Saskatoon Express, May 15, 2017

Early Bird & NIGHT OWL

SPECIAL!

HOURS OF OPERATION 8 am - 9 pm Monday - Friday 8 am – 6 pm Saturday • 9 am – 5 pm Sunday

15 OFF

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 1

$

ANY OIL CHANGE WITH COUPON

VALID ONLY AT THESE LOCATIONS 1702 8th St. • 705 22nd St. • 3330 8th St.

Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper

COUPON EXPIRES MAY 22 2017

Volume 16, Issue 19, Week of May 15, 2017

It takes guts Bodybuilder raises awareness of Crohn’s, colitis Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express itness advocate Denise Kominetsky has been ill for as long as she can remember.

As a child, she was often hospitalized for “stomach cramps.” In her teens, she made excuses when she was feeling sick – she thought she was too active in school, she stayed up too late, or she worked too hard.

Eventually, Kominetsky’s illness could not be explained away or ignored. At the age of 19, after numerous lab tests and a colonoscopy, she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. The diagnosis was later changed to Crohn’s colitis, a form of Crohn’s disease that affects the colon.

Kominetsky, who works as a licensed practical nurse (LPN), remembers being “very sick” for years after she was first diagnosed.

“I have been hospitalized a few times, on heavy doses of antibiotics and corticosteroids, and started on immunosuppressants that dropped my white blood cell count and hemoglobin levels. That resulted in the requirement of two blood transfusions,” she said.

“I had to take a three- and six-month leave from work due to being so ill and being on such heavy doses of medications. I suffered from terrible insomnia – a side effect of one of the medications I was on. I literally would sleep an hour a night and remember feeling so tired I could claw my eyes out of my head. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.

(Continued on page 16)

F

TA051525 Tammy

& P U K C PI ERY V I L E D

Denise Kominetsky says fitness has helped her manage Crohn’s colitis.

(Pink Elephant Photography.com)

RHINO REPAIR

SMALL ENGINE SPECIALIST We Service All Makes & Models

HSA 25

149

$

Battery Shrub Shears

95

2120 St. George Ave. Saskatoon • 306.477.2112

Saskatoon’s

“ONLY”

east side lawn & garden repair shop

DC051510 Darlene SASKATOON EXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 2

Ask the Expert

Park Funeral Home

by Arbor Memorial

Arbor Memorial Inc.

Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper

2310 Millar Ave, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4

Tel. 306-244-5050•Fax. 306-244-5053 Dale Brin – Publisher

publisher@saskatoonexpress.com

Dan Senick – General Manager dsenick@saskatoonexpress.com

Cam Hutchinson – Editor

chutchinson@saskatoonexpress.com

Advertising: ads@saskatoonexpress.com Editorial: editorial@saskatoonexpress.com Enquiries: general@saskatoonexpress.com The contents of this publication are the property of the Saskatoon Express. Reproduction of any of the contents of this publication, including, but without limiting the generality of the following: photographs, artwork and graphic designs, is strictly prohibited. There shall be no reproduction without the express written consent of the publisher.

All ads in the Saskatoon Express are published in good faith without verification. The Saskatoon Express reserves the right to refuse, classify, revise or censor any ads for any reason in its sole discretion. This paper may include inaccuracies or errors.

The Saskatoon Express does not under any circumstances accept responsibility for the accuracy or otherwise of any ads or messages in any of the publication’s editions.

The Saskatoon Express specifically disclaims all and any liability to advertisers and readers of any kind for loss or damage of any nature what-so-ever and however arising, whether due to inaccuracy, error, omission or any other cause. All users are advised to check ad and message details carefully before entering into any agreement of any kind and beDC051539 Darlene fore disclosing personal information.

None

0.125” all around

4 Colour Process

TYPE SAFETY:

COLOUR: Park Expert Ad - May 2017 - V2

NAME:

2.4”w x 7.86”h

Let’s enjoy the river, and other snippets from city hall AD SIZE:

Arbor Memorial

AM-13327

306-700-4114

DOCKET:

For more information, contact Greg Lalach, Manager:

Work continues on the Traffic Bridge. The bridge is slated to open in October 2018. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)

CLIENT:

Tip #2: Symbols and Rituals Love golf? There have been ceremonies where friends and family were all given golf tees upon arrival. They were then invited to place it in the vault.

BLEED:

How to start planning your own memorable service and celebration of life.

T

his and that from the city business districts. hall beat. (Note: I have • How ridiculous was it never covered a city to consider cancelling the council meeting, so the word commitment the city made to beat is a bit of a stretch. I have the U of S rink project? Good paid parking tickets at city thing Coun. Darren Hill pulled hall, though, and I did cover a his motion to retract the $3 couple of school board meetmillion at the last minute. I’m ings in the 1980s at the old guessing he couldn’t find the Gathercole Building.) swing vote he needed.

• Good for Mayor Char• Cutting down a number lie Clark for wanting to find of trees along the MVA Trail Editor ways to better use the river for was a bad idea. Good on Jake family fun during the summer.

Buhler, the mayor’s father-inPeople are already using the sand bars law, for being the only concerned citizen near the Circle Drive North Bridge and who spoke out about it at a city environpeople are streaming out to places like ment committee meeting last week.

Paradise Beach and Cranberry Flats. If • I still think council played a bit fast there are ways to use the river for safe and loose with the numbers when reportrecreation, let’s go for it. ing our property tax hike. Our residential • Before the civic election, council property tax increase was 2.55 per cent, decided the public shouldn’t pay for but the overall increase was 4.82 with the councillors’ tickets to attend various com- business included. But that’s not the story. munity events. Why was this reinstated The story is how we got hammered with after the election? Why did Mayor Clark a water rate hike of 9.5 per cent. That is and Coun. Anne Iwanchuk change sides more than the property tax increase. in 10 months?

• Business really took it on the chin • Did you know councillors are paid with a 10.34 city tax hike, a 10 per cent $54,646.25 a year? They also get a education tax increase and the 9.5 per cent $10,000 a year use-it-or-lose-it commuwater rate hike. Why aren’t business ownnications allowance and one-third of their ers picketing in front of city hall? remuneration is tax free. I’m not saying • Some cried murder with the 10 per we aren’t getting good value but this is cent education tax hike the province high by industry standards. slapped us with, but did you know the • No matter what council said, tax was decreased by almost 22 per cent increasing the fine for parking tickets between 2009 and 2013? During the from $20 to $30 was a bad idea, and is a other six years there was no increase or deterrent for drawing people to various decrease.

CAM HUTCHINSON

• When are we going to start paying for garbage pickup? It’s coming. (Please see Elaine Hnatyshyn’s column on this subject on Page 5) ***** There are few things better during the year in Saskatoon than the day when the trees take on that green sheen and then shortly after pop into full leaf. ***** From an alert reader named Win, after she read the Solutions column in last week’s paper: “Being an urban dweller, I really didn’t understand this tip. ‘If your horse won’t take his medication, stick it inside an apple.’ Do I stick the horse or the medication inside the apple?” As I told Win, I love these unless I am person making them or missing them in our editing process. ***** Thank you again to the Tran family for allowing me to tell the story of their five-year journey from war-torn Vietnam to Saskatoon. It has been great getting to know Kim, Tam and Van, as well as Tam’s husband, Brian, and Kim’s husband, Brett Maki. ***** We have tickets to give away for the Louisiana Hayride Show that will take place at the Broadway Theatre on June 9.

The show’s roots on radio and television go so far back that Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley were among the many notables to perform on it. To enter, email editorial@ saskatoonexpress.com. Please put “hayride” in the subject line.

Saskatchewan’s Largest Greenhouse Hanging baskets, planters, annuals, GORGEOUS HANGING BASKETS, PLANTERS, vegetables, Herbs, trees and sHrubs, TREES & SHRUBS outdoor furniture and garden accents

ON SALE!!

310 Valley Rd. • (306) 382-7352 • www.floralacres.ca • Mon to Sat 9am to 9pm, Sundays & Holidays 10 - 6pm

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 3

JW051507 James

Canada Remembers ARMED FORCES DAY Salute to Heroes Canadian Armed Forces Skyhawks Parachute Team | Ladies for Liberty | Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet Demonstration

June 10-11, 2017 • 17 Wing Detachment Dundurn 25 kms south of Saskatoon or 4.5 kms north of Dundurn, off HWY 11

GATES OPEN 11am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday • OPENING CEREMONIES 1pm

Adults/Students/Seniors - $20 ADVANCE PASSES REQUIRED • 12 and under - FREE Veterans & Spouses - FREE • Canadian Forces Members - FREE (with military ID)

ADVANCE PASSES ON SALE AT: Saskatoon Shell stations, Saskatoon Legion #362 (3021 Louise St.) and #63 (606 Spadina Cres.W.), 602 Lynx Wing-RCAF Assoc. (2407 Ave. C.N.,) Army, Navy & Air Force Veteran Association (359 - 1st Avenue) and Town of Dundurn Admin Office (300 - 3rd Avenue, Dundurn).

www.canadaremembersourheroes.ca

DUE TO CAPACITY OF 4,000 PER DAY, ADVANCE PASSES REQUIRED NO REFUNDS. THIS TRIBUTE IS A NON-PROFIT, VOLUNTEER PRODUCED PROJECT.

Fleeing Vietnam Tran family’s ordeal has a happy ending

Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express he Tran family landed in Montreal on Aug. 29, 1980, and were staying at a military base with 500 other boat people. Their welcome to Canada included getting rid of their clothes and being, as Kim Tran put it, “sanitized.”

It was five years after the end of the Vietnam War when the Trans arrived in Montreal. After Saigon fell, they joined hundreds of thousands of people trying to flee Communist rule in their country. Most of those people tried to escape on boats.

Between the end of the war and their arrival in Montreal, the Trans spent almost two years in prison on an island off the coast of Vietnam.

At the army camp in Montreal, the boat people were given pajamas to wear. They came in yellow, pink and mint green.

“You had 500 people walking around this army camp in pajamas, so it was quite funny,” Kim Tran said.

The Trans had no family in Canada, so the federal government picked a destination for them. It turned out to be Saskatoon.

“We had never heard of Saskatoon,” Kim Tran said. “We heard of Toronto and we heard of Vancouver and Montreal but we had never heard of Saskatoon.

“My dad (Phat Minh Tran) asked the fellow at the army base what is Saskatoon like and he said, ‘it’s really cold there. He said make sure you cover your ears because if somebody touches them, they will fall off.’”

The man was more descriptive than that, talking about how a male body part could fall off if exposed to the cold, she said with a laugh.

Those stories didn’t concern her father.

“He was optimistic,” DC051502 Darlene she said. “If people can live there, we can live there.”

T

Them Thi Tran and Phat Minh Tran’s children and their partners gather for a photo at the recent 70th wedding anniversary celebration for the Trans. (Photo by Lien Dinh) She laughed again when she continued the story.

“The first year we got here, my dad put screws on his boots to grab onto the ice.”

Suddenly 21 people were thrust into a new environment. Given what they had gone through, a bit of cold wasn’t going to deter them. Plus, they arrived in Saskatoon on Sept. 3, 1980, before winter set in.

The family checked into what was then known as the Colonial Motel and occupied four rooms.

Kim Tran said there were no services like the Open Door Society at the time.

“We were pretty much on our own. We were very grateful to be alive and to be here.”

There may have not been agencies to help, but Saskatoon being Saskatoon, people came forward.

One day, three members of the family – Khai, Tien and Nghai – walked to a nearby park and spotted two boys on bikes. They asked the two teenagers to come back to the motel for something to eat. In retrospect, Khai said the boys looked scared.

Khai, who was eager to learn English, brought out a book and a tape recorder and asked the boys to read the book into the recorder so he could better learn English.

The boys read the book, had some snacks and went home.

The boys shared their story with their parents, who in turn shared it with the congregation at Our Lady of the Lourdes Church. The story touched Jim and Sue Dosman, who were members of the church.

They got in touch with the Trans and became involved in their assimilation into Canadian culture.

The Dosmans were a godsend to the Trans. “Mrs. Dosman came and visited us and knew we really liked to go to school,” Kim Tran said. “She would come every morning with her baby and she picked seven of us up at the hotel and drove us to Caswell School.”

