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Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Volume 11, Issue 30, Week of August 4, 2014
Roberta Thoen’s silver-medal performance exemplified the Saskatchewan spirit at the 1989 Jeux Canada Summer Games. The magic moment was captured by her sister/photographer Patricia Katz.
The Spirit of ’89Tony Dagnone relives
Canada Games experience
Cam HutchinsonSaskatoon Express
Tony Dagnone had to be sold on the idea of being the president of the 1989 Jeux Canada Summer Games
in Saskatoon. But he has never had to be sold on the value of community or living up to a commitment.
In 1985, then-Saskatoon mayor Cliff Wright approached Dagnone, CEO of
Royal University Hospital at the time, to run the biggest amateur athletic competi-tion in Canada.
“Cliff’s a real salesman,” Dagnone said. “I was very reluctant to take this one
on because we had at that time a huge expansion going on at the hospital. A lot of things were happening and I wanted to pay attention to that as much as possible.
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A couple of years ago I went head-to-head with Lloyd Lahti in a
cucumber-growing competi-tion.
As some readers may recall, it was my Walmart seeds against the exotic ones his ancestors brought to Canada more than 100 years ago. I knew I was in trouble when August hit and my vines were still cucumber-less.
Lloyd took great delight in my misery. I was so upset with Walmart I wanted to organize a world-wide boy-cott. Take that, corporate giant. Stick your cucumber seeds where the sun don’t shine.
One day Lloyd and Sandy cooked up a plan. When I got home from work, Sandy asked if I’d checked the cucumber patch recently. I glumly said I hadn’t. Why would I? Life can be depressing enough.
You should, she said. I carefully entered the patch, moving
vines to the side to see what might be hidden under them. Lo and behold there were cucumbers. Beautiful cucumbers. How had I missed them? The fact they weren’t attached to the vines didn’t oc-cur to me.
I threw my right hand into the air. I rejoiced. I wanted to call that old bugger and tell him I was in the game. “I’m back, baby!” Of course, Sandy and Lloyd had placed them in the garden. Sandy doing something like this to me wasn’t a surprise. But Lloyd?
After admitting defeat, I planted
some of Lloyd’s cucumber seeds this year and last. When we eat the first cucum-ber this year, it will be in honour of Lloyd. He died a couple of weeks ago.
We only saw each other four or five times over the years, but we became bud-dies through email. We shared a love of football and humour — good or bad, tasteful and not so tasteful.
A couple of months be-fore his death, Lloyd emailed me to say he hadn’t heard from me recently and asked if everything was OK. He always called me Son, despite him being only 10 years older than me. I called him Sir.
I spoke with Lloyd’s wife, Sharon, last week. She said she is doing as well as can be expected and that it was too bad Lloyd had passed before this year’s cucumber crop was ready for harvest.
Our patch is looking great. One day soon we will have cucumber sandwich-es in Lloyd’s honour.
***** Is it still rude to ask a woman her
age? I have only asked a couple of women for their ages when writing fea-tures. Both times they were relevant to the story. Both are young entrepreneurs doing amazing things. Their ages were a significant part of the story.
Does the same go for sharing someone’s age? The point of this is my mother, one of the best people ever on this Earth, celebrates a milestone birth-day on Aug. 8. The number ends with a 0. My brother, Dean, our father and I count our blessings every day.
****My youngest son, Jay, turns 21 on
Aug. 6. Remember when that was the big one? A reason pre-1970 was you had to be 21 to get into a bar. In many minds you became an adult at 21. Somehow I missed that. Is there an up-per age limit?
Jay, his brothers and I will likely go on a quick trip in the next month or two. To Toronto to watch the Blue Jays? To an NFL game? To a U.S. college football game? To Las Vegas?
Whatever and whenever it is, it will be a weekend to cherish.
***** Do you want to know the thing I
liked as much as anything on the new Ford Escape I was given to test drive for almost two weeks? It is the gauge that tells you how many more kilometres you can drive before running out of gas.
I am notorious for running tanks right down or driving vehicles without working gauges. I once ran out of gas in a 1973 Ford on the freeway when it was down to one lane each way. I was able to pull it far enough between pylons to get out of the way of traffic. It was, as the French would say, tres embarrassing.
We have 2003 and 2006 cars in our fold. We don’t have the warning lights and sound makers that let you know when cars are in your blinds spots or when you are dangerously close to something in front of you. The Escape has more bells than a Christmas tree and more whistles than a woman gets walk-ing past a construction site. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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The Spirit of ’89 book launch will take place Aug. 13 at the Terrace Room at Prairieland Park. There wlll be a barbecue at 6 p.m. and a program at 7:30 p.m.
The Spirit of ’89Dagnone calls Games great community cause
(Continued from page 1)“He was able to convince me that this
shouldn’t detract from my work, but it could be complementary. I came to the conclusion that hospitals are a community resource. And when they are a commu-nity resource that means you rely on the community to support that hospital and the people associated with the hospital should in turn support community causes. I saw the Canada Games as a great community cause with national exposure.
“Once I got the approval of the (hos-pital) board, it was full speed ahead. And Cliff Wright was always there to provide that special touch and provide advice along the way. Five years later we sat back and knew we did Saskatoon proud.”
Dagnone was a hospital administrator in demand across Canada. Three times during the period leading up the Games, recruit-ers knocked on his door. All three times he said no.
“One was out west and two in Ontario,” he said of the opportunities. “But I had made a commitment, so it was an easy decision to say ‘no, I cannot do that.’”
After 26 years in Saskatoon and not long after the Games, Dagnone moved to London, Ont., to head a hospital there. He gets back to Saskatoon three or four times a year, and will be in the city on Aug. 13 for the 25th anniversary celebration of the Games and the launch of a commemora-tive book, The Spirit of ’89, written by Ned Powers.
He said dealing with governments during the years leading up to the Games wasn’t always easy.
“It’s really complicated in that you are dealing with three levels of government and all have their own issues and all have their own pet priorities. And then you have the Canada Sports Council which sets out the various standards to meet. Trying to get all to see eye-to-eye sometimes was very challenging, especially when you get certain personalities around the table.
“Having said that, we knew these peo-ple at the end of day wanted to feel good about the amount of money they spent in the Canada Games. So our management team, I think it is fair to say, went out of our way to really cater to them and we slowly got them to unify around the one overall objective. And it is ‘let’s do this in such a way that we promote our future athletes, and look after their interests first and foremost.’
“That was a driving force. We kept reminding ourselves that we weren’t there to serve one particular level of govern-ment, but rather we wanted all levels of government to come to the conclusion that anything we did was in support of ama-teur sports and these young athletes from across Canada.”
After fulfilling that goal and deliver-ing a $1.3-million Games profit, Dagnone moved to London.
“When London came recruiting we figured it’s going to be an adventure. I always admired what Ontario hospitals
were capable of doing and the kind of en-trepreneurial spirit that was inherent in the Ontario hospital system. So we decided we would move to London, knowing it was going to be challenging.
“But we’ve never looked back because we were able to take what we learned in Saskatchewan and, although there were good ideas out in Ontario already, we were able to bring our own ideas in terms of getting things done, working with govern-ments and developing collaboration. And of course, I am a big believer in working together because you are going to get more things done better.”
He found a huge amount of competition among the three hospitals in London.
“I kept talking about the need to work together because hospitals are a commu-nity resource. And 18 months later there was a voluntary hospitals merger. In other words, it wasn’t dictated by the govern-ment. It was the largest voluntary merger of hospitals in Canada at that time.”
It could have cost Dagnone his job.“Here I was, not knowing if I had a job
anymore because the new board decided it would do a search. The current CEOs at that time were encouraged to apply, but there was no guarantee. I was fortunate to be selected and that merger really kept me busy for a number of years.”
In 2005 he retired.“My wife (Donna) will tell you nothing
has changed. But I have never been a couch potato. I do want to keep busy and active because I believe in staying active as long as possible.”
At age 72, he currently provides marketing strate-gies for a number of national firms which do business with hospitals, sits on two boards and is a citizen judge presiding over ceremonies to swear in new citizens.
As a volun-teer he sits on the board of the hospital foundation in London. And he takes delight in mentoring young people in health care.
“If somebody wants to sit down with me and talk about career planning or concerns that they have with their current job and how can they better themselves, I am always open to helping them out. I do remember many times when I was looking for that same kind of help.”
Saskatoon will always be important to him.
“We are back in Saskatoon two or three times a year for one reason or another. We have families in Saskatoon and we cannot get over the growth in the city. We can’t
get over the price of the real estate and obviously a lot of changes in health care.
“Some of those changes are for the good and some of those changes in my view have not been good as far as serving patients. We have to continue to do a better job in serving patients because they are the people that own the health-care system in the final analysis. That’s me speaking from the sidelines. I made a promise to myself not to publically comment on London hospitals and I kept to it.”
The new book commemorating the 1989 Games brings back fond memories of that time of his life.
On his list are the winning the bid after
going toe- to- toe with Regina in a highly-charged battle. He met Queen Elizabeth at the opening of the mew boat house prior to the Games. He was like a proud papa at the opening and closing ceremonies.
“There is another one that really captured my emotions. That is when we brought together all of the volunteers at SaskPlace to say thank you to them in the presence of Prince Andrew and Sarah. I think we had about 6,000 people there and we had a great big anniversary cake there because it was Andrew’s and Sarah’s third anniversary. For those people to have an opportunity to be able to see them there, stands out as a memory.”
Let reliving the Games begin.
Tony Dagnone
Tony Dagnone and Queen Elizabeth at the opening of boat house prior
to the Games (Photo supplied)
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So far it’s been an incredible summer.
Last summer was basically a blur as I looked after my dad. He was going through a period in his life where his memory was going. It’s hard to see someone going through a phase of dementia, especially a relative.
I have no experience or training in this area, and I found caring for him physically and mentally challenging. The hard part was I didn’t know who I was talking to sometimes. He would be talking to me like usual, with his jokes and stories, and all of the sudden it seemed like he completely changed personalities.
I tried reading as much as I could on the subject, but it’s nothing compared to actu-ally being there. When he first started losing his memory, I thought it was because of his age (83) and it’s all part of getting old.
It took several months before I started to realize there was something bigger than simply forgetting something here and there. I spoke with his doctor, who suggested I bring my dad into the hospital where he could be observed for a few days.
