Glow-bowl your way to a family vacation

By Miguel Fenrich Staff Reporter

Battlefords Concern

For Youth and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Battlefords are partnering on their signature fundraiser, Bowl for Kids Sake.

The fundraiser is set for April 2 and will be hosted at Gutters Bowling and Game Centre, with six themed glow-bowling times held throughout the day.

The themes include: Pyjama Jam from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ; Hockey Power Play from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. ; Inflatables + Onsies from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Feeling the Rainbow from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Hockey Power Play from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; and Grooving Through the Decades from 6:30 to 8 p.m. (1970s, ‘80s, ‘90s, and 2000s)

The day’s activities include a raffle, free pickyour-prize for all youth, prizes for participants and teams that live up to their chosen theme, and more.

Registration is $20 per person or a team of six for $100.

New this year, families who participate in the day have a chance to win a family experience package in Saskatoon, including hotel, activities and a meal.

The BFKS raffle will open for virtual ticket reservations starting March 17.

For more information about the fundraiser, visit Big Brother’s Big Sisters of the Battlefords website at: www.battlefords.bigbrothersbigsisters. ca All proceeds from the fundraiser will go back

I cannot see any who work for the federal government or who are in any way involved with CSIS, MISICOP, NSIRA, CIA CRA or other acronyms and any who proclaim themselves simultaneously “humble and audacious”

(Foreign Minister Melanie Joly) being chosen for this elevated position or imbued with wisdom greater than that of our chosen representatives. Even high court judges are fallible it seems and may not qualify. Finding someone willing to serve in this already contentious capacity may prove difficult — don’t call me!

In distant memory, April 1 was a time for practical jokes and harmless levities. Today such simple pleasures are tempered as the date has been selected for alcohol tax increases predicted on the annual inflation rate. I’ve been studying this April’s increased taxes on alco- holic drinks and fuels. The amounts are surprisingly small despite the publicity according them by the media — three or four cents on a litre of gas and less than one cent on a regular can of beer — hardly noticeable some might say. To my great astonishment, these tax increases may actually cause a reduction in the federal money haul, as we will drink less, buy smaller vehicles with tiny turbos and commute on battery bikes. By extending this line of thought, foodflation is even more desirable and rewarding — we will eat less, lose weight, become healthier, and some more shapely, eventually resulting in hospitals declaring budgetary surpluses and patient flow deficits.

Mr. Trudeau has both our “backs” and fronts and we should be so grateful for such caring from cradle to grave, columbarium or mantle shelf. Even Tommy Douglas would have approved.

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into supporting youth programming offered through both Concern for Youth and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Battlefords.

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