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THE GIFT OF FAMILYFOSTER PARENTS LIKE THE AUDETTESHAVE A HOUSE FULL OF BLESSINGS P. 7

MUSIC:francophone singer alexis normand’s mesmerizing vocals P. 22

CITY NEWS:local designer’s iphone app gets kids moving P. 25

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Sta� at The Sheaf (the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper) got in the Christmas spirit early this year, hosting a photo booth with Santa in the arts tunnel on campus before � nals started.

This year production manager Jared Beattie was assigned the role of Santa.

“I was clearly the most quali� ed candidate. Beard and all,” he said.

Playing Santa is a bit easier when you’re dealing with adults instead of crying children.

“You can de� nitely take more liber-ties as far as goo� ng around, that’s for sure,” he said.

So what should you do if called upon to embody Jolly Old St. Nick at your family, o� ce or holiday party?

“Put a smile on. That’s all you need,” he said.

HAT: “This whole suit ... We borrowed it from an elementary school. I’m not sure which one.”

GLASSES: His own. “I’m pretty sure I got these at the place on Broadway. It’s just called Broad-way Optical or something like that. I actually love that place.”

GREY BEARD: “It’s basically face paint and you just brush it in.”

GLOVES: “My favourite part.”

SUIT: “I folded up a hoodie and a blanket in the old paunch here. And I was jolly.”

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Jared Beattie plays Santa for a day at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. QC PHOTO BY MICHELLE BERG

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FASHION — 2Playing Santa easy for university student

INVENTORY — 4After 25 years in business, the Streckers know gifts

PARENT TO PARENT — 6When did your kids stop taking afternoon naps?

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WHAT MOVES YOU — 11Restored ‘57 Beetle holds special place in Breitenbach family’s heart

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READ MY BOOK — 15Author’s sleep talking wife inspires new novel

IN THE CITY — 18Photographer Michael Bell’s snapshot of the week

ON THE SCENE — 20A Victorian Christmas at Government House

EVENTS — 21

MUSIC — 22

SPACES — 23Christmas tradition important in this household

CITY NEWS — 25

OUTSIDE THE LINES — 26Artist Stephanie McKay’s newest creation for kids of all ages

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Benjamin, from left, Lukas, and Taleah Audette play with a train in the playroom at the Audette home in Lebret. The family are proponents of Saskatchewan’s foster program. qc phoTo by michael bell

Todd Jones displays his fat bike which he uses for winter biking at the Wascana Trails north of Regina. qc phoTo by michael bell

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“One is never too old to nap.” — Rae Arnold

“My 4.5 year old still naps almost every day for about 1.5 to 2.5 hours after lunch, and I absolutely let her. She’s always been a kid that needs a lot of sleep, even with a 7:45 p.m. bedtime.” — Erica Piché Smith

“My 5-year-old still naps the days he’s not in kinder-garten. He doesn’t fall asleep right away but does end up taking a one to 1.5 hour nap.” — E.Carolina Galan-Everett

“All people benefit from a nap. Our bodies are hard-wired to snooze. Hence the afternoon crash almost all of us experience. While my daughter doesn’t nap often, I do the doze!” — Justin Mcleod

“I agree with Justin. My 7-year-old still naps once in awhile. But always on his own terms and because he wants to. Although, I did stop making him nap by the time he was five to prepare him for the 9 to 3 school days. I didn’t want him sawwing logs during class.” — Chelsea Dawn Letkeman

“There is no magic age ... every child is different . My son needed more sleep and slept every day until kindergarten. He is in Grade 1 and still has the occas-sional nap depending on the day. My daughter is four and we don’t nap her regularly at all. If we do, she’s up until 10:30 p.m.!” — Shelley Stahl Heuchert

“My 3-year-old rarely naps as much as I’d love her to it’s not worth the fight.” — Ashley Pratt

“We decided to stop enforcing it around the age of three because we found that if the boys had an afternoon sleep, they wouldn’t go to bed in the evening and would be awake until close to midnight so now we just send them to bed about 7 p.m. and they sleep straight through the night.” — Shelly Lambert

“When they started school, so about three.” — Dee B.

“My five year old stopped taking naps before turning three on his own. And my one year old only has a short one in the afternoon, so she’ll probably do the same as her brother. However if they laid down, I have no problem with that as I’d prefer them nap then be grouchy bears! A nap does everyone good, at any age.” — Alysia Czmuchalek

“I am a firm believer in naps. My child napped until

she was four years old and could still use a nap at age 7 and this was at her own discretion!” — Angela O.

“When the child no longer sleeps, but stays in the room talking and playing. Quiet time is a must though. It doesn’t necessarily have to be in their room, but the activity must be quiet so that I can rest!” — Carla Contreras

“My boys are 3.5 years old and I’m starting to find if they have an afternoon nap everyday it really throws off bedtime. I think we stopped making a nap a necessity this past summer. During the week when they’re at the sitter’s they have a nap but no longer than an hour. On the weekend I don’t force naps unless I find their world ‘has stopped working,’ but otherwise we let them stay up all day so that bedtime actually occurs at a decent hour.” — Michelle Grodecki

“Every kid is very different but I would say that by age 4 it is time to phase out naps. My daugh-ter is almost 4 and still takes a half hour nap at daycare however she does not nap at home on the weekends. She is so busy at daycare that she really needs the short nap. It’s a pretty fine line, if she sleeps any longer then that, I can’t get her to bed at night, but if she misses the nap she can get pretty miserable.” — Nikki Melnyk

“My first daughter stopped napping when she was 2. My second daughter would still nap every afternoon if she had the chance…and she’s now 6!” — Terri Leniuk

“What age to stop insisting on naps is a dilemma that I currently face along with many others I’m certain. My oldest is 4 and if you ask him he would protest that he does not need a nap ever! But I find I need to gauge it daily depending on how well he slept the night before & what level of activity he’s had that morning. With 2 other small children (a toddler and a baby) I’m torn even further as the girls nap time is an opportunity for some daily one on one time with my son. So unless a nap is abso-lutely necessary I generally implement a quiet time where we rest with a favorite movie or engage in a relaxing activity like crafts, quiet play or even bak-ing. I think the key for all children & especially for my oldest is ensuring they get adequate nighttime rest.” — Twyla A.

