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THE EVERPRESENT PAST HOW VIVID MEMORIES OF WAR KINDLE VIOLET LOCHORE’S LOVE OF PEACE AND FREEDOM P. 4

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Sophie Daschuk flips and bounces on a trampoline during a Saskatchewan provincial diving meet at the Lawson Aquatic Centre in Regina. QC PHOTO BY MICHAEL BELL

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Lloyd Jones, left, and Violet Lochore at their seniors creative writers group in Regina. Lochore has written two books about her childhood in Berlin during the Second World War. QC PHOTO BY TROY FLEECE

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IN THE CITY — 2 A moment in time: Photographer Michael Bell’s shot that defines the week ON THE COVER — 4 How vivid memories of war kindle Violet Lochore’s love of peace and freedom EVENTS — 10 What you need to know to plan your week Send listings to: qc@leaderpost.com ON THE SCENE — 14 Our best shots from Bushwakker’s annual Mead Mania SPACES — 16 Artist brings a Hawaiian feel into her Saskatoon home

CROSSWORD/SUDOKO — 17 OUTSIDE THE LINES — 18 A weekly colouring creation for kids of all ages by artist Stephanie McKay Renee Stewart’s home is full of Hawaiian and Canadian antiques. QC PHOTO BY MICHELLE BERG READ MY BOOK — 19 Gina’s Wheels teaches empathy through a child’s perspective SHARP EATS — 20 What does it take to be a Gold Medal Plates winning chef?

WINE WORLD — 23 A whisky for the avid curler in your life

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You never forget.

— Violet Lochore

S E C O N D W O R L D WA R

War through a child’s eyes

Violet Lochore at her computer at her home in Regina; (Inset pic) Violet Lochore (left) with her Aunt Friede in Gransee near the start of the war. QC PHOTO BY BRYAN SCHLOSSER

By Barb Pacholik Warning: This story contains graphic content.

She was about to eagerly dig into her cutlets, potatoes and red cabbage when the roar of air raid sirens ensured her favourite meal would go untouched.

The 11-year-old girl, her mother

and her grandfather dropped their forks and quickly followed the crowds down into the hulking concrete and steel bunker as the planes neared the German capital.

The family spent the next several hours there, so safely ensconced the bombs outside were, in her words, like “a pea hitting a steel pot.”

But outside, nowhere was safe.

When the girl emerged from the

bunker into the midsummer night, it was to a world of chaos, fire and thick smoke that made her blue eyes water.

“Watch where you are going,” her mother shouted as they made their way through piles of rubble.

I looked down in the flickering light from the fire. I saw a head of a man, covered with blood. I had almost stepped on him.

The memory as vivid as the day it was etched in her mind, Violet Lochore typed those words into her computer decades later in the bedroom-office of her Regina home.

It seemed like the living ignored the dead, hurrying to see what was in store for them.

She was trailing her mother and grandfather that summer night, back in 1943. Her eyes fell upon body parts

strewn about the street, a dead cat, half a dog and pools of blood that looked black in the darkness.

Relieved to find their apartment still standing, they stepped over a dead dog to enter. Her mother lit a kerosene lamp.

Supper lay cold and abandoned on the table. Any appetite was gone.

The next morning, her mother questioned her daughter’s silence.

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Once I asked Mutti (her mother) why they had to wear those badges, but she silenced me and said not to ask again.

— Lochore

Planes on a bombing raid as depicted in Violet Lochore’s self-published book Glorious and Free, a combination of family history, diary and autobiography. QC PHOTO BY BRYAN SCHLOSSER

I told her, “All those red and black spots on the street kept reminding me of that man’s head.”

Mother replied, “Don’t worry about it, we are in the midst of a war and things happen.”

Crying, I answered, “I don’t like it.”

“It will happen again and again ’til the war is over,” (her mother) answered.

And it did.

Back then, the woman who would become Violet Lochore was Waltraut Kaminski, a child in Berlin as the Allied bombs of the Second World War rained down.

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, but for those who lived through it — whether a civilian or a soldier on either side of the conflict

— it could have been yesterday.

The sights, the smells, the sounds that collectively shape memories are easily summoned.

Lochore was once pulling weeds outside her Regina house, then not far from the airport, when she began to shake upon hearing the drone of a plane overhead. Her neighbour, a British war bride who had endured the Nazi bombs, recognized Lochore’s distress.

“The war is over,” the woman said, trying to offer comfort. Lochore was then 40 years old, decades removed from the child she was in the war.

“You never forget,” she says. At 83, she still sometimes dreams of running from the bombs.

As with many soldiers, Lochore kept those memories to herself for years. She wanted to forget — the hunger, the devastation, the

deaths, the rapes of women and girls she knew.

“The horror was too big.”

But as her grandchildren grew, Lochore wanted them to understand why sometimes the tears slid down their Oma’s cheeks when she got to the words “glorious and free” while singing O Canada.

She was in her 70s when she started to write her stories. It took eight years, but in 2012 she self-published her first book, a combination of family history, diary and autobiography called Glorious and Free.

On the cover is a waving, golden wheat field, one of her first happy memories after arriving in Saskatchewan in 1955. It symbolized plenty, particularly for someone who had gone without so much during and after the war. Reflections in Time, with additional stories and poems, followed this year.

Lochore credits the Regina Senior Citizens Centre’s creative writers group for recognizing “my need to tell my story.” Key among those mentors was Lloyd Jones, who enlisted with the military at age 19 in 1943 but served in Canada after a training accident left him without an elbow in one arm. Another was Kay Garside, a British war bride who wrote about the London blitz Although caught on different sides of the conflict, they shared a love of writing and an understanding of war’s horrors.

