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Happy In Jack O’ Lantern Land Little Brynley Rosengren was all smiles in her princess costume and ready for some snacks at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum’s Halloween Haunt on Saturday. She and over 300 other visitors to the Gallery were greeted with a fine array of pumpkin carvings at the entryway. Photos by Norm Park.

Local man arrested on drug and firearms charges

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

A 35-year-old man is facing several drug, firearms and weapons charges after he was apprehended on Oct. 20.

The Estevan Police Service’s (EPS) Containment and Warrant Entry Team (CWET), assisted by members of the Criminal Investigations Division and the patrol division, executed a search warrant at a residence on Seventh Street in Estevan.

The arrest followed an investigation conducted by

the EPS’s Drug and Intelligence Unit.

As a result of a search and investigation, EPS members seized six firearms, one pair of brass knuckles, eight containers of Tannerite explosives, approximately 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 220 grams of marijuana, six grams of psilocybin and an undisclosed amount of cash.

The marijuana has a street value of approximately $2,200.

David Tierney is facing one charge of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, one

charge of possession of psilocybin, one charge of possession of the proceeds of crime, nine counts of possession of firearms and explosives contrary to a court order, two counts of unsafe storage of firearms, and one count of possession of a prohibited weapon.

Police Chief Paul Ladouceur said Tierney was taken into custody without incident.

“We had received ongoing information about this resident, and certainly members had initiated an investigation,” said La-

douceur. “This goes handin-hand with the investigations that we’ve been doing throughout the city, as we look at the drug subculture in Estevan.”

In many cases, Ladouceur said the police might be looking at one particular drug group, and receive information or intelligence from that investigation that leads them to open another investigation.

“This wasn’t an overly lengthy investigation,” said Ladouceur.

Even though it’s expected the federal government will legalize mari-

juana at some point in the future, the drug is not legal yet, and he said this case “goes beyond weed.”

“We’re seizing firearms, we’re seizing explosives and we’re seizing large quantities of ammunition,” said Ladouceur.

“And this is drug trafficking. Even when marijuana is legalized, when and if, that doesn’t legalize drug trafficking in marijuana.

“There’s a big misconception that it’s okay to sell marijuana because it’s going to be legal anyhow. Nowhere in the future do we foresee that it’s going to be

legal to grow, produce and sell marijuana privately.”

As for the explosives, Ladouceur noted it is legal to possess Tannerite, but there are strict guidelines on its quantity and its use.

Since Tierney was on a court order not to possess firearms, ammunition or explosives, he was charged.

Tierney made his first court appearance the following morning. He was back in court on Oct. 24, when he was released with conditions after posting a $2,500 bond.

He will be back in court on Nov. 7.

Estevan considered for solar power

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

SaskPower is looking to add solar power to its electrical generation fleet, and Estevan is one of three sites they are considering.

The Crown corporation held an open house at the Saskatchewan Energy Training Institute on Oct. 20. Representatives from SaskPower were on hand to explain how the solar power station would work and why Estevan was being considered.

Tim Schuster, the director of independent power producer development for SaskPower, told the Mer-

cury that they are considering Estevan because they are looking for a location that would keep costs at a reasonable rate. It would also have optimal solar intensity, good interconnection availability, favourable community support and a location that would be environmentally safe.

They are also looking at Morse and Rush Lake, both in southwest Saskatchewan, as possible locations.

“The interconnection opportunities are good, and there are locations we can look at to satisfy the criteria for the project,” said Schuster.

All three locations have available infrastructure and capacity, and interconnection availability. In Estevan’s case, there is a substation that SaskPower can access for a solar power site, and they wouldn’t have to build much new infrastructure.

Southern Saskatchewan is an area that would be a good site for solar power projects, he said. In fact, according to information supplied by SaskPower, it is one of the best locations in the country, along with southern Alberta and southwestern Manitoba.

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Honour wall is nearing completion

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

Lyle Dukart has dedicated many hours over the past eight years towards the completion of an honour wall, located in the Royal Heights Veterans’ Memorial Park, that pays tribute to Estevan’s veterans.

His efforts are now in the process of coming to fruition.

The honour wall will contain the names of 995 people from Estevan who served in the First World War, the Second World War or the Korean War. Dukart, who is the vice-president of

the Estevan branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, has tried to find the names of as many veterans as possible.

He noted the wall contains the names of those who returned home alive from serving in conflict.

The names of Estevan’s deceased are engraved on the cenotaph in downtown Estevan. He also wanted the honour wall to be for those who resided in Estevan, since other communities have their own tributes to their veterans.

“It’s a big relief for me to have this done, because every time I had a spare

moment, I would be looking through the archives on the Internet, trying to find more names,” said Dukart.

The wall is already in place. The nameplates are currently being printed.

Dukart said it will be a few more weeks before they’re ready to be mounted on the wall.

The names will be on brass plaques, and Dukart said they will look really nice. There are 208 names for the First World War, 768 for the Second World War and 19 for the Korean War. “Hopefully by us talking, there can be some more names brought forward,

because there are obviously some that we have missed,” said Dukart. “World War One is a tough area to cover.”

There is room on the wall to add even more names, not only for the three wars covered, but also for peacekeepers, the Afghan War, and other conflicts.

“I made enough room for 1,500-plus names on existing plaques,” said Dukart.

“I’m hoping that people will come forward and double check with us if we have the names on the wall.”

He is optimistic a dedication ceremony could happen in May.

Dukart cited the late Jack Lenicek as a source of inspiration for the honour wall. Leniczek, who served in the Second World War, passed away in 2006. His wife, Irene, died in 2008.

Both were dedicated supporters of the Legion and the city as a whole.

“They have no siblings to carry on their name,” said Dukart. “That’s what started me doing the wall.”

Dukart noted there are a number of roads in Estevan named after local veterans. Many of them became leaders in the community as entrepreneurs and elected officials.

Others became farmers or became dedicated volunteers with various organizations.

Dukart paid tribute to Linda Betnar for her commitment to the project during the past year. She researched each veterans’ service in each war, and the spelling of each name, to ensure that the information on the wall is accurate.

And he recognized Legion president Troy LeBlanc for helping to find a home for the wall in Royal Heights. The Legion hopes to add other tributes to veterans in the park in the future.

Blue Rodeo is coming to Estevan One of Canada’s most famous bands will be appearing in Estevan for the first time early next year.

