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“It’s also great because it takes the word museum out of the title. Kids tend to think of a museum as something different than what we are. We are loud, we are active, we are hands on.”

McReynolds Doran said at the start of the rebranding process she didn’t know a new name was in the plan.

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have mixed emotions about well as bread and a vegetable. the new Canada Food Where was the bologna?

Guide. For example, noFor dinner, meat, fish or table items missing are Coke, poultry, potatoes and anBig Macs and Mars bars. other vegetable, bread, fruit The first Canada Food or a fruit dessert and milk, of Guide came out in 1942. course, were recommended.

It was called Official Food My family followed that Rules. It was affected by the guide, whether we knew it or Second World War and the fact not, in the 1960s. people didn’t have a lot money I remember one meal that back then. consisted of mashed potatoes, Here is what the guide peas and liver. That was three Editor recommended: strikes for me. I liked my potaMilk: Adults — ½ pint. toes and peas raw. And liver is Children — more than one pint. And liver. It still makes me cringe. some cheese as available; My father was one of those “you Fruits: One serving of tomatoes daily, aren’t leaving the table until it’s done” or of a citrus fruit, or of tomato or citrus parents. I would have spent hours more fruit juices, and one serving of other at the table than I did, had it not been for fruits, fresh, canned or dried; my dog. Without him, I might still be Vegetables: (In addition to potatoes of sitting there. which you need one serving daily), two The best thing about the 1961 food servings daily of vegetables, preferably guide was liver had gone from frequently leafy green or yellow and frequently raw; to occasionally.

Cereals and breads: one serving of a In 1977, fruits and vegetables were whole grain cereal and four to six slices combined into one group. Can you imagof Canada Approved Bread, brown or ine how many committee meetings it white; must have taken to make that change?

Meat, fish: One serving a day of meat, Milk was still big, with between two fish, or meat substitutes. Liver, heart or and four servings suggested, depending kidney once a week; on your age and pregnancy test. Yogurt, Eggs: at least three or four eggs cheddar and cottage cheese were in the weekly. mix. (Note: it would be another 30 or Tomatoes and potatoes were big in this so years before yogurt stores appeared one. on every corner. They were replaced by • The food guide was altered a bit in cupcake stores and many of them were 1944 and again in 1949. In 1949, the food replaced by For Lease signs.) guide included a daily meal planner.

Two servings of meat were recomBreakfast could include citrus fruits, mended. Lean meat, poultry and fish cereal, bread and eggs (“if desired”). were on the list. As was liver; it had There was no such thing as too much staying power. Other notable items in milk in those days. the guide were peanut butter, dried peas, It was recommended that lunch consist beans and lentils, and nuts or seeds. of cheese, eggs or other protein food, as On the bread side, whole grain was rec-

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ommended. Rice, macaroni and spaghetti made the cut. I liked this food guide more than those that came before it.

A few new items made their way into the 1992 guide. I hadn’t seen bagels, pitas and canned fish mentioned prior to this. And tofu appeared on the list. This guide was another pretty good one.

In the 2007 guide, vegetables and fruits were again singled out for their importance in our eating lives. Dairy products became known as milk products and alternatives, including fortified soy beverage. The writing was on the wall for milk.

Here we are 12 years later, with a new food guide. It encourages us to eat veggies, fruits, whole grains and plantbased proteins, such as nuts, tofu and legumes.

Milk and dairy products have all but been given the boot from the list. Now, it’s all about drinking water.

Meats are treated, as Donald Trump would say, “very poorly. It’s a fake food guide.”

Every food guide has a common sense approach.

If I combined my favourite “foods” into a day, it would begin with bacon and poached eggs. Lunch would be served at McDonald’s, while dinner would likely come from a pizza place. A late-night snack would be something chocolate. I don’t recall ever having my dream food day.

More in reality, a typical day begins with cereal, toast and juice. Lately, lunch is bringing a sandwich from home and adding McDonald’s fries. Dinner is often a pasta or stir fry and vegetables, and we eat a lot of chicken.

Here is something I think you should know before I sign off: Among the vegetables I like are Brussels sprouts.

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t first glance, the Ariincluded Anaheim (2015), zona Coyotes and SasMontreal (2016 and 2017) and katchewan RoughridCalgary (2018). ers seem to go together like The Riders send team reprecats and dogs. sentatives and a player, and the You know, different sports, Coyotes host a pre-game tailwildly different climates, thougate party for Rider fans at Salt sands of miles between their (a restaurant/pub in the Westhome stadiums. gate Centre where the hockey But for the last five years, arena is located) and gather these two organizations have those same fans for a post-game been partnering in an event photo on the arena ice.

Columnist which is introducing Rider Players who have attended Nation to the American souththe event in the past include west.

Chris Getzlaf (2015), Rider alum Ray “It’s kind of like what we do with our Elgaard (2016), Naaman Roosevelt (2017), Riderville tour,” explained Roughrider and Brandon Bridge (2018). This year, director of marketing Miriam Johnson. when the Coyotes host the Vancouver During the CFL season, the Riders Canucks on Feb. 28, Charleston Hughes annually host Riderville pre-game tailis going to be there to mix with the Rider gate parties in four to five cities across fans. the country when the Riders are in town.

“I think when other teams hear that we Invitations are sent out. Rider fans come do this, they just shake their heads,” said out in droves.

Johnson. “But we’re invested in our fans.

“The whole purpose of the Riderville We know there are a lot of snowbirds in tour is to fan the flames of Rider nation,” Phoenix and we have some of the most said Johnson. “So we use the same concept avid fans in the world.” to do Riderville in Phoenix, but instead I would count my husband Scott and of going to a Rider game, they go to a I in that mix and for the past two years, Coyotes game.” we have taken in the activities. I can tell Since 2015, the Coyotes have hosted you, first hand, that it makes an impresthe Riderville game. Past opponents have sion on our American friends to have

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“That post-game photo just keeps getting better and better,” he said. “This is our fifth annual event and I don’t see us stopping anytime soon.”

Morander estimates that some 40 per cent of the Coyotes’ fan base has some connection to Canada with fans that hail from B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan and more recently Ontario and Quebec.

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I was desperate for something that could explain the essence of the Rider fan . . . so I added that we are like the Green Bay Packers fans of the North. Her eyes went wide.

She nodded, then took a step down and away from me as though she was dealing with Cousin Eddy from the Vacation movies. Guess she could finally sense the “FANatic” in me and the hundreds of other Rider fans, who, of course, just happened to have all their Rider jerseys, bunny hugs, socks, T-shirts, scarves and toques with them in the desert.

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(Continued from page 1) e didn’t know that was a direction we were going to take, but as we thought about our core values, who we are and what we want the community to know about us, what we discovered is that it was time to consider the possibility of a new name.”

And Wonderhub it is.

The name in front of Wonderhub acknowledges Nutrien for its support. The potash company donated $2.5 million to the project.

“When we aspire to grow our world from the ground up, it starts with kids and families here in our community,” Fern Boutin of Nutrien said. “It starts with engaging young minds and nurturing their interest in discovery.”

McReynolds Doran said she is often asked to describe a children’s museum.

“We’re hands on; we’re ‘please touch;’ we are exciting, adventurous, we are creative and we wanted to find something that really communicated that to folks quickly. . . . We are a place where you can reconnect with that child-like sense of wonder that made our childhoods so magical. It’s a place where you get to see your children’s sense of wonder come to life and really guide you through an experience.”

