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Zoo Foundation has new leader Dawn Woroniuk has a diverse background
Dawn Woroniuk won six Canadian country music awards during her 25 years at Saskatoon Media Group (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express awn Woroniuk is the new executive director of the Saskatoon Zoo Foundation, but that is only the half of it. Woroniuk is also the president of Sask. Music, will be the chair of the Canadian Country Music Awards when they return to the city in 2017 and is doing the marketing for singer Johnny Reid’s current crossCanada tour. And how’s this for cool? Woroniuk gave Reid a push to write the song, Thank
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You. She and Reid go back to the days when he was more Johnny Who than Johnny Star. Back then, Woroniuk was rising through the ranks at Saskatoon Media Group and Reid was rising up the charts. She started as a receptionist and left last summer, 25 years later, with a bunch of national awards as a music director. One of the special days in her broadcasting career came in 1995. At 6 a.m. one morning, CJWW moved from 750 on the dial to 600. An hour later, Hot 93 went on the air. The station had a special in-studio guest that morning. Her
boss wanted Woroniuk to bring in Michelle Wright, the top female Canadian country music artist at the time. With Wright not available, Woroniuk had an idea. She thought a new station should have a new artist. “So I walked into his office and said, ‘I got Shania Twain; that newcomer Shania Twain.’ “And you kind of know what happened to Shania Twain. She had just released her first song to radio — Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under.” Through her work at the station, Woroniuk was able to support and promote the
work of many artists, including Reid. “A lot of it had to do with our philosophy at the radio station. I was fortunate enough that my boss wasn’t a chart watcher. We could actually play music that fit our station, so there were a lot of Canadian artists we played before any other stations across Canada did. And Johnny Reid was one of them. “I really believed in him and supported him. I remember he was out for a promotion with us — it was Hot 93 still — and we gave away a trip to Vegas. (Continued on page 5)
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he future of newspapers journalists spend a few minutes nudged its way back into with me, so I could talk them out the news when Spotlight of pursuing this as a career. I was won the Academy Award for best mostly teasing back then. picture. Random Thoughts The movie is the story of a • Sometimes old news becomes group of investigative reporters new again. Take, for example, the at the Boston Globe uncovering story about a restaurant in Greenabuse of children by Catholic ville, South Carolina, named priests. It is, as our Joanne PaulSaskatoon Steak-Fish-Wildgame. son points out in her column, Last week, the local media got what reporters do when investiinto a bit of a lather about it. Not gative journalism is encouraged to pee on their parade, but Lloyd Editor and supported. Litwin, then the outdoors columWould the story have been broken today? nist for The StarPhoenix, wrote about the A lot has changed since 2003, when the restaurant in 2003. Not much has changed Boston Globe was doing that Pulitzer Prize since then. It has the same owner, sharing work. In Canada, newsroom cutbacks have the same story. Lloyd particularly liked the been deep. Senior reporters — those paid the restaurant’s catch phrase: “There is plenty of most — have been shown the door at many room for all of God’s creatures. Right next to papers. These are the people most likely to the mashed potatoes.” be assigned to investigative work. • You know how you can buy grapefruit by I know a young man who is about to enter the bag? You grab a bag, put it in your cart a journalism program. I am at a loss to give and move on. At a grocery store last week, him advice. Will there always be a newspa- there was a man who had three bags open. per? Probably not. Can newspaper websites He was picking the ones he liked from each be sustained without the print version of a and putting them into one bag. It was a bit of paper? Probably not. How will people get a head-scratcher. local news? Newspapers, such as they are, • Saskatoon’s Tim Sahar had a great showing record a city’s history in bite-sized amounts. at the Arnold International Sports Festival How will that information be catalogued? in Columbus, Ohio. Tim finished fifth out of Will it be reliable? I don’t know. I just don’t 26 competitors in his weight division of the know. strongman competition. That is pretty darn Are newspapers pushing readers away? impressive. Of course, they are. I know a 40-year sub• Students from the College of Agriculscriber who cancelled The StarPhoenix last ture raised $26,000 on their bed push for month because “there is nothing in it anyTelemiracle. That number is about $11,000 more.” I don’t totally agree, but it is different more than their goal. We were proud to than it once was. feature the students in the edition before their With new early deadlines, papers have push. Telemiracle raised $5.2 million this become largely 9 to 5 operations. Not long year. Take a bow, Saskatchewan. ago, news flowed until 11 p.m. Now, you • I was looking through the notes on my aren’t going to get a lot of sports coverage or phone and came across an item I had saved evening news in the next day’s paper. from a month ago. I thought it still worth Why? It’s the mighty dollar speaking. sharing. Here is a tweet Al Anderson’s SFS There are always interest payments due sent to the city police during a Rush game: when media owners get in over their heads. “There is an assault taking place against the To make them, a press is shuttered here, a @NLLRoughnecks by the @SaskRushLAX. building is sold there and journalists are fired 13-5.” Here is the response from @Saskaeverywhere. toonPolice: “We’ll let that one go … Carry Over the years, I have suggested young on. #GoRushGo #RushNation.” Beautiful.
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19 minutes with Cam Broten NDP leader talks about health, education, economy
Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express am Broten is leading the NDP into the April 4 provincial election. Born in Regina, he lived in several Saskatchewan locations before settling in Saskatoon. First elected as an MLA in 2007, he was re-elected in 2011, and elected leader on March 9, 2013. When the election was called, he was MLA for Massey Place, a constituency with slightly-changed boundaries and now called Saskatoon Westview. He has an international studies degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a master’s in political science from Simon Fraser. He has worked as a tree planter (through university), a health policy manager and a policy analyst. Broten and his wife, Ruth, have three daughters and live in the Westview constituency. We caught up to him for coffee and an interview at Back To Coffee Beans on 33rd Street, where Broten says he often takes his daughters for ice cream in the summer months. This interview has been condensed and edited. What are the three or four biggest issues for you in this campaign? This campaign is about priorities; it’s about choices. Our areas of focus will be cutting the Sask. Party’s waste. It will be about helping families with the bottom line, putting more money in their pockets; and it will be about fixing and enhancing the public services that we should all be able to count on, like health care and education. The questions that this really focuses on is, when times are tighter, who can you trust to fix and to protect health care and education, and who will make life more affordable for your family and who will continue to line the pockets of friends and family and out-of-province or outof-country consultants? Is there an issue specific to Saskatoon? An area of waste that needs to be cut is the huge amount of money that continues to be plowed into this LEAN project in health care. The government spent over $150 million on this. There are still over 130 people employed full-time just for LEAN promotion within the system. We need to cut waste like that, and redirect that into the front lines of health care that actually matter. One of the announcements that we made last week as part of the solution to fix emergency room wait times was
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NDP Leader Cam Broten chats with Back To Coffee Beans customers (Photo by Joanne Paulson) about using Saskatoon City Hospital properly, a hospital that was originally designed for over 300 beds, which is currently (being) about half-used. There are big parts of that hospital where they actually rolled out patient beds and moved in administration desks. (There are) two components: an increase in the number of acute care beds . . . and then also increasing the emergency room hours, beyond what’s currently there. What I’ve heard from front line workers and physicians is that would go a great distance in adding capacity. Please describe your platform as it stands now. Our first announcement was reducing the number of out-of-province consultants that are being used by this government at an astronomical level. This has spiked up in a massive way under the Sask. Party. Even the provincial auditor points out that in 90 per cent of the instances, there’s no paper trail and no written documentation about what’s being done. There’s no reason to be spending $130 million a year on private advisers. An announcement made last week also was to end the ‘gravy planes.’ They’re the aircraft devoted just for the cabinet and the premier to be flying around in luxury around the province. It’s not needed. We’re the only province in the country to have that. My pledge is to sell two of the planes, and then convert a third one to an air ambulance . . . to provide more options for everyone in the province and especially for northern Saskatchewan.
