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Semi rollover results in minor oil leak By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca
A rollover involving an eastbound semi-trailer unit on Thursday night resulted in minor injuries for the driver and a small oil leak that was quickly contained. Fire Chief Dale Feser said the fire department, along with the Estevan RCMP and Emergency Medical Services, were called to the rollover just after 10 p.m. The incident occurred just east of the Roche Percee valley along Highway 39. Initial reports were that the driver wasn’t trapped, but the semi unit was carrying hazardous materials, which proved to be about 36 cubic metres of sweet crude oil. The semi-trailer was found in the south ditch, about 50 feet from the highway. “We did an assessment immediately of the leaks that had occurred as a result of the collision. After doing our quick assessment and isolating the vehicle from any other ignition services, we were able to talk to the driver and cross-reference,” said Feser. After determining that it was oil on board, mitigation of the leaks began. “The crews were able to slow, however, not stop the leak, and in co-ordinated efforts with the trucking company, we were able to get another highway transport truck to come in to offload the materials on board that hadn’t spilled,” he said. Feser called it a very well-run response in terms of collaborative efforts with the trucking company. “We had to wait for specialized individuals to arrive from Williston (N.D.) on scene,” said Feser.
Environmental damage was minimal. About 100 litres of oil leaked from the truck, with approximately 20 litres spilling onto the ground before the fire department arrived. All of the oil that was leaked was able to be captured. Traffic impacts were minimal, he said. Traffic was reduced to one lane, but was able to proceed without rerouting, except for a brief period of time Friday morning, when recovery crews with the towing companies arrived on scene to try to remove the semi-trailer unit. Detours were in place for about five minutes for lighter vehicles, while commercial vehicles remained on Highway 39. “By and large, I think all of the motorists co-operated quite readily with us as well, because they were reducing their speed and observing a safe work zone for all of the emergency responders that were working on scene,” said Feser. The driver, who suffered minor injuries, was taken to hospital via ambulance, treated for those injuries, and released. The fire chief was surprised to see the driver wasn’t more seriously hurt considering the extent of the damage to the semi-trailer. Feser noted the fire department didn’t return to Estevan until about 7:40 a.m. Friday morning. The time needed to offload the sweet crude oil from the overturned truck was the biggest reason for the response time. “We had to make sure that the specialist for the company was on-site as well, and he was bringing a specialized fitting … that they can … safely displace the crude oil from one tankard to another,” said Feser.
Unit 3 at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station is now back online, and that means the CCS facility is also operational again.
Unit 3 returns to service; CCS process resumes Unit 3 at the Boundary Dam Power Station has returned to service, nearly three months after a severe thunderstorm knocked it offline. And now that Unit 3 is back, the carbon capture and storage facility at Boundary Dam is also functioning, since Unit 3 needs to be operating for the CCS facility to work. SaskPower announced on Thursday morning that Unit 3 was online, after weeks of precision repairs to fix the damage to the turbine from June’s storm. Unit 3 resumed generating power on Sept. 3. The CCS facility was successfully brought online shortly after. On Sept. 4, start-up of the CO2 compressor began and CO2 is now being delivered to Whitecap Resources for enhanced oil recovery.
One person charged in break and enter One male is facing several charges following a break and enter in north Estevan during Saturday’s night shift. Members of the Estevan Police Service were called to the incident, which occurred at the residence of a family of six that includes small children. The suspect had allegedly broken out part of
a window when police arrived and was subsequently arrested. All occupants of the residence were unharmed, but the suspect received minor injuries when breaking through the window. Once medically cleared, he was lodged in cells pending further investigation.
The suspect and the victims are known to each other. Jesse Campbell, a 23-year-old man from Estevan, has been charged with breaching his probation order, break and enter to a residence, committing mischief under $5,000 and uttering threats. His next court appearance is slated for Nov. 5.
“For the past month or so, we’ve been saying that this is the timeline that we were working towards, and I know that as those parts started coming in over the course of the last month, we had crews working … shifts around the clock, pulling in different workers from other plants to get this back up and running as quickly and safely as possible,” said Jordan Jackle, an issues management and media relations consultant at SaskPower. Jackle isn’t aware of any issues that occurred at Unit 3 or the CCS facility once they were powered up last week. “ We fired everything back up, in the general way that we do when either the power unit or the CCS unit
is down, and everything is back up and running again,” said Jackle. The massive parts that needed repair went as far as Savannah, Georgia, and some of the work was so precise it needed to be completed within less than a millimetre. “It was quite the undertaking and we are glad that it is now back up and running,” said Jackle. The fact that the repairs were made in the summer months, when many people are on holidays, likely didn’t slow down the amount of time needed to get the unit up and running again. “This is a very large piece of machinery that requires a lot of care when you’re transporting it and when you’re
taking it apart, and so it took a good while to actually get things taken apart to even see what the problem was and then diagnose it, and then make a plan for repair.” Jackle reiterated previous statements from SaskPower that there isn’t anything in the Unit 3 turbine that makes it more susceptible to significant damage like what was caused by the thunderstorm on June 14. “It was a very significant storm that did significant damage to the transmission lines … and the damage was pretty incredible,” said Jackle. “Every unit tripped off, and (as far as) really pinpointing why, we’re still working on that. What we do know is that it was damaged significantly.”
Estevan’s visitor centre to remain open throughout the year By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca
The City of Estevan has announced that its Visitor Information Centre is going to remain open yearround, instead of just the summer months. The information centre was relocated from a log
cabin-style structure west of the city limits to the Estevan Leisure Centre’s former concession area earlier this year. The new location opened in June. Since that time, the information centre has been a site where people can meet for energy tours, purchase local souvenirs and pick up
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Man buys truck, goes mudding, gets caught By Brian Zinchuk brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net
In a tale as old as time, a man buys a truck, and has to play with it. That’s what happened on April 10, when Jared Austin Dornn and another man took their trucks mudding at
Estevan’s Cactus Park, on the south side of town. Dornn appeared in Estevan Provincial Court on Monday, where he pleaded guilty to mischief/willful damage and a breach of a probation order from Humboldt court. Crown prosecutor Chris
Gratton said the vehicles were heard revving south of the city at Cactus Park, spinning tires and sending lots of mud flying. There was damage done to the dirt road and grass. It cost the city $760 in grader work to repair the damage. A co-accused had previ-
ously pleaded guilty and was given a restitution order for $380, half of the damage. Judge Lane W iegers noted to Dornn, “You’ve got a significant record, particularly for property offences.” Dornn, who represented himself in court, replied. “I know I made a mistake. I
deeply regret it. I messed up the city’s land.” He explained he had just purchased a new truck, and went mudding. He saw a previous track there, so he carried on. Wiegers warned him to straighten up by pointing out with his record, “Somebody
might say look, this guy has to go to jail for a while.” He agreed with the Crown’s request for a sixmonth suspended sentence and restitution of $380. He added a $200 victim impact surcharge, and gave Dornn five months to pay all the penalties.
Number of local visitors has grown this year « A1 “We’re going to try to have the visitor centre open when the higher traffic will be in the facility,” said Rebecca Westling, the destination marketing and communications consultant for the City of Estevan. “So Monday to Friday, we’ll be open from 4-8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, we’ll be open from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.” When special events are happening, such as hockey tournaments and December’s Home Hardware Canada Cup, then there might be an altered schedule to accommodate the out-of-town visitors. The information centre will also be selling items such as hockey tape, skate laces and other merchandise that users will need. Westling didn’t have exact figures for the number of people who visited the information centre since it opened in June, but it’s believed that there was an increase in the number of local people who visited the site, which was one of the objectives when the centre relocated to the leisure centre. “We want to make sure that residents of the community know what’s happening in the community, and can come and stop by,” said Westling. Energy tours were based out of the new information centre site this year as well, and Westling reported the tour guide was busy. School
tours accounted for the bulk of the activity in May and June, and then the tours involved members of the public in July and August. The majority of the 1,197 people who visited the information centre in 2017 were there for energy tours or to use the facility’s washrooms. The centre was open from the Victoria Day long weekend in May to the Labour Day long weekend in September last year. Estevan had been seeing a decline in the number of visitors at the log cabin in the last few years, a trend experienced by other info sites in the province. Westling believes the completion of the truck bypass in 2015 played a significant role in reduction in the number of visitors. She described the visitors who are now coming into the facility at the leisure centre as those looking for something to do in Estevan, who are in the community already, wanting to spend some time here, and very different than the ones who were visiting the log cabin. The city has received excellent feedback on the different items for sale inside the information centre, and for the ways in which the city is communicating with the public to promote events and attractions through its Experience Estevan blog posts. “That’s the best way of sharing our community is the residents of our com-
munity being spokespeople for our city,” said Westling. “We want to make sure that those people know what’s happening in our community, and sharing it with their family members and their friends to come and experience Estevan.” Since the information centre will be open throughout the year, the city will be hiring a couple of part-time employees to work in the centre. The positions will be unionized, so they will have to be posted internally before they can be posted externally. It’s not known how this will impact summer students who have traditionally staffed the centre in the summer months.
The Visitor Information Centre inside the Estevan Leisure Centre is going to remain open throughout the year.