Jones, a member of the group for more than 25 years, remembers when Lochore first joined and announced that she wanted help to write a book. She admits her writing was rough — understandable given that her formal education was interrupted by war and English is not her first language.

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I looked down in the flickering light from the fire. I saw a head of a man, covered with blood.

I had almost stepped on him. — Lochore

“Sometimes, it’s very hard to express yourself when you’re thinking in one language and one country, and trying to phrase it so it’s suitable for someone else,” notes Jones, who calls Lochore’s early writing disjointed.

“You had to sort of coax it out of her. She has certainly improved tremendously.”

As with many of the group’s members, Jones appreciates Lochore’s drive to leave her stories for the next generation. Still an avid writer himself at age 90, he penned the opening inscription for Glorious and Free: “We remember and by recording our memories, we leave something of ourselves for the future.”

Jones further clarifies his words in conversation.

“We don’t do it for ourselves,” he says.

“What we leave — it’s like footprints in the sand.”

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Violet Lochore with her books, Glorious and Free and Reflections in Time, based on her time as a child in Berlin during the bombings of the Second World War. QC PHOTO BY DON HEALY

Lochore, then Waltraut Kaminski, was born in Berlin in 1932 as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were rising.

She recalls a Christmas celebration as a six-year-old who stared wide-eyed at soldiers with swastika-marked arm bands and adults standing at attention with their right arms raised in salute.

The second child for her unwed mother — a scandal for the time — Kaminski and her brother spent much of their early years in separate foster homes. But when her foster father was transferred to an airplane factory in the spring of 1939, Kaminski went to live with her mother and grandfather in Berlin. She learned from radio in September that year of the war’s outbreak, but she had no idea what it meant.

Kaminski stood on a balcony at her aunt’s home one day and watched as Hitler, part of a parade, came past.

Through a child’s eyes, she also saw something else on the streets of Berlin that she couldn’t grasp.

I remember seeing people who had to wear badges. Some wore yellow diamond shaped badges with a black letter P on it, which indicated that this person was Polish. Other people had to wear a yellow star, with black letters spelled Jude, which indicated they were Jewish. They were mostly old people, poorly dressed and looked fragile. Once I asked Mutti (her mother) why they had to wear those badges, but she silenced me and said not to ask again.

“We did not know about the concentration camps,” she says, now sharing her recollections over a cup of tea at her kitchen table.

She likens it to knowing what’s going on in Prince Albert from Regina — at a time before the Internet and 24-hour news channels.

“We didn’t know — not the ordinary person.”

In 1941, as the first of the Allied bombs fell on Berlin, nine-year-old Kaminski was sent to live in Gransee, a small town 60 kilometres north of Berlin. Her aunt Friede, a Lutheran nun, resided there with a group of sisters who provided medical care. From Gransee, Kaminski and a friend watched the planes heading for Berlin with their deadly cargo.

The radio would announce when enemy planes were on their way to Berlin. Christine and I would climb on the shack’s roof and count them. In the beginning there were about 50 and as time went by hundreds. From that count we guessed how big the bomb attacks would be.

Shortly after her 10th birthday, in 1942, Kaminski had to join the Hitlerjugend — Hitler Youth. While the boys learned how to handle guns, her time was spent on sports and crafts, inspections and parades.

That same year, she lost the foster brother she idolized. Thumbing through photos, she stops at one of a handsome boy of 12 wearing one of the Hitlerjugend uniforms she was made to wear. While walking along a road at a summer camp, he was shot and killed by a strafing plane.

During visits home to Berlin, Kaminski and her family fled regularly into the hulking steel and concrete bomb shelters — six levels high and four levels below the ground.

“You slept in shoes and everything, so you could run,” she recalls. “You don’t cry anymore. You just run.”

After her visit in 1943, Kaminski was sent back to the safety of Gransee. Her aunt was brought home by a policeman that fall and put under house arrest.

During harvest, women from what Kaminski understood to be a jail were taken to pick apples at the orchards near Gransee. When her Aunt Friede saw one of the guards horse whip a prisoner, the nun stepped in between the two and was arrested by an SS officer.

A friend in authority intervened and allow the nun to return to the sisters.

Kaminski and her friends often played along the railway tracks. That’s where one of her classmates was shot to death, hit by machine gun fire from a passing plane.

Afterwards, Kaminski was no longer allowed to run out and watch the approaching planes, instead seeking shelter in the basement.

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Sometimes, it’s very hard to express yourself when you’re thinking in one language and one country, and trying to phrase it so it’s suitable for someone else. You had to sort of coax it out of her. — Lloyd Jones

In the dying days of the war, Gransee’s mayor, wanting to spare his community, surrendered. The town fell under Russian control not long after Kaminski’s 13th birthday. As the war ended for the men, it was only beginning for the women and girls.

Warnings about rape and looting by the Russian soldiers became a reality ... I stood upstairs in a window when I saw the first Russian soldier.

He was a young husky man, holding a machine gun in front of him. He was walking into the house across the street. Shortly after, he returned and approached our house. Aunt Friede took me and shoved me into bed and said, ‘make you as small as possible.’ Very frightened I heard the banging on our door.

The next morning, her aunt left the house, returning shortly.

Aunt Friede had passed the house of my schoolmate. The mother came running out, when she saw Aunt Friede. Crying the mother told her that six Russian soldiers had come into the house and each one raped her 13-year-old daughter, who was now dead.

