The second competition of hoteliers “Siberian Hospitality” is taking place in Tomsk for two days. This year, for the first time, in addition to the 8 leading hotels of the city, the hotel complex of the Parabel district “Levkada” is participating in the competition. The winners are selected in four categories: “Hospitable Siberia”, “Professional Ring”, “Administrator” and “Maid”. The last stage of the competition will take place tomorrow.

The photo was sent to us by Alexander Eremeev. Over the weekend, off-road driving enthusiasts held an “Autumn Marathon” competition for four-wheel drive jeeps in the village of Samuski. 12 cars took part in the marathon. At the start there were two at a time, the next pair began to move after 5 seconds. Each participant completed two runs. The race was held as a knockout race on a special track in the village.

The State Duma of the Tomsk Region received an appeal from cynological organizations of Tomsk and Seversk with a proposal to change some provisions of the law “On keeping dogs and cats in the Tomsk Region”. In their appeal to the State Duma, they propose changing some phrases in the law.

Residents of a five-story building on Uchebnaya Street, 18 are defending their home with fists. The municipality sold the basement of their house to businessmen. And they want to adapt the basement for offices. They started digging a pit at the front of the house. And the residents believe that this will harm their Khrushchev building - the house is on a slope and, if the facade is disturbed, one of the entrances may collapse.

For six months now, 20 families living in the private sector on the street of the 19th Guards Division have been without cold water. Appeals to various authorities do not yield results: people have to wait for water carriers and go to the laboratory building of the SFTI for water.

Today, a special mailbox was installed at the main post office to collect messages to the wizard. Postal employees assure you that the box itself is magical. All letters that fall into it will be sent from Siberia to the homeland of Father Frost - Veliky Ustyug. You can write and send a letter to the wizard within a month. On December 22, all the messages will be collected into one large beautiful package and sent to the addressee.

According to the traffic police, yesterday evening on Mostovaya Street a VAZ model 7 hit a pedestrian. The man was walking along the roadway in the same direction as the car. Suddenly a pedestrian stepped onto the road. As a result of the collision, a 43-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The pedestrian was drunk. Another accident occurred yesterday evening on the Tomsk-Kolpashevo highway.

These are the results of the interactive program Rush Hour. Yesterday, Tomsk residents were asked live on air: “Will you ride a minibus for 15 rubles?” It was necessary to choose from three options: “yes, where to go,” “no, I’ll take a trolleybus,” or “I’ll walk.” Most TV viewers said that if prices for private buses increase, they will switch to municipal transport.

Irina Nikulina reported this to Rush Hour. At a meeting of the legal committee of the regional Duma, it was decided to form a working group to improve the provisions of the regional law “on dogs”. As Rush Hour reports, activists propose removing the standard that determines how many square meters in the owner’s apartment should be allocated to a pet.

As Rush Hour reports, 20 families in the private sector on 19th Guards Division Street have been living without cold water for about six months. Appeals to various authorities do not yield results: people have to wait for water carriers and go to the laboratory building of the SFTI for water. The only water pump in their area has not been working since spring. According to local residents, minibus drivers washed their buses here.

Today in Russia, as in many countries of the world, they celebrate International Student Day. In the Tomsk region, this is a holiday for almost 100 thousand young people - students of universities, as well as secondary and primary vocational education institutions.

PRIME-TASS this week published a message about the placement of bonds of the Rosvodokanal group of companies, which will allow the company to increase investments in new projects. We believe that this information will be of interest to residents of Tomsk for the reason that Rosvodokanal is participating in a competition for the lease of city utility infrastructure facilities and in the future, perhaps, will manage the Tomsk water utility.

Bathhouse number five has not yet been opened. Last week we told how the Cheremoshniki microdistrict lost its public bathhouse. For most local residents, it was the only opportunity to wash themselves. The bathhouse is rented by a private owner. At the end of October he closed it without explanation. The city filed a lawsuit. On November 15, the bathhouse was supposed to become the property of the municipality and open. But this did not happen.

Evgeniy expressed his reaction to the story “Restore and Live,” which aired on Rush Hour: 21:20 11/14/10: I live in a house on Nikitina 2-a, and suddenly I wanted to write... The house is not 300 years old; this or next year it will be 100. The problem is not the lack of cosmetic repairs, but holes in the roof a meter in diameter, collapsing ceilings and constantly damp walls. Below I will provide a link to the photos.

The New Year celebration will cost the city almost 10 million rubles. This was discussed today at a meeting of a special commission led by the head of the city. According to Deputy Mayor Alexey Balanovsky, this year the municipal budget has allocated 9 million 767 thousand rubles for the New Year celebration. Of these, 5 million 205 thousand will be used for the installation of illumination and New Year trees, installation of fences, security and other economic issues.