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All-black Saskatchewan baseball team being inducted into Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame

By Sierra D’Souza Butts Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The World-Spectator Moosomin) The 1950s all black baseball team—The Rockets—a team that contributed to Saskatchewan’s rich baseball heritage, is being inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, and an exhibition on the team’s history will be opening at the Indian Head Museum to honor the team.

“Baseball was huge, I think it was even bigger than hockey in the early part of the last century. People appreciated when they got to see high class baseball,” said Robyn Jensen, president of the Indian Head Museum.

She said explained why The Rockets are so significant to the community of Indian Head.

“Well if you think about what was going on in the States, from the history of the 1950s, there was still a lot of racial segregation going on in the States. There was a lot of stuff going on there so a lot of the black players, they didn’t get a lot of time to play in the major league (of baseball). There was Jackie Robinson, he was one of the few players that went on to play in the MLB, Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Greene, they got to play for the Cardinals and the Red Sox.” “But a lot of them played in the ‘Negro Leagues’ down in the States, and that’s as far as they got and these players were Class A players, like unbelievable players. Imagine if Wayne Gretzky and his team came, and played at the rink in Indian Head, that’s the caliber of baseball that came up to Canada, to Saskatchewan to Indian Head. We were getting rural class baseball in these small communities.”

For a while now, the museum has been collaborating with Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum (SACHM) and the Society of Baseball Research (SABR) on collecting Rockets research and stories.

Jensen said she hopes the upcoming exhibit of The Rockets, teaches people about the history of the team.

“Well I think people need to understand what

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The all Black Indian Head Rockets are being inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and an exhibit about the team, will be opening in June 2022 at the Indian Head Museum. took place here. This is a story that needs to be told, people need to know that when this community got together they made things happen,” she said.

“They (The Rockets) brought 25,000 to 30,000 people to the town. They brought in CP rail cars with sleeping cots to accommodate the extra visitors in town. Local garages would open up their space for sleeping, people would actually just say ‘hey, do you want to come over to our house and sleep here?’

They would bring in so much local economy, the money that was generated in this town during the tournaments were astronomical. It’s a story of a little community that could, and then a story of the class of baseball that was brought to Saskatchewan that people had the opportunity to see.”

The museum’s vicepresident, Janine Moses-Randle, said it is important for people to know the history of The Rockets.

“I think part of it is when you think back to what society was like in the 1950s and we still are, but there was a lot of racism, there was a lot of racial tension and the community (here) was able to look beyond their prejudices. They welcomed these young boys into their homes and into their community, so I feel like it’s a story that we can all learn from,” she said.

“Those young boys, I’m sure they weren’t sure how they were going to be perceived up here, coming from down in the states, but everyone embraced them, and why can’t we do that nowa-

days, to look beyond that.”

“The community saw them as young boys, they saw them as baseball players, they welcomed them into their homes. I think it’s something we can all learn from, we need to accept people for who they are and not judge them by the color of their skin,” said Moses-Randle.

This year The Rockets will also be inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, in Battleford.

Jensen said the story of The Rockets is significant to the month of February– Black History Month.

“Well, we’re working with the Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum and Carol La Fayette-Boyd said, ‘a lot of people just don’t know that this happened, being part of Black History Month is to just share their story.

To say this happened and that they were here, they contributed to the history of baseball in Saskatchewan and in Western Canada. It just needs to be remembered.’”

“I think it’s one of those things because it happened 70 years ago, it’s kind of that precipice where the story could get lost to the fans of that time,” Jensen said.

The Rockets originally came from Jacksonville, Florida to Indian Head Saskatchewan in the 1950s. Jensen said one of the players from the team Nat Bates, is still alive “I think Janine and I both felt that we need to collect as much information as we can now, because Nat Bates, who was a pitcher in 1952, I mean he’s 91 years old.

We didn’t think that we would ever find someone to talk to that was a Rocket, we were so

blessed and grateful that we could actually connect with him.”

Jensen said sharing the history of The Rockets is important to the community of Saskatchewan.

“We’re trying to work

with the high schools, when kids are young it’s good for them to see and hear these stories. For them to know that you can do this, you can do this as an individual, you can do this as a community, and you can do this as a baseball player,” she said.

“The ball players that came up here, they came from adversity in the States and they pursued their passion of baseball, regardless of the unknown. Like Janine said, they didn’t know what it was going to happen when they came up here but something fantastic happened and they just pushed through all those insecurities and just kept going.

“As a community you know if you can get a group of people together, magical things can happen and that’s what happened in this town.

The Rockets all pulled together and they brought in world class baseball and 25,000 to

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30,000 people into this town. It’s an incredible story.”

Jensen said digging into research about The Rockets, has been a learning experience.

“I’ve learned a lot, I’ve been talking with people all across Canada in pursue of information for the exhibit and everyone I talk to is just absolutely fascinated with the story, and people want to hear more about it. People said please let us know what you find, it really is a story that is attracting a lot of interest and attention.

“There’s just incredibly kind people out there who just genuinely want to help you.”

Janine Moses-Randle said the exhibit of The Rockets at the Indian Head Museum should be open by the last weekend in June of this year.

“When we have our parade day, we’ll be doing an opening of the exhibit that weekend.”

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Exploring extreme environments could improve pipeline safety Extreme conditions — severe pressure, intense temperatures, and high levels of radiation— exist all over the earth and beyond.

Scientists are using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) to investigate how water and other molecules behave in these extreme environments.

John Tse, a Usask professor of physics and Centennial Enhancement Chair in Material Science, is interested in what happens to organic molecules under extreme pressure and temperature.

Everyday transitions of matter, like how water becomes ice, can look very different in the vacuum of outer space, which is why Tse and several CLS scientists simulated the conditions of space within the CLS’s Brockhouse beamlines.

“The purpose is to look at phenomena that mimic interstellar space,” Tse said. “We try to mimic the conditions so we can look at how things are formed in space.”

Using synchrotron technology, Tse has successfully generated extreme conditions on the beamline, offering a new perspective on how water crystalizes. This may help to explain what

John Tse and Robert Bauer (Usask) setting up the experiment at the Brockhouse (BXDS) facility. happens when liquids and other molecules interact in environments that have strong vacuums and extremely low temperatures.

