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Dylan Nahorniak and my oldest son, Ryan, played on the same

baseball team 13 years ago. They were first-year

bantams, putting them at 14 years old. Looking back, maybe neither of them quite fit in with the AAA team. The second-year players, for the most part, were big, strong and exuded confidence. They had done well in pee wee baseball. By comparison, Ryan and Dylan were small and quiet. Many of the skills were there, but the confidence to display them wasn’t always.

Dylan was a pitcher. A left-hander. He didn’t throw many innings that year. I thought he was a kid who would become disheartened and drop out of baseball.

I was so wrong. Dylan grew to be six-foot-four. He

pitched at a number of colleges in the United States, each at a higher calibre than the one before. He loved coming home in the summer and pitching for the Saskatoon Stallions.

Baseball was a big part of his life. It was a life taken in a car accident in Saskatoon in 2010.

I spoke with Dylan’s mother Col-leen last week. We chatted about an upcoming tournament that will be held in Dylan’s memory. It will raise money

for a charity and help a local player further his career.

Colleen and I chatted about Dylan. I told her how happy I was when I heard how well he was doing in baseball. And I told her how heart breaking it was to hear of his death. I so wish we could go back, replay that year of bantam baseball and move forward from there.

The Dylan Nahorniak Memorial Tournament will

be held May 9-10 at Cairns Field. More information can be found at www.dylan-nahorniakmemorialtournament.com. Please see the story on Page 6.

***** We are happy to have Shannon

Boklaschuk back writing on these pages. Shannon seems happy to be back as well. I could tell when she started send-ing emails with stories she wanted to write.

Shannon has been such a big part of this paper since a few weeks after its in-ception. She is an outstanding reporter/writer and editor. She was barely out of journalism school when she was named a finalist for a national newspaper award.

Shannon has spent the past year at home with Jack. She gave birth to him last June 8. As you can tell from the photo, he is one cool dude. In Shannon and Jayce Ollenberger, he has pretty

cool parents. We are happy that Jack is willing to share some of his mom’s time with our readers.

***** I would like to thank RJ Currie for

editing the paper while Shannon was on maternity leave. It was great working with him. I know I annoyed the heck out of him by making the same punctuation mistakes over and over. I am just not a comma, semi-colon and colon person. You can continue to read RJ’s outstand-ing humour on the Views of the World page every week.

***** I have written a couple of times about

unexplainable coincidences. A couple of weeks ago we published

a column pertaining to my struggle with anxiety and panic attacks. In the story I mentioned that a StarPhoenix colleague named Marg Ommanney recognized what was happening to me, and pointed me toward a program that would help me understand and cope with the disor-der. That was almost 25 years ago.

Marg and her husband left Saskatoon a couple of years later. We haven’t been in touch for far too long. Who sends me a note on Twitter last week? Yup. Marg. I thought she must have seen the story. She hadn’t. It is crazy how things like that happen.

It was great hearing from her again and I vow to do a better job of keeping in touch.

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Andrea Menard has reached deep into her soul again to produce a CD filled with inspirational, uplifting and

enlightened music.Menard, who has often called Saskatoon

her home and is now based out of Vancou-ver, collaborated with Robert Walsh, her producer and longtime friend, to create Lift, a collection of 12 songs. She will perform most of them in concert at a launch at the

Broadway Theatre on May 11 at 7 p.m.

“Quite honestly, I was going through a period where I wanted to hear some inspirational music and I just couldn’t find any,” said Men-ard, on the telephone from Hamilton. “Robert told me that if I couldn’t find any, produce some myself. He can bring

out the best in me. Robert and I share grand-mothers on one side of my family. I came up with a concept and he made it all work because we trust each other.”

Among the dozen songs are Let’s Sing a New Song, Faith & Patience, Shombhala and Answer the Call. All are among the happiest of what Menard calls “a satisfying, sensitive collection drawn from different feelings and perspectives. It really gave me a chance to share joyful thoughts, create peace, love and joy.”

The title song, Lift, is somewhat of a tribute to Gordon Tootoosis, a Saskatchewan actor who died in 2011. Ray Thunderchild, formerly of Saskatchewan and now of Vancouver, delivers some Cree language into the song.

“I was able to work with Gordon on the TV series Moccasin Flats. He was so real, down-to-earth, humble and sharing of his tremendous acting craft. It was tough to let him go,” said Menard.

“Lift was like getting a message from someone on the other side, a message for me to sing, and I think he gave me that for a reason.”

Just as Menard is the ultimate Prairie woman, there was a touch of three prov-inces in the recording process. The basic tracks were created at Unity Grain Produc-tions in Roseisle, a small Manitoba town. The lead vocals were recorded in Walsh’s studio in Edmonton. The backup singers were Stephen Maguire, Carrie Catherine, Dawn Wasacase and Roy Sydiaha, who did their work in Brent Blazeiko’s studio in Saskatoon.

There were other lessons to be learned from her fourth album, a follow-up to The Velvet Devil (2002), Simple Steps (2005) and Sparkle (2009).

“It was a different journey because we didn’t get any funding. I had to run an Indie-gogo campaign. And, thankfully, my friends came up with $12,000 to produce and release the album. It also started me on a campaign in which I call myself a music messenger,” she said.

“Like other spiritual seekers who express themselves through music, my particular style of music-making has fallen through the cracks of the music industry. I’ve been un-able to come up with the right term or genre to describe my music and worldview that satisfies the present music industry.

“I am the full medicine wheel of who I am and it is my responsibility to fly my true

colours – not just for myself, but for others who are embracing their complete selves as well. I am a music messenger and, when it comes down to it, we music messengers are more spiritual initiates than commercial performers.”

