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Volume 12, Issue 1, Week of January 5, 2015

Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper

A new year begins...

The scenic South Saskatchewan River on a chilly winter morning (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)

Fresh eyes guide Women Entrepreneurs into future

Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express rabha Vaidyanathan’s 2015 will be a year of both celebration and a lot of hard work.

The new CEO of Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan (WE) has been in her new role for a few months, and clearly feels ready to lead the organization into its 20th anniversary. It is likely to be a year of evaluation and change.

“I’ve inherited a very strong and viable organization,” she said in an interview.

“I am extremely proud and consider it a privilege to lead at this juncture. We have a large membership base and we have grown over the years. Our funding has been sustained over the years.

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“The vision moving forward would be to build on the successes and accomplishments of the past, taking the organization in a new direction in the future that is focused on excellence, growth and innovation.”

Vaidyanathan, who took over from Laura Small in September, says that means evaluating everything to ensure WE is ready for the next several years.

“We’re an extremely successful organization, but it’s always good to look at the organization with a new set of lenses,” she said. “We’re trying to gather some information on our brand. I would like to know a little more about who do you think we are? What do you think we do?

“We’re really looking at how we are

defining ourselves. Are we defining ourselves appropriately given that it’s been 20 years? Are we being effective? Are we bringing value to a spectrum of our members?

“We want to have something to offer the entire spectrum (from start-up to established businesses.)”

Vaidyanathan was born in India and arrived in Canada 30 years ago, also making 2015 a personal anniversary. She first arrived in Kitchener-Waterloo, where she was educated, and then moved to Brandon for 10 years before coming to Saskatoon.

“I just kept moving west,” she noted, with a laugh.

Vaidyanathan was recently the CEO of the Certified General Accountants of

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“One facet of my prior role as the CEO of the Certified General Accountants of Saskatchewan was building the brand, and the profile, of the designation — and the organization.

“To achieve that objective or goal, networking, building connections with key stakeholders, developing strategic alliances and maintaining those alliances was a fundamental part of what I did.

“I believe that’s a pivotal part of what I will do here.”

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New Year’s resolutions real and unreal

elated Happy New ley’s show, went for coffee Year. with him in 2014 and really I haven’t broken any enjoyed it. of my resolutions, but the Media in Saskatchewan: year is too young. I thought Push buttons.

I would share some of my Saskatoon Blades: resolutions as well as those Stay the course. (Note: others might/should be putRegina wasn’t built in a ting on their lists. day — although it seems The following resolve to: like it — and neither can a Me: Cut back on my championship-calibre junior bacon consumption. (Note: hockey team.)

Bacon has more fat and caloGordie Howe: Be in Editor ries than an equal portion of Saskatoon on Feb. 6. (Note: pork bologna.)

Won’t it be wonderful? Safe travels to City of Saskatoon: Begin planning one of my heroes.) to remove rail lines from the city.

Tammy Robert: Say what I really Ken Noskye: Visit Saskatoon. mean.

(Note: I miss the big lug).

Citizens of Saskatoon: Take pride Parcel Y developer: Take a forward in our new art gallery. (Note: The City’s step. (Note: Even a tiny step would cost for the gallery will be in the neighbe acceptable. Right about now, we’d bourhood of $36 million.) settle for a fully serviced RV park on Me: Get into some semblance of that beautiful piece of real estate.) shape. There’s a treadmill in the baseMe: Return all phone calls and ment with my name on it. answer all emails. (Note: I am sorry for Me: Eat and drink healthier. (Note: those I have treated rudely.)

Rye and water?)

Ned Powers: Continue to be the real PotashCorp: Keep doing what we editor of this paper. do. (Note: Saskatoon is so thankful to Kim Jong-un: Lighten up. have you here.)

Saskatchewan Roughriders: Not Edmonton Oilers management: to mortgage the new stadium to keep Bring in a Hazmat team to clean up the Weston Dressler. (Note: He will be 30 mess. (Note: Start with Kevin Lowe’s when the season starts. As much as office.) we love him, a three- or four-year deal Me: Get out of town for a week, doesn’t make sense.) even if it is Moose Jaw in February.

John Gormley: Adopt a rescue dog. (Note: I really like Moose Jaw.) Me: Admit I listen to John GormJoanne Paulson: Continue to

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contribute to the Express. (Note: She makes us better.)

Provincial government: Review the goings-on at all care homes.

Provincial Opposition: Stop trotting out people who are ill day after day to score political points. (Note: After a while, sincerity seems to be missing.)

City of Saskatoon: Continue to have paper flowing to Cosmo Industries. (Note: The more, the better.)

Detroit Red Wings: Sign Mike Babcock. (Note: Do whatever it takes.)

Elaine Hnatyshyn: Continue to keep an eye on city council. (Note: We get emails every now and again suggesting Elaine run for mayor in the next civic election.)

City of Regina: Keep the new stadium on time. (Note: We can be pretty much sure it won’t be on budget.)

Saskatchewan male curlers: End 35 years of futility and win the Brier. (Note: I have a connection to the 1980 Brier. As a young StarPhoenix reporter, I covered Rick Folks’s win. How long ago was it?

It was so long ago I used a typewriter.)

Me: To shoot my age on nine holes.

(Dare to dream, Cam.) Mayor Atchison: Continue to answer questions from Express readers.

City of Saskatoon: Build a northwest perimeter road. (Note: Funnelling traffic from every direction to Idylwyld and Circle Drive West is ridiculous.)

Saskatoon Express: Do what we do, but keep doing it better. (Note: All the best in 2015.)

I’m going to change a life in 2015

didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions. I learned no matter how hard I try, I generally break them before January is over.

I admire those who keep their resolutions, and have dreams or goals. On the other hand, I question why I can’t seem to find that inner strength. I’ve thought about it and concluded I really don’t have many changes to make.

I only need to do what I am doing and remind myself some

KEN NOSKYE

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of the good I’ve done in the past.

Sure it would nice to say I’m through with the cycle of substance abuse for good.

But I know it could be just around the corner. I walked the straight line before and loved every minute of it, but for some reason that line starts to bend a little and off I go, only to pick myself up in some ditch sometimes months later.

The only thing I can say about myself is I don’t give up. I

remind myself the sun will shine again if only I try just a wee bit harder. And it does get easier day by day. I have to remind myself to be kind, not only to others, but also to myself.

I admire those who say they don’t make resolutions but goals of personal achievement. Some will decide to go sky diving, lose weight or start a hobby. I’ve decided to make one goal this year: to completely change someone’s life. What could it take?

One thing that is inspiring for me is people who can change their life and situation. I lived in the inner city of Saska-

toon for more than a decade. It seemed like a weekly thing to see someone so down you would think they would never get up. With support, willingness and direction from someone who has been there and done that, you will see that same person working, going to school or taking part in something positive.

All it takes is to see the goodness of people to see the potential. Sometimes all it takes is to hold up a mirror to that person. This year I’m holding up that mirror. Yes, this year I’m going to change someone’s life — my own. krnCREE@outlook.com

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Kim Salkeld spent 25 years with Canada’s Air Command Band (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)

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im Salkeld has returned once he moved to Saskatoon, to Saskatoon, the city he played most regularly with where he was surGarnet Burt and Ray Dahlen, rounded by musical influences and a little with the Bridge City and where he first dreamt about Dixieland Jazz Band and the being a professional.

Hobby Band,” said Salkeld.

His dreams came true in “Dad thrived on the music of 1984, when he joined Canada’s Count Basie, Peggy Lee, Frank Air Command Band as a Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. As pianist and arranger. He stayed my brother Craig and I grew up, with them until 1994. Then, in we couldn’t helped but be influanother stroke of good fortune, enced by the way he played, the he was invited back to the band way the orchestras rehearsed People as director of music studies in and the camaraderie which ex1997 and remained there until isted between the musicians.” his retirement in 2012, with the rank of Being around his dad shaped Salkeld’s captain. future, but most of the lessons, until high He’s come full circle, even to the point school, were in classical piano. that he and his family acquired the home There were other contributing factors. It where he lived as a boy. didn’t hurt that his best friend from Grade His dad, Monty, was an employee of 1 onwards was Sheldon Corbett, SaskaCN Rail and the Potash Corporation of toon’s current saxophone-piano stalwart.

America, but spent his spare time playing It was also a blessing that he played in the piano.

Aden Bowman Collegiate’s band program, “He’d played in dance halls from the where he played tenor saxophone because time he was 15 inAaron White Rock, B.C., and director Bob Hordern needed one.

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“By the time I was in Grade 11, I knew I was going to try everything possible to become a professional musician. My family was very encouraging,” said Salkeld.

He was blessed to be in Dwaine Nelson’s University of Saskatchewan Wind Ensemble (albeit as a bass clarinettist because Nelson needed one) and he also played three years with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. He attended Humber College in Toronto for three years, receiving a diploma in arranging.

“I played in a rock and roll band which toured in northern Ontario and New Brunswick and, after a year, I started questioning my future. Then, out of the blue, came a phone call from a teacher at Humber College and he told me that the Air Command Band was auditioning for a piano player.”

It was the beginning of the first 10-year stint in Winnipeg with the band as a pianist and arranger. Traditionally, Canada has six military bands — two each in the Air Force, Army and Navy — which amount to about 250 full-time musicians, 35 of whom are officers. Each applicant goes

through 10 weeks of basic training and must maintain a degree of fitness.

Military bands take several forms, needing to play classical music as well as playing as a concert unit, a stage unit and a jazz ensemble, and they’re often at state dinners or at changes in military commands.

