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Fire totally destroys Redvers’ Western Star Inn

By Laura Kish A fire totally engulfed the Western Star Inn & Suites in Redvers in the early morning hours Monday.

Fire Chief Brad Hutton of the Redvers Fire Department says they were dispatched at 2:12 a.m. Monday morning. Upon arrival about one-third of the roof and the top floor of the two-storey building were on fire.

The inn, which was built in 2011 and boasted 65 rooms, had been closed down some time last fall due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Two engines and a tanker and 16 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze,” explains Hutton. “Our best efforts were put forward to save it.”

Unfortunately it was a total loss. Cause of the fire is unknown.

Services temporarily reduced at Arcola Health Centre

The Saskatchewan Health Authority has announced a temporary disruption to emergency and acute care services at the Arcola Health Centre, which started on Friday evening and will continue until 8 a.m. on Jan. 30.

Lab/x-ray services will not be affected by this disruption.

There will also still be physician coverage in Arcola, but physician and nurse services are being diverted to Weyburn.

Roberta Wiwcharuk, the executive director of acute care

for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, said the disruption is due to the increased number of cases in the Weyburn area.

“We will have the staff and physicians providing support to the Weyburn General Hospital that is having some increased activity,” said Wiwcharuk.

There has not been increased COVID-19 case count at other health facilities, such as St. Joseph’s Hospital in Estevan, the Gallaway Health Centre in Oxbow and the Red-

vers Health Centre.

This is not the first time that services in Arcola have been affected by COVID, either. During the spring, the health centre was one of 12 reduced to alternate levels of care, with emergency and acute care services suspended.

They were restored about a month later, and remained in tact until last week.

Wiwcharuk said the community was notified a few weeks ago that the SHA might reduce services temporarily in

Arcola. The community was informed last week the disruption would go ahead.

Wiwcharuk said COVID cases in the Weyburn area would need to drop considerably to end the disruption early. There’s also a chance the reduction in services could extend beyond Jan. 30.

“We certainly are monitoring the activity day to day and week to week. We did hope that by January 30 we’d be able to resume the services, but we’ll just have to moni-

tor the situation. Hopefully we can resume, but there is a possibility we would need to extend.”

In the event of an emergency, those who would normally access the emergency room or acute care services in Arcola are asked to ca​ll 911 or visit the emergen​cy department in Estevan, Redvers, Kipling or Weyburn.

Non-urgent health related questions can be directed to the provincial HealthLine by calling 811.

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Crokicurl – the latest outdoor craze hits Windthorst

By Laura Kish Yet another one of Canada’s fun winter pastimes is crokicurl. This game is a large scale hybrid of curling and the board game Crokinole.

Crokinole is part of many families so why not combine it with another popular winter sport, curling? The best part is any age can play.

The idea is to get as many rocks to the centre as possible, knocking out your opponent’s rocks with the end goal to score more points than the opposing team. In this case, instead of using curling rocks, coffee tins were filled with water, which makes them a little bit lighter than the standard rocks.

Bernard Steele and Richard Swallow of Windthorst decided to start building the outdoor Crokicurl rink between Christmas and New Year’s and finished it up just

last weekend, despite the weather being a little bit too warm at times.

“I had seen it last year at Winnipeg at The Forks,” explains Steele, “and I said ‘Hey, why can’t we do this’ here in Windthorst.”

Swallow was definitely on board to go ahead and help build this for the community.

“Let’s get outside and have some fun,” says Steele.

“We found the instructions and the rules on the internet,” explains Steele, “and it went from there.”

It hasn’t been up and running for very long yet but there have been some people making use of it.

There’s also a fire ring there for a bit of a warm up or if you’re just a spectator.

Communities from all around seem to be interested in this latest outdoor sport especially since the pandemic hit everyone hard this winter.

Talon Swallow gives a quick demonstration of how the game of Crokicurl is played while teammate Preston Jones watches and waits for his turn at throwing the rock. Photo by Laura Kish

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The end of the semester is near for many Grade 10-12 classes.

End of semester tests are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.

On Wednesday morning, Grade 10s – regular classes, Grade 11s – math test, Grade 12s – math test. In the afternoon, Grade 10s – social studies test, Grade 11s – health science test, and Grade 12s – ELA A30 test.

On Thursday morning, Grade 10ss – ELA A10 test, Grade 11ss – no test, Grade 12s – no test. In the afternoon, Grade 10s – math test, Grade 11s – physical science test, Grade 12s –biology test/law in-class assignment.

There is no school next Friday.

GFK has switched to a new schedule for the New Year. Edsy class schedules may not line up with this new

schedule. It will be resolved when semester 2 begins in February. A new reporting system called EDSBY has been rolled out for parents to use in order to see students’ attendance and marks.

Its purpose is to improve electronic communication between school and home.

Contact the school if you haven’t received your password or are having problems logging onto the system (306) 453-2500. Remember, if you ever have questions or concerns to discuss with your child’s particular teachers, please email the teacher or contact the school.

