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Dalmeny water-skier taking over the waves Ashley Baerg exhibits her trick-skiing skills at the 2015 World Championships in Elk Grove, California. (Photo Supplied.)

Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express t the end of a Canadian national team basketball camp in Alabama, the players were asked if they wanted to go water-skiing as part of a windup event.

Ashley Baerg of Dalmeny was one of those who quickly decided to give it a go.

She always loved being at the lake with family and had done a fair amount of tubing over the years.

That water-skiing outing was in 2012.

Eleven months later she was competing at the 2013 Disabled World Water Ski championships and four years after that she holds a world record. She set the record this spring in Australia.

Baerg was oh-so-close to competing on

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Canada’s basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London. Baerg was an alternate on the team and didn’t go to the Games.

She was smitten with water-skiing that day in Alabama, although she saw herself as a basketball player who would ski recreationally.

“I called my parents from Alabama and said we need to figure out how I can get a ski to take to the lake in the summer. Tubing was getting a little harder on my body; I just couldn’t handle it anymore.”

Baerg was born with spina bifida and sits to ski. After returning from Alabama she was told to contact Dave Wassill to get a ski. She was told Wassill was going to be pushy and would want her to compete.

“I was, ‘No, no, my goal was to make

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the national team for basketball.’ I hadn’t quite done that yet, but that was my goal.”

Baerg planned to work hard to be on the team when the 2016 Games rolled around in Rio. Wassill remembers meeting Baerg and her wanting that ski.

“I said, ‘Well, there is more to it than that.’ She said, ‘No there isn’t, just get me a ski.’ So we got her a ski, she came back a weekend after and said, ‘Yeah, I’ll take a lesson.’”

Baerg likely said it more politely than that, but that was the start of a successful relationship between a coach and an athlete.

“She is a phenomenal athlete,” said Wassill, who has been involved in local water-skiing for more than 40 years. “She can apply her physical skills quickly to

anything new.”

It didn’t take long for Baerg to start falling in love with the sport. Wassill took her to Florida for a week for a prospect training camp not long after she started skiing.

People were in Florida to prepare for the 2013 world championships in Italy.

“Inside I was so jealous because I was like, ‘Man, Italy is on my bucket list and I’m never going to make the team.’ I had been trying for 10 years to make a basketball national team. About three days into that camp, they invited me to Italy. So I was on the team.

“It was pretty surreal, just knowing I had tried so hard to make the national team for basketball and then so quick for waterskiing.”

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I were talking about a person I In the column I shared a used to work with and hadn’t couple of stories about things seen in about eight years. A going wrong when Doug incouple of days later we crossed stalled them or attempted to fix paths with her at a restaurant. them. To be fair, he did some Sandy and I looked at each other great renovations at his home, and shrugged our shoulders. at his beloved cabin and for Editor How does this happen? many people like me.

The second one was a bit weirder. A The toilet suffered a crack in its tank friend and I were chatting about the death recently and had to go. There are no bolts of Kenny Shields and the name of a Saska- sticking up on the new one and it is stable toon person entered the conversation. My on the floor. I liked the old one better. friend knows him quite well and I met him ***** about 20 years ago and haven’t seen him or I am not sure what Mayor Charlie Clark spoken with him in about six years. means when he says we have to learn to not Within an hour or two of my friend and fear the river and to embrace it. It sounds I having our conversation, the person we good in theory, but even when used prophad been talking about called the Express, erly, rivers are still dangerous places. My and left a message for me. I all but dropped mom told me so. the phone when I heard who was calling. ***** What were the odds of that happening?

One morning last month, traffic was ***** bogged down on Circle Drive North after We replaced a toilet in our home last a recliner fell off a truck, resulting in an week. accident. It’s no fun being stuck in trafThe previous one wasn’t properly fic for an hour, but I found it somewhat installed. It rocked on its foundation and amusing that the traffic report on CKOM there were uncovered bolts sticking up that morning was sponsored by a furniture from the base. There were spare parts, and store. And besides, I took Circle Drive the toilet wasn’t even from IKEA. South that day.

As crazy as it sounds, there is a fond ***** memory attached to that toilet. Why else Coun. Darren Hill’s idea of having beewould I be writing about a toilet, right? hives on the roof of City Hall is a good one Mind you, why do I write a lot of things but falls short. I’m thinking why not go all that I have in this space? out and have a rooftop farm with chickens, My friend Doug McConachie installed hogs and maybe a couple of cows. it about 10 years ago for Sandy and me. ***** Doug was a handyman, with a bit of a bull Speaking of beeswax, the Regina author in a China shop way of fixing things. who wants the statue of John Diefenbaker I wrote a column about Doug in April and Wilfred Laurier removed from our 2011, during my last week at the Stardowntown should mind his.

