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as changing weather conditions inevitably make a fire happen. “It is a job like no other, let me tell you,” said Flinton, who stands a fit 5-foot7. “It was often what kept me in shape in the summer. “I worked with an awesome group of guys. I am just very much a team person, and I worked for a unit crew, which is a 20-man crew. “It is very team-like. I really enjoy it. It is a totally different team, but I learned a tonne. It is good money. It is exciting. It is a rush for sure.” When she graduates with her Agricultural and Bioresources degree from the U of S, Flinton will return home to work her fifth straight summer as a forest firefighter. This time when she leaves, she won’t be coming back to Saskatoon. She is returning home to a promotion as a squad boss, which means she will be leading her own crew. Flinton, who turns 23 in early April, will also be closer to her family and settle down with her boyfriend Tye Moses, who is also a forest firefighter from Williams Lake. Flinton met Moses when she was age 10 and he was 11, and he lived with her in Saskatoon for the past two hockey seasons. As strange as this sounds, Flinton said forest firefighting is quite safe. She said crews in Canada are very systematic when it comes to fighting a forest fire, which often involves establishing a control line at the back end of a fire or off to the side of a fire. That being said, Flinton said there are Julia Flinton is ready for a challenging career fighting forest fires in her home province of B.C. (Photo by Darren Steinke) dangerous scenarios. Her most chaotic exDarren Steinke games team, the Huskies all-time career “I just had so much success. I went to perience came last summer, which was an Saskatoon Express assists leader with 66 helpers and fourth five national championships, and not a lot extremely busy forest firefighting season ulia Flinton is looking forward to liv- all-time leading scorer with 80 points reof people go at all. I’ve won a national in B.C. ing one exciting life instead of two. corded during 131 regular-season games. championship with my midget team (in One day, she found herself part of a For the past five seasons, Flinton was The brilliant skater was also a key 2011), and that was amazing. thrown-together squad of five people – a star offensive defender for the University contributor to the Huskies’ Canada West “I’ve won CanWest with this team, and including her boyfriend Moses – that went of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s hockey championship victory and bronze medal nothing will ever compare to that. I am out to save a group of cabins. team. In late February, her Huskies career win at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport happy with everything that has happened.” The group of cabins were beside a lake came to an end after a 2-1 heartbreaking championship tournament in 2014. She In Flinton’s life, Huskies hockey only and a road separated them from two other loss to the University of Manitoba Bisons was named to the tournament all-star team occupied her time for eight months of the structures and the forest. When Flinton’s in the fifth overtime period of a seriesat nationals. year. During the four off-season months, crew arrived, they encountered a fire comdeciding Game 3 in the opening round of Having also spent two seasons in ban- she returned home to Williams Lake, B.C., ing out of the forest that was as tall as a the Canada West playoffs. tam and three seasons in midget AAA with to work as a forest firefighter. streetlight pole. Flinton leaves the Huskies as arguably the Notre Dame Hounds in Wilcox before Those who have just lived on the “You could feel the heat through the the greatest blue-liner the team ever had. joining the Huskies, Flinton is ready to put Prairies might not be able to appreciate truck,” said Flinton. “We got out to help, She was a first-team all-Canadian this past her hockey playing days in the past. how forested Flinton’s home province is. and there were air tankers flying around. season, a two-time Canada West first team “I am just so satisfied with what I have ac- Flinton’s father worked as a forest fireNormally during air tanker drops, you are all-star, was a second-team Canada West complished in my career,” said Flinton. “That fighter for a number of years, and you can not anywhere near it. You evac. all-star once, a member of Canada’s FISU is why I feel like it is OK to hang them up. make a living in that profession in B.C., (Continued on page 6)

