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The Neural Health Project

A long-term investment in mental health services

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physician since graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in 1985, Dr. DeeDee Maltman has never lost her appetite for absorbing knowledge. Now she has a vision for a better approach to caring for those with mental illness.

Her plan is called The Neural Health Project, which she sees as the start of a long-term commitment to increase investment and research into mental health.

She wants to use integrative medicine in the approach.

“Integrative People medicine is a healing-oriented medicine which takes account of the whole person (body, mind and spirit) and includes all aspects of lifestyle,” she says. “It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between the practitioner and the patient, is informed by evidence and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and complementary.”

The fundraising launch, One Voice,

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Dr. DeeDee Maltman’s inspiration for The Neural Health Project came when family friends suffered losses due to mental illness (Photo by Steve Gibb) will take place on July 24 at TCU Place in Saskatoon. Maltman’s friend, Mike Babcock, coach of the Detroit Red Wings and two-time Olympic gold medal-winning coach, is lending his considerable skills to acquire an array of athletes, the number of which have never

been previously assembled at one function in Saskatchewan. Michael Landsberg and Clara Hughes are among the mental health advocates, and the celebrity guests will include Scotty Bowman, Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, Kevin Martin, Jennifer Jones, Hayley Wickenheiser,

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It is all happening because two families, each connected to Maltman and Babcock, lost individuals, both deaths attributable to mental ilness.

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A cat on a farm south of the city casts an evil eye at the woman with the camera (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)

It has been four years at the Express

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oly smokes. It has StarPhoenix in 2017, after been four years 40 years of employment since the founding there. I thought I would of the Saskatoon Express have a piece of cake in the and my departure from the newsroom, drop it on my Saskatoon StarPhoenix. shirt and avoid making a It hit me last week farewell speech. Talking when I saw the Saskatoon in front of groups, even Valkyries football schedfriends and colleagues, isn’t ule. The team is going for my bag. its fifth straight Western I thought I would take a Women’s Canadian Football last walk around the buildEditor championship. I covered the ing on an evening or on a team’s first game — in June weekend.

2011.

I would picture the people I worked I almost wrecked the singing of with back then, and the incredible the national anthem that day. Slotmentoring they gave me. I wasn’t back Marci Kiselyk was singing it. I grateful enough at the time. thought it would be a cool photo, so I I moved around a bit in the newsran from the bleachers and got close room over the years. I had 11 years to her, but not totally in front of her. in one chair, three in another, two in When I took the photo, the flash went another, two in another and 15 years in off, scaring the “God keep our land” the last one. Does that add up to 33? out of her. A valuable lesson was The business really changed durlearned that day: Old Cam doesn’t get ing my 33 years. It wasn’t only the to use a camera anymore. technology, although I remember the My departure coincided with the first time I used a computer and the death of my friend and colleague first time I watched somebody on the Doug McConachie. It was wonderInternet. Also noticeable were changes ful to hear the other day that Doug in the people. has been inducted into the CurlSask Generally speaking, reporters in my legends of curling honour roll in the early days were more engaged in the media category. I want to say Doug community. They didn’t treat the work would have paid to cover curling had as a job. They weren’t 9 to 5ers. And I not been the one to approve his exthey walked 10 miles uphill to get to pense accounts. Snowmobile repairs? work every day. Most didn’t have uniReally? versity degrees, but they made a point These have been the happiest four of knowing the paper’s readers. And years of my working career, although they wanted to cover the big story. having a summer job with the City They fought for them. parks department in the 1970s was In my later years, generally speakpretty sweet. ing, reporters seemed detached from I always thought I would leave The the community. You needed go-to

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people to cover breaking news. It was difficult to find reporters who would work evenings or weekends. Maybe the problem was my poor managerial skills.

But I digress.

During my last day at the SP, I envisioned a visit to the composing room, which had evolved into being called the prepress department. There were always great people working in that department. I can see so many faces as I write this. Too many of those people are gone now.

In all my years, I never tired of watching and hearing the press run.

I worked nights during my first 14 years at the SP, so I saw it a lot. Holding one of the first papers to come off the press was always a delight. It brought closure to one day and a start to the next.

I stopped the press once. Sadly, it was so we could remake the front page after two children were killed in a midnight apartment fire.

It is encouraging that newspapers are still being read. According to a study done by the Newspaper Audience Databank Inc., readership of physical newspapers has only dropped two per cent during the past five years, while digital readership is up 40 per cent. It’s a shame there is no money to be made online.

But I digress.

I left on that last day without goodbyes and without regrets. My eyes didn’t water. There was no lump in my throat. There was no cake on my shirt.

I handed in my door pass at the HR office. I left quietly through the south exit. I have never looked back.

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Jan Shadick has been able to return many birds and animals to the wild (Photo Supplied)

Giving hope

Rehabilitation group gives wildlife a second chance Cam Hutchinson, Saskatoon Express roviding assistance for those who truly need it the most.”

That is one of the guiding principles of the George Reed Foundation. The message dovetails wonderfully with Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation. It is fitting and no coincidence that Reed, the Saskatchewan Roughrider great, will speak at the Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation gala on May 9 at the German Cultural Centre.

In Saskatoon, Jan Shadick is one of our George Reeds. She and her volunteers give hope to injured and orphaned birds and small animals – those who truly need it the most.

Shadick is a trained wildlife rehabilitator. She is so passionate about her work that the basement of her home has been renovated to become a caring place for her tiny patients.

Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation was incorporated in 2010, but Shadick’s work – her labour of love – started years earlier.

When she moved to Saskatchewan in 2001, permits weren’t being given out.

“The process was to go to the government and advocate and say, ‘Here’s my

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training. Here are my qualifications. Here are the standards of care that I will follow if I do this.’ After several years of that, they gave me a permit.”

In 2005, she took in 20 animals. By 2009, it was 150. She thought she better incorporate to get a crack at some funding opportunities.

The numbers of birds in her care have gone up annually – 220, 330, 430 and then 485 in 2014.

“Our focus is small birds and small mammals. We get lots of ducklings, lots of songbirds up to crows and small hawks,” Shadick said. “We probably get 35 mammals on average and that has stayed pretty steady.”

Why have the numbers of birds needing care grown so substantially?

“I think it is because we exist. It’s one of those ‘if you build it, they will come’ things.

I think there have always been beautiful and compassionate and loving people out there that are finding these injured or orphaned animals. And historically they haven’t known what to do with them.

“There wasn’t a place to take them, so they simply did their best with these animals and oftentimes it didn’t work

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and sometimes it did. Now that they have a place to take those animals, they are bringing them in. I so often hear, on a daily basis, ‘Thank you for being here and doing this and providing this service.’ And that is really what it is. Wildlife rehabilitation is a service for the animals and for the people.

“Obviously for the animals it’s because you give them a second chance. For the people, it gives them a place to bring these animals and know they will be taken care of.

“For us, it’s the joy of being able to support the compassion in the humans and to be able to give those animals a second chance, whether that is a humane euthanasia or whether that is being able to raise them and then watch them run away or fly away and go back into the wild where they belong.”

Shadick says her group has a 70 per cent success rate.

Wildlife rehabilitation started as a hobby for her.

“This was a hobby and obviously it has grown far beyond the concept of a hobby,” she said. “I have a day job and in the summertime I take lots of time off, but I also apply for employment grants to be able to hire people to help out when I go to work.”

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She would like to find a bigger space outside the city limits, but for now she works out of her renovated basement. She said there are many reasons why she does what she does.

“I can probably credit my parents for raising me to be an environmentalist and to love wildlife. I think our wild neighbours are part of our world and they deserve our attention and they deserve our respect. The benefits why I do this are in the millions.”

Wildlife rehabilitation has a history dating back more than 50 years in the United States. She said two U.S.-based organizations — National Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Association and the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council — have set the standards that she follows. Representatives are often brought to Saskatchewan to train provincial rehabilitators.

In 2006, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Saskatchewan (WRSOS) was restarted. It is a provincial society that serves as an umbrella organization for the individual rehabilitators.

“Wonderfully enough, through WRSOS, we developed a wildlife hotline so the public has a place they can call if they think they have found an injured or orphaned animal or a wildlife animal or bird in need in some way, shape or form,” Shadick said.

“Oftentimes people will call and say, ‘You know, there is a little bird hopping around my yard. I don’t think he can fly and I am worried about it.’ They can talk with one of the volunteers, who calls them back after they leave a message on the hotline. The volunteer walks them through what the situation is, what the circumstances are and really gets a good sense of what is happening. Oftentimes, maybe it is just a fledgling that is hopping around the yard and the parents are coming down to feed it. And the advice is ‘Just let it be. It’s nature. It’s good; everything is fine.’ ” On the other hand, people calling the hotline are “doing a huge service in terms of that upfront triage and assessment work out in the field so the animals we are getting are generally very appropriately coming in for care. They are truly injured. They are truly orphaned and truly in need of care.”