Her definitions of a music messenger include singers who use words and voice to communicate the message of hope and joy, aspire to raise the consciousness of human-kind, learn to translate mystical journeys into song for the benefit of others, and sing of a personal relationship with a divine creator.

“It’s like a self-help movement: creating the same effect as self-help books and using music to soothe our weary hearts and bounce us back into joy.”

Menard is also on another adventure of discovery. She performed a show — I Am Andrea Menard — with the Regina Sym-

phony Orchestra last week. She considered it a collection of her best works, and featured Walsh as a guest performer and Charles T. Cozens as guest conductor.

The success in Menard’s early career was attached to The Velvet Devil, a play that toured nationally, was converted into a CBC drama, and always reaped the benefits from the recording.

She played a Prairie Metis woman who was making her concert debut in Toronto.

“We took Velvet Devil a long way, but she can only go so far. The symphony per-formance was really about escaping from the Velvet Devil and introducing the real me. I’d really like to have the Saskatoon Symphony consider the program in the future.”

There are Saskatchewan projects that stand tall.

One was writing and performing the song

The Return of the Bell of Batoche, which she did at Batoche Days in July 2013.

“Billy Joe Delaronde, the keeper of the bell, didn’t hear the song until it was per-formed that day. I wanted to be respectful of a great Metis tradition,” said Menard.

Saskatchewan Kinsmen Telemiracle is near and dear to her heart; she’s been a head-liner each March for six years.

“I love everything about it — the recipi-ents of the gifts, the people who donate, the volunteers for the show, the cast members who have big hearts and really want to be there. Yes, it is exhausting, but it is important to be there.”

And while singing is one focus, acting is still a consideration. Menard’s Blackstone television drama has just entered a fourth season, and she’s just been nominated for an acting award in British Columbia.

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In my dictionary the word transpar-ency means open, visible, easily seen, evident or obvious, under-

standable and undisguised. Politicians love to use this word to

describe themselves as being open and forthcoming with the electorate. Yet, if there is nothing to hide, why is the discussion and/or debate around changes to council working structure in camera? Closed-door meetings are necessary for public organizations, but in-camera agendas are usually limited to legal matters pending before the courts, employee issues and contract negotiations — transactions that may, if made public prior to tender or sale, impede the outcome or open the organization up to a lawsuit. Discussion around a bylaw revamping council’s working structure does not qualify as an in-camera agenda item.

Should we, the public, be able to hear the pros and cons of the proposed changes before any are made? After all, these people were elected to repre-sent us and to be available to us, so what could they be planning that we shouldn’t know about?

Coun. Pat Lorje suggests that shifting Monday evening meetings to the afternoon will impact citizens’ ability to follow what council is doing, particularly on matters of interest to them. Although they may have the meeting streaming online, when you are at work can you watch it? Or if you wish to speak to council on a matter, will you be able to take time away from your job to come to an afternoon meeting? As it stands now, a citizen can ask to speak to council at its bi-monthly evening meetings. With proposed changes, council can direct those speakers to a less visible forum, namely a committee. Is this just a means to mute the voices of people who question or oppose a direction taken by council?

I am already confused by the reporting as to how committees will work. Currently the commit-tee chair moves the committee reports at council’s meeting. Rarely does any councillor oppose any report. It is moved, seconded and agreed in a matter of minutes. Nonetheless, all committee work is ap-proved by council as a whole, and a councillor can question a committee item or ask to have it come back to council with further information. The pro-posed change suggests council will have the option to quickly pass items approved at the committee level. What’s the big change and how much faster can they get?

But then Lorje says transferring decisions to the committee level reduces the power of council and poses the potential for two councillors to make a decision that previously required a vote of coun-cil. This implies that all committee reports will not come before council for approval. What if the recycling contract awarded to Cosmo had been left in the hands of a committee manned by the council-lors who opposed it, without the involvement of

the seven councillors that supported it? What if your next-door neighbour wants to re-zone his property to build a conve-nience store and your ward councillor doesn’t sit on the committee that will ap-prove it, and has no ability to address it in the council chamber on your behalf? Transferring authority to the committee level is just a bad idea.

Currently, committee meetings are held every second Tuesday at City Hall starting at 11:30 a.m. This allows most citizens an opportunity to attend over

a lunch hour on a matter of importance to them. Council is to be applauded for shuffling the com-mittee agenda to accommodate speakers whenever possible. However, citizens who may either support or object to a matter know that if the committee action has an opposite result than they desired, they can always appeal to council as a whole to review the committee decision and rally the troops if need be. Perhaps that is what this change is all about — to reduce the voice of opposition to actions by council.

Lorje also expressed concern not only about transferring the authority of council to a committee, but to city administration as well. What nightmares might occur when administration can take action unfettered by elected officials? Remember when Coun. Tiffany Paulsen had the audacity to question the administration for spending twice the budgeted amount for the lights on the Traffic Bridge? And administration stated it didn’t need council approval to exceed the budget line?

What if two councillors on the transportation committee decide to spend all of the roadway repair/maintenance budget on bike lanes and buses, or the environmental committee decides to mandate an organics collection at whatever user fee they determine? Will your councillor shrug and say, “I’m not on that committee and I can’t do anything about it?” What if, what if, what if . . . .

We shouldn’t be opposed to change itself, or reviewing ways of making city business more ef-ficient. It is healthy for any organization to look at how it might improve itself. But when you start the process behind closed doors, we should question the motivation. Are they creating little committee fiefdoms to be used for bargaining purposes with one another? And what else is being hidden from public scrutiny?

Every council needs a conscience to question the activities of behind closed-doors sessions. Although Lorje is not objecting to the closed session, she is the closest thing to a conscience this council seems to have on this matter.

