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My first day at the Express will always be etched in my mind.

I carried my box of memories out of the StarPhoenix, went to my friend Doug McConachie’s funeral and then to the Express.

I miss Doug and think about him all the time. He would have loved the Express.

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I would like to thank all the other people by name I have worked with, but sure as heck I would miss someone. I appreciate all you have done for the paper and for me. The fact that so many of us have been together since the start says something. I am not sure what, but something.

The Express, despite its closure, was one heck of a success story. We battled through changing times in the industry.

Our owners are to be congratulated for their faith in the printed word in what quickly became impossible times.

National advertising dried up, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars with it,

and many local businesses decided to try different forms of advertising. Darn that social media thing.

As the headline says, this is the final edition of the Express. This is the most difficult column I have ever written. Usually I can bang away on the keyboard and suddenly a column is there — not necessarily a good one, but a column.

It is heart-breaking to say goodbye to our readers. You have been so good to us and I have met so many wonderful people over the years. We hope we made a tiny difference in helping get people to your fundraising events.

Thank you for making these past eight years so much fun, so rewarding and so memorable.

I’m going to miss you.

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hould police have to name the victim of a homicide?

The issue raised its head again a month or so ago, when the Saskatoon Police Service, at the request of the family, didn’t release a murder Editor victim’s name.

A couple of local journalists bemoaned the fact, with one saying there is no good reason for not naming the victim.

I usually agree that the more information journalists can provide to the public, the better. Media outlets in this city have been to court many, many times to try to have publication bans lifted for various reasons. It’s been my experience that even when media organizations have a sound legal position, judges have ruled against them. It’s just because they can.

Despite the principle involved, eventually media organizations let a lot of these cases pass because they are expensive to fight and the outcome seems predetermined.

I was involved in many of these during my tenure at the StarPhoenix and once attended a meeting to discuss the matter with the chief justice at the time. It was a good meeting, but nothing really changed.

Whenever we failed to get a publication ban lifted, I, like my colleagues, was indignant. Few things fire up a newsroom more than having a court trample on its rights. I am a believer in the public’s right to know — most of the time.

I am also a believer in privacy. While the journalist said he could think of no good reason for withholding the name, I can think of no good reason for releasing the name. (Note: I don’t have a journalism degree, so maybe I am speaking out of turn.)

Family members know their loved one has been killed. Police know the identity of the victim and can investigate the case.

Witnesses will be interviewed and leads followed.

What’s missing that has these people so riled up?

One Saskatoon defence lawyer told CBC that not naming the victim could cut off investigative avenues.

“The risk that’s involved is losing some critical pieces of information that might go to solving the situation, both proving somebody’s guilt, but also potentially proving somebody’s innocence,” the lawyer said last year in an interview with

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This pigeon will be among those euthanized if he doesn’t fly the coop.

(Photo by Cam Hutchinson) CBC. “If you don’t publish the name of somebody there are bits of information, pieces of evidence that become stale, or never are acquired.”

I wish he would have given an example, because I’m not buying it. (Note: I don’t have a law degree to go along with not having a journalism degree.)

Police services can and will release the name if it is pertinent to the case. It’s their right to do so.

Last year, Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan amended a regulation in which naming the victim supersedes privacy.

“It’s in the public interest to have people know that a homicide has taken place and to know who the victim is,” Morgan said at the time.

I don’t buy that either. The family’s rights should trump the public’s unless it has a bearing on the investigation of the case. (Note: I have never been a justice minister, a lawyer or a journalist.)

In a Canadian Press story last year, Marlo Pritchard, chief of the Weyburn Police Service and head of the Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police, said police forces have always had the power to release or withhold a murder victim’s identity.

He saluted Morgan for his clarification.

“It’s probably in the public interest in most cases to release the name of the homicide victim,” Pritchard said. “It kind of stops the rumour mill. It may also generate some information back to police.”

Stopping the rumour mill at the expense of a family’s privacy doesn’t cut it.

As mentioned previously, I would like to see an example of a case where withholding a name resulted in a different outcome for the defendant, or prevented the police from properly doing its investigation.

Good on the Saskatoon Police Service for protecting the rights of the victim — yes, dead people have rights — over the public’s “wanting” to know in cases where the deceased person’s name isn’t relevant to the case.

Then again, I’m not a police chief, a justice minister, a lawyer or a journalist. ***** How did the city allow 53 years of pigeon poop to accumulate under the Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge? You’d think it could have been picked up every 25 years or so.

Now, 1,500 pigeons are going to be executed. These birds are annoying to be sure, but they are paying the ultimate price because they couldn’t clean up after themselves. What a shame. ***** Congratulations to Kevin Mitchell of the StarPhoenix on being named Canada’s journalist of the year, as well as the country’s top sportswriter.

Kevin won the awards for his sensitive and thorough coverage of the Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy. If there was an award for being a great person, Kevin would win it every year.

Congratulations as well to Kayle Neis, who won a national award for his photo of hockey sticks stuck in a snowbank in tribute to those killed and injured in the Humboldt tragedy.

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“When we contacted Co-op Liquor about becoming the title sponsor they were in right away, so we didn’t even have to go to a second organization. After a quick telephone conversation, Co-op said hold that for us; we want that.”

Getting music supplied by Red Bull was a bit of a coup.

“They said it fits into their summer festival stuff so they are helping us with some tenting and they are bringing in their mobile DJ truck,” Dave Mah said. “That adds a lot to the festivities.

“We like to stay busy. I have a bar I run full time and summer is slower for the bar, so it’s nice to do these events in the summer.

It’s a nice change from our daily lives. We enjoy it.”

Dave Mah owns Bartari Video Game and Restaurant on 20th Street West.

“We aren’t doing it for the money, that’s for sure,” Rick Mah said. “We put in countless hours. It’s almost a full-time job for me.

I’m retired, but it takes up a lot of my waking hours. Like Dave said, summer is slow for us, so we don’t want to be sitting in the arm chair too long watching TV. We like to get out and do stuff.

“We don’t mind giving back to the Rick Mah (left) and Dave Mah, the founders of Foodtruck Wars, are launching another festival in August. community. We just hope the festivals are (Photo by Cam Hutchinson) successful and we have people coming and attending them. We hope it gives people another thing to do on a nice weekend.

“As we put on events, we try to figure out different ways to get people to come to our shows. A lot of it is trial and error.”

He said he has no idea how many will Cam Hutchinson enjoyed creating festivals. The two also ran ‘That’s an awesome idea and we would attend Beer Wars.

Saskatoon Express a two-day collector’s show this spring that definitely attend.’ We knew we were on the “For Foodtruck Wars 2019, we fully exummer in Saskatoon is becoming a attracted 1,600 people and 25,000 attended right track.” pect 30,000 people to come. We base that on war zone — in a good way.

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YXE Beer Wars will be open from 11 the attendance last year and on the feedback Rick and Dave Mah, who relocated “We had a successful event with Foodwe received. We do have some funding this a.m. to 10 p.m. both days in a fenced area Foodtruck Wars successfully to Riversdale truck Wars,” Dave Mah said. “We have some in the park. Admission is $15 to the 19+ year for some extra advertising, so we are last July, are adding YXE Beer Wars to the down time in August, so we brainstormed event. The admission charge will help cover going to put that into full force, for not only city’s festival calendar. ideas to host another event. We had a bunch expenses, Dave Mah said.

Saskatoon but the surrounding areas.

The new festival will be held Aug. 23-24 of different ideas and I came up with the “Beer Wars is a first-year event. We’d be There will be a large covered tent with at Kiwanis Park, on the north side of the craft beer one.” happy, let’s say, if 2,000 people came, but we table seating, food vendors, a free video Delta Bessborough Hotel. The event will Rick Mah is retired, although festivals could just as easily draw 10,000 to 15,000 game lounge and music supplied by Red feature 28 booths for craft beer makers, as have become darn near a full-time job. The Bull, pumped through its mobile DJ truck. for this event. It is one of those festivals that well as those who make wine and spirits, pay’s not good, but the rewards of putting on could explode.