Shadick is looking forward to hearing Reed speak at the gala.

“Providing assistance for those who truly need it the most: That is a huge piece of what we do with our animals. He’s not coming related to the animal work specifically, but to the need for hope and inspiration that I think he can bring to our gala.

He has led an inspirational life.”

For tickets to the gala and much more information on Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation, visit www.livingskywildliferehabilitation.org.

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The Man Show now in its 10th year Darren Steinke Saskatoon Express he Man Show has always tried to trigger that “I have to have that” feeling in men.

Billed as the ultimate trade and consumer show for men, The Man Show has everything from the hottest and latest cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, power tools, clothing, golf and sports equipment and video equipment — and much more.

“We try to have a mix and match of all kinds of things,” said Brian Swidrovich, who is the volunteer organizer for The Man Show. “We try to have a sampling of various categories.”

The event is entering its 10th year, and it is set for May 8-10 at Prairieland Park. During its 10-year run, Swidrovich said the show has remained consistent in its look, which he believes has been the key to success.

“We’ve always tried to maintain the size of a couple hundred booths to keep it manageable,” he said. “It is all run by volunteers, as it has been pretty much from day one.

“If you allow a show to grow too much, it becomes more of a job than fun.”

The show grew a little bit, when it moved from the SaskTel Centre to Prairieland Park about three years ago.

This year, Dodge Ram Canada has rented about 3,600 square feet of space and will be allowing patrons to take test drives in the vehicles on display. The Saskatchewan British Classic Car Club and the Mustang and Classic Ford Club, as well as racers from the local stock car track, will all have displays.

Swidrovich said they try to the limit the number of vendors in each subject area to a maximum of three in order to ensure variety.

The Man Show usually attracts between 11,000 and

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Tickets for the Man Shed can be purchased at The Man Show (Photo courtesy of Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon)

14,000 people over the course of three days.

“The nice thing about The Man Show is it was the first show in Saskatchewan where you could walk around with a cold beer in your hand and look at stuff and talk to your buddies, while you are shopping,” said Swidrovich. “That is a unique feature. It is more of a social outing.”

Swidrovich said they do try to ensure that 20 per cent of the vendors have something that interests both sexes.

You can get manicures and pedicures, for example.

Swidrovich joked that the men take advantage of those services more than the women do.

This year’s event also contains a door prize, with the winner getting a trip for two to Philadelphia to see a Flyers game or an NFL or NBA contest.

Patrons at the show will also be able to purchase tickets for a Man Shed, which will be on display. The nonprofit Law Enforcement Guardians organization, which produces The Man Show, uses the money raised from the sale of the raffle tickets and the trade show as a vehicle to support various programs for youth in need.

The Man Shed will be displayed at five other functions and the draw for the winner will be made in October.

“It is a business show for sure, but it is a fun business show,” said Swidrovich. “It is not what you might term as the traditional trade show.”

The show is slated to be open from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on May 8, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on May 9 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 10.

Mental illness affects one in five people every year

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(Continued from page 1) an Buckwold, a 64-year-old Saskatoon lawyer and a passionate voice for mental health, lost his life on July 14, 2013. Jordan Chartier, a 23-year-old all-around athlete in Saskatoon, died July 30, 2013.

“In Saskatchewan, this is what we do to remember special friends and families,” says Maltman. “I think what we are launching in Saskatchewan will be noticed by mental health advocates around the world.

“We are building a prototype that others will be able to use. The One Voice event is just the beginning. We want to raise $1 million for research and a majority of funds will go directly to the patients in this therapeutic plan. We want to show a more complete upstream project in mind, body and spirit and empower our patients with a therapeutic plan that will affect change.

“To borrow a phrase from Mike, we are looking for the cutting-edge optimization.”

Attendance at One Voice comes with a $1,000 price tag.

“We’re not trying to be exclusionary. We need the money as quickly as we can get it to launch the program.

I think in Saskatchewan we recognize ways and means of reaching goals. We’re already hearing stories about young people running marathons, others participating in a softball tournament, a yoga group saving their tips. Each of these events will give people a chance to get event tickets. What they will get is an evening where our celebrity guests will certainly be accessible to everyone.”

She is also quick to point out that “mental illness affects one in five people each year. Mental illness costs Canadians at least $50 billion annually and the numbers from 2011 showed that more than $6 billion of this cost was due to lost business productivity.”

In building her vision, Maltman came to the table with

strong influences, perhaps none stronger than her parents, Huddy and Shirley Ann Bell of Regina.

Her dad played junior hockey in Regina, was in the New York Rangers farm system and played out his career with the Regina Caps from 1951 until 1954. He began acquiring apartment properties, built the Bell City motel on south Albert in Regina and was a car dealer. When he went to Arizona for the winters, he helped the state acquire property for parklands.

“He was a man of vision,” Maltman recalls. “While dad was doing his thing, my mother was manning the ship.

She was an early believer in integrative medicine, looking outside the box for alternative things and combining them with traditional medicine methods. She set the stage for what I’m doing. Dad went to Grade 6 in school, mom to Grade 11. The things they wanted most for their children was to get a good education.”

Given the same name as her mother, she remembers when she and her brother were children and how her brother started to call her DeeDee. The name stuck.

She came to the University of Saskatchewan, graduated with a degree in medicine, interned at St. Paul’s Hospital and married Tom in 1986. He became an equine veterinarian.

She went into practice as a family physician and there was one interruption.

“After 11 years in practice, I took time away when both of my parents were diagnosed with cancer within two weeks of each other. My mother died in 1997. Dad overcame his cancer. He kept doing business until the day before he died in 2009.”

Although concentrating on family practice for 25 years, Maltman held the theory “we were missing out in chronic disease management.” A life enhancement course in Tucson, Ariz., boosted her interest in integrative medicine and

she started to attend conferences, focusing on heart disease, diabetes and obesity.

She went to the University of Arizona, gained a fellowship in integrative medicine and called it “the best learning experience I ever had in my life. I knew I had to get these lessons out to the masses. ” Maltman looks at some hard numbers.

“With 77 per cent of health-care budgets consumed by chronic disease management, and with underlying chronic inflammation now cited as a major cause, I see the need for new methods of treatment,” says Maltman.

Her approaches have been varied. One was through the launching of Leyda’s café on 20th Street West. One of the signs on the wall is the Hippocrates philosophy: “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” She often uses the café as a place for conferences, where she can stress good food and good medicine.

Her restaurant specializes in organic, gluten-free and nut-free offerings.

“I have witnessed a steady increase in people with celiac disease and it is one of the most under-diagnosed diseases.

The educational evenings I run as well are intended to promote proper food philosophies. One of our projects has been The Anti-inflammatory Challenge.”

The location of the restaurant is also a significant sign in their optimism about Riversdale. She and her husband acquired the old Barry Hotel property, levelled the building and are waiting for the right opportunity to enhance the neighbourhood with something it needs.

Amidst their busy lives, she and her husband are parents of four. Tyler is now in family practice in Saskatoon.

Crombie is in the fourth year of medical school. Reid is in the final year of pursuing a commerce degree. Tasha, “the ballerina,” is studying physiology at the U of S.

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Oksana Kishchuk featured speaker at Leave a Legacy Luncheon Kira Olfert for Saskatoon Express n 2009, Oksana Kishchuk was in seventh grade when she came home from a presentation done by We Day founder Craig Kielburger and announced to her parents that she was “going to go to Kenya.” At first, she says, her parents were “shocked. But they were always the ones who modeled community involvement and encouraged me to volunteer as well, so after not too long, they realized I meant it.” Still, to have her prove she was serious, Kishchuk’s parents told her she’d need to raise half of the money herself and find a group to travel with. Kishchuk, now working on a degree in Public Affairs and Policy Management at Carleton University in Ottawa, proved her dedication and fulfilled both of these conditions, and after two years of fund raising and planning, travelled to rural Kenya in 2011 with a group made up of participants from Canada and the United States.

Upon arrival in Kenya, Kishchuk was struck by how much it reminded her of Saskatchewan. “It was a rural farming area and the people were so friendly and welcoming. The towns reminded me of Saskatoon in how community driven they were. People would do whatever they could to help one another.” During their visit, Kishchuk and her group heard numerous stories about the limited educational opportunities for secondary aged schoolboys.

“There has been such a necessary focus on girls’ education lately, some boys have been left behind. In the communities we were in, their options were either to hope for a spot in the local girls’ school, which was not possible, or to go to school in the city, which was very expensive. So our group decided we would commit ourselves to raising money for a boy’s school to help further empower these youth through education.” Ground was broken last August on the school, which is set to open next February with a grade nine class of approximately 40 boys. A new grade will be added each year until grades nine through 12 are represented. Kishchuk “would love to go back for the opening. It will be so surreal to see if finally all happening.

