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By Michelle Berg Earthbound bakery and delicatessen, open for over four years, continues to use all organic and local grains. Trent Lowen and his staff bake around 30 varieties of dough and make two different soups each day (at least one vegan). There are $5 sandwiches for lunch and salads are a recent addition to the menu (including a toasted hemp vinaigrette with preserved lemon and avocado). Also available are specialty coffees and organic teas. There are a few tables but they plan on renovating and expanding to make room for 25 more seats for breakfast and lunch guests. Earthbound is located at 220-1820 Eighth Street E. and is open Tuesday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

1.Power bread (hemP, quinoa, amaranth, chia, teff, mustard, sesame, millet seeds): $4.502. real butter croissant: $1.503. Pain au chocolat: $2.4. aPPle Pie muffin (Vegan and wheat free): $2.5. cabbage borscht souP with bread: $6.6. whole grain red fife sourdough loaf: $5.257. hemP heart and sesame seed loaf: $5.

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Rene Prefontaine practices yoga at Joos Yoga, his favourite place in Saskatoon. bridges phoTo by michelle berg

John Gormley wraps up his show in the studio during John Gormley Live on News Talk 650 CKOM. bridges phoTo by michelle berg

INVENTORY — 2The heavenly aroma of Earth-bound Bakery

IN THE CITY — 4Photographer Michelle Berg’s moment in time snapshot MY FAVOURITE PLACE — 6A yoga studio brings calm to a busy life

PARENT TO PARENT — 7How do you balance pri-vacy and social media when it comes to kids?

CITY NEWS — 8Rotary Exchange participants — including our own Jenn Sharp — embark on a trip of a lifetime to India

FASHION — 10Sometimes you have to go to Europe to get that Euro look

READ MY BOOK — 11Beth Goobie’s new book helps disadvantaged kids blossom

COVER — 12The real John Gormley challenges our preconceptions

ON THE SCENE — 16Apuka Theatre honors the late Tibor Feheregyhazi

MuSIC — 18Lively nights at the Old Time Dance Party

CROSSWORD AND SuDOKu — 25

OuTSIDE THE LINES — 26Dance steps cover the floor

MEET MY PET — 27A new kind of service dog helps wounded warriors

EVENTS — 28, 29Derby Girls, Munsch, Zorro and a day of We

SHARP EATS — 30Poutine get all fancy, but stays gooey

ASK ELLIE — 31

WINE WORLD — 31A robust red for the manly man


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Rene Prefontaine practices yoga at Joos Yoga, his favourite place in Saskatoon. Bridges photo By Michelle Berg

By Christeen Jesse

With a busy job as Community Manager at the Two Twenty in Saskatoon, Rene Prefontaine spends his days surrounded by people. Consis-tently facilitating professional and social col-laborations, he finds his evening retreats to Joos Yoga a relaxing way to stay fresh and balanced. The studio’s downtown location and sense of community, as well as the challenging art of practicing yoga, have him walking barefoot through the door every week.

Q: Why is this your favourite place in Saskatoon?A: When you come into this space you can be-

come very relaxed, very quickly. With my job, I am around people all day — it’s very busy and very fast. So this is a nice point of contrast to that. It’s a great place in the city for me to be able to reset myself physically and mentally.

Q: How did you find this place?A: Kind of how you find a lot of other great places … through friends and word of mouth. I have a personal connection in that my girl-friend is a teacher here and also manages the studio, but at the same time, it took me a while to get in here. I was really hesitant about yoga and I had to just come into it on my own. But once I started, I was hooked.

Q: Had you done any yoga before that?A: No. And I think that’s why it took me some time to get here. I figured it was going to be a challenge, and it is. With most types of ex-ercise, you have to physically train and you have to be alert and focused on many different things. But with yoga, you have to stop think-ing about everything for an extended period of time. And that can be hard. Yoga is deceptively challenging.

Q: How long have you been coming here?A: I’ve been coming for about eight months, and these days, I’m doing classes about once a week. I’m here not only just for yoga

though — it also doubles as an event space, so there are parties and things here, which is great.

Q: What draws you back?A: The space is set up so well. There’s a certi-fied massage therapist here too, and the coffee shop downstairs — so for people who are busy, it’s a great one-stop spot to take care of your-self from a mental, social and physical aspect. It’s a great little hub for that.

It’s a nice place to come because it’s a com-munity of people. And that’s something that I think more and more people are looking for. I totally am. And that’s why it’s so great.

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“Yes, I post some of my daughter’s photos on my Facebook but I make it sure that only my friends are able to see it. I am posting my daughter’s pho-tos as I am proud of her growth development.” — Danica Navarro

“Yes I do post on social media. Lots and lots and lots of pictures. My privacy settings are for friends only. And I don’t tag the locations of the pictures. Posting keeps friends and family current.” — Alysia Czmuchalek

“Yes, I post on my Facebook page. I’m only ‘friends’ with people I know well. I don’t post anything inappropriate. Not worried about privacy issues.” — Dee B. “Absolutely not! Too many nut bars out there.” — Angela O.

“I have uploaded a few pictures to Facebook, but only allow my friends to access them. For me, it’s a good place to store photos, in the event of something happening to the files at home. It also puts them on a timeline, which is handy.” — Carla Contreras

“I do post pictures of the kids online but as they age I’ve become very aware of their feelings/

thoughts and don’t post things I think they would find embarrassing, now or in the future. Privacy is always a concern and I rely on the security set-tings to try and ensure that pics are viewable by only those I provide access to.” — Terri Leniuk

“I’ve heard all of the warnings about not doing it, so I should really stop. I make sure to just ‘post to friends’ but I’m sure that still isn’t very safe. I just have a hard time not showing off my adorable kids, lol!” — Chera Miller

“I do post pictures of my kids on Facebook but whatever photos I do post are locked down so that only my friends/family on my friends list can see them. Occasionally I share a picture of them with a group I am a part of, in those instances I ensure there is nothing in the picture that could identify their names, where they’re from or anything else that could give information about them. If my friends/family take pictures of my kids and post them I always check that their privacy settings are locked down and I look at their friend lists to see who has access to my kids’ informa-tion.” — Michelle Grodecki

“I do post pictures of my kids on Facebook but I have a private page so only my friends will see the pictures.” — Nikki Melnyk

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Each week Bridges, in connection with SaskatoonMoms.com, gathers advice from parents to share with other moms and dads. This week we asked:

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By Christeen Jesse

What do you get when you mix a handful of young professionals from the Prairies, a city of 12 million people and two entirely different cultures?

A team of five Canadian Rotarians is about to find out.

