Marketplace 2022-12-02

Santa Claus Parade

Cars were lined up on Broadway St. to attend the Yorkton Business Improvement District’s Santa Claus Parade held at the grounds of the Gallagher Centre on Nov. 27. Various organizations from in and around the city participat ed in the reverse parade that saw attendees tour the grounds in vehicles, tak ing in the festive sights and sounds of the holidays.

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Holodomor commemorations at the Legislature

By John Cairns, SASKTODAY.ca

REGINA - The Legislative Building was the scene Tuesday as a special ceremony was held to commemorate those who lost their lives during the Holodomor.

Members of the Ukrainian community along with government leaders were on hand for the service to com memorate an event the Saskatchewan govern ment has recognized as a genocide.

The Holodomor was the great famine that took place in the Ukraine in 1932-33. The event was a man-made famine creat ed by policies of the for mer Soviet Union, with four million people los ing their lives. The word Holodomor is Ukrainian for “extermination by hunger.”

The Saskatchewan Legislature was the first province to recognize the famine as a genocide on May 7, 2008, followed later that month by the Government of Canada.

The service at the Legislature coincides with Holodomor Memorial Week with a memorial candle to remain lit throughout the week. It was held in

advance of International Holodomor day which was Saturday, Nov. 26.

The ceremonies included the lighting of the candle, a symbolic act in memory of the lives lost.

That was followed by the laying of wreaths outside at the “Bitter Memories of Childhood” Holodomor statue to the east of the Legislature.

Government lead ers at the ceremony included Premier Scott Moe and MLA Terry Dennis, Legislative Secretary responsible for Saskatchewan-Ukraine Relations, as well as sev eral other MLAs.

The ceremony includ ed addresses from Dennis as well as Elena Krueger, President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan.

They also heard an address from Anastasiia Vasylieva, who was recently dis placed from Bakhmut, Ukraine and now lives in Saskatchewan, through her interpreter Oleg Kovalchuk.

The ceremony was a reminder to people of the Holodomor tragedy of 90 years earlier, but it also came at a time when Ukraine was under siege

following the invasion by Russia this year.

In speaking to repor ters Vasylieva pointed to the current state of affairs as a reason this day was important to her.

“Today I feel myself more or less very com

fortable,” she said. “It is very important for me to tell what is actually hap pening over there.”

The ceremony also took place one day before the latest flight of displaced Ukrainians to Saskatchewan was set to

land in Saskatoon.

Dennis told reporters that this ceremony was “very important, espe cially in light of what is going on in Ukraine right now with all the war and devastation. Having a madman like Putin back

on the scene here again, it’s important we don’t forget the horror that happened in 1932-33 and the millions of people that were starved, and just keep in our memory that we should never for get these people.”

Art and sport blend in goalie masks

The Yorkton Junior Terriers are celebrating 50 years in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League this season.

To mark the milestone Yorkton This Week is dig ging into its archives and pulling out a random Terrier-related article from the past five decades of reporting on the team, and will be running one each week, just as it originally appeared.

This feature will appear weekly over the entire sea son in the pages of The Marketplace.

Week #11 comes from Nov. 8, 2006.

Hockey players are not your typical visitor to art galleries, and artists are often not big follow ers of sports.

An art show at the Community pARTners Gallery in the Yorkton Public Library attempts to bridge the gap between the work of art and sport.

The show entitled ‘Saving Face: The Maskerade’ incorporates goaltender mask art and connects with the World Junior ‘A’ Hockey Challenge being

held in the city. The art show will run Nov. 1 to 15.

“To me to see a goalie mask in a gallery, that’s the best thing. I’m not into painting on canvas or other flat surfaces,” said Saskatoon art ist John Chubak. “I do Harley tanks and goalie masks.”

It is really a unique opportunity,” said Art

Lima, who supplied five masks for the show. The Regina artist said he has aspirations to one day do more traditional fine arts on canvas, but this exhibit “shows these are a medium for art too.” He added he doesn’t see a large gap between differ ent types of art.”

“I’m not really hung up on that whole thing,”

he said. “I have no for mal training in art, so I don’t feel I’m a starving artist stuck in a rut doing something just to make money.”

In fact, Lima said he sees painting masks as something which requires skills beyond that of regular art.

“You have to have other skills. You have to prep it like you would prep a car for painting. You have to be able to fill and sand and prime it. You have to have those skills in order to create the art work too.”

Chubak is also happy to have his masks on dis play in a gallery setting. “It’s common to have my art in bike shows. It’s neat to see my art on these beautiful choppers.

“People don’t think od goalie masks the same way, but the same amount of creativity goes into them.”

Chubak said he too sees the interest in masks as art objects beginning to grow. “I’ve had a lot of customers say, ‘Oh man, I’m not wearing this one.’”

In such situations, Chubak encourages them to put the mask on and go play hockey, adding he tells them he can always touch up any nicks after the playing days of the mask are over.

“A lot of customers will bring old masks back to get it to look like new again so they can keep it behind glass, or keep it on the wall as a keep sake.”

