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Frankenstein turns 200

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The 200th anniversary of the infamous Gothic horror story will be celebrated during a Frankenreads event on campus on Oct. 31. The event, which will feature a short trivia quiz, a presentation of scenes from a 19th-century dramatic adaption of Frankenstein and a panel discussion with several professors from the College of Arts and Science, will take place at noon in Upper Place Riel. Frankenreads is an international celebration of the bicentenary of Frankenstein that is organized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America.

Frankenreads events will be held all over the world.

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All eyes on Canada-U.S. matchup

Darren Steinke Saskatoon Express t is one of sport’s greatest rivalries, and it will be front and centre at the Four Nations Cup in Saskatoon.

The annual elite women’s hockey The Four Nations Cup features the tournament begins Nov. 6, but most eyes national teams from Canada, the United will be focused on the Canada versus States, Finland and Sweden.

United States clash on Nov. 7 at 7 p.m.

The Canada-U.S. clash marks the first at SaskTel Centre. time the two sides have met since the

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gold-medal game at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea last February. The U.S. prevailed in that intense encounter 3-2 after a shootout.

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That is the conclusion of a study done by a group called Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism (SSM).

I had never heard Editor of the group. Linda Anderson, a represenative of the organization, said the SSM is an umbrella for 18 member organizations that touch the lives of 100,000 older adults.

She said it was formed about 20 years ago when the provincial government said it wanted one organization to dole out grants for work with seniors. Through evolution, the SSM now does advocacy work as well.

Anderson and Peter Dickinson visited the Express to talk about ageism and media.

Anderson said SSM, the Red Cross and the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan are in the midst of a three-year project with the goal of decreasing isolation among older adults. One of the arms of the study is looking at the way the media in Saskatchewan presents the news. Much larger studies have found media reports are a reason older adults lose self-confidence and the feeling of being valued. This can lead to isolation.

I was taken aback, but studies are studies.

Not three hours after the meeting, I said an ageist thing. I got home and noticed that Dodger, the family dog, was struggling with a back injury he suffered years ago.

“He’s walking like an old man,” I said.

That’s an oops.

I have called people old farts in this space. I love the term. I think it makes people smile or chuckle. Even being an old fart myself doesn’t make it right to write. Writers 50 and older use more ageist language than younger ones.

The SSM had 39 people monitor Saskatchewan media reports from Feb. 6-18, 2017. A total of 354 stories were monitored — 42 from television, seven from radio and 305 from newspapers. Anderson said it gave them a snapshot.

Dickson was one of the monitors.

“There was the underlying indication that older people receive, receive, receive and they are going to make us bankrupt,” he said. “That was very little if anything at all on the value older people can give to society, give to the community.”

Anderson said ageism comes in many forms.

“Omission is a form of ageism — old people are overlooked, unseen and unheard, especially in view of the size of the demographic. … The problem expressed by every monitor was that there were too few stories that included older adult

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SSM compiled a pamphlet of tips for journalists. Included were examples of saying something the wrong way and then the right way.

It extends far beyond journalism, however.

Older adults are addressed improperly: People mean well when they say “sweetie, honey, dear, darling and young lady,” but they are offensive endearments. Call older adults by their names — Judith Smith is Judith or Ms. Smith. I bristle when I hear a person of any age being called dear or sweetie.

There is a danger in adjectives: “Little, sweet, adorable, spry, frail, eccentric, elderly, ancient and cute are examples that can demean and/or infantilize an older person.” I agree but I recently saw a notice about a 55+ event that was worded in a way that it could have been for children.

The SSM guide included tips for humour writers.

“My old Uncle Ed still whistles at girls but can’t remember why.”

“Grandma is so wrinkled she needs a bookmark to find her mouth.”

I think people of all ages would find the Uncle Ed joke amusing. The grandma joke not so much.

I am surprised that what is written or said can be harmful to a point of being a

factor in a person’s isolation. Anderson pointed to an Australian study as proof that it does.

“It’s the internalization of what we hear. And the foundation is, young is good; old is bad. Avoid it. People have come right out and said, ‘I’m not to go and belong to the seniors’ organization in my town (because) I don’t want to be old; I don’t want to be a senior. I don’t want to be known as a senior.’

“Well, if you get that stuff going on at that level, it has this gradual psychological effect and even in the end a physical effect . . . and if you internalize that, you do stop trying. You stop taking a chance and going out and doing things. You think, ‘that is the way it has to be because I’m old.’”

I will try to be more conscious of using ageist terms when I am writing. But I have a hunch I’m still going to call people old farts from time to time. ***** We have a new column in this edition.

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hat a news week hour, every day, and I coax my it was. We had short little legs to stride along the carbon tax in an effort to keep up. I mean, battle between the feds and he motors. the province. We had a new We were not dawdling YXE garbage scheme start to across the street. Under normal take shape. We had former circumstances, we had plenty Democratic presidents receive of time. Besides, we were at explosive devices at their an intersection. Citizens of Peresidences. We had a big destria are allowed to cross at discussion at the council level intersections without censure. to take a look at lowering But the vehicle, an SUV, Columnist speed limits. We had a country was really moving. Indeed, the arguing that an international driver sped up. As he (or she) journalist died because of a fist fight. drew nearer, we realized — holy crap — A fist fight. Do the Saudis realize, at that there was a good chance the SUV all, how ridiculous that assertion was? was going to actually hit us.

The rest of Earth certainly got it, in We ran. Of course. My husband turned nanoseconds. It’s in those moments that immediately after we were safely near I really do feel the world is coming apart the curb, arms flung wide in query, as the due to its own insanity. vehicle sped behind us. He noticed it was Speaking of which, my husband and I a company car of some kind; it had logos. were very nearly hit by a car last Monday But the whole thing happened too quickly night. We were innocently walking home, to see anything else. and crossing Taylor Street at McPherson Hearts pounding, we walked home in Avenue. We looked left (no oncoming relative silence. I had been actually, really vehicles) then right, and saw one vehicle frightened. I don’t know if this person about a block and a half away. was texting, or lighting a joint, or perhaps We walk very quickly. My husband didn’t like a column I’d written. Maybe covers 3.6 kilometres in under half an he/she was just mad that we were in the

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way and trying to make a point.

In case the person who could have run me down is reading this: FYI, jerk face, you came this close to being reported.

We almost ‘saw’ you, or at least your car.

Keep it in mind next time you want to kill someone.

This brings me to the discussion around speed limits. If you’re not aware of council’s call last week, they voted very narrowly (6-5) to develop a plan around changing them; so we’re in examination mode, I gather.

Let me first say that reducing speed limits in some cases is absolutely warranted, such as 30 km/h in elementary school zones. You never know when a wee one will dash out to meet a parent, or catch up to an errant ball. Most of us will honour those limits, knowing we could save a child’s life.

Perhaps the same thing applies to a new suggestion to lower speeds to 40 km/h in residential areas. I find it hard to even get up to 40 on most residential streets, but whatever. It’s tricky to do 50 on a crescent, or even on Nutana or Buena Vista streets. I’m not sure how helpful that would be, but I suppose it would give the police some bylaw teeth

if things go awry.

No traffic calming methods are going to work when you have a widely-shared driver mentality that you are more important than everyone else; that traffic is insane and you deserve to feel road rage; and that it’s your God-given right to multi-task behind the wheel.

I admit to having a few of those feelings myself. Driving down Idylwyld from the freeway to Circle Drive one day, I hit all but two lights at full red. Come on, city traffic people. You should be able to get down a main drag without stopping at almost every light (train stoppages aside.

And that’s another massive problem.)

By the time I met my friend for lunch, I could have eaten the stoplights with my werewolf teeth.