“When the space shuttle was launched 30 years ago, they found out that water interacted with the organics in the waste lines and it was very interesting to learn how it’s formed,” Tse said.

The findings of the paper, published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry, could also help us understand what happens to water and organic molecules in extreme environments on earth, like oil and natural gas pipelines.

“One other extreme is the BP explosion many years ago [the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico].

It was due to hydrate formation, a compound of water and small molecules, that packed the pipeline causing it to blow up,” Tse said.

Tse says that hydrate formation is a persistent problem in natural gas transfer pipelines that operate in cold weather, like those on the Canadian prairies.

In future experiments, Tse hopes to better understand how these interactions and molecules behave and how to prevent blockages in the lines, which would increase efficiencies and safety in the oil and gas sector.

“These are still academic questions but with very practical applications,” Tse said.

Image courtesy John Tse.

The high vacuum cryogenic vapour deposition system for in-situ simultaneous Raman and X-ray diffraction at the Brockhouse sector (BXDS).

Tse has a long history of working with synchrotrons—from his 1970 PhD project to his work as a Canada Research Chair in synchrotron science.

Over the years Tse has used synchrotron light for a variety of questions and has never stuck to one single technique.

The CLS allows Tse to explore a range of energies—from low energy

like infrared to high energy like hard x-rays— to investigate new problems and find practical solutions.

“This is an exciting instrument that is efficient for the problems I have been looking at over the years and that’s why I use it,” Tse said.

Bauer, Robert PC, Aravind Ravichandran, John S. Tse, Narayan

Appathurai, Graham King, Beatriz Moreno, Serge Desgreniers, and Ramaswami Sammynaiken. “In Situ X-Ray Diffraction Study on Hydrate Formation at Low Temperature in a High Vacuum.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125, no.

48 (2021): 26892-26900. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs. jpcc.1c08108

Emereura says Black History Month about ‘collapsing the walls of division, educating one another, reaching out to one another’

By Sierra D’Souza Butts Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The World-Spectator Moosomin) Every February, people across Canada participate in Black History Month events

and festivities that honour the legacy of Black Canadians and their communities. Frankin Emereura of Moosomin, said Black History Month to him is another way to celebrate history.

“To me there’s not much of a difference of

Black History compared to other histories of the world,” he said.

“When you talk about Black History it’s one of those histories like the history of the world.

I don’t think it’s different from other histories, the only difference

is that some people are not aware, because of differences and because people haven’t travelled for a while, and some are not widely read to know that there are other races and big cultural differences.”

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EDITORIAL Ready to run famed-Iditarod There are numerous iconic sporting events in the world, the Tour De France an example of such an event recognizable by most, even if you are not a fan of bicycle racing Here in North America another iconic race is set to begin March 5, when some 50 mushers and their sled teams will begin the famed Iditarod “Since 1973, mushers have challenged themselves in a race nicknamed The Last Great Race on Earth®, racing each March from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska,” relates iditarod.com. “Nearly a thousand miles in length, mushers and teams travel over mountain ranges, through monotonous, flat tundra, to the western Alaskan coast and finally to the town of Nome, established when gold was discovered there in 1898.”

Interestingly, as the race is celebrating its 50th anniversary no musher from Nome has won the race Aaron Burmeister is hoping to change that Certainly the Nome racer has been in the hunt in recent years. He finished fourth in 2012, third in 2015, and was second in 2021 when he crossed the finish line in 7 days, 17 hours, 23 minutes and 5 seconds, about 3.5 hours back of top finisher Dalla Seavey So is this the year for Burmeister?

“It could be,” he told Yorkton This Week in a recent interview. “We’ve got an amazing dog team.”

Burmeister said the goal of any race is to finish with “a strong, healthy team,” but he added he really wants to win the famed race “and bring a victory to Nome, to be the first musher from Nome to win it.”

To accomplish the goal this year, the 50th for the race would add to the experience Of course every Iditarod is an experience, and for Burmeister that is a lot of experiences since he began racing the event in 1994 “I can remember everything from that race,” he said, adding no race is like the first, but after that as a musher you start to focus on the trail, the dogs, and how to get the team performing at its peak “Every year there’s different challenges,” he said, noting some years it’s too warm, other years’ mushers and dogs face minus-50-60F conditions. Sometimes it’s too little snow, sometimes too much snow, this year will likely be a case of the latter “We’ve got more snow than we’ve had in years,” said

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Sports Burmeister adding the race will of course go on. “We just mush right through it, whatever Mother Nature throws at us.”

It was a year of thin snow which created the highlight of Burmeister’s career to-date It was the 2015 race and the route changed taking the mushers into the community of Huslia at the halfway point of the races. Burmeister was leading the race at that point so he was the first musher into the small community “The community is very much a mushing community,” he said, noting Huslia is a community with a huge tradition of racing including being the home of the late George Attla a champion sprint dog musher, who won 10 Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Championships and eight North American Open championships.

A large portion of Huslia was out to welcome Burmeister “It was an amazing experience . . . Seeing the pride, the first for dog mushing,” he said While Burmeister is a veteran of the race, he notes he was actually racing before he was born “I was on the back of the runners (on a sleigh) in mom’s stomach when she was racing,” he said, so racing is very much a family tradition. He said many racers are second and third generation, but there are other racers who head north and pick up the sport, which has helped keep the sport vibrant “In Alaska it’s something that’s grown a lot the last few years,” he said, adding it’s a sport with its roots dating back to the early 1800s, with portions of the trail following old gold rush routes “The route that most of the race follows is a trail

that was created long before the race became a race.