It was about a week before the doctor called me to come in and talk about my dad. He told me he believed my dad would even-tually have to be in a special-care home.
Our family talked about it and it was decided to try and find the best care home for him. The place we found was perfect, as it specialized in looking after people like my dad.
It’s been six months since he’s been there and he enjoys it.
“Lots of young women,” he said.Of course, he means the women in their
70s and late 60s. He’s allowed to go on
passes, and I visit him. Most times he’s doing really well. We share stories and laughter. But sometimes he needs his medica-tion. I respect people who work in this area. It takes a caring and dedicated person to do this.
I don’t think I “wasted” last summer. It’s a matter of making choices and I chose family. This summer, however, I am on my own. I’ve already made several road trips and I am planning more. It’s this time of the year
when I like camping. And when I go camp-ing, I don’t mean I find myself a camp-ground with all the facilities.
Generally, I’ll walk right into the bush and set up camp along a river. I try and get as far away from everyone as possible. Not that I’m anti-social, but if I wanted hear my neighbours drinking beer and playing loud music all night, I would have stayed home.
Sometimes I’ll walk for miles before I find the perfect spot to set up a camp. The perfect spot is an area where it all feels right.
Everything I know about bush survival I learned from my dad. He was one of the best hunters and trappers around. His ser-vices as a guide are legendary.
Hunters and fishermen had to wait for an appointment before they could hire him. I, on the other hand, am not very good as a guide. I don’t take directions very well from a drunken tourist who thinks he can do bet-ter. I operate better on my own.
Sometime later I will have to share the story about when I advertised myself as a “genuine Indian guide.” I figured I might as well make extra money with my long hair and high cheekbones. I mean, it’s only fish-ing. What could possibly go wrong?
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Tammy RobertSaskatoon Express
Taking a cab home after drinking too much alcohol is a good idea. However, sometimes all that booze
doesn’t mix so well with a late-night car ride, which can result in a hot, sour mess fouling up the backseat of an unlucky cab driver’s vehicle.
That’s why last month the City of Calgary amended its Livery Transport Bylaw to allow its local cab drivers to ask puking patrons to cough up a $100 fine if they spew all over the back of the taxi. Calgary isn’t the first North American city to implement a “vomit tax.” Austin, Texas, empowers cab drivers to charge a $100 fee if a customer pukes in their cab, while in Chicago the fee is $50. In June of this year British Columbia’s provincial government introduced a $75 cab cleanup fee, while Toronto’s $25 fine came into effect July 1.
In all jurisdictions the clean-up fee is intended to serve as an incentive for cab drivers to work the late-night party shift, by providing them with a stronger basis upon which to “to recoup a portion of their out-of-pocket costs to sanitize their taxis after illness incidents.”
Should Saskatoon follow suit?Not necessarily, says Cliff Kowbel, op-
erations director for Saskatoon’s Comfort Cabs.
“Currently, with no bylaw, the cab driver will try to get whatever they can out of the puker to compensate them-selves for the time they’re about to spend cleaning up the mess,” said Kowbel. “They may ask for 50, 100 or even 150 dollars. But what you try to get isn’t nec-essarily what you’re going to get.”
If someone vomits all over the back of a taxi, it doesn’t just cause a rather dis-gusting inconvenience for the driver — it hurts his or her bottom line.
“The driver has to immediately clean up the mess, which means taking time off
work, so they’re not earning any money,” explained Kowbel, who indicated that the extent of the amount the driver loses in revenue depends on the situation: how bad it is, and how long it’s going to take to clean it up.
“That’s the big crux of the whole matter right there,” he said. “Drivers rely on the weekend — on Friday and Sat-urday night — to make a living. During the week they’re just making back their expenses.”
While no taxi-puking bylaw exists in Saskatoon, nor has it been requested of city council, Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison says it is something that would be considered.
“These vehicles are their workplaces,” said Atchison. “You and I as customers want to get into a clean, fresh-smelling car, but there is a lot more to it than the incident at that point in time. We are talk-ing about a livelihood here of not just one person, but sometimes of two or three.”
Kowbel says Comfort Cabs currently does not have any desire to initiate one.
“No plans at this time, as far as Comfort Cabs goes,” he said. “If one of the other companies or both said we should do the same thing, we might get on board, but (Saskatoon taxi companies) just signed onto a major contract with the City, which we worked on for well over a year. It was just a ton of work, and then when we took it to city council, they changed everything anyway. Right now I could care less if I ever stand in front of them again. It was a waste of time.”
Kowbel also concedes that the whole point of taking a taxi after drinking alcohol is to have a safe ride home. But he doesn’t think that asking patrons to pay for the damage and inconvenience caused if they get sick is unreasonable, or that imposing a clean-up fee would deter patrons from choosing a taxi over getting behind the wheel of their own vehicle.
“Most people realize that they have
to be responsible for themselves,” said Kowbel. “You don’t have to have many drinks to be over .08. You don’t have to drink ’til you get sick. The vast majority of our clients that take cabs aren’t puking. It’s not something that happens every night.”
However, even if city council backed a change to local bylaws to impose a fine, there is still the issue of enforce-ment. Unless local police officers are nearby, extracting payment from an individual who is already incapacitated may not be easy, nor is it arguably a proper use of the police service’s re-sources. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has said his city is looking into further possible bylaw changes later this year or early in 2015, which would treat and fine vomiting offenders as a municipal bylaw violation.
In the meantime, Kowbel encourages his drivers to take some tried and tested steps to mitigate the potential of dealing with vomit soiling their taxi’s upholstery and flooring.
“I tell the guys to get a bunch of plas-tic grocery bags and keep ’em in the cab,” said Kowbel. “If you’re on the freeway, you can’t pull over and let someone out to puke. Have four or five of those in your cab at all times and save yourself a ton of trouble. That’s an old trick we’ve used for many years — back even when grocery bags were paper.”
Kowbel also said that on the hierarchy of the undesirable situations and circum-stances Saskatoon cab drivers are forced to put up with on the job, there are plenty of things that can happen to them and their taxi that rank much worse.
“Really, throwing up ain’t that bad”.
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Many art exhibitions revolve around a well-defined theme or concept that the artist or the curator wants to explore.
That’s not the case with the latest show at the Sas-katchewan Craft Council (SCC). In fact, there was no preconceived idea for the SCC’s latest exhibition, which is aptly entitled A Show About Nothing.
The exhibition features about 75 pieces — from fur-niture and sculpture to poetry — created by artists from around the globe working in a variety of areas.
Curator Michael Hosaluk, an internally recognized Saskatchewan wood turner and educator, said “noth-ing” is one of the most challenging things for an artist to express. While focusing on nothing was difficult for the artists participating in the show, the exhibition has been well received by the viewers, he said.
“Anyone who’s seen it, they have really enjoyed it — because it’s kind of an unusual exhibition. You walk in and all of the sudden you have a show about nothing. You don’t know what to expect.”
The show coincides with the Emma International Collaboration, a weeklong biennial residency currently taking place in Saskatchewan that includes 100 national and international invited artists. This year’s collabora-tion runs until Aug. 7 at the Ness Creek festival site in the Big River area.
Each time an Emma International Collaboration event is held, it kicks off with an exhibition. The show provides a way for the Emma artists to see each other’s work and to socialize. The participating artists are in-vited to submit pieces for the exhibition that pertain to a specific theme.
While the options seem limitless with a theme like “nothing,” it turned out that creating pieces for the show was not an easy feat.
“Nothing kind of challenges the creative process a bit
more,” said Hosaluk, noting he wants “to keep pushing the artists.”
The roots of the Emma International Collaboration go back to 1982, when Hosaluk and the SCC organized a wood turning and furniture making conference in Sas-katoon. The event evolved to include other disciplines, such as blacksmithing, painting and metal fabrication. In 1996, it moved to the Emma Lake Kenderdine campus, operated by the University of Saskatchewan, and affec-tionately became known as “Emma.”
In 2006, the Emma International Collaboration moved to the Ness Creek site near Big River. Unlike its very early days, today there is no formal program at Emma; rather, it follows a hands-on, “no-format format.” That puts the focus on making things, which is what the artists love to do, said Hosaluk.
Artists have come from countries around the world, including France, Scotland, Germany, Japan, England, Ireland and Australia, to work, to network and to share their knowledge at Emma.
“There’s no formal presentations by anyone — not unless somebody asks for it and somebody kind of initi-ates it there. There’s no time. There’s no hierarchy. It’s just an open form of sharing and making,” said Hosaluk.
“So if you want to try something that you’ve never done — say if I’ve never done any jewelry — there’s a place there that people will share their knowledge and help you through it and make something for the first time in your life.”
At the conclusion of the Emma International Collabo-
ration, an art auction will be held on Aug. 7. The Emma Auction will feature about 100 pieces created by the par-ticipating local, national and international artists during this year’s event.
“Everything that is made there, you have no owner-ship to it. Throughout the event, you don’t have owner-ship at all,” said Hosaluk.
If an artist wants to own his or her work after the event, he or she can purchase it at the auction.
“You work like crazy all week, and then if you want it, you have to pay money for it. It’s kind of a different concept. But it’s the letting go that kind of frees up your thinking of making,” said Hosaluk.
Members of the public are also invited to attend the Emma Auction, which will be held on Aug. 7 at the AKA Gallery and Paved Arts Gallery on 20th Street West. Viewing and a silent auction will take place from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., while the auction will begin at 7 p.m. The money raised will be used to put on another Emma International Collaboration.
For more information about the Emma International Collaboration, visit www.emmacollaboration.com.
A Show About Nothing runs at the Affinity Gallery, located at 813 Broadway Ave., until Sept. 1. For more information, visit www.saskcraftcouncil.org.
A Show About Nothing
really has something
Artist: Trent Watts Title: Nothing as Binary
Photo by Trent WattsPhotos Courtesy of Saskatchewan Craft Council
Artist: Charles Pinckney Title: Move Along, People,
There’s Nothing to See Here
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Sam Corbett, the drum-mer for The Sheepdogs, is promising a rocking
good time at the Saskatoon Exhibition on Aug. 8.
The Sheepdogs will be headlining on the main grand-stand. It’s a chance to work in front of 6,000 in the seats and hundreds more on the tarmac at the edge of the stage. It is a major homecoming for the Saskatoon-based band, whose career received a huge shot in the arm by winning a contest to appear on the Aug. 18, 2011, cover of Rolling Stone magazine. The band has since won four Juno awards and has sold 100,000 records.
