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Clowns are strangely not connected to April Fool’s Day. They’re just considered foolish year-round.

The classic pranks of April Fool’s Day

On the Cover: What does April Fool’s Day look like? Yeah, we’re not sure either. After a few aborted graphic ideas (sexy clowns among them), this is what we ended up with — something cute, something silly, with just a hint of clowning around. Sounds like April Fool’s Day to us.

Correction: In last month’s ‘Where’s Wally’ column Post-valentine’s adventures in Ukee (Page 22) the resort named The Cabins was incorrectly associated with Jason Priestley. Priestley in fact owns Terrace Beach Resort with Lorne and Norma Priestley. We sincerely apologize for any confusion this error caused.

April 1 can be a tough day to watch the news. Just about everyone enjoys watching a good prank, but it’s even more fun when you can pull a good prank off. And even more fun than that is when you can do it all while being part of a respected media organization. Over the years there have been plenty of hoaxes pulled by newspapers, magazines, televisions networks, and most recently, on the Internet. Some appear and disappear in the blink of an eye, never to be thought of again. Others -- like the ones listed below -- stand the test of time and go down in history. Spaghetti Trees: In 1957, the BBC television show Panorma ran a story covering the recent eradication of the Spaghetti Weevil, while showing the supposed harvesting of Spaghetti Trees in Switzerland. Somewhat surprisingly, the network fielded a good many calls from viewers looking to grow their own Spaghetti Trees, who were disappointed to learn that they could not, because they do not actually exist. Smell-O-Vision: Clearly fans of practical jokes, the BBC once again pranked their audiences in 1965 by

claiming to be testing their new Smell-O-Vision technology, which would allow the transmissin of odours over the television network. Many viewers called in to report the test a success (though your guess is as good as ours as to what they were actually smelling). Never one to let a good joke die, the BBC took the same hoax to the Internet in 2007. Left Handed Whoppers: In 1998, fast-food giant Burger King announced that they would be catering to their left-handed market by introducing a unique Whopper that would drop from the right side, making it easier for lefties to consume. The Threenie: Only a few short years ago, in 2008, CBC Radio announced plans for the Royal Canadian Mint to replace the five dollar bill with a three dollar coin, to be dubbed The Threenie. The Rickroll: Also in 2008, YouTube managed to Rickroll likely thousands of people, as every featured video on their front page actually linked to that of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up music video. Google It: Google is a pretty big player when it comes to April Fool’s hoaxes, dropping bombshells like a job opening

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send something across the planet at a cost of only $0.10 per kg! April Winning!: In January of 2010, Charlie Sheen announced that he was considering leaving his show Two And A Half Men. At the time, there was some confusion over whether this was an actual news item or an April

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So, just to make sure we’re covering all our bases here, this is your first notice that the story on this page, which continues on pages 5 and 6, is not true. This will not be the last notice.

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APRIL FOOL’S BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK* BY TODD SULLIVAN THE STEW MAGAZINE

It might not have the same prestige as holidays like Christmas or Easter and it might not provide us with an opportunity to ditch work or school for a day or more, but April Fool’s Day is a holiday that we all recognize immediately. The pranks, the jokes — we’ve all had some history with this day, whether we were the foolers or the fooled. But how much about April Fool’s Day do most of us really know? According to Robert Jester, the curator of the Fool’s Museum in Toronto, Ontario, as well as the President of the Association for the Preservation of Fool History, maybe not as much as we think we do. “A lot of people think April Fool’s Day has always been in April,” he explains. But according to Jester, that’s just one of many misconceptions surrounding the holiday. “April Fool’s Day was originally named after a woman — specifically an Irish woman named April MacDonald — who liked to play practical jokes on her family.” She was a prankster from a very young age. Born in 1879 and raised on a potato farm in rural Maine, she pulled her first practical joke on her brother when she was only seven years old.

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“She told her brother, Aidan, he was only five at the time, that they used to have an older brother, but that their parents had eaten him for dinner during a particular thin year for the potato harvest, and that they had chosen him to eat over April because he didn’t work as hard around the farm.” Jester laughs, explaining, “Well, suffice to say, her younger brother started working a lot harder after that.” And that made young Aiden MacDonald the world’s first April’s fool. *** We know much of this history of April Fool’s thanks to the April MacDonald’s journals which were discovered in the late 1970s, hidden away in the attic of their former farmhouse. These journals contain much of the day to day minutae of her life, while chronicling her fascination with practical jokes. They also, if read carefully, and if you look between the lines, explain how the holiday’s name would eventually become connected to the month of April. “April MacDonald had three children, a son and two daughters,” Jester says. “In 1914, at the age of 19, her first born, Thomas, headed into the first world war. He was killed only a few weeks later. Obviously, this broke her heart.” By then, April had quite the reputation as a prankster, having played jokes on her friends and family over the years. But the loss of her son quickly removed her taste for practical jokes. “She never really recovered from the loss.” But those around her struggled to bring that mischievous light back into her eyes. “It was her two daughters, Casey and Stacey, who made the connection between her name and the month of April and decided to spend the beginning of the month playing pranks on their mother, hoping to get a smile or a laugh out of her.”

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FIRST. Canadian Tire bookkeeper Terry Lyn Nasuszny has been a part of the CT family in Williams Lake since they opened their doors in what is now the Williams Lake Library back in 1981. “I’ve had three different dealers,” says Terry. “The original one was Charlie Matille — he’s the one who hired me. I’d never even stepped foot into a Canadian Tire before.” Brain Stephan took over the dealership back in around 2001, Terry says. “He’s been absolutely wonderful. So involved in the community and volunteer work. It’s been really good.” And besides, “Canadian Tire’s always been really good to me,” she adds, and that’s why she’s stuck around this long. When she’s not keeping the books organized Terry spends the majority of her time with family. With two daughters, their husbands, four grandkids in town as well as an extended family of siblings and their spouses and families, many of whom are also very near-by, she’s got plenty of family to keep her occupied.

Originally, Jester explains, they tried to play their pranks for almost two weeks. Their plan was to create a 12 Day’s of April Fool’s that would mirror the 12 Days of Christmas that would be celebrated eight months later. Unfortunately, those many pranks in a row weren’t always received warmly by this harddrinking, Irish family, and before even the first week was up, a number of pranks had resulted in violence instead of laughter. It was quickly decided that April Fool’s were best left celebrated on a single day.

Within a few years, the tradition had spread from the MacDonald family to the families that populated the surrounding farms where they lived, and within a few more years, the tradition had spread across the country, as more and more people played annual pranks on their family and friends. In just less than a decade, April Fool’s Day had become the global sensation it is today, and all thanks to a simple farmer’s daughter in Maine who enjoyed yanking her brother’s chain. It couldn’t have happened any other way.

A die-hard music fan, she also spends a great deal of time hooking up with fresh music via her new-found love affair with iTunes. “iTunes I just discovered and I really like that,” she says. “I can listen to whatever I want. I like all the new stuff. A lot of people my age stick with the old classic crap, but it’s like, ‘been there done that,’ I’ve heard it a thousand times — I want something new... “I’m not the knitting and quilting kind of grandma,” Terry grins. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” Terry Lyn Nasuszny — a vital part of the Williams Lake Canadian Tire.

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In case you missed the previous mentions, this story is completely made up. Which, for the record, we had a lot of fun doing.

*** According to Jester, it isn’t just the holiday’s origins that are misunderstood. “Something else that not a lot of people know,” he says, “is that April Fool’s Day has it’s very own official mascot, just like Christmas has it’s Santa Claus, and Easter has it’s bunny.” So who is this personification of the great, pranking holiday? Kylie The Clown. “Back in the 90s,” Jester explains, “a few different retailers got together to try to figure out a way to better promote April Fool’s Day to the younger generation. Traditionally, April Fool’s Day hasn’t been a big day for shopping, and they were hoping if they could come up with an appealing enough mascot, it would help them push more product.” Kylie is what they came up with -- a sexy clown, with frizzy white hair, and decked out in revealing lingerie. Unfortunately, Kylie

wasn’t met with entirely open arms. “I think they found that her persona sent mixedmessages. The character was designed to be attractive, but she also looked like a clown, an image that many people associate with fear. That conflict created a sort-of flight-or-fuck response in the minds of their intended market, which I think ultimately worked against them.” That wasn’t the end of Kylie’s problems either. “Parents weren’t keen on the over-sexualized image being attached to what had previously been a more family-friendly holiday, but the retailers didn’t really want to tone the image down either, as it was that younger demographic — the kind that would respond to those sorts of images — that they were hoping to reach. In the end, Kylie was fated to disappear after only two short years. Most people don’t even know she

ever existed, and the few products that she was ever connected with can now be found only on Ebay, and even then, rarely. *** Kylie The Clown wasn’t the last time that a retailer tried to market themselves in connection with April Fool’s Day. In 2001, a popular coffee retailer tried testmarketing a special blend they called ‘Surprise Roast’ with plans to introduce it during the month of April. “The plan,” says Jester,