I am frankly amazed we don’t have more accidents than we do. I also do not know how to change the way people drive. Traffic calming methods like speedbumps and yield signs help; maybe lower speed limits will, too. At least, with normal people. But those who wreak havoc — and even those who feel like they’re legitimately in a big hurry — don’t give a damn about those things. That’s the problem.

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(Continued from page 1) hat Wednesday night game of the tournament, the November 7 game, is going to be key,” said E.J. Babey, who is the chair of this year’s Four Nations Cup. “I know there is some bad blood there.

“There were lots of aggressive plays, to put it mildly, in that gold-medal match. We’re trying to create the buzz around and pack the barn so to speak for that game specifically and carry that kind of enthusiasm forward throughout the entire tournament.”

The majority of the players from that gold-medal tilt will be suiting up for their respective sides at the Four Nations Cup. The Canadian team will include Saskatoon product Emily Clark, Sarah Nurse, Marie-Philip Poulin, Natalie Spooner and superstar netminder Shannon Szabados. Poulin will be Canada’s captain.

The U.S. team will include Kacey Bellamy, Brianna Decker, Amanda Kessel, Hilary Knight and 21-year-old star netminder Maddie Rooney. The States downed Canada 5-1 in the final of last year’s Four Nations Cup in Tampa, Florida.

The defending tournament and Olympic champions open the Four Nations Cup on Nov. 6 at noon to take on Finland. Canada plays its first game later on the same day — at 7 p.m. — against Sweden.

The Four Nations Cup runs through to Nov. 10 with all games at SaskTel Centre. The bronze-medal game is set for 3 p.m. on the final day, while the gold-medal contest follows at 8 p.m.

“We are essentially bringing in the Olympic, female Olympic hockey to our city,” said Babey.

“You can’t get much better than that.”

It’s thought this will mark the first time Clark has played a competitive hockey game in Saskatoon since suiting up for the female midget AAA Saskatoon Stars back in 2012.

“I’m super excited because this is my hometown,” said Clark, who is a forward with Canada’s national women’s team. “It’s such a high level of hockey and the women, they’re just getting faster and faster.

“When you watch it live, that speed is amplified even more. Expectations are high coming off the Olympics. All four teams have something to prove.

It will be competitive and something very special to watch.”

When Canada’s national women’s team was doing a tour of exhibition games last season leading up to the Winter Olympics, the closest the squad came to playing in Saskatoon was a stop in Lloydminster last December.

During that tour, Clark caught a glimpse of what might be in store for her at Four Nations Cup. When Canada played an exhibition contest last November in Red Deer, Alta., one of the Saskatoon Comets minor female hockey teams came out to watch her play.

“That was awesome to have them there and feel

that support and I know that will only be magnified with other teams, other players and the whole city coming out to watch and support me and the rest of the team,” said Clark.

The Four Nations Cup began as the Three Nations Cup in 1996 featuring Canada, the United States and Finland. The event became the Four Nations Cup in 2000, when Sweden joined the field.

Since that time, those four countries have made up the field at the Four Nations Cup except 2001, when the United States elected to not attend due to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Canada has won gold 14 times at this tourney, while the U.S. claimed gold on eight occasions.

The U.S. has won the Four Nations Cup in each of the past three years.

“Traditionally, it is a two-horse race,” said Babey. “That is how it has been for many years in women’s hockey at the international level; it is Canada versus the U.S.A. “Finland and Sweden are no longer pushovers.

They are no longer out of the picture, when it comes to the medal games.”

Babey said the female hockey community in Saskatoon and area is excited to see the action at the Four Nations Cup. That excitement extends to members of the Stars, who have won three out of the last four Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League titles and fell in the Esso Cup national championship game 2-1 to the Alberta-based St. Albert Slash last April.

Captain Grace Shirley, who is a member of Canada’s under-18 women’s team, wants to catch some of the action at the Four Nations Cup. “They are role models for us, so I think it would be really exciting to kind of like go watch them and see how they play,” said Shirley. “We definitely look up to a lot of them.”

Forward Joelle Fiala, who was invited to try out for Canada’s under-18 women’s team last summer, said the majority of the players on the Stars know Clark, which adds to the motivation to go check out the Four Nations Cup. “When you have that personal relation with someone, it is always that much more exciting and personal,” said Fiala. “It is really exciting.

“It just goes to show you that people know where Saskatoon is, and it gives us a little bit more motivation, just being able to see those girls or even hear about them.”

Overall, Babey believes that the Four Nations Cup being held in Saskatoon is a winning situation for everyone involved.

“I know that our female hockey community has jumped behind this event, supporting it in lots of different ways whether it is volunteering or sponsorship,” said Babey. “The air is electric among us all in anticipation when the tournament is here.”

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Why didn’t we have our own plan for carbon?

way, Saskatchewan people have ast week Saskatchewan already paid billions of dollars came head-to-head with to implement and support and it the inevitable, when the is, by all measures, a failure. federal government unveiled its Here’s what I know for sure: plan for imposing a carbon tax on April 1, 2019, we’ll be paying on the province. The feds had a carbon tax in Saskatchewan. to, or so they insisted, since our The federal government government wouldn’t, or at the claims it will offset that new very least, come up with a better expense, and then some, with plan. rebate cheques coming out in From the outset let’s be July that should exceed what we clear: I don’t support increased Columnist go out of pocket. taxation on any sector or juris“They’re buying your votes diction, for any reason. with your money,” cried Premier Moe, a However, I do like using paved roads and having running water, so I understand member of the Conservative party which, why they’re necessary. I’m even less in fa- in summer of 2015, bought our votes with vour of consumption (aka sin) taxes, which our money when it handed out child care benefit cheques. are levied on consumer activities that are “It’s Christmas in July!” trumpeted considered socially, medically or morally then-Minister of Employment and Social undesirable.

Development Pierre Poilievre, to which For example, in Saskatchewan you’re the opposition Liberals promptly repaying a sin tax on alcohol and tobacco.

If you’ve ever thought twice about buying sponded with accusations of electioneerbeer or smokes because it will cost you an ing on taxpayers’ dimes. The hypocrisy all extra few cents, raise your hand . . . that’s around is breathtaking, isn’t it?

What really bugs the hell out of me what I thought.

Despite what skeptics like myself might about the carbon tax discussion in Sasthink of their effectiveness, the purpose of katchewan is the overblown political and tribal rhetoric combined with the fact that sin taxes is broadly defined as threefold. our provincial government had two years They’re supposed to change people’s consumer, or consumptive behaviour; pay to come up with a better solution than what for the societal outcomes of the behaviour Ottawa has forced upon us. And we didn’t even try. Now, after Trudeau made good on they’re trying to mitigate (for example, exactly what he warned us he was going to alleged increased health care costs for do, the Saskatchewan government is tosssmokers); and, on whole, they’re usually ing its toys out of its crib in a tantrum. considered more politically palatable, Yeah, yeah, “but Prairie Resilience,” I especially when revenue-generation is their hear you saying. Oh, you’re not? You’ve main purpose. never heard of it? Exactly.

It’s fair to say that the latter does not Prairie Resilience is the name of the apply to the notion of a carbon tax, or as “plan” (those are their quotes) the Sassomeone on Trudeau’s communications team finally figured out about two years too katchewan government released a while back, which to its credit did impose some late, a “price on pollution.” half-assed punitive measures on polluters Former Premier Brad Wall was dead in our province that are set to be charged set against it when he was in office, and beginning in January, 2019. today still seemingly considers lobbying The federal government took great against its imposition on any province in care to note that they did accept SaskatchCanada his purpose in life. Premier Scott ewan’s plan, but would also be steamMoe showed his displeasure (okay, did rolling right over it with far harsher, and what Wall, his then-boss, told him to do) hopefully more effective, pollution pricing when he stormed out of a meeting of Canadian provincial environment ministers to measures.