Arbitrator awards new contract to Saskatchewan teachers An arbitration board has awarded a two-year contract to the members of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF). It contains a zero per cent increase for salaries in the first year of the agreement, and a one per cent increase at the end of the second year for the 13,500 teachers in the province. The agreement is retroactive to Sept. 1, 2017, and expires on Aug. 31, 2019. “While the salary pack-
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War Amps make a difference for Estevan family
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Emma Grobbink might be young, but she has already become a regular at the War Amps Western Canada Child Amputee seminar. Emma, the four-yearold daughter of Mike and Jessica Grobbink of Estevan, was in Winnipeg with her mother from Aug. 24 to 26 for this year’s seminar. It’s the third time she has been to the conference. Emma was born without part of her right hand. She has the thumb, but she’s missing fingers, which makes it difficult to grip things. “She always really enjoys going and getting to hear all the other kids and getting to interact with them,” said Jessica Grobbink. The conventions are an opportunity to gain information and keep in touch with some of the other amputees they have met at the previous
seminars. “One of the things about being an amputee is that everybody’s situation is unique, in that nobody needs exactly the same thing,” said Jessica. “There are always new developments and new information, and it’s a great weekend to get together and share all of it.” The conferences have proven to be a great source of information. While attending a previous convention, Jessica learned about a recreational device for her daughter, allowing Emma to ride a bicycle. Emma previously couldn’t properly grip the handlebars. “I’d seen a similar device in one of the War Amps communications. They send out a quarterly newsletter,” said Jessica. “It was something that attaches to the right side of the bike on her handlebars. It allows her to properly grip and steer, which allows her to ride her bike, which is exactly what any four-year-old would want to do.”
There is a bit of a process needed to get a recreational device made, but the War Amps can give recommendations on the devices. It usually starts by approaching a general practitioner, and then going through an occupational or physical therapist. Then applicants are referred to the Wascana Rehabilitation Centre. “From there, they have to take fittings and measurements and stuff, so it involves a couple of trips back and forth to Regina, and then the end result is customizable device that’s made perfectly just for Emma so she can ride her bike,” said Jessica. The War Amps helps cover the cost of the device, which would be expensive to purchase. It has given Emma the freedom to ride a bicycle on her own. It’s the only device Emma has needed thus far. Her mother describes Emma as resilient and clever at figuring out how
Emma Grobbink recently attended The War Amps 2018 Western Child Amputee (CHAMP) Seminar in Winnipeg. Photo submitted.
to do things without needing assistance. There are a couple of things she needs help with, but there isn’t anything she can’t do. “As she gets older, there will probably be more devices or daily living aids that she might need to use, especially as she gets into different sports and things like that,” said Jessica. At this year’s convention in Winnipeg, Emma met another little girl in Regina who is also a partial hand amputee. They spent some time together and really enjoyed visiting. A highlight of each seminar is the involvement of junior counsellors. Usually the War Amps tries to match up young
children with young people in their teens who have a similar level of amputation, so they can spend time together, play and become comfortable with each other. “A lot of times the parents of the junior counsellors are there as well, so for myself as a parent, then I have the opportunity to ask any questions I might have to parents of junior counsellors,” said Jessica. “Obviously they’re 10-15 years ahead of where Emma is, so they’ve already gone down this road, and they’ve seen some of the similar situations that Emma has or will encounter, so they’re in a good position to give advice or recommendations on what you can do and who you need to speak to.”
Jessica expects they will continue to attend these conferences, especially since Emma always enjoys them. The War Amps was started by amputee veterans returning from the First World War to help each other adapt to their new reality and advocate for seriously disabled veterans. With a philosophy of “amputees helping amputees,” they welcomed the next generation of war amputees following the Second World War and established the Key Tag Service to gain meaningful employment and provide a service to the public. Later, recognizing that their experience could help others, they developed programs to serve all amputees, including children.
Emma Grobbink, pictured here with her sister Madelyn, is a child amputee born without part of her right hand. A special recreational device allows her to enjoy such activities as riding a bicycle. Photo submitted
New group teaching charity to children A newly-formed group is looking to teach children in the Estevan area about the importance of giving. 100 Kids who Care wants to show the public that youths have a voice and the ability to give back to the community. Their plan is to have the children who are part of the organization meet four times a year, and bring $10 that they earned themselves. “They donate that $10, and they’re given a ballot,” said committee member Mandy Irwin. “At each meeting, three kids will present their proposed charity to who they want their money to go to.” The children will then decide who receives the money. Not only does it teach them about generosity and the different charities in the Estevan area, but they learn about the democratic process. “All of the money raised at each of the events will go to that charity within our community,” said Irwin. If a child wants to step up and suggest a charity to be proposed for a future meeting, then they can do so. The first get-together is slated for Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Affinity
Credit Union’s Estevan branch. A small snack will be served at the meeting. About 40 young people have already committed to being part of the club. “We still have lots of time, with people getting back into their routines, and so we’re hoping that we can get all of kids on board before our first meeting,” Irwin said. Irwin gained the inspiration for the group from a friend who started a similar organization in Calgary. There have been clubs started up for men and women, with such names as 100 Women who Care and 100 Men who Give a Damn, across North America. “There just wasn’t always something directed to kids,” said Irwin. “And I think the goal for us is any time we talk to our kids about what they want for their birthdays, they don’t want or need anything. So this is the way for them to take their birthday money and donate it.” It’s up to the children to decide where to donate the money, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be an agency or charity that is geared towards young people.
From left, Erin Deichert and Mandy Irwin from 100 Kids who Care, Lori Naka from Affinity Credit Union and Brooke Spagrud from 100 Kids who Care participated in a cheque presentation last week. Affinity Credit Union presented $1,000 to 100 Kids who Care on Friday. The money will help with
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Nickel and dime with loonies Each year, the provincial government releases its changes to fees and services structure. Some of them get lots of attention, such as earlier this year, when the government revealed that it was ramping up fines for speeding tickets. Most of us drive. Some like to drive really fast, while others will travel a little bit more than the speed limit. So when the government announces an increase to the base fine, and an increase for the fine per kilometre, you understand why people pay attention. But other increases don’t get much discussion. There wasn’t much talk locally about an increase in irrigation water operation and maintenance fees. Another thing about these fee increases is you often don’t pay attention to them until after they take effect. The government can announce them, the media can write about them or discuss them, but it falls into the back of your mind until you’re suddenly dinged with that increase for the first time. Then you realize how much it will affect you, and how much it could impact you on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis. There are also those increases that don’t get much attention, because they don’t directly impact a lot of people. Such is the case with the provincial government’s decision to charge $1 per page for court dockets. For the longest time, this was
free. But as of July 1, you now need to pay that nominal fee, unless you’re in a certain group, such as law enforcement or a lawyer. And if you want to get the docket emailed to you, it’s a dollar per page. It’s one thing to charge a dollar a page for a printed document. After all, that process takes time. And it uses paper at a time when everyone is trying to reduce paper usage. A dollar a page for email? That’s a lot of money to attach a document and hit send. But it adds up. If you went to court every day (and not just docket court on Monday), and paid the $1 per page, you’d be looking at hundreds of dollars, or even more than a thousand dollars. It means local media outlets now have to pay that fee if they want to get the docket for the day, even though it’s a public document. Covering court is an important aspect of providing accountability and information. It allows reporters to provide follow-up information on a crime, and it places the finishing touch on a trial. It’s not just the big stories that receive coverage, either, such as drug busts, violent crimes and serious accidents. Sometimes it allows the media to bring attention to a story that hadn’t been announced previously, such as a child pornography case at the North Portal border crossing in July.
And if charges are stayed against an individual, or an individual is found innocent, then court reporting allows the media to inform the public. The media shouldn’t be charged for this important accountability measure. This is not a knock against the men and women who staff the courthouse in Estevan and other communities. These are good, hardworking people who not only handle a variety of tasks on a day-to-day basis, but they also have to be patient and knowledgeable with people who want to come in and ask questions or pay fines. All levels of government have fees for services or charges of some kind. In some cases, they serve as a deterrent. If you want to speed, drive in a dangerous fashion or park illegally, then you should expect to pay the consequences. In other cases, it serves as a means to recoup the cost of the service provided. Some of them generate lots of money, even if they’re chintzy. Charging people for court dockets in Estevan isn’t going to generate a lot of money, just like many of the other fees charged by government won’t generate a lot of money. But all of those minor fees add up. And when you consider that these smaller fees are happening on a daily basis, at locations across the province, you realize why we’re being nickel and dimed to the degree that we are.
People are hopping mad about Trans Mountain pipeline decision Oh, boy, are people mad about the Trans Mountain court decision. This past year I have had two columns go absolutely viral. The first was my analysis of the Gerald Stanley trial. It was initially posted on the Battlefords News-Optimist website, and promptly went nuts. From that site alone, it was seen over 179,000 times, and it was reposted or reprinted in several of our chain’s publications, particularly in British Columbia. Last week’s column, “8,000 jobs disappeared this morning, and one of them was mine,” was about the court decision putting a halt on construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project until even more consultation is done with First Nations and the impact of tanker traffic on orcas is considered. It saw a similar response. Sister publication JWN Daily Oil & Gas News, which reposted it, listed it number 1 in top 10 stories they had that week. Alberta’s United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney posted it on Facebook, saying, “With all the commentary going on, give some thought to the workers and families that are now facing devastation firsthand because of the Trans Mountain decision – and all those counting on the pipeline for future prosperity.” Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, when posting it, said, “These 8,000 workers and their families deserve an answer, Justin Trudeau. What are you going to do now?” Former premier Brad Wall was complimentary is his post as well. Bam! With these three heavy hitters sharing it, this column also went nuts. On the Rally 4 Resources Facebook page alone it was shared 2,200 times. Even the former premier of the Yukon, Darrell Paslowski (who gave me my first job at 16 as a stock boy when he owned the Yorkton Shoppers Drug
From the Top of the Pile BRIAN ZINCHUK Mart), shared it. These two pieces have been more widely read, by orders of magnitude, than anything I’ve done in 26 ½ years of writing this column. And the response provides some very interesting contrast. I’m no Christie Blatchford, who happens to be the best columnist in this country, bar none. She exhibits more guts in her writing, calling a spade a spade, than the entire newsrooms of CBC, CTV and Global combined. She probably gets a response like this on an almost daily basis. But for me, this is all new. Some day I hope to grow up to be like Christie. The Stanley column seemed to hit many people very personally. I received emails from hundreds of individuals, and responded to nearly all of them. It seemed to hit people in their core. Nearly all were positive, with only a handful of hate mail in my inbox. The online comments, in the hundreds, were similarly nearly all in agreement. Perhaps the haters couldn’t find a lot of fault in my points, and you have to remember haters will find fault in anything. Most of the comments, and I read every one I could find, addressed issues raised in the column. The Trans Mountain piece, on the other hand, had a completely different sort of response. While I don’t have numbers yet, it appears to have had a similar sort of reach. But that’s where the similarities end.
