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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Ground-breaking held for Color My World expansion
Photo – Greg Nikkel, SaskToday.ca
The board of Color My World Child Care, along with some of the children who attend, gathered for a ceremonial ground-breaking on Tuesday, to officially start the construction on Phase Two of their facility. The new construction will add 90 new spaces for children, and about 30 new staff will be hired for the expanded day care, set to be complete by the fall of 2025.
Color My World begins major expansion to add 90 new spaces By Greg Nikkel, SaskToday.ca The parent board and some of the children of the Color My World day care gathered for a ceremonial ground-breaking on Tuesday, as they officially kicked off the start of a ma-
jor expansion which has been in the works for over a year now. The day care currently has 50 spaces for children, and will be adding another 90 spaces once the expansion is complete, with 9,400 square feet of space, with
classroom settings and a small gym as part of the new building. The current facility has about 3,400 square feet of space. The day care currently has around 180 people on their wait list, so the new spaces will be filled up very
quickly, said Jen Symes, executive director of Color My World. The project is estimated to be completed by the fall of 2025, with DSI Construction as the main contractors. There are currently 17 staff at the day care, and
another 30 staff will need to be hired when the newlyexpanded facility is ready to open. The 90 new spaces will be for children aged six weeks up to four years, while the other 50 spaces will be made available for those aged four to 12 for
after-school care. Government grant funding and financing will pay for the construction costs, and Color My World is looking for sponsorships for the new play equipment and supplies that will be needed in the larger facility.
Midale’s Keely Shaw proud of performance at Paris Paralympics By David Willberg, Estevan Mercury The experience might have been different for Midale’s Keely Shaw, but one end result was the same: she’s coming home from a Paralympic Games with a bronze medal. Representing Canada at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, Shaw won bronze in the Para cycling C43,000 metres race on Aug. 30. She won bronze at the same race three years ago in Tokyo. Shaw beat Samantha Bosco of the U.S. by 1.6 seconds in the head-to-head bronze-medal race with a time of three minutes and 46.942 seconds. She had a
lead of 2.099 seconds at one point late in the race. “I came here hoping to improve my performances from Tokyo, which I didn’t do, so that’s a little bit of a disappointment, but coming back with another medal is obviously pretty special. I can’t complain too much on that front,” Shaw said in an interview with SaskToday. During the qualifying round, Shaw posted a time that was nearly three seconds better than her previous personal best, and then she posted a similar time in the bronze race. The racers with the two best times in the qualifying round advance to the gold-
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off the bike. So, I had no idea where the other person was on the bike. I just knew what I had to do and did it,” said Shaw. She finished fifth in the time trial race on Sept. 4, completing the 14.1-kilometre circuit in a time of 22 minutes and 9.19 seconds, only 29.95 seconds behind the gold medalist. Shaw admits she was disappointed with the result and has been mulling it over since the race. “If I could go back in time, that would be the one thing I would do is I would redo that race. I had a really good second half of the race, but the first third of the race,
I was a little bit too conservative in that this is a shorter race than I’m used to.” She thought she kept a little too much in reserve for the end, and it showed on the result sheet. Shaw wrapped up the Games on Sept. 6 by finishing 15th in the road race with a time of two hours and 9.28 seconds for the 71-kilometre distance. It’s not her strongest event, and she came in with a goal of not crashing. “Obviously I don’t want my Paralympic Games to end on a negative note like that. So, mission accomplished. I didn’t crash. I finished the race, got to ride
in France, which doesn’t suck,” said Shaw. The experience was completely different this time. When she was in Tokyo three years ago, COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were still in effect. Athletes stayed in satellite villages and fans weren’t allowed in the stands. It was still the Paralympics, but she said it wasn’t nearly the same. In Paris, the velodrome facility was sold out months in advance. They met athletes from other sports. The outdoor circuit was lined with people, and people were playing trumpets and banging on signs. Continued on page 5
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medal race, and those with the third and fourth-best times race for bronze. “There were ups and downs, of course,” she said. “Any sporting event you always want more. That’s kind of what makes us elite athletes. But the girl I beat in the bronze medal final, she’s bested me in the last couple of competitions, at the world championships in March and at the Pan-Am Games last November, so it was nice to get a little bit of retribution there,” said Shaw. She didn’t know she had a large lead in the final. “You’re going so hard that you’re maintaining just enough lucidity to not fall
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