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t was during the noon hour on June 23, 2015, when Mark Melymick, a professor and co-ordinator of Performing Arts at Sheridan College in Toronto, received a telephone call no parent ever wants to get. His son, Lee, 20 years old at the time, had just fallen 20 feet off a scaffold while working parttime for a window and eavestroughcleaning company, and was seriously injured. Lee suffered a spinal cord injury, went through three People operations, spent 70 days in a trauma hospital and is now paralyzed from the waist down. The determined young man, who has his heart and mind set on regaining the use of his lower body, has a tough challenge in front of him. The Melymicks, Mark and Terry, come from strong Saskatchewan roots. Mark grew up in Saskatoon, attending Brunskill elementary school, Nutana Collegiate and then the University of Saskatchewan from 1977 through 1981. He earned a Bachelor of Education degree, with majors in English and drama. Terry Haubrich grew KK041817 Karen

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10 things you really notice about home when you get back from, say, Mexico

ews item: Saskatoon, never heard another car, all evening. Saskatchewan, Canada is It was wonderful. remarkably different from • Noise. Did I mention they never Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. turned off the highway behind our Sure, you may think we have condo? There was also perpetual plenty in common: people, food, construction in front of our place, alcohol, beaches, currency, sunshine. except Sunday. Sometimes, I felt But don’t be fooled. like I was having dental surgery by Take the sunshine, for example. proxy. I must say the once-perpetual It comes up every morning (at this oompah music was considerably less time of year) at about 8:15 a.m. It pervasive and not as loud as it was sets at about 8:15 p.m. In Saskatoon, the last time we visited. I think the Columnist we get morning sun by about 6:15, North American tourists must have and it lasts until about 8 p.m. whined, loudly enough to be heard So, we get nearly two more hours of sun, yet over the big stereos. it’s not nearly as warm as it is in PV – and it’s • Currency. The peso is a multi-coloured easier to sleep in. Is this fair? I think not. creature, much like Canadian money, but also a PV also has about 250,000 people – quite sim- multi-sized currency. Not only can you tell one ilar to Saskatoon’s population. Don’t be fooled by peso from another by colour, but also by feel, if that, either. Each year, another 3.7 million people you are so inclined. Too cool. hit town – 2.2 million of those domestic, and the • Tequila. There is, without a doubt, more rest of them foreign. Some days, it feels like all of tequila in downtown PV than in all of Canada. them are on the beach or on the Malecon. • Ocean. Not unlike the traffic, they never turn The thing that amazes me every (rare) time that thing off. (Holy cow, it is so beautiful.) We we get out of the country is how bizarre it is don’t have one, but we do have a very nice river. to be in a completely, utterly different place • Frozen ponds and lakes. If you have ever within five hours (in the case of the west coast of seen the Pacific Ocean, you’ll know it hardly ever Mexico, anyway.) It’s incredible. The airplane’s freezes. Salty, you know. Flying home, you could door opens and woosh, in rushes in the warm, still see ice on the little bodies of water around humid, crazy air. If it’s that close, how can it be Saskatoon. so different? • Mosquitoes. In April. What? Yep, we will Oh, but it is. For instance: suffer here later, but I wasn’t ready for the little • Sidewalks. There aren’t any in PV. Actually, blood suckers. Indeed, I’ve never before seen a there aren’t any on Eastlake Avenue south of mosquito on that coast; this time, I got eaten and Eighth Street, either, but at least there are streets never felt a thing . . . until the pain and itching you can navigate. The sidewalks in the old town kicked in. Take Off. No really, take some Off. are narrow, crumbling, and occasionally terrify• Flowers. Foliage. The red and pink flowers ing; the cobbled streets are not better. Ask my and the verdant tropical plants were in sad contrast knees. They are bloodied, bruised and aching. to the brown and dusty home front. Sigh. Summer No tequila involved, either. is coming, though. Traffic. I hate rush hour in Saskatoon as • Hills. Make that mountains. Our condo was much as the next guy, but PV is one long advertised as only two flights of stairs from the perpetual crazy rush hour. They never did turn beach. They neglected to mention that each flight off the highway behind our condo. After we got was about five storeys high. I now have thighs home, in 10 minutes from the airport (traffic of steel. This did remind me that I am, indeed, a JW041802 very light on James the south freeway at 7 p.m.), I flatlander. Love Mexico; glad to be home.

