Swimming Junior Skateboarding
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Swimming Junior Skateboarding
JUNE 2015 Skateboarding 101 Junior Golf Swimming SAFETY VOLUME 2 • ISSUE 3 Special Supplement from the Lloydminster Source 2 THE SPROUT Tuesday, June 9, 2015 Junior Golf by Ale x Chip pin alex@ lloydm insters ource.c om Mark Yurkin, General Manager, Lloydminster Golf and Curling Centre Is there an age you recommend someone start taking up the sport? There are really no recommended age for a youth to pick up the game of and it is often at the discretion of the parents themselves. You can find some great clips of Tigers Woods appearing on the Mike Douglas show at the age of 2. Having a couple plastic clubs around the house with some tennis balls and the TV turned on to the Golf Channel would definitely encourage the process. How do you recommend they go about starting? Again, exposure to the game goes along way. Lessons are not an absolute necessity at such a young age, as we often find that natural ability and agility will help in the learning process. That being said, the junior camps we offer at LGCC are an excellent and affordable way to expose your child to golf and our professional staffs covers all of the fundamentals. Depending on interest, time and the students willingness to learn, we can further advance their skills with the use of private lessons. What are the benefits to taking up the sport? The benefits not only include the exercise needed to healthy, the game will also give knowledge in the sense of sportsmanship and a greater appreciation for the environment. What is needed as far as equipment goes? LGCC offers a full range of junior sets that can be matched to the individual depending on their size. A full set is not necessary when beginning to play and our of the Junior clubs come with three irons, a three-wood and a putter. As the youth grows older, they can move into a full set but we do recommend that they get fitted properly by our staff first before purchasing. Often, adult clubs can often be too stiff for young golfer and that would be a detriment to their play. How many kids are participating in jr. golf at the LGCC and how do you go about promoting the sport to youths in the community? Last year we had a little over 100 golfers participating in junior golf at LGCC We have a vast array of corporate sponsors from the community but are always looking for more. If you wish to participate, you can contact Kyle Duffin at the Pro Shop 306-825-6484. Anything coming up? Junior Golf Registration Night is on Monday June 15 from 6 PM to 7 PM with a free clinic following afterwards. For $75 each junior gets Instruction: Putting, Chipping, The Full Swing, Rules and Etiquette Seminar, Entry to Every Junior Day at LGCC, a souvenir and tons of fun. Junior Day Dates: July 6, 13, 20, 27 & August 10, 17 Noon Shotgun starts ST JOSEPH’S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Bike Rode & Bike Ride with the RCMP Cst. Deb Wenisch, pictured to the left organized the Bike Ride for the students of St. Joseph’s. Tuesday, June 9, 2015 SPROUT THE 3 Few guarantees come with Pain is one of them. by Alex Chippin alex@lloydminstersource.com “No matter how good you are at any point, you're going to fall,” said Adam Burke, assistant manager at Freeflow Skate Snow in Lloydminster. “You're going to hurt yourself and the type of person you are determines whether or not you're going to get back up and do it again.” Skateboarding, the signature of the extreme sports, is one of the largest-growing markets in the sporting world. And while every skater is bound to learn the meaning of “no pain, no gain”, bumps and bruises can be minimized with the right precautions. “Helmet and wrist guards are definitely the most important thing,” said Burke. “When you fall down, you want to slam your hands and protect the rest of your body.” Skateboarding has evolved drastically since the days of Tony Hawk pulling off moves that were previously only fathomable in video games. The X-Games, of which skateboarding is a huge part, has become one of the most followed events in sports, and skateboarding is said to be close to joining the Olympic lineup in 2020. In Lloydminster, skateboarding takes centre stage at least a couple times each year, despite not be known for any major regional competitions. “There's a Kids’ Day coming up in June at Bud Miller Park, I'm always there teaching kids and