Blue Rodeo announced this month that they will be coming to Affinity Place on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, as part of a 23-city, crosscountry tour to promote their latest album, 1000 Arms. The concert is being sponsored by Estevan Mercury Publications.

In the 30 years since their formation, Blue Rodeo has sold over four million albums. They have also won numerous Juno awards, including group of the year five times (1989, 1990, 1991, 1996 and 2008), and single of the year for Try in 1989.

The band also received a star on

Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2009, was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2012, was honoured with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in 2014 and was named to the Order of Canada in 2015.

Current members of the band are guitarist/vocalist Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor (guitar/vocals), Bazil Donovan (bass), Glenn Milchem (drums), keyboardist Michael Boguski and guitarist Colin Cripps. Cuddy, Keelor and Donovan are original members of the band.

Their latest album, 1000 Arms, is the 14th of their career. It will be released by Warner Music Canada on Oct. 28. Details on the album were

revealed earlier this month.

All of their previous albums have gained platinum or gold status in Canada, and have gained top 10 status on the Canadian music charts.

Many of their singles have also appeared in the top 10 for Canada.

Tickets for Blue Rodeo’s concert at Affinity Place will go on sale to the public on Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. Tickets can be purchased through ticketmaster.ca, charge by phone 1-800-9707328, or in Estevan at Henders Drugs.

Tickets start at $53.50 (plus applicable service charges), and all tickets include a digital copy of 1000 Arms.

Affinity Place seat holders were able to purchase tickets starting on Oct. 21.

Blue Rodeo will be in Estevan on Jan. 15, 2017, to promote their latest album, 1000 Arms. Submitted image.

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Schuster is optimistic the site will be selected before the end of December.

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solar farm through the life of the project,” said Schuster.

While SaskPower is looking at Estevan as a potential location for the solar power project, Schuster stressed the addition of solar power locally wouldn’t affect the future of Boundary Dam and Shand, nor would it impact their decision on whether to proceed with future carbon capture and storage projects.

“SaskPower has done fantastic work with the carbon capture project on Unit 3 at Boundary Dam, so we’re looking at the potential for Units 4, 5 and 6 at Boundary Dam,” said Schuster.

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By Norm Park normpark@estevanmercury.ca

There are times when the word miracle becomes appropriate and doesn’t need to be deemed as hyperbole.

The Billesbergers might tend to agree that would apply when the topic of, their pet pooch, Bruno is broached.

Bruno, their sevenyear-old chocolate Labrador retriever, spent 27 days trapped at the bottom of an abandoned nine-metre well, and is still alive and hopefully on the road to a full recovery. Bruno was rescued

by John Billesberger and his son Joseph, after another Billesberger pet Labrador helped John discover the old well and her canine buddy on Oct. 14. The family didn’t know the well existed on a stretch of land near their rural property at Hitchcock.

Bruno’s misadventure began when he joined John and their two other labs, Luna and Esme for a trip out to the field on Sept. 17. John was out to pick up bales, north of their home.

“The three dogs always liked to follow along and they always stayed close,” said Cindy Billesberger.

It was an unseasonably warm day and John came home at noon to do some office work while avoiding

the heat. Two of the dogs returned with him, but there was no sign of Bruno. That did not set off any alarm bells though because their son and his wife and daughter live on the property, too, about 180 metres away, and Bruno often plays with their two dogs.

“I became worried around dinner because Bruno never, ever misses a meal.

We labelled him as our laziest dog, and the dog that was always the first one up for food,” she said with a laugh.

It was at that point they began the search with Cindy’s father joining them as did Cat, their daughter-inlaw. They drove in all four directions and dispatched the other dogs, who, they hoped would pick up Bruno’s scent.

When they returned after dark, the thought struck them that perhaps Bruno had been caught under one of the bales.

“We were sick just thinking about that possibility,” she said.

The next morning, Cindy woke to discover John had already moved all of the 39 round bales looking for Bruno’s body.

The search was expanded but still, no luck.

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“We were sure someone had taken him because he never wandered off and never chased after other animals.

He was too lazy for that, but he loved vehicle rides of any kind,” Cindy said with another laugh.

The couple scoured the fields every day on their way to work in Estevan, hoping they would somehow at least come across his body, so they wouldn’t have to worry about somebody abusing or neglecting him.

“On Oct. 14, John left work early and took the dogs for a walk across the fields. He was about a halfmile from the house where there is a dugout on the neighbour’s quarter section across the road. A lot of tall grass was in the area and one of our dogs, Esme, just headed for a spot, started looking down at something and refused to leave. She just wouldn’t come when called, so he went over to take a look and he brushed the grass away with a stick and discovered the well and Bruno, who managed to lift his head and whimper, indicating he was still alive,”

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Father-in-law and son were called to help and Joseph, using some planks got down into the well which was just over three metres in width, and he was able to pry Bruno’s paws out of the mud and then lifted him up, over his head to the others. Normally, it would have been near impossible, since Bruno generally weighed about 90 pounds, but he was less than half that weight by then.

Cindy contacted the Prairie Animal Health Centre clinic and they went on standby and took over once John delivered the emaciated and mud-covered dog to their care.

“I could tell by the look on their faces there wasn’t much room for hope. He looked awful. Some parts, it looked like his hair had been burned off, his paws were swollen and there were gouges by his eyes. It hurt to look at him,” Cindy said.

There was no veterinarian on staff in Estevan that weekend, so vet. technician staff members stabilized him and shipped him to Weyburn where he went under the care of Dr. Kristin Caldwell, before he was sent back to Estevan to Dr. Carol Ross who started administering a recovery plan. Bruno had not suffered any broken bones but one bone in a paw had

been exposed. His organs still appeared to be functioning to some degree.

His body temperature was raised, while being hydrated and antibiotics were administered to fight off any possible infections.

“Knowing he was in that well, obviously suffering so long, it’s hard to contemplate,” Cindy said. “Talk about bravery and tenacity.

We think he managed to take in enough water, because it had rained, and there was just enough water, that it kept him alive.”

On the fifth day of recovery, Bruno experienced a setback according to blood samples and phosphate monitoring, so the decision was made to send him to the Western College of Veterinarian Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.

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outlets began to get wind of the story and Bruno became a canine celebrity, even making some news outlets in New York and the United Kingdom.

