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THIRD PAGE Boy dies after mauled by dogs Mother discovers about it," he said. "I knew that little boy because he used to come to my house and play with my little guy (a seven-year-old son)." Although the boy has a large extended family, he lived alone with his mom, Sewap said. "She's going to need a lot of support and she's going to get it from the community. At times like this, everybody gets together to help." The boy loved playing outdoors and would spend hours by himself in cold weather, said his uncle, Norman Kadachuk, who lives across the road. He was also a joker who tried to make people laugh and was a real curious sort, "always wanting to know everybody," said Kadachuk, whose own sons took the news hard.

"They were crying a lot. It was pretty bad," he said. "They would see him every day." Sewap was in Prince Albert at the time of the attack. to Sewap, who is still gathering all of the details of the attack. Six dogs, including large breeds and small, were still milling around the boy.

The boy's mother became frantic and a nearby resident ran to the scene. He picked up the boy, put him into a vehicle and sped off to the health centre. Sewap's wife was in too much shock to drive again, the chief said. It is unclear how long the boy was lying there, but preliminary reports suggest he may have had hypothermia, RCMP said in a statement. An autopsy on the boy was scheduled for Friday.

The boy's mother was not available for comment. She was in Prince Albeit making funeral arrangements, Sewap said. The reserve, an isolated community about 330 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, is also planning to hold a traditional aboriginal wake. The dogs belonged to another resident on the reserve. The owner had been warned in the past to control the animals or they would be put down, said Sewap.

The dogs were immediately destroyed Thursday by community members, the RCMP confirmed. "Some people don't seem to take the time to tie their dogs up so they let them roam around. Well, not anymore," Sewap said. "I have ordered that starting immediately, any dogs found running at large wifi be destroyed. I intend to push that issue as hard as lean." There have been complaints in the past about stray dogs running around the community, said Sewap, but there's never been a fatality.

Several years aco, another boy aged five or six was attacked by a different pack "but he made it through," said Sewap. It too early to say if criminal charges ill be laid, said RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Brad Kaeding. Prov ing ownership can be difficult in a place where the animals aren't usually licensed, and an alleged owner can simply deny it "Most of the time these dogs sleep and eat wherever they want. Some people may feed them but don't feel they are the owners," Kaeding said.

"How do we sort that out?" Packs of wild, roaming dogs have been a problem in some northern Saskatchewan communities. During his career, Kaeding has spent time in many different communities through five provinces, and the issue was present in nearly every place he was posted, he said. dbernhardtsp.canwest.com child on roadway in Cumberland House By Darren Bernhardt of The Star Phoenix A five-year-old boy who was mauled by dogs and was later discovered lying on a roadway by his mother in the northern First Nation community of Cumberland House has died. The boy was found near his home at around 10:30 a.m. Thursday suffering from numerous bite wounds and possible hypothermia, RCMP say.

He was rushed to a local health centre and then transferred to a hospital in Saskatoon, where he died Thursday evening. The incident has enraged the community and traumatized the boy's mother, said Chief Walter Sewap. "It's a hard time right now. Everybody is sickened His wife was at home when the boy's mother called for a ride the community operates its own taxi cab service. On the way, the women noticed something at the side of the road, near the ditch.

When they got closer, they realized it was the boy. He was bitten all over his face and head, according Sled dog open 2007 mmttl urn ii iia ill. i CP File Photo The Rolling Stones perform the first of two concerts in October at Taylor Field in Regina Regina Stones shows called top-grossing Canadian concerts By Gerry Krochak Saskatchewan News Network REGINA We knew it was big, but we didn't know how big. The Rolling Stones conceits that took place at Mosaic Stadium in Regina on Oct. 6 and Oct.

8 are being called the top- grossing Canadian concert event of all time by Pollstar, a music industry trade magazine giant For more than 25 years, the magazine has provided music business professionals with the most accurate source of worldwide concert tour schedules, ticket sales results, music industry contact directories, trade news and specialized data services. The Stones brought in more than $12 million during the two sold-out concerts, placing Regina among the top-10 North American concert events produced last year. And the concerts are considered one of the top-grossing performances of all time in North America an astounding feat for a city with less than 200,000 people in a province of less than one million. What this says to the often-fickle and selective worldwide concert industry is that anything is possible in Regina. "The level of excitement was incredible and numbers spoke for themselves three months ago," says Neil Donnelly, vice-president of marketing and events for Ipsco Place.