Sue Dosman says Kim is perhaps giving her too much credit, but she and her husband were happy to help. The two families have stayed in touch over the years. She said any help they gave the family has been reciprocated over the years.

“They all got into jobs right away. So pretty soon it was a case of them being very kind and reaching out to us when there were family celebrations. They didn’t forget we people who had known them in the beginning.

(Continued on page 14)

ALL CHECKOUTS OPEN Enjoy the fast lane. Saturday and Sunday 12-6 pm

• Fresh juice (made in-store daily) • Meals to go • In-store butcher

Andrey’s

Michael’s

Your Independent Grocer

Your Independent Grocer

Your Independent Grocer

30 Kenderdine Road, Saskatoon

315 Herold Road, Saskatoon

2815 Wanuskewin Rd, Saskatoon

306-343-3404

OPEN EVERY DAY 8am to 10pm

Dennis’

• In-store bakery • Wide variety of organic products • We support local producers

306-664-5033

306-249-9204

www.yourindependentgrocer.ca

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 4

Merci, people of France, for electing Macron

I

’d like to thank the people power, for one. (Not unlike of France, very, very much.

Trump, but at least Marcon has The election of Emmanuel policy experience.) He also Macron last week, with 66 per is up against June legislative cent of the vote, was a powelections, and it’s uncertain erful statement both for and how that will go: he may end against much of the right stuff. up with legislators who will Let’s start with against. defy him on his EU position, It appears that many voters among other policies. marked X for Macron to keep Another problem is that his opponent, Marine Le Pen, Macron was a close advisor out of power. Le Pen was ridof previous president François Columnist ing a populist wave on policies Hollande, who was so unpoputhat make many of us (and lar he didn’t even bother trying many French people, apparently) cringe. to run again. Macron is also likely on a Ultimately, hooray, she was defeated. collision course with France’s powerful Anti-immigrant Le Pen wanted to unions over labour reform. separate rights between those who were But, he wants to slim down the bureau“really” French and those who were, I sup- cracy substantially, which is probably not pose, less so. She wanted to hold a referen- a bad thing in a vigorously governed coundum on the European Union, following in try; and he also plans to spend money on the footsteps of the British and, methinks, training young people, which is definitely expecting a Frexit. And she loves Donald a good thing.

Trump.

It’s a short précis, but one sees hope in Macron, only 39, is a strong supporter his victory, that it’s not only Canada and of the European Union, which means Germany who are behaving more or less a supporter of free trade, among other sanely in this increasingly bizarrely nathings. He has tempered that position with tionalist, populist and right-wing world. I a buy-Europe-first policy, which might sense a shift to sense, and I hope I’m right. cheer up the nationalists who either voted Even Trump has backed down on killing for Le Pen, or held their noses and chose NAFTA. his name on the ballot.

I wonder, too, if the young and vigorThe immigration file is where he shines. ous Macron, who pursued a much older He’s in agreement with neighbouring Ger- woman and persuaded her to become his many on the refugee crisis, and willing to wife (aww), will give Justin Trudeau a run take in France’s share of the displaced. for his money on the selfie front. That sort Yet bumpy roads await Macron. He is of thing is usually positive for the public untested in the higher reaches of elected image.

Joanne Paulson

JW051504 James

***** The city wants to charge the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival $4,000 for foregone parking funds, as the festival moves its location to north of the Delta Bessborough from Friendship Park. Unsurprisingly, the festival asked city council to waive that fee.

In discussing this matter, Mayor Charlie Clark suggested city hall use a “wider lens” while assessing the issue, in light of the revenues brought into the city by said festival.

Indeed.

Furthermore, quite apart from the revenue generation point, it’s not the fault of the festival that they have to move their free stage site. It’s the fault of the construction of the new Traffic Bridge (which, of course, is a good thing. That being said, if we’d looked after the old one . . . but that’s water under, well, the bridge.)

I’m not going to be happy about the traffic constriction this is likely to cause, but it appears to be the only option. And it’s a city project that’s forcing the move.

Waive the fee, already. (Maybe it will already be done by this week.) ***** Ah, Brightenview. So inaptly named.

The company that pledged to build a multi-million-dollar mega-mall near Dundurn, thereby brightening the economic long-term view of that community, has done nothing and gone nowhere with the project in almost five years after buying the 100 acres it was supposed to sit upon.

Unsurprisingly, another project, in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, is also languish-

AS051515 Aaron

ing. That one was ostensibly worth $45 million, for something called a global development centre, whatever that is.

With obvious self-aggrandizement (apologies), I note that back in 2012 I wrote a rather scathing column about Brightenview and its crazy model for the Dundurn development. Why would businesses come from all over to shop at the mega-mall for countless home improvement and other products from Asia? How were they to get there? Could you see the jets landing in Saskatoon, co-ordinated with shuttle buses? Why wouldn’t they stay home and order online? Ridiculous.

Even though Brightenview has taken the Dundurn project off its website, CEO Joe Zhou says it’s not over. He just doesn’t have a timeline for it.

Now, Brightenview has broken ground on a global trade exhibition centre at Regina’s Global Transportation Hub, which will attract, they say, perhaps 300 Asian companies interested in trade. Well, the location is certainly better than Dundurn; I suppose it’s possible.

But all communities involved with Brightenview should keep a close eye on this company’s track record, and may I say dive as deeply as possible into its books to see if they have the funds. It might just be that Zhou and his people have a bright view of the future, without the focus to make it happen. Some might call that dreaming, which is pretty hard on the towns and cities dreaming of economic development that never happens.

We’ll see if anything actually happens in Regina.

146-1824 McOrmond Drive (University Heights Mall) 306-371-WINE (9463) AS051516 Aaron

Victoria Day Season Opening

The Apple Crate Café is now open.

Located at The Glen at Crossmount, 5 km south of Saskatoon on Lorne Ave (Hwy 219). It is the perfect place to enjoy lunch, dessert, or a refreshing glass of hard apple cider. Relax and watch spring unfurl.

OPEN DAILY Monday-Sunday 10:00-3:00 *Also open during Arts Barn classes

Phone 306-374-9872

Saskatchewan Railway Museum on the Pike Lake Highway Open Saturday to Monday 10 am to 5 pm

Call 306.382.9855 for details or check www.saskrailmuseum.org TA051517 Tammy

General Dentistry & Emergency Patients Welcome #20 Glen Road, Crossmount, SK www.theglenatcrossmount.ca

• • • • •

Dr. M. Goodman Dr. S. Mamer Dr. D. Rayner Dr. S. Brakstad Dr. K. Maedel

Book your appointment today!

306.978.6588 Bay 1-50 Kenderdine Road, Saskatoon, SK OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK

Call 306-244-5050

Mon-Thurs 8 am - 8 pm Fri 8 am - 4 pm Sat 9 am - 4 pm

TA051519 Tammy SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 5

I

What do we pay taxes for, if not garbage pickup?

wish the bureaucracy at city for recycling. Aside from hall would show residential returnable bottles, the glass is taxpayers half the concern not recycled. Where does it it shows for their beloved gargo? Is the commingled paper bage dump. collected actually processed The city is again exploring into quality recycled paper? options on how to reduce waste With a 9.5 per cent increase destined for the landfill. One in water rates (which is a option includes charging for disguised tax) will residents garbage pickup, which in turn continue to wash out their reraises the question, “what do cyclables before tossing them we pay taxes for?” into the bin? What happens Outside of police and fire to all the product that can’t Columnist services (which we hope not be recycled? Does it go into to use but recognize their necessity), it our landfill or is it trucked out to a private seems that each year civic services that landfill in Corman Park? used to be covered by our property taxes While city hall ponders ways to exare now converted to extra “special” des- pand the lifespan of the dump, what is its ignated taxes, increased fees and levies. long-term expectancy given the fact the A second option being considered is a city is anticipated to expand to a populamandatory compost program, although it tion base of over 400,000 people? Clearly, is unclear whether any proposed organic with more residents comes more garbage. bins will include kitchen and/or garden When council approved the construction waste. Where will all the organic material of the super-duper police station, it built go? I had a green bin for a while, which a facility to accommodate a much larger I used for garden waste and for which I city in the future. If the projected city paid an annual fee. I cancelled it when growth occurs, even with recycling and the city increased the cost by 30 per cent compost bins, how long can the current and reduced the service period. landfill handle the increased garbage?

Consideration is also being given If a charge for garbage pickup is to banning certain materials from the implemented, will it be a flat rate for all landfill, although no mention is made of households? If it is by weight, how will which materials would be banned. We residents be protected from miscreants already take paints, lacquers, batteries and loading up bins in the dark of night, passthe like to SARCAN for disposal and the ing the disposal costs onto unsuspecting city provides the occasional hazardous residents? household waste drop-off sites. If the city If a mandatory compost bin is imintends to ban other materials, outside of posed, where will the compost material hazardous waste, from the dump, where go? If the compost bins include garden will that refuse go? waste, will those residents who currently At a recent committee meeting, Coun. rake and bag leaves and debris from city Marin Loewen said these considerations trees be charged for disposing of waste will create controversy and that “In the from the city-owned urban forest? past, some of these programs that started According to the consultant’s report, out being quite contentious – and I am two-thirds of the annual waste taken to the thinking specifically recycling – but over landfill comes from businesses. Shouldn’t a period of time can become very beloved the focus be on businesses’ overuse of by residents and very valued.” the landfill, rather than imposing more I think there is some truth to that charges on respectful residential users? statement with respect to recycling, However, in so many instances, busialthough overstated. We would do well to nesses pay a private contractor to collect remember that the biggest issues around their garbage. Does the private contracrecycling were not about introducing tor take business waste collection to our recycling; they were about a commingled landfill? Do businesses like contractors/ versus dual collection program, the cost builders haul their construction waste to to residents and, most controversial, who our landfill? Better yet, do non-residents would be awarded the contract – Loraas of the city get to bring their waste to the Disposal or Cosmo Industries. city’s dump?

Perhaps it is time for an in-depth report Council has already shifted some of the on what happens to the material collected tax burden from commercial properties to AS051507 Aaron

ELAINE HNATYSHYN

STEEL & METAL INC.

residential property owners. Are we now expected to subsidize commercial waste disposal? I don’t want to pick on business, but there is only so much residential taxpayers can bear.

Mayor Charlie Clark commented that something more than a public open house should be done to collect feedback from residents on these issues and I agree with him. Nor will a random survey suffice.

Every resident in the city gets a water bill.

Maybe an insert in the bill inviting public response to specific proposals would be a fair way to have residents contribute to the discussion.

Council would do well to remember that many residents in this city got hit hard on reassessment this year. This was further compounded by the city’s mill rate increase, the tax shift from commercial to residential, the off-loading attributed to the provincial budget, utility increases and let’s not forget about the expanded and increased PST. The money tree is just about picked clean.

It is well and good to educate the public on good practices relating to waste disposal, but inevitably we are going to need a new landfill and it will be expensive.

Now might be the time to explore where it might be located and start long-term financial planning on how to pay for it. ehnatyshyn@gmail.com

We’re a one-stop shop with a full grocery & confectionary along with some of the best giftware in Saskatoon. Check out our Products page for a snapshot of what’s available!

May is Women’s Health Month

SiSU Menoease SiSU Thermoslim For Women 35-55 years Relieve Symptoms in 7 days

Add Thermoslim to diet and exercise to optimize your weight loss Increase metabolism & control sugar for optimal wellness

1302 Temperance St Saskatoon, SK DISPENSARY (306) 653-2922 FRONT STORE (306) 653-2505 FAXDarlene (306) 653-8046 DC051567

Premiere Saskatchewan

Nail Tech Course!

CALL FOR INFO

306.664.5004

1.877.664.5004

Diefenbaker Youth History and Governance Camps 2017

COURSE

STARTS June 4th July 24-28 – Shaping a Nation Aug.14-18–Canada on the Battlefield

Tell me and I will forget.

Show me and I may remember.

Involve me and I learn.