“was to develop a kind of coffee that would start off tasting like one thing and end up tasting like something else entirely.” So what might have started off tasting like a caramel mocha might, by the time you finished, taste like a black cherry espresso supreme. “That was the surprise.” Unfortunately — surprise! — their plan didn’t work out as intended. “Turns out that people are actually pretty picky

about what they want to drink, and if someone orders a mocha, it’s because they want a mocha, and if that mocha turns into something else, they’re not as happy with it.” To make matter worse, the technology they used to facilitate the change in flavour, didn’t work as well with some peoples tastebuds. “Sometimes,” Jester explains, “What started off tasting like a mocha would suddenly start to taste like the sludge at the bottom of a garbage can. Sometimes worse.” *** Even after failures like Kylie the Clown and Surprise Roast Coffee, people still can’t seem to stop trying to monopolize April Fool’s Day. For example, the Cariboo Chilcotin’s arts and lifestyle magazine, The Stew, decided to dedicate their April issue to the holiday. “In fact,” Jester says, “this very story, that you’re reading right now, is an April

Fool’s day prank.” As ridiculous as it might seem, he says, everything in this story that you’ve read up until this moment is, in fact, a fabrication, invented entirely by Todd Sullivan. And worse yet, most of it was invented at the very last minute, in a panic to get the story done in time for publication. “But that’s to be expected in the print industry,” Jester sighs, rolling his eyes. Jester, who doesn’t actually exist, continues, saying that you probably should have seen it coming. “I mean, my name was a pretty big giveaway, don’t you think? Jester? Like the joker? Come on, that should have been pretty obvious.” He hopes — as do we at The Stew Magazine — that you don’t feel as if you wasted your time on a story that was completely and entirely made up, and instead that you enjoyed this little April Fool’s Day experience that we crafted just for you.

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Another way in which your camera can make a fool of you: Forgetting to take your lens-cap off.

Don’t let your light-meter make a fool of you I am always trying to base my columns on what Todd tells me the current issue of The Stew is going to be about. A couple of weeks ago at the gym he told me this one was about ‘April Fools.’ I thought about what would complement this issue and I came up with a column about your camera’s light meter. I want to start this column with the dictionary definition of the word photography. The word comes from the Greek words ‘photos’ meaning light and ‘grafe’ meaning drawing. So together they mean drawing with light. In order for photographs to be made or exposed properly, we need to know how much light we can make the drawing with. Back in 1889 they figured out a way of measuring the intensity of light and a light meter

Photography 101 By Craig Smith soon followed. The light meter built into your camera is what the computer in your camera uses to base proper exposure on. The reason why this goes with this month’s theme of April Fools is that your meter can be easily tricked into giving you a wrong setting once in a while. Most new cameras have about three or four ways of metering a scene. The main metering modes are spot and

matrix metering. Spot metering takes the centre part of what is seen through the viewfinder and gives you a reading based just on that spot. Matrix metering takes the entire scene and gives you a reading based on averages. So here is the April Fool’s: If the photograph that you are about to take is not of an average tone, your meter will try and make it that way. Meters will get tricked by scenes of extreme contrast,

meaning lots of blacks and whites but very little in the middle tones, for instance, with a white dog in the snow. Your camera meter will not know how to handle that and will end up making the snow and the dog an average tone, or gray in colour.

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Meters also have a problem with back-lit subjects, for instance, your family indoors against a bright window will probably be rendered as a silhouette. Using spot metering will base the exposure just on what is in the centre

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Alright, people, let’s keep it clean Just because it’s April Fool’s, there’s no need to be a jerk BY TODD SULLIVAN THE STEW MAGAZINE

While I must admit to being a fan of elaborate pranks, and have been known to be a bit of a jokester myself, I honestly can not remember ever being responsible for a complicated, well-thought-out, April Fool’s Day hoax. My pranks tend to be more immediate, and more imorovised. For example, I recently tried to convince Juli’s son, Adrian, that the new film I Am Number Four was actually part of a series that began

with I Am Number One. My smirk gave that one away before I could properly sell it, but it would hardly be the first time I tried to casually pass off a subtle untruth, and it certainly won’t be the last. I enjoy telling entertaining lies. Perhaps this means there’s a future for me in politics? There’s a trick to telling good lies, just like there’s a trick behind creating good April Fool’s Day pranks. Part of that is to do something that’s just on the verge of believ-

able. If, for example, you wanted to talk about your reccent bigfoot sighting, it might be best not to have a high-def video of him enjoying a dinner party in your dining room. Better to have a muddy, almostindecipherable footprint you found in your yard. Because on the one hand, it couldn’t be bigfoot. But on the other, what else could it be? On the subject of hoaxes and pranks and all other miscellaneous forms of mischief, I’d like to bring your attention to the MTV show ‘Pranked’, because I think it’s important to define what a prank is and what a prank isn’t, and most of what is featured on that show are not pranks but are, instead,

opportunities for morons to try to smash their friends in the testicals with something. And it is here that I would like to share one of my important rules of prankstering: Cruelty alone does not a prank make. Yes, cruelty can be part of the prank. Sometimes cruelty is even a vital part of the prank. But cruelty alone – deviously convincing your friend to look the other way so you can smash him in the crotch with a 2”x4” -- is not enough. Pranking is an art form, and it’s been an important part of our culture for generations. We mustn’t let the presence of Ashton Kutcher as our primary

pranking ambassador affect our morale. We must all do our part to make sure that pranking remains a time-honoured tradition, with jokes that are funny and not just cruel. It’s our duty. So tell your children a little white lie to make them smile, tell your loved ones about the bigfoot you found in your backyard, or just find a cream pie to splash into someones face. After all, it’s April Fool’s Day. todd@thestew.ca Please note: If it is not April Fool’s Day, please disregard this entire column. We apologize for the inconvenience and asssure you a replacement column will be available next month.

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Remember: Not every prank is a good joke There’s a fine line between being a jokester and being an ass BY JULI HARLAND THE STEW MAGAZINE

April 1 marks a day for tomfoolery, pranks, jokes, games of gotcha and general revelry and foolishness. Sounds like it should be buckets of fun. And it seems to me like pranks used to be all kinds of fun. Then I watch some of the shows my teenager watches on TV and I am pretty sure that good humor has been replaced by simply being an asshole and catching it

on film. Don’t get me wrong — I love a good prank. And not all of the stuff on TV these days is a bunch of jackasses being … well … jackasses. There are still some well thought-out and incredibly funny jokes going on. And I think that’s where it has fallen apart — good jokes need to be well thought out. Some of the best practical jokes in world history (and those memorable ones that live in my own personal memory) have taken

ages to plan. A personal favourite: the 1957 British news broadcast Panorama ended their April 1 program by showing a film report on the abundant spaghetti harvest that had recently taken place in Switzerland. The three -minute film was narrated by Richard Dimbleby, Britain’s most respected journalist and newsman, making it all that much more believable. People called in wanting to know how to grow their very own spaghetti trees, to which the BBC responded: “Put a sprig of spaghetti in tomato sauce and hope for the best.”

Were people ticked off ? Sure, some were, most thought it hilarious, and those who were duped felt silly for a while and got over it. That’s how it is supposed to work. “Ha ha, good one BBC — you really had me for a minute.” The ‘practical jokes’ that have me in a tizzy are the pain-centered antics by juice-monkey neanderthals who think that it is the epitome of funny to sneak up on their best friend and shove lit fireworks down their pants or clock their girlfriend with a metal frying pan while she’s reading (both of which I have seen highlighted in current

“prank” shows). “Got you!” they seem to be thinking to themselves. “The EMTs will LOVE this!” Pranks shouldn’t end with someone in the hospital or in jail. If you need to make someone bleed to have a good time, you may want to rethink your sense of humor. Next time the joke may be on you. If, however, you have a plan to dupe your buddies, neighbors, or community with something that will end with everyone laughing, tell me about it. I really do love a good joke. juli@thestew.ca

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Question of the Month

Until recently, Juli was also one of those local folks who sported their few strands of white hair proudly.