it's free so that's kind of one of the big things,” said Burke. He added that Go Skateboarding Day on June 21, which also takes place at Bud Miller Park, is another major gathering for the local skateboarding community. “Usually West 49 gets in with us, we give away prizes and have small competitions there.” Skateboarding today is as young a sport as ever, with athletes in their teens or early 20s dominating the professional competitions. Even in the recreational ranks, the “kids” have left Burke, 27, and the rest of his generation trying to keep up. “It just seems like there's not really a learning Skateboard Pro Shop Fully stocked with decks, trucks, wheels, bearings, grip tape, tools and accessories. Mon - Wed: 10am - 6pm Also Available: Thurs - Fri: 10am - 9pm Helmets • Safety Gear • Longboards • Slide Gloves 6pm Sat: 10am Sun: 12pm - 5pm Let our Staff Assemble a Complete Set Up for You! 3308-50th Ave, Lloydminster 780.875.0301 You Choose and Receive 10% off !! www.freeflowinfo.ca curve anymore,” he said. “You start here, you learn how to ollie, and then two weeks later you have 15 tricks under your belt.” While techniques and complex tricks can be a difficult for new skaters to grasp, Burke says it's also one of the most rewarding sports to excel in. He says that new skaters can get an idea of an appropriate skateboard size by making sure their feet fit evenly across the board without their toes and heels hanging far off. 4 THE SPROUT Tuesday, June 9, 2015 Talking Water Safety with Sarah Jenkins Manager, Aquatics - City of Lloydminster What are the basics kids should know before going to the pool this summer? Always have adult supervision. If you are going into deep water, wear a PFD. Be aware of your surroundings before entering the water to ensure conditions are safe. What are some risky behaviours you see at the pool? Always remember to walk at a safe pace when around the pool top prevent injury and be cautious when walking around deep water. If you are uncomfortable in deep water, please have a PFD on you. For adults, please always make sure you are within arm’s reach of your children with constant supervision because accidents can happen within a very short time frame. What age are they able to go out in the water on their own? At the Lloydminster Leisure Centre, we recommend that children no younger than seven be swimming without guard- ian supervision. In an environment, such as the lake, where there are no lifeguards, we would recommend a higher age before swimming alone. What age do you recommend starting swimming lessons? We encourage parents to come to our parent and tot swimming lessons with their infants. What are the benefits to kids taking up swimming as a hobby/sport? It is a lifelong skill that could potentially save them or allow them the skills to save others in unsafe situations. It is also a great way to maintain fitness and there are many different aqua fitness activities available to choose from. Anything coming up? Registrations for summer swimming lessons has begun. You can register by going online at http://www.lloydminster.ca, phoning the leisure centre at 875-4497 or walk in. We also have the Splash Park opening event on June 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. Summer Sensations Sport Explorers Summer Fun From Art to Science, Magic and History, children will learn how to express themselves through art, create, do hands on experiments, learn and get involved in many interactive activities. Each week, the kids will get a chance to try out 5-8 different sports, including: rugby, softball, football, fencing and parasports focusing on fundamental movements, growing confidence levels, sportsmanship and team cooperation. Kids will get to enjoy games, crafts, sports, and many locations at Bud Miller All Seasons Park, including the tennis courts, mini golf, baseball diamonds, the spray park and much more! DEADLINE TO REGISTER: July Camps - Tuesday, June 29 August Camps - Tuesday, July 27 Ages: Mini Explorers (3-5 year olds) Half Days & Full Days Trailblazers (6-9 year olds) Full Days Ages: Youth (9-12 year olds) Full Days 5 day camps run Monday-Friday from July 6 to August 14 4 day camps run Tuesday-Friday from July 14 to 31 and August 11 to 28 780-874-3720 | 4515-44 St. lloydminster.ca/lcsc lloydminster.ca Check us out on 780-875-4529 | 5202-12 St. lloydminster.ca/ssc Like us on Follow us on Register into 4 or more full day camps and