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By the middle of last week I started to believe that it was only Henry Dayday who’d had a good week on the campaign trail, and then he dropped out.

As tempting as it is to block out what’s happening in Saskatoon’s election campaign and focus on hockey, let’s review the week that was, starting with current Mayor Don Atchison.

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He came out in favour of sports. No details, but the mayor wants more sports facilities. Cricket, hockey and track. He wants more of them. According to Atchison, we have a “glaring” need for more hockey rinks. He calls them multi-sheet ice rinks. We have some already that were privately built and are by all accounts profitable. I am not sure why the city needs to build more rinks, but of course he gave no details.

Why mention it during a campaign? His response was, “That’s what mayors do. Mayors get out there and they, in fact, promote the community.”

Someone needs to tell Atchison that mayors also need to give details and a rationale for their proposals. If all mayors do is promote the community and profess their love for sports, I should have submitted my nomination papers. Either that or we put Tourism Saskatoon in charge of city and call it a day.