An infusion of funding brought about by the pandemic — and the opportunity to better assess its role and the needs of its population — has really strengthened the work that Countryside Public Health is doing Countryside was as ready as it could be for the new virus Before retiring and turning over the baton to co-worker Dawn Bjorgan infectious disease expert Gloria Tobias had been monitoring the virus and its spread in China She had local staff “practicing and practicing” for the response there has been some distrust and disconnect about the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic but Countryside saw nearly the opposite effect Countryside realized early its important role as the source of information It worked to improve its ability to provide the information everyone — from restaurant owners to law enforcement officers — needed a good track record of working with partners in health care in the region There were “bumps,” but those partners trusted Countryside Public Health and supported it The infusion of funding the pandemic triggered allowed Countryside to increase its staffing from 30 to about 32 positions and focus on its key service areas and better align staff members' responsibilities New funding that resulted from the opioid crisis and subsequent legal settlement also has allowed Countryside to do more to educate people about substance abuse as well as equip an educator to bring lessons to classrooms in the five counties An emphasis on outreach to serve clients in some of the smallest and relatively remote corners of the rural counties with regular clinics has helped So did the fact that more people were seeking health information during the pandemic Countryside leveraged the trust people had in it “It gave us an audience that we maybe didn’t have before,” Mills said Mills takes advantage of multiple social media platforms along with traditional newspaper and radio outlets Keeping the attention of its audience in the days ahead may be more important than ever “My growing concern as a public health leader right now is we’re going to see a rise in infectious diseases,” Auch said She pointed to recent reports of cases of measles and pertussis in the country as reason for concern Her agency works to communicate to the public the importance of vaccinations against infectious diseases and offers clinics and referrals to get people vaccinated The percentage of children ages 24-35 months who are up-to-date with vaccines in the five Countryside counties ranges from 59.7% in Chippewa to 77.2% in Lac qui Parle The statewide vaccination rate for that age group is currently 63% When Auch began her public health career 25 years ago Auch pointed out that most young people do not have the firsthand experience of having known polio and other infectious diseases they may not have a full understanding about the benefits of vaccines She also noted there is currently a tension in the public discourse over the right to choose and a social obligation to keep others safe Auch said public health has generally been considered underfunded for all of her career Those concerns are growing today in the midst of federal and state cutbacks to health funding Countryside receives about 28% of its funding from federal sources as well as investment interest and opioid settlement funds The funding is very much needed in this post-COVID era as there remain a whole range of public health issues to address and the numbers of people being injured and killed on the roads due to distracted driving and drinking and other substance use are among some of the concerns she cited Countryside continues to maintain its readiness for the potential of another pandemic or reduce our defenses and ability to respond to a pandemic There was a lot to learn and do on the fly once COVID-19 arrived the lesson of COVID-19 was clear for Countryside support community journalism and subscribe to the Swift County Monitor-News Kevin Auch’s dedication to soil conservation in southern Alberta was recognized recently with the Orville Yanke Achievement Award presented at the Farming Smarter Conference and Trade Show in Lethbridge a founder of the Southern Alberta Conservation Association wanted to establish a memorial award that honoured farmers researchers and specialists who have played a pivotal role in promoting and advancing the cause of soil conservation in the province Grain and oilseed millers are predicted to see sales volumes and margins decline in 2025 according to Farm Credit Canada’s food and beverage report said he first met Auch when the Carmangay farmer was teaching farm management at Lethbridge College Dunn saw the challenges Kevin and his father were facing with wind erosion and salinity “They were really setting some examples in the community and were always willing to share (information),” said Dunn Auch hosted a tour of his farmland for senator Rob Black and his colleagues as part of their efforts to develop a soil conservation strategy for Canada “Kevin can often be seen in Ottawa promoting the interests of agriculture,” said Dunn adding Auch has been involved with the Western Grains Research Foundation and has served on a number of boards in the region advancing proactive farm practices Auch recalled in his slide presentation how passionate Yanke was in getting the word out about soil conservation Turning Carmangay sand into productive farming soil soil was the family’s goal since Auch’a father bought the land in 1963 “Some of the places on the land were pretty eroded,” Auch said “They didn’t have the growth protection products that we have now Auch said he used many of the methods he learned from groups such as the Southern Alberta Conservation Association beach-like terrain turned into rich structured land with plenty of organic material Auch’s land is now bountiful with plenty of moisture and nutrient-holding capacity Auch soaked in as as much information as his land did moisture both sharing and absorbing information from other farmers “Crop rotation is huge for a lot of different reasons,” he said while talking about a crop rotation that is currently in its second cycle compared to his previous four-year rotation alternative oil seed (flax/chickpea intercrop) and then cereal again “Before it was two cereals stacked on each other I wanted to get something between those two cereals you’re putting that host in two years in a row but I haven’t seen the disease and insect pressure that we saw before Auch showed another rotation of yellow beans you are changing your host in this disease/pest triangle you are also removing the food source for pests as well,” said Auch It’s important to feed the beneficials in between making sure not to carpet bomb them when they take care of the bad insects The beneficial parastoids that kill off the pesky sawfly are found high in the tall cereal stubble during their reproductive cycle You are seeing that thatch starting to build up on top I’ve never seeded in the last 10 years any deeper than an inch and a quarter ”If I can get under that little bit of thatch layer when it didn’t rain until June on our farm He said a longer rotation also makes it easier to rotate pesticides “I always want to throw in some other type of chemistry I don’t want to breed that resistance any faster than I have to but I don’t want to do it any faster than what is necessary,” said Auch “I’m using the low-disturbance seeding with the Pillar (drill) I’m not going to say how I’m doing it is the only way to do it so I couldn’t afford to buy all the fancy stuff and be on the leading edge of technology But I slowly incorporated listening to guys like Orville Yanke and learned how to do stuff.” Auch likes his stripper header for harvest but that prevents him from thinner crops such as lentils He said his stripper works well with thick crops my losses go up on that and I don’t want to buy another stripper your losses go up with your thin crops and a stripper header.” Newsletter Sign Up - Receive free Western Producer newsletters Breaking ag news stories and commodities markets snapshots delivered daily right to your inbox Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Canterra buys pedigreed seed firm Alliance Seed Parrish & Heimbecker acquires bulk marine export terminal in Quebec City Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy | © 2025, Western Producer Publications Limited Partnership "(Required)" indicates required fields Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is being criticized for rejecting former Olympian Susan Auch’s attempt to run for the party’s nomination in the Transcona byelection Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.Play VideoArticle contentThe party issued a statement on Monday denying Auch’s claims that she was unfairly prevented from seeking the nomination. Auch has responded by demanding a retraction and correction, accusing the party of misrepresenting her application process. In a statement sent to members and posted on Facebook, the PC Party said Auch had not completed the nomination requirements. According to the party, she failed to submit all necessary forms, including criminal record, finance, and social media checks and did not collect the required signatures from Transcona PC members. The party also stated that she had requested an extension, which was denied. The statement further addressed Auch’s concerns about access to the party’s membership list. The PCs said it is standard practice for nomination candidates to sell memberships ahead of time rather than relying on an existing party list. The party maintains that its selection committee followed all constitutional procedures and offered Auch an appeal process. Auch has refuted the party’s claims. In an email to PC leadership, she stated that she had, in fact, submitted all required documents, including a recent criminal record check, social media review forms, and a candidate application, on Feb. 20, at 8:08 a.m. She also noted that she committed to submitting a child abuse check separately, which she says was permitted. Auch accused the party of misrepresenting her compliance with the nomination process, calling it “both offensive and verging on defamation.” She demanded that the party issue a correction and an apology within 30 minutes of her email, warning that she would escalate the matter to her legal counsel if her demands were not met. The dispute has sparked reactions from readers of The Winnipeg Sun, with some expressing frustration over the state of the Manitoba PCs. One reader described the situation as “another confusing mess that seems to have infested the Manitoba PCs,” adding, “Hopefully, there will be a more forthcoming explanation from the PC hierarchy, but so far, I am not impressed.” Another reader questioned the handling of Auch’s rejection, writing, “Wow. How about she just walked the plank in shackles instead? This entire farce is too bizarre to be true. 30 hours? I am guessing that Susan is not ‘Canadian’ enough.” Others lamented the party’s internal struggles, with one reader stating simply, “What a shame that the PCs are in such shambles.” The PC Party has yet to issue a response to Auch’s demand for a retraction. transmission or republication is strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. 