Councillors were elected to govern the city as a whole, not to piecemeal the job out to suit their con-venience. If the job is too much for all or any one of them, they should step aside and hand over the busi-ness of the city to those waiting in line to do the job.

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Question: How will the snow and rain early last week impact road and pothole repairs?

Mayor Atchison: It is abso-lutely devastating. What happens is you have the frost coming out of the ground and the moisture going down. And it opens the membrane of the asphalt. It freezes; then it thaws. With cars driving over it, it just pounds the heck out of the road. And you end up with these potholes again.

I am really encouraging the citizens of Saskatoon to please report a pothole on our website (www.saskatoon.ca – report a pothole). We want them all reported because little ones grow into big ones.

Question: Will pothole repairs delay other road improvements?

Mayor Atchison: We are going to invest $50 million this coming year. It’s going to be an all-season program, not just fixing potholes, but repairing and improving a lot of roads in the city. Right now we have to get the major potholes looked after. And

then, after that, when it gets warmer out, we will get into the other construction. We really need to have all the frost out of the ground.

Question: What happens to the sand that is swept off the streets? Can it be reused?

Mayor Atchison: Right now we have not been recy-cling it. It could be used for fill with our sewer and water lines, but the aggregate needs to be washed and it is quite beaten up when it is finished right now. To recycle it back onto the roads

right now would serve little value. Question: Is that a cost issue or be-

cause of the quality of the sand?Mayor Atchison: The quality of the

sand, because it becomes well rounded. What happens is when it gets windy it just blows off the street. We need to be looking at the quality of the sand we are using.

Question: Are we using a high qual-ity of sand now, or is that something you constantly review?

Mayor Atchison: I think that is some-thing that hasn’t really been reviewed extensively over the past few years. But we are certainly investigating looking at dif-ferent qualities and different types for this coming winter.

Question: Will there be a new Costco coming to Saskatoon in the near future? If so, where will it be located?

Mayor Atchison: That is private-sector investment. I would certainly hope that not only a Costco but many other companies are looking at Saskatoon as a healthy envi-ronment for them to do business.

Question: What is going to be hap-pening with McOrmond Drive and the Highway 5 intersection? Will there be an interchange? Will you be redoing the road bed between Eighth Street and McOrmond Drive and down to Highway 5?

Mayor Atchison: McOrmond between Highway 5 and Eighth Street is being reconstructed. It is not going to be the same road it was before. The location is being moved because of the new development of Dundee Developments.

The interchange is certainly on the list of interchanges to be done in Saskatoon. There are numerous ones. We need to put together a program to get a lot of these interchanges done over the next few years.

Question: Is there a list with them ranked?

Mayor Atchison: There is a list of interchanges that are required. We need not only to do the ones that are required today but we have to become far more progressive and start building interchanges before they are required for these new developments. We need to catch up with the past and get ahead for the future.

Question: Is there money allocated for interchanges?

Mayor Atchison: First we have to get the Parkway commuter bridge project completed. That is the Parkway commuter bridge and the Traffic Bridge. And then we need to move forward with some of these interchanges.

(Have a question for Mayor Atchison? Send it to editorial@saskatoonexpress.com. Please put “mayor” in the subject line. Please limit them to fewer than 50 words.)

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Dylan Nahorniak was in demand.Division 1 colleges from throughout the

United States were calling the Nahorniak home to see if Dylan was interested in their baseball programs.

Many calls went unreturned. Dylan Nahorniak, 22, was killed in a

September 2010 car accident. It had been such a good year for him.

The left-hander had pitched at a college in Palm Desert, Calif. When he returned, he joined his friends on the Saskatoon Stal-lions.

He got married that summer. He and Rochelle already had a baby girl — Brooklyn. Life was good and the future bright.

Nahorniak had battled a long bumpy road to become a college pitcher. He wasn’t always given a chance in his youth. But then the little boy that wasn’t always given the ball started to grow. He grew and grew until he was six-foot-four.

He made his way to British Columbia, Idaho and Oklahoma and then to Califor-nia to pursue baseball.

“We still have phone messages on our phone from colleges all over the States asking him to phone them,” Dylan’s mother, Colleen Hattie-Nahorniak, said last week.

“He did everything himself. He went to B.C., to Idaho. He was a walk on and made the team there. Then he went to Oklahoma and from there to Palm Desert in California.”

In 2010, at the College of the Desert in the California Community College Athletic Association, Dylan had gone 3-1, with a 3.97 ERA. And the phone kept ringing.

Nahorniak was a late developer as a pitcher.

“He got some hard knocks, but that just made him tougher skinned for later on in life,” Colleen said. “It made him more determined. It wasn’t all bad. At the time you think it’s horrible, but in the whole scheme of things it made him more determined to succeed. He did very well for himself.”

Tattooed on his muscular arms were the words “When Desire Becomes Obses-sion.” They represented his passion for the game and his motivation to succeed.

Nahorniak didn’t plan on going back to California or anywhere else in the United States for the 2010-2011 college year. He wanted to devote his time to his new fam-ily. He was also moving into the family business — Al Hattie Insurance.

“He did receive a lot of opportunities when he was (in California), but since he was coming back here to get married and he had a little one, he didn’t pursue any of those. It didn’t mean in the future he wasn’t thinking of it. The way his life was going, it didn’t fit in at the moment.”

He had stints at home with the Saska-toon Yellow Jackets, but his heart was with the Stallions.

“He could hardly wait to get back,” Colleen said. “He would get off the plane in the afternoon and he would play that night. He was so excited; these are all the guys he grew up with.”

For four years those guys he grew up with have held a memorial tournament in Dylan’s name. This year’s 10-team event will be held May 9-10 at Cairns Field.