Three participants from Saskatch-ewan and two from Manitoba are taking part in a Rotary International Group Study Exchange (GSE) pro-gram in the city of Bangalore, India this month. Representing the Rotary District 5550, which encompasses Western Ontario, Manitoba, and the majority of Saskatchewan, the team will be spending the next three weeks with members of District 3190 in In-dia — immersing themselves in the culture and lifestyle of the locals.

The GSE program offers young professionals aged 25 to 40 an oppor-tunity to travel overseas and expe-rience the way their own vocations are practiced abroad, while immers-ing themselves in the traditions of the country and finding fellowship along the way.

“It’s a vocational and cultural ex-change. So as the vocational part of it, we will go and visit places of work and meet various people that have similar types of professions to what we all have,” says team leader Scott Yule. “As for the cultural component, we will be hosted by Rotarians over in India, so we will be living with them 24/7.”

For Saskatoon participant Alana Scharfstein, a full-time music teach-er and part-time yoga instructor, the chance to experience music educa-tion in India is an invaluable oppor-tunity.

“I teach music and band in a school, so I’m curious to see what they are going to do with music there. All of their music is so different, but there are some fundamental things that are the same as what we do here — we all experience rhythm and we all experience beat in some way. I imagine the way they teach it will be

different, so when I come back, I can incorporate some new things into the way I teach,” she says.

For the rest of the team, the ex-change will offer opportunities to culturally advance their own profes-sions, ranging from media to agricul-ture. Scharfstien is travelling along-side fellow Saskatonian Jenn Sharp (assistant editor of Bridges), Julie Deslauriers, a product specialist/power trader from Winnipeg, Lind-sey Enns, a journalist from Dryden, and team leader Scott Yule, a Senior Director at Farm Credit Canada in Regina.

Yule travelled as a GSE team mem-ber to Chile in 2004 and has hosted some GSE Rotarians from other countries at his home in Regina.

“I don’t know if there is a better opportunity out there to understand a different culture,” he says. “You are getting an amazing opportunity to learn a new culture. The Indian culture is a really interesting cul-ture, and that’s what really excites me about this trip.”

Scharfstein shares in his excite-ment. A first-time Rotarian travel-ler, she heard about the program six years ago, when she was substitute

teaching for a colleague who had participated in a GSE program.

“This past summer, I randomly stumbled upon the Rotary website, and they had just extended their deadline for applications to the be-ginning of September, and the trip was going to India — which is up there on the list of places I want to go. So all of it just seemed meant to be from the beginning.”

In order to be eligible to partici-pate in a GSE exchange, applicants must be fully employed with at least two years of experience in their chosen field, but also be in the early

stages of their careers or profes-sions. The District 5550 team will stay with a different host family ev-ery week for the four weeks in Ban-galore and participate in individual vocational training for the duration of the stay.

“The host family is a pretty neat part of the program,” says Scharf-stein. “When you are staying in someone’s home, you get a truer ex-perience of their life, so I am going to soak it all in and enjoy it all.”

District 3190 from India will be travelling to District 5550 this May and June.

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By Michelle Berg

Jesse Dombowsky found his passion for fashion about two years ago when he started working at an architectural firm.

“All of the dressy clothes I had just were not proportion-ate for my size, Dombowsky says. “Poorly sized in the body, and pleated pants. I was never comfortable in dressy clothes until I started to buy stuff that actually fit.”

Once Dombowsky started wearing clothing that fit, dress shirts in particular, things started to snowball into a love for fashion.

Dombowsky buys most of his clothing at Mint, unless he’s travelling or has the time to browse through Winners. “I started realizing that I just really love the European fit and style they have going right now,” after spending a few weeks in Turkey and Bulgaria.

Dombowsky describes his style as European classy con-temporary.

“I used to wear hoodies every single day. A different hoodie every day,” admits Dombowsky. “Now I won’t wear pants with-out a belt. It’s a nice transition. I feel like its necessary now.”

When asked if Saskatoon has a good variety of clothing, Dombowsky replied with a quick “No. Not at all.” He believes it’s lacking a European style.

“I’ve been looking around everywhere for something that has even a remotely interesting neck line. These are all over the place in Europe (as he points out the neckline on his Bulgar-ian sweater) but there’s nothing here.

“I tend to fall in love with a piece when I try it on,” he explains.

Online shopping lacks that but he may have to take the risk.

“If there was an opportu-nity to shop local, I would do it hands down,” he explains. “The ability to try it on, return something if it’s not quite right, goes really far. And I like to get the shop owners like Sam from Mint.

There has been a lot of positive response with Dom-bowsky’s new fascination with fashion. “A lot of people tell me ‘I just love what you wear’ or ‘I always like seeing what you’re wearing today.’ It’s encouraging.” He’s had people compliment his sweater before introducing themselves.

Dombowsky’s advice to men looking to improve their work attire: “Buy a shirt that fits. Especially a button up. Oh wow. If it’s billowing out the sides, it doesn’t fit.”

Shirt: Free Bull from Sofia, Bulgaria.

WriSt band: Armani Exchange in Edmonton.

Silver ring: Purchased in Turkey.

Watch: Swiss legends from beyond the rack (online).

PantS: D squared knock-offs from Turkey.

belt: Handmade leather belt from Turkey.

ShoeS: Locale in Edmon-ton.

Jacket: G Star from Mint.

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In the 1980s, I spent five and a half years work-ing in locked and open residential treatment settings. In the process, I encountered many children and teens who were “delayed read-ers,” which meant they read at least several grade levels beneath their peers.

One day, I introduced some boys to eight “high interest, low vocabulary” novels, which were written three-to-five grade levels below the age of the target audience. One 11-year-old boy who read at a Grade 2 level slowly made his way through all eight books. In the process, his reading ability improved so dramatically that he skipped three grade levels that year and his IQ rose four points. The last I heard, at age 18, he was working as an assistant manager at Mc-Donalds.

Having noted the powerful impact these

books can have on readers, I wrote a high inter-est, low vocabulary book called Jason’s Why, a novel that deals with a nine-year-old boy’s first week in a group home. Written at a Grade 2 to 3 reading level, it is targeted at nine- to 12-year olds. Readers are introduced to group-home life through the eyes of a child. This includes several situations during which an adult re-strains a child who is violently acting out. One scene takes place at Jason’s new school. As one former teacher told me, children are being restrained in school settings more and more frequently. Jason’s Why, the teacher said, “is the resource tool I always wanted while I was teaching and could never find.”

What I most wanted to explain as I wrote Jason’s Why is the vulnerability of the trau-matized child and the experience of being con-

stantly frightened. Jason is physically aggressive,

yes, but there is a reason behind it — his violence is based in fear and his perceived need to self protect. And so Jason’s Why attempts to present prac-tical ways a caretaker or teacher can decrease a child’s level of anxiety.

