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spectator-friendly. Beginning in July, the Saskatchewan Roughriders will release grandstands, with 4,000 individual seats, as well as the six press boxes and suites, from their former facility in Regina to the Saskatoon field. Installation of the individual seats will start on the east side of the field during the summer and fall, with installation on the west side to be done by May or June 2018. The spectator phase of the project will cost about $10 million, of which $4 million has already been raised. Members of the public will be able to choose and put their names on their own seats. Marciniuk considers his role “a labour of love” and on Feb. 8 at TCU Place, he will be honoured as the Kinsmen Sportsman of the Year, an award which is bestowed upon individuals by those who have been recipients in the past. Marciniuk has been with Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools for 32 years. His path in life has been driven by the values of growing up in a rural town and then embracing the values of urban life when he moved to Saskatoon for the final year of high school. “My father, Dan, was a teacher and principal in Hafford. My mother, Olga, was also a teacher and homemaker. She died when Johnny Marciniuk said his role in rejuvenating Saskatoon Minor Football Field has been a labour of love. I was 13 and it was a horrible loss. A year (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) after her death, my father moved the family to Saskatoon. There were three of us and we all got the opportunity to go to the University of Saskatchewan,” said Marciniuk. A brother, Larry, went into education and has just retired after being principal at Cold Lake, Alta. A brother, Darcy, is a specialist in internal medicine and his wife, Carla, is Ned Powers on Spikes program, up through minor foot- cility. All on the board play voluntary roles. also a doctor; two children, Tanya and JefSaskatoon Express ball and high school football to tenants like “I cried when the last piece of green frey, have followed in their footsteps. hen the Saskatoon Minor Football Saskatoon’s junior Hilltops and Saskatoon turf was put down. I’m still moved by it Marciniuk received his degree in physical Field opened in September 2014, women’s champions, the Valkyries. all. When Field Turf completed the job on education in 1984, his degree in education it was like opening the floodgates “Our dream was one of heavy participa- the area 185 yards long and 90 yards wide, a year later, and was hired immediately to for youngsters who had never played the tion when we started the conversion of the they told us it was the largest field they had teach at Bishop James Mahoney. He was game before. Gordon Howe Bowl,” said Johnny Marbuilt anywhere in the world. That’s what we soon named on a full-time basis at the central The user-friendly numbers are unbeliev- ciniuk, a founding member of the Friends wanted. On any given Saturday in football office to direct physical education, health and ably high: 1,600 hours of usage for 6,000 of The Bowl. He is still active on its board season, we can have eight minor football athletics programs and manage environmenparticipants annually, with the ages ranging of directors and the co-ordinator of almost games going at the same time.” tal centres at Blackstrap and Eagle Creek. from three- and four-year-olds in the Tykes every event which is played at the new faThe next step in the vision will be (Continued on page 5)
Johnny Marciniuk
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