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Jess Tetu was “honoured and humbled” by the Top 40 Award. (Photo by Joanne Paulson)

Spa owner Jess Tetu

Saskatchewan’s only Top 40 Under 40 winner Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express n paper, Jess Tetu says, she never should have made it.

She grew up in tiny Craik, Saskatchewan, daughter of an alcoholic father whose addiction eventually lost the family home. Tetu was just 15; she picked herself up and moved to Saskatoon, finished her education, worked horrible hours and finally found a job at a little spa.

At the still-tender age of 22, Tetu bought the spa. Today, 14 years later, she owns four Just For You Day Spa locations — two in Saskatoon and one each in Regina and Lloydminster. She also produces her own full line of beauty products, Lia Reese Canada; is the co-founder of a consulting firm; and runs a charity.

Now, she’s also one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 award recipients, given to outstanding entrepreneurs by Caldwell, and supported by some of the country’s biggest firms.

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“I’m completely shocked,” said Tetu in an interview in the lounge of her second Saskatoon location at Quebec Avenue and 33rd Street. “I was not expecting this, in a million years. I was the only one chosen in Saskatchewan, and I will not waste the opportunity.

“I’m overwhelmed and completely honoured and humbled.”

When she says she will not waste the opportunity, she is largely referring to her speaking career. Tetu gets out and talks to all kinds of people, often students, about success and determination.

“My main goal is to remind everyone no matter where you are from or the cards you’ve been dealt, you can always pursue your dreams. You just have to learn to believe in yourself. The only one holding you back is you.”

She also talks about addiction. She established her non-profit, 4seventyone Recovery Resources, for perhaps obvious reasons, to help families struggling to

overcome addiction.

“I’ve never been an addict,” she said, but she certainly knows what it’s like to have one in the family. “I want people to start talking about it, so we can shine a light on addiction.”

She notes that wait times for addiction assistance are very long in Saskatchewan, and now that she has been nationally recognized, she hopes to spread her message further and wider.

Just For You When Tetu bought the first incarnation of Just For You, she had four or five employees. Today, there are 120.

She began building her empire by rebranding and expanding the original location on Eighth Street, and then began eyeing a spot in Regina.

By 2012, she opened the 15,000 square foot location in the Queen City, and added a third location in Lloydminster in 2016.

Her mother lives there, while her grand-

mother is in Regina.

“My grandma was the first to introduce me to the beauty world,” said Tetu. “She has a standing appointment every Thursday.”

Then, the location on Quebec Avenue and 33rd Street opened in February of this year, also measuring 15,000 square foot.

She hopes to expand the original location again soon, as well as open a fifth location — possibly in Alberta.

Over the years, she added the Lia Reese beauty line, named for her daughter, Ellia.

“I wanted a brand I could stand behind,” said Tetu: “No testing on animals, and made in Canada.”

The skin care and cosmetics line features products named after important people in her life. As with all her endeavours, Tetu is focused on making things personal while also supporting various social causes.

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griculture was our ince. Canola is (largely) what But here’s the thing. This rural-urban first serious industry makes our farmers money. divide may come into play during elecin these parts. Before Yet as the years roll along, tions and through a general city-dweller we were engaged in largeunawareness of what’s going on out there rural Saskatchewan becomes scale mining, before we were an increasingly less-populated in food production country. In business, sucking oil and gas out of the though, it’s a different story. place, and I would say the Earth’s bowels, we were clearThe Saskatoon Regional Economic rural-urban divide is as great ing and farming this land.

Development Authority (SREDA) is as it has ever been in many Make no mistake, ag is still respects. City slickers, I would fully engaged in AIM. SREDA partners one of the big ones. Should with the ag show through an Innovations say, know less and less about you have any doubt, just visit Program, and also holds a competition farming. So, if you’ve never the mini-city near Langham heard of Ag In Motion (AIM), it calls its Harvest Program. SREDA Columnist that has sprouted each of reaches out to ag tech companies around it’s understandable. the last four Julys, including AIM is a four-year-old farm the world; they apply to attend AIM, and last week. (Sprouted. Ha! See what I did show created by Glacier FarmMedia that SREDA chooses four of the applicants, there?) takes place just past Langham. And there’s partly paying their costs to travel here.

I won’t go on about the history of agri- much more to see and do, of course; but Bonus: One of those four companies culture in Saskatchewan apart from noting one of the coolest things about the show from last year, PBD Biotech from the that today’s ag would be barely recogniz- is the actual planting of crops to show off United Kingdom, a livestock disease able to a farmer of the early 1900s. We’re the agronomic effects of seed breeding and detection firm, has now set up shop in still sowing seed into variously accommo- fertilizer. That takes some mind-boggling Saskatoon. dating sorts of dirt, but that seed has been pre-planning, let me tell you.

It may also come as a surprise that even so vastly improved, it’s barely the same today, with far fewer farmers on the land Agricultural technology of variand dwindling rural populations, AIM has thing. We’re using machinery so advanced ous kinds, from new machinery to new grown each year in terms of attendance — and so big — it’s practically sci-fi com- nutrients and fertilizers, is the true focus pared to the original horse and plough. at AIM. Today’s farmers are insanely tech and exhibitors. More than 450 exhibitors were at thisStarting year’s show; Soon if memory Consider canola. It’s only 40 years old savvy, and use every possible advance-Construction — isn’t that amazing? — and in those four ment to their advantage. Goodness knows, serves, there were perhaps 300 at the beginning. decades, just that one remarkable oilseed they need them. Farming is still a pretty (Continued on page 6) has revolutionized cropping in this provtough go.

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Sharon Elder

‘rides out the pain’ on horseback Kathy Fitzpatrick Saskatoon Express orses have taken Sharon Elder over a lot of ground in her life — from rounding up cattle in Australia to her recent trek through Iceland’s Golden Circle.

Horses also help her ‘ride out’ the chronic pain she suffers — literally.

“Between the motion of the horse when it’s walking and the heat coming off the body, it’s a massage,” Elder explains. “The more I ride the better I feel.”

Elder’s passion for riding began early, at around 11 years old, when she would ride with a childhood friend, Joan, whose brother broke horses near Saskatoon.

“When they stopped bucking every step then Joan and I would go ride them. I’m sure our mothers never even suspected we were riding these absolutely wild animals,” she recalls.

Elder didn’t ride for a long time after that, until she took it up again to ease her chronic pain.

It began with a damaged disc in her back. The catalyst was a sneeze, Elder says, although she has always had back problems.

It was 1986. At the time, Elder (then 36) and her husband were running the Wollaston Lake Lodge in northern Saskatchewan, spending the off-season in Minneapolis.

At the Mayo Clinic she was told “in 15 years I’d be in a wheelchair.”

It’s never happened.

Two years after the disc trouble, a more severe crisis struck — a brain tumour, benign, but requiring two surgeries. The scar tissue causes her ongoing neck pain.

Even living at a northern fishing lodge didn’t keep Elder off horses. She simply shipped a pair up there, riding the nearby trails for nine years.

The couple eventually sold the lodge and resettled in Saskatoon, where Elder continues to ride.

She finds it more than physically soothing.