On the health care front, I spoke about City Hospital. I’m very proud of our other components of our plan to reduce emergency room wait times; the establishment of quick care clinics (in Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert and Moose Jaw) . . . as well as a pilot program for a community paramedic program, to have paramedics in the community able to do some of the things required in an ER trip. (ER) waits need to be measured in minutes, not hours. I’m also very enthusiastic about the plan that we’ve brought forward to treat mental health care as it needs to be treated, as part of Medicare, as part of health care. In particular, what we’ve pledged to do is cover eight counselling sessions per year for youth who need counselling to deal with an issue. The idea is to provide supports to youth and children early on, so that it doesn’t progress to that crisis state where a psychiatrist is needed or an emergency room is needed. (The film tax credit) in my view is one of the most glaring examples where you’ve seen a really stubborn approach by the government, where they wouldn’t admit that they made a huge mistake. Everyone in the province knows this. The film industry in Saskatchewan not only made us proud, it made us millions. The Chamber of Commerce points out that for a $1 million expenditure by government, there was $45 million each and every year in economic activity in the province that was generated. (Continued on page 6)
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an a movie change the in the middle of nowhere to world? potentially freeze to death? I Ever since Spotlight, think you would. The people of the docu-drama-style film Saskatoon knew this because of about the Boston Globe’s inThe StarPhoenix, and particuvestigative unit, won the Oscar larly because of a dedicated for best picture, I’ve been city editor and a reporter freed ruminating on this question. up to investigate. If you Google something Do movies change the like, “can a movie change the world? I certainly hope so. In world?” you don’t get much the case of Spotlight, which that’s helpful. People babble has been described by some as Columnist on about the importance of a bit slow but described by me serious film, but it’s hard to as spellbinding, may it attract find any sort of cause-and-effect evidence huge audiences that finally understand that this really happens. what the demise of newspapers really At the top of the list of movies that means to their lives. come up in Google searches is An InconThose of us in the industry are collecvenient Truth, the 2006 movie that mixed tively on our knees praying that the Oscar climate change warnings with former U.S. win brings high viewership, and that the vice-president Al Gore’s climate fight. The world finally realizes just how bad it is not movie won an Academy Award for best to have a local newspaper or two. doc, and landed Gore a Nobel Peace Prize. Indeed, our little weekly breaks stories The movie made $50 million, turning it of meaning to the community. We were the into the ninth most lucrative American first to write about the new plasma collecdocumentary, so a bunch of people saw it. tion business, Canadian Plasma Resources, It certainly made a splash, and one can and to discuss whether that was a good argue that it put climate change farther up or bad thing for Saskatoon. We chased on the global political agenda. In this case, the travelling owner around the world for perhaps the jury is still out on whether several days and finally tracked him down it changed the world. We haven’t fixed somewhere overseas. climate change yet, if it is fixable; but at Good reporters are curious, stubborn, least industry and government are starting idealistic, determined and cynical. Most to work on solutions. don’t get paid much, either. They do this Here’s another thing that needs fixing, work because they believe in it. Good and fast: the decline of serious media, in- newspapers (and editors) find ways to give cluding newspapers and public broadcast- reporters time and funds to uncover imporers. When you watch Spotlight, it becomes tant stories. Good advertisers support this crystal clear why strong, and preferably enterprise, and hopefully attract customindependent, media is so important to so- ers while they are at it; and for all of that, ciety. You can’t miss it. You could say the newspapers need good readers. filmmakers put the spotlight on it. Will Spotlight help the North AmeriSpotlight, if you have not seen the film, can media get its feet back under it, even is the Boston Globe’s investigative unit, a little bit? I wonder. According to one and a damn fine unit it is (and apparently website, Spotlight earned $71.6 million in remains.) Fifteen years ago, Spotlight 2015 (it did come out late in the year.) But uncovered widespread abuse of children compare that to The Revenant, at $429.5 by Catholic priests, and how the church million; Mad Max Fury Road at $373 milprotected the pederasts. And did not prolion; and Star Wars VII at — gorp — $2 tect the children of its faith. billion. Spotlight just isn’t even in striking This is exactly what newspapers are range of that amount. supposed to do: keep careful watch on Can movies change the world? Newsthe institutions that govern and direct our papers certainly do. Every day, newslives. If you had a child in Boston, would papers uncover and/or report on things you want to know that dozens of priests citizens need to know. Sometimes it’s a were preying on innocents? I think you matter of life and death. Sometimes it’s would. The people of Boston knew this a matter of a life well-lived or ruined. because of their newspaper. Sometimes it helps people figure out who If you were an aboriginal, addicted or and what to vote for. homeless person in Saskatoon 20 years Will Spotlight change the fate of newsago, would you want to know that certain papers? police officers were dropping people off I am probably dreaming in Technicolor.
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Zoo a special place for Woroniuk
(Continued from page 1) t was Valentine’s Day and he showed me a card and a little verse he wrote for his wife. I said to him, ‘Johnny, that needs to be a song.’ And it ended up being the lyrics to Thank You.” Through Sakamota Entertainment, she was handed the reins to market Reid’s current tour. “When the opportunity came along to market his show across Canada, it was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not going to pass that up.’ I’ve known Johnny forever. It has been very fulfilling getting to help artists like High Valley and Shania Twain and Terri Clark and George Canyon and Dallas Smith — a lot of those artists reached No. 1 or tried to reach No. 1 — and get them airplay. We have phenomenal Canadian talent, but we don’t praise our Canadian talent enough.” Woroniuk won six Canadian Country
Music Association awards for music director of the year. She left Saskatoon Media Group last summer. Like many others in Saskatoon, the zoo has always held a special spot for Woroniuk. She didn’t foresee herself working in the iconic brick building on the grounds. Woroniuk and her husband, Duane, would take their son, Blake, to the zoo when he was a little guy. With their home not too far away, the zoo was a pit stop on evening biking trips. There were year-end class parties and picnics. Now, she is three weeks into leading the zoo’s foundation. While with Saskatoon Media Group, she worked extensively with many of the foundations in the city. Now, she is leading one. “What made me excited about it is this one is about building family values and family traditions and memories. People don’t
realize what a fabulous attraction is right in the middle of our city. It’s not just the zoo and the animals, but also the Enchanted Forest and how that has become a holiday tradition. So it was one of those foundations that I thought, ‘You know, this is one I could definitely see myself being a part of.’” She is sorry she won’t get to work for a long time with zoo manager John Moran, who is retiring this year. “That makes me very sad because he has done so much for this zoo and he has done it so quietly. It’s come so far. For instance, attendance in 2015 from April 1 to Oct. 31 was over 145,000 people. An increase of over 3,100 visitors, and it’s a new attendance record. He has done so much within the zoo.” At the top of Woroniuk’s list is presenting a fundraising campaign for the Carnivore Trail. It’s an enclosure like no other for the
zoo’s wolves and cougars. Arctic foxes and wolverines will likely share the space, too. “It will definitely take a few years to get up and running, but it’s something that is a vision of John’s and we want to ensure we follow through and create it. It will be something spectacular for our zoo.” She said other items on the list include updating the playground in the zoo. An update to the one in the forestry farm has been completed. She said she is pleased to have the support of the foundation’s board of directors. “I work for a great board of directors. They are fabulous people and the fact I get to work so close with John at the zoo is definitely a plus for this job.” For more information, visit saskatoonzoofoundation.ca, call 306-975-2241 or email director@ saskatoonzoofoundation.ca.