While discovery has been removed from the name, discovery is a key part of Wonderhub.

“We are introducing children to new parts of themselves, to new parts of the community to new potential careers to new

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Amanda McReynolds Doran, executive director of Wonderhub, and Nutrien representatives (from left to right) Renee Glushyk, Tyler Dunn and Fern Boutin celebrate the rebranding of children’s museum. (Photo by Cam Hutchinson) avenues of discovery. So, it was important to us to connect. What are we really after here? We are creating a place where children can discover something new every time they visit.”

As a mother of three, McReynolds Doran said the project has made her a popular parent.

“My kids are in love with this project. … My street cred has gone through the roof with this project. I have a five-year-old who will be basically growing up in this museum. It’s going to be a thrill for me to see my own kids’ takeaway, but I also know Wonderhub is going to be where we see the future leaders of Saskatchewan really coming up, so I feel quite privileged to be part of it.”

Construction is about 80 per cent complete and one of the structures is being assembled. The museum is going from its current 1,200 square feet in Market Mall to

25,000 square feet in the Mendel building.

Wonderhub is projected to have more than 100,000 visits a year.

“It has been a long process for a lot of folks, but it is all coming to fruition now.

This has been a time of major growth and transition for us. (It took) almost two decades to bring us to where we are today and where we are going to be very soon — in our new home in the Mendel.”

She said what is called an air pocket climbing structure is being assembled. It has swings, a maze and a place to bounce around. Wonderhub’s website lists a number of other exhibits.

“No matter how well we know what we have designed, when it gets played with by kids, it will take a whole new direction. It will teach us a new way to play with things, a new way to enjoy new educational outcomes that we never knew were possible.”

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“While the exhibits did have a target developmental age, we have some technology in there that even adults would be thrilled to interact with.”

McReynolds Doran said a price structure for admission hasn’t been set. There will be general admission, and family and individual memberships available. There will be free days as well.

“We are the only children’s museum in the province, so we are committed to making sure there are no barriers to accessing the knowledge and experience we offer,” she said.

“It really doesn’t become Nutrien Wonderhub until there are kids in the building.

We are chomping at the bit.”

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he Globe and Mail complaining if he isn’t going recently reported that to do something about it, and Prime Minister Justin the problem is the policy.

Trudeau lambasted big InterThe CRA, to which I also net companies for “harming sign cheques for income tax the democratic process” and and GST, is perfectly happy “generating hefty profits while to receive my pathetic offailing to support traditional ferings, even though they’d news operations in Canada.” get a heck of a lot more from That’s rich. He’s cerFacebook. And they’re all tainly right, but the Canadian over me, down to the penny. government has thus far been The last time I paid GST, Columnist utterly useless in defending well within the window alCanadian media against mullowed, they did not process tinational operations on a policy basis. it fast enough and billed me $1.31 for Facebook is one of the biggest culbeing in arrears. This is not happenprits, although the purveyor of personal ing to Google or Amazon, nor did it to data to political campaigns is among the Facebook. first to collect sales taxes on advertisSo the question is, why should you ing in Canada (along with Instagram.) care? Because: So yes, they will finally join the ranks 1. The Government of Canada via of the taxed, but no, they still won’t pay the CRA has created this wonky unlevel any business tax on profits despite the playing field in favour of foreign interests, fact that the company operates here. And some of which are not serving us (or the everywhere else.

Americans: see Trump campaign) well.

Meanwhile, Facebook and Google, 2. Local and national traditional metogether, capture something like 64 per dia outlets (in the main) are not feeding cent of all advertising revenues generated you fake news; on the contrary, they are in Canada, equalling $2.4 billion. With a trying to keep you informed and thereby B. Until now, none of that was taxed. Ask protect our democracy and your local, regional or national newspaper 3. It is paying lip service to a probpublisher if he or she is signing a whoplem that could bite us on our collective ping cheque to Canada Revenue Agency backside.

(CRA) every quarter (although a smaller But! some might say. Mr. Trudeau’s amount than in the past). Or, don’t bother; government has established a $595-milyou already know the answer. lion fund (over five years) to support CaAnd why are the big, big, big boys nadian media, via assistance to non-profit exempt? Because foreign e-commerce news groups and tax breaks. We’ll have firms have no physical presence in our to wait to see how much that helps, but country, and the CRA therefore views something has to. Our Canadian news them as “not carrying on business” in outlets are suffering mightily. Many are Canada. There are so many expletives closing down. Ask the folks in Guelph I could apply to this bizarre concept, how they enjoyed losing their Mercury. they’d take up the whole page. But this is You can’t get a paper copy of the Globe a family paper. in the Maritimes. This list of news gaps Anyway, Quebec has had enough, could get long, very quickly. bless it. The province, as of the beginMeanwhile, the CRA has put all of ning of 2019, is requiring Amazon, them at a policy disadvantage that is Facebook, Google and all the rest to patently ridiculous. Google and Amazon charge sales tax on ads and pay up. That and Facebook may have no bricks and money will largely come out of Canamortar presence, but a child could tell dian pockets, just like taxes generated you they’re operating in Canada. by traditional media, for sure; and it may Figure out how to tax them. Make not level the playing field from an online them collect and pay GST. And if I may power perspective. But at least it’s fair. offer one more suggestion . . . use those Trudeau, unfortunately, did not go funds to support newspapers. Govso far as to promise the imposition of ernments can advertise under certain taxes, nor regulation of any other kind circumstances, too, depending on various in Canada. Instead, he suggested global laws and media policies. So do it. Use Internet firms take responsibility for their the Internet giant tax funds to remind actions. (I suppose Facebook has started people to dress warmly, stop drinking doing so, but its reputation is seriously and driving, get out and vote or even pay in the dumpster; methinks it had to do their taxes; I don’t care. something.)

You use Facebook and Twitter to comWhile I, as an old newshound, apmunicate with the masses, Mr. Trudeau. preciated Trudeau’s fairly assertive Maybe you should try your local newscomments, I also not want to hear him paper.

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hen I was in under the blazing sun, each my twenties, I wearing a backpack so big travelled around that the top appears to be Europe. After living in bouncing off the back of their England for a few years heads with every tortured step and before I returned to they take.

Canada, a friend and I Not only that, but they’re took the Chunnel train to each wearing a frontsack.

Paris, then took the train I think that’s what they’re down the coast to Nice, called, anyway — it’s essenthen Venice, then Rome. tially a backpack worn backI’m pretty sure Zurich wards, or across your chest. was in there too, only Dangling off the bottom of Columnist memorable for how terboth the front and backpacks ribly expensive it was. are various other little bags From Rome we took a plane to the and trinkets, which knock together, Canary Islands, before returning to announcing the arrival of the weary London for a night, then taking antravellers in advance. I’m guessing other flight back to Canada. Toronto, the noise is also good for warding off to be specific. After being away from bears or jaguars or whatever predators Canada for a few years, and on a plane stalk the jungles and mountains I’m for hours, I asked my taxi driver to presuming backpackers are hiking. take me through an A&W drive-thru So my question is simple: if you’re before going to my airport hotel. I also wearing 50 pounds of clothing, toiremember visiting a Shoppers Drug letries and other essential gear vital Mart after checking into my room and to ensuring a comfortable journey, marvelling at the massive size of our why don’t you just use a suitcase? It “individual” bags of potato chips. seems far more practical to pull all of Anyway, my point, and I do have your belongings using the convenient one, is that even in my early twenties, telescopic handle and sturdy wheels I was never a backpacker. I hauled of a suitcase than it does wearing it all a wheeled suitcase on that journey over your body in 100-degree heat. across Europe, with absolutely no If your journey requires that you qualms or regrets. To this day, I’ve hang sacks and packs off both sides never taken a backpack anywhere oth- of your body, you’re a mule, not a er than school, even if I’m flying with traveller. just a piece of a carry-on luggage.