Corbett, who grew up in Saskatoon in a family with a musical background, laughs about a couple of Exhibition adventures during an earlier time in his life.
“The first time I went to the Saskatoon Exhibition, I was in Grade 5, and a friend and I decided to try out the Ring of Fire on the midway. I was quite ill the rest of the day,” he said.
“When I was 18, I worked security for a concert by Theory of a Dead Man and Default at the grandstand. Because I was smaller, I was stationed near the main entrance. And even while witnessing that performance, I still hadn’t decided that music was going to be part of my life.”
The music decision happened the next summer when Corbett, who attended Bedford Road Collegiate, and Ewan Currie, a vocalist and guitarist, and Ryan Gullen, a bassist, both from Evan Hardy,
decided to form a band. “We laugh about the turn in
fate. On one day, Ryan loses his job at Blockbuster and Ewan gets dumped by his girlfriend. The next day, I bought a drum kit, which was different for me because during high school I was playing the sax, trying to follow in my dad Sheldon’s footsteps. That was our beginning. Guitar-ist Leot Hanson joined us. We worked under a couple of differ-ent names before settling on The Sheepdogs,” said Corbett.
There were a lot of one-nighters and long hauls in considerably used vehicles. Now four years later, after the Rolling Stone discovery, Corbett recalls one trip in particular.
“It was five years ago, just before the breakthrough. We went to Bengough in southern Saskatchewan for a festival ap-pearance. I think 15 people turned up for the show. Then, on the way back, the van overheated and the motor was shot. I tell you this story because just two weeks ago, we went back to Bengough, travelling in much better conditions and getting an ap-preciative audience.”
The Rolling Stone contest, which provided a cover portrait on the magazine and a recording contract, was an event that snowballed.
“We were the only Canadian band in the competition. We were the band with the longest history of them all. Once we qualified for the top 16, it took on a special feeling. We just wanted to make it through the next step. We seemed to have all of
Canada cheering for us,” said Corbett.“The last two finalists were called to a
photo shoot at the Brooklyn Navy yards. We’d played a concert the night before and drove most of the night to get there. As we gathered, someone asked if we were ready to shoot THE cover. We didn’t catch on immediately. But when someone repeated the line about the cover, we knew we’d won. It was pretty surreal. We had a cel-ebration, went to dinner, but we were also aware we had a concert date the next night. We were told we couldn’t tell anyone, except our parents, for a couple of weeks.
“The victory really sank in when we made a television appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The days of struggling came to an end. We always believed we were a good band and Ewan was writing good songs.”
The biggest crowd — about 50,000 — for The Sheepdogs happened in 2012 at a Freedom Day celebration in The Nether-lands. They have travelled to Europe since, “but that first day in The Netherlands was special. When they announced we were from Canada, it was amazing. The people there have always had affection for Cana-dians who helped so much in the liberation of their country during the Second World War.”
Hanson left the band earlier this year, concentrating on the opening of the Capi-tol Music Club in Saskatoon. The guitarist for the Saskatoon gig and others this sum-mer is Rusty Matyas of Winnipeg.
Life goes on. Summer is often festival time. They played at Edgefest on the July 1st weekend in Ontario and have just come back from Shorefest in Vancouver. Soon
there will be an appearance at the Salmon Arm Festival, another at the Kitchissippi Festival in the Ottawa Valley, plus dates in Charlottetown and Calgary.
An important mission will be the re-cording of another album.
“Ewan has a lot of material ready and we’ll probably record somewhere in Ontario. We appreciated and learned from the experience with Patrick Carney on the album we did in Nashville. We self-pro-duced the last one in Saskatoon and will do the same again. We want to push ourselves in different directions and to higher lev-els,” said Corbett.
The album will likely be released in the spring.
Sam Corbett played the saxophone before buying a drum kit
(Photo by David McDonald)
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Last week, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped
up a self-congratulatory campaign-style speech to Conservative Party supporters gathered at Saskatoon’s Prairieland Park, the water was being shut off on Royal Uni-versity Hospital’s Labour and Delivery Unit.
The water was shut off at 10 p.m., not for a half hour or even an hour, but for eight whole hours. Presumably the time was chosen to minimize some sort of inconvenience. But seriously, I’ve never met a baby that adhered to any kind of daytime schedule when it came to determining their entrance into this world. No, babies come when they’re ready, and at any given time there’s a whole lot of them lined up in RUH’s Labour and Delivery Unit, waiting for the signal that it’s their turn on the runway.
“Baby delivery could be a little messier in Saskatoon Wednesday night,” read what may be the tacki-est subheading ever written on a local news website on the evening of the shutoff, which was report-edly necessary so that crews could replace some of the old, leaky pipes in the basement of the hospital.
In preparation for the inconve-nience, chests of ice were stocked on the ward, as was warm water for sponge baths. Hospital maintenance staff were tasked with hauling buckets of water to flush the toilets.
Doesn’t it sound so quaint? All the lucky women that night who had been boasting how they were going to give childbirth “naturally” must have figured they won the lottery. The only thing missing was the red-cheeked midwife from the farm half a mile up the road burst-ing through the door after trudging through a blizzard.
“I have no concerns about the safety of our patients or infants,” said a spokesperson with the Saska-toon Health Region about the situ-ation, stopping just shy of adding “look, thousands of women around the world do this on a dirt floor every day, so just settle down.”
Showers were not an option for women who had just given birth; they would have to wait until they were transported to a bed on the post-partum ward. For those of you who have given birth, I’m just go-ing to ask you to let that sink in.
Disturbingly enough, water
woes on RUH’s Labour and Delivery Unit are nothing new. Almost exactly a year ago, the unit had water, just not hot water. The Saskatoon Health Region pointed fingers at a number of culprits, including a 58-year-old water heater (I’m picturing a boiling cauldron over a bonfire), but the bottom line was the unit was without hot
water for weeks. The problem itself wasn’t fixed for months. Instead of a shower, one poor new mom was given a squeeze-bottle full of luke-warm water to splash herself with after giving birth.
In January 2014, frozen pipes (exposed by new construction on the adjacent Children’s Hospital, a proposition that now feels more or less akin to attaching a brand new 32-foot RV to a 1976 Dodge station wagon with wood panelling and flat tires) led to flooding at RUH. Six months later, faulty infrastruc-ture caused power outages at the hospital, resulting not only in less than ideal conditions, but cancelled surgeries.
In June, a few days after the power failure, Saskatoon Health Region executives admitted that the cost of making “critical” infrastructure improvements to RUH was going to be $93 mil-lion, while muttering something behind their hands about how the overall price tag would actually be a tad higher. Just over a week later, on a Friday afternoon at the end of a week that saw some of the worst flooding in the province’s history, the provincial government quietly released a report that showed that the cost of bringing RUH into the 21st century was closer to half a billion dollars.
To say RUH isn’t good enough for Saskatchewan residents is an understatement. It’s not even a little bit good lately. It’s decrepit, rundown and at times such as last week, a really and truly bad place to have to go for health care.
Here’s what I know for sure (besides the fact I ripped that line from Oprah) – there was once a time in Saskatchewan where “good enough” was the high water mark for success. Then we became the “new” Saskatchewan, a place where good was the enemy of great, and great was just a jumping off point.
What happened?
Babies couldn’t waitfor pipes to be fixed
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By Lianne TregobovDear Lianne,I am not sure if you can help me, but
here we go. My daughter is 11 years old, but looks and acts 17. She is still naive and innocent, but is an easy target for all the teen boys that pay way too much attention to her. I’ve looked at her Facebook and Instagram just to keep an eye on things and haven’t found anything earth shatter-ing. With your experience, can you tell me anything that I can do to help preserve my little girl’s innocence? — Too Soon For This
Dear Too Soon,She will always be your little girl, but
now is the time to ensure you have open lines of communication with her. Talk to her about life and vulnerabilities she may face. Do so in a very easygoing manner without coming across as judgmental. Let her know that many guys will find her interesting and that she needs to maintain the upper hand and never to put herself in a position where she is vulnerable. She should be fully aware of sexual health and clearly understand the facts of life. I always suggest that she has access to emer-
gency cab fare as well as a cellphone when she is out. You do need to know where your daughter is and who she is hanging out with. They sure do grow up way too fast these days. You can’t stop them; you can only guide them.
Dear Lianne,I went on a date with this guy. He’s OK
and I wanted to get to know him, but I am revolted by his cologne. It smelled like green olive juice. It was disgusting. How do I nicely tell him that cologne should be outlawed? I can’t hang out with him again if he smells like that. — Not Olive Oil
Dear Not Olive,When you speak with him about your
next date ask him if there is any way that he could avoid that particular cologne. Let him know that for some reason it just didn’t agree with your system and there must be something in that particular cologne, because you typically have no issues with colognes.
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Lindsay Janzen has gone back to her roots. Almost liter-
ally. The Saskatoon chef left a family farm in Quill Lake a decade or so ago to pursue her love of cooking. Her path has taken her to such places as Prince Edward Island, Maine and La Petraia, in the Tuscany area of Italy. Even the name sounds scrump-tious.
She completed the circle when she returned to Saskatoon to become chef de cuisine for two years at Weczeria Food and Wine. She left the job at Weczeria to go to Italy, and a second time to start a family.
Janzen is now wearing her chef hat again, selling her pastas, gnocchi, lasa-gna and ravioli at the Saskatoon Farmers’ Market on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. It is the best of two worlds. She is using her Red Seal certification as the owner and chef for Prairie Bella Gourmet Pasta, and she is spending time with her family.
She said it took a few years to realize what the big garden on her parents’ farm meant to her.
“The more I moved away from home and got away from it, I appreciated what my parents had instilled,” Janzen said. “We would have days in the fall where it was, ‘OK, today is borscht day.’ And that is all we did is make borscht from morning to night. And we would have a tomato day, where we would make salsa and stewed tomatoes and that kind of thing – or dill pickle day.”
She didn’t always like those days in her youth.
“I was like, ‘Oh god, do we have to?’ Once I was older, it was like, ‘This is cool, actually.’ ”
Janzen’s first cooking job was in Waskesiu. She wanted to be at the national park for the summer and would have done darn near anything to be there. She was a line cook. She also discovered she wanted to cook as a career.
