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Volume 12, Issue 7, Week of February 16, 2015

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Local artist attracts international attention Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express reating diverse pieces of art.

Exhibiting the work at home and internationally. Addressing social issues. Inspiring children to become artists themselves.

It’s all in a day’s work for Monique Martin, a local teacher and multi-disciplinary artist.

To say Martin is busy these days is an understatement. In addition to her job at Georges Vanier Catholic fine arts school, she is currently showing her work as part of several exhibitions in Saskatchewan, New York and South Korea.

“It’s pretty exciting,” she said of the multiple shows.

“But at the same time, as I told my husband, if I never had another exhibition ever in my whole life I’ve had enough, so it’s all good. And I would continue to create, because I just love the creation part.

“The exhibitions are just a bonus for me. I love sharing my work, so it’s a way to share it, but I’m not the kind of artist that is out there trying to sell stuff.”

Over the years, Martin has had about 50 solo exhibitions and 20 group exhibitions at home and internationally, including in Australia, Italy, Hungary, France, England, Korea, the U.S. and throughout Canada.

She is not an artist that confines herself to one medium; instead, she works as a printmaker, a sculptor and a painter.

“I try to exhaust my idea to the point that I think I can’t say any more about what I’m trying to say, and sometimes that takes more than one medium,” she said.

“I sometimes can’t say what I want to say with one medium, so hence the hexagons in the trees.”

The hexagons Martin refers to are the thousands of clay pieces that have been placed in trees along the Saskatoon riverbank, from the Meewasin Valley Centre to the Mendel Art Gallery. The installation in the trees, which is part of the City of Saskatoon’s Placemaker Program, is just one of several current displays of Martin’s work.

“It’s all about how the links are interconnected and if one link breaks, then other links are affected. It’s all about how we affect each other in the world and we affect the environment,” Martin said, adding, “I like to have dialogue around my pieces and I think that’s what I am creating.

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Monique Martin’s art is now showing in New York and South Korea (Photo by Trint Thomas) “Especially with the hexagons on the riverbank — I mean, people for sure are dialoguing about ‘Why are they there?

What’s happening?’ And I think that’s important.”

Martin had 918 people — mostly children — involved in making the clay hexagons with her, for a total of 11,043 hexagons. About one-third of them are covered in beeswax, which Martin’s

students helped her tackle one Saturday at Georges Vanier. Eighty-six trees along the riverbank are adorned with the clay pieces.

“I think it’s powerful for people to make art,” she said.

“Art — a visual and a tactile thing — makes people think about the world a little more.”

The hexagons in the trees can also be seen in a display case at the Mendel Art

Gallery, as part of a new exhibition entitled The Absolute Way of Things. The exhibition features Martin’s large-scale prints and focuses on bees as the subject matter.

The hexagons in the trees are reminiscent of the hexagons depicted in Martin’s bee prints in the Mendel show, which also includes work by Martin’s mentor, Cathryn Miller.

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Scooping policy shredded First Nations families

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t what point do I know I have been assimilated?

For more than 500 years, the First Nations people of this country have had to endure government policies that would have totally destroyed other nations.

There’ve been government-sanctioned polices to “kill the Indian in the Indian.”

And yet, we’re still here.

It all started with a frivolous attempt to wipe First Nations people off the face of the Earth. However, the government didn’t know the strength of our people, and how we would fight back. Then, there were other policies. The most Columnist widely known is the residential school experience. But, as most of the county knows by now, that policy turned its ugly head right back at the government.

I was one of the lucky ones, because the residential school experience was being phased out when I started school.

However, I didn’t fare too well during “the scoop.” This was once again a federal government idea of assimilation. It denies there was such a policy of “scooping” First Nations children and placing them all over the world.

I was a pre-teen then. By the time I was a teenager, I was placed in so many homes I lost count. However, I have to say the homes I was placed in were good ones.

More than 40 years later, I still keep in contact with some of my foster parents. Also, my foster brothers and sisters were cool. In one home I was looked after by my older brothers and sisters while in school.

I was never “our adopted Indian brother.” I was never left out of anything. A little secret between you and me: I got my first kiss from one of my adopted sisters, which may sound a little gross for some.

But if you knew Suzy like I knew Suzy, you would be saying, “Atta boy Ken.” My family was affected by scooping. It was only about 15 years ago that we found my sister. She ended up in the United States. She has done really well.

She is now married with two beautiful

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A crew prunes trees in the Haultain area last week (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) children. She and her husband are school teachers.

I have to share how we found her. Since all files are closed and the federal government denies there was a policy of placing First Nations children internationally, it seemed impossible to find my siblings.

Because my sister had applied to find her biological family and we had done the same thing, the information had to be released.

It was an incredible moment when I first called her on the phone. We have since met several times. There is still one brother we couldn’t track down, but we did find out he ended up in Greece. I was watching the news the other day and saw Greece has a new president. I was looking at him and I noticed a striking resemblance. I mean if he grew his hair, he would look like me. Wouldn’t that blow people away if it came out their new president is actually a First Nations man originally from Canada? Anyway, our family is slowly getting back together.

I was thinking, “At what point am I assimilated?”

Is it when I start disliking other ethnic people? Do I get a sudden urge to start playing golf? Am I assimilated when I start hosting barbecues?

The crazy thing is what the government was trying to do with its “kill the Indian in the Indian” policy is exactly the values and principles Canada now stands for. First Nations stand for kindness, understanding and helping your neighbour. Maybe it’s the Indian who did all the assimilating. krnCREE@outlook.com

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Ski volunteers advocate for clubhouse

Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express an Sedgewick is passionate about cross-country skiing. And that’s an understatement.

She says a facility is needed for members of the Saskatoon Nordic Ski Club. It doesn’t have to be too fancy, just a place to gather, warm up, use a bathroom and serve cocoa.

Sedgewick gets teary-eyed when she tells the story of what happened on a recent night at Kinsmen Park. Sedgewick was teaching a youth class at the time.

“This sweet little girl in my class comes up to me and looks up at me with tears in

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her eyes and she says, ‘Coach Jan, I have to go to the bathroom. I think I can hold it a few more minutes.’ ” The washrooms at Kinsmen Park aren’t winterized.

“And I’m going, ‘There is the washroom right there, but I can’t take her there.’

The best I can do for her is take the other seven or eight kids I am teaching to the Y or to the City Hospital or skirt around the big fencing and get to the Mendel Art Gallery. I’m standing there with a little kid who is really afraid she is going to pee her pants in a public place.”

The father of the girl, who was out skiing, came by just in time and took his

daughter and another boy to the washroom.

“I’m sorry, that’s not good enough. We have to do better for those kids. We have to do better. If it takes me until I am wheeled out in my wheelchair for the grand opening of the ski trails, wherever they are, I never want to see a kid come up with tears in her eyes again.

“So that’s my passion for it, and it drives pretty much everything that I do.

I jokingly refer to myself as this skivangelist because I hated winter until I discovered skiing. I was an indoor person just waiting for winter to be over. Then somebody suggested we join the ski club and it has become our family sport.”

That passion earned Sedgewick the Firth Award, given annually by Cross Country Canada to a volunteer. Dan Brisbin of Saskatoon won the male equivalent of the award in 2012.

The Saskatoon ski club has 700 members.

“If you think of a hockey rink, it is a home for that sport. That’s where the community of participants meet to play to compete and to have community with one another . . . to plan events to have a future to grow the sport, all that kind of stuff,” Sedgewick said.

“What Saskatoon has is facilities, meaning places where we can ski, but what is missing is the ability to develop community in those places, because there are no support facilities in most places where we groom trails. There is no place to meet; most places don’t even have washrooms, so skiing is driving to a trail head, getting out of your car, quickly getting your skis ready, slapping them on, going for a ski, maybe bumping into somebody you know while you are out there doing it, getting back to your car all sweaty and going home.”

She wonders why the massive project in Kinsmen Park is for summer use in a winter city.

Brisbin said in a perfect world skiers would have a place like the clubhouse at a golf course, where he, Sedgewick and a reporter were sitting recently.

“If you’re a golfer you can go out and play a nice round of golf and then come in here and sit down with your friends and enjoy some socialization afterwards.”

Brisbin was an official at the Vancouver Olympic Games and is technical director at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C. In other words, he will be running the event, Sedgewick said.

Brisbin started skiing as a teenager in southern Ontario.

“My parents bought me one of those packages from Canadian Tire that you can get the whole thing for $79 – poles, boots and skis.”

He got married, moved to northern Ontario and then eventually to Saskatchewan.

“So we are long-time recreational skiers. That is the great thing about this sport is the whole family can do it, as opposed to hockey, where the kids play and the parents sit in the stadium watching.

“Like any sports parents, I was always driving my son (Andrew) to races and I started helping out if somebody needed someone to punch a stopwatch or whatever. One thing led to another, so I started race volunteering and got to actually like this stuff.”

