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June Avivi has a longtime commitment to the welfare of those with intellectual disabilities. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)
“We appreciated the early help from people like John Dolan, when David went to his school, and from Alvin Buckwold, who arranged respite for us. When David moved, there was kind of a feeling that we were giving up responsibility for him. But it was the best option for him. At Valley View, the care was excellent and the staff was magnificent. Some worked there 30 to 40 years and they were so positive in everything they did.”
As the participants at Valley View grew older, so did the plant. “The physical plant and the infrastructure at Valley View was facing decline and the prospect of increasing expenses. It was about to reach a stage where the care and safety of its residents was going to be compromised in the deteriorating setting. “As the residents move, there will be some disruption in their daily lives. But during the transition, we want the impact to be
a positive one and we want them to have a high quality of life. “In our transition plan, the important thing was that the parents, SACL, the government, had to learn to trust each other. We did. It took us time to learn. In my opinion, June Draude, who was the minister of social services, was crucial. We talked. She kept the cabinet informed. She told them the recommendations were important.” (Continued on page 9)
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Andrea Eccleston more than an equipment manager Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express hen Laurence Nixon arrived in Saskatoon in 2005 to play for the University of Saskatchewan football team, he was a little 18-year-old punk from Vancouver. Those are his words. He was fifth on the depth chart at quarterback and a bit of a deer in the headlights. One of the people who helped him get settled into his new environment was a member of the team’s equipment staff, Andrea Eccleston. “She was a motherly figure for a lot of us,” Nixon said in a video played at the Dog’s Breakfast in May. Eccleston received a long and loud ovation when she was presented with the Ambassador Award at the breakfast. She laughed when asked about Nixon’s comment.
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“A lot of them call me mom even though I am probably too young to be any of their mothers.” Simple math would indicate she’s about five years older than Nixon. She’s definitely a big sister-type more than a mom. Eccleston started with the Huskies as an assistant in 2000 just before her first year of university. She had handled the equipment duties for the high school team in Maple Creek. She has two younger brothers who were playing at the time, and was often driving them to games and practices, so what the heck; she might as well help out. At the end of her Grade 12 year, she was told the Huskies football team was looking for help and would she be interested? A call from then-coach Brian Towriss sealed the deal. She is pleased that new coach Scott Flory wanted her to stay on.
Now Eccleston is entering her 18th season with the Huskies and 11th as the equipment manager. It’s a volunteer position, so she has to juggle hours at her regular job and use vacation time at various other times of the season. She said working on campus and having good bosses has provided flexibility. “It makes for long days, especially in the fall. During training camp I am here at the stadium at 6:30, 7 in the morning and then I go work from 8:30 to 4:30, then I come back here after, so I am really fortunate to have other equipment staff who work with me.” Those people are Kelsie Isaacson, Cathy Sarich and Tia Spirito. The list of duties for Eccleston and her team is long. “It’s all the things that it takes to run a university football program so there never seems to be a dull moment.”
There are equipment repairs, taking care of the athlete’s requests, laundry, supplying water on the field, setting up the equipment used for drills, and more. “I also do a lot of the admin work in terms of working with the head coach, making sure game numbers are assigned and working on who’s travelling. We have all these different looks and things like that so it takes a lot of prep work throughout the week in terms of decaling and cleaning helmets and getting game uniforms ready. “There is handling the clothing package all the athletes receive. We get lots of requests from the community for donations or volunteers, so there’s co-ordinating those kind of things, and working with the coaches and other staff.” Yes, all on a volunteer basis. Eccleston is a certified member of the Athlete Equipment Managers Association. She said it helps her keep up with technology so she can properly fit athletes. She said things like temperature and haircuts impact the way a helmet fits. “You have to make sure everything is in good working order and we put them out onto the field as safe as we possibly can.” Eccleston says she follows the research available on concussions. “It is something we are always thinking about, but if you read any of the literature from the companies, no helmet can prevent concussions. There is research being done that shows if the helmet is properly fitting it does help reduce the severity, but we don’t even know that for sure. “If an athlete is properly fitted, they’re more comfortable, they can see better, hear better, so they are likely going to perform better on the field. It’s that old thing; look good, feel good, play good.” Paul Woldu, who played for the Huskies in 2006 and 2007 and is now an assistant coach with the team, says he was a high-maintenance player who liked to look good. “It takes a lot of patience to deal with a lot of players, especially one like myself,” the former CFL player said in the video. “Andrea is a person who probably exemplifies Huskie Pride better than anybody for her consistency and continuity in making sure all of the players are taken care of so we can do what we do.” Eccleston said she has worked with all kinds of athletes over the years. “For the most part, we have a lookinggood group of guys year in and year out. There are always a couple, depending on where they’ve come from or what their background is like, that we need to help a little bit more in understanding how we do things here, but overall we have a very good group again this year.” (Continued on page 6)
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Facebook friend recentup, in part because of the warm ly shared a photo of a waters of the Gulf of Mexico. piece of farm machinery Hurricane Harvey boiled up, somewhere in southern Alberta. poured down and stalled over I assume it was a combine, but the Gulf Coast and into Texas. it was hard to tell, because it Some weather stations rewas fully engaged in flames corded four feet of water. Four and shrouded in thick, black feet! That’s barely fathomable. smoke. In some parts of Saskatoon, Welcome to the desperately I wonder if we’d see the tops dry harvest of 2017, at least in of two-storey houses with that southern parts of the Prairies, much water, considering our Columnist where a spark from normal storm sewer infrastructure. farm activities could (and often What isn’t remotely fathomdid) set a machine or a field alight. able is that Harvey, in total, produced 27 Meanwhile, as of my birthday last trillion gallons of water over six days of week, the forests of British Columbia rain. Put another way, that’s a million galcontinued to burn. Global TV reported lons for every Texas resident. The cleanup that the province remained under a state is going to take forever, and cost perhaps of emergency as more than 140 wildfires $150 billion US. were still ravaging the forests. Thousands But Harvey, who swamped Hurricane of residents were still on evacuation order, Katrina’s 6.5 trillion gallons by a factor of and 12,000 on evac alert. four, doesn’t even get the gold medal for It is now B.C.’s worst fire season in his- worst storm. tory. No one sees a short-term end in sight. As he died, his friend Irma came to Fires have also hit northeastern Saslife. Today, she is bearing down on the katchewan, more recently, along with Caribbean and heading for Florida. Irma evacuations from places like Pelican Nar- has been declared the strongest storm ever rows. to generate over the Atlantic. Ever, you Down south, an enormous chunk of see, as if Katrina and Harvey and Sandy Texas went under water. Dry here, wet weren’t bad enough. One weather watcher there. But it’s wet in Houston, well before called her a “rare, impressive and dangerDC091117 Darlene the normal hurricane season really churns ous sight.”