Not exactly a hard-hitting piece of I bring this up now because I’m journalism, this column. However, as writing this from the deck of a cabana I resisted the urge to run across the on an island in the middle of the sand to meet this weary couple, asking ocean. A budget traveller, I’m surthem if they need an ambulance while rounded by backpackers of all ages. unburdening them of the hundreds of Guys, I don’t get it. If your backpack pounds of God knows what (seriously, is taller than you are, is it really a what can you possibly need for your backpack? travels that fits into a six-foot-tall nyMy understanding of backpacklon sack? You know they have laundry ing is that it’s about travelling lightly services in pretty much every country and easily, which I totally get. I like on the planet, right?) I felt compelled to think I’ve got packing for vacation to write about it. If even just one Sasdown to a science. I don’t haul a ton katoon traveller is eased of the weight of stuff with me when I travel, which of cargo worn frontwards and back, it is often. However, as I write this, will have been worth it.

I’m watching a young couple stagger Suitcases: they do a vacationing across the sand, sweating profusely body good.

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t. Paul’s Hospital Foundation launched its new Close to Home Campaign for hospice and end-of-life care last week.

It started with a bang, with the announcement of a $6-million donation.

“We are absolutely thrilled to present this campaign to our community,” Gene Dupuis, the campaign’s honorary co-chair, said in a news release. “We can do so much more to meet the needs of the dying and their families.”

Jean Morrison, president and CEO of Emmanuel Health and St. Paul’s Hospital, said “the time for action is now. With the Close to Home Campaign, we will create Saskatchewan’s first free-standing residential hospice and set the standard for quality hospice care in Saskatoon.

“We hope this hospice will be the inspiration for other communities to consider what they can do to address the needs of people who have life-limiting illnesses.”

Joining Gene and Adele Dupuis as honorary co-chairs of the $20-million fundraising campaign are Todd Rosenberg and Dr. Vivian Walker.

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“People facing end of life require a specific approach to their care,” said Walker, who is also co-medical director of Palliative Care Services in Saskatoon. “Saskatoon is the only city of its size in Canada that does not have a free-standing residential hospice.”

Gord Engel, a patient living with cancer, explained that quality hospice care is not only important for those facing end of life, but also for their families “because everyone wants the best for their family.”

At the event, the Engel family revealed the $6-millon gift from an anonymous donor. It’s the largest single donation ever made to St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation.

St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation CEO Bruce Acton said $14.5 million has been raised.

“We are grateful for the tremendous support we have received and hope it will serve as an inspiration for others to consider their gift to the Close to Home Campaign,” Acton said.

The hospice is scheduled to open in 2020.

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We were so excited. We had a magical connection. My eyes were wide open, so I thought. There was something but I just couldn’t put my finger on it.

I wondered if you had someone else.

I questioned you when you bought extra bath products in the store. Your Instagram account had a woman attached to it. I also wondered how controlling you really were. We spent a week together and we intertwined our worlds. We said we wanted to do this.

You talked about next time frequently.

You met my children and my friends.

We hugged, kissed and you called me sweetheart then boarded the plane.

You texted me when you landed and have ignored me ever since. Was this a game or a notch on your bed post?

Was I that disposable to you that you didn’t have the courtesy to say, thank you but no thank you? I let my guard down with you and you took advantage of that.

You tried to over power me in every way. You spent my money. You

accepted my generosity without reciprocation. You tried to tell me how to do my job. I listened to you bully your staff and best of all, you were online looking for others while you were with me. How could my judgement be so wrong? How do you sleep at night knowing that you have not explained or expressed yourself to me? They call this ghosting. I call this your true colors didn’t take long to show through. Am I angry? Am I hurt? Actually, I’m numb. I now see

that you are a classic narcissist and I dodged a bullet.

Only a coward would vanish in the night. You ought to be ashamed of your actions. All you needed to do was say you have had a change of heart. My blinders are off and I’ll get over you quickly. What you can’t take from me is my faith in humanity. I have no faith in you and fortunately our world has many people. You don’t deserve me. Please fix yourself before you cause irreparable damage to those weaker than I am.

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Sculpture dedicated to Neil Stonechild included in exhibition

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express critically-acclaimed exhibition from Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist Rebecca Belmore opened at Remai Modern on Feb. 1, marking the only Western Canadian stop of Belmore’s retrospective.

Entitled Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental, the exhibition surveys the artist’s career of more than 30 years, showcasing works in sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. Curated by Wanda Nanibush, the show first opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2018.

Rose Bouthillier, who organized Remai Modern’s presentation of Facing the Monumental, said “it’s extremely significant” to have the exhibition come to Saskatoon.

“It’s really, I think, a testament to the new potential of the Remai Modern,” said Bouthillier, Remai Modern’s curator (exhibitions).

Bouthillier added that Saskatoon’s new modern art museum was built to take ambitious projects such as Bel-

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more’s career retrospective.

“Our building is just singing with this exhibition — you know, able to present it to its fullest potential,” she said.

“We’re the only other Canadian venue that’s participating in the exhibition tour, and that was an intentional choice on the part of the AGO — partly because our building suits the exhibition so well and can accommodate it, and partly because it’s important that the work be shown in the Prairies and in Western Canada.

“A lot of the sort of revisions we’ve done to the exhibition checklist are specifically works that do relate to this place.

Rebecca’s had a long history of making work here and making work in relation to issues that are specific to the Prairies.

So it’s important for our audiences to be able to see the work here, in this sort of environment and location that connects so deeply to some of these works.”

Belmore, a member of Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), is rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities. Two works with Saskatoon connections have been added to the pre-

Rebecca Belmore, sister, 2010, colour inkjet on transparencies, 213.4 x 365.8 cm.

Courtesy of the artist. © Rebecca Belmore sentation at Remai Modern. A sculpture entitled Freeze (2006/2019), a collaborative work by Belmore and Osvaldo Yero, has been installed outdoors nearby. The museum is also featuring video documentation of Omaa (2014), a performance Belmore did at Wanuskewin Heritage Park during the symposium Stronger Than Stone: (Re)Inventing the Indigenous Monument.

As well, a significant piece from Remai Modern’s collection, the large-scale installation titled blood on the snow (2002), has

returned to the museum from the AGO. The sculpture Freeze is dedicated to Indigenous youth Neil Stonechild.

Stonechild was 17 years old when he died in 1990 as a result of exposure to extreme cold, his frozen body found in a vacant lot in Saskatoon’s north industrial area. A commission of inquiry, held in 2003 by the Government of Saskatchewan, found that the teen was last seen alive in the custody of two city police constables.

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Short Cuts festival offers a buffet of plays

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express hort Cuts: The Ten-Minute Play Festival is a “total buffet” for the audience, offering comedy, drama, tragedy and more, says a local theatre artist involved in the annual event.

“It’s such a great selection,”’ said Heather Morrison, who also served on the event’s selection committee. “They got such an incredible breadth of plays to draw upon and choose from, and I think that they did a great job of choosing different voices to come forward on the stage.