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Volume 4 - 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00015 This article is part of the Research TopicThe Role of Alternatives in LanguageView all 16 articles Presupposition triggers differ with respect to whether their presupposition is easily accommodatable The presupposition of focus-sensitive additive particles like also or too is often classified as hard to accommodate these triggers are infelicitous if their presupposition is not entailed by the immediate linguistic or non-linguistic context We tested two competing accounts for the German additive particle auch concerning this requirement: First that it requires a focus alternative to the whole proposition to be salient that it merely requires an alternative to the focused constituent (e.g. We conducted two experiments involving felicity judgments as well as questions asking for the truth of the presupposition to be accommodated Our results suggest that the latter account is too weak: mere previous mention of a potential alternative to the focused constituent is not enough to license the use of auch our results also suggest that the former account is too strong: when an alternative of the focused constituent is prementioned and certain other accommodation-enhancing factors are present the context does not have to entail the presupposed proposition We tested the following two potentially accommodation-enhancing factors: First whether the discourse can be construed to be from the perspective of the individual that the presupposition is about whether the presupposition is needed to establish coherence between the host sentence of the additive particle and the preceding context The factor coherence was found to play a significant role Our results thus corroborate the results of other researchers showing that discourse participants go to great lengths in order to identify a potential presupposition to accommodate and we contribute to these results by showing that coherence is one of the factors that enhance accommodation Additive particles belong to the class of alternative-sensitive particles, i.e., they interact with alternatives. For example, the presupposition contributed by also in (1) changes depending on the location of focus (Rooth, 1996 which is marked by prosodic prominence in English (indicated by small caps): In (1a) also contributes the presupposition that John introduced somebody else to Sue whereas in (1b) John introduced Bill to somebody else In an Alternative Semantics account, focus is assumed to indicate salient alternatives (Rooth, 1985, 1992, 1996 all expressions also have a focus value (indicated by the superscript f in (2ac)) The focus value of the focused constituent is a set of alternatives of the same type as the denotation of the focused constituent (2a) the focus value is a set containing only the denotation of the constituent itself (2b) Focus values can be composed via pointwise functional application to derive the focus value of the whole proposition (2c) a set of propositions which differ only in that the focused constituent is replaced by its alternatives Kripke (2009) proposed that additive particles as in (1) do not merely contribute an existential presupposition (“one of the propositional focus alternatives is true”) but give rise to an anaphoric presupposition amounting to the requirement that one of the propositional focus alternatives is prementioned the first sentence entails that John is afraid of something/somebody This information is not enough to license the use of also which seems to require that the context specifies who exactly the other individual that John is afraid of is An account making the same predictions but for different reasons is that of Ruys (2015): He proposes that additive particles in fact merely contribute an existential presupposition that one of the other focus alternatives needs to be true (5). The anaphoricity is due to the fact that too is focus-sensitive and that focus is anaphoric (though Ruys formalizes this in terms of Givenness; see Schwarzschild 1999) The combination of focus anaphoricity and existential presupposition explains why too is licit in a subset of possible focus contexts namely only those in which another alternative is previously entailed to be true The second main account of anaphoricity is one which suggests that additive particles merely require the salience of a focus alternative of the focused constituent (Corblin, 1991; Heim, 1992; Geurts and van der Sandt, 2004). Since in most examples, this is an individual, we will call this the SALIENT INDIVIDUAL account. (6) is the variant of this account proposed by Heim (1992) the presupposition involves an individual pronoun xi which requires an antecedent in the immediately preceding context This individual pronoun is responsible for the anaphoricity of too and other additive particles A further variant of this account is that of Geurts and van der Sandt (2004), who propose that sentence (7) actually has two presuppositions, (7a) and (7b)2 (Geurts and van der Sandt, 2004 They propose that the first presupposition is hard to accommodate because it is poor in descriptive content, whereas the second presupposition can be accommodated. The underlying assumption is that the reason why some presuppositions are hard to accommodate whereas others are easy to accommodate is that the former lack a rich descriptive content—the hearer thus doesn't have enough information to know what exactly to accommodate (van der Sandt, 1992) We test these two accounts of the anaphoricity of additive particles in two experimental studies using semantic judgments and questions targeting the presupposition, following up on a previous study in Grubic (forthcoming) we discuss experimental work on presupposition accommodation in section 2 section 2.1 introduces the topic and shows that the German triggers discussed here behave the same as their English counterparts Section 2.2 discusses experimental work on the accommodation of the presupposition of additive particles These studies find that participants are willing to reinterpret the test sentences or accommodate that something in the context is the required antecedent in order to assure that the presupposition is satisfied in the context There are only few studies which would allow us to decide between the accounts mentioned above and they do not investigate which further factors play a role for accommodation Section 2.3 discusses a previous experiment by the first author on the presupposition of German auch (= “too”) to confirm the predictions of the SALIENT INDIVIDUAL account but additive particles in neutral contexts (i.e. where neither of the presuppositions proposed by Geurts and van der Sandt for additive particles are satisfied) received unexpectedly high felicity ratings Section 3 reports two new follow-up experiments that we conducted and controls for two different kinds of possible confounds: (i) whether the presupposition of auch and (ii) whether the context is from the point of view of the individual that the presupposition is about The results show that at least one of these factors the experiment retained the problem that auch was judged to be quite acceptable in neutral contexts two changes were made to the materials in the second experiment to see whether this has any influence on the felicity of auch in neutral contexts to see whether participants correctly identify the associate of auch a third type of test sentence was added in which auch unambiguously associates with the subject A similar pattern was found for the unambiguous version items in which the presupposition was something very frequent or likely were changed in order to see whether likelihood of the presupposition plays a role The result patterns in the second experiment were indeed clearer arguably due to the elimination of this potential confound and find that in contexts without any potentially accommodation-enhancing factors the results look as predicted by the SALIENT PROPOSITION account but substantially worse in (9)–(10) (mean rating: 2.16/2.79 All sentences were judged to be felicitous in the minimally different contexts in (b) entailing the presupposition (with mean ratings of 4.74/4.00/4.82 the previous experimental literature on additive particles and presupposition accommodation is discussed in which we compare additive particles to possessives with a third person pronoun possessor Schwarz (2007) investigates whether in German sentences with ambiguous relative clauses (subject vs the syntactically dispreferred object relative clause reading is more readily available when it helps make sense of an additive particle the additive particle in (12) requires an antecedent entailing that somebody else saw the woman This is satisfied in (12) under its object relative clause reading (“The woman that the girl saw had been seen by the man but not under its subject relative clause reading (“The woman that saw the girl had been seen by the man He finds that in order to find suitable antecedents for auch (= “also/too”) German native speakers can override syntactic processing preferences Chemla and Schlenker (2012) investigate whether in sentences like (13) participants conclude that it is reasonable for Anne to study abroad according to the speaker that the presupposition of aussi (“Anne makes a reasonable decision”) is contextually entailed by the overt antecedent (“Anne decides to study abroad”) This was tested for a variety of different complex sentences including ones where the “antecedent” followed the host sentence of aussi The results of these experiments suggest that hearers are willing to go to great lengths to find a suitable antecedent in the context accommodate that some preceding linguistic material is in fact the required antecedent test whether the presupposed proposition itself can be accommodated The test sentences were judged significantly worse in negative contexts (mean acceptability: 1.3) and significantly better in positive contexts (3.7) These results thus corroborate the claim that additive particles require their presuppositions to be entailed by the preceding context that a presupposed proposition cannot be accommodated Kim's results indicate that the participants accommodate the presupposition (in about 80% of cases in the experiments for which she provides the response data) and her eye-movement data suggests that the presupposition is processed immediately as soon as the additive particle is heard A similar experiment is reported in Gotzner and Spalek (2014) for German auch (= “also”/“too”) compared to nur (= “only”) and focus The context introduced two individuals (in (19) one of whom served as the focus in the target sentence Participants were asked to judge the felicity of the short story on a scale from 1 (not at all acceptable) to 7 (very acceptable) and to judge the truth of a sentence with respect to the story for example for (17) “the witness believed the defendant” The type of accent on the focused constituent was manipulated but did not yield a significant difference in the auch conditions There was no significant difference between the felicity ratings for the different conditions The auch-sentences received a mean felicity rating of 5.7 the mean percentage of TRUE responses for the auch-conditions was around 74% Both results suggest that accommodation of the presupposition of auch is possible The felicity judgment results additionally suggest that if there is any additional cost of accommodation it either does not effect felicity ratings or is masked by the fact that the other conditions also involved making additional inferences of some kind (presupposition accommodation with nur conversational implicatures with the bare focus) presupposed information was accommodated and recalled in 87% and 88% of cases this was only the case in 57/59% of cases for iteratives and additive particles (anche while the accommodation rate for additives was much higher than in Tiemann's experiment it was still lower than for other presuppositions not all environments which license pronouns also license an additive particle it is possible to refer back to Jane using the pronoun she to accommodate that Jane is having dinner in New York there are up to now only few experiments testing the predictions of the SALIENT INDIVIDUAL/SALIENT PROPOSITION accounts and none—to our knowledge—which test whether any further factors play a role the result of a previous experiment in which accommodation of the additive presupposition seemed easier than expected we present and discuss our follow-up experiments in which we additionally manipulated the following factors: (i) whether accommodation enhances coherence and (ii) whether or not the context is from the point of view of the individual that the presupposition is about In this section, we will summarize in some detail the results of an experiment by Grubic (forthcoming) Our new experiments that we will present in section 3 are designed as follow-ups to this study Grubic (forthcoming) compared the behavior of possessive pronouns and the additive particle auch in three different types of context both potential presuppositions of the possessive/additive were explicitly satisfied by the context (1 that this individual has the relevant property) neither of these presupposition was satisfied only one of the presuppositions (that there is a salient individual) was satisfied but not the other (that the individual has the relevant property) Examples of the context types is given in (19) The target sentences are illustrated in (20) The participants' task was to rate the felicity of the items and to answer a question that checked whether the second presupposition had indeed been accommodated after reading the mixed context in (19c) and the target sentence with an additive trigger in (20b) the participant was asked to judge whether the sentence makes sense in the context provided (“How good is the sentence in this context Please rate it on a scale from 1 (not good at all) to 5 (very good)”) and to answer the question “Does Hannes wear glasses?” (Yes/No/I don't know) Third-person possessive pronouns are particularly well suited as a baseline for the experiment because