And to be fair, effectiveness is what discuss climate change in fall of 2016, after Trudeau opened the talks by announcing he this is all about. You can be forgiven for would impose a carbon tax on provinces if not necessarily having wholehearted faith in our intrepid political leaders to save our they didn’t come up with a better option.

I was skeptical about man-made climate future, but you won’t be forgiven if you change for far longer than I care to admit, don’t even try.

AS102903 Aaron but have given over to the research and consensus of 90-odd per cent of the world’s leading and Nobel-prize winning scientists, who all agree that if we don’t do something to reduce pollution on this planet, we’re screwed.

I also consider the fourth generation fisherpeople I’ve gotten to know when I’m in the Caribbean authorities, and it’s scary to hear these wizened old men and women lament the bathwater-warm temperatures of the waters in which they need to work.

That’s right, some of them insist they can feel the increased temperature of the water, which they blame for crazy current patterns, wonky, unpredictable fishing patterns that were stable for generations before they hit the sea, and the dead coral that’s cropping up faster than anyone would like. I’ve seen the latter with my own eyes and it’s unsettling.

Believe it or not, the purpose of the price on pollution is to change the habits of big emitters, not the rural mom who needs to drive her kids in to hockey practice (she’s exempt from the carbon tax at the pump anyway, but let’s not let the facts get in the way of the Saskatchewan government’s narrative).

Take SaskPower, for example. Is coal going anywhere in the next decade or two?

Nope, not with 40- below winters around these parts. Should SaskPower be more aggressively pursuing new sources of energy?

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People missed the point of farmers’ market column

ormally I do not respond ers, utilizing these skills to do to letters to the editor long-term maintenance of their based on the theory that farming operations. At issue is others rightfully hold differing not what product is being sold by opinions to my own. small business owners or farmers, However, if I have made an but how each entity markets its error that needs correction or wares. sense that clarification is necesSmall business owners pay sary on any topic I have written the full freight for their market about, I feel a responsibility to venues and Saskatoon taxpaydo so. ers subsidize farmers’ market Adithya Ramachandran, vendors, many of whom reside Columnist president of the Saskatoon Farmoutside the city limits. ers’ Market (SFM), located at the The SFM president states pubMarket Square, rightfully corrected me when lic markets like Calgary and Granville Island stating that Saturday stall rentals pay $55 lack the vibrancy, authenticity and energy of plus GST for a standard stall or $90 (and I the SFM. With respect, I beg to differ. assume GST) for the Saturday-only vendors.

Having visited both those markets on What I should have said is that stall prices several occasions, as well as other public for day renters start at $25, plus $5 a day for markets, those markets are vibrant and enelectrical fees ($30) for Wednesday and Sun- ergetic, crowded with people, and although day, but increasing to $55 plus electrical for their catchment areas may be larger, so are Saturdays. As well, indoor and outdoor stalls their markets. have a weekly square footage rate formula, How SFM differs is that it is solely a with a 15 per cent top up for corner stalls, farmers’ market, whereas public markets sell and a Saturday only rate (maximum 10 feet) more than just locally-produced products. It of $90 plus $17.25 per month for electrical. should also be noted that scattered around This information is available on the Sas- Saskatoon, in various locations on privately katoon Farmers’ Market website and I apolo- owned land, are market stands selling some gize to one and all for the confusion (and locally-sourced products together with items hope I haven’t confused anyone further). like fruit from the Okanagan, and these marWhen I pointed out the hard work and ket vendors are not subsidized by taxpayers risk taken by small business entrepreneurs it (at least to my knowledge). was not to negate the work done by farmSaskatoon boasts an abundance of public ers, which I recognize and appreciate, but to facilities like golf courses, gyms, indoor point out that these entrepreneurs sell their and outdoor venues for team and individual products in venues that are not subsidized sports, ice rinks, swimming pools and walkby Saskatoon taxpayers. (And I question the ing tracks to name a few, and leisure centres amount of planting, weeding, laying mulch, which also offer rental space to the public, squashing bugs, irrigating, picking, sorting, when available. washing and packaging of produce etc. is All these city-owned venues operate on a done by farmers during the winter season. user-pay system and the city’s lofty objective And if my memories of farm life are (which is largely unattainable) is to recover, correct, it is the winter season when farmers through user fees, the full costs of these become electricians, plumbers and buildfacilities.

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Generally speaking, the city probably recovers about 65 per cent of the cost of these facilities, with the exception of city-owned golf courses which I believe recover close to the 100 per cent mark.

To that end, the city’s preliminary 2019 budget contemplates an increase in the cost to taxpayers for leisure cards for use of its facilities. The Market Square is a city-owned facility and should be subject to the same user-pay expectations as other city-owned facilities.

Added to the equation is the city’s original concept of for “Market Square,” not the “farmers’ market,” which was to create a people place that would be vibrant at least six days a week year-round.

Well, it is very vibrant on Saturdays, especially during the May to October months, but not so much outside that time frame.

I was advised by a city official that the SFM pays the city $10 a year for rent.

SFM also pays a contribution to the maintenance reserve, property tax, insurance, utilities, regular repairs, maintenance and leasehold improvements, most of which are standard built-in charges for commercial property tenants over and above the rent. But the rent is less than a $1 a month.

What other city-owned facility gives basically free use of its space to people to enhance their entrepreneurial businesses?

And why can’t the SFM co-operative continue to operate in the Market Square along with other vendors selling products that are not necessarily locally sourced?

My position, which is respectfully submitted, has never been to disband the farmers’ market, but to beef up the Market Square to achieve the city’s original intent.

For that reason I support the city’s position to look for possible options, which could also include the SFM. ehnatyshyn@gmail.ca

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street hockey with many young rom where I live I can people. see the lake.

These young men and It’s about three miles women were about to graduate wide and five miles long. It or have graduated from high curves toward one of the long school. We have an outdoor parts which, at times, makes it skating rink which, during the look a river. summer time, converts into a My mother and other basketball court and a great women would bring the launplace to play street hockey. dry and blankets to the lake to They were calling me the old wash. Back then, most of the man until I started making three houses on the reserve didn’t pointers. I also had to show have electricity.

Columnist them what this old man can do The lake provided the in street hockey as they picked necessities of life.

In my youth, children were instructed themselves up off the cement floor.

I had a blast with them; sometimes to never go too far from the shore because a giant eagle would pick us up and there were more than 20 people at the rink having innocent fun in sports. feed us to baby eagles.

As I got to know them, I discovered This is the lake where I learned how to they have high goals and ambitions. swim. Prior to that, I used to mud crawl There was a time when people could only and pretend to be swimming.

Once I mud crawled a little too far out look at trade schools after high school. and couldn’t feel the bottom. Panic struck There is nothing wrong with a trade because there is always work and wellme for a few seconds until I realized I was dog paddling. I couldn’t believe it; I paying jobs.

The youth I met at the rink were talkwas actually swimming.

Not a sunny day went by that summer ing about higher education like science, medicine and law. Their goals are not to when I couldn’t be found by the lake.

Either I would be using my Tom Sawyer play in the NBA or be a rap star; their makeshift fishing rod or diving off a log. goals are realistic.

That’s encouraging after spending From where I live now I can watch the many years in a city where I met young sun rising in the morning. people whose goals were to be gangsters.

My front window faces east and the morning view is sometimes breathtaking. That is sad, because they come from such a proud and beautiful culture.

I’m a morning person and always have Today I will go for a walk. I’ll walk been.

The silver line one sees just before the past those tall spruce trees, past their shade and into the sun. sun rises is referred to as wapun in the I’ll walk along the banks of the lake.