Education is so important, it is the best gift you can give anyone. And it just keeps on giving back.”

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Guest speaker Oksana Kishchuk travelled to India in the summer of 2013 Closer to home, Kishchuk was involved with the Youth Advisory Council of the Saskatoon Community Foundation for five years, and also was a member of the Saskatoon School Board’s Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning while she was a student at Walter Murray. She was named one of Canada’s Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy and was a finalist for Canada’s Top Teen Philanthropist.

In light of her hard work and contributions to the community, both locally and internationally, Kishchuk

will be the guest speaker at this year’s Leave A Legacy banquet in Saskatoon. She hopes to spread a message of involvement, especially for youth. “Youth are so passionate about so many things, but often they think they don’t have the power to change anything. That’s not true.

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Matchstick: Where fairy tale collides with reality

Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express id Snow White live happily ever after with her prince? Did Hansel and Gretel grow up to be healthy, untraumatized adults?

Who knows?

Maybe Nathan Howe does. The Saskatoon playwright explores the post-fairy tale concept in his upcoming folk musical, Matchstick. The two-hander, with various characters played by Howe and Lauren Holfeuer, takes on the collision between fictional happiness and less-fictional reality.

“It’s kind of Disney fairy tale crashes into historical conspiracy theory,” said Howe in a recent interview. “We begin with what seems like a fairy tale, and then we get to the real world.”

Just like in a real fairy tale, there is a message: “You can still find hope in everything, but you have to keep your head out of the clouds.”

Holfeuer’s character is “swept off her feet by a mysterious foreigner,” says the play’s official description. She leaves behind her world to “start again in a land of opportunity and freedom.

“Instead she finds herself trapped in a life she could never have predicted,” as the wife of a notorious man.

Matchstick is now a full two-act musical play, but it got its start as a shorter Fringe play that toured five cities and a town in the summer of 2013.

“We won an award in Ottawa, were voted top five in Edmonton by one magazine, and were nominated for two awards in Vancouver,” said Howe. “It did really well. Audiences responded well.

“It’s kind of got a mystery element; it’s tough taking that on the circuit. A lot of people liked the reveal so much that they would keep it a secret. We heard word of mouth going, ‘They wouldn’t tell me what it’s about, but they told me to see it.’ ” Upon Howe’s return from the Fringe circuit, Persephone Theatre approached him to further develop the play.

“They had helped with a little bit of dramaturgy before we went, and rehearsal space. We talked to them about set ideas.

They were helpful, and when we came back they wanted to work on it.”

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Nathan Howe’s two-act musical started as an award-winning Fringe play (Photo Supplied) Howe turned it into a two-act play, and got some help on the musical side from pianist Clinton Ackerman of Regina and Ben Elliott from Vancouver, who plays “just about everything,” including accordion. In the production, though, all the music is handled by Howe and Holfeuer.

“Just the two of us play all the music on stage . . . guitar, ukulele, harmonica. We have more than 10 instruments in the show right now. A lot of little hand-held things, but those are sometimes the most fun in a song.”

Somewhat fittingly, the show runs at Village Guitar and Amp on 20th Street, where the space is great, said Howe.

“They have vintage guitars on the walls, and it’s all very rustic and antique looking.

They’re letting us put audience risers in.

It’s pretty big, actually. They do concerts there. They have their own stage, and then we’re adding a bit of stage on the front of it, so we have a little more space.”

Matchstick has challenged all of Howe’s considerable talents. Howe has not only been acting for some time, but has also been writing songs since he picked up a bass guitar, when a friend wanted some-

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“Since then he dragged me into a few bands, and I became a songwriter from there. This is the first time I’ve combined the two.

“It’s really tough to write a musical.

I think on the next one I’ll have a team.

There will be three of us instead of just one.

“Instead of every sentence or thought being questioned, it was every word, because a word has to sound a certain way to fit into the melody. We still have to ask the right questions. It was the specificity, and throwing the music into it.”

Howe, born in Saskatoon, has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan and is a graduate of Regina’s Globe Theatre Conservatory. The theatre passion began early on, when he saw his first play in Grade 7. By Grade 9, he was in a children’s Fringe show, Once Upon a Shoe.

“When I was in high school, I had a good drama teacher (Tom Ratzlaff), and we’d do Fringe shows in the summer. It kind of got me into writing.”

This is Howe’s professional premiere

as a writer, but he has been very busy acting over the last three years. He was in Equivocation and It’s a Wonderful Life with Persephone; played Romeo at Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan; has done four Live Five productions; was Toto in The Wizard of Oz and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice at Regina’s Globe, along with two other shows; and has done numerous Fringe plays. He has been so busy, he hasn’t been forced to take a side job since 2012.

Will he pursue more acting, writing or producing in the future?

“It’s hard to say. I’ll change my mind so much. If I’ve been an actor for four shows in a row, I’ll want to find people and cast them and do a marketing campaign. It’s the great thing about theatre. I can fit in everywhere. It keeps me working.”

Matchstick is part of Persephone’s Deep End series. Written by Nathan Howe and directed by Kristen Holfeuer, it plays May 6 to May 17 at 8 p.m. at Village Guitar and Amp, located at 432 20th St. West.

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e need to talk about have chosen never to release privacy. the names of the deceased or It seems like the the accused. Why? Because he harder we work to protect our chose the cowardly way out, own, the more ravenous we freeing himself from the hassle are to breach someone else’s. of earthly judgment. If he had Throw in federal and provinchosen to face the consequences cial government initiatives, of his actions, the RCMP would ombudsmen and commissions have released all the names, galore, and you’d think that including his. Five people were we would be as free to live as simply erased from the public anonymously and uninvaded as record because of the killer’s Columnist humanly and technologically final act of violence. possible.

In fact, after he ended her Yet look no farther than a recent, heart- physical world, the killer went online and breaking example to highlight the notion destroyed her virtual world — deleting the that despite our best efforts, when it really very Facebook account that kept Latasha matters the most, the odds are our expecta- and the stories of her life tied so closely tions of privacy will not be met. Not even to those that loved her, robbing them of close. the threads left behind to hold on to her. media presenter I’m guessing that when Latasha GosHere’s hoping the good folks under Zuckling allowed pictures of herself lovingly erberg can return them. gazing into the eyes of her boyfriend to Despite the killer’s horrific best efforts, JW15315.E04 James be posted to Facebook, she never in her word of the tragedy spread like wildfire wildest dreams thought the images would both through the network of small northbe harvested and then splashed across ern towns impacted by these events, and news media websites because that same through the broader network of Twitter boyfriend would unthinkably betray her, and Facebook. It wasn’t hours after the by taking both her life and those of her news broke before Latasha and her chilchildren. Or that when she posted pictures dren’s names and images were confirmed of her three children beaming into the as victims — though again, never by the camera, holding cards announcing the authorities hired to protect her both in life, pending birth of their fourth sibling, she and afterwards. could never imagine those pictures being The question is, in order to digest, or

by Lauren Baron - Journalist used to highlight their own lives tragically try to understand these types of unfathomsnuffed. able incidents, how much do we need to Sitting at his desk penning a medical column a few years ago, Latasha was a prolific user of social consume? I don’t know what the magic W. Gifford-Jones had a heart attack. media, proudly sharing so many aspects formula is, but I firmly do not believe it “It was not a good way to start the day,” Gifford-Jones said. “I damn of the life of her young family with the needs to involve photo galleries of everynear died.” world. By all means, these images were thing the deceased ever posted to Instasubmitted to the public domain — which gram. I do know that if I filter it through Following surgery, his doctor prescribed cholesterol-lowering medicais absolutely what posting them means, my own perspective, I want to be able to tion as the only way to avoid future heart attacks and possible death. regardless of how stringent one’s privacy share what I choose from my life with my But Gifford-Jones wasn’t convinced. settings. They were fair game for media family and friends while I’m alive, without His more than 37 years working as a medical journalist brought Gifford-Jones into conand curious rubberneckers. having to consider what will end up gettact with many controversial medical claims, including that of biochemist Dr. Linus PaulThe flipside of this argument, however, ting peered at by onlookers in the instance ing, who believes that cardiovascular disease and heart attacks in particular are caused by is that the only reason we know Latasha I’m no longer here to make that choice for a vitamin C deficiency.

