Kayla Smits, 8, dashes across an imaginary finish line in a race against a red blanket, which she and sister Jadyn, 10, also used as a toboggan to drag sister, Amy, 5, across the grass at Germain Park. The girls and their mother, Tanya Smits, were visiting the park one day last week to watch children's soccer games being played on the adjacent pitch. Glenn Ogilvie