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Carl Schlosser was back at his desk at Prairieland Park not long after live-saving surgery (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)
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Carl Schlosser fought cancer with rarely-used treatment
arl Schlosser’s positive outlook, determination and trust in a miraculous medical moment have paid healthy dividends. On May 14, 2015, Schlosser, the 56-year-old director of events for Saskatoon Prairieland Park, was battling stomach cancer and facing the ominous prospect that he might have to enter palliative care. “Microscopic cells were found in my omentum from a surgery biopsy,” said Schlosser.
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“In a family conference call, I was told I was in stage 4 and palliative. I told my family I wasn’t going to let this cancer beat me. I was going into the fight of my life.” Dr. Renee Kennedy, a surgeon at St. Paul’s Hospital, said there was the possibility that Schlosser could qualify for combined cancer surgery and chemotherapy at the Calgary Foothills Hospital. If accepted, he would become only the ninth person in the
last eight years to undergo the procedures. Cytoreductive surgery is a process that removes most or all of the visible tumours from inside the abdomen, the lining inside the abdomen and any organs where the cancer might be growing. The omentum is a membrane connecting the stomach to other organs. Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy is a procedure designed to kill any remaining cancer cells after all of the visible cancer is removed. The treatment team infuses a chemotherapy solution of 40 to 42 degrees Celsius directly into the abdomen. The
heated chemotherapy is continuously circulated throughout the abdomen for 60 minutes. The solution is removed and the incision is closed. Dr. Walley Temple and Dr. Lloyd Mack were the surgical oncologists at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. “My heart had to be 100 per cent,” said Schlosser. “I had to regain about 60 pounds of weight I had lost in the previous six months. The cancer had to be contained. Sometimes the cancer moves around in the body. Mine stayed within the stomach.” (Continued on page 4)
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Redemption Former gang member regrets his past; looks to the future Ryan Grainger Saskatoon Express edemption: An act or acts of atoning for one’s past mistakes. At age 27, Chris Moyah is on his way to the redemption he covets. Moyah grew up in a turbulent environment. He bounced back and forth from his mother’s home in Prince Albert and his grandparents’ home on the James Smith First Nation. He was physically abused by almost everyone in his life. “Grandma was abusive, an uncle was abusive, mom, stepdad, sister, aunties, friends, family,” he said. “And I was bullied in school.” He was beaten with virtually anything and everything. His mother favoured an egg turner spatula. His grandmother used shoes, whips, willows, belts and her words. “I was once whipped with the antenna of the car. My grandfather was the only man who never laid a hand on me.” His grandfather, John Godfrey, was an addictions counsellor at Sakwatamo Lodge on the James Smith First Nation. “I put up with this because my grandpa was there to love me and make everything better. I still miss him to this day.” Moyah’s downward spiral began when Godfrey died suddenly. Godfrey was found with a letter, money and a cup of antifreeze next to him. “He was the only bright part of my life and is still a strong inspiration in my life,” Moyah said, clearing his throat. “That is when all my hope was crushed. It has been 14 years and I’m still struggling with it.” Moyah embarked down a road of
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Moyah on a mission to keep kids away from gangs
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Chris Moyah now has a happier outlook on life (Photo by Ryan Granger)
Buffalo of the Four Directions is his First Nations name. “When I was younger I hated it. I wanted it to be something sounding deadly like Night Wolf or Vicious Bear.” Buffalo represent peace and harmony, while Four Directions means to look at things from all points of view. “Now I love that name.” He says it represents a true transformation. He is an intimidating presence, but has a gentle-giant demeanor. He shoulders great sadness, but possesses the positivity to carry on and claim a happiness he thought he never deserved. (Ryan Grainger is a Saskatoon freelance writer/photographer.)
No one should ever give up: Schlosser
(Continued from page 1) he work began. He depended upon a meal supplement to provide nourishment through a PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line for two weeks before a Saskatoon operation on April 9. He was then fed by a feeding tube in the lower bowel until May 19 when he started eating by mouth. He went through a series of full chemo cocktails. By Sept. 7, he had completed 18 weeks of chemo, and after consulting with Dr. Mack in Calgary on Sept. 15, he was told he was being accepted. The surgery took place Oct. 28. “They removed 40 per cent of my stomach, the omentum, gall bladder, appendix and lymph nodes associated to my stomach. They did not have to remove the spleen. They bathed the whole abdominal cavity. There were two pathology teams on hand during the operation,” said Schlosser. “The next morning, I was told the operation was a huge success. Dr. Mack said the chemo had worked so well that he could hardly tell where the tumor had been in the stomach. Pathology reports came back and indicated I was free.” Schlosser was discharged on Nov. 10. Doctors say the normal recovery period is four to six weeks. He was back in his Exhibition office two days later. He’s had word from Dr. Mack that “everything looks good” and he continued chemo treatment until Feb. 1. Schlosser is keen to tell his story. “You quickly find out how tough the cancer threat is on your own family. They gave me courage. They were the reasons for my strong attitude. I will never forget how hard I had to fight since those first days of illness back in November 2014.