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Irma was packing 185 mile per hour winds. That’s miles per hour. In kilometres per hour, holy cow, those speeds clock in at over 290. A person would be blown to kingdom come, and his or her house, car, and entire life may well follow. The thing that completely blows my mind is that, according to a Florida official, Irma could easily and completely cover the little islands that comprise the keys, not to mention Miami Beach. In places, they are only three to five feet above sea level. I’m taller than that. It’s ghastly to contemplate what will happen, again, but with even more terrifying vigour, to the peoples of the Caribbean Islands. Self-interest being what it is, I can’t help but worry about my own people: I have family and friends living in places like the Cayman Islands and Florida, Georgia and Maryland. A chat with my Floridian cousin assuaged some of my fears, since the storm’s path appeared to be veering away from the gulf at that time, but they are definitely expecting some serious weather, just the same. Putting that aside for now, I’m worried about all of us. It may be wet in the Caribbean and the southern U.S., and parched in much of Western Canada, but it all comes down to the same thing, as I understand it. It’s hot, and that generates at least two very
bad things: droughts and terrible storms. Do you remember such a consistently hot summer, here in Saskatoon? I think we were hitting 30 degrees already at the end of May, or at least early June. Today, it’s 30 again — in September. There’s this apocalyptic feel to the weather, which, by the way, has been bizarre across most of our planet this year. Think icebergs in Antarctica, calving chunks the size of Prince Edward Island. Think the heatwave nicknamed Lucifer taking temperatures in 10 European countries over 40 degrees C. This is climate change. The effects are here. Whether we, the people, caused it, as perhaps most scientists argue; or whether it’s part of a cycle, as I’ve heard some climatologists claim, I am not qualified to say. There are two basic things to be done, either way. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants is an excellent plan, because they’re certainly not helping. Avoiding building on flood plains, at this point, is a no brainer. But it may now be simply moot because — as in coastal Florida, where communities are already sinking under the sea — there’s no land to build on. Maybe I’m overreacting, but are all our efforts at mitigation coming just a bit too late?
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Who is running the monkey house downtown?
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here appears to be some in 2016 administration reported monkey business hapspending a mere $1.9 million on pening at city hall. The outside consultants. dilemma for us is deciding who Don’t jump for joy, as we the monkeys are and what the don’t know how much they mischievous little chimps are spent because they changed the up to. criteria for reporting on this budIt was reported that some get line. What is truly disturbing councillors were unhappy when is chief financial officer Kerry they discovered that work is Tarasoff’s arrogant comment being done in the Elk Point that there is no requirement for neighbourhood development, administration to report on how Columnist even though council had not yet much they spend on consultants approved the development plan. and further that reports to council now Administration responded to council that include a justification for hiring a consultant it is a unique situation and that council gave when necessary. Who oversees the monkey technical approval to the project by approv- house? Unless council members challenge ing the financing for the Saskatoon land Tarasoff’s position, a banana is going to be bank in the 2013 budget. shared 11 ways. That’s a stretch. Land bank director Administration has reported to counFrank Long also went on to say that council cil that it should consider giving up to should have known what the land bank was $200,000 per lot to developers to encourage doing when, years back, it approved the them to build on vacant downtown land. plan for Kensington, the adjacent neighFor those taxpayers hit with whopping reasbourhood. Another stretch. sessment levies, together with substantial Aside from pointing out that servictax increases over the past few years, it was ing this land will cost millions of dollars, hard enough to swallow the five-year, taxMayor Charlie Clark, along with seven free holidays being given to developers afcouncillors, directed that an auditor review ter construction, much less having to write the Elk Point situation. All of this leaves me them a cheque. Add to the equation the fact pondering to whom I should give a banana. that there seems to be no real conceptional A while back, Coun. Bev Dubois replan from the city as to what might be built. quested a report regarding the city’s spendIt could be commercial/industrial coning on outside consultants, which in 2015 struction, or apartments/condos or simply amounted to $18.6 million. Miraculously, one or two unit buildings. Anything will do
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if it pumps up the percentage of city’s lagging strategic growth plan for downtown. Adding insult to injury, the city is considering hiring another employee in the planning and development department to assist infill developers in “cutting through the red tape” to get these developments done. Who created the red tape in the first instance? Does that mean that interested developers will no longer have to pay infrastructure charges to accommodate their development plan or to provide any onsite parking? Will permit fees be reduced or waived, leaving taxpayers to pick up development costs? Ah, this little gem could warrant a whole bunch of bananas. Moving along, we have a developer wanting changes to zoning to accommodate his “tiny houses” under the guise of infill projects. Of course, affected neighbourhood residents objecting to his proposal will be vilified as NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard.) No thought will be given to the impact of this proposal on existing residents or their investment in their homes. Just call it infill and it will be a go. The lure of the concept is that these houses will be energy efficient, requiring an 8,000 BTU electric heater instead of a furnace and, of course, the city would benefit from the increasing electrical revenues it collects, not to mention the property tax revenue from having up to five tiny houses on a small lot zoned for single family or duplex construction.