they involve presuppositions that are similar to those that the salient individual account predicts for additives seine Brille (“his glasses”) presupposes that there is a salient male individual it is an uncontroversial assumption (which is also supported by the findings in our filler items) that this presupposition cannot be accommodated they presuppose a possessive relation between that individual and their complement NP; e.g. seine Brille (“his glasses”) presupposes that the salient male individual has glasses it is an uncontroversial assumption (again supported by our filler items) that this presupposition can be accommodated very easily possessive pronouns should receive low ratings in the neutral context in which no suitable individual is made salient by the context because both presuppositions are satisfied by the context because the salient individual presupposition is satisfied and the possessive relation can be easily accommodated the predictions differ between the approaches discussed above If it is correct that additives are similar to possessives in that the presence of a salient individual is sufficient and the relevant proposition can be accommodated they should show the same pattern as possessive pronouns: they should also be acceptable in both the mixed and the positive context additive) should thus not interact with CONTEXT (mixed vs the proportion of yes-answers to the question asking whether the presupposition is fulfilled should be very high for both possessives and additives The SALIENT INDIVIDUAL account (A) predicts no interaction but a significant difference between mixed/positive and neutral context The SALIENT PROPOSITION account (B) predicts an interaction between TRIGGER TYPE (possessive/additive) and CONTEXT (mixed/positive/neutral) Figure 2. Results of the experiment reported in Grubic (forthcoming): felicity ratings with 95% confidence intervals (A) and answer proportions (B) the felicity ratings in the mixed context are closer to the ratings in the neutral context than for possessives this difference is mainly driven by an unexpected behavior of the additive particles in the neutral context: their ratings were much higher here than for possessives Neither of the two approaches predicted this pattern As for the answers to the content questions they were almost always answered by “yes” in the positive context a higher proportion of “no” and “I don't know” answers was found but a clear majority of trials was answered by “yes.” This suggests an overall high rate of accommodation in line with the predictions of the SALIENT INDIVIDUAL account which was however a bit lower for additives than for possessives In Grubic (forthcoming)'s experiment discussed above an interesting result was that one of the contexts that was intended as a negative baseline (the neutral context) did not show the expected results with the additive particle Rather than rejecting sentences containing auch without a salient parallel proposition nor a salient individual in the context participants rated them as highly acceptable We hypothesized that this might be due to the written modality of the experiment Reading the target sentence with an implicit prosody that differed from the intended one could have altered the interpretation: instead of the intended association with the subject (which requires stress on the additive particle) participants might have read the sentences with stress on the object leading to association of the additive particle with the object this might result in a plausible reading in the neutral context We additionally changed some of the neutral contexts. It was noted in Grubic (forthcoming) that the neutral contexts in which the test sentences received the highest ratings often involved quantifiers where the implicit restrictor of the quantifier might serve as an antecedent Furthermore, Grubic (forthcoming) observes that the materials of the original experiment varied with respect to the discourse-status of the individual whose property needed to be accommodated that individual was the subject of the first sentence which had the effect that the story seemed to be told from his or her point of view They also varied with respect to the role that the accommodated proposition played in the discourse in which they were embedded the presupposed meaning contribution of auch increases the coherence of the text it might be unclear why glasses would make someone more or less likeable to Hannes The meaning expressed by auch provides motivation for this—Hannes and the classmate have something in common the presence of auch was not crucial for coherence in this way We agree with Grubic (forthcoming)'s reasoning that these properties might influence how easy it is for readers/listeners to identify which presupposition the author/speaker intended to convey (this will be discussed in more detail in section 4) We thus also aim to test the following hypothesis: we hypothesize that it might be misleading to assess the predictions of the SALIENT INDIVIDUAL and the SALIENT PROPOSITION account based on average judgments across all materials; each account might each make correct predictions for a subpart of the data depending on the properties of the discourse this would amount to a three-way interaction between TRIGGER TYPE We will describe below in more detail how we controlled for discourse type in our materials great care was taken to ensure that the corresponding sentences without auch are entirely felicitous in the neutral context that the context and test sentence always form a coherent text in order to be certain that any infelicity found in these cases is actually due to the additive particle Experiment 1 is based on Grubic (forthcoming)'s design and materials The first difference is that we presented the materials auditorily in order to ensure that the participants correctly identify the associate of the additive particle Details about the recordings will be provided below we manipulated the items more systematically with respect to the discourse factors mentioned above by including DISCOURSE TYPE as a between-item factor The three discourse types are illustrated schematically in (23) and by the examples in (24)–(26) A comparison of the discourse types in (23a) and (23b) shows whether the point of view plays a role whereas a comparison of the discourse types in (23a) and (23c) shows the influence of coherence a positive and a neutral context were constructed as well Note that the discourse type manipulation does not apply to the neutral context—there accommodating the presupposition never increased the coherence of the text and there was always only one individual from whose point of view the story could be construed the presupposed information is already provided so the discourse hypothesis does not predict an effect there It specifically predicts an effect on only the mixed context An example item of each type is shown below7 The stimuli were recorded by the first author of the paper with a prosodic realization that unambiguously signaled association of the focus-sensitive auch with the subject. This was achieved by assigning sentence stress to auch itself. Stressed auch associates with a preceding constituent. If several constituents are available, disambiguation is possible by marking one of them as a contrastive topic by a rising accent (Krifka, 1999) the only available constituent that the particle could associate with is the subject Association with the direct object would require sentence stress on the object In the conditions with a possessive pronoun ihre Ambitionen auf den Chefsessel “her ambitions to become the boss” in (26)) was deaccented in the positive context in which it was explicitly mentioned in the preceding context and accented in the neutral and mixed contexts Thirty-six native speakers of German took part in the experiment All of them were students at the University of Potsdam and received credit for participation this question only targeted the presupposition of the additive particle in the mixed context The same question was asked in the positive context where the answer was already provided by the context It was possible to listen to the audio file again if required (the number of replays was not limited) the participants clicked a button to proceed to the next stimulus The 18 items were distributed using a Latin Square design and randomized resulting from crossing the factor TRIGGER TYPE (two levels: possessive vs additive) with CONTEXT (three levels: mixed vs DISCOURSE TYPE was included as a between-item factor: six of the items involved a non-facilitating discourse Each participant rated 38 stimuli (two practice trials we obtained 36 data-points for each combination of TRIGGER TYPE/CONTEXT/DISCOURSE TYPE (one from each participant) The results (collapsing the three levels of the factor DISCOURSE TYPE) are presented in Figure 3 Results of experiment 1: felicity ratings with 95% confidence intervals (A) and answer proportions (B) Figures 4, 5 show the results split by DISCOURSE TYPE Felicity rating results of experiment 1 with 95% confidence intervals Question proportion results of experiment 1 The factor CONTEXT was treatment-coded with the mixed context as the baseline DISCOURSE TYPE was treatment-coded with the non-facilitating discourse as the baseline facilitating perspective and non-facilitating vs For distinguishing between the SALIENT PROPOSITION and the SALIENT INDIVIDUAL account with respect to the felicity ratings, it is crucial whether there is an interaction between TRIGGER TYPE and CONTEXT. According to a linear mixed model8 there was a significant interaction between these factors (mixed vs it is crucial to test whether there is an interaction between TRIGGER TYPE No significant three-way interaction was found The only significant interactions involving DISCOURSE TYPE were a two-way interaction with TRIGGER TYPE (non-facilitating vs p = 0.01) and a two-way interaction with CONTEXT (mixed vs facilitating perspective: t = −2.12 Prior to our analysis of the responses to the question we collapsed the “no” and “I don't know” answers to a single category (we interpret both answers as indicating non-accommodation of the target proposition) We only included the mixed context in the statistical analysis the proportion of “yes” answers was at or close to 100% making a meaningful statistical analysis difficult due to complete separation a different question was asked (unrelated to accommodation) The remaining factors (TRIGGER TYPE and DISCOURSE TYPE) were included as fixed factors in a logistic regression model A significant effect of TRIGGER TYPE (z = 3.09 The direction of the interactions between TRIGGER TYPE and CONTEXT is partially compatible with the predictions of the SALIENT PROPOSITION account: in the mixed context, additives are less acceptable than possessives (more precisely, the felicity difference between the mixed and the neutral context is smaller for additives than for possessives). However, as in Grubic's (forthcoming) original study the interaction is driven by the high acceptability of additives in the neutral context rather than by low acceptability in the mixed context and this is not predicted by the SALIENT PROPOSITION account that DISCOURSE TYPE significantly affects the felicity of additives The conditions including an additive are generally more acceptable (in comparison to possessives) in the facilitating coherence discourse type than in the non-facilitating discourse type even though the proposition to be accommodated is still not entailed by the context but instead merely becomes easier to identify because it enhances the coherence between the context and the test sentence that although DISCOURSE TYPE should only have an effect in mixed contexts the judgments of additives in the neutral context were also enhanced This is unexpected because the intended facilitating perspective/coherence was not present in the neutral context our DISCOURSE HYPOTHESIS (predicting more specific effects for the different context rather than an overall facilitation) was not confirmed Since DISCOURSE TYPE was a between-items factor in our design it is possible that another aspect in which the items differed lead to the differences in the neutral context; we will address this possibility in the second experiment Our conjecture that the high ratings in the neutral context might arise because participants assign a different implicit prosody than intended was not confirmed: change of modality from written to auditory stimuli did not change this it is conceivable that participants did not pay attention to the prosody in the items In order to be certain that the associate of the additive particle was identified correctly by the participants we took