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What Moves You: Dave Kapp uses spare parts to rebuild a funky, old-school bicycle. P. 19

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Inventory — 2 Spaces — 4 A community garden gives Saskatoon newcomers a place to call their own Cover — 6 Saskatoon’s vibrant slam poetry scene spreads across the province City Faces — 12 Canada’s youngest shoemaker sets up shop in Riversdale

Parent to Parent — 13 Do you buy your children expensive things?

Gardening — 14 Tulips aren’t the only bulb out there Read My Book — 15 In the City — 16 Jacqueline Woods takes us close to nature within the city limits

What Moves You — 19 From trash to treasure On The Scene — 20 Saskatoon residents enjoy fine wine and dining at the Premier Festival Meet My Pet — 22 Two dogs are better than one Horoscope — 24 Music — 25 Scott Benson is instrumental

Events — 26 Outside the Lines — 28 Each week Stephanie McKay creates an illustration for children of all ages Crossword and Sudoku — 29 Sharp Eats — 30 A new alehouse creates controversy Wine World — 31 Tracking down French table wine

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A true community garden gives green space to immigrants

By Jeanette Stewart WHO? Salim Sikder, a newcomer to Saskatoon from Bangladesh, and Heather Hallgrimson, an employee of the Saskatoon Open Door Society.

WHAT? The Good Earth Family Garden, located in Pleasant Hill.

The garden is open to residents of Pleasant Hill and Meadowgreen and supported by the Open Door Society. About 90 per cent of the gardeners are clients of the Saskatoon Open Door Society and are new immigrants or refugees, including a large number of Karen people. These gardeners are using the community plot to grow vegetables unique to their home countries that they can’t find here.

“There are some vegetables I’m not getting at Superstore here in Saskatoon. In my community it is crazy stuff sometimes I want to eat,” said Sikder.

Through seed sharing, he was able to grow vegetables called pui shak, which he described as similar to bok choy, and lou, a type of squash.

WHEN? The project began in 2011. This year the Open Door Society expanded the plots due to increased demand. They have also partnered with CHEP to give seeds to the gardeners.

Sikder came to Canada last year as a skilled glass worker.

He signed up for a plot in May and has grown vegetables all summer.

WHY? “It is fun. After work, nothing to do and no relatives here also. Why not start to do some fresh vegetables like that? I produced this year lots of tomatoes. This field is really

good. It just takes a short time to produce this stuff, all of the tomatoes, pumpkin, cucumber,” said Sikder.

The garden fills a big need in the community, says Hallgrimson. Many Open Door clients, especially elderly immigrants, had the skills to garden but didn’t have the space.

“Many people living in apartments are not having the green space to grow something in, even though they might have a lifetime of experience,” she said. “I would say of all my responsibilities at my job, this is one of the ones that makes you feel the nicest because you come out here and you actually see people producing something they can use right away and feeling good about using their skills again, the skills they have built for many years.”

Sikder says the Open Door Society has done a great thing in creating this garden.

“They don’t know what they did for the community,” said Sikder. He says some of the elderly gardeners visit the plot three times a day.

“They have to do something, other than sitting at home,” said Sikder. “Nothing to do, it is not good. They are happy to work here. They spend a lot of time here.”

HOW? Sikder gets gardening advice from other gardeners and elders in the community.

He also studied the Internet and got help from an older Bangladeshi man in his community who is an expert gardener. An older man from Nepal also helped with Sikder’s family plot.

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I think just the simplicity of one human on a stage with a mic is really powerful.

— Shayna Stock

SPOKEN WORD POETRY

Poets laud power of the spoken word

Poets Brent Chappell, Shanda Stefanson, Isaac Bond, Simon Wourms and Khodi Dill at Word on the Street Festival. Bridges Photo by GREG PENDER

By Ashley Martin

Leslie Cochrane is the sacrificial poet at Word Up Wednesday. He’s not there to perform but to warm up the stage before the poetry slam begins.

If the audience doesn’t get its sacri-

fice, it calls for blood — just one of the many odd traditions of a poetry slam.

Midway through his poem, Cochrane forgets a line, but the two dozen people in the audience spur him on, snapping their fingers in encouragement. There’s no booing, unless it’s directed at the judges for

giving a poet a too-low score.

Judges are randomly selected audience members. At the end of each poem, they hold up an erasable whiteboard on which they’ve marked a score from 1 to 10 — “one being the worst God-awful thing you’ve ever heard, 10 being mind-blowing,” explains slam host Shayna Stock. If

their scores are too low, the vocal audience members shout “higher, higher.” Tonight, anything lower than a nine is generally deemed not high enough.

The guest stars of this early fall slam at Regina’s Creative City Centre are the five members of Saskatoon’s slam team. That city’s spoken

word poetry scene is five years in the making compared to Regina’s one, and nothing about these poets is amateurish. It’s like all five of them were born with a clever gene and left the womb reciting beautiful rhymes.

Of course that’s not the case: Brent Chappell, for example, only started writing poetry last year.

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Lots of people who come to our show just want to come for a beer and don’t think they’re going to like poetry and end up coming back every single week. — Charles Hamilton

Speaking of Chappell, when one of his poems goes over the three-minute time limit, resulting in a penalty on his score, it incites another quirky slam custom. In unison, the audience shouts at the judges, “You rat bastard, you’re ruining it for everyone, but it was well worth it.”

The performances are chilling, uplifting and sometimes laugh-inducing — like Simon Wourms’ musical poem about “a few of the things that I hate,” sung to the tune of “My Favourite Things.”

Spoken word poetry has been called Canada’s fastest-growing art form. In Saskatoon, Tonight It’s Poetry draws more than 100 people to Lydia’s Pub each week. Because of Saskatoon’s reputation, the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) is being held in that city beginning Oct. 8 and will host more than 150 poets from 22 cities across Canada.

■ ■ ■ ■ Regina’s Word Up Wednesday is a year old this month. Shayna Stock, an Ontario transplant, has hosted the event from the beginning. She’s been captivated by spoken word since she first came across it in Toronto five years ago.

“I think just the simplicity of one human on a

stage with a mic is really powerful. I think people have a hunger for the types of insights and wisdom that poetry can offer,” says Stock, one of five members of Regina’s first-ever slam team.

While poetry can be dry on a page, its rhythm comes to life in a performance. It’s a little like hip hop, except spoken word poetry has no beats behind it and is less focused on rhyming.

“Basically it’s a revival of the beat generation, Jack Kerouac and those guys,” says Charles Hamilton, a Saskatoon slam poet, organizer of the CFSW, host of Tonight It’s Poetry, and Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter.

Hamilton discovered spoken word poetry at the Ness Creek music festival in 2006, when Vancouver spoken word band Tons of Fun University played. Before that, he’d written off poetry: “I always found it was kind of boring and wasn’t really that engaging.”

He says poetry slams have converted a lot of skeptics into poetry lovers.