As I noted during those five-and-a-half privileged years I learned from children in care, when young people feel safe, they blossom and become a joy to be around.

Children in care have so much to offer mainstream society. Let’s provide them with the safety they need to nurture and explore their beautiful true selves.

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On air, he latches onto is-sues like a political pit bull. In private, he’s a doting grandfather and admired conversationalist.

Does Saskatchewan have room for two John Gorm-leys?

“He is an interesting char-acter. His mind is very eclec-tic,” former NDP premier Lorne Calvert said. The two are ideological opposites, but without the animosity one might assume.

“The John Gormley we hear publicly, in some ways, fulfils a role, which is to be provocative,” said Calvert, who ran the province from 2001 to 2009.

“When you are with John Gormley in the studio, there is clearly a performance mode when the mic is on and then there is a conversation mode when the mic is off and the commercials are playing.”

The John Gormley that Pam Leyland, president of Rawlco Radio knows, is curi-ous and generous with his at-tention.

“You can talk to him about scrapbooking, you can talk to him about pipelines … he is the kind of person who asks questions.”

Leyland helped coax Gorm-ley back to radio nearly 15 years ago.

“What you hear is only a slice of who John Gormley is,” said Leyland.

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There’s an off-the-cuff feel to John Gormley Live, but behind the radio show’s right-wing rants, the jabs at

organized labour and gen-eral improvisation, there are hours of planning and research.

As a high-wired John Gormley debates with listen-ers, moderates a call-in ses-sion with Saskatchewan Pre-mier Brad Wall and speaks on the fly about breaking news, he is also executing a plan hatched with the help of a predominately young staff.

Rawlco Radio employ-ees who contribute to John Gormley Live, which is heard on CJME in Regina and CKOM in Saskatoon, de-scribe their leader as fair but strict. He encourages hard work and leads by example, they say, but any misstep is usually followed by a stern message from the guy whose face appears on city bus ads.

During a commercial break, Gormley declares: “It’s organized chaos!”

The same term might also apply to Gormley’s multi-dimensional life as a grand-father, lawyer, saxophone player, author and Member of Parliament for one term. His approach to education, family and his personal life isn’t much different than his hopes and success as a talk radio host.

On the subject of be-ing married at 20, he says: “We were always trying to improve our lives. And we worked hard.”

But Gormley concedes he’s had a personal and pro-fessional misstep or two over the years.

On transplanting his young family in Ottawa for four years, he says: “I am not sure you should do that when somebody has a wife and two small children.”

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And just as morning radio is a mix of spontaneity and planning, Gormley understands the same can’t always guarantee results in life. It’s too unpredictable.

On the death of his first wife to cancer following their divorce, Gormley says: “That was a world of mess and hurt that I still deal with today.”

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Dr. Mike Gormley was a young Irishman who met Australian Hel-en Webb in Singapore during the Malaysian Emergency. Gormley was a captain in the British Army and Webb was a lieutenant nurse in the Australian Army, both of which helped make up the Com-monwealth forces fighting against Malayan Communists between 1948 and 1960.

They married and their first son, John Kenneth Gormley, was born

on Aug. 2, 1957 in Singapore before the family returned to England. Dr. Gormley, a general practitioner who also specialized as an anesthe-tist, soon accepted an offer to join a small practice in North Battleford.

“To my dad, it was an adven-ture. It was opportunity,” said John Gormley, adding he still has the re-cruitment letters that encouraged his parents to cross the pond.

“It was so accurate. It talked about farmland and duck hunting.”

It didn’t take long for the Gorm-ley family to plant roots. Mike was a busy doctor who made house calls. John was three when he moved to Saskatchewan.

During high school, thanks to help from a family friend, he was offered a part-time job at the local radio station. After classes at St. Thomas College, he’d show up for work at CJNB Radio in North Bat-tleford.

The experience looked good on a resume; he got a similar gig at music station CKOM in Saskatoon where he dabbled in radio and at-tended classes at the University of Saskatchewan with a plan to study law.

Later, he realized he much pre-ferred being on the radio than working toward a degree. By then, he’d been asked to take over a one-hour morning talk show before be-ing lured to the competing CFQC where he expanded his show to two hours.

“I was a young guy who was a political junkie who had opinions on everything,” said Gormley.

In his personal life, he was simi-larly busy. At 20, he married his girlfriend and the two had a young daughter. They both wanted to continue their education, so they made a pact that, no matter their circumstance, one of them would always work on their education.

Gormley believes their ambition to attend university while working to improve their careers contrib-uted greatly to his success later in life.

“It was one of the most impor-tant things I could have done, both for my life that followed and for my growth as a human being,” he said. “

In 1984, he was encouraged to let his name stand for the Conserva-tive nomination for the riding that included his hometown. He was soon off to Ottawa where he rep-resented the riding of The Battle-fords-Meadow Lake.

He loved the work and prestige of the job. But looking back, he wonders if taking his young fam-ily to Ontario was the best move.

“It was a bittersweet thing for me. On one hand, it was an oppor-tunity that very few Canadians have.”

His tenure as a federal politi-cian ended just as Canadians had enough of the Brian Mulroney government. After four years, Gormley’s seat was returned to the NDP, this time to NDP MP Len Taylor.

After returning to Saskatoon, Gormley understood that the tim-ing meant this was a last oppor-tunity to explore his interested in the law, something that had always interested him before his attention was drawn to radio. “I found my-self in 1988 at 31 years old. I knew that if I didn’t do law then, I never would.”

Though he didn’t have a de-gree, the usual prerequisite for admittance to law school, Gorm-ley returned to the University of Saskatchewan. He qualified as a “mature student,” though it didn’t exactly hurt that he was a former radio show host and MP.

Lise Gormley was also an aca-demic working in the U of S eco-nomics department and helping her husband raise two daughters.

After John graduated, the cou-ple decided to move to Edmonton. A law firm offered good prospects for a new lawyer and the Alberta capital could accommodate Lise’s plans to earn her PHD.

’I knew that if I didn’t do law then, I never would.

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John Gormley and his grandsons, Gavin age 2 ½, right, Declan age 1 ½. phoTo courTesy oF John gormley

However, there was more change on the horizon. Saska-toon’s CKOM, the music station that gave him his first talk show as a student, decided to follow the North American trend toward talk radio and planned to drop music in favour of a format that was nothing but news and talk. It would broadcast the same pro-gramming on Regina’s CJME.