“His blood work is good now. He was to start physiotherapy on Oct. 21. They were going to try to get him up and walking again. That bone exposed on a front paw will need surgery later. He’s not strong enough yet for that,” she said.

“The college is now giving out regular updates to the media, it’s crazy,” she said, about the burst of attention from the media and public.

Word received on Oct. 24 indicated that Bruno was now up on his feet.

“There will be a steak in his future, if his stomach permits it,” Cindy said. “He’s a pretty remarkable dog.”

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No Stopping Them A stream of 81 runners of all ages enjoyed the fourth annual Run the Course marathon around the Estevan TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club cart paths (and beyond for some participants) in a light drizzle on Saturday morning. Over $2,300 was raised for the Fresh Air Fitness at Woodlawn project in the process.

The number of registered runners and walkers was a slight increase over last year’s event. Photo by Norm Park.

Farmers’ market pleased with results Thompson said the total sales for the markets was $249,712, which was down about $13,000 from last year. She attributed the lower sales to the state of the local economy.

But the vendors were pleased with the number of shoppers and the weather co-operated for most of their sales.

“We seemed to be off to a bit of a slow start, and things didn’t pick up until late July or the first part of August for us, but I think once our produce starts arriving at the market, we get a better attendance,”

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Farmers’ Market had a slight decline in sales this year for its spring and summer sales, but the vendors were happy, and they had a number of accomplishments during the past six months.

The markets were held from late April to mid-October at the Estevan Shoppers Mall. The first four sales of the year were inside the mall, and the remaining sales were outdoors at the mall’s parking lot.

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They typically had 12 to 20 vendors each week.

She highlighted the Aug. 20 sale, which was their customer appreciation day. They paid tribute to long-time vendor and board member Lynda Dunbar, and had more than 30 vendors present, which was a record.

“It was phenomenal, and we had such a great turnout by all of our customers,” said Thompson.

“Talking to a few people, there were people from Estevan … and had never been to the farmers’ market, and just had to stop by that

day because they had to see what was going on.”

Hopefully those people who came for the first time will continue to come to the markets, because Thompson believes they will have a greater appreciation for the different merchandise the vendors offer.

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Thompson is optimistic the momentum from the final few weeks of the season will continue through their Christmas sales, which will occur on Nov. 26, and

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“I’m hoping that we get a good attendance from vendors and shoppers for our Christmas sales,” said Thompson.

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Provincial health-care auxiliaries gather in Estevan

By Norm Park normpark@estevanmercury.ca

The Oct. 19 agenda for the Saskatchewan Health-Care Auxiliaries Association (SHAA) convention was compacted into a series of educational presentations, greetings from dignitaries, social events and awards programs.

The second day was dedicated to auxiliary business, but not before delegates enjoyed a yoga lesson with laughter, to get their morning schedule underway.

All convention events were staged at the Days Inn in Estevan with 74 members from around the province signing in.

E s t e v a n ’s S t . J o seph’s Health-Care Auxiliary served as host and the arriving delegates were greeted by the local group’s co-presidents, Sharon Heinz and Nola

Joseph as well at St. Joseph’s Hospital executive director Greg Hoffort, hospital board president Don Kindopp and Mayor Roy Ludwig.

Afternoon presentations were provided by St. Joseph’s dietary section manager and nutritionist Mark Pettitt (see this week’s issue of Southeast Lifestyles) and social worker and community volunteer Deanna Brown.

SHAA provincial president Esther Sigurdson from Herbert, welcomed delegates and spoke with the Mercury during the afternoon coffee break, about her role and the challenges the organization faces.

She said it was her second year at the helm and that she was attracted to her local auxiliary several years ago, and she got caught up in the spirit of volunteerism and the community.

“ A c t u a l l y, a l o c a l member conscripted me.

She told me I really had no choice, so I accepted her invitation to attend a meeting and here I am,” she said.

The major challenge facing health-care auxiliaries in Estevan is a Canada-wide dilemma that most community service groups are facing right now … aging members and dwindling memberships. The local auxiliary is defying that adage, at least recently, with a small, but encouraging, influx of new members, but the situation around the province is one that does concern Sigurdson.

“The future of the provincial body is in question.

Is there a role for a provincial body?” she asked rhetorically.

“Saskatchewan is a great place to live in, but it comes with a cost in terms of geography. I want

Darla Wilhelm (left), an executive member of the St. Joseph’s Health-Care Auxiliary helps Esther Sigurdson, the auxiliaries’ provincial president display the anniversary cake.

Marlene Shurygalo (seated) checks the agenda with guest speaker Deanna Brown, just prior to Brown’s presentation on volunteerism at the Saskatchewan HealthCare Auxiliaries Association convention. to visit all our auxiliaries, but the mileage stands against us. And yes, we could teleconference and conduct webinars, but not all members are that savvy with computers.”

Sigurdson said as health budgets get cut, the fundraising work the auxiliaries do now, is needed more than ever, which makes the challenge rather ironic. Just when they are needed the most, they are becoming less able to answer the call.

But the auxiliaries are putting up a great fight against those odds with organizations, such as the one in Estevan, being able to increase donations and volunteer contributions, rather than see them diminish over the years.

“The health-care community really does rely on us more than ever, so we’ll keep at it as best we can.”

Sigurdson went on

to say the rewards still outweigh the challenges insofar as their common goals “bring us together and we share that goal of care and compassion.

Nobody here is doing it for personal gain or recognition. They’re doing it for their community,” she said, motioning toward the tables packed with delegates in the Days Inn Taylorton Room.

During the second half of the afternoon presentations, Brown, a social worker for the Family Resource Centre, and wellknown community volunteer, spoke to the group about that very topic.

“There is no monetary value placed on volunteerism, their value is found in what they provide,” she said, just prior to her presentation.

“I know you don’t always like the fundraising jobs, because they can

be difficult, but you do it so well,” she said with a smile.

The workload becomes intangible, she said, once you get immersed in the spirit of volunteerism as well as the systems.

“Getting the volunteer out there, into the community for face-to-face meetings with the public, is important. Technology has limited a lot of this face-to-face opportunity, so that has to be dealt with by the volunteers. Technology can be deployed and used effectively, but there is also a need to make those personal contacts,” she said.

The evening awards program also included an address from Estevan MLA Lori Carr plus some entertainment and a Dutch auction.

