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Volume 12, Issue 42, Week of October 19, 2015

Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper

Going to the dark side

After a long run at Shaw, Curtis Anderson will be hosting a music show for SaskTel Max (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)

Television personality tackles ‘pretty bleak stuff’ in book

Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express n some ways, there are two Curtis Andersons.

There is the one who was on air for a decade at Shaw TV. Then there is the one who wrote a book under the named C.J. Anderson.

“Everyone saw the Curtis Anderson with teeth and hair,” Anderson said of his years at Shaw. “(He was) the interviewer, so gosh darn happy to be here all the time.”

Then there is the author of the book with a title that has raised eyebrows — Gina French Is Not a Waste of Roofies.

“I think this is probably a pretty big shock to the system of people who knew me

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and related to me on Channel 10, because this is about as dark and bleak as I can go.”

The real Curtis/C.J. Anderson can be found somewhere in the middle, he says.

Anderson grew up in Saskatoon. After high school, he enrolled in a media program in Brandon. After year one of two, he was offered a job as a full-time news camera operator at Global Saskatoon. He soon discovered he liked the camera, but not the images he was shooting.

“I was running out and shooting the goings-on around Saskatoon — lots of accidents, which got to me quicker than I thought it would, actually. There was a lot of adrenalin, the first six, seven months when you are running out to the accident

sites and everything. You try to get tasteful shots, so there is that energy. After a while, it drains you. I don’t know how people do it for their entire careers.”

He was working evenings and weekends. His wife, Kazia, was working mornings. The move to Shaw made sense, even though it would be part-time.

“This was the opportunity to do the same thing I was doing, just more Monday to Friday and more community stories instead of chasing ambulances.

“So everything lined up and I was super excited. I was taking the risk because I was only hired part-time. Then, two days before I was supposed to start, they called me back and asked me if I wanted to work

full-time as a sports reporter.”

He laughs as he tells the story.

“I had never really done any reporting and wasn’t that ingrained in the sports culture, but I said, ‘Yeah, of course. I’d love to do that! I could do that for sure.’ I did sports for three years and struggled – you know, cut my teeth.

“I was so terrified that I was going to say something wrong I made a career out of asking opened-ended, vague questions that always seemed to hit home. I would love looking so serious and asking, ‘What’s the atmosphere like in the dressing room?,’ knowing that was a good minute answer.

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Kayla Hrudka and Nathan Reis with their daughter Mya (Photo by Beth Jarrell)

Family seeks better life for autistic daughter

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athan Reis and Kayla It was a shocking time for Hrudka have gone Hrudka because, in earlier through a roller-coaster times, Mya loved books, could of emotions while watching look at them all day and she their daughter, Mya, become would know every page, word affected by the neurological for word. She could recite disorder of autism. the stories just by being told Mya was born on Nov. 27, the title. One of her favourite 2010. Her mother saw her as books was the famous Dr. “beautiful, sweet and blosSeuss book, Green Eggs and soming, ahead of herself at 18 Ham. months in her language, using Autism Services of Sassmall sentences with great katoon describes Autism People pronunciation.”

Spectrum Disorder (ASD) During the fall of 2012, as a complex, lifelong neuMya’s language skills regressed until she rodevelopmental disorder that typically no longer spoke at all. As the New Year occurs within the first three years of life. arrived, Mya’s skills continued to regress. Individuals with autism have difficulties “The work I did with her was gone with verbal and non-verbal communicawithin days. She stopped letting me teach tion, social interactions and can display a her and she no longer made any eye range of rigid, or stereotyped, repetitive contact with anyone at all,” said Hrudka. behaviours.

“Her eyes would gaze endlessly into It is estimated one in 68 children can lonely fields and running water. I would be affected. There are no exact causes think she was looking at me and my heart for the condition. ASD is not considered would melt with joy. But then when I curable, but it is highly treatable. Early would move or lean over, I found her eyes intervention programming has shown remained staring, straight ahead into air, dramatic results in improving the eventual through me, not at me nor into my eyes outcome for the child. Symptoms can be like I had so joyfully believed in that brief lessened and skills can be improved with moment.” treatment and support. Children can be

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The initial surprise for Reis and Hrudka “was that we were both young and healthy, the pregnancy was without complications and Mya was a girl, which reduced the chances of autism even more.”

Now, as Mya is about to celebrate her fifth birthday, her parents are hoping for a better life for their daughter. Reis and Hrudka are students at the University of Saskatchewan, and Mya attends a daycare, made available by the USSU (University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union). While there Monday to Friday, she gets about 20 hours of therapy a week.

“The therapy, usually one-on-one, is helpful,” said Reis. “We are very happy with the therapy staff and they really care about providing help and keeping Mya happy.”

Hrudka says, “Mya tends to be flexible, after a couple of days getting accustomed to her surroundings.”

Reis says they took her on vacation this summer “and, after being out of sorts the first day, she settled in very nicely.”

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We would do anything, pay any money, do whatever it takes to help. Sometimes we’re afraid and other days we’re overjoyed.

“Our goal right now is to try and give her the means of communicating, to explore her talents and to stay as positive as possible. Every day is a challenge as she continues to have good and bad days, some when we can get excited and some where we feel helpless as parents.

“Mya continues to surprise us with her talents. She understands what is happening to her, she understands when I talk to her and she still has all these abilities wrapped up just waiting to be freed.”

Austism is a disorder which many Saskatchewan families face. The Ministry of Health estimates there could be as many as 2,917 individuals under the age of 22 affected. Their estimation is based on the 2014 population numbers and a one per cent prevalence of ASD. At the present time, the Government of Saskatchewan invests $8.1 million for autism services.

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Birth of son Noah inspired Anderson’s book

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(Continued from page 1) ompare this year’s roster to last year’s.’ It’s all smoke and mirrors, right – you learn how to fake it pretty fast. Once you get good at faking it, you actually start to learn.”

“I just started to get the hang of it when I got moved over to arts and entertainment, which was the biggest breath of fresh air and the biggest break of my career. That is where I wanted to be and that’s where I started to flourish. I did that for six years.”

Cliff Beattie holds his 1368 Ming Dynasty 1 Kuan note (Photo by Cam Hutchinson)

Bank note from 1368 on display at show

Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express liff Beattie collects Canadian onedollar bills. He strayed from his theme when he purchased a Ming Dynasty 1 Kuan note.

The 1 Kuan is the oldest bank note available for collectors. Issued in 1368, there are fewer than 200 in the world, Beattie estimates.

The bill, which will be on display at the Saskatoon Coin & Stamp Show, has an interesting history. One hundred of them were uncovered in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion in China. When an army looting a palace knocked over a pedestal, they found the notes, as well as gems and coins.

Another roll of notes was discovered behind a wall in a palace in Peking in 1936. Because they were looked upon as having no value, many were simply given to passersby. Given their size, many flew away.

“They’re fairly rare and everyone wants one because they are the oldest (bank notes) you can get,” Beattie said. “I wanted it because it is the oldest. I had seen it years ago and I didn’t buy one when I had a chance to, so I decided to buy this.”

The purchase was made at an auction in London, England. While not disclosing what he paid, Beattie said they tend to sell in the range between $5,000 and $15,000.

His would be considered a “fine” or “extra fine” note, despite having a couple of holes in it. He said people tend to be most taken by the size – 9 inches by 12 inches – of the note, not its age.

“I don’t think they comprehend that this is before Columbus.”

Beattie started collecting coins in 1960.

He said he was inspired while watching Dennis the Menace on television, and seeing the collection of Mr. Wilson, another character in the show.

“I then went to my piggy bank and

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started collecting one-cent pieces from then on.”

The one-cent pieces became an allencompassing Canadian coin collection – from pennies to silver dollars – and then a Newfoundland coin collection. Beattie sold both to concentrate on $1 bills.

He said dollar bills from 1897 can sell for into the thousands of dollars. Notes from 1898 are also in that range.

“At one time $1,000 was a big amount to pay for a bill, but now it’s gone up into the $10,000 and $20,000 range. It varies on condition and on rarity. Lots were issued, but a dollar back in 1860 or 1840 – you can imagine what it was worth when people might have been working for a dollar week.”

Beattie said at one time there were upwards of 250 chartered banks in Canada, including one in Weyburn. Each was issuing its own currency.

“The Weyburn Security Bank issued its own notes and did so up until the late 1930s, early ’40s. The Weyburn bank was eventually bought by the Commerce bank ,and the notes are still redeemable.”

A person having a $5, $10 or $20 might not want to part with it, given the bills are now valued in the $10,000 to $15,000 range.

“They are really hot commodity – one that is really in demand,” Beattie said.

Beattie, a retired engineer and retired farmer, has been president of the Saskatoon Coin Club since 1990.

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Stripped Down With the move to entertainment came the popular show Stripped Down. A band would come into the studio every week to play and chat. When Anderson left Shaw, he had applications from 44 bands to be on the show.

Anderson left Shaw to work as the creative director at CRUZ-FM. He is also freelancing a show similar to Stripped Down for SaskTel Max. This show will be taken on the road, with small communities used as the backdrop for each one.