Celebrate the white in your hair Editor: I, Mary Forbes, intrepid city interpreter and wearer of fun clothing, welcomes spring with a shock of white hair. Actually the total count is five white hairs as of March 25 at 9:47 am. My mother, Becky Forbes (fondly known around town and at the Bowling Alley as “Bucket”), when confronted with these five celebrities, crinkled up her nose and asked, “Does that mean I’m old now?” “I seriously doubt that,” I replied with a grin, while admitting silently the five snow white wirelike additions to my person will likely be more like Einstein’s “do” when done, instead of my mother’s fine, gentile blond hair that fades gracefully to a golden white at the temples. This discovery set me to wondering about the whole stigma of white hair. Do I pluck them, or be excited? Excited has worked really well for me so far, so I’ll stick with it. There are many theories why hair changes colour and when. While sometimes the change can be brought on by toxins, stress, or vitamin deficiencies, most often the truth is simply a loss of the melanin, the pigment that colours our hair, a natural part of ageing.

Again there are theories as to why this happens; is it connected to our biological clock that ticks to a certain hour then sends out a message, “Melanin can retire now in quadrant front-of-head as of spring 2011.” Or is it a combination of environmental triggers that signal the body to send that message, “Mary is very active, hasn’t had kids yet (but plans to), and likes to get up at 4 am — trigger melanin retreat!” Like polar bears and ermine, it is a lack of colour pigment not the addition of a new “white” or “grey” colour, that makes white hair. Just last week I was mentioning (unaware of the lurking follicles upon my scalp) that when my hair turns all-white it will be a perfect platform to dye it fantastic, vibrant colours! My husband, Pierre, the pragmatist, suggested by texting, “Are you sure you didn’t just get white paint on your head and are overreacting?” Overreacting? OVERREACTING! A woman is capable of telling the difference between white hair and white paint thank-you-very-much! But I believe Pierre has a really valid point: Many women react with horror and a deluge of camouflage to deny the passing of time. I am thrilled I am among the ranks of people proudly sporting their white hair, like environmental-

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educator Sue Hemphill at Scout Island, or key-cutter extraordinaire Greg Delainey at Delainey’s Lock and Key. The possibility exists that these grey guys may be sprouting with more enthusiasm on my head due to the fact that I am in the process of getting ready to open Dandelion Living, the new retail space from Dandelion Interpretation in the old Delainey’s Building. We’ve ripped up the old carpet and are in the process of refinishing the original 1930s hardwood floors, and as you may have surmised, painting the walls. Once done the canvas, we plan to open this May with a range of natural products, clothing, baby and housewares that will compliment my white hair and ensure that they aren’t changing colour due to toxins in my workplace, home or on my fashionable self. So I go boldly where no ‘me’ has gone before, I say with pride and in the face of modern stereotypes, “I am 31, have five white hairs, weigh 180 pounds, and have no qualms about sharing that information, because while my outside still looks damn fine, it’s what’s inside that counts. And on the inside I’m dancing 24 / 7!” — Mary Forbes Williams Lake

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What’s your favourite prank or practical joke? Send your answers to letters@thestew.ca

Todd Sullivan todd@thestew.ca publisher / editor-in-chief “I don’t think it was meant to be a prank, but I love the story of Orson Welles’ ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast that fooled everyone into thinking martians had landed.”

Juli Harland juli@thestew.ca sales manager / executive editor “Globally — the Spaghetti Farm. Mostly because I wish there was one. Personally — day-to-day smart-assedness. My family makes me laugh all the time.”

Angela Shephard angela@thestew.ca fine frugality (crafters beat)

Jamie Horsely tonesoup@thestew.ca tone soup (music beat)

Will Meeks whereswally@thestew.ca where’s wally (travel beat) “My favourite prank is the ‘Upper Decker.’ It's on urban dictionary.”

Carol Davidson stir@thestew.ca stir (health beat) “None. I don't like having jokes played on me nor do I play pranks on others. However I do like watching Just For Laughs Gags.”

Rebecca Black: Friday.

“Wiring a car horn to the electric fan on a car so that when the car heats up and the fan engages, the horn goes off and won't stop. Have not done it myself.”

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It’s been almost impossible to miss the flood of ‘Friday’ inspired media that’s rushed at us over the month of March, but if you’ve somehow managed, consider yourself lucky. Rebecca Black is a 13-year-old amateur musician who burst into the public eye thanks to the video for her single ‘Friday,’ which is considered by most rational people to be a terrible, terrible song. Of course, because this is the Internet we’re talking about, it is that very terrible nature that resulted in its fame. Mind you, along with all the hate and negativity (Black herself has confessed to feeling ‘cyber-bullied’) that has been directed at not only the video, but the performer as well, has come a substantial amount of cash, as the sheer number of Youtube views that her fame has led to has ensured a good chunk of cash in her pocket. Black has announced a full album, and is planning to tour, because of course she is.

Torrey Owen torrey@thestew.ca vancouver seen (city beat)

“For April Fool’s I always like to switch the salt with the sugar! It makes the old people in the family really mad when they make their coffee! I've liked that joke since I was very small!

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THE STEW Magazine is an independently owned and operated monthly arts and lifestyle magazine published in the Cariboo Chilcotin. All information contained in this magazine is correct, to our best knowledge, as of press time. Opinions expressed by correspondents and contributors are not necessarily those of THE STEW or its employees. We reserve the right to edit letters to the editor for grammar, punctuation, content, or length. All letters must be signed by the author. THE STEW Magazine accepts no responsibility for correctness beyond the amount paid for that portion of advertising space occupied by the incorrect item. We reserve the right to refuse any advertising or editorials submission which we believe to be inconsistent with the philosophy of this publication. The contents of this publication are copyright The Stew Magazine 2011.

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Congratulations to all the artists selected to participate in the ArtsFest event this year. We’re looking forward to seeing your stuff !

ArtsFest celebration opens its doors April 15 BY TODD SULLIVAN THE STEW MAGAZINE

The Parkside Art Gallery in 100 Mile House will be playing host to a number of local artists later this month during ArtsFest, a juried show featuring made-in-the-Cariboo art. Of the entries they’ve received, 10 will be chosen by the jury composed of Chris Harris, a photographer from 100 Mile House, and Judith Copland, a portrait artist and former 100 Mile House resident. The 10 finalists will show at the Parkside Gallery before touring other galleries around the Cariboo. ArtsFest is an annual event put together by the Central Interior Regional Arts Council, and according to Patsy Granberg, President of the Parkside Art Gallery, the festival provides an opportunity for artists to build a sense of community. “As artists we all tend to spend a lot of time working alone,” she explains. It all kicks off on Friday, April 15 at 6 pm at an opening event which will feature refreshments as well as entertainment provided by local

classical guitar player Isaac Hensey. And, of course, the art. “That’s when the chosen pieces are revealed,” Granberg says. “They’re also, out of the chosen pieces, they’re offering a scholership at Wells.” This scholorship, to the Toni Onley Artists’ Project, is for professional and emerging artists to work with a mentor in Wells for four days. Artists don’t have to wait for a trip to Wells for an opportunity to learn from experts. Two workshops will be available Saturday, April 16 as part of ArtsFest, hosted by the two jurors. Copland will be hosting ‘Originality: How to make your art your own’ at 1:00, and Harris will be hosting ‘Creative Composition: The building blocks to visual design’ at 1:30. Attendance to both workshops is $47.25 which includes lunch. Copland will be providing an additional workshop on Sunday, April 17, focused on portraits. For more information on this year’s jurors, you can visit Judith Copland’s web site at http://www. judevisualart.com/ or Chris Harris’ web site at http://www.chrisharris. com

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We’re proud to introduce Stew Night. Here at The Stew, we like to have fun, and we like it even more when you can have fun with us. That’s why we’ve gotten together with our friends at the Red Dog Pub and Sight & Sound Audiotronic to bring you STEW NIGHT. What is STEW NIGHT? It’s an Open Mike night, where you can come and show off your skills, jam with your friends, or just hang out with us and enjoy the music of Brandon Fauteux and The Stew Crew. All genres welcome! We’re doing it every month starting April 20, 2011, and we’re sure it’s going to be a good time. Come on, it’s The Stew. How could it be anything else?

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A NIGHT FOR THE BLUES ď ľ Canadian blues-man Harry Manx played the lake city last month at the Gibraltar Room, to a receptive (though somewhat thin) crowd. Manx has been nominated for six Juno awards over the years, including a 2010 nomination for Blues Album of the Year for Bread and Buddha.

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Juli took ukelele lessons in grade three and still can not believe they taught Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley to eight-year-olds.

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A POETIC PERFORMANCE  Poet Lorne Dufour appeared with Sage Birchwater at Forest Grove Hall’s Hootenanny Cafe on March 12.