“It’s incredible freedom,” she says, eyes welling up with emotion. “I love the fact that you’re sitting on an animal that thinks and can react and can make decisions, and that you’re working together.”

The “naughty” nature of Elder’s Morgan gelding Apollo led her into endurance riding, a sport comprised of controlled longdistance races.

“I talked to my coach and she said ‘if he wants to run let him run.’ And I was hooked because he flew.”

Apollo seems to have thrived on it too, living to 31 and a half years, the upper range of the breed’s typical life span.

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Riding horses brings “incredible freedom,” says Sharon Elder. (Photo Supplied) taught Elder even more about the bonding and trust between horse and rider.

She recalls a man who had a heart attack and died while out riding “in the middle of nowhere.” It took searchers a day and a half to find him, she says, and his horse — still loose — “was standing beside the body.”

It was the suggestion of Elder’s friend and fellow equestrian Laurie Klassen to trek through Iceland’s volcanic landscape on horseback, in an organized tour.

Icelandic horses are one of the world’s “gaited” breeds, having more than the usual number of gaits or manners of moving. The Icelandic has five, including an ambling gait called “tolt.”

On video, it looks like a high-stepping prance.

“The whole thing just appealed; I just wanted to try it,” Elder says.

The website Inspired by Iceland says the breed arrived with the first settlers from Norway 1,100 years ago. The horses are descended from an ancient breed now extinct outside of Iceland “where it has been preserved in isolation.”

It’s illegal to import horses to Iceland, and exported animals are barred from returning.

“You’ll never see pure horses like that again,” Elder says, adding that Icelandics are both “mannerly” — due to the way they are trained — and “incredibly smooth” to ride.

In fact, the training was another reason Elder wanted to go there.

The horses don’t start working until they’re seven or eight years old, she says.

They spend their first year in the pasture with their mothers, whereas in Canada horses are weaned at six months.

After weaning, the Icelandics spend another year in pasture as their own herd.

“They just have a better sense of self-

worth, I think, because they’ve grown up in the herd,” Elder explains. “They understand that hierarchy, which so many of our horses don’t because people tend to keep them alone.

“They’re herd animals. They need that pecking order.”

At age 68, Elder was the oldest member of the tour group. Her friend Klassen says Elder is “very determined, and very methodical, and always up for an adventure.”

Klassen, already experienced in riding gaited horses, helped Elder adapt.

The morning of the third day, it clicked.

“She was just beaming. She said ‘I got it, I feel it, it’s so great!’” Klassen recounts.

Icelandics are small, standing about 1.3 to 1.4 metres high on average. It makes horseback riding a great way to see the country’s landscape up close.

“It’s a big lava mound, and it’s ready to blow at any time,” Elder chuckles, adding the area her group covered is “now they say the most geothermal active area of Iceland” because of volcanic eruptions.

“Truly you can just be walking along like this and there’s steam off the ground

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And yet, “it was not nearly as desolate as I expected. Spectacular colours. Every two steps was something different.”

At home in Saskatoon, Elder now focuses on trail riding and dressage, a choice driven by the build of her pinto Cashew.

“She’s big, she’s heavy, she’s thick and she would never be able to do any kind of distance if it was above freezing.”

With all her devotion to riding, Elder still finds time to give back to the community.

She has used her sewing skills to produce awe-inspiring decorations for the Festival of Trees, and help the charity Cloth for Kids make new clothes for kids in need.

Also a cycling enthusiast, she has dedicated untold hours to running bike valets at public events.

Elder says those two spheres of her life — riding and volunteering — complement each other.

“Everybody needs alone time, and there’s just something about being with the horse. . . . If I couldn’t ride I might just shrivel up and die,” she says with a note of humour.

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Ross Ulmer, auto dealer and trombonist, given special recognition by Jazz Fest

n the business world, Ross at the time, took over the band Ulmer and his brother, for the rest of the year.

Doug, have built a chain of “My dad had three or four auto dealerships which span Tommy Dorsey albums around Alberta and Saskatchewan. the house. I learned from Dorsey Four of them exist in Lloydsolos. Every note came through minster, which has been their when he played. He was noted home base since 1987 when for his ballads but he loved jazz. they opened the first dealership Glenn Miller was also an acwith a staff of nine. Today, the complished trombone player but employees in their companies he seldom took solos and was number 45. mostly famous as an arranger But for those in the music and a leader.”

People crowd, Ulmer still feeds his Ulmer came to Saskatoon to hobby of playing the trombone, attend the University of Saswaking each morning to practice for an katchewan from 1971 until 1975. hour, encouraging jazz events in LloydminIt was automatic that he was going to ster and playing often with the Saskatoon fall under the influence of David Kaplan Jazz Orchestra. and Dwayne Nelson with the University “Every note I play is because I want to Wind Ensemble. play,” said Ulmer in an interview.

“David demanded the best you could Ulmer won the Special Recognition give. Dwayne taught me how to listen Award at the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz and learn, and he was the first to give me Festival in June, an award primarily reflect- solos.” ing the playing contributions of many in the Ulmer intended to pursue an education province who have enriched jazz perforas an engineer, found out it wasn’t workmance. ing, and transferred into the Bachelor of His enthusiasm for music dates back Music and Music Education programs. He to his Grade 5 classes in North Battleford, also played at some of the downtown music where Norm Lehman was considered one of spots. the pioneer band teachers in the province.

Ulmer won a national music festival “Mr. Lehman was an incredible mentor. award, playing classical trombone, and He was a taskmaster, very musical and had once reached the semifinals of a CBC the ability to develop talent,” said Ulmer. “I competition where he played a 19-minute inherited the trombone because I had two concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony. older brothers in the band: one of them got He was attracted to North Texas State, the trumpet, the other got the saxophone. the second largest music school in the No regrets, however. I played my first solo United States, on the recommendation of in my second year with the band. I never Rich Matteson and he became a student of found the trombone a hard instrument to Phil Wilson. There he gained a masters in play.” trombone performance, achieved valuable Lehman eventually had Ulmer leading experience and also took turns at teaching the band in the warm-up exercises. When younger players where there were as many Lehman took ill in late 1970 and died in 92 trombonists.

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School of the Arts where Canadian jazz specialist Phil Nimmons was teaching.

Among the students were some members of the RCMP Band. He auditioned for the band and played with them for two years.

“The early morning practices really made it feel like a militia unit and I stayed for 20 months,” Ulmer said.

Foremost among his musical dreams was a position as a music teacher at the university level, “but then my brother asked me to try out the car business and everything worked out.”

Ulmer’s grandfather came to Canada from Europe in 1907, a shoemaker by trade. His father, Joe, first joined Boyd Brothers Motors as a partsman in 1971 and later owned the dealership.

Following his appearances at the jazz festival, Ulmer is also contemplating the newly-announced season by Dean McNeil’s Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra.

The season’s opener on Oct. 13 at the Broadway Theatre will feature Gordon Foote, one of Canada’s well-respected band directors, Richard Gillis from the University of Saskatchewan’s music department and the Saskatchewan premiere of the Canada 150 Suit The orchestra will come back with the SJO Holiday Swing session, appearing in North Battleford on Dec. 13, Moose Jaw on Dec. 14 and the Broadway Theatre on Dec. 15. Saskatoon’s Jessica Robinson will be the vocalist.