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Human flag to wave over the Saskatoon Ex Quebec’s Dominic Lacasse we’re presenting something has perfected the art of the huwith great value. man flag to such a degree that “It’s the type of show you he has twice achieved Guinness won’t usually see anywhere else World Records. in Saskatoon and if it was going Lacasse is the director and into another venue, the tickets one of the participants in Circus would probably be $75 or better.

Hotel, a 40-minute mix of gymAt the Ex, it’s free as part of a nastics, theatrics and a little bit of rounded entertainment package Cirque du Soleil flair nightly at we expect to present at every 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on the Hall Exhibition.”

C show stage at the Saskatoon Lacasse said he was just like Exhibition. The Ex opens Aug. 8 any other Quebec boy growPeople and runs through Aug. 13. ing up, wanting to be a hockey The human flag is an act player. where a gymnast takes hold of a Chinese “That didn’t happen. Gymnastics was a pole and then extends himself horizontally, good choice for me and I did a lot in the gym something akin to a flag oscillating in the from the time I was 12 until I was 19. Then I wind. The challenge is in how long the went to the Quebec circus school and that’s individual is able to hold the position. where I learned how to put it all together.”

Lacasse set his first Guinness record in The human flag concept came together November 2007, when he maintained the in quick stages. human flag move for 39 seconds.

“First, I knew I had to get a video on Then in 2016, he established a record for YouTube. I wanted to try something new and the most chin-ups, 14, in a human flag posi- began to develop the human flag position. tion, beating the previous record of 12.

I started getting calls to come to events.

Both records have since been eclipsed.

Because of that sudden interest, I rushed into “Achieving the fame was the result of making the video, three days from 8 (a.m.) investing all of your life into it and makuntil 8 (p.m.). Within a month, I got the call ing it a top priority,” he said in a telephone from the Guinness people who had seen it interview from Montreal. on YouTube. The first TV show was done in Lacasse has built those 39 seconds into Germany and others followed.” a six-minute segment which will be the One of his first North American TV signclimax of the Circus Hotel event. It is an ings was with The Ellen DeGeneres Show. exclusive purchase by Saskatoon among France has its own version of Incredthe Prairie cities which hold annual summer ible Talent. He became a hit, especially in fairs.

Europe. He’s won special festival prizes at “We’d been in touch with Dominic for Monte Carlo, in China and in Russia. more than a year,” said Suzan Kuzma, He’s been 14 years in what he calls “the manager of events at the Saskatoon Exhibi- circus business” and happily his wife, Karen tion, “but in 2016, we’d already committed Goudreault, often shares the spotlight with to the Peking acrobats. We’re happy to have him, especially in Circus Hotel. Emile Carey Circus Hotel in our lineup and we believe and Marie-Claude Chamberland are also in JW080705 James

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(Photo Supplied) the cast. All four have enjoyed experiences with Cirque du Soleil, with Carey being a seven-year veteran.

Circus Hotel begins with a welcome from a hotel porter into the hotel’s lobby and the story builds with seemingly supernatural spirits at play, growing into a spectacle of acrobatic theatrics amid enchanting music.

“We think we have something of quality and something very efficient in our performances,” said Lacasse.

All of the entertainment at the Ex, including the six nightly grandstand shows, are free. There are multiple choices of shows.

Also on stage at Hall C are Alvinn and the Chipmunks, daily at 2:30 and 6:30 p.m., and Tryzen, the master hypnotist, daily at 3:30, 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. The President’s Choice SuperDogs are the main attraction at Hall E, with shows at 4, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.

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north of Concession Row at 4:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. The Nerveless Nocks thrill show includes motorcyclists riding inside a steel globe, taking place east of the Log Cabin at 3, 6:30 and 8 p.m. Diversity of Living Things takes place on Moe Neault Way, between the midway and grandstand, at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. The fireworks cap each evening’s entertainment at 11 p.m.

Strolling acts include the Crawdaddios Jazz Band, which leads the Mardi Gras parade at 6 p.m. and stays on the grounds until 9 p.m., and DooDoo The Clown, Dan The One-Man Band and T-Rex Dino.

The Kickin’ Horse Saloon, north of the grandstand, features a different Saskatchewan band playing three times a night. The lineup features Dixie Hiway on Tuesday, Topher Mils on Wednesday, Johnny McCuaig on Thursday, Riff Raff on Friday, Rock Candy on Saturday and the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Revue on Sunday.

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Historic clothing brings us closer to our forebears Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express f you were around 50 or 100 years ago, what would you be wearing?

Would you be dressed in a miner’s coveralls? A farmer’s overalls? A spectacular green satin and black silk evening gown?

Or perhaps beautiful beaded moccasins?

It’s fascinating to consider which clothing of yesteryear would befit a person, but perhaps even more interesting to understand our forebears through their shoes, caps, dresses, vests and work clothes.

The Western Development Museum (WDM) has created an exhibit of 12 garments and accessories, some of them under glass and some of them by photograph, to celebrate both Canada 150 and our Saskatchewan history.