She earned a two-year diploma in Prince Edward Island. A summer intern-ship included a job at the White Barn Inn in Ken-nebunkport, Maine.
Janzen said it was a “fancy-pants spot. But
it really made me fall in love with fine dining and the smaller restaurants.”
She would later have a stint working in Nantucket. Cool names: Nantucket, Kennebunkport, La Petraia. She worked in Regina, too. Which one is different than the rest?
Before leaving Prince Edward Island, Janzen competed in a couple of competitions, including Canada’s Next Great Chef. She won in the first round before being eliminated.
“I kind of buckled under the pres-sure, to be honest,” she said with a laugh.
Soon it was back to Saskatoon, where Chef Dan Walker at Weczeria asked her to help during the Christmas season. She stayed until the opportunity to do an unpaid internship at a tourist farm in Tuscany became available.
“It was high up in the hills and surrounded by all these forests with chestnut trees and wild boar. They grew all their own olives for olive oil and the grapes for wine. They raised different animals and had gardens.
“I would tend to the animals and the garden; my gardening experience came in handy there. They were (saying), ‘Thank god, somebody who knows what they are doing.’ I even helped with the bees; they had an apiary.
“When we had people staying with us I would go into the kitchen and prepare this food in wood ovens. They were amazed I could chop wood so efficiently.”
They shouldn’t have been. She’s a farmer’s daughter, after all.
“Everything about it was absolutely amazing. On my days off I would go into Florence or drive around the coun-tryside. I really, really fell in love with the lifestyle and how everybody had an
appreciation for the food, but not in a gluttonous way. And it was real food; it wasn’t like sweet stuff. It is just really incredible when you are picking an egg from a chicken and make pasta that night. It highlights the importance of good-quality ingredients in your food.”
Now she is at the Saskatoon Farm-ers’ Market, and has been since May.
“I tried going back to restaurants because I missed cooking. But I real-ized being a chef, especially being a boss, is really demanding. And I wasn’t ready to give up my time with my fam-ily. I just wasn’t willing to compromise that. I thought, ‘What else can I do? If I’m not going to work in a restaurant, what am I going to do?’
“My mom has always been (say-ing), ‘You should sell food at the farm-ers’ market.’ I always had a reason not to. And, of course, when I thought of it, it seemed like a great idea,” she said with a laugh.
It has been a good fit. Pasta is her passion.
“I’ve had a really good reception. I use eggs from the market and I use stone-ground flour from Daybreak Mill in Estevan. It’s all organic. Any meat I use either comes from the market or is organic. And I use as much vegetables and different things from the market as I can.
“I need to follow my values and am going to use good ingredients and hope people are willing to pay for it. I have had people come back and I am starting to know my clientele, which is exciting. It feels really good when people come back for more.”
She is not sure what is next, but it will involve cooking.
“I don’t want to get back into a res-taurant yet – maybe when my kids are older. But in the meantime I just want to keep this up. If the demand increas-es, I could maybe expand or get more equipment. Right now I am enjoying it and just seeing where it will take me.”
For more information, visit www.prairiebella.ca or email [email protected].
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If you are of an age to remember the symphonic rock song Nights in White Satin, this concert is for you.
If you are not familiar with The Moody Blues, authors of the 1970s classic, maybe it’s time to discover them.
The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, David Bowie, Procol Harum and Peter Gabriel will all be on stage at Evening Under The Stars, musically speaking. The event is a “love affair between the sound of a rock band with a symphony orchestra,” says its musical creator, Peter Brennan.
Brennan, founder of the Jeans ’n Clas-sics show organization, brings his rock band to join members of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra at the Whitecap First Nation’s sports grounds on Aug. 13.
“This particular show, if there was ever a show that was a Jeans ’n Classics calling card, it would be this one,” said Brennan in a recent interview from Wisconsin, where he was performing.
“We have about 40 different shows; we do everything from James Bond to Pink Floyd to Earth, Wind & Fire . . . so many genres.
“So much pop music over the decades has never had an orchestra go anywhere near it. That was always our challenge, but also the very cool thing we were able to do, (to) design it around.”
Evening Under The Stars combines symphonic rock with charity and First Nations involvement. It’s a fundraiser for the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation, held on First Nations land and opened with a grand entry. Whitecap Chief Darcy Bear is honourary chair of the event this year.
Joe LaPointe of All-Sask Financial has led the charge on the event and its location. Organizer Barbi Petersen says LaPointe visited the sports grounds site three years ago, and decided it would be a wonderful place for an event.
“It’s a natural, beautiful prairie envi-ronment,” said Peterson, co-owner of The Black Door Events with Katelyn Cochlan.
This is the second Evening Under The Stars, and last year it was well-received, she added.
“People absolutely loved that grand entry, because a lot of non-First Nations people have not seen that before.
“Joe felt strongly the connection to the First Nations community is an important part of this event.”
Petersen advises attendees to bring the “three Cs:” chair, coat and cash. The event is reminiscent of a free SaskTel Saskatch-ewan Jazz Festival concert, where people bring chairs or blankets, sit on the lawn, don a jacket if it’s cool and buy some food and beverages. Since it is outdoors and out of town, cash will be king, she said.
Gates open at 5 p.m., and the opening act, No Hurry, begins at 5:30. The grand entry takes place at 6:30, followed by the main act at about 7:15. The evening ends by 9:30, to allow for an early return to the city for people working the next day.
Tickets are $50 with all fees included, and Petersen noted that Evening Under the Stars is not like a promoted concert. All proceeds go to the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation, to assist in the purchase of palliative care beds.
It is not the only Saskatoon event for Jeans ’n Classics, which has been operat-ing for 20 years and has come to Saska-toon for a few years with a cross-section of material including Abba, Queen and Pink Floyd. The group returns in the orchestra season to perform the music of Led Zep-pelin.
Evening Under The Stars is focused on the early 1970s progressive rock-sym-phonic rock-art rock genre. Much of the second half is devoted to the music of The Moody Blues, including the songs Tues-day Afternoon and Nights in White Satin. Jethro Tull fans will enjoy flautists taking centre stage to impersonate band leader Ian Anderson, said Brennan.
“It’s a very gratifying show to play for us and for the orchestra. It’s the most perfect synthesis of the two worlds.”
Seven Jeans ’n Classics band members
are flying out to perform (the London, Ont.-based company has 28 musicians.)
Brennan will be on guitar, Jeff Christ-mas on drums, Mitch Tyler on bass, and Don Paulton on keyboards, along with vocalist Jean Meilleur and two backup singers, Kathryn Rose and Leah Salomaa.
“It’s a proper rock band, with all the vocals that go with it, and the instrumenta-tion,” said Brennan.
When you add members of the Saska-toon Symphony Orchestra into the mix, there will be approximately 70 musicians on stage, delivering a big, wall-of-sound experience.
“It’s not just a string section. It’s all the woodwinds, all the brass, the percussion instruments and, of course, the strings,” Brennan said.
Evening Under The Stars Ultimate Symphonic Rock Show goes Wednes-day, Aug. 13, at the Whitecap Sports Grounds, 30 kilometres south of Sas-katoon on Highway 219. Tickets are $50, and are available through evenin-gunderthestars.ca, through the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival box office at 306-652-4700 or in person at the jazz office in the Delta Bessborough Hotel. There is free parking and a shuttle from the parking area to the stage area. The concert goes rain or shine. See the web-site for further information.
Last year’s Evening Under The Stars was held under a full moon (F:11 Photographic Design)
Classic rock meets symphonic sound at Evening Under The Stars
To protect outdoor fabrics from fading, purchase weather guard spray
available at home and garden stores. Note that even treated textiles will eventually fade over time, though moving items to shady areas will ex-tend their life. l Save yourself oodles of
time by clothes-pinning socks together (or use a safety pin) before throwing them into the hamper. The washing machine will no longer eat your socks.l Utilize nylon netting (also known
as tulle) as a scouring dish tool. It won’t scratch and is the handiest tool for scrub-bing dishes. It’s also good for cleaning cars. It’s especially handy for arthritic hands that can’t stand a heavy cumbersome tool. l For people who don’t compost out-
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Save the outer leaves of lettuce for watering plants. Plop a few into your blender with some wa-ter and whirl away on high. Add to soil. Water as normal. l On that note, here’s a tip
for people who wish to water plants less often. Lay a diaper onto the bottom of a plant pot before adding soil. The gel pel-lets in diapers absorb water and release moisture gradually. The result is that you need to water less often. Great for outdoor hanging plants.
l Grow tomatoes in large pots. Begin by putting down several sheets of newspaper before adding soil. This holds the moisture. When emptying the soil into the compost at the end of the season, you can work the rotting paper directly into the compost. l Next time you clean your bathroom
use shaving cream to clean the sink, bath-
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by rubbing them with a fuzzy tennis ball. Instead of bending down to scrub, cut an X into the tennis ball and slide it onto the end of a broom pole. Use the tennis ball pole to erase all floor scuff marks (dampen the ball if needed).l Here is a use for clean, no longer
wearable pantyhose. Dust furniture. Smooth olive oil onto the wood surface and wipe off with pantyhose.l Desperate for a diaper cream substitu-
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raw potato on the area for 10-15 minutes. Or rub Chap Stick onto the cut to soothe away the hurt. l In a pinch peanut butter makes excel-
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l When catching mice use peanut butter instead of cheese. Mice like peanut butter more than cheese, and peanut butter cannot be carried away.l Put dried lavender into a breathable
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bit messy. Here’s a delectable solution: plug up the bottom of an ice cream cone with a bit of peanut butter (or a mini marshmal-low). When munching through the scoop of double-chocolate fudge, you’ll be protected from leaks and there’s a pea-nutty surprise at the end.
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GERING, Nebraska — It’s a leisurely four-day drive from Independence, Missouri, to the west coast. If you took a plane, you’d barely have time to finish the in-flight magazine crossword.
Now think back 150 years. Imagine that same journey by wagon train. Back then, pio-neers had to make the danger-ous four- to five-month-long, 3,000-kilometre overland trek risking everything for a new life in the west.