He has taken his officiating certification to the top level in the world – a technical delegate.

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Children join Martin in art creation

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(Continued from page 1) he idea behind it is that there’s an absolute way that the environment runs and there’s a certain way that things fit together — and humans sometimes push on that fitting together and cause problems, like with bees,” said Martin.

“The bees are dying, so there was an absolute way of their going about their life that is having to change because of how we interact with them.”

Martin’s bee artwork is about exploring the relationship between humans and bees, and it is striking a chord with those who view it. Her bee art can also be seen at the Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, as part of an Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC) touring printmaking exhibition she put together.

As well, additional bee artwork is adorning Saskatoon’s Meewasin Valley Centre, where some of Martin’s students have 96 papier-mâché bees on display.

“I try to give children opportunities to go beyond the bulletin board,” she said, noting she recently installed some of her students’ work at a gallery in a local shopping centre as well.

“Having your work out in public changes its value, changes its validity. It gives it more value — not value moneywise, but validity as in making a comment on what’s happening in the world. So that’s what I try to do for my students.”

If Martin’s students are looking for an artistic role model, they need to look no further than their teacher. One of Martin’s printmaking sculptures, entitled NeverEnding, is part of a current exhibition at the International Print Center in New York. Being selected was a big moment for Martin; she is one of just 34 artists featured in the juried exhibition, for which 2,000 people applied.

After Martin was selected, she flew to New York to give an artist’s talk. While

there, she realized people were “really excited” about her work.

“The one curator said mine was a stand-out piece when they were selecting.

That was really exciting,” she said, noting the piece will move on to an exhibition in Toronto after the New York show closes in March.

“Sometimes I’m just totally shocked at what happens in my life,” Martin said.

“My goal is not to have these things actually happen; that’s not why I make my art. I make my art as a personal expression, so all of this is just bonus. I am quite successful as an artist and I’m very thankful for that.”

New York isn’t the only international locale where Martin’s work is attracting attention. Since April 2014, she has had work on display in Shinan, South Korea, in advance of the upcoming World Tulip Summit to be held this fall. Martin is serving as the event’s artist ambassador.

“I’m part of the World Tulip Summit, an organization that I helped develop, and it’s to create links between people worldwide that grow tulips and are involved in tulip tourism,” she said.

“The tulip, to Canada, is a symbol of friendship and peace.”

As if she isn’t busy enough, Martin has been working with two other printmakers on a project that’s closer to home — starting a new Saskatchewan printmakers’ association. One purpose of the group is to educate the public on printmaking, “because there’s a whole miscommunication on what a print is,” she said.

“A print is conceived of as a print in the very beginning. It’s a medium all on its own; it’s not a reproduction of something else, because what people (often call) ‘prints’ are really reproductions,” she said.

“I start out my prints as prints. I don’t start it out as a painting and it becomes a print. There’s a difference, but people

Monique Martin’s bee art is exhibited at the Mendel Art Gallery (Photos by David G. Miller) don’t understand that. So that’s part of our goal in making this organization, is to do some education and to help out printmakers as well.”

Martin said her experiences demonstrate that an artist can be a schoolteacher from Saskatchewan and still receive worldwide recognition. In 2013, for example, she served as artist-in-residence at Disneyland Paris in Paris, France, as part of her Nest series that was created in Saskatoon.

“They found out about it through word of mouth, and then all of the sudden I’m living in Paris, making nests out of (discarded recyclable materials),” she said with a laugh.

“It can happen. Weird things can happen.”

Martin acknowledged her life is a busy one, but she said because she’s organized she can make it work. Her advice to other people who want to become artists is to “be authentic.”

“That’s all I do. I don’t make my art to match the couch — not to say that’s wrong. But I don’t think the opportunities would have come to me if my art wasn’t

Martin’s hexagonal links hang in trees along the river authentic and had deeper meanings than just matching the couch or being pretty.”

For more information about Martin and her exhibitions, or to view some of her artwork, go online to moniqueart. com.

“Ski-vangelists” work toward better facilities for local kids

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(Continued from page 3) e said he is motivated by the love of the sport and giving Saskatchewan skiers a fighting chance on the national stage.

“We have both had sons in the system,” he said of his son and Sedgewick’s son, Nathan. “We’ve seen when they leave Saskatoon and their background is skiing around in circles on Kinsmen Park, and they go out and race against kids who grew up in Canmore or out in British Columbia. They are at a big disadvantage.

“I have seen my son’s love of the sport and I have seen him try to struggle to catch up. I would like to see better opportunities for our local kids so they can train CP90402.B16 Chenise

and be competitive with the big provinces – Quebec, B.C. and Alberta.”

Andrew Brisbin is now training with a club team in Canmore, Alta. Nathan Sedgewick is now on the coaching and managing side of the sport.

The Saskatoon club has recently started renting the clubhouse at Wildwood Golf Course for a few hours a week. It is a small taste of what it would be like to have its own home.

“It is a place to come in and be warm.

It is a place to come in and use the bathroom, a place to eat some lunch or have a drink,” Sedgewick said.

Volunteers with the Saskatoon Nordic Ski Club groom trails at Kinsmen Park, the Willows golf club, Wildwood Golf

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There are eight kilometres of trails at Wildwood, 2.5 at Kinsmen Park, 10 at the Willows and 50 at Eb’s.

The club pays for the equipment used to groom the trails. Sedgewick said the club has invested approximately $57,000 for the equipment.

The trails are all open to the public, with hundreds of people using them. In a perfect world, these people would join the club to help with the costs of keeping the trails in pristine shape.

Sedgewick summarized her love of the sport.

“It’s kind of like most loves in our lives.

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really make us wonder why we do this.

Then, when it all comes together and it’s right, you can’t beat that feeling of getting out on the snow, gliding around and just leaving your cares and woes behind.

“It’s just the fresh air, the exercise, the community. It’s just one of those crazy passions. Cyclists know it; runners know it. Maybe in some little way, it’s saying, ‘I am victorious over all these little difficulties.’ Even if I only have one good ski this year, it will all be worth it because there is nothing that compares to that feeling you get when you are out there. So I want to help other people experience that.”

That, and a clubhouse.

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particular point in time and get a contract signed with the ATU. Question: Is there a cost you can put on the lockout?

Mayor Atchison: I don’t know what the final numbers are, because those are part of the negotiations and discussions that are going on at this time. The union has one point of view and the administration has a different point of view. So they will have to attempt to iron those things out.

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on strike? Do you think they would go on strike in the middle of summer, or do you think they would go on strike in the middle of winter? So I guess damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

The next thing after that is to have the pension liability that we have that was in the amount of about $7 million cleaned up and rectified, and that has been. All the other unions and associations had signed on except for transit. We have now been able to have the Labour Relations Board say everything with our pensions is fine.

In that sense, there has been a $7-million liability that has been removed that would have cost the taxpayers of Saskatoon tens of thousands of dollars on an ongoing basis. So that is rectified.

The only thing that hasn’t occurred so far is we still haven’t been able to sign a contract. And that’s unfortunate. As discussions go on, hopefully we can get to that

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Question: Chris Le Fevre, rates.” Well, compared to those the developer of The Banks four communities, our rates are project in Riversdale, recompetitive. Water rates do go cently said he wonders if up because of additional costs. there is room in Saskatoon For example, this year our new for his project, development water treatment plant will come of Parcel Y at River Landing on line. That has to be paid and a high rise project furfor and that financing comes ther downtown. Do you have through the water rates. On the thoughts on this? cost side, we try to minimize Mayor Atchison: As a them as much as possible. What developer he asks a very good we are doing with that brochure question. That is the beauty of Ask the Mayor is showing people they are getthe private sector. Each develting good value. oper can have a vastly different Question: I believe you project. Chris Le Fevre’s project — The have been asked numerous times to Banks — is fantastic. There will be busicommunicate on the resulting culpabilnesses and families living across the street ity on the matter of the recent transit from the Saskatoon Farmers’ Market. I system lockout. It appeared you were can hardly wait for it to open. I am excited shocked that taxpayers should expect to about the project. When people see it and hold those responsible for perceived inwhat it means to Riversdale, they will be competence without consequence. Don’t very pleased. We recently saw the plans for you think it would have been more another housing project at 17th Street and politically expedient for you and more Avenue F – a beautiful townhouse project palatable for us to just tell us the matter with 21 units. was addressed and corrective action was There are different niches in the martaken? How much is the lockout blunder ketplace. Some want to be on the river and costing us, and what’s the likely impact some don’t. One downtown project has a of this in terms of another major tax hotel and condos – another great idea. Par- increase? cel Y has great potential. I still think it is Mayor Atchison: We were attempting some of the finest land in all of Canada for from the beginning to do three things. The development. I can hardly wait for the day first thing is we want to sign a contract. We when we get moving forward on that. will continue to say that.