He shot the first one last week in Delisle.

“That was the appeal,” Anderson said.

“We’re taking bands and setting up wherever we can and shooting the show from these small towns. It might not be full-on venues. It might be cool rooms and stuff – maybe five people in the room watching, maybe 30 people. It is going to change constantly and that’s going to be the hook that draws — who is going to be there and where we are coming from.”

Going all the way back to 2002, Anderson had been dabbling with a book.

When he dusted if off one day, he liked his writing, but now says the thought process might have been somewhat misguided.

“I was writing from a single parent (perspective) when I wasn’t a parent. A few years later, when I became a father in 2006, I kind of stumbled across it again and started flipping through it and was laughing at myself at how wrong I got the mindset of being a parent. The stuff I tried to have the character worried about was not even close.”

Son inspired book The birth of his son, Noah, inspired him to take the original manuscript and rewrite it.

“I made the decision I was going to start fleshing it out and doing that cliché of going to the Broadway Roastery and typing on my laptop. It kept going and I really enjoyed the process and really enjoyed the writing. So much of my own paranoia of being a new parent properly went into it...

I was really happy with it.”

This time he used real-life experiences in a dark way.

“It was a weird time. I had all those emotional feelings becoming a father, which is what propelled this. . . . This book is a love letter to my son. I wanted to do something to show him — this sounds so corny — that this is possible.

I want him to grow up and say, ‘My dad did some cool things. My dad got a book published in 2014. That’s determination; that’s sacrifice.’ ” This isn’t a children’s book with big pictures and cute little phrases.

“Obviously, it came from fear. I didn’t know what I was doing as a father. It’s terrifying. I really threw that into the main character, Gina French, a single mother and also struggling. It allowed me to insert that paranoia and hit it home. She is somebody who makes a lot of mistakes, but at the end of the day wants to make things better but doesn’t really know how.”

Anderson is not a single parent. In fact, Kazia gave birth to their second child — a daughter they named Macy — not even two weeks ago.

“There is some pretty bleak stuff in there which, at the time I was writing in 2007, there were times when I sat back

and said, ‘I can’t put my name on this; this may be too far.’ ” Times have changed. He points to Dexter and Game of Thrones. Bleak has become less bleak.

Gina French is a prison guard. There’s a riot and she comes very close to becoming sexually assaulted, but she’s not.

“I say that and, at the same time, people think it is one of those revenge books: ‘Here is the librarian that gets attacked and now she’s wearing leather and has guns.’

This is so not that.

“In most stories bad things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. When bad things happen to the bad people, you cheer, and when bad things happen to good people, that is your sympathetic character and you cheer them on. This is a bad thing happening to a very grey-area character.

“Throughout the story, that was my goal: to make people kind people very unsure about the main character. The biggest compliment I get is people read the book and say, ‘That did not go where I was expecting it to go.’ ” It is one thing to write a book. It’s another to get it published. Anderson used the United States as the setting. He started sending the manuscript to U.S. publishers.

He got a bite right off the bat.

“They looked it over said, ‘It’s original, we love it and we will get back to you in summer.’ I was like, ‘Holy cow, that was easy. Being an author is easy.’ Then, of course, as you can imagine, I don’t do anything with it from December until August, and they email me back and they are like, ‘We are going to pass after all.’ And then there were two years of rejections.

“I cried more times than an adult male probably should getting rejection letters, but there was always that glimmer of hope that kept me going.”

He got his break when, on a whim, he sent the book to a publisher in Sweden.

“They were a new company accepting submissions for anthologies: horror anthologies. I just threw it out there anyway and thought it was going to be an obvious, ‘No, you idiot, we’re an anthology company.’

“The guy in charge of submissions really liked it and the writing style. It was the first full-length novel Gothenburg-based Kraken Press released.”

Controversial title Anderson knew the title would be controversial.

“She’s a young woman, a young mother, kind of living the young woman lifestyle and she threw out the phrase. It was supposed to be a joke and one of her friends put it on a mug for her. It was a ‘ha ha’ inside joke, but then after she gets assaulted it’s not funny and this mug haunts her then. It puts her in the head space to do some things she really doesn’t want to do, but kind of needs to do.

“People read (the title) and they are either 100 per cent ‘I will never read this book’ or they are intrigued or they’re curious. We just kind of decided, you know, it’s better to weed them out now. The audience that will be completely turned off by the title and walk away, 99 per cent of them won’t enjoy the book anyway. That was the call (the publisher) made. I was prepared to change it. Submitting, you get a book with that title and you are going to give it a quick flip through. People who read don’t judge books by their covers, right?”

Anderson is not sure if he will write another book, but is clearly proud of this one.

“I told a story people weren’t expecting me to tell and got it published. At the end of the day, I hope it inspires my kids.

I didn’t want to be that dad, ‘Oh, I could have done, I could have done.’ I didn’t want to be that person.”

The book is available at local bookstores and online at Amazon.ca and Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

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Photographer special guest at art festival

Beth Jarrell Saskatoon Express or its 25th annual Reflections of Nature Art Festival, the Saskatchewan Wildlife Art Foundation has landed Saskatoon photographer Gordon Taylor as a special guest.

Taylor, who first became involved in the art show eight years ago, says that most feature artists chosen are painting or carving based. He says the opportunity to showcase his work as a photographer is extremely rewarding.

“Once you’re retired, everyone thinks that you have nothing else to do, so I ended up doing lots more,” he said.

“When I retired, I joined the Kiwanis Club, and that’s how I got my start with the art show.

“It’s very rewarding, because not only do I get to judge all of the art in the festival, but then often people will come up and ask me how they can improve their photographs, and I get to help them. It becomes a learning experience.”

For Taylor, art runs in the family. Both his grandmother and mother were painters, and he credits their talent to helping him develop his own.

“My sister inherited that talent, too, but when I tried to do that, it never looked like what I’d seen. I thought to myself, ‘I’d better do something that’s different.’

“My first camera was a little box camera that needed film, but we had no money for film. Every now and then, a gift would be a roll of film, and it would be so special.

“I grew up on a farm. This was prior to the time that rural farms had electricity, so we grew up harvesting ice off the river. I saw that ice, in addition to making sure we could make ice cream in the summer, was very beautiful. That was the beginning to me of things becoming beautiful. I had firsthand experience in a lot of nature, and it inspired me.”

Taylor has done some work for Tourism Saskatoon, with some of his photos being used in presentations across the globe. His photography is also being used by the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority (SREDA) to attract new businesses to Saskatoon and surrounding area.

“I enjoy photography because it takes me out to find beauty. And when you go looking for beauty, you discover it is everywhere,” he said. “Going to these events has made me look for beauty all around Saskatchewan, and that’s what I try to teach children.”

And Taylor is no stranger to teaching children. The former principal spent 40 years in the Saskatoon Public School Division, and now teaches at Brightwater Environment and Arts Centre in his spare time.

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The work of Gordon Taylor has been used to promote Saskatoon (Photo by Beth Jarrell) He says he will see some children who can’t stay still crouched down for 20 minutes waiting for a picture.

“I always tell them, ‘You have a choice: Are you looking for beauty, or do you want to tell a story? Tell people something you care about.’

A red-winged blackbird was captured in song west of “Life is full of beauty when you look for it. All you have Olds, Alta. to do is go outside and see for yourself.”

The Reflections of Nature Art Festival will take place information, call 306-244-1567 or email info@saskwildfrom Oct. 23 to Oct. 25 at Prairieland Park. For more lifeart.com. Admission is free on Oct 24. and Oct 25.

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First, their public school diviI have nightmares about it all the sion has cancelled Grade 12 graduation time, ones where I’m on the doorstep banquets. of a critical job interview and realize “Equity” was the official reason I didn’t actually graduate from high provided for the cancellations, as well school after all, or that I can see the as ensuring that the school division graduation ceremony from outside the was providing “an environment that is gymnasium doors, but I can’t get in. both safe and celebratory for all.” An I know – subtle, right? official with the division alluded to the Point is, I think about it a lot, and I fact that the banquet celebrations were wish I had chosen to be part of a grad Columnist getting too big, but didn’t elaborate on ceremony and party when I had the what in particular was unsafe about chance. I don’t think the Regina Public them.

School Division is doing the right thing by taking I was righteously indignant about this right up that option away from students. until I saw that tickets for Regina’s Grade 12 grad The other reason Regina is weird is because banquet had soared to $45 each. some of the people who live there pee on the We all know that teenagers are expensive.

Saskatchewan Legislature.

Teenagers celebrating a rite of passage to which In case you missed it, Saskatchewan Premier they believe they’re entitled are even more exBrad Wall posted a picture from surveillance pensive. However, I’d venture that for the last 50 video taken around the front stairs of the iconic years, most students have managed to get by with building. It was a picture of some younger people, the fancy dress or tux, the limo, even the gifts. somewhat tucked out of the way, around a corner So having the banquet ripped away feels like or stairwell, peeing. overkill.