Entitled Our Collective Threads: Saskatchewan People in Canada, the exhibit is on now until Oct. 22 at the Saskatoon WDM. It then travels to the other WDMs in the province over the following year.

Some of the items are rarely-seen textiles from the WDM collection, explains Elizabeth Scott, the museum’s director of research.

“One of the challenges with caring for textiles is that they’re incredibly delicate pieces. They’re very sensitive to light and exposure,” she said. “One of the ways around that is to shoot them in this life-size (or larger) high-resolution photography.

“It gives you a sense of connecting, on a personal level, with our place-based stories.”

The items collected provide a variety ranging from “extraordinary to ordinary,” said Scott, from work clothes to leisure clothes, and showcasing the diversity of JW080704 James Saskatchewan, past and present.

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by PotashCorp miners, but also a pair of moccasins from the turn of the century that belonged to Chief Kinistino of the Little Bone First Nation. He was a close friend to a pair of Irish brothers named Magrath, and the moccasins symbolize the bonds of friendship between the First Nations chief and the early settlers of the Yorkton area.

They moccasins demonstrate the “connection (between First Nations and settlers) before assimilation policies began to take place,” said Scott.

The moccasins represent the oldest exhibit, while a T-shirt created by SheNative, a fashion company in Saskatoon run by “Chief Changemaker” Devon Fiddler, is the newest. It displays a woman standing before teepee poles, with #Warrior on her back.

Also in the exhibit is a pair of farm boots dating from 1915, with their original mud still clinging to them.

“One of the things we are mandated to do is care for artifacts as donated,” said Scott. “We’ve kept them in the state they were donated to us in. This is Saskatchewan in these boots.”

They belonged to an immigrant farmer from Russia, and were stoutly made to protect his feet from machinery and the hooves of livestock.

“They evoke a sense of very hard work,” said Scott.

A sheepskin vest with Ukrainian origins, worn by an 11-year-old boy in 1913, is also physically on display and appears to be in remarkable shape.

“The descendants of this family kept this. We acquired it in 2015,” said Scott.

“They literally took care of this for 100 years. It gives a sense of what was important to bring with them to Saskatchewan.”

WDM Director of Research Elizabeth Scott poses with two of the 12 items in the museum’s Our Collective Threads exhibit. (Photo by Joanne Paulson) There are also three beautiful dresses, two of them with remarkable stories. The elegant green satin and black silk Parisian evening gown, too delicate to be displayed on the floor, belonged to the wife of T.F. Calder, for whom the Calder House is named.

Della Calder wore such beautiful and expensive items early in her life, but after being widowed in 1914, her life was turned upside down. She was forced to sell her home in order to support her three children.

A second dress is from China, belonging to Jennie Howe of Macklin. She and her husband founded the Star Café, which operated from 1923 to 2002; and their son David became the town’s mayor. She almost always wore western clothing, but retained her heritage by keeping her beautiful Chinese tunic dresses.

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fascinating, as well.

“When we did the photography on this coat, it took two of us to position it, because it’s so, so heavy,” said Scott, with a laugh. It was so heavy because the good doctor made house calls over a wide area in 40 below.

The display is one of three celebrating Canada’s milestone anniversary at the WDM. Another is a canoe from the 1967 pageant — a race from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, all the way to Expo ’67 in Montreal. Also, each WDM will have a Canada 150 gallery guide to highlight artifacts or moments in history that show Saskatchewan’ place in the nation’s history.

“I hope people will connect with something new, and something familiar,” said Scott about the Our Collective Threads exhibit. “We’ve always been a very diverse province. You can’t get closer to that reality than through clothing . . . clothing is so personal. You get a feeling for what that person’s life must have been like.”

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Diefenbaker deserves statue, recognition for his human rights work

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ohn Diefenbaker, once this is the right one, and I do prime minister of Canada, really like it, I leave it up to is much in the news these debate. I prefer to remember days.

Dief for the great good he He would absolutely love did. that.

When I studied political His return to the media spotscience at the University light comes courtesy of Garrett of Saskatchewan, I wrote a Wilson, a Regina lawyer and paper (and got a resounding author. He objects to the statue A, if I may say so) on Dief’s of Diefenbaker selling a newsearly effects on apartheid. paper to then-Prime Minister He stood against the South Columnist Wilfrid Laurier, sitting on the African government and opSaskatoon corner of First Avposed its membership in the enue and 21st Street.

Commonwealth. The opprobrium from Date of occurrence was ostensibly July Canada and other nations led South Africa 29, 1910. The statue was, appropriately, to retreat from its application for readmisfunded by the StarPhoenix. sion.