On the initial post there were next to no comments. I only got three or four direct emails on it. But I found hundreds of comments elsewhere and on the hundreds of shares. (It was shared 994 times on the Pipeline News Facebook page alone). Of these comments, next to none focused on the points made in the column. Sure, a few quoted a line or two, but the vast, vast majority were something else entirely. They were people screaming their rage into the ether, madder than hell that this project, like Northern Gateway and Energy East before it, seems to be dying, and all because of the fumbling machinations of our prime minister. The vitriol for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (routinely referred to in the comments as “Turdeau,” “Trudope,” etc,) was palpable. Commenters seemed to want an apple box, any apple box, on which to stand and scream their displeasure. While some of the anger was directed at the courts, most of it was directed at Trudeau. With the Stanley column, it was a catharsis for many people to reach out to me as someone who they could finally vent their private, personal frustrations. With the Trans Mountain column, a few people pointed out in online comments that they were among those whose jobs had just disappeared into the ether. But most people were simply mad. And more than a few suggested the breakup of Canada is nigh. “Time for separation from Canada. Sask. and Alberta, let’s do it. Screw the rest. Done,” was one of the comments. When this is how people are feeling, Canada has a problem. Is Justin Trudeau listening? Brian Zinchuk is editor of Pipeline News. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net.
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A million words or less It seems to run against modern thinking for teachers to hand out homework on the first day of school, let alone a homework assignment for parents. My oldest son entered Grade 7 of French Immersion in Moose Jaw last week and the new teacher gave parents an assignment: ‘In a million words or less, tell me as much as you can about your child’. And it seems to have been lifted from a page right out of the ‘cool teacher handbook’, which all cool teachers get before the year. Some teachers, and these are few and far between at École Palliser Heights, just go through the motions with their lesson plans. They have a set agenda and they haven’t changed it in two decades. We all get that way sometimes, right? Then there are the cool teachers, the ones who care a lot about what they do and try to make it interesting and no child gets left behind. Both of my kids have had an abundance of the creative kinds of teachers and the French Immersion program seems to attract this kind of teacher. I decided to kill two birds with one stone here by turning it into a column and in so doing, limiting myself to just less than 800 words, unless we change fonts again soon and then your guess is as good as mine for word count. But anyway, about Liam. I can remember the day he was born. He was several weeks premature and I’d thought nothing of accepting an invitation a few weeks before to golf in a police golf tournament the morning he was born. I gladly left that obligation aside to attend to his emergency c-section. The vision issues came immediately. We had to go to Regina quite a few times to a pediatric eye doctor to make sure he could see like all the other kids. He had glasses at 10 months of age and not only did they help him see and minimize the affects of his stigmatism, they were absolutely adorable. He missed some of the major milestones in terms of gross motor and fine motor movement and had help from Early Childhood Intervention Program when we moved back to Moose Jaw in 2010. That interventionist noted the toe walking and some other characteristics like very, very early reading abilities and recommended us to get him checked by a psychologist for Aspergers syndrome, a form of autism. It’s not a bad thing and once you run through the list of things, you realize that of course he’s got it and why didn’t we see it before? He was diagnosed before kindergarten and from there we were able to help advocate for who he is and help him every step of the way when it came to educating teachers, family and friends about how he can excel. Late every spring, we try to get the teacher involved in meeting Liam and go over his cumulative file with them and help with those strategies and learn what works and what doesn’t. In the last 12 years, he’s loved in order (and he’s not sure about correcting me if I was wrong): Leap Pad’s Word Whammer, Thomas the Tank Engine, the movie Bolt, Angry Birds, Minecraft, Doctor Who, Clash Royale and various other things. It’s his interest in these things, his humour in looking at them and intense base of knowledge that attracts people to him. Two years ago, students in his class were asked to describe one of their favourite traits about other classmates and they all mentioned his sense of humour or how he can make them laugh. At night before bedtime you can often find him on his phone either bossing Siri around or watching videos on YouTube about space, which is one of the things he’s been interested about since he was really young. I’ll often walk with him and his brother and be struck by something they’ve had to say that’s either so funny I can’t help but chortle or so full of insight that I’m thinking about it for days. Conversationally I’ll try to not miss a beat so I’m not sure he notices that he has that affect on me. So let’s just let that be our little secret. He’s impatient sometimes with classmates, teachers, his brother and his parents and he’s overwhelmed by sound and light. You’ll find a wonderful, productive student when you’ve found that happy medium and you’ll find that out from looking at the cumulative file or by talking to his last few teachers. So that’s a brief summary of who Liam is and what brought him into your class. And we wouldn’t change him for the world.
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Enrolments are up for Estevan area public schools By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca
The enrolment numbers are up for many of the Estevan area schools in the South East Cornerstone Public School Division. Director of education Lynn Little released the figures in an interview with the Mercury on Monday morning. As of Sept. 8, the Estevan Comprehensive School led the way for Estevan schools with 729 students. Spruce Ridge School was the largest elementary school in the city with 406 students. Pleasantdale School had 199 students, Westview School was at 184 and Hillcrest School had 133. Little pointed out that Hillcrest had 20 more students than they had on Sept. 30 of last year, and the school’s projected enrolment was 118 students. The division hasn’t determined why the enrolment was higher. “I’m not sure if families moved in. We haven’t done the research on it,” said Little. As for rural schools, Midale Central School had 162 students, Macoun was at 55, Bienfait Weldon School had 139 students and Lampman had 197 students. Lampman School and Westview School were the only schools that were a little lower than expected, while Macoun was exactly what they expected. As for the division, Little said the numbers are down from their projections, but up from where they were on Sept. 30 of last year. There were 8,261 students registered on
Sept. 30, 2017, and to 8,224 on June 30 of this year. Projected enrolment was at 8,366 students, and as of Sept. 8, Cornerstone’s schools stood at 8,311, but that number will fluctuate on a daily basis as students are entered and withdrawn from the database. The final enrolment numbers won’t be tabulated until Sept. 30. There are a couple of administrative changes this year. Macoun School has a new principal in Rena Gillingham. She replaces Annmarie Rosner, who has shifted over to be the principal at Lampman School, replacing the retired Lisa Smith. Brittany Wild is the new vice-principal in Midale. At the division level, senior administration remains the same, but at the consultant level, there has been some change in the south area, which includes Estevan. Melanie Young will be working with families and children ages five and under in her new role as the early learning and care consultant. Lisa Fraser is the elementary curriculum consultant position and Curtis Bourassa is in the instruction technology consultant role. In terms of programming, a new major resource in Grade 1 and 2 classrooms throughout the division is the use of jump math. It was piloted the last two years, and Cornerstone’s data indicated the children in those classrooms showed gains in math. “It’s a scaffolded program, which means that each skill builds on the last skill, and is very sequential, and
South East Cornerstone Public School Division director of education Lynn Little … there is a review portion that takes children back over a cyclical process,” said Little. Several new processes to support student and staff mental health are also being implemented. All teachers in kindergarten to Grade 8 are taking online modules for teen mental health. “It’s a seven-module, or eight to 10-hour course, which provides a foundation on mental health literacy, including effective strategies for teachers to use in their classrooms and in their own personal situations,” said Little. All teachers from Grade 9 to 12 will be taking a course on bringing mental health into the schools to support teen mental health and understanding of mental health in the classroom. The Mind Up curriculum will be implemented in kindergarten to Grade 8. “The 15 lessons within it use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behaviour and learn-
ing for all students,” said Little. The division has also partnered with the Learning Partnership for a program called Welcome to Kindergarten, in which children and their families are invited to the school the year before starting kindergarten. They will receive a bag of resources, and support and suggestions for working with their children to help prepare for coming to school. “We’re really looking forward to having the children and their families in our buildings a couple of times over the course of the year,” said Little. Thirty schools will be participating in a pilot for Peer 2 literacy, which is for students in Grades 6 and up who need help with literacy skills. Little noted the school division’s staff, students, board members and teachers are excited to be back in school, she said, and they’re looking forward to the year ahead. “Many of us find back to school time the most exciting time of the year,” said Little.
Holy Family excited to have school back in session By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca
The Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division is excited now that the school year is underway. The division’s theme for this year is “A Community of Story: Putting Flesh on our Faith,” and director of education Gwen Keith said that concepts of story and celebrating the little and big wins have given the division a wonderful start to the year. Principals attended a retreat in Wilcox to look at the direction they’re taking, and moving the schools forward, with an opening mass that also involved Athol Murray College of Notre Dame and four speakers. “ We had stories that exist in the excellence of that town, whether it’s rink stories, or the story of the church or the story of the school,” said Keith. St. Augusta School in Wilcox is celebrating 10 years of being part of Holy Family.