- Benjamin Franklin

SASKATOON CAMPUS

ACCREDITED NAIL TECH COURSE

GALLERY ESTHETICS SOURCE

& EDUCATION TRAINING CENTRE Learn more 306-966-8384 l www.usask.ca/diefenbaker

TURNING TODAY’S SCRAP INTO TOMORROW’S RESOURCES

Commercial bin service 12 or 20 yard containers available We recycle anything metal Best prices paid for items like copper, aluminum, brass and steel Free 24/7 metal, appliance, electronic and recycling drop off area

1920 Quebec Ave., Saskatoon

306-242-3669

WE CARRY A LOT MORE THAN JUST PILLS

email: bnmetals@sasktel.net www.bnmetals.com

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 6 think you could do that. I enjoy beer, but I didn’t think about who made it. It started there.”

A friend of a friend was working at a local brewery, and through that connection, she slipped through the door.

“For zero dollars, people will let you do a lot of stuff if you work for them. I got to volunteer at a brewery, and I was raking yeast (extracting yeast from a tank, gently) and pouring in hops and following people around and taking apart pumps.

“I thought, ‘if I do this for a few months before classes and I hate it, I just won’t continue. I’ll figure out something else.’ But I loved it. I thought, oh my God, I have to do this.”

Inspired, Butt headed off to Edinburgh, Scotland in 2006 to attend Harriet Watt University.

“I had found you can do a master’s degree in brewing and distilling. I thought, ‘this is incredible. How does everybody not know about this?’ So I did that and it changed my life. It was amazing.”

Armed with the second degree, Butt came back to Canada and landed a position with Labatt, which entailed moving all around the country.

“I learned so much at Labatt,” said Butt.

“They are so strict with quality and process control, and it’s incredible the precision with which these breweries can make beer. But that wasn’t what I got into the industry to do.”

An opportunity came up with the Boston Beer Company, and Butt was off to Boston New Great Western brewmaster Amanda Butt, pausing for a photo in the fermenting room, says there is magic in beer. to become part of the American craft beer (Photo by Joanne Paulson) revolution. Then the Great Western brewmaster’s job came up. Butt was intrigued by the brewery’s now well-known story — where 16 employees bought the plant when Carling O’Keefe decided to move out of Saskatoon.

Joanne Paulson of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, in an intering us, ‘what are you going to do after this?

“The story was super cool. I left big beer Saskatoon Express view a few days before she fully took the What fields are you looking at?’ Just being to get into craft, and then to hear about a Everyone loves beer, says Amanda Butt. brewing reins. really nice and wanting to help mentor,” she group of 16 guys who were like . . . we’re As someone recently said to her, “beer is the She didn’t see the magic, at first; or, to be said. buying the brewery, we’re going to keep it second easiest thing to give away, next to more accurate, didn’t see beer on her career “I really didn’t have a clue. I knew what I open. That’s cool, right? money.” horizon while she was pursuing a biochem- didn’t want to do. I knew I didn’t want to get “The beers were cool long before I got Butt, too, loves beer, but her relationistry degree at Memorial University in St. into medicine.” here. You’re making consistently good beer, ship with the beverage runs deep. The new John’s. That came up by chance, and profesNeither was she attracted to pharmacy; you have all your ducks in a row, people brewmaster at Great Western Brewing Co. sorial intervention. and, she thought, she didn’t want to work in know what they’re doing. And Viv is here.

Ltd. describes beer as complex, unstable, and “I was in university and we were in this a lab forever.

Viv has been in the industry for over 50 generally amazing. really small summer bridging course, a group “The professor stopped us all and he’s years.”

“There’s magic in there,” said the native of four or five of us. The professor was ask- like, ‘why is no one going into beer?’ I didn’t (Continued on page 7)

Great Western gets new brewmaster Newfoundland native Amanda Butt takes the reins

AS051512 Aaron

AS051508 Aaron

21 Day Intro Small Group Training

Drive Confidence

(3x/week for 3 weeks) Regular price $89

with Ens Certified Pre-Owned

Shelley Turk, owner, Functional Aging Specialist

Bring this ad in to receive

$10 off!

Fitness for 50+ y Changing the wa n Ages!

Saskatoo

Ens Certified Pre-Owned means we stand behind what we sell.

No vehicle is sold without warranty included.

Start your search with Ens. ENS TOYOTA | www.EnsToyota.ca

|

(306) 653-5611

Three’s

Dear Lianne I met a woman I thought was great. We met up a few times and then she told me that ex-husband lives in her basement. They have decided to do that for financial reasons and so their child has both parents with him.

It took me by surprise and I didn’t know what to think or say. I’m 57, have a great career and have plenty to offer the right woman. You are an expert in this area so I thought I’d ask you what you think? – Peter

#5-3602 Taylor St. Saskatoon, SK • 306.374.3013

shelley@proactivefit.ca

g the way in g n a h C a crowd Saskatoon Ages!

Jealousy could easily become a huge we are offering a special member-

Dear Peter, This is an interesting situation. I can appreciate how this would make you feel uncomfortable as it is an unusual situation. There are many factors that would determine if their arrangement might work out.

If you choose to casually date her and didn’t spend time at her home it might be okay for now. Very mixed messages would potentially be sent to their child if a new guy showed up on the scene. Her assessment of her ex’s feelings may not be accurate.

issue on both your part, the child’s as well as the ex-husbands. You will need to evaluate the situation and decide if it is something you want to become involved with. Most people would be uneasy with it. Saskatoon has many incredible woman who are looking for love. I work with women who are completely available to fall in love with the right man. They are self supporting, have their ducks in a row and the only thing they are missing is the right man. Currently,

ship, to qualifying men, that provides them with a year of unlimited introductions. Typically, our clients are happily matched within the first three face to face introductions. I will be interviewing people who wish join Camelot Introductions on May 24-26. My interview slots do get booked up quickly.

Call me at 306-978-LOVE(5683) to reserve your appointment. Allow our 23 years of experience to bring love into your life.

Lianne Tregobov Intuitive Matchmaker

I HAVE BEEN HAPPILY UNITING COUPLES FOR THE PAST 23 YEARS. I AM GIFTED WITH INTUITION THAT HAS SET CAMELOT INTRODUCTIONS APART FROM OTHERS.

I WILL BE IN SASKATOON May 24-26 INTERVIEWING NEW CLIENTS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR LOVE. CALL NOW TO BOOK YOUR INTERVIEW WITH ME 306 978-LOVE(5683). sENd qUEsTIONs TO: camelotintroductions@mymts.net

Paid Advertisement

JW051501 James

V

(Continued from page 6) iv is former brewmaster Vivian Jones, who retired recently after decades in the business.

“How do you say no to some mentorship from someone who has been in the industry for longer than you’ve been alive?” asked Butt. “There are things in modern breweries that we do every day that he helped create and discover and perfect, years ago.

It’s incredible. You have to say yes to an opportunity like that.”

Another attractive reason to come to Great Western and Saskatoon was the proximity of Prairie Malt in Biggar. Before applying for the brewmaster’s job, Butt had never been to Saskatoon apart from an overnight stay after visiting Prairie Malt.

“I love those guys. They’re incredible. That’s really enticing here, too; all of our malt comes from Prairie Malt, and all of it is from Saskatchewan. It’s an amazing partnership. They’re down the street, practically. It’s full circle local; I love it.”

Enjoying the beer boom Butt is also fascinated by the “explosion of breweries,” particularly in the United States, over the last few years. In the 1970s, there were 40-some breweries; today, there are more than 5,000.

“People are buying beer in their own zip codes. Beer is hyperlocal right now. It’s incredible,” she said.

“I think with the food movement and changes in tastes . . . palates have shifted as well. People are looking for different things in all types of food and beverage than they were 20, 30 years ago.

That’s helped propel the change in beer,” and it’s happening here, too, she added.

“There’s no arguing that big beer is obviously number one, and it’s still a go-to beer as a mass domestic. But you have the proliferation of craft in this country, and it’s incredible to see the talented people who are showing up and making world class beer.”

Great Western, with about 50 employees, is located somewhere in the market between the big brewers and the craft brewers, she said.

“We get to sell our beers in a number of provinces, but we’re not a national brand by any stretch of the imagination. Our beers are very well made and we use very premium ingredients to make them. I think there’s a lot of heart that goes into making it; you can see it in everybody who is working here and has worked so hard to keep Great Western alive and make it successful, make it what it is today.”

So what does a brewmaster actually do?

“The brewers are doing the heavy lifting, as far as I’m concerned,” said Butt.

“I do the short, medium and long-term planning. We look at trends and how our beer is doing, and course-correct if we need to, or modify a recipe or a process to make things better, or more effective, or tastier.

“I’m involved in a daily sensory panel, so we’re tasting everything we’re putting out the door, to make sure we feel good about it. (I’m) kind of helping to steer the ship, as well as innovation and new product development.”

“Unique” Saskatoon now home “We finally bought a house. We’re going to settle down,” said Butt.

She and her husband have two children, aged five and three.

“We’re in. We’re here. We moved around a lot. We’ve been renting for 12 years. This is the first time we’ve owned a home. We’re committed.

“It’s been very nice. Saskatoon is unique. I find everyone pretty friendly, actually. Everyone is very polite. We had no issue finding a house. And Saskatoon is so easy to navigate, it’s ridiculous. I love it. You want to get across the city? Fifteen minutes.

That’s pretty cool.

“I haven’t seen it in summer yet, but I’m really looking forward to it because I hear it’s super rad. And the riverfront is amazing in summer. We got here in the dead of winter, so we’re pumped for summer.”

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 7

SAVE LIVES! BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY.

For Caiden’s full story visit starslotterysaskatchewan.ca Former STARS Patient Caiden

2,016 PRIZES WORTH MORE THAN $4 MILLION RETAIL

WIN A SHOWHOME!

GRAND PRIZE #1

GRAND PRIZE #2

Regina area home

Saskatoon area home

WORTH $1.5 MILLION RETAIL

WORTH $1.5 MILLION RETAIL

301 Spruce Creek Street, Spruce Creek Estates, Pilot Butte

304 Greenbryre Crescent North, Greenbryre Estates

EARLY BIRD PRIZE PACKAGE WORTH $167,019 RETAIL TRUCK AND BOAT

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE

June 28, 2017

2017 GMC Sierra 1500 Double Cab SLE 4WD

Supplied by: Capital GMC Buick Cadillac Ltd., Regina

2017 Chaparral 216 SSI luxury family sport boat

Supplied by: Performance Marine, Regina

Vehicle may not be exactly as shown.

WIN UP TO $800,000 LUCKY STARS 50/50 WINNER TAKES 1/2 THE CASH

TICKETS ONLY:

$10 each, 5 for $25, 15 for $50

DON’T DELAY - TICKETS WON’T LAST LONG. ONLY $60 EACH, 2 FOR $100, 6 FOR $250 AND 12 FOR $375

1-855-449-2444 JW051505 James

starslotterysaskatchewan.ca

Please see the website for full rules and details. Sold only in Saskatchewan. Lottery Licence #LR16-0109

Enriched Living

SUDOKU

Studio $1355 - $1580 1 Bedroom $1445 - $2030

Answers on page 15

2 Bedroom $1695 - $2365

“Providing the dignity you deserve, the independence you want, and the support you need.”

You have the choice of Enriched Living or Intermediate Care

INTERMEDIATE CARE HOME Services Include:

Nutritious Meals and Snacks Medication management 2 Baths per week Housekeeping and Laundry Service Resident and Family Support Services Foot Care Secure Environment 24 hour Staff

ENRICHED LIVING Services Include:

Nutritious Meal Program Housekeeping and Linen Service Wellness Clinic and Foot Care Emergency Response System Heating, Water Chapel Service Activities Live In Caretaker

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 8

Arts &

Entertainment

Festival encourages us to explore nature Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express re you Wild About Saskatoon?

Candace Savage and Candace Neufeld are, to the extent that they led the founding group of the same name.

The group is described on its website as “madly in love with the beauty and diversity of the living world wherever we find it, especially within city limits.” And so, it decided to create a festival to share the love.

NatureCity Festival was the result, and it runs for the fifth time May 23 to May 28.

Among the recruits to that group was Janet McVittie, an assistant professor in the education department at the University of Saskatchewan, who facilitates the school programming for the festival.

“Wild About Saskatoon is about nature in the city, and we decided a festival would be a good idea to celebrate nearby nature,” said McVittie, sitting at a picnic table in warm sun and cool breeze. “Nature doesn’t start where the sidewalk ends; we’re surrounded by nature, we are part of nature.