Lima also appreciates

his masks are art that jocks might appreciate more than most.

“The first thing a goal ie is going to do when he takes a new mask in the dressing room is show half the guys,” he said.

“No way it’s fine art, but it is a good way for people to express them selves.”

While definitely objects of art, painting masks is also a business, one which Lima said is ‘slowly but surely getting busier’.

“I’m just finish ing one up for the Flin Flon Bombers (of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League),” he said.

The Bombers are also a team which have turned to a painted mask for more than protecting their netminder. Last year the SJHL team com missioned a work from Lima which was auc tioned off as an art piece as a fundraiser. “It was their director of mar keting that called me,” said the artist, adding he hasn’t seen a lot of that sort of interest in masks yet, but he sees it as an area with potential to grow.

Chubak too has seen interest in the business of painting masks. “Oh man, I’m doing lots.

it can be as many as five a week this time of year. It can be pretty hectic. It’s a lot of late nights, and a lot of early mornings.

impatient, so I think my customers are too, so

don’t procrastinate.”

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People gathered for the service at the Legislature for the victims of the Holodomor in the Ukraine.

Employment increase in manufacturing

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The Government of Saskatchewan has rec ognized this week as Manufacturing Week in the province, cele brating the significant contributions of the manufacturing sector to Saskatchewan’s economy.

“Our government is proud of the continued growth in the manufac turing sector, which is a major generator of jobs and economic oppor tunities in our prov ince,” Trade and Export Development Minister

Jeremy Harrison said. “Manufacturing is a major contributor in keeping Saskatchewan competitive in domestic and international mar kets. Manufacturing week is a great opportunity to recognize those involved in this important sector.”

Manufacturing con tinues to be a vital area for economic growth and diversification in Saskatchewan. The manufacturing sector contributed $5.1 bil lion to Saskatchewan’s total 2021 real GDP of $77.4 billion. This repre

sents about 6.6 per cent of Saskatchewan’s GDP, which is an increase of 0.5 percentage points from the previous year.

The Government of Saskatchewan has also released a report entitled Overview of the Manufacturing Sector in Saskatchewan 2022. The report provides data on manufacturing GDP, the number and size of busi nesses, employment, shipments, earnings, and capital investment.

Highlights include: Employment in the manufacturing sector in

Saskatchewan increased by 2.9 per cent in 2021. This increase is partly due to growth in global and domestic demand.

Saskatchewan had 1,892 manufacturing establishments in 2021 and most (94.1 per cent) of them were small busi nesses.

Saskatchewan’s inter national exports of manu factured goods totaled

$7.6 billion in 2021 and made up 20.6 per cent of Saskatchewan’s net exports.

Between 2020 and 2021, Saskatchewan’s manufacturing ship ments grew by 33.2 per cent (second highest among the provinces).

Saskatchewan’s Growth Plan includes a goal to increase the value of manufacturing exports

by 50 per cent by the year 2030. That goal will be achieved by ensuring Saskatchewan has a com petitive tax and regula tory environment for investment, expanding access to Canadian and international markets for Saskatchewan manu facturers and creating incentives that improve efficiency and accelerate investment.

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YORKTON — Legacy Co-op Board of Directors have approved a modular farm project to be operated on the Yorkton food store site.

“Through this project we will secure safe, healthy leafy greens grown on our own locations, as a part of our sustaina bility pillar. Given the volatility in price and supply of leafy greens right now, it was a great time to invest in this type of operation,” stated Bruce Thurston, General Manager of Legacy Co-op.

Legacy Co-op will add a 10 foot by 40 foot, insulated, pre-fabricated modular growing system behind the Yorkton food store.

“The container is currently in the building stages and will arrive for place ment in the spring and the first crop will take six to eight weeks from grow until harvest,” continued Thurston.

The system includes everything needed to grow fresh produce all year, securing safe, healthy food that is not

trucked hundreds of miles or depend ent on weather events. Benefits of this type of project include:

• fresh, sustainable, and safe pro duce grown in any climate all year

• unique hands-on learning and edu cational experiences

• promotion of healthy, nutritious eating and wellness

• community engagement through partnerships and donation initiatives

• increase in self-sufficiency of our food supply

• creation of meaningful employ ment opportunities

• creation of an economically selfsufficient project with predictable costs

• allows Legacy Co-op to offer a house brand to differentiate them from the market

• up to 140 different types of leafy greens can be grown

“We are very excited to see the bene fits that this type of project will add to our food operation,” stated Teresa Polegi, Food Division Manager for Legacy Co-op.

Rush coach pleased with training camp

Saskatchewan Rush fans are hoping for a better season ahead than the one finished in the spring, since the team missed the cut and watched the play offs from the sidelines.

Rush coach Jimmy Quinlan is of course hoping for better things too, especially as this will be his first full season as the man calling the shots after taking the reins late last season.

So how has it been running his first training camp as head coach?

“It’s been good – to be honest I was quite nervous going into it,” he told Yorkton This Week in a recent interview.