RECEIVE 10% OFF your purchase! Ages: Pre-school (3-5 year olds) Half Days & Full Days Youth (6-11 year olds) Full Days 4 & 5 day camps run Monday/Tuesday to Friday from June 29 to August 21 780-875-4497 | 2902-59 Ave. lloydminster.ca/lc @cityoflloyd Tuesday, June 9, 2015 SPROUT THE 5 What’s the B U ZZ? Winston Churchill “I’m going camping and I’m going to go fishing and roast marshmallows to make s’mores.” Winston Churchill “I’m going to race dirt bikes all over southern Saskatchewan.” Rendell Park School“It’s my birthday on July 10th and it’s my sister’s birthday on August 11. It’s also my grandma’s birthday this summer too. We are going on vacation to Vancouver and Seattle. I am excited to go on this trip.” Winston Churchill “I’m going to scooter and play video games.” Rendell Park School “I am going to go out and see my dad in Nova Scotia. This trip my mom is coming too. I hope we can go on his fishing boat and his speed boat.” Bishop Lloyd School “Going to the lake to boat, tube, wakeboard and kneeboard!!!” Rendell Park School “I think I am going to my cabin at Turtle Lake. My best friend might be coming with me for two weeks. I am going to Pleasant View Bible Camp too.” Winston Churchill “I might go up to my lake.” Super Strawberry Bars What you need: Utensils: What to do: • 1 cup flour • 1 cup rolled oats • ½ cup butter or margarine, softened • 1/3 cup light brown sugar • ¼ tsp. baking powder • 1/8 tsp. salt • ¾ cup strawberry jam • Oven (adult assistant) • Large bowl • Square (8"x 8") pan coated • Large spoon • Knife (adult assistant) • Measuring cups and spoons Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit (180° Celsius). In a large bowl, mix everything together except the strawberry jam. Measure out 2 cups of this mixture. Leave the rest in the bowl, and set it aside. Take the 2 cups of the mixture and press it into the bottom of the pan. You can use your hands or a spoon. Make sure you cover the entire bottom of the pan! Using a large spoon, spread the strawberry jam on top of the mixture in the pan. Spread it evenly all over. Take the mixture that was left in the bowl, and spread it over the strawberry jam. Press it down lightly. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven, and allow it to cool for at least 15 minutes. Cut into 12 squares. Recipe courtesy of kidshealth.org College Park School “Going to lake to go quadding, golfing, fishing and swimming ” College Park School “We are going camping, the Calgary zoo, Regina to visit family.” Recipe sponsored by harvestlloyd.com How much does this recipe make? 12 squares 4102-70 Avenue Lloydminster (780) 875-6996 6 THE SPROUT Tuesday, June 9, 2015 by Andrew Brethauer andrew@lloydminstersource.com B efore the Lloydminster Bobcats hit the ice for main training camp in late August, they will take to the ice for a different sort of camp. The Bobcats annual summer hockey school is held over eight days in August, giving initiation, novice, atom and peewee players a chance to run through drills with coaches Gord Thibodeau and Garry VanHereweghe, along with support for the players themselves. It’s a chance for the Bobcats to give back to the local hockey community through player development and hopefully create lasting impressions on the young players who will be the next wave of Bobcats’ fans. “It gives our kids a chance to interact with the youth of the community,” said Thibodeau. “We are trying to build Bobcat fans and we want to start young. We also want to try and help build the skills of the kids in the local minor hockey association.” Players who register for the camp will be given instruction in power skating, stick handling, passing and shooting, as well as one-on-one drills and offensive and defensive tactics. For the Bobcats, who are a community owned team, it is about showing the community that they are always there to help in any way they can. Throughout the course of the season the Bobcats are always lending support to community Thibodeau worked with on power skating last year, and said that working with the young kids keeps him young when out on the ice. For him, watching the kids progress over the camp while having fun is a positive he takes out of the camp, but also watching them develop proper hockey skills on the ice. “As a guy who has been around doing a lot of coaching, it always seems to refresh you when you get out with the younger group l o o h c s y e k c o h s t a c Bob initiatives and