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By Ashley Martin

When I arrive at the Audette fam-ily’s new home in Lebret, about 80 kilometres northeast of Regina, their 10-year-old son Lukas answers the door. He guides me straight down the long, wide hallway to meet his mother Janice. Older sister Michaelya, age 16, is standing in the hall with a small boy who gives me a friendly hello. Shy six-year-old Taleah is feeding a baby in a high chair near the kitchen doorway.

The Audettes moved here in No-vember. They would have preferred to stay in Regina, but this was the only home they could find that was affordable and spacious enough for the family. A former home for retired nuns, the house is laid out like a care home or dormitory — long hallways, small bedrooms each with their own sink. It doesn’t feel very homey yet but the family plans on renovating after everyone gets a feel for the place. Most importantly, though, it’s big enough for their family. Charles

and Janice Audette have six biologi-cal children and two adopted chil-dren. They also foster as many as three children at any given time.

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It’s hard to imagine there was ever a time when this couple didn’t want children, but Janice insists that was the case. “I was Miss Career Woman. Thought, ‘Maybe one or two. No promises, Charles.’ ”

But the moment they held their

eldest son Josiah 19 years ago, that plan went out the window.

“It was like, ‘Wow, this is the best blessing we could ever get; how many more times can we do this tre-mendous thing?’ ” said Janice.

They had problems conceiving their youngest biological child but still wanted more children. They looked into adopting, but costs were prohibitive. That led to another blessing — the Audettes found out about fostering.

They didn’t immediately sign up

to be foster parents. Janice was en-thusiastic but Charles was hesitant. He’d heard horror stories about the Ministry of Social Services invading a family’s privacy and social work-ers barging in at all hours — which would have been especially incon-venient since Janice home-schools their children.

But Charles had a change of heart one day, while he was preaching from the Book of James at their church, Grace Haven Reform Brethren.

Benjamin, from left, Charles, Michaelya, Micaiah, Lukas, Noah, Taleah, Elijah and Janice Audette pose in their home in Lebret. QC Photo by MiChael bell

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on the cover ’It was like, ‘Wow, this is the best blessing we could ever get; how many more times can we

do this tremendous thing?’ — Janice Audette

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I tell people that the only way the foster care system is going to change is if we change the stereotype of who a foster parent is. — Janice’

“I’m saying no we shouldn’t fos-ter, but I’m reading this verse in the Bible that we should care for orphans and widows and their afflictions. I thought, ‘Well if I’m going to preach on this verse ... then I’d better put shoe leather to what I’m going to say.’ That was basically the trigger that con-vinced me to foster,” said Charles.

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Stories of abusive and neglectful foster homes are not unusual but you rarely hear about normal, well-adjust-ed people who foster children in need. Even Charles admits, “I have a stereo-type of what foster families are and it’s not a pleasant picture in my mind.”

“I think lots of people shy away from being a foster parent because they don’t want to be labelled a stereo-type, that you do it for money (which works out to roughly 88 cents an hour per child under age five) or that you’re lazy and want to stay in your pyjamas

all day and watch TV,” said Janice. “I tell people that the only way the foster care system is going to change is if we change the stereotype of who a foster parent is.”

Before fostering, prospective par-ents have to undertake 30 hours of PRIDE (Parent Resources for Infor-mation, Development and Education) training. At first, both Janice and Charles saw this as a hoop to jump through. He didn’t want someone tell-ing him how to be a good parent. “And not arrogantly speaking, but we are good parents,” said Charles. But an hour into the training, their mindset shifted.

“Every parent should go through this,” said Janice. In PRIDE training they learned how to help children with developmental and attachment issues and about the circumstances of birth parents, something neither of them had previously considered.

“Our radar wasn’t even open to what was happening with birth par-

ents,” said Janice.“I began to understand how much

dignity is lost through a host of life circumstances (that) can rob you of your ability to cope and your ability to parent,” added Charles.

Eight months after signing up, they took in their first foster children. In the three years since, they’ve cared for more than two dozen children — all under the age of five — for varying lengths of time. There is no average, said Janice: Children have stayed with them for as little as 24 hours to as long as three years.

But for every one of those kids, it’s been about giving them a safe and lov-ing home until the children are, ide-ally, reunited with their family.

“The goal of foster care is to get these parents to a healthy place where their children can be reunified with them,” said Janice.

Last Christmas, they welcomed two siblings into their home. Those children stayed for 10 months and

their baby sister, who was born in the spring, also went to live with the Audettes. When the children were re-unified with their mother, it was a dif-ficult yet happy time.

“Being able to see some things that you’re building into (a child’s) life and they’re taking hold, but then having (them) go home was very hard, and yet at the same time I’m so excited for mom. ‘You are back with your chil-dren. ... You’re now in a safe place,’” said Charles.

Another time, two children were ad-opted from their home by a Saskatoon couple.