Gosling’s name, the names of her beauti- myself or for my kids. ful children and the name of their killer, is However, I also know that in a world “Vitamin C is responsible for the manufacturing of collagen that holds cardiovascular also because of social media. The names governed by laws to protect our privacy, in cells together,” Gifford-Jones said. “Lysine makes the glue that holds those coronary cells have all been widely reported, despite the a society that has become more open and together stronger.” fact that the RCMP, in what some consider communicative than ever before in history, It sounded like an interesting theory to Gifford-Jones at the time, but he didn’t take it to be a shameful act of protectionism, that is no longer how it works. seriously until after his heart attack.

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Gifford-Jones will give a talk about fighting heart disease on Wednesday, May 6th, from 7 until 9:00 p.m. in Prairieland Park.

Gifford-Jones is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Harvard Medical School.

His weekly column is published over 50 Canadian newspapers and reaches six million readers.

Though he says 99.9 per cent of doctors would disagree with taking vitamin C and lysine instead of cholesterol-lowering medication to fight cardiovascular disease, Gifford-Jones stands by the theory because he says he’s seen the results.

He, too, was skeptical until he met British doctor Sydney Bush, whose work indicates that vitamin C and lysine can reverse the damage done by cardiovascular disease.

“Looking down through history, doctors indeed have closed minds and new ideas are very difficult to get people to accept,” Gifford-Jones said. “I was skeptical, I thought it was too good to be true, but I hopped on a plane and went over to England, saw the before and after pictures and the proof was in the pictures.”

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‘Bring your funny bones’ to SNTC production Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express am Bob’s acting career is diverse.

He recently filmed a movie with Anthony Hopkins, shot an important scene in a production about missing and murdered women and completed a 26-city Western Canadian tour of a play.

When he talks about starring alongside Hopkins, Bob gets excited. The Vancouver-based actor from the SnawNaw-As First Nation said working with Hopkins in January was a “surreal” experience.

“It was just amazing to work with a legend — a living legend — and I learned so much just in the short time I was working with him,” said Bob. Movie stars Hopkins, Ray Liotta and Julia Stiles were in B.C.’s North Okanagan recently to shoot the feature film Go With Me. Bob recalls how he affectionately referred to Hopkins as “Tony” while working in Enderby, B.C., while Hopkins called him “Sammy.”

“It was so fun to hang out with him,” Bob said.

Now Bob is in Saskatoon, where he is starring in the latest Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company (SNTC) production. The play, Crees in the Caribbean by acclaimed indigenous playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, represents two firsts for Bob: It’s the first time he’s worked with SNTC, and it’s the first time he’s visited Saskatoon.

Bob is enjoying both the city and the theatre company.

“It’s going great,” he said of the play rehearsals, giving kudos to the play’s director, Angus Ferguson.

“I’m really enjoying his work as a director — sculpting the performances and coalescing the script, the story, with us.”

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The light-hearted show centres on two middle-aged Cree spouses, Cecil and Evie, who are taking their first trip out of the country to visit a Caribbean resort.

Bob stars as Cecil alongside University of Saskatchewan professor Carol Greyeyes, who plays Evie.

Bob says he and Greyeyes are “building the relationship” between Cecil and Evie, and Greyeyes is “amazing.”

“She’s like a really strong force of nature just going through the script. Her character’s always bang on.”

Bob says the play focuses on the relationship between Cecil and Evie – who he describes as “up-and-coming elders” — and “how they come to terms with their life stories.”

“It’s such as sweet relationship to present to the community,” Bob said.

“After being married for 35 years, how do you still talk to each other? How do you be together? It’s kind of like an insight into what makes those types of relationships the strength of our community,” he added.

Bob said Evie is Cecil’s rock — and he’s lucky to have her.

“He’s not the smartest guy — and I mean that in a nice way,” said Bob. “Intelligence of the heart is sometimes way stronger than intelligence of the mind.”

In addition to Bob and Greyeyes, actress Ingrid Gomez rounds out the three-person cast. Gomez is taking on the role of Manuela, a young maid at the Caribbean resort.

“She’s really good,” Bob said.

The play’s story has twists and turns and “good, strong dialogue,” and it is grounded in humour, said Bob. He said people should come see the play because it will be reminiscent of a family

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“Bring your funny bones, because they’re going to be tickling your funny bones.”

To add some additional excitement to the theatrical debut of Crees in the Caribbean, Juno Award-winning musician Chester Knight, of Muskoday First Nation, will release his new single, Indian Girl, at the show’s opening night. Other artists who will have their music featured during the play include Andrea Menard, Violet Naytowhow, Zoey ‘Pricelys’ Roy and local indie band Night Switch.

Crees in the Caribbean runs from May 7 to May 17 at Studio 914, located at 914 20th St. West. Tickets are $25 for adults and $23 for students and seniors for the 8 p.m. evening shows, and $25.50 and $23, respectively, for the 2 p.m. weekend matinees. Tickets are $12.50 for the 1 p.m. student matinees on May 7, May 12 and May 14. Tickets can be purchased by calling the La Troupe du Jour box office at 306-667-1221 or by going online to www.latroupedujour.ca.

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Ann Dutnall is giving the business to her most senior staff member, Gene Suignard, who will move the used bookstore to the Louis the 8th Mall at the end of June.

“It’s on the same block, so I was very happy about that,” said Dutnall in a recent interview.

She will still be somewhat involved in the business. “I’m not leaving him high and dry. I’m going to do his books for him and his payroll.”

Concorde Group, the owner of the mall, gave Westgate notice several months ago.

Concorde plans to redevelop the mall, but has not yet revealed its plans.

Dutnall is going back to school. She plans to take the year-long educational assistant course at Saskatchewan Polytechnic.

“I love working with kids. I’ve worked in special ed classes and stuff like that. I thought it would be a good way to be semiretired; you do get your summers off.”

Westgate Books has been in business for more than 40 years. Dutnall started working there at age 18, and took it over just before the previous owner passed away, more than 15 years ago.

Westgate will have a big stock reduction sale, likely in the first two weeks of June, but will start marking down the stock right away.

“We already have a couple of sections on sale,” said Dutnall.

Several businesses in the Cumberland Square Mall will close, and several are moving. Fred Hamm is closing his barber shop, and Mayne’s Kitchen and Gift has closed.

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Some of the lead characters in The Wizard of Oz are (back row from left to right) Shauna Matiko (Good Witch), Kristin Siba (Wicked Witch), Arthur Boan (Scarecrow), Jordie Hughton (Tin Man). In the front row are Trevor Wingerter (Cowardly Lion) and Gem Hargreaves (Toto). (Photos by Steve Gibb)

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Few fictional characters are more iconic than the ones from the classic musical The Wizard of Oz. Those beloved characters will soon be brought to life at TCU Place, when the Saskatoon Fireside Singers present their spring production on May 13 and May 14.

Artistic director Marilyn Whitehead is bringing a 75-person cast — ranging in age from six to 60 — to the stage for the choreographed family-friendly show.

“To create the magic on stage has been the exciting part and the exciting challenge,” she said, noting a large

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backstage team is “building sets and developing the technical things that have to happen.”

“People have expectations for the show; we have to achieve that.”

The Wizard of Oz is a departure from the “very intense” shows the Saskatoon Fireside Singers have presented during the group’s last two spring productions, she said. In 2013, the Fireside Singers staged Les Miserables; the following spring, in 2014, the group presented Andrew Lloyd Webber’s infamous rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar.

“Last year we really didn’t even use our littlest people, because it didn’t seem to be a setting for the little ones,” said Whitehead.

The cast of The Wizard of Oz rehearses last week

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“We thought we would make sure we did a show this year that incorporated everybody and produce sort of our first family show. We’ve done Oliver, but this one is really geared to the whole family.”

The Saskatoon Fireside Singers present two major productions each year: a Christmas show and a spring show.

Many of the singers involved in the productions have been, or currently are, Whitehead’s vocal students.

“They’re my students, and there’s students of my former students. And then some of my fellow colleagues have students in there as well,” Whitehead said.

“It’s a very close-knit group of singers that have kind of walked this journey together,” she added.

Auditions began in mid-January for The Wizard of Oz and about 55 people auditioned for lead roles. Whitehead is pleased with the leads who were cast: Madison McLean, Trevor Wingerter, Arthur Boan, Jordie Hughton, Kristin Siba, Shauna Matiko, Kurt Haunsperger and John Wilby.

As with Jesus Christ Superstar, Albert Couture is again taking on the role of stage director for The Wizard of Oz, with Bonnie Nicholson again heading up the orchestra and Kelsey Stone again serving as choreographer.

“This is our ninth full production,” Whitehead said.

“I think part of the excitement and the draw is the fact that we are at TCU Place — and we’re really lucky to be in such a fabulous auditorium and work with professional light and sound technicians.”

Whitehead said the two-hour show is appropriate for both children and adults.

“The characters are so lovable and believable, and the dialogue is very humorous and very appropriate for kids.

