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Pro boxing hits city Dennis Page guided his brother, Greg, to the world heavyweight boxing title (Photo by Ryan Grainger) Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express he menus sat untouched for more than an hour. Dennis Page was sharing stories from his past and present, and his hopes for the future. Lunch would have to wait. Page grew up in the projects in Louisville, Kentucky. He fought his way out. Page was a boxer who was going places. He fought a main event. His fights were being televised. His dreams of becoming the best of the best in the ring ended one day when he received a call from his father, Albert. It is time to come home, his father said. It was time for Dennis to quit boxing and guide his younger brother. That younger brother — Greg, or Gregory as Dennis calls him — would become the WBA heavyweight champion of the world and the longest reigning USBA champion in history. In the glory days of boxing, the heavyweight title was the most prestigious in sports. Dennis Page has been living in Saskatoon for more than a decade. He came to the city quietly and kind of likes it that

way. Even as he was putting together a card for a Feb. 27 professional boxing event, he didn’t play the Page card when signing boxers to participate. That’s not his style. Page has waited a long time for the chance to showcase professional boxing in Saskatoon. It took years and a lot of red tape before the province put an athletics commission in place to sanction combat sports. Page says Saskatoon and Louisville are about as opposite as two places can be. He saw everything imaginable where he grew up. He means everything. His father wanted a better life for his sons. One of the ways out, Albert figured, was boxing. “He didn’t want us doing the same things all our friends were doing. By the time I was in the 10th grade, the majority of my friends had gone to jail or had children or whatever. I am the only one of all the guys I went to school with that has never been to the penitentiary, who has never been arrested for stealing or anything like that. My dad always wanted us to do something else.

“My dad was macho before macho became cool,” Page said with a long laugh. “He was one of those guys who said, ‘This is the way it is going to be and that’s it.’ There was no deviation. ‘If you are out there running with those fools, then I am putting foot to butt.’” Page said he was working at a summer job when he was first approached about turning pro. The owner of the company saw potential in Page and wanted to be involved. “He went to my dad and wanted to invest some money in us right then. That was really weird. My dad said, ‘(Dennis) is only 16 years old and you are talking about putting in money and doing this and doing that?’ That was kind of strange to my dad. “My dad is one of those guys who is from the Deep South and anything that resembled taking advantage of black people, he didn’t appreciate. To him it was another example of somebody taking advantage of a black kid. So he didn’t take it anywhere. As a matter of fact, he made me quit that job. I quit that job and went and got a paper route,” he said with another long laugh.

Page got out of the projects when he was 18. He went to live with his grandparents and joined the military. It was a different world out there. While stationed in North Dakota, he got his first glimpse of Saskatchewan — and curling. He laughs as he recalls trying to explain the sport to people in Kentucky. While in the air force, Page continued to box. He humbly says maybe he could have been the champion his brother would become. “Of course we all have our own vanity, but I do believe I could have done those things. When I turned pro, it was the same time my dad was diagnosed with cancer. I fought a main event and won that every easily with all the skills I had and had been taught. I fought a couple times on television and fought in a couple international competitions. “As I said earlier, my dad was one of those guys who said, ‘This is the way it is going to be.’ My dad said, ‘Look, Dude, you need to quit fighting and help Gregory.’ (Continued on page 9)

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s a curling fan, I am angry, steamed and PO’d. Plain and simple, directional sweeping is ruining the game, and, selfishly, my desire to watch it. The skill of throwing the rock has been eroded to the point where sweepers can manipulate a curling stone like a pool shark can a cue ball. What is beautiful on a pool table isn’t on ice. It drives me absolutely bananas when I see a brusher sweeping the inside or outside edge of the rock, depending on whether the team wants it to run straight or curl. And don’t get me started on the fiasco that was the Manitoba men’s final. Editor Can you imagine a provincial final being reduced to an exhibition game? That’s what it became when a team that couldn’t go to the Brier played Mike McEwen in the final. Don’t tell me there are bragging rights or any other benefits for the curlers. I only care about me. As a television viewer, the game was meaningless. Click. I was curling competitively when brushes started replacing corn and synthetic brooms. It started with Paul Gowsell of Calgary. Not only were they outstanding curlers, but they were masters of taking the litter from corn brooms and working it to their advantage. Back then, many brushers snowplowed. They would put their brushes together, lean hard and off they would go down the ice. There was no brushing motion. If a rock was heavy, the brushers could lift

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their brooms, leaving debris in front of the stone. The rock would grind to a halt. It was a tough skill to master. When to lift the brooms was critical. As I recall, there was a rule put into place that forced sweepers to brush across the complete face of the rock. Where did it go? Why are sweepers now allowed to sweep one corner of the stone? One curling commentator said directional sweeping can make ordinary curlers good. When I think of a good curler, I think of somebody who throws the rock well and has a touch for weight. Apparently, it is easier to manipulate rocks with hair brushes. What I remember most about the hair brushes we used back in the day is how many rocks caught a hair and took a quick left-hand turn. The semifinal in British Columbia last week was basically decided by a pick. The picked skip uttered a swear word on television. I uttered them all day long as directional sweeping got further and further under my skin. Brad Gushue is on the side of banning hair brushes and hopes it happens before this year’s Brier. The clock is ticking. Gushue said hair brushes have the same impact as the artificially textured brooms that were taken out of play by the world’s best teams last fall. Hair brushes have been disallowed at the Scotties, which is being played this

week in Grand Prairie, Alta. Gushue told The Canadian Press he will bring the brushes out of his team’s broom bag if opponents are using them. In the article, he singled out Ontario’s Glenn Howard as one who might use hair. Hair and Howard are polar opposites. “You can’t play at a disadvantage,” Gushue told The Canadian Press. “We work too hard and spend too much time to allow not obviously just Glenn Howard, but any team that’s there to have an advantage on us. We have all kinds of hair heads ready to go.” For the most part, Gushue gets it, but it is the length of the stroke that has to be amended. Rule that sweepers have to brush across the face of the stone. Curling is facing a defining moment. Sometimes technology catches up and passes a sport. Changes in tactics, such as the one in curling, pop up. Is the game better, worse or neutral with directional sweeping? You know where I stand. ***** We have tickets to give away. I love when we have tickets to give away. This time they are for the professional boxing card on Feb. 27 at Prairieland Park. The doors open at 6 p.m. and fighting starts at 7 p.m. We have two pairs of tickets, including a pair of ringside seats. To enter, email editorial@saskatoonexpress.com. Please put “boxing” in the subject line.