But Wilson says the newspaper transfer “Apartheid has become the world’s never happened. That’s not to say the symbol of discrimination,” said DiefStarPhoenix blew it, by any means; enbaker in the House of Commons on Diefenbaker told the story about meeting March 17, 1961. “I took the position Laurier many times during the 1963 elec- that if we were to accept South Africa’s tion campaign. Wilson claims that story request [for readmission] unconditionally, was never verified. our action would be taken as approval Well, maybe it happened, and maybe it or at least condonation of racial policies, didn’t. Dief was somewhat known for tell- which are repugnant to and unequivocally ing stories; and he certainly told this one, abhorred and condemned by Canadians as many times. Wilson argues that the statue a whole.” is journalistically on shaky ground, since May I say, Amen?

Dief himself was the only source on the Diefenbaker gave First Nations people story, and Wilson doesn’t trust that source. the franchise in 1960; they voted for the Let us assume that the story is apocry- first time in 1962. phal. Even so, it fell from Diefenbaker’s Also in 1960, Diefenbaker’s governlips; and if he is not the most reliable ment enacted the Canadian Bill of Rights, witness, who else would have seen the the first federal expression of human event, and verified it? It’s pretty hard to rights law. It was a bill that Diefenbaker prove either way. And it’s a heck of a started writing in the 1930s, and it’s said good statue. that his experience as a lawyer led to a I met him once. It was in the lobby of deep frustration with discrimination. the Sheraton Cavalier Hotel; I was very I could go on, but you get the picture. young, and quite amazed that the former To this day, the following quote from prime minister was standing right before Diefenbaker gives me a thrill. Think of me. He walked right up to me and shook all the countries that cannot come close my hand, murmuring some sort of pleas- to aspiring to what we have achieved in antry, his head, sadly, shaking slightly. I Canada, in large part because Diefenbaker wasn’t exactly overwhelmed at the time, got the whole thing rolling. but I’ve always liked meeting PMs, parThis is what it means to be Canadian. ticularly when they’re actually in power.

“I am a Canadian, free to speak withGives you a better feel for who they are, out fear, free to worship in my own way, and what’s going on. free to stand for what I think right, free to I met Paul Martin before he became oppose what I believe wrong, or free to PM; Brian Mulroney (his head is even choose those who shall govern my counbigger than it looks on TV) while he was try. This heritage of freedom I pledge to in office; and Stephen Harper. “Met” is uphold for myself and all mankind.” maybe a big word for the slim interacFor all these reasons, getting snippy tion, although I had a great interview with about a potentially apocryphal statue is Martin once, when he was still finance perhaps not terribly necessary. Dief was far minister. from perfect. But what he accomplished Returning to Dief the Chief, though, was incredibly, positively Canadian. we need a statue of him in Saskatoon. If www.jcpaulsonauthor.com

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Accessibility has improved, but we still need to ramp it up

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as anyone surprised our city and province from the that Saskatoon came vantage point of a wheelchair second to Regina in the user was an eye-opener. To crime rate rankings? And if you a much smaller degree, and listen to the daily news, the inunconsciously, we are all a little crease in violent crime shouldn’t unconcerned about people with be a surprise either. Beatings, mobility issues. stabbings and shootings seem to We first took Jeff to Waskesiu, be a weekly occurrence. a park he had always wanted to The most despicable crime visit. The first obstacle was the was the recent attack on a man in few steps to access the cabin, so a wheelchair while he was walkwe went in search of a portable Columnist ing his dog. Although we all feel ramp. A sincere thank you to vulnerable to a random attack, beAccess 2000 for helping with ing unable to defend yourself or to flee from that issue, and I might add at no cost. (They an attacker must be horrifying. will definitely make it to our donations list Following this crime was the theft of 34 this year.) wheelchairs used by a wheelchair basketTo my amazement, the Prince Albert ball team. Is there a black market for used National Park (PANP) administrative offices specialized sports wheelchairs? had two motorized electric scooters for daily No doubt the chairs will be found damuse by people with mobility issues, free of aged and dumped somewhere and the trailer charge. This enabled Jeff to easily tour the will be sold to some chump who believes he town site and enjoy the lake trails. got a great deal without any thought given I would have thought Saskatoon would to the idea that he/she is purchasing stolen be easier for wheelchair users than the goods.

PANP. When Jeff was younger and we could It is hard to accept that there are those lift him, he stayed with us, but as an adult among us that can be so callous and uncarour home cannot accommodate his needs. ing towards disadvantaged people. However, Arrangements were made for an accessible I recently had my nephew, Jeff, who is a room that, regrettably, turned out not to be wheelchair user, visiting with us and seeing fully accessible. And of course, Murphy’s

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short-notice service. Yes, you can get taxis, but many disadvantaged people are on limited incomes and cannot afford to use them.

And airlines no longer give priority frontrow seating to those with mobility issues, unless they can afford to pay the extra fee.

Jeff made a good point that any agency, business, hotel or government-sponsored accessibility initiative should have a wheelchair user signing off on the plan. In accessible hotel rooms, are the bathrooms large enough to turn a wheelchair in? Are the taps on the shower low enough for access by someone in a sitting position, and can the telescopic shower be adjusted from below? Is there ample room in a bathroom to transfer from a wheelchair to a shower, tub or toilet?