In 1998, Gormley agreed to take over a coveted morning spot at both stations but also work as

a Rawlco’s corporate lawyer re-sponsible for labour issues at its 15 stations and other interests in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

“When I got the call, I realized that my love for radio was still burning,” said Gormley.

Though Gormley loved return-ing to Saskatoon and his new double-duty career at Rawlco, his marriage began to deterio-rate.

He declined to reveal the issues that began to divide the couple,

but he concedes the move back to Saskatoon didn’t exactly help.

In 1999, after 22 years of mar-riage, Lise Gormley returned to Edmonton.

What came next was a chal-lenge that Gormley describes as the worst time of his life. Just weeks after the divorce was rub-ber-stamped, Lise was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer, a disease that led to her death.

Gormley was affected deeply. He felt guilty and sad, particular-

ly for his daughters. “To hear that someone who was

your best friend for over half of your life is dying, it was really something,” Gormley said. “She was one of the most courageous people I have ever known.”

But Gormley say he remains appreciative of his times as a young husband, even though the marriage ended.

“However, she’ll never know her grandchildren. It’s tough … there were days when I get sad, I

get verklempt, I get angry. Words can’t describe it.”

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In the years that followed, Gormley remained a busy talk show host who took legal meet-ings in the afternoons. In his personal life, he enjoyed skiing and golf, a sport that serves as a perfect antidote to the cerebral demands of morning radio and the law.


’When I got the call, I realized that my love for radio was still burning.

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John Gormley and former U.S. president George W. Bush. phoTo courTesy oF John gormley.

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“Golf is perfection. Walking down a fairway on a nice afternoon or evening is heaven to me.”

He also dabbles as a saxophonist. Though he used to play the oboe as a stu-dent, he later picked up the tenor saxo-phone. Though he needs lots of practice before any sort of performance, he can still read music notation and has played alongside local jazz bands several times over the years. “I get terrible stage fright,” he said.

And he calls his time with his family and two young grandsons one of his pri-orities. Though Gavin, 2, and Declan, 1, live in California, he travels south as often as he can and makes a point to chat with them both online whenever he can.

“They are the absolute focus of your life. It is difficult to explain how you can love your kids so much while you also have this intense relationship with your grandsons. I just love doing stuff with them.”

Back in Saskatoon, he had begun enjoy-ing a new romantic life. He married local

business owner Marie Gould five years ago.

Gould said her husband is often unfair-ly pigeonholed as the right-wing politico he plays on the radio. While his conser-vative affiliations are no secret, there is much to the man that listeners just don’t know.

“When I introduced him to friends, and they would know him only as the larger-than-life John Gormley, they were pleas-antly surprised. My friends told me that they expected to feel intimidated,” she said.

The differences between the John Gormley radio-show host and the civilian are easy to decipher, friends and foes say.

Pam Leyland, who met Gormley in 1978 when she was hired to work in the news-room at CKOM, said her friend is far more animated when he’s on the air. When he isn’t working, he’s a regular grandfather who has a keen interest in others and en-joys conversations on just about any sub-ject.

Calvert said he always enjoys having conversations with the always approach-able Gormley because of his varied knowledge, and he understands there’s more to the man on the radio.

“He and I will fundamentally disagree, but on no occasion off air has there been hostility in our conversation,” Calvert said.

Gormley acknowledges that he pays careful attention to his personal life just as he does his career.

He lives by a belief that humans are al-ways the architect of their own futures. Just as he’s critical of those who blame society or government for their place in life, he takes ownership of his own mis-takes. That also means he takes credit for his personal and professional successes.

He has used more than once the phrase “pull yourself up by your own boot straps.”

“If you commit yourself to excellence, then you can find your way to a better place in life,” he said.

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As a crowd of silver-haired pa-trons waits for the band to go on, chatter and laughter fills the air of the Casino Regina Show Lounge.

The last Monday of every

month, barring the odd excep-tion, the Show Lounge hosts the Monthly Old Time Dance Party.

This night, the last Mon-day in January, a Saskatoon band called Phoenix takes the stage. It’s their third show

here. They normally play sin-gles dances and polka fests in Saskatoon.

There are already people on the dance floor when the quartet, dressed in uniform sky-blue polo shirts, strikes its first notes.

This month’s draw is ap-proximately 140 people, al-though the casino has seen up to 300 people attend on a sin-gle night in the dance party’s eight-year history.

Robert and Maxine Schuba are regulars. They love polka

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the newbies recognize some familiar faces — polka lovers tend to travel in the same cir-cuit.

As soon as the music starts, the Schubas are out on the floor.

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Allana and Orville dance to the music.

The dance floor at the Nutana Legion Saskatoon is filled with couples dancing to the music.

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“It’s very seldom that there’s many sitting,” says Marge, though she is just here to listen.

After a certain lull between songs, the crowd at the front of the stage — numbering at least 70 — anxiously awaits. The band has been mix-ing it up with a bit of polka, a bit of old rock and country, a waltz. But now, guitarist Ron Teichreb announces, “We’re gonna do one of our favourites — the Golden Pheasant Polka.” There’s an enthusiastic shout from the crowd: “Come on, it’s polka time!”

The Schubas eventually return to their table, dropping off coffee for their friends. Maxine sits for not two minutes before head-ing back to the dance floor. Dancing is “easier than exercising.” Plus, she loves it. So does her husband.

The arthritis in his feet doesn’t stop him — he has a strategy: Take a pill before the dance and take a seat afterward. Plus, the arthritis is worse when he’s walking, as his heels lift from the ground. When he’s dancing, he’s shuffling or lifting his feet, so it doesn’t hurt so much.

“People come in and they’re walking with canes, they’re walking slowly, they sit down at their table and you think they’re going to sit there and listen to the music all night,” says Karen Mondor, Casino Regina’s manager of entertainment services. But when the music starts, the canes are tossed aside and the dan-cing begins. “It’s as if the music has healing powers for them.”

Mondor was a new employee when the dance party was launched eight years ago. Before that, the casino’s Oktoberfest dance party was always well attended and “I was just struck by how many of the same people came back,” she says. That elicited an obvious question: Why not do it more often?

Since 2005, its popularity has not waned. And, Mondor says, “I would guess we still have some of the same people coming.”

Though it does draw many seniors, Mondor says younger people will often attend because it’s an opportunity to dance. As everybody ages, the dance party may evolve from its

polka roots. “We’re all getting older. Maybe the Old Time

Dance Parties are going to turn into ’60s and ’70s disco dances. Hopefully there’ll always be somebody who wants to come out and dance; maybe we’ll just find a different style of music,” says Mondor.

That’s the case in Saskatoon, where Ovide Pilon and his band host Fridays at the Hop at the Nutana Legion.

