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Wendy’s Wrestling Rascals is now open to the public By Stephanie Zoer Wendy Marcotte always enjoyed sports and basketball was at the top of her list, until she was introduced to wrestling. Raised in Prince Albert, during her school years she played basketball until Grade 10. She had fully intended to join the basketball team until one day the high school wrestling coach asked her to help out with another student. When the student wrestler could not move Marcotte off her stomach in a wrestling maneuver, the coach was impressed and asked Marcotte if she would be interested in joining the club. It was from that moment that Marcotte became hooked on the sport, remaining with the team through Grade 12. After graduation she attended the University of Regina in the arts and science program with the intention of becoming a teacher, but had a change of heart and completed the early childhood education program instead. While at the U of R, Marcotte joined the wrestling team
Kendrick Dormoth, in the gray t-shirt won the silver medal at the Weyburn tournament. Photo by Wendy Marcotte and has continued with her passion and love for the sport. Marcotte returned to P.A., where she coached wrestling at her old high school and also managed the P.A. Wrestling Club. In 2017 she moved to Carlyle and coached with a partner in Manor.
COVID-19 hit and shut everything down for a couple of years, and when things began to open up, Marcotte realized how much she missed the sport and decided to open her own studio for wrestling in Carlyle. While she was getting things organized for her studio, she was asked to coach the
wrestling team for Team South East at the 2023 Saskatchewan Winter Games in Regina. Her team did very well at the event. Running a daycare from her home in Carlyle, she started her wrestling studio there by converting her garage into the space she needed. Marcotte also needed a
name and the kids selected Wendy’s Wrestling Rascals. Offering the program to her daycare kids only, she had several that signed up and it officially began in October. In November, they began to practise for their first tournament, held on Dec. 10 in Weyburn. This gave the athletes six weeks to prepare for the competition. Three of Marcotte’s students attended, with Weston Dormoth receiving a silver medal, Kendrick Dormoth taking the bronze medal and Lincoln Brown placing fourth. Marcotte was incredibly pleased with the placings considering the short span they had to train. In January 2024, Marcotte will open her studio to the public for all to enjoy the global sport. Wrestling is a wonderful way to strengthen the body, it creates strategic thinking and the ability to rapidly change situations. These are all things that will be taught at Marcotte’s wrestling studio and so much more, but above all she wants it to be fun.
Breast cancer screening bus coming to Carlyle and Carnduff By David Willberg The Saskatchewan Cancer Agency’s (SCA) mobile mammography bus is in southeast Saskatchewan this winter, giving women over the age of 50 the opportunity to be checked for breast cancer. The bus has been at the Hotel Estevan’s parking lot in east Estevan since Jan. 2 and
will remain until Feb. 16. Laurie Pearce, an early detection co-ordinator with the agency’s breast cancer screening program, said all of their appointments for January are booked, but there are still some available for February. It will also be in Carnduff and Carlyle later this winter. The dates for Carnduff are Feb. 20 until the morning of
March 6, in the parking lot of the Carnduff Park. The dates for Carlyle after the afternoon March 6 until March 28. The bus will be in the parking lot of the Carlyle Curling Rink. Carnduff invites were mailed on Monday and appointments are now open. Carlyle invites will go out the week of Jan. 24 with appointments opened that same week.
Women are welcome to call in to book as soon as they receive that invite in the mail by calling 1-855-584-8228. The bus is open Tuesday to Thursdays from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday and Friday hours of operation vary at each site as those are travel days for the techs to and from the mobile sites. Pearce is pleased with the
response from people in the southeast so far this winter. “Women get their invite letters about six weeks prior to our visit, and most women, they’ve been on the bus before, and they know approximately when it’s coming again,” said Pearce. The SCA usually has a very good response in terms of filling A2 »SCREENING