Used by Native Alaskans for hunting and travel to various villages, the Iditarod Trail was cleared in 1908 by government employees, but it wasn’t until the 1910 gold discoveries in Iditarod which is a ghost town now, Ruby, Ophir, Flat, Nome, Elim, and other villages, that it became regularly used as a means of supplying miners and settlements with mail and supplies, delivered by dog team,” details the race’s web page. “It also provided the route for gold to be sent out of Alaska when the Bering Sea was frozen, preventing ships from reaching Nome for months at a time. Dog sled teams carried gold to the ice-free bay at Seward to be loaded on ships there “Before the time of airplanes delivering mail and supplies to remote Alaskan areas, dog teams did the job. Alaskan Natives had been using dog teams in their way of life, a subsistence lifestyle which depended upon hunting, fishing, and gathering to provide food. Dog teams helped them travel, carry game they hunted, and carry food and water. People who lived in and who explored Alaska used dog teams to survive and explore.”

The history of the trail is part of the allure of the Iditarod said Burmeister, noting that while there are numerous other races, some sprints only 30-40 miles, and other long distance ones such as the Yukon Quest, the big one is Anchorage to Nome “It’s the Indy 500 of dog races, the Super Bowl,” he said, adding it is the place to race the “dogs you bred and raised against the best dogs in the world. You get to be able to get out there with the dogs you’ve raised from puppies, that you’ve trained … And see what they can do.”

While the 2022 field will only be around 50 teams, typically 75 start the race, about 25 per cent pull out before completing the race. It’s a cruelling challenge, but racers still come from across Alaska, Canada, the lower 48 states, and even countries such as Norway and Sweden to take on the 1000 miles of snow Burmeister said he is ready for the challenges of the race, a couple of warm-up 300-mile races under their belts to sharpen the team “ahead of the main event,” and he does hope to carry a win home to Nome when the final flag waves later in March.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH Continued from Page 3 that are originally black so to speak, but migration and other things make people become separate from their root, that’s why when we are talking about black history, we should understand that history is history.”

Emereura says Black History Month about ‘collapsing the walls of division, educating one another, reaching out to one another’ Emereura said he thinks this month represents awareness about cultural divides.

“This is just a month set aside to talk about everything black, but more or less it should be reaching out to make the world a global place, trying to bridge the gaps that divided people from one another, especially those that made them to be seen as black or white, rather than more of peaceful and loving communities,” Emereura said.

“I might be the only black person around here but I will tell you that I’m well received, well accepted, I feel very free.”

“It’s a wonderful com-

munity to be in and I’m hoping maybe more people are going to come, maybe even from Africa around here, because you have people from different backgrounds like Scottish, German, Polish here, but not many black people are here, so if there’s anything I would love to do is to encourage more people to come here so we can make it a loving community and embrace different races.”

He said he found himself in this town by the nature of his job, and is happy he made the choice to come to Moosomin.

He said when he first came to Saskatchewan in 2012, he met people in Mankota.

“Black History Month is one of the things people should know about.

When I first came to Saskatchewan I was discussing with some people and you find out people don’t know certain things because they were never surrounded by them before,” Emereura said.

“The world is becoming a global village everyday, there’s a need to have that awareness in different areas, of culture

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Frankin Emereura of Moosomin shares his thoughts on Black History Month. and practices in life.”

He said his experience in Moosomin has been great and the community has touched him in a positive way.

“It’s very good, in the summer there’s a lot of activities going on, outdoor activities, sporting activities things like that.

It’s something that you love to experience.”

“The community has had an impact to me in different ways, I have met friends here and I haven’t lacked anything, they’re very supportive. From

different projects I’ve done in town or outside of town, the community has been a big support.

Whatever we want to do, they come together and we move together, it’s a very strong place.”

He said some of the projects he has worked on with the community include charity work, volunteering at places like the food bank and the thrift store.

When asked if there was anything in the future he would like to see happen that celebrates Black History Month, Emereura said he wants to celebrate humanity, “What I would like to celebrate is humanity, because there is so much politicizing this black thing, by making people vulnerable. When you can celebrate your brother or your sister, know that he is a brother or she is a sister and not trying to know them by the color of their skin, but by the quality of life that they live, so that is what I would wish to celebrate more.”

“Some politicians have hijacked the whole

issue of black or white sort of thing, so this system of divide will tell people what they want to hear, in order to get their attention and get their votes, they’re promoting that. But what is good is good, what is bad, is bad, irrespective of who is at fault.”

He said by nature people have pre-conceived notions about humans, but educating ourselves can help us do more.

“When you try to educate people let them know that we are all human beings, what is good for you is good for me as well, what is bad for you, is bad for me as well, thinking like that is how we can get rid of discrimination.”

How does he think we can get rid of pre-conceived notions so that everyone can see people as human beings?

“By collapsing the walls of division, educating one another, reaching out to one another,” he said.

“I think that is the main thing we need to do, like what we’re doing in this community,” he

says. “There are no walls here, we’ve collapsed all the walls, we can do things together. When we are together you don’t know whose black or who is white, so by working together we can collapse those walls of division.“

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By Sierra D’Souza Butts, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The World-Spectator Moosomin) For almost five years now, Jessica Baird has been collecting socks and fundraising for research into autoimmune diseases all from her project, The Sock Project.

“Where I’m going with this project is to develop awareness, but also develop community amongst people who are living with autoimmune and chronic illnesses,” said Baird.

“I have also been fundraising for autoimmune research, for which I have raised $53,000.”

She said gifting socks to individuals who live with autoimmune diseases and chronic illness, helps them emotionally.

“It’s an emotional community that comes from it. I would say there’s three different caveats on that, there’s the piece that we live in a very social media online world, so getting the snail mail is one piece of it and it’s just nice to receive that.”

“Then there’s the piece of community that goes with it, where people are really appreciative of the socks and they understand the community aspect that goes with it.”

“Then there is the piece of someone who is out there in the world trying to bring awareness and do something about autoimmune diseases, because they’re not really well known,” Baird said.

Autoimmune disease is when the human body’s immune system mistakenly attacks normal, healthy cells.

Some well-known autoimmune diseases can include type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis.

“You know we have lots of research, and it’s not a bad thing it’s a very good thing, that we have a lot of research on cancer and other things, but autoimmune diseases seem to be something that doesn’t have a lot of awareness or things going on for it,” Baird said.

“There is the Arthritis Society, there is the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation but, that’s about it when you look at it. Globally, there’s not a lot out there.

