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POETRY CONTEST

All you budding poets out there, pick up your quill and paper, and enter our fabulous poetry contest.

You start with a line Saskatoon poet Elizabeth Philips has written.

The line is "I want to take this day and slow it down by watching."

Then, the rest is up to you. But it should be no longer than a half a page (roughly 10 to 15 lines)

There are two categories: 15 years of age and under OR 16 years of age and older.

You can send your entry by email at pmedition@regina.cbc.ca.

You can also mail your entry to:

Attn: Afternoon Edition, Poetry Contest
2440 Broad St.
Regina, SK
S4P 4A1

All entries must be in by October 11th.

Get writing!

My Favourite Book

To enter:  Send a postcard, a letter or e-mail to:
The Afternoon Edition and tell us in 50 words or less:

1. The title and author of your favourite book.
2. Why you like it and how it makes you feel.
3. Your full name and address.
4. Your age if under 16.

Send your entry to:
My Favourite Book Contest
The Afternoon Edition
CBC Radio One
2440 Broad Street
Box 540
Regina, SK S4P 4A1
pmedition@regina.ca

1. Deadline for entries is Friday, October 13, 2006.
2. Winning entries will be read on CBC Radio One's  The Afternoon Edition between 4 - 6 pm Monday, October 16 through Friday, October 20.
3. Winning entries receive book prizes.
4. Entries are welcome from all ages.
5. We are unable to return submissions.

For more information visit:
www.lib.sk.ca/sla/
and www.cbc.ca/afternooneditionsask

Here are the wines on this week's wonderful wine column:

Sparkling:  Mumm's Cuvee Napa Brut, Napa Valley, California id# 3359,
non-vintage $25.95 per 750ml bottle

White: Fleur du Cap Sauvignon Blanc, 2005 from Berkgelder Winery in the
Stellenbosch region of South Africa, id# 2316, $13.45 per 750ml bottle

Red: Bonterra Vineyards (by Fetzer) 2004 Zinfandel from Mendocino County
California, id# 4642, $19.99 per 750ml bottle

Sweet: Magnotta Vidal Ice Wine 2004, VQA Niagara, id# 3022, $30.61 per
375ml bottle

FROM FRATELLI'S CAFFE - RECIPES TO GO WITH WONDERFUL WINES

CREME CLAM MUSHROOM CAPS - THE NEW CLASSIC

10 mushroom caps
Fill caps with garlic cream cheese (*see recipe below).
Push two clams into cheese.
Dust with lemon pepper.
Dust with seasoning salt.
Sprinkle with fresh parmesan.
Bake at 425 degrees in a covered pie plate for 7 to 10 minutes.
Uncover and bake for 2 minutes to brown.

Arrange on a plate and garnish with a parsley sprig.

GARLIC CREAM CHEESE

1/2 cup cream cheese
1/2 cup garlic butter

Mix these two items.


ESCARGOT
10 mushroom caps - stem removed
Escargot in the cap
1/4 tsp garlic butter on top of escargot
Dust with seasoning salt
Dust with lemon pepper
Sprinkle with fresh parmesan.
Bake at 425 degrees in a covered pie plate for 7 to 10 minutes.
Uncover and bake for 2 minutes to brown.
Arrange on a plate and garnish with parsley sprigs.

GARLIC BUTTER
1 cup margarine or butter
1 soup spoon garlic granules
1 soup spoon oregano (or your favorite herb)

Mix the ingredients.



Look out Colin Grewar, here comes Raven! Does Raven have what it takes to be a CBC host? She is one of four dogs in the province to achieve the grand master hunter designation.



Is it a bird, a plane, a squash? No, it's a Rusta Italia zucchini, grown in our own Bernie Zaharik's garden.


Congratulations to the winners of the Opening Paragraph contest on the Afternoon Edition:

FIRST PLACE - Shelley A. Leedahl

     First the same things everyone forgets: names, appointments, where they left  their keys. Then you're standing at the Safeway check out with an enormous ham in your basket, trying to pay with your library card. Your mother went this way; it wasn't pretty. You scramble to compile a list -- who is important to you, and why -- staccato memories on your laptop as quickly as they'll come, a sound like squirrels skittering across a tin roof. You open the newspaper. Soon you'll believe anything you read. In Section C, a recruitment for medical subjects: Do You Have Alzheimer's? I don't know, you think, I can't remember. As long as you know why you're laughing.

Runner-up - Ron Welgan

    It all started with a frog. A frog and a mushroom, actually, but the frog was the eye-catcher. Its high gloss shades of green were colours not seen in nature. Not in this part of the country, nor anywhere else, most likely. From its perch on a two foot tall electric blue mushroom it leered at passers-by with a wide orange grin. Did I mention the frog was the size of a four month old St. Bernard? But not nearly as cuddly. Definitely not cuddly.

Runner-up - James Park

      When I woke up this morning, I was dead.   Now, you might think this was the type of thing that could ruin a person's whole day, but to be honest, I didn't even notice at first.  I went about my normal morning routine, brushed my hair and teeth, fed the cat, and got the paper from the bushes outside. It wasn't until I went back to my bedroom, and saw me lying next to my wife that I realized there was anything even slightly wrong.

YOUTH WINNERS

Gloria Sun - age 7

      Once upon a time, there was a happy family of fish. Mermaid the kid, Angel fish the mom and Octopus the dad. They were very happy until one day, they had a new baby fish they named him Sea turtle. At first they thought he was sweet. But once he was five, he was terrifying. No friends he had because he was very annoying and often bothered other fish. By the time he was ten he often attacked other fish. His friends and family wanted to tame him and FAST!