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Now the Lampman author has re- awards for Ulrich. Face Off and BreakThe Bearcats have been co-operareleased the three books – Power Plays, away followed. They were staggered in tive, participating in Zoom launches to Face Off and Breakaway. their re-release last year, with Break promote the books and to answer quesIt’s a hybrid deal, so Ulrich and Away coming out in December, just be- tions about the game. her publisher split the proceeds of the fore Christmas.

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“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

- Tony Robbins

Moe’s status quo restrictions are a gamble

By Murray Mandryk For most of the remainder of the month, Saskatchewan will remain under the restrictions that don’t permit you to have visitors to your house or allow you to go out to a restaurant or a bar with more than a couple other people.

The critical question is whether we will have to be under other circumstances.

This is in no way to be taken as an endorsement of the nonsense from the anti-mask crowd peddling their idiocy that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t real or that their personal freedoms are somehow more important that any societal commitment they have to not the spread the virus.

The novel coronavirus is all too real, becoming both increasing common and increasingly deadly in this province.

At the press conference last week in which Premier Scott Moe and Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab decided to extend current restrictions until Jan. 29, Moe justified by the decision by explaining that Saskatchewan was having success in December before what he describes as a “Christmas bump” and went so far as to suggest the January numbers haven’t been all that bad or much worse than elsewhere.

At least on the latter points, Moe is incorrect.

We were experiencing the highest daily averages, highest hospitalizations and ICU admittance, and highest death totals. By all unbiased statistical measures, January 2021 has been the worst.

It’s also now worse than just about anywhere else. We certainly have surpassed Quebec and Ontario in daily per capita cases. And, as it stands now, we are going in the wrong direction.

This isn’t what is happening elsewhere.

Manitoba was facing dangerous numbers of 300 to 400 new cases a day — even after Progressive Conservative Premier Brian Pallister issued a severe clampdown that ticketed those attending church services, limited what big box stores could sell to avoid pre-Christmas shopping traffic and stopped people from travelling from one area of the province to another.

The outcry was loud from many sectors of that province and the positive results in Manitoba were not necessarily immediately. The novel coronavirus was rampant in Manitoba nursing homes, which is why deaths in that province have far outpaced deaths here.

But as it stands right now, Manitoba has seen its daily case numbers below 100 and its death toll fall. Sadly, the expect opposite is happening here in Saskatchewan.

For that reason alone, it seems passing strange that Moe would call for more of the same for the next two weeks.

Perhaps the premier and his health officials will be right that the high numbers of today are just the hangover after Christmas and New Years.

They are certainly right that any such lockdown is hard on business. One surely does sympathize both with struggle businesses are going through and tough choices Moe must make.

But what if doing the same thing isn’t doing enough? If we are experiencing large-scale COVID-19 community spread right now, is it logical to think doing more of the same will actually work?

What if, by the end of this month, we find out that all that’s been accomplished is postponing a necessary clamp down?

Moe and the rest of us are taking chance.

The danger in the grey zone

Shelley Luedtke When my girls were quite young, they were asked to be flower girls at the wedding of a cousin.

The experience clearly left its mark. One day while playing wedding with their dolls we heard them come up with rather interesting vows including a promise “to love and to perish.”

There are countless tales of misspoken vows that have led to humorous memories for couples and their guests: officiants who had the wrong names, a groom who promised to “waffely take” his wife, couples who tripped over middle names, a bride who may or may not have misheard the minister when she said ‘til “debt do us part,” or the groom who had the unfortunate experience of adding an extra syllable and vowed his “love and infidelity.”

As hard as some people may find speak-

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increase of grey divorce ended by seeking out advice from 50 couples who had been married more than 50 years to see what they believed had kept them together.

Fifty couples with 50 years of marriage experience combines for a whole lot of advice, so here is a smattering of their nuggets.

Let the other express their feelings first.

Keep a sense of humour.

Be friends. Imagine your life without them and you’ll realize how important they are to you.

Apologize.

Maintain a TV and device-free mealtime. Demonstrate gratitude and thankfulness even when things aren’t going the way you expected. Never badmouth your partner to other people. Engage in kind gestures on a regular basis. Make the most of each moment together. Kiss each other goodnight every night.

Everything on that list is something every married person could begin to do, if they don’t already. We shouldn’t need a specific day to tell us, but perhaps a reminder could be a welcome nudge when it might be easy to take a relationship for granted. Saying the vows is one thing, vowing to keep saying them is something else entirely.

That’s my outlook.

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any stage of life is painful, experts say divorces after several decades of marriage are increasingly difficult because there are more children and grandchildren involved, larger extended families that are impacted, property and business interests to consider, and overall greater assets to disperse. However what also seems to increase is the regret on the part of some after the divorce is final when those shared decades of history have been severed.