While there were some nerves early, overall Quinlan said he has been pleased with how training camp progressed, adding that transpired by being focused.

“We had a very good plan,” he said, adding that while following the plan was something of a road map through camp, they were also adaptive as required.

Quinlan said when they have seen areas which need some added attention, they have been ready to shift gears to deal with whatever has popped up, add ing those re “the nuances” of a camp.

“All-in-all it’s been a lot of fun,” he said. “. . . I’m happy with the ways things are going.”

Certainly the Rush have looked solid through preseason. In their first game they thumped Buffalo 15-6 – the same Bandits team they lost to in the NLL East final in the spring.

Then it was the Toronto Rock in a game where the offence was again rolling, but the end result gave Quinlan something to work on.

The Rush won the game 16-14 over the Rock, but almost let the game slip away.

While Toronto never held the lead they did tie the game late, before the Rush scored the winning goal in the final minute.

The issue was giving up a substantial lead, which included being up 9-3, 10-4, and 10-6 at halftime.

Quinlan said the offence has looked sharp.

“We’ve scored in all facets of the game,” he said, but he then reminded preseason games are hard to

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measure given incomplete starting rosters and often not the top netminder for the whole game.

In the game Nick Rose played the first half in net for the Rock allowing 10 goals, while Troy Holowchuk played the second half and allowed five goals.

The Rush also split goaltending. Eric Penney start ed and gave up four goals. Cameron Dunkerley gave up nine goals in his time, with Laine Hruska playing the final 15 minutes and allowed one goal.

New addition Alex Buque did not see action against the Rock, but he did draw praise from his new coach.

“He’s been very good,” said Quinlan, adding that extends beyond stopping the ball, He said Buque “has been a great fit for the team,” which he deemed critical. “. . . He loves being around our team.”

Buque did start in the Rush’s last preseason game in Calgary, a 9-8 overtime win where Buque and Penney drew praise from radio announcers as did Roughnecks netminder Christian Del Bianco.

The win gave the Rush a perfect 3-0 preseason record.

Having Buque among four netminders vying for time is a good thing reasoned Quinlan.

“It gives us more flexibility,” said the coach.

As for offence, the Rush are seeing a mix of veter ans and youngsters potting goals.

One of those young guns is high draft pick Jake Boudreau who was the hero against the Rock as he scored with 41 seconds to play, for the go-ahead goal, and 35 seconds later, he also scored the empty net goal that sealed the 16-14 win.

Quinlan said he’ll take the goals.

“We were very happy with the results at the offen sive end,” he said, but added “we didn’t like the result” in terms of letting the Rock back into the game.

Boudreau is among a crop of young players Quinlan said are going to play a role on this season’s Rush team including Austin Madronic, Ryan Barnable, Jerrett Smith and Marshall Powless, Clark Walter among those looking good through camp.

The Rush are also not without star power with experience, with Mark Matthews, Robert Church and Ryan Keenan expected to score tons of goals, and Dan Lintner and Josh Currier chipping in too over the sea son, while Kyle Rubisch, Ryan Dilks, Mike Messenger and Matt Beers anchor the defence.

“It’s a really good mix,” offered Quinlan, adding the key will be to put the young players “. . . in a pos ition to just go out and play.”

The Rush start the regular season Dec. 3, hosting the Colorado Mammoth.

Popular holiday season tradition returns to Canora

2022 Christmas season, and will continue until Dec. 16.

The Yuletide Toy Drive is underway for the

One of the highlights of the initiative is Fill the

Sleigh Day on Dec. 3 at the Canora Red Apple Store, when an ambulance will be parked outside the store. Local and area resi dents are encouraged to “Help us fill the ambu lance and bring a smile to a child’s face.”

The Yuletide Toy Drive has become a much-anticipated high light of the holidays each year, according to Jocelyn Weinbender, spokes person.

“It’s special hav ing the opportunity to help families in need, with the focus on kids,” said Weinbender. “It’s a mark of hope in human ity, and it’s definitely needed. We’re noticing more people are needing it each year. Things are not getting easier for fam ilies.”

“The Yuletide Toy Drive is in memory of the late Byron Chayeski, an advanced care paramedic in Canora.”

Chayeski organized the first drive in 2010. At that time it was known as the Yuletide Medic Drive.

reminded that food items are not accepted for this toy drive. Instead, food should be donated to vari ous food hampers around Canora. For safety and health concerns, only new items should be donated, no used items.

Donations of new items that are encouraged include: books, mitts, toys, crafts, games and so on.

Donations may be made at the following locations during busi ness hours until Dec. 16: Red Apple, Canora Credit Union, Canora CIBC, and 802 Norway Road South.

“We get everything ahead of time, then let it sit for 24 hours for safety purposes,” said Weinbender. “All gifts get wrapped by volunteers, with deliveries to take place Dec. 20-22.”

Finding volunteers to

help with the toy drive never seems to be a problem, according to Weinbender, whether it’s working at the Red Apple Store, or helping with gift wrapping.