Question: I recently received my 2015 The next thing was to make sure the water/wastewater rate increase notice. buses were running all winter. It was of I get the impression from the notice grave concern when more than 90 per cent that city council uses Regina, Winnipeg, of employees had voted for strike action.

Calgary and Edmonton’s high water With that, how would we know when rates as justification to raise Saskatoon’s they would go on strike? And, if they did, low rate. the question would be, “Why didn’t you Mayor Atchison: This question sounds address the issue sooner than this? You more like a statement. The idea behind the had the whole to deal with it and you did information is simply to offer a compariabsolutely nothing.” When over 90 per son to show people what good value for cent of the employees say they are going money they are receiving today. I hear to strike, what would you think is going to AS70175.B16 Aaronhas high water people say, “Saskatoon happen? When do you think they would go

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Slumping riverbank a thorny problem for City Hall, homeowners

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gallons of water on this plain n June 19, 2013, hunin the past decade, and you dreds of millimetres have, obviously, a problem. of rain falling within It’s too late to go back 100 a very short time drowned years and rethink building on much of southern Alberta and that slope. The question is, flooded the mighty city of should it ever have been deCalgary. veloped? If not, it’s certainly Downriver, another, not our present-day city smaller and more limited council’s fault; nor is it the catastrophe was on its way. homeowners, although perSometime between June 20 haps some owners of the new and June 24, in a month that Columnist builds could have been more saw twice the normal amount circumspect. If they did not of rain, a second slope failure have access to the many, many reports hit the Nutana area of 11th Street East created about the riverbank over the last and Saskatchewan Crescent.

Saskatoon had 131.4 mm of rain that 100 years, however, that could pose some thorny questions for City Hall. month, and 101.6 of them fell between Therefore, the City must deal with June 13 and June 23. this as it stands today. Golder has sugThe year earlier, another chunk of gested two “high level” options. The first that street sank after considerable rain is to remove eight to 10 homes along – and 10 years of wet conditions. The news only got worse in 2014. On June 3, 11th and Sask. Crescent and regrade the slope, never to be developed again. Total an evacuation alert was issued to three properties, “triggered by a rapid increase cost would be about $10 million for the in movement rate as high as 40mm/day,” regarding, and $10 million for the value of the homes and lots. said a report that went to city council’s Option two (does anyone hear Scott executive committee last week. “On June McGillivray ringing in their ears?) would 24, 2014, further movement prompted leave the homes intact and construct a an expansion of the evacuation alert to stabilization zone in the midpoint of the include eight properties in total.” slope along the lane, also for about $20 In the past two and a half years, the million. It’s a hell of a decision. If it were riverbank slope moved 2.7 metres.

The city’s administration has prepared my home, I’d opt for option one and be done with it. an impressive report on the riverbank The legalities of all this are complex “slump” that details and includes the recent work done by Golder and Associ- in the extreme. Who should pay?

In the past 15 years, the City has ates, but also previous evaluations of the engaged in three slope remediation slope of years gone by. projects including Rotary Park at the The basic reasons for the slump are threefold: its geometry, or extreme steep- Broadway Bridge abutment, Cosmo ness; its geology, featuring weak soil for- Park near the University Bridge, and at mations; and groundwater. As the report 17th Street and Saskatchewan Crescent East. Yet these projects do not constitute notes, “water tables throughout Saskatoon have risen over the past decade due precedence, since they were all on public property. to unprecedented amounts of rainfall.

Homeowners now affected argue that This high water table leads to a buoyancy force within the slope that causes it to lift Cherry Lane, the little paved alley at the bottom of the steep bank, is City property and facilitate movement.”

You may think that all this slumping, and should be remediated so that they can proceed with fixing their properties. The and the concern about same, is a recent phenomenon. Not so. It is true that recent City says it doesn’t need Cherry Lane, so it won’t be fixed. events have been the most catastrophic, But there are public safety issues at least for the affected property owners.

However, the Golder report states, “slope involved, and if there aren’t legal reasons instability along the east riverbank in the for the City to fix the slope, there are ethical ones outside the legal strictures on city has been an ongoing problem since property ownership. It is not an identical 1913.”

A report by Clifton back in 1985, for situation to overland flooding, but there are similarities; and if various levels instance, says Cherry Lane is an area of government step in to help flooded where “existing landslides potentially property owners, should they do the same threaten structures or improvements in this case? placed on or near the top of the slopes” If we do continue to build by rivers, and that “the effects of movement can be and most good cities do; and if we do seen on several parcels of private propcontinue to build on flood plains and eserty and on several structures.”

This is fascinating news. The east riv- carpments, as human beings like to do; erbank has basically been an issue since and if climate change continues to mess the building boom of 1912, when most of with our weather, which it will likely do, we will have to find a new plane of Nutana went up. agreement on who’s to blame, and who’s But we, as human beings, want to build on riverbanks and on flood plains, to pay. This could be an interesting, perhaps precedent-setting, case study on and build we will. Add a little climate the right thing to do. change, which has poured billions of

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Trading Post to close after 50 years

Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express n March 14, the store known for being a champion of beautiful First Nations art and moccasins will close, two weeks short of its 50th anniversary.

The inevitable closing out sale has begun at The Trading Post, and customers are coming in with tears in their eyes, says owner Bruce Garman.

“We are an institution for some people,” said Garman, the owner since 1982.

However, he has decided that it is time to retire from the day-to-day grind, and try something new.

“There’s time for a new phase. That’s what I want,” said Garman. “It’s just time for something new. I want to find out who I’m going to be when I grow up.”

A small part of his decision is also that “independent retailing is also not easy any more. There are fewer and fewer of them.

I think there are still some people who can succeed, but it requires new ways of thinking and new skills in a fragmented marketplace. How do you get to your clientele?

Who are they?” he asked.

In the 1960s, Saskatoon was not home to a lot of First Nations people, or a lot of First Nations craftspeople, and even fewer First Nations businesspeople. The provincial government, as well as Garman’s father, John, felt that people should be exposed to First Nations work, and the seeds of The Trading Post were planted.

The minister of education at the time told John the provincial government wanted to start the first handicraft co-op as a pilot project in La Ronge, and asked him if he thought local Mennonites would sell the crafts.

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Anabaptist, like the Mennonites - but became the sales manager for the La Ronge Handicraft Co-op. The Mennonite Central Committee was the first customer.

“Dad realized the volume there just couldn’t pay him a living wage,” said Garman. “So he started looking for other First Nations crafts.

“In the early 1960s, there weren’t very many First Nations people in the city. He would go out to the sanatorium, because women would come in from the North with TB (tuberculosis), and he would take samples of beadwork and say, do you do work like this? If you do, I’ll bring you some supplies and while you’re here, you can make me some moccasins, make me whatever.

“He would sell crafts from these women. Then, in 1965, my parents (John and Ruth) decided they would open their own retail store. I’ve got some suppliers who have supplied our store for 50 years. I know they were there from day one.”

His father, Garman relates, would go once a month to the reserve, where they called him Saskatoon Man. “A woman came in a while ago and said, ‘My mother and my aunties, your dad would sit and drink muskeg tea with them,’ ” said Garman, who took over the business in 1982. “ ‘He treated us with respect.’ ” In the late 1960s, the Garmans also opened a moccasin factory, which closed in 2001. Over those years, 30 people manufactured 65,000 pairs of moccasins and 5,000 pairs of mukluks annually.

“In the early days, we saw First Nations faces when they came in the store to sell me something or to come buy beads.

Now, a lot of my customers are First Nations people who are buying gifts… young women who buy moccasins and say,

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Bruce Garman stands in The Trading Post, among the First Nations art the shop is known for (Photo by Joanne Paulson) ‘Don’t tell my grandmother,’ ” he related with a laugh.

Garman’s passion for art and culture will continue to factor largely in his life. He has, for many years, been going to Buenos Aires, Argentina, which “might become my new place,” he said. “I’d like to have some time to do some thinking and writing.

“The thing that I love about it is that it is somehow a generation behind us. It’s still (the case that) cultural things have a high value. Artists are respected. There are bookstores that still manage to survive. There are magazine stands on the corners. It has a real cultural side to it that I appreciate.”

And, Garman’s Spanish is “not bad. I can talk to the cab driver about the political scene.”

That being said, he also loves Saskatoon, a city where, “if you have any social JW12149.B16 Jamesmeeting people aspect to your personality,

and making friends is very easy.”

He describes himself as a small businessman “because I’m short;” but despite his stature recalls throwing parties where the mayor and the chief of police would show up. One chief stood by his piano belting out “Oklahoma” on one occasion.

“Only in Saskatoon,” said Garman.

He is proud of the legacy his family has left here, as well. In a business that has dealt with First Nations all these years, “I understood how my father treated people.

And one thing I love about my store is I have staff who show respect.