In an age when every pastime, food, animal or activity has a day dedicated to itself, so do married people. While couples have any number of special days they can choose to celebrate as milestones, there is one more: National Spouses’ Day on Jan. 26.

Observed since the mid-1980s, it is intended to encourage couples to celebrate their bond, and unlike Valentine’s Day which has become about spending money, this day is about spending time. Couples are urged to take time to be together, shut off distractions and have a good conversation, and demonstrate appreciation in kind gestures.

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A story published last fall looking at the

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While the divorce rate in some demographics is declining, grey divorces have been on the rise for quite some time.

While we might assume that those married for many years have it figured out a bit better, it seems that some of the issues not dealt with earlier on in marriage later become dealbreakers, or obstacles arise that the couple appear to have lost their ambition to resolve.

So what are the biggest challenges accounting for the rise in grey divorces? Of course while each marriage has its own story and therefore its own factors impacting its success, there appear to be some common denominators including unmet financial goals after decades of marriage, lack of shared interests or activities, infidelity, the diminished stigma surrounding divorce, as well as better healthcare resulting in longer life expectancy and greater opportunity to find a different partner.

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Friday, January 22, 2021

Band and choral programs to resume in Cornerstone Band and choral programs will be resuming in the South East Cornerstone Public School Division, starting Feb. 1.

The division made the announcement on its Facebook page Friday morning. The programs were not offered during the first five months of the school year due to restrictions associated with COVID-19.

Aaron Hiske, the superintendent of education for Cornerstone, said Cornerstone has been closely monitoring Reopen Saskatchewan guidelines in an effort to figure out how to safely offer band and choir programs for both elementary schools and high schools.

“We felt we could offer programming with reduced risk within these guidelines, and we’re pleased to offer this to our students,” said Hiske.

Once the school division saw some leeway, it met with the conductors to discuss how the programs could look. Superintendents of schools have been working with principals for a resumption of programming in school buildings.

Changes released on Jan 11, including a reduction in the required distance between performers from four metres to threes, allowed Cornerstone to resume programs.

“That four-metre barrier was really diffi-

cult for us,” said Hiske.

In addition to the three metres of distance, they can have up to 30 students in a classroom at a time. All students must be wearing masks when not playing, and for brass instruments, there needs to be filters on the instrument bells and absorbent pads on the floors.

“We’ll have to break those band instructing units into smaller chunks, so maybe instead of seeing 30 kids for a 45-minute session, it might be 15 kids for two 20-minute sessions, to get the program up and running again,” he said.

Not only will they be able to offer band and choir programs in any

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school that had them before, but Hiske said they believe they can have some of the classroom music that had to be shelved due to the pandemic.

“The closest we had to offering some pieces is one of our schools was doing some work virtually with an extracurricular course,” said Hiske.

The band and choral teachers had been reassigned to other duties during the first half of the school year so that there wouldn’t be layoffs.

Some of them provided much-needed substitute teaching coverage.

The instructors will spend the last week of January setting up programs and classrooms to accommodate restric-

tions, so that they’re ready by Feb. 1.

“Band and choir are important across South East Cornerstone. It’s always been foundational to what we offer students,” said Hiske. “It was a very difficult decision to make the decision to pause those when the guidelines just simply wouldn’t let us offer quality programming. So we’re very excited, and parents and students will be excited as well to be able to offer these for our students again.”

A long-time band instructor in Estevan and at other schools, Hiske said it was important to offer these programs once again for students.

“In these trying times, the arts can cer-

tainly give us some comfort, so I’m looking forward to continuing to support our teachers and our band directors and choir directors to provide some opportunities for our students,” said Hiske.

If everything stays the same within the public health orders, Hiske hopes there can be some form of performances this spring, including band concerts, choral performances or a school musical or play. Once the weather is nice, they might be able to be outdoors, or they could have virtual performances.

The school division is constantly monitoring the provincial regulations, and will be ready if those change.

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Planning a Farmerettes reunion for the future The editor: It all began in the early 1960s when Delores Cutler asked me what I thought about trying to organize a girls youth program in rural Moose Creek area.

We both agreed it would be such a nice group for our teenage girls to be part of, and we began by phoning some of the mothers to see whether we had their support. Before we knew it we had a group of young girls anxious and excited, and so began many years of gatherings, events and graduations, and during the years of 1963-1978, 60 girls graduated from the Moose Creek Canadian Girls in Training Farmerettes with Delores Cutler, May Hume, Bev Rutten and myself as the leaders over the years.

Now many decades later, we are wanting to bring the girls back together for a reunion. At this time we cannot plan a specific date because of COVID, perhaps by 2022

it would be possible but we are now reaching out near and far, and hopefully through emails and the internet we will get in touch with them all.

Helen (Brown) Finucane and Michelle (Cutler) Baldwin will be gathering the emails to establish the contact

page. If you already have contact with either of them perhaps you could share all the email addresses you might have of any of the girls.