Pilon’s band, England, pays homage to The Ed Sullivan Show. Each month they’ll focus on one popular character of the 1950s or ’60s. Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline and the Everly Brothers have been on the ticket since the show launched in August.

While a show at the Legion typically draws 90 people, England brought in 230 for Johnny Cash, which was only limited by capacity. Each show has been a sellout. For Buddy Holly, “we could have sold 200 more tickets.”

England dresses the part: “We’ve got the

suits, we’ve got the wigs, we’ve got the whole bit,” says Pilon, who estimates he’s got close to 30 wigs.

The hour-long tribute is followed by general hits of the 1960s.

Pilon grew up with this kind of music — so did a lot of boomers, and that’s why the show is so popular. There aren’t many local acts who do this kind of thing, says Pilon, “aside from Rory Allen and my group.”

For the audience, part of the appeal is the dancing.

“There’s really no place to go,” says Pilon. “Most people don’t really want to go to the bars.”

And you can’t beat the price — $10 will admit you to Fridays at the Hop and the Monthly Old Time Dance Party.

England’s next show is a Beach Boys Party at Saskatoon’s German Concordia Club on Saturday. Casino Regina’s Monthly Old Time Dance Party features K.O. & Friends on Monday.

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Q: I come from a small, religious rural community with lifetime friendships.

I’ve had good examples of strong marriages. While divorce does hap-pen, it’s much rarer here than the na-tional average of 40 per cent.

However, while I cherish these strong roots, it’s often unheard of for a female in my community to be married at the old age of 25. In the last three genera-tions of my family, three out of every four girls, including my mother, have been married at age 18 (or even 17).

I’ve recently started a nursing program and have received a lot of pressure from friends and family to settle down with my boyfriend of ten months.

I’m 19, and still want to see more of the world before I have a family. How do I respond to this?

Cat Lady, in Texas

A: Believe in yourself, and respond confidently that you’re not ready to settle down.

Focus on your nursing program,

which will give you purpose, skills and opportunities to see other places and lifestyles while doing worthwhile work.

Assure your parents and closest people that you still honour the faith and values you’ve grown up with, but that you believe you have time for more learning about the world, and strength of character not to be dam-aged.

Instead, you’ll be better informed to contribute and eventually raise children in a vastly changing global environment.

Explain to your boyfriend that you do care about him, and he should also use this time to broaden his horizons.

The goal is to keep growing, not to cave to others’ fears.

Q: My husband’s grandmother is 88. Shortly after her husband died 18 months ago, her eldest daughter (my mother-in-law) asked if Grandma wanted her to be Power of Attorney.

Grandma said yes. My MIL is POA for both property and for medical. There were no restrictions. Now, my MIL pays all the bills, has bank state-ments sent directly to her, demands receipts from Grandma regarding anything she spends. She speaks for her at all doctors’ appointments.

Grandma is now afraid to change things. She’s talked to a lawyer to restrict her daughter’s access to ac-counts and the money. But the lawyer said she’d have to cancel the POA and start over.

We desperately need a mediator so that the eldest daughter understands that she’s doing a good job, but needs to let Grandma have control, not her.

When Grandma sees her eldest daughter, she has anxiety and gets re-ally upset.

As the DIL, I want to help my Grand-

mother deal with this mess, but I have to live with the MIL for years ahead.

VERY Concerned

A: Your husband should be actively discussing this with his siblings, and insisting together on hiring a legal mediator who specializes in POA cases.

This isn’t the first situation where a well-meaning relative has taken on too much power and is intimidating the elderly person.

And, if starting over with a new document is the best process, so be it.

Meanwhile, someone has to talk to MIL about her behaving too control-ling, and the negative effect this has on an older person’s sense of indepen-dence and well-being.

You can help your MIL understand that she wouldn’t want her own life overtaken years from now. But don’t take the lead, or you’ll end up being seen as the Bad DIL.

Q: I’m 12. A long-ago a friend sat next to me in Art Class. We talked to each

other, since we’d barely seen each other for years.

Another friend told everyone that I “like” this girl. This is still being said, ever since November, though I repeatedly say it’s not true.

Another of my closest friends has been extremely mean to me. He insults everything I do, whether it’s actually good or not. He ignores me when I’m talking, and whispers about me with other friends.

I have many classes with these friends, so it’d be hard to just stop be-ing friends.

Annoyed

A: This annoying, repetitive behav-iour by a group of so-called friends, is bullying. You may not agree, but it’s been bothering you for months and can affect your schoolwork and self-confidence.

You’re smart and self-protective to reach out for advice. Tell your par-ents, and your teachers. The “friends” need to know you won’t accept bully-ing.

# a s k E l l i E

Believe in yourself, keep growingAsk Ellie

“FastrackYour Future!” That’s theway Mervin Richelhoff best describesprograms at Universal Career Collegein Saskatoon. The Dean of Collegesexplained that diploma programs throughUniversal Career College are an efficientway to gain a concentrated education ina specified professional field.The collegeoffers diplomas, in one year or less, in thefollowing areas: Interior Decorator,Legal Assistant, Police Sciences, andTravel Counsellor.

“Our instructors are trained professionalsthat have either come from an experiencedwork environment or are currently workingin the profession. By having experiencedprofessionals we can keep all of ourprograms and courses as up-to-date andrelevant as possible,” says Richelhoff.“Students are learning intensely, but quickly,as the college has introduced technologywith iPads, as a new method of learning.

These methods ensure an easy transitionfrom college to the workplace due to thehands-on experience they acquire.”

“Universal Career College has beenproducing some of the province’s beststudents, in my opinion, for the past 25years.We have a number of organizations(in the community) that continually hireour graduates.The courses we offerare extremely well recognized diplomaprograms.” says Richelhoff.

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By Jenn Sharp

Afghan war veteran Matt Hryciuk is training his dog Gunner to become a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ser-vice dog. Hryciuk, who suffers from PTSD, and several fellow war vets in Warman are training their dogs to-gether.

He volunteers in his friend’s pet store where Gunner frequently ac-companies him. Gunner’s a high energy dog; he needs to be walked twice a day and usually goes on Hry-ciuk’s treadmill once a day as well. If he’s tired out, he focuses better on his training.

Q: How long have you had Gunner?A: He’s 2½ and I got him when he was a puppy.

Q: Where did you get him?A: From a breeder in Saskatoon. He’s an American Staffordshire Terrier.

Q: What drew you to that breed of dog?A: When I got home from Afghan-istan I ended up rescuing a pet and it just didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted it to. There was a lot of issues in that dog that I couldn’t deal with at that time. He started my recovery but (it didn’t work out) so I bought Gunner.