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I talk to people who have cancer. When they hear my story, I see hope in their eyes. If I can help people regain hope, that’s important. The key is that no one should ever give up.” He and his wife, Celine, have been married for 33 years. They have two children, Brad and Luanne, who are both married and living in Saskatoon. The next family thrill for Schlosser is that come August, he will be able to take a grandchild, Dylan, to the Exhibition. The irony of Schlosser’s health issue is “that in 38 years of my working life, I’d never taken more than a day and a half away for sickness.” Most of his working life has been in the hospitality industry — first at the hotel in Watson, then a hotel at Meadow Lake, then 10 years at the Sutherland Hotel and another seven at Louis’ on the University of Saskatchewan campus. “Mark Regier and I were hockey parents at one time,” said Schlosser, “and he was the one who brought me to Prairieland.” He started as food and beverage manager, then took over special events when Maurice Neault retired, and became director of events in 2007. “I can’t underestimate the value of the health systems, both in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and at the same time, as soon as I came back to work, that gave me strength just by being in my office.” Schlosser oversees and is involved in all of the annual Exhibition’s planning, but he also manages the team which puts on about 450 events on the grounds each year. He hints that the construction of one more building is in the planning stage now. The only limitation is funding. “We are currently working on that.”
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hat’s up with all the think we are, culturally, more optimism? realistic than optimistic, but Gloom, doom, and psychology was never my best bad economic news have been subject. darkening everyone’s outlook Still, there are glimmers of for just a bit too long. good stuff going on. Recently, I’m sure I don’t have to point the Saskatoon Regional Ecoout the basics, but I will list a nomic Development Authority few: tanking oil prices, an overannounced that three businesses supplied housing market, low were expanding, with some commodity prices, high debt, support from a city incentives trade imbalance and an embarpolicy, by a combined 49,000 Columnist rassing loonie (even though square feet, adding 23 full-time there are upsides to that.) jobs and investing $26.25 milIt gets depressing, and unfortunately, lion in land and new buildings. this kind of endless bad news turns into The businesses are the Saskatchewan self-fulfilling prophesy: people think the Food Industry Development Centre, economy is bad, so they spend less, which Gemini Freight Systems Inc. and Howatt makes the economy worse, and so on. Enterprises Ltd. For those who have lost their jobs, been Property developers continue to blast forced to move, and/or can’t afford to pay along, with small and large projects. Curtis the bills, this is really a very bad scene, Olson of Shift Development, for example, and I don’t mean to minimize the impact is building condos on the riverbank, and has of a bad economy on those who have been put in a proposal to redevelop the bus barn hit by it. Yet, for many people, life goes area in Caswell Hill. A number of shopping on: work and family, grocery shopping districts are still going up. and driving the car, paying the rent or the On the infrastructure side, there is a fair mortgage — even if there’s less money for amount going on: The Remai Modern Art the fun stuff. Gallery, despite its delays and issues; and That may be why a majority of Sasknot one, but two bridges. atchewanians still think their personal Then, there’s River Landing. The ancircumstances aren’t too bad. In Praxis nouncement that shovels were going to hit Analytics’ survey of how folks viewed the the dirt this year came as a bit of a surprise. provincial economy, people had a slightly After years of waiting, wondering and positive view a rating of 3.27, where three is doubting, it looks like it just might, finally, the dividing line between negative and posi- happen. tive sentiment. That was well down from the The news came by press release from two previous years. Their personal outlook, Groupe Germain, a Quebec hotel company, though, was better at 3.32, the same as in which seemed rather odd considering there 2014. I find this kind of amazing. were Saskatchewan-based companies that Meanwhile, on the business side, Sasalready had skin in the game. I was expectkatchewan small business owners showed ing a big, whoopdedoo news conference, more optimism in January than they had in but instead, word came via a press release 2015, which is remarkable. from Quebec. The Canadian Federation of Business Still, delivery method aside, it was good (CFIB) monthly business barometer’s index news that the parkade would be built for the gained more than two points last month hotel and condo on the riverbank starting to reach 58.7. Only 13 per cent of busithis year. The Alt Hotel, apparently, will ness owners plan to add staff in the near cost $30 million to build and employ 50 future, while 15 per cent are planning to cut people, although no word yet on how many positions. But 48 per cent of Saskatchewan jobs will be created by the construction business owners said their businesses are projects. doing OK. I highly suspect that the slowdown in That beats the heck out of Alberta’s our