Allegedly this is a party-bus thing — you My Grade 12 experience was much different know those short buses you rent by the hour and than the norm – I hope. I was unceremoniously pay to drive you around while you drink? Me booted out of Walter Murray in the second semes- neither, but it’s a thing. And, apparently, some ter of Grade 12 for non-attendance. My cap-and- Regina party bus and limousine companies take gown picture had already been taken, however, so their well-watered passengers on a tour of WasI believe it is still up on the wall at Murray with cana Park, including a stop at the Legislature, “to the rest of the graduating class of 199-something. take pictures” on the steps.

I honestly can’t remember.

I’m not going to get all emotional about the I do remember feeling indifferent about miss- building being the seat of government and its ing out on the walk across the stage, the banquet historical significance in our province, though and the after grad. The following autumn, I that is all true. I will say, however, could you just enrolled at Nutana Collegiate, where I qualified stop, already? Who does that? The moral of the to attend the Grade 12 graduation festivities at the story? Regina needs to bring back grad banquets, end of that school year. I didn’t participate, and and then the limo companies should bypass the that time, I felt a twinge of disappointment.

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We’re going to get to the bottom of water rates Question: Having lived in six Cawater rates compared to other western nadian cities, and now Saskatoon for cities. I want to provide you with the facts, the past two years, can you so I am going to refer this explain to me why Saskatoon’s question to the administration. water bills are three or more When they provide the facts, times higher than any other I will share them with you. city outside of this province?

Hopefully, we can have that for I pay well over $150 a month you in the next edition. on my water bill for only two Question: The Remai adults in a bungalow, and the Modern Art Gallery article bill is filled with non-water in the Express, dated Sept. items like future infrastruc27, quotes Gregory Burke, ture costs, sewer costs and, executive director and CEO of course, something called of the gallery, as saying future flood protection. These Ask the Mayor 80,000 to 100,000 people items are not water and should would have to attend some they not be in the mill rate for visiting exhibition shows taxes like other cities? It appears to me to break even. To what extent are the this is artificially lowering our apparcitizens of Saskatoon involved (on the ent taxes, when they are, in fact, taxes. hook, so to speak) in the operation and Quebec, for example, does not even maintenance of the gallery? charge for water, and Edmonton’s water Mayor Atchison: Every exhibit that charges, on the North Saskatchewan comes to the Remai Modern will have a River, similar to our South Saskatchcost attached to it. Ellen Remai has gifted ewan, are less than $50 a month. Why $15 million to underwrite the cost of does Saskatoon do this? bringing exhibits to the Remai Modern.

Mayor Atchison: This is a very big That will help defray some costs. As the question with a lot of parts. I believe there reader points out, there may be an admismay be a misconception about Saskatoon’s sion charge as well. Many others who are

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presently donating are earmarking their contribution to culture in Saskatoon for exhibits and shows. Sometimes a corporation sponsors a particular exhibit. Those are a few of the ways costs will be recovered. Even after the Remai Modern opens, fundraising will continue. In fact, like most galleries around the world, fundraising is part of the gallery’s operations.

Other boards in Saskatoon, such as TCU and SaskTel Place, receive an operations grant from the City. The Mendel Art Gallery received operating funding and that funding will continue at the Remai Modern into the future. At this point, we don’t know what that number will be. That will be a discussion for council during the budget deliberations.

Question: A while ago the mayor had a public meeting with church leaders in Saskatoon to discuss various topics. One question I did not hear asked was “what are the mayor’s expectations for churches and their followers in Saskatoon?”

Mayor Atchison: I believe all faiths play an important role in our community. Government can’t do everything for everyone, nor should it. Our faith organizations are doing tremendous work in the

areas of housing, refugee resettlement, families in crisis and social inequalities.

They are building pride in our city. Groups are cleaning up neighbourhoods, painting and refurbishing homes. They help families financially. There is a whole list of areas where people of different faiths are improving our city. Frankly, I am grateful they care. It sets a great example for others to follow in building and strengthening their neighbourhoods.

That’s what it is all about: different faiths helping in whatever way they can. That’s what makes Saskatoon so special. I keep saying this over and over and will continue to say it — every city is built of bricks and mortar, but this city has a heart and soul.

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There is one example that is especially hurtful to me. I want to know if you think my hurt

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feelings are reasonable or if I am being overly sensitive. His children invited him to go on a weeklong holiday to Florida last year, and they did not include me. All of them knew that it bothered and hurt me, but they went anyway. I was upset that he would go, even though he knew it hurt me badly. I am having difficulty forgiving them for this. It is festering and harming our relationship.

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Blue Jays game trumps parking woes

’ve been thinking about unappreciated. I am now out three those darned new parking bucks in two days on those parking stations much too often stations. lately. They are getting on my (Revere scores! Bautista hit a nerves. double, safe at second! NOW we’re Oh wait . . . just a second . . talking! I love those guys!) . the game is on. The Blue Jays Conclusion about parking staare playing the Texas Rangers tions: They were poopy from the in Game 5, at home. OK. I’m beginning, when they were pretty tuned in. much not working at all. They still Anyway, about those parkdon’t work very well; I want my ing stations. money back and it would really be Columnist Experience No. 1: I’m much faster if I could just have my downtown and I’m in one heck very own parking meter. of a hurry. I have to visit the bank, get to my (Two on, two out, Colabello at the plate. parents’ home, pick up something from my Rogers Centre is screaming. I am too, inside. husband and make it to an appointment. I Colabello swings and falls. I’m holding my park. I get to the station. I’m third in line, so I breath…hope he’s OK…he is…I’m clenching walk to the next one. Someone is there ahead my teeth! Ow! Full count! Darn it, thrown out of me. I am the least patient person on Earth, at first. Sigh.) yes, but still — if there had been a parking ***** meter I’d be in the bank five minutes ago.

This has nothing to do with the ball(Darn it. Troy Tulowitzki out on strikes, game or the parking stations. Just noticed runners on. Umpire got that one wrong. Boo.) a fantastic ad during the ballgame boasting Experience No. 2: I’m meeting a colleague this tagline: Participaction: Don’t visit our at the Broadway Roastery. I park in the loop website. Love it. in front of the Roastery, get out of the car and (Holy cow! Kevin Pillar just came in and look around for the parking station. Where made one of his amazing diving catches!) the heck is it? Finally, I notice it, facing ***** Broadway (not the loop), hidden behind a OK, the heck with civics. They’re tied! tree in a planter and obscured in the shade.

2-2! Encarnacion HOME RUN! I can’t There doesn’t appear to be one in the loop, or stand it! down 12th. Well, at least I found it. I plunk in Now this is all about baseball. Who can a toonie and go into the coffee shop. Colresist this strange ballgame? league appears. Very smart man – just saying.

Jays catcher Russell Martin throws a ball “Where the **** is the parking thing?” he right into the bat of Choo, a bizarre play I asks. Exactly. have never seen before, and all hell breaks (Oh no! Shin-Soo Choo of the Rangers just loose. Ugliness . . . people throwing beer hit a home run! I’m feeling unwell.) cans. But weirdly, after Martin’s error, the Experience No. 3: I’m on 20th Street in Rangers are more messed up than the Blue front of St. Paul’s Hospital. I start pressing Jays are, committing basic fielding errors. the numbers of my licence plate. Nothing The Blue Jays load the bases. Nobody’s happens. I try again. Nothing. I use all my out. What the ----. Incredibly, Bautista hits a strength, pushing with all my might, and homer. He drives in three, making the score finally the numbers begin to appear on the 6-3. Fans lose their minds. Sportscasters are screen. Really?? I’m not Rocky Balboa, but stuck for words to describe the scene.

I’m not exactly a weakling, either. I win most I’ve never ever seen an inning like this (maybe all) thumb wrestling contests, even in my life. Even the announcers are blown with my husband (granted, tactics help, and away, and they see way more ball than I do.

I’m good at that, too.) Must it be that hard to Guys are out with garbage bags cleaning up register your licence? the field. The players are tense; the Rangers (Hallelujah, the Ranger batter flied out, but are lost. This is an inning no one will forget: Texas is up two-nothing. I’m not loving this.) 53 minutes of madness.

Experience No. 4: Yet another day, the The Jays stick it out. They win. The station allows me to punch in the numbers crowd goes absolutely wild, as do I. If I can’t without any ligament damage. I put in $2. bleed Green, I will bleed Blue. I will scream It doesn’t register. I am starting to growl. for Jose Bautista the way I lost my mind People are probably looking. I put in another over Joe Carter more than 20 years ago. $2, which does register. Why? Who knows?

We’re into the championship series now, Another time, I try to follow a toonie with but this was one for the ages. a loonie, since I need a goodly amount of And right now, I don’t give a damn about time on the “meter.”

Nope. Loonie slides in, parking stations. Go Blue Jays.

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Alvin Patterson and one of his friends (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)

Prepare to scream at Hawarden Halloween

Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express awarden Halloween continues to grow by leaps and screams.

The elaborate house of horrors has pretty much filled the rooms in a closed school. Alvin Patterson, the man behind the chills, now has his eyes on the gymnasium. Imagine the sound of a basketball bouncing in the dark gym in the middle of the night? Thump, thump, thump.