“They’ve raised a lot of money for

Brooklyn’s trust fund, breast cancer last year and prostate cancer this year. We did a scholarship last year to a young guy from Saskatoon who is playing ball in the States.”

Colleen said it is sad that Brooklyn will never know her father and what a special person he was.

“She has things she says that are sad. She would love to see him. She doesn’t understand why she doesn’t have a dad. Nothing is going to bring Dylan back so we have to go on with what we have and try and get through each day.”

Dylan’s teammates have helped the Nahorniak family cope with their loss.

“They don’t realize it but they are prob-ably our biggest support group. I tell them every year at their windup how much I ap-preciate everything they do. It is one of the things that got us through this whole thing, to tell you the truth.

“There is no easy way to get through this. But this tournament seems to help and it’s nice to be able to raise money and do things for other people.”

She said seeing Dylan’s teammates hosting the casino night at the end of the tournament is something to behold.

“They go home after the games, shower and put on their white shirts and their bow ties, and they are the dealers. Their spirit is just amazing. It is an honour that the boys do this every year.”

Tournament play begins on the evening of May 9. Opening ceremonies will be held on May 10 at noon. There will be a number of prizes given away, a beer gar-den and a concession.

Colleen is grateful for the generous donations from businesses that make the tournament possible.

“They make the tournament so much fun and without them we probably couldn’t do it. We have door prizes and we have a casino night. There are different ways of doing the door prizes that are kind of fun.”

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A decision made by United States President Barack Obama last year has had a direct impact on a Saska-

toon business today.Draganfly Innovations has been op-

erating in Saskatoon since 1998, when it launched with a focus on designing and manufacturing remote control toys.

Zenon Dragan’s hobby was remote control aircraft, but he wanted to contribute more. He wanted to build something more useful. In 2002, Draganfly launched an in-dustrial line of Unmanned Aviation System (UAS) product and, in 2008, the Draganfly X6 drone prototype put them on the map with law enforcement agencies all over the world.

Defining the pinnacle of cultural fame, last year the legendary animated hit The Simpsons featured the Draganfly X6 in one of its famous opening sequences, depicting the Saskatoon-made drone shooting down Homer’s Spider-Pig with a laser beam.

In December 2013, the American Fed-eral Aviation Agency (FAA) announced that President Obama had selected six test sites across the United States to perform drone (or Unmanned Aviation System) research. The goal is to do further research in each of the test site’s associated com-mercial industries, while simultaneously allowing the FAA to study the idea of allowing non-military drones to share U.S. airspace with airplanes and other manned aircraft.

This decision means that Saskatoon’s Draganfly Innovations is about to get busier than it already is. Draganfly, which designs and manufactures the remote-controlled helicopter drones for law enforcement,

commercial purposes and even hobbyists, will be partnering with North Dakota State University (NSDU) to monitor agricultural issues pertaining to crop production and livestock.

Canadian regulations governing the flight of commercial drones are relatively advanced compared to the United States. However, the proposed test sites mean that the U.S. market might be opening up to Draganfly soon, with the FAA on the record stating that as many as 7,500 commercial drones could be flying across the U.S. in as few as five years.

“The biggest factor impacting the use of commercial drones in the U.S. is the fact their regulations currently do not allow for private commercial use of UAS,” said Kevin Lauscher, industrial sales manager at Draganfly Innovations. “For American farmers to use drones to benefit themselves is next to impossible right now.”

The NSDU project, which is the first of the six test sites to be operational, will be using the Draganflyer X4-ES for a variety of studies exploring how drones could be a huge help to farmers and ranchers in their everyday operations. The State of North Dakota was an early adopter of drone technology, with a long-time partnership with Saskatoon’s Draganfly Innovations, particularly in respect to regional law enforcement.

John Nowatzki, agricultural systems specialist at NSDU, told the online publica-tion AgWeek that Draganfly drones will be flying once a week during this year’s growing season, developing data processing tools to convert images to data for farmers. For crops, the drones will capture things like crop emergence, stand count, soil sur-face salinity, crop fertility weeds and dis-

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While Saskatchewan farmers are further ahead of the drone game than their neigh-bours across the border, Lauscher says the technology still has a long way to go here at home.

“It’s just starting to happen; they’re not as popular right now as they will be,” he explained. “Farmers are still using imagery from full-sized aircrafts or satellites, but unmanned aircraft systems could be much more cost effective for them. Satellite data is slower and spread out over a longer period of time, maybe only reporting back three or four times during the growing season. Unmanned aircraft systems can be used as they need them.”

Farmers — or any of the commercial operators who use drones to obtain elevated imagery, from wedding photographers to real estate agents — are required to first obtain permission from Transport Canada,

providing the agency with enough informa-tion to justify their usage.

“It’s about public safety, safety in the skies and for the people below,” said Lauscher, a retired Saskatoon police officer. “However, Canada is more progressive, ab-solutely. Unmanned aviation systems took American regulatory bodies by surprise, especially by miniaturizing everything, including the cameras, and then making the technology readily available. The radio control aspect has been around forever.

“Agriculture shows huge potential for using unmanned aviation systems, but so does industrial inspection services, site prep, reclamation projects, insurance, inspection and, of course, emergency ser-vices,” Lauscher said. “They can make all this work a lot safer for people.”

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You don’t have to be from New York or Paris to find success as an artist.

Saskatchewan sculptor, painter and educator David Thauberger is living proof of that. During a career spanning more than four decades, Thauberger — who is known for his “iconic paint-ings of vernacular architecture” — has uniquely captured rural Prairie life. A sense of place figures prominently into his artwork, which features images of grain elevators, small-town businesses and churches.