I think it’s going to be a really special evening.”

Running from Feb. 8-10 at The Refinery, Short Cuts will feature six new 10-minute plays. The six separate plays will be presented as one show for a full evening of theatre. Food and drinks will be served after the show so that people can gather and talk about what they saw.

Morrison believes audience members will enjoy every play, although she notes if

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“something is not your taste it’s gone in 10 minutes.”

“You just have to sit for an extra 10 minutes and then there’s another whole concept, whole idea, coming at you,” she said.

Short Cuts features a company of 23 writers, directors, actors and designers — 20 are from Saskatoon — working together in a fast-paced, collaborative environment during a two-week period.

Rehearsals began on Jan. 28, meaning the artists have a limited timeframe to bring the plays to life on stage. The festival will showcase both emerging and established artists.

“It’s a great evening of theatre that’s going to make you think and laugh and feel,” said Morrison.

It seems third time’s a charm for Morrison, who was previously involved with Short Cuts as a playwright and as a director. In fact, Short Cuts offered her the opportunity to have her first play produced, which she co-wrote with another playwright, she said.

“It was so thrilling and exciting, and also just such a safe and fun and vibrant way to do it — because Short Cuts is so good for that,” she added.

Short Cuts is now in its fifth year. This year there are six actors involved — Morrison, Samantha Brown, Melanie Doerr, Andrew Johnston, Rodrigo Pino-Hellman and Amanda Trapp — as well as six directors. The directors include Jennifer Dawn Bishop, Jaron Francis, Grahame Kent, Alan Long, Elizabeth Nepjuk and Kristi Friday.

The plays included in the 2019 festival are The Watch by Jenna Berenbaum, Asylum of the Birds by Lauren Holfeuer, A Million Words Unspoken by Terry Jordan, 172 Push Ups by Scott Mullen, Before Dawn by Aaron Marie Nepoose and Possum by S. E. Grummett, who also serves as stage manger for Short Cuts. In addition, Jim Arthur is the lighting designer and technical director, tBone is the sound designer and Jensine Trondson is the costume designer.

Morrison believes Short Cuts responds to a need in the local theatre community.

“It’s creating opportunities for people to try out playwriting, to try out directing and to work in a really inclusive, warm, comforting environment,” she said.

When asked why the festival continues to thrive, Morrison offered two words: Yvette Nolan. Nolan, who serves as the artistic director, is an internationally acclaimed playwright, dramaturge and director.

“She produces the whole thing and she is just such a good theatre artist. She also provides dramaturgy on all the scripts, so she kind of coaches the writers,” said Morrison.

“But the thing that makes it so special is the atmosphere that she creates. She always commits to really diverse and

Heather Morrison was on the Short Cuts selection committee and will act at the festival.

(Photo Supplied) inclusive casting and then comes at it with this attitude of equality of voices and community.”

Tickets to Short Cuts: The Ten-Minute Play Festival are $15 and are available by calling 306-653-5191 or by going online to ontheboards.ca. The show starts at 8 p.m. on Feb. 8 and 9 and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 10.

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SSO presents Romeo and Juliet in pre-Valentine’s Day concert

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express ith Valentine’s Day just around the corner, many are thinking about romance and love — and the heartbreak that can come with it.

The Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra (SSO) is no exception. On Feb. 9, the orchestra will present a concert entitled Tainted Love. It will bring Sergei Prokofiev’s masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet, back to the SSO stage for the first time in 20 years.

Mark Turner, the SSO’s executive director, said the orchestra has been saving Romeo and Juliet — inspired by the famous Shakespearean play — for a pre-Valentine’s Day time slot for a while.

“Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet is just so full of romance and seething with angst. It’s a work that requires a very large orchestra, so it’s not something that can be easily undertaken. On top of that, it’s a tremendously demanding work for the musicians. It’s monumental in size and scope, which makes it one of the great works for both audience and musician,” he said, adding that audiences love it.

“It really drips with passion and spins the tale so well. It’s a story that so many people learn in their teens, and has had so many stagings and movies done of the work. Prokofiev’s musical setting of the play unfolds like an exceptional movie soundtrack.”

The much-anticipated concert will also feature a performance of Peteris Vasks’ Distant Light, with guest violinist Andréa Tyniec. Tyniec, who was raised in Montreal, was the first-prize winner of Italy’s Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition 2008. She is also known for the drama and passion she brings to performances of contemporary work.

Tyniec said “it’s pretty thrilling” to know the performance will be a new discovery for many in the audience.

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(Continued from page 8) The officers were fired despite their claims of innocence, but they were never formally charged. The events surrounding Stonechild’s death were similar to other allegations, spanning years, of police picking up Indigenous people and dropping them off on the city’s outskirts.

Originally created in 2006, Freeze is a temporary artwork that begins as large blocks of ice with the name STONECHILD carved inside. Over time, the ice will slowly melt and the sculpture will disappear.

Bouthillier said “it’s really significant” that Freeze will be shown for the first time on the Prairies through the exhibition.

“It’s never been shown in Saskatoon, which is ground zero — the place where these events occurred, Neil Stonechild’s death,” she said.

“Saskatoon has changed a lot since 1990, but I think we all know that there’s a lot more to be done in terms of changing people’s perception and awareness around this type of event and the discrimination that

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“I like to think of this work as tying us into the past and far into the future. There’s a sense of nostalgia for what once was, and of reaching for something in the distance. I find it’s one of those works that can be a powerful discovery for the listener, as it can become very personal and surface our individual attempt at growth, change and becoming,” said Tyniec.

Turner describes Vasks’ music as “a mix of being completely emotional and intellectual all at once.”

“He makes you think, but not academically — he makes you think and feel with your heart,” said Turner. “Like the Romeo and Juliet, it’s passionate music; it’s filled with this search for something beyond us. Distant Light is cathartic; it’s the type of music that you just have to allow yourself to escape into.”

Tyniec said she is excited to come to Saskatoon for the first time and to visit the hometown of her friends and fellow violinists Kerry DuWors and Carissa Klopoushak. She is also looking forward to meeting everyone in the SSO and to working again with the SSO’s music director, Eric Paetkau.

Her advice for the concert? Bring someone you want to get to know better.

“New music is an awesome way to discover what people listen for, what they notice and enjoy — and don’t — and how they respond to something new and unfamiliar,” she said.

The evening will also include a performance of Ichmouratov’s Youth Overture, and the Saskatoon Youth Orchestra will join the SSO to play Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 9 at TCU Place. For more information, or to purchase tickets, go online to saskatoonsymphony.org.

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Andréa Tyniec will be featured in a performance of Peteris Vasks’ Distant Light.

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Indigenous people face in the city from law enforcement and from many other directions.

So it’s an opportunity to really pause and think about that, and then also think about how the museum can be a place for these conversations to take place.”

Remai Modern has created live programming to accompany Facing the Monumental, which includes performances, talks, book discussions and films that offer additional context on Belmore’s work. The full schedule can be found online at remaimodern.org.

On Feb. 5 at 7 p.m., the museum will launch Fireside With Lyndon, a new conversation series that will be held in the museum’s public atrium. The inaugural event will address reconciliation and the Saskatoon Police Service in the era following the Stonechild inquiry. Lyndon J. Linklater, Remai Modern’s Indigenous relations advisor, will be joined by Saskatoon police Chief Troy Cooper, police commission chair Darlene Brander and Angela Daigneault, Aboriginal relations consultant for the Saskatoon Police Service. No admission is required.