economy, bringing with it a slower businesses, with an awful index of 28.8, the market for trades, inspired the group behind lowest-ever reading recorded by the CFIB’s the Parcel Y project to get on it. Ask any barometer. Ouch. developer: trades have cost a fortune in the Are we sunny by nature, here in Sask- last several years, and those costs have been atchewan? I don’t think so, actually. I prohibitive for some projects. Sometimes, if think we’re hard-working, entrepreneurial, not often, a downturn in one sector can help smart and tough. Certainly, we’ve been or revive another one. Most potash mine pretty optimistic the last few years, while expansions are complete, fewer guys are the boom floated our moods. Maybe we drilling oil, and what happens? Hotels. have a happy hangover from those years. Perhaps all this construction and expanMaybe that “next year country” attitude sion will drag us to the other side of the so often attributed to farmers is, indeed, commodity collapse. I’m counting on it. KK020899 Karen real optimism and not just desperation. I Indeed, I’m positively giddy with optimism.
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dozen years ago, when the MVA loosened the height and River Landing was in density controls, but eventually a the planning stage, the Calgary developer, with a quesstrategy was to create a mix tionable history of development, of private and public developrolled into town to save the day. ment with the private developAfter much hoopla and several ment generating sufficient tax extensions of time given to this to pay for the public areas. developer to abet putting together The crown jewel was financial support for the develParcel Y situated on the corner opment, the project fell by the of 19th Street and Third wayside. Avenue. It was located within It was then acquired by a local Columnist the Direct Control District corporation, Victory Majors Devel(DCD) which incorporated development opment Corp. It should be noted that Viccriteria created by the Meewasin Valley tory Majors is a well-established SaskatoonAuthority (MVA) to ensure any building based company, owned by a well-respected erected would be compatible with the flora family. It was their stated intent to build a and fauna of the riverbank and enhance its showcase project and leave a lasting legacy natural beauty. The DCD criteria included to Saskatoon. These are honourable people height and density restrictions and architec- and we should accept their initial intentions tural finishes up to and including the colour as stated. of the glass to be used. But the years rolled by and rumour The project was to include a public plaza after rumour circulated as to what was and, initially, a hot spring pool that would being planned, all of which turned out to be open to the public. To encourage timely be precisely that — rumour. That is, until development, the successful bidder on the now. In collaboration with corporations land had to dig the hole within about a year from Regina, Calgary and Montreal, we are of acquiring of parcel or the land would getting a hotel and condo tower. Council, to revert back to the city. facilitate the development, agreed to have The first successful bidder on the land the project done in stages. First will be the backed away from the deal, purportedly profit-generating hotel, then condos and because the DCD restrictions on land made lastly, commercial space should pre-leasing the project financially non-viable. The city arrangements fall into place. put it up for sale again. One developer after I had never heard of an Alt hotel before, another shook their heads “no” to the proj- so I Googled the corporation Groupe Gerect for the very reasons the first one backed main and its existing Alt hotels. Looking away. at the proposed design rendering in The I’m not sure when or why council and StarPhoenix and then at other Alt hotels,
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it appears we are getting a cookie-cutter “no-frills chic” hotel. It is definitely a step above Super 8 lodging, but substantially less than Bessborough quality. The height of the condos is yet to be determined, as is whether the condos will be swishy highend residences generating substantial tax revenue or subsidized affordable units. As for the public plaza, it is supposedly going to be similar to the original plan, which, if I recall correctly, was substantial in size with fountains and landscaping. The mayor’s response on this project goes from being “fabulous” news to “at least we are getting started.” The mayor believes this project shows a vote of confidence in Saskatoon’s economy but, in reality, is it happening because the price of construction is dropping in Saskatoon and that the city is now willing to take whatever it can get on this land? And in terms of our city’s economy, clearly our mayor is out of touch with the recently unemployed and those local businesses that are feeling the economic pinch resulting from a fading boom and our resource-sector woes. The executive director of The Partnership, the downtown improvement district, is “bubbling with excitement” and can’t wait to see cranes on the jewelled land of south downtown. It’s hard to burst his bubble because it is his job to build all and any business in the downtown rather than determining best long-term results for the city as a whole. Frankly, I am disappointed. This is not the showcase I expected to see when the planning for River Landing was announced.