charity events, and their summer camp is no different. It also serves as the unofficial kickoff to the season for the Bobcats. “We start the hockey schools and once they are done we start main camp,” said Thibodeau. “It gets our kids back and gets them in the community right away. We want to foster relationships with some of those younger kids and hopefully they will be Bobcat players in the future, and if not, then hopefully they are going to be Bobcat fans in the future.” and you can see some of that progress throughout the course of the week.” The camp runs two weeks, with Week 1 running Aug. 10 to 13 and Week 2 Aug. 17 to 20. The cost in $350 per week or $600 for both weeks. Two or more participants from the same family can register for $325 per person per week. The school takes place at the Centennial Civic Centre and students should register prior to July 1 in order to get their custom Bobcats jersey with name and number free of charge. Visit www.lloydminsterbobcats.ca for more information and registration forms. Summer Hockey school INITIATION • NOVICE • ATOM • PEE WEE Week 1 A ugu st 10 to 13 Led by Bobcats coaches Gord Thibodeau & Garry VanHereweghe with Bobcats players. Week 2 A ugu st 17 to 20 Skills include: Power Skating, Passing, Shooting, Stick Handling, Dryland Sports, Off-Ice Training. Sign up at lloydminsterbobcats.ca 780-871-0900 Tuesday, June 9, 2015 SPROUT THE 7 Winston Churchill School Report Wow! Can it be June already?! What a terrific year it has been: awesome students, excellent staff, and equitable opportunities for all of our students to enjoy everything that our educational system has to offer. From trophies or medals in soccer, volleyball, basketball, cross-country running, cross-country skiing, and even in the music festival with our choir and Gr. 6 Band students, we are so proud of our students’ accomplishments. Here is our last update for the Sprout! The months of April and May saw our students busy with trying out yoga, submitting artwork to the Cultural and Science Center, performing French plays, fundraising for Jump Rope for Heart, and developing their fitness by running with the Running Club. The WC Creative Writing group held a camp where they earned badges and paddled away with their word count canoes. The Art Club has been creating wonderful pieces of art and the Computer Club wrapped up their extra-curricular learning. Classroom gardens are growing and have even been harvested for lettuce while our Kindergarten students studied life cycles of butterflies and even the hatching of chicks. We look forward to our Cultural Day, the Twilight Track Meet and our annual Fun Run in June. We will be very sad to see our Grade 6 students move forward in their educational journey but wish them the best in middle school. We hope that everyone has a relaxing and enjoyable summer! ~ Mrs. Brand #excellencestartshere #alwaysfunatWinston It has been an exciting spring for Winston Churchill's music department! Two groups spent many hours preparing for the Kiwanis Lloydminster and District Music Festival. The grade 6 band students have only been playing their instruments since September, but through hard work and dedication, they were able to prepare two pieces for the music festival and were awarded first place in their class. The second group consisted of every grade 3, 4, and 5 student in our school - a total of 130 students! This group created a mass choir and sang two songs in the festival. In addition to a first place certificate, they were named the winners of the Rotary Club Scholarship. The choir also performed their songs at the first LPSD Celebration of Music concert on May 5. Winston Churchill is very proud of our musical groups and they way they have represented our school in the community! SENSES EXPERIMENT WINSTON CHURCHILL SCHOOL WHAT THIS EXPERIMENT SHOWS: How areas of your skin contain different numbers of touch receptors. Some body areas are more sensitive than others. WHAT YOU NEED: • Blindfold • Tennis ball, rock, sponge, pine cone, seashell, eraser, marble, etc. WHAT TO DO? 1. Have a friend close his or her eyes. 2. Gently press each item to the skin on different areas of the body. 3. Can your friend identify the object? Here are lists of the most-sensitive and least-sensitive parts of the body. Most-sensitive Fingers Upper lip Cheek Palm Forehead Foot Least-sensitive Belly Upper arm Back Shoulder Thigh Calf The Kiwanis Club of Lloydminster began a program five years ago called the “Beanie Baby” Project. Because Kiwanis is focused on helping young children, this program fell under the category “Young Children, Priority One.” Beanie Babies are stuffed into small fleece sleeping bags with the Kiwanis logo on them and then distributed to the hospital to be handed out to sick children. The sleeping bags have been sewn by volunteer Avis Maxwell. Beanie babies have been donated from local stores or purchased at a very reasonable price. The fleece for the sleeping bags has been donated by Fabricland. Another successful project by Kiwanis which is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. 