Here’s hoping for a super great reunion. I can hardly wait!

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Friday, January 22, 2021

Carievale students among YouthBiz winners The winners for the 2020 YouthBiz Commercial Contest have been announced, and a couple of Carievale students have been recognized.

More than 150 students from southeast Saskatchewan participated in YouthBiz, a youth entrepreneurship contest offered by Community Futures (CF) Sunrise. To participate in YouthBiz, students had to be in Grades 6-12 in southeast Saskatchewan, and complete the entry requirements: create an audio commercial for their imagined business and answer key questions about that business idea.

“We’re thrilled that so many students took part in YouthBiz again this year. CF Sunrise has offered the YouthBiz contest in southeast Saskatchewan for 14 years, and this year we pivoted the program due to COVID,” said Verna O’Neill, the general manager of CF Sunrise. “We weren’t able to visit regional schools in-person this past fall, and needed to connect with students and teachers virtually.

“Because businesses have been making a focused effort to

reach customers online, YouthBiz addressed this shift as well, by encouraging students to create a digital audio commercial as part of the contest entry requirements.

And students certainly demonstrated their creativity by submitting some excellent contest entries.”

First place and $300 was awarded to Anushka Raulji from Weyburn, for her tutoring business, Elite Academy.

Second place and $200 was won by Amy Gilliland from Carievale School, for her company Jewelry by Amy. Third place and $100 was given to Payton Grad and Chloe Krienke from Weyburn, for their online clothing store, Clayton Designs.

YouthBiz winners and a sample of their entry materials are featured on the CF Sunrise website.

Additionally, special achievement awards of $50 each were awarded to students demonstrating unique aspects to their YouthBiz entries.

The award for social responsibility was won by Kaitlyn Wild from Emerald Park, for her business Kaitlyn’s Coasters. Kaitlyn de-

Amy Gilliland and Sailor Cowan of Carievale School were among the 2020 winners for the YouthBiz Commercial Contest. Photo submittedv scribed how she donates to cancer research from her business profits.

The Best Business Slogan Award was given to Carievale’s Sailor Cowan. Her business, SC Ranching, had the slogan “Live life like someone left the gate open!”

Korbyn Kaufman from Radville recorded a very expressive com-

mercial for the business KK Berry Farm, and was recognized with the Effective Commercial Award.

Addison Laird and Winston Segeart from Radville used a unique approach in their audio commercial and won the Creative Commercial Format Award for their business Radville Canine Care Centre.

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youth entrepreneurship education is amazing, and this program continues to be successful because of their ongoing efforts,” said O’Neill.

Wawota weekly happenings Submitted by Myrna Olson Congratulations to Riley Riddell and Jana Wlock on the birth of their daughter.

She was born on Jan. 8 and weighed seven pounds, two ounces. She has been named Scottie Jean. Riley Riddell was raised in Wawota and returned to teach school here until last year when he moved to Regina.

Wendy Brehaut has secured a position at Moose Mountain Meats as the storefront customer service person. She will be missed at the Village Inn. Three Wawota residents celebrated their birthdays on Jan. 11.

Happy birthday to Lois Greenbank, who celebrated her 75th birthday.

A small group of friends gathered at an outdoor celebration.

Happy birthday to our nephew Darren Ol-

son, who had his 60th birthday. You know you are getting old when someone you remember as a baby celebrates his 60th birthday.

And a happy birthday to my co-worker Terri Tomlinson, who has done an exemplary job at the post office during this extraordinarily busy season.

Today I was sorting through some newspapers from 2000-2001 and came across a clipping about Darren Olson getting a perfect hand in cribbage against Keith Olson. (He didn’t win the game, though). To show that history does repeat itself, Kenton Olson got a 28 hand in cribbage while playing a game against Keith Olson. Apparently, Kenton did eke out a win.

Any help with the news would be appreciated. Please phone 1-306-739-2519 or send a email to molsons_40@ hotmail.com.

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SIMSA to hold energy update Four last things and

getting the best out of life

By Brian Zinchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Like almost every other public event since COVID-19 hit in March 2020, the Saskatchewan Industrial & Mining Suppliers Association Inc. (SIMSA) had to put off its regular October Oil & Gas Supply Chain Forum.

But now SIMSA is back at it, going virtual with an event to be held on March 24.

Eric Anderson, executive director of SIMSA, said, “We’re going in the end of March. We’re calling it Saskatchewan Suppliers’ Energy Update.”

Social distancing requirements mean things like the speed networking and in-person networking will not be able to take place, but this event will still seek to get information to its participants, according to Anderson.

Eric Nuttal, partner and senior portfolio manager with Ninepoint Partners LP, is the keynote speaker. He recently spoke in a similar event held by the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, providing a positive outlook for the oilpatch.

Anderson noted that there’s a little broader focus, including things like lithium and hydrogen. All of those are being developed with oilfield services.