Hawarden Halloween dates back to a simpler time a decade ago. Back then, Patterson thought he could spook the handful of children in the village by sitting next to his dog kennel dressed as a scarecrow. That must have been pretty scary, although more scares were to come. He cooked up a butcher shop one year.

In 2012, he moved his display into the abandoned school. Attendance has continued to grow. He had 65 visitors the first year. He said he would have been happy with two, as long as at least one screamed. Last year, he had 350.

Most of them made the pretty hour-long drive from Saskatoon.

Of those, 50 were children. That caught Patterson a bit off guard.

“We make sure the parents are aware there are animatronics in the rooms that I don’t have control over. They will start up.”

Animatronics are what make things move and make sounds. Patterson has 50 of them. That is a lot of movement.

As a concession to children and their parents, he will have 12 live props keep

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their distance or, better yet, come out of hiding and say hello to the children.

Nightmares are not a parent’s best friend.

Patterson has a new room this year.

It’s guaranteed to make you laugh or make you cry. Patterson calls it his Happy Room, he said with an evilsounding laugh.

Hawarden Halloween continues to be fun for him.

“It keeps growing because people say, ‘Wow this was something. It was exciting and we enjoyed it.’ It gave them a laugh.”

Or it gives them a fright.

“I think it is working if I hear one person scream.”

He paused.

“You’re going to be afraid if you try to look at everything. There’s nothing scary in the building if you remember rule No. 1: don’t turn around.”

There is a port-a-potty on site.

Hawarden Halloween is open on Oct. 24 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Oct. 25 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Oct. 31 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. When the house of horrors closes on Oct. 31, there will be a costume contest at the village hotel. It is a 19+ event. The charge for Hawarden Halloween is $5. That’s about 50 cents a scream.

There are two easy ways to get to Hawarden from Saskatoon: South on Highway 219 (the highway to Dakota Dunes), left onto Highway 15 and right onto Highway 19. Or go to Kenaston on Highway 11, turn right onto Highway 15 and left onto Highway 19.

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I’ll always be a northern bush guy at heart

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hen I retire, if the school and live in the “civiCreator blesses me lized” world. Even though it is to live long enough, almost 50 years ago, I rememI am going to live in the ber we walked about 50 miles northern bush. I would like to to be picked up. At the time, I say, “I’m going to be a trapper had never seen a vehicle, teleor miner.” However, those are vision or white person. things I haven’t done in almost Ironically, the person who half a century. picked us up was a white dude.

My dream is to follow my I had heard about white people passion: to be left alone to and how much they were paywrite. As of now, I am about ing for animal pelts. Since I Columnist as far north as one can be and only spoke Cree, I associated still access the Internet. Yes, white with snow. That is what I I realize that doesn’t sound Indian-ish, pictured when somebody spoke of a white but a funny thing happened on my way to man. The man who picked us up appeared being civilized. to be more pink than white. I laughed As you know, I grew up on a northern because that was not what I pictured. trap line. I didn’t know there was an outThe other thing that blew me away side world until I was eight and forced to was the vehicle. It was terrifying to be move to my home reserve so I could go to moving so fast down a road that I didn’t

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know existed. I remember looking out the window at this world I was about to enter.

Everything was new and fascinating.

When we arrived at the place where we would stay, I watched television for the first time. The first show I watched was Popeye the Sailor Man. I couldn’t figure out how they were able to fit that little guy into a small place. I hadn’t heard of spinach, but remember the first time I tried it. I looked at my arms and they were still skinny. It was another moment to be disillusioned in the civilized world.

This was a long time ago, but I still don’t eat spinach. Memories of the trap line and mining now come from programs on the History and National Geographic channels. I had forgotten how life was in the bush. Some of the things they do on these programs are things I did as a kid.

I admire people who follow traditions that have been around for centuries, but I’m coming to an age where it would be difficult to relearn everything I left behind. The world has changed, such as opinions on wearing real fur. In some ways, I support it, but I also support the people who work so hard to live that lifestyle. It’s a fine line to walk.

A problem living in the bush is there is no running water. I am one of those who likes to take a bath or shower every day.

I would have to melt lots of snow just to wash my face. I realize it is a matter of adapting to the environment, but I can’t picture old Ken walking and smelling like a Sasquatch. It’s a sad comment, but that’s what happens when someone is civilized.

I look forward to retirement and continuing to follow my passion.

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Dropping banquets from grad ceremonies worth considering

a shift to supervise the all-night ast week the Regina party. An ambulance had to be Public School Board at the ready, as well as drivers to announced that it would take students home should they no longer include a banquet break the no-alcohol rule or be with the high school graduatoo weary to watch the sun rise. tion ceremonies. In listening to As a neophyte to this process, the radio coverage, the reaction I foolishly asked the organizers was less than positive, seemwhy we needed to do all this, ingly more so from the parents’ particularly the prize collection perspective than the students’ and the hiring of the magician. perspective.

The answer I got was that if we The school board listed as its didn’t offer prizes and entertainreasons the cost to families and Columnist ment, the grads wouldn’t come. school liability issues. RegretI compounded my foolishness by asking tably, it did not announce, outside of the why we were planning this event at all if, diploma presentation, what, if anything, in fact, we had to bribe the grads to attend. would replace the banquet.

The answer was that if we didn’t arrange Frankly, the whole graduation exercise it, some students would plan their own has gotten out of hand.

In my first year as a school board trustee, “bush” party (possibly with alcohol), and other students might be excluded. Ah, the it was my assignment to attend a high things a parent does for their child. Against school grad ceremony being held at the my better judgment I collected prizes and Centennial Auditorium (now TCU Place) signed up my husband and me for a latein order to present division scholarships. night shift. (I won’t even get into the agony I dressed in my best bib and tucker, and of after-grad clothes happily set off to perform the task. After and grad dates!) sitting on the stage for more than three But it didn’t end there. The next day hours, while 300 to 400 students paraded across the platform, collected a scroll along when our graduate rolled out his cave at with a quick handshake from the principal noon, he started searching for a sleeping or assistant principal, I was less than happy bag and a tent. Apparently the “safe after grad” was not going to sway some stuwith my job.

The young women who crossed in front dents from their own blowout party — an unsupervised camp out at a nearby lake, no of me were dressed to the nines wearing ball gowns that ranged in style from sleazy doubt with massive supplies of beer and snacks. After disabusing him of this idea, hooker to southern belle. I later found out that some of those gowns ranged in price of we spent the rest of the weekend being “the upwards of $500. The young lads sported, worst parents” in the world, or at least in Saskatoon. for the best part, ill-fitting rental tuxes.

High school grads have gone from a As usual, there were a couple of non-conformists that relished being in sneakers and one-day event to a week-long festivity.

There are stags and stagettes, camp outs apparel that set them apart from the herd. and shenanigans at the schools that are Most of the young women looked like they had spent the morning at the hairdress- dubbed traditions. Our happiest day as parents was after our youngest graduated from er and/or esthetician for pedicures, manicures and makeup. It was probably the only high school.

There seemed to be little concern for time in my life when I was thankful that I didn’t have a daughter, as the tux rental was the students who couldn’t afford the grad certainly the more affordable option. And I fees (then charged by the high schools), the did wonder about the grads whose families gowns, suits, tux rentals, banquet tickets, photographs and attending extras. It was could not afford this gala event. because of this that one young lady, after After the parade of stars, there were photo opportunities, and the banquet rooms completing high school, established The Princess Shop, which collected used evening were set up to accommodate the more than 1,000 guests. And each grad and their wear, makeup samples, dress shoes and the like, to outfit both young women and their guests paid a hefty fee for a seat at those mothers so they could attend the graduations. tables. To say the least, I was stunned.

This young lady is a true altruist.

Then, I recalled when my oldest was I don’t know what school divisions can graduating high school and parents were do in lieu of the current format, but I am in invited to a meeting sponsored by a home support of the Regina Public School Board and school committee to plan the alcohol for bringing the issue forward for discusfree “safe after grad.” What ensued was sion and consideration for future celebrainsanity. There were plans to hire a magician and a DJ for music, and games needed tions. I expect other school divisions will follow its lead. to be organized.

Contrary to popular belief, high school What blew me away was the challenge of collecting donated gifts to use as prizes years are not always the happiest and most — and they weren’t talking $10 items. List- carefree of times for all students. Maybe it ed for collection were electronics, clothing, is time to revisit what is being done and ask jewelry, leather goods and a variety of other the students what a viable alternative is.

Meanwhile, the public can offer hats high-end products. Then, there were wrist bands to be ordered for the students to wear, off to the grads for completing their high buses to be chartered to take grads from the school education and our best wishes for their futures. banquet hall to the rented safe grad venue ehnatyshyn@gmail.com and, of course, parents were to sign up for

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Research is increasingly showing that our diets, and our overall gut health, have significant effects on our general health.

And it’s time to pay more attention to how it’s all connected, says Dr. Louise Gagne, a Saskatoon physician.