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and Dunkley Lumber Ltd. April 1 to April 9 at the Parkside Art Gallery in 100 Mile House: Water is Life - Art that celebrates and explores the importance of looking after water. For more information, contact Parkside Art Gallery at (250) 395-2021 email parksidecentre@shaw.ca or check out the website at www.gobc.ca/parksidegallery April 2 at the Cariboo Hotel in Quesnel: Support your Girls! The Ladies Slow Pitch Team is thrilled to announce a night of Dinner, Draws, Prizes and an Auction

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April 2, 5:00pm to 7:00pm at the Thompson Rivers University Gymnasium in Williams Lake: Alleyoop! Storyteller, performing artist, and educator for over 30 Years, Al Hirsch, will be performing ‘Alleyoop’, a concert of musical games, storytelling and a puppet show. He knows more songs, stories and riddles, than anybody else his size or shape. He has at least one story or song for every occasion. Admission is free and is sponsored by the Women’s Contact Society.

April 2, at Murphy’s Pub in Quesnel: Come meet the Quesnel Derby Girls and enjoy a great dinner and silent auction. $30 will get you dinner and a chance to hang out with the rockin’ ladies of the rink. For more information please contact Dorine at 250-249-5095.

April 2, at 5:00pm at the 100 Mile House Community Hall: 13th Annual Dinner & Auction for Lake of the Trees Bible Camp! Live and kids run auctions. Doors at 5:00, dinner at 5:30, auctions start at 7:00. For more information, contact Richard at 250-395-1117. April 2, 1:00pm to 3:00pm at the Central Cariboo Arts and Cul-

April 2, 7:00pm at the Limelight Theatre in Williams Lake: Canadian Folk Artist Craig Cardiff will be performing a benefit for the Hough Memorial Society. Tickets available at Hub International and About Face Photography. April 2, 6:00pm to 10:00pm at the Elks Hall in Williams Lake: Ducks Unlimited Dinner and Auction with catering by Beeotcheese Bistro. Cocktails at 6:00pm and Dinner at 7:00pm. Door prizes, auctions & raffles will take place throughout the night. Tickets available at Chilcotin Guns or call 250-398-7028.

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Although Juli has always been a fan of Irish dancing, she’s never taken a lesson or been able to master the skill — unless she’s drunk. Then she’ll pretend.

April 2 at the Overlander Pub in Williams Lake: It’s Spring Swing Night! Come out dressed in your summer sexiest and have a chance to win fantastic door prizes while getting heated up for the warmer weather. April 3, 11:00am to 3:00pm starting at the Cariboo Memorial Complex in Williams Lake: The Annual Nutrition Fun Walk and Run will be taking place. Start off the Spring right! Please call 250-398-766 for more information.

April 6, 13, 20 and 27 from 10:00am to 12:00pm at the old Firehall in Williams Lake: Come out and join the new Ukulele Group! All ages and proficiencies are welcomed heartily! Drop on by during one of the sessions for more information. No pressure - and loads of fun! April 6 to April 9 at the Chuck Mobley Theatre in Quesnel: The Correlieu Players Present ‘Hairspray’. Doors Open 6:30 pm curtain 7:00 pm. Tickets are Adults $10.00 OAP/Students $8.00 and can be purchased at Bo Peep Boutique, Outer Limits, Quesnel Music, or Correlieu Secondary School. April 7, 7:00pm to 10:00pm at the Gibraltar Room in Williams Lake: The Magic of Ireland is returning to the

Williams Lake stage! Last year’s show was a sold out success, don’t wait to nab your tickets to see the amazing Celtic dancers wow the crowds. Tickets can be purchased at the Cariboo Memorial Complex. April 8 to April 30 at the Station House Gallery in Williams Lake: “It’s Like Riding a Bike” featuring local artists celebrating and explore our diverse experiences of riding bicycles. Check out our story in this month’s Stew for more details. April 8, at 7:00pm at the Legion Hall in Quesnel: Quesnel SkyFest Society invites you to a ‘screening event’ with complimentary for h’ordoevres and drinks. We want to show you what we can do for you. Come out and enjoy a great night and win some great door prizes - (Aerobatic Airplane ride, Airplane tour over Quesnel among others) Please RSVP by April 4, 2011 by calling 250249-5151 or quesnelairshow@ yahoo.ca

April 8, from 6:00pm to 10:00pm at St. Andrews United Church in Williams Lake: The Williams Lake Scout Island Nature Centre is holding a bountiful Banquet. Tickets are available at The Open Book or from Williams Lake Field Naturalists. For more information call the Scout Island Nature Center at: 250-398-8532 April 8, from 7:00pm to 11:00pm at the Elks Hall in Williams Lake: The WLSS/ CSS bands, Tour Band and Jazz Band students together with Cariboo Gold Dance Band present an evening of Big Band Dance! The evening is a fundraiser for the bands. Tickets are available at WLSS, and About Face Photography. April 8 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm at the Long House in the Williams Lake Stampede Grounds: Ladies’ Night Out! We invite everyone to come and support Women in Business as we showcase our beautiful, unique and desirable products not available in stores. Avon, Epicure, Party-

lite, Norwex, Tupperware and much more. Admission is FREE! **DOOR PRIZES!!** Refreshments will be provided by the Local SPCA. April 9 and 10, from 9:00am to 8:00pm each day at the Cariboo Bowling Alley in Williams Lake: It is the Annual Big Brothers and Big Sisters Bowl for Kids Sake! This year the event is presented by Beamac Installations Ltd. “Come Join the Circus” Please register online at www.bbswlake.com or call 250-398-8391 for more information. April 9 at the Hills Health Ranch in 108 Mile House: The South Cariboo Business Excellence and Citizen of the Year Awards. For more information contact Christine Jordaan at 250-395-6124. April 10 to April 16, from 9:00am to 3:00pm the The Eagle View Equestrian Centre is hosting an Equine Massage Course in their Lounge. Please contact the center for more information at 250-398-8344.

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It seems that marathon season is upon us. Time to see if all Todd’s working out will pay off.

April 14, at 7:00pm at the Chuck Moberly Theatre in Quesnel: A Night with James Keelaghan. “It is not only a treat to the ear, but it’s a voice that fully illuminates the songs it transmits.” This is the wonderful singer James Keelaghan. Tickets are $25 for adults and $21 for seniors and students. April 15 to April 17 from 9:00am to 6:00pm at the Williams Lake Stampede Grounds: The Annual Williams Lake Indoor Rodeo is coming to town! This popular event includes Rodeo Performances for 3 days as well as a barn dance on Saturday Night. Join the fun. Check out the website for more details at www. wlindoorrodeo.com. April 15 to May 14 at the Parkside Art Gallery in 100 Mile House: ArtsFest! Regional Art Show hosted by “CIRAC” (Central Interior Region Arts Council); serves artists from the Central Interior Region. The Parkside Art Gallery is staffed by volunteers, and hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10am to 4pm, Saturday from 12 noon to 4pm. Please contact Thomas Schoen by email at tschoen@lincsat.com for your “Call For Entry” package. For more information please call the Parkside Art Gallery at 250-3952021. April 16 from 10:00am to 4:00pm, the 150 Mile Greenbelt & Trail Society is hosting a BBQ at M&M Meat’s in downtown Williams Lake. Proceeds will go to the celebrations of 150 Mile’s Birthday in July.

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April 16, starting at 6:00pm at the West Fraser Timber Room in Quesnel: 25th Annual Ducks Unlimited Dinner and Auction. Come out and have a great time, and support Duck Unlimited Canada’s conservation efforts. Dinner prepared by Ulysses Restaurant. Tickets are $40.00 for a single and $75.00 for a couple. For more information please contact: Russ at 250-992-3485, Brian at 250-983-1050, or Darcey at 250-9927763. April 16 from 10:00am to 2:00pm at the Cariboo Growers parking lot (corner of 3rd and Oliver) in Williams Lake: Third Annual Seedy Saturday! The Food Policy Council has partnered with Cariboo Growers to host a Grassroots Celebration of Food, Farming and Community to promote seed saving, growing food, gardening, composting and trading or purchasing heritage seeds & seedlings. Share gardening stories, ask local farmers and gardeners about planting, storing, composting, seed saving. Meet others in our commu-

nity interested in grassroots food production. Trade or buy non-GMO seeds and locally raised seedlings. Enjoy live music, local food, coffee from the Bean Counter, baby farm animals, “door” prizes, and more! April 17 at the Rev Bowling Lanes in Quesnel: Annual Bowl for Kid’s Sake Big Brothers Big Sisters fundraiser. For more information call Joanie at 250-992-7257 or register online at www.bigbrothersbigsistersofquesnel.ca April 19 from 9:00am to 6:00pm at the Longhouse in Williams Lake: All Nations Heritage Forum! Come be a part of a larger community as the day is spent building bridges, sharing stories, learning about heritage, ancestral sites, government interaction and community involvement. April 21 to April 24 at the Quesnel Senior’s Center: Quesnel Country BlueGrass Festival! Come enjoy four days of country music inside a dance hall with food and beverage available. Local and out of town bands. Fr more information contact Art Leer at 250-992-2808. April 23 starting at 10:00am at Spirit Square in Quesnel: 2nd annual Earth Day Challenge approx 6km walk/run. Sign up before April 14th and receive a Challenge T-shirt. Prizes in the form of donations in winners name to go towards Mountain Caribou Trust Fund or the Restoration of Dragon Creek. 1st$150, 2nd $75, 3rd, $50. For more information contact the Baker Creek Enhancement Society at 250-9925833. April 24 at the 108 Community Hall: Annual Easter Egg Hunt! Come join the fun for Easter, bring the little ones and spend the day. Hosted by the RCA. For more information please contact Bev French at 250-791-7206. April 26 to May 6 at the Martin Exeter Hall and Evangelical Free Church in 100 Mile House: 35th Annual Festival of the Arts. Come see performances by music and speech art students. For more information or a schedule of events please call Eleanore Nicoll at 250-395-2697. April 29 to May 1 at the South Cariboo Recreation Center in 100 Mile House: Home Improvement Outdoor and Home Based Business Show. Come see what’s happening in the world of house and home. For more information please contact Kersti Foote at 250-395-1353.