“Lots of people who come to our show just want to come for a beer and don’t think they’re going to like poetry and end up coming back every single week,” says Hamilton.

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Brent Chappell takes part in a poetry slam in Regina. bridges Photo by Troy Fleece

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I have a fondness for art that’s accessible to ordinary people, that’s not so complex and esoteric that you’d have to take a class in the poem to be able to understand it. — Brent Chappell

He believes the art form’s honesty is what draws them in.

“It seems like people are telling the truth up on stage. I think people like to hear stories and they like to be spoken to,” he says. Like Stock, he believes poetry is meant to be spoken.

“Poetry was originally a spoken art and you’d sit around the campfire and people would tell you poems as opposed to you sitting and having the solitary experience of reading them yourself.

“I think people often found they couldn’t connect to poetry, that it was this thing that was studied in universities or in textbooks or whatever, but spoken word is trying to bring it back to the people.”

That’s exactly what Brent Chappell likes about it.

“I have a fondness for art that’s accessible to ordinary people, that’s not so complex and esoteric that you’d have to take a class in the poem to be able to understand it,” says Chappell. “Ordinary people can come and listen to it and take something away from it.”

■ ■ ■ ■ Poetry slams are not like a poetry reading. They’re more boisterous and much more involved than passive listening.

“You’re allowed to laugh, you’re allowed to snap your fingers if you think that’s a beautiful line, you’re allowed to be engaged with the poem more than I think people realized you could be with poetry. You’re allowed to have a visceral reaction to the piece as it’s going on as opposed to having to sit there completely quiet and show no emotion while it’s going on,” says Hamilton.

The audience is heavily involved and is integral to a successful slam — it’s a supportive audience that makes it possible for a poet to get up on stage in the first place.

“I think most of the poets would tell you, it is not easy to get up onstage in front of people and do a poem,” says Chappell.

But with audience support, Hamilton says, “It’s amazing what people get up on stage and tell you if you put a microphone in front of them

Simon Wourms takes part during a poetry slam held at the Creative Arts Centre in Regina. Bridges Photo by Troy Fleece

and encourage them to do it and give them a little bit of confidence.

“They eventually come out of their shell and in front of 100 people say the most intimate details about their lives and it’s some of the most beautiful poetry around.”

■ ■ ■ ■ When you’re bearing your soul to a room full of people you may not even know, it stands to reason that poetry slams are an agent for connecting with others.

For Zane Guidry, it’s a form of therapy and helping others. The 23-year-old member of the Regina slam team, who will be performing in the CFSW’s youth showcase, writes about her life experiences:

her family, her race, her sexuality.

“I do it to help people, to touch people, to give people another way of thinking,” Guidry explains.

Once, her friends’ siblings were struggling with being gay, and one of Guidry’s poems about being a lesbian helped them. “They were dealing with possibly committing suicide and they heard (the poem) and they were like, ‘My life is really precious,’ so they didn’t do it,” she recounts.

Spoken word poetry offers a platform for people who need to speak their mind but are neglected by society, Guidry says. “Being able to say what you need to say without any kind of judgment.”

For Hamilton, poetry is also a way of drawing similarities between peo-

ple: “People often think that you’re just a special little snowflake but you’re not. Everyone thinks about those kinds of neurotic things, everyone has intimate details to share and people love hearing about them because they can feel some connection with that and there’s no artifice to it.”

Chappell, a radiologist, wrote a moving piece about balancing his doctor-self and his compassionate side when he’s dealing with a patient who is dying.

During a past performance, some health-care workers in the audience approached him and told him it resonated with them.

“It feels good to touch somebody and have a little moment of connection between people,” says Chappell.

■ ■ ■ ■ Spoken word poets tend to be of a younger ilk. It’s a rising trend among teenagers, and many poets are in their 20s and 30s.

Chappell is in a class of his own.

He started writing poetry last year at age 53.

His daughter Adrian is good friends with Hamilton, and she encouraged her father to come out to a slam. He was hooked.

“I kind of feel like whatever creative side I had was dormant, squished into the back of my brain by all the years I spent studying science kind of stuff. I felt like there was that side of life I wasn’t experiencing in terms of doing something creative.”

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I do it to help people, to touch people, to give people another way of thinking.

— Zane Guidry

The welcoming poetry scene made it easy for Chappell to try his hand at poetry: “It’s mostly a young crowd and I was surprised how welcoming they were of me, some old guy kind of crashing their scene. But just anybody is welcome.”

■ ■ ■ ■ The CFSW begins in Saskatoon on Monday, Oct. 8. More than 100 events are scheduled at Lydia’s throughout the week, while semifinals and finals take place at the Broadway Theatre and the Roxy Theatre. A pass for the week costs $70. The festival wraps up on Saturday, Oct. 13.

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Brent Chappell and Isaac Bond of slam poetry perform on stage at Word on the Street festival. Bridges Photo by GREG PENDER

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Finn: shoemaker

A new approach to an old tradition

By Jeanette Stewart Adam Finn holds a pair of boots in his hands, slowly turning them over and looking at the worn tops and soles.

“You have two different sizes of feet,” he says, in the gentle manner of a physician diagnosing a peculiar ailment.

Finn is a cordwainer, the official term for a shoemaker or cobbler.

He’s the youngest one in Canada, an artist and craftsperson reviving a historic trade with a pressing sense of importance. Shoes aren’t cheap.

Though they can be found at bargain prices, the real cost is human and environmental.

“We live in a disposable society.

Things are made to break and they’re made cheap, and they use what I would say is slave labour. Shoes are still sewn together by somebody. It’s not automated. There’s still people running all of these machines but they’re not being paid a wage, and the materials that are used — the leathers and the plastics — are so bad for the environment, but they’re so cheap,” he said. “Instead of buying a pair of shoes and you really think about what you want and they are a representation of your substantive self, you just buy one of everything. You don’t get them fixed, you expect them to last forever. Or you just throw them out.”

His journey into shoemaking began when his older brother took a part-time job at the Awl Shoppe in high school. Finn found himself going in to visit and teaching himself about shoemaking, at one point fixing up a pair of 1950s Hutt erite work boots. Finn holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Saskatchewan, and his work is approached with the perspective of an artist.

“All of the skills I had accumulated in my life lent themselves to being able to make shoes,” he said.

“I really enjoy craft and the conversation between form and function.

Some of the tools in Adam Finn’s workshop. Bridges photo by Andrew Spearin

But with ceramics, the market is oversaturated, and there really isn’t a lot of room for innovation. I’m creative, but I don’t like to take a lot of creative leeway with the things that I do. I like people to tell me what to do and to impress them with the way that I translate what they want.

That’s why shoemaking for me was such a great thing.”

Eventually Finn travelled to Montreal to find equipment and met the owner of Imperial Boots, who he convinced to take him on as an apprentice.

“It took me about four times going down there and meeting with him before he would take me on. He’d been working in Canada for 40 years and he’d never took an apprentice before.