Everything in life we take for granted is harder for people with disabilities. It is hard on caregivers and family who are trying to provide their loved one with independence and a decent quality of life. Accessibility is not just about curb cuts and ramps. It is about inclusiveness and courtesy. As a society, we have come a long way from the days of Boomtown, but we still have a way to go.

What we do have in abundance are many kind citizens who go out of their way to assist those in need. To them, thank you.

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Law prevailed and there was not an accessible hotel room to be had. But Jeff needed a place to shower, so I called a city recreational facility, explained our dilemma and asked about use of an accessible public shower.

The young lady I spoke to, after checking with her supervisor, came back to me somewhat embarrassed, saying if it was up to her she would just let him in, but her supervisor said he would have to pay the daily admission. (Are we that broke?) I would have happily paid it had the facility afforded him decent use of a shower with some privacy.

We took Jeff to the Western Development Museum which is a fantastic exhibition of the history of Saskatchewan. The first thing we noticed was the repair needed to the entrance floor (his wheels got caught in the cracks.)

It is a hazard for able-bodied people much less anyone with mobility issues. Although the WDM is reasonably accessible, some of the exhibits were not; but it is understandable as Boomtown is a replica of a bygone era. He immensely enjoyed the WDM, but I couldn’t help but notice how much harder it was for him to enjoy the simple pleasure of roaming a museum, an activity I take for granted.

We talked about services like Access Transit and the inability to get reasonable

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Devine became synonymous with corBy choice or otherwise, Devine vanruption after 14 of his MLAs, including ished from the Saskatchewan political and eight ministers, and two party workers governmental realm for almost 30 years. were convicted for fraud. Six went to jail. Until last week, that is, when the Sask.

Another, former Assiniboia-Gravelbourg Party exhumed him with an appointment PC MLA Jack Wolfe, tormented over to the high-profile, powerful University having to testify against his friends and of Saskatchewan board of governors. The former colleagues, and by the fact he was reaction, from right-wing radio talk shows potentially facing arrest, killed himself. to Reddit threads, was predictably fierce At the time, Devine blamed the NDP, and divided. despite the fact it was the RCMP investiToday’s Grant Devine is likely a pergating and laying charges. He described fectly good, nice and competent man. I’m the situation as a “large witch hunt” and not going to judge him based the actions warned reporters not to “ever even think of his caucus 30 years ago. that they (NDP) are above strategic defaThe problem with Grant Devine mation, political defamation of the PCs — really has nothing to do with the man that’s a given.” himself — it’s what those three syllables Some folks high up in the Sask. Party that comprise his legal name represent: today still blame the NDP for what hapcorruption. His name has never been repened, including Wolfe’s death, and that habilitated after three decades. If it had blame still drives, in some small part, the been, the Sask. Party government would unhealthy and undemocratic hatred we see have been honouring and appointing him today in the legislature. years ago.

Devine was never charged, but has The fact it’s happening today tells me said he still accepts responsibility for the one of two things: this is either a move actions of his people, which resulted in made by a premier in his last year, or the theft of $800,000 of public money. Yet this is the move of an unopposed party, not even that long ago, Devine seemed to confident it will always remain that way minimize the crimes. and that doesn’t give a hoot what anyone “It was hundreds of thousands of dol- thinks anymore.

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(Continued from page 1) he still wasn’t convinced it was going to be “her” sport. She decided she would go to Italy, experience the country and the competition and then go back to basketball.

She and Wassill worked all summer in 2013 at the Rat Hole in Saskatoon to get ready for the nationals and then the worlds.

The nationals were held in Calgary eight days before the worlds.

Baerg said the nationals didn’t go so well. She was talking about slalom, considering she set a record in tricks, and became the first Canadian woman to ever jump.

“I guess it was all right,” she allowed.

Then it was off to Italy.

“I was terrified. I didn’t want to go and make a fool of myself.”

It didn’t happen that way. Baerg won the gold medal in jumping, the bronze in tricks and overall bronze.

This was 11 months after taking the plunge in Alabama. It left her in a quandary. Her basketball coach said she would have to pick a sport. She chose waterskiing.

“I still can’t believe the process that it’s been. It’s been crazy.”

Wassill isn’t surprised by her success.

“I sensed she would be where she is today.”

He said she is going to continue to raise the bar for other skiers.

“It’s not because they aren’t good, but she’s in a whole different realm as an athlete.”

Baerg credits Wassill for much of her success.

“Dave has been instrumental, not just for me but for the disability community in water-skiing. He guides my blind teammate; he’s helped grow the program here in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan.

“If it wasn’t for him, especially that

first year leading into Italy and all the time we spent on the water, I wouldn’t have been as prepared as I was.

“He always seems to have more lofty goals than I do. He pushes me and helps me meet them. Even when I think it is out of the realm of possibility, he seems to think it is and I’m crazy enough to go along with it. I 100 per cent trust him and know he’s not going to lead me astray in anything I want to do.”