Gagne and her colleague, Dr. Joe Schnurr, will discuss gut health and diet at an event called Eating Your Way to Health, a free presentation by the Women’s Mid-life Health Program (donations welcome). It takes place at McClure United Church on Oct. 22 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

“Both Dr. Schnurr and I have worked with patients who have had very severe migraines and it’s turned out they have celiac disease, for instance, and that was part of the problem,” said Gagne.

“Celiac disease is on the rise, and there are more people who have developed a gluten sensitivity. It isn’t just a fad that movie stars are doing. I’ve worked with patients who have quite severe psoriasis whose skin has cleared with an elimination diet.

“If you get things running well in your gut, a lot of other things might improve with your health.”

At the event, Schnurr will talk about cancer, diet and staying well after cancer treatment, as well as what supplements are safe to take. Schnurr has recently returned from leading an integrated health centre in B.C. Gagne will talk about gut, or digestive, health, and the common things people struggle with, such as irritable bowel syndrome and food sensitivities.

These problems can really mess up the quality of people’s lives, said Gagne.

“One of the things I’m going to talk about is how . . . people have all these digestive issues. Maybe they get referred to a specialist, maybe they get a bunch of tests and in the end they’re told they have irritable bowel — which is, in some ways, reassuring for people that they don’t have inflammatory bowel disease, they don’t have bowel cancer, they don’t have an ulcer or whatever it might be they were worrying about.

“But then people are left with, well, you have irritable bowel. Good luck.”

People often try to take things into their own hands, and head for the pharmacy where aisles upon aisles of remedies await for everything from heartburn to diarrhea, noted Gagne.

“Some people are just suffering with it and don’t have a systematic approach to see what they could do about it. Some people try cutting certain things out of their diets, or taking probiotics.”

Gagne, who studied integrative medicine during a two-year fellowship at the University of Arizona, is now studying functional medicine. Within this field is a “Five R”

program for healing your gut: remove, replace, re-inoculate, repair and restore (or rebalance).

“I’m going to talk about those steps that people can take so they have a systematic approach to what to do.”

She will also talk about new research about the microbiome, a term that refers to all the bugs that live in us and on us.

“There is some fascinating new research about how important it is to nourish a vibrant and varied microbiome in the gut, and how it really does affect our immune function.”

Gagne plans to address some practical matters as well, such as whether people should stop eating gluten, should take probiotics and whether food sensitivity tests are worth doing.

The Women’s Mid-Life Health Program began as a charitable organization in 2003, and was taken in by the Saskatoon Health Region in 2011. It is now situated in City Hospital. The organization has hosted a series of events such as the upcoming one.

“We actively search out things that are important for mid-life women to know, and we include men in this,” said Dr. Vicki Holmes, physician leader of the program.

“We’ve dealt with many important topics over the years — osteoporosis, heart disease, breast and ovarian cancer, uterine cancer.

“Over the years, we’ve become more and more aware of how significant diet is in maintaining good health.

“We always knew that diet had a role in certain kinds of cancers. We know that if you eat a good diet that you’re less likely to develop breast cancer, bowel cancer, uterine cancer and possibly ovarian cancer as well.”

Despite evaluating large studies on the subject, however, “we never could figure out exactly what’s going on, what’s the trigger, what’s happening.

“There’s a large movement called integrative medicine that tends to take a more holistic look at disease and they’ve done a lot of research on what influence diet has on disease.”

Often, when people are diagnosed with cancer, they are bombarded with all kinds of treatment ideas, and some of them are dangerous, said Holmes.

For example, if you drink a lot of green tea or take supplements containing the tea when you’re on blood thinners (which is common with some cancers), you could bleed more.

“There’s lots of confusion about what’s good to take, what might interfere with chemotherapy and those are important for people to know,” she said.

“Probably we don’t pay enough attention to nutrition. Obviously, your body is going through significant things: you’re having surgery, you’re having chemo or radiation, you have yeast infections in the mouth and everything tastes like metal. It’s a real challenge to try to get good nourishing food into people to help them fight the disease better.”

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There’s a story behind every quilt Tammy Robert Saskatoon Express hen Gillian McDougald was only five years old, her passion for creating works of art with a needle and thread was ignited by watching her grandmother embroider. Today, that passion has led her to the Saskatoon Quilters’ Guild biennial show, where she will be honoured as the featured quilter.

“Like so many people who embrace the quilting world, my story is a familiar one with many of the same steps before a rotary cutter, cutting mat and six-inch-by-24inch ruler was purchased,” said McDougald, when asked about the roots of her history with quilting. “The real beginning, though, was in 1996, when Quilt Canada was in Saskatoon. I talked a friend into taking classes because we both worked on the university campus, where the event was held. We took a two-day colour theory class with Judy Villette from Edmonton and joined the Saskatoon Quilters’ Guild the next year.”

While every handmade quilt is a one-off work of art, McDougald’s style is definitely one of the more unique, full of bright colours and fanciful shapes.

“Quilts tell a very personal story and have usually evolved in a somewhat improvisational kind of manner,” said McDougald. “Many of my quilts are original designs. I suppose my style would be called folk art, although I am uncomfortable with that term.”

Recently, McDougald enlisted another three friends and enrolled in Anna Hergert’s design class at Buffalo Pound Lake, in order to explore the elements and principles of design. She chose the British architect, Zaha Hadid, as her quilting muse.

“My choice was inspired by the book entitled 50 Architects You Should Know, which spanned the last four centuries, but

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Zaha Hadid was the only female in the book,” said McDougald. “I now keep a sketch book and have become addicted to the whole doodling craze. The biggest difference that I see in my quilts is that I usually have a sketch and somewhat detailed plan of what I want to try to create. By the time I begin, I am amazed by how quickly things can sometimes come together.”

For those perhaps not as prolific with a sewing machine as McDougald, quilting might appear quite daunting. However, she wants potential quilters to know that such as with any new endeavour, the more you practice, the easier it gets.

“This summer I read a quote that really spoke to me,” she said. “It said, ‘If the project is scary and so big that it seems impossible, then it’s worth doing.’ Often getting started is the most difficult part of all and, when you somehow get things to finally come together, it is amazingly satisfying.

Like everything in life, disasters happen.

Those are the times you learn the most.”

McDougald recommends a Learn to Quilt class as a good place to start, if the craft seems like something that speaks to you.

“We have four quilt shops in and close to Saskatoon, and all offer classes,” she said. “I would also suggest that you join a guild. So often I hear someone say that they are not good enough to join the guild, as if it is an elitist group of experts. Guild members are all learning together. The Saskatoon Quilters’ Guild has many opportunities to learn.”

McDougald points to the Saskatoon Quilters’ Guild’s library for members as a considerable resource for quilters of all skill levels, as well as the guild’s bimonthly afternoon and evening. The guild also offers an annual retreat, where members teach all levels of classes. Non-quilt show years have a fall workshop event with outstanding guest teachers.

Gillian McDougald will be the featured quilter at Saskatoon Quilters’ Guild show (Photo Supplied) “Jump in,” advises McDougald. “Meet people passionate about fabric and colour and patterns and books. Come and get involved and learn and laugh together.”

Quilting has taken McDougald all over the world — across Canada, deep into the United States and as far away as South Africa.

“I have met friendly, talented women from all over the world who share the same passion for colour, design and joie de vivre,” she said. “I value the friendships I share with so many. I am truly honoured and humbled by the opportunity to be my guild’s featured quilter and hope my quilts bring enjoyment to all who stop by my display.”

On Oct. 23 and Oct. 24, the Saskatoon Quilters’ Guild will be presenting it bien-

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By RJ Currie magining Canada’s main political parties running CFL teams: NDP: Offensive linemen take turns calling plays; Liberals: The left tackle calls all the plays; Conservatives: Linemen pay the highest taxes, QBs are exempt.

• The seventh inning of Game 5 between the Jays and Rangers lasted close to an hour. Or almost as long as the last three minutes of an NBA game.

• The Pittsburgh Penguins said it felt strange to start the season with three losses. Well, everyone except Phil Kessel.

• An aircraft from Washington state ran out of gas just short of its destination and crash-landed on a Boise highway. Except for the Boise part, that could be a 2015 Seahawks game.

• Holly Holm says she’s glad her UFC bout with Ronda Rousey was moved up seven weeks. Imagine a turkey saying it prefers Canadian Thanksgiving to American Thanksgiving.

• Rider University suspended its men’s cross-country squad after police found 28 team members preparing to run naked at their track. So track members were suspended for suspending members at the track?

• Question for TSN: Since when are the Montreal Alouettes and the Toronto Argonauts provincial rivals?

• North Carolina’s football coach decided to retire six games into the season. Talk about Spurrier of the moment.

• James Harden told NBA.com he’s the best player in the NBA and was last year’s MVP. Is it possible for someone’s beard to be too tight?

• Playboy will stop publishing images of naked women by February. So these will be the last Thanksgiving issues with no dressing.

• A baseball fan’s $10-million lawsuit over ESPN announcers poking fun at him for dozing off during a Red Sox game was dismissed. The judge told him to count his blessings.

• My neighbourhood is supposedly getting a new funeral home called The Sixth Sense. What’s their slogan? We see dead people?