Cash donations are also accepted at the Red Apple and at 802 Norway Road. This provides wel come flexibility to fill gaps if a specific gift is lacking for a certain age group.

A total of 64 children from 22 families received toys in time for Christmas in 2021.

Red Apple has made a commitment to donate 10 per cent of all sales on Dec. 3, Fill the Sleigh Day, back to the Yuletide Toy Drive for further toy purchases.

Anyone looking for more information regarding donations or

wishing to be considered for gifts is encouraged to call 306-563-5625 until Dec. 16. Any families that request gifts are assured that they will remain anonymous.

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During the annual Yuletide Toy Drive, an ambulance will be parked at the Red Apple Store in Canora for Fill the Sleigh Day on Dec. 3. The goal will be to fill it with as many toys as were accumulated in previous years, or even more.

As is the case year, the goal is to provide gifts for kids of all ages, from new borns to Grade 12.

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For Lima the idea of creating goalie mask art was a true natural, given his artistic interest, and his involvement in the game. “I’m a goalie for starters. I’ve painted masks really since I was a kid. I remember taking ball hockey masks, taping them and paint them using aero sol cans (of paint), he said.

An air brush artist, Chubak said his involvement in masks came almost by accident. Chubak said he had always liked to draw, but found his artist niche when his wife gave him an airbrush in 1996.

“I just put my heart into it. It was something I thought I could be good at,” he said in a previous Yorkton This Week interview.

Since then, his ‘canvases’ read a lit tle like a list on a corner yard sale. He said he has painted toilet seats, add ing with a chuckle he only paints new ones, cell phones, guitars, snowboards, Harley Davidsons, Hummers and goalie masks. “A guy work wanted me to do his goalie mask and after that it was word-

of-mouth, one would come, and then another,” he said, adding he is probably nearing 200 he has painted over the last few years.

Chubak said he enjoys the masks knowing they’ll be viewed by hundreds of fans.

Ideally, a goaltender provides a basic idea and then allows Chubak the artist freedom to be creative around the chosen theme. “I tend to like those people that give me a free rein.”

One of Chubak’s favourite masks was a dragon theme.

“Every scale was done on it. I tried to get in as much detail as possible … I tried to meticulously do the mask. I spent hours and hours on it,” he said.

That is the great thing about paint ing masks, “you just never know what’s going to be the next project,” said Chubak. He added he is currently work ing on a mask where the customer has told him to just go wild. The piece has skulls up the side, moving into the mists with some ghouls, while the top of the helmet is “a demented dragon head

Sask city mayors

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Saskatchewan’s city mayors continue to be con cerned by the challenges faced by their most vul nerable residents and are calling on the Government of Saskatchewan to review both the Saskatchewan Income Support program and the Social Housing Program.

“These programs are supposed to help our residents in need. But we continue to see individ uals struggle to either pay their rent or gain access to affordable social hous ing. This is unaccept able,” Mayor Gerald Aalbers, Chair of SUMA’s City Mayors’ Caucus, said. “Homelessness creates significant public safety concerns for both those experiencing it and our communities as a whole.”

Concerns were raised last year about the Saskatchewan Income Support program as rental payments were provided to program recipients instead of being paid directly to landlords. Following calls for change, the province reinstated direct pay

ments for some clients, but inconsistency with the program continues to be a barrier for those in need.

“The cost-of-liv ing is rising, and the Saskatchewan Income Support program is not meeting the essential needs of those who rely on it,” said Mayor Aalbers, who also serves as SUMA’s Vice-President of Cities.

“Rent within the province has increased 10 to 15 per cent and both Crown utility corporations have raised their rates, while a

single adult in Regina or Saskatoon only receives $600 per month for shel ter and utilities.”

The mayors also con tinue to be concerned by the more than 3,000 affordable housing units that sit vacant throughout the province, some chronically so. Saskatchewan’s Social Housing Program, admin istered by local housing authorities on behalf of the Saskatchewan Housing Corporation, is designed to provide safe

with ram horns on it.”

Lima agreed unique works are the most interesting. He is currently work ing on a mask for someone familiar to fans of Junior hockey in Yorkton’ Michael Clague, the younger brother of former Yorkton Terrier and SJHL Most Valuable Player Jason Clague. The piece exemplifies what an artist Lima enjoys doing. It is the third mask for the younger Clague who now plays senior hockey for the Lloydminster Border Kings. The first two masks were in team colours, but with the new mask the goaltender and artist are taking the art in a new direction.

“This time we went totally different. It has a medieval theme,” said Lima, explaining the overall look is that of a castle wall, with a king, signifying the Border Kings, in full armour and carry ing a sword.

“It’s a lot more fun than the other ones. A lot of the projects I’ve got on the go right now are fun projects,” he said. “It’s fun to have to push yourself.”

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and adequate housing to families and seniors with low incomes and people with disabilities.

“Affordable hous ing units should not be sitting vacant when we know there is a need for affordable and stable accommodations,” Mayor Aalbers said. “The Social Housing Program, specifically housing cri teria and maintenance, needs to be reviewed to ensure that these hous ing units are being util ized.”

