Alicia Blore knew that her great-grandfather Phillip Zastre drove a school bus and ran a scrapyard business in Sainte Rose du Lac, Man., and could fix just about anything. When Blore was about age three, she remembers visiting him on a family trip from Toronto, and making a discovery in a huge cabinet.
It was full of trophies, “shiny trophies of different colours, gold, red, silver,” said Blore. “I remember asking someone, ‘How do I get those shiny things?.’ And someone tells me, ‘Oh, you just have to learn to play the fiddle, that’s how you get those.’ And I was, like, ‘Wow, I can get those.’”
