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Volume 17, Issue 50, Week of December 17, 2018

Saskatoon SPCA executive director Patricia Cameron holds two of the many kittens needing forever homes. (Photo by Cam Hutchinson)

Home for the Holidays

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ing out these days in the office area at the Saskatoon SPCA. It’s a good place for socializing, and what a wonderful dog to greet a visitor at the entrance.

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Both Magic, who is in a photo on Page 4, and Aslan are up for adoption. In total, approximately 200 animals are ready to move out of the shelter as part of the month-

long Home for the Holidays campaign.

“Our aim is to get animals in loving forever homes this holiday season,” Saskatoon SPCA’s executive director Patricia Cameron said. “We would love to have each with a family — safe, warm, loved.”

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Bourdain was most searched, One that catches my eye at followed by Stephen Hawking, this time of year is Yahoo!’s John McCain, Aretha Franklin top searches in 2018 in Canada. and Stan Lee. Lee was a legendGuess who was the most ary comic book writer and the searched overall in 2018? Yes, creative leader of Marvel. To be Donald Trump. (Is it rude to safe, I checked. answer my own question?) Our ***** prime minister finished fourth Have you ever noticed how in his own country. Nos. 2 and 3 many things of seemingly little were the Toronto Blue Jays and consequence are studied? Here Toronto Maple Leafs. Roundare a few examples, according ing out the five was Meghan to a website called mentalfloss.

Editor Markle. com. It’s a great compilation, The top five searches among people presented in a humorous way. were Trump, Justin Trudeau, Markle, Doug • A study was conducted at the Ford and Melania Trump. Why Melania Babraham Institute at the University of Trump? That’s a head-scratcher. The rest of Cambridge to determine whether sheep the list was also somewhat surprising: Kate are capable of recognizing the faces of Middleton, Stormy Daniels, Elon Musk, other sheep. When the study concluded in Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Zuckerberg. I 2001, the researchers had discovered that confess I had to search Musk. How embar- sheep could recognize the faces of 50 sheep rassing, but how honest. He’s the CEO of about 80 per cent of the time, and they SpaceX, CEO of Tesla Motors and chairremembered them for over two years. Not man of SolarCity.

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Tiger Woods was the most searched • In 2003, the journal Polar Biology pubsportsperson. Eugenie Bouchard, Serena lished a paper on the trajectory of penguins’ Williams, LeBron James and Cristiano projectile poop. Apparently penguins poop Ronaldo rounded out the top five. Weird that way because of gastrointestinal presthat Bouchard was second on the list and sure. The study found the poop lands an Brooke Henderson sixth. Connor McDaaverage of 40 centimetres away from the vid didn’t make the top 10, while Conor penguin. How I spent my summer — meaMcGregor did. suring the flight of penguin poo in the name In terms of sports events and teams, of science. soccer’s World Cup was the most searched, • Peter Snider, a professor of neurology followed by the Blue Jays, Maple Leafs, at Brown University, discovered that people Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers. We who have to pee really badly actually have love our hockey. increased levels of cognitive impairment.

The top five news searches were I’m thinking the study took a couple of NAFTA, Toronto shooting, North Korea, cases of Pilsner to complete.

Ontario election and Toronto van attack.

• A researcher at the University of The tragic Humboldt Broncos bus crash Lincoln in the U.K. trained a red-footed was 10th. tortoise to yawn in order to research social In the in-memoriam section, Anthony cognition in tortoises. Over the course of

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And now to the main event of this column: • A new study from New York University found that men who support Donald Trump tend to be more insecure than nonTrump supporters about their masculinity, and search online for terms such as erectile dysfunction, Viagra and size, if you know what I mean. ***** Here is a tweet from a woman named Kristen (@Kica333) that I found interesting. (Note: Many people on Twitter don’t use their last names and say where they are from.) “By the time you are 30 you should have at least one of the following: 1. A drawer full of random cords; 2. Tupperware with half the lids missing; 3. Anxiety; 4.

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Christmas Snapshot In 1959, the best gift wasn’t under the tree

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By RJ Currie ears ago, I was looking through a box of photos with my mother. I came across a very old snapshot of her, my four sisters and me. I didn’t recognize the place or the circumstances.

So I asked her about it.

“Oh, that,” she said. “That was taken shortly after I left your father. ...” * * * * * “Joy to the world, ...” the muffled strains of the old carol leaked through the ceiling. They pooled around the chair where a woman sat alone, crying.

It was Christmas Eve, 1959.

The woman was my mother. It had been the worst year of her life. Worse even than 1942, when both her parents had died. Only a month or so had passed since she’d left my father. The details of that separation, her reasons for leaving, to this day are unknown to me. I was too young at the time to understand. “I had to” is the only explanation Mom has ever offered. Knowing her as I do though, that’s reason enough.

Being a single mother then was not the same as it is now. There weren’t nearly the support services that there are today.

For one thing, it was far from common.

For another, it was far from socially acceptable.

When people weren’t telling my mother to go back to her husband — “it has to be better than this” — they were telling her to put her kids up for adoption. “Or at the very least, keep the two oldest” — ages 12 and 10 — “and give up the three youngest”— ages four, three (me) and two. There were still others who offered a variety of stop-gap measures “until you come to your senses.”

We lived in a sadly neglected apartment block in the west end of Winnipeg.

By all accounts, it was a catch basin for those who had not yet made it into Stony Mountain Penitentiary. Nights were punctuated with the sounds of fights, parties, police sirens and empties hitting the floors. All my mother’s descriptions always come back to “I was scared to death in that place.”

