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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 07 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Vivian Bennett’s art, a refl ection of prairie life and culture

MOUSH SARA JOHNWEEKENDER REPORTER

The painter Vivian Bennett’s work can be described in many ways – vibrant, surreal, warm, larger-than-life – but through all of this runs a streak that is difficult to ignore, a slice of life from the Prairies.

In almost all of her paintings, whether por-traiture or landscape, Bennett has been able to capture the inner life and culture of the prai-rie people, and a love for what goes on within the prairie homes once work is done outdoors.

“Coming across a pro-cess that ‘works’ is a great ending to a prob-lem,” explained Bennett. “I am always searching for answers and I hope I never stop; in fact, I

believe that ‘peaking’ is the beginning of the art-ist’s demise.”

Born and raised as a city girl in Edmonton, Bennett was drawn to the pencil from a very early age, however, with limited exposure to art education in those days, it was quite a challenge to pursue the craft.

But not being someone to give up easily, Bennett took advantage of the commercial art program offered under the direc-tion of Art Evoy and June Morrison, while attend-ing Victoria Composite High School in the mid 1960s.

“Painting for me is a process that I continue to enjoy and look for-ward to every day,” said Bennett. “The biggest challenge is to make the shapes fit the colours

and the spaces fit the shapes.”

One of the most im-portant and rather “happy accidents” to happen to Bennett was her role as a ‘window dresser’ at the 8 Avenue Bay in Calgary, where she worked for 10 years before she joined the photo studio in the ad-vertising department of the same outfit.

“It is there that I learnt so much of what I have brought to my paintings,” said Bennett. “While working there I learned how to choose models, dress them and stage them in a set-up to tell a story.”

And so ‘spaces and shapes’ became her painting style and ‘set-ting-up the story’ be-came her drive, said Bennett.

“Together they form my work today,” added Bannett. “This process of

telling my stories within the confines of my prai-rie culture, continues to

motivate and challenge my skills as an artist.”

Moush Sara John/Weekender reporter

Vivian Bennett in her studio in Rochon Sands with her painting titled ‘Sometimes Life Can be Such a Drag Thought Martha’, a part of the private collection of the artist.

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Bennett considers her-self a student of life, al-ways learning and much of her subjects are people she knows and interacts regularly.

Her neighbour who took eggs to town inspired her painting “On Thursday Elsie Took the Egg Money to Town” and portrays a red barn with prairie skies stretching out in the back-

ground, as her neighbour with a basket in the crook of her arms makes her way back home.

The painting which she did as part of an art com-petition for Cenovus for their new building is now a part of their permanent collection.

“I didn’t win the com-petition, but they did pur-chase the painting and that was a really big deal for me,” said Bennett.

“Here people still care about each other and look after each other, similar to the way it was in pioneer days, when you had to or you died,” said Bennett. “It’s kind of the prairie idea where we all kind of help each other out just from the goodness in our hearts. It’s also the theme of many of my paintings.”

Bennett said that there are two disciplines that dominate her work, the art of drawing and painting and the art of defi ning her prairie culture.

“Balancing the two con-tinues to interest me and is the major drive in my work, so when friends and neighbours of my central Alberta home act as mod-els for my paintings, it is

an emotional expression of the prairie culture that surrounds the whole pro-cess, which becomes in-tensely satisfying,” added Bennett. “I’ve always been interested in culture, why we do the things that we do and what makes us different from other cul-tures.”

According to Bennett, from set-up to fi nished product is a story within a story of the Alberta prai-ries defi ned by the body language of the people who live within it.

“I choose to do this in an atmosphere of complete freedom from constraint of any kind,” said Bennett. “I must have done some-thing good once to deserve such a reward as this.”

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Vivian Bennett’s art, a refl ectionof prairie life and culture

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Does washing food promote food safety?CNW STORY

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Kortney Armstrong takes part in fi gure skating, enjoying her-self as part of the play school Olympics held on Friday, Feb. 12 at the Erskine School gym.

Erskine pre-schoolers enjoyan hour of fun and games

MOUSH SARA JOHNWEEKENDER REPORTER

Erskine pre-schoolers had a great time enjoy-ing an hour of friend-ly competitive playtime with their classmates and friends as they filled up the Erskine School gym with various activ-ities from figure skating to bowling on Friday, Feb. 12 as part of the Erskine Play School Olympics.

Being the fourth year of hosting it, Darlene Philpot, play school teacher and program facilitator at Erskine school said, “I started it because I wanted to have the kids to have a healthy way to celebrate the day.”

“February is heart and stroke month and what better way to cel-ebrate and make new friends and play with our friends than being active,” added Philpot. “Involving the Grade 1s gives our little ones that will be going into kindergarten within the next year or two the opportunity to connect and make friends with the older Grade 1 kids so when they are out on the playground they will have older friends to show them the ropes.”

Older kids from Grades 5 and 6 were also in-volved because Philpot

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“The Grade 5s do the mentoring or buddying and Grade 6 students do the managing and or-ganizing the individual events with my guidance and input,” explained Philpot. “And each year it gets better and better, and to see the little ones having so much fun and burning off the ‘spring fever’ while making new friends is always heart warming.”