Cree language. It literally means the sun I will look at the sky and every now and is about to rise.

It’s when I see that sliver start takthen I will see an eagle which once I feared would pick me up and feed me to ing shape into a silver lining that I give her baby eagles. All this is where I live. thanks to the Creator for another day. ken.noskye@gmail.com From where I live, I can see spruce trees, some of which have stood more than 50 years. This past summer a tornado-like storm came through the community.

My little place was rattling and humming like it was ready to take off. I could see the lake white-capping with waves high enough to overturn boats.

I could hear the waves as they smashed into the banks. I could see those spruce trees sway like they were dancing in sync.

Some of those trees are 100 feet tall, but the power of that wind bent them like they were willows. There was no sun because it was covered with black clouds which appeared to be travelling in a giant circle.

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN The storm lasted less than half an hour and everything went calm like nothing happened. The sun came back out and the Calling all ghouls and goblins to join us on trees once again stood proud and tall. a spooktacular tour of the U of S campus.

From where I live I can see students Experience some of our gothic-inspired architecture, learn about our history and waiting for the school bus. They’re a catch up on a few friendly ghost tales. source of inspiration for me.

When I see them get on the bus I see a October 23-25 & 30. Register online at bright future for my community. This past www.usask.ca/diefenbaker AS102914 Aaron summer I played outdoor basketball and

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Entertaining your grandkids doesn’t have to break the bank

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y life literally changed when I first Saskatoon Public Library heard someone call me grandma.

The Saskatoon Public Library (SPL) is so Actually, it was “Yamma” at first, but much more than just books. Drop-in prono matter how it was pronounced, that simple grams include several options for kids of all word melted my heart. ages at branches across the city. Baby StoryThe point is that now it seems I am utterly time is where parents can enjoy fun stories, incapable of saying “no” to my elder grandsongs and rhymes geared toward the tiniest son, Marshall, and as soon as his little brother humans.

Graham starts to speak, I anticipate it will be Toddler Storytime is a little more interacthe same way with him. tive and geared toward kids 18 months to three I find myself saying yes to cake and years old, and don’t miss out on Santa Babies chocolate milk for breakfast, yes to watching and Season’s Readings Dec. 15-22.

Columnist Thomas the Tank Engine episode after episode, My favourite, though is the pre-school belting out tunes with characters in the movie dance party in the library. Teach your kids to Sing, and reciting lines from any of the Cars franchise bust a move to all sorts of music . . . and don’t miss out movies that I have seen 25 times. I say yes to multiple trips on Jingle Bell Rock at the J.S. Wood branch on Dec. 4 to the park, building tunnels out of Lego and playing with and all other branches Dec. 14-21. toy trains for hours on end. I eat goldfish crackers in bed, There’s also family storytime, multilingual storytimes, ice cream anytime of the day or night, play with puzzles bedtime stories, STEAM storytime that incorporates when there is laundry to do or meals to make . . . and hap- science, technology, engineering, arts and math and even pily have toys spread out from one end of my house to the a road trip in late November and early December for other.

Storytime at the Zoo. I love it but let’s face it, I’m not a young woman anyPuppet shows, fun science and technology offerings, more and the kind of activity demanded by a four-year-old arts programs for all ages, computer coding, all ages and Theresa’s grandson, Marshall, loves the trains and a one-year-old can be exhausting. To help, I decided teen drop-in programs and so much more is available at the Western Development Museum.

I needed to research and have a handy list of options for absolutely free at SPL. (Photo by Theresa Kirkpatrick) things to do when the grandkids come to Saskatoon — For more information, go to the events page on the particularly during the winter. What follows here is a list of SPL homepage, www.saskatoonlibrary.ca, to see whether four of my favourites. It’s in no way a complete list and not you need to register in advance. For drop-in programs, Shaw Centre meant to be. It’s just a sampling of a few possibilities that free tickets can be picked up 30 minutes before start time For the little fishes in your family, there’s no better I hope will inspire other grandparents to compile their own and please note, parents and caregivers of kids under 11 value for the money than the public and family swims at lists, and start building lasting memories with the amazing are required to remain in the library. For a reader like the Shaw Centre.

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Barris continues to tell stories of Canada’s war heroes

Ned Powers Saskatoon Express uthor Ted Barris constantly strives to recognize the identity of Canadian heroes who played important roles in the First and Second World Wars.

As one who has written 10 previous books on military history, Barris has believed the true Canadian stories have largely gone untold by other authors.

His latest book, Dam Busters, Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid against Nazi Germany, again has been inspired by the young men from every walk of life who volunteered to go overseas and step into a line of duty to which they’d never been accustomed.

“Military historians have quite appropriately given most of the Dam Busters’ attention to Barnes Wallis, the designer of the bouncing bomb, and Wing Commander Guy Gibson, squadron leader of the famed May 1943 operation. By not including Canadian stories, it was a history with substantial pieces missing,” said Barris from his home in Uxbridge, Ont. “For me, one of the deciding factors in pursuing the book was meeting Air Force veteran Fred Sutherland, who is the last surviving Canadian dam buster. I went to his home in Rocky Mountain House in Alberta.

He’d been a front gunner on the Lancaster which delivered the concussion that breached the Eder Dam in Germany,” said Barris.

In Sutherland’s words, “Sure it was important. We had to win the war at all costs.

But I never really talk about that to anybody.

I don’t go to remembrance events. I do it quietly, privately.”

On May 16, 1943, there were 133 airmen, all hand-picked and specially trained, ready Aaron toAS102920 take off in 19 Lancaster bombers. They

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were about to fly at treetop levels to the industrial heartland of the Third Reich and hit the Ruhr river dams. The raiders breached two dams and damaged a third. The resulting torrent of water devastated enemy power plants, factories and infrastructure for a hundred miles downstream.

The odds of survival were low. Of the 19 bombers, eight did not return. The operation cost the lives of 53 airmen, including 14 Canadians. Of the Royal Canadian Air Force men who survived, seven received military decorations.

There were six Saskatchewan-born airmen on the mission. Three were among the lost.

Vernon Byers was born in Star City and worked as a farm labourer, construction worker and miner. He signed up with the army in 1941 and eventually transferred to the air force. He had only begun operational duties in February, 1943, flying three missions but earning a commander’s respect with the statement, “He keeps his crew in order, is punctual and understands discipline.”

He was 24 when he died.

Robert Urquhart, born in Moose Jaw, was a navigator and completed 28 missions. He was one of the seven men lost aboard the Z-Zebra Lancaster. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross while with Bomber Command.

Ken Brown was a pilot who grew up in Moose Jaw, was a crack shot and a quick study. He flew many missions before getting called to the Dam Busters. He later became a face of the unit, a keynote speaker often on tour and he was among the Canadians who appeared at the gala opening of the movie, The Dam Busters, a blockbuster which was released in 1951. Canadians didn’t get much attention in the movie; nevertheless, five of

The Dam Busters were a special group of Canadian airmen during the Second World War. (Photo Supplied) them mingled with royalty at the opening.

Stephan Oancia came out of Stonehenge and was a bomb aimer. After the mission ended, the survivors came together for a photo shoot. “I had a feeling of great relief and tiredness because we’d been under terrific tension for more than 20 hours,” Oancia said. He was honoured with a Distinguished Flying Medal.

Harry O’Brien, a Regina gunner, really got a bird’s eye view from the back of Sutherland’s aircraft of the last bombs to be dropped. His recollection? “The water that came up was as high as the hill, around a thousand feet. I had no idea all this water would come up towards me at the tail end of the Lancaster.”

Chester Gowrie, a wireless operator from Saskatchewan, also died on the mission.