All of the schools opened on Sept. 4 and were in great shape. Some needed a little more work than others, but Keith is pleased with what they have accomplished this summer. Student numbers are up in Holy Family this year. As of the first day of school on Sept. 4, there were 1,370 students in the division, which was up 50 from the figures for Sept. 30, 2017. “It moves around each day a little bit,” said Keith. “We thought we would be up students. We didn’t think we’d be up that high, but we’ll see whether we hold them until the end of September.” The two schools in the Estevan area were about what Holy Family expected. They were at 369 students for Sacred Heart School/École Sacré Coeur, as of Sept. 4, which was a couple more than expected. They were up about 15 students at St. Mary’s School to 285 enrolled. “We expected stability and we got it,” said Keith. “It’s
always interesting with the St. Mary’s crew, because of the English as another language crew. Sometimes you get a surprise there with how they come in, because families are tight and they talk to other families.” Ryan Jutra is the new principal at St. Mary’s School, replacing Mary Ellen Barreth, who came in last fall on an interim basis. Jutra was previously a vice-principal at the Midale Central School. Holy Family will continue to place a high priority on reading, while emphasizing writing and math, which are on the priority list for the
Ministry of Education. “What we do is we look at the student data in terms of where of our students are at, and strategically support the schools, principals and individual teachers to helping their students move forward in that area,” said Keith. As a Deep Learning school division, Holy Family is looking to teach what Keith called “21st century global competencies” in students. The division is being strategic about addressing them in a way that will create more tangible and concrete skills when students leave the division at a local and global level.
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The summer promotions offered through Estevan Mercury Publications proved to be popular with readers. The first promotion was the Mercury Guy, who appeared at numerous community events and at participating businesses throughout the summer months. Instantly recognizable for his size, attire and exuberant expression, people had their photos taken with him, posted the pictures on social media and pointed out where they saw him in the community. Events like the Estevan Fair, the Souris Valley Theatre, the Estevan Motor Speedway, and attractions like Fresh Air Fitness, received a visit from the Mercury Guy. He also promoted the Bow Valley Jamboree in Oxbow. “He did go on social media and brought awareness to lots of events, which I think is good. He gave away lots of prizes. He gave away tickets to Alice Cooper, the Souris Valley Theatre, the Bow Valley Jamboree, and gift cards to restaurants,” said Estevan Mercury Publications sales manager Deanna Tarnes. He also appeared at businesses, informing people about the merchandise those businesses offer. “He let people know when
there were sales and promotions, and good products at places all around town,” said Tarnes. The participating businesses were happy to be part of the promotion. People had fun with the promotion, and advertisers enjoyed the benefits of the program as well. Tarnes said people who enjoyed the Mercury Guy promotion should keep an eye out for him, because there is much more he wants to see in the community. The other promotion was the exclusive end of summer patio party on Saturday night that was hosted by Fired-Up Grill and the Mercury. The restaurant’s patio was voted the best in Estevan earlier this year during the Best of Estevan promotion offered by the Mercury. The 40 people who were in attendance enjoyed beverages, free food, games and live music courtesy of Sonic Eggz. Nine businesses partnered with the Mercury and Fired Up Grill for the party. People could enter at the businesses to win a table for four to the party. The weather co-operated, and it was a fun night on the patio, Tarnes said, with good food and drink, and the people who were there had a great time.
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Crescent Point tightens up, reducing workforce and areas of focus, plans on selling 50,000 boepd in production
By Brian Zinchuk brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net
After years of being on a continual growth path Crescent Point Energy Corp., the largest oil producer in Saskatchewan, is making a dramatic change in direction. It’s reducing its areas of focus, cutting its staff by 17 per cent, and selling off up to 50,000 barrels of oil per day (boepd) in production, 28 per cent of its current production. There will be an emphasis on a $1 billion debt reduction by the end of 2019 as well as returning capital to shareholders, possibly through buybacks. The company appointed Craig Bryksa as the permanent president and CEO after he served those positions in an acting capacity. Under his direction, the company is placing greater emphasis on returns versus growth during its 12 to 24-month transition. Following that period, Crescent Point expects its organic growth rate to increase in priority, including strong debt-adjusted metrics, as a product of a more focused and efficient production base. The areas of focus will include the Viewfield, Flat Lake and Shaunavon areas, as well as the emerging plays in the East Duvernay in central Alberta and the Uinta in Utah. Up to 50,000 boepd of assets going up for sale include Swan Hills in Alberta, Viking play in west Central Saskatchewan, southeast Saskatchewan conventional (around 20,000 boepd), Battrum/Cantuar (5,000 boepd), and North Dakota. Since the North Dakota production is growing significantly, it is expected to be around 20,000 boepd. In a press release and conference call on Sept. 5, the company said it was an adoption of a new clearly defined transition plan with measurable deliverables. In addition to Bryksa as CEO, the company appointed Robert (Bob) Heinemann as the new chairman of the board. Regarding his appointment as permanent CEO, after a tenure as acting CEO,
Bryksa said, “This is a great honour. I care deeply about this company, and I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with our current and prospective shareholders to re-establish Crescent Point within the investment community.” He was promoted from within, having most recently served as vice-president, engineering west. Now the company will be focusing its asset base by pursuing significant upstream asset divestitures. They are targeting a net debt reduction of over $1.0 billion by year end 2019, at current strip commodity prices, through a disciplined return-focused budget and asset dispositions. This includes having Identified certain midstream assets for potential monetization. Lastly the reduced workforce is expected to result in an annual total expense savings of over $50 million. “Our transition plan is designed to ensure we become a more focused and efficient company with a stronger balance sheet,” said Bryksa. “After taking a refreshed approach in reviewing our business, we will look to refocus our asset base into fewer operating areas, follow a more disciplined capital allocation process and reduce our costs. We believe this new approach will enhance our company’s sustainability and returns for shareholders.” Crescent Point undertook a comprehensive review of its asset base, business strategy and organizational structure. The company’s objective in conducting the review was to identify measures to prioritize Crescent Point’s strategy based on key value drivers, which include balance sheet improvement, disciplined capital allocation and cost reductions. Bryksa noted this included a suite of assets with high returns, scalability and the ability to increase free cash flow generation, multiple high-quality assets of smaller scale that could be divested to enhance shareholder returns, and a strong technical and operations team with a proven
track record and waterflood expertise. Crescent Point also identified several opportunities for improvement, which will be focal points over the next 12 to 24 months. Ryan Gritzfeldt, chief operating officer, noted the company will be increasing its deployment of field automation, which increases staff efficiency and reduces downtime and workovers. He pointed out the company will focus on risk-adjusted returns instead of simple volume growth. He expects a 10 per cent improvement in capital efficiency. The company previously focused on volume growth which resulted in acquisitions, a high total payout model, and increased leverage. The transition plan is designed to create a “new Crescent Point,” with a focused asset bas, stronger balance sheet, improved free cash flow and lower debt. Once the company reaches its debt goals, that will free up money for returning capital to shareholders, including possible share repurchases, longer term capital projects, and net debt reduction. Focused asset base Crescent Point expects to optimize its capital allocation process and overall efficiencies by focusing its asset base. This approach is also expected to provide the company with opportunities to execute strategic dispositions to further strengthen its financial position. Crescent Point considered a number of value enhancing options as part of its streamlining process, ranging from asset divestitures to more complex scenarios. The company currently believes a straightforward plan is the best approach to executing its transition. “We wanted to ensure the assets were high return, but also had scalability to allow for significant organic growing room,” Bryksa said. Other considerations included free cash flow potential and the ability to improve commodity market access. Based on these factors, Crescent Point has identified the Viewfield Bakken, Shaunavon and Flat Lake resource
plays as key focus areas. “Average production from these areas in Q2, 2018, was approximately 102,000 boepd, or approximately 60 per cent of the total production, with each asset currently generating free cash flow,” he said. The company also plans to continue advancing its emerging and earlier stage resource plays in the Uinta Basin and East Shale Duvernay in a paced and disciplined manner, which could provide significant opportunity over the long-term and garner increased capital over time. Average production from these assets over Q2, 2018 was approximately 23,000 boepd, or 13 per cent of the company’s total production. “Our remaining areas, which currently represent approximately 50,000 boepd, are high quality assets that, in general, don’t provide significant scalability,” he said. To improve its balance sheet, the company is looking at several areas, including upstream asset dispositions and cost reductions. Crescent Point is also reviewing the sale of certain infrastructure assets, mostly gas infrastructure in Saskatchewan. In recent years the company built or expanded gas plants at Oungre and Viewfield. The company believes such a transaction could unlock value, provide a near-term source of proceeds for net debt reduction and create a strategic partnership. Such a purchaser could also potentially fund key future infrastructure projects, further increasing Crescent Point’s financial flexibility, market access and overall returns. With asset sales being partially dependent on prevailing market conditions, the company plans to be flexible in its divestitures program. As of June 30, 2018, Crescent Point had a net debt to funds flow from operations of over 2.0 times and cash and unutilized credit capacity of approximately $1.5 billion, with no material near-term debt maturities. The company is targeting a net debt to funds flow from operations below 1.3 times in a
Crescent Point Energy Corp. is looking to shed up to 50,000 boepd in production. Photo by Brian Zinchuk commodity price environment of US$65/bbl WTI. Although this leverage target will vary based on commodity prices, Crescent Point’s long-term goal is to maintain a strong financial position, protect against price volatility and generate strong debt-adjusted per share metrics for shareholders. Consistent with its focus on free cash flow generation, versus simple volume growth, the company expects to internally fund its development programs and further strengthen its balance sheet. Crescent Point expects to increase free cash flow generation through a combination of initiatives, including an improved cost structure, a more disciplined capital allocation process and advancing decline rate mitigation techniques, such as waterflood. The company will manage its capital allocation process in the
context of each investment, including its waterflood programs, competing for capital based on risk-adjusted returns and long-term development goals. Restructuring As part of the company’s cost reduction initiatives, Crescent Point is finalizing an organizational restructuring that includes an immediate workforce reduction of approximately 17 per cent of employees. The company expects this realignment to provide annual savings of over $50 million through reductions in both operating and general and administrative expenses. These savings partly reflect the recent restructuring of the executive team, which is also expected to result in approximately 20 per cent lower annual compensation for current named executive officers in 2018 compared to 2017. 18092SS3
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New look Bruins will need to find a way to replace offence lost through graduation By Corey Atkinson sports@estevanmercury.com
Superstar for wards Zach Goberis, Jake Fletcher and Kaelan Holt aren’t walking through the dressing room doors of the Power Dodge Estevan Bruins again. Neither will Hayden Guilderson, Arthur Miller, Jake Tesarowski, Tyler Hengen or Bo Didur. The graduated members of the Bruins were some of the
team’s biggest contributors in last year’s run to the Canalta Cup final against the Nipawin Hawks. And they’ve left a huge hole to fill with 136 goals gone, plus the breakout star of the playoffs in starting goaltender Didur. “ We ’v e g o t a g re a t group of young guys coming in here, and we’ve got a lot of second year guys who are going to step it up,” said Michael McChesney, one of the few players left over from last year’s team with
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10 goals and eight assists in 16 playoff games. Even with such offensive numbers, McChesney doesn’t have any numerical goals personally for his stat sheet. “I just try to do what I can for my team and I’m sure a lot of the other guys are the same way,” said McChesney. The new concert, er, season, starts Friday in Melville before the return match Saturday at Affinity Place completes the home and home. O f f e n s i v e l y, McChesney will have a huge load on his shoulders but they’ll be helped out by Turner Ripplinger, having returned to the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League from a couple of years in the British Columbia Hockey League and Manitoba Junior Hockey League. Ripplinger will be a 20-year-old who will settle onto the top line, adding scoring, as his 17 goals and 32 assists in 57 games with the Portage Terriers of the MJHL would indicate. Looking to take a bigger role when healthy will be a mix of second and third year forwards with scoring, hitting ability and speed. Those include Tyson and Tanner Manz, Jayden Davis, Matthew Chekay, T.J. Irey and Jerzy Martin.