But how much tax will flow from a 225-square foot house, vis-à-vis the cost of services to five dwellings? Will that lot include five tiny houses and parking for each one? Will each tiny house have up to three waste bins (for garbage, recycling and the coming-soon organic material), totalling 15 bins, on the property? Or will there be one large communal bin blowing waste around the neighbourhood? The only sure thing is that the developer plans to spend $30,000 to build each tiny house and then will sell them for $100,000 each. And some residents will have the equivalent of a trailer park next door to their family home. Do the monkeys deserve a banana for this pending debacle? Meanwhile, council will continue to wring its hands in angst over a pending tax increase while at the same time, using sleight-of-hand tactics, shuffle current services to user-pay utilities (which saves taxpayers nothing). They will crow about saving money because they no longer pay rent for space to accommodate the expanding civic payroll, and gloss over the everincreasing capital and operating costs of a new art gallery and the bogus savings on an over-built police station. What the hell — bananas for one and all. Well, it might be difficult determining who the chimps are at any given time, but I do know who the chumps are. ehnatyshyn@gmail.com
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(Continued from page 3) he doesn’t pick favourites. “There are certainly athletes that have stood out over the years that I am still in touch with, but I would hate to name anyone because I always say I don’t pick favourites — everybody gets treated equally.” Nixon appreciated that. Remember, he was fifth on the depth chart before going on to having an illustrious college career which included being nominated for the Hec Creighton Award as the top player in Canada. “Everybody finds her so endearing and loveable because she treats everybody equally,” he said on the video. “She’s really good at knowing when to pick someone up and knowing when to put someone in their place and bring him back down to Earth. And a few times, probably more times than not, she brought me back down
to Earth when I was getting a big head.” Eccleston said she is emotionally invested in the team. It would be impossible not to be. “We put in a lot of work, from athletes to coaches to staff, into how they are on the field. I have definitely been known to shed a few tears at the end of some of our particularly hard losses,” she said with a smile. Eccleston’s work has been recognized nationally and provincially. She worked with Canada’s senior men’s team in 2011 at the world championship and the women’s national team in 2013 and 2017 at the worlds. She has worked with numerous Football Saskatchewan teams and holds Andrea Eccleston ensures equipment is ready to go. clinics about the importance of managing (Photo by Liam Richards / Electric Umbrella Images) the equipment. She is also accessible. She said if there in touch with her. Although her roster is If you want more info on becoming an are people interested in getting into the filled, various football organizations are equipment manager, email Eccleston at equipment field, they are welcome to get always looking for good help. andrea.eccleston@usask.ca. JW091104 James
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or the sake of full dispaign is four years old, and closure, I’ll admit from still going strong, which sugthe outset that I freaking gests it’s working for A&W love A&W mozza burgers, sales figures. Meanwhile, and no amount of controversy McDonald’s continues to run will ever dissuade me from its own marketing campaign treating myself with one on proudly boasting that its burgoccasion, complete with onion ers are 100 per cent Canadian rings and a diet root beer. beef. I’m hungry now. Really, it’s a tale of two When I was growing up, marketing strategies. McDonwe were a McDonald’s famald’s, which has taken much Columnist ily. When my parents wanted heat about its food-sourcing to branch out into the more over the years, is playing exotic fast food waters, we’d dabble on the inherent trust many, if not most, in Burger King, or my dad would ride Canadian consumers have in farmers and his bike over to the takeout-only Kenranchers, and positioning themselves as tucky Fried Chicken (KFC) store that close to the farm gate as possible. A&W once perched on the corner of Clarence is focusing on another trend, that of the Avenue and Taylor Street. (It was next to “naturalization” of food, such as the “huimpossible to sit at that stoplight without manely-raised” rotisserie chicken I could your mouth watering. If you ever experi- buy for a dollar more at the grocery store enced it, you know what I mean). the other evening. It’s a thing. I don’t remember exactly when I was Premier Wall says he is passionate introduced to the mozza burger, but I’ve about this battle because it’s not just never looked back. When I was pregnant, about standing up for the beef industry; and chock full of hormones already, I it’s about standing up for the agriculture probably ate one every two days (and industry, which is often the target of then paid Weight Watchers an exorbitant these pro-naturalization marketing strateamount of money to undo the mess I cre- gies. ated, but that’s another column). I get that, but let’s go back to that Hormones are what this is all about, rotisserie chicken I didn’t buy, but someaccording to A&W’s successful marone else did – because there’s a market keting campaign based on demonizing for it, and producers are responding in them, and Premier Brad Wall’s longkind. The same applies to A&W. Acrunning Twitter feud with the company cording to the A&W Revenue Royalties in response. My understanding of the Income Fund’s 2016 annual report, sameissue is this: A&W is not buying beef store sales have increased 11 per cent raised by farmers who inject their calves since 2015, and the number of franchises with a tiny implant that slowly releases has increased from 814 to 861. Whatever a growth hormone, or steroid, which they’re doing is clearly working. makes the cow get bigger, faster. According to Google, which is never It’s a totally conventional practice wrong, there are 29 A&W locations in among Canadian cattle ranchers, and Saskatchewan, with around half of those the use of the implant meets all stanserving rural communities like Melfort, dards and regulations that govern the Davidson and Unity, and by my guessproduction of our food supply. Since timation, creating approximately 600 2013, however, A&W has been running Saskatchewan jobs. a marketing campaign promoting the I don’t necessarily agree with A&W’s fact that it does not buy beef that has strategy, which inherently implies that had the growth hormone implant. The conventional cattle-raising techniques, campaign largely features their insuffer- including the common use of hormones able spokesperson handing free burgers for growth, are bad, or unhealthy. It’s out to insufferable, downtown Vancouver not. hipsters, who nod earnestly and make all However, I also cannot get behind the appropriately supportive noises about the premier’s declared boycott of these how a) awesome the free burger tastes Saskatchewan businesses. I agree it’s and b) how awesome it is that it is grown important to buy local, but all of us, without hormones. consciously or not, consume products It should go without saying that the every day that are sourced globally. aforementioned downtown Vancouver While the optics of being associated with (or Toronto, or even most Saskatoon) trusty, hardworking ranchers (which they hipsters haven’t got the first clue what undisputedly are) may be good for the animal growth hormones are, never mind premier, it really just boils down to govwhether they are actually negatively im- ernment interference in a free-market, pacting their own bodies (they’re not). consumer-driven industry, and that’s not Here’s the thing, though: the camgreat for anyone else.