Rick Mah said he and Dave have had and will have some traditionally brewed beer a good festival compensate for that, he said success finding sponsors for the event. That’s “The province is really behind the craft available. with a laugh. not always easy to do, especially for the first brewing industry. We have the craft brewers “The craft beer industry is really explod“When Dave broached the idea of a craft year of a festival. wanting to participate, so if we have decent ing right now, so we are giving people what beer festival, I automatically thought that’s weather I could see our attendance being re“That’s always the hardest thing. We’ve they want; another festival,” Dave Mah said. a heck of an idea. And that’s coming from a run a few events in the past and it’s always ally high. And it is downtown which is really “It’s unique; an outdoor festival at the tail non-drinker, but I recognized the idea was difficult trying to convince someone else key for us as well.” end of summer, so it should be a good time good,” Rick Mah said. that it’s a good idea and to put a few dollars for everyone.”

“We approached about six of the local behind your idea.”

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Saskatoon’s Luke Schenn (right) says a trade to the Canucks has revitalized his NHL career. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick)

Luke Schenn hopes he’s in the Canucks’ plans

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ven for an 11-year Nathat was incredible. I know some tional Hockey League people think of me, being 29, as veteran like Saskatoon’s the old guy getting to play alongLuke Schenn, trades seem ineviside these young guys. There table and come with a wide array was a time, not many seasons of feelings. ago, when at 28 or 29, you were Schenn was a first-round considered to be just entering draft pick for the Toronto Maple your prime years in the NHL. Leafs in the spring of 2008, and “Yes, the players are younger played there for four years. His coming into the league. I adfirst trade was an exciting move justed to the new speed of the because he went to the Philagame, gave the team a presence delphia Flyers where he played with my physical play and I was for four years with his younger really confident in the room and People brother Brayden. And then there on the ice with these guys. I’m were short stops in Los Angeles, just going to play hard and see Arizona and Anaheim. what happens.

But today, Schenn feels revitalized after “With the new faces like Elias Pettersson, being traded from the Anaheim Ducks to Brock Boeser and Bo Horvath, and the really the Vancouver Canucks in mid-February. new ones like Quinn Hughes, who was my Schenn calls it a positive sign. In 18 games defence partner, the future in Vancouver is with the Canucks, he registered 81 hits, took really bright.” nine penalty minutes and had two assists.

The encouraging news comes from general Lowes playing in canada manager Jim Benning who hailed him as He becomes an unrestricted free agent “a physical, stay-at-home defenceman who on July 1 but wants to stay in Vancouver moves the puck fast. I thought he played well “because playing in Canadian markets, like I for us.” did with Toronto and now with the Canucks, “I’m happy with the finish and Vanthe fans are so passionate and hockey is their couver seems to be a good fit for me,” said main event. I remember those first years with Schenn, who spends his off-seasons in the Leafs; everywhere we went in Canada, Kelowna. “I have to give some credit to both the stands were filled by people with Maple Anaheim and Vancouver. I went to both of Leaf jerseys.” their American League affiliates, San Diego In 734 NHL games, where he scored 30 and Utica, where I played a lot, handled the goals and had 115 assists, Schenn’s work puck much more, got a chance to play on is a tribute to his Saskatoon upbringing and power plays and worked on penalty kills. send-off.

“When the call came to join the Canucks, Bob Fawcett worked as a Saskatoon fireI wasn’t sure what they had in mind. But I fighter alongside Schenn’s father, Jeff, and he went from being the perceived extra guy to also scouted for the Kelowna Rockets of the be the regular with those young kids, and Western Hockey League.

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“I started watching Luke when he was a 13-year-old with the Red Wings bantam team. He was a big boy, he carried the puck very well and he was the best at making the first pass out of the zone. I got Lorne Frey, with the Rockets, to come back to Saskatoon to watch him. We agreed on Luke’s potential.

“I know there were some scouts on other WHL teams who weren’t so sure about Luke’s skating ability. I was sure he’d be fine. At the bantam draft, Kelowna was nearly the last team to select. Luke was still available, and we agreed we had to take him.

Aside from his ability, the thing about Luke is that he’s always been a phenomenal young man.”

Contracts to be inducted Schenn played in the Saskatchewan AAA Midget League with the Saskatoon Contacts.

They reached the ultimate goal in 2004-05, winning 38 times, losing only three times, getting two ties and suffering one overtime loss. They advanced to the Canadian midget playoffs, beating Don Mills 3-1 in the semifinal and the host Gatineau team 4-1 in the Telus Cup final.

The Contacts will be inducted into the Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame on July 6 in Saskatoon. “(Contacts coach) Jim McIntyre’s record speaks for itself. There was nothing better than playing for him in the old days at Schroh Arena. I learned so much from him and Jim was a coach who insisted that you always keep pushing yourself harder,” said Schenn.

Kelowna called immediately after the Telus Cup final and general manager Bruce Hamilton invited him to join the team for the Memorial Cup final in London.

“I didn’t get to play in any of the cup games, but during practice I’d be teamed up with Shea Weber. It was great to join the Rockets because they had a history of developing defencemen.”

He played with a number of future NHLers in Kelowna. They included Weber in 2004-05, Saskatchewan product Blake Comeau for two years, Kyle Cumiskey for two years, Alex Edler for one, Tyler Myers and Tyson Barrie for two, and Jamie Benn for one. He was named to the WHL’s West Division all-star team in 2008 and also played for Canada when it won gold at the world junior championship.

Schenn was drafted fifth by Toronto and made the team even though he still had a year of junior eligibility left. He was voted to the NHL’s All-Rookie team alongside Drew Doughty. He had his moments with the Leafs, leading the team in hits, second in blocked shots in 2009-10 and leading all NHL defencemen with 251 hits in 201011.

“When I first went to the Maple Leaf camps, I wanted to earn a job and earn their trust. I managed to do that. But I knew I was going into an insane hockey market. The fans were so passionate, there was so much media, so many opinions. When I was traded to Philadelphia, the market was so wild, too.

The fans were fanatics, but the chance to play with Brayden was so very special for both of us.”

He and Brayden have talked every day during his brother’s Stanley Cup run with the St. Louis Blues. In the off-season, he and Brayden live eight doors from each other in Kelowna.

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Gift of an Instant Pot becomes a tale of woe

year and something online and went out and bought ago, the dots (aka the ingredients like baby back ribs daughters) gifted me and flank steak. I bought some with the hottest new North really expensive cheese.

American kitchen trend: an I produced one spectacular electric pressure cooker — in and expensive disaster after my case, the Canadian-inventanother. It took two full days to ed Instant Pot. chip the no-fail macaroni and Right from the moment I cheese out of the liner pot. pried open the box, I was both At that point, I guess you ambivalent and apprehensive. could have described me as There were so many manuboth frustrated and discourColumnist als and warnings, it felt like aged when I experienced one I needed a licence to operate of those rare “eureka” life mosaid pot, or at the very least, numerous ments. Maybe it wasn’t me; perhaps it was YouTube tutorials. But so many people the Instant Pot. were raving about the Instant Pot, it was Despite the disasters, I wasn’t quite like the second coming. One of the food ready to run up the white flag on my presgurus at The New York Times “instantly” ent. I tend to have a “come hell or high produced a cookbook, and people were water personality” and even got an award even baking cakes and making yogurt in for it once. I contacted Instant Pot in Ottheir Instant Pots. tawa by email and wrote in the subject So, I committed to using the machine line, “I really want to love my IP.” In reand even purchased a glass lid for the slow sponse, tech support really could not have cooker function. I investigated recipes been more accommodating. Lovely Sally P

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wrote right back with empathy and a mega list of instructions that would exhaust anyone just by reading them.

