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Huw Evans and his sons Douglas (left) and Dylan made a commercial that has been viewed online more than 250,000 times in two weeks (Dwell House Photography)

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video. He is wearing the plaid shirt and overalls. His green and white mesh hat Roger Pilon has acted in an estimated says Wheat. Were there no John Deere 70 productions of various sorts during lids available? the past 16 years. But never has one had “It was the silliest bloody thing we’ve the impact of a three-minute, nine-secever done and look what happened,” ond commercial a local company created Pilon said. “We are getting phone calls for Insightrix. from all over the world, literally, from A video titled SaskatcheWHAT?! people who used to live here.” was released Feb. 27 online. It has since Pilon has heard from people in Ausbeen viewed 255,000 times. It has been tralia, St. Louis, Miss., Toronto, Winniwatched in 140 countries. peg, Hamilton and Burlington.

“That thing has absolutely floored “All kinds of family members have us,” said Pilon, who plays the role of a seen it and go, ‘That is the silliest thing stereotypical Saskatchewan farmer in the I have ever seen,’ but you know what the

catch is? Somewhere along the line they are tied to Saskatchewan. They know the jargon. They know the words and they are having fun with it. And that’s really cool.”

Huw Evans is the mastermind behind the commercial. His company, Eyecatcher Video, took the project from start to finish.

Evans researched and then stitched together Saskatchewan slang for the video. Through actors representing a Rider fan, an elderly woman, a First Nations man, and a young mom and her son, Evans captures the best — or worst

— of the province. Visiting guests from a big city don’t get us. Saskatoon-based Insightrix does. That’s the premise in a paragraph.

Some of the words and phrases are the old standbys like Vico and bunny hug. But who knew “coffee row” was a Saskatchewan thing? Pilon delivers a line about picking up a 2-4 of Pil at the LB. Evans points out there is debate over the origins of some words and phrases.

He said they could be debated until the cows come home.

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Ken’s email didn’t make me ‘chuff’

Sometimes Ken Noskye is but I took the hit for the team. a pain in the you-know-where.

Well, no more Mr. Nice Guy. A lot of times, actually. He Hi Ken, takes delight in getting an This morning my husband inbox full of emails after his was looking for an old newscolumns appear. Every now paper (nothing like recycling) and again, he shares one with to clean his shoes over. He me. I am suspicious when he grabbed the latest edition of does. the Express and I said hold off Last week, he took great until I have read my favourite delight in forwarding a piece column. You never disappoint. of his fan mail. He was actuI sat giggling over your story Editor ally forwarding it to me so I on Kemosabe Park. I then could forward it to one of my read the story out loud to my sons. That’s a lot of forwarding. husband, who also had a good chuff. Since Remember a month or so ago when I moving to Saskatoon from Australia a year compared my past four or five columns ago, I have found your weekly column to with Ken’s? I went through the exercise be refreshing. One week I can be outright because one of my sons — the one not in angry and the next week your story will my inheritance — pointed out that Ken’s have me laughing from the hilarity. columns are always better than mine. I I think Walking Eagle’s son has it didn’t dispute the fact, but was a little right when he stated your column is more hurt. interesting than a story on dishwashers.

Which brings us back to Ken and his No offence meant to the editor. email. To the right is what he forwarded. I am now about to share your latest colWhat a big blow-hard. Did I forward to umn on FB (Facebook) with my friends him the emails I received from reader and family worldwide. Why? Because Bob? Bob dislikes Ken and me equally, they deserve a morning giggle, too.

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very lazy, and we are forgetting old wisdom,” said Penner. “Very often I will say to people, ‘Just buy a packet of seeds,’ and they get this terrified look on their face and go, ‘Oh, I don’t do seeds.’

“Listen, you can go to a garden centre and you can buy a package of plants for eight dollars, or you can buy a packet of seeds for half that price and get three times as many plants.

“We’re making this very complicated, and it’s not. Our grandparents and our great-grandparents were not gardeners.

They were mostly immigrants who arrived in this large, terrifying, frequently cold country where there wasn’t a 7-11 on every corner. And they just did their best.

“Direct sowing seeds is really easy. It’s really inexpensive. It’s a good way to get a lot of plants for a much smaller amount of money. And it’s really fun. My first gardening memory is planting seeds. The other side of that is your selection goes infinitely up and up and up.”

Adding to the argument, Penner is a bit critical of what is on offer at today’s garden centres. Indeed, the restricted variety of bedding plants, whether vegetable or decorative, isn’t contributing to diversity in a time when we really need it.

“Now people are asking, ‘Why isn’t there any variety? Why are we getting diseases? Why are we getting pests?’ ” said Penner. “Well, because everybody on the block is using exactly the same Lyndon Penner is a gardening consultant and contractor with a particular interest in trees and native plants (Photo Supplied) cultivar or exact same clone. If we have a healthy ecosystem, we have diversity. That works in wild environments and in urban environments. If everyone on your street has a different tree in the front yard, and a disease comes through, the probability that they’ll all be wiped out is very limited.”

Penner has another magical story to share, this time to illustrate diversity.

Joanne Paulson says, ‘This is so interesting. Why did I to visit family — including two five-year“I explained to a Grade 2 class a couple Saskatoon Express waste all of that time doing drugs?’ old nephews. of years ago that all the seeds are different Lyndon Penner spreads the gardening “Vanessa and I just looked at each other “If they’re going to grow up to be gar- because they all grow into different flowgospel across the prairie provinces, and and thought, ‘Are you kidding?’ ” deners and outdoor enthusiasts, I have to ers, and this gorgeous little black girl in the legions of gardeners listen raptly to his As passionate and engaged as Penner is make an effort,” he said. front row says, ‘Just like people!’ We all advice. And, sometimes, something even about growing things, even he was amazed Penner is going to be busy at Gardencome from different seeds and we all grow more magical happens. by her response. scape from March 27 to March 29 at Prai- into different things. It made complete He and a colleague from the University “It sounds very grandiose and over rieland Park, where he will give several sense to her. There are adults who don’t of Saskatchewan, Vanessa Young, were the top to say we can save the world with presentations on a variety of gardening understand this.” once hired to teach basic gardening classes gardening, but I think it’s true.” topics. Trying to pick one topic for an inOne of the things he will speak on at at one of the healing lodges in southern Penner, famed for his growing season terview is like choosing your favourite star Gardenscape is that there are many wonSaskatchewan. Their group consisted of 18 interviews on CBC with Sheila Coles, is a in the Milky Way, but direct sowing seeds derful garden plants that are easy to grow First Nations women with difficult pasts. gardening consultant and contractor with ends up as the point of discussion. but can’t be found in the usual stores.

“They were really honestly one of the a particular interest in trees and native “Seeds are the gateway drug to do“That’s because they don’t deal well best audiences I’ve ever had,” said Penner, plants. He published his first book, The ing more epic things in the garden,” said with containers. When we buy bedding who is a frequent speaker. “They were Short Season Yard, in 2014. Penner now Penner. plants, we buy them in those little annual just transfixed. One girl had a handful of lives in Calgary, although he grew up in He calls direct sowing a lost art. six packs. sweetpea seeds. She’s staring at them and Saskatchewan, and comes home regularly “We live in a society where people are (Continued on page 4)

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On your mark, get set … grow!

Here are some of Lyndon Penner’s partly paraphrased tips for getting into the gardening season.

• Plan first. Make a list of what the garden actually needs and keep a garden journal.

What are your priorities? Do you need tomatoes? Should they be red or yellow? What will you use them for – sauces, sandwiches, soups? Look around the yard and ask yourself: do you need some ground cover here, or a shrub there? “Every plant must pay its rent in the garden. It should do more than one thing” – provide gorgeous colour, habitat for birds, beautiful scent, hardiness. If you plan, “you won’t spend money you don’t have to buy things you don’t need.”

• Buy soon. Things sell out quickly. Once you’ve made your list, buy your seeds as soon as you possibly can. “Seeds will keep,” said Penner. “That way you’re not scrambling when it comes time to plant them. Gardenscape is good for that; everyone brings in garden racks. I’m just giving people permission to shop, which people will love.”

• Be prepared. We have ambition in the spring and get excited, and then ambition droops a few weeks later, said Penner. Take advantage of that surge of energy, and check out the tool shed. Is everything accessible? If

you have pruning shears and a spade that need sharpening, do it now. If you need a rake, get it now. Be good to tools. Keep them clean and look after them.

• Include kids in your gardening, even if they aren’t your own. “We all have children in our lives – nieces or nephews, the neighbour’s kids, grandkids. It’s so tremendously important that we get our children involved in this.” If you’re going to Gardenscape, take a kid with you, Penner advised, because it’s good for us to show them that food doesn’t magically appear in the grocery store. “I think we really have a responsibility to teach those younger than us where things come from. We would have less vandalism, less drug abuse, less suicide. I was bullied in school, but I had gardening. Gardening saved me.”