We had a two-bedroom apartment.

I shared one room with two sisters; the older sisters shared the other. I remember the kitchen had a back door leading to a fire escape. There was a chair permanently propped under its doorknob. From my three-year-old perspective, it was simply part of the door. I also remember that the corners in each room were rounded from layer upon layer of wallpaper.

My mother would sleep on a bed in what was meant to be a dining room.

I used to play army on her while she slept. She would be the hill that half my soldiers would protect from the other half.

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The battle would end when Mom sat up, whereupon I’d make some kind of explosion sound.

Just off the dining room was the living room, which looked out over a busy street. The fact that the Santa Claus parade went right by the window that year I considered to be quite the perk. It was there where my mother now sat.

The only light in the room was the jaundiced glow of the Christmas tree, which was a Spartan affair. It and its few decorations were donated by “an old army buddy” who was a family friend back in Shilo. What was under the tree — or rather what wasn’t — had driven her to tears. One small gift for each of us. She wished it could be more, but food had been a priority.

One of the Christmas lights was faulty.

The vibrations from the party upstairs caused it to wink at her maliciously, reminding her of the caretaker of the block. As if on cue, he was knocking on the door. He was always knocking on the door. Forever coming to fix something, yet nothing ever got fixed.

She considered not answering it, not sure if she was up to fending off another solicitation. Then again, she thought giving him a punch in the nose might make an ideal Christmas gift. At the very least, it might lift her spirits. She opened the door.

It wasn’t the caretaker; it was “the prostitute.” That’s what my mother called the woman who lived upstairs, an appellation based entirely on suspicion and on audio evidence that dribbled down into our apartment. “Waiting for the other shoe to drop,” is how my mother politely described it.

“Hello, Mrs. Currie,” she said. What do you want? my mother thought. “I’m your neighbour from upstairs,” she said.

Why aren’t you upstairs at your party? my mother thought. “May I come in?” the woman asked. Should I take the chain off the door? my mother thought. As always with Mom, politeness won out. She asked the woman in.

They exchanged a few banal pleasantries. The woman complimented our tree.

This of course made my mother all the more suspicious.

What she said next, as my mother tells it, came “right out of the blue.”

I’ve asked Mom many times since why she trusted her. The reply has always been much the same. “She just seemed so nice, so sincere — so sober! Maybe because it was Christmas. I don’t know. Anyone who could find something good to say about that poor tree I figured had to be blind or pretty kind-hearted. I just thought I could trust her. I thought God wouldn’t let anything bad happen.”

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The Currie family at Christmas, 1959. (Photo Supplied) “Mrs. Currie,” the prostitute said, “you don’t know me, but your kids do. They play with my boys. So, I know a little bit about your, um, situation. I know things have been tough. I also know you’re Catholic, and with the kids and all, it’s been hard getting to church as often as you’d like. So I’ve come down from my party — and I haven’t had a drink, I swear to God — to babysit while you go to midnight mass. Your oldest told me you’d like to go.”

My mother can’t remember everything this woman said to convince her, but I’m sure it would have made Clarence Darrow proud. Within 45 minutes, Mom was in the right-hand balcony at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

But the story doesn’t end there, with Mom filled with peace, love and understanding, replete with the spirit of Christmas. She was happy to be at mass, yes, but the truth is she was starting to get worried. While she trusted the prosti — um, her neighbour, she really didn’t know that much about her. And the more she thought about it, the more worried she got. Better leave right after communion, she thought. God will understand. I’ve got to get home to my kids.

She left mass early, and set out for home on foot. A 20-minute walk would be quicker than the bus. Besides, it was a Christmas card evening: not a hint of wind, a new dusting of snow sparkling all around. She could hear the snow crunch under each step. And those crunches were coming more quickly with each passing minute.

Her imagination was running away with her: Am I out of my mind, leaving

my kids with a total stranger? What was I thinking? She was half walking, half running now, picturing her living room full of partiers and drunks, her kids awake, wondering where she was, the prostitute plying her trade on our sofa. Within minutes, she was at the foot of the stairs leading to our apartment. She could hear one of her children screaming. My God! I knew it!

“I don’t even remember taking the stairs,” Mom said. “I just flew up there.”

She burst through the front door of our apartment, a five-foot tall ball of maternal fury, braced for anything, ready to . . .

Nothing could have prepared her for what she saw. It stopped her in her tracks.

First she saw me; I was the one screaming. Then my sisters. She wondered what we were doing out of bed.

And then she saw the tree, or rather what was all around it.

Presents. There were dozens and dozens of presents, spilling out across our little living room. Big presents, small presents, square presents, round presents.

Most were gift wrapped, some tastefully, others less artfully, all done thoughtfully.

An ocean of presents — yellows, oranges, reds and blues that splashed over what seemed to be the most beautiful Christmas tree she had ever seen, though in truth it hadn’t changed.

Our upstairs neighbour was there too, smiling from ear to ear. My mother looked from her, to the tree, to her, to the tree, all the while staggering backwards, her hands grasping for a chair, her tongue groping for words. “What? ... How? ... I mean where? ...”

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(Continued from page 1) She said if people are unable to adopt, supporting animals in need through donations is really important.

The Saskatoon SPCA is busy.

“We shelter the most animals in this part of the province, about 4,000 a year.”

The Saskatoon SPCA also enforces the animal protection act and did about 700 inspections and investigations into concerns about animal cruelty and neglect last year. It takes money to do that.