RJ’s Groaner of the Week The N.Y. Daily News reports a well-endowed Mexican man can’t kneel to pray because his penis hangs past his knees. I’d say I can relate, but that would be quite a stretch.

nial quilt show Shooting for the Stars, a two-day event taking place at Prairieland Park. It is the largest quilt show in Saskatchewan, featuring demos, a trunk show and more than 450 quilt entries from Saskatoon’s approximately 200 guild members, as well as other quilters and fibre artists throughout the province.

The show opens with the grand opening on Oct. 22, where McDougald will be introduced. Attendees that evening will also have a chance to preview the show. Tickets for Thursday evening must be purchased in advance from Ann Atchison, who can be reached at 306-955-2671.

Admission on Oct. 23 and Oct. 24 is $10 per day. Show hours are 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 24.

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Chong, on Toronto fans pelting the field with objects after a controversial call went against the Jays in Game 5 against Texas: “Signs will be posted for the Royals series, saying patrons will be immediately ejected if they throw beer cans, soda pop containers or Maple Leafs jerseys onto the field.”

• Torben Rolfsen, on the owner of the Anaheim Ducks saying losses are in the double-digit millions: “Time to make another Mighty Ducks movie.”

• Janice Hough, on Twitter laying off eight per cent of its engineers: “Can we presume the pink slips were done in under 140 characters?”

• I have never understood why baseball teams party hard after winning divisional titles and playoff rounds. Shouldn’t they save it for the World Series?

• Bill Littlejohn, on a Japanese swordsman — dubbed a modern-day Samurai — dividing a 100 mph fastball in half 30 feet away from where it was launched with a pitching machine: “Well, it started out as a fastball and ended up being a splitter.”

• You can make a case that the best rookie in the NHL so far this season has been Dylan Larkin — or Dylan McLarkin as Red Wings fans call him.

• From Rolfsen: “Can you believe the backlash over the bat flip? Monocles were dropped across the land.”

• I may be wearing monocles, but I thought Jose Bautista’s bat flip was way over the top. Would Jays fans that defended it feel the same way had, say, Prince Fielder done it? I think not.

• From Chong: “Rule 11.06.12.2 in Major League Baseball rule book states that you can only admire your home runs if your name is Reggie Jackson.”

• From Hough: “If Chase Utley retires in the offseason, do they suspend him for his first two old-timers’ games?”

• From @jacktodd46: “This one was predictable — Genie Bouchard sues USTA after concussion.”

• Sorry in advance for your horrible season, Boston Bruins fans.

• From Rolfsen: “There is an unidentified glowing object floating around the International Space Station. It may be the Pittsburgh Penguins’ missing goal light.”

• Chong, on Patriots QB Tom Brady saying Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes are not a food: “He’s just jealous because

they don’t have Tommy the Tiger on the boxes.”

• From Hough: “Your heartwarming story for the day. Kim Kardashian is so upset at her ex-brother-in-law Lamar Odom’s condition that she cancelled her baby shower. Ah those family values.”

• Littlejohn, on Dodgers infielder Chase Utley passing his concussion protocol: “Isn’t that like the shark having a great visit to the dentist after Jaws?”

• A tweet from Anne Murray, aka Canada’s songbird, on the announcing during Jays’ games: “Anyone else find these baseball announcers annoying? … Just blah, blah, blah. #BlueJays.”

• From Rolfsen: “Good thing the situation and home field weren’t reversed in Game 5 of the Jays-Rangers series. At least it was beer cans raining down and not bullets.”

• Somewhere along the way, I became a big Gregg Zaun fan.

• Newspapers shouldn’t endorse candidates or parties during election campaigns. You are going to annoy the majority of your readers and make editors squirm as they try to defend the fairness, balance and credibility of their content.

Maybe Paul Godfrey, owner of The StarPhoenix, is looking for bailout money.

• Chong, on Playboy magazine’s decision to no longer publish nude pictures starting next year: “That’s it — I’m cancelling my Playboy subscription and going to renew with National Geographic.”

• Philadelphia sports fans are notoriously cruel, so it comes as no surprise that they chanted “She said no!” whenever Patrick Kane touched the puck in a game last week.

• Does Harold Reynolds ever shut up?

• Rolfsen, on the last poll before the federal election: “Harper 20 per cent, Trudeau 20 per cent, Mulcair 20 per cent, Bautista 40 per cent.”

• Hough, on Oscar Pistorius being released to house arrest roughly 2 1/2 years after he fatally shot his girlfriend: “Amazing. If he were an NFL star he would have received at least a six-game suspension.”

• Help me with this: The Oilers game in Dallas was blacked out in HD, but available in non-HD? Why? •@BigHeadSports, just before the Democratic debate last week: “Got the feeling Joe Biden is gonna crash this thing five minutes in carrying a cocktail and a bucket of poker chips.”

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Four singer-dancers from Las Vegas are going to romp through the music of the Beatles, the Bee Gees, the Beach Boys as well as some hits from Motown in a concert called Four By Four. Show time is 7:30 p.m.

TCU Place. Tickets - $67.50.

OCTOBER 23 Banquet to celebrate 70th United Nations Day. 7 p.m., at the Mandarin Restaurant. 10 courses with guest speakers and entertainment for $30. Call 306-229-8289 or email rosannaparry@shaw.ca by Oct. 18.

OCTOBER 23, 24, 25

tickets or more information, contact Mary at 306-221-8593 or Elaine 306-955-1905. ***** St. Patrick Parish Fall Supper at 3339 Centennial Drive. Doors open at 4:30 pm, supper is at 5 p.m. Advance tickets only. Adults: $15. Children (6 to 12): $5, Preschoolers are free but require a ticket.

To purchase tickets, phone 306-384-1100 or email stpatrickparish@sasktel.net.

The Saskatoon painters club will be presenting its annual show and sale at Grace Westminster United Church auditorium (305 OCTOBER 22 NOVEMBER 3 10th Street East). Oct. 23 from 6 p.m. to 9 Sheena Rattai, Daniel Jordan and Daniel p.m., Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Oct. Vincent Massey Community School is Peloquin-Hopfner form the Winnipeg-based celebrating 50 years of inspiring learning 25 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. group, Red Moon Road, which delivers with a multicultural community potluck OCTOBER 24 modern roots music, exquisite harmonies supper on from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Early’s Farm and Garden Centre is hosting and good storytelling. Show time is 8 p.m. school gymnasium. Participants are asked a Halloween event for you and your furry The Bassment, 202 Fourth Avenue North. to share a cultural or family favourite dish Tickets: $17 for SJS members, $22 for non- friend from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., drop by the as their contribution to the evening, which Lorne Avenue location with your pet and members. will also feature entertainment and displays. have FineLite Photography capture your For more information contact the school at OCTOBER 23 “spooky side.” Costumes are encouraged 306-683-7480.

Piano Fridays, with Rick Friend, 4 p.m. to (for human and furry). Purchase a $10 mini7:15 p.m. No cover charge. mum food item, and receive a photograph ***** free of charge. Proceeds go towards helping Saskatoon singer-songwriter Sarah Farthing animals in need at the Saskatoon SPCA. is releasing her second CD, When Your EVERY THURSDAY ***** Answer Comes. On the new CD, she enlisted Lupus Sask. is hosting its annual “Living Prairie Sky Farmer’s Market is open the help of producer Jen Lane and mixer Well with Lupus” fall symposium at Smiley’s every Thursday from 11:00-6:00 pm. It Josh Palmer. Both appear on the CD along Buffet & Event Centre (702 Circle Drive East). is located at St. Paul’s United Church in with John Ellis, Veronique Poulin and Sarah’s The Symposium is open to all people with Sutherland...454 Egbert Ave. New vendors guitar-dobro- playing father, Fred. The first may phone or text Kathy at 306-222-2740 autoimmune conditions. There is no cost. single was called Ghost. Show time is 9 ***** Registration is at 12:20 pm, with the prep.m. The Bassment. Tickets: $15 for SJS senters starting at 1 p.m. Speakers include: SCOOTERS - A drop-in indoor playgroup for members, $20 for non-members.

Dr. Judith Klassen, Nephrologist and Dr. Evan children ages 0-5 and their parents/caregivers. Thursdays from 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

McCarvill, Naturopathic Doctor.

OCTOBER 24 at Emmanuel Baptist Church. $40/family/ ***** Rick Friend has a history of playing piano year, or a suggested drop-in fee of $2/child Saskatoon Elks & Royal Purple fowl supper. and accompanying silent movies. He’s back or $5/family. For more information, email Elks Hall, 508 12th Street East. Sittings in Saskatoon again, joining the Saskatoon scooters@ebap.ca, visit our website (www. at 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.

Adults: $16; Symphony, in the Silence Is Golden series.

The film of choice is The Hunchback of Notre Children 6-10: $8. Under 6: free. For tickets, emmanuelbaptist.ca/scooters), or check out our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ call Doris at 306-242-9722, Jay or Terri at Dame, a classic with Lon Chaney and the scootersebc).