“During the first 10 years, we covered a territory from Thunder Bay to the Alberta border and I’d say we were performing 25 per cent of the time. We’d fly in the Hercules aircraft. But we also travelled to Colorado Springs, Oklahoma City, Washington and we’d do Remembrance Day appearances in Holland, France and Germany. We’ve played for many Canadian prime ministers, Queen Elizabeth and Colin Powell when he was the American Secretary of State.”

There was a time in 1994 when Salkeld, who was 38 and newly married to Mani, became nervous about cutbacks within service bands. He opted out of the band, went to Miami and earned a Master’s degree in studio and jazz writing. He returned to Ottawa and worked as a freelance musician, and then the Air Command came calling again. He was responsible for redesigning programs for the musicians in training, “a lot of which was based on what I learned in Miami.”

Salkeld won a Commander’s commendation for writing, producing and engineering a selection for the Vimy Ridge Tribute in 2007. He still writes arrangements for individual players in the Air Command bands.

His dad played until he was 80 years old and has passed on. His mother, Marguerite, and sister, Laurie, have always been good listeners and supportive.

“Dad could really swing. If there was any difference between the three of us, I think Craig and I were more harmonically advanced and we liked to improvise.”

Craig has carved his own niche. Craig and Corbett wrote the music and lyrics — and Craig was a lead singer — for the two opening and closing ceremonies for the 1989 Jeux Canada Summer Games, which were held in Saskatoon. It was a heady assignment for the two but really sent Craig into the direction of specializing in musical theatre. He played or led the Saskatchewan Express band for 17 summers. He works out of Regina, Saskatoon and Vancouver and has just finished a stint with Charlie Brown’s Christmas show at Regina’s Globe Theatre.

Since coming back to Saskatoon, Salkeld has found a nice home within the Saskatoon Jazz Society.

He plays two important gigs in January.

He and his quartet will back up singers such as Sarah Anderson, Paulette Andrieu, Neil Currie, BJ Harris, Rebecca Griffith, Donna Hay, Kathryn Schulz and Gillian Snider as part of a jazz singer series at The Bassment on Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m.

He, David Fong, Don Griffith and Ray Stephanson will share the stage in a piano series performance on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. It is an annual highlight, a show that begins with each man playing solos, then taking turns as duos, and finishing the night with all four using their eight hands on the two grand pianos.

He is also looking at other opportunities, working with vocalist Heidi Munro in what can become a duo, a quartet or a six-member band.

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The 12 months of 2015: It’s (mostly) looking good

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can’t tell you how glad it’s a yes, we’re going ahead, I am to see the back of or a no, forget it, the market 2014. Apart from my can’t support it and the riverown personal list of probbank is going to fall into the lems and sadness, it was a water, I don’t care. Let’s just year when indescribably have a real update. horrific attacks on people The busiest month for around the world appalled putting houses up for sale us. It was a year of economdoes not tip us into the “most ic volatility and bad news, listings in history” territory. falling oil prices and a lessSeeding goes smoothly all than-great harvest. It was a across the province, and all Columnist year of Russian president farmers are in by the end of Vladimir Putin — can no the month. one stop that guy ? And ISIS? How do The price of oil rebounds to $90 per you even begin to describe such a bar- barrel. Potash rises to $450 per tonne. baric group? It was also the year when Things are looking up. a young soldier, Nathan Cirillo, lost his June: Brightenview, the company life to a madman on Parliament Hill, that wants to build Canada’s largest not long after another, Patrice Vincent, mall in Dundurn, admits that construcwas killed in a hit and run in Quebec. tion has not begun, it has not hired an I’m sorry to be depressing. I predict engineer at 30-40-ish bucks an hour that this year will be better - it has to (really? check out their career site), and be. May it bring peace, health, prosper- plans have been pushed back to 2025. ity and even joy.

Perhaps, by then, we will have sufFollowing, then, is a mixture of ficient air connections, airport-to-Dunhopes, wishes, and forecasts. I leave it durn shuttle service, and people will to you to determine which is which. not think it’s crazy to shop wholesale January: We will not hit 40 below, in the middle of the Prairies. (Don’t get not even once. In fact, we won’t even me wrong. Economic development is make 30 below (OK, maybe we will always good if it’s sustainable, but this with windchill). We will have one solid megamall is just not going to work at week of 25 below, just to kill all the this point, especially considering the little bugs in farmers’ grain bins. Snow global economic environment. I hope to will fall gently and moderately, only to stand corrected.) the extent of protecting all our water July: It’s a miracle! City councillines from the 25 below weather. It will lors, who are members of a lottery pool also not reach seven degrees above (who knew?), win the big one at $43 zero, like it did on a windy day last million, and philanthropically invest it January, putting all of us homeowners in a new Traffic Bridge with car lanes, at risk of too much winter heating and pedestrian walkways, and a dedicated cooling, ice damming and cracking bicycle path. house parts.

August: I get holidays. Harvest Jeff Wickstrom, who reads pig begins. spleens to forecast the weather, will September: Happy birthday to me. hopefully release his findings and they Harvest, more or less, ends, and it’s a will be great. It’s amazing how accurate beauty. The railways gear up, sensibly, pig spleens are. to get the crop to market, which is good February: This year, February — because agriculture prices are strong. that’s with two R’s, not one, Febuary Construction continues on two new folks —will be only 28 days, instead of office towers by North Prairie Develthe usual 69. We will breeze through. opments in downtown Saskatoon, an February is not the most wonderful indication that our economy is still ticktime of the year. That being said, the ing along despite last year’s commodity sun starts coming up — noticeably — a downturn. little earlier. Oil prices, slowly, start to October: We learn a few thousand rise. new people have come to live in our March: The spring housing market city over the last few months, a meastarts to heat up. Two thousand propsured population increase that shows erties do not hit the market; housing our city’s growth is sustainable. Infrastarts fall a bit; stability returns to the structure spending keeps up. local market and prices do not fall 10 November: Bonus! We win a trip per cent (or more). to Florida. Or Mexico. Or Portugal. Or April: Mother Nature brings us Hawaii. I’m not fussy. Just get me out a long, slow, melt. It’s the first time of here in January. in years that there will be no serious December: We look back on a year flooding anywhere in Saskatchewan. when no one was invaded, beheaded, We didn’t get too much snow on top of or murdered in front of the War Methe saturated prairie soils. (I’ve heard morial. We give thanks for stronger that before from well-respected foreprices for our resources, and for all the casters, who have been wrong, again new value-adding businesses that have and again. I might as well give it a go sprung up. We are grateful to live in myself, even if I can’t read meteorothis beautiful city, and wish each other logical maps.)

Merry Christmas, peace, joy and love.

May: An announcement comes from Wait. We just did that last part. the developers of the big River LandBut maybe by next Christmas, all our ing hotel/condo/retail project. Whether dreams will come true.

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Prabha Vaidyanathan, at her desk at the Women Entrepreneurs office, will take on a lead role in building WE’s brand and outreach activities (Photo by Joanne Paulson)

Sweet Success signature event for Women Enterpreneurs

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(Continued from page 1) s part of that goal, Vaidyanathan is working on the creation of partnerships that will offer resources, strengths and services to WE members.

She is interested in partnerships and relationships that will help support WE members with technical competencies, tactical tools and skills, she said.

Outreach also includes formal and informal events that allow for networking, connecting, and support to WE members, such as WE’s Sweet Success event, a mentoring circle, or Shaken with a Twist.

“I’ve noticed women entrepreneurs gain a great deal from those events and platforms,” said Vaidyanathan.

Sweet Success is a signature event that focuses on the challenges and opportunities faced by women entrepreneurs. The event features successful entrepreneurs as speakers.

“They describe the journey of success, failure, challenges, barriers encountered, barriers surmounted. Those are really powerful, inspiring stories for our members,” she said.

Shaken with a Twist is an outreach event held regularly in partnership with the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce, which also features successful women as speakers, whether in business or business owners.

Asked if women have arrived and are “there” yet in business, she thinks for a moment.

“I would ask, what does ‘there’ mean?” she asked. “I think attitude is important, male or female. I tend to be optimistic. In all honesty, we know that women encounter challenges and barriers. We have all expe-

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rienced challenges throughout the course of our careers. I believe … looking back, we take the lessons learned and look ahead.

“It’s important for women to support each other, to be optimistic, to strive for the best, but always look ahead and keep an eye on the target.

“For each for us, the destination is different. I garner the support either from women or men, people around me, mentors … and I try to excel at what I do.

Ultimately, that should be defining what we do, more than gender.”

That being said, however, she adds, “I believe our mandate is critical (at WE).

We need to support women. I think there is a place for our organization.”

Vaidyanathan has had a professional influence on her personal life as well.

Both of her children — a son, 18, and a daughter, 20 — are taking business at the University of Saskatchewan.

“I’m very proud of them. In fact, I would say they inspire me,” she said.

“They’ve been very supportive of me building my career. I’ve been blessed.”

In her rare personal time, Vaidyanathan is dedicated to yoga and running on a treadmill. Speaking of challenges, she broke three bones after a fall last January, which also broke her fitness rhythm. It meant six months on crutches, and a realization of how hard life can be with even a temporary disability.

“That was one of the most challenging experiences. … It made me slow down, and take stock.”

She is, however, healing and back at working out.

“I try to stay fit — it makes a huge difference to what I bring to work.”

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University Bridge will be closed from May until September (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)

Get the facts straight on Remai gallery cost Question: While the University Bridge but I have yet to see someone come along and is closed for the summer, why are you only dig out enough ground for 162 parking stalls fixing the deck? and have it ready the next day. There are going Mayor Atchison: We’re spending $8 milto be 162 underground parking stalls when the lion to get right down to the bottom of the Remai opens. decking. So there will be a new membrane put Question: In some construction zones, on, new drainage put in, more sealants put on there are signs posted to let us know we it and then it is going to have a concrete deck must slow to 60 km/h, but not always signs on it. At this time that is what is contemplated. to tell us we can resume speed. Is there anyIt is going to be closed from May through thing that can be done about this?