From that day forward, when soldiers came to the house, Kaminski was made to hide in a tiny space between two walls.

She was sent one day to get her aunt, who was helping at a nearby seniors’ home. The girl walked in to see an elderly patient tied down to a table as she was being gang raped by drunken Russian soldiers. As a soldier, his pants down, turned toward her, a terrified Kaminski ran and didn’t stop until she reached home. She learned later that her aunt had tried to chase the soldiers from the home, but she was locked in a basement, from which she could hear screams. Six of the patients were raped; some died.

Those horrific memories are tempered by another — of a Russian soldier who came to their home in search of a scalpel. She later learned how the soldier, a doctor, had performed an emergency appendectomy on a boy at a nearby home, saving his life.

In time, Kaminski returned to the destruction of Berlin. Her mother’s apartment and all the

Violet Lochore, second from left, at a meeting with her seniors creative writers group in Regina. QC PHOTO BY TROY FLEECE

family’s belongings had been destroyed in a 1945 air raid.

Most houses had been bombed.

Rubble and debris were a common sight. The water and the sewer had not been restored and all the human excrement was among the rubble.

Some water was available from the archaic pumps, which were used a century ago. Some pumps still worked and were a blessing for a little while. The water was rationed for equal shares, so was food and electricity.

Having missed three years of school during the war, Kaminski was sent to apprentice at a shoe store and attend trade school, learning about shoe manufacturing.

In the early 1950s, her friend was

unwrapping Canadian apples at a grocery store when she discovered they were wrapped in a CanadianGerman newspaper. It contained ads for people seeking pen pals.

Kaminski penned some letters to Canadians. An exchange of letters from one pen pal, a man who professed his love for her, cemented her decision to come to Canada.

She climbed aboard the ship Berlin, reaching Canada on April 1, 1955.

Knowing little to no English, Kaminski struggled to make sense of the people lined to buy “hotdogs” from a Halifax street car. She looked up the word dog in her small dictionary, and quickly decided she wasn’t interested.

The train carried her to Regina

on April 7, 1955.

The relationship with her pen pal fizzled — but she fell in love with Saskatchewan. Two days after arriving, she took her first job as a cook in a restaurant on Hill Avenue. Unable to pronounce Waltraut, the owner christened her new worker Violet.

It stuck.

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In the decades that followed, she became a wife, mother and grandmother. Kaminski became Lochore when she married her second husband Bob, of Scottish heritage, who passed away in 2003.

After his death, she started writing her book, first on a typewriter,

later a computer.

Twice she travelled back to Berlin to visit her brother Siegfried, then living on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall. She recalls whispered conversations in remote fields. Raised by a foster family, then drafted at age 14 into the army during the war and taken prisoner, he became a university professor under communism. He worried his growing disenchantment with the restrictive political system would be overheard during those hushed conversations and reported.

Last month marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Asked if she’d like to go back, Lochore’s promptly answers, “No.” “I knew it without the wall,” she says.

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You slept in shoes and everything, so you could run.

You don’t cry anymore. You just run. — Lochore

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A bomb shelter in Berlin, as depicted in one of Violet Lochore’s books. QC PHOTO BY BRYAN SCHLOSSER

She also knows much about hard-won freedoms. Ten years ago, she penned a letter to the Leader-Post, around the 60th anniversary of D-Day, to remind people not to take that freedom for granted: “When I ask other Canadians if they are going to vote, many say they do not have the time or make other excuses. Yet, they tell me that their grandfather had participated in the fight for freedom. How much does that mean to them? ... This is my personal thank you to those men who died in 1944. The most important agenda for a political party is to keep the country ‘glorious and free.’”

With her books, Lochore wanted readers to understand the past, so they appreciate how they can shape the future.

I tried to show what life can become. One man has the power to throw the whole world into turmoil, can crash our forefather’s foundations, destroying our freedom, spilling our biggest treasure, our blood. It is extremely important that we never let it happen again, that we carefully vote for the right people to govern, so we can live free and also for our future generations.

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MUSIC

Monday Night Jazz & Blues: A Ben Winoski White Christmas Bushwakker, 2206 Dewdney

Wedn esd ay, D ec. 10 Wednesday Night Folk: The Dickens Yuletide Singers Bushwakker, 2206 Dewdney

Weekly Drum Circle Instruments provided 7:30-9 p.m., The Living Spirit Centre, 3018 Doan Dr. Call Mike, 306-550-3911.

WayBack Wednesdays with Leather Cobra McNally’s, 2226 Dewdney Ave. Handel’s Messiah Regina Symphony Orchestra RSO Special Concerts Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m.

Knox Metropolitan Church 2340 Victoria Ave.

Tuesd ay, D ec. 16 Huron Carole Starring Tom Jackson, Beverly Mahood, One More Girl, Shannon Gaye and Don Amero Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr.

Lisa LeBlanc The Artesian, 2627 13th Ave.

Chris Sleightholm, Tiny O’Hanlon’s, 1947 Scarth St.

Thursd ay, D ec. 11 Ebeneezer Stone Songs for Souls Christmas concert and bake sale fundraiser.

7-9 p.m. New Beginnings Church, 1037 Victoria Ave.

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Christmas Carol Singalong 7 p.m. Our Lady of Peace Parish, 425 Broad St. N. Mobina Galore, The Bolans, Homo Monstrous The Club at the Exchange 2431 Eighth Ave.

Carly McKillip, Beverly Mahood and Britt McKillip are part of this year’s Huron Carole, Tuesday at the Casino Regina Show Lounge.