“It’s the sense of community where someone is helping other people and then there’s the global

aspect where this person is working to help and try to speak for the people with these illnesses, to try and find a cure, because presently there’s no cure for autoimmune diseases.”

Although research has found treatments for individuals who live with autoimmune diseases and chronic illness, studies are still being done to find a cure for the condition.

How pairs of socks, helped Baird’s experience of autoimmunity In 2017, after Baird had to leave work, she was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis—a rare type of arthritis that causes pain and stiffness in the spine.

“It took a whole year to get properly diagnosed, and I’ve been informed that’s really good,” said Baird.

“I was told by this Canadian autoimmune clinic in Ottawa that it takes a male on average eight years to get diagnosed, and a woman 10 years.”

“One of the issues that people struggle with these conditions, because it’s not very well known, is that many doctors think it could just be stress, or you are doing drugs. So it was an unusual year of these symptoms but I was really fortunate and did receive relatively good support.”

“But in that year, I was dealing with really unusual symptoms. I had rashes, I had joint pain, I had upper respiratory problems, and it was a lot of medical appointments of going back and forth to doctors,” she said.

During that year, Baird said the pairs of socks she received from family and friends helped her emotionally get through the process.

“Yes it does help other people but it also helped me. There’s the fact that yes I am helping other people but, it also allowed me to develop a community for myself as well and be able to speak with other people globally like what are you experiencing, what have been your symptoms, and just having that dialogue on social media as well.”

“It was also a support and a great piece to me, to have that community for myself.”

She said it is unique for someone like her to be diagnosed with the autoimmune disease of Ankylosing Spondylitis.

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Jessica Baird, founder of The Sock Project, aims to help people living with autoimmune and chronic illness through gifting colorful and fun socks to people globally. Based on donations, the project also helps to fund research into autoimmune diseases.

“It’s really interesting that I’m a woman living with Ankylosing Spondylitis, which happens to be a male dominated disease. It’s genetic based, it’s inflammatory arthritis of the SI (sacroiliac) joints, which is part of the spinal region,” said Baird.

She said one of the benefits of research being done over the years regarding autoimmune diseases is studies have found that symptoms of the condition, can appear in child bearing years for women.

As such, doctors are able to detect the condition at an earlier age for women, than before.

Story behind The Sock Project Baird talked about how The Sock Project came to light.

Based on her experience from receiving socks and how helpful it was for her, she wanted to pay it forward and help others.

“I felt as if I’m getting this support, then I probably can also be supporting other people with these illnesses,” Baird said.

“I was teaching elementary school and started having all these bizarre, strange medical symptoms. They couldn’t quite figure out the problem, so I left my teaching job for a whole year,” she said.

“In that time there was a girl friend of mine who has lupus disease, which is another auto immune disease, and she said go to the store and buy yourself one pair of

funny socks, and where them to all of your medical appointments.”

“Instead of doing that, I reached out to people and all of my teaching friends, family, a lot of them were from Carleton, and they asked how can they help. I said send me fun silly socks to emotionally help me get through, and suddenly I started receiving thousands and thousands of these fun colorful socks

to emotionally get me through the year.”

Within the last five years, Baird has received 10,000 pairs of socks and has donated 8,000 pairs of socks to individuals who live with autoimmune diseases and chronic illnesses.

“There’s also the piece of living with an autoimmune disease in a pandemic, of having to be extra careful and something that has been really difficult for people is that you can’t be on biologic or immunosuppressant drugs to get vaccinated.”

Baird said the pandemic has also caused another barrier for individuals who live with autoimmune diseases and chronic illness, because the medication they are on to help treat their conditions, conflict with the vaccine.

“You have to be off of immunosuppressants to get the vaccine, then you can go back on your medication but have to be back off of it again in order to get the second dose,” she said.

She said it is important for people to donate to project because there is currently no cure for autoimmune diseases.

“There is presently no cure to autoimmune diseases, we’re trying to get researchers to figure out if we can find a cure, or even just better treat-

ments.”

Since her project has launched, Baird has now been teaching programs about autoimmune diseases, as well about Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)—a form of arthritis in children.

“All these programs that I’m running and am teaching is in the faculty of education now.

She said what originally started out as a program, has now become a paid job, where she teaches groups about the condition, at universities or other facilities.

“Basically we gather together on Zoom and I tell people about the project, and then everyone gets mailed a pair of white socks and fabric markers. Then they’re asked who are you, what do you believe in, and why, to then design on the socks those questions.”

“It’s just amazing what people come back with of their designs, pictures that they put on their white socks, to express themselves and their stories. Suddenly you have this strong community.”

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Hopefully only colour blindness I learned, a few years ago, that I have a mild form of some sort of colour blindness. I had lived in happy oblivion for most of my life, not knowing that the red and green shades I’d always seen were really … what?

I still don’t know but I’ve learned when I’m wrong.

This insignificant type of ‘blindness’ was found out innocently enough, after two closely-timed occurrences.

One: I went for a pedicure and chose what I thought was a stunning teal-coloured nail-polish. When my daughter saw it and asked what I’d been thinking by choosing the mucky green colour, I disagreed, but she insisted.

Two: My father owned a van which I thought was purple, not unlike the dinosaur I might add, but when we sold it, it was advertised as silver. Even after I was shown the official documentation and “silver” screamed from the box labelled “Colour”, I still argued. Of course, as I quietly expressed my opinion, my caring family did as all loving families do—they mocked and then laughed me out of the room.

Although I was still pretty sure I was right and everyone else wrong, I decided that I needed to investigate the remote possibility that something was amiss. I then googled “colour blindness” and was overwhelmed with a plethora of information, and even some on-line tests that were free for the taking.

Letting no further grass (green or otherwise) grow under my mucky toenails, I took five, or eight, on-line

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Revisited tests which all told me the same thing. Not one to instantly believe ‘Dr. Google’, however, I spoke to my optometrist. She confirmed it, and I finally accepted that I, indeed, saw some colours differently than the majority. But really—so what? That diagnosis changed nothing … except that I then questioned every colour decision I’d ever made!