A couple of weeks after I recovered from Sally’s email, I printed everything out and set to work. Sally wanted photos. Sally wanted a steam test. Sally wanted a video of the steam test. Eventually all of Sally’s demands were met and she got more than she asked for on the video which included a little dual-spousal temper.

I submitted everything online and Sally was pleased and prompt. Based on the steam test it was evident that my Instant Pot was defective and that they would be pleased to replace it after I provided a physical address.

I did so and waited. I waited a whole month before contacting Sally, who was most apologetic that Instant Pot had dropped the ball (pot?).

Two days later, upon arriving home from somewhere, there was a huge box lurking on the front porch. The following morning Frank whipped out the Exacto,

hit the box, and couldn’t believe his eyes.

The brand-new carton contained one base and nothing else. Where was the rest of the pot? It was a genuine head scratching moment. Now what?

Once again, I contacted Sally and she explained that their policy was to only replace the defective part. It would have been useful to know that.

The end to this long tale was finally in sight. I connected the new base to the other old parts. The new combo passed the steam test with flying colours, which apparently meant that the sensors were now working the way they should. Sally was happy. I was happy.

Needless to say, my IP Mongolian Beef was a thing of wonder. I can hardly wait to make Thai Chicken Rice Bowl again and Melissa Clark’s Sticky Tamarind Baby Back Ribs (367 five-star ratings).

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I’m even more scared of pigeons than their poop

always had a feeling Over the last 54 years, they those pigeons were up to have produced 348 tonnes of no good. The extent of poop, which has collected in that not-goodness, however, the concrete crevices. amazed even me, non-lover That, gentle reader, is an of bird flocks. incredible amount of fertilTo say I was traumatized izer.

by Alfred Hitchcock’s remarkThe weight of it is of ably horrifying film The Birds long-term concern to the would be the understateintegrity of the bridge, not to ment of my life. Somehow, I mention the ick contained in sneaked in a viewing when I that poop, notably uric acid.

Columnist was much, much too young.

Acid, you know, likes to eat Mom finally caught me at it, away at and corrode things but it was too late. My lifelong phobia like cement and rebar. was already settled in my tiny brain.

In effect, these pigeons are breaking Seagulls are the worst. Show me a down the bridge, drop by acidic drop. A flock of seagulls, silly name of rock lovely image, don’t you think? group aside, and I’m heading for the The city assures us that all is well, but nearest shelter, umbrella and shotgun in it might not be if measures are not taken hand. (I lied about that last thing.) I’ll to stop the pigeon assault on our infragrant you that no flock has ever actually structure. The beasties will be trapped attacked me, but there’s always a first and euthanized; the long-term evidence time, right? of their habitation will be removed (can Pigeons don’t quite inspire the nau- you imagine doing that job?); and barrisea, terror and flight-or-fight response ers will be installed in an attempt to keep that seagulls, crows and (oh, dear) them away in the future. ravens do. I once encountered a raven — and I do not exaggerate — that while standing on its creepy claws almost came up to my hip. I have never seen a bigger, nor a more malevolent, raven.

Or a more malevolent anything. It had its beady eye on me. I backed up around the corner of a nearby building as fast All this will cost us $800,000, but as I could go, and dashed home. I was it’s money well-spent, say I. outta there.

Hubs suggests that the guano — I I hardly need to explain, then, that gather it’s referred to as such once it every time hubs and I go for a stroll becomes an enormous mass of crap — down Saskatchewan Crescent and down should be sold as fertilizer to ameliorate to Rotary Park, I cringe before plungthe cost. I’m calling it an investment, ing under the Sid Buckwold Bridge. I but I see his point, although I think he’s seriously, literally duck my head and kidding. You never know with him. dash under the freeway, without taking (In an odd aside, I’ve been reading a breath. Emerging on the other side, I about bat guano as cargo on 1770s ships exhale with relief. Phew. Made it again. in one of Diana Gabaldon’s books in the It’s at the point now where Ken drags Outlander series. Funny what you learn me over to the narrow road, not really coincidentally, just when the knowledge needing to see my little paranoid flight, becomes vaguely useful. Seems they’d nor deal with it, for the thousandth time. transport it to colonies and islands as “Do those pigeons have to roost fertilizer. See?) there?” I ask him. Every time, poor guy.

I thought about going down to the “Looks like it,” he says, comfortpigeon poop site to take a nice picture ingly. He has long since given up trying of the proceedings, if they were already to reason with me. Where birds are con- underway, or just shooting the pigeons cerned, I am simply not reasonable. themselves if not, to accompany this The city to the rescue! Well, not my column. With the camera, not the shotrescue, but the rescue of the freeway gun, which I do not own. Two seconds bridge. On or about May 4, we the citi- later, I abandoned the idea. I’d never zens learned that those heart-stopping make it through that little exercise withpigeons are not just terrifying me, but out hyperventilating. upsetting the bridge as well.

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Visit the Snake Pit for a Rattlers game Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express rofessional basketball in Saskatoon has never looked better than it did last Thursday.

That is stretching my memory though.

Saskatoon’s first brush with pro hoops was darn near 30 years ago, and the last ended in the spring of 2002. The game has changed and improved since then.

There were 3,399 folks at the game, filling the sides of the lower bowl at SaskTel Centre, aka the Snake Pit. The crowd got more and more engaged as the game went along.

In the final minutes, fans jumped out of their seats on Saskatchewan Rattlers buckets, and some eyes were covered with hands when a final, desperation Rattlers shot clunked off the side of the rim. The miss gave the Niagara River Lions a 99-97 victory.

The game wasn’t about the final score though, although wins are always better than the alternative. If the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) is to succeed, it will be about the entertainment package and quality of play.

The 196 points scored in 40 minutes pretty much speak for themselves, unless you are a fan of defensive basketball. Are there those among us who remember the days when there was no shot clock in basketball?

Boring.

The Rattlers game passed the eyeball test and got an A on my report card.

The entertainment package came with music, a mascot, a good on-court announcer and a team of dancers. They, meaning the dancers, were dressed more provocatively than those we/I have seen at any other sporting event in the city. And there’s no way I am going to put a grade on that.

The music had a dance beat. There was no Sweet Caroline on the play list, although I never get tired of hearing it.

The names of the players, with the exception of Saskatoon’s Michael Linklater, didn’t mean much in the early going. At the end of the game, people were calling out their favourites by their last names — the ones on the backs of the Rattlers’ white jerseys.

Linklater played a handful of minutes in the third quarter. He got a basket and played ferocious defence.

People might not know that seven of the 10 players on game rosters have to be Canadian. That is a good thing.

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Michael Linklater (centre) received a warm welcome from his teammates when he entered the game.

(Photos by Cam Hutchinson) Football League should reduce the number of nationals, as the league likes to call them.

It is the CFL, with an emphasis on Canadian.

Leave the Canadians alone or we will rise up and quit saying “please” and “thank you.”

Did you know that the second highest number of players in the National Basketball Association are from Canada? Many players in the CEBL play pro ball internationally in the winter and are home for the summer.

As most of you know, a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith, invented basketball. In 1891, he took a soccer ball and a peach basket into a school gym in Massachusetts and the rest is history. He would never have envisioned people seven feet tall playing the game. He would have had to put the peach basket higher and higher, all the way to 10 feet from the floor.

He was asked why he came up with the game.

“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

Those boys simply would not play Drop the Handkerchief.”

He sounds like a bit of a crusty bugger.