VISUAL ART

Hope This group exhibition looks at various ways that contemporary artists interpret and explore the concept of hope.

The show features a diversity of approaches to the topic from delusion to renewal.

Guest curated by Holly Fay. Dec. 10-Jan. 23. Art Gallery of Regina, Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, 2420 Elphinstone St.

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Close Talker, Coldest Night of the Year, Bears in Hazenmore The Exchange, 2431 Eighth Ave. Carmen Campagne Carrefour Des Plaines, 3850 Hillsdale St. Friday, D ec. 12 4x4 Fridays YQR, 1475 Toronto St.

Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr. Milkman’s Sons 9 p.m. Broadway’s Lounge/ Western Pizza, 1307 Broadway Ave. Tequila Mockingbird McNally’s, 2226 Dewdney Ave. S a t u rday, D ec . 1 3

Government Town, Megan Nash O’Hanlon’s, 1947 Scarth St.

Open Acoustic Jam 3:30-8 p.m.

Broadway’s Lounge, 1307 Broadway Ave.

The Fab Four Beatles tribute band

Sounds of Christmas Queen City Brass Band. Mark

Preece music director.

7:30 p.m., Knox-Metropolitan Church, 2340 Victoria Ave.

Dickens Yuletide Singers 1 and 3 p.m. Government House, 4607 Dewdney Ave.

A-Maze 9 p.m. Broadway’s Lounge, 1307 Broadway Ave.

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The Steadies McNally’s, 2226 Dewdney Ave. The Fab Four Beatles tribute band Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr. Little Chicago The Lancaster, 4529 Gordon Rd.

The Fab Four Beatles tribute band Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr. Dickens Yuletide Singers 1 and 3 p.m. Government House, 4607 Dewdney Ave. Christmas Crescendo Prairie Winds Adult Community Band. $10.

2 p.m., Lakeview United Church, 3200 McCallum Ave.

Christmas in Song Featuring Westminster Choir, Swing’n’ Soul Singers, a brass quartet and other instrumentalists.

7 p.m., Westminster United Church, 3025 13th Ave. Christmas Concert Mossing School of Music. $10.

7 p.m., Lakeview United Church, 3200 McCallum Ave. Wascana Voices O Nata Lux: An Evening of Song. Hear familiar carols, new compositions and classic favourites.

7 p.m., St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 1861 McIntyre St.

Saturnalia Assorted media by various artists. Dec. 11-Jan. 17.

Opening reception Dec. 11, 5-8 p.m. Slate Fine Art Gallery, 2078 Halifax St. Keith Bird: Stories From the Spirit Tree Until Dec. 12. First Nations University Art Gallery Wilf Perreault: In the Alley | Dans la Ruelle A major retrospective of celebrated Saskatchewan painter Wilf Perreault. Best known for a single subject — the everyday back alley.

Until Jan. 4. MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St.

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EVENTS Jay Kimball: Terra Somatic Exhibit runs until Dec. 19.

Closing reception: Dec. 19, 5 p.m. Hague Gallery, Creative City Centre, 1843 Hamilton St.

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Wednesday, 5-7 p.m.

Sweet Ambrosia Bakeshoppe, 230 Winnipeg St. N. Drop-in crafts and gym Free event for youth aged 5-18. Thursday, 4-6 p.m.

Eastview Community Centre, 615 6th Ave.

Passages: Town and Country Works by Heather M. Cline.

Until Dec. 20. Mysteria Gallery, 2706 13th Ave. Caitlin Mullan: An Index of Saskatchewan Fauna and Other Curiosities Printmaker Mullan will use her interests in memory, history, ephemera, and other curiosities to guide her curation and presentation of the important cultural holdings of the Dunlop and RSM. Until Jan. 15. In Situ — Central Library, 2311 12th Ave. AND Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert St. Lisa Birke: red carpet (red stripe painting; walking the line) red carpet follows its elegantly attired female subject as she sashays down a seemingly-endless red carpet, cutting through an ever-changing Canadian landscape.

Until Jan. 18. Dunlop Central Mediatheque, Central Library, 2311-12th Ave. Beatrix Ruf Protect Us: A Project About Longing Bill Burns’ recent works dealing with longing — for success, for assistance, for recognition, for a different type of world.

With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Burns makes overt pleas to art world celebrities, critiquing the political system that supports them.

Until Jan. 18. Dunlop Art Gallery — Central Branch, 231112th Ave. Contemporary Canadiana The Artists of Scott Nicholson Fine Arts. Features works of art that portray the essence of contemporary Canadian fine art.

Until Jan. 31. Regina Centre Crossing, 1621 Albert St. Troy Coulterman: Digital Handshake Exhibition examines our

Preschool Open House Dec. 11, 6-8 p.m.

Montessori School of Regina, 4611 Albert St. Drop In Indoor Playground Friday, 9-11:45 a.m.

South Leisure Centre, 170 Sunset Dr. Mom and Tot Bored Meetings Hosted by Kate Murray, 306216-2511.

Friday, 10-11:30 a.m. Early Learning Family Centre, Scott Collegiate, 3350 7th Ave. Snow Magic A party to celebrate the season. Registration required.

Dec. 12, 10:15-11 a.m.

RPL Sunrise Branch, 3130 E. Woodhams Dr.

The Trailer Park Boys bring their raunchy Christmas comedy show to Regina on Thursday. uncanny relationship to technology, and imagines ways it — and we — might adapt.

The first major solo exhibition by Regina-based sculptor Coulterman.