Baerg set a world record in jumping at the recent worlds in Australia. She jumped 17.4 metres to edge out the previous mark of 17.3 metres. She landed hard and fell forward, ending up with a bloody nose and bleeding lip.

“I had to look at the screen that shows the distance for quite a while because I didn’t really believe it. I really didn’t think I had jumped that far so I was pretty shocked.”

She finished fifth in tricks and fourth in slalom.

Wassill said Baerg is improving by leaps and buoys in slalom.

During a training run with a reporter in the boat, Wassill beamed after Baerg’s first run. Rather than ski the inner buoys, she zig-zagged across water using the much more difficult outer ones. Wassill pointed out those are the ones able-bodied and professional skiers use.

“A very small group of athletes can do that,” he said. “She ran the whole thing and did it effortlessly. At the next worlds she is going to be making some statements — more than she already has.”

She made statements at the 2015 worlds in California. Baerg was first in tricks, first in jumping, third in slalom and first overall. She darn near ran the table.

Baerg said being born with spina bifida has created opportunities for her.

“I’ve (been able) to travel the world to places I for sure never would have been.

Ashley Baerg of Dalmeny says her coach Dave Wassill (left) has been instrumental in her success. (Photo by Cam Hutchinson) I’ve been to Japan twice and to Germany multiple times and I just went to Australia, places I wouldn’t probably pick to spend my money and go on a trip. I would honestly say because of my disability I have had more opportunities than it’s hindered me.

“My mom’s quote has always been, ‘You can be bitter or better’ about something. I’ve taken that. I don’t like when people look different or feel different than somebody. I work so hard to not be different than everyone. I can go out and ski the same course as them, I just might be sitting down, right? For me, it’s doing what everybody else does; I might just have to do it differently.”

Baerg doesn’t see herself as an inspiration for other athletes with disabilities or not.

“I am doing what I love to do and find it hard to put the word inspiration beside it.”

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She said she recently watched a beginner’s clinic at the club and it left an impression on her.

“It was kind of like Dave when I started; he saw my potential when I didn’t. I see their potential and they don’t.

“My goal is to see our program grow.

I didn’t just make the team because we had room; people have to earn it. I want the program to be so big there has to be tryouts and things like that.

“If I can be a part of that, I would love to be, especially for women in sport. It is difficult to get women in sport, not just water-skiing but any sport. I want people to live physical lives and just be healthy and be fit and enjoy things they didn’t think were possible because they have a disability.”

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BOOM ‘more of a performance than a play’ Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express f you were born from 1945 to 1969, Rick Miller is talkin’ ’bout your generation.

Miller, a Gemini Award-winning writer, performer and director based in Toronto, is the creative force behind BOOM, a show that delves into the musical, cultural and political forces that shaped the Baby Boom generation. Persephone Theatre is presenting BOOM as a special summer bonus show this month.

In a recent interview, Miller said BOOM connects the evolution of rock ’n’ roll and the evolution of technology with the politics of the era.

“All of these things connect to make what we call history — and then there are the personal histories of the people who live through it,” he said.

Showcasing 25 years of history is an ambitious task, and Miller brings to life more than 100 characters during his solo performance. Major events and cultural phenomena, such as the Cold War, McCarthyism, Beatlemania and Trudeamania, are touched on as the tumultuous history of the Baby Boom generation is told through the lives of three main characters.

Miller said he has a personal connection to those characters — an immigrant from war-torn Austria, an African-American draft dodger who grew up in Chicago and a Canadian woman who grew up in a small town — so he is, in a sense, exploring his “own DNA” through the multimedia show.

“I’m inhabiting my own time capsule to try to speak to young people today to see that in some ways we’re all connected — and it’s hard to remember that sometimes,” he said.

Saskatonians may remember Miller from his time at the local Fringe Theatre Festival or from his acclaimed one-person play, MacHomer, which cleverly blends

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TV’s The Simpsons with William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Miller is certainly no stranger to the stage; in fact, he has performed in five languages on five continents, hosted ABC’s series Just for Laughs for three years and was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “one of the 100 most creative people alive today.” In a 2015 article, The Globe and Mail described Miller as “Canada’s most talented impressionist since Rich Little” and called BOOM Miller’s “best solo show to date,” hailing its “brilliant design concept that allows him to use him inimitable vocal talents to tell this story in a way that no one else could.”

Music is an important part of BOOM. While Miller performs various tunes from the Baby Boom era, he said he didn’t want to create a musical revue that would simply tap into the audience members’ nostalgia.

“I want to make people think and feel and put things together, in ways that my shows are able to do that other people maybe don’t have the perspective to do,” he said.

“I studied architecture and I’m always interested in being someone who connects things together, as opposed to playwrights who are fantastic at telling stories of characters and what they go through in one night.

BOOM is not that. It’s more of a performance than a play, but that’s just what I do and what I love to do — to take people out of themselves a little bit and transport them into either another era or another time.”