“So you’re really supporting protecting animals, sheltering them and getting them into new homes when you donate to Saskatoon SPCA,” she said.

She said the number of animals at the shelter “waxes and wanes. This has been a pretty big year. There are lots of cats, for example, out in the community that maybe don’t have a home and are breeding in the community, so we have had a lot of kittens and moms in this year.

“We’ve had a higher than usual number of puppies. We are partnering, as we are able to, with a number of people who work in remote communities. Right now we have about 18 puppies with us with their moms.

Those are animals that were without shelter and without food in northern communities, so we are very blessed to have them here safe, getting medical care, and getting a really good chance at having a loving home and future.”

Cameron said the holiday season is a good time to adopt animal.

“What better gift to give a homeless animal than a caring family and loving home?” she said. “Families are more likely to be off work or school during the holidays and have more time to spend with each other and with their new companion animal. So, if an individual or family has carefully considered their decision and the responsibility of a new pet, the holidays can be an optimum time to adopt.”

She said it is a common misconception that pets given as gifts are often returned to

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shelters. It’s quite the opposite. Research shows that a pet received as a gift is highly likely to have found a forever home.

Cameron said the Saskatoon SPCA’s work creates a better community.

“A community that is safe and healthy for animals is also safer and healthier for people. We are finding more and more research that confirms animals can have a huge healing, calming effect and support mental and physical health. Animals speak right to our heart. They cause people to have a lot more oxytocin in their blood which is a hormone which makes us feel more connected and loving to the world and others.

“And they’re just so darn cute.”

One of those cuties is Magic.

“He’s a shy boy and we don’t have a lot of information on his background, but now he’s safe here,” Cameron said. “We’ve had him up at the front to socialize him. A week ago he would have been running away from you. Now he’s learned it’s a safe and wonderful place. He’s starting to come to people and he sure likes his pets. And he’s gentle.”

Cameron said he is best suited for a farm or acreage.

“These are great dogs with sheep. They like to lie down with the sheep and be with their sheep all the time. They are outdoorsy dogs and are gentle giants.

“And of course he has his beautiful brown eyes,” she said, smiling.

It’s hard to put a price on love, but to adopt Magic will cost $295.

Every Saskatoon SPCA adoption includes the animal’s spay/neuter surgery, age-appropriate vaccinations and deworming, a microchip implant, a city licence, a veterinary examination at a participating clinic, and 30 days of PetPlan insurance.

The pre-adoption care is valued at between $500 and $1,500.

For more information, to donate and to see photos of animals that are up for adoption, visit www.saskatoonspca.com. The Saskatoon SPCA can be reached at 306374-7387.

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The Dating Game: Baby, it’s a Christmas radio minefield

irst, they killed Baby, protagonist in this lovely piece It’s Cold Outside. is a stereotypical, moneyRadio stations around grubbing, selfish, revolting the continent, starting in Ohio little brat. and ending up at the CBC, got I give you these two stana few complaints and that song zas, and add that she wants her was outta there. Or offa there, “tree decorated in Tiffany” as I suppose. well: Folks kind of thought that Santa baby, I want a yacht the whole song, which consists and really of a woman more or less that’s not a lot resisting a man’s advances, Been an angel all year Columnist was a bit offensive. ParticuSanta baby, so hurry down larly worrisome, they thought, the chimney tonight was the line where she asks him, “what’s Santa honey one thing I really do need, in this drink?” Sounds like he may have the deed slipped her something.

To a platinum mine Well, maybe it does to our 2018 ears.

Santa baby, so hurry down However, back in the 1940s when Frank the chimney tonight Loesser wrote it, they were unaware of Of course, the song never specifically Rohypnol and other nasty dope. Also at says the singer is female, but I think since the time, this young lady being found in Santa is male, we can make that assumption. her suitor’s apartment would have been I don’t know about my co-gendered folks completely scandalous. She’s pretty wor- out there, but the depictions of women cravried about being discovered by her parents ing sugar daddies have generally turned my and siblings; less so about hanging around stomach. That stereotype is disgusting. for “maybe one more cigarette,” while The reason why Baby, It’s Cold Outwe’re discussing drugs. side beat Santa Baby for outrage connects Then, last week, a bunch of those to the #MeToo movement, the disgusting stations changed their minds. Other Bill Cosby and the rest of it. Rightly so, people weighed in, suggesting that the to the extent that #MeToo has awakened song should be appropriately placed in sensitivities around, for example, drugits historical context. Yes, it’s dated. No, ging people to have non-consensual sex it shouldn’t be banned. Radio moguls with them. But pulling back on censoring bought the argument and reinstated the the song was also the right thing, after a song to the airwaves. pretty good discussion on the matter.

Now, I’m definitely into political How many other works of, um, art (or correctness, no question. Why would we pop culture) would hit the bonfire? One offend? What does that gain us? But I’d very minor example would be Shakehave to say that killing the song was going speare, for his depictions, occasionally, of a little too far. And speaking of going too people who did not share the majority’s far, what else should we, or could we, ban skin colour or religion. I also think of from the airwaves, libraries and theatres? Dorothy Sayers, my favourite mystery auIf you want offensive, although on a thor, who also occasionally would slip in a different level, let’s try Santa Baby. The nasty, or at least stereotypical, few words

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about a character. This was, unfortunately, a sign of the times. It makes me cringe when I read them.

Yet she also wrote about powerful, complex, intelligent and wonderful women, particularly the protagonist’s love interest. Her detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, was madly in love with writer Harriet Vane, despite her lack of beauty. It was her strength and intelligence that drew him to her. It was a wondrous thing.

