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Participants will get dirty during the mud run on July 13 (Photo by Kelly Morton)

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The Dirty Donkey Obstacle Mud Run is not for the faint of heart. The five-kilometre race is not your

typical 30-minute run — it includes mud pits, swinging ropes and specially designed obstacles the entire way through. This year, it is coming to Saskatoon for the first time.

“Not only is it fun, because you actually have permission now to get dirty — you’re old now, your parents can’t tell you what to do — but we encourage participation because of the social aspect as well,” said organizer John Ford. “There’s also that

personal goal and that personal challenge aspect of it too. Never tell yourself you can’t do something; it’s just going to make you want to do it more.”

Ford is a seasoned adventure racer in Winnipeg who started off with bodybuilding and personal training. While travelling around the country to attend the unique races, he and Rick Shone decided it was time for their city to have its own race.

“I’ve been adventure racing for about 12 years,” said Ford. “Rick owns a wilderness store here in Winnipeg, and we decided to put on our own adventure race because nobody else was doing anything like it in Manitoba. We were going to all these other places to actually race, so

why not put on our own? Even though we would never get a chance to race in our own race, we thought everybody else would enjoy it.”

They were right. The first Swamp Donkey Adventure Race in 2007 brought out 42 teams of three for the event. Since then, the event has grown substantially and is now the largest adventure race in North America. The longer race is the signature Swamp Donkey event; there is also the Ice Donkey in February and the five-kilometre race being held in both Winnipeg and Saskatoon.

“The addition of Saskatoon was actually on the urging of our beer sponsor, Original 16 from Great West Breweries,” said Ford.

“At a meeting, they said it would be great in Saskatoon, so we thought ‘heck, why not?’ It was so successful in Winnipeg, why not bring it out to Saskatoon as well? That way it keeps that prairie homegrown feel as well.”

The Dirty Donkey Run will be held at Blackstrap Provincial Park on July 13. Runners can choose from four different categories: The individual five kilometre, the team 5K, the individual KickASS and team KickASS. Ford encourages people of all fitness levels to try out the Dirty Donkey Run. Teams can be of unlimited sizes. Last year in Winnipeg, 1,200 runners of all abilities participated.

Dirty Donkey Run a new United Way fundraiser

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LAST WEEK WAS a bit trying for my family after our 18-month-old dog, Dodger, was injured

and had to spend a night at the Western College of Veterinarian Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.

It started when Dodger gave a little cry when he jumped off the bed or a chair. (Yes, we shouldn’t let the dog on the furniture. I know that). Soon he didn’t like the idea of going up or down stairs. Then he wasn’t using his hind legs and was collapsing to his right when he tried to stand.

We took him to the Small Animal Clinic. We found out Dodger had suffered a back injury. This was likely due to roughhousing with Bones (our eldest son’s puppy — a big, 50-pound puppy) or as the clinic suggested, Dodger may be predisposed to injury of this nature.

While waiting, I found it interesting how people bond in situations like this. Those in the waiting room become buddies. We shared and compared stories about our pets. The owner of Bear was having a heck of time keeping a cast on his leg. He’s a farm dog, so resting a leg isn’t part of his nature. Biting off casts is part of his nature. Clearly, the staff at the college have seen Bear before.

A cool guy brought in an injured male mallard duck. He had the duck wrapped in a blanket. I was impressed that somebody would take the time to

do that and would ask for a follow-up call.

This led to a few duck jokes.When the vet was chatting with us

about Dodger, I asked her if she’d seen the duck.

“I don’t do ducks,” she said with a laugh. “We leave those for the exotic guys.’’

The exotics must be the life of the college.

Dodger spent the night and had a CT scan the next morning. At 5 p.m. he came home. There was no damage to his vertebra, but there are disc problems. For the next six weeks he is kennel bound, except for potty breaks.

He doesn’t understand what is happening. How can this family that once loved me keep putting me in a pen. I used to

jump on furniture. Why can’t I sleep on the pillow behind “Mom?’’ Why can’t I bite “Dad’’ for no particular reason. What will I eat now that I can’t find half-empty plates of food that Jay leaves throughout the house?

It isn’t going to be a fun six weeks for any of us. He is mending. I hope the duck is too.

JUST BEFORE DODGER’S INJURY, I had my first career tick. After going for a walk at Chief Whitecap Park, I was back on the couch when I felt something walking on my arm. Odd-looking little beast, I thought. I did what I always do and shrieked. “Sandy, come quickly! There is something on my arm.’’ When she didn’t answer, the bug and I went outside to where she was cutting the

grass, moving some soil and monitoring the barbecue.

“What’s all the yelling about?’’ she asked.

“I have a bug on me. I’ve never seen one like this,’’ I replied.

“It’s a tick,’’ she said. “I watched the news last night and they had pictures of ticks, and that’s a tick.’’

“Get it off me,’’ I screamed.“Can’t,’’ she said. “Don’t want to

burn the chicken and I still have a couple of swipes left on the lawn.’’

Thanks for nothing. She didn’t even ask who was winning the hockey game.

HERE’S SOME good news. Dr. Dave Hepburn is coming to Saskatoon. After corresponding by telephone and email for 13 years, there is a chance we will meet.

Dave and his partner in medical mayhem, Dr. Rob Sealey, will be lecturing at the University of Saskatchewan medical school in October.

I found out something last week about Dave that I didn’t know, but should have guessed. He’s a bit of a name-dropper.

He just got back from Hollywood, he wrote smugly. He was there as a guest of David Foster, who got a star in the walk of fame, he wrote more smugly. Along the way, Dave had lunch with Natalie Cole, Dr. Phil, Stevie Wonder and, get this, the Housewives of Beverley Hills. Big deal, Dave. I will be impressed if you bring David Foster, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder and the Housewives to Saskatoon.

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Dwight Safroniuk is a 10-pin bowler who has overcome the challenge of being deaf to elevate

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the Special Olympic World Summer Games in Greece in 2011. He’s about to embark on another European adventure as a Canadian entry in the 2013 World Deaflympics, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from July 24 to Aug. 4.

Part of his preparation will come by entering the Saskatchewan Summer Special Olympic Games on June 22. It is an event involving seven sports. Its winners will qualify to represent Saskatch-ewan at the national champion-ships at Vancouver in 2014.

Safroniuk has been a Special Olympian since 1999, winning numerous events. He’s had three perfect games of 300, has shot 299 twice — once at the National Deaf Games in Edmonton — and had 10 strikes another time for a 288 in Spe-cial Olympic playoffs.

Safroniuk, 44, is a senior assembler with SED Systems.

Through email and with the help of his wife, Emilyn, Dwight and I shared some questions and answers about his success story.

Express: In your first days of bowl-ing, were there times you had any doubts or were you satisfied with the support and with your own confidence?

Dwight: Well, I first started bowl-ing at the age of 10 in Fairhaven Bowl in Saskatoon and didn’t know anything about bowling at all. I was taught in the Youth Bowling Council program. My parents were always there to watch my games, were very encouraging and so were the coaches. My deafness really didn’t bother me except when things were being explained to us. I felt left out because I wouldn’t understand what they were saying. But they always took me aside and explained it with actions. The coach would show me what to do visu-ally and I followed it. I was very shy and always wondered if people were talking about me. I kept on bowling every week, I got to know my teammates better and I felt better after that.

Express: Were there people espe-cially influential as you entered YBC and Special Olympics?

Dwight: The most influential people in my sports life have been my parents because they kept me busy with all sorts of sports and activities. As a kid, I was in hockey, soccer, basketball, bowling, swimming. In Special Olympics, I was in bowling, floor hockey, cross-country ski-ing and slo-pitch. When I was in YBC, my teammates were a good influence because they cheered me on. My coaches were all very nice to me.

When I began in Special Olympics,

Ray Kloschinsky was a very good coach. He was very patient and listened well. He was very thorough in explaining things to me. He would write things on paper, give examples and show me things that I’m doing, things that I can improve on. He was just an awesome person, happy and always cheerful but taught us about discipline too. He was my coach for many years.

The person who replaced him was a very nice lady named Ruth Exley. She took over as Special Olympics bowling

coach about four years ago. She is also a very support-ive person, just like Ray, and she has all the best qualities of a coach. She got to see me bowl in Greece and she was very proud of me.

There is also my ball driller-friend named Martin Chan who lives in Calgary. When I learned I was com-peting in Greece, I thought, ‘Whoa!’ I need the best equipment so I can be at my

best. I Googled ball drillers and his name popped up, so I got my wife to contact him. We met him in Century Bowl in Calgary. He taught me the importance of having a perfect fit for the finger holes in your ball, measuring it very precisely and the types of balls that should be used in different types of oil patterns. He made sure I knew what to do, how to position myself on the lanes, where to throw the ball and stuff like that. Bowl-ing takes a lot of calculating, adapting to different lanes and oil patterns, and using the right balls, the right weight of the balls for you.

Express: Was the event in Greece the highest on your list of thrills, especially with having family there?

Dwight: That was my first ever international bowling tournament experi-ence, and I bowled with the best Spe-cial Olympic bowlers from all over the world. They were very good and I have to admit that I was intimidated and was nervous.

Yes, that was indeed one of the high-est thrills in bowling that I’ve had. First of all, it was held in one of the most beautiful, historical countries. My dad, who was just recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, was able to be there. So were my mom, who has always been there for me in any sport and my wife who is very supportive of everything. They were able to see me compete and win gold medals for my country — a gold for singles against a Swedish bowler who was so talented and a gold in doubles with my teammate, Viateur Baudry, from Quebec. I got to meet, shake the hand and have a picture taken with Timothy Shriver from the Kennedy family who founded Special Olympic sports.

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Also because of this accomplishment in Greece, I received the Hazel McLeary Award from the Canadian Ten Pin Federa-tion. They invited us to attend their annual general meeting in Windsor and we did. I was presented with this beautiful trophy and a shirt with my name on it, and it just made my day!

Express: Tell me about the next trip to Europe?

Dwight: The trip to Europe coming up is for the World Deaflympics Games. There are 19 sports in the Deaflympics, and I am in bowling. I was picked, along with four others — one from Edmonton, one from Winnipeg and two from Montreal. I will be leaving for our last training camp in Toronto on July 19, and from there we train for a few days, then leave for Sofia, Bulgaria.