September. There have been questions about Mayor Atchison: We will certainly let City the integrity of the piers. I find it unfortunate maintenance people know about that concern. I that someone would question that area. If the Ask the Mayor have to tell you there is nothing more frustratpiers aren’t safe, why would you put a new ing than driving along and the sign says, “slow deck on a bridge? The piers were repaired in down; construction zone.” And you go down the middle-to-late ’90s. the road and there is nothing at all, and you wonder, We are going to have some tremendous tie-ups of “What’s happened here? Can I speed up now or not?” traffic this summer because the Traffic Bridge isn’t open. And the moment I put my foot on the gas is the time there That is one of the reasons why we require the Traffic will be an officer pulling me over. So I totally appreciate Bridge. After the University Bridge is done, the Sen. Sid the comment and certainly will follow up on it.

Buckwold Bridge is scheduled for repairs. And, after that, Question: When coming into Saskatoon from the it’s the Broadway Bridge. City engineering crews are re- west, why has the City has not taken out the curb at pairing and upgrading our bridges – and these aren’t just 22nd Street and Confederation Drive, and made a river bridges, but also the overpasses that we have. We turning lane for vehicles taking the access onto Circle don’t want to end up like they did in Quebec with chunks Drive South? A car is going to try jumping it and will of concrete falling out and landing on vehicles. It’s the get hung up. Trucks are already driving over it. It is same thing in Ontario or Minneapolis, where bridges col- an accident waiting to happen. lapsed with people on them.

Mayor Atchison: I was just driving by there the other When people question the integrity of the piers, that is day and you are absolutely correct. We should move that a very serious allegation that we wouldn’t spend money curb to the right a few feet and move that light standard as on piers, but would spend it, for example, on the Remai well. That sounds like a really good idea and I will make Modern art gallery. That is simply not factual. sure the City’s transportation folks are aware of it as well.

Speaking of the Remai, I read a letter in which the Question: My concern is the design of the pedesnumbers used for the cost of the gallery to the City simply trian guard rails on the new South Bridge —the train weren’t true. The Remai is going to cost, all in, for the bridges and traffic bridges should also be inspected City about $36 million. I think everyone is entitled to — may meet the design guideline for bridges, but the their own opinion, but there is only one set of facts. When results are unsafe. We must build rails on our twothis person used a cost-to-the-City figure of $100 milfoot-high decks or apartment balconies that don’t lion, that’s almost three times more. He was dead wrong. assist climbing over and don’t facilitate a child’s head I think they are doing the city a terrible disservice when fitting between the uprights. The new South Bridge they mention numbers like that. When they talk about the does not comply. There are ledges and horizontal rails lack of parking at the site, there is a lack of parking today, to climb and the gap between the guardrail sections,

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A reader questions the safety of the railing on the South Bridge (Photo Supplied) look like a design for cattle head restraint; spindle spacing is another inviting feature where children can get stuck while trying to get a closer view of the perils below. It worries me that poor guardrail design could be tragic for the innocent.

Mayor Atchison: When the bridge was built, Transport Canada audited the construction and deemed the bridge safe. In fact, Transport Canada audited the entire South Bridge project. It is all evaluated and if there are any shortfalls, Transport Canada orders repairs or changes before the roadways or bridges are opened. So it has to be certified. And if it is not certified, it doesn’t open. This must meet national standards. If the reader is not satisfied, they should phone the City’s transportation department and share their concerns.

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Author spreads the word on literacy

Darren Steinke Saskatoon Express ith a simple tweak of her own story, Carey Rigby-Wilcox believes she can help people who have difficulties reading.

Back in 2008, she produced the children’s book My Mummy Couldn’t Read, which was based on the struggles she faced as she learned to read. In order to reach a bigger audience, it dawned on the 42-year-old Saskatoon author to write the same type of children’s book with a man having struggles with literacy issues.

The idea resulted in Rigby-Wilcox writing My Dad Couldn’t Read, which came out in March 2014.

“It is my life story,” said Rigby-Wilcox.

“It really, truly is, but in a man’s form.

“I did see boys at school, and they were more aggressive at school. I was both of those kids, and I understand that anger as well.

“I’ve gone through all the emotions with reading. I felt the anger, and I felt the sadness.”

When she was promoting My Mummy Couldn’t Read, Rigby-Wilcox often had JW12060.A05 James fathers come up to her and say that was

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what they went through.

Looking back on her school years, she could remember the struggles some of her male classmates would have with reading, and how the reactions to those struggles came out in similar ways.

The boys would keep their struggles a secret, which is the same thing RigbyWilcox did. The boys would also act out and lash out at school, which often meant time in detention.

Rigby-Wilcox was always shy in the school setting, but she did lash out like the guys did. However, she did it when she was at home.

“For me, always it was the shame,” said Rigby-Wilcox. “There was always shame and anxiety and stress.

“If I am in a situation and I have to read or I have to write something, all these kind of things step in. I really get scared.

“I tried to keep it a secret for most of my life, so when I keep it a secret, I don’t want that secret to come out. I’ve invested my whole education in ‘keep it secret.’ ” She admitted to doing a lot of not so great things in order to get by in school.

“I cheated, I manipulated people, I

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stole homework, I re-did homework and handed it in,” said Rigby-Wilcox.

“I was really good at manipulating people.

“I was very hard on my mother, because my mother did everything she could do to help me.

When a child struggles, you want to help your child. My mother did the best that she could do.

“As a kid, I was really angry at home, because it was very difficult.”

To hide her secret, Rigby-Wilcox moved to Edmonton to start a new life for a short time, Carey Rigby-Wilcox and her book My Dad Couldn’t before she returned to Read (Photo by Christine Guetre/Beyond Words Saskatoon.

Imagery) Things changed for her about 23 years ago, when In My Dad Couldn’t Read, the father she met Lisa Vargo. Vargo worked as a drops out of high school to go into the tutor to help Rigby-Wilcox read and the working world. The father’s life changes two would meet for two to three hours after the son is born. When the son is every Sunday. They would go through a going through his school years, the father novel, where would Vargo read one page tried his best to help with homework. and Rigby-Wilcox the next.

The father then found a tutor who The two would spend time going helped him read, and he later takes his through the dictionary or an atlas and also General Educational Development tests engaged in social talk. to complete his high school education.

“My daddy book is really how Lisa In November, Rigby-Wilcox was supported me, and that is really how I awarded a bronze medal from the Moonlearned to help my children was just to beam Children’s Book Awards in the sit with Lisa and how she was patient category for Reading Skills/Literacy for and just took time,” said Rigby-Wilcox, My Dad Couldn’t Read. who is a mother of four. “When I had Overall, she loves it when others tell questions, she would help me find the her she has had a positive impact on their answers. lives.

“She didn’t really tell me. She helped “That is what keeps me going now,” me find a way to learn it myself. That gift said Rigby-Wilcox, who now resides in that she gave me, I could dedicate to my Pike Lake. “It really just makes me want children.” to continue putting literacy issues in stoRigby-Wilcox’s My Dad Couldn’t ries any way I can.”

Read book is fairly similar to My MumRigby-Wilcox’s books can be purmy Couldn’t Read. Both books, for which chased online at www.seeabook.com. A she drew all the illustrations, are told dollar from the sale of every copy of My through the eyes of a son, who tells what Dad Couldn’t Read will be donated to it was like to see his parent go through the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning struggles learning to read.

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Vast majority of seniors receive excellent care

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being. For these workers it ith the year having wasn’t always easy, as Dad come to a close, we had his moments of frustration are hearing a recap at having to be at the Lodge of events that transpired during and sometimes lashed out at 2014 that we are to ponder in the those caring for him. I also New Year. The other day I lishad an aunt at Lutheran Sunset tened to snippets of an interview Home and I would state that of both Premier Brad Wall and her care in that facility was Opposition Leader Cam Broten. similar to what Dad received It was, to say the least, painful. at Stensrud.

Clearly the provincial election Recently a story was told campaign has kicked off and, if Columnist of a lacklustre evening meal the Opposition has its way, 2015 served on Christmas Day at will be an endless saga about health care and, in particular, seniors’ care. a nursing home. It sounded awful. What Broten was challenging the Wall govern- didn’t get much attention was the fact that, at these care facilities, all large meals are ment for its alleged lack of concern and/ served at noon. The evening meal is intenor action in providing appropriately for senior care during these times of prosperity. tionally light and most of the residents go Should I point out that it was a New Demo- to bed immediately after. Come to think cratic government that closed hospitals and of it, nutritionists tell us we should all eat our heavy meal midday and have a light eliminated the pharmaceutical dispensing evening meal. Perhaps the complainant fees that hurt seniors on fixed incomes?

Then Broten pointed out it was because should have visited her father at noon, when he was enjoying his turkey dinan earlier Conservative government ner. I do not intend to make light of this put the province’s finances in jeopardy, situation but, had it not been Christmas, thus forcing the New Democratic Party this story probably wouldn’t have gotten government to take these drastic actions such media play. We would do well to with health-care issues. In a roundabout remember that care homes, like hospitals, way, Wall lobbed back that his government had to deal with a province in decay, operate on reduced staff during the holiday which needed immediate attention thanks season, which might have contributed to to the previous NDP government’s lack of a less-than-satisfactory meal, but let’s not lose sight of the big picture. foresight and action. The back-and-forth We elect MLAs, both to the governfinger pointing was a futile effort of political tit for tat, with neither side offering any ment and Opposition sides, to work collectively for the benefit of all Saskatchewan concrete long-term solutions. residents. Rather than fighting each other Expect over the next months that the Opposition will traipse out more families for political mileage, shouldn’t we expect that all MLAs will work together to corwho will share their pain over the treatrect and improve a known problem — and ment their loved one suffered in a care home. This will go on until the media and/ especially so when the problem affects our most-needy residents? or public tire of hearing about it.