"But now you have a worldwide publication letting everyone know that Regina produced the No. 1 concert of all time in Canada. "The big players in this industry know where it stands. Promoters know that we can do it that Regina can host world-class events. A success such as this allows us to sell Regina to the world." Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco agrees.

"This is fantastic news," he said in a media release. "Everyone involved with the two sold-out shows from the fans to the organizers should be very proud. We put our best foot forward and emerged among the best in the continent." Of the top-40 North American concert grosses of all time, the two Regina Stones dates are the only Canadian productions to make the list, coming in at No. 34. "Not only did we succeed," Donnelly says.

"But it was massive." (REGINA LEADER-POST) nKf A 1 I Jl I i 'I 1 0 UJ. fe. I -t 1 1 I I i i ri) -v 1 srt a i Finishing strong (V 1 I I Students (above) cheer on their favourite I runners during the annual Lions Club Sled Dog Open track and field meet on Friday. Sean Briant (left) from Sister O'Brien School -fr overtakes Nicholas Valcamp from Hugh Cairns Ar ft: for a first-place finish in a relay. i f-l (SP Photos by Dave Stobbe) --r iJ California cold snap bad for celebrity gossip Pamela Anderson I'd rather have scurvy.

The other alternative is simply to leave out the romaine lettuce when you make caesar salad. Just throw in some extra croutons and 9 bacon bits. If the dressing is rich enough, people won't even notice there's no lettuce underneath. No one eats caesar salad for the lettuce anyway. It's just a vehicle for the yummy cholesterol-laden dressing.

The good news is that California fruit and vegetable growers won't be wiped out by the crop failure. Having learned from cold snaps in the past, most producers now have crop insurance. Unfortunately, they got vitamin from rare meat and a medicinal tea made of boiled tree bark and evergreen needles. I'll go with the meat, thanks. Replacing California limes will not be so easy.

A twist of lime is, of course, is essential to a rum and Coke. The twist completes the drink, like the smacking noise completes a kiss. If limes are unavailable, we rum drinkers will have to find something else to garnish our drinks, something that doesn't come from California. We'll have to drink something like rum and Coke with a wedge of dill pickle, say. Actually, that might not be too bad.

Sadly, it's not just citrus fruits that were frozen in California. Also ravaged was the strawberry crop. This, too, will be felt across North America. With strawberries unavailable, we'll soon be reduced to eating potato shortcake. Even more troubling is the frost damage in California's romaine lettuce fields.

Romaine lettuce is the main ingredient in a caesar salad, which, in Western Canada, is an essential food group. In winter, almost all our romaine is imported from California. If we can't get it, we 11 have to make caesar salad with some kind of preserved greens. Canned spinach, say. This being a rich source of vitamin a canned spinach caesar would also ward off scurvy.

Except COMMENTARY "Califomians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom." New York novelist Don DeLillo It is a small world when a freak cold snap in California is felt in grocery stores all the way up here in Saskatchewan. Snow and freezing temperatures as far south as Beverly Hills and Malibu Beach caused resident celebrities to miss work for several days. The result is a worldwide shortage of celebrity gossip. In a commendable effort to make up the difference, celebrities in New York and Europe are doing extra carousing, philandering and feuding, but it's not enough.

California is the world's leading producer of celebrity excess. To totally shut that down for a period of days is an irreplaceable loss. Consumers will suffer from the gossip shortage even here, in faraway Saskatchewan. When next we buy groceries, we're likely to find slim pickings where the tabloids used to be. If they're available at all, the tabloids can only offer ond-rate gossip under headlines such as: catches up on sleep or, Lindsay Lohan binges on Ovaltine or, Britney Spears exposes down-filled snow pants This kind of substandard fare is the best we can expect for some time.

Experts say it will be four to six weeks, at least, before California entertainers recover from the frost and resume their normal, scandalous behaviour. Until then, we'll be facing a celebrity gossip famine. That's not all. Another casualty of the cold snap is California's fruit and vegetable crops. By some accounts, they're all but wiped out.

We're told to brace for sky-high prices and empty bins in the grocery store produce department, possibly for weeks to come. Citrus fruits, especially, will be in short supply, raising the terrible spectre of vitamin deficiency and its dreaded effect: Scurvy. If we can't ward off scurvy with California oranges, we'll have to find local sources of vitamin C. That's what indigenous people did. Without the alternative of fresh, California oranges, we in Saskatchewan have no insurance against the terrible threat of onion meringue pie.

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