I’m the only one he’s ever taught,” he said. “I was just really persistent.

I think he was really impressed that I had actually done a lot of research and knew what I was talking about.”

After watching 90 hours of shoemaking, Finn was able to make his first pair of boots. He’s worn them almost consistently for the past 3½ years.

“I couldn’t find what I wanted, so I decided to make it,” he said.

Back in Saskatoon, Finn has built a shoemaking studio in the garage of his Riversdale home. Equipment is collected piece by piece. His sewing machine was made in 1892. More equipment was purchased at a deal after a shoemaker in B.C. died. At one point he found a treasure trove of lasts, 189 pairs in total.

The lasts are fundamental to custom shoe design. Each customer is measured in great detail. Then leather is moulded onto the lasts to match the foot and the shoe is built around it. A custom pair will cost upwards of $300.

The process takes time, but Finn believes he offers a sense of accountability.

“I’m completely open about how I make shoes and how long it takes me.

If you think that I am not worth $10 an hour, that’s fine,” he said. “You know where to find me. I’m not going anywhere. You know exactly where I am and I’ll do anything I can to make sure that you’re happy. I want you to be happy.”

Adam Finn in his workshop.

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Each week Bridges, in connection with SaskatoonMoms.com, gathers advice from parents to share with other moms and dads. This week we asked:

What’s the most extravagant item your baby has (or had)?

“I can’t think of anything over the stop or extravagant that the kids had as babies. At four and five, they each have their own computer in their bedrooms, but that’s probably not considered an extravagance any more!” — Carla Contreras “Well my daughter definitely has a large Monster High Dolls collection and she’s only 10 months! I justify it that she will play with them when she’s older.”

— Alysia Czmuchalek

“An Exersaucer.” — Talena Lee Klypak “We bought a $300 Tripp Trapp high chair, got sucked in by the design and the concept that they could eat right at the table with us. I paid more for it than I did for their car seats, which shows you my skewed priorities. I don’t think that the ability to eat at the table made up for all the food we’ve had to pick up off the floor, which the tray of a cheaper high chair would have caught.”

— Noelle Chorney

“I don’t think I ever really had anything extravagant for my boys when they were babies. My ‘extravagant’ purchase was matching Tommy Hilfiger outfits that were about $75 each. Now that they’re toddlers, I’m sure many people would argue they have a few extravagant things with the most ‘extravagant’ being an iPad.” — Michelle Grodecki “We tried to keep our kids grounded without all the fancy schmancy new gadgets out there.

Growing up was a lot easier than it is now that they are grown up. The most extravagant item today is a car.” — Judy S. “My kids don’t have a lot of extravagant items but I would say their John Deere Gator is probably the most extravagant item they have. They use it all of the time and it keeps me in shape because I have to jog to keep up.” — Nikki Melnyk “A stay-at-home mommy. In today’s society, it’s a really difficult thing to do and if you think about the money and personal time you give up to do it, it is pretty extravagant (but they are more than worth it!)” — Kristin Olson Amundson

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Sometimes called bluebell, they are one of the earliest harbingers of spring, producing blue, down-facing flowers in May above grassy, 15 cm foliage. Given moderately favourable conditions, they soon colonize through reseeding.

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Puschkinia, Lebanon squill (Puschkinia scilloides syn. P. libanotica):

Unless you’re close up and on your knees, these tiny flowers are such a pale blue (with a darker blue line down the middle of each petal) that they appear almost white. They were named after a Russian chemist and botanist, Count Mussim-Puschkin, who collected them. Only 15 cm in height, with two to three narrow leaves, they are another carpeting type of bulb and will gradually form a colony.

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Glory of the snow (Chionodoxa forbesii, syn. C. luciliae): These are among the first of the minor bulbs to bloom in the spring, sometimes while there is still snow on the ground, thus their common name. The botanical name, from the Greek words chion (snow) and doxa (glory), mimics the common name and alludes to the early blooms.

These are very small (15 cm) plants with starry lavender-blue, white or pink flowers with six petals, yellow anthers and a white centre. The two leaves are green and grass-like. They are not loved for their individual flowers but for their collective effect en mass, which seems to appear overnight like a carpet.

from year to year. The botanical name is from the Greek word for musk and describes their scent.

Blooming in early spring, the flowers of grape hyacinths resemble a miniature pyramid of blue-purple grapes sitting on a stalk above grassy foliage, thus the derivation of the common name. Three species are generally offered: • M. armeniacum, from southeastern Europe and the Caucuses, is probably the hardiest species. It has dark blue flowers and is 30 cm high. Album is white form of this species.

• M. azureum, from Turkey, is a little shorter at 20 cm with sky-blue flowers.

Album is a white form of this species.

• M. latifolium, from southwest Asia, is striking and unusual in that it has dark blue flowers at the bottom and paler, sterile flowers (sometimes oddly shaped) above and only one, albeit wide, leaf. It may be less hardy but is worth trying in a shel-tered location.

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While most of us are familiar with the well-marketed and visually larger tulips and lilies, there are other bulbs — a group that is collectively referred to as minor bulbs. These are the small ones: Glory of the snow, grape hyacinth, striped squill and Siberian squill.

They are called minor bulbs because both the bulbs and the plants that develop from them are small in size and perhaps because they make up a very minor part of the international bulb trade. But small is good. They are a standout in prairie gardens and should be planted much more frequently than they are.

And with small, location is important. They can tolerate full to part sun and can be used at the front of a border, in rock gardens or for naturalizing below trees and shrubs.

All require good drainage — they will simply rot if placed where water sits. And best of all, given the right location, they will last for a long time,

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Jacquie Moore

The Saskatchewan Secret: Folk Healers, Diviners, and Mystics of the Prairies Being a homegrown prairie girl, I have long held the belief that this wide open and surreal space called Saskatchewan cultivates some unique and extraordinary people.

For years, I have been intrigued with stories of Saskatchewan folk medicine. I’m all ears when someone mentions an elderly healer at Whitefox who, with one treatment, relieved a farmer’s lifelong limp. And I’m all questions when soand-so says their terminally ill cousin was miraculously cured by “a little old lady who lives by a lake near Debden … or was it Leoville?”

There is a fable-like quality to these stories; the amazing anecdotes come through second- or third-hand sources and the cures are inexplicable. Word of mouth is usually the only channel to learn of these healers, but it’s an age-old,

effective method of separating the wheat from the chaff.

Through the grapevine of those cured from cancer, MS, debilitating pain and other chronic conditions, I came to hear of certain rare and gifted healers. The Saskatchewan Secret chronicles my journey as I headed out into the villages, the forests, and the suburbs to encounter 13 specific individuals.

These were people with one foot in a different realm. They were highly intuitive, informed by other elements. Some were of a certain culture and their healing knowledge had been passed down through special genetic memory. Others were born with a gift for ‘seeing’ or ‘feeling.’