For as long as possible, families try to But the examples cited should illicit keep their elderly relatives in their homes, our sympathy and spur our rage that any caregiver or institution would inflict pain but eventually the time may come when on our vulnerable seniors. Those guilty of it is impossible to do so. Both the Saskatchewan Party and the New Democratic such atrocious behaviour should be punParty are guilty of a lack of planning for ished for their wrongdoing. But we, the public, should take the time to ensure that our aging population. There are no heroes here. We do not have a sufficient number these stories are not embellished before of homes to accommodate our elderly, but passing judgment on the whole system. this problem wasn’t created overnight. It Although it is important to deal with has been a long time in the making and situations of elder abuse, what we won’t hear about is the thousands of seniors who all MLAs knew the aging baby boomer do receive good care in seniors’ facilities. crunch was coming.

When the next unhappy case is trotted Let me be the first to tell you one such out for public shock and awe, call both story.

After a stroke, my father spent several Opposition and government MLAs and ask them what they intend on doing about years at Stensrud Lodge. His care was excellent. The dietary plan met his medi- it outside of paying lip service to benefit their own political ambitions. Better cal needs and annually the administrayet, visit a care home and see first-hand tive staff would meet with our family to the care that is being given. Our seniors check whether there was anything more deserve at least that much from the sucthey could do to satisfy his appetite or to make him more comfortable. His clothes ceeding generations that have enjoyed were clean and his personal hygiene needs the fruits of their earlier labours. They shouldn’t be sacrificed to political expediwere met. The care workers were warm and friendly and I knew it wasn’t a put-on ency or public apathy.

Thank you to all the workers who do a for my benefit, because every time Dad good job caring for our elderly, providing crossed paths with them they exchanged teasing banter and Dad smiled. It was clear them with dignity and respect as well as that these workers did more than care for a quality of life that most families cannot his physical needs; they spent time listen- provide themselves. ehnatyshyn@gmail.com ing to him and nourishing his emotional

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celebrates Mendel’s 50th anniversary LUGO is a night of performance, food and drink (Photo by Dave Stobbe) Shannon Boklaschuk various sort of creative disciplines, so Saskatoon Express you have this really vibrant program,” he or many Saskatonians, it’s the most said. highly anticipated party of the year.

“I think people really enjoy being in It’s known as LUGO, and it’s back the gallery, and that sort of neat event this month at the Mendel Art Gallery, space really makes it kind of special.” where more than 800 people will take in a The LUGO fundraiser is always held wide variety of artistic performances and between exhibitions so that the gallery indulge in food and drink. is empty. That makes for a “very tight Now in its sixth year, the 2015 incar- timeline” to put the event together, said nation of LUGO has been rebranded as Gronsdahl.

LUGO GOLD, in an effort to pay tribute “We empty the gallery out in the to the Mendel’s golden anniversary first week and bring all the audio-visual celebrations. In September 2014, Saska- equipment in and lighting and set it all toon’s civic gallery launched its 50th an- up, and then it all goes out on Sunday and niversary season with a major exhibition we’re back into show-change mode on drawn from its permanent collection.

Monday. It’s a very tight turnaround, but “This is the culmination of our it’s the only way we can make it happen.” celebrations around the 50th anniverPreviously LUGO has raised funds for sary. That’s how we’re theming it the programming at the Mendel. This year gold themed, and it’s going to be sort of the money is earmarked for new acquisielegant and weird,” said Troy Gronsdahl, tions at the Remai Modern Art Gallery of a programmer at the Mendel and a LUGO Saskatchewan. organizer.

“I think that will be a nice way for “I think we’re going to make it a little people to feel like they’re contributing more elegant visually, but have some un- to sort of a tangible kind of thing, where expected things in the program as well.” their money is going towards acquiring Gronsdahl said partygoers should be more art for the collection,” Gronsdahl prepared for “a strange and beautiful said.

LUGO” this year. There will be artistic LUGO GOLD will be the last LUGO works to suit many tastes, ranging from party held at the Mendel. The gallery’s video and audio work to folk music, con- programming and exhibitions will wind temporary dance and hip hop. down in June as preparations take place As well, a new performance space, for the opening of the new Remai Modern called the Close Listening Experience, in 2016. will be accessible through wireless headWhen asked if LUGO will continue at phones in the café area. As for this year’s the Remai Modern, Gronsdahl said “I’m food and drink lineup, attendees can sure it will continue on in some way.” sample offerings from Calories, Citizen “I don’t know exactly what it will look Café, Congress Beer House, Duck Duck like because it’s going to be a completely Goose, Sushiro, The Hollows and The new space, so it will probably be tailored Night Oven Bakery, as well as craft beer for our new home.” tastings from Nokomis Craft Ales and Prairie Sun. LUGO GOLD begins at 8 p.m. on Jan. When asked why LUGO is such a 10 and runs until 2 a.m. the following popular event, Gronsdahl said it “taps morning at the Mendel Art Gallery, lointo a certain kind of creative energy in cated at 950 Spadina Cres. East. Tickets the city.” are $35 and attendees must be at least 19 “We try really hard to bring in a years old and show ID. For more inforENCH.2014adsFINAL.pdf 2 14-11-18 11:51 AM diverse program that represents all of the mation, visit golugo.ca.

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Some of our favourite unpublished photographs

Photos by Sandy Hutchinson Brett Dawson performs contact juggling at the Saskatoon Comic and Entertainment Expo

Adam Lambert fronted Queen at the SaskTel Centre

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Some of our favourite unpublished photographs

Photos by Sandy Hutchinson Brett Dawson performs contact juggling at the Saskatoon Comic and Entertainment Expo

Adam Lambert fronted Queen at the SaskTel Centre

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Citizens of the Year McFaull, Bidulka make magic happen

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erb McFaull and Anthony Bidulka were in a reflective mood after learning on New Year’s Eve they had been named the co-winners of the CTV Citizen of the Year award.

McFaull, a certified financial planner who owns a consulting firm, and Bidulka, the author of 10 mystery novels, were honoured for their professional standing in Saskatoon, as well as what they deliver in commitments to the community.

People For McFaull, it was a special occasion because 35 years ago, his father, Jack, won the award. The two of them represent the first father-son combination to be dually recognized.

“I was 18 years old at the time and was blown away that he won it,” McFaull said.

“I could never have imagined that, years later, I’d share the same award. It doesn’t get any better than that.

“I think back to a day when co-winners weren’t so readily recognized that my mother, Muriel, could have easily been named alongside my father. I liked the stories that my dad used to tell about his father, who was virtually starving in Ireland, came to Canada, hoping he could own some property and live in a free society.

He was able to do that. Then I watched the example my dad set, especially in business, and I learned so much from him.”

Bidulka remembered “growing up near Prud’homme, alongside a desolate stretch of road, and people would come to our door after their car broke down or got stuck in a snowdrift. Dad would go out, fix the car or rescue it and, all the while, my mother was preparing a meal for our visi-

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Herb McFaull (left) and Anthony Bidulka were named Saskatoon’s citizens of the year (Photo by Joanne Paulson) tors. It was the Saskatchewan way of life.

Their lessons taught me to be a participant in the community. And, after I moved to Saskatoon, I started volunteering. Sometimes they seemed like little accomplishments, but when you pull together, magic happens.”

Bidulka and McFaull have been involved with numerous organizations, but perhaps the most magical was introducing Camp fYrefly to Saskatchewan. It is a leadership retreat held for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth each summer. The one in 2015 will be the seventh. The rates of depression, suicide and school dropouts are higher for LGBT youth than the average teenager. The retreat allows them to become more confident in themselves and their future.

“We went to Edmonton, saw their camp at work, and it really struck a note with us.

It was all about helping young, struggling individuals find their place. It reminded us of our youth. Although Herb and I had great support from our families, that’s not the case for the majority of young people.

We wanted something that promoted diversity, and something that combatted bullying,” said Bidulka.

“Alberta was first, we were second and

now other provinces are developing the same kind of programs.”

McFaull said, “It has always been about helping people who are vulnerable. Families are discovering that within themselves, there may be a gay or a lesbian. People are so willing to financially assist our program and many have told us they can’t believe that something like Camp fYrefly hadn’t been in place before.”

Another of McFaull’s current challenges is a position as fundraising chair of the Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan.

“Tony and I have always believed in art and believed in Saskatoon. When I was invited, it was easy to commit.”

The early financial partners, such as the City of Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan government, the federal government and the Remai family, have construction of the building well in hand.

“What I like about the gallery is that it is a multi-use facility owned by the City of

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Saskatoon. Yes, you have the art, like the original Mendel collection and a Picasso collection, but you have an education centre, where we hope to have 12,000 tour annually, a lecture theatre with seating for 150, a Riverview Room which can seat 350 people for a meal. Most of these features couldn’t have been accommodated in the gallery we once had. We’re approaching the project in a bold, bright way, knowing that when the building is finished in 2016, it will be incredible.

“My dad used to live by a saying, ‘Beware of an idea whose time has come.’

I accept that I have to get out there and tell the gallery story.”