“We’ve definitely got skill guys too to make plays just like last year,” McChesney said. “I think what’s a little bit different this year is we’re going to be a lot grittier, a lot more mean and make the goals easier, so to speak, by working harder in the corners and making the right plays.” McChesney, Mar tin and Ripplinger have formed a line in the pre-season but there’s no guarantees they’ll be together once the regular season starts. “I feel like we’re clicking pretty well,” McChesney said. “ We spent most of the time in the o zone. I wouldn’t be disappointed if those two guys are my linemates. They’re good hockey players with a good mindset and have the same knack as me to play hockey, score goals and have some fun.” New to the team and still fighting for a role are 2000-born players like Isaiah Thomas, Eddie Gallagher, George Cathers, Kolton Leslie and hometown product Ryder Pierson. The Bruins have a surplus of experienced defencemen who will be the core of the on-ice leadership. Those include 20-year-olds Johnny Witzke, Jake Heerspink and Aigne McGeady-Bruce and bruising 18-year-old Austin
King-Cunnningham. Witzke scored seven goals and 29 assists for 36 points last season in 50 regular season games, while Heerspink had five goals and 32 assists for 37 points in 58 games. Ne wc om e r s i n c l u d e Kade McMillen from Carievale, 6’4” British Columbian Kaden Moravek, and young blueliner in 17-yearold Jack Michell. In net, Jake Anthony joins the team from the Nipawin Hawks. He was dealt just this week from the Nipawin Hawks, leading the league with a 1.94 goals against average and a .929 save percentage in 32 games as a rookie last year. H e ’ l l b e p u s h e d by 18-year-old rookies Kadin Kilpatrick from W innipeg and American Grant Boldt. Kilpatrick had a 2.03 goals against average with the Winnipeg Wild of the Manitoba Midget AAA Hockey League last season. Boldt played with the Sioux Valley S tampede of the North American Hockey League’s U18 division and had a 1.20 goals against average in 10 regular season games. The Br uins are two time defending Viterra Division A9 » CHAMPIONS
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Many top scorers graduated after the Bruins advanced to Canalta Cup Final « A8 champions in the regular season and there’s no indication they’ll be willing to let that go anytime soon. “We want that banner again,” said McChesney. “ In my first year here, we got the banner, second year here we got the banner. Third year, why not? That’s obviously what we shoot for and once we get that, we’ve just got to work through playoffs… “After winning the division, we know what the next thing to do is, and that’s to win the Bruins an SJ title.” McChesney will help the leadership team, which will likely include him, Witzke, Heerspink, Ripplinger and McGeady-Bruce by leading by example. “We’ve got a lot of guys that are vocal and a lot of guys that show by example,” said McChesney, who admitted he may be better at being vocal than he has in the last. “ We’ve got a good group here. We don’t have just one
The Bruins celebrate a win during one of the Canalta Cup final games at Affinity Place last season. File Photo or two or three leaders here, we’ve got a bunch of guys that can take over a game or take control and be leaders.”
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Bruins players battle for last roster spots in final pair of pre-season games at Affinity Place By Corey Atkinson sports@estevanmercury.ca
The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League regular season begins Wednesday when the Humboldt Broncos take on the Nipawin Hawks, but for the Power Dodge Estevan Bruins it can’t come soon enough. The Bruins lost 5-1 to the Minot Minotauros of the North American Hockey League Monday and 5-4 in overtime to the Weyburn Red Wings Saturday to close out their exhibition season. “In a junior hockey season, you’ve got to have a short memory,” said Turner Ripplinger, who picked up an assist on the only Bruin goal of the game. “It’s a long season and a lot of nights here. It’s all about putting it behind us. Learning from our mistakes but making the best of them and taking it forward.” The Minotauros’ Taylor Lantz scored 55 seconds into the game on a delayed penalty and played most of the game with a puck on a string, resulting in a frustrating game for the Bruins. Andrew Kangas scored twice, Lantz added another and Fritz Belisle scored a single in a game that Minot was never really out of control. George Cathers scored on a second period power play to bring Estevan to within one but the Bruins never got an equalizer and Minot scored thrice in the third. Matt Lukacs stopped 34 of 39 shots from Minot, while Reid Waszcenko and Nicholas Grabko stopped a combined 20 of 21 shots in the Minotauros’ net. The Bruins played from
George Cathers takes a faceoff Monday night against the Minot Minotauros’ Taylor Lantz in an exhibition game at Affinity Place. behind most of the game Saturday in their exhibition game against the Weyburn Red Wings, which ended up costing them in the end. Bruins’ veteran Michael McChesney scored shorthanded with 40 seconds left in regulation but Cole DeKoninck of Weyburn scored in overtime 50 seconds in on the same penalty kill to give Weyburn the win. “It ’s just something we can use to not do once the season star ts, ” said McChesney. “Obviously it’s
early and we’re trying to find some chemistry through lines and just trying to do the little things the right way. (Saturday) showed that when you don’t do the little things, the big things don’t happen.”
Isaiah Thomas scored two in the game for the Bruins, and Eddie Gallagher added a single goal to round out the Bruins’ scoring. Rookie defenceman Kade McMillen picked up a pair of assists. Kadin Kilpatrick
In a junior hockey season, you’ve got to have a short memory. - Turner Ripplinger
stopped 19 shots for the Bruins in the loss. In player movement news, the Bruins acquired the rights to a goaltender from the Nipawin Hawks. Jake Anthony, originally from Grande Prairie, Alta., played in 32 games for the Hawks last year, earning a league-best 1.94 goals against average and a .929 game percentage as a rookie. Pushed away from the crease by the play of Declan Hobbs, a returning 20-year-old, Anthony wasn’t at Hawks camp
this year. The Bruins were able to get the netminder from the Hawks without giving up any players or future considerations. After this weekend’s home and home with the Melville Millionaires, the Bruins have a game Sept. 18 against the Yorkton Terriers at Affinity Place. They then go to Warman to take on the Kindersley Klippers and Humboldt Broncos Sept. 24 and 25 at the SJHL Showcase.
Bruins send defenceman Edmands to Humboldt The Power Dodge Estevan Bruins fulfilled their dispersal draft duties and sent a defenceman with two full years experience to the Humboldt Broncos. Mark Edmands, 20, will head up their young defence as the team rebuilds from their bus crash in April that killed 16 members of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team and its staff. “Mark has been a loyal, hardworking member of the Bruins organization since being listed by the club on his 15th birthday,” said Bruins head coach and general manager Chris Lewgood in a press release. Originally from Regina and a midget AAA Pat Canadians teammate of current and former Bruins like Jake Heerspink, Arthur Miller, Jake Tesarowski, Turner Ripplinger and Curtis Meger, Edmands played a total of 108 games with the Bru-
ins, scoring six goals and 25 assists for 31 points in 108 games, and collecting 57 penalty minutes. He has 25 games of playoff experience from the previous two seasons, scoring two assists in those games. “From day one we have been committed to fulfilling our responsibility to transferring a player who can be a difference maker in helping the Broncos to rebuild their on-ice product,” Lewgood said. “Their willingness to delay this move has ultimately benefitted all parties involved.” The Bruins are expecting a deep and experienced blueline to break camp this week and dealt from a position of strength. Earlier in the summer, most teams handed over one or two players to the Broncos when several of their players died in the bus crash in April on their way to a playoff game in Nipawin.
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Bruins defenceman Mark Edmands, looking to move the puck from behind the net during the Canalta Cup final last April in Nipawin, is going to Humboldt to play for the Broncos. File photo
Pixie is Reya’s mama. She is now spayed and ready to go to her furrever home. Pixie is a little shy,and would do best in a quiet home. She is a sweet girl that loves her pets and cuddles. She was previously a barn cat, so would do good as a mouser again as well.