“That’s the purpose of the festival, is to honour that kind of biodiversity that you find in nature.”

The interview with McVittie and fellow organizer Brit MacDonald takes place just across from the Prairie Habitat Garden, now being developed outside the Education Building on campus. The garden will be one of myriad locations in the 50-event, six-day fest.

Indeed, eight school field trips will take place at the garden, plus three at Chappell Marsh, with students bused in courtesy of the Saskatoon Nature Society.

For those no longer in school, however, there are countless nature-related events: bird watching, geocaching, birdhouse and beehouse building, a guided tour of the Patterson Garden and Arboretum. The list is very long, so checking out the website for events is the best bet: http://wildaboutsaskatoon.org/festival-calendar or www. naturecityfestival.com. Most are free but some, such as a canoe ride down the river, are ticketed.

The Wild About Saskatoon folks can’t

A

do it all, so help pours in from other groups.

“We just have this amazing network,” said MacDonald. “There are so many amazing groups doing so much good work.

It wasn’t like we had to build something from the ground.” Among the many groups are the Saskatoon Nature Society, the Meewasin Valley Authority and the Native Plant Society.

“About 40 organizations, individuals and businesses submitted events,” added MacDonald. “It’s a really community-driven, grassroots festival. The response we get back from the community is enormous.

“We’re challenging that idea that nature is some far off place. Nature is actually right here at home.”

People protect what they love, and they love what they have experienced, said MacDonald. “They will only do that if they have access to it . . . they know it exists. It’s like this idea that we can cultivate this generation of conservationists and nature-lovers just by connecting them to nature, even in their backyards.”

NatureCity Festival always includes a theatre-based keynote event which usually sells out. This year, Maude Barlow, best known as former chair of the Council of Canadians, will speak at the Roxy Theatre on May 25 at 7 p.m. (Tickets must be booked, but are free.)

Her speech is entitled Our Blue Future, based on her book of the same name.

Water is the theme of the festival this year — “We Are Water: Explore our Prairie Waterscape”— and people know this is an important topic, said MacDonald.

Barlow will discuss the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, such as pollution, effects of climate change and deforestation. Marjorie Beaucage, filmmaker and community leader, will open the event.

No festival is complete without food, but even there, NatureCity Festival is taking a grassroots approach with the foodie element, “Taste our NatureCity.”

Embracing the local food movement is not difficult in Saskatchewan, said McVittie.

“When we talk about a food culture here, we have amazing flavours but we

NatureCity Festival organizers Brit MacDonald, left, and Janet McVittie stand on a bridge made from reclaimed wood in the Prairie Habitat Garden just outside the Education Building on the University of Saskatchewan campus.

(Photo by Joanne Paulson) also have the food,” she said. “Except coffee, red wine and chocolate.”

9 Mile Legacy Brewing will therefore create a special beer for the festival, intentionally brewed to fit the local water profile, said MacDonald. Named NatureCity Session Ale, it will be available at 9 Mile MAY 18 and at various restaurants around town.

Vocalists and instrumentalists Darrell Burko and Roy Speaking of restaurants, seven local eateries are creating a nature-inspired dish Anderson are combining for a night of Anderson Burko Unplugged, mixing old favourites with new works and or beverage for the run of the festival. enlisting the help of some special guests. 8 p.m. The They are Una Pizza, Drift Café, Little Bassment, 202 Fourth Ave. North. Tickets $18 for SJS Bird Patisserie & Café, Amigos Cantina, members, $23 for non-members.

Citizen Café and Bakery, Nosh Eatery & Tap, d’Lish by Tish Café and, of course, MAY 20 Making a return visit to Saskatoon, Brazilian singer Fernanda 9 Mile.

The event is not about activism; rather, Cunha performs contemporary and traditional Latin compositions and pays tribute to noted composer Antonio Carlos it’s a gentle and enjoyable way to bring Jobim. Her latest CD is Jobim 90. Canada’s Reg Schwager people close to nature, and to help them accompanies her. 8 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets $27 and $37. appreciate it, said McVittie. She sees social MAY 24-25 changes afoot in how we view our enviFlamenco dancer Carols Menchaca will be the featured ronment. artist in Elementos, presented by Arte Flamenco. The Saska“Something is having an effect. People toon group is led by artistic director Kari Alba and includes are beginning to recognize nature is Ricardo Diaz on guitar and Celedonio Garrido as the vocalist. important, and climate change is actually Alba is promising something fiery and fierce. 8 p.m. both happening.” performances. The Bassment. Tickets $30 and $40.

EVENTS

MUSIC

AS051513 Aaron

37TH ANNIVERSARY

SALE

SALE ENDS May 31, 2017

YAMAHA SEILER KNABE AVANT CLAVINOVA

1011 Broadway Avenue Corner of Broadway & 8th.

Phone 306.665.0213

YAMAHAPIANOCENTRE.ca

PIANO CENTRE

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 9

Entertainment

Teens share stories through musical theatre

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express n what is being billed as “an amazing musical theatre event,” local teens are set to share their true personal stories on stage this month and perform eight original songs.

From May 18 to May 21, Persephone Theatre will present the show HERE – A Musical About Finding Your Place, which was developed and created by The Persephone Young Company with direction by playwright Daniel Macdonald.

The Persephone Young Company is a conservatory program for performers ages 14 to 19 that offers an opportunity to work and study with a professional mentor for five months. This includes the development, rehearsal, and performance of a full-scale professional production.

“It’s an original musical; in other words, the members of The Young Company helped write it and create it. So between them and myself, we are the authors of the show, including all the music and lyrics. In fact, they’re the authors of the music and lyrics, for the most part,” said Macdonald.

“It’s a show about finding your place in the world. We started to explore and ask questions about what’s going on in our world with regard to things like immigration and refugees and things like that, but we explored it through the stories of our own Young Company. Members of the Young Company tell their stories of how they came to be in Canada – because, of course, pretty much everyone is from somewhere else, except for First Nations people,” he added.

“We started to look at them telling their own stories, so we have people who’ve only been in Canada or Saskatoon for a year or less, all the way to Young Company members whose parents, grandparents, great-grandparents came over. And then we started to explore those stories, and we

I

&Arts

AS051519 Aaron

joined them with stories about other people around the world who are moving, migrating, having to move because of war and things like that. We just have some fun with these stories, so it’s very much a storytelling musical. In fact, I keep on calling it sort of a docu-drama musical.”

HERE will take audience members “on a journey filled with darkness, tragedy, and perseverance,” according to Persephone Theatre. The show includes Peace, a young woman from Nigeria; Anna, who recently arrived from Ukraine; Cameron, who talks about how his parents found each other across an ocean; and Kris, who shares how her parents escaped death by fleeing Guatemala.

Macdonald offered encouragement and support to the Young Company members as they wrote their family stories.

“So they would go home, talk to their family about it, ask questions and things like that, and then send me their stories. And what I started to do was edit it and collate them and start to find ways to make the stories more fun and interesting to tell on stage.”

Macdonald said several performers very recently arrived in Canada, and at some points in the show they speak in their first language.

“We have all kinds of ways that we tell the stories, and especially the stories of people who are really, really brand new to Canada,” he said.

Macdonald, a former Regina high school teacher, said he was very interested in hearing the young performers’ points of view and learning about their experiences and their perspectives on this country.

“Interestingly, as the play evolved, it became very much a story about Canada, too – about why Canada is a welcoming place, or even using examples of when Canada wasn’t so much a welcoming place for immigrants and refugees,” he said.

About two dozen young people are involved with

JW051503 James

Persephone Young Company is a conservatory program for performers ages 14 to 19.

(Photo Supplied) HERE, including the 20 who are on stage at any given time and several others who are assisting with the production.

The performers are in high school or in their first or second year of university. Being a part of The Persephone Young Company offers them an introduction into the world of professional theatre.

HERE – A Musical About Finding Your Place will feature public performances from May 18 to May 21 at 8 p.m. on the Remai Arts Centre’s Backstage Stage. Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students, and are available by calling the Persephone Theatre box office at 306-384-7727 or by going online to persephonetheatre.org.

HARD CIDER. HAND MADE. LOCALLY CRAFTED.

The Crossmount Cider Company pop-up store is now open in Bay 106 at College Park Mall on 8th Street East and McKercher Drive. Drop by to pick up one of our five delicious varieties of hard apple cider.

Handcrafted from 100% Canadian apples, our cider is gluten free and is best enjoyed chilled.

Pop-up store hours: Monday Closed T-W 11:00 - 7:00 Th-S 11:00 - 8:00 Sun 12:00 - 5:00

www.crossmountcidercompany.ca Cider is also available at our Crossmount Cider Company location 5 km south of Saskatoon at The Glen at Crossmount.

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 10

Romanow played key role in keeping Canada together

R

oy Romanow clearly we faced a daunting task under remembers the afternoon the four days of television lights of Nov. 4, 1981 when an in Ottawa. There were many explosive debate in Ottawa was issues on the table, including about to rock Canada’s future. the rights to the resources which Prime Minister Pierre deeply affected Saskatchewan Trudeau and representatives of and Alberta. Other provinces all the provinces had gathered had concerns, most notably for a four-day conference with Quebec, in their efforts to prothe hopes of transferring the tect identity and language. Many country’s founding law, the of us dreaded the possibility of British North America Act, into one day having to call a national federal and provincial hands. It referendum on language.

People would be known as the Consti“On the last afternoon of the tution Act 1982. conference in Ottawa, it looked Romanow, then the attorney general of like we were going nowhere. Then Trudeau Saskatchewan, was a co-host of the confer- and Quebec’s Rene Lévesque exploded inence along with Jean Chrétien, the federal credibly, in French, and that meant they were government’s minister of justice. That gave not going to agree. To me, there were too Romanow a clear view of almost every many nation-damaging concepts, even with move. compromises. Our premier, Allan Blakeney, Romanow is now the chancellor of the feared that we were about to destroy a nation.

University of Saskatchewan. He was elected “Chrétien leaned over and wondered, to the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly ‘where do we go from here?’ We left the eight times in nine provincial elections from room and went to a kitchen on the fourth 1967 until 1999. He was premier from 1991 floor of the government conference centre. until stepping down in 2001.

We started talking and then Roy McMurIn the prelude to the constitutional talks, try, the attorney general of Ontario, joined Romanow knew the roles ahead. He’d been us. We checked off the discussion points, Saskatchewan’s minister of intergovernsought general agreement and, while I mental affairs as early as 1979. Then as the Iistened, I wrote notes on my note pad. national conference loomed, Romanow and Incredibly, I think our meeting lasted just Chrétien embarked on a national tour, trying under 10 minutes. We were in agreement to drum up support for the constitutional and the notes became the now-famous change. Their friendship at the time was Kitchen Accord. I still have the notes.” best acknowledged by Saskatoon artist Ed Although three key players were in Sebestyen, who designed a T-shirt recogagreement, the talks continued between nizing two distinct characters, The Uke other notables.

(Romanow) and The Toque (Chrétien).

“I told Allan I thought we had an agreeRomanow said the momentum toward ment. I went to see Premier Bill Davis of patriation of the constitution had been Ontario. Jean went to see Trudeau, who building since 1978. wasn’t ready to accept the notwithstanding “The provinces had allowed me to be the clause. I was in the Ontario room when Bill TA051518 Tammy co-chair on their behalf,” he said. “We knew made the call to Trudeau and seemed to

NED POWERS

Roy Romanow, now the chancellor at the U of S, was part of the infamous Kitchen Accord. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) calm his anxiety. I’d have to speculate that Bill told him that there might be flaws in the agreement, but it was better than no agreement at all.”

The notwithstanding clause was uniquely Canadian in an attempt to bring together the politicians making decisions in democratic debate as opposed to an Americanbased system which permitted the courts to overrule government decisions.

“Allan continued to have talks with the other premiers. Many were up until 4:30 in the morning. Nobody told Lévesque until the early morning meeting of the premiers, and it hit him like a ton of bricks. Lévesque didn’t sign the next morning. He was bitter. Quebec people called it the night of the long knives.”