“Even when I was in art school, I was starting to look around at the world in which I lived, which is here. It’s Sas-katchewan. I was born here and raised here and lived all my life in Saskatch-ewan,” said Thauberger, who was born on June 26, 1948, in Holdfast, Sask., located about an hour’s drive from Regina, and is now based in Regina.

“I thought early on that what I wanted to do was make work that not only was made here, but that was about living here — that was from here and was about here. And that’s really what my whole 40-plus years of making art has been about,” he said.

There’s no doubt that Thauberger is one of Saskatchewan’s most significant artists. It’s fitting, then, that the first comprehensive overview of his work — entitled David Thauberger: Road Trips & Other Diversions — is currently on dis-play at Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery as part of the gallery’s spring shows.

The much-anticipated, highly pub-

licized exhibition includes significant pieces such as the painting Rainbow Danceland, featuring the Manitou Beach landmark, and the painting Long Haul, which depicts a Pool grain elevator.

For Thauberger, looking at the exhibi-tion provided an interesting trip down memory lane. He admits he would create some of his pieces differently today, as his technical skills and abilities have changed and improved over the decades.

“It’s quite an eye-opener even for me to see some works that I haven’t seen in over 30 years, actually. So it’s exciting to see it all together, and again revisit some paintings that I made a long time ago,” he said.

“I guess I find myself standing in front of them thinking about what I was think-ing, or must have been thinking, at the time, and, in some cases, standing in front of them and remaking them — thinking how I might do it today if I was painting that painting.”

The David Thauberger retrospective showcases paintings, prints and ceramic works drawn from more than 30 pub-lic and private collections from eight Canadian provinces. The pieces, which were produced from 1971 to 2009, offer art gallery visitors an opportunity to view a variety of artwork — everything from the artist’s Saskatchewan folk painting to New York pop art and Chicago Imagism.

In putting together Road Trips, co-curators Sandra Fraser, from the Mendel Art Gallery, and Timothy Long, from Regina’s MacKenzie Art Gallery, chose nearly 80 pieces from more than 1,000 possibilities.

Initially Thauberger thought there

weren’t enough included in the exhibi-tion.

“But then I saw them in the gallery and I thought, ‘Boy, I don’t think they could have shoehorned another one in there.’ So the place is full, and I guess one way of looking at it is maybe it’s crowded with work but, on the other hand, it sort of indicates, perhaps, that here’s an artist that’s been busy, actu-ally, over the last 40 years. I’ve made a lot of work, so I think that exhibition reflects that.”

Thauberger, who obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, in 1971, has visited major international art centres throughout the years. He also studied at universities in the United States, where he received his Master of Art and Master of Fine Arts degrees. Still, he has continually recognized and honoured his Western Canadian roots.

“Art must be based on where you are. You cannot pretend like you are from New York,” he told The Globe and Mail newspaper in 1983.

Thauberger, who recently described himself as “an advocate of the local” in the publication Canadian Art, has been the recipient of a variety of prestigious provincial honours for his work. In 2009, for example, he received the Lieutenant Governor’s Saskatchewan Artist Award. In 2012, he was appointed to the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and given a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Thauberger has also received national acclaim. For instance, was commissioned to create Canada Post stamp designs as well as artwork for the Saskatchewan Pavilion at Expo ’86. He served on the board of the Canada Council for the Arts and, in 2008, was named to the Order of Canada. His work can be found in collections throughout North America.

David Thauberger: Road Trips & Other Diversions will be on display at the Mendel Art Gallery until June 15, 2014. The exhibition will also be on dis-play at Regina’s MacKenzie Art Gallery from May 2, 2015 to Aug. 23, 2015.

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inspiration?Here are some opportunities:On Tuesday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m., a

free public screening of the film The Ver-nacular Man will be held at the Broad-way Theatre. According to the Mendel Art Gallery, the film “presents a rare, candid portrait of David Thauberger at work in his studio. The film also travels across Saskatchewan with the artist as he revisits the fading rural architecture that inspired some of his most iconic images.” A question-and-answer session with the artist and the director will take place fol-lowing the screening. The documentary can also be watched on the lower level of the Mendel Art Gallery, in a viewing area beneath the stairs.

The Mendel Art Gallery is piloting an App for the Road Trips exhibition using Apple’s iBeacon technology. As viewers navigate the exhibition space, they can learn more about Thauberger’s work, vote for their favourite pieces and offer their comments.

The exhibition also has an online component, which can be viewed at www.thauberger-roadtrips.ca.

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Archie Andrews is dying. While he is turning

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In a recent announcement, Archie Comics publisher Jon Goldwater, son of Archie co-creator John Goldwater, said Archie will die in issue No. 36 of Life with Archie, just one of the many lines of the franchise. The issue will be released in July.

“We’ve been building up to this moment since we launched Life with Archie five years ago. We knew that any book that was telling the story of Ar-chie’s life as an adult had to also show his final moment,” said Goldwater, who told the New York Post that Archie dies saving a friend. While the details will likely remain under wraps until the is-sue is unveiled, the cover’s chaotic art-work is reminiscent of a school shooting or other public act of terror.

Subsequent issues will examine the lives of Betty, Veronica, Jughead and the rest of the gang as they adjust to a life without Archie. This is something I would prefer to never, ever have to do, so when I saw this story all I could think was “Really? We really could not leave just this one thing alone?”

“Life with Archie shows what hap-pens when Archie becomes an adult and starts dealing with grown-up issues,” said Goldwater, who went to surmise that death is pretty much the most inevi-table grown-up issue there is.

Thank you Jon Goldwater for that reminder, because there really is not enough of that in this world already. If I want life lessons I reach for a Double Digest.