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Speculation continues to swirl around the prospects of the so-called ‘transformational change’ that provincial citizens have been forewarned about, that is just around the corner.

Citizens already know that health-care is one sector, for sure, that will be subjected to this change-up, whatever it becomes, since a panel has already been struck to wander out into the wilderness of Saskatchewan to garner information from those not already hunkered down in Saskatoon and Regina, to find out how we think and act when it comes to medical attention and health-care issues.

Health regions and their governing bodies could be in for major readjustments, just over a decade from the last major overhaul that has been carried out with mixed results.

The sprawling school divisions have also received tips they could be next on the transformational agenda.

As is always the case, the health regions and school divisions outside the two major cities, have been subjected to a variety of leadership traits and governance models, even though they have been instructed to follow the provincial government’s dedicated template. They can’t help but inject personalities into the governance equations.

Some regions and divisions have been fortunate to find good management and

Prairie Perspective MURRAY MANDRYK Murray Mandryk is a political columnist with the Leader Post

Wall’s white paper not enough Let’s accept Premier Brad Wall’s presumption that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon pricing is not a solution to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

After all, Wall offers ample reasons for his argument. As he noted in an op-ed piece recently published in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Trudeau’s climate-change solution proposal is “both simple and seductive.

“A carbon tax is applied. Money is collected, money goes out. Greenhouse gas emissions go down,” Wall wrote.

“The problem is there is little evidence this works, and yet it risks jobs and competitiveness in carbon intense sectors such as energy, manufacturing, mining and agriculture. In British Columbia, often touted as the example of carbon-tax efficiency, emissions have increased since 2010.”

Wall also rightly noted in the G&M piece that Saskatchewan “has a disproportionate share of Canada’s trade-exposed

where thereby rewarded with records of efficiency. It doesn’t gather them any brownie points or increased financial rewards. But, it is helpful for the health-care and educational communities they serve, that the jobs are being done well.

Other jurisdictions haven’t been so fortunate.

Some jurisdictions enjoy strong administrations with good financial numbers but not-so-positive personnel results. Others are great with personnel but sloppy on the cash and numbers game.

On a few occasions, a region or division will get to enjoy leadership that displays both fiscal and human resources expertise. But, again, it doesn’t much matter on the political scale because those who do the job best, are not necessarily rewarded for jobs well done. They are simply told they are meeting expectations and to carry on.

Fairly soon, they will be an handed an edict to carry on in a new world order.

We expect that new order will be to create an even larger scope of health regions and school divisions and that is something we, in this corner, can’t easily wrap around in our minds.

We fear the larger these sectors become, that the layers of administration will become nearly unbearable.

Centralization in other industries, has proven to be troublesome on many fronts

and the provincial government would be foolish to believe they could do it any better than the next guy. They can’t. There are no magical gurus or financial or administrative genies in the current provincial cabinet. It does, however, contain competence, and therefore, we trust that cooler heads will prevail.

What we don’t need in Saskatchewan are any more personal fiefdoms or miniature empires being built around even larger health regions and school divisions, especially in the more outer regions (those not close to Regina or Saskatoon) where the Regina and Saskatoon boys and girls involved in government ministries, fear to tread.

We definitely don’t need huge complexes that become “too big to fail,” because if they do get clumped into huge health and education kingdoms, rest assured, there will be failures and then what would the bailout packages require?

We humbly suggest that changes can be made and efficiencies sought, without making big regions even bigger. It would serve no purpose other than imposing change for the sake of change, because we can pretty well guarantee, bigger won’t translate into better and general public oversight would pretty well disappear.

That should not be allowed to happen in a transparent democracy.

industrial sectors” plus “a significant portion of Saskatchewan’s GHG emissions relate directly to getting our products to the world market.”

But let us accept, as Wall did in his white paper on the economy released last week, that GHGs are a real problem contributing to global warming.

“There is no denying it. We have a problem, a problem that has to be solved for the sake of current and future generations,” said the executive summary of Wall’s white paper. “Climate change is real.

“In the last decade, global temperatures have been higher 75 per cent of the time when compared to the last 11,300 years.”

The problem is what Wall is offering seems no more productive than what we are now seeing from Trudeau.

Sure, Wall obviously has to make many considerations that go beyond the environment. Carbon pricing would not only impact Saskatchewan’s oil and mining sectors, but also our critical farming sector that would likely see inputs increase.

Like those in the mining and oil sector, that would put Saskatchewan farmers at a distinct disadvantage in competition with those in other countries.

One of the more positive alternatives Wall proposed in his white paper on climate change is carbon sinks that would recognize the many farming practices that actually address greenhouse gas emissions. Practical things like zero tillage do need to be acknowledged, especially in relation to a national carbon tax being applied to critical industries like farming.

But if Wall is right in his white paper’s premise that adaptation and innovation are far more effective tools to fight climate change than taxation, one might have expected to see much more innovation and adaptation in his plan.

It wasn’t there.

His white paper emphasized there are more than 2,400 new coal-fire power plants planned or under construction around the world that would pump out nearly nine times Canada’s annual GHG emissions.

But Wall’s solutions that call for a doubling of the funding for climate change adaptation research and partnering with the federal government through SaskPower to develop carbon capture and storage, doesn’t really do much to reduce existing GHG emissions.

Nor does the paper offer any information on how much all of this will cost and where we will get the money, other than from the federal government.

Moreover, Wall’s white paper also calls for the “redeploying of its $2.65 billion, fiveyear commitment to developing countries to deal with climate change” and adding it to the existing Low Carbon Economy Trust.

If we are going to sell our CCS to countries like China and India, where many of those 2,400 plus coal-fired plants are being built, does it make sense to cut off funding to them? Is that the best way to fight a global problem?

Wall’s white paper will be immensely popular with the business community and likely the province as a whole.

But it just doesn’t seem to be a better solution than the one Trudeau has come up with.

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Bruno delivered a hard lesson Response issued to criticism Norm Park normpark@estevanmercury.ca

Thanks to Bruno, I am kicking a couple of potential column ideas down the road so we can discuss dogs this week, dear diary.

As we noted here a few weeks ago, I defied you to look a dog in the eye and not feel some kind of connection to a world of inherent understanding.

Dogs know something about us that we don’t know about ourselves. They get to expose truths in us, whether we like it or not.

Look a dog in the eye … not at meal time, or when you have a hamburger in your hand, because that’s not fair to dog or person. The rules change when food is involved.

