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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Former Carlisle United prospect makes non-league switch
Former Carlisle United prospect Cameron Salkeld has made FA Trophy finalists Spennymoor Town his latest destination. The midfielder has joined the National League North club ahead of the 2025/26 season. Advertisement It follows his departure from fellow sixth-tier club Darlington. Salkeld, who came through the youth side at Carlisle and made two first-team appearances, scoring once, had been with Darlo for the last two years. Now he makes the switch to another north east outfit. Spennymoor boss Graeme Lee has welcomed the arrival of the former Blue to the Brewery Field. 'The way Cam plays the game suits us down to the ground,' said Lee in a club statement. 'I've said it numerous times that we're at our best when we play with real intensity, and Cam does that with his work rate and the distances he covers during games. Advertisement 'He is full of running, has great ability, good experience and can play in a few different roles so he's someone we're delighted to be adding to our squad for 2025/26.' Salkeld's two senior outings for Carlisle came in the EFL Trophy under Keith Curle in the 2016/17 campaign. He made his debut at 17 as a substitute against Blackburn Rovers' Under-21s in October 2016 before, a month later, coming off the bench to score in a 4-2 win over Fleetwood Town. He also impressed for United's youth team as they reached the fourth round in the same season. He moved on from Carlisle in 2018 and has since had spells at Gateshead, Greenock Morton, Ayr United and Clyde before joining Darlington in 2023. Spennymoor finished ninth in National League North last season as well as reaching the FA Trophy final, where they lost 3-0 to Aldershot Town at Wembley.
Winnipeg Free Press
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Community comes together to make authentic period pieces for Netflix reboot of Little House on the Prairie
Crystal Salkeld has a lot to stitch together in the next couple of weeks. Not only is she preparing for her first big market of the season — Knit City Montreal in two weeks — but she is also handling her shop's biggest, and most challenging, commission. The proprietor of boutique yarn store-cum-makerspace Purl and Hank on Portage Avenue was sought out by the costume team behind Netflix's Little House on the Prairie reboot to make the knitted and crocheted accessories for the three Ingalls sisters, Mary, Laura and Caroline. Purl and Hank owner Crystal Selkeld and 15 other knitters/crocheters will be making 65 vintage items for a Netflix reboot of Little House on the Prairie. The original NBC television show, which ran for nine seasons from 1974 to 1983, was based on the semi-autobiographical Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, an American writer, teacher and journalist. Wilder penned the beloved classics, set in 1871, about her childhood experiences in her settler and pioneer family, who lived in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Salkeld was contacted by costume designer Mitchell Travers after he visited her shop to source the fine yarn and natural fibres the department required and cleaned out her stock. 'Our shelves are empty now. Mostly what he chose we already had, but because of quantities he needed, we ordered more in,' Salkeld says. Travers also commissioned her to make the mittens, garters (to hold up stockings), shawls, fingerless gloves and bonnets for two of the sisters in the show, working from 10 patterns to create a total of 65 pieces, some of which are multiples. 'There has to be one of each thing done for May 19, and the rest done before shooting. Some of the garments they don't want completed so it can look like the sisters are knitting their own things,' Salkeld explains. Noël Galuschik (left) who moved to Winnipeg from Saskatchewan, knits a garter while Cadence Hope holds a pattern during a group meeting at Purl and Hank. It's a tight deadline and the volume of work was too much for one person, so Salkeld posted a callout on Instagram for local needlework experts. She was inundated with replies. Within 24 hours, more than 45 Winnipeggers from the city's knitting and crocheting community put themselves forward. The numbers were whittled down to 15 after she shared the patterns Travers provided. 'I let them know if it's in their wheelhouse to respond again and if they wanted to opt out they could,' she says. Alyx Buhler crochets a shawl. Those who replied are now part of the team. There's an added challenge: the knitters and crocheters are working from a number of esoteric patterns — some are reproductions from the 1800s — with very sparse information. Before they can faithfully recreate the designs, they first have to decipher them. 'It's like reading gibberish,' Salkeld says. 'We are going to have to work through as a team and figure out what they actually mean. It's a puzzle. With the patterns, they gave us a Victorian and modern equivalent chart. So we have pictures of what it looks like and the words that go along with it, and symbols, like a legend or a key, of how we can make it modern to understand it.' Daly Penner examines a pattern. With a little less than five weeks left to get everything done, they have to work swiftly. The group met last Saturday for their first briefing and to pick up their yarn and pattern kits. The plan is for each knitter to work alone, meeting up in the ship every 10 days to check in and ensure each piece and its multiples are uniform. 