Until Jan. 25. MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Contemporary Canadiana The Artists of Scott Nicholson Fine Arts.

Until Jan. 18. Government House, 4607 Dewdney Ave. --Assiniboia Gallery 2266 Smith St. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Neutral Ground #203-1856 Scarth St. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Oakland Gift and Fine Arts Oil and ink paintings by Chinese artists Lingtao Jiang and Huaiyi Tian.

2312 Smith St. Open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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The Trailer Park Boys Dec. 11, 8 p.m.

Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr. Christmas Comedy Dinner and show featuring comedians Chris Griffin and Scott Dumas.

Dec. 13, 6 p.m.

The Pump, 641 Victoria Ave E. The Laugh Shop Live standup every Saturday night, 9:30 p.m.

Ramada Hotel, 1818 Victoria Ave.

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Silver Snowfallies Saskatchewan Express Dec. 10-14, 7:30 p.m., Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.

Sask Express Theatre, 2272

Pasqua St.

Conexus Arts Centre

Cirque du Soleil: Dralion Dec. 10-14 Brandt Centre, Evraz Place

50-Plus Dance Club Music by Prairie Ramblers. $7.50. Dec. 14, 2-5 p.m.

Austrian Club, 320 Maxwell St.

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown Until Dec. 28 Globe Theatre, 1801 Scarth St.

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Salsa dancing Dec. 10, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Cathedral Freehouse, 2062 Albert St. Fun Dancing Learn to square dance, round dance or clog. First two nights free.

Dec. 11, 6-7:30 p.m.

St. James Anglican Church, 1105 Empress St. Silver Bells Ball Formal attire. Hosted by Regina Ballroom Dancing Club Dec. 13, 5:30 p.m.-1 a.m.

Retro Dance Party Every Sunday McNally’s, 2226 Dewdney Ave. Warm and Cozy Little Rebel Christmas Ballroom dance to current and past popular music.

Dec. 16, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

North East Community Centre, 160 Broad St.

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Stars and Strollers Wednesday, 1 p.m.

Cineplex Odeon Southland Mall, 3025 Gordon Rd. Bake A Difference Combat bullying through baking; spread kindness with

Comfort & Joy 2014 Featuring train rides for kids, Christmas treats, horsedrawn sleigh rides, live nativity and more. $5.

Dec. 12, 7-9 p.m.

Gateway Christian Fellowship, 1812 Arthur St. Build and Grow Clinics Build a special feature project.

For children age 5 and up.

Saturday, 10 a.m.

Lowes, 4555 Gordon Rd. Michaels Kids Club Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon 2088 Prince of Wales Dr. Family Favourites films Enjoy a favourite film for just $2.50.

Saturday, 11 a.m. Galaxy Cinemas, 420 McCarthy Blvd. N. Family activities Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m.

Saskatchewan Science Centre, 2903 Powerhouse Dr.

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CROSS CANADA FLOORING DEPOT EXPANDS TO REGINA It was a win-win situation: Bev Tate, owner of Carpet World, a family-owned Regina flooring business, was looking to semi-retire after 32 years, and Darrell Markin, owner of Cross Canada Flooring in Moose Jaw, planned to expand his business into a larger market.

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The result? Markin’s flooring company will expand to Regina and Bev will continue to work at the new Cross Canada Flooring store, albeit with decreased hours, assisting with sales.

The decision to take on a reduced role was not taken lightly by Bev. She has been deeply involved in the flooring business for her entire adult life, beginning in 1969 at Cracklen Carpets in Regina. Bev and her husband, Ken, who also worked in the flooring industry, opened their own carpet business in 1982, at 936 Victoria Ave. - and Carpet World was born. After two years, they moved to their current location at 1321 Winnipeg St. Through the years, Bev developed her knowledge of flooring by visiting manufacturers, and then, in 1995, she took a course to become a certified carpet inspector. She is now called upon to inspect carpets throughout the province.

The Tates had a thorough knowledge of their Th service pr products and took pride in their customer ser vice - qualities that did not go unnoticed by larger industry. players pl in the industr y. Sears approached them in 1999 and Carpet World became a Sears flooring 19 franchisee. fr They went on to receive an award service for fo best customer ser vice of all the 60 flflooring ooring “We fr franchisees across Canada. “W e had no claims or complaints in a three-year period, and, to Sears, co Bev.. Outstanding th that was unheard of,” said Bev customer service was the foundation of the Tates’ cu business success and it continues to this day, as bu evidenced ev by the many repeat customers and frequent testimonials that Bev receives. fr But past client s need not worry that this attention to customer service will be sacrificed as Markin takes over the store. He recognizes the value of Bev’s experience and work ethic. “Bev’s been there; it’s been run properly and a lot of people know it,” said Markin. He will continue to offer clients the high-quality service they have come to expect - the staff and installers will remain the same, with Darcy Bushell continuing to work at the store as its new manager.

Markin is grateful for the chance to expand his business and open a Cross Canada Flooring Depot in the Queen City. “ I was looking for the opportunity to grow and come into a market that’s progressive and growing,” he said. “ I am thrilled to come to Regina and have the opportunity to take over Carpet World, which has been around for many years.”

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EVENTS Family Studio Sundays Sunday, 2-4 p.m.

MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Parent and Preschooler Jungle Gym Monday, 9:30-11 a.m.

Al Ritchie Family Wellness Centre, 445 14th Ave. Science Time for Tots Interactive workshop aimed at early learners.

Tuesday, 9:30-10 a.m.