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Darlene Brander, left, has been named the new CEO at Wanuskewin Heritage Park. With her in the photo are Elder Mary Lee and board member Candace Wasacase-Lafferty. (Wanuskewin Photo)

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Wanuskewin names new CEO

arlene Brander has been named the new chief executive officer of Wanuskewin Heritage Park.

Candace Wasacase-Lafferty, chair of the board of directors, made the announcement last week at the national historic site.

Brander was appointed to the position following a comprehensive national search that attracted a strong field of candidates, said Wasacase-Lafferty.

“We had nearly 100 applicants from across Canada apply for this position, and we are thrilled to welcome Ms. Brander back to Wanuskewin,” Wasacase-Lafferty said in a news release. “She began her career here many years ago, and brings with her a wealth of experience that will positively impact the growth of this important place.

“Darlene has demonstrated a deep commitment to Wanuskewin and the people we serve. Her reputation as a community leader, along with her strong sense of business expertise, makes us confident that she will lead Wanuskewin well into the future.”

Brander leaves her position as director of human resources for Athabasca Catering Limited Partnership, a 100 per cent Saskatchewan First Nation-owned company that offers remote-site catering services. She spent more than seven years with the company.

In addition to her track record of increasing retention of Indigenous talent and improving service delivery for clients,

Brander is an active community volunteer.

She serves on the boards of the Nutrien Children’s Discovery Museum of Saskatchewan, Canadian Association of Police Governance and is chair of the Saskatoon Board of Police Commissioners.

“As an Indigenous woman, I am honoured to be Wanuskewin’s next chief executive officer and lead an organization where the story of the land and its first people can be shared as a collective narrative,” she said in the release.

“Wanuskewin has been a gathering place for Indigenous peoples for more than 6,000 years, and it will continue to be a gathering place for the generations to come. I look forward to working with the staff, Elders and board to honour the park’s past, thrive in the present and realize the future. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve, and I am humbled to be a part of Wanuskewin Heritage Park.”

Nearly two years ago, Wanuskewin publicly launched Thundering Ahead, a capital fundraising campaign and renewal project. Brander joins the project as construction of an expanded facility is underway and will help to build the team and strategy as Wanuskewin prepares for its grand reveal in summer 2020.

All aspects of the project are expected to be completed by then, including the building expansion, exhibit reintroduction, grassland restoration, and the first bison returned. The bid for UNESCO World Heritage designation will follow.

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Davidson laying it on the line for Blades

Darren Steinke Saskatoon Express awson Davidson has seen the upside of the Western Hockey League, and he hopes to exit major junior hockey on another high note.

The overage offensive defenceman was a member of the Regina Pats when they advanced to the WHL championship series in 2017.

The Moosomin, Sask. product was traded to the Blades on Jan. 8, 2018 along with centre Tristen Robins and the Pats’ first-round selection in the 2019 WHL Bantam Draft for veteran Czech import defenceman Libor Hajek.

While he wasn’t able to play for the Pats when they hosted the Memorial Cup last May, Davidson arrived in Saskatoon with the goal of helping the Blades return to the post season for the first time since 2013.

“I think for me it is just lay it on the line this year,” said Davidson. “There is nothing really to save it for. I’m trying to help this team as much as I can.

“One thing that I really wanted to stress when I came here is coming to Saskatoon I know they’ve had some woes. I wanted to come here and leave the team in a better place than when I came here. I think I am doing a good job of being a part of changing the culture here.”

Having first cracked into the WHL as a 16-year-old rookie with the Kamloops

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Blazers part way through the 2014-15 campaign, Davidson is enjoying his best season in the league. Appearing in the Blades’ first 49 games, Davidson has recorded nine goals and 42 assists for 51 points and a plus-16 rating in the plusminus department.

His assists and points totals are career highs and his plus-minus is a career best.

Davidson quickly caught the attention of Mitch Love, who took over as Blades head coach before the start of the season.

Love liked Davidson’s offensive game but still saw some work needed to be done on the defensive front.

“Obviously, Dawson is probably more of an offensive-first guy, but he has really worked on his defensive game,” said Love. “It has been something that right from day one here he wanted to get better at, to give himself a chance to play pro hockey.

“I think he has done a good job of that. He has been very coachable in that regard. If he wants to give himself a good chance to play pro hockey next year as a 21-year-old, he is going to have to learn to play away from the puck.

“He realizes that, and he understands that and he is continuously getting better at that.”

One of the biggest challenges Davidson faces playing in his own end is his size. He stands 5-foot-11 and weighs 179 pounds, while many WHL defensive defencemen average 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds.

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Dawson Davidson is hoping the Blades can make a long playoff run.

(Photo by Darren Steinke) “I think it makes it a little more difficult just because your weight is maybe not there, especially when you are younger,” said Davidson. “Your stick is maybe not as long.

“You run into some challenges. The thing about being a small defenceman, I think, is you have to be a little bit better than everyone else at everything. That height is always going to be a knock on you no matter what you do.”

Davidson said Love, Blades associate coach Ryan Marsh and assistant coach Ryan Keller have helped him and all the team’s defencemen improve. Like Davidson, Love was viewed as a smaller defenceman when he played five complete seasons in the WHL from 2000 to 2005 with the Moose Jaw Warriors, Swift Current Broncos and Everett Silvertips, standing six feet and weighing 190 pounds.

“You need to get good with your stick, better than what big guys are with their stick,” said Davidson. “Your positioning needs to be good. Let’s be honest, if I go in there with a 250-pound forward, I have no chance of outphysicalizing him.”

With the Blades posting a 29-13-7 record this season, Davidson is starting to see some similarities between his current team and the 2016-17 Pats.

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I can sense a little bit more fan support this year and just them getting behind the team.

“Just us making the playoffs is still a goal. I know we’re in a good spot; we are not slowing down.”

Davidson knows the Blades road through the post season likely won’t be an easy one. At the moment, it appears the Blades will play in a bracket that contains the WHL-leading Prince Albert Raiders and the Moose Jaw Warriors, who are again one of the circuit’s top clubs.

When that hard road comes, Davidson said he is all for it.

“It is kind of weird how the playoffs are going to set up,” said Davidson.

“Right now, it is kind of looking like us and Moose Jaw. “I am not saying Brandon can’t catch up, but that will be a hard-fought series.

It looks like P.A. will kind of line up after that. You are going to have to play tough teams.

“It’s just how the playoffs are bracketed. I’m looking forward to the challenge, and I think our whole team is.”

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Are council’s decisions made with re-election in mind?

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program, it was reported that ell, the truth is out. the bulk of organic waste was Coun. Darren Hill from the ICI sector. Yet there rescinded his vote was nothing done to encourage last December for a waste or penalize the ICI to meet its management utility and put the targets. onus for funding both garbage Yet the program would first collection and the proposed target residential homeowners, organics program through a while the ICI would be given property tax increase. This in a two-to-four year holiday turn precipitated Coun. Randy before the program would be Donauer to introduce a motion implemented for them. Is it to postpone proceeding with Columnist that residential homeowners the organics program in 2020. don’t donate as much as ICI In the rationale given for owners to civic election campaigns? Was his action, Donauer said: “I don’t really it for political expediency when, in May think there’s an appetite for an eight- or nine-per cent tax increase next year,” and 2018, council voted against banning or “none of us are coming back (for another restricting corporate and union donations term) if we do that (high of an increase.)” to civic election campaigns, even though that recommendation came from the city’s Clearly, some councillors make their own Municipal Review Commission decisions based on their re-election along with information that $360,000 in prospects rather than their belief in what is good for the city. But we already knew campaign donations came from corporations and labour groups? that. And Donauer was not asking to Should basic services be provided have the organics program cancelled, but through a utility or the tax base? Saskatchmerely postponed it (presumably until ewan Assessment Management Agency after the 2020 civic election). places values on land and property in We now know that the cost of establishing the organics program equals a 4.7 the province and it is that value which per cent tax increase. What is interesting determines what individual property taxes is that some councillors were prepared to will be.