“You name the abuse, that home had experienced it. And so we just spent 2 1/2 years whispering into their lives that they were loved and valued, and nurturing them as much as we could, pouring our lives into them. Then we just got to see the fruit of them just be-coming beautiful, stable, well-adjusted little people,” said Janice, her voice cracking. “This adoptive couple fell

in love with them and their family is fantastic now. It couldn’t be any more textbook perfect than what we’ve been allowed to experience and it was so very great.”

Michaelya Audette feeds her foster sibling in the dining room of the Audette home. qc phoTo by michael bell

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Equally great was when Charles and Janice adopted two children themselves.

Six-year-old Taleah came to live with them in January 2010 when she was almost four years old. Her moth-er was pregnant and that baby, Ben, joined his sister as soon as he left the hospital. After about a year, the children became permanent wards of the province.

When they became available to adopt, “We jumped at it,” said Jan-ice. “We wanted to give them the op-portunity to have a forever family and we had fallen deeply in love with them. You can’t have a little person live in your house for that long and not become (attached); your lives are entwined at that point.”

The Audettes officially adopted the kids on Oct. 25 of this year. Since then, day-to-day life hasn’t changed, but Taleah understands the bigger picture. “If she sees other kids in our home come and go … (she has) security that she’s never going to leave. She gets that concept,” said Janice.

The rest of the family was also re-lieved at the adoption. “The ministry is very clear ... that you are never guaranteed that child until you get that final paper in the mail because they’re always looking for (biologi-cal) family,” explained Janice. “So for us there was this great sense of relief, ‘OK, she can never be taken and now we can truly plan life with her.’”

The family hopes the children will one day be able to have a relation-ship with their birth mother.

“Our ideal concept of adoption is that it would be completely open and that birth parents would still be very involved in their lives,” said Janice, but “it’s damaging for the kids to see her right now; she’s not in any way appropriate or healthy for them.”

But that relationship is important to the Audettes, who want their ad-opted children to understand their background and heritage. “They’re going to have a strong sense of who they are and what their past has been. That’s my goal. I need to build connections from their past to their present to their future,” said Jan-ice.

The family has hopes of adopt-ing another of their foster children, who is expected to go up for adoption in the next couple of months. He’s three years old and has been with them since he was five days old.

“We very much want to adopt this little boy and I can’t even imagine if he was taken from us. Our world would crumble. We’ve had three full years with him and he knows no oth-er world than us,” said Janice.

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Janice is a stay-at-home mom, so Charles is the family’s breadwinner. He recently started a construction company, but before that had worked in church ministry throughout his career. “It’s never paid a real-world

salary,” said Charles. “With no re-grets, none whatsoever. We’ve always had our needs met entirely and a lot of delightful wants met too.”

For Charles, it’s a matter of adjust-ing priorities: “Do we have to go to Disneyland, or can we just enjoy go-ing out and hanging out at Wascana Park? Can that be as exciting and de-lightful as a big expensive holiday? I think it can be.”

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Those concerns Charles had prior to fostering, about a negative experi-ence with social services, turned out to be unfounded.

“They will bend over backwards to help make your family successful.

They are great to work with,” said Janice.

Foster families set their own boundaries — you only get those middle-of-the-night crisis calls if you sign up for it. The Audettes are called during regular business hours. Their home is allotted for four children under the age of five, as that’s the age group they prefer. And you are never obligated to take a child, though Janice always feels guilty saying no.

The only problem Charles has in terms of fostering is he’d like to maintain a closer relationship with the birth families of children they’ve fostered. For example, the children who spent 10 months with them, “Is there a way for us to be there

for (her) when she just feels like, ‘I can’t handle these kids anymore, I need a weekend,’ because she’s a single mom,” he said. “Can we be an uncle, an auntie, to those kids? And I would love to think also, a connec-tion for her, a safe connection for her where, ‘You can call us, it’s not going to cost you three months of losing your kids, you can have a weekend or whatever.’”

“We have great hopes of being very involved with them, just as a sup-port,” added Janice. “Cheerleaders on the side who will love these kids and be of assistance to this young mom when she needs it because her own world does not offer her a lot of built-in supports.”

You can’t have a little person live in your house for that long and not become (attached); your lives are entwined at that point. — Janice’

Foster family factsAs of Sept. 30, 2012, there were 2,919 wards in the care of Social Services. Of those, 827 were under age five, 759 were aged six to 11, 1,077 were aged 12-17 and 256 were age 18 or older; 1,700 of those wards were Status Indian.

The number of children in foster care has decreased by 19 per cent since March 2009, from 3,593.

As of Sept. 30, 2012, there were 622 foster homes in the province.The number of homes with more than four placements has decreased by 48

per cent, from 133 in March 2009 to 69 in September 2012.Foster parents are compensated anywhere from $641 to $979 per month

per child, depending on the child’s age and their location in the province. This money is meant to cover the child’s basic care, including food, clothing, recre-ation and education.

To become a foster parent, you must complete 30 hours of PRIDE pre-ser-vice training, first aid/CPR training, 21 hours of PRIDE core in-service modules and three hours of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder training.

To learn more about fostering, call 1-800-667-7002.

Elijah, from left, Lukas, Taleah, Micaiah, Benjamin and Michaelya enjoy a board game in the Audette home. qc phoTo by michael bell

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In their late 40s, Janice admits the couple is old to be adopting and fostering toddlers. But this experience has changed all of their lives.

“We’re not these great martyrs who just give and give and give, but we’re blessed and blessed and blessed. It has so enriched our lives that we advocate for people to do it be-cause we think it’s such a great journey,” she said.

“To hold a child that’s fearful and to have that child become free and watch them re-lax, watch them loosen up and start to smile, watch them start to enjoy things. I tell ya, I don’t know what you could give me to replace the joy and excitement to give that to some-body. Nothing replaces that,” added Charles.