The one-day online event will have speakers from oil producer Crescent Point Energy Corp., pipeline company TC Energy, refiner Federated Co-operative Limited, geothermal pioneer Deep Earth Energy Production, SaskEnergy, Prairie Lithium/LiEP Energy, Royal He-

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Minister of Energy and Resources Bronwyn Eyre. File photo by Brian Zinchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter lium, new micro-refinery Independent Energy Corporation, SaskPower on its Moose Jaw power plant, and hydrogen developer Proton Technologies.

Energy and Resources Minister Bronwyn Eyre will also be speaking. The Government of Saskatchewan partners on these events.

Anderson spoke of optimism of things turning around, and is currently planning on hosting its regular event in Regina this October.

“That’s provided the COVID vaccines roll out, and provided they work.

There are a lot of ifs there, but I think we all know what they are. If things change, things change the positive way. We all hope they do.

“Eventually, as the vaccines roll out, planes are going to start flying around, cars are going to start driving around and the demand will return,” Anderson said.

Two goats were foraging in the nuisance grounds. One chewed relentlessly on a book.

The other asked, “How do you like it?” “Well,” said the first, “I liked the film better.”

Ira Byock’s book The Four Things that Matter gives us his main point in the opening sentence: “The four most important things you will ever say are: Please forgive me. I forgive you. Thank you.

I love you. These are words people tend to utter on their deathbeds.

However, as Byock urges, it is best to start saying them long before our loved ones gather round our deathbed. The saddest words we say? ‘It might have been!’”

Do not take for granted that your children know you love them, or that brother or sister that you did not get along with knows that you have forgiven them. “Please forgive me. I forgive you. Thank you. I love you. These four simple statements … carry the core wisdom of what people who are dying have taught me about what matters most in life,” Byock says.

We live with certain

limitations imposed upon us by our family experiences as we grow up. We learn about relationships and how to interact with others from our parents and siblings. Byock’s book helps the reader move beyond the limitations our early environment might have taught us.

Byock assures us that in his 25 years as a hospice or palliative care worker he has lost count of the times family members or friends have expressed deep regret about the things they should have said before a loved one died.

There is another encounter and relationship we all experience as we grow in our life understanding and that is our spiritual essence. Our faith life and growth is subject to the same joy or regret as our social interactions.

The saddest words we express could be about what might have been.

The words of Lewis Capaldi’s song Before You Go echo: “So, before you go, was there something I could've said? Would we be better off by now, if I'd let my walls come down?”

In our relationship with God we need to express love and our regret for our failures

before it’s too late. Humility is needed to let our walls of pride come down and to ask God’s pardon. Hopefully our training from childhood gave us the habit of contrition and the ability to ask pardon when we have wronged God or our neighbour.

In Capaldi’s opening verse he says: “I fell by the wayside, like everyone else.” How close to home that strikes.

“But I was just kidding myself.” And the regret that follows is our universal regret, “Cause now that they're gone, all I hear are the words that I needed to say.”

And so it is with our God. And so, before you go, say “I love you,” “I’m sorry,” “Thank you” and “I forgive you.” Before it is too late.

The cost? A little humility. What makes it possible for us to be humble? “Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” Anne Sexton.

Marcie Laycock tells us what we will hear if we listen hard: “…a child crying in a manger…a voice calling us to know Him, to know His love for us, love that grants us one more day of life, filled with all its challenges and blessings.”

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Oxbow curler to represent Saskatchewan at nationals CurlSask has announced who will represent the province at several upcoming national championships.

The 2021 Viterra Scotties Tournament of Hearts women’s curling provincials and the

SaskTel Tankard men’s curling provincials were scheduled to happen back-to-back at Affinity Place in Estevan in late January and early February.

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those events wouldn’t be happening in Estevan, and it was considering other options for provincials.

On Jan. 13, CurlSask’s proposal for a bubble to host provincials was rejected by the Government of Saskatchewan.

“All options for any form of competition to declare our representatives have been exhausted,” CurlSask said in a news release.

CurlSask has made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 CurlSask Mixed Doubles Championships, Viterra Scotties and SaskTel Tankard, and CurlSask has been forced to select the men’s, women’s and mixed doubles representatives.

It meant that CurlSask would determine who represents Saskatchewan at national events. But even that wasn’t easy for the women’s and men’s representatives.

Roster changes occurred for both the men’s and women’s 2020 champions. Team Matt Dunstone retained three members from last season and Team Robyn Silvernagle has two re-

turning members.

The representatives for Saskatchewan at the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts nationals will be Team Anderson, with Sherry Anderson, Nancy Martin, Chaelynn Kitz and Breanne Knapp. Anderson’s rink lost to Silvernagle’s team in the provincial finals in 2020, but Anderson’s rink retained three members, while Silvernagle has just two.

Kitz hails from Oxbow and was the lead on Anderson’s rink last year. Kitz won the Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award at last year’s provincials.