'If two people are working on the same pattern, we have to make sure that they are very much the same size. We are going to try and make it more of a community event, so if somebody is having trouble then someone else can help them go through the pattern,' Salkeld says. As exciting as it is to be asked to take on such a large commission, there is a measure of trepidation, too. 'This is the first time we've done something like this. It seems like it's a very fast-paced world and it's not necessarily what knitters are crocheters are used to. It's a lot if responsibility,' Salkeld says. Crystal Selkeld (right) shows Meghan Haughon a pattern as Jennifer Ducharme (left) looks on during a group meeting. 'I am overwhelmed by it all, but I have full confidence in our community. I know we will work as a team to get the job done.' AV KitchingReporter AV Kitching is an arts and life writer at the Free Press. She has been a journalist for more than two decades and has worked across three continents writing about people, travel, food, and fashion. Read more about AV. 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Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Aussie exposes frustrating $7,691 hidden 'tax' hitting millions: 'It's tough'
An Australian worker has highlighted the difficulty of surviving the cost-of-living crisis as a single person. New research has found singles have even been locked out of property ownership in one capital city. Brittany Salkeld has been single for three years and she said people like her are hit with the hidden tax many don't consider. The 37-year-old has been "overlooked" for rental properties and cops bigger bills to cover alone. "I've been paying a singles tax for years and I really felt it when I recently had to move and found it challenging as a single person on a single income to get the place I wanted," the Melbourne resident told Yahoo Finance. Single vs couple: Shock $200,000 Aussie property realisation ahead of $500 million blow out Centrelink cash boost coming in weeks for millions of Australians Aussie earning $300,000 a year without going to uni stuns: 'Didn't start until 35' The digital marketer found the Melbourne rental market to be fiercely competitive. She said it was frustrating to be overlooked by landlords, real estate agents, and lenders because she doesn't have a second income on her application. New research from Compare the Market found that in Sydney single people would not be able to comfortably afford a mortgage in any of its 635 suburbs if earning the median income of $1416. A single property owner would have to spend more than 30 per cent of their wages to get into the market, which would put them into mortgage stress. "If I did want to buy a home, then I'd have to save up double than those in a relationship," Salkeld said. "It's tough when an unexpected bill comes in and I have to manage my finances carefully when couples can split those bigger expenses." Compare the Market's Chris Ford echoed Salkeld's sentiments."It's not just those mortgage repayments but insurances, rates, ongoing maintenance that might be required as well ... and an already stretched budget is really pushed to its limit," he said. There are obvious expenses, like power bills, furnishing a home, a mortgage or strata fees that singles need to cover. But there are also costs that aren't necessarily an everyday expense which need special consideration. Like choosing a hotel with coupled up friends who can afford a more expensive venue as they will split a room or weighing up if you can afford the financial and emotional responsibility of getting a dog. The differences highlight the nuance in how Australians from different walks of life are battling the cost-of-living crisis. Salkeld has found ways to cut costs and tap into the collective through platonic relationships. "I've been able to carpool with a colleague to save money on travel, so I have found support in friends," she said. "It's the price I'm happy to pay to live alone and not settle for the wrong person." The Australian Bureau of Statistics has estimated that 3.4 million to four million Aussies will be living by themselves by 2046, which is a 30 to 50 per cent increase compared to 2021. iSelect collected data on singles and couples without children and found those on their own are forking out a lot more. The data found that childless single people, otherwise known as SINKs (single income, no kids), on average pay 41 per cent more for common household bills, like rent, as they can not share with another person. Single: $2,198 per month Each member of couple: $1,558 per month INKs save around $1,089 less every year compared to DINKs, according to the study. iSelect found that finances were tighter for SINKs as they were more concerned about their finances compared to DINKs. However, single people were less inclined to make cutbacks. The research claimed couples were more likely to plan for big life decisions like starting a family or buying a house so they would be more willing to strip back their spending. Those in relationships might also have to second-guess their spending even if they're not on a budget. "When you're in a couple, these choices are no longer a solitary decision and suddenly you're checking the shared account to see if you can get that extra cocktail," iSelect in to access your portfolio