• Make a wish list. Do you want a rose, a peony, a tulip? “I’m all about being practical, and my mother says I’m practical to a fault, but allow yourself one indulgence. And get a really comfortable chair in the garden – not something plastic and cheap. It is the nicest thing in the world when you go out in the morning with a cup of coffee. We need a place to sit down and enjoy the garden – a place to rest, relax and enjoy it.”

Lyndon Penner will speak at Gardenscape (Photo Supplied)

Chefs make veggie growing cool again (Continued from page 3) “Some plants don’t like that. Some plants have no use for their roots being confined.

They don’t transplant easily. There are a lot of really great plants that don’t flower until they’re in the garden.”

Penner is seeing renewed interest in planting different varieties, seed sowing and other lost arts, and there are a number of reasons.

“The food movement JW15190.C23 Jameshas had a lot to

do with it. The food writers and the Food Network were very helpful to a lot of us in the gardening world. All the celebrity chefs, I would like to hug and kiss them. What they did was they made vegetable growing and food growing cool again.”

People have also started going back to heritage varieties of apples, and have started growing old plants like larkspur to attract bees. Even the old plants like indigo, and the

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That being said, he understands the intense desire to hit the garden centres.

“At the end of May we go to the garden centres and our souls are so hungry for something green . . . it’s like grocery shopping when you’re starving,” he said. “Then we go home, and we are not sure why we bought

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A time to tear down and a time to build I stood on the corner of constant renovation. It needed 11th Street and Broadway a champion, and if the City’s Avenue last Tuesday afterheritage committee was oblivinoon, chatting with author ous, or didn’t have the teeth Yann Martel and watching for it, well, this is what you the Farnam Block come get. apart. The massive maw of On the bright side, accordthe machine chomped away ing to Ecclesiastes, there is at the brick, the wood and also a time to scatter stones the roofing, crashing away and a time to gather them. As like a robotic dinosaur. the building went down, men Despite my lack of bibwere there to collect the bricks Columnist lical scholarship, Ecclesiand stack them. It was pretty astes 3 nevertheless came cool to see. to mind, possibly because of the Byrds The Parrish and Heimbecker elevasong, Turn, Turn, Turn. I thought about tor also saw its demise. This is a bit how that could be our motto these days of a different story. It may be historic, in Saskatoon. but it’s not a building the public used There is a time for everything or walked by every day. Not unlike And a season for every activity under the Farnam, however, it was privately the heavens: owned. People get to do what they want A time to be born and a time to die with their own properties, within certain A time to plant and a time to uproot limitations like zoning and assurances . . . a time to tear down and a time to of safety. It may have been a landmark, build. but it was P&H’s landmark.

For the aged Farnam Block, it was This brings me to city council’s decicertainly time to tear down. As you sion to do, more or less, nothing about smelled the old wood and saw the the slumping riverbank between 11th leaning floors, it seemed pretty clear Street East and Saskatchewan Cresthis building’s life was over. The time cent, and nothing for the homeowners to save it was probably 20 or 30 years affected by same – unless you consider ago. It needed love and attention, not ongoing monitoring doing something.

Joanne Paulson

That bank has been monitored since 1912 and has always been flagged as a potential problem. One could blame builders and homeowners for developing the block, but if it’s always been an issue, why did the City allow it in the first place? Who should be on the hook for the aggravated slumping now?

Granted, $20 million is a lot of money to resolve problems for 10 homeowners, if you see it that way.

Again, we are dealing with huge liabilities on the City’s side, and these are privately owned properties. But unlike the Farnam Block or the P&H elevator, they can’t do what they want with them.

They can’t sell them, can’t really fix them until the problems are resolved, and more than likely can’t afford to tear them down. In this case, it would be a time to tear down, but not a time to build. At least we know something is going up on the old Farnam site.

It is a trifle frightening to think that we homeowners are really on our own when disaster strikes.

Here’s the other problem with city council’s decision. It’s unlikely that this water drainage and slumping problem is going away, but council is turning away – admittedly because there are few good alternatives. Still, it’s

the kind of thinking that went behind the erosion and closure of the Traffic Bridge, and the lack of timely interest in heritage buildings. Don’t know what to do? Do nothing.

In the meantime, up goes the new art gallery, at a staggering cost. I won’t go into the issues surrounding the operating budget (Elaine Hnatyshyn, in her column, has given that a much better go than I could). However, if this supermulti-million-dollar effort is open 30 fewer hours per week than the Mendel, closes early some nights, charges high admission fees and costs us $2 million or $3 million more to operate, I think we have a problem. I honestly do hope I’m wrong.

Considering the week that’s past, it makes one wonder at Mayor Don Atchison’s comment that we have to look after what we have before moving ahead on, for instance, bike lanes. I hope he means it. Our city, historically, has a lousy track record on that score so far.

As for planting and uprooting, refer to the story on Lyndon Penner in this week’s edition. If nothing else, it is nearly spring. We can turn, turn, turn our eyes toward the earth and hope for better weeks ahead.

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Court to decide on delay penalty for South Bridge project

Question: What is the status of the delay penalty on the South Bridge project?

Mayor Atchison: As you may have seen in the media, there is a difference of opinion on the financial close of this project that has moved the case into the courts. The City holds approximately $1.5 million in trust right now on our claim of being Ask the late on completion. Graham Construction believes we owe them $19 million. Lawyers on both sides have been in discussions that, unfortunately, have not been fruitful. So, at this time, the matter will be going before the courts, where the courts will arbitrate and decide on this file.

Question: When you are asked a question, why don’t you answer it instead of skirting around it? I draw your attention to the Feb. 23 Express, where the reader asked you about the temporary flood protection levy. You answered by explaining superpipes and how wetlands work. Those were not the questions put to you. I’d like to see you answer the questions, please.

Also, why did the City lowball the real timeline for the temporary flood protection from one or two years to you now saying “we aren’t finished yet,” after 10 years?

Mayor Atchison: As I recall I answered the question, but let me try again. When it comes to the two-year timeline, that was the original intent brought forward by administration, not council. That was a timeline during which the administration would work on flood protection. When the City decided to install superpipes in the flood-prone

neighbourhoods on the west end, it determined it was the best fix for similar problems in other neighbourhoods. The City determined it needed to keep moving in this direction to protect property in Dundonald, Confederation, Lakeridge and other areas of the city. That is why the program continues. The levy is temporary, but it will continue Mayor as we provide safe, secure and dry neighbourhoods for everyone to live in.

By the way, I am in favour of sunset clauses. I believe that once money has been collected for one purpose, it should be used for that purpose only. And when the project is completed or the result is reached, then the levy or tax should be removed.

Question: What are your plans for landscaping the area around the South Bridge? From the river west, the ditches and embankments are eroding and covered in weeds. It does not seem like they were properly landscaped as far as a grass cover is concerned.

Mayor Atchison: We are still working on that. As for the weeds, we ask everyone to look after their own yards, so we certainly need to do the same thing, too.

Question: A proposed business plan for the Remai Modern Art Gallery has been released. What are your thoughts on it, specifically the part about people paying an admission fee for parts of the gallery?

Mayor Atchison: I think the first misconception is that everyone will have to pay an admission. That is not the case.

We have said all along that parts of the gallery would be free to the public, and that will continue to be the position that I

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hold. And I believe most of council holds that position, too. When we have special exhibits, there will be a fee charged for those, but they will be in a different area of the gallery. I don’t think it should come as a surprise to anyone that there would be a fee for some exhibits, because we have said that right from the very beginning. In fact, previous council and councillors, even at the Mendel, were suggesting there should be a fee to get into the facility.

Another thing is there is going to be a restaurant on the main floor. If you have a restaurant on the main floor, I don’t know how you charge to get in the Remai Modern main floor. On top of that, we are talking about having one particular day or evening that will be open to the public at no charge.

Question: Do you have concerns about the gallery being open for fewer hours than the Mendel?

Mayor Atchison: I think they need to look at the hours of operation. Having said that, they are the professionals, not me. They would know best when the gallery would receive its greatest use and visitations. We will leave that in their hands. They also pointed out the gallery would be closed on Mondays, but on long weekends it would be open. I think they are trying to focus on a true business plan.

DID YOU KNOW? In 2014, city crews rehabilitated six kilometres of sidewalks, painted 870 kilometres of lane markings on local roadways, and applied long-lasting durable markings to 27 kilometres of priority roadways.

(Have a question for Mayor Atchison? Send it to editorial@saskatoonexpress.com. Please put “mayor” in the subject line.)

Three named to Remai gallery board of trustees Denise Dorfman, Dr. Grant Stoneham and Scott Verity have been named to the Remai Modern board of trustees.