Because of their huge sense of smell and sensitivities to their environment, dogs have made themselves pretty important partners.

So when the details surrounding Bruno’s survival gained so much traction, internationally now, it raised no sense of surprise to those of us who have had the privilege of growing up with and being partnered with dogs throughout our lives.

You want a lesson in perseverance?

Well, Bruno delivered that one in spades.

Courage?

Yep. His canine buddies displayed a pure sense of devotion once they discovered where he was, as did his owners, the Billesbergers.

What’s not to like about this story, other than the near gruesome start of the recovery process?

As a kidlet, I too experienced a “lost and found” incident with a terrific coonhound named Mac who spent 12 days in the middle of winter, ensnared on a barbed-wire fence. He was rescued by a First Nations hunter out checking his lines for coyotes and was returned to our doorstep 20 miles away.

He was our family’s miracle pooch and don’t think this 11-year-old kid, at the time, didn’t expend more than a few tears when I found him lying on our kitchen floor when I got home from school on the day he was found and returned.

Emaciated, but intact, other than for the scars left over from his struggle with the fence.

So when Bruno’s story came to my doorstep, my first thoughts swung over to the week I spent wondering what happened to “my dog” and, if he had decided to wander away, why I hadn’t been able to bid him a proper farewell, because he had been a loyal friend.

Well, he hadn’t wandered or been dognapped. Loyalty was not to be questioned.

Bruno hadn’t either.

Dogs, cats, horses get to be victims of circumstance just like kids and adults do.

What happens to these victims makes the story, when those traits such as perseverance, courage and basic instincts kick in, compelling.

We hear remarkable accounts of young people surviving war, hunger, fires and becoming stronger human beings as a result.

We hear stories like those we found in our Canadian heroes like Terry Fox and Rick Hanson and prisoners of war, and marvel at their sense of perseverance and courage.

We swing over to stories from our animal kingdoms and their remarkable abilities to survive insurmountable odds and we applaud, whether they win or lose the battle.

So, yes, pets do teach us a lot of things about empathy, loyalty, forgiveness and a whole lot about sensitivity that some of us need now and then.

Let’s face it folks, when it comes down to basic life lessons, dogs know what to do. It’s the rest of us that have to be trained.

Thanks Bruno.

Lesson delivered.

I expect we all learned a little something from your ordeal.

of real estate community The Editor: I am writing in response to Mr. Thompson’s remarks regarding local real estate agents.

I hope to set the record straight on a couple of fronts.

Real estate agents do not (or should not) unilaterally set list prices, and secondly, sellers can make price changes to the listing at any time.

I am in full agreement that our market has swung from a sellers’ market to a buyers’ market and prices have dropped since 2013, anywhere from 20 to 30 per cent, depending on the age,

style and condition of the home.

Any agent who tells their client they cannot reduce the price during the term of the contract is incorrect and I find it hard to believe any of them would. The seller has complete control over the list price of their home throughout the term of the contract. They can raise the price, or lower the price at their discretion. It is the agent’s responsibility to provide sellers with the information they need to make informed decisions, including the sale price of

homes that compare to their home and provide the basis for determining the value.

Setting the list price should be a conversation between the real estate agent and the seller based on facts about the market and the goals of the homeowner.

Pricing in our industry, anywhere in the country for that matter, is based entirely on supply and demand.

In 2011, when the boom hit and prices soared, we had reduced or even non-existent inventory. As a result of significant housing investment in our community from

2011-13, we now have an abundance of inventory and demand has fallen. Prices have fallen.

Real estate agents work in an environment where economic conditions are often beyond their control. We did not make the boom happen in Estevan and we did not make the crash happen. We make the pricing recommendations to the seller, but ultimately, the seller sets the price.

Lynn Chipley Owner/broker Century 21 Border Real Estate Service Estevan

Letter writer was ill informed The Editor: It surprises me to find such a biased letter in the Estevan Mercury about a subject as important to most families and property owners as the value of their property.

I find the letter to be barren of real fact but high on uninformed and inexperienced opinions.

I hope your paper and readers take a closer look at what is factual and what is not.

Firstly, if the banks were, in fact, polled about their opinion about real estate prices, they would be the first to admit they do not affect prices as their specialty is lending money, not selling or buying real estate.

The statement that real estate

agents are trying to hold prices high and at a premium level is written by a very uninformed person. The only people determining the asking prices are the property owners and definitely not real estate agents who have no direct control over prices. Prices are determined by supply and demand.

It doesn’t make sense that agents, by keeping prices inflated, would create a condition where property wouldn’t sell and, of course, if property doesn’t sell, real estate agents have no way of recovering their costs or making a living.

To say prices have dropped $100,000 across the board is based on no solid information. The Real Estate Association keeps track of price fluc-

tuations and perhaps the writer should have discovered the truth before printing an illogical statement.

Further, to say bank appraisals are lower than real estate industry appraised prices could only be determined if all the banks were polled as well as all the local real estate agencies and it’s obvious that didn’t happen.

The property owners of Estevan can be thankful the writer is not affecting the outcome of their property sale.

Based on the lack of real knowledge and information, the real estate market in Estevan would soon be in disarray.

Jack Wruth President and GM Re/Max Blue Chip Realty Yorkton, Sask.

Chamber opposed to carbon tax The Editor: The Estevan Chamber of Commerce is writing to express their view on the recent decision by the federal government to impose a carbon tax that will have many negative impacts on Canadians.

Although we agree that reducing our carbon footprint is vital, it is essential that any government intervention should be done in a co-operative manner that is not only environmentally but also economically responsible.

Ideally, the conversation should be ongoing and not a unilateral decision that will harm the economic fabric of our nation. Our country enjoys a high standard of living built on industries that will be adversely affected by the implementation of this tax. Significant industry impacts will lead to a global competitive disadvantage and will ultimately be passed on

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to consumers.

Specifically, input costs such as fertilizer and fuel will be significantly impacted for the agriculture industry.

The fuel increases will also adversely affect the transportation industry which delivers thousands of commodities across our nation.

The implementation of the carbon tax is a huge detriment for many of the industries where we are price takers in, such as oil, steel, potash and food. Essential services such as heating costs will also go up. This will not only impact the business community but also the monthly bills of every Canadian.

