Fenty
Dorothy Dean Fenty (Dixon) passed away at St. Paul’s Hospital on March 28, 2013. She was born in Melaval, Saskatchewan on July 29, 1928 to George and Margaret Dixon, and is predeceased by her husband John Fenty, two sisters, and four brothers. Dorothy will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her son George (Debbie) Fenty of Saskatoon, brother Ian Dixon of Moose Jaw, sister-in-law Shirley Dixon of Sylvan Lake, Alta., as well as many nieces and nephews. In keeping with Dorothy’s request, there will be no funeral service. A private burial will take place at the family plot in Rosedale Cemetery, Moose Jaw. George and Debbie are grateful to Jan Bennetto and her care home staff for their compassion and care over the past four-and-a-half years, and to the wonderful nurses on 5th Floor Medicine, St. Paul’s Hospital. For those wishing, memorial donations can be made in Dorothy’s name and may be made to the Alzheimer’s Society of Saskatchewan, 1405 Faulkner Crescent, Saskatoon, S7L 3R5. Arrangements are entrusted to Acadia-McKague’s Funeral Centre (955-1600)
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Amrud
Christina Amrud of Davidson, Sask. passed away at the Davidson Health Centre on March 18, 2013 at the age of 85 years. Chris had been ill for about one year.
Christina was born in Poland on Nov. 7, 1927.
Chris married Orvald Amrud on Nov. 29, 1946. Orvald passed away in 1994.
Christina’s children are Gary Amrud of Davidson, Gayle (Andre) Deschamps of Ottawa, Susan Amrud (Dick Scott) of Regina and Cindy (Bob) Shorter of Saskatoon. Christina is also survived by her sister Irene Griffith of Toronto, Ont.; sisters-in-law Minnie Kimball of Hanley and Ida Barlow of Davidson; and brother-in-law Alvin Amrud of Saskatoon.
Christina attended the Saskatoon Business College and worked as a secretary at the Davidson Co-op, lawyers’ office and doctors’ office.
Christina was a member of the United Church and took part in the Rebekah’s.
She and Dad enjoyed bowling and golfing. Chris loved to travel and spend time with her six grandchildren.
Christina’s funeral was on March 22, 2013 at 11 a.m. in the Davidson United Church with Rev. Diane Eurig officiating. The choir was in attendance. Pallbearers were Lance Barlow, Steven Barlow, Cory Chomyshen, Paul Chomyshen, Kim Sampson and Donald Sampson.
Interment was at the Davidson Cemetery.
Hanson’s Funeral Services were in care of arrangements.
Playschool enters world of visual arts
Davidson Playschool students are entering the world of visual arts this spring thanks to a recently received $4,180 Creative Partnerships Explorations grant.
Terra Fazakas, grants representative with the Davidson Playschool Association, said they are putting the grant money towards bringing visual artist Derek Pho to the classroom in early May to help the 42 kids who attend the playschool to create a papier måché project. She said the two-, three- and four-year-old students would compile the hands-on piece into a larger-than-life local wildlife animal.
“Our focus is going to be on sustainability,” said Fazakas. “It’s got an environmental twist and it’ll be how the community interacts with your surroundings. It’ll be an animal that is local to Saskatchewan in our area that’s native in a local environment.”
Fazakas said the project is still in the development stage, but what would likely happen is the kids would create small shapes individually before combining them to make a bigger shape. She said the playschool, which is located in a room at Davidson School, would have the artist come in for two days to work with the students and give them directions on how to build the papier måché animal.
This is the first time the Davidson Playschool Association has been awarded a Creative Partnerships Explorations grant. The grant program’s mandate is to explore how the visual arts can enhance environmental stewardship within the classroom and funding partners include the Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture Inc., Saskatchewan Lotteries and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education.
“We hope to do more (Creative Partnerships Explorations projects) in the future,” said Fazakas. “This one is actually geared towards communities. We hope to be involving local businesses and local groups and volunteers from the town for recyclable donations to help build the structure.”
Davidson Communities in Bloom enter into non-competitive judging category to grade “health” of town
Communities in Bloom has entered into a non-competitive judging category that will grade the “overall health” of the entire community of Davidson.
Erin Gust, treasurer of Communities in Bloom, said judges from the provincial organization of Communities in Bloom would head to town this summer to rate the beauty of various attractions in Davidson. She said the community as a whole and all community groups would be rated in order to give Communities in Bloom a “benchmark” of what the beautification of the town is and what they would need to improve on.