Barris tells one compelling story about Alberta-born navigator Ken Earnshaw, a veteran of 30 previous operations, and his conversation with bomb aimer John Fraser, who had often been in the air with Earnshaw.

“Ken, what do you think of tonight?”

Fraser asked his friend, who had an uncanny sense of predicting outcomes of combat operations.

“Well, I think perhaps we might lose eight tonight,” said Earnshaw and before his buddy could react, he added, “And you know, I think we might go ourselves.” That came from a man who rushed from the Regina training base to marry the woman he loved in Bashaw, Alberta before he left for war.

Earnshaw was right. Eight bombers, including the one carrying Earnshaw and Fraser, were lost.

Long since relocated in Ontario, Barris has some interesting Saskatchewan background. He worked at the University of Saskatchewan’s audio-visual division in 1972. He did some entertainment freelancing for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. But most of all, that’s where he met Jayne MacAuley, who was a lab technician at the time. They married and his wife has also carved out an impressive career as a writer and editor.

Barris went away, then came back to Saskatoon in 1976 where he did research for the CFQC radio team of Denny Carr and Wally Stambuck. He journeyed back east in 1988 and just completed a career as a professor of journalism at Centennial College.

Barris also came with journalism skills honestly. His father, Alex, was a longtime freelancer with the CBC and Toronto newspapers The Globe and Mail and the Telegram. He helped with two of the Barris books. His father’s advice: “Nothing gets done until the seat of the pants hits the seat of the chair.” He credits his mother, Kay, with teaching him to be fair. Out of the same family came Kate, who is one of Canada’s best children’s writers of TV programs, including Max and Ruby.

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f you’re retired, or close to it, you probably have more time on your hands to do the things you’ve always wanted to do. What’s on your list?

Is it climbing the ruins at Machu Picchu? Participating in pickle ball or other organized sports with friends? Playing on the floor with your grandkids? Exercise can help you to do any or all of these things more easily.

From reaching “bucket list” goals to living their best lives every day, boomers and seniors are finding more and more that exercise isn’t really about fitness. Exercise is really about living well, enjoying yourself and staying healthy.

When someone starts telling you how great fitness is, it’s only natural for you to mentally check out of the conversation.

“Fitness? Who cares about fitness?”

you might think. “I’m finally retired, and I want to do what I want to do.”

But if your body isn’t functioning at its best, you won’t be able to do much at all.

Make the Most of Your Time By retirement age, most North Americans have spent 90,000 hours working, 2,400 hours in traffic, and up to six months waiting in various lineups.

If you’re like them, you’ve put off vacations and purchases, deferred pleasure and — in many cases — picked up some bad health habits over the decades. It’s a common theme. During your working years, you were working, or running kids around, or taking care of your home and yard.

Now you’re retired, or getting close to that magic moment, and your time is more at your disposal.

Like you, most retired folks have no intention of sitting on the couch and pulling the blinds. You still want to travel, enjoy hobbies and sports, manage chronic health conditions and avoid injuries.

You want health, longevity and more awesome life experiences, many of them with younger generations of your family.

In short, you want to enjoy this stage of life as much as possible.

Yes, of course, you might say, but what does that have to do with fitness?

It’s All About Function Simply put, you need your body to function if you want to continue enjoying life as fully as possible.

As we age, we are more susceptible to falls, injuries, high blood pressure, pulled muscles and general lack of stamina. Any of those can inhibit your ability to travel,

golf or feel confident in social settings.

So, what does it mean to be fully functioning?

It means you’re strong, flexible and in good cardiovascular health. It means you’re not carrying around too much extra weight.

It means your sense of balance is good enough to keep you from falling, and your muscles are able to move you around safely.

Functional fitness doesn’t mean spending all your time at the gym and becoming a fanatic. It just means you respect your body enough to take care of it, so you can do what you want to do.

Training your body to stay functional for the long haul is one of the best retirement gifts you can give yourself.

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Playing with the grandkids (Continued from page 8) Kids under six years old are admitted free of charge when accompanied by a parent or guardian (limit two children with each adult) and single admission for adults 19 and over is $9.80 and kids 6-18 years, $5.90. I had purchased 10 bulk tickets from the Leisure Centre for $75 which meant for three adults and our oldest grandson, Sunday morning entertainment cost us $22.50.

Marshall’s favourite part of Sunday morning at the pool was the waterslide with his Grandpa Scott — or as he likes to call himself, “Drano Man.” Don’t ask why. Suffice to say the ride with grandpa was way faster ride than the ones he did on his own, with his mom or grandma.

The biggest surprise for me at the Shaw Centre was the river pool, a circular section of the pool that simulates a river current and the splash pool was just non-stop fun for the kids.

For more information on the Shaw centre and drop-in options at all of Saskatoon’s other civic facilities, go www.saskatoon. ca/dropinonline or see the leisure guide at www.saskatoon.ca/leisureguide.

Western Development Museum Connecting the generations is what the Western Development Museum is all about.

It’s a place where kids are welcome to run around, explore, play and in the process, learn.

In our case, Marshall loves trains. First thing he does when we arrive at the WDM is run the length of the 1910-era Boomtown Main Street to get to the train station.

Once there, he checks out where to buy a ticket and hops into the locomotive. He inspects the gears and coal bin, and asks a lot of questions as he figures out how things work. Then he smiles, blows the train whistle and settles into the conductor’s seat, resting his arm comfortably out the window.

Next, as a farm kid, he’s naturally drawn to the tractors and farm machinery, especially his Dad’s favourite John Deere stuff.

We do a trip through the Transportation Gallery (a favourite for his car-guy grandpa), and a quick turn at how to make energy from wind. Next, we usually check out the SaskTel display featuring on old rotary telephone in a SaskTel phone booth where you can actually make a “phone call.” Then

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we’re off to Marshall’s favourite Plains, Trains and Other Things exhibit.

The Rails North model trains exhibit includes a hand-made panorama created by retired farmer Ed Ritz of Rosetown.

Two model trains chug through a variety of Saskatchewan terrain from the prairies to northern landscapes; but the real genius of this display is the interactive button which allows kids to start the trains, the realistic train soundtrack that accompanies their movements, and the back room where kids can see where one train stops and another starts.

The WDM is also a great place to eat with home-cooked meals and desserts made daily in the Boomtown Café. In terms of value, the WDM gives you a definite bang for your buck. Kids five and under are admitted free and daily rates are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $8 students and $5 children 6-12 — and these are 24-hour tickets.

But if you want to make it a regular stop, I would recommend the adult family pass (which covers a couple, dependent children or grandchildren) and is just $70 for the year. That pass gives you access to all four WDMs in Saskatchewan (Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Yorkton), 10 per cent off at Boomtown Café and the gift shops, advance notifications for events and workshops, and an annual newsletter.

And for the Christmas season, don’t miss the chance to share your holiday memories at the Eaton’s Once Upon a Christmas display from Nov. 1 to Jan. 6 and the Festival of Trees which runs Nov. 23 to Dec. 1.

For more information, check out the WDM website at www.wdm.ca/stoon.html The Stoked Centre I almost don’t know where to start with The Stoked Centre in Wilson’s Lifestyle Centre. It spans nearly 150,000 square feet — massive doesn’t even begin to cover it.

It’s a totally unique, world-class, entirely family and pet friendly facility — a sort of Disneyland for families on a local level.

For kids, The Stoked Centre is nothing short of awesome. Park manager Dayne Peterson describes it as being like “a Grade 8 kid built his own dream house.” There are eight different bouncy castles — including the latest addition, Hungry Hippo, where adults and kids can play together.

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Open to the public at no charge. Refreshments provided.