Quebec attempted to veto the compromise agreement, but the Supreme Court held that the province held no such powers. Even before that decision, however, Queen Elizabeth came to Canada on April 17, 1982, and signed the papers making the new constitution official. She had given

royal assent at the end of March.

“I think the results produced some real Canadian heroes — men like Trudeau, Davis, Blakeney and Peter Lougheed,” said Romanow. “I considered them an A-Team if there ever was one.”

It was a significant highlight of Romanow’s career.

Later in life, Romanow met Trudeau a couple of times and “although he said at the conference the decision wasn’t his making, he seemed to be satisfied with the way the decision played out.”

And what of his friend, Chrétien?

“We still try to talk every 10 days or so.

It’s been an amazing friendship.”

After Romanow retired as premier, he was called to the national stage again. He was asked in 2001 to conduct a Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. The report, released in 2002, was supposed to be a road map for a collective journey in health. Romanow called for (Continued on page 11)

Now ReNtiNg!

NEw RETiREmENT CommuNiTy O

e s u o pen H

m p 4 2 Fridays

250 Hunter Rd, Saskatoon

Call 306-664-0501 EXT. 222 foR TouRS www.luthercarevillage.com

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 11

DC051547 Darlene

(Continued from page 10) building better strategies, providing better training and education, improving the basic information sources and asked the federal government to contribute another $15 billion to the provinces over three years.

Romanow told the government candidly that “we have a right to provide the best health care system.”

As it turned out, Canadian economics got in the way.

“In 1967, the federal government began a national health care program by offering 50 cents out of every dollar basically spent on hospitals and doctors. This allowed them to introduce medicare in the same style Saskatchewan had started in 1962.

Prime Minister Mike Pearson led the drive and Tommy Douglas, with the NDP, was his strongest supporter,” said Romanow.

“But life has changed. Since then, the federal contribution to health has been

reduced to 35 cents on that dollar and that leaves the provinces scrambling to find other ways of support. Where once the two big expenses were hospitals and doctors, the top three costs today, in order, are hospitals, drugs and doctors. Until we get that support for a national drug formula, we won’t have a first-class, publicly-funded health care program like Britain has.

“For six years after I issued the report, I was out speaking 30 to 40 times a year, the crowds were very large, and I was telling them that we needed an equal 50-50 split on costs.”

Today, Romanow’s occupation is teaching two classes on public policy at the University of Saskatchewan. But because he was premier during the 1990s when Saskatchewan erased a monumental financial debt, he often talks to current politicians who are willing to listen, and offers advice when asked.

First Nations myths uncover human truths

F

olklore and mythology into wolf tracks and then back are big parts of First Nato a man’s footprints. tion storytelling.

The horse rider realized One of my favourite myths Wesakeychack had changed is about a Cree character named himself from a man into a wolf.

We-sa-key-chack. He or she — This is how Wesa beat the horse there is no gender — is a figure and rider and was able to get that could change into any help for a man who was about person or animal. to die from hypothermia.

Most of Wesakeychack’s This story may seem farstories include a lesson in life fetched to some, but I believe a or a message. When it comes part of it. to Wesakeychack, there is no When it comes to Cree Columnist black and white. It’s all a grey storytelling, there has to be an area where the listener or reader element of truth to it. The story fills in the blanks in the story. may seem impossible, but the storyteller I’ve heard many stories about Wesa (the has to tell the story to the point where it short version of his/her handle). My famay be plausible. vourite is the story of how he, in this case, The story should also include a bit of raced a horse at a frozen lake. common sense. I believe a part of the story One day the men of a Cree nation were because riding a horse around the lake is camping along a frozen lake. One of the three times longer than running across the men suddenly fell through the ice. The ice. others managed to pull the man out of the It’s like giving the runner a giant head water, but hypothermia was kicking in and start over the horse. As for the tracks man needed immediate medical help. changing from a wolf into a man’s foot“I can take a horse and ride as fast as I prints, well, that’s going to depend on the can along the road to get help,” one of the listener and storyteller. If the teller can tell men offered. the story plausibly and the listener believes Wesa, thinking he could help, said: “I it, then the story of Wesakeychack beating could run across the frozen lake faster than the horse in a race must be true. the horse can run.”

Wesakeychack’s stories also have mesThe other men, thinking Wesakeychack sages. One came about as he was watchhad gone over the edge, suggested the man ing a flock of ducks swimming across the on the horse get help, but also suggested water. He realized those ducks are like Wesa run across the ice. human beings.

The horse and rider set off for the road “Above the surface,” said Wesa, “the and Wesa started his run on the frozen lake. ducks may look calm and collected but By the time the horse and rider reached the underneath their little feet are paddling to other side of the lake, Wesa was already beat hell to stay afloat.” there, and had also sent help for the man Some people look like they are running who fell through the ice. smoothly, but deep inside their human feel“It’s impossible,” the man on the horse ings are working hard to stay afloat. One said. “Nobody can run that fast.” can learn many things from a swimming The man on the horse decided he would duck if you listen to Wesakeychack. follow Wesa’s tracks on the snow. At first, DS051501 Dan human, but changed the tracks appeared KNCREE@gmail.com

David Buckingham, MLA Saskatoon Westview

AS051510 Aaron

o r Yo u r W e d d i n g Limousine Service f Buckingham, Express ad 4.896 x 1.9, July 5, 2016.indd 1

Call today 306-230-4744

or e-mail paintbynumber@live.com

7/6/2016 2:44:26 PM

At Living Skies, we specialize in limousine service for weddings. Right from your stag & stagette to picking you up after your reception, we can take care of all your wedding transportation needs.

Don’t forget to book early as weekends MAKE Y tend to book up quickly.

O Y U R DA

Book Online or Call Today!

SPEC IAL!

Use promo code 1703EA for a 5% discount

lslimo.ca • yourservice@lslimo.ca • 822A 48th Street E. Saskatoon, SK • 306-955-9900

DC051551 Darlene

Summit

NEWHIP RS

OWNE

MEATS & SAUSAGE LTD.

EXPERIENCE THE PEAK OF QUALITY AND SERVICE

W E E K LY SPECIALS

KEN NOSKYE

Call a professional today that provides residential interior and exterior painting.

Quality work at a reasonable price.

Bay 14 -2345 Avenue C North saskatoonwestviewca@gmail.com 306-242-4440

1418 Central Avenue

306.978.8838

StripLoin Steaks

$

1399

Pork Tenderloin

/lb ($30.84/kg)

5

$ 99

/lb ($13.21/kg)

summitmeats@sasktel.net

www.summitmeats.com

By Boots and Jim Struthers

Answers on page 15

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 12

Unmasking the Hulk

Cam Hutchinson

& Friends: Views of the World

Kelvin Ooms a big hit at Rush games Linda Gubbe and Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express he first thing you notice about Kelvin Ooms is his smile.

Pleasant and friendly, Ooms works as a home manager with the Diamond House Personal Care Home in Warman during the day.

On Saskatchewan Rush game nights, Ooms morphs into the Hulk. In his second life, he’s become a big hit with Rush players, fans, and even the poker-faced coach.

He’s probably a big hit at Diamond House, too, but he’s got a bigger audience at Rush games.

“During their final game last year for the championship, I went dressed as Darth Vader and I saw what kind of effect it had on the fans,” he said, sipping on a Coke at a local restaurant. “The fans just loved it, so I started working with the Hulk idea.”

He purchased his Hulk outfit in the United States.

“It was pretty costly. My wife told me that I absolutely had to wear it to every game because of the investment I had in it,” he said with a smile. “It turned out to be a remarkable thing. The fan interaction is absolutely phenomenal.”

He is quick to point out that he has done this all on his own. He isn’t paid by the SaskTel Centre or the Rush.

While most people don’t know who he is, more and more are starting to find out and that’s okay with him. Since he appeared as the Hulk in January, he has

Here’s how to give Derby a fresh new look

T

T

BUILDE

R

T

OU E S O L C

Kelvin Ooms’ alter-ego gets the fans going at Rush Games.

(Photo by Linda Gubbe) picked up many followers on Twitter and Facebook and, of course, at Rush games.

“I have fans who come seek me out at every game,” Ooms said.

He’s been at every home game this year with the exception of one. He can be forgiven because he was on vacation in Huatulco, Mexico. He said he seriously debated taking the Hulk with him.

He did take the Hulk on the road to a game in Calgary on the last weekend of the regular season. Ooms organized a trip with 112 Rush fans — filling two buses — go to the game. They were greeted by another 200 Rush fans in the parking lot at the Saddledome.

“It was a tremendous amount of fun. I don’t think there was one fan who would have a bad thing to say about the trip. I’m quite certain next year’s event will be a big success.”

He said the 18,000 people at the Sad-

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE INCREDIBLE CLOSE-OUT PRICES ON THE LAST 4 UNITS!

IN SILVERSPRING

121-915 Kristjanson Road, Silverspring Saturdays & Sundays: 1-5 PM or call 306.242.2434 to book an appointment MARKETED BY:

306.242.2434 | northridge.sk.ca

AS051514 Aaron

dledome knew there were Saskatchewan fans in their midst.

“We were loud. Commentators were saying on the NLL broadcast that they could hear us and Cool 98.3FM was saying you could definitely hear the Rush fans in the crowd. And sometimes they said, quote, unquote, we were louder than some of the Calgary cheers. We had a blast.”

He said Calgary fans were good to the invaders from the East.

“We got treated really well. Actually, it was great. Me as the Hulk figure, I probably took just as many if not more photos with Calgary fans there as I do at the SaskTel Centre.”

He said both kids and adults greet him with enthusiasm at games, but he is especially careful around children.

“I don’t want them to be afraid of the Hulk, or afraid to come back to a Rush game. I start out with a little wave and if they hide behind mom or dad, I don’t try to force it. I’ve always paid attention to other mascots to see how they interact with the fans.

“When you’re doing something like the Hulk and you’re interacting with the crowd, it’s easy to feed off the crowd’s energy and you have a lot of fun. There’s a lot of energy in the crowd.”

He said the players have noticed him.

“A lot of them (players) expressed how much they appreciate the Hulk and how much I get the crowd going.”

Coach Derek Keenan has noticed him as well.

“Coach Keenan came up to me and made mention that he appreciates my commitment and involvement with the club.

Recognition like that, when the team and players are saying it, not only the fans, then you know that it’s good. The Hulk is a recognized figure with the Rush lacrosse team here in Saskatoon. I’m proud of it. I like it.”

The Rush and the Hulk will next be in action on May 20 for a playoff game against Colorado.

he New York Cosmos are going to play an exhibition game at the new Mosaic Stadium this summer. I’ve always wanted to watch Pele play.

• Torben Rolfsen has an idea: “They should mix it up one year at the Kentucky Derby and open the race to horses of any age, but the jockeys have to be three year olds.”

• Janice Hough, on the Oilers giving up a three-goal lead late in a game to Anaheim: “Did Edmonton at least get a sympathy call from Falcons?”

• Did you know the world’s deadliest “animal” in 2015 was the mosquito? The little bugs racked up 830,000 deaths. Humans were next with 580,000 and snakes, excluding Donald Trump, were way back in third place with 60,000.

• Hard to believe Riders camp opens in less than two weeks at Griffiths Stadium.

Count me among those rooting for Vince Young.

• Rolfsen, on Anaheim fans leaving late in the third period of Ducks-Oilers Game 5: “Yet they’ll wait in line for two hours to ride Space Mountain.”

• The first thing I did when I saw a photo of Conor McGregor’s baby was check to see if the kid had his father’s ears.

• With Toronto eliminated, Hughson and Simpson did a better job in the Edmonton-Anaheim series, but gosh it would be nice if Bob Cole could call the Stanley Cup final.

• From Rolfsen: There was a wild, nine-car wreck at Talladega. And that was just at the drive-thru gun shop.”

• I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t realize Ryan Getzlaf is the great player that he is. I did know Ryan Kessler is an idiot.

• Sorry Leafs fans, but there is ToewsKane, Crosby-Malkin and McDavid-Draisaitl. There is no Matthews-Mitchell, at least not yet, despite what Toronto talking heads would have us believe.

• From Hough: “There are conflicting stories over whether giant rabbit Simon died on a United flight from London or if he was frozen upon landing. Somebunny’s going to pay.”