Mitchell was from the Glen Ewen area, and in 1980, skipped the first Canadian entry to win gold at the women’s world curling championships.

The representatives for Saskatchewan at the 2021 Tim Hortons Brier will Matt Dunstone, Braeden Moskowy, Kirk Muyres and Dustin Kidby.

The tandem of Mike Armstrong and Ashley Quick will represent Saskatchewan at the 2021 Home Hardware Mixed Doubles Championship. They won last

Chaelynn Kitz of Oxbow will compete at curling nationals. File photo year’s provincial title, but didn’t get to represent Saskatchewan at nationals.

The objective assessment of teams is based on the performance of teams in a two-season window. CurlSask says this system objectively and fairly assessed the value of teams including those with roster changes.

This includes season-end points from last season (2019-20) and

points earned from this partial season (2020-21) which were calculated using the existing Canadian Team Ranking System formula.

The points were calculated based on the current registered lineups of each team. Each team and/or individual contributed their own value based on past performance.

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Learning to count Linda Wegner Words of Worth I still remember the thrill I felt when our children and then our grandchildren proudly spouted: “One, two, three…seven, eight, nine, 10.”

Since we are officially bilingual in Canada, all three of them also touted “Un, deux, trois….”

Because I admit that I often think outside the box or on topics that aren’t always common, I’ll tell you that lately I’ve been musing on numbers.

While there are approximately 6,500 different languages in the world, according to online

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sources we all use the same numerical symbols and values.

During this time of COVID lockdowns, it’s hard to look ahead and say with confidence, “in so many hours or days I’ll be…” In reality, it is a fantasy. Mundane things such as having lunch with a friend, having tea or coffee in my favourite shop or doing more than grocery shopping have suddenly become elusive desires.

Even counting days has become more of a dream than a reality. Seems the early morning questions for both Hubby and me centre around, “What day is it?”

While enumerating blessings does seem hard these weeks, it’s important that we look around us for reasons for thanksgiving, including rea-

sons and things we too often take for granted.

“Teach us [Make us know] how short our lives really are [to count our days] so that we may be wise [gain a wise heart].” (Psalm 90:12 – Expanded Bible) And as the songwriter penned: “Count your blessings, name them one by one … count your many blessings, name them one by one, count your many blessings, see what God has done.”

I’m far from alone in attempting to gain wisdom while bemoaning the days to come before this epidemic is over but may God help each of us to learn to count well.

Count good things. Count friends and professionals offering help. Above all, thank Him!

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Alida weekly news Submitted by Edel Cowan There’s been a switch-a-roo at the Alida Post Office once again. We now have to say goodbye to Jackie Henderson who was been our new and faithful postmistress for the last couple of months in 2020 while Linda Akins was on sick leave.

Sorry to see you leave Jackie, you did an awesome job while here and we’ll miss your cheerful greetings. Now we welcome Linda back with open arms – great to have you back and see your smiling face back behind the counter and receive your cheerful greetings. See you around and do take care.

Birthday greetings for this coming week are extended to Owen Boettcher on Jan. 23; and Shelly Cowan, Shelley Boutin and Albert Boutin – Jan. 27.

Happy birthday to you all and may you have many more to come.

Just a reminder – I hope that you have placed your pizza order with the Alida Rec. Board, who has decided to make and sell homemade pizzas (pepperoni, ham/pineapple, cheese or loaded) as a fundraiser. Deadline for placing your order was Jan.16, and the pickup/delivery date is Jan. 23. Enjoy your pizzas.

Hubby and his sister Joyce George of Redvers also received word that their cousin’s wife Marie Hannesson of Winnipeg had passed away Jan. 15 at the age of 97 years. Condolences are extended to all family members.

I swear this column gets shorter and shorter each week.

This COVID pandemic has surely got us shut down, not much happening in and around our area.

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Lloyd Dwaine Thompson

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Lloyd Thompson of Creelman, Sask. passed away at the Arcola Health Centre, Arcola, Sask. on Sunday, January 10, 2021 at the age of 78.

Lloyd’s memory will be forever cherished by his loving wife of 47 years, Fern (Quebec) Thompson, and their children: Ken (Kerry) Thompson and Tammy Hall (John), and daughter-in-law Michele Thompson.

He will be missed and remembered by his precious grandchildren: Monica, Pierre, Asley, Steven, Lyle (Kristen), Chris, Amanda (Robert), Skylar, Brandon and Nicole (David), and great granddaughter Josie.

Lloyd is also survived by his brother Dennis (Joan) Thompson; sister-in-law Elsie Thompson; Fern’s family: Ken Quebec (Alice), Lorna Gabin, Peter & Dorothy Quebec, Gordon Quebec, Dennis & Kathy Quebec, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and lifelong friends.

Lloyd was preceded in death by his son Albert Thompson; parents: Cliff & Lena Thompson; sister Yvonne Thompson in infancy; brothers: Lawrence (Valerie) Thompson and Kenneth Thompson; motherin-law Violet Quebec; in-laws: Betty & Larry Wishard and Michele Gabin; nephews: Michael Quebec and Byll Quebec.

