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The Regina airport is a flurry of people on a Sunday evening. A new flight lands and people file in; a man in a cowboy hat, a woman grasping the hand of her toddler and young men with their toques roll their luggage across the floor. It’s busy, loud and hurried – Bill Olinik stands out among the crowd.
Read more: Sixty-seven years in the driver's seat
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Stewart Klyne is doing something many would consider a dangerous gamble, at best: He’s opening a bookstore.
Read more: A new page and a sturdy spine: Saskatchewan's newest bookstore
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You could say that hockey runs in Owen Sillinger’s blood. When he was born in 1997 his father, veteran NHL hockey player Mike Sillinger, was playing for the Vancouver Canucks.
Read more: Famous family leading team to victory
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It started out as a great day. Jordan Sisco, a Regina born and raised football player in his 5th season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, just got the keys to his first home. As his friends and family helped him move boxes in, he got a call that changed everything. The Riders, the only CFL team he had ever played for, released him. It was “pretty much heartbreaking,” Sisco said in a recent interview.
Read more: Sisco seeking return to gridiron
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A man opens the door to a bakery in Regina’s Chinatown at 7 p.m. A chime rings and he is greeted with a friendly, “Hello, how are you?” He then approaches the counter, signs his initials on a calendar full of names and is handed a plastic bag with baking inside. He glances at its contents with a smile, then he walks out the door and back to the shelter where he works and 16 men live.
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