Dorfman has 25 years of experience in social welfare, business development and fundraising. She brings an academic and personal interest in the arts, having received a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts Studies (Honours) from York University.

Stoneham is a vascular/interventional radiologist at Royal University Hospital and is an associate dean of Saskatoon Programs at the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He received his mechanical engineering degree from the U of S, his MD at the University of Calgary, completed a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Verity is managing partner, KPMG LLP in Saskatoon, and has 30 years of experience in public practice. He has held many community leadership positions, including chair of the Refinery Arts Centre board and chair of the Emmanuel Anglican Church board. He is also involved in the Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce, North Saskatoon Business Association and SREDA. “The board welcomes the talent and energy of these new trustees, who further add to and round out the skills of our dedicated trustees,” Alain Gaucher, president and chair of Remai Modern’s Board of Trustees, said in a news release. “In accordance with the recently adopted strategic brand plan, the board is working hard so Remai Modern may realize its great potential, and we welcome these new leaders to our board.”

The three new appointments replace departing board members. Additional appointments are expected in coming months.

“Remai Modern is becoming one of Canada’s most iconic art galleries,” said Gregory Burke, executive director and CEO of Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan. “These three strong community leaders will serve our organization well and we very much look forward to their great contribution to Remai Modern’s exciting future.”

The gallery is scheduled to open in 2016.

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“Almost everyone knows someone who has had a stroke,” notes Bryan Leverick, President and CEO of Alliance Energy and Volunteer Board Chair of the Royal University Hospital Foundation.

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How does Eyecatcher Video top this?

(Continued from page 1) Eyecatcher Video was formed about three years ago by Evans and his sons, Douglas and Dylan.

“So how we are going to top this? I don’t know,” Evans said with a laugh.

“We can’t ask for anything more than that. This is our first commercial. Now what do we do? Do we have to try to get a half a million on the next one?”

He is hoping the commercial will spread the word about his company.

“If this doesn’t get us work, I don’t know what else we can do. People certainly know about it. It’s not like the day they see it they are going to phone and say, ‘Do a video for us.’ It would be nice, but I’d be surprised if some calls don’t come from it.”

He says his company is different than most in the industry.

“A lot of guys can shoot video as well as we can, but our forte is the ideas, the concepts, the writing. Do things a little different, a little edgier, a little weirder, a little cheesier, a little more retro. If you aren’t different, I don’t care how well the shot it is. If it’s the same as a hundred other videos I’ve seen, I’m not watching it. That’s why I am happy we seemed to strike a chord here.”

Evans has been in the graphics business and cartooning for more than 30 years. Among his credits are having his work in Mad Magazine. He would like to see the video company take off and become a full-time job for him and his sons.

They have a movie — Instruments of Evil — on the go now.

“It’s a horror anthology — three short horror stories and there is a wrap-around that ties them all together. We have two segments shot; have to get next one shot and then the wrap-around.

“I’m going to be this old Viking warrior in the wrap-around,” he said, laughing about his unkempt appearance.

“It’s self-funded. It’s a no-budget, but we are striving to make it as good as we can. There are just no films being done since the (province’s) brilliant move to

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Roger Pilon played the role of a stereotypical Saskatchewan farmer (Eyecatcher Video) take away the tax credit that was only bringing in six to 10 bucks on the dollar.”

Instruments of Evil is scheduled to hit the screen at the Broadway Theatre at the end of September.

Evans started his video company literally the week the provincial tax credit was removed.

“And everybody said, ‘That’s classic Huw Evans — start a video company when they are all dying.’ It turned out good. There is still a lot of equipment here and trained people.”

A music video he shot was nominated for a Native American music award.

“We didn’t even know if it would be watchable. We did it for a guy named John McLeod and his country song, Do It Anyway. We shot it in Lydia’s and it’s a nice documentary of that building, a memorial.”

Meanwhile, Pilon’s acting career started with dinner theatre for his church — St. Paul’s United. For the heck of it, he went to an audition for a bigger production.

“Where it took off was one Saturday morning I was sitting reading the paper and I see in the paper that there are auditions for Beauty and the Beast.”

He thought it would be interesting to go to the audition to see how the pros do it. Maybe he’d bring some tips back to the church group. He had no intention of auditioning, though.

“I went to the darn thing and (Saskatoon director) Ron Knoll spotted me and right away he said to me, ‘You didn’t sign in yet.’ And I said, ‘I am just here to observe.’ He said, ‘Oh no, you’re not.’

He literally forced me to audition.”

Pilon was cast as Beauty’s father.

He said the production was entered in a festival that took place in Melville.

The festival – for one-, two- and threeact plays – moves around the province.

Melville is Pilon’s hometown.

“Once I found out it was in Melville I was just beside myself. So we went to Melville and I had never aspired to do any of this stuff; it came right out of the blue. There was Mrs. Pillar and she grabbed me by the throat and said, ‘Why didn’t you do stuff like that for me in high school?’ How do you answer that?”

The production won a number of awards.

“When I got back I started getting a lot of calls to do different things.”

He said a role in Body and Soul opened doors. Body and Soul was a high-budget show shot in Saskatoon for U.S. cable in the early 2000s. One of its directors was Anson Williams of Happy Days fame.

“We became very good friends, so I worked on that show with him from June until October that year, and I had a wonderful time. That opened a whole new realm for me, simply because that gave me an agent. It made me more open to going out and doing shooting.

“I never aspired to this. It purely came out of church. Who knew I had it tucked away in the back of me? I have had magnificent nurturing over the years from so many wonderful directors and people from costuming and down the line. That goes without saying. They nurture you and help you out and teach you and bring you up and let you know when you need to change something. Those

kinds of things are really important.”

Pilon was taking time off from acting when SaskatcheWHAT?! came along.

“My agent phoned and gave me a little bit of a head’s up and asked if I would be interested. I said, ‘Absolutely,’ and off we went.

“Everyone in that room were friends.

We all know each other; we’ve all acted together over the years. That makes a huge difference.”

He has worked with the who’s who of Saskatoon theatre people – Bob Hinitt, Dawn Bevan and Dennis Beerling were among those he mentioned. He and Bevan often work together and will do a musical in the fall. She has a role in SaskatcheWHAT?!.

He said he is surprised that the commercial went viral.

“I can’t even go to the grocery store anymore without being recognized,” he said. “It’s just ridiculous.”

And he hasn’t even been wearing his Wheat hat.

Evans says the notoriety has been the same for him.

“It’s been incredible. (Insightrix) said, ‘We want a viral video.’ I said, ‘Well, no one can guarantee it, but I guarantee I’ll try.’ I always think I am an optimist and somebody who looks at the glass being half full. But I find myself now, in the back of my mind, going, ‘That was your first commercial. How are you going to top this?’ ” How is he?

“Well, that’s a real challenge. I hope I didn’t peak quite that soon.”

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Wakaw, started working at the hotel in “He asked for the keys and said, ‘I’ll October 1987. go park it for you. Don’t worry about it.’

“At the moment I didn’t think it was And he noticed she was almost empty a career,” Prytula said. “I enjoy what I for gas and he went and filled up her do. I have fun. There are great people tank, and just handed her the key and to work with. didn’t say anyIt’s a great thing. She (later) “I remember receiving the email and company. I realized he did running into my GM’s office and I said, couldn’t ask this.

‘Guess what? Tony won.” for a better “Those are – Perry Singh just some of the work family.”

Singh said thoughtfulness it is a joy having Prytula as a member of he exhibits on a daily basis.” the hotel’s family.

Prytula takes it all in stride. It’s just “He has this way of coming in every part of his job, he figures. day and has that ability to make every“I take pride in what I do,” he said. “I one smile. He keeps the spirit alive, try to do the best job I can do, make the which is so very important to welcom- guests happy. If guests return, everyone ing and creating that warm experience wins kind of thing.” for guests. I know our guests absolutely Singh was ecstatic when Prytula won. love him. If there is something they “I remember receiving the email Hilton Garden Inn Saskatoon Downtown bellman Tony Prytula has won an need and it is not in this building, he and running into my GM’s office and international award (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) will run out, whether it is over to the I said, ‘Guess what? Tony won.’ We mall to get that item for the guest.” were thrilled for him because if there Which leads us to a couple of the is anyone who absolutely deserves this many reasons why Singh, the director and really exemplifies what this award of rooms at the hotel, nominated Prytula characterizes – the vision of Conrad for the award that was contested by Hilton to spread the light and warmth of 2,000 employees from around the world. hospitality – that is truly Tony.

“There was a time when there was Did Prytula ask for a raise?