A Memorial Service to honour Lloyd’s life will be held at a later date, when it is once again possible for all of his family and friends to be in attendance.

If friends so desire, donations in Lloyd’s memory may be made to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #133, Box 548, Stoughton, Sask., S0G 4T0.

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Clarence, late of Redvers,SK passed away peacefully with family by his side on Sunday, January 10, 2021 at the Estevan Regional Nursing Home, Estevan, SK at the age of 92 years.

Clarence will be forever remembered by his family; wife Betty Ruth (nee Symons); children, Andrew (Carol) Purvis, Wayne Purvis, Charlotte (Marcel) Shevalier, John (Sherry) Purvis and Donald (Cindy) Purvis; grandkids, Paul and Bethany Shevalier, Mathew and Eric Purvis, Jessica, Tara, Rebecca and Stacy Purvis and Summer Barber; siblings, Laura James and Walter (Dale) Purvis as well as numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.

Clarence was predeceased by his parents, James Darcy and Clara Rose (nee Dewitt) Purvis; son Gordon Scott Purvis; brother Ronald James Purvis; 2 nieces, Sheila Quennelle and Karen Sametz; nephew Darcy Purvis and brother-in-law Robert James.

There was a private family Graveside Service for Clarence on Saturday, January 16, 2021 at the Redvers Town Cemetery with Pastor Alex Bojorquez officiating.

In memory of Clarence, memorial donations may be made to a charity of choice.

Hall Funeral Services in Estevan cared for Clarence’s family - Yvonne Clark, Funeral Director.

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Friday, January 22, 2021

SGI received many claims following storm

By Brian Zinchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter SGI Canada has received a large number of property claims from the Alberta clipper storm that whacked much of Saskatchewan on Jan. 13-14.

That’s according to Tyler McMurchy, manager of media relations, with SGI. He added that’s for just for one insurer, as SGI is one of many property insurers in the province.

A further 386 auto claims were also received – not from people bumping fenders, but from things like trees landing on vehicles, or trailers being blown over.

“Those were some pretty crazy winds,” McMurchy said by phone.

Claims came from throughout the province, anywhere south of Prince

Albert. Regina, Moose Jaw and Weyburn were particularly hit, but so were places like Saskatoon, Radville, Estevan and Milestone.

In October 2017, there had been a similar storm, but McMurchy said, “This past one had higher wind speeds and more trees knocked down.”

Environment Canada had reported wind gusts north of Regina were as strong as an EF1 tornado.

Since it was winter, more outside items like lawn furniture and trampolines had been put away, while other items were frozen to the ground, he noted.

There will be some “very large claims” he said, including building damage and farm claims.

Adjusters worked throughout the weekend, and by Tuesday, most

The Alberta clipper that blew through Saskatchewan last week left plenty of damage in its week. Photo

by Brian Zinchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter of those who had filed claims had initial contact with an SGI adjuster, according to McMurchy.

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Carlyle and Carnduff RCMP seek assistance with recent crimes The RCMP in Carlyle and Carnduff are seeking the public’s assistance with incidents in their detachment areas.

The Carlyle RCMP is seeking the public’s assistance with a stolen vehicle.

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night of Jan. 18. The vehicle was taken from the Wawota Garage Ltd. in Wawota and had half a tank of gas at the time.

Also, the Carlyle RCMP reports that sometime between the night of Jan. 4 and the morning of Jan. 5, a trailer was stolen from a land location near Redvers.

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scribed as being an 18foot enclosed, white with an exterior NASCAR decal, a flawed paint/coating on the exterior door, and with mag wheels.

If you have any information regarding these incidents, please call the Carlyle RCMP at 306-453-6707.

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lic’s assistance with a stolen vehicle.

On Jan. 5, a vehicle theft was reported to the Carnduff RCMP detachment. The involved vehicle was described as a black 2011 Ford F-350 with Saskatchewan licence plate 663 JWJ. The theft occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. from a Carnduff repair shop. Third party information was received to suggest the vehicle left the Carnduff area eastbound on Highway 18.

The Carnduff RCMP is also investigating a vandalism incident that occurred at Grant Devine Lake (formerly Alameda Dam).

The RCMP was notified by a concerned citizen who observed graffiti on the walls of the spillway at the reservoir. The complainant cautiously described that someone may appreciate the effort but the creative effort does not excuse this as being a criminal act of property damage.

The Carnduff RCMP detachment echoes the complainant's view, and further would like to highlight the risk of personal injury near and around the dam at the reservoir is high during any season.

Anyone who may have observed any suspicious people, vehicles or activity associated with these two incidents is asked to contact the Carnduff RCMP detachment at 1-306-4824400.

People can also contact nearest RCMP detachment at 310-RCMP or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 regarding any of these crimes.