The financial burden to the general Canadian population will continue in lost jobs as industries will be forced to cut costs or move to other jurisdictions where there are no carbon taxes.

We recognize that there is not an

easy solution. However, this singlehanded decision by the federal government has disintegrated the communication efforts of environmental leaders at all levels. Formulating a comprehensive environmental plan for Canada requires open dialogue, creative solutions and regional flexibility.

It requires that consideration is given to the position of our neighbouring countries, incentives for efficiency and support for innovative new technologies such as carbon capture.

It is time for the federal government to get back to work with environmental leaders to formulate a comprehensive plan that can serve as an example to the world and rescind a tax that will put Canada at a global disadvantage.

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Estevan youth to receive award A local youth will be recognized next month for her generosity in the face of adversity.

Payton Sernick, an eight-year-old girl from Estevan, will be presented with an Outstanding Youth Philanthropist Award during the annual awards luncheon hosted by the

Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Regina chapter.

The luncheon coincides with National Philanthropy Day on Nov. 15.

Payton is one of several young people who will receive an award.

She has been recognized for her work as a fun-

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Payton set out to raise $5,000 for the new hospital earlier this year through her Cancer Sucks campaign, but she has already brought in much more than that, thanks to the success of a

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And she was at the forefront in helping with the Dairy Queen Miracle Treat Day this past summer.

Payton was diagnosed with precursor B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma in 2014, and has been going through treatments since that time, but

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AFP Regina will also hand out honours for outstanding community group, outstanding individual volunteer, outstanding corporate philanthropist, outstanding community partner and outstanding philanthropist.

“November 15th allows us to recognize the countless ways philanthropy has made a difference in our communities,” AFP Regina said in a press release.

“Each award category will honour its recipients and show appreciation for all that has been accomplished in the name of giving.”

Locomotives of Bienfait premiere at Orpheum The premiere screening of the documentary film, The Locomotives of Bienfait, has been announced for the Orpheum Theatre in Estevan on Nov. 19 with a second screening scheduled

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More information regarding the production and viewing of this documentary will be featured in the Oct. 28 edition of Southeast Lifestyles.

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Keeping serious criminals out of Sask.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) issued a release last week noting some of their more significant actions related to international traffic inspections and activities.

For instance, at the North Portal border crossing alone, officers refused entry to 38 foreign nationals who were deemed inadmissible to Canada because of their criminal history. Among the 38 were a male from Michigan who had been convicted of child abuse and sexual assault, a New Jersey man convicted of assault with intent to murder, and a North Carolina male who had been convicted of impaired driving and making terrorist threats.

At the Estevan Highway crossing officers refused entry to nine foreign nationals because of their previous involvement with the law. These refusals included a man from North Dakota who had been convicted on 10 counts of battery and a South Dakota man who had a pending

charge of manslaughter.

Several significant contraband seizures were also recorded during the month of September including interception of a prohibited .38-calibre revolver, which had not been declared. The gun was taken from a commercial truck at the North Portal crossing on Sept. 21.

An Illinois man was then released on a promise to appear in court in Estevan on Dec. 5.

On Sept. 3, officers at North Portal found five overcapacity magazines holding 30 rounds of ammunition each, in the trunk of a SUV. The driver, a United States resident moving to Alaska, was allowed to continue into Canada after the magazines were seized.

At a more remote Northgate border crossing on Sept. 26, officers seized two overcapacity handgun magazines, each holding 17 rounds from a Nebraska man. They had been located in a cabinet in a moving trailer. That driver was also

The North Portal border crossing in Saskatchewan allowed to continue his trip into Canada, after the magazines had been removed by CBSA officers.

At the Monchy border crossing on Sept. 18, officers seized 258 grams of suspected marijuanainfused fudge, which was in a fridge located in a van.

A Michigan woman claimed ownership and was refused entry into Canada and was

issued a $1,000 penalty.

At the Northgate crossing officers seized more than four grams of suspected liquid morphine from a Texas man, who did not have a prescription for the substance. He was allowed to continue his trip into Canada, but without the morphine.

At the Regina International Airport on Sept. 28,

officers clearing a private aircraft uncovered $14,000 in undeclared Canadian currency in a toiletry bag owned by a man from Louisiana. Travellers are required to report cash they are carrying if the amount exceeds $10,000. In this instance, the currency was seized. Once the CBSA officers were able to determine the money legitimately be-

longed to the traveller, the money was returned to him, less the payment of $250 in the form of a penalty that was imposed for his failing to declare.

CBSA officers in Saskatchewan are required to process and clear about 263 flights from international locations into this province, monthly, according to statistics compiled in 2015.

Warm Welcome shelter to offer hospitality for another winter

By Sam Macdonald smacdonald@estevanmercury.ca

Estevan will have a warm place of comfort for those in need, in the coming winter months. The Warm Welcome shelter will be open again this winter, with the program running from Nov. 16 until mid-March 2017.

The shelter will serve people in Estevan and from communities in the surrounding area, including Weyburn, Oxbow, Carnduff or Bienfait. The shelter provides hospitality and a place to sleep for people in need, as well as snacks and warm drinks, such as tea, coffee or hot chocolate.

“The shelter is basically a place for people

who don’t have a place to lay their head at night,” said director of hospitality Colleen Jensen.

The shelter will be at St. Paul’s United Church on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and will be available to guests at the Salvation Army church on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays. There will be a break in that pattern, on Dec. 23, 24, 25 and 26, when the shelter will stay at the Salvation Army church, due to the bazaar event taking place at St. Paul’s United Church.

Guests at the shelter are looked after by volunteers who are appointed to work shifts, during the shelter’s hours of operation: 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. Before guests

leave, they are also treated to breakfast in the morning.

“It’s very user friendly.

I want to stress that because it’s pretty much what a person would do if a guest came into their home,” said Jensen. “There’s conversation, playing cards, games and just simply putting a smile on someone’s face.

“There will be no real changes to the way we run the shelter, beyond there being a little less funding than last year, due to the state of the economy,” said Jensen.

“We, of course, are looking for volunteers. There are at least 13 who have left Estevan for personal reasons, whether economy, family-related or going to university.”

Jensen said she hopes

she can find volunteers that were as good as the ones she had working in the shelter last year, adding, “Volunteers are really the backbone of this program.”

To find new volunteers to work at the shelter this year, Jensen is holding an information session in November, to gauge public interest in volunteering with the program.