Cam Hutchinson gone above and beyond the call of duty an older couple that came in and it “Every time we have offered Tony Saskatoon Express seems endless. It’s little wonder he was was absolutely freezing and their tire a raise, he has declined it,” Singh said e has changed a tire for hotel the only Canadian to win the prestigious went (flat) and Tony changed it in the with a smile. “He insisted that we take guests in -35 C weather. He 2014 Hilton Worldwide CEO Light & freezing temperatures outside, with the money – that the hotel has a lot makes sure a long-time ocWarmth Award. the help of maintenance, of course. He of expenses and lots of bills to pay. cupant has his favourite brand of cola Prytula has been at the Hilton Garwent above and beyond and took care Even when he got his award money, he in his room. He runs errands. He once den Inn Saskatoon Downtown for going of that. wanted to donate or give a part back. gassed up the boss’s car, without telling on 28 years. His supervisor, Perry “We have a frequent guest here and But he’s earned that and that’s just the her.

Singh, counts his blessings every day he has been here for five years. We don’t kind of person he is – very giving, just a The list of times Tony Prytula has when Prytula, the senior bellman at the carry Coke products in the hotel because steward in every way.”

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SSO concert to celebrate Saskatchewan

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express Dozens of Saskatchewan musicians will take to the stage at the next Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra (SSO) concert, in an event that will pay tribute to the province and its homegrown talent.

The March 28 Masters Series concert, aptly called Saskatchewan Celebration, is the perfect fit for the SSO’s 2014-2015 season, which has focused on local artists and the theme of “Finding Our Prairie Voice.”

“We took great care to try and program as many Saskatchewan-born guest artists as possible,” said executive director Mark Turner.

Saxophone player Gerard Weber, baritone Nathan Berg, soprano Danika Loren, the University of Saskatchewan Greystone Singers and the University Chorus are set to perform. A piece by Saskatchewan composer Monte Keene Pishny-Floyd will also be featured, and the SSO’s new music director, Eric Paetkau, will conduct.

Turner expects the audience will respond “incredibly well” to the event.

“This season has really resonated with the audiences for a lot of different reasons.

I mean, it’s so great to see people who

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grew up in Saskatchewan come home. A lot of them moved away when they were young to pursue their musical careers,” he said.

Turner added that a lot of the guest musicians still have friends and family living in Saskatchewan, making their performances extra special. For example, when the Florida-based Weber makes his debut with the orchestra, many people from his hometown of Humboldt will come to the concert to take in his performance, Turner said.

Loren, who grew up in Colonsay and attended high school in Saskatoon, will also make her debut with the SSO, as will Berg, who was born in Saskatoon and attended high school in Outlook. Turner said Berg has since become “one of the world’s greatest operatic baritones,” winning Juno Awards and landing Grammy nominations.

“He’s performed at Royal Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Vienna Opera. He’s recorded with every major orchestra. He’s a heavy hitter in the industry, and this is the very first time he’s ever performed here in Saskatchewan as a professional,” said Turner.

“It’s his debut with us, but it’s really quite exciting because here’s someone who grew up here who’s just gone on to this huge international career, who has never had any career here in Saskatchewan. It’s really exciting.”

The concert lineup features Faure’s Requiem, Creston’s Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, and Pishny-Floyd’s Variations on a Southern Gospel Tune.

Turner said it’s the first time the PishnyFloyd composition has been played by a professional large orchestra, so “it’s pretty exciting to be able to bring him to the stage.”

“A lot of the variations are dedicated to friends of his, many of whom are from Saskatchewan, so the piece has some Saskatchewan roots,” said Turner.

Turner pointed out that the conductor, Paetkau, also has Saskatchewan ties; his grandmother lived in Saskatoon, his mother was born in Saskatchewan, and he attended high school at Rosthern Junior College.

Nathan Berg (Photo Supplied) “Now that he has actually been named tra,” he said, noting the shift has “changed our new music director, he is, in fact, Sas- the energy in the lobby.”

Turner encourages people to attend the katoon’s newest musician. So it’s a really neat way to have him part of the celebra- Saskatchewan Celebration concert, where they can take in some world-class talent tion as well.”

Turner said this year has been an excit- and meet the SSO’s new music director.

“This is the greatest opportunity to ing time for the SSO, which continues to attract new audience members and do well get to see Saskatoon’s new conductor hit the stage and see what he can do. And financially. truly the soloists in the Faure Requiem, “This has been such a rebuilding year Danika Loren and Nathan Berg, are not and such an incredibly exciting time. to be missed. I can say, without a doubt, Ticket sales are way up. The orchestra’s having a ton of fun; they’re playing great it’s been generations since we’ve had a repertoire, and the whole organization has singer of this calibre perform with the done one of the biggest turnarounds that’s orchestra.”

The concert will take place on Saturto be seen in Canadian orchestras.”

The SSO has also been trying to engage day, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. at TCU Place.

Tickets can be purchased by calling the younger audience members, and it has seen a 50-per-cent increase in the under-35 TCU Place box office at 306-975-7799 or demographic. That is “huge for an orches- by going online to tcutickets.ca.

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Robbie’s story will stay with me forever “You knew what I was when stages, with the first being the you picked me up,” said the baby. The second is youth, snake. then adulthood and eventually One of my closest friends being an elder. Before each once told me a wonderful story. stage, there were ceremonies Robbie and I travelled many that would take them to anpaths together and eventually other stage. became like brothers. We met White Eagle was going into while we were in our teens. It what we would call today 14. was at a youth centre in EdmonHe had been prepared by his ton. The place was run by what elders for the ceremony that we called Christian Soldiers. would take him into the youth They were good-hearted stage.

Columnist people who drove around in “You will go high on the an old school bus. They would hills and fast,” said one of the park the bus in the inner city and pass elders. “You will be by yourself for four out hot chocolate, fruit and sandwiches. nights and four days without food and They would come out after midnight. It water.” didn’t matter what the weather was like.

White Eagle was warned not to pick Most of the young people I hung out up a snake, although it would be temptwith would meet there and sing songs ing. with the Christians.

“The snake will sing and dance for Eventually, they would get to know you. It will turn itself into beautiful cous and invite us to their youth centre. It lours,” the elder said. “Do not be fooled wasn’t a place to go and crash out, but by him, as he will bite and kill you rather a place where young people could instantly.” hang out in safety. There was a pool White Eagle started for the hills. table and other table games. Sometimes About half way up the hill, he ran into a the centre would take everyone to the snake. movies. Robbie and I started hanging out “Excuse me,” said the snake. “I am very cold. If you were to place me under mostly because our backgrounds were your coat we can both keep warm.” basically the same.

But the young man was not about to Life went on and we grew into adulthood.

We always kept in touch no matter what. be fooled.

“No,” said White Eagle. “I have been We both struggled before we were in our mid-teens and we both battled addictions. warned what would happen if I pick you up.”

Sometimes we would meet when were The snake started to sing and dance, free from substance abuse at a traditional and then he started to turn himself into First Nations ceremony. beautiful colours. “You see,” said the It was always nice to see him and snake. “How can something this beautihis family. We both believed in a ful be dangerous for you?” higher power and finding the strength White Eagle thought about it and that would guide a way to a better and healthier life. For Robbie, it was more of picked up the snake. Within seconds the a struggle because he had been at the ex- snake bit White Eagle. As he fell to his treme drug abuse for so long and so often knees and felt the life being drawn from that, at times, I thought he was going to him, he heard the snake say, “You knew die from trying to sober up. Eventually, what I was when you picked me up.”

Robbie then shared the analogy of the he managed to defeat his demons and snake being hard drugs or alcohol. lived a life of being free.

“I know what it’s going to do when I In one of his journeys to a ceremony, he heard a story. He shared this story with pick it up,” he said.

Because of his past lifestyle and abuse of me and it’s my privilege to pass it on to hard drugs and alcohol, his organs slowly you. started to give up and he eventually passed Long before the arrival of the Euroaway. He died sober, with his family. He left pean settlers, First Nations people had a story that will stay with me forever. ceremonies that would take them to krnCREE@outlook.com different stages in life. There were four

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By Kris Foster

Tiny helicopters flying over crop fields may become a common sight thanks to a research partnership between the University of Saskatchewan and a Saskatoon-based company.

The mini-copters outfitted with a specialized camera will enable agriculture producers to get real-time information on the health of their crops and improve management practices, explained Gordon Gray, professor in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources. Gray has a background in photosynthetic florescence imaging of plants, and all it took was a phone call from Draganfly Innovations Inc. last year for the idea of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for imaging to take flight.

“They wanted to meet and explore the potential of imaging crops with these drone helicopters,” he said.

Gray explained the UAVs, small enough to fit in a suitcase when unassembled, were outfitted with a camera capable of capturing multispectral images.

“Essentially, it measures the reflection of leaves and vegetation in the fields it flies over.”

All plants absorb and reflect light.

By capturing reflection data, a value called the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) can be calculated. The images are then analyzed with software that assigns colours to the values.

