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Current Event (Number) What  - What is the article about REGINA SK - A rundown on highway 22 once celled one of the five worst highways in saskachewan The article about a big truck stuck in mud.

Who  - Who are the people involved / affected The people involved are government, Polices, Manz

When  - When did this happen It happen Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Where - Where did it happen (as much info as you can give) It happen on highway 22 it was in the morring and it was a rough ride.

Why  - Most important part. Why did you choose this article. What is its impact. Which of the seven social sciences does it most deal with. it deals with city of regina not ficks the rouds. I choose this article becuase i wat to know how he got stuk in the mud and if it was in regina or around regina and it was in regina on highway 22 and the picturs were instine. Source  - copy and paste the link where you got the article from and date it was published   REGINA — A rundown stretch of Highway 22 once called one of the five worst highways in Saskatchewan is driving local residents around the bend and that frustration is fuelling their bid to get it fixed. The roughly 16-kilometre largely gravel stretch of highway between Southey and Earl Grey took a beating from wet weather earlier this year and, at times, portions were submerged. But the problems with the highway go back several years, said Chelsea Manz, who operates a business in Southey and drives the highway daily from her home near Earl Grey. “This has been a decade of dilapidation and right now it’s gotten to the point that it is so severe that people are scared for their lives,” said Manz. The state of the road is of particular concern because school buses regularly travel the route, she said. A large grain terminal west of Southey means the road also sees a lot of heavy truck traffic. The troubled section of highway is on the Saskatchewan Party government’s five-year highways plan, which calls for six kilometres west of Southey to be paved and the rest of the way to Earl Grey be replaced with a better quality gravel road. But Manz would like to see the entire section upgraded to pavement and said residents who have waited years for a fix are running out of patience. Earl Grey-area farmer Stephen Brewster said he fears the road could be the site of a serious accident. “When it rains you deal with mud. When it’s nice out you deal with dust and dirt and low visibility,” he said. “You try to keep a constant pace when you’re going through the dust but sometimes you have to slow down and you don’t know if the person behind you is slowing down.” Earl Grey Deputy Mayor Denise Krochak said it’s tough for economic development when the access highway to the village of about 260 people is in such poor shape. “We’re kind of a community that’s sort of isolated when this highway isn’t passable and probably about 90 per cent of town are commuters,” said Krochak. In 2006, the then-Opposition Saskatchewan Party named the stretch of Highway 22 between Southey and Earl Grey as one of the worst five highways in Saskatchewan. The list was meant to encapsulate the issues plaguing the province’s road network, the Sask. Party said at the time. A section of Highway 22 was slated for upgrades in 2007 under the previous NDP government, which was subsequently defeated in an election that fall. The work never got done. Highways and Infrastructure Minister Jim Reiter acknowledged the concerns of residents, who have watched as the four other worst roads on the list got fixed or are under repair. “They’re very valid (concerns). That’s why we’re trying to do as much maintenance on there as we can to keep it in some sort of reasonable and safe driving situation until we can get some construction done on it,” Reiter said. But while the Sask. Party government has made highway improvement a focus of its first term in government, it can’t get to all roads at once, the minister said. “We’ve made a great start but we’ve got lots of work left to do,” Reiter said. Highway officials said current maintenance efforts include getting a contractor to “deep patch” about 20 bad soft spots between Southey and the junction of Highway 20.

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