There will be a Swing in the New Year dance at the Delta Bessborough Hotel on Dec. 31, with vocalists BJ Harris and Tatrina Tai helping to recreate some big band repertoire.

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(Continued from page 1) or example, the sales of the products are aligned with the people behind their inspiration. A portion of the sales from the Applehead product goes to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where her tiny niece was cared for. A photo of an apple next to the baby girl’s head demonstrated how small she was.

Her nail polish and lacquer line features 150 colours named for a town or region in Saskatchewan or Alberta, such as Every Rosetown Has a Thorn.

“I’m such a small-town girl at heart,” she said, “I wanted to put some of those little towns on the map.”

And the lip products are named for the important women in her life, including her mother and grandmother.

“I want it to become Saskatchewan’s beauty brand,” she said. “It’s the only complete beauty brand (here), as far as I know.”

Family, staff, and life Behind this successful woman is a network of support, starting with her family.

“I’m nothing without my husband and my kids,” said Tetu. “My mom, sister, husband and kids are my biggest supporters.”

As she grew the business, she also grew her family, and is a mother of three children aged 16, 13 and nine. It became clear to Tetu that if she did not operate her business with a team approach, she

wasn’t going to survive the work-life imbalance.

“After opening in Regina, I really learned to delegate,” she said. “I really missed my kids.”

She worked like crazy the first two years after Regina opened, toward finding a better balance in the future, and she feels she has largely found it.

“I have 11 directors and owe the success of the spas to the team. I’m just their leader. I feel really strongly about not being their boss, but being part of the team,” she said. “I’m smart enough to know when someone is better at something than I am. I couldn’t do it without them.”

She has also surrounded herself with other supports, such as a group of fellow business owners she can call and bounce ideas off. That network has saved her a lot of time.

Be creative, she advises other budding entrepreneurs, “but don’t reinvent the wheel. I was a sponge for information. I learned and listened. I never had too much pride to take someone’s advice.

“Without the advice, I would have made more mistakes than I did.”

Any other good advice?

“Life could always be worse, and you always have the control to change your life.” Believe it, she says. “On paper, I shouldn’t have become successful. But I did.”

Nutrien donates $3 million to Wanuskewin campaign

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anuskewin Heritage Park has come $3 million closer to its $40-million Thundering Ahead fundraising campaign goal with a donation from Nutrien.

Nutrien, the new company formed through a merger of Potash Corp. and Agrium Inc., announced the donation last week.

“Wanuskewin is a place where our collective past and future are undeniably linked by a shared tie to the land, revealing the common ground where reconciliation can take root and grow,” said Lee Knafelc, Nutrien’s executive vice-president and chief sustainability officer. “We are thrilled to have helped the Wanuskewin Thundering Ahead Campaign take root and grow with this donation of $3 million dollars.”

Wanuskewin launched the campaign in February, 2017, to raise funds for several goals, including applying to become Saskatchewan’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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“For every major initiative or project to succeed it needs champions,” said Felix Thomas, co-chair of Thundering Ahead.

“This campaign and the ultimate goal of UNESCO World Heritage designation relies on continued support. We in Saskatchewan are fortunate that Nutrien has stepped forward in the spirit of reconciliation and corporate citizenship, and that we have such dedicated champions alongside us.”

Candace Wasacase-Lafferty, chair of Wanuskewin’s board of directors, noted that Nutrien has been been a partner in the fundraising effort from the beginning.

“Wanuskewin is deeply grateful for their generosity as a company, their commitment to our community, but even more so, the personal initiative and interest of their staff and executive team.”

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The loss of STC may be attributable to ownership, subsidies to competing passensome poor management decisions. Perhaps ger carriers and competition from low-cost they could have reduced reliance on the airlines.

Servicing routes in these regions was not enormous government subsidy by changing business practices. Instead of running nearly profitable or even revenue neutral but was empty buses several times a day to the major costing the corporation substantial money.

Earlier on, it had cancelled most of its routes centres, they could have reduced the number in British Columbia, although its competitor of times the bus would travel to smaller communities to once a day or three times a week. picked up the forfeited routes.

I’m speculating that the key word is “sub- But that would have brought a hue and cry sidies” and given the federal government’s from users that limiting routes would create recent commitment to examining ways to restricted access to the cities, especially for maintain this service, it might mean that this medical appointments or minor surgeries. multi-national corporation wants the governWe would have heard about the hardship ment to subsidize the cost of service in the of those individuals, pointing to their cost of affected provinces. lodging and food in Saskatoon while waiting This comes on the heels of the provinfor the next bus home. Would the alternacial government cancelling Saskatchewan tive of increased fares, to better reflect the Transportation Company (STC), the former cost of operations, have affected the overall bus service in this province. Of course, the use of ridership? If, on average, there were same reason was given by the government only a handful of passengers on some routes, for cancelling STC service that Greyhound perhaps they could have used smaller, less gave — declining ridership, together with the costly vehicles for transportation, such as high cost of subsidies being paid by provin- large passenger vans. Less comfortable cial taxpayers. perhaps, but over the years airlines have sacBe it private industry or government, it rificed passenger comfort to make air travel makes little sense to operate a transportation more affordable to users. system that is not a viable business for the Then comes the question of what other sole benefit of an ever-shrinking user base. forms of transportation services receive taxIncreasing fares to better reflect the cost of funded subsidies to continue operations. UnAS072314 Aaron operations would probably further erode use like buses, airplane fares go up during peak

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seasons and reduce slightly in off-season.

Fuel surcharges, baggage charges and airport taxes are reflected in the price of a ticket. Is train service an option, given the fact that the province is crisscrossed with railroad tracks?

But if memory serves, country-wide train passenger service went the way of the dodo bird because of a decline in ridership.

Closer to home, our civic government is a considering a multi-million dollar investment in bus transportation within the city, even though ridership has been in decline.

The city has tried everything to attract ridership, including early morning service and employer/employee shared ticket cost initiatives that failed. The only feather in the cap of Saskatoon transit was having the university students’ union agree to mandate the purchase of a bus pass, the cost of which is added on to a students’ tuition bill. Saskatoon taxpayers heavily subsidize our bus service and we will probably increase that contribution because of the costly proposed changes to our transit system.

Now the question becomes how much are taxpayers willing to spend on services for a relatively small segment of the population?

The question of necessity is moot. We do need public transportation in the city, but it becomes a matter of the degree of service.

Given the geographical nature of our province and its scattered population, we should have some form of provincial transportation system. Should it be in the hands of the private sector with some government subsidy? Private corporations react unemotionally to customer complaints, whereas government-operated businesses tend to cave into user demands for political purposes.

These bus transportation dilemmas qualify as a “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” decision. And be damned if I can figure out the answer. Maybe the growth of Uber will be the solution to the problem. ehnatyshyn@shaw.ca

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(Continued from page 2) he really mind-boggling thing is the turnout, though. Last year AIM had an attendance of over 25,000, from all over Western Canada and beyond. And they had expected up to 30,000 this year, some brought in busloads by the exhibitor companies.