Express: Can you give me a summation on whether you regretted the loss of hearing

and yet being thankful for the athletic abil-ity?

Dwight: I don’t really regret my loss of hearing. Of course sometimes I think how much easier it would be if I could hear. I didn’t even know about dating and stuff like that until my sister told me how the dating thing works. It’s still hard for me to un-derstand even simple vocabulary. I have to ask my mom or my wife to explain a lot of things to me.

But God made me this way. Like I told Tyrel Rose when he wrote about me in his blog, I am thankful for what I am because even if I am deaf, I have people around me that are supportive of me, believe in me, and truly care unconditionally for me and that is my accomplishment. I am a perfectionist, and believe that if you don’t try, you don’t get anywhere. And I apply that to everything that I do, in life and in sports.

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“We have some teams that are definitely in it to win it, and they go hard; it’s every man or woman for themselves. But, we have other teams that are in it for fun; they come out, they come in costume, they create interesting names. We get some really interesting ones with a lot of plays on the donkey theme,” said Ford with a laugh.

Last year, the Dirty Donkey Run raised more than $40,000 for the MS Society of Canada in Winnipeg. This year, the run will be partnered with the United Way of Saskatoon and Area.

“We were really excited to have Dirty Donkey approach us, and ask us to be their charity partner on this event. It’s a really great opportunity to bring something new to Saskatoon,” said Erica England, manager of communications and events for United Way. “It’s a really fun event and (the mud runs) are building momentum in North America so we’re excited to be attached to something like this. It’s encouraging people to get good and dirty

for a good cause in our community.” United Way of Saskatoon and Area

partnered with local businesses to offer rewards for the top fundraisers. The top individual fundraiser for the Dirty Donkey mud run will win a prize pack from Running Room Saskatoon, and for every $100 raised individually, fundraisers are entered in a grand prize draw for a stand-up paddleboard, paddle and lesson from Escape Sports.

Runners are encouraged to do fundraising by registering through the United Way’s website at www.unitedway.ca. There is a link to fundraise on the homepage. Runners must register for the Dirty Donkey Run as both a participant and (separately) as a fundraiser for United Way.

For those wanting to prepare for Saskatoon’s adventure race, boot camps are being offered this month by Inspire Fitness. To learn more, visit www.inspirefitness.ca or follow the links offered on the Dirty Donkey Run Facebook page. To register or learn more about the Dirty Donkey Run, visit the website at www.dirtydonkeyrun.com, visit the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/dirtydonkeyrun or follow the Twitter handle @dirtydonkeyrun.

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This Athlete has true grit (Photo by Kelly Morton)

uestion: I live in Parkridge and regularly commute up 11th Street to reach River Landing. I appreciate the walk light that has

been put up at the intersection of 11th and Dundonald Avenue. It makes crossing much safer. I am wondering if there are plans to develop a walking/biking path along 11th Street West. There is somewhat of a path right now on the north side, but it is in quite bad shape and is not maintained at all. In the past, I would go through Montgomery and cross Dundonald Avenue at Fletcher Road and commute through the south west industrial area, but that is no longer accessible. Once the new bridge is open, there will be even more traffic down 11th Street. I hope pedestrians and bicyclists are taken into consideration.

Mayor Atchison: A lot of parts to that question. First of all, when Circle Drive South opens in a few weeks it is going to have pedestrian and cyclist dedicated paths, which will take you along 11th Street and Dundonald all the way over to Spadina Crescent. In addition, the MVA is going to be looking after a section from Circle Drive South bridge all the way over to Dudley Street, I believe it is. That will become a beautiful MVA trail that will take you all the way downtown.

Right now, 17th Street ends at Avenue P. There are plans to extend that in the future. Right now there are sidewalks on the west side that take you over to 11th Street. We have just improved the corner of Avenue P and 11th Street, and eventually there will be more improvements along 11th Street.

There was another plan to extend 17th Street over to 11th Street along the railway tracks. But that got nixed. The plan didn’t get a very warm reception, shall I say. I think if we were to use the area alongside the CP rail line and put in a cyclist-pedestrian path that would take you over to the 11th Street area and to Avenue W that might be a solution. As I said, those are things that weren’t well received, but

we are still looking for solutions. Top priority of course is we want to make sure the cyclists and pedestrians are safe.

Question: Were you invited to the Pride parade and will you be able to

attend?Mayor Atchison: We were

certainly invited, but we are in Spain (for the World Cities Summit Mayors Forum) at the time of the parade. I have also been asked why I didn’t spend $100 to be part of an advertisement for Pride Week. (The ad appeared in the Express two weeks ago, with Mayor Atchison, Randy Donauer and Eric Olausan declining to contribute to the cost of the ad.)

Those are taxpayers’ dollars. The Mayor’s Office does not pay for advertising or spend money promoting causes or community events. We could probably spend $1 million a year because we are inundated with requests every day. We are asked to take out ads in programs and magazines — national publications and international publications, mining publications. You name it and the Mayor’s Office is asked to do it. So where do you draw the line? Who is special and who isn’t special, especially when I think everyone is special?

I always find it interesting that when we aren’t able to get to a lot of other events, no one ever asks us about those. Take the Saskatoon Prayer Breakfast this year; there wasn’t a lot of talk in the media about which councillors were there and which weren’t.

People have asked me where I was last year. We did an event for prostate-cancer awareness plus Filipino days, plus two other events all in that same time frame. And the year prior to that I think I was in Singapore (for a World Cities Summit).

Saskatoon is an inclusive city; a city for everyone. It’s a welcoming city. We try to participate in as many events as we can.

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Today’s column will highlight the commission model, with a future column addressing the fee model.

COMMISSIONSCommissions are charged

every time you make a transaction in a commission or trading account. The amount of commission may vary depending on the number of transactions, size of transaction and the amount of money you have invested with the firm.

The commission is the total amount that goes to the advisor’s firm. Then, depending on pay structure, the advisor receives their portion of it.

VISIBLE COMMISSIONSome commissions are “visible.”As an example, if your advisor charges

for stock trades, you will pay a commission on each trade. The amount is clearly reported on a transaction confirmation slip. This would also apply when buying or selling an exchange traded fund (ETF). If the commission is one per cent and you buy 10,000 shares of a stock or ETF at $10 per share, that’s $100,000 for the shares and $1,000 for the commission. Your total cost is $101,000.

In another example, you may be subject to visible commissions when buying the “front-end” version of mutual funds, which are typically sold with commission of anywhere from zero to five per cent of the invested amount. If a $100,000 investment is made in a mutual fund with a front-end sales charge of three per cent, you would notice that $97,000 is the total amount

appearing in your account — after the three per cent commission is paid to the firm.

Front-end mutual funds also have a built-in fee component, which I’ll cover in the next column.

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purchase guaranteed investment certificates (GICs), you’ll get 100 per cent of your money invested at the stated interest rate, but a commission is paid to the firm by the GIC issuer. Further, your money remains locked in until the GIC matures in anywhere from one to five years.

“Low load” and “DSC” mutual funds typically pay an up-front commission of anywhere from two to five per cent to the firm,

but you won’t see visible evidence of that because 100 per cent of your money is invested. What makes this possible is these kinds of mutual funds are subject to a deferred sales charge. DSC stands for “deferred sales charge’” and “low load” also refers to a shorter-term deferred sales charge. This means if you sell your fund early (typically seven years in the case of DSC funds), you’ll pay a fee to the mutual fund company to cover the cost of the commission initially paid to your advisor’s firm.

Low load and DSC mutual funds also have a built-in fee component.

ASKIf you realize you don’t really

understand how your advisor gets paid, ask. It’s more than OK to ask for an explanation of both “visible” and “hidden” commissions — it’s your money.

In the next column, I’ll address the fee model and summarize with a few comments on both the commission and fee models.

Derek Shevkenek is a Saskatoon

Investment Advisor with RBC Dominion Securities Inc. Member CIPF. Inquiries are welcome at 306-956-7803 and at www.dereks.ca. Information is believed to be accurate at the time of writing and is

subject to change. Past performance may not be repeated. Opinions are provided in good faith, but without legal responsibility. Opinions are the author’s, not that of RBC Dominion Securities Inc.

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As Saskatoon’s Pride Festival rolls out this week, there will likely be a few notable absences from

Saskatoon city council. That’s totally fine. No one on council is required to attend anything, beyond the committees and meetings their roles entail (and even those are occasionally and understandably missed).

Events in their wards tend to take priority, but the majority of our councillors have additional full-time jobs, families and the same personal and professional obligations we all do. Being everywhere is impossible.

June is Pride Month in Saskatoon and around the world, meaning a month of celebration of diversity and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBTQ) community. In Saskatoon, pride-week festivities are hosted by the Saskatoon Diversity Network (SDN). It’s a fun, jam-packed week of events, but it’s also a sensitive week for a lot of reasons. For some in the LGBTQ community, publicly celebrating their identity may still be a new or difficult concept. For some members of the community, being publicly exposed to the LGBTQ community may still be a new or difficult concept.

Either way, as the motto of the SDN suggests, the festival is ‘Living Out Loud, Saskatoon Proud,’ and attendance numbers are growing rapidly ever year. Toronto’s huge pride festival rakes in more than

$100 million in economic benefits for the business community. Saskatoon’s is not anywhere near that, but it undoubtedly generates revenue for downtown bars, restaurants and even City Hall.

Anyway, none of our members of council are obligated to attend or support the festival. Toronto’s beleaguered mayor, Rob Ford, has been publicly chastised repeatedly for not attending his city’s massive pride

event because it apparently conflicts with time spent with his family at the cottage.

This year, Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison will be in Spain, where he is speaking at a world city mayors’ conference. No mayor has marched in the parade in 18 years.

A Pride Week advertisement in the Saskatoon Express caused a kerfuffle because two councillors — Randy Donauer and Eric Olauson, as well as Mayor Atchison — were notably

absent beside the other eight councillors expressing their best wishes for the festival. The cost for the advertisement was approximately $100 per individual, or approximately one per cent of their individual advertising budgets.