306-374-3545 or the lodge office at 306famous bell tower. Roxy Theatre. Saturday 244-5547. matinee at 1 is $32; Saturday evening at EVERY THIRD WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. is $40.

OCTOBER 25 The Bruno Groening Circle of Friends in ***** Emmanuel Anglican Church Fall Supper, 607 Saskatoon has a support circle using David Fong, Don Griffith, Kim Salkeld and integrative healing based on the teaching of Dufferin Ave. Sittings at 5 and 6:30 pm.

Ray Stephanson are the Piano Men, who Bruno Groening open to all without charge.

Turkey and all the fixings. Adults/$15, will serve up a wide variety of music, some Youth/$7, 5 years and under/no charge.

Contact circle.saskatoon@gmail.com, 306as solo renditions, some as duets and finally, Tickets available by calling Brian Hartsook 664-3331. eight hands and 40 fingers. The Saskatoon Second Saturday every month “Memory at 306-934-2520.

Jazz Society will be introducing its Yamaha ***** Writers — September to June, 10 a.m. to C7 grand piano donated by the Whit Firor noon at the Edwards Centre, 333 Fourth St. George’s seniors club (1235 – 20th St. family. Show time is 8 p.m. The Bassment.

West) - harvest brunch –10 a.m. to 1 p.m – Avenue. Share the events and memories of Tickets - $17 for SJS members, $22 for Borsch, perogies, cabbage rolls, ham, des- your life in a relaxed and friendly atmonon-members. sert, etc. Adults: $12. Children 6 to 10: $5. sphere. For more information, call Neva

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at 7:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church.

Meetings are held on the first Monday of the month except when there is a holiday. If so, meetings are on the second Monday.

First Tuesday of every month Left Behind by Suicide is a drop-in support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Located at W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 4th Ave. North, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. There is no cost to attend.

For more information, email leftbehind@ sasktel.net. ***** FROMI - Friends and Relatives of People with Mental Illness meetings will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North (wheelchair accessible). If you have a loved one or friend with a mental illness and you need understanding support, contact Carol at 306-249-0693, Linda at 306-933-2085, Lois at 306-242-7670 or e-mail fromisk@ gmail.com.

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Free art drop-in at the SCYAP Art Centre. All ages are welcome, all materials supplied, no registration required. Tuesdays 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., Thursdays 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., and Saturdays 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Every Wednesday Depression Support Group runs on the first and third Wednesday of each month, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the CMHA building (1301 Avenue P North). This is open to anyone struggling with depression and family members wanting to support them. For more info, call 306-270-9181.

Third Thursday of the Month The Saskatoon Prostate Cancer Support Group meets every month except July and August at 7:30 p.m. in the W. A. Edwards Family Centre, across from the Saskatoon Funeral Home. For more information call Murray Hill at 306-242-5893 or email murraydhill@me.com.

Every Thursday

Saskatoon International Folkdance Club meets Thursdays at 7 pm in Albert Community Centre (Rm. 13, 610 Clarence Ave. S.). Learn dances from many countries. First Bayliss at 306-343-0256 or Hilda Epp at OCTOBER 26 OCTOBER 25 night is free. (306) 374-0005; www.sifc.

An Evening with Monique Gray Smith 306-382-2446. awardspace.com Classical variety Night: This is the First about her book Tilly: A Story of Hope and ***** concert of the series’ fifth season. It will Third Monday of Every Le Choeur des plaines welcomes you to sing feature talented local musicians performing Resilience. From 7 p.m. to -8:30 p.m. Free. Month 2nd Floor, Community Service Village, 506 music they love. All ages are welcome in and socialize in French each Thursday at Schizophrenia Society of Saskatoon Family 25th St East. Reserve your seat via Catholic our audience. This event is hosted by the 7:30 p.m. at L’École canadienne française Support Group will run from 7:30pm to Galliard Foundation. The concert is at Gros- Family Services, reception@cfssaskatoon. at 1407 Albert Avenue. The choir is directed 9:00pm at the W.A Edwards Family Centre, sk.ca or 306-244-7773. venor Park United Church. Concert begins

by Michael Harris and accompanied by 333 Fourth Avenue North. The group is at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation. For Rachel Fraser. All who wish to sustain or OCTOBER 27 attended entirely by family members and more information, visit our facebook page at Professional Training: Fostering Resilience practice their French are welcome. For more friends of people living with schizophrenia www.facebook.com/theGalliardFoundation or with Indigenous Children and related disorders. For more information information, call Rachel at 306-343-6641 or email us at galliard.foundation@gmail.com. with Monique Gray Smith, Author, Psychiatric contact, email: ssswellness4u@gmail.com Jean at 306-343-9460. ***** or call 306-374-2224 Nurse.

8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., $200 OCTOBER 26 Karousels Dance Club - choreographed Western Development Museum.

Register via Nathan Rogers leads a Winnipeg trio through EVERY WEDNESDAY ballroom dancing. New dancers classes Catholic Family Services, reception@cfssasa Roots romp. He’s the son of Stan, nephew Creative Cafe (paper crafting) returns to Cof- Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2. Cotinues to April at katoon.sk.ca or by calling 306-244-7773. of Garnet, all in a family deeply rooted in fee’s On Emporium, 815A Gray Avenue, from Albert Community Centre, second floor. 7 folk music tradition. Show time is 8 p.m. The ***** 1-2 p.m., July 22 – Aug. 19th. Ages 10 to p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For information, call 306Save the Children – Canada. The Saskatoon Bassment. Tickets - $20 for SJS members, adult, children under 16 must be accompa290-5486.

Branch will hold an organizational meeting $25 for non-members. nied by a parent. Call or text 306-229-7757 First and Third Wednesday of the month from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Edwards for details and to register. $10/person/sesOCTOBER 29-30 Resporados support group for people with Family on Fourth Avenue North, across from sion, all materials included. https://www.

Singing with Sylvia – Halloween Howl. Oct. breathing difficulties taking place at 1:30 the Saskatoon Funeral Home. The branch facebook.com/creativecafesaskatoon.

29 at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Oct. 30 at 10:30 is urgently seeking new members and p.m. at Mayfair United Church (33rd Street ***** a.m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Refinery (609 prospective volunteers are cordially invited West). For more information, contact Debbie Singles Social Group - “All About Us” for Dufferin Avenue) Advance Tickets: $7. At the to attend the meeting. A light lunch will be at 306-664-4992. people in their 50s and 60s. Weekly WednesDoor $9 (under-2 free). Call the box office at served. For information, please contact Dr. Tuesdays and Thursdays day restaurant suppers, monthly Brunch, 653-5191 or visit www.ontheboards.ca. This Mel Hosain, Publicity Chair at 373-9877 or, Movie Nites, and more.Meet new friends.

Bridge City Senioraction Inc: Classes every interactive concert includes songs, action preferably, at hosain@sasktel.net.

No membership dues. For more information Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to rhymes, quirky characters and maybe even OCTOBER 30 email: allaboutus10@hotmail.com or phone 10:30 a.m. Registration is $20, drop-in fee a trick or two. Energetic and upbeat, Sylvia’s 2nd Annual Octoberfest Supper & Entertain- (306) 978-0813. is $2. For information, call Sheila at 306sparkling personality will delight adults ment by The German Concordia Band at 6 931-8053 or Kathy at 306-244-0587. and children. Group rates are available for First Saturday of every pm at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, corner daycares, schools and preschools. Call the month Newcomers’ Club of Egbert & 109th St in Sutherland. Glutenbox office to book your group in.

The MindFULL Café, part of the international The Saskatoon Newcomers’ Club welcomes free options. Cost: $18 per person. For more Alzheimer Café movement, provides an new female residents in the Saskatoon OCTOBER 30 info and advance tickets, contact Kathy opportunity to meet in a relaxed social setarea, as well as those who have recently Sock Hop: German Cultural Club. Doors at 7 Chase at 306-652-0023 or stmattsaskating for persons with dementia, family, care undergone a significant change in lifestyle p.m., show at 8. Show and dance featuring toon@gmail.com. partners and other interested people. The (such as relationship status, retirement, or England, with tributes to the Ventures, Roy NOVEMBER 1 Café is a two-hour get together with refresh- becoming a new parent). A new resident Orbison, Everly Brothers, the Beach Boys Pumpkins in the Park, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at ments, entertainment and information. First is defined as one who has not resided in and more. Tickets: $22 and $20 for 55+.

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hen most car compausing the controls, whether on nies are concerned the steering wheel or not, is about delivering confidence inspiring. upscale models because bigThis does not mean perfect. ger in the automotive business The NX uses a touch pad with is always better, Lexus has a rest behind it to replace the made sure its latest entry in the mouse used previously in Canadian luxury vehicle market other SUV/CUV vehicles. If is smaller. you wish to adjust this control The NX 200t is the smallest while driving and you hit a Lexus SUV/CUV the company pothole (in Saskatoon? Tell me now produces. Patterned after it isn’t true!), you will probaAutozone the successful RX series, the bly not get the result you want NX takes that giant leap forsince your hand is going to tap ward that only happens when designers are that pad at least three extra times. For me, given a blank sheet of paper and a budget. the mouse was better.