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Mini Fridge Theatre Co. brings dinner theatre back to Saskatoon
Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express n the view of Terry Schroell and Michael Neuert, it was not funny that Saskatoon has been devoid of dinner theatre for the past six years. Well, says Schroell, the fun is back. Mini Fridge Theatre Company, which launched last year, is taking the dive into offering both food and hilarity once again starting Sept. 20 at the German Cultural Centre, formerly the Concordia Club. The seeds were sown back in 2015, with Schroell and Neuert champing at the bit to get back on stage. “Mike and I were looking for our own place to DIY, to do what we wanted to do,” said Schroell in an interview. “There was a big vacuum, a void left in this city when stuff like Gateway and Off Broadway left. There was nowhere for rascals like Mike and I to go and show off on stage. We decided, ‘you know what? We’re just going to have to do it ourselves.’” Neuert started “scaring people door to door,” relates Schroell, and he happened upon St. Thomas Wesley Church on Avenue H and 20th Street. The church welcomed them with open arms. In October, February and in May, Mini Fridge staged performances of Run for Your Wife, Murder at the Howard Johnson’s, and The Odd Couple. “We did it right next to the pulpit. Right there in the church, the pipe organ in the background. We had a great time. We did three shows there. We wanted to see how viable we were, what the audience reaction would be, who’s going to come. And they came.” With that success under their belts, they discussed this year’s season and decided to find a place with a proper stage and “lo and behold, we ended up doing dinner
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The cast of Suitehearts includes, clockwise from bottom left, Becky Henderson, Lynda Hufsmith, Larry Fitgerald, Darren Zimmer and Levi Semenoff. (Photo Supplied) theatre,” said Schroell. “I said OK, we’re starting all over again . . . with an absolutely different kind of venue. Let’s roll the dice and see what happens. “Before, it was just bums in seats. Now it’s people with food in their belly that came to have a night out. An entire night out. That’s what the (German Cultural Centre) is providing and what we’re providing.” Schroell and Neuert are joined by Darren Zimmer and Jason Weckert in running Mini Fridge Theatre Co., but no one has titles, says Schroell, unless you’d like to call him viceroy. Then came the challenge of finding people not only to act the parts, but to make the sets and gather the props. Schroell found himself wondering, “where is everyone?” from community theatre, but it is coming together.
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The first show is Suitehearts, described by Schroell as a “boing” comedy with doors slamming and people pointing at each other. “It starts off with two couples booking the same hotel room at the same time. Who gets the hotel room? And hilarity ensues after that.” Neuert directs the show, which stars Levi Semenoff, Lynda Hufsmith, Becky Hendrickson, Zimmer and Larry Fitzgerald. They will follow up with a holiday event featuring another work of hilarity, Every Christmas Story Ever Told, an irreverent take on some of the icons of the season such as Dickens. Expect audience participation. Schroell is very pleased to be offering dinner theatre at the German Cultural Centre, where the food is, simply, “yum” in his estimation.
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“They’ve been very accommodating. First off, they put their hand up and said, yes, please, come in and do a show with us.” He points out that a great evening at the German Cultural Centre, at $45 plus tax, is not only better but “cheaper than going to see a movie and a large popcorn and pop.” And then you have to sit through the movie with a tummy full of popcorn and pop. How many people are they expecting to join in the fun? “All of them. Every one of them.” Suitehearts goes Sept. 20, 21 and 22 (6:30 p.m. dinner, play following at 8 p.m.) and Sept. 24 (12:30 brunch, show at 2 p.m.) the German Cultural Centre. Tickets are $45 plus tax. Call 306-244-6869, ext 203 to book. Find out more on the Mini Fridge Theatre Co. Facebook page.
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(Continued from page 1) he consensus was that the government should be the funder, regulator and supporter of the service system. The committee decided that service has better outcomes when provided through community-based services. The government was told it had a necessary role in the ongoing provision of ancillary, outreach and crisis supports. Some of the community group homes will stay in Moose Jaw; others have been established in Saskatoon; and there will be some developed in Regina. David will soon move to a group home in Saskatoon. Avivi was born in Toronto into the Katzman family. Most of her elementary and high school education took place in Prince Albert, with the last two years in Saskatoon. She began studies at the University of Saskatchewan, but went to Israel to study in 1952 and early 1953. That where she met Abe, who was born in Germany, moved with his family to Israel in 1933 and was a mechanic. Upon moving to Saskatoon, Abe launched a new career with a First Avenue business, Chain Clothiers. They raised a family of three: Jay, David and Ari. Avivi went back to the U of S, achieving her bachelor of education degree in 1976. She taught at the Hebrew School, in private kindergartens, then with the public board of education from 1972 until 1991. She became principal of the Hebrew School from 1991 to 2005. She lost her husband in 2007. Avivi takes great pride in an education program, based on the history of the Holocaust, which has been presented to Saskatoon students for 25 years.
“Robbie Waisman, who grew up in Saskatoon and later settled in Vancouver, was instrumental. One of his sons came home one day and told his dad that he’d been told the Holocaust was a hoax. Robbie took up the challenge. He was our first guest speaker and he came back again,” said Avivi. “Our first program was for about 100 students. Then we grew into four sessions, at which 500 attended each one. Through the kindness of Donald Bolen, when he was bishop of the Saskatoon Roman Catholic diocese, the space at the Cathedral of the Holy Family was offered to us and we can now accommodate 2,000 in one sitting. That was important for our guests, who all were Holocaust camp survivors, and usually all from Canada, who at their ages, doing four sessions was really hard on them. We still have schools on the waiting list.” She has also been active at Saskatchewan and Canadian Jewish Council levels. Avivi said the Order of Merit was “really a great surprise and it is nice to be recognized.” She has been honoured by many in the past. She won the Sterling Award at the Silver Spoon dinner in 1994. She won the Vision Award from the Saskatoon Association for Community Living in 1995. She received the Distinguished Parent Award from the Saskatchewan association in 1997. She and her husband won the Gerry Rose Volunteer Award from B’Nai Brith, Saskatoon, in 2003. And she was selected as 2016 Champion for Human Rights by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission.