The three who opted out of the pride advertisement told The StarPhoenix they don’t want to spend taxpayer dollars advertising their support for community events. Really? Perhaps the mayor and the two councillors haven’t figured out that every time they set foot in a community event as a civic official, they are

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When the orchestra in London, Ont., approached musician Peter Brennan to compose a musical score for an Elton John show in the 1990s, he willingly took the job, though

he admits “I completely lied and said, ‘Of course I can.’ ”It was a smashing success. One show led to a second show,

which led to a third show and the rest is history. The founder of the musical group, Jeans ’n Classics, still considers himself blessed to be successfully composing and performing shows.

“I studied music classically, but I was what you could call a Jekyll and Hyde — I was always playing in rock bands,” said Brennan. “By default, I became the studio production and arrangement guy in bands because 99 per cent of pop and rock musicians don’t read music. I got known around London for doing that type of thing, and it was in the early ’90s when the orchestra in London approached me.

“It was around 1996, when we jumped into the deep end and Jeans ’n Classics became the main pursuit of mine. The power of the grapevine is amazing; I always tell people that, being a musician, I have absolutely no business sense and no foresight. But we always just flowed with it.”

Going with the flow is working for the band, which has around 26 members. Brennan’s love of combining orchestral arrangements with classic rock has elevated the band to rock-star status. Jeans ’n Classics performs in large venues across Canada and the United States. They played in front of a crowd of 20,000 people in Hartford, Conn., just last summer.

“We’ve done outdoor shows many times before. It’s always a lot of fun, people come and they bring picnics and they either bring lawn chairs or sprawl on the grass,” said Brennan with a laugh. “Usually, in ones we’ve done touring, you get five to six thousand people.”

Summer is the time of outdoor concerts for the classical rock band, and this year is no exception. Jeans ’n Classics is coming to Saskatoon Aug. 21 to perform the music of Queen for the Evening Under the Stars concert, held at the Whitecap Dakota First Nations grounds. This isn’t the first time Jeans ’n Classics has come to Saskatoon. In fact, the band performed the music of Queen with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra last year.

“We’ve been in Saskatoon for a Michael Jackson show, an ABBA show and, next season, we’re coming to do a Pink Floyd show,” said Brennan. “The Saskatoon Symphony is a wonderful group to work with. The people are really neat, not only musically, but personally

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to get along with. So it’s a real treat to play with them.”

Not only will Jeans ’n Classics be backed by the symphony, but by Saskatoon’s Symphonic Choir as well. The choir will be featured in the second half of the show. It’s nothing but the best for a timeless band such as Queen.

“I think it’s pretty hard to get any better,” said Brennan of the relevancy of Queen music today. “They were a moment. You had extraordinary musicianship and extraordinary musical scope. Freddie (Mercury), because he was classically trained, but he loved every kind of music. I mean, he could rock with the best of them and then he liked opera. There was no holds barred on his creativity, and there was no record label saying, ‘You got to keep it in this little tiny channeling.’ He would have told them where to go.

“They did what they did, and obviously millions upon millions of fans reacted to it. They created such an impact with their fearlessness, and that fearlessness was backed up by such chops and such scope. Bohemian Rhapsody is just a work of art; I remember driving around in the car in the

mid-’70s and it was on the radio, and the guy said, ‘Well there’s nothing I can do after that but play it again.’ Then, he played it again.”

It’s this sort of challenge to live up to music legends that inspires Brennan on the stage. He estimates that almost 60 people will be onstage, not including the orchestra. This is what musicians live for.

“It’s not an elevator treatment of Queen, it’s the real thing,” said Brennan. “It’s heartwarming and it’s terribly enjoyable. You really do have a sense of awesomeness doing it; you realize, ‘Man, were these guys good.’ So it’s an honour, and we try and do it with a great deal of respect for the material. The engaging part is how it fuses with the animal that is an orchestra, and in this case, a choir as well. It’s going to be great.”

Tickets for an Evening Under the Stars featuring the Jeans ’n Classics are $50 each and available in person at the Jazz Festival Box office situated at the Delta Bessborough or over the phone @306.652.4700 or online via our website www.eveningunderthestars. Gates will open at 5 p.m. and tickets went on sale May 6.

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Blair Voth Miller, Brad Miller and Cole Dobranski may have met in Calgary, but they are as

Saskatchewan as they come. Their shared passion for the food and hospitality industry has brought them home.

The three have joined together to open the Congress Beer House, a restaurant/bar on Second Avenue.

“We felt that Saskatoon was ready for some exciting new restaurants, which are popping up all over,” said Voth Miller. “We’re in really good company on Second Avenue. We are really looking to offer that authentic, casual atmosphere paired with great food and a diverse selection of beer.”

Congress Beer House is a labour of love for the three. Inside, the furniture tells a story of its own: The table tops are all crafted by Voth Miller’s uncle and the rough pine back bar is handmade by Ryan Unger of Rhine Artisans. The exposed brick inside was part of the original interior, a hidden treat discovered after removing the drywall.

“It’s been a pretty crazy journey from when we started construction in February,” said Voth Miller. “That brick is just beautiful, and there are a lot of personal touches in the construction. There’s lots of neat stuff and it’s as local as it comes; that’s the big focus. With the beer it’s the exact same thing, we put all the local beers we could get on tap.”

Congress Beer House has 32 taps in total, a number that the owners considered carefully. Selections range from breweries all across Canada, from an award-winning nut ale brewed in Vancouver to products from Great Western Breweries in Saskatoon.

“I think it’s one of the most extensive lists in Saskatoon. We felt like we didn’t

want to go bigger than 32 taps because beer is actually better fresh,” said Voth Miller. “I don’t think a lot of people know that once you tap a keg, you have to drink it. You have a month and then the quality goes down.

“There’s the same focus on the food that we’re putting on the beer. With 32 taps, we feel like they’ll be rotating fast enough. What you’re going to get is fresh. We’ve really focused the beer menu so far on really great Canadian breweries, but we also have lots of special orders coming hopefully soon.”

One hiccup is waiting for shipments to come in sometimes, Voth Miller said. It can take from three weeks to more than a month for beers to come in through Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA), so a couple of beers listed on the menu are still on their way.

“We had to reorder everything two weeks after our first order because the SLGA switched their commercial account away from Willow Park in Regina,” said Voth Miller. “A lot of people don’t realize that you can’t walk into a liquor store and buy something off the shelf; we’re in the same boat as consumers. We’re at the mercy of whatever system’s in place, but we do have some really cool, different beers and it’s only going to get more extensive.”

Congress also puts an emphasis on food.

Head chef Dobranski, who has worked in kitchens both in Regina and Calgary, created a menu with a focus on fresh, comfort food and items that can be easily shared. Items offered range from more simple items such as homemade perogies to finer dishes like escargot.

“He did the whole menu. He really doesn’t like when food becomes something that’s intimidating,” said Voth Miller. “He doesn’t do anything out of a package in

the kitchen, so everything is made from scratch. There is literally a freezer just for the perogies. We wanted to make a place where you could get the best steak in town, and amazing food, but you can come in with your ball cap on. You don’t have to feel uncomfortable.”

Though nights have been the busiest so far, Voth Miller said lunches are a priority as well. Items like soup-and-sandwich combo are offered as a special for around $10.

“We have lunches for people that work downtown. They’re affordable, quality, fast lunches and that’s my main focus now,” said Dobranski. “It’s going to be quick, quick, quick.”

With many businesses come and gone in the Congress Beer House’s location, is there any fear about bad luck lingering in the building?

“We’re not scared,” said Voth Miller with a laugh. “If you give people a genuine experience, that’s what they are looking for. We’re not trying to hide anything; we want to support a local economy with our food and our beer. We want people to come in, talk with approachable servers and have a good time in general.

“The owners are the same as everybody else. We know what people want: we want to be able to go out, get really good food and not pay for a meal that came out of a package. And we’re offering an atmosphere that allows for mingling and that authentic beer-hall style experience.”

Congress Beer House is located at 215 Second Avenue South. To learn more about the restaurant, visit their Facebook page (under Congress Beer House), follow its Twitter handle @CongressBeer or visit its website at www.congressbeerhouse.com.

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If there ever was a time to see an opera in Saskatchewan, this is it. The Saskatoon Opera presents the classic

and beloved opera, Carmen, on June 15, 18, 20 and 22. The opera, written by George Bizet, was a catalyst for the changing scene in opera in the 1800s.

“People were finally putting realism onstage. The plot comes from a real incident of this exotic gypsy woman who seduces this good-hearted country boy, who is in the army,” said Barbara Montalbetti, artistic director of the Saskatoon Opera since 2000. “He fell for her and she gets involved in these illegal activities . . . they have a violent relationship and he ends up killing her, then he gets executed himself.”

Nationally acclaimed opera singer Lauren Segal plays Carmen, the seductress, and she shares the main stage with Adam Luther, who plays the young farmer Don Jose. Local talent will be abundant on the Remai Arts Centre stage, with Regina’s Gordon Bintner as Escamillo, along with other rising talents such as Michael Harris, Joshua Whelan, Danika Loren and Alicia Woynarski.

“They’re all so terrifically perfect for their roles,” said Montalbetti. “I’m delighted at the quality we consistently

get. They’re vibrant, talented, young and sexy, and the audience is going to love them. We’re so blessed with wonderful singers that can move and act as well as they do.”

The Saskatoon Opera’s version of Carmen will be set in the 1930s in a North American landscape. Ragtag children adorning the stage are local kids from the Saskatoon Children’s Choir, and songs will be backed up by the Saskatoon Opera Orchestra — drawn from the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and conducted by 25-year-old Jordan de Souza — and a local chorus.

“The music is very well-known; everyone knows Carmen’s big solo, the Habanera,” said Montalbetti. “The bull fighter song, the Toreador Song, is so famous, but the orchestration is a masterpiece. The rest of the musical score is first class. It’s just a thrilling production.”

Established in 1979 and fully professional by 2000, the Saskatoon Opera is the only professional opera company in Saskatchewan, and it supports emerging artists in the opera community. Carmen will be performed June 15, 18 and 20 at 7:30 p.m. and June 22 at 5 p.m. at the Remai Arts Centre. Tickets are available at the Persephone Theatre box office, which can be contacted at 306-384-7727 or online at www.persephonetheatre.org.