• From Rolfsen: “NHL policy says ‘the boards are not a mechanism for injury.’

Right, they’re just like a bouncy castle.”

• Rolfsen, on Canada’s tight game against France at the world hockey championship: “I expect that on Master Chef, not hockey.”

• Trump’s White House makes Watergate look like just another B&E.

JOIN US FOR THE

2017 DRIVING FORE PROSTATE GOLF CLASSIC

With Glen Gulutzan Head Coach of the Calgary Flames Proundly presented by:

IN SUPPORT OF ST. PAUL’S HOSPITAL JULY 18, 2017 • Dakota Dunes Golf Links Sponsored by

Register today! SPHFOUNDATION.ORG/EVENTS 306.716.2890

TA051514 TammySASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 13 AS051505 Aaron

T

School debate has been raging for years

the majority faith from whom he year was 2003. they took deliberate action to Tucked away on the separate . . .” eastern edge of SasThe provincial government katchewan, residents of the and CTT used the Canadian village of Theodore (pop.

Charter of Rights and Free300) were outraged after the doms to defend their position, NDP government of the day essentially arguing that anyone first suggested, then forced, has the right to choose a relithe closure of their comgious education. They claimed munity school. Theodore’s that the GSSD was advocating 42 pupils were slated to be for the “segregation” of Cathobussed 17 kilometres up the lic students, akin to putting road to attend school in the Columnist criminals in jail (seriously). town of Springside.

Here’s what Layh had to say about That didn’t go down well, and when, that: despite their very best lobbying ef“Inherent in protecting separate forts, the Saskatchewan government refused to budge, Theodore parents threw Catholic schools is the understanding that perpetuating the Catholic faith is a Hail Mary pass: they went Catholic.

T’was their constitutional right, after best accomplished when a child adheres to the beliefs of his or her parents and, all. when in a minority, by separating the The Good Spirit School Division child from members of other faiths to (GSSD) was not impressed and tried ensure an immersion in Catholic faith.” to block the move, launching a lawsuit Justice Layh also refused to accept in 2005 against both the government the CTT’s argument that non-Catholic and the school, which is now part of the Christ The Teacher Roman Catholic students were necessary to the healthy functioning of Catholic schools, because School Division (CTT). The division alleged that the reborn Theodore school receiving funding for non-Catholic students equals increased choices for was not a true “separate” school, as Catholic students. defined by the folks who created the While he saw the benefit of such constitution way back in the late 1800s, funding, “I do not equate a practical and should not receive funding. benefit as creating a constitutional right A few weeks ago a Saskatchewan court agreed with them, at least on the lat- . . . to leverage funds otherwise destined ter, issuing a judgment in favour of GSSD to public schools to assure the denomiafter a 12-year legal saga that played out national character of Catholic schools,” he wrote. in a Yorkton courtroom. The judgment So while Catholic schools have the sparked a debate that has residents across Saskatchewan divided, and Premier Brad right to exist and receive funding, they don’t have the right to go above and beWall making noises about invoking the yond their mandate to get more or better notwithstanding clause to overrule the funding. constitutional basis for the ruling.

What is their mandate, anyway?

The ruling affects far more than the Donald Bolen, then Bishop of the village of Theodore. In his ruling, Justice Donald H. Layh declares the funding of Diocese of Saskatoon and now Archnon-Catholic students attending Catholic bishop of Regina, testified that Catholic schools unconstitutional, and orders the schools are all about infusing Christian government to cease doing so, across the values through the entire student body.

He said non-Catholic students in Cathoprovince, by June 30, 2018. lic schools “create a culture of encounter Both sides called a number of witand enrichment in a place where religion nesses to testify at the trial, which was is respected and valued.” held in May, 2016. The GSSD called Justice Layh wasn’t buying it. current and former education adminis“I see the protection of Catholic ters, theologians, historians, and concerned 2003 parents, as did the CTT and values for Catholic children, not the dissemination of Catholic values to the Government of Saskatchewan. non-Catholic children, as the protected A big chunk of the judgment cites case law as precedent, and analyzes the denominational aspect of Catholic eduexact wording and legal interpretation of cation . . . It is an odd religious freedom that does not provide an equal measure the 1867 Constitution, the 1901 Ordinances of the North West Territories, the of freedom to all citizens,” said Layh.

Canadian Charter and the Saskatchewan “. . . Non-Christian parents might think Act of 1905 – primarily to determine the that non-Catholic parents should be, like them, equally denied or equally afforded intention of the folks that wrote them.

I’m not a lawyer, nor a constitutional the benefit of publicly-funded faithhistorian. However, I’ll do my best here based education.”

Dr. Ayman Aboguddah is longtime to break Layh’s judgment down into bite-sized pieces, because this is a huge president of the Regina Huda (Muslim) School, which has an enrolment of 430 decision impacting every single K-12 students and a waiting list of approxistudent, now and in the future, in Sasmately 100 students. katchewan.

Aboguddah testified that “receiving Let’s start by talking about what this full funding for non-Muslim students is not about, namely provincial govcould address the stigma and stereotypernment funding of Catholic students ing that exists against Muslims.” attending Catholic schools.

Compare that to Bishop Bolen’s testi“The existence of these schools and mony that the Catholic religion, “which their funding is guaranteed by s. 93 has not had the best public image,” has of the Constitution Act, 1867, even if incompatible with Charter rights,” wrote benefitted from admission of non-Cathothe judge. So yes, your kid has a “right” lic students as a PR exercise, or “an opportunity for parents and children to adopt to a free Catholic education.

According to the judge in this ruling, a positive view of the Catholic Church.”

Layh writes that while Saskatchewan that means “. . . proof of one’s Catholic identity is baptism in the Catholic tradi- parents with kids attending independent or non-Catholic/faith-based schools must tion, commonly evidenced by a baptissuck up the fact that it is the right of mal certificate.”

Catholic schools to receive 100 per cent In his ruling, Layh writes regardfunding for Catholic kids, they don’t ing the 1901 ordinances: “If separating have to accept the government providing students was the essential reason for Catholic schools with a “leveraging adseparate schools’ existence, I fail to vantage,” which is decidedly not decreed see why the minority would simultaneby the constitution. ously seek a right to admit children of

TAMMY ROBERT

It’s not too late

306.956.3000

Explore

South Africa

Our most popular machine...

The Janome Canada 150

Perfect machine for celebrating Canada’s Sesquicentennial.

12 days Cape Town to Victoria Falls FROM

Proud to be Canadian and Proud to be a sewer.

3899

$

National Geographic Journeys Included Exclusives: • Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens • Carnivore Conservation Drive • Zimbabwean Family Dinner Accommodations in Guest Houses, Hotels, Safari Camps and Tents or Chalets.

Meals included: 11 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 6 dinners.

CAD

July thru Dec. 2017 4 or more guaranteed departures per month Small groups Upgraded service levels.

$849 REG $1349

Call us for more details, availability and flights.

leisure travel 2000 inc ...expect the world of us!

TL Network Canada member agency

#36-1736 Quebec Avenue, Saskatoon

9

Ask about protecting your trip with travel insurance.

www.thesewingmachinestore.com AS051511 Aaron

306.956.3000

FAX 306.374.0818 www.leisuretravel2000.ca

Sutherland Curling Club WEDDING / EVENT VENUE TONS OF SPACE • AMPLE PARKING AND GREAT PRICE! 2017 Almost Full, 2018 Bookings Beginning!

Contact: info@curlsutherland.ca • 306.374.8400 Hearing Tests | Hearing Aids | Specialty Earplugs

$4 FRIDAYS

ALL HEARING AID BATTERIES $4/PKG

CASSANDRA GRABOWSKI B.Sc., M.Sc., Aud (C)

REGISTERED AUDIOLOGIST

BOOK YOUR HEARING EVALUATION TODAY www.soundimpressions.ca

306.477.3277

Grosvenor Park Shopping Centre 18-2105 8 th Street East | Saskatoon, SK

306-975-3021 • Livingskycafe@gmail.com Mon-Fri 9-4:30 Sat-Sun 10-4:30

950 Spadina Cres. East (Inside The Mendel)

Fresh Baking Locally Roasted Coffee Signature Lunch & Daily Soups Gluten Free & Vegetarian Options TAKE HOME MEALS are now available in store orAaron order online at www.mwlfoods.ca AS051523

Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority - Liquor Permit Under the provisions of The Alcohol and Gaming Regulations Act, 1997, Notice is hereby given that High Noon Barber Inc has applied to the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA) for a Special Use - General Salon/Spa permit to sell alcohol in the premises known as High Noon Barber Inc at 120 Sonnenschein Way Saskatoon SK. Written objections to the granting of the permit may be filed with SLGA not more than two weeks from the date of publication of this notice.

Every person filing a written objection with SLGA shall state their name, address, and telephone number in printed form, as well as the grounds for the objection(s). Petitions must name a contact person, state grounds, and be legible. Each signatory to the petition and the contact person must provide an address and telephone number. Frivolous, vexatious or competition-based objections within the beverage alcohol industry may not be considered and may be rejected by the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Licensing Commission, who may refuse to hold a hearing.

Write to: Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority Box 5054 REGINA SK S4P 3M3

Call 306-244-5050

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 14

AS051509 Aaron

Service specials to Protect What Matters!

$99.99

Havoline ProDS Full Synthetic ®

™

SAE 5W-30

$79.99

Havoline SynBlend ®

SAE 5W-30

• Lube, Oil, Filter • Tire Rotate • Multi Point Inspection

• Lube, Oil, Filter • Tire Rotate • Multi Point Inspection

REF PROMO CODE: AtomicProDS

REF PROMO CODE: AtomicHavoline

Motor Oil Protect What Matters

®

Every SGI claim over $1000 receives $25 fuel card for use at Railway Gas 225 Avenue B North • 306-244-6144 • automicauto.ca

Badly injured woman grateful for STARS Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express hen Jessi Fredin woke up in the hospital, she had no idea who she was or who the two people hovering over her were.

“It was really scary,” she said. “I have a blurry memory of waking up in the hospital and being very confused and terrified.”

Fredin has no recollection of the two weeks before her car accident in June 2016 or the two weeks after.

At the time of the accident, she was driving to her farm to make her mom a birthday dinner. Her mother and father were the two people hovering over her, of course.

“Apparently I was stopped on the highway and turning left and there was oncoming traffic. And a truck rear-ended me going 110 (kilometres per hour).

My vehicle flew about 60 feet forward into the ditch -a crumpled, barely recognizable heap of twisted steel and shattered glass.”

Fredin suffered a serious head injury. STARS was called to transport her to a hospital in Saskatoon.

Fredin was the guest of honour last week at the launch of the 2017 STARS Lottery. Also in attendance were the two pilots – Andres Paz and Dan Riopel -that flew her from the Melfort area to Saskatoon.

“I was amazed when they said STARS flew me and I was sad that I didn’t remember it because I have always wanted to ride in a helicopter,” she said, drawing smiles from those attending the lottery’s launch.

It was Fredin’s second brush with both death and STARS. She was in car accident three years earlier.

One of her friends died at the scene and STARS transported another friend to hospital.

Fredin said her recovery has been painful, forcing her to put post-secondary education on hold for a year.

“I still suffer from short-term memory loss, bad headaches and fatigue, and sometimes dizziness . . . these things have impacted me for sure.”

She withdrew her application for the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan last year and now plans to be a paramedic.

“I hope to one day work for the organization that AS051526 took such goodAaron care of me and my friend. I think

Finding a house no easy chore

T

(Continued from page 3) hey were very appreciative, which makes you feel good.”

The Dosmans were among those at the 70th wedding anniversary celebration of Kim’s parents -- Phat Minh Tran and Them Thi Tran.

“They have come through a lot of hard times and yet that family has kept together. I find that so admirable,” Sue Dosman said. “It’s been a pleasure to know them and see them succeed.”

At Caswell School, Al Reichert was Kim’s first teacher.

“That was an exciting time for all of us – the kids, the staff,” he said. “I think we probably learned more from them than they learned from us.

“The Trans are wonderful people. I’ve always had a real spot in my heart for Kim because she was in turmoil when she got there.

She wasn’t a happy kid to begin with, but she became happy when things got settled. She was a delight to teach.”