But it’s also clever humour, so adults get a kick out of it.

They may catch different lines,” she said.

“It definitely is a family show with lots of energy and excitement and things happening. The scenes change very quickly.”

Whitehead started Saskatoon Fireside Singers 43 years ago, and she continues to be passionate about bringing the group’s productions to local audiences. She said she enjoys “the excitement of watching these young people grow in confidence and ability.”

“It’s just really gratifying. It’s just a wonderful journey every time we start a show.”

Whitehead said The Wizard of Oz inspires people to follow their dreams, so the Saskatoon Fireside Singers contacted the Children’s Wish Foundation about a fundraising opportunity. People will be asked to make a donation to the foundation, and they will receive a piece of the “Yellow Brick Road” in return.

Tickets to The Wizard of Oz are $34, and can be purchased by calling 306-975-7799 or by going online to tcutickets.ca. There is a family rate of $30 for four or more tickets.

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The MVA Trail is being extended to Chief Whitecap Park (Photo by Steve Gibb)

Did the City sell low and buy high?

and get that dirt cleaned up. There are a lot of people with allergies out there and the dust certainly bothers them.

They will have to go out again because of the snow storm more than a week ago.

Crews used some salt and sand and that will have to be swept. The next step will be to get into the neighbourhoods. That means those big yellow sandwich board signs will be popping up to tell residents when the sweepers will be in the neighbourhoods. You’ll have to move your vehicle to avoid a ticket. But the signs will go up a couple of days ahead of time, so you’ll have lots of notice.

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Mayor Atchison: That is part of the MVA Trail. It is going to lead us out to Chief Whitecap Park. There are discussions underway with SaskPower as to the best route to get people there safe and sound. With the Mayor’s Marathon Day, we are raising funds so we can build the trail out to Whitecap Park and then out to Beaver Creek and then to Whitecap Dakota First Nation.

Question: Why not do just one good, effective pass with the street sweepers instead of two or more? This one and only sweep would include sweeping the sidewalks and medians first, and should be all complete (major streets and downtown at least) by April 30 so we can fully enjoy our precious summers.

Mayor Atchison: The summers truly are precious. I think that is why in Saskatchewan we have more golfers per capita and more golf courses per capita than anywhere else in North America. What the reader suggests is exactly what City crews are doing – cleaning medians and City-owned sidewalks before the sweepers come through. On some of our major thoroughfares, we want to do more than one pass to keep them in better condition. Plus, the city wants to make sure the sweepers get out as early as possible in the spring

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Question: Did the City not partnerships and cooperation. own the land now being purQuestion: In the Mayor’s chased for the new schools at Marathon are you planning one time? Sell low, buy high? to walk/run the full distance Isn’t that backwards? of 54 kilometres?

Mayor Atchison: Some of Mayor Atchison: I have the lands were owned by private been working with Lyndon developers and some owned Smith from the Running by the City. This is the first Room, and he’s a slave driver. time this kind of agreement has I can’t walk through the trainbeen in place, where the City is ing sessions; he makes me participating with the provincial run. It’s terrible (laughing). government in the development Ask the Mayor But as Chief Thomas of the of schools. I think overall we Saskatoon Tribal Council said, have a very reasonable solution.

“June 21 is the longest day We will have eight new schools in Saska- of the year and the mayor does need the toon. They will be joint-use sites for public longest day to get to the other end.” So it’s and Catholic schools in Hampton Village, a journey. And like any journey it begins Rosewood, Evergreen and Stonebridge. with the first step, one foot at a time, until Each of the four facilities will have a you reach your goal. joint-use community centre in the middle Lyndon and I recently did 10 kilomewhich will include 90 daycare spaces. tres. We’re trying to build up my stamina.

That’s an additional 360 daycare spaces Time is getting short. We’re probably in Saskatoon. I believe the City needed to only seven weeks away from the big day. be a partner in order for this to happen, so We run for 10 minutes and then walk for in the end I’m pleased. There is still the a minute. During the Mayor’s Marathon question of whether a municipality should Day we will start at Whitecap Dakota be participating in education. But, in real- First Nation early in the morning on June ity, this is about families and their children 21. The marathon and half marathon for getting the best education possible. We get the Mayor’s Marathon Day will start at community centres and daycare spaces so, 8 in the morning from Victoria Park, so in this case, I think one plus one is greater we need to arrive before 8. The day will than two. I think that is what taxpayers are require some effort, but nothing good haplooking for — good value, common sense, pens unless you put some effort into it.

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hat recent snow event from 2014 to 8.1 million was a shocker. acres. Durum wheat acreage I went to bed on a is expected to rise 15.5 per Friday night, secure in the cent to 4.9 million acres. knowledge that we were Canola will fall, too, expecting a bit of rain, and according to StatsCan. woke up to dire predictions of Saskatchewan generally 15 to 20 centimetres of snow. accounts for more or less Even that was wrong. We got half of the canola acreage in 30, and I’m sure half of it Canada. This year, planting landed on our poor pine tree, will fall 4.2 per cent from last which lost four branches, two year to 10.2 million acres.

Columnist of them big ones.

Barley and oat planting Then the power went intentions are not broken out. It was hardly surprising in heavy, down by province, but both are way up wet snow. Big points to the City crews, this year — by about 10 and 30 per cent, who were trolling the alleys seeking the respectively. It’s a pretty good bet Sasmiscreant tree limbs causing most of the katchewan farmers are taking up some of havoc. A tree had drooped its branches that 1.5 million-acre increase. in our alley, so I called the City just in What is also up is soybeans, which is case it was a cause of the power outage. a telling change. Soybeans still account I swear the City crew was here in five for a fraction of the Saskatchewan crop, minutes flat. And they were really nice but farmers intend to plant 335,000 about it, too. acres, up 24 per cent from last year.

What blows me away is that Environ- That’s way fewer than the 1.3 million ment Canada did not manage to predict acres getting planted in Manitoba, but a massive snowfall until several hours there was a time when soybeans were before the event. I know that weather hard to find in Saskatchewan at all. patterns can change with some speed, but Credit new varieties, but also a changthis was a record-breaking snowfall. ing climate. Saskatchewan has far more While I was whining, our neighbours frost-free days than it had years ago, were building a snowman. It was fun to and far fewer incredibly cold days. Can watch three grown men rolling the snow, you remember the last time we had two and lifting a 200-pound ball of middle weeks running of 40 below? I can’t. It body onto the base. Three days later, he was years ago. was still up, although he had lost a lot of This developing change has opened weight. the door to new crops such as soybeans, On the extreme bright side, the snow which is good and bad. A changing brought seriously-needed moisture to our climate offers more crop choices, and dry city, which has been swirling in dust therefore more options for crop rotation, and snow mould for weeks. Ugh. I was which could reduce the risk of herbicidestarting to worry a bit that this would be resistant weeds. a droughty year — and it still could be, On the other hand, we may see more but at least we have a little dust-settling droughts. Some ag people are asking this damp to start off with. year whether our decade-long wet cycle I can’t wait to get in the garden, and is coming to an end. We’ll see. farmers are definitely in go-mode. I’m This year’s crop may stand bewilling to bet most of the crop productween grim and decent GDP growth for ers in the snow-rain advisory zone were Saskatchewan in 2015, especially if the pretty chuffed about the precipitation. oil price doesn’t recover significantly.

There are plenty of Twitter posts show- Agriculture is still one of our biggest ing machinery being prepped, so seeding industries, and it’s going to get bigger in excitement builds. It’s always such a the future. This stuff really matters. hopeful time on the Saskatchewan calenThat means we need a very strong, dar, and it looks like seeding might get well-staffed Environment Canada, which off to a good and somewhat early start. has instead been drastically cut over the Statistics Canada always releases a past several years. The more climate and spring seeding intentions post in April, weather information we get, the better — which is a handy early peek at what’s especially for farmers. going in the ground, even if things usuMaybe this storm was tough to ally change up a fair bit by June. The predict, but maybe we just don’t have intentions are usually gathered in March, the technology or the expert eyeballs in which is pretty early. place for accurate weather knowledge.

This year, Saskatchewan farmI don’t know, not being a climatologist. ers’ planting intentions show spring But I would feel better if there were wheat acreage falling 4.8 per cent more hands on deck.

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n his State of the City adrently count 250,000 souls in dress, Mayor Don Atchison our midst? And then increase suggested residents should the police budget to pay operatlower their expectations of civic ing costs for this unnecessary government. What he obviously space for the decades it may doesn’t realize is that a growtake before we reach that magic ing number of taxpayers have population number? Generally little or no expectations of him, speaking, is it common-sense council as a whole or the civic spending to create a half-billion administration. The mayor states dollar debt for a relatively government is not the solution to small city to support? every problem. That may be true, The mayor says the City’s but in the case of our current common-sense spending also Columnist civic government, it might be included the partnerships with the cause of many problems. What whetted the private sector, which have reduced the my appetite for debate was his reference to burden and risk on taxpayers. Hmmm. “common-sense” spending by the City.