Maybe you would be too, if you spent your days hauling around a peach basket and a soccer ball. The league trophy pays homage to Naismith.

Another beauty of the Rattlers game was the fact it started at 7 p.m. and was over at 9.

A family can watch the game and have the kids in bed before 10.

Clearly, fans went home happy. Many were heard to say they would be back for

As the game progressed, Rattlers fans really got into it. the May 16 game. One young fellow said he I’m betting there will be more than 3,399 would be buying season tickets — there are people at the SaskTel Centre for this week’s 1,200 season-ticket holders currently. game.

Those happy fans will spread the word They won’t be disappointed with what about the league. they see.

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ne of the most common ers until 2023. Also new to the questions I hear about mix is that a “contractor will be council and city hall is, selected” this fall.

“Does anyone there know what Hmm. If this service is being contracted out, why are they are doing?” And the most we paying for a program for frequent response is a head two years before it comes on shake and shoulder shrug. stream? Shouldn’t the successThe messaging council and ful contractor have to provide city hall sends to the public on the trucks, bins, workers and a variety of issues is, to say the compost depots? I’m confused. least, confusing.

Call it déjà vu, but this is Council is still rooting becoming reminiscent of the around in the garbage dump.

Columnist ad nauseam recycling debates.

When the push first came for an organics program, it was proposed that When recycling was first proposed, all the smart literature said dual bin collection was a new garbage utility be created and that residential property owners take the first hit the way to go and cities that started with on a user-pay monthly fee, as was the case single bin collection were having to convert to dual stream. in recycling.

It made absolutely no sense to toss The vote for creating a waste utility narrowly passed. Shortly thereafter, Coun. brittle glass into a bin with paper products, Darren Hill wanted a re-do on the vote and knowing that the glass would shatter when the truck picked it up and compacted the council accommodated him. The subseload. The shards of glass contaminate quent vote on creating a utility failed. We the paper products collected, making it were back to having an organics program unmarketable for recycled print paper. funded through the tax base.

And the glass is not recycled at all. But The problem with paying for the single stream was the cheapest option, and program through property tax is that it would have necessitated a 4.7 per cent tax council had to sell the concept of recycling increase, which coupled with the already- to the public.

Before the recycling contractor has established 3.16 per cent increase in 2019, completed the term of the contract, council would have hiked taxes by 7.86 per cent.

Even the most obtuse councillor would has already exempted the business from collecting glass and plastic bags. have understood that wasn’t going to fly So, what is being recycled? Only the with taxpayers. The plan to disperse the 4.7 per cent tax increase through a monthly items that can turn a profit for the contractor, like tin cans, uncontaminated paper and utility user fee (and hope that property owners were not smart enough to figure it plastic containers. However, our recycling out) failed. charges were not reduced even though the Initially, the new organics program was contractor’s responsibilities were reduced. to be introduced in 2020, but clearly someOn my last utility bill, my monthly reone looked at the civic election date and the cycling fee was $5.77 ($69.24 per annum) roll-out of the organics program was kicked which is over and above my property tax. down the road to 2021.

And now we are expected to cart the glass Most recently, it was proposed the pro- products to SARCAN and, as far as I know, gram be delayed until 2023, which might throw the plastic bags into the garbage. again be a problem because councillors will To add insult to injury, residential propbe facing re-election in 2024. erty owners have met (or exceeded) the As well, councillors were kicktargets for recycling, but the commercial/ ing around the idea of letting backyard industrial sector has not. It is this business composters opt out of the program, which sector that contributes greatly to the landfill is crazy because homeowners would see problem and does so without any penalty. a one-shot expenditure for a composter I expect that any organics collection and a tax rebate as a better option that an cost is going to be equal to or greater than ever-increasing monthly user fee or tax the recycling fee. To encourage councillors increases. to buy into the plan, administration tosses When discussion was occurring about in the bone that $230,000 could be saved creating a utility, it was reported that it annually by only doing a monthly pickup. would start with about an $18-million debt, Thanks, but no thanks. as the city would have to buy trucks and Although I will not use an organics bin bins, hire staff and so on. for anything other than summer yard waste, It was presented that this utility would I don’t want to smell my neighbours’ rotoperate like other city utilities. (It was ting garbage for a month or deal with the unclear whether this proposed debt would rodents it may attract. include the development of composting If council has learned anything at all depots.) from the recycling experience, it should be What is new is that we might be paythat if you are going to do it, do it right or ing for an organics program as of 2021 don’t do it at all. although it won’t be available to taxpayehnatyshyn@gmail.com

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here were fewer complaints about fire pits following last year’s bylaw change, a city report says.

“Overall, the past year has gone as expected with the rate of complaints dropping off slightly; we’re effectively using the tools available to us for enforcement action,” Fire Chief Morgan Hackl said in a news release. “Because of the increased enforcement, we have had a reduction in the number of repeated complaints to the same locations.”

The Standing Policy Committee on Planning, Development and Community Services was to consider the report at its May 13 meeting.

The report highlights the progress of the awareness campaign and bylaw enforcement in the first year of additional regulations. Council passed regulations in April 2018 prohibiting fires outside the hours of 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily.

In 2018, the Saskatoon Fire Department responded to 215 complaints compared to

236 in 2017 and 205 in 2016. There were 127 enforcement actions taken. Of those, the majority of violations were for illegal containers (46 per cent), followed by burning improper materials (33 per cent), for burning outside of permitted hours (13 per cent), and burning unattended (eight per cent).

“With more discussion in the community, we’re hoping more people are aware of the rules so as not to be a nuisance for their neighbours,” Chief Hackl said. “As usual, we’ll continue to get the message out about the regulations and encourage residents to be good neighbours by enjoying fires responsibly and respectfully.”

Complaints related to open-air fires make up a small percentage (1.5 per cent) of all incidents the Saskatoon Fire Department responds to each year.

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at the hospital. Most importantly, patients benefit from the expertise doctors bring back to the hospital.

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Makers to unite at second annual faire

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express askatoon Mini Maker Faire is back for another year.

Described by organizers as “the greatest show (and tell) on Earth,” the second annual event will take place on Saturday, May 25, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Prairieland Park Hall D. More than 100 makers, scientists, artists, crafters and engineers will gather to show and share during the high-energy community festival, which will feature workshops, displays, hands-on activity booths and interactive demonstrations for people of all ages.

Some of the activities planned for the daylong family-friendly celebration include operating robots, fabricating cosplay props, creating a video game controller using bananas and Play-Doh, soldering, textile crafts, woodburning, sculpting, live face-casting and learning how to create board games.

The maker faire’s origins go back to 2006 in the San Francisco area, where the editors of Make: magazine started the project. Since then, it has grown into a worldwide network of events.

Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire is independently organized and produced by The Maker Nucleus Foundation Inc. – a Saskatchewan non-profit organization managed by volunteer artisans, inventors and entrepreneurs – and operates under license from Maker Media, Inc. Tickets to the 2019 Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire can be purchased online from Eventbrite

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and also at the door.

The Saskatoon Express asked Valérie Wanner, one of the local event’s producers, about the faire and about maker culture.

Here are her responses.

Express: What is a maker?

Wanner: Makers are a combination of engineers, scientists, hackers, crafters, do-it-yourselfers – someone that does not settle for a ready-packaged solution. It is an artist, a creative person that will apply technology in new and innovative ways to solve a problem – or just for the fun of it.

A maker is someone that is willing to get their hands dirty, try stuff out and share their process. Anyone can be a maker – all ages and backgrounds.

Express: This is the second year for the Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire. How did your inaugural event go in 2018?

Wanner: Last year was very well received by our local maker community, and attendees were delighted by all the handson activities available to them. We were personally impressed by the outpouring of support and enthusiasm from local makers, who filled up registration quicker than we had expected. The excitement level of the attendees was very encouraging and we knew we had something special.