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(Continued from page 3) ick said it took him two years to get to the same point where Lee was at in two months. Certainly Lee makes our life easier with his positive attitude.” Today, Lee is playing wheelchair basketball three times a week. He made Team Ontario in the under-23 class and has been invited to try out for the national under-23 team. Many of the medical costs have been covered by the Workplace Safety Insurance Board, but there have been many other costs, including the home renovations to make all rooms accessible by wheelchair and other household benefits which can give Lee a stronger sense of independence. There have been suggestions about future treatment with stem cells, some akin to the treatment that hockey great Gordie Howe received, but Melymick doesn’t see something “on the doorstep at the present time.” The rallying call for the Stand By Lee campaign is borrowing some of the words the famous Ben E. King song, Stand By Me. Its revised lyrics go like this: “When the night has come, and the land is dark, And the moon is the only light we’ll see, No I won’t be afraid, no I won’t be afraid Just as long as you stand, stand by Lee. Oh come on, come on, stand by Lee, oh stand by Lee Oh, stand, stand by Lee, stand by Lee” Mark Melymick will be in Saskatoon on April 23 and it will be like a reunion. While on campus, he performed

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y late Uncle Robert from our trap line back to the had a big impact on reserve. After several months, my life. Robert asked me what I liked For most of his life, he about being on the rez. I immeworked in the logging indusdiately said the indoor toilet. try – in the heart of the logging He then told me to never and the oil industries in Alberta. use the toilet during a lightning During a period known as the storm. I asked him why and he “spring breakup,” both indussaid if the lightning strikes the tries sometimes came to a halt lake, the electricity could make because the ground is nothing its way up the water pipes and but mud. When this happens, electrocute me. I believed him Columnist the giant machines get stuck. and I swear, to this day, I don’t This is when workers will get use the toilet during a lightning other jobs to get them by until the ground storm. is frozen again. Robert got one of the coolI also believed him when he told me est jobs. about snow snakes. He said these snakes He was one of the last milkmen in were pure white with pink eyes and lived Northern Alberta. He had the white uniin the snow. He suggested I always carry a form and the white truck. I was still a boy, stick to poke around. I told the other kids but the image of him in the awesome little about the snow snakes, and the next day I truck still sticks in my memory. One day was called to the principal’s office. Parents he asked me if I wanted to go with him on said their children were too scared to go one of his runs. There was no way I was to school because of the snow snakes. It going to miss the opportunity. His route was then I started to second guess Uncle was large, with the houses separated. Robert’s stories. Every time he would see the “M” on As I got older, he kept trying, but my the window, I would run and get the empty imagination wasn’t like it was as a boy. milk jars. Robert would keep track and I However, there is one story he got me would run back to the house with full milk with. jars. Thinking back, this is probably why He told me about great spaghetti trees. he asked me to come along – I was doing He said spaghetti grew on the trees, and all the work. The very first story he told farmers would cut down the spaghetti and me came on the ride home on the milk dry it before cutting it for market. Once truck. again, I envisioned a great spaghetti tree, “Did you know brown milk comes from where I would come along and slurp the brown cows?” he asked. spaghetti right off the tree. I was impressed with his knowledge of It’s been several years since Robert the milk industry. For years, every time passed away. I have to say he started me we passed a farmer’s field and saw brown on the path to become a storyteller. If he cows, I envisioned chocolate milk. This hadn’t worked in the logging industry was the first of many times he would get or what I thought was the best job in the me. world – being a milkman – I’m sure he When I was young, my family moved would have been a master storyteller.