Seriously folks, Archie Andrews is awesome because he doesn’t change. He’s always there, peering out from be-tween Betty and Veronica on the maga-zine stand in the grocery store lineup. While the series has subtly adapted story lines to reflect pop culture trends (think Jughead snoozing in an American Idol T-shirt, or the recent insertion of interracial and same-sex relationships), the comic never totally veered away from the same, simple plot line — the

relentless pursuit of happily ever after.

For a character and basic story line created pre-Sec-ond World War, Archie has managed to transcend the impropriety and the lack of political correctness that often accompanied works of fiction and entertainment developed in that era. Now, not all has remained the same. Publishers have evolved the characters somewhat. In 2010 Archie married wealthy brunette

Veronica, outraging Team Betty fans. Thankfully Archie is not actually real, so publishers also married him to Betty as well in a parallel universe. True love knows not the limits of space, time or monogamy.

As a bit of a sidebar, this reminds me of the made-for-TV movie Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again. It aired in 1990, and featured the adult versions of the characters returning for their high school reunion. I remember first hearing about the movie on CKOM — Brent Loucks was less than impressed with the notion of an adult Archie and the gang. He was right. The movie was stupid.

Even if the wholesome world Ar-chie was created in no longer exists, the character himself has remained unchanged. We all have to grow up sometime, so would it really have been so terrible to allow us to continue living vicariously through Archie’s youth?

Unfortunately, Archie’s tragic de-mise might be just as reflective of the internal strife at Archie Comics as it is of the 24-hour news cycle. Lawsuits have been flying between Archie Com-ics’ real-life employees and manage-ment, with reports of a deep divide be-tween those who inherited the company from Riverdale’s original founders and creators.

I like to end my columns on a note that I hope at least a few of you think is smart. In this instance, I can’t say it any smarter than Alyssa Rosenberg, columnist with the Washington Post: “We all know that Archie Andrews’s preternaturally extended teenage years are a fantasy,” wrote Rosenberg. “But making the comics, however tempo-rarily, about death rather than life, turns away from the franchise’s core purpose. Superhero and crime comics teach us about all the ways we can die. Archie Andrews, in all his bumbling, indecisive, lovelorn foolishness, has always been a character who taught us how we want to live.”

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A unique local res-taurant is bringing new meaning to the

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“It’s more of a healthy living type of focus,” said chef Justin O’Reilly, who co-owns the new restaurant with general manager Tania Friesen.

“A vegetarian diet is usually the healthiest way to live,” he added.

Diners can find vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and raw items on the Nosh menu, which includes ingredients such as jicama (a turnip-like root vegetable), hemp hearts (shelled hemp seeds), ceci (chick-peas), halloumi (a brined white cheese), quinoa, fennel, zucchini, carrots, beets and squash. Entrees include the mushroom steak, which features grilled Portobello mush-rooms served with Brussels sprouts and baby potatoes and finished with a rosemary red wine sauce, as well as a “mock” quinoa and spinach risotto, a halloumi dish and zucchini tagliatelle. Nosh also wants to build up its cocktail crowd, and it is serv-ing up beverages made with fresh juice.

“There’s enough to appeal to ev-eryone,” O’Reilly said of the menu options.

For customers who eat fish and red meat, local walleye and trout

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O’Reilly, who previ-ously worked for five years as the head chef at

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“Wives bring their husbands and husbands bring their wives that are meat eaters, that kind of thing,” he said.

While O’Reilly isn’t a vegetar-ian, he has always focused on eating a lot of veggies and he designed his menu around the food that he en-joys. As well, he has access to a one-person focus group in his vegetarian girlfriend, Hillary, who provides him with feedback on his dishes.

“It’s just good food. It’s good fla-vours. You’re left with that feeling that, ‘Oh, I didn’t eat meat. But I’m full and I feel nourished and I feel kind of revitalized, and I feel ready to go take on the day,’ ” he said.

Nosh opened on March 10 in the space formerly occupied by an-other restaurant, Weczeria Food & Wine. When that restaurant closed, Nosh moved into the building but changed the existing décor. O’Reilly described his eatery’s updated look as “warm, homey and very welcom-ing.”

“The front, we kind of rebranded it ourselves. We did all the construc-

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O’Reilly said the time was right to offer vegetarian and healthy liv-ing options in the city.

“Saskatoon’s ready for it. Sas-katoon needs it, so that’s the way it needs to go. Everyone’s focusing on a healthy lifestyle nowadays, and I think it needs to be done.”

O’Reilly plans to buy produce from local farmers and to change his menu about two to three times per year, he said.

“You’ve got to keep it fresh for everyone. People can come back 14, 15 times and they may or may not have tried everything on the menu. I only have about 25 menu items on there.”

People have been responding positively to Nosh, he added.

“The Broadway community has been excellent to us. They wel-comed us with open arms. It’s been top-notch. We’ve been having a lot of repeat clientele so far.”

Nosh Eatery & Tap is located at 820 Broadway Ave. It is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, and from noon to 10 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call at 306-933-3355 or go online to www.nosheateryandtap.com.

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PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK — I took another swig of water and set off once again on the trail behind the park ranger. The magnificent tow-ering peaks edging the skyline helped me forget my wobbly legs.

My aging body was paying for the emotional high here, but it was worth it. In the shadow of lofty peaks and crags, geological formations formed over millions of years, we were also trudging along the dusty trail of America’s newest national park. It was just last year that President Obama signed legislation to upgrade Pinnacles’ national monument status, making it the 59th national park in the United States.

If you’re keeping tabs on your national park bucket list, you might want to add this California destination to the score. Pinnacles National Park is rugged and beautiful.