“Basically, we’re having an information orientation session that’s going to be happening on November 5, at 1:30 p.m., and it’s going to be at the Salvation Army,” said Jensen. “It’s open to the public, and what we’re really trying to emphasize is having past, present and of course, future volunteers become part of

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Jensen said she is looking forward to meeting the new potential volunteers for the coming winter, and she is also looking forward to training some of the remaining volunteers to become shift captains.

The orientation will entail people being informed about the duties associated with being a volunteer, as well as refreshments and an opportunity for interested parties to sign up as volunteers.

“I would love to see a full house and meet them all. It’s going to be very low key, more or less, in just a comfortable relaxing atmosphere,” said Jensen. “I’m looking forward to being a

part of the program again.

Last year it was very successful, and hopefully this year it will be the same.”

Jensen said she expects another successful season for the shelter this coming winter, and added that will be due to the support provided by the Salvation Army, St. Paul’s United Church, and the many volunteers who participate.

“I’m excited to be back on board, and not sure how many guests there will be this year. I’m just playing it by ear at the moment,” said Jensen. “We’ve never had any complaints from guests, so that’s a big thing for us. It’s our aim. The Warm Welcome shelter is basically a place for people to belong.”

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Const. Danielle Stephany presents a positive ticket to a group of students entering the Estevan Comprehensive School parking lot, on Oct. 21. The tickets were handed out to students who showed safe driving behaviour. Photo by Sam Macdonald

SGI and EPS team up to reward good behaviour behind the wheel Students on their way to and from the parking lot at Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) found themselves pleasantly surprised, when stopped by school resource officer Danielle Stephany on Oct. 21.

In honour of National Teen Driver Safety Week (Oct. 16-22), Parachute Canada, the Estevan Police Service (EPS) and SGI teamed up with Parachute Canada, a national injury prevention organization, to recognize the safe driving habits of students at ECS, by handing out positive

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The protocol for handing out the positive tickets was similar to the one for handing out tickets meant for driving infractions. Stephany, along with SGI community relations co-ordinators Jackie Bosch and Tracy Church, stopped several students during the school’s lunch hours, to congratulate them for their good and proper driving and to hand out positive tickets to students for their exemplary behaviour behind the wheel.

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Bruins battle to late-goal victory

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Westmoreland Coal peewee AA Bruins celebrate their home tournament championship win over the Regina Tigers at Affinity Place on Sunday. Photo by Jamie Harkins.

Peewee Bruins capture home tournament championship

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Westmoreland Coal peewee AA Bruins captured their second-straight home tournament championship with a 4-1 win over the Regina Tigers at Affinity Place on Sunday.

“It feels good this year to do it again,” said Bruins goalie Jackson Miller, who came 33 seconds away from posting a shutout in the final. “I think we’ll have some positive minds moving forward and some confidence maybe it’ll give us, so we can play better against other teams and maybe have a little bit more confidence in ourselves to win games.”

The Bruins came out slow against the Tigers, which beat them 5-4 two days earlier on the first night of the tournament, but seemed to gain their stride five minutes into the opening frame. Bruins forward Ty Hoste capitalized on the momentum 8:34 in sliding the puck between Tigers netminder Dylan Jekurdiak’s pad and the post on a wraparound to put the home side up 1-0.

Mason Fichter gave the Black and Gold a two-point lead about seven minutes

Bruins forward Kaden Chrest fires the puck past Tigers goalie Dylan Jekurdiak for Estevan’s fourth goal against Regina. Photo by Jamie Harkins. later firing in a rebound from the slot five hole before Blayze Siebert connected on a slap shot from the half wall with 2:18 remaining in the first period.

“Everybody was ready for this game,” said Bruin Carson Birnie. “We were in our positions and angling guys off and using our speed.”

Birnie said the Tigers boast a quick group of attackers and in an effort to contain them the Bruins resorted to some undisciplined play in the final two periods using their sticks instead of body position to slow them down, which resulted in a steady parade

to the penalty box. He said their solution on the kill was boxing the Tigers out, making sure they couldn’t pass it up the centre and blocking shots.

After killing three straight penalties to begin the second period with the best Tigers chance coming on a Marshall Erichsen attempt in close only to have Mason Kukura block the shot and clear the puck out of the Bruins zone, Kaden Chrest put the home side up 4-0 with a drive to the net where he dragged the puck across the crease and slid it low glove side with 12:22 remaining.

The Tigers enjoyed

significant power-play time in the third period, but they were unable to penetrate the Bruins defence that continually pushed them to the outside. With the Tigers pressing for a marker late, Sam Gremba finally broke the goose egg in the final minute picking up the puck at his own blue line, racing down the ice and deking to his backhand to score low glove side on Miller.

“It would have felt good to get (the shutout), but we still won anyways,” said Miller. “We had some good passing and some nice setups for the goals and one ripper from Blayze. That was a pretty good shot.”

The Estevan Power Dodge Bruins got a little bit of extra satisfaction in beating the Nipawin Hawks 4-3 at Affinity Place on Friday.

The Bruins win was their first over the Hawks (8-3-2) since the Nipawin club knocked the Black and Gold out of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League playoffs this past spring. It also put an end to the Hawks six-game win streak and provided a bounce back for the Bruins (10-3-0-1) at home after losing their last game on Affinity Place ice 10-3 to the Battlefords North Stars on Oct. 15.

“It was important for us to rally together as a team,” said Bruins assistant captain Jason Miller, who notched the game’s first goal 22 seconds into the opening frame and the game-winning marker with 1:19 remaining in the third period. “That was a tough loss, but that wasn’t us.

So, the biggest thing was to come back, rally and not let that one affect the next one.”

The Bruins didn’t let up after Miller’s opening goal pressuring the Hawks offensively over the first 12 minutes of the game where they outshot the northern club 9-0 to the cheers of a packed arena of supporters.

Nipawin’s Eric Soar got his team even on their first shot of the game 11:47 in when the defenceman unleashed a slapper from the point four seconds into a man advantage that beat Bruins goaltender Nic Tallarico low glove side. Bruins cap-

tain Lynnden Pastachak answered back four minutes later by carrying the puck into the middle of the Nipawin zone and firing a shot top corner on Hawks netminder Kristian Stead.

