Tag Archive for: Meeples in your neighbourhood

Meeple in your Neighbourhood – David Greaves

When people talk about the strength of Saskatchewan’s tabletop gaming community, they often point to the games themselves...the epic strategy sessions, the laughter around the table, or the excitement of discovering a new favourite title.…

Meeple in your Neighbourhood – Ali Thompson

For many people, tabletop gaming is about fun, strategy, and spending time with friends. For Ali Thompson, it has also become a meaningful way to give back to her community. Her involvement with Play with Your Food blends her lifelong love of…

Meeple in your Neighborhood: Racquel Mohr Halland

When Racquel Mohr Halland first heard about Play With Your Food (PwYF), she saw a perfect match: “Carmichael Outreach is one of my mom’s preferred charities,” she said. “So when I saw that I could play board games AND support them, it…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Carlos Rivera

If you’ve been to a Chewsday Challenge event lately, there’s a good chance you’ve met Carlos Rivera—registrar, leadership team member, Chewsday Ambassador, and all-around board gaming enthusiast. His story in the Regina gaming community…

Meeples in your neighborhood: David Popoff

By Carmen Pauls Orthner A single flute can perform alone and still create beautiful music, just as a board game can be played solo and still be a great experience. But as both a musician and a gamer, David Popoff would choose the group experience…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Jason Vanstone

By Carmen Pauls Orthner Curious as to how a biologist became a board gamer? Blame the zombies. Jason Vanstone is a leader with Play with Your Food as PwYF’s Social Media Coordinator. He’s clearly a smart, creative, out-of-the-box thinker…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Kristy Smith

Few people can actually say that board gaming saved their lives; Kristy Smith is an exception. Nearly twenty years ago, in her mid-twenties, Kristy was recovering from one of several operations she had endured in the decade since health issues…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Mac Grassick

Mac Grassick has lived in Regina most of his life, and he’s currently the general manager at Boston Pizza North Albert (BPs), the homebase of ChewsDay Challenge. Mac fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons when he was young but credits…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Becky Shepherd

Becky Shepherd may live on a bison ranch, but it’s among board gamers that she’s truly found her herd. The Shepherd family – Becky, her husband Avery, and their two daughters – live near Livelong, a hamlet northwest of North Battleford,…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Jeff Haubrich

How did a group of friends from Moosomin – a town of 3,000 people located 20 km west of the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border – get involved in raising money to help Regina’s less fortunate? For Jeff Haubrich and his team, when it comes…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Nathan Johnson

Board gaming is clearly very serious business at the Johnson house – until you start looking more closely! Nathan Johnson was only looking to buy some card expansions from a stranger online, but he ended up with something far more valuable.…

Meeples in your neighborhood: Rosemarie Opitz

If you come to any ChewsDay Challenge, there’s one person you’re nearly guaranteed to see: Rosemarie Opitz. She has missed only five ChewsDays in the past year and a half! Rosemarie was first introduced to Regina’s board gaming community…

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