That makes AIM good for Saskatoon. As Michael Raine, managing editor of the Western Producer (part of FarmMedia) says, the city gets the benefit of the rural show.

Farmers attending AIM can’t all stay in Langham or at the highly-booked RV parks. They stay in Saskatoon hotels, eat in Saskatoon restaurants, make purchases they can’t make in the towns nearer their homes, stock up on stuff they need to head out on holidays.

The exhibitors alone, even if not a single farmer turned up, would take up hundreds of hotel rooms.

What’s that kind of attendance worth to Saskatoon? I spoke to a caterer last week who said he churned $30,000 in AIM’s three days last year.

That’s just one of many food providers.

Raine is not surprised that the show has taken off since its inception four years ago. It offers farm equipment, agronomy, meetings and presentations, demos and great speakers — and there are no housewares or fudge in sight.

“All that stuff is not there. The only people who show up are farmers,” said Raine.

They like that. They’re focused on farming, and so is AIM. And in Saskatoon, we get to do nothing but reap the benefits. (Reap. See what I did there?)

Now that I think about it, I’d say the rural-urban divide closes up a little bit during AIM week.

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New Picasso exhibition illustrates the artist’s process

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express istorically the words “Picasso” and “Saskatoon” haven’t had an immediate connection, but that’s starting to change among art aficionados.

The city’s new museum of modern and contemporary art, Remai Modern, houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of linocuts by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The specialized collection includes editioned prints, working states and experimental proofs, allowing viewers to get a unique look at Picasso’s artistic processes, said curator Sandra Fraser.

Picasso has long been considered one of the most important figures of the 20th century and was an incredibly prolific artist, working in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and ceramics.

Fraser said Remai Modern’s collection of linocut prints is very focused and specialized, providing curators like her “an opportunity to see how he’s thinking about working in that media.”

“This is an interesting way to see how he works through building up an image, how he makes choices about colour,” she said.

“So the thing that’s exciting about it is being able to imagine being in the studio with him, sort of as a fly on the wall, and just imagine the conversation that he had with his master printer about what he wanted to do.”

On July 20, Remai Modern opened the exhibition Process & Poetry, curated

by Fraser. It marks the first exhibition of Picasso’s work in the Picasso Gallery on Remai Modern’s third floor. The focal theme of Process & Poetry is Bacchanalia, originally an ancient Roman festival of Bacchus.

Picasso began working in the linocut technique at the age of 70. Passionate about bull-fighting, he created posters for bull-fights in Vallauris, France. The new Picasso exhibition at Remai Modern follows the previous exhibition entitled Picasso on View, which wrapped up last week. Also curated JW072303 Jamesby Fraser, Picasso on

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View presented a collection of works that offered a glimpse into Picasso’s interest in bull-fighting.

When asked if she ever expected to be curating Picasso’s work, Fraser laughed and said no.

“It was never an expectation of mine,” she said.

Picasso’s linocuts were produced from 1951 to 1968 with his master printer, Hidalgo Arnera. Remai Modern’s collection includes 194 out of 197 linocut subjects known to exist, as well as 212 working proofs. U.K. art dealer and art expert Frederick Mulder, who is originally from Eston, Sask., assembled the linocuts. The Remai Foundation bought 405 linocuts from Mulder in 2012 to donate to the museum. Mulder then donated 23 ceramics and one of the remaining four linocut subjects to Remai Modern in 2014, bringing the linocut collection to 406 works.

Fraser said Mulder bought work from Arnera, Picasso’s master printer, for years and they had a good relationship.

“That was one of his sources of information about Picasso’s work as well as a source of material, basically, for his gallery,” said Fraser, noting Mulder was able to purchase Arnera’s archives following Arnera’s death.

“As a printer, you have all the working proofs and you have a copy of the all proofs – called printer’s proofs in English.

So he (Arnera) had an extensive collection as a printmaker, and so Mulder worked with that body of work and some other work that he had purchased over the years to create this large collection that we now have,” said Fraser.

“We have some really unusual things that have never been exhibited before, and that’s because they’re not the finished print that you would expect to see in a gallery. We’re used to seeing what the artist finished and signed and is presenting to the public. But because we have a lot of our material from the printmaker’s archives, we have a lot of different states of prints and some trial proofs and even prints that were never

Curator Sandra Fraser’s exhibition of Picasso works helps the viewer imagine the artist at work in his studio. (Photo supplied). editioned that Picasso began and then decided to abandon. So it’s quite unique in that regard.”

Fraser said Remai Modern’s collection includes finished images with which viewers would likely be more familiar, but the museum also has “all of this really wonderful material that gives you insight into how the prints were made or some of the decisions that Picasso must have made while he was developing the work.”

Process & Poetry marks the third exhibition of Picasso’s work at Remai Modern.

The first exhibition, Faces of Picasso, featured linocut prints selected by British artist Ryan Gander.

Fraser believes people are “looking forward, with anticipation,” to the latest Picasso exhibition.

“The first exhibition that we did was organized by Ryan Gander, who’s an artist, so he’s pursuing it with an artist’s mind and an artist’s eye. So what I’m doing is more of a curatorial approach,” said Fraser.

“What I wanted to do was give people a taste of what we have in the collection. So by showing the finished linocuts, some of the working proofs and some of the ceram-

ics that we have, it gives people an idea of the scope of what we have.”

For more information, go online to remaimodern.org. ***** In other Remai Modern news, the museum has just announced one of its 2019 exhibitions.

In the New Year, Remai Modern will host Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. The show recently opened in Toronto and will tour to Saskatoon on Feb. 1, 2019.

According to Remai Modern, the exhibition surveys Belmore’s career of more than 30 years, featuring sculpture, installations, performance-based works and photographs. Belmore’s art responds to issues such as water and land rights, women’s lives and dignity, violence against Indigenous people by the state and the police and the role of the artist in contemporary life.

Four of Belmore’s photo-based works are currently on display at Remai Modern as part of the museum’s exhibition echoes, which was organized by Sandra Fraser in the Collection Gallery.

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Nest garden tour fundraiser supports refugee settlement efforts Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express s a local refugee support group prepares to welcome two more families to Saskatoon next month, an annual summer fundraiser is being held to support the organization.

Nest Saskatoon is a volunteer group that formed in 1997 to support refugee settlement in the city, with the aim of being a safe home or refuge for the newcomer families it sponsors.

“It’s a volunteer organization. There are people who come from a variety of religious and non-religious backgrounds, but we’re all united in our passion to support people that find themselves in tragic situations,” said Nest member Maureen McPherson.

On July 29, Nest will hold its ninth annual Nest Secret Garden Tour fundraiser from 1 to 5 p.m. Eight gardens will be available for viewing this year – two in the north end and six on the city’s east side – including one that celebrates shade-loving plants and another with a water feature. Only 350 tickets will be sold for the self-guided tour, which often sells out.

McPherson said Nest has sponsored refugees for more than 20 years, including more than 75 people from eight different countries in the Middle East, Africa and South America.