Their older children are part of this caring dynamic — the couple discussed fostering as a family before they committed to anything. Their older boys can be wildly wrestling one moment, but when one of the foster chil-dren enters the fray, they become nurturing

older brothers. “I love watching that aspect of them develop and I think they’re going to make amazing husbands and fathers them-selves someday because of this experience,” said Janice.

Fostering has opened the entire family’s eyes to the world around them, making them more compassionate and transforming their preconceived ideas of people, she added.

“I have come to a far more understanding mindset for parents who struggle with addic-tions, who struggle with just low self-esteem and so on. That has changed in my life dra-matically,” said Charles.

“Whereas before we would have just writ-ten off, ‘Oh you abused your child? Well we’re just going to write you off as a human being,’ I don’t think any of us in our family have that perspective anymore because we can see the bigger picture. So much of the reasons kids are in care is cyclical. It perpet-uates itself generation after generation and we love the idea that maybe for the kids who come into our home, that cycle is broken,” said Janice.

I tell ya, I don’t know what you could give me to replace the joy and excitement to give that to somebody. Nothing replaces that. — Charles Audette’

Taleah Audette shows how she feeds her favourite doll Jayleen in the playroom. qc phoTo by michael bell

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When Karl Breitenbach died in 2005, he left behind a large family that looked up to him for his ambition and careful attention to detail. The re-tired Regina jeweller also left behind his prized 1957 Volkswagen Beetle he bought in South Dakota, which he began to restore before he died from cancer. Breitenbach’s daughter Bren-da and her husband Don decided to buy the car and continue the work that had been started.

Today, with the restoration com-plete, Brenda and Don Small have plans to drive the car for the first time in the spring when they’ll take Breitenbach’s widow, Mildred, for a drive.

Q: Why did Karl buy this vehicle in the first place?A: Don — Karl’s dream was to own another Volkswagen. Because he was from Germany, he wanted a Beetle … At the time, I couldn’t believe that he did this. When he came back with this car, it touched our heart. He had started to work on the bottom of the engine but time ran out for him. After he passed away, the car was go-ing to be sold. But then I looked at it and we decided to buy it.

Q: What kind of car is it?A: Don — It’s a 1957 Beetle, the last version that had an oval window in the rear. They changed the model in 1958. But I am not a Volkswagen expert.

Q: How did your restoration begin?A: Don — Karl had already worked on the bottom end of the engine. I had other people touch the top part of the engine. Karl worked as a jeweller. He was a very meticulous person. I had people do bodywork and I had other people work on the engine and the transmission. This was a ground-up restoration. It was quite a work of art. Karl didn’t mean for it to turn out like this. He just wanted to get it so that he could drive it.

Q: Who worked on the inside of the car?A: Don — Scott Murray from the Recovery Room in Regina was one of the people who helped bring the car along to where it is today. He helped bring it all together with that amaz-ing upholstery job. He did many other amazing things.

Q: This project has as much to do with paying tribute to your father-in-law as much as it does simply fixing-up an old Beetle.A: Don — We go into the shop where the car is and look at it. And when we leave, our hearts are ticking faster … A lot of this has to do with the smile that will be on Brenda’s mom’s face. That is the day that we’re looking forward to. The first time we plan to drive it will be next spring. The first time we drive it, Brenda wants to go and pick up her mother and take her for a drive.Continued on Page 12


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Q: Do you want to talk about how much you spent on the car?A: Don — If I knew, it would be too much to fathom. I will say that there’s a tremendous amount of money into it.

Q: Are you comfortable sharing how much the car is worth now?A: Don — I could say a number but then people might ask why we did this or why we did that. I think sometimes that people just don’t need to know.

Q: What sort of paperwork do you have?A: Don — Karl was able to find the documentation that was produced the day the car came off the assembly line at the plant in Germany. Karl got it from the

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Q: What colour is the car?A: BrenDA — It’s 2006 new Bug green.

Q: What colour was it originally?A: BrenDA — It was sky blue. I just didn’t like sky blue.Don — She wanted to put her own touch on the car.

Q: How often do you plan to drive the car?A: We’re going to be driving it on Sundays. We’re not going to be driving it every day. We want to be able to take it to car shows and show off the pride we have for the car — and, of course, we want to drive it for Karl. He was a wonderful father-in-law.

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Stacy Riggs has loved dogs since she can remember. She has had 15 dogs in her lifetime and has adopted dogs from a variety of places, including B.C. and Mexico, but Riggs calls one from Regina her “miracle dog.”

She got Roxy 10 months ago when the previous owners had surren-dered the mixed-breed dog to the Victoria Veterinary Clinic, where Riggs takes her three other dogs. Roxy was very sick.

Q: How did Roxy get sick?A: I guess she wasn’t really looked after well after she was spayed so she ended up having to have more surgery and from that point on she just kept getting sicker and sicker. The owners took her to my vet clinic and they prescribed medication for her and didn’t see her again for two months. By the time they brought her back in January she was down to 17 pounds and just hanging on for dear life. So one of the vet techs there and the person who owned her decided it was in her best inter-est to surrender her.

With rescue dogs, they have health issues and/or emotional issues and so I said I would initially foster her and look after her but then just fell in love with the dog. I’ve had her at home here since February. She’s now 40 pounds but she’s had three relapses since I’ve had her.

Q: What do you mean by ‘relapse’?A: She basically becomes very leth-argic, there may be bleeding, there may be fever, and I know her blood count has dropped dramatically so I have to get her to the vet right away and she’s put back on prednisone.