Common-sense spending in the private Was it common-sense spending to build sector means a project has to fully recover a $50-million world-class swimming pool the amount invested, including anticipated instead of the originally intended standard maintenance costs, and still generate a leisure pool facility at a third the cost? healthy profit. How does the City, enterWas it common-sense to spend 100 million ing into these agreements with the private in tax dollars ($50 million-plus from the sector, paying large annual payments from local tax base) on a world-class art gallery, the tax purse to a private investor/contracwhich now requires excessive ongoing tor, reduce the financial burden on, or risk, operating costs? to taxpayers?

In a budget, a reserve is an account with Accounting in its most basic form is money in it set aside for future use for a about “ins” (revenue) and “outs” (expenspecific purpose. It is like your savings ditures.) If you spend more than you bring account. Is it common-sense spending to in, you create debt. In the case of the City, take a million bucks out of a reserve that overspending means either taking spending is already projected to have an $18-million from one need (like roadway maintenance) deficit to finance a capital project that is to subsidize another, or increasing revenue already over-budget before it even starts? through taxes, or enlarging the debt. For And how can it be a reserve (savings) that reason, I am not sure why the City account when it is in the red? It is simply spent $70,000 for outside consultants to another debt to be paid. tell them that the revenue generated from Is it common-sense spending to intronew growth was not sufficient to pay for duce a costly new parking system before itself. Can the finance people employed by securing the necessary legislative change the City not report to council how much to make it operate efficiently? Was it revenue is being generated from newly common-sense spending to illegally lock developed areas, weigh it against the cost out transit workers and add millions of of development, and figure out that not dollars of associated and unnecessary costs enough is coming in from the development to the taxpayers’ plate? Was it commonto pay for the costs going out? But no one sense spending to build a $122-million should be surprised by the report, as over police station designed for a city with a the years our mayor has repeatedly stated population base of 400,000, when we cur- that it costs money to grow the City.

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Coun. Ann Iwanchuk suggested a vehicle registration tax similar to the failed program that Toronto tried. Coun. Tiffany Paulsen is back talking flat tax, and Coun. Randy Donauer wants the City’s labour costs examined. Curiously, Donauer doesn’t draw a straight line between increasing expenses and taxes. Apparently, Coun. Troy Davies’ constituents are just waking up to the fact that their taxes keep going up, but their sidewalks are not being repaired. Not to be left out of the fray, the city manager suggests council should look at user fees that currently make up 12.5 per cent of the budget revenue. Scarier yet was an earlier report that City administration asked the province for legislative changes to allow for the collection of levies for emergency services. In short, council is looking for more revenue from residents, but no one is talking about cutting spending. Sadder still is both voters and politicians have reached the point where we are all jaded to multi-million-dollar cost overruns and foolhardy expenditures.

I am lost as to how council is going to meet the City’s financial commitments without imposing a huge tax increase, more user fees and levies or greater cuts to services. What council shouldn’t worry about is lowering public expectations, because there are no great expectations for this council anymore. ehnatyshyn@gmail.com

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Contact Gordon at: 75 B Lenore Drive Saskatoon, SK S7K 7Y1 Ph: (306) 934-2847 g.wyant.mla@sasktel.net

Hair Loss Grey Hair More than an external problem The root of the issue is inside the body and organs Why do people experience hair loss and grey hair?

In the study of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Kidney Jing and Liver blood are the two most important factors affecting a person’s hair growth and aging. Hair loss and greying are only symptoms of a far more complex internal conflict between the organs inside our body, precisely the kidney and liver. An abundant storage of Kidney Jing and Liver blood in the body are imperative to the aging process and hair growth.

However, both substances are naturally depleted with age, and the rate of depletion is greatly increased through our unhealthy behaviors such as an unbalanced diet, the lack of sleep, and stress. Hair loss and grey hair will occur once not enough Kidney Jing and Liver blood are left in the body to sufficiently carry the nutrients needed for healthy hair follicles.

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City manager Murray Totland gets into semantics by saying that sustainability can mean different things to different people and everybody has their own view of the real costs. Is it wrong to suggest that Totland should closely examine the consultant’s view that the City spent $70,000 in tax dollars to obtain?

Where did the “new growth” money come from? According to the consultant’s report, residential property taxes are paying more than their fair share. One recommendation to curb the unsustainable new area growth is to focus on infill projects in existing neighbourhoods. However, over the years in many of the older neighborhoods, the underground, roadway and sidewalk infrastructure has fallen into decay because of lack of City maintenance. Can the existing infrastructure handle the proposed infill? Worse yet is the City’s “trial and error” guidelines recently created for infill projects. There is no happy ending here.

Now that an election year is in sight and council has one budget left to deliver before incumbents ask voters to return them to office, councillors are expressing concern about lightening the load on taxpayers. (We gotta love election years, when politicians actually proclaim their concern for taxpayers.) Interestingly enough, the suggestions for property-tax relief seem to be ways to tax us more without increasing the mill rate.

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By RJ Currie ere’s an idea: a Canadian holiday for Andrew Wiggins, NBA Rookie of the Year. Don’t laugh. Our team is the Raptors — we’ll take our celebrations where we can get them.

• Manitoba curler Mike McEwan and his wife Dawn are expecting a child this summer. Just a hunch: the baby won’t be named Jeff.

• Katy Perry reportedly upset Chinese nationalists by wearing a sunflower dress in Taipei — including a blossom on each breast. Would those be considered bosom buds?

• A pair of Michael Jordan’s rookie Nikes sold for $71,553 at auction. The left a size 13; the right a 13 1/2; both, appropriately, with the tongue hanging out.

• The Baltimore Orioles said it was so quiet playing without fans watching, you could hear a home run land outside the ballpark. “Yeah, and?” said the Marlins.

• It was 35 years ago that we first heard the refrain “All Out of Love.” Or about a week ago if you’re the Cleveland Cavaliers.

• There were anxious moments for Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson at a White House state dinner. Whenever he tried to pass a biscuit, Malcom Butler intercepted it.

• Round 1 of the NHL playoffs saw Anaheim sweep Winnipeg. My wife asked if that’s why Jets fans were waving white flags.

How emotional did owner Steve Ballmer get during the Clippers’ tense Game 6 win over the Spurs? He dabbed his eyes so many times he almost ran out of $10 bills.

• Shane Ray got drafted in the first round by the Broncos despite a recent marijuana citation. I guess he won’t mind playing in Mile High Stadium.

• Kelly Olynyk got a one-game suspension for pulling Kevin Love’s arm from its socket. On the bright side, Olynyk is in the running for NBA Clutch Performer of the Year.

• According to a new 34-city Canadian ranking of happiness, Vancouverites are the most grave. And the Flames just shovelled dirt on them.

• Q. What would you call a selfie of Dwight Howard with two of his pet boa constrictors draped over his shoulders? A. Snakes on a Pain.

• Reuters reports a woman on a bus tour in Iceland unwittingly spent hours looking for herself. Hard to believe — well, unless you’re Richie Incognito.

RJ’s Groaner of the Week Word out of Louisville is one of the Kentucky Derby veterinarians has laryngitis. That’s right, he’s a hoarse doctor.

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• A question and answer from Bill Littlejohn: “Q: What do you call it when the IRS is after Plaxico Burress? A: A Plax Evasion.”

• From Torben Rolfsen: “I was hoping for a Habs-Wings series, but Tampa Bay won Game 7, setting up an Original 24 matchup.”

• From Janice Hough: “A YouTube user tested Apple’s new Watch Sport by dropping it from a height of about 3.5 feet. When it landed face down, the watch screen shattered. Are Apple engineers too young to remember the goal of ‘takes a licking and keeps on ticking?’”

• TC Chong, on the Chicago Bulls defeating Milwaukee 120-66 to eliminate the Bucks from the playoffs: “To generate season-ticket renewals next season, the Bucks are planning to add the Washington Generals to their schedule.”

• I read if you cut the brain out of a tortoise, it can survive another six months. There must be a Leafs joke in there somewhere.

• Hough, on the situation in Baltimore: “Does anyone else think it’s a bit ironic that Ray Lewis has a video message out telling people to ‘Get off the streets. Violence is not the answer?’”

• Brian Williams said he really enjoyed the Baltimore-Chicago White Sox game last Wednesday. (Note: This isn’t my line and I’m not sure where I heard or read it.)

• From Chong: “It’s now Gone Daddy. Go Daddy is dropping its NASCAR sponsorship for

Danica Patrick.”

