Dear Debbie; Have you any tips for adding a bit of the glorious fall to our home without going over the top. It’s a short season, but we love the colours. Thanks for your inspiration. Daniel Dear Daniel; Each season of the year introduces us to a different mood. Nature’s abundant array of crops and colour transformations lead the way...
SCOA programs in huge demand
When June Gawdun started with the Saskatoon Council on Aging (SCOA) in 1994, she liked her title. “There was myself and a part-time staff and I was called the office manager, but I didn’t really have anybody to manage,” she said with a laugh from her office at the Saskatoon Field House. Gawdun became the executive director of the council...
I am collecting Sexagenarian Security
Those of us 65 and over should start a petition. I recently joined the club and will start having Old Age Security money deposited into my bank account this month. I take some offence to the words Old Age. I can live with the security part and hope to have it for the rest of my days. I hope you...
We’re glad you’re here today!
When your alarm goes off on September 3, there are basically two scenarios for parents. Some of you may have children that won’t sleep the night before because they are so excited to sling that backpack over their shoulders and stride through the doors of their classroom. The rest of us have to shake the bed of our children to...
Youth get their kicks at summer soccer camps
A free program throughout the city will give youth the chance to develop a love for soccer. The O’Reilly Insurance Ltd & The Cooperators Soccer Kids In the Park has entered its 12th summer in Saskatoon. The program, put on by Saskatoon Youth Soccer, travels to 47 city playground sites, offering children drop-in soccer lessons and an opportunity to hone...
There is a difference between a business and a service
Having just entered my 40s, my perspective on social issues has undertaken a wild and sometimes tumultuous ride to a place far, far away from where it used to be. The saying goes that if you’re not a liberal in your 20s you don’t have a heart, but if you’re not a conservative in your 40s you don’t have a...
Music for the Gut features more than 70 performers
A popular homegrown variety show that raises money for Crohn’s and Colitis Canada is back again this month — and it will feature more performers than ever before. Now in its ninth year, the Hughton family’s annual fundraiser is set to take place on Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. at TCU Place. It will be the second Music for the...
After 112 years, Early’s not showing its age
Spencer Early represents the third generation of a storied family which has been serving Saskatchewan with a wide variety of services, from seed, feed and fertilizer to golf course, home, garden and pet needs since 1907. Early’s grandfather, S.A. Early, started a hay, grain and feed store on 20th Street East, moving it to Wall Street in 1910. He made...
Thoughts: Collaros deserved kinder sendof
• I watched a Second World War movie called The 12th Man recently. It started off in the UK and then moved to Norway. Once the setting changed, the story was told in Norwegian and German. I watched for about 15 minutes, thinking it would revert to English at some point. Then it struck me that I would have to...
Wonderhub gets top marks from Shannon’s family
Nutrien Wonderhub is, in a word, wonderful. Saskatchewan’s first and only children’s museum opened on June 28 in Saskatoon, and to say it’s been a hit among kids and adults alike is an understatement. Located in Saskatoon’s iconic Mendel building on Spadina Crescent East, across the street from Nutrien Playland at Kinsmen Park, the completely renovated and re-imagined space features...