“If the image is bright green, then the plants are healthy; as the intensity of the colour decreases, then the plants are not growing as well,” said Gray, who used an NSERC Engage Grant to pursue the research partnership.

“Typically this (data gathering) has been done in the past using satellites or aircrafts,” he said, but those platforms

are far too expensive for the average producer. UAVs are economical and can be used at low altitudes — fewer than 400 feet above ground — which allows them to capture images below cloud cover.

Compared to the old ways of collecting this information, Gray said the remote-controlled helicopters are, other than some Transport Canada paper work, much more accessible for producers.

“The images from above are quite striking, and we know from our field tests we performed this past summer with colleagues in the Department of Plant Sciences and Crop Development Centre that they can collect meaningful data.”

To use the technology, producers would buy a UAV equipped with an imaging camera, map its path using GPS co-ordinates and send it on its way.

The resulting images would provide detailed information on plant health, growth and yield.

“We know the images can be used to differentiate crops,” said Gray. “When we tested them on representative cereal, pulse and horticultural crops we could detect differences in irrigation, fertilization and disease.”

This type of imaging is an enabling technology for a crop management concept known as precision agriculture. It allows producers to determine if, when and where inputs are required.

“The ability to better target inputs has the potential to enhance both the economic efficiency and environmental sustainability of agricultural production, ultimately improving food security.”

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

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Is council painting by numbers at new gallery?

When I read the headline “Saskatoon art gallery trims millions from 2015-16 operating budgets,” my first thought was: “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the Columnist time.”

Up front, I am not opposed to an admission fee for the new art gallery. It is either some user-pay arrangement or an even larger property tax hike for everyone else. What I do take issue with is the amount of admission and the rationale used to support it.

Did we build this art gallery for the benefit of the residents of Saskatoon, or as a tourist attraction? In the report submitted to council by the CEO of the gallery, it is stated that we have to have an admission fee because national or international tour operators will not organize tours to free facilities as it would affect their bottom line. There is an easy solution to this — residents enter free or at a reduced rate and non-residents or tourists pay big bucks. Besides, wasn’t it the Picasso collection that was going to have people flocking here from around the world?

It was also suggested that charging a hefty admission fee ($10 for students/seniors, $12 for all others) will encourage the locals to buy memberships rather than pay an entry fee on each visit. Currently the Mendel membership costs are $20 for seniors, $35 for individuals and $50 for a family unit of up to seven people, two of whom are adults.

Members got a few perks like a discount at the gift shop, advance notice of upcoming exhibitions, 12 free cards a year and a reduced admission at affiliated galleries in Canada.

The new gallery proposes memberships at $65 per person and $90 for a couple with no mention of a family rate. Even if you buy a membership, you will still pay admission of $16 per person, or $14 for students and seniors, for special exhibits.

And anyone who believes that students and the majority of Saskatoon’s seniors, many of whom are on fixed incomes, will spend $10 to $14 for admission to this gallery is just plain nuts. However, “if” the marketing committee is successful in securing sponsorships, it might be able to provide free admission for children under 13 and/ or for an evening opening to the public at no cost. (Interestingly enough, most public

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The Remai Modern art gallery is scheduled to open in 2016 (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) galleries in Canada do offer an afternoon and/or evening opening to the public free of charge.)

Mayor Don Atchison seems dumbfounded by the public’s reaction to the admission fees, as he thinks this matter was dealt with when the gallery was being planned. Perhaps he is becoming a little forgetful in his old age. During the planning stage a survey was conducted gauging the public’s appetite for admission fees. More than 65 per cent said “no” to fees and at that time council did a political two-step and implied it would try to avoid such charges, although most people were skeptical.

I was taken aback by Coun. Charlie Clark’s position on the hours of operation — which was supported by Coun. Darren Hill.

Clark said he didn’t think it is council’s job to determine what times the gallery ought to be open. Excuse me, but if it’s council’s job to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on construction, millions of dollars on the annual operating costs of this gallery and the City owns the facility, then council should be in a position to decide on the public’s right of access to a facility they own and are paying for.

It is tremendously annoying to hear the gallery gurus price-compare our “worldclass” facility to other such galleries in Canada. These other galleries are situated in cities with populations nearing or well above a million people and with sufficient wealth to pay the freight. We are a relatively small prairie city of 250,000 without the economy of scale enjoyed by Winnipeg, Vancouver, Toronto or the like. But local donors and supporters are expecting a bang for their buck and this gallery is to be the face of the “new” Saskatoon.

As for the numbers game, I can’t figure out how this gallery will enjoy 220,000 visitors, but only 13.6 per cent, roughly 30,000 people, will be paying admission fees. Do 190,000 visitors get in free or do they really expect two-thirds of the city’s population will be buying a form of membership?

According to the last available published financial statements of the Mendel Art Gallery (2013), the City’s grant was $2.6

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I would expect that when the gallery opens in 2016 with much fanfare that there will be decent attendance by a curious public anxious to see our “world-class” facility. But after the initial brouhaha, is it sustainable in the long run?

A founding goal of the Mendel was to champion the art of Saskatchewan and Canadian artists. Many of today’s successful artists, producing art in various genres, got their start at the Mendel. And the Mendel did have international status, enabling it to attract occasional travelling exhibits.

The Remai gallery’s CEO, Gregory Burke, hails from the Power Plant Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Toronto, which through its history has displayed many controversial contemporary exhibits. Under Burke’s leadership, the new gallery’s vision statement is to develop, collect, present and interpret contemporary art. The mandate is to provide transformative experiences by connecting art with local and global communities. You should expect to see a somewhat different selection of gallery exhibits in the years to come than what was traditionally displayed at the Mendel.

In a nutshell, we have a ritzy art gallery five times the size of the Mendel with higher operating costs and sizeable debt, reduced public access and substantial user fees. If art is food for the soul, I regret to say many Saskatoon souls will go hungry in the future.

I won’t call the gallery a white elephant because white elephants are rare, and in this City extravagant spending is no longer rare.

But it is what it is. With this writing I bid adieu to the Mendel Art Gallery. I will miss everything the Mendel represented about Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. I will remember fondly the family times we had at the Mendel when our children were young and we were broke, and especially the visits to the conservatory which I joking called my poor man’s winter vacation spot. And I rue the fact that many of Saskatoon’s marginalized residents will never enjoy the facility that they pay for with their taxes.

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But the Mendel will only be open for five months this year. I assume by now staff are already crating the 7,700 works of art in its collection for storage and that task should be completed around the closure date of June 2015. Recognizing that the CEO and a handful of administrative staff will remain on the payroll preparing for the transition, why does the Mendel/Remai need an increase of a million dollars or more in operating grants for 2015 when they are only open for less than half a year? If, by example, it relates to the cost of storing art, leave the art where it is or charge a new tenant sufficient rent to cover off the expense.

And why, when the new gallery is only to be open for four months (or less) in 2016, do they need a $5-million grant from the City?

Yes, you have four months of operating costs on a space five times the size of the Mendel and 10 to 13 additional full-time equivalent staff over and above the existing employees, but you also have the extra revenue supposedly coming from admission fees, memberships, gift shop and restaurant revenues, rentals, fundraising and whatever else enters the fray.

The report states that by 2019 the gallery will regenerate sufficient revenue to cover 42 per cent of its operating costs, leaving taxpayers to pay the balance of 58 per cent. In 2013, the City’s grant to the Mendel was 71 per cent, which translated into $2.6 million.

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Lianne can also be reached by emailing camelotintroductions@mymts.net. Questions for this column can be sent to the same address.)

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Self-confidence separates rich from the rest I didn’t make a good first im• I want to put you at ease. pression on Charles MacPherson.

• I want to make sure I speak I called him at 1:28 p.m. for to you clearly so you understand an interview that was scheduled what I am saying. for 1:30 p.m.

• I want to make sure I hear “Two minutes early or two you, so I understand what you are minutes late?” I asked him. saying.

“You never call early,” he • And last but not least, I want said from Toronto. “The issue is to make sure you feel respected. the person may not be ready. So “Those four things are exactly if you have choice, either two what a customer service advisor minutes early or two minutes wants to do on a daily basis with Editor late, you would always call two every customer. And that is the minutes late. For example, if I start of the relationship between was going to your house for dinner, and you the butler and Ford that I think makes total said, ‘Please, Charles, come to my house for sense.” six o’clock, if I get there and park in front MacPherson was born and raised in of your house at five to six, you never go in. Canada, and has lived in Europe and New You sit in your car and wait until five after York. six.”

“While I was here in Canada, I had an opHe let me off the hook. portunity to work for one of Canada’s most “Blame it on the time difference,” he said famous families that everyone knows and with a laugh. “Not to worry.” loves. It was a great opportunity.