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After years of providing jazz on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, the Saskatchewan Jazz

Festival is launching a new venue this summer, right on the river.

For eight straight nights — June 22-29 — the Maurice Drouin Trio, featuring Tatrina Tai on vocals and Barrie Redford on trumpet, will play some New Orleans-styled jazz and other favourites during a cruise on the Prairie Lily Riverboat.

Realty Executives will be the presenters and Shearwater River Cruises will provide the venue for a 90-minute cruise, beginning nightly at 6:30 p.m. The $55 ticket will include a Louisiana-themed dinner.

Drouin, the piano stylist, sees the show as an exciting new opportunity for jazz fans and a showcase for Tai.

Tai was born in Seoul, Korea, and lived in an orphanage until she was adopted by Michael and Carol Tai, a Taiwanese family living in Saskatoon. Her father was a minister in the Presbyterian Church and her mother a pharmacist.

Tai began piano lessons at the age of five and violin lessons at the age of seven, but there was always something magical about singing. She has competed in the Saskatoon Music Festival from the time she was 12.

“Marilyn Harrison was my piano teacher and when she moved away to

Nova Scotia years ago, she encouraged me to take vocal lessons and pursue my desire to sing,” said Tai.

She took voice lessons from Marilyn Whitehead, joined The Fireside Singers for four years, and also took lessons from Garry Gable, a University of Saskatchewan music professor.

She first sang with Drouin when she was 18 years old, including a three-year stint at John’s Prime Rib and Steak House. They lost contact and then, by chance, rediscovered each other.

“About a year and a half ago, I was having supper at The Cave when I heard this laughter from another table. I knew it was Maurice. I went over and asked, ‘Do you remember me?’ He almost fell out of his chair. He said, ‘I’ve got as job for you on Thursday if you want it.’ And that’s how we came together again.”

Drouin is delighted.“Tatrina has a beautiful presence and

voice. She’s polished, brings pure joy to the music and is so easy to work with on the stage,” said Drouin.

Tai and Drouin have also collaborated on a CD, Yesterday Speaks, which includes When I Fall In Love, I Got Rhythm, Over The Rainbow and seven other selections. Just released, the CD will be available wherever Tai is performing.

Drouin will install one piano on the upper deck for the early evening and another on the dining- room floor for the

A couple of years ago, we went off our rockers and decided to leave the land of the finished yard. We

left an older, developed neighbourhood for a build-your-own adventure in a new area of the city.

A new build is all very exciting, but there was one thing I was not looking forward to: the dirty, weedy badlands that you must turn into a yard. K-tel was all out of Insta-Yard and, alas, I am married to Sir Landscape-a-Lot, so we have been working hard lately. We now have something resembling a property that no longer embarrasses our neighbours.

Gardening and yard work are good for the mind. It's peaceful, thinking time for me. As we have tackled this project, I've been thinking a great deal about my mother-in-law. Ruby passed away a couple of years ago, having reached the great milestone of 90 years. It was with Ruby that I planted and tended my first vegetable gardens.

Ruby was very calm about things. She never really got in a flap about much (unless you were to run off to Vegas to get married, then she had something to say). This serenity probably came from having 17 kids. No, that was not a typo. Yes, one family, all from the same husband. She really was something. After having that many kids, she saw it all and probably realized that things just weren’t worth getting so worked up over.

She must have really wondered what kind of nut job her son had gotten himself tangled up with, because I was probably out in the garden with a ruler, measuring seed depth. I am rather flappable and was very concerned I was doing things all wrong. I was so worried about taking these fragile plants out of their little containers to transplant them. Surely, they would die before I actually got them in the ground. I was convinced that there was a secret to

all of this gardening stuff that I, as a young wife, did not know. My mother always grew a fabulous garden and she seemed

to dedicate most of her summer to it. So I thought it must have taken great skill and knowledge. Why didn’t I pay attention as a dreadful, disinterested teenager?

I asked Ruby a whole bunch of questions before I even got started. She would just calmly say, "I don’t know, just put it in the ground, it’ll grow.” She gave me a few hints and tips, but she mostly taught me that it wasn't rocket science. I believe what she was trying to communicate

to me was that we've been doing this for generations. Just trust and learn along the way. When I think back to the time I spent with her, I'm filled with appreciation for this lesson.

At Ruby's funeral service, my parents gave our family a most beautiful gift. They placed some money in the sympathy card, indicating that we should use it to buy a tree for our new yard in Ruby’s memory. Well, we bought our Ruby Tree; a beautiful young Pembina plum, which bears ruby-red fruit. We chose a fruit tree because Ruby was practical and, like us, she loved fruit desserts. We are planting an orchard of sorts (as much as you can have an orchard on a city lot the size of a plastic Twister mat) and we now have a plum, cherry, haskaps, raspberry and two apple trees.

My son Jaxon helped me plant the Ruby tree. It's quite appropriate because he seemed to be pretty special in Grandma Ruby’s eyes. He was her last grandchild, number 55 I think. She couldn't always remember his name (who could blame her), so she took to calling him The Boy. That name has pretty much stuck.

I've never planted fruit trees before, but I believe in what I have learned. “Put them in the ground, they'll grow.” And they have. Thank you, Grandma Ruby.

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The Saskatoon SPCA is Brenda Richards’ home away from home.

It’s easy to see why.She moves through the corridors with ease,

clearly in her element, blowing kisses and cooing at the seemingly endless number of animals begging for attention and affection.

For her volunteer work, she was named the Sterling Award winner for 2013 at the recent Silver Spoon Dinner. Richards’ colleagues and friends at the SPCA nominated her.

Nine years ago, finding herself with an empty nest, Richards was initially reluctant to consider the Clarence Avenue shelter when deciding where to donate her time. It was her children who convinced her to give it a try.

“One of my sons worked here, and my other son volunteered,” she explained. “They knew I was looking for something to do and suggested I try the animal shelter. I said there was no way I could spend time at the SPCA, it would break my heart. But they convinced me to take a baby step. ‘Go love up the cats,’ they said.”

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volunteers tended to gravitate towards the kittens. So she made it her goal to focus on the older cats — the ones who required more attention, cuddling and grooming.

Twice a week, Richards drives out to the shelter to spend quality time with the adult cats, showering them with the love and attention they crave. She has an uncanny ability for assessing and understanding each cat’s personality, which proves a valuable resource for matching them with potential new homes.

Richards also takes pride in finding the perfect name for her feline friends. “I’ve named thousands of cats over the years,” she said. “I pick names from television shows, flipping through magazines, a song or a poem. I carry a list of names with me, so I’m always ready with the perfect one when a cat comes in.”

Richards is ready and willing to take on any variety of tasks the shelter assigns her on a given day, jobs she refers to as “privileges” not actual work. “Because I’ve been here so long, I’m able to have additional privileges. For example, I can search databases for information on the animals. I’m always learning more.”

When she’s not working at the shelter, she’s working from home, handcrafting warm and comfy homemade cat beds.

“People are kind enough to donate their old quilts, comforters and flannel sheets. I take those home and cut them down to make the cat beds. It’s what I do when I’m not here. I could be here every day and could always have little jobs to do, but I don’t want to overstay my welcome.”

A humble sentiment, but not likely one shared by her SPCA colleagues. Richards is met constantly with huge smiles and warm greetings from staff.

“During her eight years and counting of volunteering for the SPCA, Brenda has proved an invaluable source of laughter, inspiration and passion for everything she is involved with.” This was just one of the tributes read for Richards at the dinner.

Richards admits that in the beginning it was emotionally difficult to volunteer at the animal shelter, and sometimes it still is. “I used to shed tears all the way home and all the way back again,” said Richards. “My husband used to ask me why I would go back. I told him it was because that day I could spent 20 minutes with a great family and a great cat, ending up in an adoption. Even now, I have to focus on the good portion of the day, even though it might be a little portion of the day.”

On finding out she would be receiving the Silver Spoon Dinner’s Sterling Award, Richards had one word to describe her reaction.

“Speechless,” she said. “I’m honoured to be on the same list as those past recipients. I never dreamed I would be considered in the same category as those women. It’s a huge award — I never thought I’d get anything like that. I’m rewarded here every day, with little nuzzles and kisses from the animals, and ‘thank-yous’ from the staff. But I never thought I’d be recognized by something citywide, it was such an honour.

“There were over a thousand people at the dinner,” she continued. “I was extremely nervous to be in front of that many people, but also very proud.

It was incredible to have (guest speaker) Henry Winkler seek me out and say hello, then refer to me twice in his presentation. He’s The Fonz!”

Winning the award has given Richards an opportunity to reflect on the benefits she’s received from her time volunteering at the Saskatoon SPCA. “Each time I leave here, I feel like I’ve accomplished some little thing, whether in the world of a human or an animal. Or it could be a combination of both.”

When it comes to volunteering, Richards would love to see more Saskatoon residents donate their time to the SPCA. However, she acknowledges that it’s more important to be of service in a role that fits the individual.

“I think everyone needs to find their niche when it comes to volunteering. I want to encourage people to volunteer at the SPCA, of course. This is a hard place to volunteer, but so are a lot of places. Wherever you choose to donate your time, you can start small, find that thing where you feel you’re doing something positive for the rest of the world. That may be at the SPCA, but it could be anywhere.”

Brenda Richards has a name for every cat at the Saskatoon SPCA (Photo by Joelle Tomlinson)

Brenda RichardsA volunteer extraordinaire


“OUR CHILDREN LIVE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS”

Life Celebration ServiceYou are invited to a Life Celebration Service

In memory of babies who died at or before birthWoodlawn Cemetery

The Shared Garden MonumentSaturday, June 15th, 2013

at 11:00 a.m.On site attendants will provide directions

Parents, siblings and all other family members and friends are welcome and encouraged to attend this touching and meaningful service.

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Kabrina Selinger turns old furniture into masterpieces (Photo by Joelle Tomlinson)

Hi Reena,We recently purchased a trailer.

