570News Blog: Lisa Drew

Kitchener is grappling with a drive-thru dilemma.
It could soon clamp down on drive-thrus.. similar to places like London, Mississauga, and Winnipeg.
Councillors will vote Monday on some  new rules for drive-thru operators.. rules that would give pedestrians clear access to their coffee shop or burger joint without having to wade through a long line up of vehicles.
The Environmental Advisory Committee is calling again for a ban on new drive thru restaurants.

Will they disappear?  No.  We love our doughnuts way too much.
Canadians eat more doughnuts per capita than other nation..just check Steve Penfold’s new book  “The Donut: A Canadian History”.  
Also.. ask any mom, with a toddler snoozing in the back seat, about drive thru’s.
We would pay a premium not to wake that quiet, perfect,
 napping child strapped into his carseat.  Why else have I paid so much for gas in the past ?
It’s all about full service.. and speed… and letting sleeping children lie.  ( note: do not send angry emails.. I don’t idle okay!)

And for every tired mom out there..finally something we soooo don’t have to worry about…
570 News reported on this the other morning:  Health Canada issued a recall this week on some La Senza lingerie.  Its focus is a hot, black, polyester number.. with black marabou feathers
The problem?  The outfit can burst into flames.
Stay away from candles..and other heat sources.
 
lisa
 

February 18th is the province’s new Family Day..
Most of us will get the long weekend…whether you get it as a true Dalton McGuinty-given day off.. or use a floater day to sleep in.
A survey by Expedia.ca finds most Ontarians say they will pack up the kids and head out of town..to where else?…  VEGAS!

The Oscar nominations are out this morning.
I have yet to catch one of the nominated flicks.  I will probably put some cash down to see Juno. I’ve caught Ellen Page being interviewed.. she’s comes across as smart…cute..and Canadian.
That said.. I will probably catch the  Veggie Tales: Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything movie with the kids,  before I get out on the hot date night with the hubby.

Speaking of pirates.. forget the mega losses on the  markets yesterday and today.. ( what an afternoon.. and what a morning…)
I’m looking to buy gold.. gold chocolate coins… for a five-year-old’s pirate themed birthday party this weekend.
Every local dollar store seems to be out.
A real gold rush.

lisa

This morning 570 News had a story in the run about  the decline of the redhead.
570’s Katie Simpson reports there a now a number of websites dedicated to saving the redhead..some even
encouraging redhead-only dating.
The concern? Redheads could become extinct in the next hundred years! 
Right now less than five percent of the world’s population are redheads..something to do with a recessive gene.
I prefer to think that we are a rare and special group. 

I was a very stereotypical redhead when I was young.. with the big splotchy freckles.
My grade four school picture was the worst!
Red hair was soooooo not cool back then.
In the U-K there have been cases of redheaded kids being bullied all due to their ginger locks. 

Yes, I’ve heard every bad nickname.. including carrot top, redsy and…copper top.
Fellow newsroom redhead Kate Stockmann remembers getting called “rusty roof” a lot.

Now I’m darker, and need that odd visit to the salon to “enhance” my red. 

No, we do not have bad tempers ….  Yes, we burn in the sun.
 
Hug a redhead today.

lisa

Our producer Paul Herriot jokes about our in-studio antics all the time and often wonders what would happen if a camera was going  for our entire 570 Morning News run.

What would you see?  The two of us.. in front of  a bunch of computers and microphones, headphones on.. madly editing stories, searching out information, and even pointing to each other ( sometimes other hand signals!) to countdown the end of a report while the mic is on.

What else is going on in the studio?
We’ve got the television on mute.
You would see stacks of papers between us … coffee cups, tea for me… and food. Glenn is usually is peeling some type of fruit.. and has a box of cereal going.

You might catch one of us running out during the sports report, for a trip down the hall, or find us laughing at Paul’s attempts at  humour ( ok.. he’s pretty good on that front…just don’t have him sing to the commercials)

And I can tell you.. we wear clothes. 
Hunh?
Naked News- found on pay per view and on line…has just announced it
is now expanding its foreign language coverage in an attempt to gain a worldwide audience. The Toronto company will now produce newscasts in Spanish, Italian and Korean.
Naked News is exactly that…anchors who read
the news … nude.

You don’t get that on 570 News.

lisa

You never know what you’re going to see around town,  or in the backyard.
I got home yesterday around noon and saw something moving slowly in the yard - at first I thought it was a big fat cat with something in its mouth.. then I saw the creamy white snout and long rat-like tail.  It turned out it was a big fat opossum!

Maybe a little dazed with the overcast, foggy day and the mild temperatures..?
Maybe it was just looking for some good stuff with the snow melting.

I’m used to squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, rabbits, skunk and deer close up.
Our dog meets up with the skunks at least twice a year,   a meeting that lingers around our place for a good week.
(He usually flies in the door.. and runs right up into our bedroom… landing on the bed before we figure out what has happened.)

Our cats have regular discussions with a grey squirrel that hangs onto our big tree out back, just out of reach …and eggs them on. 
 
Last Christmas we counted 13 deer on the front lawn.
Some winter mornings when I head out to work, a few will be nestled in the snow napping.  They will slowly get up and wander off as I start up the car.
By suppertime they’re back, criss-crossing our lawn and the backyard next door.

The fat possum is a first.
I know it doesn’t top those bear sightings we had in the region about a year and a half ago ..  ( where did that black bear go?)
But hey, it was quiet moment…just sitting with my five-year-old, and watching this fat little thing move around, then slip through a gaping hole in the fence.. and disappear into the neighbour’s garden.  

lisa

Welcome to a new year!
I won’t even talk about resolutions for 2008.
Needless to say I’m working on a few.

It is back to routine here for The 570 Morning News team.
Today we welcome Mark Douglas to the show.
He comes from Owen Sound and he’s already fitting in very nicely.  You’ll hear him weekday mornings as he hits the street with the story of the day.  Give him a honk if you see the 570 News cruiser!

As for routine.. most parents will tell you the holidays are over in so many ways, even though classes don’t resume until Monday.  
We’ve filled time with building snow forts, renting video games and catching a few movies..even running into a few
blissed-out teachers at the book store and coffee shop.

Just three more sleeps!

Happy 2008!
lisa