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’ve been ruminating over this noattempt to generate anger in a popution that this month’s Saskatchlation in which it doesn’t exist. ewan election campaign is about “Whether authentic emotion, or the economy. skilled presentation, or competitive Polls have shown that most refire, it didn’t matter much in the spondents agree with that statement, end,” he wrote. “One eternal truth and Premier Brad Wall has certainly about public anger is that it can’t reiterated it a number of times, but I be manufactured – it exists or it couldn’t buy into it. People don’t sit doesn’t. Even the most intense, fiery around their kitchen tables and feel orators can’t make those who wake things about the economy. up in the morning feeling OK about The vast majority don’t discuss their lives go to sleep convinced Columnist Saskatchewan’s debt-to-GDP ratio that they are in much worse shape around the water cooler, or check than they thought.” their Facebook and the West Texas IntermediIsn’t that the truth? And the reality is that ate price before going to bed. They feel things while there are those who are suffering in these about their future, their jobs and their financial uncertain times, many of us are just rebalancing ability to provide for themselves and enjoy their our lives after a few years of oily Saskatchewan lives. decadence. We’re OK, and there’s not enough Saskatchewan residents are obviously negative advertising or insistence otherwise to deeply concerned about job losses in our natural change that. resources sectors, especially those who have If this all sounds familiar, it’s because resistfriends or family turning their brand new trucks ing the politics of fear, and instead tapping back over to the dealership, or who have gone into what appears to be an intrinsic Canadian from prime rib on a whim to lining up at their optimism is the strategy that led Justin Trudeau local food bank. Yet, the economy in this prov- to victory last fall. In fact, in the quote I shared ince has ridden up and down the rollercoaster above, Anderson is referring to the federal every decade for the last century. Conservative party, and their vain attempts to An editorial in last week’s Globe and Mail generate a fear that didn’t exist — a fear of brought everything into focus. newcomers, a fear of our differences, a fear of Saskatchewan’s 2016 election is not about the other guy. the economy. It’s about who, or which party, As we head to the ballot box in a few weeks, can keep us the happiest, and the most hopeful the powers that be inside campaign headquarand optimistic. ters would do well to reconsider the negative Sounds cliché, right? Well, sometimes tone that so far has dominated the discussion. a cliché is just a declaration of truth. Bruce Saskatchewan voters want candidates and leadAnderson, chair of polling firm Abacus Data, ership that mirror and reinforce our happiness, shared recent Abacus research in his Globe and promise to preserve it. Yes, that means proeditorial. In it he revealed that more than 80 viding an assurance on managing the economy, per cent of Canadians describe themselves as but it also means providing assurance that your happy, optimistic and hopeful. When we’re party is as committed to not only acknowledgelecting our leaders and government representa- ing and ensuring that optimism, happiness and tives, wouldn’t it make sense that we look for hope that has prevailed in Saskatchewan, and behaviours and messaging that we can relate to? across Canada, for decades past, and I’m optiAnderson went on to explain the folly of the mistic will continue for decades more.
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(Continued from page 3) e want to rebuild the film industry in Saskatchewan. We’ve done it once before, and we can do it again. Are you concerned about this economic downturn? What can we do to improve matters? I’m absolutely concerned. I have spoken to families in Estevan, the Lloydminster area, even the Saskatoon area, who have felt the effects of the downturn. This is the frustration, that over a 10-year boom, the Sask. Party rode this economic wave – not through any of their own work, but through the good timing of commodity prices and what was in place before it; they missed a golden opportunity to do better economic diversification in this province. Natural resources will always be a huge part of our province, and we are blessed to have riches in that way. The question is, how do we use that to make sure we have prosperity for the long term, that it’s not boom or bust? That’s why we need to have . . . expansion into green energy, to build those green jobs throughout Saskatchewan, (and) why we need to have a film industry in the province. Also very much directly tied into this, the notion of having a strong local economy, is the need to support Saskatchewan businesses when it comes to government procurement policies, through Crowns and through ministries. The Sask. Party has time and time again sent billion-dollar cheques out of this province for the construction of projects here in Saskatchewan. I recall visits I had with steel fabricators in the north end of Saskatoon, totally frustrated, looking at giving out
pink slips to their workers, at the same time as they see semis rolling into the province with steel projects for SaskPower from Quebec or California. It makes no sense. We have to make sure we are supporting Saskatchewan businesses, Saskatchewan companies, because it’s these companies that employ workers here in the province, that pay mortgages, pay property taxes and send their kids to our schools. That’s how you build a strong community. What are you hearing on the doorstep? The concerns people have on the doorstep are mirroring the things we are talking about, about the future of the province – the need to have better health care, better education, and the need to have affordability for families who are working hard to get by. That’s a message I hear whether I’m in inner city Saskatoon, which part of my constituency is in; or whether I’m in a newer neighbourhood like Hampton Village. We have the most diverse team in Saskatchewan political history; that’s my belief. We have nearly half women candidates, which is fantastic, because we have better decisions made when we have better balance. We have diversity that actually reflects the beauty and the reality of the province – stronger representation from First Nations and Metis communities, newer Canadians and visible minorities running for us as well, and then those who are fourth generation settlers, like me. It’s a great mix. We also have an average candidate age of 43. We’ve done the generational renewal as a party that was overdue. Our teams are excited, and out working hard.