The people we bought it from had put mothballs inside to keep vermin out. Now we can’t get the smell out. Do you have any ideas on how we can remove the mothball smell? — Anne-Marie

Dear Anne-Marie,You may want to consider

renting an ozone machine. This little machine is not recommended for regular use, but it is great for enclosed areas that have had smoke, flood damage or just smell. The machine lets out a molecule called O3 (which of course is oxygen with an extra molecule attached). The third molecule escapes into the air and absorbs all odours. These machines can be rented at tool rental retailers as well as some hardware stores. Wash walls and floors with shampoo and water. Clean appliances and upholstery, and leave windows open as much as possible. Boil vanilla, cinnamon and water on the stove. Mothball scent is powerful, without extra help, it will take a long time to disappear. The good news is that it will eventually disappear.

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made of thin paper and are more likely to separate during baking. Other liners have a wax coating, also making it difficult for batter to cling to them. Purchase your liners from a variety of manufacturers before trying anything else; cheaper liners can make a difference. Next, choose slightly larger eggs for your recipe. Fill liners half to two-thirds full so that the top of the cupcake holds onto the liner.

Dear Reena,We are enjoying your column and

wonder whether if you have a remedy for our problem. We used commercial vinegar to fight the weeds between the stones, thereby discolouring the bricks. Is there a product to bring back the original colour? — Anne

Dear Anne,While commercial vinegar and pickling

vinegar are amazing at killing weeds, there is a risk that the colour of brick materials may be altered in some cases. TSP (trisodium phosphate), water and elbow grease (or a pressure washer) are an effective solution. After the brick is clean, consider sealing it with a masonry primer to avoid future discolouration. Some also

report great results with muriatic acid. But test it first and use caution because muriactic acid is dangerous.

Hair Raising Tips of the WeekIf your hairline looks greasy and

shiny, brush baby powder (not too much) onto your scalp to absorb grease and get rid of the shine.

Tell your hair to stay in place by spraying your brush with hairspray and running it through your hair instead of

spraying directly onto your hair and risking the plastered look.

Use an eyebrow brush to apply eye moisturizer to eyebrows. Doing this prevents white flakes from sitting on top of brows.

I enjoy your questions and tips, so keep them coming. Missed a column? Can’t remember a solution? Need a speaker for an upcoming event? Check out my website at reena.ca.

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Household Solutions


Kabrina Selinger just wanted some unique furniture for her family’s home. She started by finding gems

at vintage stores and garage sales, then sprucing up the finds in her garage.

“I started buying quality items and playing around with colour on my own. I’ve always picked antiques and vintage things because I’m finding it’s a better quality than brand new,” said Selinger. “Everything is machine-made nowadays. The stuff I’m finding is all handmade, and it took some serious time in the past. I had a few pieces lying around the house and I played with those first, then once I started going to garage and estate sales, that was it.”

Selinger, a former legal assistant turned stay-at-home mom, painted and repurposed the furniture while her daughters were napping. She paints, waxes and touches up furniture to give it new life again. Touching up does not equal immaculate though; Selinger said she prefers the aged look with patina character.

Specializing in antique and vintage furniture, Selinger will repurpose some pieces and leave some in their original state, she said.

It was just last year that Selinger decided to turn her passion into a business.

“First, it was family and friends that wanted pieces and now it’s just grown in popularity,” she said. “I love finding and selling farmhouse rustic-looking furniture. All of this stuff was out in my garage. It was packed full of furniture and it was just overflowing in there and that’s why I started the shop.

“It is a chic thing now to go vintage. There are always the country people that like the country look, and then there’s the younger generation that find it trendy. It can also look very classy too. I guess you can say right place, right time.”

Selinger, who is of Russian background, named the business Dacha House & Gardens. Dacha means country house, farm, cabin or summer getaway, said Selinger, who changed the pronunciation to “Da-Ka” for her own special twist.

Inside the shop there is a rustic and

comfortable farmhouse feel, achieved through strategic decorating, wooden walls and beautiful repurposed pieces. One table features a 100-year-old apothecary table, and a vanity holds a seasoned typewriter. In another corner, sits a handmade reclaimed granary wood table, made especially for Dacha House & Gardens by a local artisan who will be consigning out of the store.

Dacha House & Gardens is located in Hague. Selinger will hold one sale every month, giving her the opportunity to work on pieces in between. The next sale wil July 26-27.

“Everything in the shop will be for sale,” she said. “I’m doing it this way so it gives me time to paint and look for things. And it creates hype for a vintage weekend for the girls or whoever to come out and have some fun.”

Pieces are priced according to how much work Selinger puts into them and on how much she paid for the item. To learn more about Dacha House & Gardens, visit its check out at www.

dachahouseandgardens.com or visit its updated Facebook page at www.facebook.com/dachahouse. Dacha House & Gardens is located at 99Fourth Street in Hague.


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June 26 & 27, 2013Saskatoon & Region Home Builder’s Association’s

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Only 5 suites left in Phase 1 for occupancy this summer.Like many of you, I was never so

glad to see the last of the snow melt. Still, part of me shuddered as

I witnessed the workload my yard presented. This year, being retired, I knew I would have the time.

I began raking wet leaves, finding lost treasures hidden by the winter cover, scooping up whatever I needed just to free the plants lying beneath. The work is dirty, mucky, tiring, but the result is awe-inspiring as the dark earth is revealed and the green leaves begin to sprout.

The work continued — cleaning, mowing, planting and watering. Somewhere during this time, my yard work became gardening. Between my visits to the local nurseries and the conver-sations with friends and neighbours, the work that I was doing in my yard took on a special feeling. And I liked it.

Seeing perennials return brought a smile to my face. I love the growth and the natural cycle. Seeing dandelions sprout each and every morning, shining with the brightest yellow face set against the green grass, I wondered why, out of all this po-tential growth would this pesky, flowering weed be the most persistent?

I set out to win the battle, pulling each and every dandelion by the root.

Talk about a lesson in perseverance. Pulling dandelions is totally mind over matter. And I was winning, though I must admit when I would look back over my finished work, I swore they continued blooming by the second — just to drive me crazy.

The weeding also gave me time to think of ways I could ease the work. I must admit that the Tom Sawyer approach has

always attracted me as it involved friend-ship and some devilish fun.

That’s when the idea came to me.An Aerating Party! I invited

women that I knew, asking them to wear heels and I served them martinis on the lawn. The women came out in full force, dressed in heels and the accompanying cocktail dresses. If they didn’t have the appropriate shoes for aerating, I had picked up some extra ones at a local thrift store, perfectly picked for their aerat-ing potential. While live music played in the background,

provided by my friend Wendy Thomson, the women walked and sashayed across my lawns. Everyone did it in a different style. Some friends creatively rambled around while others took on the task with due diligence, making sure all areas were covered.

In the midst of the gathering, an un-suspecting friend stopped by to drop off something. While there, he shared an inter-esting story. He told us of a woman, Mrs. Riley, back in his home town. Each spring, the town would watch as she ceremonious-ly walked her lawn in a pair of heels, with a beer in her hand. Saskatchewan folklore had caught up with us and my aerating party will forever be called Celebrating Mrs. Riley, a woman after my own heart.

The lawn is looking healthy, the Lilies of the Valley are blooming, new perennials have been planted and my garden con-tinues to grow. Next year I’m thinking of inviting friends over to harvest the crop for Dandelion Wine, that or putting a sign on my lawn reading: Lessons in Perseverance For Sale — Free Trial Offer.

Happy gardening!

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Daytona Homes are busy in Rosewood, with showhomes now open for viewing in this exciting

new neighbourhood. With its sales centre

headquarters in an upscale showhome at 326 Pichler Crescent, the company is highlighting its four floor plans for two-storey homes, all with attached garages and concrete driveways.

Homes range in size from 1,680 to 2,188 square feet, with prices beginning at approximately $498,000.

Daytona’s sales centre is more than a place to begin looking for a home. It’s a treat to tour because the house, including the basement, is completely finished and professionally decorated.

The stylish two-storey brings together a low-maintenance exterior with elegant additions and a very smart interior. While the 2,188-square-foot home is impressive from the street, its interior offers even more appeal.

The design themes in this three-bedroom home deliver all the necessary living space for a growing family, as well as presenting some nifty upgrades that

very much please the eye. On the main floor, the front foyer

supplies an impressive start for visitors. With a separate formal dining room

(which could also serve as a den) this home has a two-sided gas fireplace in the open great room and a dining nook, maple hardwood flooring and built-in high-end appliances.

Buyers will be impressed by the showhome’s large kitchen and dining nook, along with the main level half-bath.

A stylish staircase leads to the second floor, where all three bedrooms, the family bathroom and a convenient separate laundry room are located. There is a bonus area built over the

attached garage. The master bedroom has a walk-in closet and an ensuite equipped with a tub and shower, which also has a unique, double-sided fireplace that shares its glow with the master bedroom.

The basement is fully developed, with a wet bar, family room, shower and extra bedroom. The showhome and sales centre in Rosewood are open to the public Monday to Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday, Sunday and holidays from noon to 5 p.m. The home is closed daily from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

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I remember going out for Chinese food with Mom, Dad and my brothers. As a child, I was fascinated by the artwork

on the walls. The vibrant reds and golds were so for-eign to my eyes. I was espe-cially drawn to the paintings of peonies. Peonies in the Chinese culture are known as the flowers of riches and honour. The paintings were hung for good luck and for a prosperous business. In my garden, I grow peonies because they are beautiful.

Blooming in late spring and early summer, peony flowers only last a week. But, you can extend the bloom time in your garden by selecting peonies that flower at different times throughout the season. Flowers can be single, semi-double or double. Most have a faint rose-like fragrance. Colours range from white, pale pink, fuchsia, coral, lavender, red and more. After blooming, the peonies feature attractive glossy-dark green foliage. I treat them like small shrubs in my landscape design.

Caring for PeoniesPeonies are easy to care for and toler-

ate less-than-ideal growing conditions. Most require six hours of sun and heavy, but well-draining soil. Like many plants, peonies will not tolerate growing with “wet feet.”

Planting PeoniesOne of the garden truths my father-in-

law Harry has taught me is “you can never dig too big a hole for your plants.” Peonies can thrive in your garden for as long as 50 years. Get the plant off to a good start with a generous hole. Your hole should be at least 24 inches wide and 24 inches deep. Fill the base of the hole with a shovelful

of crushed gravel. Continue to fill the hole with soil amended with well-rotted manure or compost. When planting, the eyes of the

peonies should only be two inches below the soil. Planting too deep is one of the main reasons peonies will not bloom.