It was delight spending 15 minutes chat“The lady of the house taught me how to ting with MacPherson. He’s an author. He’s buttle. She gave me lessons every week for a a regular on Marilyn Denis’ television show. year, whether it was how to pack a suitcase, He owns a consulting company and has the how to set a table, how to service a table, only registered school for butlers in North how to pour wine at a table. What is the difAmerica. He’s been a butler. He’s a busy ference between a breakfast table, a luncheon man. table and a dinner table? How do you greet He will be speaking to Ford employees guests at the door? How do you take their during an upcoming visit to Saskatoon. He coat? How do you give them their coat back? said there is a connection between what “After doing that for seven years, it was butlers do and what those in all customer-ser- truly the best experience of my life. I decided vice industries should be doing. He said his to open Charles MacPherson and Associates, relationship with Ford — or anybody in the my business that I still have today.” service industry — isn’t the stretch a person His company does such things as advise might think it is. clients on how to run their homes, hire staff “It is really about the skills of a butler, and train staff. and how can we bring that to the service MacPherson’s first book – The Butler department so Ford customers have a better Speaks – is in its fourth printing after just 18 experience.” He said a butler wants to do months. His new book – The Pocket Butler – four things: will be released next month.

CAM HUTCHINSON

Charles MacPherson is a regular on the Marilyn Denis show (Photo Supplied) “I think what is really fascinating about my book, The Butler Speaks, is when I was writing it, it was at first an etiquette book.

And I thought to myself, ‘How boring; this doesn’t work for me.’

“So I thought about my career as a butler.

As I used to buttle around the dining room table, I used to think to myself, ‘What’s the difference between the people sitting around the table and myself?’

“Let’s put the money aside for a moment. What I realized these people had is they all had self-confidence. They knew which fork and which knife to use. They knew how to eat difficult food. They knew how to have table conversation and small talk. They knew how to shake someone’s hand, how to make a toast, how to respond to a toast. They knew all these things and I realized self-confidence attracts people to you. People want to be with someone who feels self-confident because it makes them feel confident.

“So that was really the turning point in

my book. I didn’t want it to be a boring etiquette book. I wanted it to be a book from Charles, your friend the butler, who learned tips and tricks about self-confidence and what could help you.

“If you get a copy of the book, I think what you will really realize is the tone is really Charles your friend versus what we typically think is that etiquette person who is pointing a finger at you, saying, ‘Don’t do it that way; you’re wrong,’ and making you stressed and uncomfortable. To me that is not what etiquette is about.”

I asked Charles if he has a go-to tip for people in the hospitality industry.

“I think what I would say is to observe your client, to respect them and to be gracious. If you observe your client, then you can anticipate their needs. … Observing your client allows you to take better care of them.

And in the hospitality business, you can never be too gracious.”

And I will never call anybody two minutes early again.

Budget will have little bearing on most lives If last week’s provincial average Saskatchewan resibudget didn’t blow your dent. The rest comes and goes hair back, congratulations – like a whisper in the wind. you’re a relatively average My point on all this is that Saskatchewan resident. government budgets don’t For political nerds (like typically rock most people’s this one) and communicaworld. However, it doesn’t tions types (ditto), Saskatchhurt to examine some of the ewan budget day is a bit of messaging prior to and ima festivity. You’ve seen the mediately after a budget is pictures of the provincial released, even if only because Legislature’s rotunda after it’s an interesting glimpse Columnist the minister of finance delivinto how governments — ers his speech — the space and politicians — attempt to jammed to the gills with self-professed ensure you only hear what they want movers and shakers behind any number you to. of industries.

Let’s start with what one commentaMedia receive embargoed copies of tor described as the “carpet-bombing” of the budget about two days before it’s expectations. For the past three months released to the public, tripping all over provincial ministers and the premier have themselves in an effort to extract the been wringing their hands and threatenjuiciest tidbit and have it in front of you ing financial Armageddon on any number first, the moment the embargo is lifted. of groups and individuals, thanks largely Often the impact of the big or real in part to that blasted oil price. story around each budget doesn’t Rural and urban municipalities and emerge with total clarity until a few their mayors were quivering in their days — or even months — after it is boots over the notion that the nice little released. Take the controversial, now financial boost they’re just getting used legendary annihilation of the Saskatch- to – 20 per cent of Saskatchewan’s PST ewan film tax credit. revenue – was going to get ripped back In 2012, what started as a few bleats off the table. Property owners were in protest from the industry in the hours resigning themselves to an increase in and days after the cut was announced their annual payout. There were even eventually morphed into a ground swell crazed rumours of a one-point increase of backlash that still haunts the govern- on the PST. ment. That ground-swell movement is So, into budget day we trudged, what reaches you, if you’re a relatively awaiting our pending financial fate.

TAMMY ROBERT

But wait. What’s that you say? It’s a balanced budget? No tax increases?

Not even any particularly egregious, even notable, programming cuts? It’s a budget day miracle.

Well no, not really. When you drag the financial outlook down so low in advance, the only place you can really go is up. As with everything (in my opinion, but I’m biased), it’s all about perception, communications, positioning and messaging. And to be fair, mowing down expectations and then exceeding them is a really, really smart political and governing strategy, and one the Sask. Party government has been using for years — like in 2009 and 2012, when nobody was buying potash, and then again in 2013 when potash was selling, but dirt cheap.

(Which is why, incidentally, you’ll have to forgive me for not jumping up and down at the idea of potash padding Saskatchewan’s bottom line in 2015-2016).

All things considered, in reality the 2015-16 budget will probably have little or no bearing on your life. If you’re a middle- to upper-income family or senior, you’re taking a bit of a hit. Low-income programing remained generally unscathed. While the general statement on post-secondary funding was that it’s being increased by one per cent, that only holds true because the University of Saskatchewan made the curious move of agreeing in advance to a “one-time holdback of $20 million,” which will come out of programming –

though as of press time for this column, exactly which U of S programming remains to be announced. So stay tuned there.

Following in the post-secondary theme, the graduate retention program for students has been drastically changed. Did you know that since 2008, $200 million has been paid out to university students after they graduate, if they don’t leave Saskatchewan?

Students were receiving up to $20,000 of their tuition back, with a rebate cheque being cut if they, say, were living here and not actually working, so weren’t paying much in income tax. In the 2015 budget, sensibly, the provincial government amended this program to become a true tax credit – if you earn the money to pay the income tax, you’ll still qualify for a credit, but won’t get a cheque in the mail if there is a surplus.

So, the more you earn, the more income tax you pay, but the more credit you’ll get. That’s the way it should be.

Last I checked, in the adult world free money doesn’t normally arrive in your mailbox for no reason. Further, and I appreciate this won’t be popular, but I don’t think we owe university graduates a darn thing in incentives to stay here.

For example, our blue-collar labour force is a massive provincial economic stimulus. We should, and do, appreciate those workers and residents just as much as the ones with a few more letters behind their name.

Page 18 - SASKATOONEXPRESS - March 23-29, 2015 homeland, he returned to encourage his people to come to Canada. He became known as the Father of New Iceland.

In selecting a site, Manitoba seemed to be the answer. The immigrants wanted good farmland and access to a lake, so both farmers and fishermen could work. That year, 1,200 emigrated and many joined the colony on Lake Winnipeg. They named it Gimli, which in Icelandic means “paradise.”

They were promised local self- government, a judicial system, control of their schools and 27,000 acres of land. But a small pox epidemic in 1876 -77 ravaged the population and, by 1881, the settlement was reduced to 250 souls.

In 1886, the West exploded when 16,000 Icelanders arrived to take up Lord Dufferin’s offer of free land: 160 acres, described as the best land imaginable. For many, finding that wonderful land took years and endless moves.

They left Iceland via ferry to Scotland, A quaint museum in Hofsos, a village on the north coast of Iceland then by steam ship to Canada and by rail to (Photo by Doreen Kerby) the prairies and the settlement on Lake Winnipeg. From here, many ventured into the Northwest Territories (which became Saskatchewan in 1905), establishing Thingvalla and Logberg near present-day Churchbridge and from here to Tantallon, the Quill Lakes, Fishing Lake, Foam Lake, Wynyard and

By Doreen Kerby continued to fill the sky with smoke. FiElfros.

Hofsos is a little village on the north coast nally, it erupted with such force that lethal The Emigration Center in Hofsos was of Iceland with a population of 200. It is one smoke and ash rained down over the entire founded to promote contact between of the oldest trading ports, with an economy island, ruining the land. the descendants of those who emigrated based on fishing. But tourism is also imporThis eruption followed several excepbetween 1870 and 1910, and the people tant to the community, because in 1996 the tionally cold years and poor crops. The of Iceland. Three buildings are dedicated Icelandic Emigration Center opened. It is people were literally starving and knew to exhibits, photographs and informadedicated to the thousands of Icelanders who they had to leave. The Danish government tion about those who left. Other buildings were forced to leave their homeland. offered to relocate the entire population to include a genealogy service, a library and On Jan. 3, 1875, a bright orange glow Denmark, but that offer was declined. a gift shop. and a huge cloud of black smoke were The obvious choice was North America.