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Volunteer tutors and adult learners usually meet in public places (Photo Supplied) Learning Centre was the most recent winner of the Prairie Policy Centre’s Compound Interest Financial Literary Award. For Harrow-Yurach and Kuan, it was easy to get involved with READ. Harrow-Yurach has a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Saskatchewan, but at the time of her graduation, jobs were scarce in her home province, so she taught for three years in New Zealand. Upon returning, she took on jobs with non-profit organizations who just happened to be located next to READ on the third floor of the Avenue Building. “I’d visit and sometimes have lunch with the people in the office and before long, I became an employee.” Kuan was inspired by her grandfather, Chat Clark. ”In his late years, my grandfather’s biggest worry was what was going to happen with the books he’d collected over the years. He’d bought them at garage sales and had a good collection. I always loved to read and he encouraged me to do more,” said Kuan. She’d been a tutor and a fund development person on the board, served as secretary and became the latest to accept the president’s role. “I continue to be inspired by the members around the table. The board is very balanced in itsJames skill sets, very sensitive to JW022215

the needs of those who need help and we care about the impact we have on those we serve,” said Kuan. Among the biggest challenges in the near future is acquiring new office space. They have been located on the third floor at 1114 22nd St. West for years, but have outgrown the location. “Our staff alone has grown from two, when I was first involved, to 10,” said Harrow-Yurach. “Yes, we go outside of the building to deliver many of the programs, our tutors and our learners still meet in public buildings as was always intended, but there is just a need for working space, meeting rooms and storage.” There was a time, just recently, when the Saskatoon Kinsmen Club acquired a church on the west side and was about to turn it into a learning centre. The plan has fallen through and the Kinsmen are apparently looking to sell the property. “The Kinsmen are still strong supporters of our programming, but as far as office space is concerned, it is time for us to move on.” Ideally, READ is looking for an office, hopefully within one kilometre of downtown Saskatoon to allow some of the programs to be held in the office. “We’d like the space to be warm, welcoming, with great parking and accessibility to the bus routes,” said Harrow-Yurach.

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was in Calgary for a around the last time Calgary couple of days for “meetwas struggling mightily with ings.” I do a little bit of low oil prices, and people were freelance work for a Calgary sending their house keys back company owned by a gentleto the bank (the oft-referred man I will call Doug, for to ‘jingle mail’) because they indeed that is his name. And I couldn’t pay their mortgages. do not use the word “gentleThat was 35 years ago, and man” lightly. Calgary was not even close to Doug’s office is in the 1.1 million souls who live Kensington, just across the there now. (It was just under river from downtown, and 600,000, FYI.) Columnist the approximate equivalent By now, I’m sure you see to Broadway Avenue in where I’m going with this. The Saskatoon. Instead of booking into an short-form lesson: put in a transit system outrageously priced hotel, or a cheap hotel that is reasonably priced, offers frequency miles from anywhere I needed to be, I (my LRT stop was served every five stayed at a bed and breakfast. minutes!!), provides consistency, is even I’ve stayed there before. It is beyond good for the environment, and yes, Shoewonderful. I should reveal the name, but I less Joe, the people will come. In droves, don’t want to, just in case the place starts apparently. to fill up with Saskatonians when I want In Saskatoon, everyone knows from to stay there. city hall on down that our transit system OK, fine, it’s called River Wynde. is broken. Except for main routes, our Forget that name as soon as you read it, buses don’t come often enough, don’t link please. up with transfers well enough, and many River Wynde is not quite half a block of them — in an effort to provide at least north of Kensington Road. It literally took some service to all parts of town — take me one minute and 45 seconds to get to crazy circuitous routes. Doug’s office. On foot. See? I saved big These routes often mean you can’t get money on taxis. there from here in under an hour. (Short River Wynde is also less than five example: good friend lives near Taylor minutes away (on foot) from the light rail Street, a few blocks east of Cumberland. transit (LRT) station just behind the Safe- I live fairly near Taylor and Broadway. way on 10th Street NW. The LRT is free On New Year’s Eve, we couldn’t get there downtown, but you have to pay to get there without going through downtown. Are from the outlying stations. I plunk $3.15 you kidding me? No champagne for me. into the ticket machine, which is not frozen Well, half a glass.) and fully functional, get my stub, wait two To its credit, the City is aware of these minutes and get on the train. It’s packed, at issues. Part of its plan is to create major 11.15 a.m. This is not rush hour. transportation corridors, or Bus Rapid Less than five minutes later, I’m down- Transit (BRT), as part of its Growth Plan town. I walk two blocks to meet my lunch to Half a Million. Creating BRT is an enor‘date.’ I think I might be in transportation mous undertaking, involving new zoning, heaven. potentially moving buildings, creating new So, first, I get that I was a lucky girl, bus passenger ‘stations’, and figuring out staying in an extremely central location, how to accommodate other traffic. in which I could never, ever afford to buy But the city’s plan, according to its a home, potential lottery wins aside. Growing Forward document, is to rely on So, not all LRT trips are that short and BRT for the next 25 years, while light rail sweet. But the LRT is a spectacularly suc- “may be explored” down the road. cessful part of the Calgary transit system. If we’re doing all of this transit In 2015, the CTrain, as it’s called, averinvestigation anyway, though, could we aged 333,800 “unlinked” (no transfers?) seriously consider LRT now? There are passenger trips per weekday. Per DAY. many questions to address, such as, where That’s daily. Did I mention that’s daily? would it go? Where would the funds and If you believe Wikipedia, that kind of the land come from? Can you envision uptake makes the CTrain the busiest light Eighth Street, or 22nd Street, with light rail system in North America. rail running nearby? (I’m having trouble In addition, the CTrain is powered by seeing that, I admit.) Where would we put overhead electric wires. Granted, generpark-and-ride lots? ating electricity creates greenhouse gas If we really are planning for half a milemissions, but think of all the cars (and lion, an LRT would be truly magnificent, buses) NOT being driven around town and check all the boxes — frequency, and into downtown, spewing their own reliability, even eco-responsibility. It’s not emissions. too soon, either; after all, Calgary had one Amazing, too, is that the CTrain started when it was just over half a million. operating in James May 1981. That was right Can we consider LRT as part of the mix? JW022212

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Tammy Robert Saskatoon Express n a stretch of Saskatchewan prairie just south of Saskatoon, a state of the art school building has opened to serve its 2,000 students. Yes, you read that number right — 2,000. Yet on a typical school day, there’s not a student in sight. Approximately eight years ago, Saskatchewan’s rural-based Sun West School Division — a massive division stretching west from Kenaston to the Alberta border, and south from Biggar to Beechy — was faced with shortage of teachers with expertise in core classes, as well as those who specialized in unique high school electives. Sun West’s solution was to recruit three teachers to develop and teach distancelearning courses to students in the division who were desperately trying to graduate in

these rural schools. Working out of Kenaston School, the commute from Saskatoon was reasonable for teachers, and recruitment became less of an issue. “Very quickly, Sun West began to see the value of providing equitable access to education for Sun West learners,” said Tracy Ringdal, marketing and business development officer for the Sun West Distance Learning Centre (SWDLC). “The division became committed to growing their course listings, resource offerings and teaching staff to accommodate a variety of different learner groups.” In January, the teaching staff — which has grown from those first three teachers to 55 — and a dedicated administrative team moved into their new home, a 15,000-square-foot, two-storey school located immediately adjacent to the Kenaston School. This open concept, collaborative space