Peony VarietiesSarah Bernhart Peony (Paeonia

“Sarah Bernhardt”) is the classic double-pink peony. It blooms late to mid-season and is slightly fra-grant. Sarah will grow 30 inches high and about 36 inches wide. Other double peonies include the Karl Rosenfeld Peony (fuchsia flowers) and the Festiva Maxima (with double white flowers).

Peony flowers can also be found in single form. Fern-leaf Peony (Paeonia tenuifolia) sports cherry-red single flow-ers with a bright saffron-coloured centre. Instead of glossy green leaves, foliage is fern-like. Fern-leaf peonies grow about 24 inches high and 24 inches wide. Fern-leaf peonies are one of the first peonies to bloom in late spring. You can also find a double-flowered fern-leaf peony. Paeonia tenuifolia “Rubra Plena.” The double fern-leaf peony blooms a few weeks later than its single cousin.

Some peony flowers are complex. Bowl of Beauty is one of my favourites. Rose-pink single petals cup a lemon-yellow centre. Sorbet is another interesting peony. It’s a double, but the pink and white petals layer within the blossom.

There’s a peony for every garden. Peonies are easy to grow and will last a lifetime. The hardest part is picking just a few.

We’ve pinned some of our favourites. http://pinterest.com/dgrowers/peonies/

(Leslie vanDuyvendyk is a member of the Dutch Grower’s team.)

Peonies in gardenadd colour, good luck

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Gardening

In today’s real estate market, sellers are experiencing a whole new world when it comes to selling their home.

Out are the days that individuals would clean their house and fix any noticeably broken or damaged parts. We are now entering the era of staging.

Staging is the art of making people envision your home as theirs. Basically, your arrangement of family photos from 1985 and that weird phase you went through when you sponge painted your kitchen doesn’t sell houses anymore. Less is more and your experienced member of the Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS® knows what steps you’ll need to take to achieve this “lived-in” yet “not-lived-in” look.

The three Ds of staging are detach, depersonalize and declutter. Detaching yourself from your home may be difficult. After all, you can still see the teeth marks where Tommy pushed Julie down the stairs that one time, and there’s still a spaghetti sauce stain on the ceiling from when your adoring husband attempted that anniversary dinner. I hate to break it to you, but teeth marks and spaghetti sauce stains are going to cost you money. Put your feelings aside, snap

a picture of those fateful days and pull out the sander and the paint — it’s time for someone else to make new memories here.

As cool as your giant signed Ozzy Osbourne poster that you keep on display in your living room is, it may make it hard for some people to imagine their custom furniture arranged in there with the Prince of Darkness looming overhead. It may take some effort, but if need be, you may have to keep your prize possessions in a rented storage locker while depersonalizing your home.

Even if you have taken down the family photos and cleared your room of every Boston Bruins accessory known to man, you still need to leave your home in a decluttered state for potential buyers. Buyers need to picture what rooms will look like with their belongings. Remove anything that is broken, outdated, taking up too much space or your don’t require on a daily basis.

Once you have completed the three Ds of staging, you will be ready to have a REALTOR® introduce your home to the market. Remember, simplicity and clarity lead to good design and good design leads to faster home sales.

All the world’s a stagingwhen selling your home

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With the warming weather comes more time — and sunshine — to be outside. If you’re a little

overwhelmed by growing your own garden or starting a new landscaping project, try giving the University of Saskatchewan’s GardenLine a call.

“From the expert gardener to the first timer or even commercial businesses, all questions are welcome with eagerness,” said MaryLee McArthur, GardenLine coordinator with the College of Agriculture and Bioresources. “After such a long winter, we are really looking forward to supporting gardeners with their projects.”

GardenLine offers free help with plant and pest identification, can suggest plants or trees that are ideal for yards and our climate and other useful landscaping tips. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned expert, you'll find useful gardening tips and inspiration from picking up the phone.

For information or advice call 306-966-5865. The phone line will run from Monday to Thursday, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. until the end of August. While the advice is free, long-distance charges will apply. Questions can also be emailed to [email protected].

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Tip of the Week“The hardest thing about selling a home is

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It is rhubarb season and we can hardly wait to harvest and enjoy the bounties. When harvesting rhubarb, the first step is to cut the stalks at the soil line or simply pull them out individually. All the stalks of a plant may be harvested at one time or pulled out selectively over a four-to-six week period.

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top. Bake at 35 F for one hour. Serve warm with ice cream.

“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” — George Bernard Shaw

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NUMBERS$500,000 — Amount Bill Clinton will

be paid for a 45-minute speech in Israel. 105 — Age of the oldest driver in

New Zealand. He’s been involved in just one accident in his life and has received just one speeding ticket. According to Guinness World Records, the world’s oldest driver was American Fred Hale Sr. who drove until his 108th birthday in 1998.

3 — Percentage of McDonald’s sales that are salads.

51.4 — Percentage of Jordanians that would rather not live next to somebody of a different race, according to a study. The study found Jordan to be the least tolerant country in the world. India (43.5 per cent) is the second least tolerant, followed by Egypt (30 per cent).

4 million — Record number of followers Justin Bieber has on Twitter.

$78.1 million — Earnings of Tiger Woods, the world’s highest paid athlete in 2012, according to Forbes.com. Second was Roger Federer ($71.5 million), followed by Kobe Bryant ($61.9), LeBron James ($59.8 million) and Drew Brees ($51 million).

$20 million — Amount a Saudi prince spent to book whole sections of Disneyland Paris for himself and 60 friends.

$1,500 — Proposed fine for littering in Chicago.

3,000 — Barbie dolls collected by a woman in Florida. The woman said she spends about $10,000 each year on Barbie dolls and accessories and another $5,000 is budgeted for visiting conventions for collectors of the toy line. She is attracted to the imaginative aspect of Barbie, she told UPI.

• Janice Hough, on the 84-year-old woman who won the $590-million Powerball lottery saying she’s thankful to the person who let her cut in front of him in line to buy a Quick Pick ticket: “Chivalry may not have been dead, but this just killed it.’’

• Another from Hough on the same topic: “The lottery secretary said the woman took the smaller one-time amount and turned down the 30-year payout: ‘Ya think?’ ’’

• Something you won’t hear: I hate summer in Saskatoon.

• Torben Rolfsen, on Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, who is 0-for-24 lifetime in major league at-bats, campaigning to get into the home run derby at the all-star game: “That could work, if Tigers closer Jose Valverde is pitching to him.”

• From Bill Littlejohn: “The second most amazing bear story this week comes from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where a black bear opened car doors to gain access to a vehicle. The most amazing bear story? Chicago is taking a look at JaMarcus Russell.’’

• The new south bridge should be named after Chief Whitecap. My second choice is Aunt Cam.

• Hough, after picture of a so-far-unnamed Taco Bell employee licking a stack of taco shells was posted online: “Going to be interesting to see what he fills in under that ‘why-did-you-leave-your–last-job’ section of his next employment application.”

• Didn’t you used to be Jerome Iginla?• Hough, on a truck carrying a tank

of 6,000 gallons whiskey overturning in New Jersey, and then catching fire: “Firefighters were able to use foam to extinguish the blaze, while much of the liquor just flowed into the gutter. At Jersey Shore, flags were lowered to half-staff.”

• Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila went to a ballet one night last week, then came outside and announced their divorce. Why couldn’t they break up like everybody else — by text?

• Scientists are spending $10 million to create cows that don’t burp. What next? $10 million to create cows that don’t jump over the moon?

• From Rolfsen: “The big question on Alex Rodriguez’s alleged use of PEDs is: Why did his supply run out at the end of every September?”

• Don’t-read-while-eating warning: A Florida man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for repackaging used enema kits and returning them to a drug store. The 34-year-old man pleaded guilty to product tampering and for grossing out everybody in the world.

• Littlejohn, on a skunk making an appearance in the stands at Dodger Stadium: “Scouting reports said he’s a pretty good spray hitter.”

• A study found cheese helps make for a healthy smile. The person with the broadest smile is always the one who just cut it.

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• Victoria Azarenka lost the French Open semifinal to Maria Sharapova in three sets. On the bright side, she out-grunted Sharapova 103 decibels to 101.

• Saskatoon police have been investigating an armed robbery that occurred in a cemetery. They hope no leads have been buried.

• Ottawa’s new CFL team is the RedBlacks? Not exactly inspiring, although it beats the Rod Blacks.

• Orange News reports Austrian firefighters worked three hours to rescue an owl from a chimney. I’m just glad somebody gave a hoot.

• What can you say about the Indiana Pacers’ dismal performance in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final? I haven’t seen a bunch of guys look so bewildered on hardwood since my Grade 7 dance.

• Bartolo Colon is one of the MLB players facing possible punishment in the Biogenesis of America scandal. Might be the first time a Colon ended with a sentence.

• Did you know that by 1930, the famous Canadian painting partnership called the Group of Seven had nine members. So they were as bad at math as the Big Ten.

• Inmates at a Russian penitentiary have reportedly been using cellphones smuggled into prison taped to the underbelly of cats. Would those be cat calls?

• Rising U.S. tennis star Sloane Stevens,

20, says one thing she wishes was different is “that boys weren’t so stupid.” She’s young. In time she’ll wish men weren’t so stupid.

• The Mirror reports a Spanish town is ridding its streets of dog doo by boxing up droppings and mailing them to owners. That’s our poop scoop.

• CBS reports the Cubs total payroll ranks 14th among MLB clubs at just $104 million. Mind you, they don’t budget for Octobers.

• Residents in Grand Lake, Colorado, say a mature moose has been trying daily to be intimate with a statue. They call it odd. The rest of us call it marriage.

• Kobe Bryant says there’s a small chance his rehabbing will be over by the start of next season. Same goes for the Heat-Spurs final.

• Researchers have proven practice doesn’t make perfect, but only after they spent years watching people play chess. Which isn’t as exciting as it sounds.

• Happy birthday to supermodel Bar Refaeli, who just turned 28. And thank you to her parents for raising the Bar.

• “Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften,”according to Yahoo! News, is: a) Germany’s longest conversational word; or b) Russia’s newest women’s tennis star.