Saskatchewan Science Centre, 2903 Powerhouse Dr. Drop-in crafts and gym Free event for youth aged 5-18. Tuesday, 4-6 p.m.

Eastview Community Centre, 615 6th Ave.

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RCMP Sergeant Major’s Parade Weekdays, 12:45 p.m.

RCMP Depot Division, 5600 11th Ave. Regina Farmer’s Market on campus Every Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

U of R Research and Innovation Centre Atrium Open Session Life Drawing There will be no formal instruction and all skill levels are encouraged. The model will be nude with the exception of a few special costumed sessions. Drawing materials are required. $12 per drop-in session. Thursday, 7-10 p.m.

Creative City Centre, 1843 Hamilton St. The Wren One-day holiday pop-up shop featuring contemporary handmade goods. www.shopthewren.ca Dec. 13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Neil Balkwill Centre, 2420 Elphinstone St. Regina Farmers’ Market Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Shriners Building, 2065 Hamilton St.

Franco Club Come practice and improve your spoken French in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere.

Dec. 13, 10-11:30 a.m.

U of R Language Institute Building room 216/rotonde.

Old-Fashioned Victorian Christmas Lots of free family fun! Sleigh rides, Christmas carols, treats, a visit from a “special guest” and tours of Government House Museum.

Dec. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Government House, 4607 Dewdney Ave. DIY Wear: Holiday Hipsters For ages 14 and up. Forget ugly Christmas sweaters! Create your own holiday wear with neat animal design templates.

Bring clothing you want to revamp, or make excellent holiday gifts.

Dec. 14, 1-4 p.m.

RPL Sherwood Village Branch, 6121 Rochdale Blvd.

Pints & Prose Trivia Sunday, 8:30 p.m.

O’Hanlon’s, 1947 Scarth St. Christmas Open House Traditional music and refreshments. Dec. 15, noon-2 p.m.

Regina Immigrant Women Centre, 2248 Lorne St. Journey to Bethlehem Come out and tour our outdoor nativity scene with live animals and then come cozy up inside with hot chocolate and cookies.

Dec. 16-19, 6:30-8 p.m.

Regina Apostolic Church, 808 Assiniboine Ave. E. ChewsDay Challenge Drop-in gathering of board game enthusiasts.

Every Tuesday, 6 p.m.-midnight.

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God Help the Girl Drama As Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she

Take a ride in a horse-drawn sleigh during the Old-Fashioned Victorian Christmas at Government House on Saturday.

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heads to Glasgow and meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.

DamNation Documentary This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change, from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers.

Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right to return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access.

Regina Public Library Theatre 2311 12th Ave.; 306-777-6104 --Flight of the Butterflies Documentary Join hundreds of millions of butterflies on an amazing journey to a remote hideaway

in the mountains of Mexico.

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by Morgan Freeman.

Exodus: Gods and Kings Drama Though raised as siblings

by Queen Tuya (Sigourney Weaver) and Pharaoh Seti (John Turturro), Moses (Christian Bale) and Ramses (Joel Edgerton) are ultimately separated by fate and ideology. As they grow into their respective roles as national leaders, Moses will need to soften Ramses’ hardened heart through demonstrations of God’s power, including the famous 12 Plagues, if he is to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt and slavery towards freedom and the land of Israel.

Journey to the South Pacific Documentary Narrated by Cate Blanchett, this is a breathtaking adventure to the lush tropical islands of remote West Papua, where life flourishes above and below the sea. Join Jawi, a young island boy, as he takes us on a journey of discovery to this magical place where we encounter whale sharks, sea turtles, manta rays, and other iconic creatures of the sea.

Kramer Imax 2903 Powerhouse Dr. 306-522-4629

NEW MOVIES

Inherent Vice Drama Los Angeles, 1970. Private investigator Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix)

receives a visit from an exgirlfriend who’s now having an affair with real estate mogul Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts). She wants his help in foiling a plot by Mickey’s wife and her lover, to have Mickey admitted to a mental health institution. Based on the novel

by Thomas Pynchon.

Galaxy Cinemas 420 McCarthy Blvd. N. 306-522-9098 Cineplex Odeon Southland Mall Cinemas 3025 Gordon Rd.; 306-5853383 Rainbow Cinemas Golden Mile Shopping Centre 3806 Albert St.; 306-3595250 Events listings are a free community service offered by QC. Listings will be printed if space permits. Please send information two weeks before your event.

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MEAD MANIA

Mead Mania hit Regina on the first Saturday in December, officially kicking off the holiday season at Bushwakker Brewpub.

Blackberry mead enthusiasts lined up for hours to purchase some of the rare, popular, 2014 edition Saskatchewan Blackberry Mead.

“The lineup began earlier than ever before this year,” said Grant Frew, bar and marketing manager at Bushwakker Brewpub. “All 6,000 bottles were sold in just under two hours this year. We will have plenty of Blackberry Mead on tap to last throughout the month of December.”

All year long, Bushwakker’s head brewer, Mitch Dalrymple, brewed this much-loved honey-and-blackberry nectar. He used 400 pounds of Lumsden Valley honey and 84 pounds of blackberries in each 800-litre tank of mead.

Take-home bottle purchases were limited to 12 bottles per person (a six-pack for $75 or $150 for 12 bottles) and in-house purchases were limited to two 12-ounce glasses per person per visit.

Mead Mania is the independent, family-owned-andoperated Regina brewpub’s busiest day of the year.

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Spaces celebrates beauty both indoors and out. If you have a living space we should highlight email qc@leaderpost.com

Home reflects owner’s artistic personality

By Jenn Sharp WHO? Renee and Troy Stewart, along with their three children Taylor, Tyya and Tiffany.