Because Miller wrote and directed the show, he could choose the songs he wanted to sing, covering everyone from crooners like Perry Como to rockers like Janis Joplin and David Bowie.

“It’s a lot of fun for me to do, but it is exhausting,” he said. “And that’s part of the experience of BOOM — is you’re watching somebody go AS080712 through something Aaronthat

Rick Miller showcases 25 years of history in BOOM. (Photo Supplied) is, I’d say, unique and extraordinary. I don’t mean extraordinary in the sense that ‘the show is extraordinary;’ it’s out of the ordinary.

“It is not something you see every day, and so many people have brought families back to see BOOM again because they thought, ‘Man, you’ve got to see this thing.’ It’s just different from anything they’ve seen before, and it’s hard to create something different these days.”

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ormer Saskatoon me. I further expect that in Mayor Cliff Wright many of the answers he gives would have made a will be embedded trademark great school teacher. Except life lessons of the elder he probably wouldn’t have Wright. been allowed to smoke in It is viewed with some the classroom and that might fascination — even alarm — have been a problem. in B.C. that Don Wright has Every conversation with served both NDP and Liberal Wright was a life lesson — a governments here and reparable, a principle, a provceived plaudits for his work. erb — as much as a discusHe is widely credited with Columnist sion of a specific issue. He ending the war in the woods was one of those rare people — the perpetual protests who recognized teachable moments and that once paralyzed the coastal forest took the time to deliver the lesson, not industry. He has run private companies just with his own kids but with onceand public enterprises, and is apparyoung reporters like me. For that act of ently equally skilled at both. (He is also generosity, he is one of my heroes. a respected former deputy minister in Many of Wright’s lessons were prob- Saskatchewan.) ably ringing in the ears of his son Don The answer to questions about his in recent days as he was named deputy ability to operate across the political minister to John Horgan, the new prespectrum is no great mystery. Deputy mier of British Columbia. The younger Minister Wright is simply following in Wright holds the top civil service job the footsteps of his dad, Mayor Wright. in the freshly-minted New Democratic In the early 1990s, no longer the Party/Green coalition government that mayor, he called me to suggest I attend recently took power on the western a press conference later that day. I was fringe of the Dominion. editor of the StarPhoenix at the time so My guess is that, as he steps into his it would be more likely for a reporter new role, Don Wright is being asked to attend than me, but Wright had never many of the same questions by the citi- steered me wrong, so I showed up. zens of B.C. as his dad was once asked At the event, Premier Roy Romanow by the citizensDarlene of Saskatoon, including unveiled a major policy announcement: DC080709

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health care was being totally redesigned with the introduction of independent regional health districts across Saskatchewan. The Saskatoon Health Board was the first to be created and Cliff Wright was to be its first chair.

Wright believed passionately in noblesse oblige, the concept rooted in Roman times that if you have done well in life, if you have prospered in your community, if you have enjoyed good luck and good fortune you have an obligation to give back. Not merely a responsibility, an obligation.

The furthest thing from his mind was who was asking for help — the political affiliations were largely irrelevant to Wright. What mattered was a worthy issue needed support, help and guidance.

In our subsequent discussion — my lesson — it turned out it was a matter of considerable pride that he had been appointed to high-powered governmental positions by every Saskatchewan Naively, I asked Wright if it was un- premier from Ross Thatcher in the midusual that he had been asked by an NDP 1960s to Romanow in the 1990s. government to assume a senior and It would seem the people of B.C. sensitive role. As the head of Wright need not be unduly unnerved at the Construction, he didn’t look like much prospect of someone — Don Wright of a socialist to me. My silly question — capable of speaking the language of ignored the lessons of his varied career. both Liberals and NDP. It’s not a politiEarlier, he had been appointed chair of cal poltergeist, but rather the lessons of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan the father being delivered by the son. while it was still a Crown corporation; Among those lessons, I recall a Saslater, he would serve as treaty comkatoon city council meeting in the early missioner. At both the provincial and 1970s running late into the night with federal levels, all governments of all councillors deadlocked over whether political stripes seemed to trust the man the city should build neighbourhood who served as Saskatoon’s mayor for recreation centres. four consecutive terms.

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Don Wright has run private companies and public enterprises, and is apparently equally skilled at both.

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(Continued from page 10) hortly after 3 a.m., Wright, then an alderman, rose and delivered an impassioned plea that the new Cosmo Recreation Centre be built. He ended that long-ago debate with words that stick with me decades later.

“We as a council can influence the future tonight and that is a rare opportunity,” he said. “We can pay for the

recreation centres now or we can pay for more police 20 years from now.”

The first recreation centre was approved and now a fine network of similar facilities spans Saskatoon.

One of the senior Wright’s more philosophical life lessons, a belief he often shared, was the foundation for his view that there is an obligation to lend a hand when someone asks for help. Mayor

Wright once told me, when I was a young reporter, that legions of volunteers make Saskatoon “a very special place.”