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It’s only tangently related to this column, but Guinness is high on the list of things that Juli has been craving since becoming pregnant, and also high on the list of things she’s planning to consume as soon as she is no longer pregnant. This made for a pretty depressing St. Patrick’s Day here in The Stew Headquarters.

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When it comes to holidays I usually try not to bother celebrating or becoming involved in the festivities, and while that had been my plan this past St. Patrick’s Day, it failed to be my reality. British roommate and long-time Guinness-enthusiast, Andy, would have none of it, insisting we go celebrate in traditional style — meaning go to the nearest Irish pub and drink like we were athletes and beer was a sport. And so that’s pretty much exactly what we did, finding the Irish-est pub in Richmond, somehow getting a table, and joyfully punishing our livers. Another roommate, Leetier, joined us for a short time as well. She and I sat visiting while Andy took off to introduce himself to some people at another table with the intent of earning the handsome Guinness hat a member of their party was wearing, which I can proudly say he did manage to do. After about an hour, Leetier went home and left me and Andy to our own devices. I joined him at a table with the new friends he’d made and laughter and good times quickly ensued. Not long after that I learned about the perks of being a foreigner. Essentially, foreigners can just make stuff up and lie about customs back home and no one will be any wiser. And this is precisely what Andy did. He moved around the bar and in his authentic British

Vancouver Seen By Torrey Owen accent, introduced himself to everyone he met, explaining this was a St. Patrick’s Day custom back home, which was a blatant lie. The truth was he just wanted to meet everyone (mainly women) in the bar. He did have a fair amount of liquid courage in him, which may have fuelled this endeavour. So I went along for the ride and before long was making the acquaintance of many new people... some were great, others, mehhhhh. At some point after midnight I began to feel tired, and knowing I had to work early the next morning decided it would be best to head home. I said goodbye to Andy, who was gleefully engaged in conversation with a pretty girl, and made the short walk home. About an hour and half later, just as I was falling asleep, I heard Andy stagger back into the house. Shortly after there was a knock on my bedroom door and in came Andy, still wearing his newly acquired Guinness hat. With a slightly drunken slur he explained

he’d met an amazing girl who’d stolen his heart. Apparently she was geeky, beautiful, smart, funny, and in Andy’s mind, simply magnificent. Now the good news was he had managed to get her phone number. The not-so-good news was he couldn’t, for the life of him, remember her name. When you meet your dream girl, you don’t let some pesky little matter like forgetting her name stop you from trying for a first date, now do you? Well Andy certainly doesn’t. So after a little bit of creative texting, he had organized a Wednesday night date, still not knowing her name. Some time around 11:00 pm, Andy unknowingly parked his car in a taxi-only zone and met the unnamed girl at a bar on Granville St. to catch the tail end of a three-band concert. The band, apparently, was dreadfully awful, but they had a lovely time nonetheless. After the concert he found his car had been towed (for the second time in a week). Luckily the girl he was on a date with, who’s

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name he’d still not recovered, was kind enough to drive him to the impound so he could retrieve it. Two-hundred dollars later Andy had his car back, and was able to drive home, still not knowing the name of this girl who’d stolen his heart. The good news was, it seemed she had a good time and they will be going out on another date. But, despite some serious brainstorming, we’ve not come up with a foolproof

method of ascertaining her name without her catching on. We’ve looked at numerous options, and despite our best efforts, Andy is most likely going to have to just come clean, explain he was ludicrously drunk when they first met, and honestly tell her that he can’t remember her name. I’m pretty excited to find out how the whole things unfolds. torrey@thestew.ca

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We did Google ‘Morton’s Neuroma’. And yes, it sounds painful.

Learning to deal with the aches and pains I knew it would happen sooner or later. A person can’t commit to training for Ironman without experiencing more than their share of aches and pains, and so far I’ve been pretty lucky to avoid anything serious, aside from a sore shoulder. However, a couple of weeks ago the inevitable happened when, once again and for the umpteenth time, my lower back called it quits on me. I wish it had chosen its departure from the training program in a more dramatic way, such as during a harsh workout, as I was setting a personal best time for a 10K run, but instead it whimpered at me shortly after I got out of bed. The familiar tensing of the muscles which was soon followed by my inability to bend over was disappointing but not surprising. My lower back has been, for lack of a better metaphor, my Achilles heel since I was a teenager. Last summer I visited the Body Worlds exhibit at Calgary’s Science World, which I believe should be required viewing for anyone who occupies a body. It was incredible. I spent over two hours marvelling over the exhibits of the human body in all kinds of athletic poses, each meant to illustrate the

Stir By Carol Davidson mechanisms which allow us to do all the amazing things we can do with our bodies, such as walk, kick a soccer ball, or do gymnastics. Seeing how the muscles and tendons are stretched and strained as we move, I started to truly understand why my back issue has been such a difficult problem to overcome. The interconnectedness of our muscles and tendons and the alignment of our bones make overcoming some injuries a bit of a challenge to say the least. Now I know why people study for so many years to become physiotherapists, massage therapists, or doctors of sports medicine. Quite often when I start out on a run, the first 10 to 15 minutes feel terrible as my joints and muscles talk to me and remind me of how many miles they have already put on in the past week. That’s pretty normal for everyone, and I find that the discomfort

usually goes away once I warm up. In some cases, especially for beginner athletes, muscle imbalances can occur and then things start getting tugged out of alignment. For example many people experience ‘runners knee’ when the kneecap gets pulled out of place by surrounding muscles, causing a lot of pain. Exercises to strengthen the correct muscles will pull the kneecap back into place and the pain will go away. The key is to never “tough it out” and hope that the acute pain will go away when it obviously isn’t. Ignoring an acute problem that is causing pain is asking to have a small problem become a bigger one, which can sideline your fitness plans in no time. Injuries can be a good time to reflect on what you have been doing, and to assess whether or not you’ve been pushing yourself too hard in too short a time — a very

common thing among new athletes. Muscle aches and pains are a reminder of what you’ve been up to (a good workout, a long run, an epic bike), but shouldn’t be so painful as to stop your activities completely. Pain and stiffness is nature’s way of telling you to dial it down a few notches until your muscles and joints become strong enough to take the punishment. Evidently my back doesn’t like my long runs this early in the season, so after conferring with my coach we’ve come up with a plan while I recover. The main point is to not push things too fast or else I’m asking for trouble. I am proud of myself over the past several years that in spite of my back problems and foot problems (ever heard of Morton’s neuroma? Go ahead and Google it, it is not fun), I never lost sight of my desire and determination to get back into running again. I’ve found that there is almost always a way to manage the injury and carry on with my running, especially after working with experts who can help me along the way. There have been more than a few times where I had (in my mind, at least) some great excuses to give it all up and go back to being a couch potato, but

knew how much better off I am by remaining active. That gave me the resolve to get my injuries healed, and to continue setting fitness goals while realising that there will be bumps along the way. I have a little over five months until Ironman Canada, and so there is plenty of time to manage my current back problem. It’s very likely that by the time August rolls around I will have dealt with a lot more injuries — the inevitable result of all the training I’ll be doing. Considering I’ve never trained this long or hard for any athletic endeavour

like this in my life, I think so far I’ve fared quite well (knock on wood)! For those who seem to be suffering from the same kind of injury over and over, I’d suggest getting professional help to find out what the real underlying cause of the injury is. Make sure that you are treating the cause and not just the symptoms, and above all don’t just “suck it up.” If it really hurts, stop what you are doing and let your body heal. In the long run you will get back to your activities faster and remain injury-free. stir@thestew.ca

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As of press day, Todd is actually down 11 pounds from his start. So, go Todd!

SLIMMER AND SLIMMER  These are not actually Todd’s feet. This picture is simply intended to represent his weight-loss successes.