WHAT? Troy built the light-filled house, and Renee painted the walls in a palette to match the ocean’s blues and sand beaches. An island feel flows throughout — the bathroom floor is made of smooth pebbles, and weathered wooden boards frame the contemporary gas fireplace. A project is underway in the garage, too where everyone spends a lot of time — they’re making cement sinks designed to look like tree trunks.

WHEN? Originally from Regina, the family moved to Saskatoon from Hawaii three years ago.

WHERE? At the edge of Saskatoon’s Parkridge neighbourhood.

HOW? In Hawaii, ship containers full of goods were brought in from overseas — Renee calls it “container shopping” and it’s something she did frequently. She brought along her Hawaiian antiques and wood furniture to make Saskatoon feel like home.

She loves antiquing, but doesn’t clutter the space with her treasures. Rather, she keeps her favourites on a shelf in the garage that get rotated throughout the house.

Vintage knobs can be found on doors throughout the house, along with baskets of croquet balls (she owns 200 of them), a huge Paris clock and weathered wooden boxes — her favourite.

“I love wood boxes and old bowls.

Most everything in (the living room) is from Hawaii. I love colour. Over there, I matched the house to the outside where here, I had to mellow it a bit — it’s not as bright. There’s more browns and greys here.”

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WHY? Renee’s passion lies in her home — she loves making it a beautiful space for her family.

Visiting that space is an intimate experience.

“That’s why I’m very private about who comes into the house. It’s me. It’s 100 per cent me.”

Tiffany, a nursing student and budding photographer, and Tyya occupy rooms in the basement.

Tyya, 17, is in the process of changing her room.

Right now, it’s bare white walls and little else. Her plan is to lift her bed up on pallets and hang her mom’s art all over.

“This was the cutest room then she decided she wanted white,” says Renee with a smile. “She has a plan but it’s quite far away from (being finished).”

“I’m really into refurbished furniture,” says Tyya.

“I want to hang metal lights. I love antiques. I have a bunch of old Polaroids I want to put in rebar bent into a heart. I’m working on it — it’s all in the garage. (My room) kind of feels like a prison cell right now,” she laughs.

A professional painter, Renee has turned a corner of the basement into her artistic headquarters.

“This is my artist spot. I love it down here,” she says of the pretty little space tucked away in a corner and surrounded by her bright acrylic, wax and oil paintings. Take the stairs to the home’s second floor to see Renee’s art filling a wall on the landing, including her first painting — a whimsical portrait of herself and Troy. jksharp@thestarphoenix.com Twitter.com/JennKSharp

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23 “Cool” guy 24 Chemical suffix 25 Hearty slice 27 ___ choy (Chinese

cabbage) 28 Vientiane native 29 Surmounting 30 Symbol of opportunity 31 Armory supply, informally 32 Pre-1939 atlas name 33 Milk option 34 Standard 38 Ideologies 39 Alastair of “A Christmas Carol” 40 Tailor’s edge 42 Medium for much political talk 43 U.K. record label

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Each number can appear only once in each row, column and 3x3 block. Use logic and process of elimination to solve the puzzle.

The difficulty level ranges from Bronze (easiest) to Silver to Gold (hardest).

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OUTSIDE THE LINES # Colouring contest Each week, artist Stephanie McKay creates a timely illustration meant to please kids of all ages.

Children can colour the page, have a picture taken with the finished product and email it to qc@leaderpost.com. One winner will be chosen each week.

Please send high-resolution pictures and include the child’s name and contact information.

Last week’s QC colouring contest winner was Taelyn Aldridge.

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MARY HARELKIN BISHOP

Gina’s Wheels based on a true story Ideas for stories and books can come from many sources and Gina’s Wheels is no exception. In 2009, I began to do research for Moving Forward: The Journey of Paralympian Colette Bourgonje, which was published in 2010.

Mary Harelkin During that Bishop time, I interviewed Colette’s teaching partner of many years, Maria Jones.

Maria told me a wonderful story about her youngest daughter.

Even though I included that story in Moving Forward, it begged to become a book of its own. I

knew it was only a matter of time before I turned that story into a book. The heart-warming tale of Maria’s daughter has recently been published as the picture book Gina’s Wheels.

Based on a true story, Gina’s Wheels is about thoughtful fiveyear old Gina, who finds ways to view the world from different people’s perspectives. Gina and her mother are at the shopping mall one day. They meet Colette Bourgonje, the Canadian Paralympic champion sit-skier who was in a car accident many years ago and became paralyzed. Colette is meeting shoppers in the mall, talking about her many experiences competing and winning

chair. At the end of the story, the reader is treated to the real story behind the story, meeting the real Gina. As well, there is a short segment about Saskatchewan’s and Canada’s Paralympic champion Colette Bourgonje. The colourful artwork is supplied by Saskatchewan artist Diane L. Greenhorn and is an asset to the story.

Gina’s Wheels by Mary Harelkin Bishop, illustrated by Diane L. Greenhorn, was awarded Honorable Mention in the Children’s Book category of the 2014 Great Midwest Book Festival.

Gina’s Wheels can be purchased at McNally Robinson, Chapters, Coles, Indigo and online at www. driverworks.ca.

medals in several Paralympic Games. Gina watches as Colette does many things in her wheelchair, from packing up her display, to wheeling down the mall, getting into her vehicle and driving away. Gina is fascinated by Colette and her wheelchair. What would it be like, Gina wonders, to live life in a wheelchair?