Another mask in progress is being created as a tribute to a lost friend of the goaltender. It will incorporate the dead friend’s name, and angels. “It will be a challenging mask to do,” said Lima.

Chubak said it can be difficult to see a mask leave the shop, knowing it will be abused on the ice every night, and most likely painted over in time – he adds he has goaltenders who have new art applied every season or two. “I’ve done some jobs that it was very hard to give back. I thought ‘wow to me these look really nice’.”

Chubak said he is just pleased when customers like the masks they have had painted, adding that is equal to having his art in any gallery. He recalled one young netminder who took the mask and began to look at it closely.

“Then he closed his eyes and actual ly dropped to his knees. He said ‘I’ve got to get my breath. I don’t want to use this one. I want to get another mask to use. I never expected anything this good.”

The City Mayors’ Caucus discussed con cerns with both programs

during their caucus meeting on November 24 in Regina.

If you’ve read any of my columns before, you know that I try to seek some element of humour in life’s challenging circumstances even when, some may argue, not appropriate.

Why? The following may offer a small hint … Imagine being an innocent preteen and paging through a photo album at your grandmother’s house. You and your sibling are laughing at the grey and white pictures of relatives — some recognizable and many not. You giggle at what they’re wearing and at their funny-looking haircuts until … you turn to the last few pages. There lies not one, not two, but many pictures of … dead people!

Apparently one of the traditions my ancestors embraced was hoarding keep-sake pictures of belov ed corpses lying in their coffins. I don’t know if I experienced PTSD after that, but something in my personality shifted. (When I’m screaming in the nurs ing home some day, at least you’ll know what that’s all about.) But, picking up from my last article …

The second of the two things my father had not arranged for his funeral was which colour and kind of flowers he wished splayed across his coffin. I suspect he did this on purpose because he knew how I felt about any flower present at a funeral. Perhaps my

opinion alone, but I feel they’re simply a reminding example of something else that will die. I mean, who started this?

“Yes, Uncle was alive and now … he’s dead. Here’s a beautiful rose to console you in your grief … until in three days, it’s dead too.” (Like I said … perhaps only my opinion.)

A bit more about my trip to my father’s graveside …

Not only had we started a fad, proven by the major ity of names now etched on the posteriors of each tombstone in the cemetery where my father lay, but one of the newest marble statues was clearly unlike

all the others. It was a much brighter colour and it also had, inscribed on the back, not just one but a long list of other names. I moved in closer and realized the listing was of each child born to the deceased.

I stared at that. For awhile.

My sister’s eyes fell on it shortly after mine and by my lack of expression, or perhaps because of it, she inquired, “Thoughts?”

So many were those reeling through my brain, but the two I chose to voice were, “One — I certainly hope no one writes my name on one of these before I’m the one underneath it.” And two — “I feel that when and where I’m buried, that should be my moment. Once you spit those kids out they get all the attention. Must they have this too?”

Perhaps this will become the new fad now, but as my kids know I’ve never overly concerned myself with the fads of the day anyway. I am proud of them but I’ll come out of the grave if anyone attempts to inscribe their name on a tombstone before their time. I just can’t believe that bodes well. (And I’m not “super” or even a “little”stitious. It’s just creepy.)

My funny bone wants to plan my slab now. Depending on the circumstance, I’m thinking: “I Told You I was Sick” or “I Was a Writer. There May Be Many Suspects” (the very reason I don’t mention specific names in these articles).

My daughter knows how I feel about all of this and she’s heard about the “death album”. She once said, “You better start being okay with having your picture taken while your alive, Mom, or else we’ll have to resort to a picture when you’re dead, just to remem ber you.” I smiled widely and said “cheese” then.

In finishing with this topic … perhaps it’s just me but I think wise judgment should be executed when planning these end-of-life sorts of things. To each his or her own but remember … those tombstones last a long time. Not like the flowers. I’d still like to speak to the person who started that fad … pdjanzen.com (website and blog)

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I could not tell you exactly how old I was, but at least at an age where I was allowed into grand ma’s basement on my own.

In one corner was a smallish wooden cup board, in a sort of weird purplish colour. I recall the colour well because I have never repainted the cupboard and it sits in my game room upstairs still.

The cupboard has a door, and a bit like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when I opened it, I was transported to a whole bunch of truly magical worlds for inside were a bunch of books that were my dad’s when he was a youngster.

There were Hardy Boy mysteries, and years later I would interview Brian McFarlane whose father wrote many of the myster ies under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon, which is just too cool not to toss in here.

Then there was the classic Three Musketeers, a copy that still resides as one of the ‘green-cover’ books on our coffee table.

And there was a copy of Robin Hood, likely the first book I read among those found, and I was hooked. I played Robin and his merry men with neighbor kids, and alone on the farm as I traipsed

the creek bed with a stick in hand – an imaginary bow ready to fend off the sheriff’s men I imagined hidden in the trees.