In the meantime, Bidulka is still telling stories of his own. He wrote a series of eight books about the fictional life of a Saskatchewan private eye. He introduced a new character, a disaster recovery agent, in the book, When the Saints Go Marching In. His latest book, The Women of Skawa Island, has just been released.

2015 civic fee increases

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have on their property. These are areas that easily collect storm water such as sidewalks, driveways and paved walks.

Landfill The rate structure is based on a standard Entrance Fee: $10 per visit (no change) method used by many municipalities for General Tipping: $100 per tonne ($5 storm water utility billing. The unit of increase) measure is called an Equivalent Runoff Unit, or ERU, and for Saskatoon, it is Leisure Centres 265.3 square metres.

Adult Admission $9.80 (50 cent increase) Water / Wastewater Youth/Child Admission: $5.90 (30 cent There will be a 9.5 per cent increase. A increase) typical monthly residential bill for water, Family Admission: $19.60 ($1 inwastewater and infrastructure charges crease) increases by $7.50 to $79.02. In 2013, city Preschool: Free (no change) council approved water and wastewater Visit saskatoon.ca for full list of leisure rates to increase the average bill by 9.5 per centre and golf course fee changes cent in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Residential Recycling Collection Business Licences (effective Feb. 1) Roll-out Cart – Single Family ResidenNew Business Licence: $125 ($30 tial: $5.05 per month (16 cent increase) increase) Change of Business Location: $125 Saskatoon Light & Power ($30 increase) Three-per-cent average overall increase Annual Renewal: $85 ($15 increase) (matching SaskPower) (There are no Animal Services, buildStorm Water Utility Fee ing permit, plumbing permit or Saskatoon Saskatoon property owners are Transit fee increases for 2015. Proposed charged a storm water utility fee based parking fee increases have not been finalon the amount of hard surface area they ized.)

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How do I remove embarrassing mark on red leather chair?

Dear Reena, you lots of time to work. Smear We have two red leather grout onto the wall and smooth chairs. The one I sit on has off excess with a sponge pad. a discolouration on the Finish by caulking corners and area where my head rests. tub/tile joints.

I tried leather cleaner but Dear Reena, it started to take the red I am experimenting with off and left a rough spot on chocolate chip cookie recipes. I top of the discoloured area. have heard you absolutely love I phoned the store where chocolate, so I thought you we bought it and they would be the perfect person said it was probably the to ask for advice. What is Household chemicals I put in my hair. the difference between white Solutions I get highlights done, but and brown sugar and butter we have had other leather vs. margarine in a chocolate chairs and have never had this problem. cookie recipe? — Tina Anyway it has gone on for four years Dear Tina, now, and I wonder if you or any of your If I were stranded on an island, I readers have a solution for this. I have would definitely be happier with a bag of a towel over it now because the mark is chocolate chips! Brown sugar gives you a embarrassing. — Elaine softer, chewier cookie, while white sugar Dear Elaine, bakes into crispier cookies. Using butter in It is quite common for leather to disco- cookies results in flatter cookies compared lour around where a head and arms rest. with cookies baked with margarine, which This is a result of products that we use and are higher. body oils combined with abrasion. Discolouration is most prevalent on dark colours. Feedback from a Reader Re: Freezing Cheese Leather repair kits are available online Hi Reena, or in stores, although colour matching is I freeze all my blocks of cheddar very difficult and can often accent the area cheese in smaller pieces as I buy the huge instead of hiding it. Leather recolouring balm is a great option for you because you blocks of cheese. I wrap them in paper towels before freezing to avoid moisture don’t need an exact colour match. Rub when thawing. My tip: Leave the block of balm onto the entire surface. The leather should become softer and all colours will frozen cheese to thaw naturally on your counter. The cheese stays firm and doesn’t blend together well. Leather protective crumble. Thawing in the fridge causes it products will help prevent this challenge to stay too cold and to adhere together. — from occurring in the future.

Dorothy Dear Reena, The grout on my shower wall is crumbling. I pride myself in being a bit Handy Tips of the Week Clean plate trick: When frosting a cake, of a handyman. What steps can I take to place the cake on the serving plate. Put repair this? — Ernie strips of wax paper around the cake. Frost Hi Ernie, and decorate cake and then remove wax You will need to purchase new grout. paper strips. — Marcel Make sure to choose grout that offers When the visor of your hockey helmet colour matching caulk. Use a utility knife fogs up, spray it with Pledge furniture to cut out the old caulk. While wearing safety goggles, scratch out at least the top polish. Wipe off excess and the visor stays layer of old grout. Mix a small amount of clear. — Austin I enjoy your questions and tips; keep new grout with water (according to the directions on the package). A paint mixing them coming. Need a corporate presenter on the topic Harness the Power of Words? paddle does a great job. Mixing together small batches of grout as needed will give Check out my website: reena.ca.

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Everything for the bride and more at Jan. 11 show

Caitlyn of SHE Modelling in a gown from Brides n Belles (Grant Romancia Photography) Madison Prosofsky Saskatoon Express hether you’re keeping it local or travelling abroad, the Bridal Spectacular is the place to go for your wedding-day needs.

Mary Obrodovich, owner of SHE Modelling Agency and coordinator of the Bridal Spectacular, was approached almost 30 years ago by a person who had noticed bridal shows were becoming popular in larger urban areas.

If those highly populated cities could do a bridal showcase, why couldn’t Saskatoon?

Each show brings something new every year. This year’s features include the Beautiful Bride Glam Room. It provides brides with a hands-on experience for things like centrepiece arrangement and body wraps, as well as wine and spirits sampling from E + J Gallo Winery and Sperling Silver Spirits.

There will be approximately 70 exhibitors at the show, including some that have been there since Day One. “I think about a quarter of the room gets filled with the same exhibitors from one show to the next, which is so nice for me. It just tells me that they want to be there and it’s working for them,” said Obrodovich.

Running the event for almost 28 years, Obrodovich has had a first-hand glance into the evolution of bridal in Saskatoon, and not just with gowns. Men’s wedding styles have continued to bring bursts of excitement, moving from solid-coloured

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shirts to something with a pattern. Veils are becoming British-inspired fascinators and bouquets are less tight, with more flower choices.

Featured within the event is a fashion show. It is an opportunity for brides to get a look at some of the newest trends in bridal fashion.

“All the brides look for something different than their friends had at their wedding. They really want that something bigger and better. So whatever is out there, they’re just going crazy because it has to be better than what they’ve seen or heard about,” said Obrodovich.

Geared also towards the newlywed life, there are vendors for the stresses that follow the big day.

“There are vendors for the beginning of your life. No, we don’t sell houses, but there are life insurance people.”

There are typically 800 people in attendance, with a surprising growth in grooms accompanying their brides.

“I was taking a look at our bride list.

Some come from as far north as La Ronge, almost to the Alberta border, or sometimes even over the border, as well as Manitoba and as far south as you can go in Saskatchewan,” said Obrodovich.

The show will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan. 11 at TCU Place. Tickets, priced at $10, are available at picatic. com/bridalspectacular2015 and at the door. For more information, visit www. bridalspectacular.ca or www.shemodelling.com.

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Cow-tipping technology indispensable at vet college

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By Lynne Gunville n October, veterinarian Dr. Chris Clark was looking forward to tipping cows again at the University of Saskatchewan.

He wasn’t planning a Halloween prank.

The associate professor at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) was talking about regaining the use of the tilt table, a piece of equipment that was recently refurbished and reinstalled in the WCVM Veterinary Medical Centre’s Large Animal Clinic.

The hydraulic tilt table is an indispensable tool primarily used for bovine hoof treatment and trimming. It is also invaluable for examining and treating injuries and problems with bull genitalia and cow udders.

“Using the table is much safer and easier than trying to get underneath to examine the animal,” said Clark, who specializes in large animal internal medicine. “It’s an optimal environment for doing a thorough examination and the proper preparation if you have to do some suturing.”

While the WCVM’s table may appear new, it is actually an updated version of the device developed in the mid-1970s by Arnie Brockman, an engineering consultant from Humboldt.

The design allows a cow to walk in between the two sides of the table, which can accommodate animals ranging in size from calves to bulls weighing more than 3,000 pounds. Once inside, the animal is gripped from above and the pressure of the airbag lining is adjusted to hold it. Then a hydraulic drive lifts the animal off its feet and smoothly flips it onto its side so it is lying on the table.

“Cows tend to give up once they’re

Veterinary medicine student Graham Ellingsen works on a cow in the tilt table. (Photo by Christina Weese) confined,” Clark explained. “So once they’re in the squeeze, they stop struggling and are actually quite calm while they’re in the device.”

After veterinarians finish a procedure, the table returns to an upright position.

“The table’s advantage over other designs is a combination of things,” Clark explained.

“It holds a variety of sizes. The method of restraint involving air bags is better for the animals. The hoofs, as well as the genitalia and mammary glands, are easily accessible once the animal has been tilted, and the animal can just walk away once it’s been placed back down on the floor.”

After 40 years of regular use, the original tilt table had to be retired in 2013 when it started having mechanical problems.

Clark and other WCVM large animal

clinicians had to resort to an old-fashioned system of ropes and pulleys for examining and treating any hoof issues, which posed a greater risk of damage to both the clinicians and the animals.

The U of S began a search for an engineering company that would recondition the equipment and make some upgrades.

The successful firm was RMD Engineering, a Saskatchewan company that has worked on other university projects, including an equine hoist system.

“They saw it as a real challenge and had fun working with it,” said Clark. “They did an incredible job of adapting the table.”

The company completely replaced some of the parts and made several improvements, including the addition of air pressure sensors to the airbags, taking the guesswork out of determining how much

pressure to use.