further measures in Experiment 2 (reported in the next section) to rule out any misinterpretation of the test sentences A second result not predicted by the SALIENT PROPOSITION account is that, like in the experiment reported by Grubic (forthcoming) the proportion of “yes” answers to the content question was higher for possessives than for additives the “no”/“I don't know” answers are clearly in the minority This suggests that most participants accommodated the target proposition in the mixed context there is a trend toward more accommodation in the facilitating coherence discourse type we tentatively conclude that the SALIENT PROPOSITION account predicting that additives are only licit when the presupposition is entailed by the context is too strong—at least in facilitating discourse types the additive particle is acceptable to a similar degree in the mixed context as in the positive context predicting that additives should be felicitous whenever there is another salient individual is too weak—in the absence of facilitating discourse factors the acceptability of the additive particle is similarly low in the mixed context as in the neutral context conclusive assessment of the accounts is impeded by the unpredicted behavior of additives in the neutral context In Experiment 1 discussed above, the result that additive particles were judged to be felicitous in a context that does not support their presupposition, which was already found in the experiment reported in Grubic (forthcoming) This is unpredicted considering the previous literature which states that the presupposition of additive particles is hard to accommodate Assuming that the presupposition of additive particles is not in fact freely accommodatable there are two possible explanations for this result even though in the auditory stimuli main stress was placed on the additive particle the participants might not have paid ample attention to the intonation Since the word order also allows for association of auch with the VP this would lead to a presupposition that the subject of the sentence has some other property which is satisfied in most if not all or our neutral contexts and would explain the high felicity judgments the context entails that Jakob has several properties (being a student so the presupposition that he has a further property apart from having a sister is satisfied in this context we wanted to follow up on the hypothesis that the participants accommodate something of this sort in example (27) that many other people have sisters Since this factor was not controlled for systematically in Experiment 1 it might also have lead to differences between the items confounded the between-items factor DISCOURSE TYPE The design and materials for Experiment 2 were based on Experiment 1, but the following three changes were made: first, all direct objects referring to something that people commonly have were replaced by more specific expressions, referring to something that most people do not have, but is nevertheless relatively uncontroversial9 an object like sister was replaced by the more specific twin sister The second change was the addition of a third type of test sentence In order to exclude the possibility that participants interpreted the additive particle as associating with something other than the subject (in spite of the prosodic cues) we tested a further type of structure in which the interpretation is made unambiguous by both prosody and syntax the additive particle can only associate with the subject it precedes The third change was made to the follow-up questions in the neutral context these follow-up questions were about the assertion of the test sentence (e.g. “Does Jakob have a sister?”) in the neutral context and thus did not help decide whether participants accommodate the correct additive presupposition The questions for the neutral context were thus changed in Experiment 2 so that they target the presupposition instead (e.g. “Does somebody else have a twin sister?”) Fifty-four native speakers of German took part in the experiment (resulting in the same number of data points per condition as for Experiment 1). Participants were recruited via Prolific. The stimuli were presented using the online questionnaire software L-Rex (Starschenko, 2018) The procedure was the same as described for experiment 1 each participant rated 38 stimuli (two practice trials The results are presented in Figures 6–8. Figure 6 (again collapsing the three levels of DISCOURSE TYPE) presents the mean felicity ratings and the answer proportions Results of Experiment 2: felicity ratings with 95% confidence intervals (A) and answer proportions (B) Felicity rating results of Experiment 2 with 95% confidence intervals Question proportion results of Experiment 2 The results for the three different discourse types are presented in Figures 7, 8 the factors CONTEXT and DISCOURSE TYPE were again treatment-coded The factor TRIGGER TYPE was Helmert-coded to allow comparison between additive (preposed/postposed) vs according to a linear mixed model the factor TRIGGER TYPE (additive vs possessive) interacted significantly with CONTEXT (mixed vs Only one marginally significant difference was found between pre-posed and post-posed auch in form of an interaction with discourse type (non-facilitating vs facilitating perspective: t = −1.89 the “no” and “I don't know” responses were collapsed for the statistical analysis possessive) interacted significantly with DISCOURSE TYPE (non-facilitating vs A marginally significant overall difference between pre-posed and post-posed auch was found (t = 1.89 One of the motivations for this experiment was to test whether participants misinterpreted the additive test sentences in Experiment 1 by choosing the wrong associate for postposed auch The felicity rating results indicate that there was little or no such misinterpretation: only marginally significant differences between postposed auch and preposed auch (which unambiguously associates with the subject in our test sentences) were found and the crucial observations with respect to the felicity ratings—that the mixed context is closer to the neutral context for additives and closer to the positive context for possessives—hold for both versions of auch the trend toward less “yes” and more “I don't know” answers for postposed auch than for preposed auch especially in the non-facilitating discourse type could be tentatively interpreted as an indication that participants felt more certain about the accommodated presuppostion when the associate for auch was marked syntactically and that it would therefore be advisable to use preposed auch in future research the results of Experiment 1 were replicated an interaction between TRIGGER TYPE and CONTEXT was found as predicted by the SALIENT PROPOSITION account (the mixed context is closer to the neutral one for additives than for possessives and closer to the positive context for possessives than for additives) as not predicted by the SALIENT PROPOSITION account DISCOURSE TYPE was found to play a role for the felicity judgments the facilitating coherence discourse type again raised the ratings of the items with additives this did not affect the mixed and neutral context in the same way: it specifically raised the felicity of additives in the mixed context (as evidenced by the three-way interaction) While in the non-facilitating discourse type the felicity ratings of the additive particles in the mixed context are very close to the negative baseline they are very close to the positive baseline in the facilitating coherence discourse type The fact that discourse type had a more specific effect in Experiment 2 rather than generally raising the acceptability (even in the neutral context) could be due to our effort to make the items more uniform with respect to how common the relevant objects were; this might have eliminated a confound and therefore reduced some of the random noise between items (and thus the tension between the two accounts might be resolved by taking into account discourse properties which can facilitate the identification of the proposition that needs to be accommodated these findings further support the view that a salient individual is not sufficient to make the use of the additive particle felicitous at least in the sense that it does not necessarily need to be present in the immediately preceding context Accommodation is possible and facilitated by discourse factors In the facilitating coherence discourse type an additive can be as felicitous in the mixed context as in the positive context (30)) and than our own filler item (9) (repeated here as (31)) that we took great care to ensure that the discourse is entirely natural and coherent without the particle so that any infelicity stems from additive particle itself our neutral contexts did not contain any propositions that are similar to a potential antecedent We hypothesize that (31) might be particularly infelicitous because the participants try to accommodate Mia is eating a salad as the required antecedent for our busdriver is eating a bun As a final methodological remark about our experiments, we would like to point out that our data shows a correlation between whether the answer to the content question indicated accommodation and the felicity rating12 This provides support for the view that felicity judgments can be used to investigate presupposition accommodation: when a presupposition cannot be accommodated the test sentence receives a lower felicity rating This paper reports the results of two experiments aiming to test the salience requirements of the German additive particle auch We tested the predictions made by the two main accounts on the anaphoricity of additive particles found in the literature: the SALIENT INDIVIDUAL account which predicts that auch just requires a focus alternative to the focused constituent to be salient which predicts that the context needs to entail a focus alternative to the entire proposition containing auch Sentences with auch were thus tested in three different contexts: ones which entailed the proposition (positive context) ones which merely made an individual salient (mixed context) and ones which neither made a proposition nor an individual salient (neutral context) the relevant notion of salience would thus have to be one that also applies to inferences arising from the utterance itself immediately prementioned or mutually attended to and thus For additive particles the truth-conditional meaning of the sentence is simply the meaning of the sentence without the particle the additive presupposition is thus not needed for the truth conditions and can be ignored according to (33) Third, as noted above, van der Sandt (1992) and Geurts and van der Sandt (2004) propose that presupposition triggers that are not sufficiently semantically rich cannot be accommodated because the addressee cannot identify the presupposition to be accommodated. Beaver and Zeevat (2007) formulate this as in (34) Even though, on the surface, additive particles give rise to a presupposition that appears to be rich in content, Geurts and van der Sandt (2004)—as noted above—assume that they involve two presuppositions of which one is similar to a pronoun and thus descriptively poor and not accommodatable no special context is needed in order to license the use of too since the identity of the other alternative being the only other focus alternative in the alternative set Thus, while we hypothesize that coherence can generally be used to help identify the information to be accommodated (not only in the case of additive particles), there are other mechanisms, such as the role of a restricted alternative set as in (36), which are limited to focus-sensitive particles17 One result of our experiments was that, just like in Grubic's (forthcoming) experiment additive particles were not as bad as predicted in neutral contexts We showed that this was not due to a misunderstanding on the part of the experiment participants: they were able to correctly identify the associate of auch we wanted to exclude any factors which might enhance the acceptability of additive particles in the neutral context since we were mainly interested in factors enhancing their acceptability in the mixed context any items in which we believed that the restrictor of a quantifier in the context might provide a kind of implicit domain for the additive particle (e.g. “nobody [of the other guests] is talking to him but he doesn't mind because he has a newspaper We also excluded any items that are frequent possessions in order to prevent potential accommodation of a very weak presupposition (e.g. “people in general have TVs”) It however remains an interesting question what is responsible