Between the 1840s and 1860s, more than 400,000 emigrants escaping econom-ic hardship in the east travelled routes that formed the famous Oregon Trail. They departed from points along the Missouri River to better lives in Oregon and Cali-fornia. Beginning in 1847, Mormons flee-ing religious harassment and persecution migrated to Utah, following a trail that
closely paralleled the Oregon Trail. During the two decades, 70,000 Mormons walked this trail to Utah.
After two months of hard travel, many of those early pioneers would have made it to western Nebraska and what is now Scotts Bluff National Monument, which edges the small city of Gering. The peaks that highlight Scotts Bluff were called Ma-a-pa-te by First Na-tions people, which translated means “hill that’s hard to go
around.’’ This meaning was not lost on arriving pioneering families.
The impressive landmark is on the north side of Mitchell Pass, a gap in the towering bluffs along the south side of the North Platte Valley that offered an easier and safer passage through this difficult stretch of the high plains. It was as welcoming as it was spectacular for
the newcomers, who had already spent a strenuous two months on the trail.
After the nearby Chimney Rock Monu-ment, Scotts Bluff is the second-most re-ferred to site in the records and diaries of westward-bound emigrants detailing their Oregon Trail odyssey. The Visitor Centre and Oregon Trail Museum tell the story of the emigrants and a 15-minute video in the centre’s theatre presents an excellent overview of life on the trail.
Visitors can also explore and hike the 2.5-kilometre Saddle Rock Trail, which leads hikers from the Scotts Bluff Visitor Center to the summit. While the original wagon ruts have eroded away, the kilome-tre-long Oregon Trail Pathway runs from the Visitor Center to the remnants and roadbed of the Oregon Trail.
Costumed interpretive staff add an extra level of reality in the shadow of Eagle Rock, one of the peaks that make up Scotts Bluff. Outfitted in his pioneer clothes and sporting a beard, Jim Collis-
ter looks every bit a trail-weary pioneer as he leans on the end of his wagon and takes a breather from his long journey. His “wife’’ cooks up some hard tack on an open fire and Collister tells the tale of a typical day on the trail.
“Virtually no one ever rode in the wagon. There was no room for people. Every scrap of space was crammed with supplies and belongings. It’s not like the movies. Folks on the trail essentially walked across the continent.’’
An early guide book suggested emi-grants should load their wagons with 200 pounds of flour, 150 pounds of bacon, 10 pounds of coffee, 20 pounds of sugar and 10 pounds of salt. Kitchenware was to-tally basic: a kettle, a frying pan, a coffee pot, tin plates, cups, knives and forks.
On an average day, the wagon train might make 20 kilometres. Settlers had lots of dangers to face along the way. There were many accidents along the route, including people run over by the wagons. Accidental gun shots also claimed lives. It isn’t surprising consider-ing most travellers were unfamiliar with firearms.
Cholera and other diseases also took their toll, with some wagon trains losing half their passengers from such diseases. Bodies were usually buried in shallow graves on the side of the road.
Weather often also proved an enemy. Travelling in the summer heat meant dealing with thunder storms, lightning and hail. Lightning and hail the size of baseballs also claimed numerous lives. Whatever the causes, fully 10 per cent of the travellers on these wagon trains would not survive the journey.
Earlier emigrants used a different pass a little further south, called Robidoux Pass. It was named after Joseph Robi-doux, who established a trading post there in 1849. It was a place where pioneers were able to buy supplies and have their wagons repaired.
It’s an experience that modern-day trav-ellers can also experience. The sod-roofed building has been reconstructed with century-old hand-hewn logs and period furnishings. The precise replica of the trading post is located on the 35-kilometre-long Carter Canyon Road. The road offers a glimpse of the rugged countryside early emigrants had to deal with, and the pioneer graves you pass along the way deliver a sobering message as to the grim reality they faced during their long journey.
For more information on western Nebraska, check out www.westnebraska.com.
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This year has been one of travel for me — New York, San Francisco,
Vancouver, Montreal. Each city was inviting and exciting. The sights have been impres-sive, from the Golden Gate to Old Montreal; the food has been fabulous and the experiences unforgettable. As always, it’s the personal ex-periences that make each city stand out: the people that you meet when out and about, on the subway or in a restaurant. The conversations you have make the real difference.
When walking along the hub of any large city, a person hears languages from all over the world. It’s very cool trying to discern what language is being spoken. At
times it is challenging as there are places where English is not spoken. Still, I’ve always found that there are other ways of communicating.
While riding the subway in New York this spring, I met a young girl and her mother. The young girl didn’t speak Eng-lish and she didn’t say a word. But we struck a friendship im-mediately. We simply smiled at each other. It reminded me of the M*A*S*H television show in which Radar says,
“Isn’t it lucky that you can smile in any language?”
Between her smile and mine, the com-munication was pretty clear that we could trust one another.
As I travelled, the stories that stood out
were the ones where people smiled and helped me out or extended a good vibe. I think it’s because these gestures stand out in contrast to the isolation of urban living.
In Montreal, when I was at the Diana Ross concert, I was directed to the wrong seats. I didn’t complain as I wasn’t aware of the error. And they were really good seats. When the rightful owners came, it turned out to be Alain Simard, president of the Montreal Jazz Festival. Not only was he understanding and polite, but he took his time, missing the opening number of the show, to make sure that we made it to our proper seats. Even thinking back to the kind gesture makes me smile.
So you know, Diana was fabulous, ev-erything that she has always promised to be. She delivered her show with a strong voice, a big smile and amazing costumes. She was Diana!
Dining out in New York at my favou-rite Italian restaurant, Via Della Pace, I was impressed with an oncologist who was doing research in a field that was connected to my family history. Angela took time to help me to understand her work and has since stayed in touch with me. I appreciated her easy-going manner and the genuine, helpful spirit.
In Lloydminster, as I was loading my vehicle with boxes of goods, a stranger came by and helped me with the task. Having nothing to gain, he took time from his day to simply lend a helping hand.
It’s always been my belief no matter where I am walking, on the Broadway Bridge in Saskatoon or along Broadway in New York, a person should say hello to those passing by. To me, it is the first small step towards world peace.
You can smile in any language
SHELLY LOEFFLER Columnist
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By Lucas Richert
The greystone residence, home of the university’s first president, Walter Murray, was completed in 1913. It
is considered one of the finest homes in the city. Under construction for three years, it was budgeted to cost $32,000. The final cost ballooned to $44,615.
One of the original buildings construct-ed on campus, the residence was designed by Brown and Vallance, and was built under the direction of A.R. Greig, superin-tendent of buildings and grounds.
Murray was said to be deeply embar-rassed by the cost of what was to be his residence, even though it was also a public building. However, the people of
Saskatoon were proud of the building and the status it gave the university. In an era without Facebook, Twitter and other social media, no public outcry over the cost materialized.
The building was originally planned as a wooden structure. However, a proposal to construct the building out of a local river rock — later known as greystone — was raised, prior to the start of construc-tion, if the government would foot the bill. With the government on board, greystone was chosen.
In 1989, renovations to the residence were completed at a cost of $96,752. Then, in the summer of 2012, as former president Peter MacKinnon left, more renovations
were undertaken.Around the same time, it was suggested
that the President’s Residence be torn down to allow more development along the riverbank. This horrified many in the university and heritage community, includ-ing Andrew Wallace.
“I was alarmed,” said Wallace, an archi-tect and associate director of space plan-ning in the Facilities Management Divi-sion (FMD). “The President’s Residence is a heritage building; any reasonable person can see it’s a heritage building, and it’s probably the best heritage house in Saska-toon. But it has no formal protection.”
The answer was to create the U of S Heritage Register, which lists and describes
41 buildings on campus. Basically, it was a way to recognize the significance of some of Saskatoon’s most amazing buildings, including the President’s Residence.
According to Wallace, the university “has very good examples of all of the major architectural styles of the 20th century, and they all fit together.”
Today, the U of S is bustling with activ-ity and new construction abounds. Yet, the President’s Residence stands as out as one of the finest heritage buildings in the city, and serves as a pillar of stability in a period of change.
(The City’s Municipal Heritage Advi-sory Committee provided this article to the Express.)
President’s Residence a city landmarkMore than a century old, the President’s Residence is a landmark on the University of Saskatchewan campus.(Saskatoon Public Library History Room LH 1831)
While we were ca-noodling down (or maybe that’s up) the
Yangtze River this spring, one of our table-mates, Donna — a vivacious bundle of energy from Saskatoon — would frequently fail to appear at breakfast. When queried about Donna’s absence, her partner would don that well-known perplexed male face that all women instantly recognize, and mutter something about “her hair.” All the other males at the table would nod enthusiastically in agreement over Ross’s plight in failing to understand the female psyche — or in recognizing which planet Donna was from.
I was not-so-secretly in Donna’s corner. I knew her pain. I, too, have had a lifelong ambivalent relationship with my tresses. My current hair guru, Jayson, diplomatically describes my hair as having “directionality.” Yeah? All I know for absolute sure is that my hair has always been some hirsute cross to
bear. My earliest memories involve my mother cornering me so that she could cover my head in bobby-pin spit curls (OK, she used water) to my primary school days where she would daily pull my hair into an eye-popping ponytail. As soon as I got to school each morning, I’d sharpen my pencil and aim the pointy end into the side of my head to loosen up my hair. I’d go home for lunch
and, after we’d eaten, she’d do it all over again. Now, I wonder if this would qualify as child abuse?
Lately, though, I’ve had some conso-lation in discovering I’m not alone in my bad-hair life. Thanks to the utter gener-osity of strangers who share and the mir-acle of the Internet, I’ve come to learn that I have a lot of ancestors who also enjoy my characteristic bright-white, poker-straight hair. Naturally, there’s my mom, her father, her grandmother and her great-grandfather. There’s also Mary Ann Moss and her father Lemuel Moss
and two-thirds of the Gibbins family in Oklahoma and a lot of their progeny who largely ended up in California. The photos are an amazing legacy and proof of the Moss “hairprint.”
Growing up, I had a passing acquain-tance with my great-aunt Hazel, who happened to have grown up in Okla-homa, homesteaded in the Prince Albert area of Saskatchewan and then migrated back to California in the late 1930s. Aunt Hazel was a source of some fascina-tion as she and Uncle Harry lived on the same property in California in separate bookend abodes. Beyond that, she was our regular source of raisins! But her most memorable characteristic was her shock of Day-Glo hair, which had been enhanced with a particularly improbable home perm. Let’s just say she and Albert Einstein shared some pretty obvious hair effects. Looking back, I honestly hope that she didn’t know that we all referred to her as “Snowball.”