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Jones Konihowski to speak at banquet Ned Powers Saskatoon Express iane Jones Konihowski candidly admits she enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan in 1969 because she wanted to enhance her opportunities in track and field. There were some minor hitches but overall her years at the university guaranteed a long-term coaching partner in Lyle Sanderson, allowed her to train for 11 months of the year and was part of the developmental process which took her to international heights. She represented Canada for 17 years in sports, was named to three Olympic teams, was ranked No. 1 in the world in her specialties in 1975 and 1978, and won more than 70 Canadian championships. Jones Konihowski and Erica Gavel, a wheelchair basketball star, will be the guest speakers when the present-day Huskie athletics team holds its fourth annual gala on March 19 in the Galaxy ballrooms at the Travelodge Hotel. Doors open at 6 p.m., supper is at 7, and the evening’s program will also include presentations to this year’s top athletes. Jones Konihowski spent much of her indoor training time in an old gymnasium which was fitted with four manmade corners, each 16 feet in length and sloped up to a 42-degree angle. Sprinters could use the corners for two steps each and return to the straightaway. “As a hurdler, there were only two or three hurdles in the gymnasium. Now there are four or five at the Field House. As a high jumper and long jumper, I was taking off from a cement floor. The training conditions made it tougher. We certainly weren’t spoiled athletes. We used that old Saskatchewan grit and determination,” said Jones Konihowski on the phone from Calgary. She remembers one 1974 meet on the boards at the old downtown arena where she won the 40-yard hurdles, the long jump and the shot put and her husbandto-be, John, won gold in the long jump, 40-yard hurdles and 300 metres. “Joanne McTaggart set a world record for the 300 metres at the meet. Then a year later in Edmonton, Joanne lowered
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the world record in her race and I set a world record in the pentathlon. Imagine that from two Saskatchewan girls!” she said. She also has fond memories of the Knights of Columbus meets at the Arena which came “with blaring headaches” from the pounding of the boards. “The process was a huge learning curve for both Lyle and myself. I came in with an experience of a multi-discipline event athlete, he came with experience in long distance and cross-country running. We grew together during the 1970s. He’d been on a trip in Europe and he’d been sitting with the other international coaches, taking in everything he could.” The big difference, she said, is that “Lyle had to be everything to me — psychologist, massage therapist, nutritionist, parent. Today’s athletes have all of that and maybe more. We trained 11 months of the year and that was important in my quest to make the three Olympic teams.” The primary purpose of the gala, says its organizers, is to raise scholarship dollars. The scholarships support the current athletes but also help in the recruiting power to make the team competitive with other Canadian universities. Many sought-after athletes choose other universities because of the recruiting power. Jones Konihowski, as an alumna, is helping in her way. She has a Bachelor of Education degree from the U of S and, later in 2002, was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws degree. “Athletics rank as a very important part in a student’s journey. All young people should be seeking excellence in something as well as just the academics.” Since she quit competing in 1984, she has been a university and national team coach, official, volunteer, promoter of drug-free sports and KidSport Canada, sports marketing specialist, fundraiser, administrator, media commentator and mother of two athletic daughters. Since 2013, she has been the director of fund development and communications for the 24/7 Distress Centre in Calgary.
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Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express f you compare international trapshooting to hockey, Saskatoon’s Lloyd Litwin has played on a line with Wayne Gretzky. Well, maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but at a competition in Tucson, Arizona, a couple of years ago, Litwin shot in the same squad as world champion and Olympic multi-medallist Alexei Alipov. At the event, competitors are divided into groups of five or six. Litwin drew Alipov, and vice versa. Talk about luck of the draw, in a good way. Litwin said the comparison to playing with Gretzky isn’t too far off the mark. ‘“You and Wayne go out this shift,’” he said with a laugh. ‘“You’re with Wayne this game.’ It was just amazing to be there with somebody like Alipov.” Litwin was just past his mid-40s when he started trapshooting. Before then, he had spent almost 25 years travelling and competing as a muzzleloader. He calls those days living the Jedediah Smith dream. Smith was an American explorer and legendary mountain man who lived in the early 1800s. Muzzleloaders would go on rendezvous, where they would live and dress somewhat like the traders and trappers did 200 years ago. One famous rendezvous, both back then and now, took place in Green River, Wyoming. “The traders would come and meet the mountain men there. They would sell their furs and these guys would sell them more traps and more food or gun powder and whatever else they needed and away they would go for another couple of years.” Litwin got to come home, rather than heading back into the hills. After winning 11 provincial muzzleloading titles, a friend talked Litwin into trying
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trapshooting. This time, the targets would be moving. Litwin laughed when he talked about this first experience with competitive trapshooting. Organizers didn’t know where to place him. He told them he shot 100 targets a year with a muzzleloader and had been shooting trap, skeet and sporting clays a couple of times a week for two summers. They put him in the C division. Be darned if Litwin didn’t go out and hit 50 straight. He was called a ringer, before being moved to the B division. Be darned if he didn’t hit another 50 without a miss. It was now off to A division after 100 straight. Litwin hit 95 out of 100 in the second half and won the competition. Since then, he has shot in the AA category, before moving to international trap. The international game is different, he said. “The angles are wider, they vary heights instead of just one height and they throw them twice as fast. That’s a whole new humbling experience.” He has finished second and third in Canada at the international level and has been to a couple of out-of-country meets, such as the one when he shot alongside Gretzky… er, Alipov. “But I’m just not world level; it’s a whole new ballgame, let me tell you.” He does wish he tried trapshooting when he was younger. “Oh, do I ever. I love the game, the politics are horrible, but it’s a great game and it’s just so challenging. That’s the thing I was looking for. When I started this game, if you got 118 out of 125, you could probably get to the shootoff round. Now you have guys shooting 123 out of 125 who are not getting to the shootoff. It’s amazing how much it has progressed in the last 10 years. You’re just in awe.” Since moving to the Saskatoon Gun Club and trapshooting, Litwin and his wife Kathy
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reloading supplies... it goes on and on.” He said on the antiques side, there will be such things as furniture, glassware, toys, jewelry, books and coins. He said a lot of interesting things walk in the door, in addition to those going out. One example, some 20 years ago, was a print done by Alberta artist Charlie Russell. The person sold it at one booth for $500 and the new owner sold it down the aisle for $5,000. You have to feel for that first person. Hours for the show are 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on March 18, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on March 19 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 20. The show is being held at Prairieland Park.
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iam is one of my partner. On one hand it was cool, favourite Cree words. but it was also sad. If the women Basically, it means could take the time to learn the “let it be.” It’s not like the language, why couldn’t the man Beatles’ Let It Be, but rather it find the time? is “let it go for now.” When a I was invited to a class of person is frustrated and maybe those who were learning the too angry, or hurt, to make a language. Being one who can’t decision, that’s when a person say no to those promoting my should say kiam. language, I accepted the invitaCree is a unique language tion. There were 23 people in the in that it has words I’m sure no class. Only one was aboriginal. Columnist other language has. Joewams I started to recognize that there is another word that is unique. were different professionals The word may offend some, but in the group. During a break, I it makes sense in Cree. Basically it means asked why they were taking a Cree class. “the man whose wife I slept with.” Now Most said it would advance their careers. this is not one-sided, because it could mean It’s like if a person can speak English and “the women who slept with my husband.” French, it increases opportunities. Of course today, it could also mean “the Languages are one of my fascinations. person who slept with my partner.” If a I didn’t start learning English until I was First Nations person comes up to you and eight. However, I wanted to learn English says “tansi joewams,” you may want to because I wanted to understand why the keep an eye on that person. other children were laughing. I was lucky I don’t know how many times I’ve heard there was a Roman Catholic nun who must “I wish I could speak Cree.” I know many have seen something in me, because she white people who speak fluent Cree and took extra time to teach me the language. First Nations people who do not. Once, Since then, I’ve learned a couple of other when I was sitting on a park bench in languages. downtown Saskatoon, I heard a young First Cree is a language that is forever evolvNations man tell his white girlfriend he ing. There are now words that weren’t wanted to phone his grandmother in North- there even 10 years ago. It’s an easy lanern Saskatchewan. It was cool to hear the guage to learn. If you don’t believe me, try white woman speaking Cree to the man’s saying Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. There, grandmother and interpreting it for her you just spoke Cree.