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Killing in self-defence, robberies paint horrible picture of our city

Saskatoon Police Chief Clive ight now in Saskatoon, a Weighill has been pounding this mother of three children drum for years. In January 2013, is dealing with the fact after an intoxicated male died in she killed a man. police custody, Weighill made The Saskatoon Police Service it clear that a police cell was (SPS) has advised that the death no place for someone suffering of a man a few weeks ago in a from addictions or mental-health home on Preston Avenue — not issues. That person sobers up, far from Eighth Street — was thinks clearly about perhaps an act of self-defence. At some wanting to stay that way, and point around then is turned back onto the 1 a.m., a man broke into this Columnist street for the cycle to start all woman’s home, where she and over again. her children were likely sleepDale McFee, deputy minister of Correcing, and did something to her that drove her to kill him in order to defend herself and her tions and Policing, responded in the media, acknowledging the problem, stating that it family. In Canada, you don’t just get to kill peo- is crucial to intervene at what he called “the ple for breaking into your house. If you want tipping point.” “Part of reducing crime is looking at the actual letter of the law, talk to a lawyer; underlying issues, and those underlying but my understanding is that your attacker basically has to be about to kill you, and you issues of course include mental health and can’t escape, for you not to be charged with addictions,” McFee said. Last week the City of Prince Albert homicide. She lived, as did her children, and for that released its admirable, but kind of pointless, strategy for dealing with the staggering I’m sure she’ll be forever grateful. Killing levels of alcoholism that run rampant in that a person, however, is not something from city, where 45 per cent of the arrests police which you just bounce back. make every day are for public intoxication. As that poor Saskatoon mom takes her Regina has had the consistent, dubious first steps down the road to dealing with the trauma she endured, somewhere on the other honour of being one of the most murderous, side of city is a man telling his family in Lehore, Pakistan, not to come here, because it’s not safe. Yes, “Don’t move to Saskatoon, because Pakistan is safer” is the gist of Hamid Khan’s message to his family living in a country which measures its crime rates in units of suicide bombers and terrorist attacks. The United States Government’s Overseas Security Advisory Council has rated Lehore’s terrorism and political violence levels as critical, but Khan cannot wait to get out of Saskatoon and back home. Let that sink in. Saskatoon moms should not have to kill to protect their children. Immigrants should not be fleeing Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada in a desperate attempt to get back to their home countries. OK, this is probably the first mom in Saskatoon to ever have to kill to protect her children. I’d be relatively certain that most immigrants to Saskatoon have not had quite the extreme experience, nor desire to return, that Khan has had. That doesn’t negate, however, the atrociousness of either situation, or the necessity to examine what exactly is going on here. Life Insurance According to Saskatoon police, armed Living Benefits robberies are up a whopping 34 per cent in Saskatoon. 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When things get bad, we look for who to blame. It’s human nature. This one seems obvious: mental health Walter Klassen: Owner and addictions support in Saskatchewan is sorely lacking. A recent Globe and Mail 109A 2103 Airport Dr. story dubbed Calgary as the “gateway” to Saskatoon SK S7L 6W2 the rest of Canada for fentanyl, which is rampaging the streets. Saskatoon is one of its first stops. Addicts are desperate for a fix, not just of fentanyl, but any number of drugs, 306-717-0748 and resort to any means necessary to get it — including armed robbery. wally.keystoneinsurance The young man killed as an act of self@gmail.com defence was described by his parents as a suffering addict, though they felt he had been recently sober.

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It makes dollars, but no sense to sell naming rights