for the relatively high acceptability of additives in neutral contexts Two anonymous reviewers pointed out two hypotheses worth testing The first is whether participants accommodate that the speaker (or addressee) is the individual relevant for the presupposition (as e.g. where we readily assume that the person trying to reach Jan is the speaker The second hypothesis is that implicit domains may play a role in more cases than we identified. This very likely plays a role for the acceptability of (38). Here, since the best group is mentioned, it is easy to accommodate that all individuals in this group have a good style of drawing18 We agree with these intuitions and believe that they should be tested in further research Since the important factor for the accommodatability of auch's presupposition is its identifiability there are presumably many factors at play which help identify a presupposition Since our studies were online linguistic questionnaires involving a healthy adult population no approval by an ethics committee was required according to institution's guidelines and national regulations Participants' consent was obtained by virtue of their voluntary participation in our study and their data were fully anonymized MG designed and ran the initial experiment that the current experiments are based on and wrote the majority of the introduction MG and MW designed and ran the two experiments together and wrote the majority of the section on the experiments This publication was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Potsdam The Publication Fund is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) within the framework of the Open Access Publishing program We would like to thank the DFG and the University of Potsdam for funding the publication of this paper The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00015/full#supplementary-material The authors would like to thank the editors for the possibility to contribute to this research topic and the editors and two reviewers for their helpful comments We would like to thank the DFG and the University of Potsdam for this support We additionally thank our colleagues at the University of Potsdam in particular Malte Zimmermann and Mareike Philipp for valuable comments on our first experiment 1. ^Two propositions are logically independent if neither entails the other This is needed to rule out sentences as in (i) 2. ^They attribute the latter presupposition to focus, via their background presupposition rule (BPR). Note however that the BPR is highly disputed (see the replies in the same volume, e.g., Büring 2004, p. 72; Jäger 2004 3. ^The mean ratings reported here are from Experiment 1 6. ^As no other individual was introduced in the context it was not possible to formulate the same question in the neutral context The question in the neutral context instead concerned the asserted rather than the presupposed content “Does Isa wear glasses?” in (20b) and is therefore not immediately relevant for the current discussion 7. ^The complete list of items for both experiments, as well as our recordings, can be found in the Supplementary Materials for this article we only report the results that are directly relevant for the tested hypotheses 10. ^Second-lowest unadjusted p-value: additive vs 11. ^This is supported by a post-hoc analysis of these two subsets of the data: in the non-facilitating discourse type there is a significant interaction between TRIGGER TYPE (additive vs in line with the predictions of the SALIENT PROPOSITION account there is no significant difference between the positive and the mixed context (neither as a main effect nor in interaction with TRIGGER TYPE as predicted by the SALIENT INDIVIDUAL account a significant main effect was found in comparison to the mixed context (t = −2.88 but also a significant interaction with TRIGGER TYPE (t = 2.00 due to the still higher than expected values of the additives in the neutral context 12. ^For additives in the mixed context higher ratings were found in trials in which the question was answered by “yes” than in trials in which the question was answered by “no” or “I don't know” in both experiments (experiment1: 4.09 vs 3.28; significant according to a t-test: t = 3.08 3.34; significant according to a t-test: t = 5.93 13. ^Note that non-truthconditional meaning is usually not seen to be part of this causal relationship (Beaver and Clark, 2008 there is no inference that Karl asks the waiter for a sharp knife (partly) because Anna has a steak 14. ^For experimental results suggesting such differences see Cummins et al. 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High School Activities Association is retiring in July after 16 years of serving as the administrator for girls athletics Auch’s replacement is former Freeman Public Schools athletic director Kristina Sage who has 35 years of service in Freeman SDHSAA is responsible for state tournaments student-athlete eligibility and the creation of rules and regulations Auch’s portfolio of sports includes competitive cheer She was lucky enough to be a high school freshman in 1974 when Title IX kicked in and opened the door to girls athletics “That was when girls’ basketball started in the state of South Dakota,” Auch said Auch went on to play basketball and softball at the University of South Dakota She played basketball and ran track for Montrose High School where those were the only girls sports offered when she was in school She went on to compete in both of those sports at Dakota Wesleyan in Mitchell Her time at Menno High School lasted 26 years 20 Favorites: Links to the stories highlighting the best northeastern South Dakota athletes since 1984 but was drawn to work for the association out of her desire for more administrative responsibilities and her association with Ruth Rehn Rehn was the first administrator for girls’ athletics “She was the one who got everything started for the state of South Dakota in girls athletics,” Auch said “It’s kind of interesting that there have only been two people in this position.” Working with the association in her capacity as an athletic director was a catalyst for Sage seeking her new job “I have a lot of respect for what the association does,” Sage said I just felt like that was really in my wheelhouse.” The biggest change Sage has seen in girls athletics is the growth in the number of opportunities since the days when she was limited to two sports in Montrose she has also witnessed a change in coaching “There weren’t many female coaches when I was a high school athlete,” Sage recalled “Even when I started out teaching and coaching “Our board has kind of asked us to slow down a little bit,” Auch said “Schools need a chance go breathe and catch up financially.” the association has implemented a formal process through which new sports must be suggested by member schools will be the recruitment and retention of sports officials Sage was noted for treating officials with respect the way we treated them when they came here,” Sage said Auch has seen the struggle of trying to keep sports officials “One of the things we hear over and over again is we’re losing officials because of (poor) sportsmanship,” Auch said the association hopes to recruit more officials through a program called RefReps and getting the administrators at member schools to take a stand against poor sportsmanship RefReps is a course in officiating offered in high schools and colleges Thirty-two students recently took the RefReps course at USD learning how to be officials for football and volleyball Auch hopes they sign up to work junior varsity games “That’s 32 people that we didn’t have last year,” Auch said “I’m hoping that’s going to continue to move.” Sage described her experience with poor sportsmanship as “pretty discouraging,” particularly when dealing with adults “You just have to be willing to speak up,” Sage said “I’m not comfortable with that.’ We need to think about how we’re treating people.” Auch notes that fans often forget that officials are taking time away from their jobs and their families to give back to a sport they love Lacrosse: Varsity girls team secures first NPPL championship in history of Watertown Lacrosse Club Despite the recent need for an emphasis on sportsmanship, Auch and Sage agree that participation in high school athletics has many benefits. “I just think it’s one of the best parts of being in school for kids,” Sage said. “They learn so much just by being a member of a team.” High school activities are full of life lessons, according to Auch. “I think kids that are involved in athletics just turn out to be much better people.” Auch said high school athletes learn about making a commitment while honing their leadership skills. “There will be mistakes along the way because they’re kids,” Auch said. “We’ll work through those mistakes and move through that so we can become better individuals.” As she tries to predict the future for a job she hasn’t started yet, Sage said she hopes for continued growth in participation in girls athletics. She has seen that growth recently in the state’s two-year-old softball program. “Even in the second year, we had more teams just in our own area,” Sage said. “We’ll continue to see that growth, which is great.” Auch points the implementation of softball as a sport for girls as the personal highpoint of her 16 years with the association. Softball was in discussions for four years before it was implemented two years ago. Since the sport was sanctioned, it has grown from 48 schools to about 60 schools. “We’ve talked about it so long and to finally get it two years ago was a real highpoint,” Auch said. After years of running playoff tournaments and state athletic events, it was a missed event that convinced Auch it was time for retirement. When she couldn’t attend a Grandparents Day event at her granddaughter’s school in Dickinson (N.D.), the girl’s reaction changed Auch’s mind about working for another year. She vowed to be able to make it to the next Grandparents Day. “When I’m sitting in the nursing home I’m not going to remember that I worked another year,” Auch predicted, “but I am going to know that I missed her event.” Craig Mattick:Welcome to another edition of In Play. I am Craig Mattick. Today's guest has devoted over 40 years to the youth of South Dakota, a teacher, a coach, an athletic director, a referee, and an administrator from Scotland to Menno to being an assistant executive director at the South Dakota High School Activities Association and now retiring. Our guest today is Jo Auch. Jo, welcome to In Play. Jo Auch:Well, thanks. Appreciate you having me. Craig Mattick:Congratulations on retirement. Craig Mattick:You've been on the go for so many years. Are you ready for a little rest and relaxation? Jo Auch:Well, I got to say I've never known a pace that's a slow-down pace. I've always been a person on the go, so I'm looking forward to slowing down a little bit and spending some time with my granddaughter that lives in Dickinson, North Dakota. So there'll be a little time spent on the road going back and forth and doing some things as such. But yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I don't know what it's going to be like yet, but I'm looking forward to finding out. Craig Mattick:Now you grew up in the Scotland area, is all of it really where you grew up back in the seventies? Jo Auch:Yeah, actually I was in the middle of nowhere. I was 15 miles from Scotland, Parkston and Tripp, and our mailing address was all of it, so anytime we drove the car through all of it, the joke was that was all of it. Craig Mattick:So what was family life like at that time right before you were getting into high school at Scotland? Craig Mattick:So where were you ranked in all the kids when it came to age? Craig Mattick:You're the baby of the family. Jo Auch:My brother and sister would tell you that I'm the spoiled one, so I was the one who got everything that I always wanted. Craig Mattick:Well, you were a multi-sport athlete, but, of course, in the smaller towns in South Dakota, some of those kids, they had to play more sports just to fill out those rosters. But for you, you didn't need any coaxing to play sports at Scotland. What sports did you play? Craig Mattick:You were a three-time all-state basketball player for the Highlanders. Did you have a basketball court out on the farm? Jo Auch:Yeah, I had a machine shed, an old school barn building that served as our machine shed where dad stored the equipment and we screwed a basketball hoop up there in a dirt area, a grassy area, and that's where I learned to play basketball. We had about a quarter mile long driveway, so you dribble the ball on those rocks and you get pretty good at being a ball