Still others were accessing a power much greater than one person alone. These were people

who did not choose to be healers; rather, their gift chose them.

Myself, I’m excited about the fact that there are things out there we cannot explain. I’m inspired by the untapped potential within us. And I’m heartened that there are good people living among us, quietly and modestly helping others in need.

This book is a homage to those healers, and an offering to share in the wisdom they have gathered about the natural world and our place in it.

The Saskatchewan Secret: Folk Healers, Diviners, and Mystics of the Prairies is available at McNally Robinson and numerous galleries and gift stores in the city. To order a signed copy online, please go to www.folkhealers.ca

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About 20 chefs created mustard-themed dishes at the Willow on Wascana on Sunday, Sept. 16.

31, 2012 – 4:04pm

A last ride on the Kinsmen Park train

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Take a walk on the wild side along river’s east bank

Jacqueline Woods with her dog Mazsi along the Meewasin Trail in the northeast end of Saskatoon. Bridges photo by Andrew Spearin

By Jeanette Stewart

Jacqueline Woods has spent years travelling and performing around the world, but when she’s home there’s a place she likes to visit regularly.

Woods has lived in Budapest, Ottawa — where she hiked regularly in the Gatineau Hills — and New York during her studies as a classical pianist. In addition to her studies and performances, she’s one of the co-

directors of the Ritornello Festival, an annual classical chamber music festival and a communications strategist at Innovation Place.

Now that Woods is back in Saskatoon to stay, she likes to take her dachshund Mazsi on walks to their favourite place in the city. Officially called Crocus Prairie and Petturson’s Ravine, it is a one-hour walk or half-hour run on the east side of the river that features gorgeous views, a beaver dam, ravine and scenic buttes.

Q: How would you describe where we’re going?

A: I always call it the secret Meewasin Park. It’s the grasslands just past the Psych Centre on Central Ave. Q: How did you discover this area?

A: The prairie grassland parks behind the zoo, they lead sort of to this. I’ve been addicted ever since.

There’s a lot of people on the river trails closer to downtown and I have to worry about him (Mazsi).

Q: How long have you been coming to this area?

A: Forever. I think 2000.

Q: Why do you enjoy coming here?

A: I spent a lot of my teen years in Northern Saskatchewan hiking trails. Hiking was always something that I felt close to. My piano teacher used to say when I got performance anxiety, ‘Where’s your happy place? Where’s your heart quiet?’ It’s always hiking or something like that, or sitting on

a vista there. It’s close to the city, this is the most “naturey” trail you’ll find. The rest are all paved trails.

Q: How often do you come out here?

A: There are times I come at least once a week. It’s for (Mazsi). We just moved to the north end, so I’m right off of Lenore and Whiteswan. We’re usually running out there, but when I lived on the east side I was always out here. I would say five days a week even.

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By Jeanette Stewart

By Ashley Martin

Engineering style

Timeless look 1.

Luke Patola is a third year chemical engineering student at the University of Saskatchewan.

He’s not too concerned about style, but takes a casual and polished approach to dressing for class.

“I think it’s important to take pride in some way in what you wear. You don’t have to look good all the time, but when you go out as long as you feel confident in what you’re wearing, that’s what’s important,” he said.

Melissa Fiacco is wise about mixing classic and trendy pieces. It’s all about cost efficiency.

“Because style trends are so constantly changing, I think there’s better value in spending fewer dollars on those immediately trendy pieces and more dollars on those classic pieces,” says Fiacco, who works in public relations and communications at Regina Regional Opportunities Commission (RROC).

“I like to find pieces that are versatile so what I can wear to the office is also something I can wear on a Friday night or even playing with my niece on the playground,” she adds.

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1. Glasses: EYES International, Saskatoon. “I just shopped around and try to look for something.

Normally Ray Bans is the “hipster” frame. I didn’t want to go that route because a lot of people like that, but I thought this was a good mix in between.”

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1. EARRINGS: A gift from her grandparents. “When in doubt, I wear them.”

2. BROOCH: Memories From Yvonne.

3. BRACELET: Forever 21.

4. PURSE: Forever 21. “It’s got the classic Chanel chain-link style strap which I love.”

2. Shirt: Seattle. “I can’t remember the store, but I remember it was just one of the side shops.

Someone on the street was selling it for ten bucks. I just thought it was a really cool looking shirt.”

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5. DRESS: H&M. “It’s taken me a lot of years to develop the courage to wear bright colours. I used to wear a lot of neutrals.”

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6. SHOES: Urban Planet.

7. CHARM BRACELET: “I got it as a gift when I was maybe 16 and I just continued accumulating charms since. A lot of them are very personal. My birthstone, the Saskatchewan wheat sheaf, the cornetto — it’s an Italian good luck charm.”

3. Shorts: Winners.

4. Shoes: Tom’s. “First pair, just got them a couple weeks ago in Calgary. My girlfriend is vegan and I’m vegetarian. We thought it was pretty cool to have a vegan shoe.”

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A bicycle built for cool

By Andrew Matte

With the help of a friend, Dave Kapp built a funky, old-school bicycle using salvaged parts. After the discovery of a junked, damaged frame that included little more than a rear tire, Kapp set to work creating his masterpiece, which he rides downtown to work most days. He calls it an “old banana bike sort of thing.”

Q: How did this project get started?

A: Me and a friend of mine went for a trip out into the country. And this is one of the things that we found. It was chopped up and we brought it back to Regina. Me and my friend Real sometimes head out of the country looking for old bike parts.

Q: What was the frame’s condition when you found it?

A: It looked like a guy had tried to restore it but didn’t do a good job so he left it. So the bike just sat there.

One of the sections of the frame had been cut off.

Q: How did the bike’s restoration begin?

A: We were headed back into town and we spotted this discarded 10-speed in one of those old blue recycling bins. And there was a piece of pipe that might be about the same size (to replace the removed section of frame). I just wanted to put something together than was cool and fun to ride.

Q: How did you find parts for it?

A: I used different parts. I got a couple of parts from a friend in the States. I got a couple of parts from Dutch Cycle. Other parts are from bikes I found. All the parts are parts that fit. They are all real bike parts.

The handlebars have points on the end. A friend of mine made the points out of aluminum on his lathe. I think they’re an after-market thing. I actually don’t remember where I got the handlebars. The brakes came

from a junk box at Dutch Cycle. I had to find the right kind of brakes that fit in the little loop that are on the handlebars.

Q: Where did the tires come from?

A: The back wheel was attached to the frame when I got it. And the front wheel came from Dutch Cycle. The whitewall tires are kind of hard to find. I ordered them from a place in the States. It’s easy to find Low Rider whitewall tires, which are narrower.

But to find these tires, which are wider, a muscle-car kind of tire, are hard to find.

Q: Other than the rear wheel, what else was attached to the frame?

A: It came with the shifter too. So it’s a three speed.

Q: Where did the seat come from?

A: A buddy of mine gave me the seat.

