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Area Canadians show their pride during Winter Olympics
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| From left, Sunsites winter residents Janet and Rob Schwieger and Dianne and George Kolonosky proudly display their national pride for the 2010 winter Olympics held in their native province of British Columbia, Canada. They four got together and built a small Inukshuk, ("In OOK shook") the symbol of the Vancouver Olympics, from stones in the Kolonosky's front yard, seen below the familiar red maple leaf Canadian flag. (PHOTO COURTESY/Pam Yarwood) |
By Pam Yarwood/For the Range News
Sunsites winter residents Janet and Rob Schwieger and Dianne and George Kolonosky displayed their national pride for the 2010 winter Olympics held in their native province of British Columbia, Canada. The four got together and built a small Inukshuk, ("In OOK shook") the symbol of the 2010 winter games, from stones in the Kolonosky's front yard. They are also flying the familiar red maple leaf Canadian flag.
The Inukshuk is a traditional stone symbol used by The Inuit, Inupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik,and other peoples of the Arctic region. Found from Alaska to Greenland, its purposes include navigation, point of reference, or to mark hunting grounds or a food cache. The symbol has long been used by Canada as a representative of its native people, who were prominently featured in the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics. The word Inukshuk means "in the image of man". Some tribes made huge inukshuks to channel caribou into areas to easily hunt and capture them.
In purposes of showing direction, inukshuks have a peephole to peer thru to show the next inukshuk, thus guiding the traveling onward.
The Schwiegers own their own business, North Woven Broom in Crawford Bay, B.C. and are 20-year makers of beautiful handcrafted brooms. The Kolonoskys both had careers in the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, George as a wildlife research scientist studying population dynamics of timber wolves, black bears and polar bears, and Dianne worked on commercial and sports fisheries on Lake Ontario, and was the first female biologist hired in the OMNR.
The Inukshuk is a traditional stone symbol used by The Inuit, Inupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik,and other peoples of the Arctic region. Found from Alaska to Greenland, its purposes include navigation, point of reference, or to mark hunting grounds or a food cache. The symbol has long been used by Canada as a representative of its native people, who were prominently featured in the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics. The word Inukshuk means "in the image of man". Some tribes made huge inukshuks to channel caribou into areas to easily hunt and capture them.
In purposes of showing direction, inukshuks have a peephole to peer thru to show the next inukshuk, thus guiding the traveling onward.
The Schwiegers own their own business, North Woven Broom in Crawford Bay, B.C. and are 20-year makers of beautiful handcrafted brooms. The Kolonoskys both had careers in the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, George as a wildlife research scientist studying population dynamics of timber wolves, black bears and polar bears, and Dianne worked on commercial and sports fisheries on Lake Ontario, and was the first female biologist hired in the OMNR.
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