º Bad news and good news for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. First, reports this week say many spots in their new press box have blocked views. And that’s the good news.


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Doctors have nightmares. They’re not the usual night-

mares of sitting naked in Grade 12 math class being taught by a stegosaurus as your teeth slowly fall out. Nope. We have nightmares about taking out the wrong kidney, tak-ing out night nurses or ordering takeout with a side of bacteria gone wild.

Fortunately, there are very few stegosauri left in schools, but there is a new superbug, a rogue bacteria gone wild. This one isn’t just super, it is super super kryptonite resistant. Welcome to my nightmare. Welcome to bacteria Alice, the one we didn’t ever want to see; the one that no antibiotic can touch.

Until now, the superbugs you have heard of like MRSA, the NDM-1 plasmid of New Delhi, C. difficile etc., were not completely resistant to every antibiotic. But this new one is. If you’re not scared, get scared. It’s called Carbapenem-resis-tant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) and it does

CRE stuff. But there are two things you should really know about CRE:

1. If you catch it, you only have a 50-50 chance of surviving.

2. It is here.

Why is it here? 1. Antibiotic overuse. This

is normally where I tee off and berate you for coming to the clinic for antibiotics for a cold or flu or earache. But most of you folks have figured it out. In the past several years, I’ve noted fewer requests for antibiotics and fewer people demanding treatment for a cold. There are still a few who do, of

course. They apparently don’t think they should suffer with a cold while everyone else should. They want the instant magic cure we’ve been keeping to ourselves, often coming up with brilliant statements like:

“I simply can’t be sick doctor. I have to go on a trip to Drumheller to see the

stegosaurus festival.”“It starts in my head but it always goes

to my chest.” Yes, Bloggins, that’s what a cold does. But it’s still just a cold, so get a grip.

“Well, my doctor always gives me antibiotics.”

In the past, weaker doctors may have given antibiotics for ear infections and coughs (competent doctors do not).

2. As the world shrinks, medical prob-lems expand. In Third World countries (where antibiotics are plentiful and educa-tion is not), antibiotics are being doled out like Kleenex at a Calgary Flames game. Compounding this is medical tourism. Folks scamper off to East Sunilolronia-stanya for a really cheap sale on a tummy tuck or facelift or a tummy lift into a face tuck. During this trip, they pick up a few falafels and a little CRE, bringing both back to North America. Though they may be asymptomatic, they might still be colo-nized with CRE and falafel crumbs.

British Columbia already has special protocols in place to deal with sick patients who’ve come from places like Greece, the

Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. But here is the scary part. There are now actually protocols in place for patients who have been in hospital in the United States. A couple hundred hospitals in 41states now have confirmed cases of this deadly CRE.

The countermeasures include keeping patients isolated/quarantined as CRE is shed in the feces of patients who are in-fected or carrying the bacteria. This is yet another good reason to not go to hospitals and clinics unless you have to. Apparently there are sick people there. Can you catch something in the waiting room? Abso-lutely. If you use doorknobs, touch a chair or run your hands through the hair of the patient sitting beside you, you could catch a nasty bug.

The blockbuster movie Contagion showed the entire world, or at least To-ronto, grinding to a halt as an unstoppable microbe destroys the Argonauts, the Blue Jays and most of the Leafs’ defence. Could this actually occur? Possibly. This would mean that the Leafs will never again win Lord Stanley’s Cup, prolonging the night-mare of those of us of Leaf Nation.

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HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas — Jeff Heitzman can’t keep his hands out of hot water. But it’s a small price

to pay for getting his message across to tourists visiting this pretty spa city.

The genial park ranger is testing the steaming waters for the benefit of the tour group that is checking out the natural springs that gave the city of Hot Springs its name.

With about 36,000 residents, the city in southwestern Arkansas is about an hour’s drive from Little Rock. Sharing the geology and his-tory of Hot Springs is a labour of love for Heitzman.

Coming out of the ground at 61C, the water from the springs has no harm-ful bacteria. It is of

such high quality no treatment is neces-sary, explained Heitzman, handing out paper cups to visitors to sample the water for themselves.

“Not bad, when you consider that the water you’re drinking is more than 4,000 years old,’’ he said to his visitors, most of whom head back to the water fountain for seconds.

People have been coming here to “take’’ the waters for generations. In fact, the lure of this spa city can be traced back to the First Nations people that discovered the hot springs that bubble out of the wooded hillside and form part of Hot Springs National Park.

The flow from the 47 springs in town is about 700,000 gallons a day, much of it piped into the bathhouse spas along Bath-house Row, an area of the city under the control of the National Park Service. While there are a few open pools for visitors to see, there are four with public access. Local residents come here to fill up plastic containers to take home.

The park is one of the oldest and small-

est in the United States. It’s home to His-toric Bathhouse Row, the finest collection of historic bathhouses of its kind in North America. In the early 1900s, doctors sent patients to Hot Springs to take advantage of the healing powers of the spring waters.

Known as America’s First Resort, Hot Springs is a colourful mix of old and new with traditional and modern spas treat-ments, gallery-lined streets, music and film festivals, extensive outdoor activities and folk tales galore.

In the early days, it became a popular destination for baseball teams arriving by train to begin spring training and recuper-ate in the bathhouses. Babe Ruth was one of the baseball stars who helped popularize the resort.

During the days of prohibition, Hot Springs had a more or less open-door

policy to gambling and booze, (thanks to a complicit city hall), which added to its visitation numbers and also attracted a host of legendary gangsters from the north. Hot Springs was Las Vegas decades before the Nevada city had its first roulette table.

A priority for today’s Hot Springs visi-tors is a tour of the Gangster Museum of America on Central Avenue. Here, they can learn all about the characters that frequent-ed the community during its heyday, includ-ing such notables as Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Bugs Moran and Frank Costello.

On the Arlington Hotel’s fourth floor, guests can see the state room where Capone preferred to stay during his visits. He would book the entire floor, securing not only rooms for his “gang,’’ but also providing a protective shield for himself should trouble break out. Conveniently,

just one floor below, Arlington’s bathhouse facilities were within easy reach of the mobster. They are still there today, but now clients can take advantage of an intriguing array of inexpensive spa services.

There’s a huge revival of the bathhouse experience in the city. An example of the restoration can be found at the Quapaw Baths & Spa. The 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival building is the first of the restored bathhouses to reopen. It features commu-nal and private bathing in the therapeutic thermal waters as well as a day spa, steam cave and a juice bar.

There’s much to see and enjoy in Hot Springs, which is also famous for being the city where former President Bill Clinton was raised. For more information on sites, activities and accommodation, visit www.hotsprings.org.

hot SpringsA pretty spa city in Arkansas

Jeff Heitzman of the U.S. National Parks Service takes visitors on a tour along Bathhouse Row (Photo by Peter Wilson)


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****What: Roy Anderson and Darrell Boyko have two acclaimed recordings, loads of original music, and a stage full of instruments. Show time is 9 p.m.Where: The Bassment, 202 4th Avenue North.Tickets: $12 for SJS members, $16 for non-members.

JUNE 15What: Saxophone specialist Bobby Klassen, recently-returned-home pianist Kim Salkeld and vocalist Grant Currie are parts of a package which offers swinging jazz favorites. Show time is 9 p.m.Where: The Bassment, 202 4th Avenue North.Tickets: $12 for SJS members, $16 for non-members.

JUNE 15,18,20,22 What: One of the best-loved of all operas, Carmen is a powerful tale of consuming lust. Performances on June 15, 18, 20 at 7:30 p.m. and June 22 at 5:00 p.m. Tickets available at Persephone Theatre Box Office: 384-7727 or online at www.persephonethe-atre.orgWhere: Remai Arts Centre.

JUNE 12 What: Man Hunt: SHE Modelling Agency is on the hunt for men between the ages of 19-45 who would like to try modelling locally or internationally. Call 306-652-7484 to enter; Finals are June 12 at 9 p.m. Where: 302 Lounge & Discotheque.

JUNE 12-16, 19-23What: The Barn Playhouse opens its 2013 season with the hilarious K.O.L.D. Radio: Whitefish Bay. Whitefish Bay is an ordinary sleepy little town, with hilariously funny oddball citizens. Where: The Barn Playhouse. You can get tickets by calling 306-239-4600.

JUNE 14-15What: MCC Relief Sale & Auction. Doors and Markets open from 4 p.m. – 9 p.m. on Friday. Supper from 5 p.m. -7 p.m. Music at 8:15 p.m. Saturday breakfast between 7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m., markets open 8:30 a.m. Kid's activities start at 9 a.m. Auction starts at 9:30 a.m. (Quilts, 1967 VW, 1853 Kroeger Clock, etc.) Come & celebrate MCC's work for relief, development and peace. Free Admission. Where: Prairieland Park, Hall E.

JUNE 18What: Save the Children – Canada Executive Committee Meeting at 7:30 p.m. New volunteers urgently needed to fill vacant positions. Help Save the Children Canada raise funds for their efforts to build better tomorrows for all children. Call Chairperson Mary Pyne at 978-0026 or Mel at

[email protected]: Edwards Family Centre on 4th Avenue North.

JUNE 21 What: Brits by the Bus; Saskatchewan British Car Club’s Annual Show and Shine from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Visit www.sbcc.ca . Where: Bessborough Hotel and The Bus, Saskatoon.

****What: Centennial Banquet hosted by Third Avenue United Church. Tour of the museum from 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. and banquet at 6 p.m. Guest Speaker is Rev. Lorne Calvert, with entertainment by church school students. Cost is $40 and $18 for children aged four to 10. For tickets, call the church office at 306-652-6812. Where: Western Development Museum.

****What: Centennial Banquet hosted by Third Avenue United Church from 5 to 6 p.m. Tour of Museum is at 6 p.m. Banquet with Guest Speaker Rev. Lorne Calvert. Cost is $40 and $18 for children aged four-10. For tickets, call the church office at 652-6812.Where: The Western Development Museum.

****What: Fight to Cure Multiple Myeloma Golf Tournament; 11 a.m. registration and 1 p.m. shot-gun start. Cost: $150 per golfer includes round with cart, pizza lunch, steak supper and gift. To Register, contact Jason at 306-291-2310 or [email protected] for more info. Where: The Legends Golf Course, Warman.