handler. Craig Mattick:That's awesome. I have heard a story that when you were a freshman at Scotland that the football coach wanted you to be on the football team. Is that true? Craig Mattick:Oh, mom and dad said no, huh? Jo Auch:Mom and dad put the kibosh to that one, yeah. Craig Mattick:We all know there have been girls who have played high school football in South Dakota, but as far as I know, I've never heard of a girl being the quarterback of the football team. Jo Auch:Well, sometimes that talk is cheap. I'm not sure what he saw in me, but back in the day, our class was a pretty good size, but we didn't have a lot of guys that played football at that time. I'm not sure he was too serious about it, but he did talk to my parents about it, so I'm going to give him credit for that one. Craig Mattick:You mentioned when you were at Scotland, basketball was just added as a sanctioned sport. Volleyball wasn't sanctioned until 1982, but in basketball it's the mid '70s, who were some of those good teams that you faced when you played for Scotland? Jefferson may have been one. Jo Auch:Her name was Deb Schooley. You may know Doug Schooley. Doug was in Watertown, the athletic director. He started in Scotland and Deb and Doug were teachers in Scotland and she wasn't Schooley at the time, she wasn't married yet at that time. But she was my coach for three years and then Dan Grasser took over my senior year. Craig Mattick:What kind of a player were you on the basketball court? Tenacious? Craig Mattick:Well, you were good enough where the University of South Dakota wanted you to play basketball for them, right? Was Chad Lavin there yet or was that right before Chad? Jo Auch:That was before Chad. Mary Zimmerman was my coach at that point in time. She was the one who recruited me and Kirk Frederickson from Northern tried to recruit me as well, and I ended up landing at USD and never regretted it. Craig Mattick:Well, I tried to find some information about your playing days at USD. I was able to find your senior year, you guys played in the North Central Conference tournament. It happened to be in Vermillion that year. It was 1982. You beat Morningside in the opening round of the tourney and then North Dakota State beat you guys. But in that tournament, you scored 34 points, 14 assists, and 11 steals during that tournament. Craig Mattick:You played over 100 college games with USD. Craig Mattick:Your senior year, you had a couple of freshmen on that team that turned out to be pretty darn good for the coyotes. One, of course, Katie Dailey from Jefferson and the other one, Ann Pancoast, who came from Sioux Falls Washington. They were freshmen. They had that deer in the headlight look, I think, as freshmen having you on that roster. It was a young roster when you were a senior. Craig Mattick:During your time in Vermillion at USD, you wanted to be a teacher. When was it you decided that you wanted to be in education? Craig Mattick:Yeah. You graduate from USD back in 1982. Were there a lot of teaching jobs out there at that time, 1982? Craig Mattick:They had an idea that maybe you could coach gymnastics. Jo Auch:Well, yeah. I took a class in college from Mark Upward who I shoot and taught under in Vermillion as well. Fantastic guy, taught me an awful lot, but was not able to teach me a heck of a lot about gymnastics. Craig Mattick:But you taught social studies and you taught FIAD. That's something you started with right away, correct? Jo Auch:I did. Yep. I taught middle school social studies and K-8 physical education and then I coached three sports at that point in time. I started out coaching basketball and track were the two that I started with. And then when volleyball came about and Menno finally started volleyball, a friend of mine, Glenda Bowman and I started the program in Menno. I think it was in '90 or '91, somewhere in there. And that really became one of my favorite sports rather quickly. Craig Mattick:Well, you didn't play volleyball in high school at Scotland. It wasn't a sanctioned sport yet. And, of course, then volleyball remember was in the winter and girls basketball was in the fall, but how did you adapt to learning volleyball, being a coach and moving on with that program? Craig Mattick:Well, Menno has not made it to the state volleyball tournament. How close did you get when you were coaching? Jo Auch:Yeah, unfortunately that was back in the day of the Viborg-Hurley, the Hurley, I guess I should say, the Woodwards, if you remember those names, the twins and their hitting power was just way too much for us all the time. So again, you make it to that level and once you hit them, you just hit the brick wall. Parker was another one obviously, and they were all in our region. Craig Mattick:Menno girls basketball, you coached the girls basketball. They have made it to the state basketball tournament once. That was in 2000. What was that tournament experience like? Craig Mattick:I was able to follow Brie at the University of Sioux Falls when I was doing their games on the radio. A great outside shooter, Brie Wilmoth. That was fun. At least we talked about Menno once in a while, which was pretty fun as well. When did you become the athletic director for Menno? Craig Mattick:Jo, becoming the AD set the stage for you for what was to come. It's 2008 and there's an opening at the South Dakota High School Activities Association as long time member Ruth Rehn retired. Ruth had been involved with Title IX in South Dakota. She was awesome in that position. She's a great lady. When you were coaching at Menno, would you at times run into Ruth about various issues? Jo Auch:Yes, exactly. I was always on time, that's for sure. Craig Mattick:So what intrigued you about applying for that job with the association? And I remember the interview. I walked in the interview. There were nine people sitting in the room with suits and ties and all of that. And then there was a chair in the middle with a glass of water, and that was my spot. And I felt like I was in the middle of a firing squad. So we had the interview and did that on Sunday. I think they've interviewed two on Sunday and two on Monday. And Tuesday, I got a call from Wayne and I remember our secretary in school, Sheila, came to my room. I was teaching social studies, sixth grade social studies, and came in and she said, "You've got a phone call on line one." And I was in the middle of a lecture and I said, "Just take a message. I'll get back to him." And she said, "No, I think you're going to want to take this one. It's Wayne Carney." So off I went. She watched my class and off I went. Craig Mattick:I'm assuming those nine people on the interview asked you more than about gymnastics. They asked you a few more questions than that. Jo Auch:Yeah, they did. Like I said, it was a true firing squad. I'm not going to lie. That's what it felt like. Craig Mattick:I was going to ask those first few years though, what was the job like? There were so many things to take under your wing. What were those first few years like? And gymnastics was another one. I remember talking to Ruth and saying, Ruth asked me, "What do you know about gymnastics?" And I said, "Not much." And she goes, "If you don't know it, you're never going to understand it." And she's absolutely correct. She said, "You just find people that you can entrust. You find people that can help you learn and help you understand. And it's all about managing." Those two were my biggest challenges along the way. Craig Mattick:You oversaw boys and girls tennis, volleyball, competitive cheer, competitive dance, sideline cheer, boys and girls basketball, you mentioned gymnastics and softball. They might as well have added football for you too there, Jo, you did so many. But during your time with the association, the sports of softball, girls wrestling and soccer were added as sanctioned sports, but you played a huge role in getting softball sanctioned. What was that like? Craig Mattick:Well, you got to throw out the first pitch of one of the games. Jo Auch:You mean I got to roll out the first pitch. We had people that did it at each of the classes. I threw it out for class B, and we had two other people that did it for class A and class AA, and it was a feel-good feeling. Craig Mattick:It went over the plate. It just happened to roll it over- Jo Auch:It did. It was right over the plate. It was even a windmill. Come on. Craig Mattick:Another issue that you've been a part of here late before you retire is the recruitment and training of officials. And you've gotten the University of South Dakota involved. What has that process been like now? Craig Mattick:March 2020, the COVID year, everything shut down. That had to be a very stressful time for you and the association. And to take those opportunities away, those kids, so seniors, that's their senior year, they did not have the opportunity to finish what they had worked so hard for their entire career. And that was really the sad point for me and for the office as well. It hurt us to have to do that, but we had to do what was best for our membership at that point in time. Craig Mattick:16 years with the association. What are you going to miss the most? Craig Mattick:You have done an awesome job, Jo. No doubt about it. Thank you. Thank you for what you've done. Two more for Jo. You mentioned Kristina Sage at Freeman takes over for you. What is your biggest advice to Kristina? Craig Mattick:And what is the biggest item on your bucket list to complete as retirement arrives? Jo Auch:Well, everybody asks me how many days I have left and I tell them I have four state events left. And that's how you gauge it in this business, I guess I just hope that people know that along the way that I've given it my all, that I enjoy my job. I go to work every day and enjoy what I do. Craig Mattick:And you've been awesome with what you've done. Jo Auch:Thanks. Sorry, I get a little emotional here. Jo Auch:It means a lot. That job has meant the world to me, no question about it. And I wish Kristina the best. I wish the High School Activities Association continued success. And like I said, I'm going to be around and if they need any help along the way, I'm happy to sweep a floor or run a shot clock or keep a scorebook or whatever it's I need to do at that point in time, so happy to help. 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She has stated that her campaign will focus on affordability, health care and public safety. Her platform includes advocating for cost-of-living relief, supporting local businesses and pushing for improved health-care access. She has also voiced concerns about community safety and intends to back initiatives aimed at crime reduction. Auch has positioned her campaign as a fresh alternative focused on direct engagement with residents. She plans to meet voters through door-to-door visits, community events and other outreach efforts. Notices are posted by 10 am Monday through Saturday Adjust Text Size: A+ A- Simple Cremation & Life Celebrations <br />204-421-5501 <br />Tributes: EthicalDeathCare.com" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 2px;">ETHICAL DEATH CARESimple Cremation & Life Celebrations204-421-5501Tributes: EthicalDeathCare.com As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Apr 12, 2025 Share your memories and/or express your condolences below. 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Julie Auch is seeking re-election to the South Dakota House in District 18 She faces incumbent lawmaker Mike Stevens and John Marquardt for two available seats in the June primary The district is in the southeast corner of South Dakota The Dakota Scout sent a series of questions to all legislative candidates running in contested races for the state House and Senate in the June 4 primary election Candidates were asked to limit their responses to each question to 150 words or less Age: City of residence: Profession: Public service/community service experience:Family information: 1) What's the government's role in facilitating economic development in South Dakota I believe true Economic Development is amongst our small businesses and industry in our neighborhoods By helping them expand and increase their production We are building our neighborhoods and communities at a pace that is in harmony with our local communities Not mandated or controlled by the State or Federal Government 2) If you could have dinner with any person Senate Bill 201; is a FAKE "landowner bill of rights" this legislation passed this session is and if not overturned by the voters in November, is in contravention of South Dakota's Constitution, is injurious to the rights, safety, and wellbeing of the people of South Dakota, and for that reason should be on the ballot and decided by the people of South Dakota.  