“There are First Nations people who come through that door and we think the world of them. They are our suppliers, but also, they are our heroes. We know what they bring to it, what they found within themselves. That’s been the joy of that business.”

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BUSINESS BRIEFS

Neechie Gear owner wins business award

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endal Netmaker has been in high gear ever since he founded Neechie Gear in 2011 as part of a business competition.

He has won several awards for his sports apparel company, and recently added the 2015 National Youth Aboriginal Entrepreneur Award to the list, which comes with a $10,000 cash prize. The award is given by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business and ESS Support Services Worldwide to an aboriginal entrepreneur under age 35.

It is only the second year for the award.

Netmaker’s Saskatoon-based company turns over some of its profits to help underprivileged youth take part in sports.

The company emerged from his own experiences as a child. His family could not afford to pay the fees for soccer participation, nor could they drive him to practices and games. A friend told his parents about Netmaker’s dilemma, and they provided the funds and the transportation.

That was the inspiration behind Neechie Gear, which now sells its products through a permanent site in the Circle Mall and via e-commerce. Netmaker received his award at a gala in Toronto on Feb. 3.

Boryski’s named King of Kovbasa 2015 Boryski’s Butcher Block took this year’s New Community Credit Union King of Kovbasa title earlier this month, sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Professional & Business Association.

The local butcher shop also took the prize for best flavour, while Saskatoon Co-op took the best appearance and best texture awards.

The event raised more than $20,000 for the Kidney Foundation of Canada, Saskatchewan branch.

“We are honoured to be the recipient of funds raised from this year,” said Joyce Van Deurzen, the branch’s executive director. “These funds will be used to

assist people living with kidney disease in Saskatchewan. They are the true beneficiaries of the 14th annual King of Kovbasa Challenge.”

Next year’s challenge will support the Saskatoon SPCA. Saskatchewan’s top employers named Canada’s Top 100 Employers has named Saskatchewan’s top employers for 2015.

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Page 10 - SASKATOONEXPRESS - February 16-22, 2015 the Park Town Hotel, along with Brian McAreavey. Tickets are $30.

The Express caught up with him by email for a Q&A as he was preparing to drive from his home in North Carolina to Florida for a show the following day.

Bob Margolin is among the headliners at the Saskatoon Blues Festival (Photo supplied)

Bob Margolin rolls into Saskatoon for Blues Fest Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express ob Margolin is immersed in the blues.

Not only is Margolin touring as a band leader and guest musician with other greats, he is also a blues journalist who is constantly updating his website and contributing to Blues Revue and other publications.

He comes from the deep roots of the blues, too, as a member of the Muddy Waters Band from 1973 to 1983, the

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year of Waters’ death. He has played with Joe Louis Walker, Charlie Musselwhite, Dr. John, Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard and many others.

Now, he is bringing his Stratocaster and his band to Saskatoon for the Saskatoon Blues Festival.

Margolin and his band play Feb. 26 at TCU Place in a show including B.C Read and George Tennent, and The Perpetrators. Tickets are $20 plus service charges, available at www.saskatoonbluessociety.ca. He also plays Feb. 27 at

Express: What’s new in the blues?

Are you seeing new and original material and, if so, in what style, mainly?

Delta, Chicago, urban, country?

Margolin: I meet many young musicians who love blues music with the same spirit as the legendary players who inspire them. At my shows, through social media, and especially through workshops of The Pinetop Perkins Foundation, I can see that the blues — both traditional and progressive styles and all you mentioned — will be around for a long time.

Just to mention some of my young friends who are great musicians now and may be tomorrow’s blues stars: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Austin Young, Nic Clark, Alissa Chesis, Eugen Ray (in Kiev!), Aidan Hornaday, Kyle Rowland.

Forgive me for those I didn’t mention. They inspire me the way the older legendary players do. Also, there are fine blues musicians of all ages, all over the world. I often go to Europe alone and play with blues bands from many different countries. In a world where so much pulls people apart, I’m proud to have a job that brings good folks together.

Q: How prevalent are blues festivals? Is there a real circuit these days?

A: The people who love blues music keep it alive with blues societies all over the world, and festivals and concerts.

There are still blues clubs or venues that present blues. There is not so much a blues “circuit” as there was for touring bands 40 or more years ago, but the audience is there.

Q: How important are blues festivals to keeping the genre going and healthy?

A: Blues festivals make it easier for blues fans of all ages to enjoy the music live without having to go out to bars — which are also a great place to see blues in its “natural habitat.” I just played at Blind Willie’s in Atlanta last Saturday night. It was full of people of all ages and races enjoying live blues together.

The only way I could tell it wasn’t 1970 was the more modern cash registers.

Q: How did you get your nickname, Steady Rollin’?

A: In 1978, in Boston, a friend who was a blues DJ on a college station introduced the Muddy Waters band at a club gig. He speed-rapped the introduction; it was very funny. When he got to

my name, he said, “From right here in Boston, Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin on guitar.” There’s a Robert Johnson song called “Steady Rollin’ Man” and, by that time in my life, the name was appropriate. And the word “rollin’” rhymes with “Margolin.” I like the nickname, but don’t care if anyone uses it or not.

Q: You played with Muddy Waters.

What was he like, and how much of an influence was he for you?

A: The short answer is that he had charisma. He affected people in a spiritual way, both with his music and personally. If you’d like a longer answer to that . . . I wrote a Blues Revue magazine story in 1994, and I have it in my eBook “Steady Rollin’” and as a link on my website: http://bobmargolin.com/327-2/.

Q: What was it like going from a rhythm section to headliner?

A: My time in Muddy’s band ended when I was 30 years old. I learned a lot about how to be a sideman and how to be a bandleader. I was very ready to do my own music.

Q: How do you mix and manage writing, social media and all your gigs?

A: Having enough time to do everything seems difficult for everyone these days, doesn’t it? Everybody I know is busier than they want to be, in spite of the Internet and smartphones, which should save us time. I have to plan my time carefully. I’ll bet you and everyone who reads this does, too. But the same principle has guided me since I became a professional musician in 1972: If I have a good time on the bandstand, everything else will be alright, too.

Q: You’re going to be busy at the Saskatoon festival. What are you looking forward to?

A: For any of the events in which I’ll participate, I enjoy meeting soulful people who love blues music. From the days I first played in Canada with Muddy in 1973 to the Calgary Blues Festival and shows with my friends in the Downchild Blues Band in Ontario last October, I’ve found the Canadian audiences to be wonderful to play for and become friends with.

Q: Are you ready for our weather?

A: I’ve got a heavy down parka with a hood, and just bought one of those new little down jackets that weigh almost nothing, but are very warm. Should I bring them both?

Express: Yes, Bob. Bring them both.

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SSO brings back Simon & Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin

Lucas Waldin steps in as guest conductor with the SSO, Feb. 28 (Photo supplied) Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express ans of ’60s music and the acclaimed folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel are in for a treat this weekend.

On Saturday, Feb. 21, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra (SSO) will present a concert called Feelin’ Groovy, featuring Juno-nominated Canadian singer-songwriter Jim Witter. The evening will showcase some of Simon & Garfunkel’s greatest hits, including Mrs. Robinson, I am a Rock, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cecilia and, of course, Feelin’ Groovy.

The Simon & Garfunkel show is part of the SSO’s Conexus Pop Series, which combines the full sound of the symphony orchestra with well-known pop or rock music.

“The Pop Series have always been really popular, because it’s music that people who don’t necessarily listen to classical music would still know. So it draws a different crowd,” said SSO marketing director Derek Mortensen.

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“Hearing these songs with a different arrangement, it’s kind of a new experience.

Jim Witter has been doing these shows for many years now. He’s bringing a band...

So they’ve sort of written these songs in arrangements for the symphony, obviously, and it’s a much fuller sound, but you still get the feeling of the song that you know and love from the ’60s. It’s a unique thing.”

Following the Simon & Garfunkel concert, the next Pop Series show will take place on April 25 and will feature the music of rock band Led Zeppelin.

“It’s classic music that everyone knows from that generation, presented in a whole different way,” said Mortensen.

If you’re interested in hearing more traditional classical music, there’s another upcoming concert you may want to take in.

Just one week after the Simon & Garfunkel show, the SSO will present its next Master Series concert on Feb. 28. Entitled Espana, the concert will feature music written in, or inspired by, Spain. As part of the evening,

classical guitarist Daniel Bolshoy will perform Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.

“It’s conducted by Lucas Waldin, who actually is an artist-in-residence at the Edmonton Symphony. So, for a conductor, he’s very young – he was born in ’82,” said Mortensen.

“It’s sort of the theme this year, of having younger guest artists and up-and-comers – people who have now come into their own and are performing all over the world.

So it will be an interesting guy to have in town,” he added.

Speaking of young people, the SSO is engaging music lovers of all ages – even the pre-kindergarten crowd. On March 4, the next Time for Toddlers event will be held at 408 20th St. West. Parents and toddlers are invited to explore music, song and dance with the SSO’s musicians.