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About three-quarters of the way through the class, Lynden’s friend, who was instructing, picked up her podium candles and walked over to Kennedy on his bike, commending him on his leadership and efforts to stand up for kids who can’t always stand up for themselves. “She asked that we raise our water bottles in support,” said Lynden. “Tears were streaming down my cheeks. I was hooked, and so my journey to launch Ryde YXE began.” While traditional spin classes have been around for years, Lynden is emphatic that Ryde YXE’s style is both unique and revolutionary. “Ryde YXE is not like any other spin or indoor cycling class in Saskatoon,” she said. “Our custom program incorporates upper body weights; pump and dips on the bike; cycling shoes for that perfect position; and a smooth ride with amazing lights and sound. It is a total body workout that promotes increased lung capacity, the lengthening and toning of your muscles and improved cardiovascular and muscle endurance. “Our clients are anyone that is looking for something more,” said Lynden. “Something more from their fitness, more from their community and more from themselves. While we offer an intro-style Ryde 101 class twice a week, all of our classes are for all levels. You have the ability to progress at your own pace and control your own ride.” Soon Mustoe will be joining Lynden as they launch their new business, which was scheduled to open its doors on Feb. 6, offering anywhere from three to six classes daily to accommodate clients’ varied and busy schedules. “Both Bradie and I were born and raised in Saskatoon; we met in Grade 9,” said Lynden. “After high school, Bradie pursued her dancing career overseas working for Tokyo Disney, and then went on to travel around the world where she met her husband Brendon. The two of them are currently in the process of moving back to Saskatoon from the U.K., where Brendon is from.” While spinning can burn an average of 400 to 600 calories in a 50-minute class, Lynden is adamant that spinning in a dedicated studio is much more than a workout. “It is a place where people come together to fuel themselves and their community — to inspire and to be
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Removing meter posts will create chaos in parking spots Question: There was a oper said they were going to question in the last Saskabuild on that beautiful site. toon Express regarding the Why is this time different? removal of the old parking Mayor Atchison: Mainly meter posts. Mayor Atchison because of the companies stated some will be repurthat are involved. Greystone posed as bicycle locking Investments manages hundreds posts and others will eventuof millions of dollars. Triovest ally be removed. This is not a is a partner and has done projgood idea because currently ects in Saskatoon in the past. people do not park evenly in They are both partnering with designated spaces. If nothing Victory Majors. All three are Ask the Mayor strong and together they are is done, does this mean there are no restrictions of size of stronger. The have the finanvehicles, trailers, trucks, motor homes cial ability to make this work. Groupe etc. parking on the streets? Germain, which owns Alt Hotels, is a Mayor Atchison: First let me say first-class company from Montreal that the reader and I are on the same page. has done really exciting hotel developRemoving the posts was supposed to in- ments in eastern Canada and Calgary. It crease the number of vehicles that could is good to see they believe in Saskatoon park along the street. From what I am as a strong market for them. I am looking seeing, I don’t think that is happening. forward to seeing this project come out Statistics indicate that in Saskatoon, five of the ground. I believe when it comes times more pickup trucks than cars are to council for approval it will get full sold here. Trucks take more space. Folks support. And I hope the same is true are still buying larger vehicles. The other when the concept goes to Meewasin for thing is we are not going to be painting its input. parking stall lines anymore. The parking station plan was supposed to increase Question: It appears Saskatoon set revenues, but I don’t see that either. a world record for the largest number of people to participate in a snowball Question: So you would like to leave fight. What are your thoughts on this? the posts? Mayor Atchison: Well, my first Mayor Atchison: They mark where thought was to get out the way of flying the parking stalls would be. If you drive snowballs! I was there, and there must down some streets today, drivers are have been 10,000 people at Victoria Park certainly not parking inside those posts that Sunday. The snowballs were flying anymore. I think that will happen more and it was great to see so many families and more when the lines aren’t repainted. having fun. We are a winter city and that People will park farther apart. If the was a real winter event. This event was painted lines didn’t work, why would part world record and part promotion for they paint parking lots at shopping the Canadian “Yukigassen” team. That’s malls? The answer is that it maximizes the Japanese word for snowball fight, and the number of parking spaces. Shouldn’t believe it or not, there is a world snowball street parking do the same thing? That fight competition taking place this month was a decision of council and we have to in Japan. The Canadian team is from here live with it right now. It doesn’t mean it in Saskatoon. I did a video with them and can’t be revisited in the future. The park- they are a great bunch of guys. ing rules haven’t changed. That means no trailers on the streets, no big rigs etc. Did You Know Those rules don’t change. More than 1,443,000 passengers passed through John G. Diefenbaker Question: There was a recent airport in 2015. announcement by a Montreal hotel (Have a question for Mayor Atchison? company that they are going to build a Send it to editorial@saskatoonexpress. hotel on Parcel Y at River Landing. It com. Please put “mayor” in the subject has been 10 James years since the first devel- line.) JW020816