Emily Pletz - age 10

     It was gone... all gone. The cupboards were empty and the shelves were bare .The young house let out a creak. Yellow paint that once glowed, faded to skeletal grey. Nail holes showed where beautiful paintings had once hung glamourously. Now the paintings were gone. The wooden boards creaked and a step was broken. The house looked lonely. Once, it used to be filled with happiness.  Now it was filled with anxiety and sadness. The stone house stood there, calling out meekly for someone to warm it again with kindness. Nothing could bring back life to this young house. It was gone.

Stephanie Buydens - age 17

      The gnomes were enjoying themselves, gnome-children playing, gnome-adults talking among themselves and the trees, when the trees started a new warning-song. It was strange, like nothing they had ever heard. It was a mixture of chilling pain cries suddenly cut short, songs of trees mourning other trees and a desperate call for gnome-adults to come, quickly. Gnomes rushed to see what it was. And what they saw shocked them.




Patio Wines - recommended by Tracy and Steve Hurlburt, Wines and Spirits columnists for The Afternoon Edition


1. Lindemans Bin 35 Grenache Rose, 2005 vintage,  $12.10 per bottle

2. Torreon de Paredes Merlot Reserve (Chile), 2004 vintage,  $15.95 per bottle

3. Sumac Ridge Private Reserve Gewürztraminer VQA (Okanagan), 2005 Vintage, $14.86 per bottle

4. Beringer Sparkling White Zinfandel (USA) Non-Vintage,  $15.07 per bottle


Here's a sample of photos you can see at The Exchange by Alison Dean. The exhibit is called 'People Who Need People.'











Summer Drink Recipes - by Steve and Tracy Hurlburt

* don't forget the most important ingredient: Tiny Umbrellas

Sparkling Mojito

1 to 2 ounces white or amber rum
2 teaspoons fresh squeezed lime juice
2 teaspoons of Berry sugar (often called bartender's sugar)
4 to 6 mint leaves
ice
soda water

Crush 4 to 6 Mint leaves with a mortar and pestle (or the back of a spoon) and place in a shaker with 1 to 2 ounces of white or amber rum and 2 teaspoons of fresh squeezed lime juice and 2 teaspoons of Berry sugar.

*don't use regular sugar or icing sugar as the former doesn't dissolve well and the latter turns into globs.

Shake your money maker and pour the strained result over a glass 1/3 filled with ice.
Top up the glass with fresh soda water, mix and garnish with a sprig of mint and a lime slice or a half of a small key lime.  Enjoy!


The NAFTA-Rita

A unique version of the margarita that Tracy and I came up with using contributions from all three NAFTA amigos!  Hola-heh?

2 ½ ounces tequila
1 ½ ounces Southern Comfort
3/4 ounce Canadian whiskey
2 teaspoons berry sugar (bartender's sugar)
1 1/4 ounces fresh lime juice

Add first 3 ingredients to a shaker filled with ice and 2 teaspoons of berry sugar (bartender's sugar) as well as 1 to 1 ¼ ounces of fresh lime juice.  Shake for all you are worth and pour into a suitable glass.  Enjoy seated or at least find a wall to hold up, this is a cocktail with a hidden agenda.


Finally, the ultimate expression of patriotism, the Canad-eh? Cocktail

This original drink was formulated and first consumed on the 1st of July, 2006 which explains why we missed the fireworks!

1 ½ ounces Saskatoon Berry syrup (try Riverbend Plantation, Saskatoon OR Peg's Legs in Regina)
1 ½ ounces Canadian Club Whiskey
1 ½ ounces of Canada Dry Ginger Ale
3-4 ounces of any dry Canadian sparkling wine

In a shaker half filled with crushed ice add 1 ½ ounces of Saskatoon Berry syrup (we tried it with Chokecherry as well but it is harder to find, try Riverbend Plantation near Saskatoon or Peg's Leg's in Regina which is where we found both syrups), then pour in 1 ½ ounces of Canadian Club Whisky.  Shake and pour into a beer glass (what else?) that has a few ice cubes in it.  Add 1 ½ ounces of Canada Dry Ginger Ale (the champagne of Ginger Ales?!) and 3-4 ounces of any dry Canadian sparkling wine (we used President's brand which used to be called Bright's Canadian President).   Stir and serve.  Oh-Canada!


Let's go fly a kite! Some kite enthusiasts 'flew' in Regina on their way to Swift Current and they brought their kites to the CBC Broadcast Centre.








Some sights from National Aboriginal Day in Wascana Park







Nostra Aetate or Our Times - exhibition at the Art Gallery of Regina (June 9'06)


Dancing Buddha and the Marshmallow Bananas by David Dreher.  It is on display at the Art Gallery of Regina until June 24'06.


Kali and the Swedish Berries by David Dreher. It is on display at the Art Gallery of Regina until June 24'06.


Moose Jaw Standard Car
Here's a picture of the car that was manufactured in Moose Jaw

Photo credit:  Moose Jaw Public Library Archives


Canada the Cat made an amazing 8-hour journey in the wheel-well of a semi from Esterhazy to Eldridge, North Dakota. And now Canada has been adopted is resting well.


Check out this picture...it was forgotten in a
1928 Kodak Hawkeye camera for more
than 60 years.


The photo of Axel Olson of Piapot which was developed off of a roll of film recently discovered in a 1928 Kodak Hawkeye camera in the collection of the S.W. Sask. Oldtimers' Museum & Archives.



The 1928 Kodak Hawkeye camera which was donated to the S.W. Sask. Oldtimers' Museum & Archives in 1991 with an undeveloped photo still inside.

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