They are 95 per cent sure she has some sort of autoimmune disease, like a Lupus, and there is no cure for that and from what I’ve read and what I understand, the majority of dogs don’t have a very long life who have autoimmune diseases. It can be treated and maintained but like a lot of drugs, it’s not so much the

disease they end up dying from, it’s the complications from long-term use of the prescription drugs.

The prednisone initially caused a skin disease and her skin became very crusty and her fur does not grow back in very well. She started to get really, really good and a couple of months later she relapsed and we almost lost her. She spent 24 hours over at the animal clinic and she was packed in ice her fever was so

high.

Q: Why are you keeping her going?A: She’s such a happy, happy little girl and I think happy to be alive. When she goes into Victoria Veter-inary Clinic she’s just so happy to be there; a lot of dogs aren’t, but for her it’s like, ‘They saved my life here.’ People say why do you keep doing this, and it’s because this dog didn’t deserve (it). ... Those gorgeous little

brown eyes we just fell in love with and thought she deserves a chance but she’s been a very, very expen-sive miracle dog.

She has to go for monthly blood work and a tear test (she can’t pro-duce her own tears and takes drops twice a day) and just the rechecking — you’re looking at $150 a month just for that. Then her medication and her special food and all the treatment, all the tests, everything

for her, it’s been probably three win-ter vacations. People say why do you keep doing it? Well she’s a healthy dog now and she deserves this and this is what I do, rescue dogs. None of them asked to be put in that situ-ation, none of them asked to be abused or neglected, none of them asked to become ill as a result of that, so maybe that’s just my pas-sion in life, to rescue dogs and give them a second chance.

Stacy Riggs agreed to foster Roxy in February and has since fallen in love with her. Roxy was on death’s door she has bounced back. QC PHOTO BY DON HEALY

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Everything that Supermom (my wife) says in the book is something she actually said in her sleep.

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Jumping for joy

By Andrew Matte

Todd Jones, 28, of Regina, loves to cy-cle so much, he does it all year long. He and his pals often visit the roll-ing hills and bike trails at Wascana Trails Recreation Site just north of Regina. Though he visits the park regularly during the summer, he’s one of a growing number of winter-cycling enthusiasts to use the park in the winter for the challenge of peddling his bike around the snow-covered hills. He loves it. Honest.

Q: How long have you been visiting the Wascana Trails Recreation Site?A: I have been heading out there for five years now.

Q: What got you interested in cycling in the first place?A: I had friends who were into riding road bikes. So I got into that. I found it very addictive. It’s sort of like exercising and working out. It can get pretty addictive. I always wanted to get faster and stronger. Riding a bike in general is a great way to see things. It’s way better than being in a car. You have the time to look at things you’re passing rather than being in a car and zoning out.

Q: How did you get involved in winter cycling?A: I just wanted to get into something different.

Q: So what’s special about the Wascana Trails Recreation Site?A: Wascana Trails is my favourite place locally. It’s very close. There is really good terrain for mountain biking and for winter riding. One of the reasons winter biking is so fun is because there’s a new kind of bike called a fat bike. Fat biking is becoming very popular, especially this year in Regina. There are many people getting fat bikes.

Q: What is the main difference between a regular mountain bike and a fat bike?

A: Fat bikes have really wide tires so they pack down the snow. And it’s tons of fun. It’s a blast.

Q: What are the trails like in the winter?

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Q: Riding a bike in the snow sounds difficult. Is it?A: It’s slower riding but that aspect of it makes it more fun. And you get a better workout because you are working through all of that snow.

Q: What’s it like in the summer?A: It’s almost like riding around in the mountains but it’s a lot smaller. But it’s still great for rid-ing because there are steep parts. It’s not just a big long incline or a big long descent. There’s lots of up and down. There are probably 15 kilometres of trails out there and there are so many people who don’t

know about them. Members of the Regina Hand Cycle Club use the trails too. The club got a $100,000 grant so they brought in a profes-sional trail builder and built 10 kilometres worth of trails. They’re really good.

Q: Do a lot of people know about this place?A: It’s a park that not a lot of people are aware of. It’s great for hikers too. Tons of people hike out there. And it’s a great place to ride your bike in the summer.

It’s a cool place and it’s close to the city

Todd Jones (right) and Dane Stennes (left) ride through the snow at Wascana Trails near Regina. Jones uses a fat bike with wide tires for winter biking. QC Photos by MiChael bell

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ON THE SCENEIt’s that magical time of year once again at Government House when staff and volunteers spend hours decorating the historic facility.

On Saturday, Dec. 8 between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., dozens of visitors took part in the annual Old-Fashioned Victorian Christmas, a family event that included horse-drawn sleigh rides through the Ed-wardian Gardens, cookie decorat-ing, the singing of Christmas carols, snacks and even a visit from Santa. The Amédée Forget Museum was also open to visitors.

Families even had a chance to have their picture taken at the event by organizers. Pictures can be downloaded from the Provincial Capital Commission website at www.opcc.gov.sk.ca.

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Thursday, D ec. 13

Kerri Senkow’s Holiday Concert for Kids10 a.m., The artful dodger1631 11th ave.

Yana & Rachel PerssonThe artful dodger1631 11th ave.

Pink Slips & RetallicamcNally’s Tavern2226 dewdney ave.

Empire Choir, Snakeoil Salesmen and New DazeThe artesian2627 13th ave.

Friday, D ec. 14

Break Down Party BandmcNally’s Tavern2226 dewdney ave.

The Fab Four: The Ultimate Beatles Tributecasino regina show lounge1880 saskatchewan dr.

Warhol DervishThe artful dodger1631 11th ave.

Saturday, D ec. 15

Dan Silljer BandmcNally’s Tavern2226 dewdney ave.

The Fab Four: The Ultimate Beatles Tributecasino regina show lounge1880 saskatchewan dr.