After I’d been told that I might not see red and green shades accurately, it immediately brought to mind a memory of when we had our home painted.

Since the painter asked me, more than once, if I was “sure” I wanted that particular shade of green over half of the walls, I then wondered if he’d seen something I didn’t. Apparently he did. My husband hadn’t, and hasn’t, said much about it but he’s smart that way.

Years before the painting debacle I’d been to a “colour coding” party. Has anyone else attended one

of these special evenings? It’s when someone you do not know tells you what clothing colours you should and shouldn’t wear. I listened while the expert told me that blues were absolutely best, but I argued that I really preferred greens and reds. I kid you not. She said that only ONE shade of green might look all right but the other shades and red were out of the question. Clinging to the green idea, and oblivious to the different shades of such, I bought out green shirts. Of course, nothing makes you rethink your wardrobe like being told you don’t see certain colours correctly. So after this was proven true, I remembered that party and I’ve stuck with blue! I certainly wouldn’t want to stray from my suggested ‘pallet’. I mean … that has to be right. Sure.

Years later, someone I worked with commented that she noticed I wore a lot of blue. She then asked if I even owned clothing in another colour. This did not feel complimentary but I couldn’t help laughing, before I replied, “No. I don’t,” and walked away. I didn’t feel the need to explain that this is the one colour I hope I see accurately.

In the grand scheme of life it matters not at all that I don’t see colour exactly like others, or that the paint on my walls may be less than appealing. Much more importantly, I pray that I will clearly see and help the people close to me, and if in my power those far away, who may not so easily be able to laugh at life. May we treasure those around us in these tumultuous days and never take the laughter we find, for granted.

Canora stick bonspiel creates fun atmosphere for curlers of all ages Courtesy of Canora Courier After the disappointment of cancellation during the pandemic in 2021, a Family Day curling tradition returned to Canora on February 21.

The 16-team stick bonspiel was held at the Sylvia Fedoruk Centre.

Vern Schick, organizer, said curlers appreciated the opportunity to hold the event again, especially after missing it the previous year.

“Sixteen teams worked out well because we have eight teams on the ice at a time during round robin games, and no one has to play backto-back games, at least until the semifinal and final,” said Schick.

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Adult curlers taking part are expected to deliver rocks using the stick method, but students are allowed to choose how they shoot.

“Students can use their sliding delivery if they want, we don’t want to mess up their regular delivery for other bonspiels,” explained Schick.

The rules for stick curling are a bit different from the regular game.

Each team throws six rocks per end, no takeouts are allowed until the fifth rock including rocks in the house, games are six ends, and no sweeping is allowed until the rock has passed over both hog lines. Teams are allowed one timeout per game.

At the stick bonspiel, the teams were divided into four pools for the round robin portion, and each team played the other teams in their pool once. The top team in each pool advanced to the playoffs, which turned out to be four local teams.

In the first semifinal, Ron Hoehn and Arnie Makowsky took on Bill Foreman and Robert Waselenko.

Foreman and Waselenko got off to a hot start and cruised to victory, booking a spot in the final.

There was a lot more suspense in the second semifinal pitting Natalie Trebick and Peter Wiwchar against Bob Kolodziejski and Joey Palagian, a student at Canora Composite School. The teams traded single points and battled to a 2 to 2 tie after four ends. But Trebick and Wiwchar kept applying pressure, and scored a 4 to 2 victory.

The final was a highscoring game from the

On behalf of her late husband Ted, Del Palagian presented infinity lighters to the winning team of the Ted Palagian Memorial Two-Person Stick Bonspiel held on Family Day, February 21. The winners were Robert Waselenko, left, and Bill Foreman. start. Wiwchar made a delicate last-rock tap to score three in the second end for a 3 to 1 lead, and it looked like Foreman and Waselenko might be in some trouble. But Foreman replied with a tricky last rock takeout in the following end for a massive five points, and he and Waselenko went on to claim victory.

The draw to the button competition was sponsored by Del Palagian in memory of her late husband Ted. Bob Kolodziejski of Canora took the first place prize of $60, and Don Probe of Canora won $40 for his second-place finish.

In addition to the top four teams mentioned earlier, the other teams taking part included: Blaine Medlang and Nick Bodnar of Sturgis, Donna and Bob Lumley of Norquay, Jan and Laird Gervais of Crystal Lake, and Vickie and Darryl Stevenson of Burgis Beach. Other local teams were: Nick Woloschuk and Brian Herriges, Vern and Judy Schick, Ernie

Gazdewich and Don Probe, Bill Gulka and Dave Zbeetnoff, Bailey and Shawn Kolodziejski, Lenny Bazarski and Lionel Dutchak, Al and Jackson Palagian, and Kelly and Leanna Beblow.

Ten-month-old Carter Kolodziejski watched his parents Bailey and Sean Kolodziejski take part in the Two-Person Stick Bonspiel on February 21, and seemed to be quite excited about the possibility of soon getting out on the ice and throwing some rocks himself.

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Azul impressed with look and play There are always games that end up surprising once played.

Azul proved to be that sort of game recently.

The game was a Yule gift from my son, but a COVID pandemic and a crazy work schedule meant the game had sat unplayed for a few weeks before we gathered for a game night and put it on the table.

Now Azul is not a new game, it was first released from designer Michael Kiesling in 2017, but it was not a game that I had ever really put on a ‘want list.’

In retrospect that was a misstep on my part.

The game rates highly on www.boardgamegeek. com, a go-to site for all things board gamerelated with just under 100,000 owning the game, a number that is likely

far fewer than are actually out there. One review suggested hundreds of thousands in sales.

Now to be fair high ratings are not necessarily something that assures anyone else will like the game. Wingspan rates high on BGG and it fell rather flat at our table.

But with Azul the rating seems warranted.

To start with the game rules are pretty straight forward and simple to follow. That meant we might have just unboxed the game the first night, but we were playing in about 30-minutes – and yes it helps we play many games but this one could be picked up by nongamers smoothly.

The game is one about drafting tiles, nice brightly coloured ‘bakelite’ tiles, which are real-

THE MEEPLE GUILD (YORKTON) meeple.guild@gmail.com ly nice to handle, and are brightly coloured too, giving Azul high marks for aesthetics.