• Why isn’t Phil Kessel playing for the U.S. at the world hockey championship? Not asked?

• Something I never thought I’d say: First-place Houston Astros.

• From Rolfsen: “With all the booing and shrieking dismay on every pick, why do people even bother attending the NFL Draft? It sounded like Gary Bettman announcing a federal budget.”

• Chong, on American Airlines flights being delayed after pilots had to return to the terminal to upgrade flight map software on their iPads: “What? They can’t distinguish Sydney Australia from Sydney Nova Scotia without the help of a Google map?”

• If I ever rerun one of my columns and label it “best of,” please kick me in the groin.

• Littlejohn, on the NFL giving up its tax-exempt status: “I suppose with all of the scandals coming to light, it can no longer be classified as a religion.”

• Hough, on Billy Donovan leaving Florida to coach the Oklahoma City Thunder: “Makes sense. These days being in the NBA gives you more years to coach college-age players.”

• For 30 years no one has cared about the PanAm Games. And now Toronto hosts them.

• Chong, on former NFL kicker Jay Feely saying Tim Tebow is the worst QB he has ever seen: “‘There is a God!’ exclaimed Ryan Leaf and JaMarcus Russell.”

• Isn’t it time for the Barenaked Ladies to put some clothes on?

• From Chong: “Due to ongoing riots and security concerns in Baltimore, there were no fans at the Orioles-White Sox game last Wednesday.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell can’t believe they didn’t move this game to London, England.”

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MAY 7 Saskatoon non-fiction writer Lloyd Ratzlaff reads selections from his new book Bindy’s Moon. Lloyd will be accompanied by the creative energies of visual artist Roger Trottier and jazz pianist Don Griffith. Show time is 8 p.m.

The Bassment. Tickets: $12 for members, $17 for non-members.

MAY 8 Australian Jordie Lane is known for his relentless international touring schedule and for his witty, comedic storytelling. With a richly resonant voice and authentic and raw guitar playing, Jordie writes songs that are nostalgic and immediately affecting. Elias James plays the opening set. Show time is 9 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets: $17 for members, $22 for non-members.

MAY 16 Amati Quartet – Celebrate Spring, Knox United Church at 7:30 p.m. (only one concert this day). Haydn – String Quartet in C major, Op. 20, No. 2; Mozart – String Quartet in B flat, K.458, The Hunt; Debussy – String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10. Tickets available from Remai Arts Centre (306-384-7727). $30 adults, $25 seniors, $15 student. For more information, visit www. amatiquartet.usask.ca

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ness, support services and research. The Saskatoon Walk For Lupus will be held at the River Landing Amphitheatre (110 Spadina Cres.

East). To receive your pledge sheet, sponsor a walker, or for more information, please contact Irene Driedger by email at driedger@sasktel. net or by cell at 306-227-9562.

MAY 13 Canadian Club meeting. Western Development Museum balcony ( wheelchair accessible).

The speaker will be Ruth Bitner, collections curator at WDM. Registration at 11:30 a.m. for hot roast beef dinner. A lunch ticket is $20 for members and $25 for non-members. The ticket allows free entrance to the museum following lunch. For tickets, contact Laura Van Loon at 306-931-6790.

Living with mental illness conference for family MAY 14

and friends. Travelodge Hotel from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Keynote speaker is Victoria Maxwell.

Breakout sessions include: anxiety, depression, MAY 9 obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, Zodiac Tapestry Handbells present their concurrent disorders, bipolar spectrum and Spring Pop! Concert, 7 p.m. at Graceautism. For more information, visit www.

Westminster United Church (505 - 10th Street livingwithmentalillnessconference.ca.

East). Guests include: Barrie Redford, MauMAY 8-9 rice Drouin, Grant Currie and Deena Shyluk.

Flock & Gather fifth annual spring sale at St. Admission at the door: $15.

Joseph’s Parish on Broadway Avenue. Known MAY 9 for its eclectic collection of unique, handcrafted Saskatoon Concert Band, Spring Concert, items, the artisanal marketplace will feature 7:30 p.m. at Third Avenue United Church (Orr the work of 34 specially-selected artisans and Centre) Tickets: $20, $10 seniors and Students, designers hailing from Saskatoon and various under 8 free. Available from members, parts of Western Canada. The sale runs May 8 McNally Robinson and at the door. For more from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and May 9 from 10 a.m. information, visit www.saskatoonconcertband. to 5 p.m. There is no charge for admission, ca or call 306-242-3916. Tickets also availalthough there are 75 pre-sale early access able online at www.ontheboards.ca/product. tickets available for $15. For more information, php?id_product=185. visit http://Flockandgather.blogspot.com.

Are you dying to talk about death? You are invited to join us for a Death Café at the Refinery [609 Dufferin Avenue] from 7-9 p.m. The Death Cafe is an opportunity for people to talk openly about death, while enjoying tea, coffee and cake. It is a group-directed discussion with no agenda, product, or course of action. The objective is to increase awareness of death, thereby helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. Find out more at: www.deathcafe. com. Spots are limited. Please register via Eventbrite, or by email to: lisa@silverliningsevents.ca. Admission free, donations accepted

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.

First Tuesday of every month

Left Behind By Suicide is a drop-in support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 4th Ave. 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, JUNE 7 333 Fourth Avenue North (wheelchair accesThe Saskatoon Gutsy Walk for Crohn’s and sible). If you have a loved one or friend with Colitis Canada in North Kiwanis Park, located a mental illness and you need understanding at 22nd Street East and Spadina Crescent East. support, contact Carol at 306-249-0693, Linda There will be three route distances: 2.5 km, at 306-933-2085, Lois at 306-242-7670 or 5 km, and 10 km. Registration starts at noon, e-mail fromisk@gmail.com. with the warm-up time at 1:45 p.m. and the First and Third Sunday of start time at 2 p.m. For more information, go MAY 9 MAY 9 online to gutsywalk.ca, call 306-664-4420 or every month The University of Manitoba All Star Jazz Hayley Wickenheiser, five-time Olympic medal- email gutsywalk_SK@crohnsandcolitis.ca.

Pet Loss Support Group offers support and Faculty Ensemble features Will Bonness list, will be the keynote speaker at Escape to comfort to people who are struggling with the (piano), Derrick Gardner (trumpet), Jon Gordon Wonderland, the Saskatchewan Brain Injury loss of a beloved companion animal due to old (saxophone), Anna-Lisa Kirby (vocals), Steve Association’s (SBIA) 2015 Brain Blitz Gala, preage, sickness or other sad reasons. The noKirby (bass), Larry Roy (guitar) and Kevin sented by WorkSafe Saskatchewan at TCU Place obligation support group meets at 2 p.m. at the First and Third Saturdays Waters (drums). Show time is 8 p.m. The in Saskatoon. Come dressed as your favourite W.A. Edwards Centre, 333 4th Avenue North, of the month Bassment. Tickets: $20 for members, $25 for Alice in Wonderland character. A champagne Saskatoon. For more information or telephone Lions Club’s Texas Holdem Tournaments. non-members. reception at 6 p.m. will be followed by dinner support, call 306-343-5322. $60 buy-in gets $10,000 in chips, $40 goes at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $150 for individuals or May 12 Tuesdays, Thursdays, $1,200 for a table of eight. For more information to the cash prize pool. No Re-Buys. 50 seats With a 2012 JUNO nomination, a CBC Galaxie Saturdays available.

Registration opens at 6, tournament or to purchase tickets, call 306-373-1555 or Rising Star Award, and a ‹Best Male Vocalist’ Free art drop-in at the SCYAP Art Centre. All starts at 7 p.m.

The Coachman bar at Market visit www.sbia.ca/brain-blitz.aspx.

Award in Now Magazine’s 2014 Readers’ Poll, Mall. Call 306-668-0015 for more information. ages are welcome, all materials supplied, no MAY 9 singer songwriter Peter Katz captivates audiregistration required. Tuesdays 5:30 p.m. to First Saturday of every ences with his unique brand of contemporary Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation is hosting 9 p.m., Thursdays 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., and month folk. Averaging over 150 shows a year, Katz a fundraising Gala to help feed injured and Saturdays 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The MindFULL Café, part of the international has collaborated with the Good Lovelies, orphaned wildlife. Special guest SaskatchAlzheimer Café movement, is an opportunity Every Wednesday Bahamas, and Royal Wood. Show time is 8 ewan Roughrider great George Reed. The gala to meet in a relaxed social setting for persons Depression Support Group runs on the first p.m. The Bassment. Tickets: $17 for members, will be held at the German Cultural Centre. with dementia, family, care partners and other and third Wednesday of each month, from 6:30 $22 for non-members.