was designed to maximize peer support among staff, and to ensure a constant dialogue existed amongst teams of teachers, administrators, tech and student supports. Only a few hundred students signed up for distance learning in 2008. Today, its 2,000 students are spread across Saskatchewan and are enrolled in more than 4,000 distance courses. Ringdal ticks off a number of reasons why Saskatchewan students may choose distance instead of in-classroom learning: Their schedules do not align with the traditional school day due to athletic pursuits, family travel or some other reason; They and/or their family have made the decision to provide an education from home; Challenges — perhaps cognitive, mental, physical, behavioural — that require additional supports or a different learning environment than they have access to in their bricks and mortar school; Or simply because they enjoy the independence of learning at a pace, whether faster or slower, that differs from that in a typical classroom. “Because we allow for continuous enrolment, students can sign up to start a class at any point in the calendar year and have 12 months from the date of registration to complete it,” said Ringdal. “For Sun West School Division students, these courses are free. For other learners, there is a charge of $500 per course, though some divisions will pay for and/or reimburse full time students who choose to take distance learning. “We offer the complete spectrum of K-12 core courses, as well as a wide variety of interest- based electives at the high school level, several of which are dual-credit with either Saskatchewan Polytechnic or the University of Saskatchewan. Some of the more unique courses on offer include paleontology, forensic science, astronomy, interior design, power engineering, and personal finance.” As for what it is like for SWDLC’s teachers to be working in a school, but not surrounded by students, Ringdal admits that there are significant differences, and some challenges.

“The fact that there are no kids running around, no bells ringing, no locker doors slamming or crayons to pick up makes for a very different experience for the teacher,” said Ringdal. “In terms of the teacherstudent relationship, in many ways it is the same: it hinges on trust and understanding. It takes time, effort and commitment to build those relationships successfully, from a distance. The DLC teachers are very intentional about student engagement and spend much of their professional development time discussing strategies that work.” As the SWDLC student base grows, so do the number of courses, teachers, supports and use of technology. Sun West School Division has taken an entrepreneurial approach to distance education and constantly looks for ways to enhance, streamline and personalize the student experience. On Feb. 26, SWDLC will celebrate the official grand opening of its new building. “The new building was funded entirely by the Sun West School Division reserves,” explained Ringdal. “From an operational perspective, we are only somewhat funded like a ‘normal’ school.” In simple terms, Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Education’s funding formula for each school division is based partially on student enrolment and partially on the division’s assets, including the number and size of its schools, and number of buses. The SWDLC receives funding, albeit modified slightly, for each student enrolled, but does not benefit from the second half of that calculation. “The future at Sun West DLC is very bright,” said Ringdal. “We have put in place a plan that addresses the challenges that accompany such rapid growth. We are always looking to capitalize on opportunities to succeed in a future with more students, greater diversity. We want to continue to explore mutually beneficial collaboration with other organizations — educational or otherwise — that seek to cultivate the very best learning opportunities for Saskatchewan students.” For more information on Sun West Distance Learning Centre, visit www. sunwestdlc.ca.

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In retaliation, the Primarily because those opposing Clinton government (Sask. Party) will remind you allude to her purported email scandal, sugof opposition (NDP) scandals, and its prime gesting she may yet be criminally charged. Although this seems unlikely, it makes good example will be Spudco. We should expect the unions will repolitical fodder and sows doubt and fear with voters. Sanders, on the other hand, promises activate their ads on privatization. I’m not free everything for the masses if he is presi- union bashing as unions do have a positive dent, although he never says how he will do role to play in our society, but the privatithat since the American debt is running at 60 zation of liquor store ads is irksome. The message is that in privatizing liquor stores all trillion dollars, and he would need the support of both the Congress and the Senate to the profit generated from those stores is now going into the hands of greedy corporations make his pipe dreams come true. who will take the money out of the province. Worse yet is the Republican race where (Does that mean all those Co-op members candidate Donald Trump, much to the get their dividend cheques and leave with the pundits’ surprise, is creating a groundswell of support. He is a blustering megalomaniac, cash?) I just don’t understand this message. The who with grand hyperbole promises to make government’s profit from liquor stores comes America great again. How will he do it? from taxation! Regardless of who is selling By deporting millions of illegal Mexicans, building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico the liquor, the government still can get its tax. (and possibly Canada) to keep undesirables The best example of that is tobacco. We don’t out, and refusing Muslim immigrants entry have government owned/operated stores that sell tobacco products, but the government still into the country. collects its huge tax on these products. I’m confused as to how any of this is The second message in these ads is going to make America great again because many unemployed Americans don’t want to the protection of minors from purchasing do the type of low-paying menial labour that alcohol from greedy private vendors. While in the U.S. (where in the majority of states the illegals do, and off-shore manufacturthe legal age for purchasing hard alcohol is ing exists because the U.S. citizenry want higher than in Saskatchewan), I stopped at cheap goods made in developing countries a convenience store to buy a bottle of wine and China, products that would cost more for company dinner. In most states, you can if made in America. As for the wall, it sort of makes a mockery of revered Republican buy a full variety of alcoholic beverages at any grocery or convenience store. The clerk President Ronald Reagan’s words: “Mr. in the store looked to be in his early 20s. He Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” As for the Muslims, wasn’t Hitler going asked me for my identification for proof of age. I suppressed the urge to jump over the to make Germany great again by getting counter and hug the kid. Did he really think rid of the Jews (and pretty much everyone else other than Aryans)? And isn’t Vladimir I looked that young? Sadly, no. Store policy Putin, a man Trump likes and admires, going was that without ID you could not purchase to make Russia great again, resurrecting the alcohol or tobacco. So the answer to this USSR by abetting warlike activities against problem is easily solvable – no ID, no sale. There is no perfect government. 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(Continued from page 1) ighting was about making money and achieving goals. He said, ‘Once you start helping with Gregory, you will be able to make money. Quit fighting and help take Gregory to the championship.’” Dennis said he wasn’t surprised when Gregory won the world title in 1984. He knocked out Gerrie Coetzee in the eighth round of their bout in Sun City, South Africa. “That was exciting, but he was just my brother. Because of all the things (trainer) Leroy (Edmerson) taught us and all the things we had gone through, whenever he lost was more a shock than if he’d won. So him winning was no big deal. We knew that was going to happen.” Greg Page died in 2009 at the age of 51.

Don King a Family Friend In the sparse basement gym at his Saskatoon home, Page removes a photograph of legendary boxing promoter Don King before guests arrive. He says he seldom has time to tell the story of King’s relationship with his family. Better to say nothing, Page said. People don’t want to hear good things about King. Today, with menus still on the corner of the table, Page has time to share stories about King and what he meant to the Page family. “A lot of people think Don King is a crook and he is this and he is that. But Don King and my dad were good friends.” Albert Page and King met when Gregory was the No. 2 amateur boxer in the world, behind only Teófilo Stevenson of Cuba. King, like so many others promoters, wanted to sign Greg. Most promoters saw dollars in their eyes and made no bones about it. What if Greg fought Stevenson? Cha-ching. King’s approach was different than the others, Dennis said. He was calm. There was no sales pitch. “And that is how they started cultivating their relationship. Don and my dad ended up spending three weeks together. They talked boxing, they talked life, phi-