“We’re not trying to teach them how to play the violin or anything like that, but it’s a chance for them to experience these instruments they may or may not have seen

in person before,” said Mortensen.

The SSO is also trying to introduce more young adults to the symphony experience.

As a result, tickets are being offered for $15 to people under age 25 for the Simon & Garfunkel and Espana concerts. The $15 tickets cannot be purchased in advance, but rather on the day of the show, said Mortensen.

“We know that for some young people and students, it can be a little bit expensive for them. But this is a way to make it accessible and to put in on the radar as an option to do on a Saturday.”

Mortensen said the SSO is doing well financially, with every show this season turning a profit. The Master Series shows have been selling particularly well, and “there’s been a lot of interest in this new generation of performers,” he said.

To eliminate its deficit and ensure financial stability going forward, the SSO has launched a fundraising campaign called Share in the Future. The campaign involves finding 2,000 donors to give $100 each to the SSO by May 31. The Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation will match the donations up to $200,000.

“There has been a ground swell of support for the SSO in the last year with rising audience attendance, public recognition and community support. Through Share in the Future, we want to give the music lovers in Saskatoon the chance to feel a part of the new strength and triumphs of their orchestra,” the SSO stated on its website.

“In addition to your charitable donation receipt, you’ll join us this fall for a gala concert with a very special surprise guest – a free concert and champagne party to celebrate. The only way to get in is to be one of the 2,000 so that we can say ‘Thank you’ musically!”

It’s also a time of transition for the SSO. On March 4, the symphony will announce its next music director. The search began to replace the SSO’s current music director, Maestro Victor Sawa, last summer. After the 2014-2015 season ends, Sawa will become the first conductor emeritus of the SSO, while a new person will take over as music director.

For more information about the SSO, or to purchase tickets to the upcoming concerts, visit saskatoonsymphony.org.

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Dear Reena, Hi Reena, There is a hazy film that Once brown sugar hardcovers the windows of my ens, is there any way to car. I have washed them restore it back to granular with window cleaners, but form again? I would hate to the film always comes back. replace it. — Sue What can I use to end this?

Dear Sue, — Jeannine In order to soften brown Dear Jeannine, sugar, put it in a microwavable Many car experts use container and place it in the mirubbing alcohol to shine car crowave with a small bowl full windows. However, it is posof water beside it. Microwave Household sible that the car windows are for about one minute. If it is Solutions permanently etched from the still hard, microwave for an adheat of the sun. If after cleanditional 30 seconds. Repeat uning the film returns, contact a professional. til sugar is soft, being careful not to burn The windows may need replacing. the sugar. To prevent future hardening, the JW12166.B16 James

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Will the City, in its wisdom, clarify costs on the new art gallery?

od, grant me have his personal public relations the serenity to officer, who might be.) accept the things However, in the Jan. 27 edition I cannot change, the courage of The StarPhoenix, in an article to change the things I can, and entitled “Project Price Tag”, it the wisdom to know the diflists the City’s share at $23.5 ference.” Reinhold Niebuhr’s million, with a total project cost Serenity Prayer is a great of $93.7 million. The Standard & guiding principle for a stressPoors credit rating report refers to free life. I wish I could make the $99.7-million gallery, and we it work for me when dealing don’t know if that is last year’s with the new art gallery. number or whether it includes the Columnist I have the wisdom to additional $6 million that counaccept the fact that we will cil blithely threw at the project have this gallery and be paying for it for during its 2015 budget deliberations. And decades to come. The City will probably I am curious as to why the rating agency have to tax my gravesite down the road to lists the gallery debt at $99.7 million if, in pay for this legacy. fact, the City’s share is $36 million. If the However, I do not have the wisdom yet provincial and federal governments have to accept the stated capital cost of the facil- not tendered their respective shares as yet, ity. Perhaps it is because of the confusion will they be paying the substantial interest about the dollar amounts given. charges on this outstanding amount?

In the Jan. 5 edition of this publicaIn yet another StarPhoenix article, the tion, the mayor states, when commenting gallery executive director/CEO refers to on the new art gallery, there is only one an $80-million gallery and $20-million set of facts and those who bandy about parkade. More recently it was said that the inaccurate numbers do the City a terrible city’s share would be just shy of $30 mildisservice. He states that the fact is the gal- lion. There seems to be no clear picture of lery will cost the City, all in, $36 million. what the cost is, nor does it clearly define (I suspect Atch did not write this piece as what is included in that price. Whatever he is usually not that glib – but he does the accurate number is, does it include all

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hard costs and soft costs? Does it include the furnishings and décor, or is that over and above? What does the mayor mean when he says the City’s share “all in” is $36 million?

The only published dollar amounts that are consistent are the provincial and federal contributions of $16.7 and $13 million respectively. Based on the latest reports, the fundraising seems to be going fine with $4.9 million in naming rights sold and a balance of $8.7 million left to achieve the goal of $13.6. What is this money being used for?

Is it for construction costs, acquisitions, or programming? I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge Ellen Remai’s generous contribution of $15 million.

Mayor Atchison insists that the underground parking is not part of the gallery project, and further that the parkade will pay for itself. My initial response to his position is unpublishable, so let me simply say balderdash. That is akin to backing out the cost of the public washrooms from the project cost because pay toilets will be installed and at two bits a flush these rooms will pay for themselves. You would have to be a moron to believe that the parking is not part and parcel of the gallery project. When the City first announced this project it listed the City’s share at about $54 million, which

at that time included the parking. But after hearing the public reaction to that cost, the parking was hived off as a separate project, thus reducing the stated cost of the gallery to appease the public. As to the parkade being self-sustaining, that will not happen in my lifetime, my children’s lifetime or possibly my grandchildren’s lifetime.

I write this because it is not those individuals who question the City’s facts and figures who do a “terrible disservice” to city residents, but City officials who play with the truth. (I suspect we would need an outside forensic audit of the books to get factual information on this boondoggle.)

If there is public confusion relating to the gallery project it is the direct result of the City’s failure to communicate.

For the sake of my stress levels, I have accepted that taxpayers will be yoked with this debt for decades to come. As painful as this is, it is not the capital debt that concerns me most now, but the annual operating costs that might conceivably overburden taxpayers in the years to come.

The sequel to this column will come later this spring, when the business plan for the operating costs of the gallery is presented to council. I fear this will be the time when the Serenity Prayer fails me. ehnatyshyn@gmail.com

Target disaster a lesson in what not to do

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hen you think about the executives decided to create a new words “Target Canada,” process for Canada, including new what is the first thing technology and software. that comes to mind? I mean, beNot only was it untested, it sides “closing.” wasn’t set up with any forecastI’d venture “empty shelves” is ing functions, which are vital to close to the forefront. any corporation’s ability to meet It was an early and oftenconsumer needs. It’s understandreported thorn in the retailer’s side able that Target wouldn’t have had — frustrated shoppers snapping forecasting information specific pictures of vast swaths of vacant to Canada, given that they were in-store displays, and then posting new to the market, but surely they Columnist those damning photos on social could have come up with some media. It became a veritable smordecent demographic-comparable gasboard of negative advertising, and seemed data based on their stores in the U.S.? to prove almost impossible to contradict.

The result was that new technology was I wrote a column a while back about the thrust upon new employees, who were seemnotion that Target Canada’s confidence in the ingly unable to communicate what their indiloyalty of Canadian cross-border shoppers vidual stores needed to the new distribution was unfounded. Did we ever really want the centres. In other words, it was a gunfight in Target experience in our own backyard? For the dark, with the resulting holes in inventory any number of reasons it appears not, but evident as soon as you walked through the I’m guessing that on your next trip to Minot, front doors. you’ll still see the Target parking lot full of Back to Walmart, which has been using Saskatchewan licence plates. technology, even computers, to manage its The beginning-to-end Target Canada disas- shelves since before computers were even a ter will undoubtedly be studied, dissected and thing. It’s complicated, but basically Walmart theorized by marketing types forever and ever, communicates every single sale of a prodand we’ll let them do that, because who’s uct back to that product’s manufacturer or got the time? It’s worth examining, however, supplier, in real time. That supplier is then rethe significance of empty shelves in a major sponsible for pushing their product into stores retailer, even more so the significance in based on both forecasting models and supply Saskatchewan, and what those shelves might and demand, which keeps the shelves stocked, say about the corporation’s understanding and them in business, and the customer happy. commitment to the Canadian shopper.