In urban Saskatchewan, if you live in a impose that financial burden on residential home owners. If it was hidden as a utility large home in an affluent neighbourhood, your property taxes will be higher than fee, they may not be inclined to impose the homeowner whose dwelling is modest that burden by hiking the property tax bill because it may affect their re-election and in a middle-class area. The premise is that wealthier citizens will pay more than chances. Has “save the landfill” rhetoric the middle- or lower-income citizens. A been replaced with “save our political 4.7 per cent tax increase would have been butts?” painful to all Saskatoon residents, rich Was Donauer, who initially supported both the organics program and the or poor, but the equivalent dollar amount proposed utility, trying to save face when applied equally to all residents through a utility would mean the poor would be he suggested a few inane options, like exemptions for people who already com- disproportionally affected.

Didn’t Coun. Ann Iwanchuk consispost? If that had occurred, I would have to get back the little composter I gave away tently pointed this out during the debates? and I suspect little composters would have However, the utility would have sheltered council from irate taxpayers facing a been decorating backyards city-wide. massive tax increase. A smaller monthly Would the city have had to employ utility fee would slide by taxpayers more organic police inspectors to ensure there was actually something in those compos- readily than a huge hit on property taxes.

The proposed start-up debt would be ters?

Donauer also suggested an expansion on the books of a utility rather than on the city’s debt ledger. And utility fee increases of the green cart program, which is voluntary. Hill jumped on this idea and asked could come every year, in the same manfor a report on it, which council agreed to. ner as the water utility, and council could (For what it is worth, I can see the benefit receive a “dividend” from the utility for of a garden-waste program for six months its general revenue fund.

Instead, council is going to phase in the of the year when the bins would actually program and its costs — drip, drip, drip. be used.)

It will divert money from other accounts, Donauer’s last pearl of wisdom was and then increase taxes to replenish the to ban organics from black bins and at pillaged accounts as well as possibly gothe landfill. Hill got that idea passed by ing the “special” (unending) tax route. council. How in hell do you police that?

When all is said and done, our next How do you prevent people from puttax increase will start at 3.16 per cent to ting garden waste in black garbage bags and putting them in their collection bins? maintain services, along with whatever the cost of new spending amounts to, plus Would the city hire spotters to open and whatever phase-in percentage is necessary examine garbage before the automated arm hoists the bags into the trucks? And if for a new waste management program. garden waste is prohibited from the land- Like garbage at the landfill, it will be spread around. fill, where do the elm tree cuttings from The great garbage debate ends with the permitted trimming season go?

Coun. Cynthia Block calling for reports I don’t understand the relationship on how delays to the program will afbetween this council and the industrial/ fect the landfill, including the impact on commercial/institutional (ICI) business sector. During the last election campaign, reaching the 70 per cent diversion rate by then-candidate Charlie Clark vowed never 2023. If Block wants to reach that goal, she should target the ICI businesses that to support a tax shift from business to residential taxpayers. Shortly after being generate the greatest amount of organic elected mayor, he supported that tax shift. waste and which still do not meet the When the recycling reports were present- expectations set for recycling.

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I’ve loved newspapers since I was a boy

he small Northern comkatoon Express is doing today, munity where I live had except back then coloured ink limited access to the Interwas expensive, so everything net — basically limited to those was black and white. who can afford it. Prior to last I would love to have seen fall, I had to borrow the service some of those stories and photo do my writing. Sometimes I tographs in this paper because would go to the nearest town and they would be in full colour and, use the library’s computers. in essence, given a new life.

I inherited some money last When other kids my age summer which allowed me to were reading comic books, purchase a computer, Internet I was reading newspapers. I service and the whole shebang. would go to our local library Columnist When I borrowed a computer, and read the newspapers and it was basically do my writing news magazines. My favourite projects and that was it. I never accessed so- times were when Macleans, Time or Life cial media. I had forgotten all the incredible magazines came out. things a computer with the Internet can do.

The news is a never-ending story.

My passions have always been writing At times I could feel the anger, pain or and reading. I grew up with newspapers, whatever the story was trying to convey, from being a newspaper carrier to getting but also the excitement of finding out what involved with our high school newsletter. happened.

My best friend’s father worked as an I was about 12 when I found this old editor and illustrator for the town’s weekly abandoned house by a river. It had to been newspaper. After school, my buddy and I one of the first houses built in the area bewould go and hang out with his dad and cause it was originally a log house. watch them put the paper together. It was At some point someone drywalled the cool to see people we knew getting their inside. I could tell it was used as a party photographs or stories into the paper. house because there was graffiti all over the This was when newspapers still printed walls. There were no windows in the old local stories and featured local people. It house. was pretty much the same as what the SasI noticed someone tried to put their

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fist into the wall. I took a closer look and thought the guy must have broken a knuckle or two when he hit the logs. Then I noticed a newspaper wedged between the logs and the drywall. I started to rip the drywall off, which was so old it basically peeled off.

Whoever had drywalled the interior had used newspapers for insulation. I ripped down a good portion of one wall and laid out all the newspapers. Most of the stories were about what was going on in the late 1930s to the Second World War. It set off my wild and young imagination like never before. It was like going back in time. I could picture myself in a dog fight with the enemy in my fighter plane. Or I would be part of a brotherhood of Canadian soldiers fighting off the enemy.

This old log house was a treasure trove.

It was one of those if-these-walls-could talk moments, because that was exactly what the exposed logs were doing to me.

One other thing I noticed about the old newspapers was the featured stories about local people. It was the most horrifying time in our country’s history, but the paper showed life was still going on and people were still sending their children to school.

There had to be a sense of normalcy in a world gone mad. I remember reading a story about a tape that was water resistant and held ammunition in a straight line for

quick use. The tape turned out to be what we know today as duct tape.

My friend and I spent almost the entire summer taking down the drywall and reading the newspapers. We didn’t destroy the place.

We piled all the old drywall outside and exposed the logs. We would read the stories and talk about them. It wasn’t only the stories, but the storytellers that caught our attention.

We started to notice our favourite writers — not keyboard warriors, but people serving with our military or struggling to keep a farm alive in dust-filled fields.

The first thing I did when I finally had my computer and Internet hooked up was watch the news from all over the world.

One thing I noticed is today, it’s the people who control the news. The people now have the power in the palm of their hands.

It is now up to the people to decide what to do with this power. Will they use the written word for the better or make a frivolous attempt to misinform those who grew up with newspapers?

I believe in the goodness of people. Their desire to see a better world will overshadow those who propagate hate.