This was years before the first pong video game, and yet was better than any video game created since. The imagination is a wonderful thing when allowed to roam free.

So let’s jump ahead about 50 years, and I am an avid gamer, and I come upon the role playing game Sherwood.

As you might have guessed by now, “Sherwood is a game about outlaws. Like the earliest outlaw stories, it takes place in an England of chivalric romance, so the outlaws may encoun ter aristocratic sorcer ers and mythical beasts or wield strange magic of their own. Like the later outlaw stories, the out laws are not waiting for a true king to return and grant pardons, but have gone to the woods to pur sue justice and rescue people from predatory powers that be.”

Imagine role play ing in Sherwood Forest – where my grandfather always said he played as a child – although wheth er that was a tale for a small boy clutching the

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aforementioned book in his hands, or actual reality I never did learn – not that it mattered for I believed every word he said between puffs on his pipe.

So with Sherwood you become an outlaw.

“Even if a sheriff never declared your character a wolf ’s head, you do not need to worry about what a typical medieval villager or aristocrat would do or think. The forest is too grand a place for polite society’s petty anxieties about sexuality, gender, and propriety. Make your char acter whomever you want them to be,” details the intro to the game.

“Struggle for justice, scheme for revenge, plot for personal gain. Set some goals for your outlaw and your band that are bigger, wilder, and more wonderful than your character’s former, respect able world allowed.

“While the traditional Robin Hood ballads do not foreground the magical and mysterious, plenty of Robin Hood novels, movies, and television shows have, and many other medieval outlaw’s stories included curses, prophecies, spell craft, fey spirits, and even drag ons.”

To say the mythos is one that is ideal for an RPG would be obvious, and to say it intrigues this writer is rather obvious too I would imagine.

It is very much a Dungeons & Dragons game pared down to a more human story, overlaid on one of the most iconic and classic of takes; Robin Hood.

So I had to catch up to game cre ator Richard Ruane via email for more insights into this one.

“I’m a regular gamer and am cur rently in two campaigns other than play testing my own stuff: Big Eyes Small Mouth (using the current 4th edition) and Trail of Cthulhu,” he began.

“Over the past couple of years, I’ve run Romance of the Perilous Land, Whitehack, Old School Essentials, So You Want to Be an Adventurer, 2400, Troika!, World of Dungeons, Solar Blades and Cosmic Spells, Nights Black Agents, and a homebrewed mashup of the Cepheus and Classic Traveller rules. I’ve also gotten to play a good bit of Undying, Monster of the Week, Good Society, Into the Odd, and The Black Hack.

“The game I’m currently most obsessed with is Liminal Horror, though Psi*Run is probably my all-time favor ite.”

So how did Sherwood come to be?

“When I finished work on Enoch’s Wake last year, I wanted to make a game that used the same core rules in a different context,” said Ruane. “At that time, I’d recently finished reading Robin McKinley’s Outlaws of Sherwood and rewatching most of ITV’s Robin of Sherwood (from the 80s) and BBC’s Robin Hood (for the 2000s), so doing a quick game on Robin Hood seemed like a good place to start.

“But then I started digging into

novels, scholarship, and the original 15th century ballads, and the focus of the game kept shifting.”

Ruane said he ended up wanting to create a game where the players focused more on the ‘story’ of their characters.

“I’d love to get people to think about both the romance around outlawry but also where people who’ve been exiled and outlawed came from and how they got there,” he offered. “I’m less inter ested in trying to make a game that simulates the Middle Ages and more interested in capturing the feel of being part of the outlaws in Sherwood that you might get from the early ballads or the fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries.”

In that regard Sherwood is a playerdriven system.

“GM’s don’t roll, but they do respond and assign consequences when a player fails a roll,” said Ruane. “They’ll also notice that Session 1 will run heroic ally, with the PCs usually having the resources they need to succeed. After that, though, their resources get tighter and sessions involve making tougher decisions.”

The game core happened rather quickly, the depth of lore less so.

“Since I already had the core mech anics, most of the work was digging deeper into the Robin Hood legend,” said Ruane. “I took a deep dive into movies, fiction, historical legends, and a handful of scholarly books, which took about six months, with another month for editing and getting the manuscript

through editing and into layout.”

When asked what the most difficult aspect of designing the game was Ruane had an interesting reply?

“Knowing when to stop the research,” he said.

“Over a few months, I watched a lot of television episodes (from the Hannah Weinstein-lead Adventures of Robin Hood in the 50s to Robin of Sherwood in the 80s to BBC’s Robin Hood in the 2000s), watched over a dozen movies (from the famous 1938 Adventures of Robin Hood to low-budget films from Hammer and the Taron Eggerton-lead Robin Hood from 2018), and ballads and novels from the over the past 600 years.

“The research was energizing and a lot of fun, but knowing when it was time to stop and really start working on the manuscript was tough.”

Of course this is not the first Robin Hood-themed RPG, so what does this game offer that others don’t?