Kim Tran remembers the struggle the family had to find a home for 21 people.

“We were too scared to be separated,” she said. “We tried to find a house that was big enough for all of us.”

They were close to finding one a couple of times. Each time the homeowner rejected them. Both times it meant a longer stay at the motel. Finally, they found a big home at 19th Street and Avenue B, where the farmers’ market is now located.

The Trans furnished it one piece at a time. The three tables where they ate were different as were the chairs around the tables.

Phat Minh Tran tried to find work in Saskatoon. He took a job renovating homes, but thought about moving to Vancouver to get back into shipbuilding. With his family starting to put down roots, he didn’t leave.

Kim Tran said the family remains tight.

“We went everywhere together. We travelled to B.C. together, we went to the fair together. I didn’t miss a day of the Exhibition when it was here. My dad made sure we got there.

“I used to throw up all the time because he put us on these rides.

We didn’t want to be on them, but he made sure we experienced them. He would take all of us and make sure we wouldn’t miss out on anything because we were new immigrants to Canada.”

She said there are still family trips, but the number of people has grown to 60. She has hosted Christmas dinners for the whole group.

Kim Tran said her life has been good.

“I often tell people that nothing was tougher than what my family went through because it was a matter of life and death. We made it out of there. It’s all about having a good attitude. My dad is a planner and when he plans something, he executes it.

“Without his intelligence and bravery, we wouldn’t be sitting here today. It takes a lot of guts to get that many people to escape, but he did.”

(Brett Maki contributed to this story)

W

Pilots Andres Paz (left) and Dan Riopel flew Jessi Fredin from Melfort to Saskatoon after she was in a vehicle accident.

(Photo by Cam Hutchinson) STARS is an amazing organization. Such generous, kind-hearted people work there and they have saved so many lives through the years. Everyone should support STARS because you never know when you or somebody you love will need it.”

The lottery has more than $4 million in prizes this year, including $1.5-million homes in the Greenbryre development in Saskatoon and another in Regina. The early-bird prize is a $167,000 truck and sport boat.

The Saskatoon home is a 3,388-square-foot walkout. It has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, an office and a bonus room.

Among the other prizes are seven vehicles, 11 vacations and 75 sports and outdoor adventure packages.

There is also a 50-50 draw that could see the winner walking away with $800,000.

There is a loyalty draw on May 25, the early bird draw on July 13 and the main draw on Aug. 8.

STARS CEO and president Andrea Robertson said the lottery provides 20 per cent of the organization’s funding. Each year STARS has to raise $10.5 million.

“It’s our biggest single fundraiser of the year, so it is really important that people buy lottery tickets,” Robertson said. “It is major when you think about what it takes to keep STARS flying every year.”

For more information, visit starslotterysaskatchewan.ca.

steel Insulated door unIts

We Have Your Windows in Stock!!

COMPLETE IN THE JAMB WITH BRICKMOULD DoorS CoMES witH BriCKMouLD AnD wEAtHEr StriPPinG MEtAL tHrESHoLD

6 PANEL

READY TO INSTALL!!!

SUNBURST

9 LITE

VENTING MINI BLIND

1 LITE

vInYl sIdIng

• Popular Profile • All 1st Grade Products • Matching Accestories • Good Colors!

19.99/BDL

$

.65 sq. ft. ¢

House Wrap $9999 per roll

139

99

$15999 $22999 $24999 $26999 $35999 $29999

storm doors 11/4” alumInIum

$

32” .............. $18999 36” .............. $19999

13995

wood Core

23999

11599

wHitE or Brown

retraCtable sCreen

32”................$32499 36”................$34599

Palight PVC Trim Board 1x4 PVC Window/Door Trim Maintenance free $ .99 WindoWs, siding triM FROM ft

1

Low E Argon FROM

589

$

99

GARDEN DOORS

pInk stYroFoam InsulatIon 4X8 SHEETS 1” $ 24.83

11/2” $ 36.99

24999

7

899

FROM $

99

Maintenance free fiberglass door unit

Insulated doors Door unit ComposIte jamb $ 99 & brICkmould now

289

2” $ 49.50

1299

$ 99 $

34” $

In tHe jamb Complete!!

length

/panel

OUTSWING SHED/ GARAGE DOOR UNITS 32”

209

$

239

99 36” $

99

In tHe jamb Complete!!

CERTAINTEED INSULATION

R20-15” $19.49 BAG R12-15” $23.49 BAG

R20-23” $34.99 BAG R12-23” $36.99 BAG

CLASS A 1ST GRADE PRODUCT

sHed, garage, plaYHouse, wIndows picture

24x24 $49.99 30x20 $55.49 36x20 $59.49 36x30 $65.49

glider

24x24 $88.49 36x30 $104.99 36x36 $114.99

InswIng pvC basement wIndows 36 x 24 $20248 54 x 21 $23752 40 x 21 $20449 54 x 24 $24895

ARCHITECTURAL

922 43rd Street East - Corner of Miller Ave. (Behind Wheaton)

24.

79

$

From

SHinGLES

/BDL

FENCE BOARDS!

6FT SPRucE $2.39 EA. 6 FT TREATED $2.99 EA.

BORDER TIES LARgE gREEN OR BROwN

$

full line of colours!

Roof toP deliveRy AvAilAble!

CLEAROUT!!!!

ROLLED ROOFING

48

whITE cEDAR

99

$

soFFIt

FasCIa

6 PANEL

PATIO DOORS

22999

$

Silverwood grey!! Oxford grey!!

metal soFFIt & FasCIa

SPECIAL SIZE INSULATED DOOR UNITS

30”

SHINGLES

TAR PAPER

/roLL 9

$ 99 /roLL

InterIor 6 panel doors & bIFolds prImed

24”

53

24”,28” 30”,32”

$

8499

$

$

93

30”

5933

EACH WITH JAMB

36”

6353

$

PRIMED MDF MOULDINGS!!!

21/4” cASINg #356

.32

¢ FT.

31/4” BASE #3140

.59

¢ FT.

THICK PROFILE 3 1/4” X 5/8” .99¢ 4 ” X 5/8” 1.15¢ ¢ 2 1/2” X 5/8” .79 5 ” X 5/8” 1.49¢

FT. FT.

FT.

S4S CASE/BASE CROWN FLUTED CASING ARCHITRAVE

FT.

1/2” X 2 1/2” 1/2” X 3 1/2”

85¢FT 1.09FT

5/8” X 3 1/4”

1.09

5/8” X 3 1/4”

1.09

5/8” X 3 1/4”

2.19

wIndow wells

42” .... $4699 60” .... $5999 48” .... $5499 66” .... $6499 (meets 30” clearance code) 54” .... $5899

FT

FT

FT

679EAch

TREATED TIMBER 4 x 6 x10

$

6 x 6 x 10

$

21.99 31.20

TIMBERLOX

SOLID EXTERIOR STAIN!!!

19.99 EA. 16.99 EA. $ 14.99 EA. $

SOLID whITE

$

cEDAR REDwOOD 3.78 L

thoMpson’s Water seal cLEAR, NuTMEg, $ .99 hONEy gOLD, cEDAR

26 3.78 L 4” KNOTTY CEDAR

4”KNOTTY PINE

7

2565

$ 99

$

/BDL

/BDL

premIum

5/16” X 8 Ft. 14 sQ.Ft.bundles

6” knottY pIne

1699

v groove 32 LIN. FT. BDL. desIgn

$

BDL

tHICk slICe

4199

6” knottY $ (select) Cedar 32 . . sq ft

BDL

n o o t a k s a

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 15

S EVENTS A EVENTS MAY 17 RUH Foundation’s Donor Grand Rounds. 7 p.m. in Room 1150, University of Saskatchewan Health Sciences Building.

Curious about the latest equipment and technology being used at RUH? “Don your white coat” and join us for Donor Grand Rounds as we look behind the scenes at Canada’s most advanced and Saskatchewan’s first O-Arm Imaging System. Call 306-655-1984 to rsvp or for more information or visit ruhf.org.

MAY 18 Children’s entertainer Sylvia Chave’s A-May-Zing Fling will have shows at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Refinery. Tickets $7 in advance and $9 at the door. Call 306653-5191 for tickets or go to www.ontheboards.ca.

MAY 20 Busting With Energy - Dragon Boat Team fundraiser for Saskatoon’s team of breast cancer survivors. BBQ’s at the Co-op on Ludlow Street in University Heights on these dates: May 20, June 3, July 15 and Aug. 12 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

MAY 24 The Bridge City Brass Band, under the direction of Ian Krips, will be presenting its Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Grace Westminster United Church. The varied program will feature works by Holst, Goffin, Stevenson, Langford and Calvert.

Special guests include Brien Beatty (cornet soloist) and the Saskatoon Youth Brass under the direction of Aaron Bueckert. Admission is by donation.

JUNE 10-11 Advance passes for the upcoming Armed Forces Day Salute to Heroes, at 17 Wing Detachment Dundurn, are now available at Saskatoon Shell Stations (not Flying J), Saskatoon Veterans Clubs as well as the town office in Dundurn. The event location is at what many people know as Camp Dundurn. This will be the first-ever major community event at the detachment. Limited capacity and security protocols necessitate the need for restricted attendance each day. Passes will not be for sale at the entry gate. Advance purchase only. More information can be found at www.canadaremembersourheroes.ca.

ONGOING

Saskatoon Mood Disorder Support Group The Saskatoon mood disorder support group for people with bi-polar, depression and other related mental health problem meets at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 323 Fourth Ave. South (south entrance) at 7:30 p.m.

For more information call Al at 306-716-0836 or Lindi at 306-491-9398.

Great 8-spectations

By RJ Currie lex Ovechkin is now 0-7 in Round 2 as Pittsburgh blanked the hometown Caps in Game 7. If all Russians in Washington were this ineffective, Trump wouldn’t be president.

• Happy anniversary Dale Earnhardt Jr. A year ago his steering wheel fell off during the Geico 500. As Kenny Rogers might say: You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.

• The Leafs and recently eliminated Oilers were the youngest of Canada’s playoff teams. How young? Whenever one of them lost a tooth, they’d put it under their pillow.

• The Celtics-Wizard series has featured explosive runs. The same can be said of the Clippers-Jazz series, mostly when Utah’s Gordon Hayward had the flu.

• If the Kentucky Derby is the fastest two minutes in sports, then Manny Machado’s home-run trot against the Red Sox is the slowest.

• I hope Russell Westbrook isn’t one to drown his sorrows. He is fond of triple doubles.

AS051504 Aaron

• Mets ace Matt Harvey reportedly fell apart because Adriana Lima went to the Met Gala with Pats receiver Julian Edelman. Sounds like Lima is playing pitch and catch.

• The Spurs eliminated the Rockets in Game 6 in Houston with James Harden having his worst game of the year. That’s right: they bearded a Harden in his own den.

• Lonzo Ball may be some kind of magician asking $US495 for his signature basketball shoes. Just like that, he turned sneakers into snickers.

• Cincinnati Reds fans have taken to chanting “Woo! Woo” during games. I just checked Atlanta’s record — how long before Braves fans start chanting “Woe! Woe!” • Alex Ovechkin is Great 8, but not great in seven.

RJ’s Groaner of the Week Reuters reports Minnesota police found Gordy the goat, abducted from a petting zoo, in the back of a crashed SUV. Title this one: Kid-nap ended by bleat cop.

EVERY MONDAY

Want a chance to develop and practice your French & English communication & leadership skills in a welcoming, non-judgmental environment? Visit Inspiration bilingue Toastmasters Club from 12:05 to 12:55 p.m.

Meetings are at Le Rendez-vous francophone - 308 Fourth Ave. North, second floor. For more information, visit http://inspirationbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org/ MAY 25 ***** Child Find Saskatchewan’s third annual fundraising breakfast Acadia Drive Grief Support Group meets every Monday at TCU Place Lower Level. The guest speaker is Johan Kent, at 7 p.m. at Acadia McKague’s Funeral Centre at 915 a missing child for 17 years in the United States. Doors open Acadia Drive. This is a drop- in support group for people at 7 a.m. with the program beginning at 7:30 a.m. For more who have lost their spouse or other close family member. information, contact Sue at 306-955-0070.