Once we as legislators take private property rights for private gain we have sold out South Dakota and her people.  Rep Age: City of residence: Profession: Public service/community service experience:Family information: I believe true Economic Development is amongst our small businesses and industry in our neighborhoods By helping them expand and increase their production.  We are building our neighborhoods and communities at a pace that is in harmony with our local communities Not mandated or controlled by the State or Federal Government Senate Bill 201; is a FAKE \\\"landowner bill of rights\\\" this legislation passed this session is and if not overturned by the voters in November is in contravention of South Dakota's Constitution and wellbeing of the people of South Dakota and for that reason should be on the ballot and decided by the people of South Dakota.  Once we as legislators take private property rights for private gain we have sold out South Dakota and her people.  Updated 5 March 2025: Due to poor weather conditions overnight surfacing improvements on the A82 at Auch and Rannoch Moor will not go ahead tonight are set to carry out surfacing improvements on sections of the A82 between Tyndrum and Glencoe These improvements will involve resurfacing the road to make it more durable and resilient against inclement weather Works will begin on Tuesday 18 February and are due to be completed by the morning of Wednesday 19 March Works will be carried out between the hours of 7pm and 5am each night with no works on Friday or Saturday evenings Outwith these hours traffic management will be removed however as traffic will be travelling over a temporary surface In order to protect the workforce and the travelling public the A82 will be closed in both directions each night between 7pm and 5am 2am and 4am will allow waiting vehicles to be escorted through the site Access for emergency services and scheduled bus services will be maintained for the full duration of  the works An alternative route is also available via the A85 and A828 for those who do not wish to wait for amnesty said “These essential resurfacing works will upgrade the existing road surface greatly improving the quality and safety for road users The refreshed road markings will also improve visability to enhance road safety “We thank motorists for their patience ahead of these road improvements.” Real-time journey planning information can be obtained by visiting www.traffic.gov.scot or X @trafficscotland. Residents of Transcona will vote on March 18 for a new Member of the Legislative Assembly The by-election has already been marked by controversy over the Progressive Conservative nomination process We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.Play VideoArticle contentSusan Auch a former speed skater who competed for Canada in five Winter Olympics and earned medals at Calgary in 1988 sought the Progressive Conservative nomination in Transcona Winnipeg’s has a long track speed skating oval named the “Susan Auch Speed Skating Oval.” She was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 2003 Auch also ran in Winnipeg’s Assiniboia constituency during the 2011 Manitoba provincial election finishing second to New Democrat Jim Rondeau Auch said she wanted to represent the people of Transcona but faced resistance from the party she wrote: “The PC Party blocked me from running in Transcona I put my name forward to run for the Progressive Conservative nomination in Transcona the community that has honoured me with a park and school gym in my name the party made it impossible for me to even contest the nomination By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc The next issue of The Winnipeg Sun's Daily Headline News will soon be in your inbox Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. • The by-election was announced on Feb. 18. • On Feb. 19, I spoke with the PC CEO, who was initially excited. • Just hours later, I was told I needed 21 signatures from active PC members in Transcona — but they refused to provide a membership list, they banned me from selling memberships and they gave me just 30 hours to complete the impossible task. Auch to The Winnipeg Sun, “The PC Party gave me just 30 hours to collect 21 signatures from active PC members in Transcona — without providing a membership list or allowing me to sell memberships. It was an impossible task designed to keep me out of the race. “Not only did the PC Party refuse to give me a membership list, but they also blocked me from selling memberships. I spent two full days trying to track down active members, only to be told at the last minute that some of my signatures didn’t count — with barely two hours left to fix it.” When The Sun inquired whether she thought Shawn Nason was the right choice, she replied, “Honestly, it’s not up to me to decide whether Shawn Nason is the right choice or not, but just a few months ago, he helped the federal NDP Party candidate who beat Poilievre’s Conservative candidate in the Transcona By-election. But why not let the members decide,” Auch said. Auch added, “Transcona deserved a fair, competitive process — but the party insiders made sure that didn’t happen. There are rules, but under these exceptional circumstances (extremely short timeline), the party should have been flexible. “I would think that the PC party would want as open a competition as possible to encourage their constituents to decide who the best candidate for representing them would be. It is the nature of a democracy and I would hope this party would lean more to that than dictatorship.” In a social media post, PC leadership candidate Wally Daudrich said, “I’m curious to know why our party appointed a candidate in the Transcona by-election who just a few months ago campaigned for Jagmet Singh’s NDP candidate, helping defeat Pierre Poilievre’s candidate in that riding’s federal by-election.” The Progressive Conservative party nominated former Winnipeg city councillor Shawn Nason as its candidate. Nason served as Transcona’s city councillor from 2018 to 2022, a term that ended with his defeat and the return of former councillor Russ Wyatt. The Manitoba NDP has nominated educator Shannon Corbett as its candidate. A lifelong resident of Transcona, Corbett has taught in the River East Transcona School Division and served as vice principal at Bernie Wolfe School and Transcona Collegiate. Voters in Transcona will cast their ballots on March 18 to decide the riding’s next representative in the provincial legislature. The below are some of Auch’s interactions with the Tories. The first is Auch’s request for an exemption, the second the PC Party CEO’s response and finally Auch’s request for an appeal. 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(Hurrraaay) were heard from passing cars while others enthusiastically sang the famous song "Y Viva España." The problems in Portugal were caused by a disturbance in the Spanish power grid attributed to a "rare atmospheric phenomenon," reported RTP and the British broadcaster Sky News but the complete normalization of the grid could take "a week due to the complexity of the phenomenon." The Portuguese Ministry of Defense called on the population to remain calm according to the newspaper "El País," announced it was investigating whether a hacker attack could be behind the power outage according to Portuguese EU Council President António Costa there is currently no indication of such a cyberattack Update: After the massive power outage in Spain the supply has been restored in parts of the country As the grid operator Red Eléctrica announced on Monday the power supply has been restored in "several areas in the north Households in these areas can be supplied again Work is being done to restore the entire country the power went out on Monday afternoon for reasons still unclear Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez convened a crisis meeting of the government in Madrid The population was urged to stay in place to avoid traffic chaos Rail traffic was temporarily paralyzed throughout the country The supply has now been secured in several areas in the north reported the Spanish power grid operator Red Eléctrica the power outage completely paralyzed rail traffic: A blackout "led to the interruption of rail traffic across the entire network," the Spanish rail network operator Adif announced on the online service X According to the power grid operator Red Eléctrica the restoration of the power supply could take six to ten hours Medium and long-distance trains continued not to run "A resumption of medium and long-distance traffic is currently not foreseeable," announced Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente on X Travelers would have to forgo their journeys for the time being Red Eléctrica advised against speculating about the cause of the power outage explained the Portuguese EU Council President António Costa on the online service X The Spanish electricity grid operator Red Eléctrica also reported on X that it had succeeded in restoring power in the north and south of the country "We are activating" the "plans to restore power supply in collaboration with the companies in the sector" following the "system failure of the peninsula," explained Red Eléctrica The restoration of supply could take between six and ten hours said the head of the maintenance department of Red Eléctrica Prieto advised against speculating about the cause of the power outage The Portuguese network operator REN stated that "the entire Iberian Peninsula" was affected the power supply has been interrupted since 11:33 a.m "All plans to restore energy supply have been activated - in collaboration with European energy producers and operators," added REN traffic came to a standstill in some areas There were long traffic jams because traffic lights had failed The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez went to the headquarters of Red Electrica to get an overview of the situation The Spanish electricity grid monitoring company E-Redes also stated that they are working to gradually restore the connection "This is a larger European problem," it was further stated The Portuguese police stated that traffic lights were affected throughout the country There was initially no information available on the background of the power outage Further information on the extent of the power outage and its cause was initially not available Spain's national cybersecurity agency INCIBE is investigating whether a hacker attack could be behind the power outage the power outage lasted only a few seconds The outage was caused on the Spanish side and the electricity was immediately restored thanks to the "automatic reconnection with the line coming from France" The EU Commission is in contact with national authorities due to the widespread power outage "The Commission will continue to monitor the situation and ensure that smooth information exchange takes place between all parties involved," the authority in Brussels stated The domestic electricity grid operator Austrian Power Grid (APG) confirmed upon APA request "that there was a technical incident on the Iberian Peninsula today which apparently resulted in widespread power outages in the region." "The Austrian power supply is and was not affected by the incident at any time," it was emphasized work is being done to fully restore power supply in the affected areas The investigation of the incident will be coordinated by the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSOE) APG has no further information on the cause or extent The power outage on the Iberian Peninsula has brought train and ferry traffic to a standstill across Spain The respective operators in the popular holiday destination announced this on Monday which affected not only Spain and Portugal but also parts of France was initially unclear according to the network operators explained the Spanish network operator Red Eléctrica which also reported the massive power outage The Spanish power grid operator Red Electrica stated that it is working with energy companies to restore the power supply Parts of the subway in Madrid have been evacuated Both Madrid and Barcelona were without electricity on Monday afternoon the operation of infrastructure and mobile networks as well as traffic were affected wrote the newspaper "El País": Traffic lights and elevators at train stations People had to be rescued from subway tunnels and elevators Hospitals were not affected thanks to the use of generators Most shops and restaurants in Premià de Mar near Barcelona and other places in Spain were closed Especially shops with perishable goods and ice cream parlors were eagerly awaiting the restoration