Very quickly, Gina finds a way to be like Colette. She begins to experience daily life from her own inventive version of a wheelchair.

Gina’s mother isn’t sure what to think about this. After all, Kindergarten is just around the corner for Gina. What will happen?

Gina’s Wheels explores, from a child’s perspective, life in a wheel-

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What does it take to be a gold medal winning chef?

By Jenn Sharp It’s not easy to win at Gold Medal Plates.

There were two remarkable stories from this year’s event, which runs in 13 Canadian cities, pitting top chefs against one another in a high-stakes competition. Each winner goes on the Canadian Culinary Championships in Kelowna, B.C., in February.

At the Regina event on Nov. 21, Milton Rebello won gold for the second time — a first for a Saskatchewan chef. His Pork Belly Inside Out was a daring dish, comprised of two distinct elements. Labour intensive to make, it featured just a few ingredients. But those ingredients were used in incredibly complex (and fun) ways. As Rebello says, “Simplicity is not simple.”

Saskatoon’s GMP was held Nov. 8 and produced a success story of rock star proportions.

The Delta Bessborough’s new chef (he came from the Chateau Lake Louise six months ago) took home the gold medal after being invited to the competition just six weeks prior.

To top it off, he didn’t know what to expect — he’d never attended a GMP event before.

So, what exactly does it take to be a Gold Medal Plates winning chef ?

ADAPTABILITY Rebello began planning his dish over six months ago, but knew there had to be room for change.

“I had a dish in mind. I knew what I wanted to achieve. But then in the final days we started tweaking it up.

Theory and practicality is a different thing. It doesn’t turn out exactly how you planned it (so you have to) improvise. I’m fortunate that it turned out the way I wanted it.”

And it gets even harder if you’ve won before. People expect more of you the second time around. Rebello also knew what the judges were looking for after judging the competition last year.

“For the competition it was all or

Milton Rebello’s gold medal winning dish, Pork Belly Inside Out, was made of two distinct elements meant to be eaten in three flavour-filled bites. QC PHOTO BY TROY FLEECE

nothing. We had to win big or nothing. The expectation was there. I knew the formula behind it. The textures, the look of it, (something) that had not been done before, the ‘wow’ element.

“It was much tougher this time.

The reason you don’t win gold the second time is because they critique you more than they critique the others.”

GET CREATIVE, REALLY CREATIVE Hill, a farm boy from Imperial, says his dish was a version of Sunday dinner — peas, carrots and lamb. Reimagining those components in multiple ways was what won it for him: A celery root purée with a micro-celery leaf as garnish, pea pudding with a pea wafer, pickled mustard seed and mustard flower, lamb sirloin paired with a pliable lamb sausage ‘ribbon.’

The lamb, topped with a sour cherry au jus, was melt-in-your-mouth delicious. The pea wafer and dots of green pea purée tasted like a shot of earthy grass and balanced the richer elements, like the celery root, perfectly.

DON’T GET CARRIED AWAY The judges have about five minutes to listen to the chef ’s description of his or her dish, taste it, try the wine

pairing and record their comments.

After Rebello explained his Pork Belly Inside Out and where the ingredients were sourced from, the judges didn’t have a lot of time to eat. Rebello made it easy with his three-bite dish.

“My new philosophy toward cooking is to stick with four or five ingredients. Keep it simple. Let the flavour speak for itself. It’s working. The key is finding the right ingredients.”

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SHARP EATS TIME Rebello also had time, something he calls a privilege. This is not an element shared by many other chefs in the competition.

But Rebello had recently started on as the new executive chef at the Wascana Golf and Country Club and had two weeks to tweak the dish and do the prep.

The first element of Rebello’s dish, a delicate air tuile puff made from semolina, was perched on a shot glass full of lemon chili water, pickled apple and cranberry chutney pearls. Rebello handmade 1,500 of the puffs to get 700 that were perfect enough for the event (a hole was punched in the top for a slice of warm pork belly).

To make the chicheron (the dish’s second element) pork belly skin had to be meticulously cleaned to remove all the fat, then boiled, cleaned again, put in a de-

hydrator and deep fried, which made the skin puff up.

On the other hand, sometimes going in cold can be a blessing, as it was for Hill.

“Maybe it played in our favour because we didn’t have any preconceived ideas about it. We didn’t have a chance to over think the dish, we just went with it.”

Hill has nerves of steel — he’s not even planning on doing more test runs with his dish before the championships in Kelowna.

“We discussed doing a couple more runs with the plate as well but we had such a smooth night the first time, we don’t really want to mess with it.”

That leads me to the last and most important attribute of a winning chef: Confidence. jksharp@thestarphoenix.com Twitter.com/JennKSharp

GOLD MEDAL PLATES REGINA WINNERS LEO PANTEL — SILVER Braised Greenwood Springs beef cheek on butternut squash gnocchi, savoury tile of panna cotta with bleu cheese and Saskatchewan chanterelle mushroom, red currant gelee, fall vegetable purée with celeriac and parsnip, mustard flowers and petite carrot

Christopher Hill’s Gold Medal Plates winning dish was his take on Sunday dinner growing up on the farm: Lamb, peas and carrots that were decadent, creative and impactful. QC PHOTO BY MICHELLE BERG

PHOTOS COURTESY CJ KATZ

GEOFFREY CASWELLMURPHY — BRONZE Coffee and pepper bison tenderloin with veal reduction, celery root apple purée, oyster mushroom tomato ragout, wilted spinach with dried cranberries in a goat cheese champagne dressing

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