“What (the judges) do is they provide you with an evaluation report and there is eight key criteria that they look at,” said Gust. “There is tidiness, tree and urban forest management, landscaped areas, floral design, turf and ground cover, environmental awareness, community involvement and natural and cultural heritage conservation.”
Gust said items such as the new planters that are located throughout the town, the new garbage cans on Washington Avenue, the parks, playground, library, landfill and the reverse osmosis water system are some of the things the provincial Communities in Bloom judges will be grading. She said Davidson would not be competing against other towns in the judging, but Communities in Bloom will still put in the extra effort once the snow melts to make sure everything is as beautiful as can be.
“We don’t have an exact plan set out yet, but we definitely would like our town to look as good as it can look,” she said. “We’ll be talking to businesses and talking to other community groups and just make sure everybody is on side.”
To read more please see the April 1 print edition of The Davidson Leader.
Kodiaks crowned provincial champs
The Kenaston Kodiaks senior girls basketball team are 1A provincial champions.
The girls won both their games at HOOPLA March 22 and 23, beating the Lake Lenore Lancers 61-60 in the first match held at St. Joseph High School in Saskatoon before taking home the gold with a decisive 51-38 win over the Middle Lake Three Lakes School Avengers at Evan Hardy Collegiate a day later. This is the first provincial title for the Kodiaks since 1999.
Gene Zdunich, head coach of the Kodiaks, said the girls played great in the final game against the Avengers and deserved the win, but they have to credit a few outstanding individual performances in the dying seconds of their game against the Lancers to get them to that gold medal game.
“It was a tense game right from start to finish,” said Zdunich about their 61-60 win over the Lancers. “It was real close. There were quite a few lead changes and we were four points down with about a minute left and (point guard) Eve Ulmer hit a three. Then somebody travelled on Lake Lenore and Eve took the ball to the basket and hit both of her foul shots with about 17 seconds left. They called a timeout and advanced the ball and (centre) Maria Matovich blocked a shot just on the edge of the key with time running out and we won by one.”
Kenaston’s only Grade 12 player, forward Shae-Lynn Evans, lead all Kodiaks’ scorers with 17 points against the Lancers. Against the Avengers, Maria stepped up with 20 points to lead all Kenaston scorers.
“We played pretty well against Middle Lake,” he said. “We controlled their players that we knew we needed to control and scored when we had to. We had the lead throughout. They took a run at us a couple of times, but they never got the lead.”
Zdunich said the team never had any expectations of being so successful this year, but their goal was to make it to HOOPLA and win at least one game. He said the season as a whole was “pretty successful” for the girls and even more especially so given the age and number of players on the senior club.
“It was an exciting season,” he said. “We didn’t play very much because we only have eight players, three of which are in Grade 8. We only played 23 games before playoffs just to try and keep our players fresh and avoid injuries and sickness from getting run down too much.”
The coach said he’s not predicting a dynasty starting up for the Kodiaks considering seven of those players will be back on the court next year, but he is hopeful for continued success.
Craik School drama students showcase “Night of the Prowler” at dessert theatre
Three months of hard work by Craik School drama students ended in a murder by the infamous prowler being thwarted in the school gym last Monday night.
Well, at least a fictional murder in the funny and entertaining 2013 Craik School Dessert Theatre play “Night of the Prowler.”
Janet Warkentin, co-director of the play, said the students involved in the school’s annual Dessert Theatre drama production put on a great performance in front of the over 100 people that crammed into the school gym to watch the play. She said it was especially hard to stage the play this year considering the winter weather conditions, but the students all pulled through and should be commended for their dedication to putting on a good show.
“They all worked really hard coming to practices and learning their lines,” said Warkentin. “With this year there was a lot of snow days, so we had less practices than usual, but we always seem to pull it off in the end.”
Whitney Ryan Garrity’s “Night of the Prowler” is a comedy-thriller that shines a spotlight on a group of scared family members and servants locked up in a mansion during a frightening thunderstorm while trying to decipher if someone amongst them is the murderous prowler that is stalking the people of Los Angeles.
The play opens with the extremely excitable maid Gertie (Megan Korchinski) reading a mystery novel before catching a glimpse of the prowler lurking outside. She lets out a scream and sets the play in motion. In rushes the stoic butler Fitch (Drayden Selinger) who finds a note that says the owner of the house, Burton Wingate (SkyAnn Stinson), will be murdered at midnight.
To read more please see the April 1 print edition of The Davidson Leader.