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umoured mayoralty rules and councillor remuneracandidate Coun. Charlie tion, is warranted (but only if Clark suggests we the advice is heeded.) These are should hire a consultant for just a few examples of when it advice as to whether we should is appropriate to seek outside be hiring consultants. Thunk! expertise. (That was the sound of my Now we get down to the head hitting the wall.) Why not city spending $18.63 million on ask the fox whether or not he external consultants. Chief fishould continue guarding the nancial manager Kerry Tarasoff hen house? says he struggles with the defiThere is always a time when nition of consultant services. Columnist any organization, public or The answer is really pretty private, would benefit from hirsimple. The business definition ing an outside consultant. When a business of consultant is one who provides expert entity is seeking advice on a very specific knowledge to a third party for a fee, i.e. and/or one-off project, it makes perfect they are not on the organization’s payroll. sense to hire that expertise rather than put- It doesn’t matter whether it is called a ting them on the payroll. A good example report or study, or whether it is delivered might be the design and development of in written or oral form, it is any outside a water and/or sewage treatment plant. advice given that you pay for. Those types of projects are done infre“When you put it in the context of a quently, the technology is evolving and billion-dollar budget, $18 million is not a good decision may depend on current a lot of money,” said Tarasoff. Tarasoff expert advice. is a bean counter and I understand from It is essential that outside professional his “big picture” view that these consultexperts be engaged to annually examine ing expenditures are a drop in the budget and audit the corporate books. And there bucket. What Tarasoff doesn’t understand may be times when, due to a conflict, per- is from a taxpayers’ point of view, they ceived or real, outside legal counsel may being the people putting the drops in the be needed. And certainly during labour bucket, this is a lot of money. disputes arbitrators may be called upon. “Engineers, for example, building The Saskatoon Municipal Review Combridges and interchanges – we just don’t mission, established to review election have them sitting in the back closet wait-
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compare the number of professional people each city employs. He digs right to the bottom of the bag and points out that 13 years ago, Winnipeg (a city two and a half times the size of Saskatoon) spent a whopping $39.5 million. However, he avoids shedding a comparative light on our sister city, Regina, and its rather paltry $1.75-million expenditure on outside expertise. No other mid-size city appears to spend as much, but Saskatoon officials say we can’t compare our spending to other cities, because we use different criteria for reporting. It is the same response given when comparison is made between Saskatoon and other cities on property taxation, utility rates and numbers of civic employees, that being, you can’t compare apples to oranges. And of course, the icing on this fruit cake is that our city is more transparent in reporting than are other cities. How do we know this? Because they told us – and, in the immortal words of Coun. Eric Olauson, if council trusts administration to hire full-time staff, then council should trust the administration to spend money “prudently” on consultants. And with that folks our city will not be publishing a list of these consultants, a description of services rendered or the amounts paid to them. End of story. If you really want to know, play hide-and-seek with the public accounts report published annually. Is this transparency? I started this column with, if not a ridiculous, then an ironic comment from Clark and will end it with the mayor’s comments (uttered after a discussion on “value for money” through use of consultants): “We keep talking about how much money we’re spending . . . so how much did we spend?” That would be $18.63 million Mr. Mayor. (I offer a thank you and tip of the hat to StarPhoenix reporter Phil Tank for his diligent reporting on this matter.) ehnatyshyn@gmail.com
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Campaign donors should receive tax receipts Question: Late last year, similar mandate as say, the the Municipal Review ComWard Boundary Commission. mission released its report The commission would prepare on elections and fundraisa report, present it to council ing. What are your thoughts where councillors could look on council approving a ban at it, comment on it and return on anonymous donations to it to the commission. The candidates in municipal eleccommission would consider tions? the comments and then issue Mayor Atchison: I find it its binding report. That way interesting in a couple of ways. elected officials aren’t making Let’s talk about tax receipts. In the rules to govern themselves. municipal campaigns, no tax re- Ask the Mayor Unfortunately, that isn’t what ceipts are issued for donations. happened. We did get partially I am not the only one raising there. Administration is now that concern. In Calgary, council members involved to determine whether new rules are pressing for tax-deductible donations. are legal. I think that was a start, but surely In the federal campaign, if you donate not where we should be. We need to be $1,000 to a candidate, there are funds that more open and transparent. flow to that candidate from the federal Question: Traffic signals are not exgovernment. You get a tax credit to use pected at Lorne Avenue and Ruth Street against your income tax. In a municipal until 2017. Why does it take so long? Is election if you give a candidate $1,000, it a cost thing? How much does a set of you get no tax receipt and the candidate traffic lights cost? gets no funding from other levels of Mayor Atchison: We are planning to government. When you get a tax receipt put lights at Ruth Street and Lorne Avand taxpayer dollars are used to fund the enue. For me, it’s been a long journey becampaign, then I believe the public is en- cause we have been planning to put lights titled to know that taxpayer funds flowed there for several years. It is finally going through to your campaign. to happen. The price of the work and But if you are paying out of your own lights runs around $200,000. The funding pocket with after-tax dollars, I think that is phased in over two years: $100,000 for is your business. I don’t think we ask you 2016 and $100,000 for 2017. how you spent your money in the grocery Traditionally, we used to put in two sets store, do we? The idea of having a $100 of traffic lights a year. There is an interdonation before it becomes public, I guess esting report on the environmental cost that’s fine. Whatever the rules are the rules of traffic lights that involves stop-and-go are. traffic. The one that blew me away by far The other part of the new rules address- was when we removed the traffic lights es “fundraisers.” Under the new rules, it at College Drive and Circle Drive before says all contributions must be receipted. the overpass was built. There were traffic So, for the sake of argument, you get a lights there. We finally got the overpass $5, $10, $15 donation and, for whatever and some experts said the gas savings reason, that donation isn’t receipted, you from not having lights at the corner of have broken the rules. That disqualifies College and Circle would pay for that you from being an elected official for the overpass in one-and-a-half years. That’s next 12 years. mindboggling. What we are attempting You are dealing with people on your to do with our lights is make sure traffic team, generally speaking and at least on flows as well as it can and as safely as our team, who are volunteers. They are not possible. paid to do this. These new rules are very onerous. Every candidate now will need a Did You Know campaign manager, a lawyer, an accounLast year, eight cents of every tax doltant and an official agent just to keep track lar collected in Saskatoon went to fund of everything. Transit. Perhaps the biggest issue here is politicians making their own rules. That is very (Have a question for Mayor Atchison? disappointing. I was hoping that when Send it to editorial@saskatoonexpress. we went into this process, the Municipal com. Please put “mayor” in the subject Review Commission would be given a line.)