He got it for another project that didn’t work out.

Q: What’s it worth?

A: It’s not worth that much. It might be worth a couple of hundred bucks, Q: How does she ride?

A: Pretty nice!

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The annual Premier Festival was held in Saskatoon at TCU Place last weekend.

The fine wines, spirits and specialty foods festival allows attendees the opportunity to sample high-end wines, spirits and scotches as well as liqueurs, new drinks and specialty foods. The event has run for more than 15 years and inspired similar festivals in Calgary, Winnipeg and Edmonton.

The event benefits Autism Services, which receives a portion of ticket sales.

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Dogs have a healthy sibling rivalry

By Ashley Martin Katie, 5, and Simon, 3, have a pretty peaceful existence. They sleep, eat, go for walks and sometimes go camping with their owner, Collette Parks.

One camping trip was not so peaceful though.

As Parks took her two pets for a walk one morning to “do their business,” they stopped to sniff at a post.

Katie wasn’t done sniffing, but Simon had finished.

“He was going to pee on the post, so Katie’s still sniffing the post and Simon peed right on her head,” said Parks. “I had to take the poor dog to the water tap to clean her head off and it was really, really cold. Later on in the day when I took her down to the water tap just to refill my water bottle, she wouldn’t get within 20 feet of it.”

Q: What kind of dynamic do Simon and Katie have?

A: Simon tries to dominate Katie and it doesn’t seem to bother her for the most part. He’ll actually sit on her back when she’s laying on the ground ... She lets him and it’s not a big deal.

But he cleans her eyes, so I don’t know if that means she’s more dominant than him because he does things for her.

They play-fight a lot and they really like each other. When they first met, Katie was really excited to see Simon, but he was too scared so he hid under a chair. I figured they’d probably warm up and they did. That’s always a fear when you bring a second animal into your home, whether or not they’re going to get along with the first one. I actually looked at a couple of dogs before I got Simon and neither of them got along with Katie so it didn’t work out.

Q: Do they compete for your attention?

A: All the time, constantly. It’s really annoying. Especially with my boyfriend Greg, they compete for Greg’s attention a lot because he’s really new to the house, so I think those three are still battling out who’s boss. They’re really sweet when they’re trying to compete for my attention though.

They’re asking for extra pats and stuff, but I follow fairly rigid rules with my dogs.

I did a bunch of reading when I got Katie and I just wanted her to be really well behaved and certain rules have helped a lot, I think, in terms of keeping their tendency to try and dominate me at a minimum — things like I eat before they get to eat, and when we’re walking through a doorway, I walk through first.

My dogs are definitely my babies and I love them so much, but they’re dogs. They’re not humans and they’re not people, so they have rules and they like the rules. From what I’ve been told, dogs really like routine and they like knowing what’s expected of them.

Q: Where do you take Simon and Katie?

A: I took Katie to the Regina Folk Festival one year and the artist that I took her to go and see (Jim Guthrie), she barked a few times during his set. She was really not bad, but she did bark a couple of times and eventually the artist asked what her name was and then he was dedicating songs to Katie and it was really embarrassing.

We used to go to the dog park quite a bit and they both absolutely love it out there. When I first got Katie we’d go twice a week.

I like to walk in back alleys the most because there’s more room and fewer cars and generally fewer people with other dogs as well. My dogs really love other dogs and get along with them, but ... it’s peaceful and quiet walking through back alleys. I get to know the neighbourhood dogs from walking through the alleys as well, the dogs that hang out in their own backyards.

My dogs have both volunteered for my workplace (the Saskatchewan Science Centre). Two summers ago, one of the Science Centre’s day camps had a section in it that taught kids how to approach dogs they don’t know. Simon, the little attention hog, loved being approached and petted by the kids. Katie was fine with it, but was more interested in trying to get to the cookies sitting on the other side of the deck.

Collette Parks and her dogs Simon and Katie. BRIDGES photo by Troy Fleece

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Down syndrome may be key to new Alzheimer’s treatments In a new lead on Alzheimer’s research, Johnson & Johnson is bankrolling a three-year pilot study of people with Down syndrome to identify the early changes that herald dementia, which afflicts up to 75 per cent of adults with the condition.

The aim is to generate support for a much bigger, public-private partnership funded by drugmakers, advocates and government agencies that will study at least 1,000 people with Down syndrome, tracking them from an early age and eventually testing treatments to keep dementia from developing.

“The study we’re proposing would provide insight into treating Alzheimer’s, but it might help individuals with Down syndrome as well,” said Dr. Husseini Manji, J&J’s global head of neuroscience drug development.

Experts in Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s who gathered in Chicago for a workshop on the idea at the Alzheimer’s Association offic-

es this month say it may offer the best scientific model yet for testing drugs to prevent the degenerative brain disease.

Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, affecting some 36 million people worldwide. Current drugs only treat symptoms, and none have yet been able to keep the fatal disease from progressing.

It has proven a tantalizing prospect for drugmakers, as a success would be worth billions of dollars.

But companies have been repeatedly stung by costly failures, including recent trials of the J&J and Pfizer Inc Alzheimer’s treatment bapineuzumab. As a result, companies and researchers are looking for ways to test Alzheimer’s drugs earlier, before people’s brains become too damaged to benefit.

Studies are already planned to enrol people who carry genetic mutations that ensure they will develop Alzheimer’s at an early age. One trial backed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services will test

a drug from Roche Holding AG’s Genentech unit called crenezumab in an extended family from Colombia who carry a mutation that causes them to develop Alzheimer’s in their 30s.

Only a few hundred families in the world carry these genes, and there is some worry that drugs tested in people with genetic mutations that cause early-onset Alzheimer’s may work differently in people who develop the more common lateonset Alzheimer’s, which develops after age 65.

The dementia that develops in people with Down syndrome may bear a stronger resemblance to the disease in the broader population because it differs from other forms of early-onset Alzheimer’s, researchers say.

People with Down syndrome inherit a third copy of chromosome 21, giving them an extra helping of a gene that makes amyloid precursor protein, or APP, which is linked with the development of plaques in

the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

Most early-onset Alzheimer’s is caused by mutations in the APP gene or in one of two genes known as presenilin 1 or presenilin 2. People with Down syndrome appear to develop dementia because of their extra copy of an otherwise normal APP gene.

“There is a possibility that the Down syndrome population mimics (late-onset) Alzheimer’s disease a little more closely,” said Manji, coauthor of a commentary this month in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery that laid out plans for the study.

Dementia starts much earlier in people with Down syndrome, who develop brain plaques and tangles by age 30 and signs of dementia by age 40.

The number of potential Down syndrome patients exceeds those with the genetic mutation. There are some 400,000 people in the United States and 6 million people worldwide with Down syndrome.

“These diseases almost certainly

have common features,” said Dr. William Mobley of the Down syndrome Center for Research and Treatment at the University of California, San Diego.