NOVEMBER 8

Annual CDP Craft Sale at Sherbrooke Community Centre from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Organizers are currently looking for craft sale vendors. there will be a large variety of crafts and baked goodies for sale, homemade jewelry and much more. Table rental is $30. For more information, contact Allison at 306 655-3665 or by email at sccdpdept@ saskatoonhealthregion.ca.

NOVEMBER 6

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Stand Tall this Fall: fall prevention community health fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Market Mall (by food court). For an independent, active life: tips and demonstrations to manage your fall risk. Lisa Lambert, MLA for ChurchillWildwood kicks off Fall Prevention Month (with cake) at 11 a.m., followed by Remembering When Fashion Show. Free public event by the Saskatoon Fall Prevention Consortium.

OCTOBER 31

NEWCOMERS’ CLUB

Oysters3 is comprised of John Jones as lead singer, Alan Prosser on guitar and Ian Telfer on fiddle, all originals, who play modern British music and they have 24 studio albums and five BBC Folk Awards among their credentials. 8 p.m. The Bassment. $25 and $35.

The Saskatoon Newcomers’ Club welcomes new female residents in the Saskatoon area, as well as those who have recently undergone a significant change in lifestyle (such as relationship status, retirement, or becoming a new parent). A new resident is defined as one who has not resided in Saskatoon and/or surrounding area for more than three years. The club holds monthly dinner outings, coffee gatherings, book club and other planned activities. If interested, please reply by email to saskatoonnewcomersclub@gmail.com.

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NOVEMBER 1

Denis Dufresne, vocalist and fiddler, and Aaron Young, vocalist and guitarist, have moved from being awardwinning studio musicians to front their own unit, Ghostboy. They deliver outstanding vocals, flawless NOVEMBER 1 playing and original works. 8 p.m. The Bassment, 202 Fourth Ave. North. Tickets $20 for SJS members, $25 for Life Skills for Older Adults hosted by the Saskatoon Council on Aging. Learn about government programs and non-members. services for older adults – get the answers you need in NOVEMBER 2 this presentation by Service Canada. CLASSIC Law anWinnipeg singer-songwriter Sean Burns has been deswers your questions about Power of Attorney and Wills. 1 scribed as an artist who plays a brand of country music p.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 3, Saskatoon Field House. $10 Registration Fee (Refreshments provided). To register call which is way out on the left of country mainstream.

SCOA at 306-652-2255. The fee is charged by SCOA as Winnipeg’s Tim Buckley opens. 9 p.m. The Bassment. a registration fee. Information on Government of Canada Tickets $18 and $23. services and Classic is free.Visit www.scoa.ca or phone NOVEMBER 3 306-652-2255 for more information.

Tim Tamashiro, a smooth-as-silk crooner, promises a program of When You’re Smiling, delivering the American NOVEMBER 2 Classic Dance Club. Cha cha lesson at 7:30 p.m. and classics made famous by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Promises to be one of the season’s social ballroom dancing from 8:30 to midnight. Royal jazz highlights. 8 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets - $32 and Canadian Legion (606 Spadina Ave. West.) Everyone welcome. Half price for newcomers. classicdanceclub.ca. $42.

NOVEMBER 4 The Bridge City Brass Band, under the direction of Ian Krips, will be performing a concert of varied brass band repertoire at 2:30 at Grace Westminster United Church. The program features works by contemporary and historical brass band composers with something for everyone. Admission is by donation. ***** Iron Duke is a Toronto-based folk quintet which bridges soulful indie-rock with bluegrass and country, specializing in three and four-part harmony. Saskatoon’s Lost Highway Navigators open. 7:30 p.m. The Bassment.

Tickets $20 and $25.

NOVEMBER 7 The Montreal Guitar Trio has been hailed by CBC Radio as “the hottest guitar ensemble in Canada,” a collaboration of the talents of Sebastien Dufour, Glenn Levesque and Marc Morin. They have played internationally as well as at the BB King Blues Club in New York. 8 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets $25 and $35.

NOVEMBER 30 Youth With A Mission fundraising concert, featuring the Johner Boys. The event starts at 7 p.m. at Cornerstone Church. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through. fundraiseabk@gmail.com.

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Fibromyalgia Support Group. The Franklin (Revera) Residence, 220 24th Street East (corner of 24th Street and Fourth Avenue. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Free on-street parking after 6 p.m. For more information, email fibrofighters@ yahoo.com or call 306-222-4130.

NOVEMBER 10 The Geocaching International Film Festival will be held from 2-4 p.m. at the Round Prairie Library (170-250 Hunter Road). Popcorn will be provided. $1 per person admission will be charged to offset the cost of the facility.

Please log that you are attending at GC7YZBR on geocaching.com as there is only capacity for 60 people.

NOVEMBER 10-11 Different Strokes painting group’s annual show and sale.

Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Nov. 11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Grace-Westminster Church (505 10th St. East). Free admission. Art works by Renate Ankenbrand, Alma Bryski, Mary Buhler, Judy Hilton, Doreen Kozmyk, Irene Makepeace, Terry Moonie, Marian Phaneuf, Phil Schaan-Dumont, Dianne Smith, Darleen Topp and Shirley West.

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Canadian Club of Saskatoon meeting at noon at the Sheraton Cavalier. Guest speaker Jeff O’Brien, City of Saskatoon archivist. He will talk about the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Lunch at noon and the presentation at 12:40. $20 for members and $ 25 NOVEMBER 2-3 for guests. Please contact Elaine Ballard at 306-934-4639 ART & SOUL Art show & Sale. Unitarian Centre, 213-2nd if able to attend.

Street East, Nov. 2 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (opening recep***** tion). Nov. 3 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show features 11 Saskatoon Spinners & Weavers Guild annual sale. 9:30 artists with artwork in a variety of styles and mediums. a.m. to 5 p.m. Albert Community Centre (610 Clarence Participating artists are: Karen Baxter, Janet Brown, Karen Ave. South, second floor auditorium). There is no admisFraser Gitlitz, Teresa Gagne, Kathryn Green, Larry Grension charge. kow, Mary Moody, Paige Mortensen, Mary-Anne Parker, ***** Tessera Nova and Kas Rea-Cram.

MENSA is an international, non-profit society for people ***** who score among the top two per cent of the general 2018 Grosvenor Artists’ Show and Sale, Nov. 2 from 2 population on a standardized IQ test. A supervised IQ p.m. to 8 p.m. and Nov. 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Art for testing session is being held in Saskatoon at 2 p.m. The your place. Grosvenor Park United Church (Cumberland cost is $90, or $70 for students. If you are interested in Ave. and 14th Street. Refreshments. Wheelchair accesattending, call Tim at 306-242-7408 or e-mail trf674@ sible. campus.usask.ca.

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St. Martin’s United Church (2617 Clarence Ave. South) Fall Champagne shopping night at Midtown Plaza. Midtown Pasta Supper. Sittings at 5 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. is partnering with Royal University Hospital Founda$15 for adults, Kids 6-12 $5 and Under 5 free. Tickets tion’s Women Leading Philanthropy Program for an afteravailable at the church office or following worship. hours holiday shopping event. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Ticket proNOVEMBER 5 ceeds will benefit the Royal University Hospital Foundation through WLP, whose vision is women empowering women The Yorkton Film Festival and Grace Westminster United to transform health care. Tickets are $25 with guests Church are hosting a film event at 7:30 at the church. receiving a $25 Midtown gift card at the event. Tickets This Remembrance Day event will feature I AM WAR, a can be purchased on at https://champagne-shopping. documentary about our Afghan veterans. Following the film, Retired Colonel Malcolm Young, who completed three eventbrite.com.

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By RJ Currie arijuana became legal in Canada on October 17. And high time it did.