“There are more than a few Robin Hood-inspired games out there, sev eral of which I love -- especially the story game approach used by Shannon McMaster in Forest Outlaws and Scott Malthouse’s Romance of the Perilous Land,” said Ruane. “The distinctive aspect of Sherwood is the character cre ation system that looks at where the outlaws came from socially and what drove them to leave everything behind and flee to the woods.”

You can find Sherwood at r-rook.itch. io/sherwood

Christmas spirit alive and well in Sturgis

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“Some people say if you walk down Main Street in Sturgis dur ing the night or day you will find it to be magical and joyous,” said Karen Rose, town resident and decorator.

The project started last year. Through a cre ative idea of Councillor Aileen Lubiniecki the decorating continued to spread to include the Sturgis Regional Park. Businesses and organ

izations were invited to participate in creating displays throughout the park.

“People are invited to come down to the park and either walk or drive by to see all the displays lit up.” said Lubiniecki. The Santa night for the unveiling all the unique decorated sites is sched uled for Dec. 12.

The decorating of the downtown core of the Town of Sturgis began when a small commit tee was formed with the

focus on downtown for Christmas like it had been done in the past. The committee was made up of Karen Rose, Daniel Wasylenchuk and Valerie Skurdal.

The committee then started the process of purchasing decorations that included lights, hardware and garland.

The decorations were purchased by Karen Rose and Valerie Skurdal. Daniel Wasylenchuk made the pine boxes that held the smaller decor

ated Christmas trees and Walter Rose built all the wooden trees.

The decorations and garland were made by Karen Rose who “has always loved decorating for the Christmas sea

Lions donate $2500 to nutrition program

By Tyson Off Staff Writer

YORKTON – Members of the Yorkton Lions Club presented a $2500 to the Dr. Brass Nutrition Program on the morning of Nov. 24 at an assembly held in the school’s gymnasium.

“It helps out with cost of food, cost of utensils...it just goes a long way to help feed the kids,” said Amanda Banga, Nutrition Worker with Dr. Brass, of the donation.

The breakfast program runs each morning at the school and delivers toast, cereals, yogourts, apples and oranges to students who may otherwise go without.

“We serve anywhere from 35–40 kids a day—so it’s a big chunk—and with gro ceries going up now it helps a lot,” said Banga.

“We make it an enjoyable environ ment for the kids to start off their day.”

From left to right, Lion Dave Blommart, Dr. Brass Nutrition Worker Amanda Banga, Lion John Bauman, Lion Allan Konkin and Lion Peter Legebokoff.

Divinity student serves as Kamsack United Church minister

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Ryan Sawchuk, who has been serving as the minister at Westminster Memorial United Church in Kamsack since September, expects he’ll be eligible to be ordained in about 20 months.

“I’m doing the min

istry half-time,” Sawchuk said recently during a meeting in the church’s office. “The other half, I’m studying at school.” Sawchuk, who already holds a bachelor of theol ogy degree, is a student at St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon where he is working towards his mas ter of divinity degree.

Once he has completed that work, much of which is done online, and after completing a few other necessities, he will be a candidate for ordination.

In the meantime, he is working with the United Church of Canada in Supervised Ministry Education under guid ance of an ordained min

ister in Yorkton.

“Ministry is a complex and demanding vocation that requires depth of character and numer ous competencies,” says an item in the United Church’s website. “The policies and procedures for Supervised Ministry Education aim to sup port candidates in their

formation for the chal lenging and rewarding role of ministry leader ship through a practical learning experience. They also aim to support the church in assessing a candidate’s competence for ministry leadership.

“The goal of Supervised Ministry Education is to develop

and deepen a candidate’s competence for ministry leadership.”

Born and raised at Dundurn, Sawchuk said that although his sur name is Ukrainian, none of his family has spoken the language for a few generations and family members have been com fortable attending the United Church.

A 2014 graduate of Hanley Composite School in Hanley, Sawchuk then enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan and short ly thereafter he switched to St. Andrew’s.

“I felt called to the ministry when I was about 19,” he said. “I started taking classes at school, found it interest ing, and continued.”

Sawchuk is the first minister at Westminster Memorial since Rev. Kevin Sprong returned home to South Africa. In the interim, Gwen Reilkoff of Kamsack has been serving as the con gregation’s lay minister.

Among his non-school and non-ministerial interests, Sawchuk said he enjoys theatre and hopes to be able to work with the Kamsack Players as Sprong had done.

“Kamsack is lovely. Wonderful,” he said, add ing that he has found that people have been very friendly and welcoming.

“It’s a nice, big town,” he said, smiling, explaining that his home town has a population of only about 600.

Since the beginning of September, Ryan Sawchuk, who was born and raised at Dundurn, has been serving as the minister at Westminster Memorial United Church.