You collect tiles over a series of rounds, trying to build columns, rows, or gathering five of one colour, all of which score points at the end of the game.

Generally games are tightly contested – only once did a player get left in the dust and only once did a player manage a sizeable margin of vic-

tory over some nine, or 10 plays.

While in-game scoring contributes, the winner will need to have had a good final scoring to emerge the victor.

The game is relatively quick too. We put about 10 games in the book in roughly three hours. In that time we actually boxed the game up, then decided one more, and had it back on the table in minutes, so set up is quick.

Azul is a game where ‘just one more game’ is likely to be an oft heard comment, and is a quick game to wrap up a game night with something fun, yet not too taxing in terms of strategy.

And yes this is very much an abstract strategy game. Once the tiles are pulled from the bag to randomize the starting tiles in play for a round everything else is right there in front of players, so you can see what opponents are doing in terms of scores and try to thwart some of their plans if you want too.

Yet, as an abstract strategy game Azul plays as a two, three, or four player game. It’s rare that multi-player abstract strategy games don’t bog down in ‘kingmaker’ actions by someone, or ganging up on the

weakest player by others at the table. Most are not overly enjoyable as a result.

Blokus, for example plays four quite well, but a player perceived as weak will find themselves boxed out quite often.

Azul, at least for three players, plays well, we each won about a third of games opening night, and because the number of tiles is adjusted down for two players and up for four, it seems likely the game will be fine, with BGG raters leaning toward it being best with two.

This game was a most pleasant surprise, with the three Meeple Guilders at the table all giving it high marks. It is likely to become a regular time filler, and was a great Yule gift.

54 potential gravesites discovered on Keeseekoose First Nation Courtesy of Preeceville Progress Warning: The following story contains highly disturbing details.

KEESEEKOOSE FIRST NATION – During a press conference on the morning of February 15, leaders of the

Keeseekoose First Nation gathered at the Keeseekoose Chiefs Education Centre to announce to their community, nation, and world that through groundpenetrating technology, they had found a total of at least 54 ground disturbances in the areas surrounding the sites that previously hosted the Fort Pelly

and St. Phillips residential schools.

Chief Lee Ketchemonia said that the discovery pointed to the oral history that had been painfully passed down from survivors of the two residential schools that had claimed for decades that significant emotional, physical, and sexual abuse had been inflicted on

children attending the schools.

“Honestly, I didn’t get much sleep,” said Kitchemonia. “Couldn’t stop thinking about these kids. I have kids and grandkids that age. I can’t imagine them never coming home. It’s so sad.”

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How the practice of listening can be a gift for everyone Courtesy of Kamsack Times Martha Quewezance of Canora is a member of the Keeseekoose First Nation. She currently serves as a mental health worker at the neighbouring Key First Nation. As part of a program hosted by the Norquay School, Quewezance was invited to be a virtual guest speaker during Indigenous Storytelling Month.

The Norquay School shared the following information about the program on the school’s website: “First Nations people have long passed on knowledge from generation to generation through oral traditions, including storytelling. Storytelling is a traditional method used to teach about cultural beliefs, values, customs, rituals, history, practices, relationships, and ways of life. First Nations storytelling is a foundation for holistic learning, relationship building, and experiential learning.

Traditionally, it is during the winter months that First Nations storytelling occurs.”

Quewezance, 62, kindly agreed to an interview with the Kamsack Times to share deeper insights on what she presented to the school on the topic of ‘building relationships.’

From her own home in Canora, Quewezance quietly reflected on what she considers some of the most beautiful lessons passed down from her mother, the tragic testimony of surviving a multitude of residential school assaults, her personal progress in identifying triggers that evoke post-traumatic stress, and the exponential growth of her Christian faith.

Quewezance: The first lesson in building relationships is listening.

People need to make that love connection.

When two people come together to sit and talk, both parties must take the time to listen and be observant. In the old

Despite being subjected to terrible abuses as a child in Canada’s residential schools, Martha Quewezance said she chooses to live her life with abundant joy and unwavering faith in God. days, we were taught to just listen and observe before it was your turn to speak. We were taught to not rush people for information. We were also taught to respectfully listen to older people, women, and children.

The act of listening becomes a gift for both parties. Technology has made everything about instant information and people seemed to have lost the ability to listen with any real patience.

At school, my 20 yearold-son still hears echoes of the outdated beliefs that have been passed down through nonIndigenous generations.

People still make statements like: “Native people don’t work. They get free schooling. They don’t pay taxes. They get handouts. They are given everything for free.”

Those are ignorant statements from outsiders looking in with judgement. I am so proud that my son doesn’t get defensive or angry. Instead, he makes a point of telling people; “Those assumptions aren’t true. Do you really think you know what you’re talking about?”

I believe both ends have to be open-minded.

If people took the time to actually listen, they would see these are all untrue. There is so much ignorance taught about treaties. Land was taken.

There were agreements

in place and the government is still not holding up their part.

After all these years, I can look back at what I have been through – the residential school abuse, pain, and trauma – and I know that God was there with me. In residential school, we were taught by the nuns to memorize and recite scripture, but we were never taught or shown the true meaning of those words. Many Indigenous people see the Bible as pain and hurt, full of wrong teachings. It was how it was presented. Sometimes I battle with that. As an adult, I have come to understand that I need and love the Bible, but even sometimes when that memorized scripture comes up, it can trigger horrific memories. I had everything done to me as a child.

Every kind of abuse – you name it. I was blessed to make it home. I continue to work on unlearning the lies of my trauma and recognizing my triggers.

There were three priests in the 1960s at the St. Phillip’s day school that were particularly sadistic. Boys especially were brutalized and sodomized by these men.

For decades, many victims looked for any way they could to numb that pain – which created unhealthy relationships within their own fam-

ilies and community.

Today, it is prescription drugs and it has become a huge problem.