Q: How long were you in Afghan-istan?A: Seven and a half months.

Q: How has Gunner helped with your PTSD?A: We’re getting him trained to be a service dog right now. That’ll be about a year-long process. It’s a lot of training. George (a trainer from Manitoba Search and Rescue out of Winnipeg) has basically given us the means to train dogs into PTSD service dogs. He gives you the list of what to do and it’s all up to you to train them. We’ve got a couple

people in Warman that are Afghan veterans and Bosnian veterans that I’ve been guiding through the pro-cess. Everybody trains their own dog.

Q: What stage is Gunner at in the training?A: He’s pretty fresh yet! Hence the whining right now. Although we didn’t get out for a walk yet this morning and he’s got a lot of energy in him.

Q: How has he helped you with PTSD so far?A: The whole idea of the training is to divert your attention. So when you’re walking around a mall and you get worked up because there’s a lot of people around, he’ll start cry-ing or pawing you to get your atten-tion away from that. It pulls your attention away and puts the focus on trying to make him feel good. It’s been hugely successful. There’s been guys from coast to coast, military veterans that have gone from com-pletely suicidal to a good baseline.

Q: That’s incredible. So the main part of the training is teaching him when and how to avert your attention?A: Yes. It’s building that really good relationship. That’s why we train our own dogs for this. You need that bond between each other so the dog can really feed off you and realize when to try and pull you away. Every case is different. That’s the big thing with PTSD — some guys have wick-ed night terrors and will need the dog to wake them up and cuddle with them. Some guys need that barrier between them and everybody else. Everything changes

Q: Are some dog breeds better suited to this work?A: It’s not so much the breed, it’s temperament. You’re looking for really, soft mellow dogs. Then I go and bring in a high energy one! I bought him because of certain things I wanted to do. I want a high

energy dog that’s going to drag me off my feet. I do weight pull with him as well.

Q: What’s weight pull?A: Basically they have custom-made

harnesses with a strutter pull in the back. It’s a 24-foot length and you’re trying to haul a trailer with weight on it. The fastest time wins. I’ve had him up to 2,150 pounds.

Q: Wow! Does he like doing it?A: Oh ya, he loves it. Calgary is host-ing the championships this year so we’re going to have everybody up from Canada and the States so that will be fun.

Matthew Hryciuk hangs out with his PTSD service dog Gunner in the Midtown Mall food court. bridges phoTo by michelle berg

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Gunner the PTSD service dog


EVENTS What you need to know to plan your week. Send events to [email protected]

# M U S I C

Thursday, Feb. 2 1

Goat BoyCrackers restaurant and Lounge,#1-227 pinehouse dr.

Roots Series: Justin Rut-ledgeThe bassment,b3-202 Fourth ave. n.

Bob Cook and the Mucho Nada Partybuds on broadway,817 broadway ave.

Ariane Moffattamigos Cantina,632 10th st. e.

Boats w/ MoasVangelis Tavern,801 broadway ave.

Wu-Block w/ Ghostface Kil-lah & Sheek LouchThe odeon events Centre,241 second ave. s.

Friday, Feb. 22

Piano Fridays w/ Rick FriendMardi Gras Fest: Abso-funkinlutelyThe bassment,b3-202 Fourth ave. n.

Screamlynebuds on broadway,817 broadway ave.

3 Pack + Onearmy & navy Veterans Club,359 First ave. n.

It’s Too Late, BabyMcnally robinson,3130 eighth st. e.

The Pharcyde 20th Anni-versary Tour w/ Hustle & Thrive, The Lost Kings and Deep Caveamigos Cantina,632 10th st. e.

Fortunate Isles

Vangelis Tavern,801 broadway ave.

Olde Thyme Rhythm MakersFairfield seniors’ Centre,103 Fairmont Cr.

Tim VaughnLydia’s pub,650 broadway ave.

In FlamesThe odeon events Centre,241 second ave. s.

Donnie Anaquod & Com-panyToon Town Tavern,1630 Fairlight dr.

The 11th Octave (LORD FUNK)somewhere else pub and grill,2605 broadway ave.

Rory Borealis and the Northern Lights w/ Funk-smiths, Forever Land and Bastard PoetryThe Fez,834b broadway ave.

Jomamastan’s place,106-110 ruth st. e.

DVBBSTequila nightclub,1201 albert ave.

Saturday, Feb. 23

Mardi Gras Fest: Dr. Don & The Black Mambas, Zyde-Gogo and The Crawdaddios The bassment,b3-202 Fourth ave. n.

Sarah Sleanbroadway Theatre,715 broadway ave.

Screamlynebuds on broadway,817 broadway ave.

3 Pack + Onearmy & navy Veterans Club,359 First ave. n.

Wyndham ThiessenMcnally robinson,3130 eighth st. e.

Seahags w/ Down Home Boys and The WildmenVangelis Tavern,801 broadway ave.

Noble ThiefsLydia’s pub,

650 broadway ave.

Jay Tripwire w/ Dr. J and John Stoneamigos Cantina,632 10th st. e.

The 11th Octave (LORD FUNK)somewhere else pub and grill,2605 broadway ave.

Caught in a DreamThe Fez,834b broadway ave.

Jomamastan’s place,106-110 ruth st. e.

DislexikTequila nightclub,1201 albert ave.

Sunday, Feb. 24

Blues JamVangelis Tavern,801 broadway ave.

Tonight It’s PoetryLydia’s pub,650 broadway ave.

Monday, Feb. 25

Soulfly w/ Incite and Lody KongLouis’ pub,93 Campus dr.

Tuesday, Feb. 26

Grady Champion Bandbuds on broadway,817 broadway ave.

Karaoke DeathstarThe Fez,834b broadway ave.

Open MicLydia’s pub,650 broadway ave.

Wednesday, Feb. 27

Grady Champion Bandbuds on broadway,817 broadway ave.

Open Mic The Fez,834b broadway ave.

Johnny Broadway Record ClubVangelis Tavern,801 broadway ave.

Souled OutLydia’s pub,650 broadway ave.

# ART

Mendel Art GalleryThe winter exhibitions are on view until March 10. Luna is an architectural installation created from welded steel by saskatoon artist alison norlen. steeling the gaze: portraits by aboriginal artists comprises 51 compelling pho-tographs of aboriginal people. The works are from the col-lection of the national gallery of Canada. stephen hutch-ings: Landscapes for the end of Time presents massive oil and charcoal paintings depicting timeless, idealized landscapes. The artists by artists exhibition, outsiders, features works by humboldt

Magnussen and his mentor, Zachari Logan. independent producer, filmmaker and photographer Marcel petit is giving a basic filmmak-ing workshop for adults on Feb. 24 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. presented in partnership with paVed arts, the workshop is free, and all materials are pro-vided. Call Carol at 975-8144 to register. Visit mendel.ca.