e have had a timedecades of their lives suphonoured tradition of porting and building our naming our streets, library services. One of those parks, libraries and public mega-booksellers might be facilities after citizens and happy to throw a few bucks to service organizations that have get their corporate name and contributed to the history and logo on and in these facilities development of Saskatoon, and every library card issued. Saskatchewan and Canada since Maybe they could even swing its inception. The honour wasn’t a deal where all books have necessarily bestowed on people to be purchased through their or groups for donating money, corporation. Money talks! but for those giving of their How about those fire halls? Columnist time, skills, vision and hard There are nine of them identiwork for this city, province and country fied by number only, albeit dedicated to in order to accommodate the growth of a former fire chiefs. There are a number family-friendly place which would meet of fire damage and restoration services, the needs of its citizens. alarms, supplies and equipment compaFrom our rank and file, we have culled nies in this city that might pony up a little and recognized war veterans, athletes, coin to get their business name and logo businesspeople, artists, librarians, teachers/ on those buildings and trucks. Just think professors, scientists, activists, political of how easy it would be for a devastated leaders, coaches and service organizations homeowner when the firetruck rolls up to name but a few. It is our way of rein front of their house with the name and membering and saying thank you for your phone number of the company to call for contribution. repairs or restoration of their damaged But the times they are a-changing, and property. These businesses would be lining honorifics and traditions are giving way up to buy fire hall sponsorships. Show us to the almighty dollar. In addressing the the money! selling of naming rights for bridges, Coun. Our international airport should be Troy Davies asked, “Why do things the worth absolutely a gazillion dollars. Any way they’ve always been done?” Davies corporation, by example an insurance said we have to think outside the box. company, could have their corporate name OK, I’m out of my box. Tagging onto and logo on every boarding pass and travel Davies’ vision, why stop with selling itinerary worldwide. Safe travels, but just the names of bridges? How about our in case...sign up now for your travel insurlibraries? Did Frances Morrison, Alance and while you are at it, get the special ice Turner, Carlyle King, Cliff Wright, rate for life and home insurance. Besides, J.S. Wood or Rusty Macdonald pay a who even remembers John G. Diefenbaker thin dime to have their names attached much less what he contributed to SaskatchtoDC041804 our libraries? So what if they spent ewan and Canada? And the letters “YXE” Darlene

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keep us identified in the real travel world. Cash is king! Think of the streets, avenues, drives, crescents, parks, skating rinks and recreational centres up for grabs. I wonder what the naming rights for City Hall would generate. Or the police station. And I am confident that some eccentric Trump-like billionaire would happily feed his ego by buying naming rights to the city. Hell, we may never have to pay property tax again. (Of course that might mean City Hall would also have to stop its extravagant spending.) I thought about the directions I would have to give guests when coming to visit. If you are coming in off Highway 11 or 16, cross Costco Way and proceed west down Baba’s Best Perogies Drive until it intersects with Savory Asian Delights Street; pass through intersection and continue straight onto Big Donut Hole Drive (poor Baba couldn’t afford to buy the whole length of the road!) until it intersects with DD Lingerie Boutique Road; continue straight until you intersect with Quick Loans and Pawn Stores Street; cross the intersection and take on ramp to SGI Bridge; keep right and take first exit to Harry’s Bar and Grill Street; take first right-hand turn and travel west to Wally’s Way; turn right again and look for our house number. Sorry folks, my husband just got home and I have to crawl back into the box (he hates when I get too creative.) During the last decades, taxpayers paid for the majority of capital and operating costs of civic amenities, yet we will no longer identify those facilities as our own. Council is definitely not interested in curtailing spending and is politically antsy

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Saskatoon Express he Saskatoon Craft Guild is holding a show, sale and tea April 22 and April 23 at the Army Navy & Airforce Veterans building. It is the 75th anniversary of the guild. Dorothy Sadler has been a member for 29 of those 75 years and has enjoyed it all that time. Sadler was introduced to the guild when a neighbour invited her to a tea. Impressed with what she saw, she joined the next year. “Beautiful friendships are made,” she said. “There are many people who are still friends that have met at craft guild over the years.” She started out doing paper tole, then cross stitch and needlepoint, then Battenburg lace, and now quilting. She said members are encouraged to move to a different craft every two years. Sadler says making a quilt is about the journey — selecting fabric, colours and a pattern. Topping it off is the socializing during the process. “So many of us say the material gives birth in drawers, so we have to keep using it up. We are suckers for sales, too. We are always buying more

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Four of the 91 members of the Saskatoon Craft Guild are (left to right) Deb Farries, Colleen Konecsni, Dorothy Sadler and Betty Earle (Photo Supplied) fabric,” she said with a laugh. Among the other crafts in the guild are knitting, crocheting, smocking, rug making, creative stitchery and bobbin lace. The guild currently has 91 members. This marks the first time some of the work will be for sale. The show is typically a display and tea.