“The mandate of Nest is to sponsor women and children at risk,” said McPherson. “That is because women and children find it more difficult to settle. If they have children, they need to get them in school. Women often don’t have as much education. So that is our primary

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focus, but we also sponsor families – so it’s not just women and children that we sponsor.”

In August, Nest will welcome two more refugee families: a single-parent family from Syria with relatives in Saskatoon and a family from Iraq. McPherson said there continues to be a “huge need” for Nest and the support it offers, noting 13 people arrived in Saskatoon over the last year and Nest is currently waiting for nine families.

“We have other people that we hope we’ll be able to sponsor in the near future,” she added.

McPherson said sponsoring the refugee families is expensive, as the families are supported at the level people would receive on social assistance. Some of the newcomers already have relatives in Saskatoon who are prepared to help with the expenses but, overall, “it is a very costly undertaking, and also very demanding in terms of the time required to help people settle,” she said.

McPherson said one of Nest’s advantages is its members come from a variety of churches, meaning Nest is able to tap into various local groups that can provide items such as furniture for the families.

The newcomers are always “very happy” to arrive in a safe place like Saskatoon, said McPherson, noting the first person that Nest sponsored, from South Sudan, has been here for about 20 years.

“The first thing she said when she got off the plane was, ‘What took you so long to get me here?’ ” McPherson said Nest does most of its sponsorships through Lutheran World Relief, but Nest’s members have various

Beautiful gardens await on the Nest Saskatoon garden tour. (Photo supplied.) religious affiliations or no religious affiliation. Instead, the members are “united by a passion to think globally and act locally,” she said, adding that there are currently 22 active Nest members and 18 “friends of Nest” who help out on occasion.

Nest was modelled after a settlement group in Winnipeg that encouraged refugees, once settled, to become group members and to help with the settlement of other newcomers.

“Over the years, we’ve seen people get their Canadian citizenship, get jobs, graduate from high school, complete further education, get married, have children,” McPherson said.

The Secret Garden Tour is one of the organization’s big fundraisers. Lots of people return each year and “it’s always really nice to see them again,” said McPherson.

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Nest doesn’t necessarily look for “fancy” gardens for the tour, but “rather things that are a little different,” she said.

“People really enjoy going; they love taking the pictures. And we’re just so appreciative of the people who are willing to let their gardens be shown. We always say, ‘Don’t do anything extra that you wouldn’t do anyway,’ but I think we really know that people do – and it is work for them. We’re just always very grateful when people agree to allow their garden to be shown in our tour.”

Passports for the self-guided tour must be purchased in advance and are $20. They are available at Anthology Home Décor on 20th Street West, Dutch Growers on Central Avenue and McNally Robinson on Eighth Street East. The tour will go ahead rain or shine. For more information about Nest or the garden tour, go online to nestsaskatoon.net.

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Talking tech

By Chris Morin f you own a phone, odds are you’ve used the voice-activated digital assistant to answer basic questions, provide directions, tell a joke or even order a pizza.

There are a number of tech companies developing these vocal assistants in one form or another, and these types of digital-human interactions are increasingly becoming the norm. But for all the technological advances, the conversation still manages to fall short of those conversations with another human. While many of these services provide helpful advice and nudges in the right direction, the sentences are often choppy and robotic.

Ian Stavness, an associate professor in computer science at the University of Saskatchewan, believes this literal conversation with technology is only going to get more complex. Now, along with a team of collaborators, he is helping to develop the next generation of speech synthesis using simulations of the human voice.

Currently, if you hear a computer speaking – for example, Siri on your iPhone – Stavness said the process used is called concatenative speech synthesis.

This conversation is constructed using a voice actor recording snippets of speech which are then pieced together to form sentences.

That’s something Stavness is working to improve.

“We use investigate articulatory speech synthesis, which builds these interactions based on how humans actually generate speech,” said Stavness.

By studying the anatomy that produces speech, such as lungs, tongue, mouth and lips, Stavness and his collaborators are

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A Ian Stavness, associate professor in computer science, is developing speech synthesis using simulations of the human voice. (Photo: Chris Morin) attempting to reproduce the natural way humans talk.

“If we are successful, we will be able to build interactions that are quite expressive. There will be more human-like emotions and tones and characteristics of speech that are more real-to-life,” said Stavness.

“This application also adds a personalized element to synthesized speech. If you have a scan of your own anatomy – for example, a medical scan of your neck and head – we can reconstruct a synthesis of your voice that should sound exactly like you.”

While much of the work – a decadelong collaboration with a team of linguists and engineers from the University of British Columbia – is still in the research phase and is not yet being used on smartphones, the techniques aren’t just limited to teaching computers.

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anatomy using medical imaging techniques, Stavness – one of 25 worldwide experts in musculoskeletal modeling and simulation – said these speech applications can also be used in educating humans and even treating serious injuries.

“Since we create the sound by moving a 3D model of the vocal tract, we are able to see this rendering of how the tongue moves in the mouth in order to make sounds,” said Stavness. “So this could help someone with a speech disorder or aid in education for those learning a second language, where there is a certain emphasis on where the tongue is placed in order to create a specific sound.

“It’s often quite difficult to just tell someone how to do this, but computer animation is shown to be successful when it comes to speech rehabilitation.”

(Chris Morin is a digital content coordinator at the University of Saskatchewan.)

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new fire station intended to serve the southeast portion of the city was commissioned last week at 2613 Clarence Ave. South.

Fire Station No. 3 was previously situated at Taylor Street and York Avenue.

“This was a strategic choice to help strengthen neighbourhood amenities while providing improved service to the community at large,” said Fire Chief Morgan Hackl in a news release.

“We hope Fire Station No. 3 will become part of the neighbourhood and act as a community partner.”

The new station includes community rooms that can be booked for public meetings or other community events such as health and wellness clinics.

Mayor Charlie Clark said emergency response services must constantly be re-evaluated as the city grows, causing both gaps and overlaps in those services.

The fire station relocation will save the city money in the long term while still providing quality service, said Clark.

A new station will now not be required in the neighbourhood of Stonebridge which the city says will save $6 million in capital costs and more than $3 million in annual operating costs.

The station is planning an open house at Fire Station No. 3 during Fire Prevention Week this fall.

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I’ve moved on from smoke signals to satellites

Recently I purchased a fast I had to hitchhike at some whole new computer system. points. After high school I The last time I had my own partied until I eventually ended computer it weighed about up in jail. While in prison I 200 pounds and the back was created a prisoner’s journal. It filled with tubes and bulbs like was called Drums of Freedom, an old school television. All I which I still have copies of could do with it was write and today. Sometimes I pull out the print. old copies to see what I was There was no such thing as writing back then. the Internet, Facebook or any The journal became popular of the social media. On my with the prisoners because we Columnist reserve there are many people didn’t hold back. The warden who go by nicknames. In fact, of the prison gave us full editothe first time I heard about Facebook, I rial rights and man, did we take advantage thought it was someone’s nickname. of that. We started to get letters from You need to know I come from an all over the world. One of my favorite age when calculators were just coming letters came from the Maze prison in out and they were the size of an average Northern Ireland. This is the place where hardback book, and so expensive only the members of the Irish Republican Army rich kids could afford one. I remember the were housed. I found it amazing our little first time I used one of those giant calcula- journal would make its way into one of tors and thinking it was the coolest things the most secure prisons in the world. in the world.