SCYAP Galleryuntil Feb. 22 at 253 Third ave. s. nudes encouraged Too: saturday Morning drawing group. artists who have been drawing together for 30 years showcase their work. Fasd art show, works completed by children with Fasd, runs until March 8.

Paved Arts/AKA Galleryuntil Feb. 23 at 424 20th st. W. Quietly at the Window, by Laura dutton. This exhibit features a series of free-standing photographic prints investigating light, both as the elemental material of photographic process and as a subject matter. Toon’s Kitchen: The saskatoon screening room Viii features Troy gronsdahl’s The Knot. runs until March 2. a quiet, poetic intervention that tran-spires between subject and landscape. With a critical es-say by Lee henderson entitled “on surrender as an act of infiltration.” a reception will be held Feb. 15 at 8 p.m.

Parkridge Centreuntil Feb. 28 at 110 gropper Cres. a variety of mediums and subject matter by the different strokes artists’ group.

St. Thomas More Galleryuntil Feb. 28 at 1437 Col-lege dr. ancestral ground, a selection of prints and works on canvas, from the 1970s to the present, by artist ray Keighley.

Dana Claxton’s photograph Daddy’s Gotta New Ride is part of the exhibition Steeling the Gaze at the Mendel Art Gallery until March 10.


Station Arts Centre, Rosthernuntil Feb. 28 at 701 railway ave., rosthern. modern me-chanical abstractions exhibits acrylic paintings by Wendy siemens and ceramic cast engines exhibits samples from clint neufeld’s series grandpa Washed my hands with gasoline.

Meewasin Valley Centre GalleryThrough February at 402 Third ave. s. Walks with gina, by erich Keser. it is an exhibit depicting images of plants, birds and natural scenes in all seasons.

Art at Will (formerly Willow Studio)until march 1 at The Wood ale-house, 148 second ave. n. The Tree show, works interpreting the tree motif. includes several saskatoon and area artists. The moving show opens march 1. it will be replenished as art is sold and reopen at a new surprise location in may.

The Gallery, Frances Morrison Libraryuntil march 14 at 311 23rd st. e. it’s not you, it’s me, by Karla griffin. it explores emotional relationships with and sever-ances from personal objects.

Handmade House Showcase Galleryuntil march 30 at 710 broad-way ave. canadian Land-scapes, by Leona Larsen.

Western Development Mu-seumuntil march 31 at 2610 Lorne ave. s. Food for heath Travel-ling exhibit. From the canada agriculture museum, Food for health takes a fresh look at the food we eat with interactive exhibits. Visit www.wdm.ca.

The NestThrough march at 333 Third ave. s. new work in encaustic

and oil by Kathy bradshaw.

The Mix Artist Collectivereopening for the spring sea-son on april 27. With the works of 16 local artists. The gallery is located at 529 24th st. e. hours are saturday, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment.

# SPECIAL EVENTS

Dr. Sketchy’s Derby GirlsFeb. 22, 7 p.m., at Free Flow dance centre, 224 25th st. W. presented by dr. sketchy’s anti-art school. With live models from the saskatoon roller derby League, sketch contests, music and a cash bar. drawing experience is not required.

All-You-Can-Eat Varenyky (Perogy) SupperFeb. 22, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at ukrainian orthodox cathedral auditorium, 919 20th st. W. includes dessert and a bever-age. meat and cabbage rolls are available at extra cost.

The Mark of Zorro: Silence is Golden Orchestral EventFeb. 23, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., at roxy Theatre. presented by new community credit union. The saskatoon symphony or-chestra performs the orches-tral accompaniment for the

1920 silent movie, The mark of Zorro.

Your Book’s Been Published – Now What?Feb. 23, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., at The refinery. To register visit www.writerscoop.org. Learn numerous tactics and meth-ods to market your published book. a workshop presented by author Wes Funk. bloggers and other writers can benefit as well.

11th Annual Saskatoon Blues FestivalFeb. 25 to march 3 in sas-katoon. some of canada’s best musical talent, along with international artists, are featured over seven days at the saskatoon blues Festival. Visit www.saskatoonblues-society.ca.

Art Classes for SeniorsTuesdays through Feb. 26, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the sas-katoon council on aging. The scoa and artist gisele bauche offer painting Flowers in Watercolour. Fun and easy instruction on how to create beautiful flowers, leaves and outdoor garden scenes. For beginners and advanced. Lim-ited enrolment. To register call 652-2255 or email [email protected].

Community Arts Eventspresented by the bahá’í com-munity of saskatoon as part of their ayyam-i-ha celebra-tions to celebrate the arts and our cultural diversity. These days of hospitality, enjoyment, and charity are a period of preparation for the 19-day fast.Feb. 26, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., at station 20 West, 1120 20th st. W. an evening of art. a slide/talk presentation featuring the work of local bahá’í, including otto rogers and others who have influ-enced the development of the saskatoon art commu-nity. With food and refresh-ments from chep.Feb. 27, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., at La Troupe du Jour, 914 20th st. W. an evening of music. a variety of musical talents of-fer original compositions and timeless favourites. refresh-ments are included.Feb. 28, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., at The refinery. an evening of poetry. poets of ranging ages and styles and a collabora-tive poetry composing game. snacks will follow. please dress beatnik style.

Free the Children’s We DayFeb. 27 at credit union cen-tre. an educational event and a movement of young people

leading local and global change. With actor martin sheen, record-ing artists hedley, actors mia Farrow, Luke bilyk and aislinn paul, singers shawn des-man, Karl Wolf, Jake Zeldin, a performance by one drop, a cirque du soleil Founder’s initiative, founders of Free the children craig and marc Kielburger, motivational speaker molly burke, author robin Wiszowaty and host Jesse giddings.

Book Discussion Groupmarch 5, 7 p.m., at the unitarian congrega-tion, 213 second st. e. a four-part discus-sion series based on alain de botton’s book religion for atheists: a non-believer’s guide to the uses of religion. de botton suggests that even if one rejects reli-gious doctrine there are still important insights to be gained from the study of religion. There is no charge, but advance registration is requested. on-site childcare is available on request (one week advance notice is re-quired). call 653-2402 or email [email protected].

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Massive Munschruns to Feb. 24 at The refinery. presented by Wide open children’s Theatre. six stories by robert munsch, adapted by Wide open and performed with puppets. includes something good, The Fire station, Zoom, i’m so embarrassed, class clown and The paper-bag princess.

Karla Griffin’s exhibition It’s not you, It’s me is at The Gallery at Frances Morrison Library until March 14.