8 THE SPROUT Tuesday, June 9, 2015 SPROUT THE 9 and Tuesday, June 9, 2015 What do you call a cow with no legs? A. Ground beef What is a tree’s favorite drink? A. Root beer What do you call cheese that’s not yours? A. 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Within 16 kilometres of Lloydminster there are nearly 200 geocaches. “Geocaching is an activity that really applies to anyone from (ages) 8 to 88,” Schudiske said. “It’s wonderful for families with small kids or kids that are just getting the itch to explore and see the world around them.” “We’ll have on any given weekend, hundreds of thousands of people who are out geocaching with their friends and their families and having these wonderful adventures.” To become a geocacher, one can register an account at www.geocaching.com or download the official Geocaching app on a smartphone, which provides coordinates and clues about nearby geocaches. Both options are available for free. Once the geocacher locates a hidden container, he or she is asked to sign and date the accompanying logbook and re-hide the geo- cache. Geocaching isn’t just for the young and adventurous, though. Schudiske says the game is a great way for retired folks to spend time outdoors and do some simple exploring of their communities, while having fun. He adds that in addition to local exploring, geocaching is a unique way to visit other places, including vacation spots. “(Geocaching) is really just a reason for people to get up off the couch, to get outside and to explore their neighbourhoods and their cities. When they travel it’s a great way to see a side of the destination which they’re travelling.” And even on a wet or cold day, geocachers can still do some work indoors. “There’s also these wonderful puzzlecaches that require people to solve a puzzle to unlock the final coordinates,” Schudiske said. “That’s a great way on a rainy day or a day that might not be inclined to get people outside, to stay inside and work on this puzzle so you’re ready, when the weather turns, to get outside.” Schudiske says that the increased popularity in smartphones has led to a significant rise in geocaching in recent years. He estimates that the activity has grown between 10 and 30 per cent each year, depending on the year. In fact, the activity has become so popular that conventions for geocachers have become annual events in several cities. The most recent GeoWoodstock convention took place over the Memorial Day weekend in Boonsboro, Maryland, and similar gatherings are scheduled for Winnipeg and New Brunswick later this summer. geocaching jee-oh-kash-ing | noun An outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, anywhere in the world. - Wikipedia Tuesday, June 9, 2015 SPROUT THE 11 Easy Wreath Bird Bath Supplies • Grapevine wreath (15” or your prefered size) • Terra Cotta Pot Saucer (10” or prefered size - to fit in the wreath) • Hemp Cord or Rope 1. Cut 3 equal pieces of rope/ hemp cord (roughly 30” pending the size of your wreath make it shorter if you go with a smaller wreath & saucer) 2. Knot them at the end 3. Nestle the wreath in the ropes 4. Put the saucer on top of the wreath 5. 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S U N G L A S S E S LLOYDMINSTER EXHIBITION ASSOCIATION 5521 - 49 Avenue, Box 690, Lloydminster, SK S9V 0Y7 (306) 825-5571 www.lloydexh.com Follow us on @lloydexh B (780) 875-5080 six differences! Take The Sprout on your Whether you stay in town or go away, we’d love to see what you did! Send in a photo of yourself holding The Sprout to: thesprout@lloydminstersource.com so your photo can be featured in the Fall issue Please include: Your name, Age, and where the photo was taken All names submitted will be placed in a draw for a chance to win a prize valued at $50!