REGINA, SK

The competition was fierce this year at the annual Mennonite Premiers Competition, but when the final scores were tallied, Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall was declared the winner.

“Basically we put the Premiers through a series of tests to determine their Mennoniteness. We’re looking for both brains and brawn,” said event organizer Victoria Epp. “Brad Wall scored well in all the categories.”

First there is a Jeopardy-style trivia game on Mennonite history, where Premier Wall surged past the competiton in the ‘Villages of Molotschna’ category.

“I was very impressed. He knew all the colonies from Hablstadt to Heirschau and everything in between,” explained Epp. “He even scored pretty well in the Plautdietsch spelling section. People usually get stumped or at least slightly flustered

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