Clark is relieved to have the table back, not only because he is tired of visiting his chiropractor but also because it speeds up learning for the college’s veterinary students. With the table exposing all four feet at once, four students can work on an animal while it’s lying quite comfortably.

“It’s a great teaching tool, and it’s amazing to see the tilt table in action,” said Clark. “It has the same movement as before, but it’s been completely redone and repainted dark blue with a stainless steel control panel, so it’s swankier.”

As for the cows, Clark said the renovated table with its upgraded hydraulic system offers animals a much smoother ride during their bovine pedicures.

(Lynne Gunville is a communications writer at the University of Saskatchewan.)

Studying the fine line between legal, illegal drugs

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By Kris Foster lcohol is a great example of the public back-and-forth on drug use in society,” said Lucas Richert, a sessional lecturer in the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of History.

The prohibition on booze in the early 20th century reflected public perception that alcohol had a negative impact on health and morality, a perception that has changed back and forth and back again.

More recently society has changed its mind about marijuana, moving it from an illegal substance to one that is medically prescribed and even legal in some places.

JW12092.A05 “There is a delicate line between recreJames ational drugs and pharmaceutical prod-

ucts,” said Richart, who joined the U of S as a post doc in 2011 before becoming a lecturer in 2014. “I want to understand what that line means and how that line is constructed.”

Richert hopes his work can help inform the public as the legal-illegal line becomes more blurred.

“Now more than ever—with multiple doping scandals in sports and morphine use in right-to-die cases—the public has a need for information on drugs and society.”

What’s determined legal and illegal, and how public access and consumption is determined, is “a complex interaction between health advocacy groups, politicians, scholars and the medical profession,” he

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explained. “A big part of my research is about trying to understand the negotiation between these parties. How do you create evidence-based policy on drugs if you don’t understand that negotiation?”

Naturally, political, economic and health considerations play into the decisions in setting boundaries around the access and legality of these substances, but public sentiment also casts its long shadow.

“How do citizens react to a so-called nanny or daddy state and how that infringes on our rights? It’s a balancing act between politicians, health imperatives of consumer protection and preserving our choices in the marketplace.”

Richert cites the example of a case currently being disputed in the Supreme Court of Canada on assisted suicide and the role of opioids — drugs derived from opium poppies such as morphine or heroin — in palliative care or hospices. “They will have the chance to clarify the difference between euthanasia and potentially life-shortening use of opioids.”

But there is also the question of consumer choice regarding which opioid to use.

“Some interest groups have advocated for legalized use of heroin in hospices because they viewed it as more effective in lessening pain than morphine. But there is also a (negative) perception of heroin.”

Rightly or wrongly, this is another great example of the ebb and flow, Richert said.

“Heroin has been widely available in hospices in the U.K., Australia and elsewhere, which is something not a lot of people understand.”

Another challenging area is the blurring line between recreational drugs and pharmaceuticals, particularly within the context of prescription drug abuse and related deaths. Richert pointed to the 2012 Cana-

Lucas Richert is a sessional lecturer in the U of S Department of History (Photo Supplied) dian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Survey, which revealed that around 410,000 Canadians reported abusing prescription drugs including Demerol, Ritalin or Valium.

“These (drugs) are a serious danger and, quite frankly, (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper bungled his national drug strategy in 2007 by failing to incorporate pharmaceutical use,” he said. “This ignores the relationship between legitimate pharmaceutical drugs and recreational use. Some have suggested this happened because of big pharmaceutical dollars.”

The strategy has since been modified

by Health Canada to address an alarming trend of prescription drug-related deaths in Canada — an important recognition of the changing profile of a drug user.

“There is a reconfiguring notion of what a drug user or abuser is. Is it a junkie on the street, a medical student taking Ritalin to study better, or a housewife taking Valium?

Mother’s Little Helper, as the Rolling Stones used to say.”

(Kris Foster is a communications writer at the University of Saskatchewan.)

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Senior’s bologna meal symbol of deficiencies in health-care system

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t can contain meat scraps roni salad and a sad looking from several different dinner roll, eyebrows shot animals, such as chicken, up all over the place. The turkey, beef and pork. Before fact that the picture was of these meats are ground, bologna a meal served to a senior makers strip away any excess fat citizen in a Saskatchewan or leftover blood clots from the government-run Level 4 care meat scraps . . .” — From the home pushed those brows Discovery Channel’s television even higher. That it was show Dirty Jobs, specifically an taken during a meal served episode dedicated to the fine art to that senior on Christmas of bologna making.

Day was just bonus outrage.

Columnist It’s a versatile lunch meat News media picked up that has been a staple of many a the Regina woman’s story child’s school lunch diet for years, while right away. She had been sharing the just as often equally reviled for being, evening meal on Christmas Day with her um, unpalatable. elderly father at his care home and was If you eat it by choice, fabulous. Free disgusted by the meal offering, so she country and all that. did what we do in those situations now If you choose to forego the economi- — used her cellphone to snap the image cal pink meat in favour of something and then shared it instantly and publicly. a little more food-like and a little less Initially both the overexuberant Sasnutritionally vacuous, you wouldn’t be katchewan NDP and overexuberant Sasthe only one. katchewan newsrooms labelled the paltry When a cellphone picture surfaced plate Christmas dinner, which wasn’t on social media recently of a pale white entirely accurate as the home had served plastic plate adorned with two slices residents their Christmas Day meal, the of cold cuts (one of which was a thin quintessential turkey dinner, earlier that slice of bologna), a spoonful of macaday over the noon hour.

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Once that misdirected fervour died down, the debate then moved on to whether or not any provincially run health-care facility should have bologna on the menu, ever. The Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, responsible for the home in question, was almost indignant in its response to the issue, indicating there was no need to review meal planning and that it was all a big misunderstanding.

“I don’t think we expect any one meal to provide all of the nutritional value that a resident would need. We need to look at the entire meal plan,” said the RQHR spokesperson.

In response, the CBC ran a story quoting a Regina dietitian who agreed, in principle, but also said, “When it comes to a facility that provides 100 per cent of the nutrition, such as a long-term care facility, each meal should have all four of the food groups.”

All four of the food groups in every meal served to Saskatchewan seniors entrusted to the care of a provincial facility. How is this even up for discussion?

While the merits of the meal, even the choice to serve relatively JW12094.A05 James helpless senior

citizens bologna, is all somewhat subjective (predominantly based on whether or not you’re pro or anti-bologna), the larger point was more difficult to articulate, but is undeniable.

The bottom line is that sparse, stark plate screams, “I don’t give a %&$# about my job,” and underscores what generally seems to be an emerging trend in senior care in Saskatchewan.

Falling right on the heels of a shocking allegation of physical abuse at another Regina care home, the picture of that plate acts as a visual metaphor for everything that is wrong, and could be wrong, with the public long-term healthcare system — cold, watered down and inefficient.

This is a problem not just for the obvious empathetic and humanitarian reasons, but because according to the most recent StatsCan numbers, more than 25 per cent of the population of Saskatchewan is over the age of 55, and that number is expected to skyrocket during the next 20 years. We’re going to need a lot less baloney in health care, and a lot better planning.

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Between the Sheets tackles ‘issues of modern femininity’

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express ersephone Theatre’s latest production is being billed as the “perfect antidote to holiday sugar and frivolity.”

Between the Sheets is a new Canadian play written by a female playwright named Jordi Mand.

“The play’s been produced in Toronto and in Vancouver to rave reviews. It also played in New Zealand, and I’m sure it’s going to continue to be produced all over the place,” said actress Lisa Bayliss.

“It’s a great choice for Persephone’s Deep End Series because it’s quite edgy. It deals with issues of modern femininity — you know, what our expectations are for women, what women’s own expectations are for themselves.”

It’s certainly a busy time for Bayliss. Not only is she taking on the role of Marion — one of the two characters in the play — but she is also tasked with promoting the show in her role as marketing and development associate at Persephone Theatre.

Bayliss said she is “very grateful” that Persephone provides her with the opportunity to do double duty.

“It’s a real honour and a pleasure to have an opportunity to work with a company like this and also be able to work as a theatre artist as well when possible. I feel really fortunate,” she said.

Bayliss, who worked in film, television and theatre in Vancouver for 35 years before calling Saskatoon home, last appeared at Persephone Theatre in Sexy Laundry. She was also seen in Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan last summer.

In Between the Sheets, Bayliss stars alongside local actress and former radio personality Heather Morrison. Bayliss describes her own character of Marion as “an overachieving woman who’s a mother who has a full-time career who’s trying to be all things for her family.” Meanwhile, the character of Teresa, played

by Morrison, is a teacher “who wants so much to have a family and be the kind of nurturing role model that women are also supposed to be in our society,” she said.

“It’s examining all these things. And, at the same,

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the story places these two women in a situation where they’ve both made huge choices that may have been mistakes and they’re dealing with the consequences of those choices, and confronting each other because their choices have impacted the other in a really huge way.”

Bayliss said the show is “going to be quite a ride for the audience” because of how it’s being staged.

The action takes place in a Grade 3 classroom during a parent-teacher interview, and the audience members will actually sit inside the “classroom” that will be constructed on Persephone’s mainstage stage.

“It’s kind of like they’re an invisible person or a fly on the wall inside this classroom watching this confrontation take place. It’s pretty up close and personal,” she said.

“It’s going to be a little bit different for our audiences.”

Bayliss is enjoying working with Morrison, who she says plays the role of the young teacher “beautifully.”

Bayliss also has compliments for the show’s director, Brian Cochrane, a Saskatoon native who is now living and working in Vancouver.

“He’s just amazing. I’m really enjoying working with him as well. The three of us are having a really good time.”