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losophy. They did all of those things. What was really cool and what my dad liked about it was Don didn’t pressure him to sign a contract.” Greg Page eventually signed with King. Later, Albert Page asked King to teach Dennis the boxing business. Albert’s health was deteriorating and he wanted his sons in good hands — King’s hands. “When he was sick, Don would come down and see him in the hospital. He’d say, ‘Man, we don’t need to deal with these rinky-dinky Kentucky doctors, let me bring in a doctor.’ My dad was like, ‘These are great doctors here.’” When Albert passed away, King asked if he could participate in the funeral. He was one of the pallbearers. Move to Saskatoon Page’s first visit to Saskatoon was more than 20 years ago. He came up here as a favour to a friend. The person wanted Page to evaluate a fighter — the man’s brotherin-law. “I came up to have a look at the guy and what was going on in Saskatoon boxingwise. When I got here, there was only one gym in the city — Hub City — and they were training out of the Field House.” Page evaluated the boxer, didn’t sign him and went home. “The more I thought about Saskatoon, the more intrigued I became. It was a little city and it was on the move. Things were happening. One of the things I learned from Don (King) is where there are people, there is also action and there are also dollars. I thought if the city is going to keep growing there will be the opportunity to do more things. At that time there wasn’t a whole lot happening boxing-wise or sports-wise, period. There was nothing going on except the Roughriders and they were down there,” he said pointing toward Regina. Page decided to move to Saskatoon. In addition to training boxers, he is a counsellor, working with families and youth. “Every person in the boxing world said, ‘You’re going where? Why?’ My thing was this place is going to grow. It’s going to be something.”

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Boxers stretch before working out at Dennis Page’s gym (Photo by Ryan Grainger) Pro fighting in Saskatoon One of Page’s goals since his arrival in Saskatoon has been to have a commission to sanction professional boxing. It has been a long battle, but the curtain will be raised Feb. 27 in Hall D at Prairieland Park. It is closing in on 30 years since Canadian heavyweights Ken Lakusta and Razzor Ruddock duked it out at SaskPlace. “I want to make boxing one of the most popular things around,” Page said. “Right now we’re not doing bad. It’s our first card. My plan is to put on a minimum of four bouts a year. I think that is crucial for my athletes and it’s crucial for the fans. I don’t want fans to say, ‘Oh man, that’s a one-time thing.’ I want them to know that every other month they will be able to see these guys and they will be able to become part of their development as athletes.” The card is scheduled to have seven fights. The main event is for the Canadian super middleweight title, featuring Saskatoon’s Paul Bzdel and Shakeel Phinn of Montreal. Also on the card are a lot of up and coming fighters, including the pro debut for Ian Abbot of Prince Albert. Page says Abbot will be a fan favourite. “He is really fast and flashy. His power

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New event planner co-ordinating bridal show Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express he past six months have been a bit of a blur for Colleen Shalley. She opened an event planning and modelling agency — Infinity Management — in September. Since then she has signed 60 models, added a matchmaking service and is now co-ordinating the You May Now Kiss the Bride Saskatoon Bridal Showcase, presented by Welcome Wagon. “I have been very well received in the industry,” Shalley said. “I offer services that are less money than some companies.” Shalley said her planning service extends far beyond weddings. Also included are tradeshows and corporate events, as well as smaller events such as birthdays and anniversaries. It’s pretty much a case of you name it and she’ll plan it. Shalley modelled for six years and fell in love with the work and industry. “I knew I always wanted to own my own business and one thing led to another and I decided to open up an agency. I decided I didn’t want to go back to an office or corporate job, so I needed to pair more things with it to try to make this a full-time living. Now more than ever, it is the right time, and my business has been expanding in just six months.” She attributes her success to her personality. “People believe in me. A couple of my bride clients have actually hired me withJW022209 James out even meeting me, because we have had

Colleen Shalley opened Infinity Management last September. The models from left to right are Melissa, Alex, Kenton, Kymm and Colleen. Hair by Joy Tesch and makeup by Missy Makeover. (Photo by Karen Pidskalny Photography) a text conversation or a Facebook conversation, and they feel I am a legitimate person. And that makes them feel good about working with me. “ She is proud of the fact her models are diverse in size, age and ethnicity. “I am a no-requirement modelling agency — I deal with any age, any shape or size, male or female, experience or not and any ethnicity background. I have aboriginal models, I have African American models and I have Caucasian models. I don’t just sign a model and say, ‘Good luck, see what you can do.’” She said her models have been well received. “People in Saskatchewan can actually see clothes and dresses on real people, compared to a model-type figure.” Her models range in age from six to 41.

Shalley said she is known in the business, so it was relatively easy to attract models to her agency. Initially she approached and signed models who were not affiliated with other agencies. After a while, models were coming to her. Shalley says there is work for models in Saskatoon. “If you are not in the industry, it is something you wouldn’t know. We are so busy; we create a lot of opportunities for ourselves. So when a model has an idea to do some kind of photo shoot, we involve as many models in the shoot as we can.” She said she is currently doing a calendar for a motor sports company and is involving five models and two photographers, as well as hair and makeup specialists. She said they are doing other shoots with between Darlene 10 and 20 models. DC022201

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“I have a lot of clients that like to golf and play tennis, so we help them be able to do that for longer, and also things like adventure travel and even gardening and playing with their grandkids — getting up and down off the floor. “It’s not a typical health club workout where the focus is strength and conditioning and weights and cardio. We do that, but we also include things like balance, power, agility, flexibility and postural control because all of those components of fitness are what translates to better functional outcomes in real life.” It was six years ago when Turk, a lab tech, decided to turn her gym hobby into a part-time job. “I’ve been a gym girl since age 21,” she said. “I got certified as a personal trainer, because I was at the gym a lot and helping people a lot anyway. So I started doing oneon-one training there.” A couple of years ago, she discovered the Functional Aging Institute in the United States. “These guys are PhD personal trainers and have done all kinds of research, so I have basically modelled my business after them. I provide the types of workouts their research has shown to provide the best possible outcomes for my clients. I got certified with them in 2014 and have been training that way ever since with really good results.” Turk feels she is making a difference when her clients say they are moving better. “Within three or four weeks, they should be telling us Shelley Turk (left) and Kirstie Prefontaine have reason to smile with the opening last fall of ProActive Fitness things like they are feeling better, the stairs don’t seem as hard and the doors don’t seem as heavy and they are able to (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) carry their groceries with more ease and get up and down after playing with the kids on the floor. “There are some people that are concerned with weight loss; we can help them with that, too, but that’s not the priCam Hutchinson “We have a comfortable environment mary motivation for most of these people. They’re not as Saskatoon Express where people don’t feel intimidated by the concerned with six-pack abs or looking great in their bathGyms and people older than 50 don’t bodybuilder types or the bikini-model types. ing suits as they are with keeping up with people on the always get along. Shelley Turk has seen that It is more comfortable to work out here.” family vacation if they are going to go on a big vacation.” first-hand. Turk says there was a void in the fitness Turk said business has been good in the three months To give the plus-50 crowd a comfortable market for those in ProActive’s demographic. since she opened. place to work out, Turk opened ProActive “The baby boomers were the ones that “We’re getting steadily busier. Our average client age Fitness in the Lakeview neighbourhood. Her really started fitness back in the early ’80s is still that 58, 59 mark and mostly female, but we have a clients tend to be those who were part of the fitness boom — the Jane Fonda and all that. As they have aged and handful of men as well. 35 years or so ago when aerobics were all the thing. Rematured, the fitness industry hasn’t kept up with them. “Groups are fun; they are 30 minutes, so they go by nice member the spandex outfits, big hair and those headbands? They’re still focusing on the 25 to 40 year olds, so there is and quickly. We have a nice little community atmosphere Turk worked for the past five years as a trainer at one nothing for these boomers anymore. I wanted to help fill here; everybody is getting to know one another.” of the city’s popular gyms. She noticed her clients tended that void.” ProActive Fitness is located at #5-3602 Taylor St. East to be considerably older than those holding the majority of ProActive Fitness offers group and individual training (at the corner of Taylor Street and Kingsmere Boulevard). gym memberships. by appointment. She said the focus is on improving the For more information, call 306-374-3013 or visit She said ProActive quality of people’s lives. proactivefit.ca. JW022206 James Fitness has a different feel.