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Expo “nerdtastic experience” for entire family Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express askatoon Comic & Entertainment Expo is back for another year, with organizers predicting attendance of about 10,000 to 15,000 people during the city’s much-anticipated comic con event. Scheduled for Sept. 16 and 17 at Prairieland Park, the annual gathering is being billed as a “nerdtastic experience that’s fun for the whole family.” The goal of Saskatoon Comic & Entertainment Expo is to celebrate all things pop culture, including movies, television, comic books, animation, horror, science fiction, gaming and more. Attendees should expect to see “lots of costumes” during the weekend, as well as vendors, artists, comic book writers and celebrity guests, said Lindsay Thomas, vice-president of communications with Emily Expo Events, which produces the Expos in Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton. “There’s a lot for people to check out,” Thomas said. This year’s celebrity guests include Lou Ferrigno of The Incredible Hulk fame, Ernie Hudson from Ghostbusters, John Rhys-Davies from The Lord of the Rings, Cas Anvar from The Expanse and Ruth Connell from Supernatural. Professional photographers will be on hand to capture photos of the celebrities with festivalgoers. Expo attendees can also take part in panels and workshops, AS091124 Aaron a costume contest,
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children’s programming, a gaming zone and hundreds of vendors selling comic books, costumes, collectibles and more. Thomas said “there really is something for everyone” at the expo. “Every time I go to one of these events I discover something new that I didn’t think I had an interest in or that I had I hadn’t discovered. . . . So if you go with an open mind, you can just find all these cool different little things — the different genres and little corners of pop culture that maybe you didn’t know existed,” she said. “So, even if comic books isn’t your thing, or sci-fi isn’t your thing, I totally recommend still coming because you never know what you’re going to find.” Numerous panel presentations scheduled for the weekend will focus on a variety of topics, including cosplay, medieval recreation, zombies, Star Wars, Pinky and the Brain, geeky improv and much more. Sample panel titles include “Where No Bard Has Gone Before: Star Trek and Shakespeare,” “Understanding the Addictive Power of Electronic Entertainment,” “Real Science, Fake Worlds: Alien,” “Getting to Know the Canadian Comic Book Alliance, aka the CCBA” and “Making Fresh Stories Out of Classics.” There will also be more than two dozen artists and creators in attendance at the event, including Adam Gorham (Rocket, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Violent), Tom Grummett (Superboy, Robin, Teen Titans, X-Men Forever) and Amy Pronovost (Topps, Star Wars Insider).
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Ashley Benz morphed into Gogo from Final Fantasy VI at last year’s Expo. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) Kids will also enjoy the Play Zone area, where they can climb and bounce on inflatables and visit Wide Open Children’s Theatre. Attendees will also be able to make their own Expo costumes — featuring pop-culture themed headbands and masks — at the paper craft workshop. “It’s a family-friendly show,” said Thomas. “There’s a lot of kids running around in the kids’ zone. There’s lots of really great stuff to see.” Overall, the weekend is a “really great way to celebrate your interests” — whether it is sci-fi, anime or something else, she added. “We talk about pop culture. It’s such AS091116 Aaron
a very broad spectrum of interests, so it really brings together people that have an interest in maybe one of those things or a variety of those things. It gives them an opportunity to explore it further and go deeper, or find new things to be interested in or to socialize. Everybody sort of has their different reasons. It’s a pretty cool community to be part of.” The Expo will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 16 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 17. For more information, or to purchase tickets, go online to saskexpo.com. Children seven and under will be admitted for free with a parent or guardian.
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Persephone play asks questions about art and friendship
Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express hat makes something art? How do you know when a piece of art is “good?” And who can determine this? Perhaps more importantly, can you continue to be friends with someone if you abhor their taste in art? Those are some of the questions audience members may ponder after watching Persephone Theatre’s upcoming play, Art, which is set to launch the 2017-2018 main stage season this month. The hit comedy, written by French playwright Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton, will run from Sept. 13 to 27 at the Remai Arts Centre. Art stars three local actors — Tim Bratton, Rob van Meenen and Kevin Williamson — who play three friends at odds after one of them purchases a very expensive modern painting. The large canvas is painted white, with white lines — something that pleases Serge and horrifies Marc. The third friend, Yvan, is torn between the two. In an interview, Williamson — who plays Serge — said audience members should expect “a really sharp, witty, fantastic piece of writing.” “I mean that is, essentially, the core of the play. It’s a wonderful bit of writing detailing the friendship between three guys,” he said. “It’s smart. It’s funny. It’s great dialogue — really intelligent and a lot of fun — and it explores some very interesting ideas about friendship and art along the way, too.” Reza’s play opened in Paris in 1994 and has been a global sensation since then. In a 2014 article about the “enduring appeal” of the Tony Award-winning show, a writer for The Guardian noted that Reza’s work “explores the connection between taste and friendship.” As the article asks: “Is it possible to enjoy a real relationship with someone whose views on art, books, or theatre for that matter, are radically different from our own?” The timing of the show in Saskatoon precedes the highly
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anticipated opening of the Remai Modern art gallery in October. That makes it a particularly interesting time for Saskatonians to ponder questions about modern art, which “was the thinking behind the scheduling of the play,” said Williamson. “I think it’s going to work very well, actually, for both organizations,” said Williamson, referring to Persephone Theatre and Remai Modern. “For my money, it’s just one of the best, sharpest, wittiest pieces of entertainment you’ll get the chance to see anywhere,” he added. “It’s been a huge hit right across the world, and it’s great when you get the opportunity to bring a show like that to Saskatoon and to have it really work. With the opening of the Remai Modern, it does. It’s a really good chance to discuss some of these aspects which now exist in our community here in Saskatoon.” Local theatre fans may recognize Williamson from previous Persephone productions, including A Christmas Carol and The Walnut Tree. Originally from England, Williamson began his career in Canada touring with the company English Suitcase. He is looking forward to performing in Treasure Island at Persephone later in the theatre season, as well as directing The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui in January. One of the things that Williamson enjoys about working with Persephone is the theatre’s strong connection to the local community. “It isn’t necessarily always the case that the main regional theatre company is well connected with its community,” he said. “A lot of other theatre companies bring a lot of artists in from outside, for example. I think there’s a very good connection between the local community here — not just the theatre community, but the city itself — and the theatre.” Persephone Theatre’s production of Art is directed by Jack Grinhaus. The rest of the creative team includes David Roberts (set designer), Stephen Wade (lightingAaron designer), AS091120