In other words, as soon as you buy that box The best way to examine the Target inven- of diapers, Procter and Gamble knows about tory fiasco is to look at Walmart. Walmart may it, and makes sure another box is there when be a lot of things, but understocked is definite- you need it again in two weeks. ly not one of them. Quite a feat, considering it Speaking of which, given Walmart’s exbasically sells every last thing you could ever traordinary buying power, there was undoubtwant to buy. So how is it that Walmart can do edly little to no incentive for suppliers who it, and do it so well, and Target couldn’t even stay in business, thanks to that buying power, get the basics right? to pledge another allegiance to Target. Sure, For starters, it appears Target tried to rein- there’s a balance of power in play — Proctor vent the wheel. Clearly, it had a supply-chain and Gamble is big enough that it doesn’t have management process in place that works in to bow to any particular demand for exclusivthe United States, but for some reason Target ity. But the smaller suppliers, whose business

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is at capacity and is 80 per cent Walmart?

If Walmart says you don’t deal with Target, you’re not going to deal with Target.

Then there’s the matter of getting that product to Saskatchewan — or really anywhere outside of the manufacturer’s warehouse, whether that’s in China or Indiana. It is another challenge, as you might suspect. It’s one that Walmart is also very good at overcoming. Walmart may not own the road, but they do own a whole ton of the semi-trailers and ocean and rail containers you see chugging on rail across the prairies.

Breaking news — a good proportion of the stuff you bought at Walmart was probably made in China, so for Canadians, it’s coming through Vancouver. Walmart doesn’t own the ships, but it does own the space at port at Vancouver to get those 40-foot ocean containers offloaded and then the wares transferred for destinations west.

Remember all those Target trucks you saw when the stores opened in Saskatoon? Oh no, wait. You didn’t see any.

Walmart realized early and often how important not only managing, but controlling, the supply chain is. It delegated responsibility for that control to the right parties — to suppliers, who push out its inventory, and to Walmart itself, which gets that inventory to its own stores using its own power.

For whatever reason, Target didn’t see fit to organize any of this. They blame the fact that they opened too many stores too quickly and at once, and arguably they’re right.

There’s a reason IKEA hasn’t come storming into Saskatchewan — slow and steady wins the race.

The beauty of hindsight is that it’s always 20/20. Of course, there are a number of other variables still in play — the glut of commercial real estate left behind, the jobs lost and so on — but the lessons learned from Target Canada’s undignified exit from this country will be invaluable to future enterprises looking to set up shop in new markets, specifically ours.

Hope carries on, at least for now

Ned Powers Saskatoon Express The HOPE Cancer Help Centre will continue to serve cancer patients and their families, at least for the time being.

Jack Walton, interim president of the board of directors, says a decision by the previous board to dissolve the agency at a special meeting was not in accordance with the centre’s bylaws. In its vote, the previous board did not achieve two-thirds of the support required for dissolution.

“As a result, the board will forego dissolution for the short term and will pursue a new opportunity that may breathe some new life into the organization. We will re-evaluate the viability of HOPE and explore all the options,” he said.

HOPE has been attempting to operate on an annual budget of $140,000. It depends entirely on its own fundraising and does not receive government funding.

“The current financial situation is serious and challenging,” said Walton. “We will try

to create policies which will address and stabilize methods to reduce the costs.”

Effective immediately, office hours at 129 D Pinehouse Dr. will be reduced to four days a week — Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Its office leader, Donna Boyce, is supportive of change and open to all possibilities.

“Together we will make every effort to find a way to continue a much-valued service and a safety net to families affected by cancer,” said Walton.

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MENSA is an international, non-profit society for people who score among the top two per cent of the general population on a standardFEBRUARY 18 ized IQ test. A supervised IQ testing session Returning for his second visit to The Bassment, is being held in Saskatoon on Feb. 21 at 2 James Keelaghan of Perth, Ont. is a Juno p.m. The cost is $90, or $70 for students. If Award-winning folk singer-songwriter with a you are interested in attending this seslilting baritone voice, keen sense of narrative sion, please call Tim at 306-242-7408 or and a team of back-up musicians. Show e-mail trf674@campus.usask.ca. time is 8 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets: $23 for FEBRUARY 27 Saskatoon Jazz Society members, $28 for Premiere of To Light a Candle and panel non-members. discussion at Broadway Theatre, 7 p.m. for FEBRUARY 20 “Education is Not a Crime Day.” Focus is on the Artistic director Dean McNeill of the Saskatoon non-violent struggle of the Baha’i community Jazz Orchestra has friends in many places. in Iran to educate its youth, who are barred They include Ray Vasquez, Jim Brenan, Ross from universities. The one-hour film is based Ulmer, Paul Read, Jon McCaslin and Brad on the experience of Iranian-Canadian journalShigeta, who will share in a tribute to Frank ist Maziar Bahari, jailed for 118 days in Iran in Mantooth, Maynard Ferguson and other jazz 2009 while a reporter for Newsweek. Admisfigures. Show time is 7 p.m. Broadway Theatre. sion $5 at the door for cost recovery. For more Tickets; $30 for adults, $25 for seniors and information, 306-955-1203 or cummings@ $15 for students. sasktel.net.

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Jim Witter will be the guest vocalist, a fivemember rock band will join him, and the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra will be featured in a Pops Series concert built around the music of Simon & Garfunkel. Favourites will include The Boxer, Bridge Over Troubled Water and Mrs. Robinson. Concert time is 7:30 pm. TCU Place: Tickets: $38 to $58 plus service charges.

A Sixpence is Not Enough - a drama by Millar College of the Bible about George Mueller, and how his faith in God helped thousands of orphans in Bristol, England in the 1800’s.

7:30 p.m. at SDA Christian School on 2228 Herman Avenue. Tickets: $12 online at www. sixpence.brownpapertickets.com.

FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 1

Dine in the Dark, a culinary fundraiser presented by the CNIB, goes Thurs., March 5, sponsored by the Park Town Hotel, and supported by Scotiabank and Rawlco Radio.

Wearing blindfolds, diners will be taken on a journey of the senses and will enjoy the smells, the sounds, the tastes and the textures in a way they never thought possible.

The event is being held at the Park Town Hotel. Reception and silent auction at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $75 or $525 for a table of eight people. Call 306-374-4545 or visit the CNIB office in Saskatoon, 1705 McKercher Drive.

The Saskatoon Blues Society presents the Saskatoon Blues Festival, at various venues, including main venues TCU Place and the Park Town Hotel. Headliners include Bob Margolin, Rick Estrin and the Night Cats, Tinsley Ellis and Nikki Hill. For tickets and further information, visit saskatoonbluessociety.ca.

MARCH 1 The University of Saskatchewan Greystone Singers are performing their Spring Concert at 3 p.m. in Knox United Church. The program consists of a wide variety of choral repertoire from traditional and classical to sacred and secular, including folk songs and spirituals in a variety of languages and styles. Featured works are Benjamin Britten’s Choral Dances from Gloriana, Heinrich Schütz’s Singet dem Herrn (Ps. 98) with double chorus, Ola Gjeilo’s Contrition, and Saskatchewan composer Paul Suchan’s Wake the Grain. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors available at McNally Robinson, from choir members, or at the door.

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MARCH 6 Grandmothers 4 Grandmothers10th anniversary fundraising dinner. Western Development Museum. Reception at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $45. Tickets are available by calling Jenifer at 306-242-4989 or at McNally Robinson Booksellers.

MARCH 14

Fifth annual Music For Mutts charity benefit concert. Music for Mutts is a benefit concert MARCH 8 for New Hope Dog Rescue, generously hosted Pavlo in concert. Broadway Theatre, doors at 7 by the Saskatoon Academy of Music. The p.m., show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $38 and avail- evening features musically diverse perforable by calling 306-652-6556, going online at mances by the Saskatoon Academy of Music teachers, as well as a silent auction, door www.broadwaytheatre.ca or at the theatre. prizes, and great refreshments. Meet some of the fabulous New Hope foster dogs, and enjoy an evening with fellow music and dog lovers. Doors and silent auction open at 6:30 p.m. with the concert starting at 7 p.m. Tickets FEBRUARY 16-22 are available at the Saskatoon Academy of Wide Open Children’s Theatre presents: Gimme Music: call 306-934-2424 or email inquiries@ Grimm. Performances: Feb. 16 at 11 a.m. and saskatoonacademyofmusic.com to reserve 1 p.m.; Feb. 21 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; Feb. 22 your tickets today. Tickets are $20 for adults, at 2 p.m. Morning shows. Afternoon shows are $12 for kids (14 and under). Academy families one-hour long. Advance tickets and season get $2 off ticket prices. passes can be purchased online at www. wideopen.ca. Rush tickets will be available for MARCH 14 and 15 purchase at the venue 30 minutes before show REMIX is a show and sale of upcycled furniture and artifacts such as art, sculptures, jewelry time, cash only. More information is on Faceand home décor created by local artisans. book. Search Wide Open Children’s Theatre.

The show goes at The Refinery noon to 8 p.m.