After finishing my time, I continued to One of my rich friends loaned me party while fighting an addiction problem his calculator and I stayed up all night I picked up. Eventually I snapped out of playing with it. I thought at some point it one of the most addictive drugs – cocaine would make a mistake but it never did. By – and headed towards post-secondary collecting cans and bottles I was able to education. I bounced around university save enough to purchase my own calcula- classes not knowing what I wanted to mator for junior high school. I felt like one of jor in. After a couple of years of studying those rich kids with my very own calcula- law, economics and sciences, I decided tor. journalism was something I believed in Before I reached my teenage years, I with a passion. was involved with the newspaper industry Even though I was an extreme drug in one way or another. A close friend’s and alcohol recovery addict, my grades father worked at our small town newspa- were always way up and I was accepted per. He was not only one of the reporters, into a journalism program. I graduated he was also the cartoonist. from the program and went to work as Almost every day my buddy and I a television news reporter. I worked my would head to the weekly paper to watch way into major markets but I was ashis dad work. Sometimes he would use us signed into the street beat, which meant as subjects for his editorial cartoons. He covering up to five vehicle accidents on a didn’t like us to call them cartoons. He daily basis. reminded us the work he did was illustratI got tired of the screams, mangled ing what was going on in the community. bodies and the chaos that came with the When I turned 12, I was hired as a accidents and moved towards radio. This paper carrier. My route was all the busiwas fun but I had to wake up at four in the nesses downtown. We lived in a smaller morning to do the day’s news. It was then town, about the size of Martensville, so I decided to move into print. Writing was I got to know the people who owned the something I was driven to because it gave businesses. I liked my route because often me a chance to be creative. Once again I the business owners would have treats worked my way into a major city. like home-baked cookies. By saving my Back then the newsrooms were filled newspaper money I was able to buy my with talented people who would smoke first bicycle. and even drink at their desks. These were When I reached junior high I got inmy kind of people because the newsvolved with the school’s monthly newslet- room rang with the cacophony of a street ter. Back then there were no photocopiers; carnival. I used one of those old typeall we had was a machine called a Gestet- writers where the keys were about four ner. We would create a plate and wrap it inches from the base. I still have the first around a roller and we would hand roll electric typewriter I bought. Once again copies of the newsletter. We had to take I thought it was one of the coolest things turns because cranking that old machine in the world because I didn’t have to use took a lot of energy and strength. But at whiteout to correct any mistakes. It had the end of every month we would produce an automatic ribbon where I could erase enough copies for not only the junior side mistakes. of the school but also the senior high. It I held onto my old Brother electric was really cool to see the older students typewriter until I was forced into the age of the computer. This is when I purchased reading our newsletter. that old school computer. Of course it Of course our newsletter didn’t have any real news but we would put together couldn’t do what today’s computers could funny stories and cartoons, which I often do. As time and technology kept on rolling, I eventually couldn’t live without my drew. I once got into trouble because I computer. But I still miss the banging of drew a portrait of the principal, which the typewriter’s keys. he didn’t think was funny; but the entire Today, as I look at my new computer, school loved it.

As time rolled on technology evolved, I can’t help but think I’ve moved from smoke signals to satellites. which I tried to keep up with but the information super highway was moving so

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Football central to the life of the Duchene family Darren Steinke Saskatoon Express o grasp how important football is to Michelle and Eric Duchene, all you have to do is look back to their wedding day.

They were married on the 55-yard line of Griffiths Stadium. It seemed fitting considering they first met in 1999, when Eric was a rookie defensive back with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team and Michelle was a team trainer.

Being married at the Huskies’ long-time home stadium helped symbolize how much football meant to the couple leading up to their wedding day and foreshadowed how much the sport would continue to mean to them in the future.

These days, Michelle and Eric have two daughters, 12-year-old Jada and 10-year-old Halle. They play flag football and Michelle and Eric are often the coaches of their teams.

Besides that, Michelle is the general manager, trainer and one of the founders of the Saskatoon Valkyries, who have won the Western Women’s Canadian Football League championship. The Valkyries are the first full tackle women’s team to exist in Saskatoon.

She also plays in touch and flag adult football leagues in Saskatoon. Over the years, Michelle was often a member of a team called the BGees.

Eric had been an assistant coach with the Huskies, but he stepped away from those duties at the end of the 2015 U Sports season to focus more on being involved in his daughters’ active lives in sports. He plays touch football in the spring and summer and played flag about every second year during the winter.

Looking at how involved the family is with football, Michelle said they wouldn’t have it any other way.

“We love it,” said Michelle. “It is really fun that (the girls) also love to play the sport that we both love.

“They’ve been around it their whole lives watching Eric and I play. It is good for them to see us play sports and be role models for them.

“They’ve been watching it since they were little babies.

We would bring them to our games.”

“It is just great,” said Eric. “They both love football.

They are both very athletic and very skilled in football.

Hopefully, they can continue with it.”

Michelle and Eric first met at Huskies spring camp in 1999.

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The family members include, from left, Halle, Michelle, Jada and Eric.

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spring camp for the University of Manitoba Bisons a week earlier.

A product of Kamloops, B.C., Eric was trying to decide where he wanted to play after exhausting his Canadian Junior Football League eligibility with the Okanagan Sun following the 1998 campaign.

He sprained his ankle at Huskies camp and had to go to the trainer’s room as a result.

“She (Michelle) was one of the first persons I saw when I came, because I had to get my ankle taped,” said Eric. “I got to meet her right away.

“We got along right away. There were lots of good people here, and that was again part of the reason why I came here.”

Romantic sparks did not fly during that meeting. The two were friends during Michelle’s time as a trainer with the team.

She left the Huskies following the 2000 season having completed her studies at the U of S by the spring of 2001.

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The Huskies blanked the McGill University Redmen 22-0 at Percival Molson Stadium in the Mitchell Bowl to earn a berth in the U Sports national title game the Vanier Cup. The Hilltops slipped past the St. Leonard Cougars 2018 at Stade Hebert to capture the Canadian Bowl as CJFL champions.

The two teams met up that night in downtown Montreal to celebrate their victories, allowing Michelle and Eric to meet in a more social setting.

“We got along, and we were good friends at the time,” said Eric. “Our teams had good games that day, so we were having a good time.

“Everybody was out having a good time. We were friends and we hit it off, and it went from there.”

The couple continued to stay active in football after Eric’s playing days wrapped up with the Huskies in 2003.

Michelle became a lot more visible with the sport, when the Valkyries were formed and hit the field for their inaugural season in 2011. Originally, she planned to play for the (Continued on page 13)

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(Continued from page 12) team, but rotten luck on the injury front got in the way.

Before the Valkyries were to embark on their inaugural campaign, Michelle suffered a concussion in a car accident.

She broke her arm in the Valkyries main training camp in 2012 and decided at that point playing just wasn’t in the cards. She didn’t mind focusing on the behind-thescenes work.