Tinsel Trees & Bull NorthThe artful dodger1631 11th ave.

Monday, D ec. 17

Monday Night Jazz & Blues: ‘round midnightbushwakker2206 dewdney ave.

Jet Stream (Royal Canadian Air Force band)

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Open Mic NightThe artful dodger1631 11th ave.

Tuesday, D ec. 18

Tuesday Night Troubador jam nightevery Tuesday, 8 p.m.bocados, 2037 park st.

Wednesday, D ec. 19

Wednesday Night Folk: The Regina Male Voice Choir (Christmas performance)bushwakker2206 dewdney ave.

Jam Nightevery WednesdaymcNally’s Tavern2226 dewdney ave.

Rory Allen: A Classic Elvis Christmascasino regina show lounge1880 saskatchewan dr.

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Mindfulness and the Cre-ative Spirituntil Jan. 6macKenzie art Gallery, 3475 albert st.

Martha Cole: Interdepen-denciesuntil Jan. 10dunlop art Gallery, rpl sherwood Village branch, 6121 rochdale blvd.

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Holiday Show until Jan. 12assiniboia Gallery, 2266 smith st.

Turner Prize Golden Jubileeuntil Jan. 20dunlop art Gallery, central library, 2311 12th ave.

Joe Fafard: Cut-outs/Out-cuts

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Inuit Sculptureuntil Feb. 17macKenzie art Gallery, 3475 albert st.

Big Bang Theory

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True Knit 6: A Very Crafty Christmas!saturday, dec. 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.riddell centre multipurpose roomuniversity of regina, 3737 Wascana parkway

Classic Christmas Afternooncrafts, games, stories, a scav-enger hunt, cookie decorating, santa’s reindeer and more.sunday, dec. 16, 1-5 p.m. royal saskatchewan museum, 2445 albert st.

The Talkies — join host Jayden Pfeifer for a movie screening with commentarymonday, dec. 17, 7:30 p.m.creative city centre, 1843 hamilton st.

Cinema Politica film screen-ing: To Make a Farm

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Mirador is a Spanish word that means “vantage point.” Fittingly, Saskatoon chanteuse Alexis Normand created her most recent record with a clear view of the future.

Titled Mirador, her record will be released nationally in January 2013. The album is the result of several years of planning.

Normand is effortlessly poised both onstage and off, casually sipping her cappuccino at a downtown cafe.

The record — her first full-length debut — is more than just a CD. It was created in collaboration with Sas-katchewan-raised visual artist Zoé Fortier, who Normand had known of but not really known before they be-gan collaborating.

“When you’re French, everybody knows each other and we all have the same aunts and uncles,” she laughed.

The vision for her project began to take shape before she found the artist who would create the visual reflec-tion of her music.

“It started, I think unconsciously, when I was in university,” said Nor-mand. As she explored the connec-tions and interactions between dif-ferent types of art, she came up with the idea of working with a painter to create a piece of visual art for each song.

Working with Fortier reinforced the value of creating with other art-ists.

“We’re both emerging artists and we learned through collaborating how important it is to collaborate,” said Normand. “We still go through the same doubts and we face the same solitudes when we’re creat-ing. We get stuck too. These were all things we were able to help each other through.”

They released their project in Sas-katchewan this fall, just in time for the provincial year of the Fransas-

kois 2012. Fittingly, Normand also won a Radio-Canada contest to pen the official theme song for the cel-ebration of Saskatchewan’s unique francophone culture.

In October, Normand toured the province with a band and Fortier, completing 12 concerts across Sas-katchewan. The live shows com-bined Normand’s music with a visu-al element, with Fortier performing video projections and animations as the musicians played.

Normand believes touring Sas-katchewan as a francophone artist is hugely important.

“It gives us purpose. Having cul-tural events gives community mem-bers the chance to get together and speak in French,” she said.

Normand originally went to uni-versity to become a music teacher. Her decision to attend l’École Na-tionale de la Chanson de Granby in Quebec after university changed her course and shaped the way she’s

approached her career as a per-former.

The special school for franco-phone singer-songwriters focuses on both the music and business sides of the industry. She says the program allowed her to figure out who she is as an artist.

“By the end of the year I was con-vinced I had to do something with my own music,” she said.

Now Normand works occasionally as a teacher, but mostly works hard

on her music — both as a solo artist and a member of local singing super group Rosie and The Riveters.

She calls her style a “mélange” of jazz and folk. She accompanies her mesmerizing vocals with guitar and piano and hires professional musi-cians to add groove and swing to her original compositions.

Normand plans to tour Eastern Canada in February and hopes to repeat a performance of Mirador in Saskatoon this spring.

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Christmas tradition is important to Michelle Parker and her family.

The mother of two begins decorat-ing with her family at the beginning of the month and says the season is too short not to start early. Each year they follow one special tradition she loved as a child.

“The kids always listen to Muppet Christmas with Jon Denver, because that’s what I used to listen to,” she said. “It doesn’t seem like we’re decorating unless we have that music going.”

They designed their home in Willow Grove specifically for Christmas, with longer windows to hang wreathes in and plenty of space for decorations. They moved in two years ago.

Who? Michelle Parker, her husband David and their children Riley and Ashley Parker.

What? Fabulously detailed Christ-mas decorations.

When? “Usually December 1 I would say. My husband would rather I wait a little bit longer, I think. I just find if you’re getting ready for Christmas, you can get decorations up and it’s one thing you don’t need to worry about anymore. If parties and school func-tions come up, it’s done.”

hoW? “Both grandmas make a lot of homemade things. David’s mom made the stockings. We have to have a lot of the homemade things that family have given us. My mom made advent cal-endars. That’s sort of why we have to get it done by December 1 so they can get their advent calendars up too.”