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Servings: 24

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup whipping cream

225 grams semi-sweet chocolate tablespoon butter tablespoons cocoa powder tablespoons powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS

In a medium saucepan, bring the cream to a boil. Meanwhile, chop the choco-

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Servings: 2

INGREDIENTS

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1/4 cup whole cranberries, frozen

3/4 cup cranberry juice

1/4 cup simple syrup

1/3 cup vodka

3/4 cup soda or tonic water sprigs fresh rosemary

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Servings: 2

INGREDIENTS

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• 1/4 cup vodka

• 2 tablespoons white vermouth

• 2 tablespoons crème de menthe

• 1-1/2 teaspoons spearmint cream

• 2 candy canes

• 4 red maraschino cherries

• 2 green maraschino cherries

DIRECTIONS

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Parkland College sees record number of women in trades

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YORKTON – Parkland College has a record number of women cur rently enrolled in skilled trade and technology sector programs at their Trades & Technology Centre. The nine women who are enrolled in Welding, Agricultural Equipment Technician and Power Engineering programs make up 22% of their skilled trade and technology students.

“Typically, we see only a handful of women spread across our skilled trade and technology programs so we were elated to see such an increase this year,” explained Malena Vroom, Post Secondary Education, Chair. “Promoting our trades programs to women has been an on-going strategic goal at the college for several years because women are an underrepre sented group in the skilled trades,” Vroom.

According to the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission (SATCC), as of June 30, 2022, 10 per cent of Saskatchewan apprenti

ces self-identified as female and almost six per cent of Saskatchewan apprenti ces were females registered in trades where women are underrepresented. Encouraging women to pursue appren ticeships and careers in the skilled trades is also a priority for the SATCC.

Welding student, Vienna Severight, said “I knew I wanted to pursue a career that would allow me to be active and earn a decent living. Although I had no prior knowledge or experience with welding, I had the opportunity in high school to be part of a Tiny House project that exposed me to trades and apprenticeship opportunities.” When asked what it’s like to be one of the few women in the class she explained, “it really makes you push yourself and learn as much as you can from your instructors and fellow classmates.”

Parkland College hopes to see a continued increase in women entering their trades programs in the years to come. Applications are now open for programs starting in fall of 2023 and interested students are encouraged to apply before programs reach capacity.

Blowout win for Maulers in Sunday match

By Calvin Daniels & Tyson Off Staff Writers

The Yorkton SECON Maulers only generated 22 shots on Nov. 23 as they defended home ice against the Regina Pat Canadians.

And, unfortunately for the home side no Mauler shot eluded Regina netminder Taylor Tabashniuk who earned a shut-out.

Meanwhile Mauler goaltender Blake Sittler faced 25 shots, allowing five goals in the loss.

Regina scored once in the first period on a shot by Ryan McDonald.

Nolan Stevenson made it 2-0 for Regina with the only goal of the second period, a power play effort.

Casey Brown made it 3-0 in the third period with Regina’s second powerplay goal of the game.

It was then Jaxon Skiftun’s turn to shine, scoring two goals in 16 seconds to round out the 5-0 Pat Canadians win.

The Maulers went on to play back to back games against the Saskatoon Contacts on Nov. 26 and 27 resulting in a shootout loss in their first match and an oppressive win in their second.

In game one of the weekend matches, the first period had the Maulers’ Edward Knittig capitalize on a power play effort which was answered by the Contacts’ Braeden Jockims.

The second period had the Maulers’ Leo Jewitt hit the target on the power play and was followed up with a goal from the team’s Tanner Wiens. The Contacts’ Zach Moore closed out

the scoring for the second period on a power play effort.

The Maulers opened up the scoring early in the first with a goal coming by way of Alex Morrison. The Contacts’ Braden Nienaber scored on a power play effort with the team’s Luke Korte tying the game later on.

The latter half of the third and overtime per iods saw a stalemate and the game was forced into a shootout with the Contacts’ coming out vic torious.

Wayne Bouvier was in net for the Maulers, facing 40 shots and block ing 36.

Logan Edmonstone was in net for the win, 35 shots and blocking 31.

The Maulers’ Edward Knittig and the Contacts’ Zach Moore were award ed stars of the game.

The Maulers show cased a dominating win over the Contacts in their second weekend match on Nov. 27.

Kyle Weisgarber was the first to put the Maulers on the board and the goal was answered by the Contacts’ Zach Moore on a power play effort. Moore’s goal would be the Contacts last of the game.

The Maulers’ Leo Jewitt put two in the net before the end of the first period and another for the hat trick to kick off the second period.

Shaden Duliak scored another in the latter half of the second and a shorthanded goal from Sam Cristo closed out the period.

Tyler Gudjonson was the first to score in the third period and Duliak scored his second of the game on a power play

effort. A dominating 8-1 performance from the home team.

Blake Sittler was in net for the win, facing 23 shots.

Logan Edmonstone

was netminder for the first period, facing 5 shots and allowing 3. Chase Wutzke was in net for the second and third period, facing 23 shots and saving 17.

Leo Jewitt was award ed the first star of the game for his efforts and the Contacts’ Spencer Chestolowski was award ed the second.

The Maulers will trav

el to Tisdale on Dec. 3 to face the Trojans, Regina on Dec. 7 to face the Pat Canadians and will host the Prince Albert Mintos on Dec. 10 at Westland Arena.

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