“Football has been so good to me in my life through being a trainer and managing and things like that,” said Michelle.

“It also would have meant stepping back from that role.

“I really enjoy that role in football.

It was hard to not play, but on the other hand, I still got to be really involved with the game and development of the sport with females. It has been amazing.”

Michelle helped start the Rush flag league in Saskatoon along with Darla LeeWalde in 2014. In 2015, Michelle received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in the athletics category.

Eric has played in the odd Saskatoon Hilltops Alumni game dressing as a ringer to play on the alumni squad against the current Hilltops.

He’s really proud of the fact he had made Football Canada’s senior men’s tackle team that was supposed to play in the International Federation of American Football Senior Men’s World Championship in 2015.

Football Canada pulled out of that event when it was moved from Stockholm, Sweden to Canton, Ohio, because the timing of when worlds would be held created scheduling conflicts for coaches and players.

“A little bit of training, and I managed to get myself back in good enough shape to compete with some of the young guys a few years back,” said Eric with a chuckle.

He adds that recovering from touch games in the current day isn’t as easy as it once was from any type of football contest.

“I’m getting older,” said Eric. “My body is not holding up as well.

“My ankles are sore after every game.

My knees are getting sore. I don’t have too many years of playing left.”

When they no longer play touch or flag football, Michelle and Eric believe they will still be involved in the sport in some capacity.

Obviously, they expect to have a hand in helping Jada and Halle play the game.

That said, the parents want to ensure their daughters don’t feel pressured to continue in the sport. Besides playing flag football, Jada plays basketball, soccer, track and volleyball, and Halle plays basketball, hockey, soccer and track.

Michelle said Jada and Halle might decide to pursue one of the other sports they play in a more serious manner.

“It just depends where sports takes them,” said Michelle. “If they go on to play university sports of any sorts, (it depends) kind of how that plays out of them.”

Of course, it has come up during family talks that Jada and Halle may suit up for the Valkyries one day. The young daughters have been water girls and ball girls for the Valkyries and helped Michelle set up the locker room.

Jada and Halle were also ball girls for the Hilltops last year.

“If they chose down the road to play tackle football with the Valkyries, we’d be fully supportive of that and help them along the way with that,” said Eric. “They play lots of sports.

“At some point, they are going to have to choose and narrow things down a little bit. It depends on where things take them both academically and with sport.”

No matter what paths the members of the Duchene family may travel in life, it seems they will always be destined to come back together over the sport of football.

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That’s how Jamey Hughton feels about Music for the Gut’s move to TCU Place.

Now in its eighth year, the Hughton family’s annual fundraiser for Crohn’s and Colitis Canada is set to take place on Aug. 23 at TCU Place. It will be the first Music for the Gut performance at the downtown convention centre; previous shows were held at Grace-Westminster United Church and at Cornerstone Church.

Jamey said audience members coming to Music for the Gut this year should expect to see “a huge show, exploding with heart and filled with variety.”

“They are going to be impressed by this extraordinary collection of talent,” said Jamey, the show’s master of ceremonies and a past president of the Saskatoon chapter of Crohn’s and Colitis Canada.

“It has gone from 20 performers in a small venue to about 60 in a huge one, with more amazing guest artists featured these days, as well as a full band. The intent and the heart and soul of the show remains intact, so that hasn’t changed.

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Jordie, a baritone singer and voice teacher in Saskatoon, founded the concert series in 2011. The money raised by Music for the Gut is provided to Crohn’s and Colitis Canada, a national charity that is focused on finding cures for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and on improving the lives of people affected by inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Raising money and awareness is very important to the Hughton family, since three of the four family members live with IBD. Tara was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in her early 30s, while Jamey was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 1997 and Jordie was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2010. Jamey and Jordie’s father and Tara’s husband, Basil Hughton, also participates in Music for the Gut by serving as the house manager.

“We want the show to be a celebration of support for those impacted both directly and indirectly by IBD; these are thousands and thousands of Canadians,” said Jamey. “For my family, it’s a very personal journey.”

According to Crohn’s and Colitis Canada, one in 150 Canadians lives with the inflammatory bowel diseases. In Saskatchewan, about 8,000 people live with Crohn’s or colitis. The diseases inflame the lining of the gastrointestinal tract and disrupt the body’s ability to digest food, absorb nutrition and eliminate waste in a healthy manner.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can also cause lifethreatening complications and debilitating symptoms such as abdominal cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, fever, bleeding, anemia, fatigue and joint inflammation, swelling and pain.

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

Since it was founded, Music for the Gut has raised more than $102,000 to help find a cure for IBD. “The past three years we’ve contributed nearly $70,000 to Crohn’s and Colitis Canada,” said Tara.

“Besides raising funds, Music for the Gut is very much about raising awareness for inflammatory bowel disease.

Two of our wonderful performers had bowel surgeries this past month; this all hits very close to home for many.

“Our wish is that no other family will have to experience inflammatory bowel disease,” she added.

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Concert producer Tara Hughton, Jamey’s mother, said the latest version of Music for the Gut will feature a 40-voice choir and a 14-piece orchestra. Guest artists include Jay Semko of The Nothern Pikes – who is back for his third year – and former Canadian Idol contestant Theresa Sokyrka.

Tara noted Music for the Gut artistic director Jordie Hughton, her other son and Jamey’s brother, “surrounds himself with extremely talented and giving people.” Some of those people include choral director Kristen Raney, an eight-year Music for the Gut veteran, and Jared Tehse, who is returning for his fifth year as the show’s main pianist.

As well, Brianna Burtt will be a guest soloist during a performance of Together, which she composed especially for Music for the Gut. Violinist William Boan and saxophone player Gerard Weber will both return as soloists, while Stephen Maguire is returning for his second year as a special guest.

Off-stage crew also play a big role in the show’s success, including choreographers Emilie Kirchgesner and Heather Currie, stage manager Lorna Batycki and music assistant (Shannon Boklaschuk is a publicity volunteer with Music Rob Armstrong, who’s been with the fundraiser for eight for the Gut and a past public relations volunteer with the years.

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Resporados support group for people with breathing difficulties takes place at 1 p.m. at Jerry’s on Eighth Street for a lunch meeting. For more information, call Dave at 306-665-6937 or Susan at 306-373-4264. ***** Depression Support Group from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the CMHA building (1301 Avenue P North). This is open to anyone struggling with depression and family members wanting to support them. For more info, call Marilyn at 306-270-9181 or email mle2003_2@yahoo.com.

Overeaters Anonymous: Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you binge, purge or restrict? Is your weight affecting your life? We are a non-profit 12-step group that meets on Tuesdays at noon, Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. For more information including locations visit www.oa.org.

TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS Bridge City Senioraction Inc: Classes every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Registration is $20, drop-in fee is $2. For information, call Sheila at 306931-8053 or Kathy at 306-244-0587.

MENSA is holding a supervised IQ testing session on Aug. 18 at 2 p.m. MENSA is an international, non-profit society for people who score among the top two per cent of the SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH general population on a standardized test. The cost of the test is $90, or $70 for students. Call Tim at 306-242-7408 Trigeminal Neuralgia and Facial Pain Support Group meetings at 1:30 p.m. at the Edwards Family Centre (338 or e-mail trf674@campus.usask.ca.