While all of the similarities are not yet clear, studies in mice with Down syndrome show that just eliminating just the extra copy of the gene for APP can keep brain cells from dying, he said.

Mobley’s centre will run the 12-patient pilot study, which aims to lay the foundation for the larger project, dubbed the Down syndrome Biomarker Initiative.

The larger trial would be patterned after two successful studies: the Alzheimer’s disease Neuroimaging Initiative, a public-private partnership that helped identify biomarkers linked with Alzheimer’s, and a breast cancer trial known as I-SPY that pioneered adaptive trial design, in which researchers use biomarkers to match the right drug to the right patient.

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For week of Sept. 30, 2012 By Holiday Mathis Prepare for a complete change of scenery. Venus enters Virgo on Tuesday and promptly opposes her dreamy higher octave, Neptune, on Wednesday. Thursday brings Jupiter’s retrograde, a transit that will alter our concept of good fortune through Jan. 30, 2013.

Then on Friday, both Mercury and Saturn enter Scorpio.

Stay flexible and remind yourself often that change is natural and necessary and can sometimes be fun, too.

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

You strive for just the right amount of contact and non-contact with others.

It’s even more important to maintain boundaries with those you like a great deal than it is with others. With people you like, it’s easy to get too enmeshed and ruin the whole dynamic with overfamiliarity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Your relationships are inter-

twined. Your friends know each other and there’s almost nothing you can do in one relationship that won’t somehow affect the other relationships. Because of this, you’ll want to be extremely careful with your social communication and choices. What you do can lift or deflate an entire group.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). If

you’ve ever created a grocery list only to realize at the store that you left it at home, you know the truth of this: The action of writing focuses your thoughts, regardless of how you use the list. You’ll apply this concept to life.

Writing your wishes when the moon is in your sign on the 4th and 5th will bring a magical result.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You respect other people’s time and expect the same courtesy. Keep in mind that others have different values

and boundaries in this regard. They likely won’t even realize when they’ve violated your rules or crossed your invisible lines. Finding a nice way to point this out will make you a powerful leader.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

Though the years have brought you experience, success and also heartbreak, you have managed to remain innocent in many ways. Another person loves that about you and will make efforts to be around you more often in the future. Believing in the goodness of people helps that goodness emerge.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

People like to delight, scare or punish themselves with thoughts on what might have happened. You will be in far too practical a mood this week to indulge in such nonsense. There is only what happened and what didn’t happen. Speculation is a waste of time. You set your intentions and you go for it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

You’re as entitled to your preferences as anyone else.

However, you would never be so cruel as to exclude or ridicule someone just because that person is not your cup of tea. You could be a hero in someone’s life this week because you go out of your way to make sure this person is protected and accepted.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

It’s easy to forget the basic tenet of success: First and foremost, you have to want to succeed. In the early week, you will work out the details of why you want to experience a positive change. You’ll start to picture your new situation and move toward it.

By Thursday, you’ll be altering your plan for optimum effectiveness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Whether judging a

melon, a potential employee or a future marriage partner, your process will be the same. You’ll pose questions,

silently or aloud, and rely on your senses for the answers.

Apply all of your faculties at once and you’ll find the truth. Using your senses in isolation leads to a faulty conclusion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Approach your work with the idea that you will continue to deliver the same thing indefinitely. The right attitude for a job is the one you can maintain long term. Do not go into a situation thinking, “I can do anything for a short while.” If you’re opposed to a task, don’t do it even once.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

You respect people’s space, but do you respect your own?

This week you’ll have to protect and guard it proactively.

Knowing what you’re saying yes to will allow you to easily say no to intruders who could potentially waste your time and clutter your space with unnecessary distractions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

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By Ashley Martin When Scott Benson was three, he decided he wanted to play the fiddle.

He has no idea where the desire came from — “My dad didn’t play or anything,” he explains. Since his parents thought three was a little young, they compromised: “They told me I should probably wait ’til I was five, so when I turned five I was all excited and got to finally play.”

He played with the youth orchestra in Moose Jaw until Grade 8, when

he decided to venture off and start writing and playing music he really wanted to play.

That rebellion paid off.

Now 30 and living in Regina, Scott Benson and his band are gaining momentum. They were recently nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award for instrumental recording of the year, up against Albertans Jim McLennan and The Ramblin’ Ambassadors, and B.C.’s The Rakish Angles and The Fretless (who won the award at the WCMA’s in Regina on Sept. 30). “(It’s a) dream come true. There’s

so many great artists in Western Canada and it’s just an honour to be mentioned in the same bunch as those guys,” he says.

Benson doesn’t sing, so naturally he gravitated to the instrumental.

With the exception of a couple of tracks featuring hip-hop vocals, the band’s self-titled debut is entirely instrumental.

The violin-based, piano-tinged rock music is all about dynamics, he says.

“I’d say we’re a really dynamic band so we’ve got a pretty piano line that goes into a full-out rock with

electric guitar and huge drums and electric violin and stuff like that, so I think it’s just those dynamics that hold people’s attention and stuff ’s always changing like that,” says Benson, who admits writing music without lyrics can be difficult at times.

“With lyrics, you can kind of change things up by changing your lyrics, and with instrumental music you’ve got to write melodies that are catchy enough to keep people’s attention without having those lyrics to hold their attention.”

Channelling his influences of

Evanescence, Linkin Park and Ashley MacIsaac, Benson and pianist Jared Robinson started writing music together about three years ago.

When they had more opportunities to play live shows, they needed to expand from being “really just a studio band.” That’s when bassist Cameron Church, drummer Jared Dormer and guitarist Cade Anderson joined in.

“This album is really a collaborative effort between all the guys in the band. We all kind of wrote our parts for our instruments,” says Benson, a web designer by day.

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Moon, a survey of responses to the petroleum industry by 11 international artists; Bill Burns: Bird Radio and the Eames Chair Lounge, a continuation of the Toronto artist’s curious work about animals, knowledge, and society’s relationship with nature; The names of things, featuring works by Terry Billings, Zachari Logan, and Stacia Verigin, which contemplate the relationship between human experience and the natural world; and the Artists by Artists exhibition, showcasing works by Megan Morman, created during her mentorship with Ruth Cuthand. In addition, the Members Show & Sale continues until Tuesday, October 9. The Mendel (www. mendel.ca) is open 9-9 daily.

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Longtime performing artist Bob Dylan will perform Oct. 8 at Credit Union Centre. File Photo 834B Broadway Ave. JoMama Stan’s Place, 106-110 Ruth St. E.

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Sunday, October 7

Hung Jury Buds on Broadway, 817 Broadway Ave.

Cuff the Duke Amigos Cantina, 632 10th St. E.

Jazz Diva Series w/ Sophia Perlman and Adrean Faruggia The Bassment, B3-202 Fourth Ave. N.

Hyper Crush Tequila Nightclub, 1201 Albert Ave.