JUNE 22-23What: Saskatoon Amateur Radio Club 2013 Field Day from noon to June 23, 12:00 noon. Summary: Participating in North America’s largest on-air ama-teur radio event and emergency communications training exercise. Talking to Ham Radio Stations around North America, maybe South America and the Caribbean. Join us for a little while. If you are 18 or under, help us increase our score! Telephone: 309-974-2699. Website: http://ve5aa.dyndns.org/. Email: [email protected]: Southeast side of Saskatoon Western Development Museum Parking Lot (to the right looking out the museum door).

VOLUNTEERS WANTEDWhat: The Saskatoon Branch of Save the Children-Canada is currently going through a process of reju-venation. Senior executive members are voluntarily stepping down to make room for younger members to take over. The branch is looking for replacements for the following executive committee positions as well as for four members at large:Branch SecretaryChair, Finance & TreasuryChair, Coin CollectionChair, Annual Valentine Tree Bake SaleChair, Annual Gorgeous Junk Sale Chair, Annual Child Day FestivalFor information, please contact Mel at 373-9877 or, preferably, at [email protected].

FiRST SATURDAy OF EVERy mONTh What: The MindFULL Café, part of the interna-

tional 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.

FiRST TUESDAy OF EVERy mONTh What: 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 understanding support, contact Carol at 249-0693, Linda at 933-2085, Lois at 242-7670 or e-mail [email protected].

SEcOND WEDNESDAy OF EVERy mONTh What: Friendship Force International, Saskatoon & Area Club welcomes all travellers! We are a non-profit cultural exchange organization promoting friendship and goodwill through a program of home-stay exchanges. We are an organization of more than 360 clubs in more than 50 countries throughout the world. FFI allows you to enjoy economical 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 249-0243 or emailing [email protected].

TUESDAyS, ThURSDAyS, SATURDAyS What: Free art drop-in at the SCYAP Art Centre. All ages welcome, all materials supplied, no registra-tion required. Every Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., Thursday 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., and Saturday 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.

SEcOND mONDAy OF EVERy mONThWhat: The ACT/UCT Saskatoon # 1031 Fraternal Club is always looking for new members. An option-al insurance plan is available with all memberships. Where: Mixed Supper Meeting start at 5:30PM at the ACT Hall (upstairs) in the ACT Area, Sutherland.For information call Penny at 931-8647 or Bob at 382-4893.

EVERy WEDNESDAy What: St. James Farmers’ Market from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Where: 607 Dufferin Ave.New vendors welcome. For more info call 664-2940.

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-------What: River Heights Artist Group. This group is a brand new non-profit group running Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Where: Lower level, Resurrection Lutheran Church, 310 Lenore Dr.For more information, call Wendy at 934-1586.

EVERy ThURSDAyWhat: For June, July and August, Saskatoon International Folkdance Club meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. Learn dances from Italy, Romania, Israel and other countries. Free admission. Where: Kiwanis Park, by the Jeux Canada Games monument. Call 374-0005 or visit www.sifc.awardspace.com.

****What: New Farmers' Market. Thursdays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. rain or shine at The Centre Mall in front of Dollarama. Go to www.farmersmarketsaskatoon.com.

ONGOiNGWhat: Monthly Drop-In Caregiver Support Group.Who: Caregivers for adult family members or friends.Cost: Free (presented by Saskatoon Health Region).To Register: Jeanne (655-3426) or Karen (655-3427).

****What: BRIDGE CITY SENIORACTION INC: Two classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. and one class on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. until June 30, 2013. Registration fee is $15, drop-in fee is $2. For information call Sheila at 931-8053 or Kathy at 244-0587. Where: Classes at Saskatoon Field House.

****What: Depression Support Group — free group runs on the first and third Thursday of each month, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. This is open to anyone strug-gling with depression and family members wanting to support them. Where: 311 - 38 St. East. This is a wheelchair acces-sible building. For more info call 270-9181.

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The sixth-generation GTI that came to our shores for the 2010 model year is due for replace-ment late this year or the spring of next, and will originate from VW’s production facility in Puebla, Mexico. That means if you’re looking to acquire an honest-to-goodness German-manufactured GTI, this could be your final opportunity.

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Of course the GTI shares the Golf’s ability to stow about as much luggage as most mid-size sedans. It can more than triple its normal cargo space for accommodating bulkier objects when the 60:40 split rear seat is folded flat. That makes the GTI a useful as well as a sporty vehicle.

The GTI further distances itself from main-stream Golfs with its well-bolstered front seats with plaid inserts, as did the very first GTI. For driving convenience there’s a thicker flat-bottom steering wheel, size-large tachometer and speedometer and brushed aluminum pedals.

Drivers will enthuse over the standard 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine that generates 200 horsepower and 207 pound-feet of torque. By comparison, base Golfs make do with a 2.5-litre five-cylinder with 170 horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque.

The turbo-four functions through a six-speed manual transmission or optional dual-clutch auto-mated manual gearbox (DSG).

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GTI pricing begins at $30,800 ($31,800 for the four-door), which includes destination charges, all the go-fast stuff plus most key comfort necessities. A convenience package featuring a power sunroof

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However you choose to equip your GTI, you will be piloting a seriously competent sports machine famous for its quick reflexes and with a level of road-holding agility that other compact models of any stripe can only dream of.

What you should know 2013 Volkswagen Golf GTIType Two- /four-door, front-wheel-drive compact hatchback

Engine (hp) 2.0-litre DOHC I4, turbocharged (200)

Transmissions Six-speed manual, six-speed twin-clutch automated manual (DSG)

Market position Small cars with torquey engines when properly equipped can be a blast to drive. For the past 30 years the GTI has been the go-to ride for enthusiasts seeking performance and handling competency in a tidy package.

Points ☛ Smart and practical, it’s a rapid little workhorse. ☛ DSG option is relatively affordable and delivers ultra-quick gear changes as well as launch control. ☛ Too bad AWD isn’t on the GTI’s menu. ☛ Firm suspension isn’t jarring like that of some competi-tors. ☛ Mexico-built 2015 model will be significantly different, but will it be better than current version?

Safety Front airbags; side-impact airbags; side-curtain airbags; anti-lock brakes; traction control; stability control.

L/100 km (city/hwy): 8.7/6.3 (DSG) Base price (incl. destination): $30,800

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Base price: $25,100Budget-priced hatchback offers decent turbo power in a smaller package.

Mazdaspeed3Base price: $31,800GTI’s primary competitor is a bit raucous, but many fans prefer it that way.

Ford Focus STBase price: $31,650Ford’s newest hot hatch looks sharp and runs with 252 horsepower.

The six-speed manual transmission is actually not the quickest or sportiest of-fering; that honor goes to the optional Direct Shift Gearbox (DSG).

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If in an online transaction feels weird, it probably is

Tim Bosma, 32, is not alive to tell the story of the two men who test drove his Dodge pickup May 6 after he posted it for sale

online. His charred remains were found on a piece

of property in Ontario owned by one of the two men charged with first-degree murder. Appar-ently other stolen vehicles were found, one belonging to an individual, thankfully alive and well, who also had it listed online.

The bizarre and prominent case has obvi-ously left Bosma’s family and friends shocked and grief stricken, while those of us who are following the story are also possibly ponder-ing the safety of buying and selling through a keyboard and what could have prevented such a heinous crime.

We don’t know all the details, so it’s impossible to speculate, but there are plenty of precautions that should be taken whenever you’re meeting a stranger in person, no mat-ter if you’ve placed an ad in a newspaper or online. The latter, however, does have unique circumstances since money tends to change hands without actually going from hand to hand. People can also find out a lot more about you, too, in the dialog when messages are exchanged.

The Bosma case is the extreme of ex-tremes, and the more common incidents will involve how the money and goods trade hands, as in you could find yourself without either of them in the end.

Despite all the tips and tricks, your best defence, believe it or not, is your common sense. If things seem wrong, they probably are, so when someone you’ve never met asks you to send them a wire transfer and the warning bells start going off in your head, pay attention. If someone wants to pay you with a post-dated cheque and the alarm bells start going off in your head, pay attention. Say no thank you and walk away. Do not be afraid to back out for fear of feeling foolish.

In this day and age, however, one of the big mistakes people make is one they don’t even know they’re making: providing too much personal information. If you have a Facebook page, for example, do not post a comment that you’ll be away and “I hope my cars will be safe!” You might think you’re being “social”, but have you considered who can actually see your comments aside from hopefully honest friends as well as their friends? Have you looked at your privacy settings?

It’s a given that you should never bring people to your home for a test drive of a vehicle you’re selling, and just as bad as that is giv-ing away your address. As a test, open up a browser window on your computer and search your address. Most likely, you’ll be able to find a street view of your house, which means anyone, anywhere in the world can case your property and the neighbourhood and get a layout of the roads. Scary stuff.

So, where do you meet if not at home? Somewhere safe, according to lt. Ray Collins, lead detective with the auto-theft task force of the Michigan State Police Department.

“Always meet somebody that wants to take a car for a test drive, at the police station. That’s a sure-fire way to protect yourself.”

He also says to bring a friend, carry a cell phone (keep it visible) and let others know where you’ll be and what you’re doing.

Along the lines of posting too much informa-tion, as a seller, take pictures of your vehicle in generic settings. Posting pictures of your vehicle in your driveway with your garage door wide open is just foolish as it shows would-be bad guys what they could make off with. (You shouldn’t leave the door open at all for pass-ersby to see, either). And don’t post pictures of you cleaning out the garage on your Facebook page; it’s like showing everyone the inside of a jewelry box. Safe Facebook posts are about things such as the weather, your mood and things you see around town (“Traffic is crazy to-

day!”). Giving out personal information is not safe because you don’t know, exactly, who is seeing it and what they’re doing with it.

According to lt. Collins, scams are evolving faster than police can keep up, but there are obvious signs of trouble. A seller asking a price that seems to be too good to be true, a seller asking to meet you at an apartment building where you never actually see him or her coming out of an apartment, fast cash sales associated with financial dis-tress and sellers suggesting odd financial arrangements.

And, of course, make sure you’re dealing with the real owner of the car. Collins says to use the Internet as a tool and let common sense run the show.

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