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enrolled in organized hockey after spending a year competing in speedskating. She joined the Bobcat Predators boys’ team, coached by Don Tyndall, in the Saskatoon Minor Hockey Association. “He was just a really good coach,” said Shirley, who is a forward for the Notre Dame Hounds junior women’s hockey league team. “I think he was the one who kind of put that dream in my heart. He is one of my favourite coaches for sure.” She played boys’ hockey through to the pee wee ranks. In her first year of bantam, Shirley joined her first girls’ team, becoming part of the Saskatoon AA Comets. No longer having to avoid body checks, conditioned to play with her head up and now having more time to make plays, Shirley began to take off offensively. After one year in bantam, she joined the Saskatoon Stars midget AAA squad in 201314 and led the team in scoring as a 14-yearold, registering 19 goals and 10 assists in 28 games. In 2014-15, Shirley had a dream season. She finished second in the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League scoring race with 22 goals and 17 assists. Shirley added another 12 goals and 12
Sophie Shirley (left) and teammates Nara Elia (middle) and Julia Rongve hold the Fedoruk Cup, the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League championship trophy (Photo Supplied) assists in nine SFMAAAHL playoff games, as the Stars swept three straight best-of-five series to win their first league title. She also helped the Stars win their second Mac’s Tournament title in Calgary and a bronze medal at the Esso Cup national championship tournament in Red Deer. Individually, Shirley was named the SFMAAAHL’s most valuable player and the most valuable player at the Esso Cup. “Not too many coaches get blessed with the opportunity to coach a player of that
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f this is my last Leafs goal-of-theweek item, it could be because Les Morrison did me in before, during or after a meeting we were scheduled to have between the writing and publishing of this column. Les is one of those long, long, long-suffering Leafs fans who I may have inadvertently offended once. Anyway, last week’s Leafs goal of the week was scored by Zach Hyman, with assists going to Martin Marincin and Colin Greening. • Torben Rolfsen, on President Barack Obama welcoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the White House: “Previously to be invited inside the White House, a Canadian had to be a member of the Blackhawks or Kings.” • Janice Hough, on Erin Andrews winning $55 million in her lawsuit over being videotaped nude in her hotel room: “And the Kardashians are thinking, ‘We’d have allowed it for half that.’” • Bill Littlejohn, on Los Angeles being set to open the Museum of Broken Relationships: “Can’t wait to see the ShaqKobe exhibit.” • Rolfsen, on Asteroid 2013 TX68 missing Earth by just 15,000 miles last weekend: “That is still more accurate than Colin Kaepernick.” • Hough, on California passing a bill to raise the smoking age to 21: “And most college students are shrugging – ‘it’s only tobacco.’” • Littlejohn, on the Minnesota Vikings’ new stadium running alongside a street named Chicago Avenue: “Isn’t that like having Kim Jong Un Way in downtown Seoul?”
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• There are a number of NHL teams that seem to lack a personality. Take the Jets and Canucks, for examples. Who are you and where are you going? • From Rolfsen: “Goose Gossage is the least likely to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Blue Jays opening-day game. Gossage will be busy at the annual Clint Eastwood Get Off My Lawn! golf tournament.” • I understand being in the moment and all of that, but I didn’t like the bat flip for which pouty José Bautista will be forever known. • Hough, on Barack Obama’s approval rating of 50 per cent, the highest it’s been in three years: “Guess it’s beginning to dawn on Americans that one of these people they are watching debate is actually going to be their next president.” • Rolfsen, on a hat with the slogan “Make Your Hair Great Again” being stolen off a statue in front of an L.A. restaurant: “Detectives would like to speak with Jaromir Jagr.” • Littlejohn, on what OJ Simpson might say about the knife found on his former property: “‘If the knife is rusted, I can’t be busted.’” And here’s what the police might say: ‘If it’s perforated, he can be interrogated.’” • After I listened to one of my favourite radio shows recently, it struck me that there wasn’t as much talk as I expected. A few nights later, I timed the show with the stopwatch on my phone. It came to 29 minutes and 30 seconds of talk in one hour. The moral of this story is I need to get a life.
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By RJ Currie orn Hub says Canadians spend more time than most groups on their site, but numbers plummet when Canada’s NHL teams have a playoff game. No drop is expected this year. • Leonardo DiCaprio won an Academy Award for The Revenant. The Cleveland Browns have a shot at an ESPY for The Irrelevant. • Set to play amateur Bud Collins (Wiki Photo) baseball this season in the Coastal Plain League: The Savannah Bananas. Expect their schedule to feature a lot of splits. • A sad farewell to flamboyant tennis analyst Bud Collins, dead at age 86. Perhaps the only guy who could call Norwegian men’s curling pants bland. • To salute Dr. Suess’s birthday, two female Houston Rockets fans in skimpy Cat-in-the-Hat outfits tried to distract Pelicans free-throwers. And Harden heard a Who. • Miss Bum Bum title holder, Suzy Cortez, reportedly spent months dieting and in rigorous training to get her backside in shape. This is one case where the means justified the end. • Maria Sharapova announced she failed a doping test at the Australian Open. You don’t need to be a nun to ask: How do you solve a problem like Maria’s? • Johnny Manziel’s stats as the Browns QB: seven touchdowns, seven interceptions and seven fumbles. Given Manziel’s fondness for Vegas, he’ll be happy he totalled 21. • In the week the Texans signed Brock Osweiler, a nude women dancing on top of a semi stopped traffic outside Houston for an hour. As free agents go, she had to be restricted. RJ’s Groaner of the Week This year’s star of the Australian Sunshine Coast surfing festival in the canine competition? A German surferd was edged by a boarder collie.