Imagine being told at five years old that you and your parents, grandparents, and cousins were all dirty, bad, heathen, and unworthy savages. Boys and girls were separated. We were forced to eat foods that were foreign to us – and if we didn’t clean our plates, we would be beaten. Children would often come to each other’s rescue when the nuns stepped out of the room. They would quickly eat the food the other children couldn’t or exchange plates. There was no love, no compassion, and no nurturing.

My mother was a softspoken, gentle, loving, and caring woman. She couldn’t read or write English. I remember bringing notices home from school for her to sign. Of course, she couldn’t read them and that made me feel embarrassed. We were so brainwashed. There is a lot we still need to unlearn.

One day when I was in kindergarten, one of the nuns decided to parade us past our homes in front of our parents.

There was dead silence.

I don’t know what that nun was thinking. When my mom saw me, she offered me a package of gum, not realizing that I

would later be beaten for stepping out of line.

When you hear about the thousands of missing and murdered women out there, you understand how First Nation women continue to be discriminated against. In our traditional culture, women were viewed with great prestige. They were considered precious and they were honoured for giving the gift of life, nurturing, and providing love.

When I was invited to travel to Edmonton and speak at a Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) panel in front of thousands of people, I was given only 15 minutes to share my story. I felt a responsibility to speak of my own trauma, as well as the history of what my sisters went through. I was the youngest daughter – the baby of the family. My older sisters often tried to take the abuse to protect me. As adults, they had a hard time talking about their own horrific experiences. They didn’t want to bring up those memories, so I felt the responsibility to tell their stories too. And 15 minutes just wasn’t enough time.

I didn’t feel the closure I needed. None of us were involved as we should have been. We weren’t asked what the process should be. It felt as though we were asked to pick old scabs and then just left to deal with those freshly exposed wounds on our own.

All of us are left to do the work on our own.

Many people can’t recognize when they are being triggered. Sometimes the pain and anger seems to come out of nowhere.

Personally, I try to focus on my special relationship with God – going deep and praying for understanding. I need to find that peace for the sake of my grandchildren. I want to be joyful around them. There is no place for bitterness.

When those priests and nuns did unspeakable damage while teaching us to memorize the Bible, it caused many to turn away from it.

However, I have come to understand that the lessons of the Bible are the exact same as the foundation of our culture – which is love, patience, kindness, caring and trust. These were the gifts we always cherished from the old culture. Before the brainwashing, we were taught to be of service to God through being of service to our community. We were taught discipline, structure, and respect for all – including the old people, women, and children. We used to go to the old people for advice and guidance daily.

Some of the most profound lessons I have learned have come from listening to a 10-year old with special needs and being a friend to a man with no arms and no legs.

God gifted me these beautiful friendships and I learned so much from simply offering my respect and listening to them.

In our language, the word “mano” is a beautiful word with multiple meanings. It can mean: ‘let it go’/ ‘it’s okay’/‘forgi veness’/‘kindness’/‘being humble’. Our language has so much beauty in the way things are said or translated. I can still see the beauty of our culture, our language, and our community – how wonderful it all was before the interruption of another culture.

When I see or hear my mother’s love and compassion coming through statements from my oldest son who is now 46, I realize our culture is still alive, present, and vibrant. It may not be coming through our language, songs, dance, or ceremony as much – but it will always come from our creator, God, who tells us we have His permission to live as spirits on this earth. Now is the time to rebuild and unlearn the things we were made to believe about ourselves when we were children. If I can do that and pass down the true foundation and teachings of our culture, then I have done my mothers work.

SIGN staying mask-friendly Submitted by Dick DeRyk Society for the Involvement of Good Neighbours (SIGN) will continue to be maskfriendly, with staff continuing to use masks and physical distancing whenever meeting clients and other staff after provincial COVID-19 mandates and restrictions are lifted Monday (Feb. 28).

In keeping with provincial changes, proof of vaccination and self- isolation for those with symptoms is no longer

required for staff or visitors but SIGN is encouraging visitors to its facilities, and clients meeting with staff, to wear masks until late March.

“Our sole focus is, and always has been to ensure the safety and health of our clients and staff,” SIGN Executive Director Andrew Sedley noted.

“COVID-19 continues to be an emerging disease and remains a category 1 communicable disease. Vaccine intervention is available, as are other precautions which we continue to

recommend to clients and staff.”

SIGN staff will continue to wear masks in SIGN facilities and when providing services to clients indoors and outdoors.

Clients will be encouraged to wear masks and maintain physical distancing if meeting with staff indoors.

Only the front main entrance at SIGN on Broadway will be kept unlocked, while at the Elton Davidge Building on North Street the front doors will be locked and visitors

are asked to ring the doorbell, since that entrance is not staffed. Visitors to both buildings will be offered masks if they do not have one.

If staff are meeting clients in their home or elsewhere in the community, SIGN staff will wear a mask at all times, and will offer masks to clients if they do not have one. Staff may reschedule support services provided in SIGN facilities or the client’s home if client family members are ill or show symptoms of illness, as has

always been the case.

Sedley notes that these practices are the same as SIGN implemented when provincial restrictions were lifted in July of 2021.

“The measures adopted by SIGN are in keeping with recommendations from local public health and Saskatchewan Health Authority officials and will be evaluated again prior to the end of March,” he said.

“Many other Yorkton and area community service organizations are adopting similar measures.”

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Museum showcases historical toys from the Saskatchewan prairie

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Staff Writer YORKTON – A presentation at the Western Development Museum showcased the toys and recreations of historical youth on the Saskatchewan prairie.

“It’s a little presentation just talking about the toys that we have in our collection,” said Solange Massicotte, Education and Public Program Coordinator for the Western Development Museum.

“We’re discussing different handmade toys, how they were made, or something small that was purchased,” said Massicotte, adding, “[The presentation is meant] to bring nostalgia, so maybe some people might recognize some of the toys they used to play with.”

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A presentation attendee tries out a stereoscope. with rocks to add weight to them. The weighted cans would then be slid across pond ice to create a game akin to curling.

“It’s how families and settlers from one hundred years ago used to play,” said Massicotte.

A button whizzer was made of string and a solo clothes button looped through thread holes of the button. When spun on the string in quick succession the button would produce a whizzing sound.