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Ned Powers Saskatoon Express ike Winter, a board member of the Buena Vista Community Association, is looking for a solution to what might best be called The Case of the Missing Sidewalks. For lifetime residents in the area, there haven’t been any sidewalks on either side of McPherson Avenue from Eighth Street East to Taylor Street, nor any on either side of Melrose Avenue from Fifth Street East to Taylor Street. The Buena Vista association is now applying to the City of Saskatoon’s Growing Forward Active Transportation Plan to consider sidewalks and cycling infrastructure in its future plans. The application will go first to the transportation plan and hopefully before city council before the end of 2016. The latest newsletter from the community association laments the worst sidewalk coverage ratio of any neighbourhood in Saskatoon. “This is a major safety and accessi-
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t’s one thing to hear the story; it’s another to hold it in your hand. Our history shapes who we are today, whether as an individual or a collective. When you read an original, archived letter or newspaper article, or look at an old photograph, you are not only learning about the story, you’re touching that exact moment in time. “I always say that archives is history speaking with its own voice, and so when you use archives, you’re cutting out the middleman, cutting out all the bits in between, and going straight to the source,” said Jeff O’Brien, archivist for the City of Saskatoon. “In the archives, time stops. The records of the past take all those moments and freezes them, so when you go back and read that letter written 50 or 100 years ago, the anger or anguish or joy is as raw as it was the moment the pen first left the paper.” You can experience those ghosts of emotions past for yourself this week, which is designated Saskatchewan’s Archives Week. It culminates with the festival’s main event — Saskatoon’s annual Celebrity Readers event. Held at the Roxy Theatre on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m., the event features different local celebrities reading from and reflecting on letters and other historical documents taken from local archives: the City of Saskatoon, University of Saskatchewan, the provincial archives and the Local History Room at the Saskatoon Public Library. “People always say that you need to know where you came from to understand who you are,” said O’Brien. “The records held by the different archival collections Spotlight on the Past: Celebrity Readin Saskatoon tend to relate to the history ings From Archives in Saskatchewan of Saskatoon itself, which means that will be held Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Roxy the history they contain is quite directly Theatre. There is no admission charge.
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Fight a sign of things to come
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• From Bill Littlejohn: “In The People vs. O.J. Simpson, Simpson is played by Cuba Gooding Jr.? So I guess we’ll hear him say, ‘Show me the real killers?’” • Torben Rolfsen, on Gary Bettman signing a seven-year contract extension: “It should have been put to a fan vote.” • Sports Illustrated recently reported that Fox Sports Live is being cancelled due to abysmal ratings. This might be of interest to people in these parts because it is where Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole have being hanging their hats. Fox is expected to find a new home for the dynamic duo. • Hough, on the Broncos sending safety Ryan Murphy home from the Super Bowl after he was detained and questioned as part of a prostitution sting: “Really? You’re part of a Super Bowl team, and you can’t even find sex for free?” • Three team names in a popular drop-in beer curling league in Toronto: 1. Sweeping with the Enemy; 2. Sweep Country Canada; 3. No Sweep Till Brooklyn. (Note: play begins at 11 p.m. for drop-in
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FEBRUARY 11 Drummer and composer Eric Platz draws on many jazz influences to create a new, adventurous recording, Life After Life. The Brandon artist will be accompanied by Leanne Zacharias on cello, Don Benedictson on bass and electronics and James Falzone on clarinet. Concert at 8 p.m. The Bassment, 202 4th Avenue North. Tickets - $20 for SJS members, $25 for non-members.
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Saskatoon School of Horticulture’s 4th annual Cherry Valentine Evening. The Cherry Valentine Evening is a fundraiser that will help develop the grounds at 1021 Saskatchewan Crescent West as well as enhance the funding for the Ruthanne Hanbidge Scholarship. It is a cherry-themed evening featuring a four-course meal, cash bar and entertainment by pianist and entertainer Maurice Drouin. Cocktails at 6:30, dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $75. For more information, visit www.saskhort.com or call 306-931-4769.
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