There were five events – figure skating, triath-lon, bob sled, five-pin bowling and hockey.

“These events have been decided from the first year and have re-mained the same throughout, but some-times the older kids put their own spin on things,” said Philpot. “I oversee what the older kids do but let them be as creative as they want to be.”

After the events were done, all the kids were presented with a gold medal.

“Once everything is done the pre kindergar-ten and Grade 1 goes back for a heart-healthy snack and I’m sure a well-placed nap is also in order,” said Philpot.

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creasingly viewing housing as a less attrac-tive investment having dropped three points in the last year. The two largest drops were in British Columbia (13 point decrease since November 2014) and Ontario (decreased six points in the same time period). Canadians are also less likely to prior-itize investing in their home in the near future (falling five per cent in the last six months).

Manulife’s Investor Sentiment Index has dropped to +16, the lowest point since the financial crisis when the index hit +11; the all-time high was +34 reached in 2006. Along with eroding investor sentiment is the feeling among Canadians that they are in a worse fi-nancial position than they were two years ago (26 per cent).

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“What is most interest-ing from the survey is the ongoing decline in the Canadian appetite to invest in their own home.”

In the last six months, Canadian investors lost confidence in mutu-al funds (down eight points), ETFs (down seven points), and bal-anced mutual funds (down seven points, the lowest it’s been since 2011). Fixed income stayed the same (+3 on the index).

Index ranking across Canada

Investors in Ontario and the Atlantic prov-inces were the most optimistic ranking +20 on the index. Quebec ranked lowest at +9 and Alberta ranked second lowest at +14 (dropping five points since May 2015 and 11 points since November 2014).

Cash preference by province

Investors in Ontario (+20 points), Atlantic Provinces (+18 points), and British Columbia (+10 points) prefer cash. Albertans are focusing on their homes and then cash for invest-ment purposes. While Investors in Quebec (-5 points) believe that now is a bad time for cash.

Interest ratesAlmost half (48 per

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“The Bank of Canada has been suggesting that interest rates are on hold or may even fall further over the coming year,” said Donald. “Yet, interestingly, 40 per cent of Canadian inves-tors still expect interest rates to rise, highlight-ing the ongoing uncer-tainty around the inter-est rate outlook.”

Online banking activ-ities

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Honesty is the best policy.You’ve known practically

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Lizzie absolutely did not want to go.

But she knew she had to, and so did her brother, Peter. Mummy said it was for their safety because Daddy was away at war and the Germans could bomb Britain at any time. All the children in Hull were sent to the English countryside to live with strangers that spring, whether they wanted it or not. And Lizzie didn’t want it – but she knew leaving was for the best.

And so it was that ten-year-old Lizzie and seven-year-old Peter were sent to Swaindale to live with a policeman named Fred Arbuthnot; his wife, Madge; and Madge’s dotty sister, Elsie.

Though Lizzie missed Mummy and Nana something awful, the English countryside was nice. Peter found someone to play with nearby, and the scenery was lovely. There were cows and sheep, green grass, and things to do. Madge only asked that the children be prompt for lunch-time and not upset Elsie – both of which were very easy to do, until Lizzie found the baby.

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Stacey Lavallie/Weekender reporter

Every Monday, a group of girls — Sparks, Brownies and Girl Guides — gather in the home ec room at William E. Hay Secondary Campus. Here, they’re working on valentines for seniors in the community.

Guiding returns to Stettler for second year

STACEY LAVALLIEWEEKENDER REPORTER

Every Monday night during the fall and winter, the sound of young girls laughing and having fun echoes down the halls of William E. Hay Secondary Campus, leading curious onlookers to the home-ec room.

Found within the room are Stettler and area’s Sparks, Brownies and Girl Guides, the organizations now in their second year of running in Stettler.

“There was a group here before,” Lisa Attema, the group’s leader, said. “I don’t know why, but it folded.”

Attema is in her fi rst year as a leader, having stepped up when last year’s leader decided not to continue with the organi-zation.

“We started with Sparks and Brownies,” Attema explained “This year, we have our fi rst year of Girl Guides.”

The three different guiding organiza-tions meet together because of smaller membership, something that has become quite common in smaller centres. While the groups do a lot of projects together, they also break apart and do projects

separately, as many of the activities are geared to the girls’ age.

Sparks are the youngest, between 5-6, followed by Brownies, who are be-tween 7-8. Girl Guides welcome girls between 9-11. Though there’s currently no Pathfi nders, the next tier in guiding, Attema hopes eventually there will be. Pathfi nders take in girls between 12-14, and then is followed by Rangers, which take in girls from 15 and up.

“Our girls especially like the crafting activities,” Attema said. “We’re still fairly new when it comes to some of the other activities, like outdoor camping.”

The organization is always looking for crafting supplies to augment their weekly activities, Attema said.

“Guiding is something for people who don’t want to do sports, or music or dance,” Attema said. “It’s important for all kids to have something they can do.”

The cost for a year is $120, with cookie sale profi ts allowing the girls to come out and have fun without having to pay dues. Some special events require kids to pitch in to cover cost, but for the majority of the year, the $120 covers everything, Attema said.

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