Sock monkeys were made from old wool socks, hanky dolls of recycled hanky material.

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Stereoscopes create a 3D image when viewed through the lens. and wrapped in string to hold it together.

Not all of the toys were home-made, some were purchased through Eaton’s Catalogues. For example, a stereoscope was an early form of three-dimensional viewing. “A typical stereoscope provides each eye with a lens that makes the image seen through it appear larger and more distant,” as noted in the Wikipedia article for stereoscopes.

The presentation is part of the museum’s exhibit, ‘In a Prairie Attic.’ “This exhibit showcases more than 200 artifacts which speak of growing up during the settlement period of Saskatchewan. The artifacts tell the story of the Bladon family, a couple and their seven children who farmed near Lang, Saskatchewan from 1910 to 1995. The family members were savers. Five of the seven children lived in the family home for their whole lives.

The toys provide a fascinating look at prairie childhood in the early decades of the 20th century,” as noted in the exhibit’s description on WDM.ca “Museum staff made the trip to Lang in 1995 and were delighted with what they found. Tucked away in the attic and verandah were dozens of toys, children’s books, games and playthings of all description,” accord-

A rag ball is a homemade ball made from old rags and wrapped in string to hold it together. ing to WDM.ca “The family kept the toys in mint condition for many years,” said Massicotte, adding, “the toys were typical of what shoppers bought in the Eaton’s catalogue or SEARS wish book.

Presentations like this have become a regular occurrence for the museum, though up until February 20th they had been done online due to the ongoing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Normally these presentations are online, but this time we tried to do something in person,” said Massicotte, noting, “the next presentation is virtual, it won’t be in person, and it’s on Scandinavians in Saskatchewan.”

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National media outlets descended on the Keeeseekoose First Nation to hear the announcement regarding the results of a ground-penetrating investigation on Tuesday, February 15.

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Chief Lee Kitchemonia of the Keeseekoose First Nation led his community on what was described as a sad and historic day in the nation’s history with the revelation of 54 potential gravesites on former residential school sites.

54 POTENTIAL GRAVESITES Continued from Page 7 search project manager and residential school survivor, Ted Quewezance, photographic evidence was revealed – illustrating 42 potential gravesites on the Fort Pelly site and 12 on the St. Phillips site.

Those in attendance, including representatives from the RCMP, the Town of Kamsack, the Good Spirit School Division, Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor, Russ Mirasty, and members of the Keeseekoose First Nation and neighbouring Cote First Nation and Key First Nation were visibly shaken, sobbing and wiping tears.

Joining Tuesday’s conference over Zoom was National Chief, RoseAnne Archibald, FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron, and Indigenous Relations Minister, Marc Miller.

“It is time for all Canadians to listen, learn, and reflect on our shared history,” said Archibald. “We need to come together to find the healing path forward.”

Before welcoming Donald Bolen, archbishop of the Regina diocese to speak at the press conference, master of ceremonies, Eugene Arcand, said there were four R’s that had to be addressed before reconciliation, describing them as “reclamation,

Keeseekoose First Nation lawyer and Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner, Mary Culbertson, spoke of the correlation between broken treaty promises and the tragedy of residential school horrors inflicted on First Nation children. repatriation, reparation, and restitution.”

In his address, Bolen said, “We are profoundly sorry for the role that Catholics played in the schools and the abuse that you suffered and the racism and the intergenerational trauma.”

Bolen added that he agreed apologies were not enough, and that the church would be in full support of assisting the nation in healing with actionable steps forward.

Treaty Commissioner, Mary Culbertson, a member of the Keeseekoose First Nation said, “Residential schools are a product of broken treaty promises,” and through-

out her career as a lawyer, she has witnessed “unbelievable barriers” in her work. “We are the only people with numbers still attached to us.

We still have numbers.

In what country in what world is that okay?”

Following the announcement, Saskatchewan Premiere, Scott Moe took to Twitter.

“As I said back in June, we knew other Saskatchewan First

Project Manager and residential school survivor, Ted Quewezance delivered the tragic news of the results of 54 potential gravesites on the Keeseekoose First Nation.

Nations would find unmarked graves and experience the same shock and despair as other First Nations across the country,” he tweeted. “Know that today, and every day, Saskatchewan mourns with you.”

Once winter conditions subside, Chief Kitchemonia said more investigative work will be done on the former Keeseekoose residential school sites.

This summer will also see the Cote First Nation begin investigating the grounds of the former Crowstand school near Kamsack.

According to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: “The Crowstand school was established near Kamsack, in what is now Saskatchewan, by the Presbyterian Church in 1889. In 1907 it was discovered that, when bringing runaway boys back

to the school, the principal tied them together and required them to run behind a horsedrawn buggy. In 1914 the principal failed to take appropriate action when a hired hand was discovered to be having sex with students. In 1914 the department’s medical officer said that it was the worst school he had ever seen, and recommended immediate closure. The school was closed in December 1915.”

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Ice fishing derby supports Health Foundation

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In total 130 anglers took part, and while final calculations are being tallied, organizer Dustin Brears with Credence Construction said they will be close to raising $10,000.

Brears explained when announcing the derby would not be a competitive one in relation to trying to catch the biggest fish, although there will be some draws throughout the day.

“The whole focus is to come out and have lots of laughs, do some fishing, and raise some money,” he said.

The cost of the event

The inaugural edition of Credence Construction Ice Fishing Derby in support of The Health Foundation was held Saturday at the Theodore Dam. Temperatures hovering around minus 5C and generally sunny skies greeted the eager fisher folk who spread out across the waterway, some sitting in their vehicles while watching for their rod tips to bounce as a sign of a fish, while others erected temporary ice huts and still others simply brought out lawn chairs and sat in

was $30 for one hole, or $50 for two, with holes drilled by organizers, although fisherman could drill their own.

Brears said the money raised was through entry fees, food sales and raffles all of it going to the Health Foundation.

The anglers did have a chance at some $13,000 in donated prizes.

There was an area to warm up and have coffee and a hotdog which was covered and down the road as the event grows Brears said they have plans to construct a covered area where the fishermen will be sitting under cover at their holes.

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