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Paul Pitzel takes his daughter, Angela, for a ride on his 1966 Hus-ski, a machine that was built in Quebec (Photos by Sandy Hutchinson)

Vintage snowmobiles a driving passion Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express oth the president and past-president of the Snowflakes Vintage Snowmobile Club laughed when asked about their passion for the hobby. Past president Jean Lundquist has 12 vintage machines in his collection. “I think of it as suffering from an illness,” he said with a laugh. Club president Kelsey Mase hadn’t ridden a snowmobile until three years ago when he moved to the Clavet area. He has since put together a stable of eight vintage machines. He said he caught his illness from his neighbours. If you can’t beat them, join them, right? The club and others interested in the hobby had some of their machines on display in Clavet on a recent Saturday. The club has 23 members with a combined collection of approximately 80 machines. The display was nostalgic, with most onlookers and collectors far younger than the machines parked in front of the Clavet Community Centre. Lundquist said there are now three main

companies manufacturing snowmobiles. Back in the early 1970s there were upwards of 200, he said. Three of those companies were in Saskatchewan. Roll-o-Flex machines were made in Regina. The Ingham Ski-bee was manufactured in Langham, while Smith-Roles snowmobiles were built in Saskatoon. Smith-Roles machines are said to be a rare breed in the collecting world. Lundquist said it is a shame more of the manufacturers aren’t still operating. “It’s just the nature of business. Everyone tried to do something a little different — heavy on technology and poor on marketing. How do you distribute snowmobiles across North America when everybody was competing for that same segment?” The little guys were squeezed out, but clearly not forgotten. Lundquist had four machines on display at Clavet, including a 1971 Ski Lark, a mini-snowmobile that was manufactured in California. Lundquist purchased it in Minnesota for his children to ride. “I guess I ride it as well from time to time,” he said with a laugh.

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He said it has a four-stroke motor that is similar to one that propels a rototiller. There were many eye-catchers, including a 1950s piece made by Bombardier. Lundquist said it was used as a school bus. The big unit has a car engine, with tracks and high-pressure air tires on skis. “So in tough winter conditions, they could go anywhere.” Both Lundquist and Mase said they are happy to answer questions for people interested in vintage machines.

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n advance of the April 4 landing at 75 per cent in 2007, election, last week Postmethe year they became governdia released a poll showment. In 2011, it dropped back ing the Saskatchewan Party down to that mid-60s range, sitting at 49 per cent support perhaps because it was rather in the province, and the NDP obvious that the last person on at 29 per cent. Not only are the earth to knock out Brad Wall results unsurprising, results would be Dwain Lingenfelter; so like this are extremely dangerNDP voters just stayed home. ous for both parties so close to Yet, imagine how the 2011 Election Day. results could have been different Why? Because a gap that if those NDP voters had bothColumnist wide suggests the outcome is a ered to turn out at the ballot box. done deal. Voters believing the Perhaps we’d have a healthier poll’s outcome are often voters who decide Opposition — essential for a functionnot to vote on Election Day, and that’s no ing democracy and for good government. good for anyone. Perhaps today’s NDP would have a better Supporting, promoting and organizing foundation to campaign from, and less voter turnout should be at the top of the ground to claw back. priority list for both parties during any But in 2016, the Sask. Party should be campaign, regardless of what the polls worried about turnout more than the NDP. show. First of all, this is just good policy. It would be awfully tempting for the Sask. Assuming you have enough campaign Party supporter, or even just someone who momentum for voters to get to the ballot had voted for them previously, to stay box on their own, just because they love home this year, because with that kind of you and want you to win, is madness. On support already in the bag, what’s one less the football field, coaches demand their vote going to matter? This is where a poll players stay humble, because the cocky released showing 49 per cent support so and proud tend to become targets for take- close to an election is not helpful — it’s downs, and when they fall, they fall hard demotivating. (see: Cam Newton). If enough people in Saskatchewan feel The 2016 election is ripe for low that their vote won’t make a difference, turnout because, arguably, the appetite you know how this movie is going to end. for a change in government is not there. Sure, in the NDP camp, voters may be And when there’s no appetite for change, tempted to feel that their vote is yet again turnout is historically low. It’s about moti- for naught. However, I have a feeling that vation. Voters are simply not as motivated NDP voters are motivated by the surpriswhen they don’t have something to rally ing and unpredictable results in 2015, both for or against. in Alberta and nationally. For example, in 1982, otherwise known I said last week that those trends likely as the year Grant Devine and the Progres- won’t continue in Saskatchewan, and I sive Conservatives cleaned house, voter stand by that, but I do think the possibility turnout was a near record high of 83.9 per is a keen motivator for NDP voters. This cent. Nine years later, when Devine was is a formidable threat if that motivation is swept out that same door, turnout was combined with the historically ferocious almost as high at 83.2 per cent. organizing strategies rightly boasted by the For the next decade — the one the NDP NDP. dominated in part because there really was Every campaign will identify the no viable alternative – Saskatchewan voter key group of voters who will decide the turnout plummeted to around 65 per cent. outcome of Saskatchewan’s 2016 election. Then, as the Sask. Party emerged, turn- This year, that deciding factor could be the out crept back up through 2003, eventually voters who stay home.