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A12 September 12, 2018
Canada Cup organizers searching for volunteers for big curling event By Corey Atkinson
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The search for volunteers continues for the Home Hardware Canada Cup, taking place Dec. 5-9 at Affinity Place. A whole host of the best men’s and women’s teams in the country will be coming to Estevan that week for cash and points for the next Olympic qualifying event. Those teams include entries skipped by Brad Gushue, Jennifer Jones, Kevin Koe, Rachel Homan, Brad Jacobs, Laura Walker and Kerri Einarson The Canada Cup event manager from Curling Canada is flying down to meet with the local committee every month. “We’ve got room allocation in place and we’re really looking for volunteers at this point,” said host committee vice-chair Helen Fornwald. “We have a cutoff at the end of the month for signup so it’s really important for people that are thinking about it to sign up.” After that date, they will take volunteers but the official volunteer uniform that they get, might not be ready at the time of the event. “We’re really encouraging as many people as are interested, absolutely (do so),” Fornwald said. “There are so many benefits to that. You get to watch as many games as you want, you come volunteer for
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The Home Hardware Canada Cup will hit Affinity Place in December, 11 months after the SaskTel Tankard rolled into town. File photo your shift… you get a banquet out of it and you get up close and personal with some of the big title curlers that are coming to Estevan.” Fornwald and the committee have been talking to the many volunteers that helped the 2018 SaskTel Tankard run smoothly to gauge their interest. Those who want to just buy tickets for the event can go through Curling Canada’s website as well as those who with to volunteer. Volunteers can go to www. curling.ca/2018canadacup/ volunteers/ and tickets are available at www.curling. ca/2018canadacup/tickets/ Ticket sales for the event have been going OK so far but they could always use more. “We’re hoping by the
end of September we’ll get the numbers we need for this event,” she said. They are also promoting the Future Stars program for the Canada Cup that will get a younger generation into the sport to rub shoulders with the best in the game in Canada. “It’s anywhere from eight to 18 years of age,” Fornwald said. “We’re looking for 60 kids and they’re going to be walking on with the curlers, interacting with the curlers and they’ll get a facility tour with the icemaker. So they’re interactive with the curlers they’ll be assigned to. It’s an awesome opportunity for our youth.” Those kids can apply at curlingcanada.formstack.com/ forms/futurestars2018canadacup
The Lions Club of Estevan Oilers got a taste of the Friday night lights in their loss Friday night at Woodlawn Field to the Weyburn Falcons. The Oilers made a good goal line stand on their first series on defence but they weren’t able to accumulate much in the way of offence as they lost 45-0 in Mooe Jaw Minor Football League bantam football action. Weyburn had a 25-0 lead at halftime. “We’ve got to start moving the ball a little bit more on offence and we’ve got to start pushing their offensive line,” said Oilers head coach Paul Duncan. “It’s not just our defence in our end.” The Oilers defence did well to hold Weyburn to lim-
ited gains on the first two plays but the Falcons found space and time frequently on third and long situations. Weyburn’s experience and size helped them with a couple of their key offensive players eluding tackles at important times and going in for touchdowns. “A lot of players got bounced around to different positions tonight,” Duncan said of his team. “All in all we’ll review the film and move forward.” The Oilers were having some issues running the ball without some important blocks guiding the way early. “I think our line got a little bit gassed and just weren’t as aggressive as they should be but we’ll work in practice on that,” Duncan said. “The kids have got it in them, we just have to bring it out of them
Estevan’s Hayden Borhot watches as a long pass eludes Weyburn›s Ryder Knox Friday at Woodlawn Field.
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as coaches.” Some injuries early to an Oilers team already needing a few more players was also a setback. “We lost our running back there for the second half and I had to play a kid that had never played before,” Duncan said. “He hadn’t played a down on offence in a running position and he did a good job for us. That’s the strength of our team.” The Oilers are back on the field at Weyburn Saturday. In other Penta Completions Estevan Minor Football action on the weekend, the Century 21 Chargers (0-2) lost 40-6 in Assiniboia. They also play at Weyburn Saturday. The Power Dodge Cudas atom team will open their season in Weyburn at 3 p.m. Saturday.
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Kin Park hosts TS&M Bruins to carry extra players into opening tournament steamy second annual ball hockey this weekend tournament and By Corey Atkinson
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The TS&M bantam AA Bruins got a good look at some of the players looking to make their team for the following season on the weekend. The Bruins camp took place at Affinity Place and a few decisions will have to be made on the team before they get down to their roster for the upcoming Saskatchewan Bantam AA Hockey League season. “It would have been nice to see what the kids are made of, but the veterans really showed what they’re made of,” said Bruins head coach Blaine Chrest. “The young ones that came in did really well and we’ve got some decisions to make.” The gold team won the scrimmage 11-2 Sunday. The Bruins will carry a few extra players into a tournament next weekend at Melville. “We won’t be down to our team until at least another week,” Chrest said. They anticipate 10-11 forwards, six defencemen and two goaltenders once they finalize their roster. Chrest noted the veterans who came in and improved over the summer and praised Carson Birnie, who will be a bantam
The second annual Kin Park Classic and Fun Day couldn’t have asked for better September weather in which to have an outdoor ball hockey tournament. Teams battled in the three-on-three ball hockey tournament in the cage in hot, September weather with banging music and a football game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on a big screen TV in a tented area to tide them over between games. The one-day tournament involving six teams saw the Saskatoon team walk away
with the title for the second consecutive year, with the final game under the lights. The second place Toe Dragons donated their prize money back to the event. For families who showed up between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, there were bouncy houses, a rock wall, a dunk tank with the fire chief and police chief at various times and food trucks and various other activities. The event raised money for the Estevan Kinsmen and Kinettes Club, but exactly how much is still being counted as of press time.
Carson Birnie carries the puck up the ice Sunday at Affinity Place at the TS&M Bruins’ camp. rookie this year, as a standout in the camp. Chrest steps into the shoes of Tom Copeland, who coached the team for several years, and he’s hoping to put his own stamp on the Bruins. “Tom put a lot of work in with these kids last year, especially at the end of the season,” said Chrest. “There was a lot of skill development and it shows.
We’re going to be able to throw three lines at teams and you won’t be able to tell much difference between the three lines. We don’t really have a number one line that you can defend against. We’re really looking forward to that.” Chrest said the leadership group will be figured out after the Melville tournament and the pair of preseason games
they have. “We’ve got a core group of eight or nine kids coming back,” Chrest said. “Any one of them could be our leader. You could hear them out on the ice talking (Sunday)… It’s pretty good for this age group.” The Bruins open their season Oct. 5 against Weyburn at Affinity Place.
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Participants in the Prairie Winds 20th annual Ride for Ronald McDonald House (RMH) gather with representatives from the Estevan McDonalds and the RMH before leaving Estevan.
Milestone motorcycle ride supports worthy cause The 20th edition of the Ride for Ronald McDonald House (RMH) proved to be a success. The Prairie Winds women’s motorcycle club organized the event, which was held on Sunday afternoon. A total of 90 people registered
for the ride and raised $5,700 through registration fees, raffle ticket sales and individual/ corporate donations. Participants met up at the Estevan McDonalds, and rode through Lampman and Arcola before reaching Stoughton’s Crossroads Inn,
where they enjoyed a beef on a bun meal, door prizes and socializing. Then they returned to Estevan. Proceeds will be directed to the RMH in Saskatoon, which provides accommodations to families with a child seeking medical treatment.
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The annual telethon fundraiser hosted by United Way Estevan is beginning to draw closer to its scheduled dates of Oct. 26-27. In preparation of the event, the agency’s board has begun hosting weekly meetings to ensure the event’s planning remains on track. Travis Frank, president of United Way Estevan, said that the group is currently looking for volunteers to assist with the event, and they are still currently looking for entertainers. “Right now our board is getting together, and everyone is on various different committees, and so throughout the next couple of months everyone will kind of be putting all their work together. The event will be 33 hours straight, and will have over 100 volunteers, and 50 to 60 entertainers, so it’s a big project,” said Frank. “So if anyone is interested in volunteering for the telethon, or before the telethon on one of our committees, or if anyone has an interest in performing in the telethon, they can give us a call and we’ll put them in touch with the right people,” he added later. In recent years the telethon has exceeded $350,000 in proceeds, and they are hoping to make around the same amount this year. “This will be our 42nd year of hosting the telethon in Estevan,” said Frank. “Our fundraising goal this year is $335,000, and we’re looking forward to an-
other great year. This event has always been popular in the past and we’re expecting it will be just as great this year.” United Way Estevan announced in August that the initially planned date of Oct. 12 and Oct. 13 for the telethon would have to be changed, as the initial date was a professional development day for the South East Cornerstone School Division and Holy Roman Catholic Separate School Division. “Our schools are a huge part of our telethon,” said Frank. “It’s one of the biggest things that draws people from our community to the event, and the schools themselves bring in a very large portion of money. So we really didn’t want to host the event without our schools included and the kids that attend them.” According to Frank, the only major change to this year’s event will be the aforementioned date change. Country gospel group The Daae Family, who are well known throughout Saskatchewan, will be making an appearance as the show’s closing act. “Everything has come together really, really well,” said Frank. “We had to make the date change a couple of weeks ago, but besides that everything has been going great. It will be another great year for the telethon and we’re really excited for it. We hope to see a lot of people getting involved and make money for a great cause.”