• Fun fact: Picasso was born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. I’m thinking his birth certificate was a scroll.

• Ex-NBA great Charles Barkley told NBC’s Jimmy Fallon he hasn’t worn underwear in 10 years. Presumably he also holds the NBA record for all-time longest dribble.

• Reuters reports Robert Marchand, 104, became the oldest person to cycle around France’s national velodrome.

He completed 15 laps and six bathroom breaks.

• I heard a SportsCentre NHL analyst mention 4-on-4 play. My wife thought they said foreplay and told me to start watching more hockey.

• Trade talk has Giants QB Eli Manning, 37, reuniting with coach Tom Coughlin in Jacksonville. The G-men would get an O-lineman; the Jags get Manning and a defibrillator to be named later.

• In 2015 the CFL banned Redblacks’ lumberjacks from cutting through a stump when Ottawa scored. Now football fans go to Bill Belichick interviews to see people sawing logs.

• World’s strongest man, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the 6’9’’ Game Of Thrones star, wed 5’2” Canadian bodybuilder Kelsey Morgan. Is that mating a Mountain to a molehill?

• Just wondering: with hurricanes being named after both genders, shouldn’t we call them himicanes and hericanes?

• A Louisiana post office manager reportedly got caught pocketing $630,000 worth in postage sales to fund his casino visits. Stealing stamps? No wondered he got cornered.

• The name of the Washington Capitals’ back-up goalie is Phoenix Copley. If ever a guy was born to play for the Coyotes.

• If Three Dog Night wrote a 2018 tribute song for Giants QB Eli Manning, I doubt it would be called Celebrate. More like Eli’s Gone.

• The L.A. Angels are reportedly giving managerial candidates a two hour written exam. It’s easy to spot who’s bluffing their way through it: they quickly turn to their bull pen.

• SI.com reports John Gruden is on a three-year rebuild so the Raiders win the Super Bowl in 2020. Why not use his old formula? Have Tony Dungy build the team, then take over.

RJ’s Punalty Box Competitive eater Joey Chestnut won last week’s World Poutine Eating Championship in Toronto. There was one hippie competing — he ate his cheese and fries with groovy.

Something for everyone at Wilson’s

(Continued from page 11) The Velocity Raceway electric gokart track appeals to kids and adults alike. The track is built to adapt with up to five track variations that will keep the track fresh for years to come. Minimum age for the track is eight years old and height is 52 inches tall.

For the thrill seekers, there is the twostorey SkyTrail rope climbing course, and a 200-foot SkyRail zipline located in the tropical house, filled with 30-foot tall palm trees and giving the feeling of zipping through the jungle. Gamers will be thrilled with the new arcade game – HALO Fireteam Raven, the first of many games to come.

Wilson’s features a café with specialty coffees, and a concession with kidfriendly food — such as pizza, hotdogs and popcorn. In a few weeks when the weather gets colder, families can also take advantage of the free, outdoor seasonal skating rink. Future plans include a bowling alley, arcade and full-service restaurant.

“Our centre’s owners, Steve, Judy, Colin and Lindsey Wilson, have travelled the world to bring their customers an inspiring experience like no other,” explained Peterson.

Prices for activities range from $6 to $20, depending on age of child and activity, with discounts for some activities available for members. For more information, to fill out the required waiver and check out specific activity prices for the Stoked Centre go online at http:// www.stokedcentre.ca Theresa Kirkpatrick is a retired communications specialist and former journalist who has dedicated the first couple of years of retirement to exploring Saskatchewan. She is writing a column for the Saskatoon Express to share options for things to do and places to visit in Saskatchewan and beyond our borders for those who, like her, have the time but aren’t sure what to do with it.

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SSO concerts to highlight music from The Great War

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express he Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra (SSO) has two upcoming concerts that will honour the 100th anniversary of The Armistice.

“The First World War has a huge impact on music — many composers either fought in the war or lost loved ones, so it had a lasting effect on music,” said SSO executive director Mark Turner. “We are doing our SSO Remembers series to highlight the musical impact of The Great War.” SSO music director Eric Paetkau said there’s “a considerable amount of music” that was written around 1918 to honour those who died in the war.

“Each of the pieces we’re performing has some sort of connection with the war and its impact on the composers,” he said.

The first concert, entitled Music of World War One, will feature the Saskatoon Symphony Chamber Players. It will be held on Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. at Convocation Hall on the University of Saskatchewan campus.

The concert program includes Jan van Gilse’s Nonet (1916) and Frank Bridge’s 2 Old English Songs for String Quartet (1916). It will also feature the music of Paul Hindemith, a German composer who was conscripted in 1917 and joined his regiment in January 1918. His Kammermusik No. 2 (1922) was composed following the war.

“This concert highlights three composers in particular,” said Turner.

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on him. The SSO string quartet will perform his two English folksongs, which were written as a reprieve from the news from the front. Our wind quintet will perform a work by German composer/soldier Paul Hindemith. It’s important to reflect that there were artists on both sides of the battle, and Hindemith went on to a remarkable career in music after the war.

“Jan van Gilse’s Nonet is not often played — he wrote this in a time of deep turmoil. Gilse had been studying in Germany when the war broke out and had to escape to return to his homeland, Holland. The First World War had such remarkable impact on Gilse that during World War Two he assisted Jews who were fleeing the Nazis.”

Paetkau noted that the SSO Chamber Players concerts are “more intimate, with just a handful of players in a variety of configurations.” Because of this intimacy, there’s a unique sense of connection with the music and the performers, he said.

“It’s also a chance to hear the individual SSO musicians shine,” Paetkau added.

The SSO’s Nov. 10 concert at TCU Place will explore the music of soldier composers and two great works that were written in response to the First World War. Renowned Canadian cellist Stéphane Tétreault will play Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor Op. 85. The concert program will also include John Burge’s Flanders Field Reflections, Frederick Delius’ A Song Before Sunrise and Maurice Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin.

“This concert is quite special,” said Turner.

“Elgar was too old to fight in the war, and he barely composed during the fighting. After the war he was moved to write a number of important works, including his heartbreaking cello concerto. It’s one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, and we are thrilled to have one of the rising stars of the cello world, Stéphane Tétreault, making his first Saskatchewan performance. He toured this concerto throughout Europe last year and received rave reviews.

“The concert includes other pieces by composers who fought in the war, as well as a piece by Canadian John Burge called Flanders Fields Reflections. This piece is based on John McCrae’s beloved poem, and we’re honoured that the composer will be with us that night.”

For more information about the concerts, or to purchase tickets, go online to saskatoonsymphony.org.

SSO to relocate In other SSO news, Turner has announced that the SSO will move from its current location on 20th Street West in Riversdale to 51st Street East in November. The relocation comes after Turner was attacked by a stranger at the SSO offices on July 31.

Turner was stabbed in the eye during a meeting with three members of the SSO team. While he has recovered physically, he noted in a post on the SSO’s website that “the psychological effects of being the victim of a violent crime don’t disappear like bruises.

“So while the scar on my eye is barely noticeable, I’m adjusting to life with scars,” AS102912 Aaron he wrote.

Canadian cellist Stéphane Tétreault will play Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor Op. 85 at the SSO’s Nov. 10 performance.

(Photo Supplied) Because “safety is a must for a workplace,” Turner noted that he and the SSO’s board of directors made the decision to move the SSO to a new space.

“We’re thrilled to have found a great new space that has a great music room, beautiful offices and a wonderful warehouse for the book sale. We’re grateful to our neighbours and landlord for making Riversdale such a rewarding home. And we’re affirming our commitment to being an orchestra for all members of our community, and in continuing the work that has been so important to us in our time in Riversdale.”