The other members of the creative team include David Granger (set and lighting designer), Theresa Germaine (costume designer), Gilles Zolty (audio designer) and Melanie Rogowski (stage manager).

Between the Sheets runs from Jan. 7 to Jan. 18 as part of Persephone Theatre’s Deep End Series.

“The Deep End is an opportunity for audiences to be exposed to new works, new Canadian plays, works by really promising and inspiring new playwrights,” said Bayliss.

“It’s a chance to present new works that the Persephone audience may not have had a chance to see or would not normally find in the regular mainstage season. So it’s a chance to take some risks. It’s a chance to explore, perhaps, more alternative material. It’s just a little more alternative to the mainstage there.

“So it’s a nice juxtaposition. It’s great to have a theatre company that has the ability to present many

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Lisa Bayliss stars in Between the Sheets (Photo Supplied) different types of theatre, and the Deep End allows us to do that.”

Between the Sheets is about one hour long with no intermission. It includes adult content and language, and is not intended to be a play for children.

Bayliss predicts audience members will be “challenged” by the show.

“I think that it’s a play that many women, regardless of their age or what their experience is, are going to relate to. Because, again, it’s all about women trying to be all things, and so many of us deal with that in our day-to-day lives,” she said.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by calling the Persephone Theatre box office at 306-384-7727.

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Phelps could be swimming with the sharks

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orben Rolfsen, on Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps getting 18 months probation for his DUI: “A judge denied his request to be sentenced to Sea World.” l A tweet from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal: “I’ve got to say it: This is the worst Oiler team I’ve ever covered and I’ve been doing it since 1979. That’s 35 years.” l Janice Hough, on the NFL fining Marshawn Lynch $11,500 for an obscene gesture: “Wonder how much will the league fine the N.Y. Jets for their obscene season?” l Bill Littlejohn, on one critic of The Interview saying seldom has something of such overwhelming mediocrity had such impact in America: “Well, not since Tim Tebow, anyway.” l I read saying an f-bomb uses 72 muscles. No wonder UFC head honcho Dana White is in such good shape. l TC Chong, on Detroit Lion Ndamukong Suh being fined for stomping on Green Bay Packer QB Aaron Rodgers.

Suh claimed it was so cold, his feet were frozen and he didn’t know he stepped on Rodgers. This is of course different from his other dirty hits and cheap shots where it was his brain that was frozen.” l Rolfsen, after Ohio State’s offensive coordinator said third-string QB Cardale Jones started acting like a man once he inherited the Buckeyes starting job: “What does that mean? He registered for a class?” l For the first time in years, I’m thinking Saskatchewan could win a Brier before the Leafs win the Stanley Cup. On many days, Steve Laycock’s Saskatoon team is right there with the best.

l After suffering serious injuries in a cycling accident, Bono said it is possible he will never play the guitar again.

What? Bono played the guitar? l From Rolfsen: “The Olympic men’s hockey team was named Canada’s 2014 team of the year by the Canadian Press.

Another loss for the Oilers.” l Why was the Canada-U.S. New Year’s Eve game shown at a time of day when most Canadians were still at work? I really hope it wasn’t, as some have suggested, because Hockey Canada wanted the team to travel from Montreal to Toronto as early as possible to prepare for the quarter-final – against Denmark. l A tweet from Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette: “Shocked that a Quebec jury found Magnotta guilty. They generally prefer to set murderers free and condemn nice ladies who stop for ducks.” l From Littlejohn: “President Obama warned Spain that the U.S. would never again tolerate another Generalissimo Francisco Flacco.” l A new verb? A player was “stretchered” off the ice. Please. l From Chong: “Congrats to the Oregon Ducks and Ohio State Buckeyes who have made it to the inaugural NCAA playoff championship game. The Ducks will appear in yet another Nike neon ‘Blind Eye’ jersey, while Ohio State has signed a sponsorship with Ray-Ban.” l I never tire of seeing the Tim Hortons ad during which all those Canadians join Sid Crosby on the ice for a faceoff. l From Hough: “So the NFL ran its ad “domestic violence and sexual assault are tough for everyone to talk about” in the game with Ben Roethlis-

Is it just me, or is Sidney Crosby starting to look like a younger Gordie Howe?

(Wiki Photos) berger leading Steelers into playoffs.

Chamblin? He was talking recently about The irony.” how he wasn’t a sexy choice to coach the l A question from Rolfsen: “What Riders, and how he brought a Grey Cup kind of odds could one have gotten to Saskatchewan. Seems like he is a bit from Vegas the past few months that the touchy since he treated Richie Hall with Cleveland Browns starting QB at the end such disrespect. of the season would be Connor Shaw?” l Chong, on Dustin Johnson being l Does anybody ask a player for an set to return to the PGA Tour after his autograph anymore? Or have we become self-imposed suspension for marijuana a world of selfies? use: “The PGA will give him a severe l From Chong: “The coach of U of test in his return — it has selected his Mississippi is proud of this team’s 2.57 first Pro-Am partners to be Cheech and GPA (grade point average). Conversely, Chong.”

Cleveland Browns fans are not happy l From Rolfsen: “Great to hear that Johnny Manziel’s quarterback rating commentator Lou Holtz refer to the was the same number.”

Albuquerque game as the New Methco l Something that has to be asked: Bowl.”

Taylor Hall or Tyler Seguin? l Hough, on Kim Kardashian claiml From Rolfsen: “Jack Eichel = Na- ing she doesn’t smile often because it poleon Dynamite with shorter hair.” causes wrinkles: “Got news for Kim. l What has happened to Corey People aren’t looking at her face.”

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MUSIC JANUARY 9 B C Read is among Saskatchewan’s premiere bluesmen and promises a bagful of original material, including works from Bowl of Sugar and 1,000 Miles in his first-ever appearance on behalf of the Saskatoon Jazz Society at The Bassment. His band includes a three-piece horn section. Show time is 9 p.m.

The Bassment, 202 Fourth Avenue North. Tickets: $17 for SJS members, $22 for non-members.

JANUARY 10 On his own, Martin Janovsky is an outstanding pianist who serves up a wide array of music. The Czech-born artist, who began his jazz career in France, came to Saskatoon in 1984. He comes with a full orchestra, expands the repertoire to include Latin favourites, and adds a touch of comedy to each show. It’s an 8 p.m. start. The Bassment. Tickets: $127 for SJS members, $22 for non-members.

EVENTS JANUARY 7 Last Rites: An Interfaith Comparison. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Edwards Family Centre (333 – Fourth Ave. North) A presentation on and discussion of different practices and beliefs surrounding death, funerals and burial by Bill Edwards. Free, open to all, refreshments provided. Courtesy parking at the Saskatoon Funeral Home.

JANUARY 10 MENSA is an international, non-profit society for people who Bruce MacDonald and his dogs Sam and Gordie at Diefenbaker Park score among the top two per cent of the general population on (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) a standardized IQ test. A supervised IQ testing session is being Church from9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. $40/family/year or sugheld on Jan. 10 at 2 p.m. The cost is $90, or $70 for students. If First and Third Sunday gested drop-in donation of $5/family. Visit our Facebook page you are interested in attending this session, please call Tim at of every month (Scooters - at EBC) for more information.

306-242-7408 or e-mail trf674@campus.usask.ca.

Pet Loss Support Group offers support and comfort to people who are struggling with the loss of a beloved companion First and Third Wednesday JANUARY 18 animal due to old age, sickness or other sad reasons.

The noof the month New Hope Dog Rescue’s Annual Book Sale. Market Mall, next obligation support group meets at 2 p.m. at the W.A. Edwards Resporados support group for people with breathing difficulties to Playland, during mall hours. A huge selection of used books Centre, 333 4th Avenue North, Saskatoon.

For more information taking place at 1:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church (33rd Street available for purchase. All proceeds go towards supporting the West). For more information, contact Debbie at 306-664-4992. work of New Hope Dog Rescue. Softcovers are $2 and hardcov- or telephone support, call 306-343-5322. ers are $3. There will also be CDs and DVDs for sale.

MISCELLANEOUS Second and Fourth Tuesday The Saskatoon Pattern Dance Club holds dances at Grace Westminster United Church (505 10th Street East) from October until April. We dance to old-time music from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Beginner instruction during the first hour. No experience needed. For further information call 306- 382-5107.

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Free art drop-in at the SCYAP Art Centre. All ages are welcome, all materials supplied, no registration required. Times are: Tuesdays 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Thursdays 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturdays 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Every Wednesday

Depression Support Group — free group runs on the first and third Wednesday of each month, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the CMHA building (1301 Avenue P North). This is open to anyone struggling with depression and family members wanting to support them. For more info, call 306-270-9181.

Every Monday ***** Hope Beyond Depression program: free introductory sessions Feb. 3 or Feb. 10 from 7 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Where: 327 Pinehouse Bargain store to support the inner city Lighthouse project.

Drive (wheelchair accessible). For more info call Pekka at 306- Babies’, children’s, ladies’ and men’s clothing; jewellery, purses, belts and camping clothes available. Wednesdays from 10:30 717-1665 or email saskatoonrecovery@gmail.com. a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 454 Egbert Avenue.