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Heidi Ann Vicary (Lukye) August 18, 1976 - August 28, 2018 It is with great sadness that the family of Heidi Vicary, late of Airdrie, Alberta announces her passing at Dulcina Hospice at St. Marguerite Manor in Calgary, Alberta on Tuesday August 28, 2018 at the age of 42 years, after her battle with Glioblastoma brain cancer. Heidi passed with her loving husband Jason and cousin Mellissa Saxon by her side. Heidi was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan to her loving parents Walter and Beatrice Lukye. Left to cherish precious memories are Heidi’s husband Jason Vicary; daughters, Sophia and Emma McCagherty and their father Grant McCagherty; step children, Kaedin, Monique and Karson Vicary; siblings, Jeremy Lukye (Wendy Alexander) and children, Ryan and Tyler, Wally Lukye (Beth Brown) and children, Lynaia, Alyssa, Tanisha and Kade and their mother Annette Lukye, Keri Lukye and daughter Maya, Nettie Lukye and son Mackenzie; parents-in-law, Elmer and Karen Vicary; in-laws, Bobbie-Jo (Vicary) and Vern Douglas, Twyla (Vicary) and Geoff Bode and children, Emerson, Eleanor and Estella, Justin (Carmen) Vicary and children, Maximus, William and Lily, as well as numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and good friends. Heidi was predeceased by her grandparents, Carl and Mary Karstad and Fred and Marie Lukye; brother Jeff Lukye and uncles, Bertram Karstad, Allan Lukye and Paul Ogyzrlo. Public Visitation took place on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan, Saskatchewan. A celebration of Heidi’s life was held on Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Estevan, Saskatchewan with Pastor Darren Dressler from Airdrie, Alberta officiating. Interment followed at the Estevan City Cemetery, after which a luncheon was held at the Beefeater Plaza at the Days Inn, Estevan for all to attend and remember Heidi. In lieu of flowers, if friends so desire, donations in Heidi’s memory may be made out to Sophia and Emma McCagherty Trust Account or a cause that was very near and dear to Heidi - the Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research which can be made through the Sunnybrook Foundation by mail or online. Online: donate.sunnybrook.ca/gord Mail: Sunnybrook Foundation 2075 Bayview AvenueToronto, Ontario M4N 3M5 Guests were invited to wear their “Hope For Heidi” hoodies, their “Fight Like A Lukye” hoodies or tees, or to simply dress casual, as these were Heidi’s wishes. “Gone but not forgotten” Dustin Hall with Hall Funeral Services, Estevan assisted Heidi’s family. Kathleen Jean Lee 1947 - 2018 Kathy Lee passed away suddenly at her home in Bienfait, Sask. on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at the age of 71 years. Left to cherish their memories of Kathy are: her son Cheyenne (Andrea) Sernick and their children, Payton and Beckham; son Wally Lukye (Beth Brown) and children, Lynaia (Kevin Severson), Alyssa (Nathan) Brady, Tanisha (Dan Earle) and Kade; sister Eileen Ketzmerick; brother Melvin Lee (Sigrid Blankenburg), brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Elaine (Harold) Richards, Gerald (Wendy) Sernick, Gail (Henry) Jaworski, David Sernick, Bonnie Sernich and Arlene (Ken) Sernich, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and special friends, Annette, Dolly, Patsy and Wendy. She was predeceased by her loving husband Mervin Sernick; parents, Pauline and Morace Lee; parents-in-law, Lorraine and Anthony Sernich and brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Shirley Lee, Hadley Ketzmerick, Tammy Sernich, Richard Sernich and Pete Harmsworth. In keeping with Kathy’s wishes, there will not be a memorial service. In remembrance of Kathy, donations to the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by her family. Mail: 1 - 345 3rd Avenue S., Saskatoon, Sask., S7K 1M6 or online at pattisonchildrens.ca Dustin Hall with Hall Funeral Services, Estevan is assisting Kathy’s family.
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Two vehicle fires meant a busy morning Members of the Estevan Fire Rescue Service were busy during the morning of Sept. 10, thanks to a pair of vehicle fires. The first one was reported at about 8:30 a.m. on the truck bypass east of Estevan, near the Petro Canada truck stop. When firefighters arrived on scene, members of
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Estevan RCMP and the Estevan Police Service have been investigating the fire, while the fire department investigated a cause of origin. While at the scene, the fire department was alerted to another vehicle fire in the east-central industrial area. The fire department found a vehicle with a fire contained
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to the passenger side. There weren’t any injuries reported, but the fire occurred next to a commercial property and other vehicles. None of them were damaged by the fire. “I think a lot of that … was due to a quick call to 911 to allow us to get there in a timely manner to prevent further extension of the fire to other vehicles,” he said. The cause of that particular fire is also under investigation. There was initial suspicion that there might be a connection between the two fires, but it turned out they weren’t related. The fire department was also called to a couple of carbon monoxide (CO) alarms. The first was in south-central Estevan on Sept. 3. Occupants were safely evacuated from the home. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they found
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leading the fire department to believe it was a faulty device. Feser stressed that when it comes to carbon monoxide devices, they have a similar shelf life to fire alarms. “You want to take a look at the back of the smoke alarm or carbon monoxide alarm itself, and there will be a manufacturer’s date that is typically listed on the back side,” said Feser. A smoke or c ar bon monoxide alarm is typically good for 10 years from the date of manufacturing, and not the date of purchase. Sometimes a device is faulty, he said. There was also a commercial fire alarm in the afternoon of Sept. 3. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they found no visible smoke or flame from the exterior of the building. The fire alarm panel was examined and inspected. Firefighters also participated in a couple of community engagement sessions on the weekend. They went to Kin Day at the Park on Sept. 8, which was hosted by the Estevan Kinsmen and Kinettes Club at their play park in the Hillside subdivision. Members of the department sat in the dunk tank and interacted with the public. The following day, they were at the Estevan Humane Society’s Duck Derby fundraiser at the Woodlawn Regional Park.
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peak reading levels of eight parts per million of CO. For a CO alarm to go off, they are calibrated for 25 parts per million. “There was an elevated level of carbon monoxide to activate the alarm, however with the doors open and the windows open there, it did allow the fresh air to enter the home,” said Feser. SaskEnergy was called in to the scene to pinpoint the cause of the carbon monoxide alarm. It ’s believed to be the hot water heater, which is often working when temperatures are cooling down and people are trying to stay warm. The other CO alarm was in the early morning hours of Sept. 5 in north-central Estevan. When crews arrived, the home owner was safely waiting for the fire department. Firefighters entered the home and found no readings with their equipment,
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City-wide registration Plenty of people came to register themselves and/or their kids into city and community programs at the multi-purpose room Thursday evening at winter city wide registration. The event helped people register for anything from roller derby to taekwondo, and curling to figure skating. Photo by Corey Atkinson
Duck Derby drew a crowd and raised funds The second annual Duck Derby, hosted by the Estevan Humane Society, attracted a large crowd to Woodlawn Regional Park’s free park area on Sunday afternoon. The crowd gathered along the north banks of the Souris River, and watched as the ducks floated down the river towards the finish line. They had been dropped by a trackhoe from the Highway 47 bridge. It took about 20 minutes for the ducks to complete the
short voyage down the river. At one point, the river’s flow sent many ducks towards the south banks of the river, but a west wind picked up and propelled the ducks towards the finish line. Rick Senchuk purchased the winning duck and won $7,905. The Estevan Humane Society will take home the other $7,905, to cover such costs as upkeep of the building, veterinary bills and repairs to such areas as the dog kennels.
According to humane society spokesperson Angela Prette, a total of 1,581 ducks were sold for this year’s derby. Ducks were available until just before the derby started, and 148 ducks were sold at the event. This year’s derby attracted a larger crowd for the festivities than last year, she said. Also on site during the day were face-painting, food trucks and bouncy castles. “I hope next year to
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From left, Sherry Lukye-Horrocks, Jace Brenner and Samantha Chenier watched the Duck Derby from the best possible seats at the finish line.
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A18 September 12, 2018
Estevan police arrest one for theft of tires The Estevan Police Service (EPS) announced an arrest last week in connection with the theft of about 40 tires from the Canadian Tire in Estevan. The EPS said on Sept. 4 that Calvin Stachniak, a 43-year-old man from Young, was arrested and charged with thef t over $5,000, break and enter with the intent to commit the indictable offence of theft, and possession of property obtained by crime. He allegedly stole the tires on Aug. 20. The tires were recovered from a property near Young. Stachniak made his first court appearance Sept. 5 at Estevan Provincial Court and was released on conditions. The vehicle he was operating was seized as offence-related property, as it was used in the commission of the alleged offences. The EPS has also released the names of two people charged with impaired driving this month. Zane Harrison Stromberg, a 25-year-old Estevan man, was charged on Sept. 1 with impaired driving and operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content exceeding .08.