Come and meet with others who understand what it is like MAY 26-27 to lose your spouse or someone very close to you.

Saskatoon Cache and Release X will be held starting at 5:30 COSMO SENIOR CENTRE p.m. May 26 until 5:30 p.m. on May 27. This is the 10th Daily activities for seniors during the week, beginning in anniversary of SCAR-a 24hr cache-a-thon where cachers try September and running through May. Monday - Yoga: 8:45 to find as many of the new caches that are released for the a.m; Kaiser and Whist: 1:30 p.m.; Tuesday - Exercises: event in a 24-hour period. There is a wind up -potluck party 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.; Bridge: 1 p.m.; Wednesday - Yoga on May 27th at Floral Community center where prizes will be 10 a.m.; Whist:1:30 p.m. Thursday - Exercises: 9:30 and awarded. All cachers are welcome to attend.

10:30 a.m.; Bridge: 1 p.m. (partners); Friday - Yoga: 930; Cribbage and Kaiser: 1:30 p.m. Light refreshments proMAY 27 Ham supper, Third Avenue United Church at 5:30 p.m. Adults vided. Drop-in fee for cards is $2 The fee for the exercise classes and yoga are $4-$5. New members welcome. $15, ages 6 to 12 $7 and ages 5 and under free. Books Annual membership is $5. For more information, call will be sold for $1 at the event. For more information, call 306-343-6710.

306-652-6812. ***** NEWCOMERS’ CLUB The Oliver Lodge Auxiliary will be hosting its annual Spring The Saskatoon Newcomers’ Club welcomes new female Tea and Bake Sale from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Oliver Lodge residents in the Saskatoon area, as well as those who (1405 Faulkner Crescent) in the Bethel United Lounge. All have recently undergone a significant change in lifestyle proceeds from this event will be used to fund special equip- (such as relationship status, retirement, or becoming a ment purchases and events which enhance the quality of life new parent). A new resident is defined as one who has of Oliver Lodge residents. not resided in Saskatoon and/or surrounding area for ***** more than three years. The club holds monthly dinner The Saskatoon Horticultural Society is having its annual plant outings, coffee gatherings, book club and other planned and garden sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lawson Heights activities. If interested, please reply by email to saskaParking Lot, adjacent to Primrose Drive. Perennials, annuals, toonnewcomersclub@gmail.com. books, magazines and other garden related objects. For LAST TUESDAY EVERY MONTH further information, please contact Karen at 306-222-1728 Dizziness and Balance Support Group will meet from 7 or Marj at 306-249-1329. p.m. to 8 p.m. at LifeMark Health Centre, 3907 Eighth St. ***** East. Anyone with a dizziness/vertigo/balance condition is The Saskatoon Guitar Society will be hosting an evening welcome to attend. There is no cost to attend. There will of Classical guitar music played by Stephen Davis, Kendra be an educational topic presented and an opportunity to Harder, Walter Hofmeister, and Darrin Kostur. The event will learn from each other. For more info, call Rae Ann at 306take place at 7:30 p.m. at Emmanuel Anglican Church (609 652-5151 or email raeann.erickson@lifemark.ca.

Dufferin Avenue). Admission is $10 at the door. For more ***** information, phone 306-653-5092.

The Compassionate Friends is a non-profit self-help be***** reavement organization offering friendship, understanding La Troupe du Jour’s fundraising gala, beginning at 8 p.m. at and hope to parents that have experienced the death of a Studio 914. Tickets are $35 or a table of six for $175. Call child at any age. TCF Saskatoon meets the last Tuesday 306-667-1221 to purchase a ticket. of every month (except December) from 7:30 p.m. to JUNE 3 9:30 p.m. at the Edwards Family Centre (333 Fourth Ave. Saskatoon Fiddle Orchestra Spring Show. The orchestra will North). feature popular radio and fiddle hits from the 1920s, 30s, and LAST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH 40s at its 13th annual Radio Music Hall spring show at 7:30 p.m. at the Broadway Theatre. Prize for best period costume. Epilepsy Saskatoon Support Group meets the last Tickets are $20 and are available at McNally Robinson and at Saturday of every month from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the the Broadway Theatre box office and online at https://broad- W.A. Edwards Centre at 333, Fourth Ave. North. Family, children, caregivers and friends are all welcome! This is a waytheatre.ca/events. safe, friendly place to share, discuss ideas, answer quesJUNE 7 tions, and support one another. You can follow Epilepsy Junior Achievement of Saskatchewan Business Hall of Fame Saskatoon on Facebook. event at TCU Place. Reception: 5:30 p.m., with dinner and the FIRST MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH program at 6:30 p.m. Inductees are Darcy Bear, Betty-Ann Heggie, and Vaughn Wyant. For more information and tickets, Saskatoon Ostomy Association meetings at 7 p.m. at Preston Park 1 (114 Armistice Way). Meetings are held visit www.bhofsask.ca. on the first Monday of the month except when there is a JUNE 14 holiday. If so, meetings are on the second Monday. There RUH Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic. Moonlake Golf & are no meetings in January, July and August.

Country Club, 8:30 a.m. **** You are invited to join Eric Gryba of the Edmonton Oilers, University Non-Academic Retirees Association meets for hockey friends and other sports celebrities for the 2017 RUH coffee at 10:30 a.m. at Smitty’s in Market Mall. All former Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic. Call Trina Hrtizuk at 306support staff who have retired from the U of S are invited 655-0628 or visit ruhf.org for more information. to attend.

625 - 25th Street East Saskatoon, SK, S7K 8J1

Come join us for

Happy Hour Fridays!

Friday Afternoons from 2:30 – 3:30 pm.

We always have a live band to kick up your heels with…

Tours also available Call Mitchell or Ruth at

(306) 933-9394 At Parkville, it’s all about enjoying life & having fun!

sales@parkvillemanor.com

Answers

SASKATOONEXPRESS - May 15-21, 2017 - Page 16

Kominetsky 2017 chair of Saskatoon’s Gutsy Walk

“T

(Continued from page 1) here were days I would be working a 12-hour shift, I would be doubled over in pain in the medication room, trying to catch my breath to keep working. I recall eating the world’s smallest bowl of soup on my lunch break, and literally taking 45 minutes to finish it – every bite hurt my stomach to swallow. I lost six pounds that week not being able to physically eat.”

According to Crohn’s and Colitis Canada (CCC), one in 150 Canadians lives with the inflammatory bowel diseases known as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. In Saskatchewan, about 8,000 people live with Crohn’s or colitis. The diseases inflame the lining of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and disrupt the body’s ability to digest food, absorb nutrition, and eliminate waste in a healthy manner. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can cause life-threatening complications and debilitating symptoms such as abdominal cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, fever, bleeding, anemia, fatigue, and pain, inflammation, and swelling of the joints.

The inflammation from Crohn’s disease is usually located in the lower part of the small bowel and the upper end of the colon, although it can affect any part of the GI tract – from the mouth to the anus. Ulcerative colitis is more localized, typically affecting the large bowel.

Canada has among the highest rates of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the world. IBD is more common in developed countries, urban areas, and temperate climates, and males and females are equally affected. Although Crohn’s and colitis can be diagnosed at any age, people are more frequently diagnosed before the age of 30.

According to CCC, Crohn’s disease has almost doubled in children under the age of 10 since 1995.

When Kominetsky was diagnosed, she thought, “Why me?”

“I am a good person,” she recalls thinking at the time. “What have I done wrong?”

Kominetsky remembers feeling par-

NEW !

ticularly “defeated” and “broken” after she was told by a medical specialist that having children would not be an option for her until she had “a good two-year clean bill of health.” It was then that she decided to take control of her body and her health. She became determined to compete in her first fitness competition.

“I watched a couple of friends compete and was in awe of all their hard work. Once I tried it, I was hooked,” she said.

Kominetsky believes enhancing her physical fitness has played a big role in keeping her disease under control.

“It has helped keep me in remission and the endorphins released during my workouts instantly cheer me up,” she said.

Kominetsky currently competes with the Saskatchewan Amateur Bodybuilding Association (SABBA) in the figure category.

In 2016, she won the overall title and now only competes at the national level. She is an inspiration to those around her – both people who are affected by inflammatory bowel disease and people who are not.

There’s no doubt that when obstacles are in her way, Kominetsky pushes past them.

“My body does not absorb nutrients or put on muscle like others who are ‘healthy.’

I have to train harder and longer to make this happen,” she said. “I am a very stubborn individual and will do whatever it takes to reach my goals, so if it takes me a few extra years to come out on top, so be it.”

Since 2011, Kominetsky has competed in six fitness competitions and she plans to compete in her next national show in 2018.

She is a published fitness model and has been included on the Inside Fitness Hot & Fit 100 list for the last two years. She has worked as an LPN for the last 12 years, and received the LPN of Distinction Award in 2016. She is the new vice-president of the Saskatchewan Association of Licensed Practical Nurses (SALPN) and will become president after she completes her two-year term as vice-president.

Kominetsky has advice for other people living with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis: Listen to your body. She credits her

Fidgets!

Denise Kominetsky competes nationally in bodybuilding.

(Pink Elephant Photography.com) and cell repair, and laying the foundation for new and better treatments.

To find out more about CCC, visit crohnsandcolitis.ca. To register for the June 4 Gutsy Walk, go online to gutsywalk.ca.

(Shannon Boklaschuk is a public relations volunteer for the Saskatoon chapter of Crohn’s and Colitis Canada. She is also the 2017 honorary chair of the Saskatoon Gutsy Walk.)

For Any Occassion • Body Treatments • Hair Design • Hand & Foot Therapy • Laser Therapy • Nail Service • Spa Facial Treatments

HAND TRI SPINNER ANTI STESS FIDGETS ANTI STESS FIDGET CUBE

exercise regime and regular injections of an IBD medication for her current state of wellbeing.

“My specialist urged me to take it easy, not to push myself. I defied those odds and have competed now for five years. It’s by far the hardest thing I have ever done; however, the training, diet, and exercise, in combination with my injections, has kept me in remission for the last couple of years,” she said.

Kominetsky is now taking on a new challenge: she is serving as the Saskatoon chair of the 2017 Gutsy Walk for Crohn’s and Colitis Canada. On June 4, Canadians from coast to coast will participate in the 22nd annual event, which will be held in 60 communities across the country. In Saskatoon, the walk will start at North Kiwanis Park, located at 22nd Street East and Spadina Crescent East, at 2 p.m. The event will feature two-kilometre and fivekilometre options, a barbecue, children’s games, a silent auction, live entertainment, and more. The goal is to raise $115,000 in Saskatoon.

Kominetsky said she became involved with the Saskatoon chapter of Crohn’s and Colitis Canada because she wants to be a positive role model and an inspiration to others living with IBD. “I am very honoured to sit as chair of this committee. This is our biggest fundraiser for research for a cure. Living with this disease makes me want to try my absolute hardest to raise as much money possible. I want us to find a cure and help people live a healthy, normal life,” she said.

CCC, a national volunteer-based charity, is focused on finding a cure and improving the lives of children and adults impacted by the chronic diseases. CCC is one of the top two charity funders of Crohn’s and colitis research in the world, and the organization has invested more than $100 million in research since 1974, leading to breakthroughs inDC051519 genetics, gutDarlene microbes, inflammation,

JUST ARRIVED !

METAL SPINNER ANTI STESS FIDGETS

• Spa For Men • Spa Packages • Kid’s Spa • Specialty Items • Permanent Make-up

WE HAVE THE LARGEST SELECTION OF FIDGETS IN SASKATCHEWAN! Hours: Mon-Fri: 8am-5:30pm Sat: 10am-4pm

AS051503 Aaron

832A Cynthia Street, Saskatoon

306.343.5612 • www.puzzlemaster.ca

110 - 3501 8th St. East,Saskatoon • 306.477.6245 • www.changeshair.com

Take her to the stars.

Polaris.

This delicate, starry pendant is our entry in the 2017 diamond jewellery competition, celebrating Canada’s 150th.

Vote for our pendant today at www.canadamark.com/ contest and you could win it.

Jewellery made for you, and only you.

204-115 SECOND AVENUE NORTH, SASKATOON • 306-653-5333 • www.kmpltd.ca