In Family House, genealogical reseen from a number of coastal villages.

As early as 1872, 235 Icelanders had imsearch and data collection are ongoing, Mount Askja had erupted, spewing milmigrated, settling on the western shore of with a Manitoban genealogist of Icelanlions of tons of debris into the air. During Lake Winnipeg. When Sigtryggur Jonasdic descent. While I was there, a young the next few weeks, dozens of eruptions son heard of the terrible conditions in his couple from Winnipeg came in to see if

Manitoba home to large Icelandic population

Cam Hutchinson & Friends: Saskatoon-born basketball star getting noticed

• It is cool that Saskatoon-born college basketball star Trey Lyles of the University of Kentucky is receiving coverage in these parts. Should he leave Kentucky after one year, he is expected to be a mid to late first-round NBA draft pick. Based on my chats with Trey’s father, Tom, I can see Trey staying at Kentucky another year. These next few weeks will decide that.

• Janice Hough, on Kanye West tweeting nude pictures of Kim Kardashian when she reached 30 million Twitter followers: “With all due respect, are there any of those 30 million who haven’t already seen her naked?”

• TC Chong, on Kraft Foods US recalling more than six million boxes of mislabelled Kraft Dinner: “Kraft is worried some packages might contain real cheese mixed in with the yellow dust.”

• Torben Rolfsen, on Floyd Mayweather paying a personal chef $1,000 per meal during training: “Does that include wine pairings?”

• From Bill Littlejohn: “Jennifer Garner said that after the Super Bowl her husband and die-hard Patriots fan, Ben Affleck, cried. She said it was the first time he’d done so since reading the reviews of Gigli.”

• The lead on a story: “Mark Cohon wasn’t kidding when he said last November the CFL would look at ways to increase scoring in the off-season.” Don’t know about you, but I’d rather see scoring increased during the season.

• A talking head said there are going to be “new rules for watching television.” What are they? Will have I have to sit up instead of lying on the couch?

• Hough, on the first day of the NCAA basketball championship: “Texas Southern – gone; SMU – gone; Texas – gone; Baylor – gone. The last time the state of Texas had a day this bad, the Alamo was involved.”

• From Rolfsen: “The L.A. Marathon was held last Sunday. According to a NASA scientist, it will be the last one with water stations.”

Chong, on Prince Charles and Camilla arriving in Washington, DC, for a four-day U.S. visit: “When they met President Obama at the White House, Camilla apparently asked if Laurel Park or Pimlico were running.”

• A tweet from @hope_smoke: “Too bad (Taylor) Hall isn’t a winner like Stamkos and Tavares. Those guys were so successful while their teams were bad around them.”

• I really hope Connor McDavid doesn’t end up in Edmonton or, heaven forbid, Toronto. Buffalo or Arizona are fine by me.

• Littlejohn, on 49ers CEO Jed York saying his team under Jim Harbaugh got away from its core strengths: “Post-Harbaugh, they’ve gotten away from Gore strengths.”

• Hough, on the U.S. Secret Service saying a letter mailed to the White House tested “presumptive positive” for cyanide: “What was the first clue that made them suspicious? That someone actually mailed a letter?”

• From Rolfsen: “If Kentucky goes 40-0, there will likely be some changes to college basketball. They may install a salary cap.”

• From Chong: “The odds of picking a perfect NCAA basketball bracket are 1 in 9.2 quintillion. That’s the amount of years it will take before Target will look at returning to Canada.”

• The Toronto Maple Leafs were down three goals against Vancouver when a fight ensued. “Why fire up the Leafs?” said Craig Simpson of Hockey Night in Canada, presumably with a straight face.

We featured Trey Lyles on our cover in December 2013

they could find information on the young man’s grandparents. He was surprised and delighted to find a photograph of them and his mother, then a baby, sitting on her mother’s knee. The joy on his face left no doubt that Icelandic people have a strong sense of cultural identity.

The hardships were staggering for those who came to Canada more than 125 years ago. They had to sell their possessions, which usually consisted of a small house and a few sheep, and they could only take what they could carry. Tickets for the sea voyage were expensive, so in some cases only part of the family could leave. Even the voyage was dangerous and many died because living conditions on the ships were so horrible.

On arrival in Canada, they could choose where to go. Some went to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Nova Scotia to join friends or relatives. But many accepted Lord Dufferin’s offer for free transportation to New Iceland. He believed so strongly that the Icelandic people would be excellent citizens.

Gimli turned out to be anything but paradise. The people were not prepared for the harsh winter. Despite the severity of their situation, nine days after they arrived they asked for permission to establish a school. Icelandic culture places a high value on education, hard work and honesty. English was taught in the school and Icelandic in the home.

Manitoba is home to the largest Icelandic population outside of Iceland, with 26,000 claiming Icelandic descent, according to the census taken in 2011. In Canada, that figure is 94,205. They came as pioneer settlers from the land of the Vikings, a strong and sturdy race with an instinctive love for freedom, and they were successful.

(Doreen Kerby is a Saskatoon-based freelance writer.)

Views of the World

Knicks and Jackson at odds?

By RJ Currie

• The top three Women’s World Curling Championship TV shows: 3. House; 2. 3rd Rock from the Sun; 1. Game of Throws.

• According to the Wall Street Journal, one in 772 billion represents: a) the odds of a correct March Madness bracket; b) the ratio of Knicks’ wins to dollars paid to Phil Jackson.

• What do you call an Eagles helmet on Tim Tebow? A wing and a prayer.

• John Madden said Will Ferrell playing with professional ballplayers showed “a lack of respect.” Lucky for the Leafs, he doesn’t follow hockey.

• Mitt Romney will box Evander Holyfield in a charity event. Another fight they may talk about for ears to come.

• Artist Yuriy Alekseev is gaining fame for paintings done at the bottom of a Siberian lake. He specializes in waterscapes and portraits of Russian Olympians who didn’t medal in Sochi.

• Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar is sidelined for a week after injuring an oblique muscle by sneezing. Snot as funny as it sounds.

• An A-Rod apology means about as much to most Americans as the 4th of July means to most Brits.

• Complex Sports recently named pole vaulter Allison Stokke one of America’s Hottest female athletes. I’ve seen her in action; she sets the bar high.

• Michael Phelps is getting married. Keeping a wife happy is a lot like swimming — you take the plunge, try not to make waves, and once in a while you may have to crawl.

• The Huffington Post reports Britain is set to launch a public bus that runs partly on human waste. Who is the manufacturer? Poogeot?

• UMass failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament. As if it wasn’t tough enough for a Minuteman to get a date.

• A New Orleans man is living in the branches of a live oak to protest the construction of a new golf course. No word on his tree times.

• Say what you want about NBA commissioner Adam Silver, I think he looks surprisingly lifelike.

RJ’s Groaner of the Week My wife had a nicked-up, miniature monkey wrench that I painted red, white and blue and put on a bracelet. It’s now a scar bangled spanner.

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MARCH 26 One of the most popular and respected groups on the Canadian folk music scene, The Once - Geraldine Hollett, Andrew Dale, and Phil Churchill - have recently returned from a world tour opening for Passenger.

The group’s fourth Bassment visit will feature songs from their new release, Departure. Showtime is 8:00pm. The Bassment. Tickets: $23 for SJS members, $28 for non-members.

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The no-obligation 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 306343-5322.

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Free art drop-in at the SCYAP Art Centre. All ages are welcome, all materials supplied, MARCH 28-29 no registration required. Tuesdays 5:30 p.m.