The information for all four incidents came from the Saskatchewan Crime Watch Advisory Network.

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When long-term care residents and staff are fully vaccinated, when will the restrictions be lifted?

By Brian Zinchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Saskatchewan, and Canada as a whole, are seeing hiccups in what are still the early days of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

The federal government explained Tuesday that it would not be receiving any of the Pfizer vaccine the following week. The New Democratic Party pointed out a Regina facility didn’t have enough vaccine for all its assisted-care clients in addition to its long-term care clients on Monday.

But eventually, the residents and staff of long-term care facilities, the provinces’ highest priority for the vaccine distribution, will be fully vaccinated. Will we see restrictions start to lift for those people, or will they have to wait six months?

At the regular COVID-19 briefing Tuesday in the Legislature, both Premier Scott Moe and chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab replied. Shahab said, “I think that’s really important.”

“The main thing, right now we have been very cautious because the vaccination rate is coming up very slowly.

And as you know, in the clinical trials the vaccines had 95 per cent effectiveness, but in the real world we do know

that if you're elderly, have immune suppression, the vaccine may not be that effective and COVID is so highly transmissible that, even if you have a long-term care facility where you, for example, have a 90 per cent uptake of the vaccine, and the vaccine is 90 per cent effective that still leaves you a significant proportion of the long-term care residents still susceptible to COVID. “So, I think at the present time, it is very important that as our vaccination picks up, we adhere to all public health measures. Once we have the vast majority of the population vaccinated, especially adults with that underlying risk factors, but also broadly all adults, I think then we can cautiously start looking at how we relax our public health measures over the summer, likely that will start happening.”

Shahab added, “But I think, right now, we really have to, even after getting vaccinated, we do have to comply with all public health measures, because not everyone is fully protected by the vaccine, and we're understanding more about how the immunization affects not just clinical illness, which it does protect to a large extent, but also transmissibility. But as we get more data from Canada, from our own province,

and from other countries, you know, we'll be updating guidelines but that likely won't change. Then at least May, June, once we have the majority of the population, especially the most vulnerable fully immunized.

Moe said it ties into hospitalizations, and it is still a couple months early for this discussion.

“But the fact of the matter is, as we are able to access vaccines for the most vulnerable in our population, the elderly in our population, and start creeping those vaccines and the availability of those vaccines down through the age groups in society, it does beg the question on when will we be able to start to look at relaxing the measures that we have in place; the very, very significant measures that we have in place here in Saskatchewan.”

He continued, “I would point back to the conversation we had about hospitalizations and as we start to hopefully, if you look at our hospitalizations, quite often the age of the folks in hospital are somewhat younger than what we might have in our long-term care facilities.

And so, as we work our way through the age groups, and we start to see our hospitalizations decreasing in significant fashion, that would speak to the fact that we have

Chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. File photo many of those that are more vulnerable in our community receiving the vaccine and not contracting COVID-19, and not as a point, I think, when we could have a little more open conversation about what the future looks like for Saskatchewan.

“So two things on that: that isn't in the in the next number of weeks, that will be the next number of months.

And this speaks to the importance of us, as Canadians and us, looking to our Canadian government to do everything

they can to procure as many vaccines as they can, and to do so in as the shortest timeframe as possible.

“I think Premier Ford made some comments today about what he would urge the prime minister to do and that was to find, I believe, someone, if not the CEO of Pfizer, and maybe light a firecracker up his yin yang, I think was the words that I heard. And I, I would just say, that there would be a lineup of premiers behind the prime minister.”

HOROSCOPES ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20

Aries, you will get great satisfaction from various activities this week. Therefore, fill your schedule with plenty of things. Take initiative and invite friends along for an adventure.

Cancer be careful with the way you behave and present yourself this week. You just don’t know who may be watching what you do. Keep a low profile.

Libra, as soon as things get serious this week, you may be ready to make a fast exit.

It’s better if you stick around and lend your opinion to the situation at hand.

Don’t try to rationalize the feelings that are moving through you this week, Capricorn.

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Receiving mixed messages, Leo? Enlist a trusted advisor to help you sort through the hazy level of communication that is coming your way. Another perspective is handy.

A lot of unknown factors have been slowing you down over the last few weeks, Scorpio.

Now that you are no longer impeded, you can put a plan in motion.

Aquarius, do not hide your feelings in a particularly moving situation. Others will empathize with you and appreciate your emotional honesty.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20

A few different scenarios may play out in the days to come.

They may be greatly influenced by how you interact with other people, Gemini. You are the catalyst for action.

Virgo, this week the stars may be playing tricks on you. You may stumble though a few things, but it won’t take long to get back on the right path.

You may get caught up in some conflicts that you’re either not ready for or have no interest to deal with, Sagittarius. Take it all in quietly for now.

This week you may want to get away from it all to have a different perspective on your life, Pisces. You may travel even further than first imagined.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18