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David Francey puts down roots at The Bassment
Ned Powers Saskatoon Express avid Francey wrote poetry as a 10-year-old in Ayrshire, Scotland. He wrote lyrics for songs not long after moving to Canada with his parents when he was almost 13. The irony is that Francey never got around to singing the songs in public until he was 45 years old — and only when his wife, Beth, and some friends exerted great pressure on him. Since that first concert in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, he has recorded 11 albums, won Junos for two of them, and still works at a pace akin to his days when he was a manual labourer and carpenter. He released his latest album, Empty Trains, on Feb. 26, and when he arrives at The Bassment in Saskatoon on March 17, he will be well into a 60-day, 40-concert tour. On the phone from his home in Elphin, Ont., Francey recalled how the music has stuck with him since the early writing days. “I wrote the lyrics down, put them on tape, and I have a phenomenal memory for recalling them all,” he said. “The songs and words keep cycling in my head and I use them when I need them. Some of the material on the new album is part of that recycling process.” He said that when he finally consented to sing in public, it was at Township Days “and CBC Radio just happened to be there. They asked about my CDs. I said I didn’t have any. They asked if I wanted to make one, and that was the beginning of it all.” His first was called Torn Screen Door. His second was Far End of Summer and it won a Juno for him in 2002. Another CD, Skating Rink, won him a second Juno in AS031420 2004. He quitAaron the construction work after the second
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award and has written and performed ever since. “I enjoy hearing lyrics come to life. Some of the songs on this latest CD have been waiting a long time to be born.” In the current album, Mirror Ball reflects the lonely, faceless patrons of a Yukon night club. Hospital tells the stories of patients who might get home but are never sure whether they will. Crucible tells the stories of working class heroes like sailors, signallers and stokers, and Blue Girl is about women seeking to escape their circumstances through the sex trade. “The last album was recorded in a rustic setting at Belmont Lake near Havelock in Ontario,” said Francey. “We rented two cabins for nine days. We lived in one, recorded in another. I didn’t go in with any pre-conceived notions. The music spoke for itself. My long-time collaborators — Mark Westberg, Chris Coole and Darren McMullen — were there and we waded through a big stock of song sheets to make the choices. “I don’t go looking for certain images. But I keep my eyes open, my mind open, and usually something good will come out of that kind of a process. The subjects of the songs have to be some things that move me,” said Francey, who worked in the Toronto rail yards, the Eastern Townships’ construction sites, two years in the Yukon bush and hitchhiked across Canada at least three times before concerts became his calling. His songs have been covered by the Del McCoury band, the Rankins, the Barra McNeils and Tracy Grammer and his Skating Rink video has aired several times on Hockey Day in Canada. He’s been the subject of Burning Bright, a nationally-televised documentary, and has gone abroad to the prestigious festivals like Tonder in Denmark and Port Fairy in Australia.
David Francey is performing at The Bassment on March 17 (Photo Supplied) He’s been to Saskatoon before: “Once at the Broadway Theatre, another time in Lydia’s Loft on Broadway and the last time at The Bassment,” he said. “It is a lovely room and I know the entertainers like it. Although it is labelled as a jazz room, I appreciate it is also known as a home for the roots artists. We know we occupy a small piece in the market and we just want to play. If I’m not working regularly, I can be unhappy.” Westberg will be playing guitar and Coole will be playing banjo and guitar on this trip into Saskatoon.
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The Saskatoon Council on Aging and Caregiver Information and Support presents: Caregiver Forum 2016. MARCH 15-16 MARCH 14 & MARCH 17 Venue: Emmanuel Baptist Church (1636 Acadia Drive, Return to Grace traces the success of Elvis Presley, from Design your dream yard, presented by Gardens Four back entrance). 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tickets: $20 (includes early days at Sun Records to his classic televised specials, Seasons. Classes from for five consecutive weeks from both lunch). many stops along the way from the man who changed start dates. There are morning and evening sessions from rock and roll. There is a cast of over 30 performers, which to choose. For more information, call Denise at 306- APRIL 3 The Friends of the Forestry Farm House, annual general including dancers, gospel singers, horns and string and 244-0049 or visit gardensfourseasons.com (classes). meeting, 12:30 p.m. at the Superintendent’s Residence, rhythm sections. Show time is 7:30 p.m. TCU Place. MARCH 17 Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo. Complimentary Tickets - $49. Saskatoon Nature Society’s monthly meeting, 7:30 Biology lunch at 12:30, followed by our AGM and coffee. Everyone MARCH 16 lecture theatre Room 106 at the U of S. Open to members welcome. For more information call Bernie at 306-249Concert for Hope’s Home. Mayfair United Church (902 and non-members. For more information, visit www.saska1315 or e-mail Bernie.fffh@sasktel.net. 33rd Street West). Phone 306-382-6446 for information. toonnaturesociety.sk.ca. APRIL 8, 9 Tickets available at McNally Robinson and Co-op Food March 17 - 20 Watermarks Art Show & Sale April 8 from 7.30 p.m. to 10 Stores. Tickets are $20 and $25 at the door. Featured The Warman Scared Scriptless Players annual dinner p.m. and April 9 from 10 a.m. tol 3.30 p.m. New work by performers are Stephen Maguire, Codie Prevost and Jay theatre production takes place at the Brian King Centre (202 20 artists at the Luther Riverside Terrace (915 SaskatchSemko. 8th Ave. North) in Warman. Tickets are $40. Doors open at ewan Cres. West. Free admission MARCH 17 5 p.m., supper at 6 p.m. on March 17-19. Doors at 3 p.m., APRIL 15-17 David Francey, the Scottish-born singer and songwriter, supper at 4 p.m. on March 20. Please call Dorothy at 306- Artists’ Workshop: 26th Annual Art Show and Sale at introduces the works from his new album, Empty Train, in 978-1339 for more details. Grace Westminster Church Auditorium ( 505 10th St. East) the company of Mark Westberg on guitars and Chris Coole April 15, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., April 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., MARCH 19 on banjo and guitar. Show time is 8 p.m. The Bassment, Hindu Society of Saskatchewan (HSS) is celebrating its 31st and April 17, noon to 4 p.m. Participating artists are Vir202 4th Avenue North. Tickets - $25 for SJS members, Annual Vegetarian Banquet at Prairieland Park in Saskatoon. ginia Beaubier, Margaret Bremner, Bobbi Clackson-Walker, $35 for non-members. University of Saskatchewan Chancellor Blaine Favel will be Kathryn Green, Lorraine Khachatourians, Val Miles, Paige Mortensen,Valerie Munch, Gail Prpick, Kathleen Slavin and MARCH 18 the guest speaker along with Acharaya Jayagi Muzumdar Marilyn Weiss. For further information, visit https://artTrent Freeman, Ivonne Hernandez, Karmnel Sawitsky and from Chinmaya Mission in Vancouver. For more informaEric Wright push their stings talents to the limits with The tion, email hindusocietyofsaskatchewan@gmail.com or visit istsworkshop1.wordpress.com and www.facebook.com/ artistsworkshopsaskatoon. Fretless, a Toronto-based band which takes a fresh apsaskatoontemple.net. ***** proach to folk music. Show time is 9 p.m. The Bassment. ***** Prairie River Artists annual Art Show & Sale. Albert ComTickets - $22 for SJS members, $27 for non-members. Sixth Annual Music for Mutts Charity Benefit Concert for New Hope Dog Rescue, generously hosted by the Saskatoon munity Centre. April 15 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., April MARCH 19 16 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and April 17 from noon to 4:30 Academy of Music (629 – First Ave. North). The evening Toronto saxophonist, composer and arranger Allison Au features musically diverse performances by the Saskatoon p.m. Wheelchair accessible. Free admission. For more returns with Todd Pentney on piano and Dan Fortin to play Academy of Music teachers and students, and a silent auc- information, call 306-343-9721. some originals and reworkings of favourite jazz standards. tion. Doors open at 6:30 pm, with the concert starting at 7 Show time is 8 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets - $20 for SJS p.m. Tickets are available at Saskatoon Academy of Music, members, $25 for non-members. Paws ‘n Train, or by calling 934-2424. MARCH 20 ***** EVERY MONDAY Easter Ham Supper: Sittings at 4:30 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 6 p.m., Want a chance to develop and practice your French & The University of Saskatchewan Greystone Singers and and 6:30 p.m. at St. Martin’s United Church, 2617 Clarence English communication & leadership skills in a welcoming, the University & Community Chorus will be presenting their Spring Concert at 3 p.m. at Knox United Church. Ad- Ave. South. Menu includes ham, scalloped potatoes, hot mission at the door is $15 for adults and $10 for students vegetables, salads, pie and beverages. Adults $14, children 5-10 years $6 and children under five free. For tickets call and seniors. Reception to follow. 306-343-7101 or 306-343-1963. MARCH 26 ***** Amati Quartet — 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Knox United St. George’s Easter tea & bake sale from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Church. Guest artist: Godwin Friesen – piano. For more St. George’s Cathedral Auditorium (210 Avenue M South). information, visit www.amatiquartet.usask.ca. For tickets, Adults $3, 6-12 $2 and 5-under free. call 306-384-7727.