Shall we murder Sayers’ legacy, as well? Or Shakespeare’s?

Then I think of the universe of rap songs, particularly in the genre’s early years, which were violent, sexist and laden with language that infuriated me — and I can swear like a sailor, as they used to say.

We do, as a society and in law, generally draw the line at hate literature as we should — although I have my doubts about that regarding some rap. That much of it has softened and gone mainstream is perhaps because of backlash. That’s how this works, much of the time.

But we must be careful not to light the flame too quickly.

If it were up to me, there would be a moratorium on most of the ghastly Christmas music that takes over radio stations at this time of year. A song or two, here and there, fine. This inundation, though, makes me crazy. Yep, I’m a Grinch. I wear the badge — not proudly, but because of my own experiences and values.

I’m willing to bet that I’m not alone in under-appreciating the happy-dappycrappy month-long assault on our ears and sensibilities. Not everyone celebrates this event; not everyone is happy at this time of year; and the saccharine exhortations to bring gifts, roast chestnuts, jingle all the way and rock around the Christmas tree will not soothe those souls.

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The answer is no (But baby For once, this year’s Christit’s cold outside) …” mas controversy (because In the end, the woman there’s always at least one) relents and says she’ll stay for doesn’t involve religion. It one more drink, and the man doesn’t involve the use of “Mergrumbles about how long it ry Christmas” over “Happy took to convince her to do so.

Holidays,” or Christmas conI don’t have a problem certs versus winter carnivals. with the song. In my mind the Columnist Christmas-time classic Baby female singer is playing hard It’s Cold Outside, recorded by to get — a thing both sexes do legendary crooner Dean Martin back in and have done since the beginning of time 1959, has been on trial this year. Some radio (probably, but at least since the beginning stations have even banned the song, pointof modern dating history). Or, perhaps she ing to the heightened awareness of violence was deliberating the social consequences against and sexual harassment of women as of her sexuality in an era when women a result of the #MeToo movement. just didn’t do that kind of thing. That, and At issue are the song’s lyrics, which any number of today’s rap and pop songs some feel imply that the female singer are about a billion times worse, but I still is making a concerted effort to leave a listen to them. (See: Blurred Lines, Robin party, as the male singer is pressuring her Thicke.) aggressively to stay with him, including There are two distinct camps on this by giving her a laced drink. Outspoken issue, and both have valid and thoughtcritics of the song say there’s no room for provoking positions, with the side in fait on the airwaves today, considering our vour of the tune arguing against what they increasingly heightened awareness of the perceive to be censorship and overzealous normalization or trivialization of sexual political correctness. assault of women — a broad issue defined Inexplicably, the Saskatoon Rush as “rape culture.” lacrosse team decided to pick a side, apHere are some of the lines that have parently not concerned about alienating some people’s backs up, with the male the other. singer’s lines in brackets: At the end of the first quarter at their pre“I really can’t stay (Baby it’s cold season game, the lyrics of Baby, It’s Cold outside) …My mother will start to worry Outside were shown on the Jumbotron and (Beautiful what’s your hurry?) … My fafans were urged to sing along. Rush players ther will be pacing the floor (Listen to the stood on the field holding song sheets with fireplace roar) Baby, It’s Cold Outside emblazoned in big The neighbors might think (Baby it’s letters across the back. A penguin statue bad out there) …Say what’s in this drink? even stood outside the doors of SaskTel …I ought to say no, no, no sir (Mind if Centre wearing a Baby, It’s Cold Outside move in closer?) poster around its neck.

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What? Really?

Bruce Urban, owner of the Rush says the stunt was his idea, as a form of protesting “people who are sensitive.”

“I’m all for a movement that talks about proper and equal rights for men and women . . . but we need to keep in the limits and not get carried away as well,” Urban told CTV Saskatoon. Yikes.

The point Urban and the Rush appear to have missed, by a mile, was how unnecessary it was to weigh in on a politically-charged and often emotional issue.

They may have meant to send a message to “sensitive” people, but instead they sent a message defying (the mostly) women who are impassioned about promoting dialogue about rape culture.

Even worse, this was a message being sent by a men’s sports team, when male-dominated sports teams and leagues all over the world are working hard to turn the page on anti-women behaviours historically displayed by some athletes (or, you know, by the U.S. president and his “locker room” talk).

Urban admitted that this odd rebellion was specifically designed to alienate a group of people who hold a specific opinion he doesn’t agree with, which is a weird business move, but whatever.

The fact it came across as a pointless, unnecessary shot against movements like #MeToo highlights the very reason those movements exist — to correct a social imbalance between men and women that has existed for decades. An imbalance that can rear its ugly head at the most bizarre and unpredictable moments.

I’m sure the Rush won’t miss me at their games. If this is the type of exploit that is perpetuated at their games, I don’t think I’m missing much either.

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• Torben Rolfsen, on the group trying to land a CFL franchise for Halifax saying it has the backing of Tom Cochrane: “They are now going after Glass Tiger and Honeymoon Suite.”

• Janice Hough, on Colin Kaepernick reportedly saying he would consider a tryout with the Washington Redskins: “So the former Super Bowl QB is willing to compromise on his stated desire to play for an NFL team?”

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• Chong, on the World Chess Championship lasting three weeks after 12 draws: “Norwegian Magnus Carlsen won it just before judges were going to decide the match using penalty kicks.”