FEBRUARY 17 March 14 and noon to 5 p.m. March 15. This Third Avenue United Church, Shrove Tuesday year’s line-up of remixers includes: Kathy Pancake Supper. 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets: $6 in Allen, Kristin Almen, Dave Cummine, Karen advance, $7 at the door, $4 for children 10 and Davidson, Bette Fontaine, Kim Fontaine, Shelley under. Call (306) 652-6812 for tickets.

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Saskatoon Nature Society: Branimir Gjetvaj speaks on Agricultural Intensification and the Fate of Wild Nature. 7:30 p.m. at the U of S Biology Building, Rm 106.

The Saskatoon branch of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society holds its regular monthly meeting Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m., including an open house and genealogy fair. Albert Community Centre, 610 Clarence Ave. South.

FEBRUARY 21 The Lighthouse Supported Living and The Bridge Fellowship Centre presents the second Coldest Night of the Year (WALK). A familyfriendly winter fundraising event for Saskatoon’s homeless, the WALK takes place on the evening of Feb. 21. The Saskatoon WALK begins and ends at the Lighthouse, 227 20th St E, where walkers will register, turn in the results of their fundraising efforts, and return at the end of the evening for a warm celebration meal. Call 306 653-6665.

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.

First and Third Saturdays of the month Lions Club’s Texas Holdem Tournaments. $60 buy-in gets $10,000 in chips, $40 goes to the cash prize pool. No Re-Buys. 50 seats available. Registration opens at 6, tournament starts at 7 p.m. The Coachman bar at Market Mall. Call 306-668-0015 for more information.

First Saturday of every month The MindFULL Café, part of the international Alzheimer Café movement, is an opportunity to meet in a relaxed social setting for persons with dementia, family, care partners and other interested people. The Café is a two-hour get together with refreshments, entertainment and information. First Saturday of the month from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Sherbrooke Community Centre.

Every Tuesday Off-Broadway Farmers’ Market & International Bazaar and Bistro. Basement of Grace-Westminster United Church (505, 10th Street East).

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. ***** Spirit of the West 616550 Toastsmasters Club Downtown Saskatoon. Come and have some fun with speaking and leadership skills. Our club meets from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Hospitality Room of Great Western Brewing Company. Follow the red fence on south side of building through the gate up the stairs into the building.

First Monday of every month Saskatoon Ostomy Association meetings at 7:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church. We meet the first Monday of the month except when there is a holiday; if so we meet the second Monday.

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across from the Saskatoon Funeral Home. For more information call Murray Hill at 306-2425893 or email murraydhill@me.com.

Second Wednesday of the Month Friendship Force International, Saskatoon and Area Club is an organization of more than 360 clubs in more than 50 countries throughout the world. FFI allows you to enjoy economical travel while forging new friendships with club members from around the world. Visit our website at www.thefriendshipforce.org, find out more about us or come join us at our next meeting by contacting Lynne Stade at 306933-4835 or lstade@shaw.ca.

Every Thursday Saskatoon International Folkdance Club meets at 7 p.m. in Albert Community Centre (Rm 13, 610 Clarence Ave. South). Learn dances from many countries around the world. First night is free! For more information visit www.sifc. awardspace.com. ***** Le Choeur des plaines welcomes you to sing and socialize in French each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at L’École canadienne française at 1407 Albert Avenue. The choir is directed by Michael Harris and is accompanied by Rachel Fraser. All who wish to sustain or practice their French are welcome. For more information, call Rachel at 306-343-6641 or Jean at 306343-9460. ***** SCOOTERS indoor playgroup for children newborn to age five and their parents/caregivers will be at Emmanuel Baptist Church from 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. $40/family/year or suggested drop-in donation of $5/family. Visit our Facebook page (Scooters - at EBC) for more information. ***** Pop In & Play. 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Erindale Alliance Church (310 Perehudoff Cres).

Bring your little ones with you downstairs for a great time of fun and connecting. Monthly theme, learning centres, snack and the occasional speaker. More info at office@ erindalealliance.ca.

Left Behind By Suicide is a drop-in support group for individuals 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 is no cost to attend. For more information, email leftbehind@sasktel.net. ***** 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 Family Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North (wheelchair accessible). If you have a loved one or friend with a mental illness and you need understanding and support, contact Carol at 306-249-0693, Linda at 306-933-2085, Lois at 306-242-7670 or First and Third Wednesday of the month e-mail fromisk@gmail.com.

Resporados support group for people with First and Third Sunday breathing difficulties taking place at of every month 1:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church (33rd Pet Loss Support Group offers support and comfort to people who are struggling with the Street West). For more information, contact loss of a beloved companion animal due to old Debbie at 306-664-4992. age, sickness or other sad reasons. The noobligation support group meets at 2 p.m. at the W.A. Edwards Centre, 333 4th Avenue North, Saskatoon. For more information or telephone support, call 306-343-5322.

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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. ***** Bargain store to support the inner-city Lighthouse project. Babies’, children’s, ladies’ and men’s clothing; jewelry, purses, belts and camping clothes available. Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 454 Egbert Avenue. Prices from $0.25 to $5. Everyone is welcome. For more information: Call 306-955-3766 (church) or go to spuconline.com or email zixiag@gmail.com. ***** St. George’s Senior Citizen’s Club (1235 -20th St. West) have bingos and Kaiser from noon until 4 p.m. On the last Wednesday of each month we hold a birthday party for applicable members. Monthly socials are also held randomly. The club is campaigning for new members who are 55+. Included are bowling alleys, pool tables, dart boards. The club building is wheelchair accessible with adjacent bus service. Memberships are $5 per year with discounts included. For further info call 306384-4644 or 306-716-0204.

Third Thursday of the Month The Saskatoon Prostate Cancer Support Group meets every month except July and August at 7:30 p.m. in the W. A. Edwards Family Centre,

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. Cued ballroom at 7 p.m. Albert Community Centre (610 Clarence Ave. South). For more information, call 306-290-5486.

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 send an email to 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 306978-0813.

Saskatoon Mood Disorder Support Group The Saskatoon mood disorder support group for people with bi-polar, depression and other related mental health problems 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.

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I’m at the ‘braking’ point on this one

ust about every morning on my way to work, I get stuck behind the Stop-andGo Guy. You know who I mean. There’s one in every city, perhaps there’s one on every street. Maybe you live with one. Well, Stop-and-Go Guy, a.k.a. Mr. Jerky, is the obsessive-compulsive brake rider. You can easily spot him after dark: the one car in a sea of cars with the brake lights constantly flickering on and off.

How does this happen?

My Stop-and-Go Guy drives a blue and rust-spotted small car. It’s an old car, so the excuse that it’s a new car with sensitive brakes doesn’t really apply here. More likely, there are probably no brakes at all (I’ll explain that one in a minute).

On the other hand, the brakes do appear to work as traffic hiccups with the machine-gun-like tapping of his right foot on the pedal. He’s the kind of person who just likes getting on and off it for no apparent reason. (There must be a 12-step program he could sign up for or a pill he could take.)

If he’s afraid of smacking into the car in front of him, he could just stop tailgating and look ahead a block JW12138.B16 Jamesor two for any obvi-

ous surprises. But no. Hey, he’s not doing anyone any favours by tapping the pedal so often. He’s just wearing out his brakes, not to mention the patience of the drivers behind him. He’s quite literally treading on thin linings, if you know what I mean.

Now, I understand that this guy has every right to burn out his brakes if he wants to. But, you see, when Mr. Achy Brakey taps his pedal, the natural reaction is to brake, too. Until I figure out that he’s just a compulsive braker, I have to assume that he’s stopping for something -- anything -not just because he likes the feel of a dying rotor pulsating beneath his foot.

So, Stop-and-Go Guy isn’t just wearing out the brakes on his car, but the brakes on cars owned by other drivers -- especially ones with syndicated columns -- who just want to get to work without having to swallow a handful of Gravol to ease the motion sickness.

But no, this abuse causes our brakes (and tempers) to overheat. That leads to brake fade or failure.

Basically, excessive heat causes reduced friction, thereby making our brakes ineffective if stepped on too long. Still with me? Continued overuse can increase

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Just one person needlessly tapping the brake pedal can cause a whiplash effect in traffic.

The result is stop-and-go traffic that would be otherwise smooth flowing. this “fade” until eventually your car might not slow down or stop at all.

Now do you see why it bugs me so much?

And if that’s not bad enough, all the stopping and starting or slowing down by using your brakes, instead of just easing off the gas, increases fuel consumption.

So, let’s total the damage: Stop-andGo Guy is wasting my/our time, my/our patience AND my/our money.

So, do us all a favour Mr. Jerky . . . find that 12-step program, get a prescription, back off from the car in front of you -- do whatever you have to. Just give it a rest already. Your brakes and your fellow drivers will thank you for it.

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made-up title Bentayga. The vehicle, which is based on the Bentley Continental GT (another cool handle, by the way), is being touted as the world’s most expensive off-roader. That being the case, why stick it with a name that’s guaranteed to be mispronounced, misspelled or mistaken for some drug-store ointment.