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APRIL 1 Resurrection: music from the Ukrainian sacred choral tradition, 7:30 p.m. at Knox United Church. More than 50 professional and amateur singers from Canada and Ukraine will be featured. Tickets: $30. They are available for online purchase at www.onstagedirect.com/axios, by email at info@resurrectionalliturgy.com or by calling 1-780-906-1549. For more information, visit www.resurrectionalliturgy.com.
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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.
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.
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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would certainly appreciate the added length and the addition to foot and leg room. Any time you want to make a car more fun to drive or feel solider (is that really a word?), all engineers need to do is stiffen the chassis. For 2016 the Cruze is 27 per cent stiffer which provides a stiffer platform to hang the suspension off, which in turn allows for better calibration of shocks and springs. That in turn keeps the car from squirming under acceleration and/or braking. This allows for some suspension components to be made from aluminum, which is part of why the overall weight of the 2016 Cruze is 113 kilograms lighter than the 2015 model. Call it the cascade effect: make a change and the results can be surprising. A sedan isn’t the only model of Cruze you can buy. There is a hatchback version and the trim levels are pretty much standard Chevrolet running from the L to LS and on to LT with the Premier at the top. Somewhere in the mix is the slightly sportier and more expressive RS. You can also expect
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t is March and Easter is sneaking up on us. That means it is time to do a little Cruzing, over to the Draggins Rod and Custom Car Show that has been a hallmark of the Easter weekend in Saskatoon for more than 50 years. Not bad for a bunch of Petrol Heads! With that in mind, it seems fitting that the Chevrolet Cruze should be the car under scrutiny this month. Introduced in 2009, the Cruze has started to grow up. This year (2016) the Cruze sedan is 68 mm longer and 25 mm lower, while Autozone maintaining the same width. Add in a steeper windshield rake and the car now has a noticeably sleeker look and a Cd (coefficient of drag) of .29 which is real good for any sedan. With the improved aerodynamics comes a small change in the power train. A 1.4-litre turbocharged four with direct injection and 153 horsepower may sound similar, but under the valve cover is nearly an all-new engine making the best use of cylinder and combustion technology that Chevrolet can.
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recirculation and even better fuel economy. Both systems allow the computer to control both the timing of the opening and closing of the valve as well as the total amount of lift, which in turn controls the charge of air into the engine cylinder. Both power and efficiency are improved, with the 1.4-litre engine putting out 160 horsepower and 184 ft. lbs of torque, while the 2.4-litre engine has 180 horsepower and 175 ft. lbs of torque without using a turbocharger. While the smaller engine is coupled to a conventional manual transaxle, the 2.4-litre MultiAir engine gets a ninespeed automatic transmission. That many
speeds allow a low gear ratio for quick acceleration from a start and smooth shifting between gears. Four overdrive ratios improve fuel economy while keeping engine speeds low for reduced noise and vibration. While this is and looks like a small crossover vehicle, it drives and feels inside like a much larger vehicle. There is much more for technology “beneath the shine” of this compact vehicle, including Forward Collision Warning-Plus, LaneSense Lane Departure Warning-Plus and Blind-spot Monitoring, but those will have to wait till another time or until you try one out for a test drive.
Ford SYNC getting better with age Jim Kerr Saskatoon Express hen Ford introduced SYNC on the 2008 Focus, it started a revolution in connecting mobile electronics to its vehicles. Using Bluetooth wireless connection technology, SYNC connected up to six different cell phones to the vehicle and enabled the use of the phone’s address book, music library and texting. Voice command was an integrated part of the system. Other connectivity systems are now available on some vehicles, such as Apple Carplay and Android Auto, that connect phones to the car, but SYNC has continued to evolve. Now Ford is offering the latest version: SYNC 3. SYNC 3 was first offered on the 2016 Ford Escape and Fiesta and is expanding to other Ford and Lincoln products. It may still be called SYNC, but SYNC 3 is a completely new system that offers many easier AS031421 Aaron to use features.
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SYNC 3 development started more than three years ago with research in Dearborn, Michigan. Systems from other manufacturers were studied and the Ford engineers worked with the public to see what they used, what they wanted and what they expected. Using a new capacitive touch screen display, the SYNC system responds almost instantly to the touch of a fingertip. Voice recognition is also much better and faster as well. As features are added to new SYNC systems, SYNC 3 can be updated easily via WiFi in your driveway once the vehicle is set up for your home WiFi or updated with a USB memory stick. Automotive touch screen operation has different requirements than other touch screens we may use. The Human Machine Interface, usually referred to simply as HMI, is how we connect with the things we use, and a good automotive touch screen must allow the driver to locate the point on the screen and touch it easily without tak-
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ing their eyes off the road for more than a glance. To do this, the “clutter” of information on previous systems was reduced and only the needed information is shown on each screen. The icons were made larger and use graphics or symbols that we are already familiar with from other devices such as cell phones. Improved icon spacing and the use of better colour definition allows quick identification of what and where to touch on the screen. Drivers also wanted the system operation that was familiar, and the most well-known interfaces we use every day are our cell phones. SYNC 3 uses common gestures such as pinching, swiping to change displays and zoom in or out. The home screen features three zones — navigation, audio and phone. Phone contacts can be easily looked up with a swipe of a finger to scroll through the alphabet and names and addresses can be searched in a “one-box search,” similar to using the search feature on a computer browser.
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details and exclusions. ➤3.49% lease financing for up to 60 months available through SCI Lease Corp. to qualified customers on applicable new 2016 models at participating retailers. SCI provides all credit approval, funding and leasing services. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. Example: 2016 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 (25A) with a Purchase Price of $32,995 leased at 3.49% for 60 months with a $0 security deposit, $0 down payment and first month’s payment due at lease inception equals 60 monthly payments of $369 with a cost
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