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programs, including equipment and research initiatives related to diabetes, coronary artery disease and stroke, heart function, cardio-oncology care, epilepsy, respiratory FEBRUARY 7 care, and culturally safe approaches to chronic disease Wilma Groenen, the experienced powerhouse vocalist with management proposed by clinicians and researchers at a passionate delivery, is part of the Zen with Beans band, Royal University Hospital. Call or email Trina at 306-655about to release an album, Time To Go Slow, an ode to life 0628 or trina.hritzuk@ruhf.org for more information or to and love. She’s joined by Brett Balon piano, Scott Triffo on purchase tickets. guitar, Kyle Krysa on drums and Gent Laird on bass. 8 p.m.

The Bassment, 202 Fourth Ave. North. Tickets $22 for SJS MARCH 21 The Saskatoon Council on Aging will host a spring dinner members, $27 for non-members. and dance party to bring back memories of sock hops FEBRUARY 8 and drive-ins. Western Development Museum. Writer and Dean McNeill leads the University of Saskatchewan Jazz performer Brenda Baker will be master of ceremonies for Ensemble through a mix of jazz standards and original our “kick-off to spring” event. The Cherry Bop Hop features compositions. Special guest is Michelle Gregoire, a Metis England playing your favourite tunes from the 50s and 60s. pianist and composer who tours across Canada and Wear red and be entered to win exciting door prizes. The teaches jazz when she’s at home at Ambrose University in Cherry Bop Hop is a fundraiser for the Saskatoon Council on Calgary. 9 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets $15 and $20.

Aging. Tickets $65. phone 652-2255 or visit scoa.ca.

FEBRUARY 9 B.C. Read has been the vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and Saskatoon’s master of the blues for more than 30 years, reaching into a repertoire of classics and leading a band full of energy and talent. It’s his annual January visit into the home of the Saskatoon Jazz Society. 8 p.m. The Bassment. Tickets $23 and $28.

FEBUARY 14 Valentunes special at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Children’s entertainer, Sylvia Chave will be celebrating at The Refinery and has just the right mix of movement and music to have everyone lovin’ their special time together.

Advance $8; door $10 (Under 2 Free) Tickets can be purchased online at www.ontheboards.ca or at the box office: 306-653-5191.

EVENTS FEBRUARY 13

Canadian Club of Saskatoon meeting at noon at the Sheraton Cavalier. Mayor Clark will be the guest speaker.

Lunch at noon and presentation at 12:40. $20 for members and $25 for guests. Contact Elaine at 306-934-4639 if you’re able to attend.

FEBRUARY 21 Seniors Neighbourhood Hub Clubs - Mayfair Hub Club.

Free programs and refreshments: Ask a Pharmacist station/FIM exercises/Blood pressure checks. Open to independent seniors living citywide. Mayfair United Church (902 33rd St. West) 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free to attend. Program: Financial Fraud Awareness/Fun Cards.

Visit www.scoa.ca or phone 306-652-2255 for more information. ***** Saskatoon Nature Society monthly series, 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Health Sciences E-wing, U of S Campus.

This month’s speaker is Kosala Rajapaksha. The topic is on the loose with a long lens in Sri Lanka and Saskatchewan. Everyone welcome and there is no charge to attend.

FEBRUARY 23 MENSA is an international, non-profit society for people who score among the top two per cent of the general population on a standardized IQ test. A supervised IQ testing session is being held in Saskatoon at 2 p.m. The cost is $90, or $70 for students. If you are interested in attending this session, call Tim at 306-242-7408 or e-mail trf674@campus.usask.ca.

MARCH 8 Grandmothers 4 Grandmothers. 14th annual fundraising dinner at the Western Development Museum. Reception 5 p.m., Program at 6:15p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Entertainment: Back of the Bus. Tickets $50: Beer, Wine cash bar. For tickets and information, contact Maureen at 306-373-0087 or Jennifer at 306-242-4989. Or pick up tickets at McNally Robinson Booksellers. The event supports the Stephen Lewis Foundation www.stephenlewisfoundation.org.

MARCH 13 RUH Foundation’s Greek Gourmet Feast, 5:30 p.m. at Manos Restaurant & Lounge (200-1820 Eighth Street East). Proceeds support 12 innovative chronic care

MARCH 22 Care for the Caregiver Forum, including a caregiver app launch, a caregiver self-care presentation and a TED video presentation of Brenè Brown with facilitated group discussions. Circle Drive Alliance Church (3035 Preston Ave. South) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: $20 (lunch included).

To register, call 306-652-2255.

ONGOING 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.

SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Trigeminal Neuralgia and Facial Pain Support Group meetings at 1:30 p.m. at the Edwards Family Centre (338 - Fourth Ave. North). For more information, contact Gail at 306-382-1578 or email saskatoon@catna2.ca. ***** One Light Chant and Dance is a meditative practice that combines the singing of sacred phrases from all the world’s spiritual traditions with simple circle dances accompanied by live music. Gatherings are held on the second Saturday of each month. For information, contact Dances of Universal Peace leader Wayne Rollack at chantndance@sasktel.net

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

From May to September meetings are at the Log Cabin at Prairieland Park. From October to April, meetings are at All Saints Church (1801 Lorne Avenue). Meetings start at 10:30 a.m. If you are 50 years or over, please join us. Call (306)668-3618 or (306)242-2025 for more information. ***** Saskatoon Mood Disorder Support Group The Saskatoon mood disorder support group for people with bi-polar, depression and other related mental health problem meets at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 323 Fourth Ave. South (south entrance) at 7:30 p.m.

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

A view from River Landing on a cold winter day. (Photo by Cam Hutchinson) LAST TUESDAY EVERY MONTH The Compassionate Friends is a non-profit self-help bereavement organization offering friendship, understanding and hope to parents that have experienced the death of a child at any age. TCF Saskatoon meets the last Tuesday of every month (except December) from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Edwards Family Centre (333 Fourth Ave. North).

LAST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH Epilepsy Saskatoon Support Group meets the last Saturday of every month from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the W.A. Edwards Centre at 333, Fourth Ave. North. Family, children, caregivers and friends are all welcome! This is a safe, friendly place to share, discuss ideas, answer questions, and support one another. You can follow Epilepsy Saskatoon on Facebook.

FIRST MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH Saskatoon Ostomy Association meetings at 7 p.m. at Preston Park 1 (114 Armistice Way). Meetings are held on the 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.

EVERY THURSDAY Prairie Sky Farmers’ Market is open every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is located at St. Paul’s United Church in Sutherland (454 Egbert Ave.) New vendors may phone or text Kathy at 306-222-2740 or email saphire1515@ hotmail.com.

FRIDAYS Choreographed Ballroom - New Dancers Class. Karousels Dance Club. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Albert Comm. Centre (610 Clarence Ave. South/ south door, second floor.) Begins Sept. 14, 21, 28 and then progresses. Waltz, Two Step, etc.

For more information, call Dorothy at 306-664-2775.

NEWCOMERS’ CLUB

Modern square dance beginner class, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. from mid-September to mid-April at All Saints Anglican Church Hall (1801 Lorne Ave.) For more information, call 306-253-4453 or 306-242-2209.

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.

COSMO SENIORS CENTRE

SECOND AND FOURTH THURSDAY

Cosmo Seniors Centre provides daily activities from Monday to Friday from September until May for seniors 55 and older. Fitness Program: Yoga: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 am; Exercise program Tuesday and Thursday at 10 am. Drop in fees - $4-5. Card groups meet Monday to Friday from 1:30 to 4:30 Monday to Friday – Monday - Kaiser and Whist; Tuesday and Thursday – Bridge; Wednesday - Whist; Friday – Kaiser and Cribbage. Drop in Fee $2. Light refreshment provided. Potluck lunches the third Monday of the month October to April. New members welcome. The centre is located at 614 11th St. East. For more information, call Margaret: 306-373-8693.

