SWIFT CURRENT, SK

With the skyrocketing lumber prices, wooden knipsers are now trading at upwards of $70 a piece.

“Well, Helen, would you look at that!” said Henry Warkentin, 64, of Swift Current. “We’ve got enough knipsers to retire right here…plus a little extra to travel, too.”

The Warkentins are also considering selling the board while the market is still hot.

“You can get good money for a board like this,” said Warkentin, “especially if it’s one Frank Thiessen’s boards. These days those trade for almost a million.”

Warkentin’s only hesitation is that he doesn’t know what he’ll do with himself without a crokinole board.

“Sometimes you have to get your priorities straight,” said Warkentin. “Sure, it’s a lot of money, but at what cost?”

The Warkentins are currently dismantling the

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