Photo by Greg Pender (borrowed from the StarPhoenix)
Last weekend on my way home from work I stopped off for some lemonade. There were a couple cute kids behind the booth, and they were raising awareness about Canada's role in Afghanistan, but more specifically, they were raising funds for a school in Panjawaii there. The money was going straight to the school construction.
Turns out their daddy, a guy from my neighbourhood here, is one of the big boys leading our troops.
I had just seen the movie We Three Kings (with George Clooney, Spike Jonze and Ice Cube...) the day before, so I had Middle Eastern conflict on the brain (specifically, how convoluted the on the ground "war" can be -- exploding footballs and everything). It was crazy for me to see the ways in which a similar event that's happening so far away filters back into the day to day life of the citizens of the country that's fighting it. Most days I could forget I'm part of a country that's at war. Maybe I feel like there are a million other "wars" going on in my personal life at any given time, but war in Afghanistan is rarely one of them.
When I went in to work the following Monday, I saw they had made the front cover of the paper.
Oh, and check out the lead on this one:
"The Cabana-Boucher family of Saskatoon had to adjust to life without their husband and father, but they have decided to pass the time he's away by finding creative ways to help him on his mission.
In other words, they've turned lemons into lemonade."
Wow. I predict a rosy Inside Edition future for this intrepid local reporter with quips like that.
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