Fat man gets a little thinner BY TODD SULLIVAN THE STEW MAGAZINE

Previously on ‘Tears of a Fat man’: Todd is struggling to complete the 90-day Fit City Challenge, and after a rough start, he’s started to see some encouraging results. He’s been hitting the gym alongside friend Craig Smith and trainer Rozanne Friesen, and he’s started to see some results, but he’s running out of time. March 10: So this month hasn’t gone as well as I would have liked. First, I took about a week away from the grind of the gym in order to finish up the March issue of The Stew. Following that, while suffering what could only be called a brain fart, I missed a scheduled appointment with trainer Rozanne. And then, following that, our hot water tank exploded, leaving me to spend two days dealing with, first, leaks, then later, installing a new hot water tank. It has not been a good week. I should be ready to get back to the grind tomorrow. March 11: Back with Rozanne again. We took things a little easy today as I’d been semi-retired for a couple of weeks. So far so good. March 12: Not a lot of pain given my brief vacation, which is good. Abs are a little tender, but that’s about it. March 14: I spend

some time [again] in the morning trying to find the right cardio equipment. The treadmill and stair-climber make my legs achey, while the crosstrainer just makes me feel like I’m on some out-ofcontrol machine with a mind of its own. I guess I’ll stick with the bike. March 16: Back on the bike again, finally comfortable increasing the tension settings, and by doing intervals -- 30 seconds at top speed, followed by 90 seconds at a more relaxed pace -- I’m managing to get my heart up to an effective aerobic level. Finally I feel like I’m accomplishing something. March 17: Craig tells me that he’ll be away for a bit next week. Rozanne tells me that she’ll be unavailable for a bit next week. This means I’m going to have to work extra hard to avoid slacking off. March 18: I must have pushed myself a little too hard with Rozanne on Wednesday, as my body is now in quite a bit of discomfort. I mean, it’s a good discomfort and all, but...wow, do I hurt right now. We take it a little easier on the weights today. March 21: Another light day on the weights, but it’s not from a lack of desire. It’s just too busy. Every time we try to do a super-set someone comes and scoops our other machine. It’s like I’m

being stalked by someone desperate to collect my sweat off the handles of the workout gear. Is someone maybe trying to clone me? Should I worry about where I’m leaving my discarded chewing gum? Rozanne gives me a homework assignment for Wednesday so I’ll still get in a workout even if she’s not available. This actually excites me. March 23: Everything goes pretty smoothly with the homework assignment, except for one exercise which, for the life of me, I can’t remember how to do properly. I decide not to get too stressed out over it and just move on to the next one. Everything else comes together just fine. March 24: I don’t want to get too excited about it, but it looks like I may be dropping some weight again. March 25: things are getting tight with the magazine deadline looming again, so I bail on Rozanne today, but make an appointment for early Monday morning. I refuse to let myself go two weeks without hitting the weights again. Todd’s down to the wire, with less than three weeks to the end of the competition. Will he cross the line slimmer than when he started, or will all this be for nothing? Tune in next month for the final part of his journey to fitness.

“Fitness By Design has made some major positive changes in my life. Rozanne has helped me to exercise effectively and to have a healthy balanced diet. Most importantly she has helped me to fit everything into my daily life. She has always been a major help and inspiration. I have explored other avenues of fitness and Personal Training in Williams Lake that just weren't right for me. Rozanne always made me feel like I was accomplishing something. That was a driving factor in my weight-loss. She taught me to push myself outside of my "comfort zone" showing me my full potential. Not just in weight-loss but my overall fitness level. I have accomplished huge gains in weight lifting. I find every week I am motivated to increase my weights or repetitions. My knowledge on health and fitness is always expanding. I never leave her studio without learning something new. Even just a new way to incorporate protein into my diet, or a new exercise. It is so important to have that kind of support. It's not like you're just there to get down to business, she genuinely cares about her clients and their health. Now my day-to-day life is always getting better because I look and feel better. It's funny how different people treat me now. They don't look at me and see a lazy, overweight young man. They look at me and see a young, fit, hardworking person. That was always a major challenge in my life especially looking for employment. Looking back on my weight-loss I am amazed how far I have progressed. Really, I am shocked at how simple it was. Don't get me wrong, I put a lot of hard work into this! It really makes me wonder why I never did this sooner. Rozanne made it simple and easy to understand. All I had to do is show up to my appointments and do my "Homework". Homework meaning calorie control and proper diet. That with the help of Fitness By Design is a sure way to set and ACHIEVE all your weightloss and fitness goals. I feel like this is just the beginning for me and I am eager to see what Rozanne can help me achieve next! To be continued... — Sean Hoffman

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Though we haven’t heard officially, our guess is that it was just too difficult to find artists who ride unicycles.

It’s just like riding a bike, but with artists BY JULI HARLAND THE STEW MAGAZINE

April has traditionally marked the start of bike-riding season here in the Cariboo and in celebration of people-powered bikes of all shapes and sizes the Station House Gallery in Williams Lake is thrilled to announce the collaborative effort of local artists, riders, writers, photographers, builders, and welders, and their showcase of local bike culture and art. The show runs from April 8 to 30, and rumor has it that the show will mix mediums and talents like the community’s not seen before. The idea for a mountain bike culture art show has been brewing for a while says project coordinator and contributor Liliana Dragowska. It all started, she says, with a couple of art parties with a group of friends. “In making the invitations,” she explained, “the idea came up of getting a bunch of artists together to make a show about

bicycles and to showcase the mountain biking culture and the culture in the community that has filtered into art. We just thought, while making these invitations, we thought it would be cool to get our stuff together to make a collaborative show.” As it turned out, the Station House Gallery had an empty slot in their season, and through some conversations and excited phone calls a group of artists of all genres and levels were gathered together to create a unique and communityrelevant show in time to kick off biking season in the Cariboo. “It’s just a cool coincidence that April was available,” Says Dragowska. Photography, batiking, painting, stained glass, sculpture, written-word, and more will all come together in the bikethemed show. “It’s pretty diverse. There is a good mix of professional artists and the other extreme of junkyard artists and pulling it all together,” says Dragowska. “The

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Have you ever noticed how, wherever a cat happens to sit, he always looks like he belongs there, and like he owns the joint? That’s pretty cool.

Build your cat a play space the frugal way I know...most people do spring cleaning in spring, but we have an indoor cat that picked us just before Christmas from the SPCA, and she hasn’t had much to do. So we decided that a cat tree was just the thing she needed! We looked around at the ones in the stores, and although beautiful and well made, that they were out of our price range. With a little ingenuity, after waiting for the right things to show up at the share shed, we gathered up the materials to make one fairly cheap. The main materials that are needed to make a cat tree are thick cardboard tubes that carpeting stores may have, carpeting or sisal rope, something that is reasonably thick and wide for a base (plywood is an excellent choice), and screws or industrial staples. Our monstrosity of a home-made cat tree is six feet tall, has three tiers, and uses an old 80s style black-andbrass headboard as it’s base. The top tier is a thrashed drawer from an unusable desk (a little wood glue made it serviceable), the middle tier is an 18.9 liter water bottle (with the top cut off), and the low tier is a little white laminate wall cabinet (we screwed it shut). With a huge stroke of luck, we managed upon two rolls of the same carpeting when visiting the share shed. United Carpet was kind enough to give me three six-foot lengths of thick six-inch diameter cardboard tubes, although I

Fine Frugality By Angela Shephard only used two of them. Lastly, we went to Speedpro Signs, who also gave us two thick four-inch diameter cardboard tubes. We did have to buy some things for the constrution, such as the L brackets to secure the tubes to the base. We used three L brackets for the bottom, then three brackets for the top, for each tube. Using the brackets also required us to use nuts and bolts, along with washers, to secure them to the tubes and the base. Now, just so you know, screws and bolts are not the same thing. Screws allow you to screw something into another thing, making it’s own hole. A bolt, however, requires that there be a hole already there. In other words, we had to use a drill to make the holes for the bolts. Also we were afraid to use screws because the sharp end could hurt our cat, with the exception being the brackets for the base, where it was more sensible. They always say to measure twice and cut once. Unfortunately, we learned the hard way that with carpet,

you need to add to the measurement if it is really a thick carpet with built in rubber underlay. Our first cuts were about two inches short, so take into account that your dimensions may be bigger than you measure due to the thickness of the carpet. We also learned that cutting the boxes was affected, as our first attempt left the edges without carpeting. As well, cutting a slit to where the post (the tube) meets the box, and cutting a hole for the post, was by far a better approach than starting from inside the box. Doing it from the outside in will give it a much more finished look, because all you have to do to finish it after the edges are inside the box is cut a piece of carpet to fit the bottom. To start building our cat tree we had to come up with a design for the materials that we had. I wanted the tree to be six feet tall, to give our cat a challenge, and to get her away from my kids. I also wanted it to have three tiers, so that as she got older, she had easier choices on how to get to the top. I wanted the largest box