Billy Bob Army & Navy Veterans Club, 359 First Ave. N. No Hurry Trio McNally Robinson, 3130 Eighth St. E. One Bad Son w/ The Classy Chassys

Blues Jam Vangelis Tavern, 801 Broadway Ave. Tonight It’s Poetry Lydia’s Pub, 650 Broadway Ave. Monday, October 8 Bob Dylan & His Band w/ Mark Knopfler

Karaoke Deathstar The Fez, 834B Broadway Ave. Open Mic Lydia’s Pub, 650 Broadway Ave. Wednesday, October 10 Wolfheart Buds on Broadway, 817 Broadway Ave. Wide Mouth Mason w/ The Balconies Louis’ Pub, 93 Campus Dr. Open Mic The Fez, 834B Broadway Ave.

#A R T Mendel Art Gallery The fall exhibitions include: Beneath a Petroliferous

Affinity Gallery (Saskatchewan Craft Council) Until Nov. 18 at 813 Broadway Ave. Random Acts of Light, an exhibition by the Saskatoon Glassworkers’ Guild.

The works explore the many uses of light within the world of glass. A reception will be held Oct. 5, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Rouge Gallery Oct. 10-23 at #200-245 Third Ave. S. Uprooted, by Kathleen Slavin.

The Gallery, Frances Morrison Library Until Oct. 11 at 311 21st St. E. Jessica Morgun: Firebird, a series of 12 graphite drawings of recognizable Canadian landscapes transmuted or transformed by wildfire.

The Mix Artist Collective Oct. 11-14 at 529 24th St. E. Celebrating the Urban Forest, a tree show in collaboration with the SOS Elm Coalition. Little Gems, their annual Christmas small work show, with over 40 artists’ works, runs Nov. 16-18.

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EVENTS Station Arts Centre, Rosthern Until Oct. 31 at 701 Railway Ave., Rosthern. A collection of Leona Larsen’s fibre art, including quilting and thread painted landscapes. Includes traditional and contemporary pieces. A reception will be held Oct. 13 at 2 p.m.

The Gallery/Art Placement Until Oct. 18 at 228 Third Ave. S. Early Saskatoon, works by artists who were instrumental in the early development of the visual arts in Saskatoon. Includes Stanley Brunst, Reta Cowley, Stan Day, Robert Hurley, Ernest Lindner, Wynona Mulcaster, Otto Rogers, Leslie Saunders and George Swinton.

Void Gallery Until Oct. 28 at 2-1006 Eighth St. E. Play structures, new works by Cameron McKay. A reception will be held Oct. 19, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Paved Arts/AKA Gallery Until Oct. 20 at 424 20th St. W. Every Line & Every Other Line, works by Bruce LaBruce, Cathy Busby, Brendan Fernandes, Suzy Lake and Arthur Renwick.

Gallery on Third, Watrous Until Oct. 20 at 102 Third Ave. E., Watrous. Artful Fabrications, 52 small fibre works

by Carol Schmold.

Centre East Galleries Until Oct. 21 at The Centre at Circle and Eighth. A display

by Castle Designer Glass, work by Shirley Taylor and Kyla Tulloch, photography by Scott Chapman, a display by the YWCA and displays from the Saskatoon Public School Board.

St. Thomas More Gallery Until Oct. 26 at 1437 College Dr. Through the Window: A Retrospective 2005-2012,

by Cathy M. Lacey. A closing

reception will be held Oct. 26, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Western Development Museum Until Oct. 27 at 2610 Lorne Ave. S. Two Views, a collection of photographs by renowned photographers Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank. It presents two views of Japanese American and Canadian internment and incarceration in the early 1940s.

The Hand Wave Gallery Until Oct. 31 at 409 Third Ave. in Meacham. SURES 2012, an exhibition of new ceramics by Jack Sures of Regina.

Watrous Library Through October in Watrous.

Scenes from Saskatchewan, paintings by Frank Wilson of Watrous.

Parkridge Centre Through October at 110 Gropper Cres. Works by the Saskatoon Painters’ Club.

Ukrainian Museum of Canada Until Jan. 31 at 910 Spadina Cres. E. Red and Black, the artworks of Iryna Karpenko.

A reception will be held Dec. 7 at 7 p.m.

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All-You-Can-Eat Perogy Supper Oct. 5, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., at All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 2616 Louise St. Admission at the door is $12 for adults, $6 for children ages seven to 10 and free for children six and under.

Annual Three Wheel Barrow Oktoberfest Extravaganza Oct. 5, 6:30 p.m. at The Army, Navy & Airforce Veteran’s Club, 359 First Ave. N. Featuring music by Billy Bob.

With a giant meat draw.

Dr. Sketchy’s School House of Horrors Oct. 5, 7 p.m. at Free Flow Dance Centre, 224 25th St. W. Presented by Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Saskatoon (Saskatchewan’s official Dr S. Group!). A life drawing class with live models, performances, music, a contest and a cash bar.

Bring non-messy drawing materials and a sketchbook.

For ages 19 and up. Drawing experience not required.

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Temple Expansion Project Fundraiser Oct. 5, 8 p.m. at the Saskatoon Field House. Hosted by Shri Laksmi Narayan Temple.

Presented by Saskatoon Gujarati Cultural Association. With door prizes and a lucky draw.

Tom Roberts Storytelling Concert Oct. 5, 8 p.m. at The Unitarian Centre, 213 Second St. E. Sponsored by the Saskatoon Storytellers’ Guild. The La Ronge storyteller shares stories of the North and life on the trapline. Coffee, tea and homemade pie included. For information call 653-5092.

Canadian Festival of Spoken Word Oct. 8-11 at Lydia’s Pub, Oct. 12 at Broadway Theatre and Oct. 13 at Roxy Theatre. With more than 150 professional and amateur spoken word artists. Presented by Tonight It’s Poetry and Spoken Word Canada. The largest poetry festival in Saskatoon. The festival will include the 2012 Canadian Poetry Slam Championships. With performances by 2012 Poet of Honour Brendan McLeod, 2010 World Poetry Slam Champion Ian Keteku and 2011 Canadian Champion Mary Pinkoski. For

a full list of participants visit www.cfsw.ca.

#T H E A T R E The Hours That Remain Oct. 4-7, 9-11 and 14 at SNTC, 914 20th St. W. Written by Keith Barker and presented

by Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. Haunted by the disappearance of her sister, Michelle, Denise seeks answers. As she and her husband Daniel grapple with the loss, Denise is visited

by Michelle in a series of visions. Inspired by the plight of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada.

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The Importance of Being Earnest Runs to Oct. 7, 8 p.m., at Persephone Theatre. With 2 p.m. Sunday matinees. By Oscar Wilde. Adapted by Errol Durbach. Produced in cooperation with Western Canada Theatre. In pursuit of their lady loves, Jack and Algernon assume alternate identities, both of whom are named Ernest, when they move between London and the country. On a weekend at Jack’s manor house, their double lives collide in spectacular fashion.

