Henry, Christy

Christy Henry, M.S., CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist who has worked in various school settings helping children in preschool through high school. She is inspired by her two girls who love reading books. At work and at home she focuses on improving literacy and language skills. Her stories target pre-literacy skills such as rhyming and sentence repetition. They also help enhance a child's vocabulary skills and speech sound development.

Christy is the author of the children's picture book

Who's On The Train Today? - published 2007

Hepworth, Dave

Nimchuk,Dorothy

Dorothy resides in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, with her husband Nick, a retired minister of the gospel. Throughout the years Dorothy has written numerous children's stories for her grandchildren and has had poetry printed in church publications.

In 2006 she published in "Welsh Cakes & Wet Cement," a centennial project of the Wetaskiwin Alberta public library. She is currently one of the editors of "Afterglow," a monthly magazine for seniors printed in Conroe, Texas.

Dorothy is the author of four books: 

One Extraordinary Man - The Great Escape - published in 2007 

No Soup for Breakfast - published in 2008

Larry and the LatchKey Kid - published in 2009, and 

Wind in the Mulberries - published in 2010

Whitehawk,Sherryl

Sherryl is a Dakota woman who resides in Yorkton Saskatchewan with her husband. She is the mother of 4 adult children and grandmother of four grandchildren - two granddaughters and two grandsons

Sherryl has an extensive background in Social Work, Psychodrama, Family violence and Rehabilitation. She currently works as a certified Master Facilitator with living Works Education Inc. During her career she has facilitated more than three hundred workshops and training sessions on various mental health issues. Her work has taken her across Canada to give presentations on topics such as suicide, grief, anger-sadness-fear, stress, crystal meth, traditional parenting, crisis response, family violence, driving without impairment, team building, life skills and building personal life skills.

Sherryl is known for her work in the area of suicide intervention training having worked in the area specific to suicide prevention for over 12 years. She is a certified provincial training consultant in the area of suicide and teaches community members to reduce the risk of suicide in their home communities.

Sherryl is the author of the children's picture book

Safe Snug Moss Babies - published in 2009

Dais, Logan

Logan C. Dias is a ninth grader at Prior Lake High School. He lives in Savage, Minnesota, and is the author's grandson. His interests include creating video games, playing guitar, art and swimming, He aspires to work for Nintendo or Sega after college. He's a fan of the Minnesota Vikings and Brett Favre. 

Logan has illustrated all four of Dorothy Nimchuk's books:

One Extraordinary Man - The Great Escape

No Soup for Breakfast 

Larry and the LatchKey Kid  and

Wind in the Mulberries

Gall, Richelle 

Richelle is an Early childhood Educator and felt designer. Her passion is teaching children and striving for a world of safety and opportunity for all children. She takes her vision very seriously and steps up with a clear voice when she sees unfairness to children.

Richelle lives in Springside Saskatchewan with her life partner Matthew, along with their three cats. She assists Sherryl Whitehawk with traditional parenting classes, designing and making felts and helping with the development of training manuals and children's books.

Richelle illustrated the children's picture book:

Safe Snug Moss Babies

Swallow, Judy 

Judy was born in Kipling Saskatchewan and raised on a farm near Peebles Sask. It was at Peebles where she developed her keen awareness and appreciation for nature. Although basically self-taught, she received education at the Minnesota School of Art, Brandon University, the University of Regina and instruction from various artists such as Michael Lonechild and wildlife artist, Bob Kuhn.

Judy finds nature to be the inspiration for all her work. She is in tune to the "spirit" in nature and is constantly aware of the emotional effect of light and colour and strives to incorporate these elements in her art.

Through her studio Swallow's Art Nest, Judy conducts "Creative Journey" workshops for youths and adults, as well as seminars, retreats and in-services on creative expression. She uses expressive writing and music to enhance creative experiences. Her work is in private collections in Australia, Europe, the US and Canada.

Judy illustrated the children's picture book Who's On The Train Today? 

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