• From Rolfsen: “Worse American vote: 2016 Presidential election or Harold Baines to the Baseball Hall of Fame?”

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• According to a recent survey, 56 per cent of Canadians regularly drop f-bombs

versus 46 per cent of Americans. “Effing Canadians,” said Stampeders coach Dave Dickenson.

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’ve always loved the arts. But the way I take A WIDE OPEN CHRISTMAS in arts and entertainment events has certainly UNTIL DEC. 23 changed since becoming a parent more than Join a cast of 20 puppets for Wide Open five years ago.

Children’s Theatre’s holiday production, which Instead of late-night concerts, I now seek out runs until Dec. 23 at The Refinery Arts & Spirit afternoon and early evening events and tend to Centre. make more daytime trips to the city’s galleries The show, entitled A Wide Open Christmas: A and museums. And I’m constantly thinking about Christmas Conundrum, focuses on a young boy how I can incorporate arts, culture and entertainnamed Jeremiah who has lost his holiday cheer. ment into my sons’ lives.

Thankfully, he has friends who are happy to help Our kids are quite young — Jack is five and him find it.

Samuel will turn three in January — and they are Grahame Kent and Andrew Taylor wrote the #YXEArts also energetic and curious. They gravitate toward show. Kent is also directing the production and activities that are interesting, visually stimulating, performs in it. interactive and short (let’s face it — young kids don’t always “Audiences should expect the usual Wide Open fare. We have the longest attention spans). have all the favourites, with Jimmy the Robot, Jeremiah, With Christmas fast approaching, I’ve been seeking out Kate, Jack Frost and, of course, the big man from up north,” local, festive family friendly activities. I put attending the he said. “On top of all that, we have live music being perholiday show offered by Wide Open Children’s Theatre at formed by the puppeteers, a really cool tap number and a the top of our to-do list. We are also making it an annual few favourite Christmas stories with a Wide Open twist.” family tradition to visit the beloved Eaton’s Once Upon a Wide Open Children’s Theatre, founded in 2001 by Kristi Christmas display at the Western Development Museum — Friday and Crispi Lord, aims to provide high-quality artistic we’ve already been to it twice since it opened in November performances that entertain people of all ages. Now run by — and the beautiful, twinkling Enchanted Forest, which Lord and artistic director Jackie Green, Wide Open offers has been raising funds for charity for 20 years. We went puppet workshops and performs at schools and preschools, there earlier this month, and the kids particularly loved the daycares, birthday parties and community events. All of the Enchanted Forest’s Grinch display. puppets are built and designed by the company.

Read on for more information about these fun activities.

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“I also wanted to touch on that this time of year is not always happy for people,” he said. “This show is for everyone.”

ENCHANTED FOREST UNTIL JAN. 4 It’s a milestone year for the BHP Enchanted Forest: Saskatoon’s big and bright holiday light display is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

It was back in 1998 that the Saskatoon Zoo Foundation and the Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation created the unique drive-through light show in an urban forest as a fundraiser for the two charities. Two decades later, the Enchanted Forest attracts more than 77,000 visitors each year and raises more than $200,000 annually. In total, 1.4 million visitors have taken in the light display during its 20-year history and $2.5 million has been raised.

Located at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park off Attridge Drive, the Enchanted Forest is featuring a new Charlie Brown’s Christmas display this year sponsored by Orano.

Admission at the gate is $10/person or $35/vehicle, with a maximum of seven passengers. Children ages five and under get in for free.

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Attendees will also be able to warm up by a bonfire and enjoy hot chocolate in the Forestry Farm Hall.

EATON’S ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS UNTIL JAN. 6 For more than 30 years, Eaton’s Once Upon a Christmas at the Western Development Museum (WDM) has been delighting visitors with its whimsical and festive scenes. The exhibit typically goes up right after Halloween and stays on display at the WDM until early in the new year.

The exhibit’s mechanical figures, which are powered by surplus materials from the Second World War, were originally built for the Eaton’s store in Winnipeg in 1946. They appeared in downtown Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue store and complemented the annual Santa Claus parade.

In 1976, the Christmas displays were divided up and sold to stores in Saskatoon, Regina and Thunder Bay. A year later, the Saskatoon Eaton’s store acquired all of the displays, which began to appear each year on the second floor of the Midtown Plaza until 1984. They were donated to Saskatoon’s WDM in 1987.

Today, as in the past, the Plaster-of-Paris figures continue to move and dance thanks to the power provided by surplus air force navigational motors.

Touring the display has become a well-established annual tradition for many children and adults in the city. Multiple generations of family members make the trek to the museum each year to check it out, and school children often tour the exhibit with their teachers and classmates.

In an interview with the Saskatoon Express in 2017, Jason B. Wall, manager of WDM Saskatoon, said the exhibit “just continues to be a perennial favourite.” He also said the display is a good fit for the WDM because “it’s a rich part of our heritage.”

“People get a chance to travel back in time and experience what people would have experienced had they gone to the department stores back in the day,” he said.

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Going local this Christmas: Consumers flock to all things YXE

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express n recent years, there’s been a shift toward shopping locally and buying handmade Christmas gifts from Saskatchewan’s many artisans and small businesses.

There’s no doubt chain and big-box stores remain busy during the holiday season, as do massive online retailers such as Amazon. Yet anyone who has attended the Sundog Arts & Entertainment Faire, an annual festival of handcrafts held during the first weekend of December at SaskTel Centre, will quickly see the growing demand for unique, one-of-a-kind, handcrafted local products.