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SASKATOONEXPRESS - February 22-28, 2016 - Page 18 in various Austrian camps for two years and then worked on farms for three more, while the country was occupied by the Soviet Union. Then, with two sons now in the family, the Scharnitzkys applied for emigration to Canada. Saskatoon was their destination. “With a population of about 64,000 in 1954, it was still a farmer’s town and it was the farmers who opened their homes and hearts to us,” said Scharnitzky. “Jake and Margaret Schellenberg, who were Mennonites from Waldheim, helped us start on the right foot. “We worked a neighbouring farm when Harold and Mary Heuchert, from Clavet, appeared at our door with words of welcome and food. These were simple folk, prairie farmers, who introduced us to what I believe is the core of Canada’s cultural heritage: hard work, strong sense of community, and deep, durable friendships.” Scharnitzky’s husband, John, and her son, John, have since passed away, as have the Schellenbergs and the Heucherts. Charlotte Scharnitzky, (centre front row) and her son, Carl, (second from left The last 28 years of her Saskatoon life in back row), in a recent four-generations family photograph (Photo Supplied) were spent at the Scott Tower where an 11th floor apartment gave her “a breathtaking view to the west, seeing the sunsets and the storm clouds, but a beauty that was a relief from the cold winter’s blast.” She watched the planes flying in and out of the airport, wondering “who was on them, where they were coming from, and where they were going.” Most her working life was spent as a Ned Powers They came from Romania, the largest tailor, cutting and fitting men’s suits, at Saskatoon Express country of southeastern Europe. Because Elwood Flynn’s Men’s Wear, when it was harlotte Scharnitzky has countless of its riches in oil, Romania was a target located in Midtown Plaza. reasons to remember 62 years of for German occupation in the early stages “Charlotte and Josie Linassi both happy times in Saskatoon. of the Second World War. Then, in 1946, it worked for us and they were the best you Scharnitzky, now 93 years of age, has was overrun by the Communist influence could find,” said Flynn. “Their kind of moved to Collingwood, Ont., where she of the Soviet Union. It took until 1989 for work was like a lost art. In recent times, can be closer to her son, Carl, and his the Romanians to stage a revolution to we have advertised for master tailors but family. regain their freedom. there are few of them out there. We now She looks back today on how she and Scharnitzky’s story of the wartime and ship our tailoring needs to a very good her husband, John, found freedom and post-war years was filled with high drama. independent shop.” dignity when they became new citizens of She was an expectant mother, given Scharnitzky also remembered her asCanada in 1954. only a bowl of soup and a slice of bread a sociation with the Saskatoon Seniors for “We were immigrants from a war-torn day while imprisoned in Hungary for four Continued Living, the friendships within Europe who escaped from behind a curtain and a half months in 1949. She and her the health care system, and “your gem, the of iron to this beautiful prairie city, which husband were sent to a refugee camp in Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, which welcomed us to our new country and our Austria where between 30 and 40 people gave me music, the priceless gift, which I KK022206 Karen new freedom,” recalled Scharnitzky. lived under one roof. The family lived could share with my friends.”

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Puerto Vallarta a great winter escape PUERTO VALLARTA, for folks who take the time to Mexico — Miguel, our waiter, linger. spread out a circle of colourOne of my favourite sunsets ful sauces around our platter as we walked along the famous of crunchy nacho chips and PV malecon, or promenade, beamed at us as we scanned our on this trip coincided with the menus. performance of beach acrobats. “Mild, not so mild, hot and Attached to ropes they spin hotter,’’ he said, smiling and in circles as they drop from pointing in turn to the individuthe peak of a 20-metre pole, al sauce bowls he’d delivered to gracefully spinning to the sand our outdoor table. below, not unlike dancers on an Travel Miguel’s smile was as upside down maypole. warm and welcoming as the I think the majority of weeksoft Mexican evening. This was our final long visitors here choose the all-inclusive dinner before we were to head home to resorts, a very manageable vacation option Canada, and the feel of the ice cold Corona for those who don’t like straying far from bottle in my hand was a gentle reminder their hotel pool and who enjoy dining on of the probable reading of our outdoor property. Most aficionados of the all-inthermometer back in Saskatchewan. clusive model, however, make it a point to Still, it had been a great week. Explor- add some day adventures to their itineraring the resort city of Puerto Vallarta (PV), ies, like snorkelling, zip-lining and taking where many North Americans make their trips into town. The resort’s concierge can annual winter escape, had been a real treat, arrange these excursions. and the delight of seeing seven sunsets in On past visits we have gone this route, as many evenings had quickly taken away but this year we went for the hotel option any thoughts of home. Like many who can as we wanted to check out the restaurant only spend only a week here, we discovscene in PV. We discovered the food was ered it simply wasn’t enough time to ease very good, and not expensive if you spent us back towards thoughts of work and the a little time strolling around and checking inevitable snow shovel. menus. The sunsets are a huge draw for visiWe dined out every night and lunchtors and locals alike. There’s something time, just having breakfast in our hotel. spiritual about seeing the golden sun being Maybe because we live so far from any swallowed into the ocean, and the surocean here in Saskatchewan, our meals real lingering glow as dusk begins to take focused on what was fresh from the sea on over the seascape is another magical scene that day — red snapper, Mahi Mahi and

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Cam Hutchinson & Friends: The air and the tortoises

By RJ Currie he Saskatoon Rush lacrosse team’s average home attendance is about 9,000 fans. Or as the Carolina Hurricanes call it, 2,000 short of a record. • Adele’s performance at the Grammy Awards was interrupted by an audio failure. As for Nelly Furtado’s O Canada rendition at the NBA All-Star The Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders were Game — no such luck. in Saskatoon in 2014 and again last week • Lindsey Vonn posted a (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) video of her doing pull-ups for Sports Illustrated wearing nothing but about CFL players. body paint. By all appearances, she hasn’t • Metro UK reports a N.Y. fashion show gone downhill. got interrupted by two tortoises having • How frosty was it in Toronto for the sex on the runway. Even there, the female NBA All-Star game? Kobe Bryant said it complained the male finished too fast. was colder than a handshake from Shaq. • Canadian NHL teams went a dread• How about the falling Canadian dol- ful 2-11-1 last week. And we call Justin lar? They flipped a loonie to start Canada’s Bieber a national embarrassment? last Fed Cup tennis match; when it landed • The Feb. 19 lacrosse match between it was three quarters. Saskatoon and Rochester featured the • A man named Bud Weisser was Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders. That’ll put caught trespassing at a Budweiser plant. a capital R in the Rush. Peyton Manning insisted on throwing the • MMA fighter Emanuel Newton told book at him, but came up 20 yards short. the N.Y. Post his recent loss was because • The Winnipeg police lost or missing sex “took away his hips.” Sounds like my department has appealed to the public for kind of slimming program. help. Citizens are asked to call if they find • Let’s hope all the players on Canadian the Jets’ offence. NHL teams enjoy video games. They’re • Happy 53rd Birthday to Chicago Bulls spending a lot of time together in the baselegend, MJ. To mark the occasion, Patriots ment. quarterback Tom Brady tried to deflate RJ’s Groaner of the Week some Air Jordans. The emergency goalie in a recent • According to Ipsos Reid, nearly half Phoenix Coyotes game was a local bank of Canadians are within $200 a month of manager. Don’t laugh: the guy knows how KK022211 being unable toKaren pay their bills. But enough to save.