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Fashionable women can now play in a much larger Sandbox Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express very piece of clothing in The Sandbox in the City is hand-picked. Business partners and sisters Colleen Tait and Juanita Schindel try on everything before they purchase it. They say it sometimes drives their sales reps a bit crazy, but it is what they do to ensure they get the right clothing for their customers. Schindel said their buying isn’t brand driven, but rather fit driven. “People often ask us what brands we carry,” Schindel said. “It is more, can we fit you? When we do the buying, we try every piece on … every single piece.” She said there are lots of rules when they are buying: no itching, no binding, no ties and no wraps. “It has to feel good and it has to stretch.” After 10 years on Ninth Street, The Sandbox in the City moved into a new location — 616 Main Street — two months ago. The new space is bright and welcoming, and, at 3,000 square feet, twice the size of the previous location. “It has really come around to where we want it to be,” Schindel said. “We outgrew the space within three or four years of being there and this was in the works for quite a while to move somewhere.” That somewhere had to be on Broadway. “I think The Sandbox in the City has finally got her home,” Tait said. “I think she is finally here to stay. I don’t anticipate doing another location or franchising; none of that. We would lose the personal touch and that is why I think the store has been as DC041899 successful as it Darlene is. We show up every day;

Juanita Schindel (left) and Colleen Tait own The Sandbox in the City(Photo Supplied) we are here every day.” Tait said The Sandbox staff is known for a hands-on approach. They will work with their clients to find what looks best on them, she said. “We have enough to choose from so if it isn’t working, we have enough depth in the product to find something to work,” Tait said. “I think that is how we approach it, is that ‘this isn’t working for you, but let’s find something that will.’ That’s how we do it. It has always been our goal — if it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit.” The new space has high ceilings and large windows. Tait and Schindel worked with Kindrachuk Agrey Architecture to get the look and feel they wanted. For example, Tait said it was important that the change rooms be near the frontcentre of the store. “A lot of times stores will put you in the back and then you don’t get any help. Here it is very social. Other women love to see what each other are trying on and how it feels and fits. That was a key for us to have that.” The space allows them to host in-store

events. There is a walkway for fashion shows. The owners are known for their charitable work. Near and dear to their hearts is raising money for Alzheimer’s research. “That’s a big one for us,” Tait said. “Our mom has Alzheimer’s. I think when you do charitable events it has to mean something to you. … This is something we really enjoy doing. We get our closets cleaned out so everybody wins. And those funds stay in the city.” For the fundraiser, staff at The Sandbox and some customers donate gently-used clothing for others to purchase. Tait said the clothing is being sold for “garage-sale prices.” While it has only been open for two months, Sandbox has won an award for its window display. The contest was held by Desigual, a clothing brand carried in the store. A staff member jumped at the opportunity and the store won top honours in a Canada-wide competition. “We have a very creative staff,” Schindel said. “Everybody has their specialty and it all works together.” The store’s hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from noon until 4 p.m. For more information, call 306-955-6600 or visit sandboxinthecity.com. AS041819 Aaron

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He found out about Smoke’s Poutinerie through a newspaper. “I came across an article in the Globe and Mail about a poutine place that was taking the country by storm,” he said. “I thought, ‘Darryl, this might be our lucky chance for you and for me.’ And shortly after, we came across this opportunity.” It wasn’t that easy, of course. It took the partners more than two years to find a location. “From day one to year one, we were kind of bummed because every time a new location opened up on the lease front, we got so excited and would submit that lease and we were turned down. It was becoming a downer.” He said it would have been easy to give up, but they wanted to see the idea through. One day, after more than two years of waiting, their agent gave them good news. A location they previously wanted was available again. It was time to prepare to open Smoke’s at 307 21st St. East. “It has been the most amazing reception you could imagine,” he said. “Saskatoon is a big fan of poutine; we are a very, very busy store. There are crazy numbers that go in and out of this. Depending on the day, we could do upwards of 700 poutines in a day.” He said the restaurant’s primary demographic is the after-bar crowd and university students. (Contunued on page 17)

