A couple of weeks ago I met Joni Mitchell, the Saskatoon singer who has made an international name for herself on records and stage performances, and was featured on the front page of Time magazine in its current issue. She was home in Saskatoon for a few days visiting her parents, Bill and Myrtle Anderson, who live just across the street from us.

During a brief conversation I couldn't help but tell Joni of the rousing party she missed at our house last New Year's Eve in company with such local sports as Pat O'Dwyer, Jim Struthers, Stirling King, Jack Cook, Tommy Campbell, Bob Cruickshank and myself, drinking punch (mostly consisting of fruit juices) and really cutting up.

It so happened Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were coming to the party and Joni was to have accompanied them. But a short while before the big night she phoned her mother and begged off an immediate visit to Saskatoon as something very special had come her way.

Joni had been invited to Peggy Lee's New Year's Eve party. She said she would really like to go and would come to Saskatoon at a later date.

Imagine anyone turning down an invitation to the McKenzie's place in favor of Peggy Lee!