Tickets available at McNally Robinson, Wild interested people. The Café is a two-hour get p.m. to 8 p.m. at the CMHA building (1301 Birds Unlimited or by calling Living Sky Wildlife May 13 together with refreshments, entertainment Avenue P North). This is open to anyone strugRehabilitation at 306-652-5975.

Looking for ways to improve your jazz chops? and information. First Saturday of the month gling with depression and family members MAY 10 Musician/educator Brett Balon and his Trio from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sherbrooke Community wanting to support them. For more info, call 306-270-9181. provide the encouragement and guidance Walk for lupus to raise funds for lupus aware- Centre.

MISCELLANEOUS

Prairie Players offers great parts to Langham adults, kids

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Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express

rystal Clemence was thrilled when Gill Pearson moved to Langham three years ago, bringing her many musical skills with her.

Clemence’s daughter, Ava, “sings like a bird” but had few outlets to develop her vocal ability.

Now, due to Pearson’s influence, Ava — along with her parents, Clemence and Orville Johnson — are cast in Langham-based Prairie Players’ upcoming performances of Hope and Glory.

“I was and am ecstatic that she continues to remain here, because I understand she likes to move frequently. I will cry and scream if she leaves me,” said Clemence.

“I’m not leaving,” Pearson chimed in.

The musical play about the Second World War in England was chosen for this spring’s production, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of V-E Day. Pearson founded Prairie Players when she moved to Blaine Lake from Saskatoon four years ago, after coming from England just half a year earlier. Knowing that, one understands Clemence’s concern over moving.

Pearson had a good friend in Blaine Lake, also from England, who is a drama teacher.

“Neither of us had jobs, so we thought, ‘What can we do? Well, I don’t know. You’re good at drama; I’m good at music – let’s start a theatre company.’ So that’s what we did.”

When Pearson moved to Langham, she

brought Prairie Players with her. The troupe started by presenting a musical cabaret, and had a few people show up to each performance.

“Now shows are very well attended.

People know who we are, and we have a very good reputation,” said Pearson.

Hope and Glory was written by David Wrightam, a friend of Pearson’s from England, for the 55th anniversary of V-E Day, and the year the Queen Mother died. Pearson performed in its premiere.

“It was the most awesome show to be in.

There are no lead parts. Everybody’s equally important. You’ve got such a good camaraderie . . . and all those fabulous war songs. It was just a joy.

“And I came to Canada thinking, ‘One day I’m going to do Hope and Glory in Canada when people know who I am a bit more and when people appreciate that it could be a good show, even though they’ve never heard of it.’ ” The story revolves around a boys’ gang and a girls’ gang, as they have adventures among the bomb sites and ruins of London.

Some of the children get evacuated, some successfully and some not so successfully.

“It’s funny, sad, and it also tells the full story. We start off with Neville Chamberlain on the radio saying to the people of England war has been declared. We end with Winston Churchill saying the war is over.”

Songs from the period are included in the show, as well as three written especially for

the show. The cast includes seven adults and 12 children.

Prairie Players has been a godsend in Langham, Clemence said.

“There are a lot of kids here, in general, and most of them are hockey players and soccer players. As time goes on, Prairie Players means more and more, because there are more kids coming for private lessons with Gill. She also runs a Glee Club once a week.

It’s just fun front to back.”

As kids get involved in lessons and the club, more kids want to come out for the plays.

“It’s very important to this area, because there’s nothing else like it. If I want my children to be involved in music I have to drive them to Saskatoon. That’s thoroughly impractical for many months of the year. And these things are so important to the development of children.”

Pearson’s influence is infectious, said Clemence. When she’s around, and “if you’re going to be awake, you better sing something.”

Hope and Glory goes May 8 at 7 p.m. and May 9 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Borden Community Centre. Tickets are available at the door. Children are free, while tickets for adults are $10 and $5 for seniors. Tables will contain 1940s treats, so people can experience what food was like on rations. The 1 p.m. performance is part of a global attempt to set a record for number of shows presented at the same time.

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Customer Service (Sponsored by CGI):

For a business demonstrating exceptional performance in providing services (wholesale and retail trade, purchasing and distribution, transportation, brokering, professional services, communications, financial).Judging considers the relative size of the business.

Fresh Living Just For You Day Spa CRAVING maternity-baby-kids Superior Cabinets West Wind Aviation

2015

New Product and/or Service

(Sponsored by BDC): For a business demonstrating exceptional performance in launching a new Saskatchewan-made productor service in the last 3 years, which is original and is currently available to consumers.

Saskatoon Institute for Medical Simulation SheNative Goods Inc. QuickLinkt Solution Inc. TCU Financial Group North Prairie Developments Ltd (Missing)

Award Finalists The Business for Peace Award (sponsored

by Cameco):

A businessperson is nominated who through actions and commitments are outstandingly promoting the interdependent relationship between business and peace.

John Cross

Business of the Year (Sponsored by Edwards School of Business): A business which has demonstrated excellence in the areas they consider key to their success. The winning business will have stated their critical success factors and clearly demonstrated how they have achieved meeting their goals for these factors. Size of the business is not a criterion.

Envirotec Services Incorporated Handy Group of Companies North Prairie Developments Ltd. Superior Cabinets

Marketing (Sponsored by Handy Group of Companies):

For a business demonstrating exceptional performance in marketing. The judges will evaluate the success of a marketing program giving consideration to the nature of the product and the relative size of the business.

North Prairie Developments Ltd Sangster’s Health Centre LB Distillers Flaman Group of Companies TRX RV Inc.

New Business Venture (Sponsored by Tourism Saskatoon - Conventions Saskatoon):

For a new business venture which has been in existence for three years or less and which has shown positive performance in terms of current or expected profitability, job creation or entrance into new markets. The judges utilize financial criteria as well as considering the nature of the new venture and its impact on job creation and market expansion. Judging takes into account the relative size of the new venture.

Fresh Living Cliptomania Wood’s Body Goods Thrive Juice Co. Saskatoon Institute For Medical Simulation

Growth & Expansion (Sponsored by Miller Thompson):

For a business who has made significant changes in their business which has resulted in “Growth” or “Expansion” of 15% or more of the business’ markets, physical locations, number of employees, etc., and which in turn has made an impact on the company’s overall ability to increase its revenues, investments, and profits now or in the future.

Innovative Heating & Cooling Ltd M & A Homes Group Ltd. Metric Design Centre Envirotec Services Incorporated West Wind Aviation

Community Involvement (Sponsored by SaskTel):

For a business demonstrating substantial support for arts and culture, amateur sport, education, or voluntarism.

Prairie Wealth Management Airline Hotels Handy Group of Companies Neechie Gear Inc. North Ridge Development Corporation

Strategic Alliance Award

Recognizing business excellence is an important element in creating the best business climate in Canada and to create a city of opportunity.

The Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce, under the “Celebrate Success!” masthead, will recognize and celebrate the many successes of Saskatoon businesses and individuals who have attained excellence on a local, national, and international level.

The Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce and PotashCorp believe that “Celebrate Success” demonstrates why Saskatoon shines in so many ways.

Saskatoon Community Foundation’s Strategic Alliance Award acknowledges the importance of bringing together resources through partnerships involving businesses and charities.

This award encourages the development of such alliances by recognizing business and charities, which have worked together over time to enhance Saskatoon’s quality of life.

Affinity Credit Union (Nominated by READ Saskatoon) Rawlco Radion Ltd. (Nominated by St. Paul’s Hospital Foundaion)

Award of Innovation (Presented by: Industry Liasion Office, University of Saskatchewan & Innovation Place) The 2015 Award of Innovation recipient will be announced on Gala Night.

Small Business of the Year (Sponsored by MNP):

Awarded to a business with 15 or less employees. The recipient must clearly demonstrate excellence in the areas they consider key to their success, including profitability, customer service, growth and/or expansion, marketing, and employment creation. The recipient must also have been in business for a minimum of three years, with their head office located in the Saskatoon region.

Prairie Wealth Management Checks n Balances Business Services Inc. Innovative Heating & Cooling Inc. Push Interactions, Inc. (Missing)

Hall of Fame Inductee (Sponsored by RBC Royal Bank): One individual or business will be inducted into the SABEX Hall of Fame each year. An independent committee notifies the SABEX Committee of the recipient. The recipient will be a long-standing member of the Saskatoon region business community.

Ellen Gaunt

The Cherry Insurance Leadership Saskatoon Community Leadership Award The recipient of the 2015 Leadership Saskatoon, Community Leadership Award is Tom Kishchuk President and CEO of Mitsubishi-Hitachi Power Systems

THURSDAY, MAY 14TH, 2015 SASKATOON PRAIRIELAND PARK 5:00 PM - COCKTAIL HOUR 6:15 PM - DINNER

For ticket information go to Celebrate-Success.ca