Smaller events, such as Flock and Gather Craft Collective’s Winter Wonders Market, are also popular in Saskatoon. Since 2010, Flock and Gather has showcased dozens of diverse and talented local makers at a two-day juried market that offers jewelry, textiles, bath and body products, woodworking, ceramics and more.

“The demand for local items is growing each year,” said Jenni Schrenk, manager and culinary consultant at SaskMade Marketplace on Eighth Street. The store operates year-round and sells a variety of made-in-Saskatchewan products, from food items to giftware.

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safety,” she said. “It’s easy for us to make a quick call to a vendor to get answers to any specific questions our customers might have.”

Schrenk said SaskMade Marketplace’s most popular Christmas items are custommade themed gift baskets, hot sauces and jams and jellies. Books, pottery and artwork are also big sellers.

The store is happy to “be the one-stop shop for all things local,” said Schrenk, noting customers particularly appreciate the monthly Taste of SaskMade events, during which vendors provide samples and share information about their products.

“Our mission is to be a bridge between our vendors and our customers, telling the stories of each product and outlining the journey from field to fork,” she said. “Our customers help guide which products we stock. Often we hear . . . about potential new vendors through our customers. They value our commitment to supporting local producers and artisans.”

Entrepreneur Shirley Mould began offering Saskatchewan-themed products for sale in 2013 under the business name Prairie Girls’ Kitchen Linens. While Mould’s business is based in Regina, retailers across the province — including SaskMade Marketplace — stock Prairie Girls’ Kitchen Linens products, such as tea towels, mugs, tote bags, greeting cards, playing cards, refrigerator magnets and Christmas ornaments featuring a Saskatchewan word cloud

SaskMade Marketplace’s most popular Christmas items are custom-made themed gift baskets, hot sauces and jams and jellies. (Photos Supplied) design.

“Although I was born in Ontario, my family moved here when I was very young, and I’ve lived my whole life in Saskatchewan. I think it’s an amazing place to live and raise a family. There is so much that we can show off to the rest of the world,” Mould said in an email.

“We have all these amazing things that we become nostalgic for about our home province. I wanted to capture that feeling of nostalgia and pride in our home with this word cloud. Being able to share all that in the form of a gift that can travel anywhere feels great. I’ve had people tell me that they have taken my items as gifts all over the TA121713 Tammy world and that means a little bit of Sas-

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Mould said she does her best to support other local businesses by working with a Saskatchewan graphic design artist and printers in Saskatchewan and across the country.

“Small businesses support our local economy and encourage people to be creative in business in a way that a larger corporation might not consider. That means more relatable, personal products from people you know,” Mould said in the email.

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Brant Rumpel is the owner of Joyne, a “creative marketplace” on Broadway Avenue that carries a range of eclectic products from local makers, sellers and creators. He said many of the products offered by Joyne’s 80 contributors celebrate Saskatoon or Saskatchewan in some way; in fact, there’s so much love for the city and

Joyne, a “creative marketplace” on Broadway Avenue, stocks items such as the jewelry, postcards, T-shirts, coasters, buttons, magnets, wood transfer prints and cards celebrating Saskatchewan’s scenery.

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“Most of it is passion projects. Most of While Joyne will close at the end of our contributors have a full-time job; this is the month as Rumpel moves on to other what they do on the side, hoping to grow it things, Rumpel is focused “on finishing up into something bigger,” said Rumpel. the year really strong.” He said he’s seeing Each space in Joyne is managed by an increase in consumer demand for local the small business that rents it, and the products — and his store is certainly the entrepreneurs keep 100 per cent of their place to find them; for example, there’s the sales. Postcards, T-shirts, coasters, buttons, Saskatchcushion, a cushion designed in the magnets, wood transfer prints and cards

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For example, Rumpel’s laser-cut paper popup cards, sold under the name Mountain Fir Cards, literally make the Bessborough Hotel and Remai Modern spring to life.

“There’s a lot of folks who come into Joyne who really like it. They want to support local,” said Rumpel.

“I think, in general, there’s a trend to be less materialistic. So, if you are needing to buy gifts, the best kind of gifts are these unique, local gifts that support a small business in your community — that are little bit quirky, that you just can’t find at the mall or on Amazon.”

(Continued from page 7) • Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist was upset the refs didn’t blow the whistle when he lost his mask against Ottawa and play briefly continued. Somewhere, Gump Worsley said “Wuss.”

• In North Pole news: production has dropped off since Santa gave his elves smartphones. Now they spend half their time posing for elfies.

• CBC banned playing Baby, It’s Cold Outside because of an “offensive line.” Not to be outdone, the Detroit Lions cut their front five.

• NBA superstar Stephen Curry reportedly doesn’t believe the US launched anything that landed on the moon. Unless you include some of Shaq’s free throws.

• An Irish woman who last year claimed she wedded the spirit of a 300-year-old pirate now says they have split up. Another marriage that didn’t have a ghost of a chance.

• The Parents Television Council has said the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show each

December “gets aired because it’s beautiful women in skimpy lingerie.” Yeah. And? • Jets sniper Patrik Laine is the fourth-youngest player in NHL history to score 100 goals.

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• Flatulence during a World Darts Championship game had competitors reduced to rasps by shouting accusations at each other. Otherwise known as putting the fart before the hoarse.

• Have you ever been interrupted by someone who only wants to speak to you for a “quick second?” Speaking of which: how many quick seconds in a New York minute?