- Fourth Ave. North). For more information, contact Gail at 306-382-1578 or email saskatoon@catna2.ca.

MUSIC AUGUST 21

The Lyell Gustin Recital Series presents Canadian soprano Leslie Ann Bradley performing “Songs of Evening” with pianist Rachel Andrist. The concert includes Romantic-era songs, opera arias, and Broadway music: works by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Sondheim, and more. Tuesday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m., St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 436 Spadina Cres. E. Pre-concert talk at 6:45. Tickets: $35 regular / $30 student, at McNally Robinson, Yamaha Piano, Saskatoon Music Academy,

EVERY THIRD SATURDAY Saskatoon Oldtimers’ Association’s monthly meeting.

Parkville Manor (625 25th Street East), Reception at the main door between 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The association looks after the Log Cabin at the Exhibition. New members needed. For more information, contact Lloyd at 306-3824915 or Laura at 306-373-1861.

Saskatoon Mood Disorder Support Group The Saskatoon mood disorder support group for people with bi-polar, depression and other related mental health

first Monday of the month except when there is a holiday.

If so, meetings are on the second Monday. There are no meetings in January, July and August.

SECOND AND FOURTH THURSDAY

Entrance through the side door off the parking lot on the North side of the building and down to the gym. Drop in and have a look, no charge for the first visit. For more information, call 306-242-7580 or 306-975-0835.

SASKATOON KETO CLUB for people following or considering a LCHF/Keto lifestyle for Body Building/Weight Management/Reversing: Auto Immune Illnesses ,Diabetes, Cancer or any other reason are invited to join our meetings to learn, share ideas, support or get support. There is no cost to attend. For more info, call Carol at 306-2802160 or email cadithompson@hotmail.com.

EVERY THIRD WEDNESDAY

SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH

SENIORS CLUB

Community Senior’s Games Group meets at St. Martin’s United Church – corner of Clarence Avenue and Wilson Crescent – on the second Tuesday of the month at 1:30 PM from September to May. Enjoy fellowship of others while playing Scrabble, Cribbage or other games. For more information call Maureen at 306-373-0087 or Elaine at 306-374-3269.

St. George’s Senior Citizen’s Club (1235 20th St. West).

The club is campaigning for new members that are 55+.

Memberships are $10 per year with many discounts included. Regular events are bingos, card playing & socializing from 1-4 pm every Wednesday, bowling on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information, contact Ed at 306382-7657 or 306-716-0204 or Sylvia at 306-382-4390 or 306-717-8773.

FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH Left Behind by Suicide is a drop-in support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Located at W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 4th Ave. North, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. There is no cost to attend. For more information, email leftbehind@sasktel.net. *****

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La Leche League Canada - Saskatoon Daytime Meeting from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Emmanuel Anglican Church (609 Dufferin Avenue.) March 22 and April 19. For more information or to get breastfeeding help, contact a leader by phone (306-655-4805) or email lllcsaskatoon@ gmail.com or www.facebook.com/LLLCSaskatoon.

SECOND SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH Memory Writers — September to June, 10 a.m. to noon at the Edwards Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue. Share the events and memories of your life in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. For more information, call Hilda at 306-382-2446.

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qualization. province,” said Sask. Party Any questions?

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Don Morgan in March of It’s got to be one of the 2008. most mind-numbingly boring, “We are once again a or at the least the most com‘have’ province and we are plex, national political issues working very hard . . . to ever to rear its ugly head — ensure that we maintain Saswhich it seems to continually katchewan’s rightful place as do on a regular basis. a ‘have’ province in ConfedIn Saskatchewan, where eration for the future.” provincial identity resembles Fast forward a decade, Columnist a personality disorder more and lo and behold, with than a defining mindset, an Saskatchewan’s coffers not equalization battle with the feds was nearly as padded as they once were, and once framed as a political turning point. a staunchly conservative provincial gov“Equalization is for ‘have-not’ prov- ernment looking to pick a fight — any inces and we’re a ‘have’ province,” said fight — with the Liberal federal governthen-newly-minted premier Brad Wall ment, here we are again. in January of 2008, marking the beginBut, this time it will be different, ning of his walk-back of the legal battle baby. Promise. launched by his NDP predecessor, Lorne “We are not going cap in hand to the Calvert. nation of Canada now,” Premier Scott “We want to have a vision of remain- Moe told reporters just last month. “Our economy in this province is operating ing a ‘have’ province and then pressunder a very different environment toing hard and aggressively for a federal partnership in key areas to make sure the day than we were 10 short years ago.”

Yeah, it’s in far worse shape, but that current boom lasts,” continued Wall.

See, back in the heady days of 2005, wasn’t Moe’s point. Instead, at that same news conference the premier repeatedly when Stephen Harper was poised to referred to Saskatchewan as a “have” defeat a tired Liberal Prime Minister province, insisting his goal was fairness Paul Martin, and George W. Bush was presumed by many Americans to be the for every province in Canada, not just worst thing to ever hit the White House ours.

C’mon Scott. (ha!), equalization was a federal elecIn 2007, Saskatchewan proudly tion issue. Stephen Harper promised and became a “have” province, and while guaranteed (well, this depends on who you talk to, but that’s a different column strongly promoting the notion that this was somehow connected to the instalfor a different day) he would remove non-renewable resources from the other- lation of Brad Wall’s government, we wise complicated equalization formula. dropped the idea of pleading with the His premise was that sales of our natural federal government to give us more resources are, well, a one-time thing, so money.

Saskatchewan had finally arrived. We they shouldn’t count when calculating didn’t need their stinking money. our riches.

Moe is dreaming if he thinks that he Predictably, not long after getting can somehow revoke that premise and elected, Prime Minister Harper began not take with it the sense of pride and back-pedalling harder than Donald optimism that burgeoned in SaskatchTrump after a meeting with Vladimir ewan — in part, thanks to how Brad Putin. Lorne Calvert was not amused, Wall handled our province’s image and and tasked lawyers with launching a reputation on the national stage, even if lawsuit against the Harper government he hadn’t personally driven up oil and . . . for breaking an election promise?

Yeah, I don’t know what Calvert was do- gas revenues.

Even if Moe thinks he’s going to win ing either. The point here is that he was, this one, he’ll lose at home. Saskatchewell, riled up. wan people are not ready to be relegated And then, in November 2007, Brad Wall’s Sask. Party blew the Calvert team back to the “have-not” bargain bin, out of government, kicking his NDP to which is where he’s putting them with this “Saskatchewan needs federal handthe curb and throwing its equalization outs but not just for us but for everyone lawsuit out the window after it. in Canada, because we’re still rich and a “Unlike the previous NDP government who believed a negative, destruc- big deal, honest” nonsense.

Moe would be far better served tive, and pessimistic approach was stepping into the back-pedalling shoes the only way to deal with the federal of Harper, Trump, and pretty much government, it is the position of this every politician, and slowly but surely government that we believe in rolling up our sleeves and want to work with walk away from this dumpster fire of a the federal government to help build our strategy.

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