Someone in a senior position at Bentley or Volkswagen should demand a rethink on this name, pronto.\ Tackiest preamble Ford To be fair, Ford’s half-hour showcase included a trio of eye-catchers including the 2016 Shelby Mustang GT350, 2017 F-150 Raptor and the magnificent 2017 GT. Understandably, the journalists in attendance went bonkers when the GT was driven on the stage and for that reason Ford earns forgiveness for its pre-launch antics. They included an inane musical soundtrack blaring directly at an audience that was stuck with wretchedly uncomfortable folding chairs inside the Joe Louis hockey rink (adjacent to the Cobo Center). But the worst offence was the phony baloney Twitter tweets projected onto a giant curtain that parted once the presentation commenced. Not surprisingly, the various tweets praised Ford to the heavens, but since there were only about 20 of them, they were repeated ad nauseam throughout the warm-up. Totally un-cool, Ford.

CONTRASTING ATTIRE: Bill Ford and Mark Fields These comments might smack of some star-crazy TV entertainment show, but Chairman Bill’s level of sartorial splendor paled in comparison with CEO Mark Fields’ impeccably tailored business suit. Maybe next year Mr. Bill could borrow a famous sweater from Sergio Marchionne, head of Fiat Chrysler.

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The 2015 extravaganza had a number of major car stars that for the most part have received considerable media play. However there are aspects to the Detroit Auto Show — both hidden gems and interesting sidebar goings-on — that largely go underreported or even totally unreported. In the interests of providing a more complete picture, a few of the more significant points are included here.

While all eyes were on the sexy supercars, this was quietly going on at the Hyundai display concept luxury sedan that’s hands-down drop-dead gorgeous from any angle. Buick would be crazy not to actually build it and, judging from initial reaction, the Avenir is likely no more than three years away from production.

Worst new-car name Bentley Bentayga Best new-car name The Volkswagen-owned luxury marque has creBuick Avenir ated some of the most desirable models throughout General Motors’ Buick division broke from the its 95-year history. Names like Arnage, Mulsanne, auto-show gate early by taking the wraps off two of its Azure, Brooklands and Flying Spur are some of models just before the official media-only presentations Bentley’s classiest. So it’s a total head-scratcher why began. One car, the Cascada convertible, is a direct the automaker would choose to saddle its forthcomcopy of the European Opel Cascada and will arrive for ing mega-buck sport utility vehicle with the awkward the 2016 model year. But Buick’s real star, however, was the Avenir (the word means future in French) Cadillac boss Johan De Nysschen didn’t stand there and blather on about passion or having cars that usher in a new era of driver excitement, or whatever. Instead of PR fuzz and meaningless drivel, he gave the straight goods on what Cadillac needs to do to get back on track. Refreshing, indeed

Bill Ford, left, and Mark Fields would have done better to call each other about what they were going to wear to the GT launch Johan De Nysschen Cadillac’s boss (also the former Infiniti and Audi president) gave perhaps the most straightforward, yet impassioned speech when unveiling the 2016 CTS-V sedan. Often the corporate bigwigs speak not from the heart but from scripts concocted by marketing toadies that are so loaded down with platitudes and hyperbolic bafflegab that the teleprompters are practically oozing syrup. On the other hand, De Nysschen’s delivery was blunt and factual. He touched on Cadillac’s tough times as the company attempts to gain traction against league-leaders BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. He also struck a chord with the attending auto scribes by mentioning the CTS-V’s impressive 3.7-second zero60-mph (96 km-h) acceleration time. “This car is a huge leap up from the previous CTS-V,” said De Nysschen, “It not only captures the pinnacle of Cadillac tech and luxury . . . it takes on rivals head-on.” This guy is serious. missed theme Pickup trucks If you deleted the Ford GT, Mustang GT350, Acura NSX, Porsche 911 GTS and Infiniti Q60 from the show, the most significant reveals involved pickups.

Nissan’s 2016 Titan XD truck was a showstopper, not just for its class-exclusive Cummins V8 turbo-diesel engine, but also for its uncanny resemblance to the Ford F-150 pickup. However for exemplary design, the audacious Hyundai Santa Cruz concept was a total mind-blower. Don’t change a thing, Hyundai, just build it.

“Avenir” means “future” in French, which seems fitting for this new Buick. And, it’s actually a name and not a jumble of numbers and letters, or a made-up word of some kind (see Bentayga)

Conspicuous by their absence Mitsubishi was nowhere to be seen at this year’s show, while Subaru, Kia and Mazda had nothing new to present. Of the major brands, the newly named Fiat Chrysler Automobiles were surprising light on new products, with just an Alfa Romeo 4C Spider and a gussied-up Ram 1500 “Rebel” to show to the world.

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It seems like just another quiet night in the big city. But that’s when your trusty gumshoe gets down and dirty digging up the news

The final word on Jaguar’s competitor to the BMW 3-series: Jag’s recent reveal of the all-new 2017 XE sedan at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Mich., was indeed revealing. The luxury compact’s platform originates from Jag’s hot new F-Type sports car, as does the turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 (also found in the mid-size XF sedan) that generates 340 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque. Jaguar The new Jaguar XE will cost as much as a claims that the XE will sprint to 60 mph well-equipped Honda Accord, Toyota Camry (96 km-h) from rest in 5.1 seconds, thanks in part to its light-ish or Ford Taurus. It will be tempting.

1,500-kilogram weight (about 159 kilograms lighter than a BMW 335i). All-wheel-drive will be optional. Following the initial launch, lesser XE models that will follow will be available with a turbo 2.0-litre four-cylinder that makes 240 horsepower and 251 pound-feet of torque. The XE is expected by mid-2016 with a base price of about $37,000 in Canada.

Market indicators

Cadillac dealership diversity: Perhaps taking a page from the Tesla sales approach, Cadillac president Johan De Nysschen recently stated that he wants to see some of the company’s existing dealerships set up smaller boutique retail outlets. They would employ highly trained sales staffs and use interactive virtual-showroom displays that would allow customers to digitally design their vehicles, possibly using holographic JW12165.B16 James technology.

Scion iQ: Toyota’s answer to the Smart ForTwo arrived for the 2012 model year, but never really caught on with shoppers. Credit, or discredit in this case, goes to a lack of power, just-OK fuel economy and an odd rear-seat arrangement that was barely suitable for children or small animals. It also never made sense that the iQ cost nearly as much as a Toyota Corolla (and more than a Yaris). The Scion joins the xB small wagon in retirement, but at least the division has a new model on the way in the form of the 2016 iM Wagon.

{also piping hot} A made-in-China Volvo for North America?: The Sleuth got a kick out of Guangzhou Motors of China showcasing a new tall wagon as well as driverless car at A longer S60 model, called the recent 2015 North the Inscription, will likely American International ship to North America diAuto Show in Detroit, rectly from China Mich. It was yet another case of an automaker based in that country indicating it would soon be selling vehicles in North America. So far, none have, so file that one in the Empty Promises folder, opines The Spymaster. However The Sleuth was taken aback with the announcement that by 2016, Volvo will sell an extended-length version of its popular S60 sedan (to be called the Inscription) and that it will arrive directly from a plant in China. Since Zhejiang Geely Holding Group of China owns Volvo, it’s reasonable to assume that cars wearing the Volvo crest would eventually be sold here. Still, the automaker did a good job in keeping this newsy nugget under wraps until now.

Turbo engines in Honda’s future: Apparently the top brass at Honda was listening to all the carping over the fact that the company’s forthcoming 2015 Civic Type R with its turbocharged 180-horsepower 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine will only be available in Europe and Japan and not in North America. That might still be the case, but at least The Sleuth can report that some form of turbo engine is definitely part of Honda’s plans and will actually be produced at the automaker’s Ohio engine plant. At this point the best guess is that the engine will be available on the next-generation Civic coupes and sedans, either as an option or as part of a Civic Si that currently uses a non-turbo 201-horsepower 2.4-litre four-cylinder. A more performance-oriented Si would be competitive against the Ford Focus ST, Volkswagen Golf GTI and the Mini Cooper S. Electric-only mode for future Jeeps would make them Jeepy-er: Most Jeep Wrangler owners and fans of the A hybrid Jeep would allow brand (including electric-only rock crawling, which The Sleuth) will would provide lots a low-speed tell you that the torque and fuel savings. The one thing they Sleuth thinks this is a good idea would like to see when the next new model arrives is improved fuel economy. They might just get their wish, if Jeep’s head honcho Mike Manley gets his way. His vision for the iconic model is to offer a gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain that would aid performance and reduce trips to the pumps. The way Manley sees it, the Wrangler could operate in electriconly mode during low-speed rock crawling when instantaneous torque is important and the current Jeep’s fuel consumption is at its most voracious.

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