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. ***** Pop In & Play! from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Erindale Alliance Church (310 Perehudoff Cres.). Bring your little ones with you downstairs for a great time of fun & connecting.

Free play with monthly themed learning centres and

EVERY MONDAY

Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority - Liquor Permit Under the provisions of The Alcohol and Gaming Regulations Act, 1997, Notice is hereby given that 102047215 Saskatchewan Ltd has applied to the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA) for a Tavern permit and Manufacturer Brewery permit to sell alcohol in the premises known as The Thirsty Scholar at 2105 8th Street East Saskatoon, SK S7H 0V2. Written objections to the granting of the permit may be filed with SLGA not more than two weeks from the date of publication of this notice.

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

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

Express Pet of the Week Meet Ali. This sweet senior lady is a nine-year-old feline who has recently returned from foster care and is now in search of a new home.

Ali came to the Saskatoon SPCA on Oct. 4, 2018 after she was abandoned by her previous owner at the front door of the shelter.

Ali has a sensitive stomach and will require a raw food diet, but her calm and snuggly nature will still make her a relatively low-maintenance kitty for the right adopter.

Every cat’s or dog’s adoption fee includes the complete spay or neuter surgery, age appropriate vaccinations and deworming, a microchip implant, four weeks of complimentary PetPlan Insurance, and a complimentary health examination at a participating veterinary clinic of your choice.

For more information on pet adoption and to donate, contact the Saskatoon SPCA by calling 306-374-7387, or by visiting www.saskatoonspca.com.

Composed by Jasmine Hanson, communications co-ordinator of the Saskatoon SPCA, which provides safe shelter to an average 4,000 homeless, lost, abandoned, neglected, or abused companion animals in Saskatoon every year. snacks. For more information, call Tracy at 306-249-3393 or visit erindalealliance.ca.

SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH 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.

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Cam Hutchinson & Friends: Views of the World

Someone call LaPolice!

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By RJ Currie he top three men’s curling movies: 3. Lord of the Rings; 2. Rocky; 1.

The Iceman curleth.

• The Saskatchewan Roughriders hoped to draw Paul LaPolice away from Winnipeg to be their head coach, but the Bombers blocked the move. Call it an aborted LaPo-suction.

• The upcoming CFL season will be Winnipeg’s 29th without a Grey Cup, the league’s longest championship drought.

Maybe those helmets should sport an L instead of a W? • One more sign my wife has been watching too much NFL. We couldn’t decide which theatre production to attend, so she emailed Tony Romo to ask what our next play would be.

• Temperatures in Winnipeg recently dropped to -40. It was so cold, it could even freeze the seat that Lakers coach Luke Walton is on.

• Saints coach Sean Payton said after losing the NFC championship he sat in his room for three days watching Netflix

and eating ice cream. Gosh, he makes that sound like a bad thing.

• Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis got fined $50,000 by the NBA for his public trade request. Tsk. There’s seven minutes salary he’ll never get back.

• Is anyone surprised the Clemson Tigers got a fast-food feast at the White House? Ever since Trump took office he’s been serving up whoppers.

• An ESPN football guru predicted Tom Brady would “finally get a Super Bowl ring for his other hand.” And I’m thinking he’d salute us with it on his middle finger.

• My family physician gave me one of those kits to check the health of my digestive tract. Or as they say in sports — it’s gut-check time.

• According to Wikipedia, Duke basketball sensation Zion Williamson — 6 feet 7 inches tall and 285 pounds — is a small forward. I’d hate to see a big one.

RJ’s Punalty Box If you’re an L.A. Ram, do you say please and thank ewe?

Sherritt’s Twitter profile missing eight years

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anice Hough, on 17 cars catching fire on the roof of a garage at Newark Airport: “I hope the airport at least waived the parking fees.”

• Torben Rolfsen, on Jose Canseco’s tweet that “aliens have been trying to teach us how to time travel, but first we have to change our body composition:” “If that’s the criteria, I’m surprised a spaceship didn’t land in a major league ballpark around 1998.”

• JC Sherritt’s Twitter profile: “Calgary Stampeders linebacker coach. Eastern Washington and Evergreen State product.”

He should add “jerk.”

• The Toronto Maple Leafs will reach a milestone this week. It’s been 19,000 days since they won the Stanley Cup. I wonder if they will make it to the 20,000 mark.

Here’s hoping.

• Hough, on the NCAA penalizing Missouri, including a one-year football bowl ban, after finding a tutor did academic work for 12 student-athletes: “What a shame for those young men who have dreamed all their lives of playing in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.”

• From Rolfsen: “Gary Bettman announced new tracking technology that will allow him to spy on what Donald Fehr is up to at all times.”

• From Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Chris Archer: “If you ever failed a test, got suspended, or admitted to using performance enhancers, you should not be in the hall of fame. No hard feelings, but you disgraced the integrity of the game, your stats are tainted. You don’t deserve the honour.”

• I’ve long thought Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the hall, and I have weakened my position on Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.

• An 1882 ad that appeared in a South Carolina newspaper: “Cannabis indica, a powerful drug, positively cures consumption and will break up a fresh cold in 24 hours. Three bottles for $6.50.”

• Hough, on Jack McKeon, 88, being hired as a senior adviser for the Washington Nationals: “Good for McKeon. But at 88, isn’t ‘senior advisor’ redundant?”

• From Rolfsen: “Kristaps Porzingis’s trade request was fulfilled so quickly the NBA didn’t have time to fine him.”

• My apologies for not knowing/crediting the writer of this joke: “A Florida man is wanted for trying to steal opiates but then stealing laxatives by mistake. Police believe he is on the runs.” (It sounds like an RJ Currie line, but isn’t.)

• From comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “In London, parliament is debating Brexit.

Eric Trump thinks Brexit is a hemorrhoid suppository.”

• Hough, on Gregg Popovich angrily called a timeout 16 seconds into a Spurs game after the Wizards scored an easy bucket: “San Antonio ended up winning 132-119. You can’t win a game in the first quarter, but Pop knows that sometimes you can lose it.”

• From Rolfsen: “The Pittsburgh TV sta • tion that showed a graphic labelling Tom Brady a ‘known cheater’ has fired the employee responsible. Luckily, he was immediately hired by Fox News.”

• A profound comment from musician/ stoner David Crosby: “If smoking marijuana causes short-term memory loss, what does smoking marijuana do?”

• From Hough: “The Golden State Warriors look so good with five all-stars healthy, about the only thing that could stop them is Bill Vinovich’s NFL crew officiating the NBA final.”

• From Leafs homer/Postmedia columnist Steve Simmons: “The best defence pair I’ve ever seen — Larry Robinson and Serge Savard — were both left-handed shots.” Coincidentally, Morgan Reilly and Jake Muzzin are left-handed shots.

• The best defensive pair I ever saw was Bobby Orr and anybody.

• From Stephen Colbert: “Punxsutawney President saw Nancy Pelosi’s shadow, so we get three more weeks of government.”

• Hough, on the Tampa Bay Rays announcing that Tropicana Field will become first cash-free sports venue in North America: “I wonder if the team got approval from both of their season-ticket holders?”