The 26,000-acre park is in the Gabilan Moun-tain range, a 90-minute drive south from San Jose. Divided into east and west sides, the park offers visitors 13 hiking trails. The majority of them are in the east side, which is also home to the park’s visitor centre. Popular with both hikers and rock climbers, the refuge provides an escape hatch from the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas.

The park gets its name from rock spires and crags that are remnants of an ancient volcanic field. Eroded as sections of the field moved north-ward along the San Andreas Fault, the landscape has evolved into its unique form. The park’s popu-lation of flora and fauna, and the experience of raw nature, offers visitors a destination for solitude and outdoor challenges.

You’re walking with ghosts here. These time-less silent rock sentinels also gazed down on the First Nations people who long ago patrolled these

chaparral covered hillsides, where wild-life, grasses, seeds and nuts provided medicines, food and shelter.

That past has come a satisfying full circle. Today the descendants of the Chalon and Mutsun tribes are recon-necting with their past in their traditional territories, reviving cultural traditions and working with Pinnacles National Park to develop mutually beneficial partnerships.

As I walked, I occasionally looked up past the soaring peaks and towards the skies, hoping to spot a California condor

catching a thermal updraft. Since 2003, Pinnacles has been part of the California Condor Recovery Program and it manages about 30 of the birds, which are tagged but fly freely. Pinnacles also boasts a broad inventory of other birds of prey: falcons, kestrels, eagles, hawks and kites.

Pinnacles has its own cave system, though these are a very different type of cave in both structure and formation. The talus caves were formed at the bottom of narrow canyons that filled with boulders that had toppled from the cliffs above.

If you feel a gentle buzzing in your ears as you gain elevation along the hiking trail, fear not. It’s probably not heat exhaustion or the relentless Californian sun that’s the culprit. The park has the greatest number of bee species per unit area of any place ever studied. The roughly 400 bee species are mostly solitary, preferring their own company to a communal lifestyle in hives. The park is also home to 14 of the 24 bat species of California.

FYI - The cooler months are favourites with hikers. Pinnacles is at its best in spring, when the landscape is green and a variety of wildflowers can be seen along all the trails. Fall and winter are also excellent times to visit. For more information, visit www.nps.gov/pinn/.

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MUSIC MAY 8What: Everything Fitz is a family act from the Ottawa Valley, with members of the Fitzgerald family playing jigs, reels, blue-grass, swing standards, Celtic and gospel, while executing choreographed dance steps. Show time is 8 p.m. Where; The Bassment, 202 4th Avenue North. Tickets: $20 for SJS members, $25 for non-members.

MAY 9What: Saskatoon is a hotbed of emerging songwriters and seven of them, Heather Aitken, Berkeley Burko, Ellen Kolenick, Tyler MacKenzie, Fabian Minnema, Mandy Ringdal and Craig Wilson will share their musical works in a concert at 9 p.m. Where: The Bassment, 202 4th Avenue North. Tickets: $15 for SJS members, $20 for non-members.

MAY 10What: Robyn Knight is the featured vocalist, Louis Christ is the leader of The Stone Frigate Big Band which romps through the familiar songbooks of Miller, Basie, Ellington and Goodman in a concert at 8 p.m. Where: The Bassment, 202 4th Avenue North. Tickets; $15 for SJS members, $20 for non-members.

EVENTSMAY 8SNTC Art Auction Fundraiser, 6 p.m. at Prairieland (Terrace Room). New original pieces up for bid. As well there is a silent auction, food and beverages. Tickets are $50 and available at the Remai Arts Centre Box Office (100 Spadina Crescent East) or phone 306-384-7727 or book online at www.persephonetheatre.org.

MAY 9Yoga Night- Free The Children Fundraiser. Yoga for all ages and all levels. No experi-ence necessary. 7 p.m. at Silverspring School (610 Konihowski Road) Adults $10, Kids under 12 $5. For more information call Shelley at 306-241-6484.

MAY 9-10Women’s Benefit Fundraising Event of Saskatchewan based charity, Justice Ris-ing, Living in war zones, opposing sexual slavery and rescuing children at risk. May 9: 6-9p.m. $10 dessert & beverage and shopping for gently used women’s clothing. May 10: 9-2 p.m. Free Admission to shop the bargains. Rock of Ages Church (130 Kingsmere Place). Donations of new or gently used women’s clothing, shoes, hats, purses, accessories greatly appreciated. To purchase tickets or donate clothing call: Wendy 306-975-3745, Liz 306-384-1408 or Theresa 306-220-0802. Donations will be picked up.

MAY 10The Big Shred. 9 a.m. to noon at McClure United Church (McKercher Avenue and Taylor Street, parking lot). Suggested items to shred in the Shred-it company truck are: old bank statements, tax returns from 2006 and earlier, and utility statements. Shredding is by donation, although $10 a box is suggested and $5 per grocery bag. Proceeds to clear the mortgage at Amy McClure House. For more information visit www.shredit.com.

MAY 9-11White Eagle Artists Association’s art show and sale. The opening reception is from 7p.m. to 9 p.m. on May 9, and the show runs 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on May 10-11. The show is located in the Auditorium of Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish at 301 Avenue Y South. It is open to the public and admis-sion is free of charge.

MAY 10Gallery Group Volunteer’s annual spring Plant sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Mother’s Day Tea from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mendel Art Gallery.***** Serendipity Quilt Show and Tea will take place at All Saints Anglican Church (1080 Lorne Avenue) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ad-mission $4. Come and enjoy these beautiful quilts some of which will be on sale. ***** Country Farms Marketplace, Indoor Com-munity Carnival. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Confederation Mall. Carnival games, bounce castle and other inflatables, petting zoo, a

concession, balloon twister and many mar-ketplace vendors throughout the mall.