I know now that Hazel’s hair was no aberration. Before she finally settled in Dinuba, Calif., Hazel made several crossings into the U.S. and every border
card from those trips notes white or grey hair, and at this time she was in her early forties. Just like me at the same age.
I often wonder if I will ever make peace with my own unruly mop. I never receive comfort from those people (guess?) who tell me that I should just be happy to have hair on my head and lots of it. Someone close to me doesn’t understand that I still wake up in the middle of the night demanding of myself why I ever made the decision to go au naturel when I could have been having way more fun as a blonde. Even as I lurk on the “embrace the silver” sites on the net, there’s not a week that goes by that I don’t experience hair envy of the big or little variety.
Yes, people, I do know – this is a first world problem and I need to get over it (or get therapy). On the scale of epic disasters, my hair is definitely in the negative digits – but sometimes it just doesn’t feel that way.
But don’t you think that a girl/woman who has lived a lifetime of Moss Hair deserves a good whinge once in a while? No?
Difficult tresses a lifelong cross to bear
ANNE LETAINColumnist
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Question: With the increase of red-light cameras/traffic lights in the city, will there ever be countdown timers put on these lights? All the lights in the city have completely different timing from going through green-amber-red.
Mayor Atchison: I find that an interesting question in the sense I have been to many cities where they don’t use timers. What they do is have the green lights flashing to let you know it is going to turn to yellow and then to red. The countdown timers are really not there for the motorist. They’re there to let pedestrians know how long they have to cross the street. In some locations in the city, what happens is the countdown goes through and you anticipate the light will turn yellow. But if there are sensors buried in the side streets and if there is no
vehicle there, the light stays green. So there are different permutations here.
At an intersection with a red-light camera, when it is green as you are approach-ing and it turns yellow, some people slam on their brakes and are literally standing up in their vehicle. You are not going to get a ticket if you are travelling through the intersection when it is yellow. When the red-light camera
activates is not when it turns yellow, but when the light turns red. You know where the big white stripe is across the roadway? If you cross that when the light is red, that is when you get the ticket. If the light is yellow when you are travel-ling through, and it turns red when you are halfway through the intersection, you aren’t going to get a ticket. The ticket
occurs when you travel through and it is red already.
Question: Does the city carry insur-ance to cover damage of fallen city trees onto private property? Otherwise this could be considered negligible & liable for damages.
Mayor Atchison: I checked with the City Solicitor’s office and this is what they tell me. The City would not normally be liable if a healthy tree fell unexpect-edly. The City might be liable only if it did not meet its standards to inspect and maintain the tree, and it turned out to be diseased or defective, and the City knew or ought to have known of the defect. The City is self-insured for this type of claim.
Question: Are there plans to repair 11th Street West from Chappell Drive to Highway 7? It is in desperate need of re-pair; it’s almost dangerous to travel on.
Mayor Atchison: I try to travel the entire city on a regular basis. There is no disputing this section of roadway needs work. We are fixing the potholes at this time, but major work is not scheduled right now. That is a decision council will make at budget time. This year we are spending $50 million on the roadways, sidewalks and back lanes. Hopefully we will be making this same type of invest-ment again next year and in 2016. The goal certainly is to get all our roads in top shape.
Question: Does the mayor routinely answer — or at least acknowledges receipt of — letters addressed to him? I understand he has a communications officer so presumably citizens should expect at least the courtesy of an ac-knowledgment.
Mayor Atchison: We acknowledge all letters that are addressed to us, even letters that have profanity in them. We do have difficulty acknowledging letters that aren’t signed and they don’t put their address on. We do respond and in most cases I pick up the phone and call them. We make about 3,000 phone calls a year. Unfortunately, the people we acknowl-edge the least are the ones that send you a “thank you; you are doing a good job.” So let me say right now that I appreciate the encouragement and vote of confidence.
Like I said, we make about 3,000 phone calls in a year and attend about 1,200 meetings a year, so we try to do our best to get out there and see people and hear their concerns. Sometimes when we are out people will stop us and say, “Did you know this or did you know that?” And I’ll follow up on their concerns.
The other thing I have been promot-ing is a 3-1-1 system. It is central number that anyone could call and get action on an issue or information from someone at the city. If we had a 3-1-1 system and you were to phone the city with a concern, you would be given a tracking number so the city would know when you called, why, what department your concern is go-ing to and how it is resolved through the system. That is really where need to go in the near future.
Note from the Mayor: This is the festival season in Saskatoon. We have Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan with two great plays at one of the top summer venues in Western Canada. We have The Fringe going all of this week with some off-the-wall routines. I think it stimulates the mind. Then we have the parade and the Ex. Then we are into Folkfest. So there are a lot of festivals over the next days and weeks. I encourage everyone to get out to them. They are absolutely fantastic. It’s a great way to run into old friends and acquaintances. It’s always wonderful to take the children and grand-children out to these different events.
(Have a question for Mayor Atchison? Send it to [email protected]. Please put “mayor” in the subject line.)
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The City of Saskatoon’s outdoor fitness programs have been popular this year. This group participates in a noon-hour yoga class in Kiwanis Park. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)
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You cannot build a city without access to fresh water unless you have a
lot of ingenuity and deep pock-ets. Ergo, cities are typically lo-cated on rivers or streams. This creates the age-old challenge of building and maintaining river crossings.
Bridges are one of the larg-est capital expenditures that a city or a province has to make, and those bridges are expected to last in excess of 100 years. They come in all sizes and shapes, with the Confederation Bridge between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick being Canada’s longest at 12.9 kilometres. At a cost of $1.3 billion, it serves about 4,000 vehicles a day.
Regina’s Albert Street Bridge report-edly holds the Guinness Book of World Records designation as the longest bridge over the shortest span of water. Its full length of 256 metres spans a creek that is often only a few metres wide. Built as a make-work project during the Depression, this bridge cost two and a half times more than the $250,000 budgeted. It features artistic styling similar to our own Broad-way Bridge.
The first bridge in Saskatoon was the QLLS/CN, which handled railway traffic from 1890 until its demolition in 1965. It was where the Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge now stands.
Shortly thereafter, the people of Nutana
agreed to merge with the town of Saskatoon and the village of Riversdale. It was then neces-sary that a river crossing suitable for horses, carts and pedestrians be built as the ferry system was unreliable. The Traffic Bridge opened on Oct. 10, 1907, and the communities were joined. The original bridge was closed in 2010 due to structural concerns. It has recently been announced that that a new structure will be built in its place.
As Saskatoon’s economy grew, it was necessary to provide more river crossings for the trains that travelled to and through the city. In 1908, the CPR Bridge (by the weir) and the Grand Trunk Bridge (by Diefenbaker Park) were opened and are still highly utilized.
The next structure to span the South Saskatchewan River in our city was the University Bridge in 1916, considered the longest bridge in Canada at the time. Featuring a newer design with concrete arches, it is still one of the most photo-graphed structures in Saskatoon.
The Broadway Bridge was constructed as a make-work project during the De-pression, opening in 1932. Designed by CJ MacKenzie, while on leave from his position as the Dean of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, the goal was to utilize labour. As a result, the bridge is more highly decorated than those built before or after it.
More than 30 years passed before another bridge was built in Saskatoon. With the removal of the CN station from downtown and the construction of Mid-town Plaza, the Sen. Sid Buckwold Bridge was constructed and opened in 1966.
Again, decades passed with the Univer-sity Bridge being the most northerly bridge. Once the areas of Lawson Heights and Sil-verwood Heights developed and the indus-trial area west of Warman Road expanded, the daily migration of people living east of the river to their jobs west of the river put tremendous strain on the existing bridges and congested the downtown area.
To alleviate this problem and facilitate further expansion of the north-east residen-tial areas, the North Circle Drive Bridge opened in 1983. While there was discus-sion about how many lanes there should be at the time, allowance was made within the design to enable widening the bridge at a later date. The popularity of this new route required the addition of two lanes in 2007. Due to the limited capacity on 42nd Street/Circle Drive, this bridge is currently congested during peak hours.
If a person were to examine the popula-tion per lane of bridge, they would get a rough idea of whether or not there was a need for additional capacity. In 1990, this number was 9,505 – a bit high but close to the comfort zone. In 2000, it was at 10,331 – much too high. The additional two lanes from the expansion of the Circle Drive North Bridge dropped it back to 10,145 – still too high, but better. It is important
to note that this calculation is using the population of the city and does not include those living in the surrounding communi-ties or passing through.
The South Circle Drive Bridge opened to much fanfare in 2013, and is already handling in excess of 20,000 cars per day. Traffic on Idylwyld Drive and 22nd Street is down to a reasonable amount as vehicles no longer need to utilize these routes to get through the city, making it safer for motor-ists, cyclists and pedestrians. The east-ern portion of Circle Drive is also more manageable as there is now a western option to get from south to north. Popula-tion per lane is down to 9,565, which is in the desired range. With the growth the city is experiencing, the number will be 11,538 when the population reaches 300,000.
While the economic impact of this new bridge is tremendous, it is the social aspect that is particularly impressive. This structure has “bridged” our community. Businesses are seeing their customer base increase, as there are no longer any barriers between the east and west sides of the river.
Bridges are vital to our quality of life. Thankfully, with the financial assistance of our provincial and federal governments, Saskatoon’s mayor, councillors and admin-istrators understand their importance and are investing in our future.
Prosperity Saskatoon is an initiative of the Combined Business Group. Follow Prosperity Saskatoon on Twitter at @ProsperityStoon or visit the website at www. prosperitysaskatoon.com.