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Guidelines for encounters with guide dogs
ith September being National Guide Dog Month, the CNIB is sharing some simple-tofollow guide dog etiquette tips and raising awareness on the rights of guide dog users in Saskatchewan when accessing public spaces. Guide dogs, which are specially bred and trained to provide mobility assistance to people who are blind or partially sighted, are more than just tools – they are partners in independence that can open up the world in a profoundly different way. A guide dog can instill greater confidence for guide dog users in exploring unfamiliar environments. But, in order to do that there needs to be a better understanding of the rights to access public spaces with a guide dog as well as knowledge of the etiquette associated with encountering a guide dog pair. “I want people to realize that although my guide dog is cute he is busy working. Please ignore him. If you don’t you are endangering the handler,” Shan Noyes, a guide dog user and CNIB spokesperson, said in a news release. Knowing the proper etiquette and following a few simple rules will ensure appropriate social behaviours in the dogs and reduce the risk of dangerous situations for the guide dog pair. • Harness on means hands off. A guide dog in harness means “please don’t distract me. I’m working.” Sometimes if the dog is not “working” the user may decide to remove the harness and let you pet their dog. Always ask first. • Don’t feed them, especially when guide dogs are working in harness. Offer-
ing food to the dog can result in anti-social behaviours such as begging for food and scavenging off the ground. • Contain your excitement. Don’t encourage excitable play in a guide dog. Guide dogs are given access to public places where other dogs are not permitted, so they must stay calm. • Say “hello” another time. If you’re walking your pet dog and you approach a guide pair, take your dog away from the guide dog. A guide dog encounter with a pet dog can result in a challenging and sometimes dangerous distraction. The rights of guide dog users go beyond asking whether or not you can interact with the dog. Many blind and partially sighted Canadians still find themselves in challenging and frustrating situations when trying to access public spaces such as cabs, restaurants and shopping establishments. In all of Canada’s 13 jurisdictions, human rights legislation prohibits discriminating against a person with a disability working with a service animal. Discrimination includes denial of access to any premises to which the public would normally have access, including tenancy right. Unfortunately, this is not well known. “A number of times in restaurants and in cabs I have been denied access because I had my guide dog with me. I find this both frustrating and embarrassing that I still have to explain and negotiate my human right to access public spaces,” said Noyes. (Information provided by the CNIB)
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guess it’s official. After by Depression-era parents. all, I saw it on Facebook Feel free, anytime, to quiz and on the local MLS in me on the delights of beet Edmonton. My nephew is greens. selling the family abode. Most of all I miss our As my nephews have a trees. Thanks to some charicustom renovation company, table organization, for many whoever purchases this years every Grade 1 student 1950s bungalow in a desirin Edmonton received a miable location is going to be nuscule spruce tree on Arbor very pleased with all the Day. Dad proudly planted work that has been done to each of ours and they were Columnist bring it up to 2017 expectareferred to by our names. Our tions. ownership as they grew was There’s been a total television-worthy personal. For all the obvious reasons, makeover with no details left unattend- including that no one could actually see ed. It has pale mocha paint with conanything out the kitchen window, one trasting millwork, new bathroom fittings by one they were removed. But all four and doors and light fixtures and even exist in my heart. a retro-style telephone in the original Time does indeed march on, and it telephone niche in the kitchen. The boys is hard for me to acknowledge that new have done some exceptional work and people will occupy the family home and the house is a Realtor’s dream listing. imprint their own character and personYet looking at all the spanky new ality on it. They will create new memocontemporary pictures creates an abid- ries. This is merely part of the great ing sense of ambivalence with regard to scheme of things — although I have had the changes. I can’t rein in the thought the disconcerting experience of selling that the house has lost its unique chara house and then some 15 years later acter in aspiring to 2017 desirability. being sent the details when it was listed Truthfully, today’s interior could be any again. I discovered that the people who modest new house featured in the week- had bought it from us had pretty thorend real estate inserts. oughly recreated all my interior decoratEven if you didn’t care for my ing, going as far as purchasing the same mother’s taste in interior decoration sofa and loveseat. I couldn’t decide (and, honestly, I didn’t), there could be whether this was complimentary or just no argument made about her acute sense plain creepy. of colour. Where colour was involved, Now living in my fifth house since her instincts never failed her and she my marriage back in pre-history, I also had a keen eye for proportion and glance around and see nothing that quality. Just these two sensibilities made would really suggest a 2017 or a B.C. what she did stand out. While she didn’t vibe despite the relatively new age of have much, she would never have made the house. No “greige” paint or Berber do with self-assembled IKEA-style carpet, no Euro-style furnishings or furniture. sleek light fixtures, or leather furniIf the interior of the house now seems ture. Rather, it’s the accumulation and to be very high-grade ordinary, the treasures of many years, especially the effect is even more pronounced in the paintings that I’ve collected since I was large pie-shaped yard where many trees a young bride. You know, the first things and shrubs have been removed because I’d be grabbing in the event of a fire — they had to be. There’s a beautiful large the photos all being in the cloud now. patio now, but Dad’s pride and joy — I’m also starting to wonder if, to his garden — is terminally sodded over. an outsider, my house screams “old Both parents were mad gardeners person.” Then, in horror, I also wonder and I can’t look at the yard without re- if my house smells like an old person’s membering Mom’s unruly nasturtiums house. I hope not. and dramatic hollyhocks and delphiniIn the end, though, all of us have ums doing battle with Dad’s uptight to face that nothing is ever as static marigolds and bold scarlet geraniums. as we would wish it to be. People age August was always a frenzy of canand change and so do our homes. Time ning and freezing, as all of us attempted relentlessly marches on. to make sure that nothing in the garden It’s difficult to accept but I have would actually go to waste. Reciprocal tissues nearby. I truly hope the new arrangements were made with neighinhabitants of my family home will be bours. There’s nothing like being raised pleased and happy.