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Grandfather’s wartime letters inspire playwright Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express ou could say that Saskatonian Joshua Ramsden is a triple threat: he’s a playwright, a director and an actor.

Ramsden will showcase all of those theatre skills next month when he stages his play, A Soldier’s War, as part of Live Five Independent Theatre’s 15th season.

Produced by Strikes Twice Productions, A Soldier’s War follows the journey of five Canadian soldiers during the Second World War. Ramsden is also directing the production, as well as acting alongside Torien Cafferata, Kyle Kuchirka, Donny Ready and Devin Wesnoski.

Ramsden’s play was inspired by the wartime letters written by his grandfather. He describes the process of writing the show as “terrifying,” and he hopes that he honours his grandfather with the production.

“He died before I got the letters, so there was always this kind of air of making sure I wasn’t doing a disservice to him, and that I was serving some of the conversations and questions that he and I had had before he passed away,” said Ramsden.

Ramsden lived with his grandfather and grandmother in Calgary about a year before his grandfather died in 2008. He believes it was one of the best decisions he’s ever made, because he really got to know them as people.

“It’s interesting, because I had never lived in the same city as them,” said Ramsden. “And so I always kind of had that relationship where I’d see them at Christmas and I’d see them for a week or so in the summer. But to actually sort of see them morning to night – you know, days and days – have supper with them, breakfast with them, you get to see them as human beings as opposed to these people that you kind of put on a pedestal.

So you see sort of the heartache and the pain and the joy and the laughter in a different way. It truly is one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life.”

Ramsden was born and raised in Saskatoon and attended Evan Hardy Collegiate. He then studied at the University of Saskatchewan, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree through the drama department in the College of Arts and Science in 2011. He later attended the

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Globe Theatre Conservatory in 2014.

Ramsden said A Soldier’s War is now in its third iteration. In 2017, the show went on a Western Canadian tour, picking up rave reviews along the way. For example, A Soldier’s War claimed the Best of Fest prize at Calgary’s Fringe Festival, while CBC Manitoba referred to it as “worth the standing ovation.”

Meanwhile, the Winnipeg Free Press hailed the play as “haunting, even unforgettable,” while Edmonton’s Vue Weekly called it “nothing short of spectacular,” adding that it “lives up to the hype.”

Ramsden said his grandfather was in his early 20s when he enlisted in the army, and the letters he sent home were to his parents and younger siblings.

Ramsden said his grandfather didn’t talk a lot about the war when he lived with him in Calgary, so A Soldier’s War is Ramsden’s attempt to “colour in some of the borders.”

“He didn’t talk about it a lot when I lived with him; he spent a lot of time in bed at that point of his life,” said Ramsden.

“He kind of beckoned me into his room and he’d be sitting out with little leaflets or – I don’t want to say memorabilia – but pieces of his past. He would sort of talk about a person or two and where they were when they passed away, or his proximity to them. (There was) not a lot of tragic details; mostly, his stories were kind of the funny ones – like he never played crib anymore after the army, because he played it so much while he was over there. He talked about the drinking – when they could – and sort of the fun relationships playing hockey and playing baseball and stuff while he was in Europe. But a lot of the harder conversations were more facts and less detail.”

When Ramsden received his grandfather’s letters, he decided to put them into chronological order before reading them.

What struck Ramsden was that the man at the end of the letters was the person he knew as his grandfather, but “the person who initially wrote the letters was a human being I’d never met,” Ramsden said.

“He didn’t speak a lot about the details (of the) things that were happening, so this show was a question of, ‘What must have taken place to go from that guy I didn’t know, to the person I knew

Josh Ramsden (left) has put three of his talents — playwriting, directing and acting — together in A Soldier’s Story. Among those who will be with him on stage is Donny Ready. (Photo Supplied) as my grandpa?’ That’s what this story is about, is looking at the consequences of war and the experiences that people go through and how traumatic events can impact people in a different way. War doesn’t affect everyone in the same way.

If it did, it would be easier to understand.”

A Soldier’s War runs from Nov. 1 – 4 and from Nov. 8 – 10 at The Refinery, located at 609 Dufferin Ave. Tickets are $25 for adults and $22 for students and seniors, and can be purchased by calling 306-653-5191 or by going online to livefive.ca.

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Baseball got Pride out of cotton fields, but country music brought him fame

harley Pride once beChandeliers, Just Between You lieved he could parlay and Me and Is Anybody Goin’ two unique gifts — baseto San Antone. Between 1967 ball and country music — into a and 1987, he had 52 songs double-barrelled career. which made the Top 10 country “When I heard that Jackie lists.

Robinson had broken the colour “One day, Jack Clement, my barrier in major league baseball in record producer, told me that 1947, I told my dad that baseball 50 years into the future, I would was going to be my way out of be still singing these songs and the Mississippi cotton fields,” people would still be playing said Pride on the telephone from my records. How true that was!

Dallas in advance of his latest I have an extensive repertoire People music tour into Western Canada. but I can’t do a concert without He appears at Saskatoon’s TCU including all of the old favouPlace on Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. rites,” said Pride.

Baseball worked to some degree. It got Clement and Jack Johnson, his manager him away from picking cotton. who had been trying to find an AfricanAs a pitcher and outfielder, he played in American country singer, have been the some minor league systems, but mostly for lifelong influences on Pride’s career, but the Memphis Red Sox in the Negro Ameri- there have been other contributors. can League where he faced hitters like Ernie “One time back in Helena, Montana, Red Banks, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays before Sovine and Red Foley had come to town to they went to the majors. He pitched every do a concert. I got brave enough to go back fourth day and played the outfield on the and introduce myself. They asked if I’d like other days. His path was impeded by an arm to sing a couple of songs in the show. They injury while pitching in the New York Yan- said they’d never quite heard anyone like kee system and before the advent of Tommy me.”

John surgery.

Another figure in the launch of his record“I knew I had to make it before I was 25. ing career was Chet Atkins, the great guitar The arm injury slowed me up. And it’s no player. excuse but, in that time, major league teams “Chet was a fine man and he was workusually had a quota of only two black players ing with RCA. He took seven of my songs on each team.” to Los Angeles to meet the bigwigs of the His voice stood him in good stead. He studio. They listened. Chet passed my picture became the first African-American counaround the table. That didn’t cause any uptry superstar. He sang powerhouse songs roar. They said they loved my voice and they like Kiss an Angel Good Morning, Crystal were going to sign me.”

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Charley Pride will perform in Saskatoon on Nov. 7 at TCU Place. (Wiki Photo) Once Pride got the contract, he went on a roll and songwriters kept turning up with music.

“Jack Clement usually picked out the songs and he always gave me an option of what I liked or didn’t like,” said Pride, who added that Just Between You and Me was one of the original seven he recorded and it stood the test of time.

Pride, now 80, has just released a new CD, Music in the Heart, which is a collection of new material. Next he’d like to record a duet album with some of his friends.

Pride has played at The White House for presidents like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. And then he drops the reminder that “my favourite Canadian prime minister was John Diefenbaker, up from around your part of Canada.”

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Pride has been attending the team’s training camp even when they were the Washington Senators in the American League.

“Billy Martin was our manager with the Senators and one day, he inserts me into the lineup as a designated hitter. I got a base hit off Jim Palmer, the Baltimore star, although many think he eased up on me. I know he didn’t.”

He gets to meet most managers and remembers a spring when the Rangers had three first basemen, Justin Smoak, Chris Davis and Mitch Moreland. They traded Smoak to Seattle.

“I said I’d like to keep Davis, They didn’t so Davis went over to Baltimore the next year and hit 53 home runs. I didn’t expect the manager to listen to me.”

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Members of Team Canada’s 4 Nations Cup team in attendance.

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