BETTYGIBBONColumnist
Bridges are an investment in city’s future
Views of the WorldCam Hutchinson & Friends:
By RJ Currie
Three things you can say about an NHL defenceman but shouldn’t say about your wife: 3. A real
anchor; 2. Huge on the back end; 1. Knows how to handle a 2-on-1.l According to a Harvard study, ex-
cessive sleep can lead to forgetfulness. Which, in the case of Toronto Maple Leafs fans, is probably just as well.l The most striking thing about
LeBron James’s decision to “go home” to Cleveland? It’s not the Heat, it’s the humility.l I’m thinking the trivago.ca guy
needs to expand his hotel room search to include a steam iron.l A 105-year-old great-grandmother
threw out the first pitch in the Padres’ 2-1 home win over the Mets. Final stats for San Diego: 2 runs, 11 hits, 1 lead-off walker.l I just saw that clip of Montreal
receiver Chad Johnson hugging a ref. He really has embraced the CFL.l A Quebec man has reportedly been
arrested for selling meth tablets bearing a Montreal Canadiens logo. Makes you wonder what logo he had on downers, the Edmonton Oilers?
l What do you call the basement-sharing Cubs and Rockies playing a marathon six-hour 27-minute game at Wrigley Field? The never-ending sorry.l Manchester United 7, LA Galaxy
0. Even Brazil was laughing.l Oregon quarterback Marcus Mari-
ota’s studies this fall include yoga and golf. A yoga class seems like a stretch, but I can see there being a golf course.l Browns receiver Josh Gordon is
appealing his suspension for marijuana, claiming it was due to second-hand smoke. Right. Who’s his advisor, Ross Rebagliati?l After losing in Miami, Stephen
Strasburg’s record fell to 1-7 with a 4.68 ERA away from Nationals Park. If this keeps up, they’ll start calling him The Road Worrier.l Baylor’s new football facilty,
McLane Stadium, will feature a statue of Robert Griffin III in a pose that hasn’t been revealed. If Mike Shanahan has any input, it will be sitting.
RJ’s GROANER OF THE WEEK:Reuters reports a Russian took his
pet frog to a vet for surgery after it swal-lowed his girlfriend’s engagement ring. After that, warts left to say?
TC Chong, on app in development that will be able to clear any size room in less than one minute: “The app has me
singing Karaoke — Looking for Love in All the Wong Places.”l Clearing out a room? Don’t people yell
“Fire” anymore?l Torben Rolfsen, on Florida State being
No. 1 in the preseason Amway college foot-ball coaches’ poll: “The Amway Poll: after you read it, you need to get 10 friends to read it.”l I have had a like-dislike relationship
with Kent Austin over the years. I am in a dislike mode now. Gosh I enjoy watching him lose and lose it.l Janice Hough, on New NY Giants
quarterback coach Danny Langsdorf saying Eli Manning could complete 70 per cent of his passes in 2014: “In related news, the Cubs are printing playoff tickets.”l A boy in India had 204 of his 232 teeth
removed. In a related story, the leftovers went missing on their way to Missouri. l From Bill Littlejohn: “Josh Gordon has
reportedly passed at least 70 drug tests. Prob-lem is, he’s taken over 1,000.”l From Chong: “McDonalds in Hong
Kong is under fire for buying meat that was past the best before date: “A whistle-blower employee noted the packages said ‘Use before end of Ming Dynasty.’”l Rolfsen, on the New York Knicks put-
ting an odd collection of players together in a rejected bid to the T-Wolves for Kevin Love: “It would have been the most lopsided trade in Manhattan in nearly 500 years.”l I like the Green Zone on CKOM 650
— Monday to Friday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. I wonder, however, why Saskatoon listen-ers, unlike those listening on CJME 980 in Regina, aren’t getting the first two hours of the show.l Hough, on two older men armed with
a semi-automatic and a handgun robbing a Chicago pharmacy for Viagra: “Movie to be titled Die Hard, the Final Sequel.”l According to a study, men take twice
as many selfies as women. I’m guessing we aren’t talking faces here.
l Chong, on a 105-year-old woman throw-ing out the ceremonial first pitch for the San Diego Padres: “Fans described it as having much more heat and accuracy than they ever saw from former QB Ryan Leaf.”l Rolfsen, on the Colorado Rockies
botching Troy Tulowitzki Night by giving away 15,000 jerseys that spelled his last name wrong: “A spokesperson for the team said they would fix it by honouring him with an upcoming bubblehead giveaway.”l From Littlejohn: “Tulowitzki wasn’t up-
set his name was spelled incorrectly. But I’m guessing he wishes Rockies had been spelled Y-a-n-k-e-e-s.”l In 2004 a tree in George Harrison’s died
from, get this, a beetle infestation. Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys drowned. If I’m Mike Jagger, I’m watching out for rolling stones.l My favourite Rod Black moment so far
this season during TSN coverage of the CFL: “Drew Willy was pressurized.”l Hough, on two-time home run derby
winner Cespedes being traded to the Red Sox: “Boston might want to invest a bit in reinforc-ing that Green Monster.”l From Rolfsen: “Photos made the rounds
of rocker Jack White scowling in the stands at a Cubs game. I haven’t seen anyone that grumpy at Wrigley Field since the Steve Bart-man incident.l Steve Stamkos becomes a free agent in
2016, and media in Toronto are already roll-ing out a red carpet?l Chong, on 86-year-old Dodgers an-
nouncer Vin Scully signing for another year, his 66th with the team: “Vinny doesn’t travel for the East Coast trips anymore. The team is afraid he might have a senior moment and start looking for Ebbets Field.”l Cyclist story of the week: I was driving
south on Avenue C, with a cyclist ahead of me and to the right. Suddenly she swerved in front me. Why? She was on her cell phone.l Rolfsen, on Sergio Garcia finishing sec-
ond at the British Open, his fourth runner-up at a major: “This guy makes the Buffalo Bills and Alydar look like closers.”l Has Tony Dungy been fired yet?
Did U.S. college coachesmeet to rank football teams?
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AUGUST 7-10The John Arcand Fiddle Fest returns for a 17th year as the home of Western Canada’s pre-miere fiddle contest, and its expansive music and arts workshops. Offered over four days, the Fest is an affordable experience designed with family fun in mind. Admission is $25 per day or $60 for the entire festival! Tickets are sold at the gate only. Children 12 & under are admit-ted free with a parent or guardian. For more information, visit johnarcandfiddlefest.com or call the festival office at 306-382-0111.
AUGUST 13Evening Under the Stars, a fundraising event for St. Paul’s Hospital presented by the Sas-katoon Symphony Orchestra and guest artist Jeans n Classics playing ultimate symphonic rock including the music of ELO, Jethro Tull, Supertramp and Procol Harem. The outdoor concert goes at Whitecap Sports Grounds, 30 km south of Saskatoon on Hwy. 219. Tickets $45, available at http://www.showclix.com/event/EveningUndertheStars2014. Gates 5 p.m., show 7:15 p.m.
AUGUST 16Western Shakedown Classical Concert Tour comes to Saskatoon, featuring soprano Courtney Bridge of Alberta, pianist Ryan Goetz from Dalmeny, SK., and Rayne Beveridge, a baritone from Maple Creek. They perform renowned classical works and famous operatic scenes at 7 p.m. at the Symphony Office, 408 20th St W. Tickets $15, available at the door or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/776500.
AUGUST 17The Better Good Yard and Home Walking Tour. 1 p.m. Ashworth Holmes Park. See urban homesteading, backyard chickens, intensive gardens, backyard beekeeping and food forests. *****Cherry Sunday in Bruno at the Saint Therese Grounds. Pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Trade Show from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Live music and presentations taking place throughout the afternoon, as well as children’s activities. For more info, please contact Dale at 306-369-2555 or visit www.cherryfestival.ca.
AUGUST 19The Lyell Gustin series’ 10th anniversary sea-son features Trio Concertante, with Saskatoon-born Timothy Steeves, violinist Nancy Dahn and cellist Simon Fryer. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, and includes work by Beethoven, Schubert and Dvorak. The artist give a pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m. Tickets $30 adult, $25 student, avail-able at McNally Robinson, Yamaha Piano and at the door. Call 306 653-8889 or go to www.gustinhouse.ca.
AUGUST 21Music 4 the Gut is the fourth annual benefit concert for Crohn’s and Colitis, featuring 40 lo-cal performers and musicians including Jordie Hughton, singer-songwriters Justin Michael and Brianna Burtt, hip-hop artist Khodi Dill and Friends of Foes. Join us for an (air-conditioned) evening of music on at 7 pm at Cornerstone Church (315 Lenore Dr). $20 advance tickets are available at McNally Robinson and Saska-toon Academy of Music (629 1st Ave N). Visit MusicfortheGut.com for more.
EVENTSUNTIL AUGUST 24Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan presents Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew until Aug. 24 on the riverbank. Tickets range from $10 to $34. Call the box office at 306 652-9100 or Ticketmaster at 1-800-970-7328.
JULY 31 To AUGUST 9The Saskatoon Fringe Festival returns to Broad-way for its 25th year with 33 indoor ticketed plays at five venues, plus buskers, the interna-tional market and more. Call 306 664-2239 for more information or visit the box office during the festival at 639 Broadway Ave.
AUGUST 1-31Prairie Star Gallery presents Persistent Beauty: A view from the edge of the oil sands by Garry Berteig, former head of the art department at Keyano College in Fort McMurray. The new gallery is located at 1136 Eighth St. East, and is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
AUGUST 5 To 10The Ex brings midway excitement and grand-stand music back to Saskatoon. Admission is $15, $11 for youth and $8 for children (free when accompanied by an adult.) The grounds are open noon to midnight daily except Tues-day, when the gates open at 3 p.m. following the morning parade.
AUGUST 9Picnic in the Park with Heroes takes place noon to 4 p.m. in Herzberg Park on Acadia Drive, behind Cardinal Leger school. Free admission. The event honours and remembers veterans of today and yesterday.
AUGUST 9-10The 14th annual 2014 Thickwood Hills Studio Trail, a self-drive tour of unique studios in the Shell Lake area, goes from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Visit the website www.thickwoodhillsstudiotrail.com or www.facebook.com/thickwoodhillsst-diotrail.
AUGUST 10Nest Secret Garden Tour, 1-5 p.m. includes gardens across the city. Garden tour passports are $12, available from Blossoms, Dutch Growers and Anthology. All proceeds go to Nest Saskatoon, which helps refugee women and their families.***** Pioneer Games from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Marr House. The Diefenbaker Canada Centre will be bringing pioneer games and activities from the Little Stone School to the house. Come and play like they did in 1884!
AUGUST 11-21Graduating students of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Saskatch-ewan present their show at the Gordon Snel-grove Gallery on campus, room 191 Murray Building. The show is open Monday to Friday, 9:30 to 4:30, with an opening reception Aug. 15, 7:30 to 9 p.m.