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By RJ Currie op five moments from the Home Depot tools mascot race at the MarlinsBraves game: 5. The drill was off a bit; 4. The bucket came up empty; 3. It was a nail-biter; 2. The hammer clawed to the front; 1. The paintbrush lost by a hair. • Rumour has it Kent Austin stepped down as coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats due a cap-space problem. They couldn’t find one big enough to fit his head. • How about teenage sensation Dennis Shapavalov making it to Round 4 of the U.S. Open? Like most Canadians, I tuned in to see what was Shappening. • Saskatchewan’s wrestlers at the Canada Games were coached by newlyweds Monte and Wendy McNaughton. There’s a first: a wrestling match winding up inside two rings. • Congratulations to Serena Williams, on the birth of a baby girl. I haven’t heard the newborn’s name yet, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be Maria. • The Red Sox 19-inning win over the Blue Jays ended after 1 a.m. with only about 700 fans there to see it. Or what the Marlins call a really good crowd. • Diminutive U.S. Open quarterfinalist Diego Schwartzman of Argentina is listed as 5-feet-7 inches in height. Not sure how tall he is without the stack of magazines.
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For more information: Call 306-955-3766 roots and pops stylings. 7:30 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets Left Behind by Suicide is a drop-in support group for (church) or go to spuconline.com or email zixiag@gmail. individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Located com. - $18 and $23. at W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 4th Ave. North, 7:30 FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH p.m. to 9 p.m. There is no cost to attend. For more inforThe MindFULL Café, part of the international Alzheimer mation, email leftbehind@sasktel.net. Café movement, provides an opportunity to meet in a ***** SEPTEMBER 13 relaxed social setting for persons with dementia, family, FROMI - Friends and Relatives of People with Mental LutherCare book and movie fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. care partners and other interested people. The Café is a Illness meetings will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Items can be purchased by donations. Proceeds support two-hour get together with refreshments, entertainment at W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North recreation programs at Luther Special Care Home. The and information. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Sherbrooke Com(wheelchair accessible). If you have a loved one or friend home is located at 1212 Osler Street. For more informamunity Centre. with a mental illness and you need understanding support, tion, visit luthercare.com. contact Carol at 306-249-0693, Linda at 306-933-2085, TABLE TENNIS ***** Lois at 306-242-7670 or e-mail fromisk@gmail.com. The Saskatoon Table Tennis Club plays on Monday and National Association of Federal Retirees Members’ Corn Wednesday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30, Friday evening AL-ANON MEETINGS Boil. Noon at the Floral Community Centre. Members from 7 to 9 and Saturday morning from 10 to 12. The Weekly group meetings open to anyone who has been affree and guests $5. Eligible for membership are all location is the Zion Lutheran Church, 323 4th Ave. S. fected by someone else’s drinking. For more information, federal retirees and employees and their partners Entrance through the side door off the parking lot on the call 306-655-3838. including surviving partners. Membership is available North side of the building and down to the gym. Drop in to departmental workers, Armed Forces, RCMP. Please FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH and have a look, no charge for the first visit. For more confirm your attendance to either 306-374-5450 or Bridge City Needlearts Guild meets at Mayfair United information, call 306-242-7580 or 306-975-0835. 306-373-5812. For more details, visit federalretirees. Church at 7:30 p.m. for our monthly meetings. We also ca and click on Saskatoon Branch. Directions: East on EVERY THIRD WEDNESDAY have a stitching day at Sobey’s Stonebridge the first SatHighway 16 to Floral Road at Agar Corner, then south to La Leche League Canada - Saskatoon Daytime Meeting urday of each month. Come join us and have fun stitching the Community Centre. from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Emmanuel Anglican with fellow stitchers. For further information, contact ***** Church (609 Dufferin Avenue.) Dec. 21, Jan. 18, Feb. Glenda at 306-343-1882. Kids of Note has room for one more singer in the choir for 22, March 22 and April 19. For more information or to EVERY THURSDAY those between 10 to 15 years old. The choir is for youth, get breastfeeding help, contact a leader by phone (306with or without disabilities, who love to sing. Registrations Prairie Sky Farmers’ Market is open every Thursday from 655-4805) or email lllcsaskatoon@gmail.com or www. are now being taken with the first rehearsal Sept. 13. The 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is located at St. Paul’s United Church facebook.com/LLLCSaskatoon. Notations, a choir for young adults, ages 16 and up, is also in Sutherland (454 Egbert Ave.) New vendors may phone SECOND SATURDAY EVERY MONTH registering new choristers. The contact for both choirs is or text Kathy at 306-222-2740 or email saphire1515@ Memory Writers — September to June, 10 a.m. to noon Brenda Baker. Call her at 306-653-3245 or send an email hotmail.com. at the Edwards Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue. Share the through Kids of Note on Facebook or through its website: ***** events and memories of your life in a relaxed and friendly KidsofNote.com. Beginning in September, the Saskatoon International Folkatmosphere. For more information, call Neva Bayliss at dance Club meets at 7 p.m. in Albert Community Centre SEPTEMBER 14 306-343-0256 or Hilda Epp at 306-382-2446. (Room 13, 610 Clarence Ave. South). Learn dances from Awaken Your Soul. Speaker: Param Pujya ‘Shiri Brahmrishi many countries. The first night is free. The group is also BOOKS WANTED Gurudev.’ Topic: Seeking Devine Life: Spiritual Quest in the available for performances. For more information, call The Canadian Federation of University Women is collecting Modern World. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gita Bhavan Shri Lakshmi 306-374-0005 or visit www.sifc.awardspace.com. books, CDs and videos for its Mammoth Book Sale until Narayan Temple at 107 La Ronge Road. Supper from 5:30 ***** September. Please contact Alverta at 306-652-7708 or p.m. to 6:45 p.m. For more information, contact Braj Sinha Pop In & Play (until Dec. 8) 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Alison at 306-244-2988 to arrange to drop off books. at 306-241-2651 or Bala Muthuswamy at 306-370-2636 Erindale Alliance Church (310 Perehudoff Cres). Bring or Birender Behari at 306-227-3870 or Leela Sharma at EVERY TUESDAY your little ones, 5 years & under, with you downstairs for 306-380-7737. a great time of fun & connecting! Monthly theme, learning Love to Sing? The Saskatoon Choral Society welcomes SEPTEMBER 17 centres, snack & occasional speaker. For more info, go to new members. No auditions. We meet each Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Grace Westminster Church, beginning Sept. 5. For erindalealliance.ca. Terry Fox Run in the Bessborough Gardens. Warm up, more information, please contact: janinasaskatoonchoralregistration, and merchandise sales start at 11 a.m., with EVERY WEDNESDAY society@gmail.com or phone Janina: 306-229-3606. the five and 10 kilometre runs beginning at noon. While Seven Seas Toastmasters, an energetic and dynamic club, ***** registration is available on site, it is recommended that invites you to join us from noon to 1 p.m. in the LDAS Magic City Chorus (women’s 4 part a cappella harmony) participants register at terryfox.org prior to attending so Building. (2221 Hanselman Court.) For more information, rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings at St. Paul’s that they may raise funds prior to the run date. Donations visit http://3296.toastmastersclubs.org/ United Church, Egbert Avenue, in Sutherland at 7 p.m. may be submitted online via credit card, or in cash on the ***** New members welcome! Check out magiccitychorus.ca run day. The FASD Network of Saskatchewan offers monthly sup- for more information. Contact y.jaspar@shaw.ca. ***** port meetings for individuals living with FASD and caregivAnnual Senior Fitness Association Sunday Social. Royal ers on Wednesdays at the Network office (510 Cynthia St). Canadian Legion (3021 Louise Street). Supper at 5:30 The free-of-charge support meetings are an informative p.m. and dancing to the music of Mr. Music from 7:30 and engaging space for people to connect with each other p.m. to 9:30 p.m. There will be a happy hour and games for ongoing support. For information and times, visit www. earlier in the day from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $20 saskfasdnetwork.ca/events and sales end on Sept. 13. For more information, phone ***** 306-374-4542 or 306-242-9452. Le Choeur des plaines welcomes you to sing and social***** ize in French each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at L’École Saskatoon Nature Society’s Fall Picnic at Blackstrap from canadienne française at 1407 Albert Avenue. The choir is 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Meet in the northwest corner of the directed by Michael Harris and accompanied by Rachel Circle Centre Mall parking lot. From there participants Fraser. All who wish to sustain or practice their French are will drive to Blackstrap, view waterbirds and then have a welcome. For more information, call Rachel at 306-343picnic. 6641 or Jean at 306-343-9460. SEPTEMBER 20 ***** Saskatoon Community Contact for the Widowed (SCCW). Columbian Seniors (55+) potluck supper will be held at Holy Spirit Parish Hall (114 Kingsmere Place).. Doors open Coffee at 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday at St. Martin’s United Church (2617 Clarence Avenue). 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Powerful new Mercedes SUV offers a smooth ride The Mercedes GLC offers power and elegance. The one pictured are regular models, not with the AMG trim. (Web Photo)
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n the time it takes your brain to interpret is the special AMG interior. In short, AMG what the name of the car is, it has gone picks up the rad cap and slides a different car from 0 to 100 kph in 4.9 seconds. Not under it that just happens to look like a GLC. bad for a mid-sized luxury SUV that doesn’t With all this performance on tap, it is have Porsche or Jaguar written on it. difficult to remind yourself that this is a This GLC also indicates that Mercedes is luxury SUV as well. The sumptuous and very going to continue the trend of making even comfortable front seats have a minimum of its sedate and family-oriented vehicles per10-way power adjustable on both driver and formance oriented — if you want. passenger sides. If you tick the right boxes, The AMG package on the regular GLC front and rear seats are heated and multi-zone adds some significant power. The 4.3-litre V6 climate control is standard. gets twin turbos, a host of internal mechaniOnce ensconced in the driver’s seat and Autozone cal as well as electronic upgrades to produce all the necessary adjustments are made, it is 362 horsepower and a whopping 384 lb.ft. of time to drive. The first thing you are going to torque. notice is that outward visibility is excellent. The second Even the nine-speed automatic gets special AMG item on the notice list is how comfortable and forminternals and AMG Dynamic Select which lets the driver fitting the seat is. set individual components of the driving experience, After you start the GLC, your ears will pick up on from shock dampening to the exhaust note. Then there the pleasant burble of the exhaust which is really your
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first notice that this isn’t your daddy’s stodgy Mercedes. Put the GLC in gear and the exhaust does quiet down slightly — for now. Mercedes still uses a longer throttle tip in than many other manufacturers, so it does take a longer movement of your right foot than you expect to make things happen. I suspect there are two reasons for this. First and foremost, it allows the GLC to be driven in town in a smooth and luxurious manner. This keeps the hot rod-like performance in reserve. Secondly, I believe that to blatantly advertise the performance aspect would go against Mercedes Benz’s philosophy of driving being a smooth and pleasing activity. Mind you, mash the throttle from the start and that quiet exhaust begins to roar, and the GLC will be on its way to 100 kph in less than five seconds. One assist in performance that many people under appreciate is 4Matic, which is the Mercedes-Benz equivalent of AWD. This system gets maximum power down to every wheel. While other vehicles may be spinning tires and throwing rocks and gravel to try and catch up to the GLC, it just gets on with life and does the job. When it comes to ride quality, AMG has given the GLC a suspension that is firm and still luxurious. Many of our smaller road craters are heard inside but not really felt as the suspension soaks them up. Even the larger ones don’t dislodge the occupant’s bottoms from their leather seats. Noise levels from the exterior are minimal, but that does not guarantee a peaceful ride. The stereo system is top notch and produces a clean sound pretty much all the way up on volume settings allowing you to listen to Bach or Pink Floyd with equal enjoyment. Going around corners more quickly than average can easily be done. Body lean is present when pushing hard, but is minimal and the seats do hold you firmly in place. In addition the stability and traction control electronics will help to keep you on your chosen cornering line. If you are silly enough to push so hard that the front end starts to go away, the electronics will dial the power back so quickly that you will think that some giant, unseen hand reached down and put you back in place. Power and comfort all cost money, and the GLC 4.3 AMG is no exception. A basic GLC starts at about $44,000. Adding nothing but the AMG package brings the price to roughly $62,200 and the sticker price on my test unit was just shy of $75,000. How big a grin can you afford to have when you go for a drive?
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