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hen I was looking for information on boxer Greg Page to use with our cover story, I found the nicknames of some of his opponents fascinating. For example: 5. Harry (Heatwave) Daniels; 4. Orlin (The Juice) Norris; 3. Marion (The Creep) Wilson; 2. Dan (The Businessman) Murphy); 1. Jerry (Wimpy) Halstead. • My fighting names would be things like: 3. Cam (The Scaredy Cat) Hutchinson; 2. Cam (The Tomato Can) Hutchinson; 1. Cam (The Weiner) Hutchinson. • Janice Hough, on an American Airlines plane clipping the tail of a Southwest Airlines jet at Detroit Metropolitan Airport: “I wonder if the pilots were texting at the time.” • Bill Littlejohn, on American Pharoah expected to make $35 million in 2016 as a stud: “That breaks the old mark held by Warren Beatty.” • TC Chong, on Donald Trump reiterating his plan to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico: “In related news, Vegas bookmakers have just made Mexico the favourite for this summer’s Olympic pole-vault competition.” • Torben Rolfsen, on Adele being the victim of an audio glitch at The Grammys: “The sound was worse than in the headphones of a visiting team at Gillette Stadium.” • Hough, on Adele saying she cried for much of the day after the Grammys: “Maybe she can write a song about the experience.” • Toronto Maple Leafs goal of the week: Pierre-Alexandre AS022209 Aaron Parenteau from

Martin Marincin and Viktor Loov. • From Littlejohn: “On Sundays this season, the Pirates will wear 1979 throwback uniforms. Are they also bringing in Sister Sledge to sing We Are Family?” • Two more made-to-measure nicknames. 1. Mike (The Smile) Babcock; 2. Chris (The Maid) Jones. He cleans house, get it? • From Rolfsen: “It will be Indianapolis versus Green Bay in the Hall Of Fame Game this summer. Brett Favre still needs to decide if he’ll go into Canton as a Packer or a sexter.” • Hough, on a German shorthaired pointer winning the Westminster Kennel Club dog show: “Anyone else waiting for Trump to complain about a foreigner taking something from American dogs?” • In curling you throw a guard, you don’t throw up a guard. Can you imagine how much that would hurt? • From Rolfsen: “Drake was awarded the key to the city of Toronto before the NBA Celebrity All-Star Game. It opens Rob Ford’s humidor.” • Chong, on Sir Paul McCartney being turned away from a Grammys after-party: “Justin Bieber couldn’t get him past security either, so he suggested Sir Paul have his limo driver egg the place.” • From Hough: “Apparently the Democrats don’t want to debate on Fox News. I don’t know why. It seems like a fine opportunity for both Hillary and Bernie to show they’re tough enough to stand up to Megyn Kelly.” • I’m thinking Donald Trump can make the Vatican great again.

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FEBRUARY 23 The Vancouver Chamber Choir in Concert. Knox United Church, 24th Street & Spadina Crescent, 7:30 .pm. Tickets in advance $25; at the door $30 – available from: McNally Robinson Bookseller, on line at www.saskatoonchambersingers.ca

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Michael Kaeshammer is a Canadian jazz and boogie woogie pianist, vocalist and composer who is just back from a 20city tour of China. He plays in the style of Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson. He is a seven-time JUNO nominee, and twice a winner. Show time is 8 p.m. Broadway Theatre. Tickets - $40. ***** Blind Boy Paxton is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who borrows from the blues and jazz from before the Second World War and although a young artist, he has been influenced by Fats Waller and Blind Lemon Jefferson. It is part of the Saskatoon Blues Festival. Show time is 9 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets - $30.

Mayfair United Church presents The Willie Sons. 7:30 p.m. at the church (902 33rd Street West). Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets are available at McNally Robinson, Mayfair Hardware and the church. Doors open at 7 p.m. FEBRUARY 27 Jen Lane introduces music from a new album, This Life of FEBRUARY 24-25 Mine, an accounting of her eight years as a homegrown Flashdance, the musical, tells the story of a steel mill vocalist-guitarist. .Show time is 8 p.m. The Bassment. welder by day, a dancer by night, who finds the meaning of Tickets - $20 for SJS members, $25 for non-members. true love. The lineup within the Broadway musical is like a greatest hits album, including Flashdance – What A Feeling, MARCH 5 Maniac, Gloria, Manhunt and I Love Rock and Roll. Show Greg Blake and friends Gospel Show, 7:30 Grace Westtimes at 7:30 p.m. TCU Place. Tickets - $60 to $75. minster United Church (Eastlake and 10th Street). Advance tickets are $20 and $25 at the door. In addition there is a FEBRUARY 25 supper and show for $40. Supper is at 6 p.m. Call 306-653Joel Fafard, originally from Saskatchewan but now a 1766 or email tickets@gracewest.ca for tickets. Blake is a resident of Sunshine Coast, B.C. lands in his home province five-time award-winning gospel musician. after a brief swing through Europe. He’s a finger-style and MARCH 6 slide guitarist. Fowl Moods is his newest release, a collection of songs from Southern blues and roots stylings. Show The Bridge City Brass Band presents an afternoon of traditime is 8 p.m. The Bassment, 202 4th Avenue North. Tickets tional brass band music. Soloists include :Frank Harrington -DC022208 $20 for SJS members, $25 for non-members. on Flugel Horn, Roxanne Inch on Tenor Horn and Harry Darlene

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The Saskatoon & Area Geocaching Association (SAGA) is holding a Leap Year event at Jerrys Food Emporium on Eighth Street from 6 p.m. to 8pm. The event is open to everyone. Come on out to meet geocachers and learn about geocaching.

Public Presentation entitled: Concerns About Assisted Death And In Support of Palliative Care by Dr. Vivian Walker. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Hospital (Pylypchuk Hall). RSVP: 306-655-5808 (leave a message).

MARCH 3 A Parish Nursing Information Forum will be held at Resurrection Lutheran Church (310 Lenore Drive) from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. This is an interchurch event and is open to anyone interested in exploring the role of the Church in health and healing. A panel will discuss the role of the Parish Nurse in the life and ministry DC022206 of the congregation.Darlene For more information or to register,

MARCH 9 The Canadian Club of Saskatoon will host Senator Lillian Dyck who will be speaking at the Saskatoon Sheraton Cavalier about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Registration is 11:30 for a hot buffet dinner at noon. Members: $20. Non-members: $25. St. Mary’s Oskayak Dance Troupe will be performing. Call Laura at 306-229-7846 for information and tickets. (Continued on page 23)

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Want a chance to develop and practice your French & English communication & leadership skills in a welcoming, non-judgmental environment? Visit Inspiration bilingue Toastmasters Club from 12:05 to 12:55 p.m. Meetings are at Le Rendez-vous francophone - 308 Fourth Ave. North, second floor. For more information, visit http://inspirationbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org/

EVERY THURSDAY Prairie Sky Farmer’s Market is open every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is located at St. Paul›s United Church in Sutherland (454 Egbert Ave.) New vendors may phone or text Kathy at 306-222-2740. ***** SCOOTERS - A drop-in indoor playgroup for children ages 0-5 and their parents/caregivers. Thursdays from 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at Emmanuel Baptist Church. $40/family/ year, or a suggested drop-in fee of $2/child or $5/family. For more information, email scooters@ebap.ca, visit www. emmanuelbaptist.ca/scooters, or check out (www.facebook. com/scootersebc). ***** Saskatoon International Folkdance Club meets Thursdays at 7 p.m. in Albert Community Centre (Rm. 13, 610 Clarence Ave. S.). Learn dances from many countries. First night is free. 306-374-0005; www.sifc.awardspace.com ***** Le Choeur des plaines welcomes you to sing and socialize in French each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at L’École canadienne française at 1407 Albert Avenue. The choir is directed by Michael Harris and accompanied by Rachel Fraser. All who wish to sustain or practice their French are welcome. For more information, call Rachel at 306-343-6641 or Jean at 306-343-9460.