AUGUST 11The Saskatoon Peace Coalition holds a memo-rial for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at 7 p.m. at the peace pole in Rotary Park. The event includes performances from the Japanese Children’s Choir and the aborigi-nal community, as well as a candle-lighting ceremony. In case of bad weather, the event will be held in the hall at Grace-Westminster Church.
AUGUST 14Saskatoon Seniors Continued Learning (SSCL). Eight-week academic courses for anyone 55 and over.
Classes are two hours per week. Mail-in registration begins Aug. 14, and in-person registration in Sept. 3 at 1:30 p.m. in Room 217 Arts Building, U of S campus. A general meeting will follow at 2 p.m. Classes are held at the university and begin the week of Sept. 15. Visit www.ccde.usask.ca/seniors or pick up a brochure at any Public Library on Aug. 14 for full details. For more information, call 306-343-6773.
AUGUST 15A Local Food Celebration, presented by the Saskatoon Food Council, takes place in Osler, SK., at First Street and Fourth Avenue. The din-ner event costs $50 per person at www.picatic.com/foodcelebration or call 306-221-9942.
AUGUST 15-17The Northern Lights Bluegrass & Old Tyme Music Festival takes place 20 km northeast of Big River, SK., at Ness Creek. Music from The Slocan Ramblers, Ryan Boldt of Deep Dark Woods and the Grid Pickers are among the acts. Advance Tickets are $70 (weekend) and $50 (Saturday). At the gate, tickets are $90 (weekend), $40 (Friday), $60 (Saturday) and $30 (Sunday). Call 306 373-4190 or [email protected].
AUGUST 16Rosie and the Riveters Vocal Workshop for Kids. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Refinery Arts and Spirit Centre. $75 plus GST. For more information, visit www.rosieandtheriveters.com/workshop.
AUGUST 16-17Art in the Garden- ninth annual show and sale. Aug. 16: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Aug. 17 12 - 5 p.m. Artists:James Korpan, Karen Maguire, John Perret, Kathleen Slavin, Sylvia Thompson. Where: Maguire’s Garden - 16 Cambridge Cres.
AUGUST 17Open house at Marr Residence from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Join us for a tour of the house and enjoy the ambience of the lovely Marr Garden.
AUGUST 23Ukrainian Day in the Park, Victoria Park starting at noon, rain or shine. The 12th annual festival includes dance and music, traditional Ukrainian food, souvenirs, children’s activities and a beer garden. Find more information on the event at www.facebook.com/ukrainiandayinthepark or twitter @DayInPark.
AUGUST 24Antique Appraisal at Marr Residence from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your family treasure where our local antique expert will tell you more about it. $5 per item. Limit two items per person.
MISCELLANEOUSTUESDAYS To FRIDAYSAgriculture In The Classroom Summer Garden Program. Free all ages drop-in program Tuesdays to Fridays at various locations until Aug. 26. The program consists of activities and games surrounding gardening, healthy eating, sustainability, and cultural perspectives.
Locations and times are as follows: Mayfair Community School and Sutherland/Forest Grove Community Garden 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays; Confederation Park Community School and St. John School 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesdays; Westmount Community School and St. Anne School 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursdays; and St. Maria Goretti Community School 10 a.m. to noon and Vincent Massey Community School from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays. Call 306-933-5520 or email [email protected] for more information.
EvERY MoNDAYThere’s Hope Beyond Depression program. Free introductory sessions Feb. 3 or Feb. 10 from 7 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Where: 327 Pinehouse Drive (wheelchair accessible). For more info call Pekka at 306-717-1665 or email [email protected].
FIRST SATURDAY oF EvERY MoNTH The MindFULL Café, part of the international Alzheimer Café movement, is an opportunity to meet in a relaxed social setting for persons with dementia, family, care partners and other interested people. The Café is a two-hour get together with refreshments, entertainment and information. First Saturday of the month from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Sherbrooke Community Centre.
EvERY TUESDAYOff-Broadway Farmers’ Market & International Bazaar and Bistro. Basement of Grace-West-minster United Church (505, 10th Street East). 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
FIRST MoNDAY oF EvERY MoNTHSaskatoon Ostomy Association meetings. 7:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church. We meet the first Monday of the month except when there is a holiday. Then it is the second Monday.
FIRST TUESDAY oF EvERY MoNTH FROMI - Friends and Relatives of People with Mental Illness. These meetings run from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Where: W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North (wheelchair accessible).If you have a loved one or friend with a mental illness and you need understand-ing support, contact Carol at 306-249-0693, Linda at 306-933-2085, Lois at 306-242-7670 or e-mail [email protected].
FIRST AND THIRD SUNDAY oF EACH MoNTHPet Loss Support Group offers support and comfort to people who are struggling with the loss of a beloved companion animal due to old age, sickness or other sad reasons. The no-obligation support group meets the first and third Sunday of every month 2 p.m. at the W.A. Edwards Centre, 333 4th Avenue North, Saskatoon. For more information or telephone support, call 306-343-5322.
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, SATURDAYS Free art drop-in at the SCYAP Art Centre. All ages welcome, all materials supplied, no registration required. Every Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., Thursday 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., and Saturday 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
EvERY THURSDAYDepression Support Group — free group runs on the first and third Wednesday of each month, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. This is open to anyone struggling with depression and fam-ily members wanting to support them. 1301 Ave. P North. This is a wheelchair accessible building. For more info call 270-9181.
AUGUSTIn August, the Saskatoon International Folk-dance Club meets at 7 p.m. by the Jeux Canada Games Monument in Kiwanis Park (Spadina Crescent East and 23rd Street). Learn dances from around the world. No admission. Check www.sifc.awardspace.com for more information.
EvERY WEDNESDAYDancing in the Park until Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m. to sunset at the River Landing Amphitheatre. The Saskatoon Scottish Country Dancers welcomes everyone to join in. Bring your family, friends and summer visitors for an enjoyable evening of free informal social dancing. Participate or just watch and listen to the music. Wear sturdy sandals or running shoes. No flip-flops, please. Bring along a bottle of water and your most effective mosquito repellent. For more informa-tion, visit http://rscdssask.org/ or email http://rscdssask.org/.
EvERY WEDNESDAYBargain store to support the inner city Lighthouse project. Babies’, children’s, ladies’
and men’s clothing; jewelry, purses, belts and camping clothes. Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 454 Eg-bert Avenue. Prices from $0.25 to $5. Everyone welcome. For more information: Call306-955-3766 (church) or go to spuconline.com or email [email protected].
THIRD THURSDAY oF THE MoNTHThe Saskatoon Prostate Cancer Support Group is a local community group of men who have or who have had prostate cancer, and their spouses/partners/caregivers. We meet monthly for sharing, for support, and for information. Location: W.A. Edwards Centre, 333 – 4th Avenue North.
SECoND WEDNESDAY oF THE MoNTHFriendship Force International, Saskatoon and Area Club. We are an organization of more than 360 clubs in more than 50 countries through-out the world. FFI allows you to enjoy economi-cal travel while forging new friendships with club members from around the world. Visit our website at www.thefriendshipforce.org Find out more about us or come join us at our next meeting by contacting Bill Gulka at 306-249-0243 or by email [email protected].
EvERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAYBridge City Senioraction Inc: Classes every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Registration is $20, drop-in fee is $2. For information, call Sheila at 306-931-8053 or Kathy at 306-244-0587.
EvERY TUESDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAYOvereaters Anonymous: Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you binge, purge or restrict? Is your weight affecting your life? We are a non-profit 12-step group that meets on Tuesdays at noon and 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. For more information including loca-tions visit www.oa.org.
SATURDAYSCountry Farms Marketplace, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Confederation Mall.
TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYSPuppets at the Marr: Saskatoon Stories 1883 to 1908 -- A Puppet Show. The year is 1883 and it is an exciting time full of adventures. Watch Saskatoon grow, starting from a wide open prairie to the hustle of bridges, buildings, and business. Free admission. Tuesdays: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. August 12 and 19. Thursdays: 1:30-2:30 p.m. August 14 and 21. For more in-formation about this program, contact Andrew Whiting at the MVA: 306-665-6887, [email protected].
SUNDAYForestry Farm walking tour: Sunday Aug. 31: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Walking tour begins at 2 p.m. Superintendent’s Residence (the big brick house). Tours are free, with refreshments avail-able at a nominal cost.
THURSDAYSLight Source ToursCurious about the latest contributions to science research from Saskatoon’s Canadian Light Source? Our synchrotron research facility opens for the public on Thursdays at 1:30 p.m., and at 7 p.m. August 21. Admission is free. Pre-registration is required. Call 306-657-3644 or email [email protected]. Info at: http://www.lightsource.ca/education/pub-lic_tours.php.
WEDNESDAYS AND SUNDAYSU of S Walking ToursEvery Wednesday and Sunday at 1 p.m. until Aug. 31. Location: Diefenbaker Canada Centre. The tour lasts for approximately 90 minutes. There will be various themes throughout the summer. For more information or to reserve your spot, email [email protected] or call 306-966-8384. Customized times are available for non-profit and community groups.
NEWCoMERS’ CLUBThe Saskatoon Newcomers’ Club welcomes new female residents in the Saskatoon area, as well as those who have recently under-gone a significant change in lifestyle (such as relationship status, retirement, or becoming a new parent). A new resident is defined as one who has not resided in Saskatoon and/or surrounding area for more than three years. The club holds monthly dinner outings, coffee gatherings, book club and other planned activi-ties. If interested, please reply by email [email protected] or call 306-668-8131.
SINGLES SoCIAL GRoUPSingles Social Group - “All About Us” for people in their 50s and 60s. Events such asweekly Wednesday restaurant suppers, month-ly Sunday brunches, movie nights, dances, pot luck and more. Meet new friends. No mem-bership dues. For more information [email protected] or phone (306) 978-0813.
SASKATooN MooD DISoRDER SUPPoRT GRoUPThe Saskatoon mood disorder support group for people with bi-polar, depression and other related mental health problem meets at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 323 Fourth Ave. South (south entrance) at 7:30 p.m. For more information call Al at 306-716-0836 or Lindi at 306-491-9398.
ToPS #5273 Tops #5273 meets at St. Mathews Hall (135-109th Street West). Weigh-in from 5:45 p.m. to 6:15. Meeting from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Experience a healthy weight loss. For more information call 306- 249-2029 or 306-931-3286.
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