(the big drawer) to be on the top, so that she could hide from view if she wanted to. With those things in mind, my husband came up with the design of the taller tubes in back, with the smallest one in front. He also figured that with the height that I wanted, and being unsure about cardboard tubes over 4x4 post, that it might need extra stability, hence the smaller tube between two of the tubes. Holes had to be drilled into the three tubes on each

end, so that the L brackets could be attached to the base and the box piece (be it a drawer, water bottle, or the like). The important thing here is that on the inside of the tubes you use washers on the bolts so that the nut has more surface to hold onto (less wear). Once you have your tubes attached the way that you want, and the boxes attached, then you need to get to work on the carpet. Remember our struggles with measuring carpet? It’s

better to have extra than to have too little. You can always cut the excess off after, but too little leaves a gap. We have a household staple gun that we used, using ½ inch staples. I have to say that with the carpeting as thick as we had, I think we may have wanted to rent an industrial one that can take longer staples. If your carpeting is less than ½ an inch thick, you’ll be good to go. Our final product, as you can see, also includes some sisal rope. It is not required to make the cat tree, and we had to buy it (two rolls for $16 from Rona), but we thought that it would be better than trying to put carpet on the outside of the water bottle. The rope was glued on at quarter intervals using a hot glue gun. The rope was also glued on the ends to keep it from unravelling. We also used some leftover foam board from a previous project as a balcony for the water bottle, as the cat was having a hard time getting inside it. The cat tree we made is an oddity, but our whole family put in two weekends to make it for our cat. I am sure that if you choose to make one, it will far surpass ours in looks, but our trial and errors will hopefully help you. I will be posting some web addresses for cat tree designs that are either free or inexpensive, along with many more pictures of the cat tree, on my blog at www.fine-frugality. blogspot.com. angela@thestew.ca

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To our ears, the new REM sounds like it came from about circa Out of Time. Which, all things considered, is probably pretty good.

March was a great month for music What a great month for music March was! At the close of February, Beady Eye, the reincarnation of Oasis, sans Noel Gallagher, released their new album Different Gear, Still Speeding. Oasis fans will be very pleased to hear...well, Oasis. Then on March 1, Dropkick Murphys dropkicked Going Out In Style, leaving us just enough time to be drunkenly bellerin’, “Come join the fun!” along with them in the video that they premiered on St. Patrick’s Day. The album is a concept album based on a man looking back on his life after he’s dead. Interesting. Emotional. Celtic punk. Awesome. And then there’s Avril Lavigne’s Goodbye Lullaby. I gave this album a fair chance. I even kinda wanted to like it — hey, she’s Canadian. I couldn’t. I just couldn’t. It’s just uninteresting, teen-girlrock. Just looking at the track list for it, it looks like a cover album. It’s almost completely full of reused or very generic song titles including Wish You Were Here, Push, Everybody Hurts and the ever-original I Love You. Unless you’re a hardcore Avril fan, skip this one. The next week R.E.M. gave us Collapse Into Now. A cool breath of refreshingly familiar, great music. There’s not really much to say about this one. It’s R.E.M. It’s great. We knew it would be. Go buy it. Then new music videos started popping up. If you head over to YouTube, or better yet, straight to the source at PartyRockPeople. com, you can check out LMFAO’s new video for their current single Party Rock Anthem. It’ll have you singin’, “Everyday I’m shufflin’!” And they’re encouraging everyone to do just that. They’ve posted a video showing some basic shuffle steps and are asking for videos of your best shuffle.

Tone Soup By Jamie Horsley

Foo Fighters released a video for their single Rope. It’s rather uninteresting. They sing the song in a colourful cube. What a great song though! Then Katy Perry uploaded a lyrics video of her latest single E.T., featuring Kanye West, and suddenly it became the #1 digital download. In E.T. Katy sings about her alien abduction fantasy using every sexual alien innuendo she can and then Kanye just out and says it: “I’ma probe you.” Which is likely the only thing that landed this song an ‘Explicit’ label on iTunes. A few days later Smashing Pumpkins put Lightning Strikes, the ninth track of their 44-track epic Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, up for download on their website. This is the first track released for the third volume of this project which promises to be 11 volumes of 4 tracks each. All can be downloaded for free from smashingpumpkins.com. If you like shiny, limitededition stuff, each volume

is being released in stunning packaging, and each has an exclusive fifth song, not available for download. Vinyl is available too. Most recently (as of writing) there was a new album from The Strokes — Angles. The album starts off with a song called Machu Picchu. It’s a very bad attempt at reggae. I put the album on and right away I thought, “Is this really The Strokes?” I listened a little more and thought, “Fuck, this is terrible.” So I skipped the track and was instantly comforted. Under Cover Of Darkness is great! Funky, upbeat, and fun. You’re So Right sounds like something that should have been on Radiohead’s last album. I’ve heard mixed reviews about this album but I’ll give it my thumbs up. I just think it’s a little sad you have to skip the first track every time you play it. Don’t forget, April 16 is Record Store Day. Record Store Day is a day that internationally celebrates an amazing animal on the

brink of extinction: your local independent record store. No, not HMV or Best Buy, but that little shop down on the corner run by that old hippie music geek. You know, they sell tons of old vinyl, and have a wicked section of brand new vinyl, and some CDs, and the guy is really helpful and will try to help you find anything, or just stand and talk music with you for hours, if he has the time. I did mention these places are nearly extinct, right? Anyway, on this day musicians release limitededition vinyl and CDs and make them available only to independent record stores. Usually participating stores will have huge sales to celebrate. This year there’s lots to look forward to. Warner Bros. is releasing a series of 45s on coloured vinyl. Each has one song covered by a different artist on each side. Each is limited to about 5 or 6000 copies and 100 of each will be randomly distributed on clear vinyl. There are titles like Love Hurts by Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels featuring Emmylou Harris, B-side by Jenny & Johnny, and Just Got Paid by ZZ Top, B-side by Mastodon. Mastodon are also releasing a vinyl of their brand new live album, Live at the Aragon on Record Store Day. R.E.M. and My Chemical Romance are releasing limited pressings of singles from their current albums. Also, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers first two albums will be re-released and limited to 2500 each. Go talk to your local record store to find out if they are participating and if not, why not. They probably are. Then get your lawn chair and camp out in front of their doors because you don’t want to miss that one clear vinyl copy of Havana Affair with Ramones on side A and Red Hot Chili Peppers on side B. — tonesoup@thestew.ca

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These are the songs that rocked our world in April 2011

Todd Sullivan: ‘Drumming Song’ - Florence and the Machine ‘Undisclosed Desires’ - Muse ‘Hand Covers Bruise’ - The Social Network OST Juli Harland: ‘Moonage Daydream’ - David Bowie ‘Shipping up to Boston’ - Dropkick Murphys ‘Look Back in Anger’ - David Bowie Angela Shephard: ‘Life In Technicolor’ - Coldplay ‘Scatman’ - Scatman John ‘Paxilback’ - Gray Kid Jamie Horsely: ‘Rope’ - Foo Fighters ‘Party Rock Anthem’ - LMFAO ‘Hell Yes’ - Beck Will Meeks: ‘Planetary (Go!)’ - My Chemical Romance ‘Ohio’ - Neil Young ‘Doggystyle’ - Snoop Dogg Carol Davidson: ‘Money Talks’ - AC/DC ‘All Star’ - Smash Mouth ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ - Sinead O’Connor Torrey Owen: ‘Overture of 1812’ - Tchaikovsky ‘Moonlight Sonata’ - Beethoven ‘We’ll Make Great Pets’ - Porno for Pyros Natasha Stukl ‘Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not’ - Thompson Square ‘Only Time’ - Enya ‘Good’ - Better than Ezra What are you listening to this month? Send your music picks to us at letters@thestew.ca!

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Juli’s daughter Chelsie has been breaking fashion rules for years, having sported electric-blue mohawks, hot-pink and black hair, neon rainbows of eyeshadows, and more. We still love her.