of the power supply then the ice will melt," said a saleswoman in Premià de Mar is part of almost every conversation among people on the street Neighbors call out the latest news and rumors to each other from balcony to balcony "And how am I supposed to cook now," asks a housewife in Premià de Mar Although she and her husband have solar panels on the roof they are of no use to them because the system only works when the grid is operational A neighbor invited everyone to cook at her place - on her gas stove the Masters 1000 tennis tournament in Madrid had to be interrupted the island groups belonging to the country the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands The power outage in Portugal was caused by the disruption in the Spanish power grid which was attributed to a "rare atmospheric phenomenon," reported the Portuguese broadcaster RTP and the British broadcaster Sky News citing the Portuguese power grid operator REN with the safety and stability of the grid taking priority The complete normalization of the grid could take up to a week "due to the complexity of the phenomenon." This article has been automatically translated, read the original article here She is the daughter of the late Leo and Mary Olive Christy Dobzynski She is also preceded in death by her husband John Auch Ohio State football and enjoyed collecting Christmas houses and cermaic dolls  Catherine was a great cook who cooked many things grown from the garden and everything made from scratch Surviving are one son Kenneth Auch of Toronto;  four daughters:  Virginia (Roger) Smith of Davenport  and Johna (Jim) Saltsman of Steubenville; three great grandchildren: Thomas Burchfield Private services were held and burial took place in Mt This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Wendy Lou Auch passed away peacefully on Saturday 2024 at Kelowna General Hospital with her beloved husband Wendy and Lloyd were surrounded by many loved ones in the days and hours leading up to her passing to parents Betty Lindstrom and Roy Kirkpatrick Wendy graduated nursing school as an LPN in 1969 and went on to work at Kelowna General Hospital where she served as a dedicated nurse for many years Wendy and Lloyd had their first date on November 4 1992 and continued on to build a beautiful life together 2001 in a very private ceremony in Kelowna She and Lloyd were season ticket holders with the Kelowna Spartans Oftentimes you could hear Wendy loudly cheering for her favourite team She even won the West Kelowna Warriors “Fan of the Year” award for the 2011-2012 hockey season she and Lloyd faithfully attended the Abbotsford Air Show every year from 1993 until 2023 as their Granddaughter Kristen was getting married to her husband Garrett Nana and Papa gave away their first grand baby Wendy also had a longstanding love for the dice game “Bunco” which she often played with many friends for several years Wendy is predeceased by her brother Terry; mother Betty; father Roy; and her adoptive father Oliver She leaves behind her loving husband Lloyd; daughters Melanie Linda; brother Rick; and her nieces Courtney and Megan She also leaves behind her beloved grandchildren Kristen (Garrett) and Sydney; and her great-grandson Chandler (Kristen and Garrett) Wendy will be deeply missed by her friends A celebration of life will be held for Wendy this summer in Hope please scroll down the page to the area called “Condolences” » Condolences sent through this page can be seen by the public. 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If you wish for your condolence to go to the family privately, please send it to: contact@springfieldfuneralhome.com Now is the time to grieve our loss of a wonderful lady who I know will be missed by many I will always miss going to mom and dads and looking next door at a sign from Wendy in the window sometimes a flash and a heartfelt scream of laughter Such fun childhood memories growing up with Wendy it took me by surprise to read of her passing Wendy was always such a fierce and passionate woman and so full of spunk She endured trials and tribulations and so much joy with you as her rock Her sense of humour was second to none and I will miss the laughs we always have when we’re together I’m sorry you’ve lost Wendy but it was good to see that you had so much time together through it all » To share your condolence on this page please fill out the requested fields click the 'Choose File' button and select a photo from your computer » Your email is never published or shared NOTE: all messages will go through an administrative process before being posted Everything was so organized and pertinent to what we needed courteous and very helpful during our emotional and challenging time They were so prompt on answering any questions and changing things They were prepared and respected any religious decisions The process was so seamless and made easy in such a high stress situation In the past 2 years Springfield has helped us through the death of my Mother and my Father Their response and help allowed us to focus on the remaining family rather than worrying about details of the funeral and all the notifications that are required upon a death The atmosphere has been nothing but professional during times of grief the staff coached me on the next steps and looked after filling in all the government forms that I needed to sign which took a huge burden off my mind at the time From the time I called to the completion of all the services There was a sense of caring from each staff member I was turning over my Mom to their care and I felt very comfortable with everyone I felt heard and never felt pushed into any decision I have always found the team at Springfield Funeral Home to be VERY caring I have and will continue to recommend them to anyone who asks which funeral home would I suggest they use No other funeral home I have dealt with even comes close to Springfield Funeral Home I was made to feel as if I was the only one they had to serve Everything that was arranged for us was perfect Thank you for making this difficult time a little more acceptable via your staff’s obvious caring and respect I liked the personal treatment given to my mother who is 97 years old I found Springfield employees pleasant and sincere was that the funeral home would help me get through the paperwork need at this time Since this was my first experience (with a funeral home) everything was above and beyond what I expected Thank you to your team for your kindness to me at a very challenging time You have now taken care of both of my parents with professionalism and care Springfield Funeral Home is always professional We appreciate that you have dedicated staff for all needs from planning the service to completing government paperwork I am not sure there was anything you could have done to make a very intense emotional time less stressful Although we hadn’t expected Ken to want a service when he said we needed to have one for us not him Your sincerity and compassion meant everything to us your compassion and professionalism is truly amazing super professional and caring as each guest arrived Keep up the good work that you do as it is such an important service you provide It is still the most difficult time in a person’s life We appreciated the peace of mind that everything was being looked after You provide a wonderful service for people going through a traumatic time The kindness and professionalism shown by the staff at Springfield Funeral Home was exemplary 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In the first phase of the Rail Nordica project a train line is to run between Kemi and Haparanda Open image viewerFreight cars carrying ore waiting to be unloaded at Narvik harbour 11:52Planning for a rail connection from Kemi to the port of Narvik in northern Norway will begin this year the government decided in mid-term budget framework talks on Wednesday as important for security of supply in times of crisis a standard European-gauge railway will be built between Kemi and the neighbouring Swedish town of Haparanda Open image viewerThere is also a long-term plan for a rail link between the Swedish mining town of Kiruna and Kolari in Finnish Lapland seamless cross-border rail traffic is not possible because Finnish tracks are nine centimetres wider than European standard tracks it still uses a width commonly used in the nineteenth century referred to as the "Russian gauge" the government of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) earmarked 20 million euros for an initial track gauge study Minister of Transport Lulu Ranne (Finns) described the transition to a new track gauge between Haparanda and Kemi as the first step in a long-term project Ranne said that the European Commission has pressured Finland to move toward changing its track gauge which would be a hugely expensive long-term project Nato and the Finnish Defence Forces have made assessments of the most urgent major European military mobility project Open image viewerThe icebreaker Sampo is a tourist attraction in Kemi’s Veitsiluoto harbour Image: Juuso Stoor / YleThe EU's TEN-T Regulation includes requirements for the study and planning of the transition to the standard 1,435 mm track gauge in countries with different track gauges which dates back to the nineteenth century The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (FTIA) is planning a narrower-gauge rail line first to Kemi and in the future also to the major northern city of Oulu and the village of Misi in Rovaniemi near a Defence Forces depot and shooting range existing tracks already connect Haparanda with Narvik via the Swedish mining towns of Kiruna and Gällivare According to a preliminary Transport Ministry estimate modifying the track as far as Oulu would cost more than 1.5 billion euros more specific details will be revealed once the planning process gets underway "This is planning money for a few years I would say that there are plenty of gauge-switching plans for the whole of Northern Finland into the 2030s," Ranne said Finland has been working on the issue in partnership with authorities in Nato ally countries Sweden and Norway A uniform track gauge would be decisive for national defence Nato could transport equipment to Finland by rail Ranne noted that track plans are not just a security issue accessibility and operating conditions for business is also a strong growth measure," she argued Ranne predicted that rail overhaul projects would have a significant employment impact in Lapland and Northern Finland Lapland Regional Governor Hannu Takkula hopes that the track work will begin promptly "The Narvik rail connection is part of our regional plan The connection is important for security of supply," said Takkula deputy commander of the Lapland Jaeger Brigade of the Finnish Defence Forces said that the northern rail connection is currently a real bottleneck "Now nothing can cross the border without special arrangements," he told Yle Mure pointed out that compatible rail connections are crucial in transporting heavy military equipment Meanwhile the government's statement on its midterm framework budget decisions did not mention long-debated plans for a new rapid rail link between Helsinki and Turku. Last week, Orpo asserted that the project was moving ahead despite Ranne's decision to shelve it Users with an Yle ID can leave comments on our news stories. You can create your Yle ID via this link. Our guidelines on commenting and moderation are explained here She was a retired letter carrier with the United States Postal Service animals and loved her grandchildren dearly of Port Neches and Sheila Burrell and her husband and Justin; thirteen great-grandchildren; sisters Barbara will be especially missed by her faithful feline companion She is preceded in death by her parents; brothers Sidney and Darrell Elliott; and stepson David Auch Auch’s family and friends will be from 4:00 p.m Her graveside service will be Wednesday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to American Lung Association Please observe social distancing guidelines. By attending any public event you are acknowledging the risk of exposure to the Corona Virus. Please follow the guidelines provided by the Centers for Disease Control: cdc.gov and website in this browser for the next time I comment I I am so sorry for the loss of your beloved May the Lord give all of you a peace that passes all understanding at this time Sheila and Rob my deepest sympathies to you and your family Glenda and Melba we are sorry of the loss of your sister,Barbara Praying y’all will have peace and comfort during this this time Beaumont - McFaddin Ave. Beaumont - Major Dr. Nederland ©Broussard's Mortuary 2017-2025 Built By Americom Marketing