MAY 13St. Andrew’s College Annual Gala Banquet at the Western Development Museum. The banquet will be followed with a perfor-mance of RiderGirl. Tickets are $100 (with a portion in tax-credit receipt) and are available by calling Melanie at the college at 306-966-8970. Deadline for tickets is May 1.

MAY 17Saskatoon Lions Band. 60 year reunion at City Park Collegiate. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. $10 person. Children are free. All alumni, fami-lies, past instructors and public welcome (informal).

MAY 23Need to upgrade your driving skills? A “55 Alive Mature Drivers’ Course” is being of-fered at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 436 Spadina Cres East (corner of Spadina Ave. & 20th Street). This free six-hour pre-sentation will take place from 1 p.m. 4:30 p.m. on May 23 and May 30. Please register by May 20 by calling 306-242-0525. Coffee will be available.

MAY 24Grassland Quilters’ Show & Tea at Ebenezer Baptist Church (107 McWillie Avenue) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Admission $4.  Honour-ing Isabelle McDonald, a Saskatoon Quilting Teacher since 1983.  Pillowcase dresses on display will be donated to orphanages in Third World countries.

MAY 24-25The annual Blackstrap Art Studio Tour. May 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and May 25 from 12 p.m.to 5 p.m. At numerous locations along the way you will discover glass blowers, metal sculptors, writers, painters, wildlife artists, potters, photographers and much more. For further information contact Joan at 306-492-4665. Or go to www.wilsonmuseum.com.

JUNE 7Saskatchewan Walk to Cure in support of the Huntington Society of Canada (HSC). Proceeds from this event help fund pro-grams in family services and research for people affected by Huntington disease (HD). Meewasin Trail, behind Diefenbaker Centre on the University of Saskatchewan campus. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.followed by the walk, a complimentary lunch, and time for socializing.  Walkers of all abilities are welcome and the event is wheelchair accessible.  Please visit http://huntington-society.kintera.org/SaskatoonWalk for more information.

MISCELLANEOUSEvERY MONDAYThere’s Hope Beyond Depression Program. Free introductory sessions Feb. 3 or Feb. 10 from 7 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Where: 327 Pinehouse Drive (wheelchair accessible). For more info call Pekka at 306-717-1665 or email saskatoonrecovery@gmail.com.

FIRST SATURDAY OF EvERY MONTH What: The MindFULL Café, part of the international Alzheimer Café movement, is an opportunity to meet in a relaxed social setting for persons with dementia, family, care partners and other interested people. The Café is a two-hour get together with refreshments, entertainment and information. First Saturday of the month

from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Sherbrooke Community Centre.

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A variety of Saskatchewan foods ranging from grass-fed beef, Katadin lamb, free-range eggs, and several varieties of frozen fish. Fresh baking, German pastry, and fresh and frozen Indian food including samosas are other features. Guest vendors may call 306-664-2940 for details.

THIRD TUESDAY OF THE MONTHWhat: Monthly Drop-In Caregiver Support Group. Who:  Caregivers for adult family members or friends. Cost:  Free (presented by Saskatoon Health Region). To Register: Jeanne (306-655-3426) or Karen (306-655-3427).

THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTHThe Saskatoon Prostate Cancer Support Group is a local community group of men who have or who have had prostate cancer, and their spouses/partners/caregivers. We meet monthly for sharing, for support, and for information. Location: W.A. Edwards Centre, 333 – 4th Avenue North.

EvERY SECOND WEDNESDAY  What: Friendship Force International, Sas-katoon and Area Club. We are an organiza-tion of more than 360 clubs in more than 50 countries throughout the world. FFI allows you to enjoy economical travel while forging new friendships with club members from around the world. Visit our website at www.thefriendshipforce.org Find out more about us or come join us at our next meeting by contacting Bill Gulka at 306-249-0243 or by email w.gulka@sasktel.net.

FIRST AND THIRD SATURDAYS OF MONTHLions Clubs Texas Holdem Tournaments: $60 buy in, $40 to the prize pool. 7 p.m. start time. Must be 19. The Coachman Bar Mar-ket Mall. Call 306-668-0015 for more info.

EvERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAYBridge City Senioraction Inc: Classes every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.  Registration is $20, drop-in fee is $2. For information, call Sheila at 306-931-8053 or Kathy at 306-244-0587.

EvERY TUESDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAYOvereaters Anonymous: Is food a prob-lem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you binge, purge or restrict? Is your weight affecting your life? We are a non-profit 12-step group that meets on Tuesdays at noon and 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. For more information including locations visit www.oa.org.

EvERY SATURDAYCountry Farms Marketplace, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Confederation Mall.

FIRST FRIDAY OF EvERY MONTHThe Classic Dance Club of Saskatoon hosts ballroom dancing at the Royal Canadian Le-gion, 606 Spadina Cres. West. Lesson: 7:45 to 8:30 p.m. Dancing from 8:30 to midnight. Admission:  Members $12, non-members $17. Student members: $10, and student non-members $12. Memberships:  Students $10, Non-students $25. For more informa-tion visit www.classicdanceclub.org

NEWCOMERS’ CLUBThe Saskatoon Newcomers’ Club welcomes new female residents in the Saskatoon area, as well as those who have recently undergone a significant change in lifestyle (such as relationship status, retirement, or becoming a new parent).  A new resident is defined as one who has not resided in Saskatoon and/or surround-ing area for more than three years. The club holds monthly dinner outings, coffee gatherings, book club and other planned activities.  If interested, please reply by email Saskatoonnewcomersclub@gmail.com or call 306-668-8131. 

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