Express: What sort of feedback did you receive about the event?

Wanner: Feedback was extremely positive. A mother of two boys told us she could not get her kids to leave; they were having so much fun making, building, experimenting and learning. From what we heard, it sounds like everyone is eager to

The second Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire will be held on May 25 at Prairieland Park. (Photo Supplied) return and see what is new for 2019. Some of the popular hands-on activities last year were too crowded, so this year we’ve moved to a larger hall and made sure to give plenty of space to our makers offering workshops.

Express: Who should attend the Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire?

Wanner: Maker faire is for everyone. As our attendees commented last year, there is really something for everyone in the family. Whether you are on the lookout for new and interesting innovations, families looking for ways to entertain young children during the weekend, or an artist, Aaron aAS051325 creator or simply someone wanting to

browse and find a new hobby, we believe you will enjoy your day at the faire.

Express: Why do you think it’s important to have an event in the city like this?

Wanner: Because we want Saskatchewan to experience the maker culture – a genuine joy of sharing, generosity and optimism. Different from most trade shows and conventions, maker faires are not focused on selling but rather (on) engaging attendees and providing memorable experiences. We want to bring together and strengthen the province’s network of makers while offering a real-life platform to share their creations with the community.

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Dimensions highlights best of Sask. contemporary craft

Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express hirty-five pieces representing the best of Saskatchewan contemporary craft are on view at the Saskatchewan Craft Council (SCC) gallery as part of the Dimensions 2019 exhibition.

The SCC has organized Dimensions for more than 40 years. The biennial, juried show encourages Saskatchewan artists to push themselves, and the works selected for inclusion in the exhibition showcase technical and creative excellence.

This year’s jurors, Felicia Gay and Kye-Yeon Son, chose 35 pieces for Dimensions 2019, which will remain on display at the SCC’s gallery on Broadway Avenue until July 6. In total, 291 works were submitted by 135 artists, including 40 emerging artists.

“Dimensions is really why the craft council exists,” said executive director Carmen Milenkovic. “In 1976, there was a coming together of a group of people — including the mayor of North Battleford and the premier of Saskatchewan, Allan Blakeney. Both had a strong love for fine craft and they wanted to celebrate fine craft in Saskatchewan.”

Dimensions began as a juried competition that was displayed for one day in North Battleford. The event then started to evolve and change and became an annual endeavour. In 2011, Dimensions turned into a biennial show “because we started making it much more complex,” said Milenkovic, noting the exhibition will tour other Saskatchewan communities following its current run in Saskatoon.

“It’s very unique in Canada,” she said.

Under the current Dimensions guidelines, Saskatchewan residents can enter two pieces in the competition, and “it’s very open” as to what they enter, said Milenkovic. That means the SCC receives a wide variety of work representing numerous facets of Saskatchewan craft, such as stone sculpture, knife making, hand felting, jewelry making, wood turning, furniture making and more.

“The way it’s evolved is that all of those pieces physically come to Saskatoon, so that is really, really unusual in the world of art adjudication,” said Milenkovic, noting pieces in other competitions are often judged based on high-quality photographs.

“But especially in a three-dimensional work, a photograph doesn’t tell the whole tale,” she said. “Even if you get multiple views of it, you don’t get to touch it.

You don’t get to engage with it, in a way, in terms of its relationship for size and all of that kind of stuff. So us bringing it together, and bringing it in one place, is a unique and fundamental part of Dimensions.”

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“Hover: Gothic Dragonfly Series” by Jenny-Lyn Fife Jenny-Lyn Fife, who studied at NSCAD University in Halifax, was chosen by the jurors for inclusion in the 2019 exhibition.

“I was thrilled,” said Fife, who has been making jewelry for nearly 10 years and works primarily with sterling silver.

Fife said her piece was produced as part of a body of work that was inspired by natural organisms, such as dragonflies. She was looking at ways to fuse characteristics of nature with Gothic architectural elements.

“So it has a more structural, kind of sculptural, quality to it,” she said.

Saskatoon-based art jeweller and goldsmith Mary Lynn Podiluk, who also studied at NSCAD University, was the only artist who had two works selected by the jurors for inclusion in the exhibition.

“I was quite excited,” said Podiluk, who has entered the Dimensions competition since 2013.

“I think that each year I have been really blessed to have had a piece selected. This is the first time I’ve had two pieces selected, so I feel really honoured,” she said.

Podiluk primarily works with resin or silicone, which she intends to look like glass, as well as precious metals and gemstones. Her work can reside in an art gallery but can also be worn on a body, which is essentially a canvas for her work, she said.

“My practice is very much exploratory and falls more to the art jewelry world,” said Podiluk.

Dimensions offers $12,500 in awards. The SCC will celebrate Saskatchewan contemporary craft at an awards gala scheduled for May 31 at the Broadway Theatre, with the program to begin at 7 p.m. A pub-

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Special exhibition features ancient Near Eastern artwork

By Shannon Boklaschuk special exhibition at the University of Saskatchewan’s Museum of Antiquities is showcasing 24 pieces of ancient Near Eastern art.

Titled Tašiltu: A Celebration of the Nasser Family Collection, the exhibition includes new replicas donated to the museum by Dr. Kay Nasser, as well as original pottery donated by Dr. Chris and Laura Foley. The name Tašiltu is derived from the ancient Akkadian word meaning celebration.

The Museum of Antiquities, located in the Peter MacKinnon Building on the USask campus, recognized Dr. Nasser for his recent contributions to the Near Eastern collection by officially unveiling seven new acquisitions. The exhibition is also being held to acknowledge the donation by the Foley family of ancient pottery vessels and sherds from Israel.

“I think that viewers will be excited to see the new additions to the Nasser Family Collection, which provides visitors with the unique opportunity to see the beautiful — and, in many ways, awe-inspiring — artworks of the ancient Near Eastern cultures,” said museum director/curator Dr. Tracene Harvey (PhD).

“The exhibit also seeks to celebrate the ancient heritage of newcomers who immigrated to Canada from this part of the world. While the collection is culturally varied, we have focused on four key themes that help to demonstrate the richness of society in the ancient Near East. These themes include divinity, royalty, women and

nature,” she said.

The ancient Near East — present-day Middle East — refers to the regions of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the Levant, but also extends from Turkey and Egypt in the west to Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the east.

Replicas are on view from a variety of cultures that flourished in these regions, including Sumerian, Hurrian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite, Phoenician, Israelite and Islamic. The artworks include relief sculpture, sculpture in the round and ancient pottery.

The majority of the objects included in the exhibition are full-scale replicas from the workshops of the Louvre in Paris and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and works done by artist Carrie Allen. The five original pottery vessels featured in the exhibit are part of the Foley Collection of ancient pottery.

It’s not the first time the Museum of Antiquities has featured ancient Near Eastern art, which covers a time period ranging from 3000 BCE to 800 CE. In 2007, the museum held a special exhibition called Oasis: Civilizations of the Desert, which celebrated the first official opening and unveiling of the Nasser Family Collection, along with works that had been previously donated to the museum by others.

Nasser, who has supported the museum since 2005, has made donations toward the expansion of the ancient Near Eastern collection, as well as the donation of an endowment in 2009 that funds two annual bursary awards for distinguished student

Dr. Tracene Harvey (PhD) is the director/curator of the Museum of Antiquities.

(Photo by Chris Putnam) volunteers of the Museum of Antiquities.

The long-term aim of the museum is to offer a reliable and critical account of the artistic accomplishments of major Western civilizations and epochs. Harvey said the museum is a “unique cultural resource that can be found nowhere else in Canada.”

“The originals of many replicas in the museum’s collections are located in famous museums around the world, including the British Museum, the Louvre, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The only way for people to see the originals is through expensive travel,” she said.

