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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2024
Sketch comedy ‘Middle Raged’ to be featured at Cugnet Centre
Concert Series presents comedy duo
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The comedy duo of Gary Pearson and Geri Hall will take the stage with “Middle Raged”, a mature-themed show on Wednesday, Feb. 7 at the Cugnet Centre, at 7:30 p.m. This is the fourth of six events in the 2023-2024 Weyburn Concert Series line-up.
Starring Geri Hall and Gary Pearson, “Middle Raged” is a hilarious sketch show, exploring that time of life when you’re running out of time. The show will be the next performance for the Weyburn Concert Series, set for the Cugnet Centre stage on Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Just a note, the show is not suitable for children, as it uses adult humour and is intended for mature audiences. The show is for couples dealing with the madness of child-rearing, empty nests, aging parents, financial stresses, and even trying an “Outlander” role play to spice up the bedroom. The show features song parodies and sketches by Hall (One More Time, This Hour has 22 Minutes) and Pearson (MadTV), and music by Jeff Rosenthal. Geri Hall is the raspy-
voiced redhead who spent five seasons co-starring as a roving reporter and anchor on the news desk of the long-running CBC hit television show, “This Hour Has 22 Minutes.” Geri got her start as a cast member at Toronto’s legendary sketch and improv destination, The Second City. If you didn’t see her getting handcuffed by the Prime Minister on 22 Minutes - and staying in character all the while - then her face may also be familiar from dozens of other shows and television commercials, including Astrid And Lilly Save the World, Little Italy, At The Hotel, the CBC’s The Blobheads, Little Mosque on The Prairie, The Ron James Show, The Mercer Report and Murdoch Mysteries … and yes, that jalapeno cheese commercial. She is the very proud
holder of awards and/ or nominations from the Writer’s Guild, Canadian Comedy Awards, and the Geminis. Gary Pearson has written for such shows as MadTV, 22 Minutes, Corner Gas and the Ron James Show. He created and produced That’s So Weird for YTV and with Dan Redican, co-created Sunnyside for CityTV. He has won the Canadian Screen Award, Canadian Comedy Award and the WGC Award. He toured Canada and the U.S. with The Chumps, and was in The Second City Toronto Mainstage company. He has appeared in multiple TV shows including Sunnyside, The Kids in the Hall, The Newsroom, 22 Minutes and Baroness Von Sketch. His three novels, including his most recent, “Marooned in Space!”, are available at Amazon.ca.
‘Fish in school’ program to return to St. Michael Kindergarten class The FINS program, or Fish in School, will be back for a third year in the kindergarten class at St. Michael School, with the trout fish eggs to arrive on February 5. The teacher, Candice Porter Kopec, said her students are excited at the prospect of the fish eggs arriving for the class’s fish tank. She said in a social media post that the kids love it, and the program is a positive influence on them as they take turns and help to take care of the eggs through the late winterspring months. The class will feed and raise the eggs into fingerlings, and they will be released into a pond at Mainprize Regional Park in early June. This is part of a prov-
ince-wide program of the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation, and is provided locally by the Weyburn Wildlife Federation, which bought the tank to be used in the class, said president Larry Olfert. He and wife Judy will deliver the batch of 100 eggs, once they’re delivered from the fish hatchery at Fort Qu’Appelle. Since the initial outlay for two fish tanks, the Weyburn Wildlife Federation has an annual cost of about $350-400 for the food charcoal filters for the filtration system. The second tank had been at the Weyburn Comp the last two years, but it won’t be used this year, with the goal to hopefully start the program at another school like Assiniboia Park next year.
Teachers on the picket line
Photo 5986 — Greg Nikkel
Around 200 teachers picketed in Weyburn on Monday as part of the second one-day strike held by the Sask. Teachers’ Federation across the province, as one of 35 locations where pickets were held. The teachers gathered for a rally in front of MLA Dustin Duncan’s office.
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