Newman Sounds Glee Club presents Disney to 9 p.m., Thursdays 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Extravaganza at the Broadway Theatre. Fea- and Saturdays 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. turing songs from Disney movies, there will Every Wednesday MARCH 26 be a concert at 7:30 PM on Saturday March Depression Support Group runs on the first Raising Hope benefit for the Hope Cancer 28 and a 3:00 matinee on Sunday March Help Centre. Featured performers are B.C. 29. Tickets and information are available at and third Wednesday of each month, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the CMHA building Read, Jay Semko, Theresa Sokyrka and www.picatic.com/disney or from the Broad(1301 Avenue P North). This is open to Ken Marco. Hope Cancer Help Centre has way Theatre Box Office, 306-652-6556. anyone struggling with depression and fambeen active in the community for over 25 MARCH 31 (registration deadline) ily members wanting to support them. For years and is accessible to all people with The Saskatoon Regional Science Fair more info, call 306-270-9181. all cancers. The concert will be held on at attracts students from grades 6-12 from ***** the Cosmopolitan Senior Centre (614 11th Saskatoon and area schools to present their Bargain store to support the inner city Street East). Doors open at 7:30 p.m. with Lighthouse project. Babies’, children’s, the concert beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets are scientific innovations and achievements to the general public while competing for ladies’ and men’s clothing; jewellery, $20. cash prizes. Students can register at usask. purses, belts and camping clothes availMARCH 27 ca/srsf until March 31. Registration is free. able. Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 3 Award-winning guitarist Bob Evans is back The fair will be held Friday, April 10 in the p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 454 Egbert with his eclectic mix of contemporary Education Building at the University of Sas- Avenue. Prices from $0.25 to $5. Everyone finger-style guitar and traditional roots katchewan and is open to the public from is welcome. For more information: Call music. Blessed with a warm vocal style, a 9 a.m. to 11:30 am. Students from grades 306-955-3766 (church) or go to spuconline. tilted sense of humour, and a down-to-earth 7-12 will have an opportunity to represent com or email zixiag@gmail.com. stage presence, Bob’s show is not just for the Saskatoon Region at the Canada-wide ***** “guitar geeks.” Showtime is 9 p.m. The Science Fair in Fredericton, N.B., in May. St. George’s Senior Citizen’s Club (1235 Bassment. Tickets: $17 for SJS members, For more information, visit usask.ca/srsf.

-20th St. West) have bingos and Kaiser from $22 for non-members. noon until 4 p.m. On the last Wednesday of each month we hold a birthday party for apMARCH 28 plicable members. Monthly socials are also Guitarist, composer, and freelance musician held randomly. The club is campaigning for Harley Card is touring to promote his new new members who are 55+. Included are CD, Hedgerow. A semi-finalist in the 2008 Second and Fourth Tuesday bowling alleys, pool tables, dart boards. The Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar CompetiThe Saskatoon Pattern Dance Club holds tion, Harley brings some of Toronto’s finest dances at Grace Westminster United Church club building is wheelchair accessible with adjacent bus service. Memberships are $5 jazz musicians to our stage: Ethan Ardelli (505 10th Street East) from October until per year with discounts included. For further (drums), Dan Fortin (bass), David French April. We dance to old-time music from info call (306)384-4644 or (306)716-0204. (sax) and Matt Newton (piano). Showtime is 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Beginner instruction 8 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets: $20 for SJS during the first hour. No experience needed. members, $25 for non-members.

For further information call 306-382-5107. Third Thursday of the Month The Saskatoon Prostate Cancer Support First and Third Saturdays of the Group meets every month except July and month August at 7:30 p.m. in the W. A. Edwards Lions Club’s Texas Holdem Tournaments.

Family Centre, across from the Saskatoon $60 buy-in gets $10,000 in chips, $40 Funeral Home. For more information call MARCH 24 goes to the cash prize pool. No Re-Buys.

Save the Children - Canada (Saskatoon 50 seats available. Registration opens at 6, Murray Hill at 306-242-5893 or email murBranch). Executive committee meeting. tournament starts at 7 p.m. The Coachman raydhill@me.com. ***** The branch is seeking new members and bar at Market Mall. Call 306-668-0015 for prospective volunteers are cordially invited more information.

Second Wednesday of the Month to attend the meeting. A light lunch will Friendship Force International, Saskatoon First Saturday of every month be served.Edwards Family Centre (Fourth and Area Club is an organization of more The MindFULL Café, part of the international Avenue North) at 7:30 p.m. Please contact Alzheimer Café movement, is an opportunity than 360 clubs in more than 50 countries the branch chair at marci.macomber@ throughout the world. FFI allows you to gmail.com, or the publicity chair at lavonne. to meet in a relaxed social setting for perenjoy economical travel while forging cloke@gmail.com for phone 306-373-9877 sons with dementia, family, care partners new friendships with club members from and other interested people.

The Café for more information. around the world. Visit our website at www. is a two-hour get together with refreshMARCH 27-29 ments, entertainment and information. First thefriendshipforce.org , find out more about The Saskatchewan Orchid Society is hostSaturday of the month from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. us or come join us at our next meeting by contacting Lynne Stade at 306-933-4835 or ing the Canadian Orchid Congress March Sherbrooke Community Centre. lstade@shaw.ca.

27-29 in conjunction with Gardenscape Every Tuesday 2015. This judged national show attracts Every Thursday Off-Broadway Farmers’ Market & Intermany provincial societies and orchid venSaskatoon International Folkdance Club dors from Taiwan, Ecuador and Canada. The national Bazaar and Bistro. Basement of meets at 7 p.m. in Albert Community Centre Grace-Westminster United Church (505, show will include displays featuring exotic (Rm 13, 610 Clarence Ave. South). Learn 10th Street East). 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. orchid plants and an orchid related art dances from many countries around the ***** show. A general admission to Gardenscape world. First night is free. For more informaSpirit of the West 616550 Toastsmasters gets you into this fabulous show entitled tion visit www.sifc.awardspace.com.

Club Downtown Saskatoon.

Come and have For the Love of Orchids. More information is ***** some fun with speaking and leadership available at http://www.saskorchids.com/ Le Choeur des plaines welcomes you to skills.

Our club meets from 7 p.m. to 8:30 coc-2015/ p.m. in the Hospitality Room of Great West- sing and socialize in French each ThursMARCH 27-29 ern Brewing Company. Follow the red fence day at 7:30 p.m. at L’École canadienne française at 1407 Albert Avenue. The Gardenscape takes over Prairieland Park on south side of building through the gate choir is directed by Michael Harris and March 27-29 with 5,000 square feet of up the stairs into the building. accompanied by Rachel Fraser. All who exhibits. General admission $12; students wish to sustain or practice their French are 15 and under free. The show runs Fri. welcome. For more information, call Rachel March 27, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sat. March 28, First Monday of every month at 306-343-6641 or Jean at 306-343-9460.

9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 29 from Saskatoon Ostomy Association meetings at 7:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church. We 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. meet the first Monday of the month except Every second Saturday of the month Memory Writers meet every second SaturMARCH 28 when there is a holiday, if so we meet the day of each month from September to June, St. George’s UCWLC Easter tea and bake second Monday.

10 a.m. – 12 noon at the Edwards Centre, sale, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at St. George’s First Tuesday of every month 333 Fourth Avenue. Record and share Cathedral Auditorium: 208 Ave M South Left Behind By Suicide is a drop-in support the events and memories of your life in a (Cathedral Basement). Admission is $3 group for individuals who have lost a loved relaxed and friendly atmosphere. For more adults, $2 for children between six and 12 one to suicide. W.A. Edwards Family Centre, information call Neva at 306-343-0256 or and free for those five and under. The sale 333 4th Ave. North, 7:30 p.m. 9 p.m. There Hilda Epp at 306-382-2446. features Easter breads, bake sale items, sausage, perogies, cabbage rolls, Pysanky, is no cost to attend. For more information, ***** raffles, door prizes and much more. Lunch email leftbehind@sasktel.net.

FROMI - Friends and Relatives of People SCOOTERS indoor playgroup for children and fellowship included. with Mental Illness meetings will run from new-borns to age five and their parents/ MARCH 28 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at W.A. Edwards caregivers will be at Emmanuel Baptist Hindu Society of Saskatchewan’s 30th Family Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North Church from9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. $40/ annual Vegetarian Banquet. Prairieland (wheelchair accessible). If you have a loved family/year or suggested drop-in donation Park. Keynote speakers: Perry Bellegarde one or friend with a mental illness and you of $5/family. Visit our Facebook page (Assembly of First Nations) and Swamini need understanding support, contact Carol (Scooters - at EBC) for more information.

Shivpriyananda (Chinmaya Mission, at 306-249-0693, Linda at 306-933-2085, ***** Toronto). Social 5:30, seating at 6:30 p.m.

Lois at 306-242-7670 or e-mail fromisk@ Pop In & Play. 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at $65 adults, $55 seniors and students, $40 gmail.com.

Erindale Alliance Church (310 Perehudoff children 10 and under. For tickets, visit Cres). Bring your little ones with you downFirst and Third Sunday of every picatic.com/hsannualbanquet or call Isha stairs for a great time of fun and connectmonth Kumar at 306-979-4466 or Raj Dhir at ing. Monthly theme, learning centres, snack Pet Loss Support Group offers support and 306-374-4882. and the occasional speaker. More info at comfort to people who are struggling with

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MARCH 28 Trades and Treasures. Shop for home décor, jewelry, gems, accessories, coffee, tea, candles, clothing, health, beauty, crafts and much more. Local craftspeople and homebased businesses. Cosmopolitan Seniors Centre (614 11th Street – just off Broadway). Free admission. Open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information and space rental email: inquiries@tradesandtreasures.ca

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First and Third Wednesday of the month Resporados support group for people with breathing difficulties taking place at 1:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church (33rd Street West). For more information, contact Debbie at 306-664-4992.

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 306931-8053 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.

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