“The Museum of Antiquities provides visitors with the opportunity to see these famous artworks in person, right here at home, along with a number of original

objects including ancient coins, glass and pottery. Replica collections, such as the one held by the Museum of Antiquities, also play a key role in preserving cultural heritage, where original artifacts can be subject to the ravages of time, pollution and wars.

The museum’s collections are also used extensively for teaching and research by university faculty and students, as well as by school teachers and the general public.”

Tašiltu: A Celebration of the Nasser Family Collection runs until Aug. 31, 2019.

Entrance to the Museum of Antiquities is free, but donations are welcome. Tours can also be provided by appointment.

(Shannon Boklaschuk is a communications officer in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan.)

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Why is SaskPower collecting the carbon tax from us?

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here’s no doubt that the SaskPower would be charging Saskatchewan governyou (in big, bold red letters) a ment has done a brilliant carbon tax? job of spinning Prime Minister Because it — SaskPower Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax into — opted to start charging you a monster that doesn’t just live one. It was its decision alone to under our beds, but is also about start taxing customers on April to burn down our houses and 1. SaskEnergy and gas stations eat our cars. And possibly our were obligated to do so by the children.

CRA, but SaskPower was not.

Let’s be clear from the outset It arbitrarily chose both the rate — the federal carbon tax is not it’s charging us and the date the right fit for Saskatchewan, it began doing so. SaskPower Columnist and I’m not here to tell you it is. will not be obligated to pay a What I am interested in, however, are penalty (it’s not a tax) on carbon emissions the facts, especially these days when it to the federal government until mid-2020. feels like the truth has become subjective.

What they’ll pay, how and on what In my opinion, Saskatchewan people have (SaskPower generates electricity using not been given the facts, or the truth, about both coal and natural gas, the emissions of what they’re paying, and why. which will be penalized differently) won’t On April 1, with both much fanfare and even be determined until later this year at handwringing, the federal carbon tax was the earliest. imposed upon fuel distributors in SaskatchYou might buy into the spin that this ewan. This was legislated in the federal was a sound business and/or financial Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, decision for SaskPower to start charging which was enacted in June 2018. us now, given it’ll be paying for 2019 emisLet’s take a step back. sions at some point in 2020, but I don’t.

At the end of 2017, the federal govern- Because if it was that simple, SaskPower ment warned provinces that they had until would have told us that — the truth. Using Sept. 1, 2018 to submit a carbon pricing facts. plan, or have one imposed upon them.

It would have explained why it opted Believe it or not, Saskatchewan’s plan, to suck a projected $5 million out of the dubbed Prairie Resilience, did include wallets of Saskatchewan residents at least carbon pricing — but it excluded some key a year before they needed to do so. Instead, heavy carbon emitters, including Saskwe got torqued rhetoric from the SaskatchPower. ewan government, including the minister The feds said no, the Saskatchewan responsible for SaskPower. government doubled down, and the “This is a charge that is coming to your September 2018 deadline came and went. power and your energy bill,” said Dustin As a result, the feds’ “backstop” plan was Duncan on April 1. “It’s not a decision announced in November 2018, and subse- of the government or the utilities here in quently imposed on our pocketbooks. the province. This is really a result of the This is where the facts haven’t really federally-imposed carbon tax. Until we been as forthcoming from either the feds or have a decision by the courts, we will be the province. collecting and holding the money, and The federal government’s backstop either remitting it to the federal governplan contained two parts: Part 1, which ment at a later date or rebating it back to addressed fuel distributors, and Part 2, the customers.” which addressed heavy emitters such as That is false on so many levels, and SaskPower.

Duncan knows it. The decision to add a Part 1 was pretty clear — as of April 1, charge to your electricity bill was abso2019, Saskatchewan fuel distributors, such lutely a decision of the provincial governas gas stations, would need to start charg- ment and SaskPower, and it has nothing to ing their customers a carbon tax. SaskEner- do — at all — with the carbon tax imposed gy is considered a fuel distributor because on fuel distributors. it sells its customers natural gas directly, so In fact, Duncan has now admitted that it also was obligated to begin charging the the April 1 start date was chosen by Saskcarbon tax.

Power in part because its customers would SaskPower is not considered a fuel just assume it was associated with the fuel distributor, because it’s not a fuel distribu- tax — in other words, because it was a tor. It does emit carbon through the process good date to use to trick its own customers. of producing its product (electricity). But Further, SaskPower is “collecting and for fuel distributors, just like every other holding” your money somewhere, but the retail taxation program in Canada including provincial government’s court challenge is the GST, the Canadian Revenue Agency not the reason. The truth is SaskPower has (CRA) was deemed responsible for admin- no idea what it’ll eventually be paying for istering Part 1 of the plan. its emissions, nor does it have anywhere to Part 2 wasn’t as straightforward. All send the money it’s collecting from us. Oh, that it laid out was a set of draft regulaand I’m pretty sure SaskEnergy is not withtions, which were opened for feedback and holding funds from the CRA as Duncan implies, but a real reporter will have to ask consultation — a process that continues that question. today. What Part 2 did mandate was that Here’s the bottom line — you can hate as of Jan. 1, 2019, heavy emitters would the carbon tax. You can believe that it’s need to start measuring their emissions and reporting them to the federal Ministry a bad deal for Saskatchewan, and that it does nothing to change consumer beof Environment — but that’s it. No cost haviour. But you can’t hate something of formula or price was put on those emissions, meaning no cost or price, or carbon which you don’t have the whole truth, and tax, was imposed on SaskPower. The CRA this is a startling reminder that we’re living in an age where the truth is no longer is not involved, nor will it be. absolute or guaranteed, even in SaskatchSo why did you, as a SaskPower customer, receive a quasi-hysterical notice ewan.

That’s what I hate the most. in March, advising that as of April 1

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he opioid epidemic, Road. In the traditions of many which has taken too First Nations, we have many many lives, is now creatroads, the directions people ing another crisis. For the last choose to take in life.

10 years, I have been battling The Red Road is where Crohn’s disease, stomach canpeople attend traditional cercer and an enlarged liver. emonies such as the Sun Dance, During that decade I have sacred sweat lodge and others stayed away from pain medicawhere people are taught how to tion. I recognized a long time control their breath, their heartago that if I am going to take beats and even their blood flow. this on, I have to take an apThis is all done with an proach other than running to awareness of how much pain Columnist ease the pain with pharmaceua person can endure. After a ticals. while, pain becomes irrelevant I spent two years in hospitals, mostly in because seeking a higher power is the goal.

Saskatoon, and in that time I watched other For some people, it is too much and they people with similar medical problems die. drop out.

I noticed pain medication was so accesThese ceremonies are not exclusive sible, some died from over-medicating. to First Nations people, because I have Others died from suicide because the pain danced with people from Sweden, Gerwas too much to bear, and some from their many, Japan and many other parts of the bodies simply shutting down. world.

For most of my life, I travelled the Red They would come to challenge them-

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selves and their bodies. When I started to get sick, I decided to take my training and take on the pain.

During my stays in hospitals, I stopped all the pain medication I was prescribed, unbeknownst to my doctors.

After several months of going without pain medication, I started to heal. One medical specialist asked me what I was doing. My response was what I was not doing. I was secretly saving all the medication I was prescribed.

I took a bread bag of the medication and gave it to her. She still has that bag in full view in her office to show others what can be done without pain medication.

Today, I continue to go without medication, although every now and then the body can only take so much pain. That’s when I will go to a hospital and spend a night there.

It is only under medical care that I will turn to pain medication. I will not take anything home.

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Lately, it’s getting harder and harder to address the pain. One doctor prescribed only extra-strength Tylenol after he examined me and reviewed my file.