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memory is tarnished when I reis the season for fun, call the music teacher, desperfamily, friends, frenate for a win, telling me to lip zy and frustration. sync during the performance. I The fun part is visiting with thought I sounded like a song family and friends and enjoying bird; she heard me as a crow. the goodwill that seems infecNow, to compensate, in tious at this time of year. And my alone time I crank up the while we embrace our old tradimusic to triple digit decibels tions, changing family dynamand belt out those Christmas ics blend in new-to-us traditions tunes. However, I was slightly to celebrate. embarrassed the other day, I always thought when the when unbeknownst to me, kids grew up and left home that Columnist my son came into the house Christmas would lose some of its magic. Fortunately, they now have their while I was in full performance mode “pa rum pum pum-ing” with the Little Drumown little munchkins to keep the magic alive for us. As grandparents, we can give mer Boy. Between the smirk on his face that noisy drum set that we never wanted and the look in his eye I read his mind as our own kids to receive, or toys that come thinking, “the old girl is losing it.”

When the kids lived at home, I would with a million pieces and those that require issue dire threats if they ate all the baking an engineering degree to assemble. before Christmas. Even though I’ve cut We can feed these wee babes sugar plums and send them back to their parents back on holiday baking, now I can’t give to deal with the sugar high, while we enjoy it away. Everyone is on a diet. Who the hell goes on a diet during the Christmas peace and quiet and rejoice in being the best grandparents ever — at least accord- season? Isn’t losing weight a resolution you make on New Year’s Eve, so you have ing to the grandchildren!

Although most Christmas traditions are a good intention to scrap in January? Of still intact, some have been slightly modi- course, I have already put on the prerequisite five pounds from guzzling eggnog. fied. I gave up on fresh cut trees when my granddaughter was three and bought a And none of that “lite” nonsense; I go full super-duper pre-lit tree, which came with bore with the high-test nog. I’m going head-to-head with Santa on the “bowlful a remote control. With a quick click and an abracadabra, we turned the clear lights of jelly” belly.

I have reduced my yuletide frustration to multi-coloured and finished the show with the options for blinking and flashing. by not further price checking the gifts after purchasing them. I did it only once When our granddaughter first saw this this year and it caused so much angst that tree, she gazed at it in awe, then turned now I refuse to look at sale flyers to find to her Daddy and said, “Grandma has a out how badly I’ve been ripped off. So magic tree.” She is now a worldly sixyear-old, but her three-year-old sister can much for the early bird theory, but I guess still be fooled. you have to leave a little something on the table for the retailers.

I usually go into a frenzy trying to One Christmas refrain that will never meet my self-imposed Dec. 1 deadline change is the desire for goodwill toward for Christmas decorating, and this year I promised myself I wouldn’t put up every all and the hope for peace on earth. (Given the current state of the world, these wishes Christmas decoration I own. I was going to be more tasteful and less tacky. But the will probably make Santa’s “not a snowglitter blinded my common sense. Slowly ball’s chance in hell” list; and the naughty list is growing.) What also won’t change is I brought out more and more stuff, and the warm feeling we enjoy when strangers I was deaf to that little voice in my head smile and wish us a Merry Christmas, or reminding me how much I hated taking down and packing away all this stuff in the the joy on children’s faces as they share their anticipation of Santa’s visit. new year.

In the spirit of the yuletide, we should After the house was suitably adorned, a friend stopped by and commented that always remember those less fortunate can use our help to give their families some I didn’t seem to have all my Christmas decorations up. Was she nuts? There isn’t holiday cheer. Consider buying one less a room or table surface that doesn’t sport item for your household and using that money to share with those in need, or give Christmas paraphernalia. I could make Martha Stewart look like the Grinch. I’ve the gift of sharing your time with someone been known to buy toilet paper imprinted in need of company. Generosity is the true with a holly and ivy design. (I never got gift of Christmas.

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“Everyone is capable of doing good” (Continued from page 3) * * * * * “I must have looked like an idiot.”

Mom said, handing me the picture. “I was just standing there with my mouth hanging open. All those people, those ‘bums’ and ‘drunks’ and ‘thieves’ and ‘prostitutes’ had bought you kids presents. There must have been at least eight gifts for each of you. Even a few for me.

Some weren’t much — a colouring book or a stuffed animal. But there were big gifts too.”

I remember some of them. One of my sisters got a doll house. I remember a large toy car. And someone gave me a fire truck (to my mother’s later regret) you could fill up with water so the hoses would squirt. But sadly, I have no recollection of the person whose kindness helped put those gifts in our hands.

Nor can my mother today remember her name.

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“I was hugging this woman, this stranger who I wouldn’t even have looked at a couple of hours earlier, and I was just bawling. Then your sister Joan, who was two and a half, came up looking very puzzled. She put her arms around my leg and said, ‘Don’t cry, Mom. Look! Santa’s been here.’”

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thing for our family. What she had in mind was second-hand clothing or maybe some food items to put in a hamper. She did get those things. But she also got an outpouring of generosity from people — people with not a whole lot more than us to give — that still makes my mother cry to tell of it.

“I think that woman saved my life,” Mom said, pausing to wipe her eyes. “She gave me — all those people gave me — something I’ll never forget. They taught me that everybody, no matter who they are, or what they’ve done, or what you think of them, is capable of doing good.

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This is a story that has been told many times in our family. Mom usually ends Starting Soon herConstruction narrative here, with a long look at the photo, as if the final word is etched on its glossy surface.

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The annual Noon Festival of Carols is in its 47th year at TCU Place over the noon hour. Bring lunch and hear children’s choirs from around the city singing festival holiday songs. Free admission.