Styling is obviously Lexus, with the Back seat space and the ensuing cargo front fascia sporting the new aggressive area with the seat up are up to Lexus front end with the large grille opening and standards. The seat which is a 60/40 split the slightly bulged front wheel openings. folding seat was comfortable for two. I Headlights follow the flow of the body even had enough room to sit up comfortwork to add to the aggressive look. ably, as well as move around a bit without From the side, this four-door hatchback bashing into the person beside me. The doesn’t look too distinctive at first, but cargo area will hold a good shop at Costco, then you start to see the large door openwith enough room to add in the day-to-day ings to make entry and exit as easy as it is items from the Co-op. in larger vehicles. The F SPORT package With the groceries safely at home, it brings a wheel tire package to the mix that was time to head to the rink. My gear fit makes the car stand out and look a bit less easily in the back, and I could probably like a scaled down RX and more like an have carried two more hockey bags safely. individual design.

My stick, however, didn’t quite fit and had Then, move up to the driver’s door and to be slid in sideways. Oh, and don’t forget open it wide. That is when the show of the air freshener; it can take a day or so to comfort and luxury begins. The seats are get the odour of smelly hockey player out even more comfortable than they look. In- of the car. At least that is what my wife struments are laid out in a logical manner. told me. It wasn’t phrased exactly like that, The steering wheel is fat and easy to grip. but that is what she meant.

Steering wheel controls follow the Lexus As you would expect with any Lexus, standard positioning. The tactile feel when driving sedately is very comfortable.

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The F SPORT does have a slightly more performance-oriented suspension than you expect. Surprisingly, comfort does not suffer, at least until you get up to the higher cornering forces. Then, you are very happy to have the form-fitting buckets to provide lateral support.

Under the hood is a 2.0-litre, Atkinson cycle, twin scroll turbo, that puts out 235 horsepower and 250 ft.lb. of torque. Translated the means good fuel economy when you behave and a big grin on your face when you don’t. Acceleration does suffer a bit with turbo lag, but the six-speed automatic helps get up on boost sooner and stay on boost, until you back out of it.

With a bit of practice, a good driver can nearly eliminate the feeling of turbo lag.

Keep in mind that when driving sedately, lag is not an issue and the NX accelerates as smoothly as you want it to.

It is only when out carving corners or making a move into another lane that requires instant action that drivers will notice a bit of delay in power delivery.

The Lexus NX 200t F SPORT is just one of several versions. It would be my choice, but other trim levels and versions, including a hybrid, are available. If you are thinking of getting into a smaller All Wheel Drive SUV/CUV, put the NX 200t on your “must-drive list.”

Causes and effects of brake pulsation

rake pulsation has and the brake rotors are built become a common lighter. That is when problems concern on many newer may occur. Sure, they could vehicles. The vehicle stops build brake rotors that are smoothly when new, but after light, powerful and stable. a few thousand kilometres, the Carbon fibre and ceramic brake pedal starts to pulsate rotors are available and used when stopping — the brakes on racing cars, but the costs feel like they are grabbing and would be prohibitive for most releasing, and smooth stops passenger vehicles. The 2015 are impossible. Sometimes the Camaro Z28 has carbon fibre problem starts after the wheels rotors and Porsche does offer Autozone have been removed. This was a high performance brake opseldom a concern on vehicles in tion on some models. Porsche the 1970s and ’80s, so what has changed to cars stop in amazingly short distances with make it a problem today? their stock brake system. I can’t imagine The answer is weight. To increase fuel how much better the $5,000 brake option efficiency of new cars and reduce manucould be. facturing costs, the accounting department So most of us are stuck with conven(often referred to as the bean counters) tional cast brake rotors. If they are not ensures every part of the vehicle has its handled correctly, they can warp and that weight reduced as much as possible. This is the beginning of brake pulsation. A works fine for most parts, but ask a brake warped rotor wears unevenly from side to system engineer about brake rotors, and side as it rubs against the brake pads, and you will hear that heavier is better. Heavier soon the sides of the rotor are no longer brake rotors can absorb more heat, so they parallel to each other. fade less and give better braking perforTolerances for parallelism are often less mance. Heavier rotors also tend to be more than .0005 inch maximum, or about one stable, so they seldom warp, which is one quarter the thickness of a hair. When the of the causes of brake pulsation. rotor sides are not parallel, the pistons in the Sometimes the brake engineers get their brake calipers that apply the brake pads are way; other times the bean counters win pushed in and out rapidly. This rapid motion

Jim Kerr

is transmitted through the brake system and into the pedal. We feel it as a pulsation.

Changing a tire is one common cause of rotor warpage. If there is any dirt, rust or corrosion between the wheel and the brake rotor, it will be clamped unevenly when the wheel is installed, and the rotor will warp.

Incorrect tightening of the wheel nuts also can warp a rotor. When installing a wheel, snug up the wheel nuts and then tighten them in two stages using an alter-

nating criss-cross pattern. Using a torque wrench is critical on modern vehicles.

Some shops tighten wheel nuts with air impacts. Others use “torque sticks” designed to limit the torque on the nuts.

Neither is accurate enough for today’s cars. Make sure they use a torque wrench.

If you experience brake pulsations after changing a wheel, loosen the wheel nuts and retorque them.

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(Continued from page 16) f this is done as soon as possible, the rotor will usually correct itself. Leave it too long (more than 1,000 km) and it remains warped.

Another cause of brake pulsation is brake rotor runout. Many manufacturers allow the rotor and hub to wobble up to .003 inch because of machining tolerances. More than that and the rotor wobbles too much — it acts like it is warped. Some cars are especially sensitive to rotor runout. If it is more than .001 inch, then brake pulsations can occur.

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Another method of correcting rotor runout has been introduced to the market. Brake Align® has designed special tapered shims that are placed between a removable rotor and its hub to compensate for rotor runout.

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here was a time long ago good at this that most customwhen Subaru and the ers are not really sure they term conservative were need AWD, until they drive an synonymous. That was then ordinary vehicle. and this is now. Subaru is still a Now, for some of the feabit quirky and that is good. The tures of the Subaru line up. The last thing we need is another best known trait is the flat four company that provides the or horizontally opposed engine. same thing.

This helps keep the centre of Subaru was one of the two gravity for the car low, which companies in the world to first in turn helps improve handling patent modern AWD systems without having to resort to Autozone for vehicles. Audi and Subaru heavy springs and shocks. applied for patents in the same As mentioned, the Foryear on opposite sides of the globe. Each rester has shed its dowdy image and system was different and, as we have seen, fits right in with the smooth and stylish both are enduring. design of the day, while maintaining The Subaru system is geared (forgive individual recognition. The front fascia the pun) more towards practicality and carries the Subaru distinctiveness, while providing seamless power to each wheel the sides are nicely sculpted without without the vehicle occupants being aware much of the aggressive side bulges and JW15630.J19 of what is going James on. In fact, Subaru is so such of other vehicles.

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When you get a Forrester, there are two different engines you can order. The first is a 2.5 litre normally aspirated flat four that can be ordered with either an automatic or a manual transmission. The other engine is a 2.0-litre flat four that is turbocharged.

Both engines are well proven and the one that my test car came with was the 2.5 litre normally aspirated motor.

There are seven packages available with this engine (three with the 2.0t turbo). I use the term package because most groupings have more than the trim is changes. For example, my test Forrester came with the PZEV package which means the engine is a Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle. You are not going to see this designation on many vehicles because it had to be created when gasoline engines emitted emissions so low they could not be measured. Since only electrical vehicles can be true Zero Emissions Vehicles, engines like the one

in the Forrester had to get a new name (category).

The engine has three settings, the default is normal and you can choose between power and economy. Turning the dial to your chosen setting changes power output and in the economy mode also improves fuel economy by about 10 per cent, depending on how you drive. Keep in mind all federal fuel economy testing is done in normal.

Now the important part, driving. The PZEV Forrester is not underpowered at 170 horsepower and 174 ft.lb. of torque. It is how you choose to use that power that counts. I used the sport setting a few times and I enjoyed a spirited drive with great engine response. Then, I went to eco mode and was pleasantly surprised. I could drive just as spiritedly except that I had to plan better. Taking the aggressive setting out of the engine meant paying attention to traffic better, planning my lane changes, how I was going to go around a corner and what traffic lights were doing. Sounds amazingly like what a driver should do to improve fuel economy in city driving.

The other part of the power train has two possible components as well. Standard is a six-speed manual transmission which my tester came with, and a CVT automatic is optional. Interestingly enough, Subaru owners still order manual transmissions in significant numbers. I suspect this is because Subaru has made the transmission so easy to use. The shifter moves with ease from gear to gear without any hang ups between gears. The clutch action is light and there is a well-defined friction point so you don’t need to ride the clutch, thus extending its life considerably.

When you put the entire package together, the well-designed exterior, the built-in safety systems, a comfortable interior and a good power train with one of the best AWD systems in the world, you can understand why Subaru has a loyal following in snow-belt areas of the world. If you have never considered a Subaru, perhaps it is time you did.

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