One doctor told me about a chief in Ottawa who blames doctors for killing Indigenous people by over-prescribing. The doctor refused to prescribe me anything, even though I was in a hospital and under medical care. He expected me to tough it out.

The medical community is now walking a fine line. Opioid overdoses are affecting those who need the medication.

I feel for those who must now live a life of horrible pain because doctors are scared of being blamed. I feel for those with cancer because they all they might get is extra-strength Tylenol.

They will die screaming because some chief in Ottawa is shooting off his mouth without seeing the other side. ken.noskye@gmail.com

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The MindFULL Café, part of the international Alzheimer Café movement, provides an opportunity for persons with dementia, family, care partners and other interested people to meet in a relaxed social setting. The Café is a two-hour get together with refreshments, entertainment and information. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Sherbrooke Community Centre. For more information, call Robin Kitchen at 306-655-3646. ***** Memory Writers — September to June, 10 a.m. to noon at the Edwards Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue. Share the events and memories of your life in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. For more information, call Hilda at 306-382-2446.

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Renters of Saskatoon and area meeting. 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. St Thomas Wesley United Church, Lower Hall (808 20th St. West). ROSA supports renters and shares information to work towards better, affordable, and safe rental housing for all. Child-minding available. Ring doorbell for elevator access. For further information contact: 306-6576100, or email renters@classiclaw.ca.

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Pet Loss Support Group offers support and comfort to people who are struggling with the loss of a beloved companion animal due to old age, sickness or other reasons. The no-obligation support group meets at 2 p.m. at the W.A. Edwards Centre, 333 Fourth Ave. North, Saskatoon. For more information or telephone support, call 306-343-5322.

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Singles Social Group - “All About Us” for people in their 50s to 70s. Weekly Wednesday restaurant suppers, monthly brunch, movie nights and more. Meet new friends. No membership dues. For more information email: allaboutus@shaw.ca or phone 306-249-0254. ***** Seven Seas Toastmasters, an energetic and dynamic club, invites you to join us from noon to 1 p.m. in the LDAS Building. (2221 Hanselman Court.) For more information, visit http://3296.toastmastersclubs.org/ ***** The FASD Network of Saskatchewan offers monthly supMAY 16 port meetings for individuals living with FASD and caregivCommunity Arts Program’s second annual arts gala. A ers on Wednesdays at the Network office (510 Cynthia St). viewing of student art from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. A student art The free-of-charge support meetings are an informative performance from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Event will be held at and engaging space for people to connect with each other King George Community School (721 Ave. K South). The for ongoing support. For information and times, visit www.

Community Arts Program is a program that involves local saskfasdnetwork.ca/events artists sharing their art expertise with students in local ***** schools.

Le Choeur des plaines welcomes you to sing and social***** ize in French each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at L’École Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools Foundation presents canadienne française at 1407 Albert Avenue. The choir is its Swing into Spring fashion show and dinner at Praidirected by Michael Harris and accompanied by Rachel rieland Park, Hall A. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and buffet Fraser. All who wish to sustain or practice their French are at 6:45. The special guest is Jesse Zuber, the top chef in welcome. For more information, call Rachel at 306-343Season 6. Tickets are $75 and are available at the founda6641 or Jean at 306-343-9460. tion office (420 22nd St. East) or by phoning 306-659***** 7003 or emailing catholicschoolsfoundationsca.ca.

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Coffee at 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday at St. Martin’s MAY 25 United Church (2617 Clarence Ave.). The group also has a Oliver Lodge Auxiliary Tea & Bake Sale from 2 p.m. to general meeting on the third Sunday of every month, with 4 p.m. at Oliver Lodge’s Bethel United Lounge (1405 the exception of July and August. For more information, Faulkner Crescent). Proceeds are used to fund special equipment purchases and events which enhance the qual- contact Mildred at 306-242-3905 or the church at 306343-7101. ity of life for Oliver Lodge residents. ***** MAY 26 T.O.P.S (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). New members are Walking tour and open house at the Saskatoon Forestry welcome. A supportive, friendly group that meets weekly Farm Park and Zoo. Meet at the superintendent’s resifocusing on healthy eating, exercise and weight loss. For dence at 1:30 p.m. with the walk beginning at 2 p.m. more information go to www.tops.org or call Debbie at Other walks will be held June 23, July 28 and Aug. 25.

306-668-4494. Meetings are at Resurrection Lutheran Tours are free and refreshments are available. Donations Church, 310 Lenore Drive. New member orientation every welcome. For more information, or to arrange a private Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. tour, please call Peggy at 306-652-9801. ***** ***** Bargain store to support the inner city Lighthouse project.

Walk for Lupus. River Landing Amphitheatre. Registration Babiy, children, women’s and men’s clothing; jewelry, at 12:30 p.m. with the walk to begin at 1 p.m. To receive your pledge sheet, sponsor a walker, or for more information, please contact Irene by email at idriedger@sasktel. net or by phoning 306-227-9562.

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Summer Jam and Open Mic from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Nutana Legion (3021 Louise Street). Special invite to all service personnel, active or retired — sign up with your instrument and join the fun with your friends. Everyone is welcome, happy hour pricing, food available, free snacks, games area and 50-50 and meat draws. Free jam beer and complimentary snacks provided to each summer jam participant – plus online exposure with photo/name, and website/social media links. Some equipment provided. For more information, visit https://www.beautifulsaskatoon. ca/summerjam.

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Friendship Force International, Saskatoon and Area Club is an organization of more than 360 clubs in more than 50 countries throughout the world. FFI allows you to enjoy EVERY SECOND SATURDAY economical travel while forging new friendships with club One Light Chant and Dance: Held the second Saturday of members from around the world. For more information, the month, with sporadic impromptu chant-only evenings, visit www.thefriendshipforce.org. To attend a meeting in Saskatoon. Hosted by Dances of Universal Peace leader contact Bev at 306-291-4411 or bevy-49@hotmail.com.

Wayne Rollack. A meditative practice combining the FIRST AND THIRD WEDNESDAY chanting of sacred phrases with simple circle dances to OF THE MONTH live music. No experience necessary. For more InformaResporados support group for people with breathing diftion, email chantndance@sasktel.net. ficulties takes place at 1 p.m. at Jerry’s on Eighth Street THIRD THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH for a lunch meeting. For more information, call Dave at The Saskatoon Oldertimers Association meets from May 306-665-6937 or Susan at 306-373-4264. to September meetings are held at the Log Cabin at the ***** Prairieland Park. From October to April, meetings are held Depression Support Group from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at at All Saints Church (1801 Lorne Ave. Meetings start at the CMHA building (1301 Avenue P North). This is open to 10:30 a.m. People 50 and older are invited to attend. For anyone struggling with depression and family members more information, call Marie at 306-668-3618 or Emily at wanting to support them. For more info, call Marilyn at 306-242-2025.

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purses, belts and camping clothes available. Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 454 Egbert Avenue. Prices from $0.25 to $5. Everyone is welcome. For more information: Call 306-955-3766 (church) or go to spuconline.com or email zixiag@gmail. com.

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or sites.google.com/view/saskatoon-choral-society/home. ***** Magic City Chorus (women’s four part a cappella harmony) MAY 18 rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings at St. Paul’s Colours of the World Vocal Chamber Music: Mozart, United Church, Egbert Avenue, in Sutherland at 7 p.m.

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Soprano: Alla Gof-Tymishak; Piano: Alexandra Diederichca for more information. For more information, contact sen. 3 p.m. at Frances Morrison Central Library. Duration: louiseburton21@hotmail.com 50 minutes. Tickets at the door. Adults: $15; Students: $5; ***** Family: $30, children under-6 free.

Spirit of the West Toastmasters Club. Want to become more confident in your personal life and in your work?