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The lobster poutine at La Bodega sells for $23.75. It’s served with fries, chicken gravy, smoked Gouda and big chunks of real lobster. bridges phoTo by andreW MaTTe

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By Jenn Sharp

Poutine is gross. Think about it — deep fried

morsels of potato topped with gooey cheese and more fat. It’s enough to make your heart stop, Yet, Saskatchewan loves this dish.

It all started in rural Quebec in the 1950s and quickly spread to the cities, and across Canada. The classic French-Canadian dish consists of fresh cut french fries, cheese curds and brown gravy. Saskatchewan generally puts its own spin on poutine, where it can commonly be found in greasy spoon diners across the province, by substituting grated mozzarella cheese for cheese curds.

I had never heard of poutine until my family moved to the (then) small town of Warman, lo-cated north of Saskatoon. Gangs of teenagers would descend on the local diners for lunches that usually contained poutine. I thought it looked disgusting. Then I tasted the luscious fries, atop which hot gravy had melted copious amounts of cheese, and I was in love. I proceeded to eat it throughout high school and into my twenties until an aging metabolism caught up with me. I now restrict myself to once a year. My pants never fit prop-erly the morning after a poutine binge.

The secret to great poutine is the gravy. Expertly crafted, homemade gravy can make any type of French fry (even frozen McCains) taste better. The best poutine in Saskatoon is at Nino’s on Broadway. Order it with extra cheese and gravy for a heart-pounding experience! Many agree that Costco in both Sas-katoon and Regina has the best cheese curd poutine.

Gourmet poutine is fast be-coming a trend with many res-taurants offering their take on

the classic. Duck Duck Goose serves duck gravy poutine with proper cheese curds in their tapas dining room in Saskatoon. Unless I’d been out late the night before, I can’t imagine starting the day with a poutine. However, breakfast poutine is the star of the brunch menu at both The Hollows and Truffles Bistro. The Hollows’ version has Quebec cheese curds and bacon lardon (small cubes of pork fat); while Truffles changes it up with hash browns, two poached eggs and hollandaise.

In 2011, a Quebec chef named Chuck Hughes won Iron Chef America by making a multi-course menu using Canadian lobster. One of the dishes was lobster poutine. If you’d like to taste Regina’s own version of this dish, visit La Bodega Tapas Bar & Grill. Sauce veloute (a clas-sic French sauce made from flour, butter and stock) and smoked Gouda smother bite-sized lobster pieces. At $23.75, this is probably the most expensive poutine you’ll ever eat, but QC reporter Andrew Matte, says it’s worth the high price.

“The fries are cut from real po-tato, and the smoked Gouda and veloute sauce add a unique touch to this familiar dish. To top it all off, if you will, is the big, tasty chunks of lobster meat. Diners won’t be disappointed. And the heat from the gravy does what it’s supposed to, which is to bring all the flavours together and melt the cheese over the fries and lobster.

“Nobody should feel guilty eat-ing it all in one sitting, especially since taking leftover poutine home to eat another day is likely a bad idea,” he says.

Hot lobster on french fries? Sounds kinda gross to me.

This column was previously published in Bridges on January 19, 2012.

# S a S k a t c h e w a n F o o d S c e n e

Poutine’s gooey goodness not for the faint of heart

Leo Pantel is the executive chef at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina and a two-time contender in Gold Med-al Plates. He’s become adept at serving a large crowd. For a wedding last year, he organized a poutine action station. This is the recipe he used: Serves 4 to 6

Base Poutine Recipe: > 7 large Yukon gold pota-toes > 1 tbsp. vegetable oil > 1 shallot, minced > 1 small garlic clove, minced > 4 cups veal stock

> 2 tbsp. ketchup > 1 tbsp. cider vinegar > 1 tbsp. whole green pepper-corns > 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce > 2 tbsp. butter > 2 tbsp. flour > 2 cups cheddar cheese curds > salt and pepper to taste > Vegetable oil for frying

1. Clean and peel potatoes. Cut potatoes into desired size keeping in mind the thicker cuts will require longer cook-ing. Place in large bowl filled with salted cold water and let

sit for one hour and up to 24 hours for extra crispy fries.

2. In a saucepan, heat the vegetable oil on medium heat and saute the shallots and garlic until translucent, about 3 minutes. Add veal stock, ketchup, cider vinegar, peppercorns, Worcestershire and bring to a boil.

3. Meanwhile, in a separate saucepan on medium high heat melt butter. Add flour and stir for 2-3 minutes form-ing a roux. Allow to brown slightly. Whip the roux mix-ture into the stock and let

simmer for about 20 minutes until reduced by half and thickened. Season with salt and pepper. Keep warm.

4. In a deep fryer set to 250°F, blanch the fries for 2 minutes. Let them rest for 5 minutes. Fry them again for 2 minutes or until golden brown. Place on a tray lined with paper towel to absorb excess oil, add salt and pepper to taste.

5. Remove sauce from the stovetop and strain. Plate fries in a shallow bowl, pour sauce on top and garnish with cheese curds.

# R e c I P e S F o R a S U n d a Y a F t e R n o o n

Gourmet Poutine


By James Romanow

There are few more robust reds in this world than Cabernet Sauvignon.

It’s not an easy grape to love: It has never been the best-selling varietal and never will be. The complexity of the wine depends on an in-teraction between a slightly herbaceous nose and a dry palate. It has a decent acidity, some subtle fruit and tongue-scraping tannins. How-ever, it will always have fans.

If you doubt me, adjourn to the last remain-ing bastion of males: The steak house. It is here men retire when all about them is defeat and destruction. When the trees are bare, and your fourth wife is suing for divorce, you can find shelter with the only person who under-stands you: Fritz/Jacques/Marie-Claire — professionals of an age who understand the travails of life.

They will serve an excellent martini (more or less straight gin), steaks made to perfection, and let you have your pick from a wine list the size of a phone book. Most of them are devoted to Cabernet Sauvignon and other wines that depend on the grape for structure.

If that sounds like a small slice of heaven to you, then you need to try St. Francis Cabernet Sauvignon. Made from ancient vines in Sono-ma, by a winery that aims for the perfect dry red table wine, this is a wine that could encour-

age a cardinal to consider allowing women into the priesthood.

Best of all, you can achieve the same effect in the comfort of your own home. Oh, Fritz may be missing but I can think of few better ways to spend a February evening than grilling a steak and opening a bottle of St. Francis.

St. Francis Cabernet Sauvignon, USA, 2009. $28.99 *****

More wines for cardinals and women in Mon-day’s StarPhoenix or on Twitter @drbooze.

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