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One of Saskatchewan’s foremost ambassadors of the blues, Nigel Mack is a triple threat on harp, guitar and vocals and he returns to familiar territory, with an all-star Saskatoon band backing him. 9 p.m. The Bassment (202 Fourth Ave. North. Tickets $23 for SJS members, $28 for non-members.

The Saskatoon Oldertimers Association meets from May to September meetings are held at the Log Cabin at the Prairieland Park. From October to April, meetings are held at All Saints Church (1801 Lorne Ave. Meetings start at 10:30 a.m. People 50 and older are invited to attend. For more information, call Marie at 306-668-3618 or Emily at 306-242-2025.

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DECEMBER 22 Pianist Maurice Drouin serves up a Jazzy Christmas show and his group will include favourites like Tatrina Tai, Grant Currie and Graham Dyck on vocals and Barrie Redford on trumpet. Always a holiday musical gift. 8 pm. The Bassment. Tickets $28 and $58. ***** Christmas Sparkle, featuring Zodiac Tapestry Handbells directed by Janet Wilson, and the Saskatoon Youth Choir directed by Shaun Bzdel. 7 p.m. at Grace-Westminster United Church (505 10th St. East). Admission at the door: $20 adults; $15 seniors and students.

DECEMBER 31 New Year’s Eve show and dance at the Western Development Museum. Doors at 7 and show at 8 p.m. The show features the group England, with song from Buddy Holly, Elvis and many more. Tickets available at Sobey’s at Cumberland (customer service, 306-477-5800) or the Western Development Museum (306-931-1910). Tickets are $40 and include party favours, a glass of champagne and a cold plate at 11 p.m.

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DECEMBER 21-22 Grosvenor Park United Church’s Nativity Open House.

Explore a variety of Nativity/Manger scenes in a family friendly atmosphere, and take your own photo in a lifesize Nativity Scene. Be an angel, a sheep, a member of the Holy Family. Come to experience and explore the meaning of Christmas for you, with a cup of hot cider and your curiosity. No admission fee: A donation as you are able. 1-3 p.m. both days. ***** Celebrate Winter Solstice - with a Labyrinth Walk, 7:309:30 p.m., Saskatoon Unitarians Centre (213 Second St. East). Free event. For more info, visit ucsaskatoon.org/ upcoming-events/

DECEMBER 27 Christmas Bird Count for Kids: The Saskatoon Young Naturalists and Meewasin invite everyone to the annual Christmas Bird Count for Kids on Thursday, Dec. 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. No registration is required for this free come-and-go program that is open to everyone of all ages. At the top of each hour we will head out for about 30 to 45 minutes to look for birds. Then we’ll head back indoors and warm up with some cookies and hot chocolate. More information at https://saskatoonzoosociety.ca/ event/cbc4kids/

DECEMBER 31 The New Year’s Eve party at the Saskatoon German Cultural Centre features comedy and dancing with Matthew Murray, Dylan and Dustin Williamson and DJ Jamie James. Doors 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. and late lunch 10:30 p.m. Tickets available at 306-244-6869 Ext. 203, or go to https://Tinyurl.com/NYE2019-YXE.

Volunteers Needed Volunteers are needed for track and field events this winter at the Saskatoon Field House. By attending a twohour session you will become a valuable member of the volunteer officiating team. Register for a clinic on Jan. 11 at 6:30 p.m. or Jan. 12 at 9:30 a.m. as part of the Downtown Lions Sled Dog Track & Field Meet. Send registration to: admin@saskathletics.ca.

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FIRST AND THIRD WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH Resporados support group for people with breathing difficulties takes place at 1 p.m. at Jerry’s on Eighth Street for a lunch meeting. For more information, call Dave at 306-665-6937 or Susan at 306-373-4264.

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With the holidays just around the corner everyone at CROSSMOUNT is getting into the festive spirit. In support of our philosophy of active living and as part of our enthusiasm for all seasons, we are opening our frozen pond for oldfashioned unsupervised public skating.

Access to the ice surface is between the cidery and apple orchards. For those who have outgrown their skates and prefer to watch we do have a small deck for viewing the activity, as well as straw bales around the pond.

After some invigorating gliding and twirling, you may wish to enjoy a hot apple cider in the sampling room of the cidery or a hot chocolate in the on-site café.

CROSSMOUNT is a 55+ aging-in-place community located five kilometres south of Saskatoon on Lorne Avenue.

Home to a cidery, event areas and health services, CROSSMOUNT is more than a place to live. It is a way of life.

From everyone at Crossmount, wishing you the very best for a joyous holiday season!

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This new initiative will launch in January of 2019 and is open to the public free of charge. Coffee will be provided.

Held monthly from 1:30-3:30pm between January and April, Crossmount will host various speakers to present on an assortment of unique topics. The series will take place in the beautiful Highlander Room located in Glenlyon Hall at Crossmount.

Please join us for the following speakers: Tues. Jan. 15: Jeff O’Brien - Saskatoon: From Temperance Colony to Prairie City, 1883-1914 Tues. Feb. 19: Rick Sawatsky - Crossmount/UofS Cooperation in Fruit Tree Development & Research Tues. Mar. 19: Cam Forrester - A Life’s Journey through Art and “Men Who Paint” Tues. Apr. 9: Lisa Thomaidis - Leadership and Success through Basketball, from College to Olympics For further information please phone 306-374-9893 or email sstreisel@crossmount.ca

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