The cynic in me assumed all mayors said that. Then I had the opportunity to live and work in several other Canadian cities.

Turns out that Cliff, Saskatoon’s volunteer-in-chief, was right — on all counts.

(Peterson may now be a resident of North Saanich, B.C., but will always consider Saskatoon home.

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All three Tyndall brothers excelling at gymnastics Darren Steinke Saskatoon Express ymnastics wasn’t always the only sport that occupied the lives of the three Tyndall brothers.

Saskatoon products Wyatt, Mitch and Jesse participated in both hockey and gymnastics for almost as long as they can remember. Their father, Don, initially helped coach the trio in hockey, and their mother, Janice, helped coach them in gymnastics.

With Don and Janice having heavy backgrounds in hockey and gymnastics respectively, those sports were always present in the lives of their three sons.

Wyatt, Mitch and Jesse also took up baseball for an extended time, too.

When it came to deciding on a sport, gymnastics won out, partially due to the fact the Tyndall brothers weren’t the biggest guys on the ice. Wyatt stands 5-foot6, Mitch is 5-foot-8 and Jesse is 5-foot-5.

Still, Wyatt admits he and his brothers couldn’t be discounted on the ice.

“We were all pretty good hockey players,” he said over the phone from Penn State University, where he is a member of the men’s gymnastics team. “We were pretty quick guys.”

All three Tyndall brothers have excelled in gymnastics. At one point, they have all competed for Canada internationally. Wyatt is currently on Canada’s senior national B team, while Jesse is part of the junior national team.

Wyatt, who is 20 years old, is heading into his third season in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ranks with Penn State.

Mitch, who just graduated from Holy Cross High School, will join the University of Nebraska’s men’s gymnastics team. Jesse, who is going into Grade 12, is starting to hear from universities in the United States.

Mitch thought gymnastics would take him to the NCAA. Training out of the Taiso Gymnastics Club, he listened to what Wyatt had to say about the NCAA, as well as former Taiso member Joel Gagnon, who is on the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s team and Canada’s national B team.

“They are all telling me about how good the NCAA is and how the gymnastics are,” said Mitch, who is 18. “I thought I would give it a shot. I guess it worked out.

“It is going to be a little more nervewracking in a way, a little more challenging, but I am excited. It is going to be a good time, I think.”

Jesse said Wyatt broke the ice to make competing in the NCAA feel like a reality.

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that I have a chance there, but also, there is a little bit of pressure now. Both my older brothers are going, and everyone is wondering if I’m going. It is definitely exciting.”

The brothers did have a family precedent when it came to competing in the NCAA. Janice was a member of the University of Minnesota’s women’s team for one season as a walk-on athlete.

As the brothers went through the gymnastics ranks, they all supported, encouraged and pushed each other to get better both in the sport and in the classroom.

Wyatt said deep down he felt he had to set the tone.

“I’m the oldest brother and that is always in the back of my mind, trying to be the best that I can for my younger brothers, definitely,” he said.

Before Wyatt embarked on his university career, all three brothers frequently competed in the same meets and trained together at Taiso. Both Mitch and Jesse said they went through an adjustment period when Wyatt left home.

“It just felt like something was missing in a way,” said Mitch. “At home, it was different also. (Wyatt) always pushed us in and out of school and the gym also. It is a little bit different having him gone.”

“It is just nice to have each other for help and support,” said Jesse. “We are able to push each other in training, because we are always kind of beating one another. It kind of makes us perform better in a way.”

The Canadian gymnastics championships currently provide the only time the three brothers will compete at the same meet at the same time.

Wyatt said he cherishes the opportunities to compete at the same event as his brothers more now than he did in the past, because they no longer see each other every day. The eldest Tyndall brother said he is missing out on little family milestones in and out of the sport.

He said it was a bit freaky to hear Jesse had recently gotten the braces taken off his teeth and was about to get his driver’s licence.

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Jesse (left) and Mitch Tyndall are headed to bigger and better things in gymnastics.

(Photo by Darren Steinke) “I don’t get to see them a whole lot,” said Wyatt. “I see them at Christmas. I see them on Facetime a lot. Every time I see them, they are growing up. They are getting better at gymnastics.”

When Mitch and Jesse join the NCAA ranks, Wyatt said they will get to experience a different aspect of gymnastics. The eldest brother said the team aspect of the sport is emphasized in the NCAA. Gymnasts’ individual scores are added up with the rest of their team members.

In Canada, competition usually happens more on an individual basis, he noted. In the NCAA, the team feel is similar to the one he had when he played hockey.

“That was the biggest reason why Wyatt Tyndall is on the gymnastics team I went into college gymnastics was at Penn State. (Photo Supplied) because it was a completely different sport,” said Wyatt. “It is not about your- AS080706 Aaron self anymore.

“It is all about the team. That was probably the biggest difference, was training with 20 of your closest friends and all working towards the same goal.”

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