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movies Look your best with these trends this spring If you are a fan of colorful shades and bold lips, glitter and electric eyeliner, then you’ll love this season’s makeup trends! Green, blue, red, orange, yellow and hot pink — whatever your heart desires; pair these colors with cat eyeliner and natural-looking false eyelashes! You can even add some bold-colored lipstick! You can do everything this spring. Bold eyebrows (a bit darker than the hair) will still be ‘in’ for the spring and summer. By the way, all the curls and fringes — they

are retro and uneven. It’s going to be one beautyrules-breaking season! One hot makeup trend of the moment that I love is metallic shades of green, gold and white silver. To make a combo of golden and green metallic shades, apply gold to the inner corner and green to the outer part of the eye. Also use sticky tape to get a perfect wing. Green here is the key shade while gold is complementary. “Never match your makeup to your dress” is another rule to break this season. It can be very

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lip-liner, or actual lip primer. Not to lose the rest of the face to the lips — go for black rich lashes with a couple of coats of mascara. You can add sheer eyeshadow to your eyes but make sure you don’t overdo it. Go for copper shades or tints that are the same tone as your skin-color. ‘The Bob’ is back for Spring 2011, though specifically with a fringe, and newly called ‘The Wob’ (wavy bob). For those who want or already have a bob the question is: How to style it in 2011? The Wob hairstyle is one of the on-trend ways to style a longer bob. With The Bob in 2011 being generally longer and softer, it’s much easier to pull off a Wob with it. While 40s-inspired pin curls are one option, the Wob is more casual and suited to everyday. How to Create ‘The Wob’. 1. Work in a Light Hold Mousse all through the hair, then dry the hair

fully. 2. Section off the hair then use a 1-inch flat iron or an 1¼-inch curling iron to create some loose, semi-curls (they need to have bend, but not be fully curly). Start curling a few inches down from the roots. 3. Apply a tiny bit of wax or smoothing curl cream to break it up, and create a relaxed texture. 4. Finally, spray the hair with a light hold aerosol hairspray to hold and finish the style. Some of my Spring hairstyle faves are: ‘The Undone Updo’ Pulled-back hair; softer, au naturel appearance; loose strands around the face and neck. Pop some gorgeous add-ons into the hair in the form of accessories. ‘Low Ponytail’ - Loosely pulled back, could be to the side; au naturel appearance; then wrap your own hair around the tie to disguise it. When it comes to picking a new lipstick, new haircut, color, or all of the above, there is just one rule, and it’s the rule for spring 2011, next season, next year, and many years to come: JUST CHANGE IT! Pick something that suits you, something that gives you confidence, something that you can call your style and make sure you update it every once in awhile — please! hairdooz@telus.net

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127 Hours: Guy heads out rock climbing, then something bad happens, then he introspects, then HOLY GOD OW OH GOD NO NO, and then he goes home.

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As editors, the word ‘Organic’ used to signify only naturally grown products sort of annoys us. Technically, as long as it’s a living thing, it’s ‘Organic’. Sheesh.

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movies Natural healing: We watched some movies and this is what we thought of them, in 140 characters or less

Helpful or hoax? BY JULI HARLAND THE STEW MAGAZINE

The Fighter: True story of a boxer with a dysfunctional family fighting his way to the top. Predictable but affecting. Bale gives brilliant performance.

Let Me In: A decent enough remake of the Swedish original, so now people who don’t like to read their movies can check out this fantastic tale. We’re not proud. We’ll watch [just about] anything over at The Stew.Want us to TwitteReview something? Send us the movies you think we should check out to letters@thestew.ca

The trend towards natural health and healing is huge and it continues to grow, here in our community and across the country. The question is, is it worth the effort? The Cariboo is full of natural food stores, holistic healers, organic product developers and dealers, as well as a copious amount of organic farms. And there is no sign of any of it going away. In fact, it is growing all the time. We could spend the entire magazine talking about the various forms of natural health and healing. The genres and practices are almost endless. The one thing that they seem to have in common is how it all starts: What you eat and how you react to outside stressors. According to Joe Amaral, local holistic healing practitioner, a person’s health is affected by a number of things such as diet, stress, and connection to the body, and, as much as people hate to hear it, we are greatly in control of what we do to ourselves. It starts with the basics, he says, such as what we eat on a day-to-day basis. “Stay away from anything that comes in a package, especially if you read the package and you can’t pronounce what’s on there; keep it out of your body,” says Joe. There are many options, he says, for eating naturally here in the Caribo, and with a little time and effort, we can avoid major preventable health

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issues simply by paying attention to the old adage that ‘you are what you eat’. But eating naturally can be harder than you may think. Go to your cupboards right now, pick up a can, any can, and read the ingredients. Interior Health Authorities advocate local farmers markets, community gardens, backyard chickens, community kitchens and home drying, canning and freezing, as ways to ensure food security and access to healthy eating. In fact, last year IH invested $75,000 to build community food security programs such as these in the Interior Region. “There is a great connection between our environment, our health, our mental health and our social health — and our health right now isn’t very good. With the obesity rates and diabetes rates we have to change, we need to be protecting our environment for our health and the health of our future,” says Williams Lake Food Policy Council advocate Tatjana Bates. Another factor that affects a person’s health, says Joe, is stress. He suggests that a simple change of personal perception from a “me” center to a more unified “we” way of thinking, can help how you perceive your stress. When you try to look to others rather than spending all your energies on self-worry, your stress level declines. It is hard to start with, because we’ve been programmed to be more selfish, but, he assures, it not only gets easier, it can be

contagious to others around you. Stress is listed as one of the top offenders in the fight against heart attacks and strokes according to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation. It is also a culprit in the fights against depression, cancers, high blood pressure and even diabetes, just to name a few. With many alternative heath practices such as meditation, yoga, reiki, cranial-sacral therapy and countless others focused on relaxation and mind-body connection it is not far-fetched to think that the reduction of stress in the body will result in lower health risks. And though the official government jury is still out on the role of unregulated natural health products, many physicians will recommend vitamins, teas, meditative practices and natural foods to help with what ails you. So is “going natural” the way to beat sickness? Perhaps and perhaps not. What seems to be universally accepted is the theory that eating foods that don’t come in packages or cans, keeping a positive view on the world and managing your stress levels just may help you not have to worry as much about being sick in the first place.

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Here at The Stew, we take no official stance on the Team Ford / Team Jeep / Team GMC debate, although Todd has always been a Jeep fan.

Hitting the backroads of Rhododendron Lake

Where’s Wally? By Will Meeks This episode, we travel to Rhododendron Lake, near Parksville on Vancouver Island. Accessed via logging roads, the land surrounding the lake was turned into an ecological reserve after Macmillan Bloedel found Rhododendrons growing. We decided that would be a decent enough place to go break in the new Jeep. We had three rigs with little-to-no modifications: my XJ, a Tracker and a Ford F150. All 4-door vehicles, normally reserved for transporting kids to their soccer games, commuting or heading to the grocery store are transformed into extreme 4x4 trail rigs. Armed with two mapbooks and a GPS, we confidently charge ahead into the beautiful expanse of clear-cuts. It took about an hour of driving in several different circles to find the lake. Apparently the map book and the GPS had a

disagreement. Decide on one navigation aid and stick with that, or you will be experiencing the equivalent of two wives in one car, both yelling at you to stop for directions. The lake was crystal clear with steep forested mountain sides surrounding it, no cabins or houses littering the shores. Unfortunately the clearing we were on was on the wrong side of the lake. We had been told where to fish, unfortunately it was on the other side of the lake and was currently occupied by what sounded like drunken apes. Returning to the trucks, we headed to the other side of the lake to try a bit of fishing. I ran into people on the trail who laughed and told us we would be crazy to take the trail to the other side of the lake. Like poking a stick in a puddle to see how deep it is, I speak nothing of this and let the tracker take the lead.

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OFF-ROAD ADVENTURES  From left, Matt Whinecup (Team Ford), Chris Davis, Will Meeks (Team Jeep), photo journalist Janna Tippe, and Kevin Lorette (Team GMC) take a break for a poser shot at Rhododendron Lake. The trail quickly worsened; the poor, shiny Ford pinstriped from every angle, but performed surprisingly well. Traversing gaping puddles, slippery rock sections, and tight corners, all three rigs were able to get to the other side of the lake with relative ease. There was one rocky section at the very bottom that gained notoriety as the Tracker

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slid down it in a threewheeled nosedive. Of course my XJ had absolutely no problems with any of these sections because it’s a Jeep. The Ford did okay. As we get to the lake, cheering, drunken teenagers greet us. We stood around their fire and tried a bit of fishing for rainbow, but no luck this time. Actually, I was having more fun wheeling around in the bush,

so I only really tried a few casts before jumping back in the Jeep and heading back for another run at the hill. Driving home I think about how lucky we are to get out and enjoy that little piece of nature that was preserved this whole time, surrounded by industry — an oasis in a stump-pocked desert. Somehow it works for everyone; hikers, bikers, loggers, quadders, 4x4

enthusiasts, and drunk teenagers all use the area together with no issues. It would be nice to see other areas around Vancouver Island re-opened to the public like that instead of being bogged down in bureaucratic horseshit, as one foundation or another fight to have the land reserved for one use or another. Open the gates, let us in! whereswally@thestew.ca

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