Why? “Life’s too short! It just makes you excited for the whole month. If you only decorated right before Christmas it’s kind of a lot of decorations for a short period of time. It just means you can enjoy them longer.”

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By Jenn Sharp

An app designed to teach young chil-dren colours and language had an un-intended outcome for Saskatchewan designer Lesia Payne.

Payne developed Color Me Pete because she wanted an educational game for her two-year-old son Liam.

“I found the quality and selection of really good apps for younger chil-dren was quite limited,” she said. “I wanted to make a fun app that fa-cilitated colour, and then language learning for older kids.”

Color Me Pete sends children on an active treasure hunt for Pete’s lost colours. They learn 10 colours and simple phrases in English, French and Spanish as they find the colours using the camera on their hand-held device. Once the child finds a correct-ly coloured object, he or she presses the screen. If it’s right, a reward is given and the colour is added to Pete. The pirate parrot can be coloured dif-ferently each time. Varying degrees of difficulty are also available and the audio can be turned off to devel-op reading skills.

When first developing the app Payne assumed kids would gather the items they needed to colour Pete and sit down to play.

“But that’s not how they were play-ing the game. They were literally running around, finding different colours, and parents liked that it got them running around and interact-ing with their own environment. Instead of just getting submersed in the screen,” she said.

To develop Color Me Pete, Payne started out by asking other parents for feedback and playing a lot of the games available for younger children. She learned what was annoying to her and what kind of child-safe con-trols she wanted to put into her app.

Saskatoon-based illustrator Ryan Howe of Scibblinz Studios created the original parrot concept. Payne want-ed Pete to be a pirate character but not too scary for her demographic.

The beta version (second state of software) of the app was tested on 15 families until Payne and the develop-er found an algorithm (a procedure used in computer science for calcula-tions) that was accurate but forgiving enough for young users.

“It was a lot of work to make that algorithm accurate enough so you got the positive feedback but not hard enough so that it didn’t frustrate kids,” explained Payne.

Payne hopes to expand the app to an unlimited number of languages as the concept is simple enough to translate.

Two siblings in one of the beta tests figured out how to play Color Me Pete together, another positive, unintended feature.

“There’s not too many apps for younger kids that are interactive like that.”

Payne, who moved to Saskatoon three years ago from Vancouver, got started in graphics at a young age.

“Much younger than my mother approved of,” she said with a laugh. “But my dad did. And I’m glad now.”

Her father was an early adapter and had a computer in the early ’80s. She began by editing DOS games and Microsoft MS Paint and says she was always interested in graphics, art and science. This led to a multimedia Bach-elor of Science degree in interaction design. Through her company Lesia Design (lesiadesign.com) she special-izes in designing interactive applica-tions and software for the Internet.

Color Me Pete launched at the end of September on Apple’s App Store. Payne said it hasn’t been selling as well as she’d like.

“It’s a very tough world for inde-pendent iPhone app developers so if you’re not Disney or a bigger com-pany it’s really hard to get featured in the Apple App Store or get enough visibility to create enough of a buzz. That’s been tough.”

She’s received only positive feed-back from people who have tried the app. Parents tell her it’s unique and their children love playing it. Payne’s son Liam has had the most exposure of anyone to Color Me Pete and still asks to play it every few days.

To download Color Me Pete or to try the free version, just search for it

in the App Store. Make sure to rate it once you’ve tried it as this will help the app get more visibility. It’s cur-rently priced at $. 99 for the holidays.

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The easiest way I know to identify serious wine drinkers is to ask them about what whites they like. The frivolous will strike a pose and tell you they only drink red. Their loss.

France and the French generally would view such a statement as incroyable. How can some-one not like Corton-Charlemagne? Or Mon-trachet? Ah oui, they are not inexpensive but there are alternatives. Like say a Meursault, particularly a premier cru Meursault. There are few words as comforting to a serious wine drinker as “Premier Cru.” It means the French winemakers have found it in their hearts (and a Burgundy farmer’s heart is as flinty as the soil his vines spring from) to award a vineyard with a first ranking.

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Is your wallet feeling the pinch of Christmas shopping yet? You need a cheap lunch, and better yet, a lunch that’s fast and fresh at a place close enough to stop in the midst of a shopping trip.

Regina’s Nhu ý Tea Tree has a menu with almost 200 dishes span-ning Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai cooking styles. Apart from the oversized menu is a single sheet of lunch specials — all priced under $10. Twelve are combos for $8.99. Won ton soup, a Vietnamese roll, vegetable low mein and steamed rice all accompany your meat (or tofu) of choice, like sweet and sour chicken balls, ginger beef and garlic spare ribs to name a few. I tried Thai ca-shew nut chicken while my dining partner had one of the $8.50 vermi-celli noodle bowls.

It’s pretty hard to mess up a noo-dle bowl. Nhu ý’s didn’t disappoint. What my cashew chicken lacked in cashews (I think there were five nut halves) it made up for in fla-vour. Fresh and full of the complex spices Thai cooking is famous for, I was happy. Happier still that there was enough chicken on the plate to keep me full. The plate is overflow-ing with starches so if you’re big on noodles and rice, you’ll love this Broad Street restaurant. You may feel déjà vu inside too with the rich red and mustard yellow walls. The chicas and chicos signs on the bath-room give away the location’s former Central American theme.

The service was low-maintenance, yet friendly. Our dishes came out when they were ready, which meant we received our lunches at different times. This isn’t that big of a deal because everything was ready faster than MacDonald’s can make it.