One-Queer Show: Challenging the Identity of Woman Oct. 7, 7 p.m. and Oct. 8, 2 p.m. at The Refinery. Created

by Sara Waldbillig. OneQueer Show travels from the birth of sexuality through sexologists coining homosexuality and lesbian to the connection of lesbianism and feminism. Through the show, woman will be challenged as an identity to unify lesbianism and queerness, as well as show multiple ways a woman can exist.

All My Sons Oct. 10-20 at Greystone Theatre at the U of S. Written by

Arthur Miller and directed

by Pamela Haig Bartley. Joe Keller is a self-made man.

During the war, he and his partner were prosecuted for producing defective airplane parts. Joe got off while his partner went to jail. Now, the son of the jailed partner is coming for a visit . . . This early Arthur Miller play deals with secrets, loyalty and the things we do for love.

Jersey Boys Runs to Oct. 13 at TCU Place.

Broadway’s biggest success story takes you behind the music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Follow the rags-to-rock-to-riches tale of four blue-collar kids working their way from the streets of Newark to the heights of stardom. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide — all before they were 30.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone Runs to Oct. 14 at Persephone Theatre. Written by Sarah Ruhl and presented

by Persephone’s Deep End Series. Jean just wants a quiet lunch, but the jerk at the next table just will not answer his phone. Now she finds herself acting as a dead man’s secretary, coping with his off-kilter family, mysterious business and her own unexpected feelings.

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Controversy brews amidst new alehouse opening

By Jenn Sharp Controversy has been brewing in Saskatoon over a new alehouse that opened recently in the city’s downtown core. On Sept. 17 The Woods Alehouse welcomed its first customers. In so doing, the establishment also alienated several pubs serving The Woods’ namesake beer, Paddock Wood.

In a move questioned by many, the owners of these establishments decided to stop carrying Paddock Wood products, saying they would not support their competition.

The uproar on Facebook and Twitter has been palpable, with most denouncing the Paddock Wood boycott.

It’s one thing when a large franchise with oodles of corporate backing moves into the neighbourhood (remember the uproar when Starbucks opened on Broadway?). It’s completely another when a local business owner sets up shop and is not supported by the business community.

But what if that business owner went about setting up his shop in less than exemplary ways? That’s what Winston’s Chris Beavis claims. He says his relationship with Paddock Wood has changed since the brewery became the competition.

“We were not informed in a very respectful manner about their plans to open their own place,” Beavis said after finding out about The Woods on Twitter.

“That being said, we are all local businesses and are in healthy competition with one another. After all competition is always there but at the end of the day we all have to take care of our own businesses and pay the bills.”

He adds Winston’s management didn’t feel obliged to continue to carry Paddock Wood beer as there are many other exciting products to serve patrons.

Another pub that has boycotted Paddock Wood beer posted a statement on its Facebook page saying “(Paddock Wood) went from our distributor to our competition.”

Pouring a Paddock Wood pint at The Woods Alehouse. Bridges photo by Andrew Spearin

(Like most stories, there’s more to this one than meets the eye but I won’t get into all the dirty details in this column.)

“We’re a totally different venue.

I don’t think it’s a competition,” explains The Woods owner Stephen Cavan. “There’s lots of room in the city for something different.”

And The Woods is different than anything else in downtown Saskatoon right now. Part beer bistro, part acoustic nightclub, it’s destined to be the new weekend hot spot. I’ve heard mixed reviews about the service but hopefully that’s a hiccup that will be taken care of soon. Local acts are invited to play, but nothing too loud.

The decor is warm and welcoming.

Rich brown walls, big comfy couches and smaller tables fill the space.

An unpretentious curtain and mic, flagged by a blackboard listing the upcoming musical acts, are centrally located. The ceiling and kitschy touches of carnations on the table give the place a decidedly retro feel.

Expect to see a long lineup of quality craft beers at The Woods this month and a grand opening celebration. Many items on the menu are made with Paddock Wood beer. The menu is not your typical pub fare either. There’s a cheese and beer pairing plate and even beer brulee for dessert.

For lunch, I tried the Stilton pecan

salad with the soup of the day — a thick tomato and fresh basil. The service was attentive and the food delicious. Next time I’ll try the Paddock Wood Pale Ale and four cheese fondue, or the duck confit mac n’ cheese.

Yes, The Woods is popular and will remain so, as long as the service and food can impress. That doesn’t mean business will slow down at Saskatoon’s other downtown pubs. There’s plenty to go around for everyone.

The decision to stop carrying Paddock Wood beer doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Isn’t this driving more business to the so-called competition?

Paddock Wood is not the first brewery to open a taphouse and it won’t be

the last. It’s a natural extension for a brewery owner to move into the pub market. Millstreet did it in Toronto and Big Rock did it in Calgary. And guess what? All the neighbourhood pubs are still carrying Millstreet and Big Rock beer.

The Woods isn’t the only place pairing beer with food — Regina’s Beer Bros. Gastropub and Deli has been doing it since 2008 to rave reviews.

Executive chef Malcolm Craig knows comfort food and he knows his beer.

And you can even get a pint of Paddock Wood.

The Woods is located at 148 Second Avenue North, while Beer Bros. can be found at 1821 Scarth Street.

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Born and raised in Saskatoon, Karen Rooney graduated from the University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing in 2008. Karen is a homeowner in Briarwood and a Registered Nurse at Royal University Hospital.

Karen is involved in numerous local, national and international initiatives including as a mentor for internationally educated nurses through the Saskatchewan Intercultural Association, a member of patient and family centered care initiatives within the Saskatoon Health Region, a delegate to the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a member of Next Up Saskatchewan advisory board and as a member of the University of Saskatchewan Senate.

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Focus on improving quality of life for all.

Address the shortage of affordable housing in our city.

Support our business community by working together to address concerns.

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If you visit the south of France, you will inevitably stop at a café and have an inexpensive glass of white wine that will blow your socks right out your sandal toes. You will then spend hours fruitlessly combing Canada for a similar bottle.

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Wolftrap White, a South African wine has recently washed ashore here and clearly is inspired by an afternoon of carafes in the shade of some nameless café in the middle of the Rhone.

It’s a blend of Viognier, Chenin Blanc and Grenache Blanc. The Chenin Blanc is not traditionally a Rhone varietal, but it’s widely grown in South Africa and provides an aromatic lift to the not terribly intense Viognier nose, crisp acidity, and also keeps the price of this wine reasonable.

The bouquet is slightly spicy with some herbs, flowers and fruit. The palate is dry and integrated with peach flavour, good acidity and

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This is a great wine for pretty much any food; it goes with salad, shrimp or fish. It’s also wonderful to enjoy on the deck watching the summer end. It’s a deal and should be on wine lists all over town.

By the way, if you ever see a Chateau Grillet on a restaurant list buy it, especially if it’s about 10 years old. It is the ultimate expression of Viognier.

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