First and Third Saturdays of the Prices from $0.25 to $5. Everyone is welcome. For more informonth mation: Call 306-955-3766 (church) or go to spuconline.com or Lions Club’s Texas Holdem Tournaments. $60 buy- in gets email zixiag@gmail.com. $10,000 in chips, $40 goes to the cash prize pool. No Re-Buys. ***** 50 seats available. Registration opens at 6, tournament starts at St. George’s Senior Citizen’s Club (1235 -20th St. West) have 7 p.m. The Coachman bar at Market Mall. Call 306-668-0015 bingos and Kaiser from noon until 4 p.m. On the last Wednesfor more information. day of each month we hold a birthday party for applicable members. Monthly socials are also held randomly. The club First Saturday of every month is campaigning for new members who are 55+. Included are The MindFULL Café, part of the international Alzheimer Café movement, is an opportunity to meet in a relaxed social setting bowling alleys, pool tables, dart boards. The club building is wheelchair accessible with adjacent bus service. Memberships for persons with dementia, family, care partners and other are $5 per year with discounts included. For further info call interested people. The Café is a two-hour get together with refreshments, entertainment and information. First Saturday of (306)384-4644 or (306)716-0204. the month from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Sherbrooke Community Third Thursday of the Month Centre.

The Saskatoon Prostate Cancer Support Group meets every Every Tuesday month except July and August at 7:30 p.m. in the W. A. Edwards Off-Broadway Farmers’ Market & International Bazaar and Family Centre, across from the Saskatoon Funeral Home. For Bistro. Basement of Grace-Westminster United Church (505, more information call Murray Hill at 306-242-5893 or email 10th Street East). 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. murraydhill@me.com. ***** Second Wednesday Spirit of the West 616550 Toastsmasters Club Downtown of the Month Saskatoon. Come and have some fun with speaking and leaderFriendship Force International, Saskatoon and Area Club is an ship skills. Our club meets from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the organization of more than 360 clubs in more than 50 countries Hospitality Room of Great Western Brewing Company. Follow throughout the world. FFI allows you to enjoy economical travel the red fence on south side of building through the gate up the while forging new friendships with club members from around stairs into the building. the world. Visit our website at www.thefriendshipforce.org , First Monday of every month find out more about us or come join us at our next meeting by contacting Lynne Stade at 306-933-4835 or lstade@shaw.ca.

Saskatoon Ostomy Association meetings at 7:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church. We meet the first Monday of the month Every Thursday except when there is a holiday, if so we meet the second Saskatoon International Folkdance Club meets at 7 p.m.

Monday. in Albert Community Centre (Rm 13, 610 Clarence Ave. First Tuesday of every month South). Learn dances from many countries around the world.

Left Behind By Suicide is a drop-in support group for individuals First night is free! For more information visit www.sifc.awardspace.com. who have lost a loved one to suicide.Where: W.A. Edwards ***** Family Centre - 333 4th Avenue North. 7:30 p.m. 9 p.m. There Le Choeur des plaines welcomes you to sing and socialize in is no cost to attend. For more information, email leftbehind@ French each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at L’École canadienne fransasktel.net. çaise at 1407 Albert Avenue. The choir is directed by Michael FROMI - Friends and Relatives of People with Mental Illness meetings will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at W.A. Edwards Harris and is accompanied by Rachel Fraser. All who wish to sustain or practice their French are welcome. For more informaFamily Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North (wheelchair accessible). If you have a loved one or friend with a mental illness and tion, call Rachel at 306-343-6641 or Jean at 306-343-9460. ***** you need understanding support, contact Carol at 306-2490693, Linda at 306-933-2085, Lois at 306-242-7670 or e-mail SCOOTERS indoor playgroup for children new-borns to age five and their parents/caregivers will be at Emmanuel Baptist fromisk@gmail.com.

Every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday Overeaters Anonymous: Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you binge, purge or restrict? Is your weight affecting your life? We are a non-profit 12-step group that meets on Tuesdays at noon and 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. For more information including locations visit www.oa.org.

Fridays Karousels Dance Club, learn to dance. New class starting Jan. 9. Cued ballroom at 7 p.m. Albert Community Centre(610 Clarence Ave. South). For more information, call 306-290-5486.

Tuesdays and Thursdays Bridge City Senioraction Inc: Classes every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Registration is $20, drop-in fee is $2. For information, call Sheila at 306-931-8053 or Kathy at 306-244-0587.

Newcomers’ Club The Saskatoon Newcomers’ Club welcomes new female residents in the Saskatoon area, as well as those who have recently undergone a significant change in lifestyle (such as relationship status, retirement, or becoming a new parent). A new resident is defined as one who has not resided in Saskatoon and/or surrounding area for more than three years. The club holds monthly dinner outings, coffee gatherings, book club and other planned activities. If interested, please reply by email saskatoonnewcomersclub@gmail.com or call 306-668-8131.

Singles Social Group Singles Social Group - “All About Us” for people in their 50s and 60s. Events such as weekly Wednesday restaurant suppers, monthly Sunday brunches, movie nights, dances, pot luck and more. Meet new friends. No membership dues. For more information email allaboutus10@hotmail.com or phone (306) 978-0813.

Saskatoon Mood Disorder Support Group The Saskatoon mood disorder support group for people with bi-polar, depression and other related mental health problem meets at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 323 Fourth Ave. South (south entrance) at 7:30 p.m. For more information call Al at 306-716-0836 or Lindi at 306-491-9398.

Volunteers Needed Track and Field needs volunteers for the Officiating Team for meets at the Saskatoon Field House. We have a number of exciting jobs on the track, at long jump, high jump and shot put. All officials start off with a two-hour training session in conjunction with a track meet. This training can start you on a life-time experience as part of the sport of athletics or merely allow you to follow your kids and their friends around the meets in their growing up years. Register today for one of the following Introductory Officials Clinics: Jan. 10 at 11 a.m.; Jan. 10 at 1:30 p.m.; Jan. 23 at 7p.m.; Jan. 24 at 9:30 a.m. Register by email: ken.mckechney@sasktel.net.

Donations Needed The Village Green Furniture Store at 308 – 20th Street West is in urgent need of good, used furniture, household items and appliances. Drop off your donation at the back door or call 306665-0101 for free pick-up. Charitable receipt available for items valued at $100 or more. The Village Green is a non-profit, supporting local and global relief, development and relief projects of the Mennonite Central Committee.

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Travel

Iceland

Small country with big attractions Outside the magnificent Hallgrimskirkja church is a statue of Leif Erickson (Photo by Doreen Kerby) Doreen Kerby for the Saskatoon Express celand has no army, navy or air force.

With a population of 325,000, it is the most sparsely populated country in Europe and has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. Violent crimes are nearly nonexistent. It’s so non-existent that Icelandic police officers do not carry guns. What might be equally surprising is most inmates get to go home for Christmas.

Reykjavik, the world’s most northern capital, has a population of 120,000, with another 50,000 living in the Greater Reykjavik area. It is the heart of cultural, economic and governmental activity.

The Esja (Ess-ya) Mountain Range, north of the city, is popular for walking and hiking. The city is spread out along a small peninsula with Reykjavik Domestic Airport and a long-distance bus terminal in the southern half. The

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international airport is 48 kilometres away at Keflavik, with buses and taxis available to bring passengers into the city.

Because the city is so compact, walking is the best way to see it. Lauygavegur is the main street with interesting stores and restaurants, but what is really impressive is the cleanliness of the city. No one would think of discarding a candy wrapper, an empty coffee cup or an empty bottle.

Skolavoroustigur Street leads up to the largest church in the country, the magnificent Hallgrimskirkja. Construction began right after the Second World War, but wasn’t finished until 1986.

The church gets its name from Reverend Hallgrimur Petersson, who wrote Iceland’s most popular hymn book.

It is a beautiful church - simple but elegant. The organ lends to its charm with 5,275 pipes. We were there on a Sunday evening, in time for an organ recital. It was amazing how one person at the keyboard could fill a huge

church with melodious sound.

For a nominal fee, visitors can take the elevator to the 15th floor, 75 metres above ground. Two flights of stairs lead to the top of the tower where openings on all four sides provide unforgettable views of the city.

Outside the church is a huge statue of Leif Erickson, who discovered Vinland. It was given to the city by the U.S.A. to commemorate the 1,000th anniversary of the Althing (National Assembly).

In the centre of Old Reykjavik there is a lake called Tjornin. In the summer it becomes the home of at least 40 species of birds. In the winter it becomes a skating rink. Walkers and joggers use the paths around the lake extensively.

City Hall is a post-modern construction built on concrete stilts with tinted windows and moss-covered walls, making it look like it is rising out of the lake.

Austurvollur was once part of the hayfields that belonged to the first settler, Ingolfur Arnarson. Today it is a favourite spot for picnics, lunches, open-air concerts and political demonstrations. Icelanders, when they get really riled up about an issue, may resort to throwing eggs.

The statue in the centre is of Jon Siggurdson, who led the campaign for Icelandic independence from Denmark.

When the Nazis occupied Denmark, the people asked for independence and got it on June 17, 1944. Incidentally, there is a statue like this in Winnipeg. One of the largest Icelandic settlements in Canada is at Gimli, on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, with 26,000 inhabitants declaring Icelandic ancestry.

The Alpingi (Anglicized as Allthing or Althingi) was originally sited at Pingvellir some thousand years ago.

The modern Alpingi or Icelandic Parliament was moved to Reykjavik in 1881. Icelanders take their democracy seriously, with more than 80 per cent of citizens turning out to vote.

The Harpa is a brand-new concert hall and cultural centre built with glass panels that catch the light and sparkle brilliantly. At night the building keeps changing colour and lights up the harbour.

Another outstanding piece of architecture is the Perlan (Pearl in English), a complex built on huge hot water storage tanks on Oskjuhlio Hill. The viewing deck offers a 360-degree view of Reykjavik and the surrounding mountains. The mirrored dome on top of the tanks contains the Perlan, a fine dining venue, offering a wonderful view of the city far below.

For more information, visit www.icelandtravel.com.

(Doreen Kerby is a Saskatoon freelance writer.)

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