One of the newest additions to Saskatoon’s Riversdale neighbour-hood is Taste Legend, located at 423 20th Street West. More stylish inside than one would expect from a cur-

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• 2, 2.5” speakers, a 3” Subwoofer and 20W of power.• 2, 2.5” speakers, a 3” Subwoofer and 20W of power.• Compatible with most MP3 players, USB Flash Memory and supports CD, CD-R/RW• Compatible with most MP3 players, USB Flash Memory and supports CD, CD-R/RW• Alarm, 20-track music memory, headphone output and an LCD screen capable of

displaying Song Title and Artist Name when used in USB Mode.

$233Bose Companion 20

• 2-piece system provides full, naturalsound in front of the computer or acrossthe room

• Proprietary technologies reproduceexpansive sound with impressive lownotes

• Control pod includes volume, sing-touchmute, headphone jack and auxiliary input

$$149149Sony USB TurntableSony USB Turntable

PSLX300PSLX300Enjoy your classic vinyl albums on yourEnjoy your classic vinyl albums on your

modern hi-fi system in no time, or easilymodern hi-fi system in no time, or easilycreate MP3 files to store on a PC or listen tocreate MP3 files to store on a PC or listen to

on your portable player.on your portable player.

$$219219

Bose® SoundDock® Series IIdigital music system

Small size and powerfulSmall size and powerfulperformance. Redesigned.performance. Redesigned.

• Proprietary acoustic design• Proprietary acoustic design• Remote• Remote• Auxiliary input• Auxiliary input• Works with iPhone and most iPod models• Works with iPhone and most iPod models

Sony CFD-S05 Bass ReflexSony CFD-S05 Bass ReflexSound SystemSound System

•• CD player with CD-R/CD-RW playback, aCD player with CD-R/CD-RW playback, acassette player with built-in recorder and FM/cassette player with built-in recorder and FM/AM radio with digital tuning and 30 stationAM radio with digital tuning and 30 stationpresetspresets

• Headphone jack• Headphone jack• Dual AC/battery power• Dual AC/battery power

$$5959

Shenheiser WirelessShenheiser WirelessHeadphones RS126Headphones RS126

• Reception through walls and ceilings• Reception through walls and ceilings• Range of up to 100 metres• Range of up to 100 metres• Very lightweight• Very lightweight• Transmitter with metal cradle for• Transmitter with metal cradle for

storing and rechargingstoring and recharging$$169169

RegReg $$1991999999

$$139139Boston Acoustics Solo IIBoston Acoustics Solo IIAM/FM Radio with ClockAM/FM Radio with Clock• Precision AM/FM tuner with 20 AM/FM station• Precision AM/FM tuner with 20 AM/FM station

presetspresets• High performance 3.5" full-range speaker with• High performance 3.5" full-range speaker with

BassTrac audioBassTrac audio• Auxiliary input for iPod and other portable media• Auxiliary input for iPod and other portable media

devices and Stereo headphone jack on the frontdevices and Stereo headphone jack on the front• Dual independent alarm clock with sleep timer• Dual independent alarm clock with sleep timer

$$199199Toshiba 24” LED HDTV 24L4200UToshiba 24” LED HDTV 24L4200U• Full HD 1080 dpi• Full HD 1080 dpi• Audyssey™ Sound Enhancements for richer sound quality• Audyssey™ Sound Enhancements for richer sound quality•Gaming Mode•Gaming Mode

$$$$$$$$ 413441344134134TEAC SR-LX5i AM/FM iPod DockTEAC SR-LX5i AM/FM iPod Dock• Plays your iPod, radio or aux input through built-in speakers• Plays your iPod, radio or aux input through built-in speakers BoseBose® SoundDockSoundDock® Series ISeries II

Bose AE2Bose AE2• Hear your music with clarity• Hear your music with clarity

and fullnessfuand fullness• Soft ear cushions for• Soft ear cushions for

comfortable around-ear fit.comfortable around-ear fit.• Fold-flat design and• Fold-flat design and

convenient carry bag for easyconvenient carry bconvenient carry bag for easyportabilityportability

$$$$$ 313441134

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• Proprietary technologies reproduce• Proprietary technologies reproduceexpansive sound with impressive lowive und withexpansive sound with impressive lowimp sivexpansive sound with impressive lownotnotes

• Control pod includes volume, sing-touch• Control pod includes volume, sing-touchiary inputiarmute, headphone jack and auxiliary iheamut headph jack and xiliary imute, headphone jack and auxiliary input

$$9999

Yamaha PDX-11BL PortableYamaha PDX-11BL PortablePlayer Dock for iPod and iPhonePlayer Dock for iPod and iPhone

• AC and battery powered for maximum mobility• AC and battery powered for maximum mobility• Remote unit for easy operation• Remote unit for easy operation• Rugged Design in Four Colors• Rugged Design in Four Colors• Amazing Sound Quality• Amazing Sound Quality• Super-large 10 cm (4-Inch) woofer to ensure• Super-large 10 cm (4-Inch) woofer to ensure

strong bass and beautiful mid-range frequenciesstrong bass and beautiful mid-range frequencies

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9am - 9pm9am - 9pm

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9am - 6pm9am - 6pm

2222HOURSHOURS

9:30am - 6pm9:30am - 6pm

Two WayRemoteStarter

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Beltronics GX65Beltronics GX65• Safety camera data-base• Safety camera data-base

for red light cameras andfor red light cameras andradar camerasradar cameras

• All bands and Laser protection• All bands and Laser protectionincluding POP radarincluding POP radar

OPEN Sun. Dec 16 & 23 - Noon-5pmOPEN Sun. Dec 16 & 23 - Noon-5pm

$$9999

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