Then on Sept. 7, James Oscar Nelson, a 29-yearold man from Carlyle was charged with impaired driving and operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content exceeding .08. Nelson has also been charged w i t h f a i l i n g t o c om p l y with a probation order and possession of a prohibited weapon. The charges against these individuals have not been proven in court. In other recent police news, a report of criminal harassment involving an Estevan female was received during the Sept. 3 day shift. The matter remains under investigation. A black Trek bicycle was stolen from a north central Estevan parking lot. Anyone with any information regarding this theft is asked to call the Estevan Police Service at 306-634-4767. The matter remains under investigation. Police received a report of a fraud during the Sept. 4 day shift. The victim, who lives in British Columbia, was instructed to attend their local RCMP detachment, who forwarded the statement to Estevan. The matter is still under investigation. Members attended to a
two-vehicle collision in east Estevan during the Sept. 4 night shift. Police assisted both parties with exchanging information, as it was a nonreportable accident. The EPS received a report of a theft from a local business. Members attended and a 22-year-old man was arrested and charged for theft under $5,000. He was remanded into custody and will appear in court on Sept. 6. The man was later charged for mischief after he damaged a room at the police station while being interviewed by police. Police were called to a two-vehicle collision in west Estevan during the Sept. 5 day shift. One driver was taken to hospital for treatment and then sent to Regina for a follow-up examination. The status or extent of his injuries was not immediately known. Police are continuing to investigate the collision and in the process of taking statements. Officers conducted a traffic stop in east Estevan. A female was charged under the Traffic Safety Act for using and holding an electronic device while driving. Police also checked for outstanding warrants or conditions
and found out the female is not supposed to be in the possession of an electronic communication device as a result of previous charges she is facing. She was arrested for breaching her conditions and appeared in court on Sept. 6 to answer to the new charges. Police received a driving complaint during the Sept. 5 night shift regarding a motorbike being operated on the street while stunting and doing wheelies. The driver was issued a summary offence ticket for performing a stunt or activity likely to distract or startle other drivers. Due to the driver having previous convictions for that same offence his motorcycle was seized and impounded, to be turned over to the Traffic Safety Board. Members received a report of an attempted fraud. The matter is still under investigation. Police and the Estevan Fire Rescue Service responded to a two-vehicle collision on King Street and Arthur Avenue during the Sept. 6 day shift. One vehicle had rear-ended another vehicle along the street. No injuries were observed or reported, but one vehicle had to be towed from the scene. The
male driver of the offending vehicle was charged for driving without due care and attention under the Traffic Safety Act. Officers received a report of a theft from a motor vehicle. The police were given a suspect name and are continuing to investigate. Police have several warrants for people not complying with conditions or failing to appear in court. Officers tried to apprehend three different people who have warrants for their arrest but none could be located. Police will be continuing efforts to capture those who are wanted. Anyone with a warrant they want to clear up is asked to contact the Estevan Police Service. Members conducted traffic enforcement in multiple areas of the city during the Sept. 8 night shift. Charges under the Traffic Safety Act for speeding and failing to properly wear a seatbelt were laid. One person was also arrested and charged under the Criminal Code for breaching his conditions. A report of a possible impaired driver was received. The vehicle was located at the 7-11 on King Street. The
driver was found to be sober but had a suspended licence. He was charged under the Traffic Safety Act. An officer assigned to the EPS bike unit patrolled nearly 20 kilometres around the city that night. He was effective in an improved response time to a couple of incidents and laid one charge under the Traffic Safety Act. Officers were dispatched to another possible break and enter in progress. The suspect was located and was intoxicated. It was determined he used to live at the residence and due to his intoxicated state, went back there. He was taken to his new residence and released to a sober person. Members were alerted to a bag that was left behind at the Estevan Humane Society’s Duck Derby. If anyone has lost a bag, they can contact the Estevan Police Service. Police were also informed about a hit and run accident that happened in north Estevan. Minor damage was sustained by the vehicle but the matter is now under investigation. Anyone with any information is asked to contact Estevan Police Service or Crime Stoppers.
City Hall: 1102 4th Street 8 am to 4:30 pm | (306) 634-1800 Leisure Office: 701 Souris Avenue 8 am to 4:30 pm | (306) 634-1880
Message From
The Mayor Time for fall clean up! Please take advantage of the free landfill weekend September 21-23, 2018.
FREE WEEKEND AT THE LANDFILL SITE
CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Clean Sweep September 21-23, 2018 Proof of Residency will be required. 1.Items allowed to be dropped off for “free” include: furniture, grass clippings, tree branches and regular household garbage including appliances (excluding refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and mattresses/box springs). 2.All hazardous materials and any waste from rural customers will not be accepted for free. 3.According to Bylaw 96-1489 11.(2) all loads must be completely covered or secured to prevent littering while in transport to the landfill. 4. No Commercial Refuse allowed.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Recreational Needs Assessment - City of Estevan, SK The City of Estevan is seeking proposals from qualified firms to complete a Recreational Needs Assessment. Proposals (Three hard copies) marked City of Estevan Recreational Needs Assessment will be accepted by the Legislative Services Division prior to 2:00 pm local Time on Tuesday, September 18th, 2018 to: Attn: Rod March City of Estevan 1102- Fourth Street Estevan, SK S4A 0W7 Electronic proposals will not be accepted and any proposal received after the date and time listed will be returned and not considered for evaluation. The City of Estevan will not be responsible for any costs incurred by the proponent in the preparation or delivery of the proposals. All inquiries regarding this RFP can be directed in an email to Rod March, Manager of Parks and Facilities r.march@estevan.ca
INVITATION TO BID The City of Estevan, Leisure Services Business Division invites qualified contractors to submit a tendered bid for the “Supply and Construction of a Seasonal Washroom Facility – Royal Heights Veterans Memorial Park, at 1240 Nicholson Road, Estevan” by Tuesday September 18th, 2018 @ 2:30pm. Criteria: •This is a three room 9ft X 22 ft (two washrooms, one utility room) building with an attached picnic shelter area (13ft X 22ft) with a 5ft concrete walkway on three sides. •This facility will be a replica of the Padwick washroom facility located at Padwick Park, 2021 Nicholson Road, Estevan. With some site-specific modifications to accommodate the site conditions at Royal Heights. •Building materials and furnishings will be consistent with the Padwick structure, minor variations of equal or greater quality will be considered. •For specifics on the building, questions, or for a site visit to Padwick for review prior to bid submission, contact Rod March, email: r.march@estevan.ca Please submit your sealed tender marked “Construction of Washroom Facility – Royal Heights” in writing by 2:30 pm on Tuesday September 18th, 2018. Attention: Rod March Leisure Services Division 701 Souris Ave. Estevan, SK S4A 2T1 The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
DROP IN RECREATION
AQUATIC SCHEDULE
ESTEVAN LEISURE CENTRE - 2018
Pool shut down September 3 - October 1, 2018 for regular maintenance
Community Programming Officer (Temporary Full Time Position – One Year Term – with a possible extension) The Estevan Police Service is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic individual to fulfill the position of Community Programming Officer (CPO). The CPO will be responsible for: Contributing to the Estevan Police Service’s relationship with the community on crime prevention / reduction matters through liaison, consultation and partnership development Identifying specific community crime prevention / reduction priorities including intervention, education / awareness needs at the community and / or individual level Engaging community partners in the identification / coordination/ implementation of a continuum of evidence-based community led responses to crime that contribute to the core police role of prevention and reduction of crime Contributing to the review and evaluation of local crime prevention / reduction strategies Providing education to local schools, businesses, vulnerable persons and via social media regarding crime prevention, health and wellness, personal safety and various social issues. Arranging and supervising community engagement events hosted by the Estevan Police Service Other duties as assigned by the Chief of Police Requirements: Post-secondary education in one of the fields related to education, child development, or social sciences or secondary school diploma with several years of experience working with community partners, youth, and/or “at risk” populations. Proficiency in computers and social media platforms is an asset. Interested applicants may contact 306-634-1518 to request a comprehensive application package. Applicants will be required to complete a security background check and criminal record check. Closing date for applications is September 15th, 2018.
CAREERS OPPORTUNITY GUARD/MATRON The Estevan Police Service is seeking applications for the position of Guard/ Matron. Successful applicants must be able to work independently with little supervision. The Guard/Matron will provide constant observation of persons being held in custody. They could be called on short notice and at various hours of the day or night. Shifts vary from three to eight hours. Training is provided. Applications can be picked up at the police station or requested by email. Estevan Police Service 301-11th Avenue Estevan, Saskatchewan S4A 1C7 306-634-4767 Requests by email are to be directed to: schartrand@estevanpolice.ca
DROP IN RECREATION
FITNESS SCHEDULE
ESTEVAN LEISURE CENTRE - 2018
MONDAY GRIT 6:10 AM - 6:50 AM, 9:10 AM - 9:50 AM -5:30 PM - 6:10 PM MULTI PURPOSE ROOM EASY STRETCH 10:10 AM - 10:50 AM MULTI PURPOSE ROOM MOM & BABY 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM MULTI PURPOSE ROOM TOT STROLLER BOOTCAMP TUESDAY SPIN TWINGES & HINGES MOM & BABY/TOT STROLLER BOOTCAMP GRIT WEDNESDAY GRIT EASY STRETCH MOM & BABY AQUA STROLLER BOOTCAMP CARDIO BOOTCAMP THURSDAY SPIN TWINGES & HINGES AQUA AWE MOM & BABY AQUA STROLLER BOOTCAMP GRIT FRIDAY GRIT EASY STRETCH
6:10 AM - 6:50 AM, 9:10 AM- 9:50 AM, 5:30 PM- 6:10 PM SPIN BAR 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM - NO SEPT 25 AFFINITY PLACE TRACK 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM AFFINITY PLACE TRACK NO AUGUST 7TH 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM - NO SEPT 18 MULTI PURPOSE ROOM 6:10 AM - 6:50 AM, 9:10 AM- 9:50 AM, 5:30 PM - 6:10PM MULTI PURPOSE ROOM 10:10 am - 10:50 AM MULTI PURPOSE ROOM 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM MULTI PURPOSE ROOM 6:00 PM - 6:40 PM
AFFINITY PLACE TRACK
6:10 - 6:50 AM, 9:10 AM- 9:50 AM, 5:30 PM-6:10 PM SPIN BAR 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM - NO SEPT 27 AFFINITY PLACE TRACK 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM RM OF ESTEVAN AQUATIC CENTRE 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM AFFINITY PLACE TRACK 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM MULTI PURPOSE ROOM SEPT 6TH MOVED TO AFFINITY PLACE TRACK 6:10 AM - 6:50 AM-9:10 AM - 9:50 AM 10:10 AM - 10:50 AM
MULTI PURPOSE ROOM MULTI PURPOSE ROOM
SPIN CLASS is a pre-register class but extra spots may be available for drop -in registration. You can conrm your spot by pre-registering at wwww.estevan.ca or at the Information Desk. 306-634-1888.