MAY 21 We help each other develop oral communication and Members of Saskatoon Brass Band Inc. present Land of the Living Skies, a concert featuring world renowned and leadership skills by providing instant feedback. Guests are always welcome. We meet every Tuesday from 7 p.m. to award winning tuba player Les Neish accompanied by 8:30 p.m. at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, 1130 Idydwyld both the Bridge City Brass Band (conducted by Ian Krips) and the Saskatoon Brass Band (conducted by Will Martin). Drive, room number 129-C or 150. ***** 7:30 p.m. at St. Joseph High School. Admission $15 adults, $10 students and seniors, children under 10 free. Truth Research Circle of Friends at 7 p.m. If you are concerned about the trouble in our world, researching its MAY 23-24 roots, feeling grief and confusion, and wondering what to Joy of Vox, Saskatoon’s 200-member pop vocal ensemble, do with what you’re learning, you are welcome to join our will be presenting its spring concerts, Then and Now circle. Call Patti at 306-229-1978 for more information at 7:30 on May 23 and May 24 at Cathedral of the Holy and the location.

Family. Tickets ($17.50) are available exclusively through THIRD WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH www.joyofvox.com.

Columbian Seniors (55+) pot luck supper at Holy Spirit Parish Hall (114 Kingsmere Place.) Doors open at 5 p.m., with dinner at 6 p.m.

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The Saskatoon mood disorder support group for people with bi-polar, depression and other related mental health problem meets at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 323 Fourth Ave. South (south entrance) at 7 p.m. For more information, call Allan at 306-716-0836.

EVERY MONDAY Modern square dance beginner class, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. from mid-September to mid-April at All Saints Anglican Church Hall (1801 Lorne Ave.) For more information, call 306-253-4453 or 306-242-2209.

COSMO SENIORS CENTRE Cosmo Seniors Centre provides daily activities from Monday to Friday from September until May for seniors 55 and older. Fitness Program: Yoga: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 am; Exercise program Tuesday and Thursday at 10 am. Drop in fees - $4-5. Card groups meet Monday to Friday from 1:30 to 4:30 Monday to Friday – Monday - Kaiser and Whist; Tuesday and Thursday – Bridge; Wednesday - Whist; Friday – Kaiser and Cribbage. Drop in Fee $2. Light refreshment provided. Potluck lunches the third Monday of the month October to April. New members welcome. The centre is located at 614 11th St. East. For more information, call Margaret: 306-373-8693.

FOURTH TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH The Eastview Seniors’ Neighbourhood Hub Club meets at the Nutana Legion. The March 26 presentation will be a speaker from the Diefenbaker Centre. April 26, Silver Strings will be provide live music. Events are held from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, visit myeastview.ca.

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By RJ Currie ive reasons thieves snatched London Marathon runner Lukas Bates’ Tower of Big Ben costume: 5. The clock struck one; 4. They needed a few minutes; 3. Second thoughts; 2. To run out the clock; 1. Hours is not to reason why.

• London police say whoever stole the Big Ben replica will face time.

• Bingo night took an unusual turn in Prince Albert, when a TV monitor started showing porn. Now we know why the cards’ free spaces said XXX. • A 2019 survey found half a million Canadians admitted to using cannabis at or just before work. In a related story, demands to be traded to the Toronto Raptors have skyrocketed.

• When Bruins pest Brad Marchand was twice asked by reporters after Round 2 about his curt replies, he said: “We’re on to Round 3.” Who’s his media advisor, Bill Belichick?

• The Hurricanes shocked hockey experts by eliminating the Islanders in four straight. Even Neil Diamond said “Sweep Carolina?”

• What would you call it if Tiger Woods and RuPaul decided to go curling? Crouching Tiger, Sliding Drag Queen.

• College sprinter Elija Godwin is in hospital after puncturing a lung by running backwards into a javelin. I backed into a javelin once: just before setting my school’s long-jump record.

• According to Scientific Reports, people who walk dogs are four times more likely to meet physical activity guidelines. And the dogs are four times more likely to feel pooped out.

• I’m worried about Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury giving his players cellphone breaks. If it goes too far, he may have to tackle hoarse callers.

• According to a new study, people are happiest at 70 years old. I can’t see anyone volunteering to tell Spurs coach Gregg Popovich.

• Police in Pennsylvania arrested two suspects accused of stealing over $21,000 worth of Victoria’s Secret panties. Sounds like a costly undertaking.

• Sharks centre Logan Couture lost two upper front teeth in Game 5 against the Golden Knights. I doubt that’s all he’ll want for Christmas.

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Get your pet spayed or neutered at Walmart?

anice Hough, on John Daly getting approval to use a cart next week in the PGA Championship because of his arthritic knee: “Will the cart come with a designated driver?”

Torben Rolfsen, on a difference between the UK and the USA: “Archie is the royal baby. In America, Archie Manning made the royal babies.”

• TC Chong, on a woman disputing a parking spot at a Costco on Vancouver Island and pulling a machete out of her car to confront the other party: “In other words, a Costco-sized pocket knife.”

• Stephen Colbert, on the now-infamous coffee cup that appeared in Game of Thrones: “It really broke the reality of a dragon-riding lady in love with a guy who came back from the dead.” (I hope that wasn’t a spoiler.)

• From Rolfsen: “Brad Marchand: Class-less Valedictorian.”

• Chong, on Walmart planning to open vet clinics in its stores: “So you can now expect to get your change in Milk Bones.”

• From Marc Ragovin: “I’m not saying the Mets are bad, but the only way they are winning the division is if the Nats, Phils, Braves and Marlins veer out of their lanes.”

• From Rolfsen: “If they want Joel Embiid to go to the hoop, they should tape a big pic of a burger, fries and shake to the backboard.”

• Chong, on Tyson Foods recalling more than 10 million pounds of frozen boxed chicken because it may contain metal: “To be safe, take your product through TSA Airport Security the next time you fly.”

• From Rolfsen: “Special award to Leo Rautins, who has to watch games with Drake standing in front of him for three hours.”

• Postmedia columnist Steve Simmons, on Ricky Ray’s retirement: “A Hall of Famer shouldn’t be announcing his retirement on a conference call. He deserves to go out with more pageantry for all he’s accomplished and meant to people.”

• From the Toronto Argonauts: “We asked Ricky

Members of the Saskatoon Valkyries celebrate their season-opening win. (Photo by Darren Steinke)

how he wanted to handle the announcement, because he deserves that respect. We were willing to fly him here, but he didn’t want to travel from California and back for a half-hour news conference. Pretty simple. We will honour him at the home opener.”

• From Hough: “There isn’t likely to be any nationwide controversy over the Preakness. Because this year, with both Maximum Security and Country House out, who’s actually going to be watching the race?”

• From Rolfsen: “No one knows where Kyrie Irving will play next season, but he plans on finding a spot by travelling to all four corners of the map.”

• Chong, on polls showing that Joe Biden has a 32-point lead in the Democratic presidential race: “Joe said he’s really touched by all this support.”

• From Hough: “At the Kentucky Derby Museum, located at Churchill Downs, you can listen to a recording of every Derby in history. I wonder how they’re going to do this year’s.”

• A promise I think I can keep: No more Leafs jokes.

Did you know

Crossmount has...

- 400 acres of prairie landscape, - homes for independent living starting at 996 sqft, - on-site health services for aging-in-place, - apple orchards and a cidery, - public spaces and amenities, and - is a pet friendly community?

This 55+ community must be seen in person to fully understand everything there is to offer.

Located five km south of Saskatoon on Lorne Avenue, stop out for an informal visit or call in advance to arrange a personal tour.

For further information or to book a personal tour please email hheimann@crossmountvillage.ca or phone 306-374-9890.

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