jigs :wink:
 

Shelly

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Sorry, not me. I haven't seen the calendar myself. I think 3words knows a couple of people in it. He's been in that neck of the woods a time or two, his sister lives there.
 

Mrs.Greg

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Shelly said:
Sorry, not me. I haven't seen the calendar myself. I think 3words knows a couple of people in it. He's been in that neck of the woods a time or two, his sister lives there.
Any chance cowsence is the potato planter? :D
 

Shelly

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I very much doubt it, but you can ask him. Have you seen the calendar? Is it all old, wrinkly people? Delisle volunteer firefighters did one this past year, sold completely out. Seen it, and the pictures are mostly older, overweight, balding men. Eeeeewwwww! Some younger guys though, and one young woman.
 

Mrs.Greg

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Shelly said:
I very much doubt it, but you can ask him. Have you seen the calendar? Is it all old, wrinkly people? Delisle volunteer firefighters did one this past year, sold completely out. Seen it, and the pictures are mostly older, overweight, balding men. Eeeeewwwww! Some younger guys though, and one young woman.
Actually I haven't but my SIL has,her sis lives in Shaunavon,and she has it,my SIL law just bout peed her pants tellin me about it :)
 
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