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Dizziness and Balance Support Group will meet from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at LifeMark Health Centre, 3907 Eighth St. East. Anyone with a dizziness/vertigo/balance condition is welcome to attend. There is no cost to attend. There will be an educational topic presented and an opportunity to learn from each other. For more info, call Rae Ann at 306652-5151 or email raeann.erickson@lifemark.ca.

Saskatoon Ostomy Association meetings at 7:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church. Meetings are held on the first Monday of the month except when there is a holiday. If so, meetings are on the second Monday. **** University Non-Academic Retirees Association meets for coffee at 10:30 a.m. at Smitty’s in Market Mall. All former support staff who have retired from the U of S are invited to attend.

THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH Schizophrenia Society of Saskatoon Family Support Group will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North. The group is attended entirely by family members and friends of people living with schizophrenia and related disorders. For more information contact, email: ssswellness4u@gmail.com or call 306-374-2224.

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Depression Support Group runs on the first and third Wednesday of each month, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the CMHA building (1301 Avenue P North). This is open to anyone struggling with depression and family members wanting to support them. For more info, call Marilyn at 306-270-9181 or email mle2003_2@yahoo. com. ***** T.O.P.S (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). New members are welcome. A supportive, friendly group that meets weekly focusing on healthy eating, exercise and weight loss. For more information go to www.tops.org or call Debbie at 306-668-4494. Meetings are at Resurrection Lutheran Church ( 310 Lenore Drive). New member orientation every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. ***** Singles Social Group - “All About Us” for people in their 50s and 60s. Weekly Wednesday restaurant suppers, monthly Brunch, Movie Nites, and more.Meet new friends. No membership dues. For more information email: allaboutus10@hotmail.com or phone (306) 978-0813. ***** EVERY FRIDAY A Chance To Dance! Kids Have Left Home! Learn To Dance! St. George’s Senior Citizen’s Club (1235 20th St. West) has bingos and Kaiser from noon until 4 p.m. The club is Waltz, Two Step, Fox Trot, Rumba, etc. Friday nights at campaigning for new members who are 55+. Member7 p.m. Class starting Jan. 8 to Apr. 8 Albert Community Centre, 610 Clarence Ave. S. (south door, elevator to second ships are $5 per year with discounts included. For more info, call 306-384-4644 or 306-716-0204. floor). Choreographed Ballroom Dancing. Karousels Dance ***** Club. Contact Ruby at 306-290-5486. Bargain store to support the inner city Lighthouse project. EVERY THIRD WEDNESDAY Babies’, children’s, women’s and men’s clothing; jewelry, The Bruno Groening Circle of Friends in Saskatoon has a purses, belts and camping clothes available. Wednesdays support circle using integrative healing based on the teach- from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, ing of Bruno Groening open to all without charge. Contact 454 Egbert Avenue. Prices from $0.25 to $5. Everyone circle.saskatoon@gmail.com, 306-664-3331. is welcome. For more information: Call 306-955-3766 SECOND SATURDAY EVERY MONTH (church) or go to spuconline.com or email zixiag@gmail. Memory Writers — September to June, 10 a.m. to noon com. at the Edwards Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue. Share the FIRST AND THIRD SATURDAYS OF THE events and memories of your life in a relaxed and friendly MONTH atmosphere. For more information, call Neva Bayliss at 306-343-0256 or Hilda Epp at 306-382-2446. The Lions Club will be holding Texas Hold ‘em Tournaments. $60 buy-in gets $10,000 in chips, $40 goes to the EVERY TUESDAY cash prize pool. No Re-Buys. 50 seats available. RegistraLove to Sing? Join the Saskatoon Choral Society. No audition opens at 6 p.m., with the tournament starting at 7 tions. 6:45 p.m. at Grace Westminster Church (505 10th p.m. Located at the Coachman bar at Market Mall. Call Street East). The startup is Jan. 5. 306-668-0015 for more information. ***** Magic City Chorus (women’s 4 part a cappella harmony) FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings at St. Paul’s The MindFULL Café, part of the international Alzheimer United Church, Egbert Avenue, in Sutherland at 7 p.m. New Café movement, provides an opportunity to meet in a members welcome! Check out magiccitychorus.ca for more relaxed social setting for persons with dementia, family, information. Contact y.jaspar@shaw.ca. care partners and other interested people. The Café is a ***** two-hour get together with refreshments, entertainment Off-Broadway Farmers’ Market & International Bazaar and and information. First Saturday of the month from 3 p.m. Bistro, located in the basement of Grace-Westminster United to 5 p.m. at Sherbrooke Community Centre. Church, located at 505 10th Street East. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. EVERY SECOND AND FOURTH TUESDAY ***** The Saskatoon Pattern Dance Club holds dances at All Spirit of the West 616550 Toastmasters Club. Come and Saints Anglican Church, 1801 Lorne Avenue, from October have some fun and learn speaking and leadership skills. until April. We dance to old time music from 7:30 p.m. to The club meets from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Hospitality 9:30 p.m., with beginner instruction during the first hour. Room of Great Western Brewing Company. Follow the red Beginners are welcome. For further information call 306fence on south side of building through the gate up the JW022205 James 382-5107. stairs into the building.

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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. Located at W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 4th Ave. North, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. There is no cost to attend. For more information, email leftbehind@sasktel.net. ***** FROMI - Friends and Relatives of People with Mental Illness meetings will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North (wheelchair accessible). If you have a loved one or friend with a mental illness and you need understanding support, contact Carol at 306-249-0693, Linda at 306-933-2085, Lois at 306-242-7670 or e-mail fromisk@gmail.com.

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Tours pickup in Saskatoon, Regina & Moose Jaw Renters of Saskatoon and area meet. 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (except River Cree - Departs from Saskatoon) St Thomas Wesley United Church, Lower Hall (808 20th St. Visit us: www.odysseybuslines.com West). ROSA supports renters and shares information to work towards better, affordable, and safe rental housing SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH for all. Child-minding available. Ring doorbell for elevator Friendship Force International, Saskatoon and Area Club access. For further information contact: 306-657-6100, or is an organization of more than 360 clubs in more than email renters@classiclaw.ca. 50 countries throughout the world. FFI allows you to enjoy economical travel while forging new friendships with club TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, SATURDAYS Country Farms Marketplace at Confederation Mall, 10 a.m. members from around the world. For more information, visit www.thefriendshipforce.org. To attend a meeting to 4 p.m. Indoor marketplace located across from Urban contact Lynne Stade at 306-933-4835 or lstade@shaw.ca. Planet. The Marketplace features home cooked lunch, desserts, pies, preserves and other amazing food as well FIRST AND THIRD WEDNESDAY OF THE as hand crafted items and home based business vendors. MONTH ***** Resporados support group for people with breathing diffiFree art drop-in at the SCYAP Art Centre. All ages are welcome, all materials supplied, no registration required. culties taking place at 1:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church (33rd Street West). Tuesdays 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., Thursdays 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., and Saturdays 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. EVERY TUESDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

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

The Saskatoon Prostate Cancer Support Group meets every month except July and August at 7:30 p.m. in the W. A. Edwards Family Centre, across from the Saskatoon Funeral Home. For more information call Murray Hill at 306-242-5893 or email murraydhill@me.com.

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