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Core Community Shines – 10x10 Art for viewing and bidding from now until May 12. ICM is the United Church’s community and social justice ministry. Sixty 10 X 10 canvases have been created by core neighbourhood artists, both professional and budding. This project gives voice and expression to a diverse group of artists from APRIL 21 Saskatoon’s core communities where peoples’ voices Alberta’s Calvin Vollrath is a two-time Grand North Ameri- aren’t always heard. Art can be viewed at Aka Gallery (424 can fiddle champion, a North American Fiddle Hall of Fame – 20th St. West), Amigos Cantina (632 10th St. East); Little inductee, writer of 475 sings and he composed five songs Bird-Patisserie & Café (238 252 Ave. B South); Underfor the 2010 Winter Olympic Games held in Vancouver. ground Café (420 20th St. West) and Void Gallery (312 Ave Appearing with him will be Clint Pelletier, formerly of B. South). Please visit Facebook 10 X 10 Art Celebration or Prince Albert, and multi-instrumentalist Lucas Welsh of call 306 653 2662 for more information. Meadow Lake. Show time is 8 p.m. The Bassment, 202 4th Avenue North. Tickets - $20 for SJS members, $25 for APRIL 18-21 non-members. Kiwanis Musical Theatre Festival. Lighthouse Victory Church (Rusholme Road) Sessions Monday and APRIL 2 Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 7 p.m.; Tuesday and Saskatoon’s Eileen Laverty will be introducing works from Thursdayat 1:30 p.m and 7 p.m. Silver collection at the her newest album, From This Moment, adding to an impres- door. Music students from Saskatoon will perform show sive collection which includes Ground Beneath My Feet and tunes, most will be in full costumes. Ages 6-26 will be Dancing Angels. She was an October guest of the Saskaperforming. toon Symphony Orchestra. She’s joined by Jesse Brown, Glenn Enns, Greg Hargarten and Corey Hildebrand. Concert APRIL 21 at 9 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets - $25 for SJS members, Saskatoon Nature Society’s monthly meeting. 7:30 p.m. $35 for non-members. Room 106 in the Biology Building at the U of S. Guest speaker is Kiel Drake. Non-members are welcome.

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details. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select 2016 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. †0% purchase financing available on select new 2016 models to qualified customers on approved credit through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. Example: 2016 Jeep Cherokee Sport with a Purchase Price of $26,995 with a $0 down payment, financed at 0% for 84 months equals 182 bi-weekly payments of $148 with a cost of borrowing of $0 and

available to eligible customers on the retail purchase or lease of select 2016 Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram or FIAT models at participating retailer and is deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. LIMITED TIME OFFER. Eligible customers are individuals who are currently leasing a Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, FIAT, or competitive vehicle with an eligible lease contract in their name on or before April 1, 2016. Proof of Registration and/or Lease agreement will be required. Trade-in not required. See your retailer for complete

Retailer may sell for less. **0% purchase financing available to qualified retail customers on all 2016 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, FIAT models except 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2016 Dodge Viper. 0% lease financing available to qualified retail customers on the following models only: 2016 Chrysler Town & Country, 2016 Jeep Renegade, Cherokee and Grand Cherokee, 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan Crew and RT and FIAT 500X. See your retailer for complete details. ^Lease Loyalty/Conquest Pull-Ahead Bonus Cash is

Wise customers read the fine print: **, ^, *, †, ➤, «, ≥, §, ≈ The Power of Zero Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating retailers on or after April 1, 2016. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,745) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees, other retailer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Retailer order/trade may be necessary.

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