The home side didn’t let off the gas in the second period with right wing Matt McNeil enjoying a couple of prime scoring chances in the middle of the frame including an open cage look from the side of the crease on the power play that he fired wide before slamming his stick on the ice and across the boards in disgust. Hawks forward Michael Grant then tied the game with less than four minutes remaining in the frame picking up his own rebound in the slot and wiring it past Tallarico to make the score 2-2 heading into the third period.

“The message after the second was just stay the course,” said Bruins head coach and general manager Chris Lewgood. “Keep working and have fun.”

Bruins rookie centre Michael McChesney gave his club the lead 6:03 into the third period and stretched his point streak to four games when he tipped in a Jayden Davis centering pass low glove side.

The Hawks stepped up the pressure following the goal by swarming the opposition zone with multiple bodies in an attempt to gain possession and eventually potted the tying marker courtesy of Keegan Kjargaard with just under five minutes remaining. The Bruins and Hawks battled back and forth over the final few minutes with

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Hard work, a few adjustments and a complete team effort powered the Estevan Century 21 peewee Chargers to a 22-8 playoff win over the Moose Jaw Vikings at Elks Field on Friday.

“We did a few adjustments on the offensive side and defence did the same and the kids really are the ones that dictated it,” said Chargers assistant coach Evan Helfrick. “The (offensive) line blocked really well and the running backs gave a little extra effort and everything was clicking.

The defence was stopping them just like they did the previous Friday to have the shutout, but everyone across the board made a bigger effort.”

The Chargers (3-2-1) entered the post-season as the third seed in the Moose Jaw Minor Football League (MJMFL) with their final regular season game being a 0-0 tie against the Vikings (4-1-1) on Oct. 14.

Helfrick said the kids went back to work in practice after the draw and worked hard on improving the few elements of their game that needed tweaking and then executed on those things during the playoff match.

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Wa l d e g g e r t h e n notched his second touchdown on the final play of the second quarter reversing twice to get around the defence before running 31 yards for the major.

The Chargers quarterback scored a third touchdown with 1:49 remaining in the game, which coupled with a Piipo convert brought the score to 22-0.

The semifinal win advances the Chargers to the league final this Friday at Elks Field against the undefeated Weyburn Ravens (6-0). The Chargers lost 30-19 to the Ravens in Weyburn on Oct. 8.

“Both sides are evenly matched,” said Helfrick.

“Our first meeting was a close game, so I expect the same. It’ll be a backand-forth battle, offence versus defence, and both teams have good (players on) both sides of the ball, so there is no advantage which way you look at it.

So, it’s going to come down to execution and effort and taking care of the ball.”

TS&M Bruins Bucked By Broncos Estevan TS&M bantam AA Bruins forward Kaiden Tuchscherer attempts to steal the puck from Swift Current Kabos Broncos winger Cash Arntsen during the first period of Estevan’s 6-0 loss to Swift Current at Affinity Place on Saturday. The Bruins (1-5-2) played the Broncos (6-2-2) to a scoreless draw through the first 20 minutes, but gave up three unanswered goals in both the second and third periods. Estevan’s next home date is Nov. 13 against the Regina Aces (3-4). Photo by Jamie Harkins.

Oilers fall to Steelers

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Lions Club bantam Oilers suffered a 34-8 road loss to the Swift Current Steelers in the first round of the Moose Jaw Minor Football League playoffs on Saturday.

Paul Duncan, head coach of the Oilers, said the goal heading into the fourth-versus-first game

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He said they pulled some of their bigger and more experienced players from the defence and lined them up on the other side of the ball in an effort to gain some traction only to have the Steelers (6-0) provide a strong pushback of their own.

“The biggest thing is the four-and-a-half hour journey that it is to get there,” said Duncan. “You get those bus legs and you end up starting a little bit behind the eight ball with regards to guys that are at home, refreshed and ready.”

Duncan said they committed a couple of minor mistakes in the first quarter on their snaps and during special teams play, which led to the Steelers jumping out to an early 13-0 lead. He said the kids bounced back a bit in the second half, but overall Swift Current just proved why they finished atop the league during the regular season and played a solid football game.

The Oilers (2-3-1) entered the post-season on a three game undefeated streak racking up a 21-0 win over the Moose Jaw Raiders on Sept. 23, a 13-0 victory against the Weyburn Falcons on Oct. 1 and a 7-7 tie versus the Moose Jaw Razorbacks on

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Duncan said the most points they gave up during a game in the regular season was 23 against the Falcons on Sept. 10, which stands in stark comparison to last season when they were looking at 23-point deficits heading into halftime on most nights. He said that shows this group of athletes have made major strides over their years in Penta Completions Estevan Minor Football.

“I couldn’t be any more proud,” he said.

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October 26, 2016 B3

Freshman Elecs hope to showcase improvement at districts

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

ECS Elecs freshman volleyball player Emily Thompson attempts to get a kill during a home game last Thursday versus the Carnduff Tigers. Photo by Jamie Harkins.

The Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) Elecs freshman girls volleyball team got off to a slow start in their 3-2 loss to the Carnduff Education Complex Tigers at home last Thursday, but the game was played after that day’s classes ended.

“What we usually say is we played on a school day,” said Elecs setter Gemma Bittman. “When we play on a school day we start slow and then we bring it up. But when we’re not on a school day, we play pretty good.”

The Elecs 19-25, 1725, 25-23, 24-26 and 25-13 five-set defeat against the Tigers may be a samplesize example of how the rookie team’s season is going. The squad of Grade 9 girls began the year with a consolation side win at a Weyburn competition before falling to the Tigers in the final at Carnduff’s home tourney. The girls followed that by winning the Midale junior tournament on Oct. 15.

They’ve “improved 1,000 per cent since the beginning,” said Elecs head coach Tammy Podovinnikoff. “A lot of them have played together before, so that (helped) teamwork I guess. But even just their skill level has improved.

If we think back to our first set in Weyburn it was like a different team.”

Podovinnikoff said the recent exhibition game against the Tigers was the fourth or fifth contest between the two clubs with both coming away with victories and defeats. She said the games are always close and present a good challenge, but it seemed

Elec Nyla Dyck returns a shot against the Tigers. Photo

by Jamie Harkins. like her team was a bit stronger as the match wore on.

Avery McNabb, who also plays setter for the Elecs, said they started out as a low-set team and like the game against the Tigers have picked it up as they became more comfortable on the court. She said if they can equal their play at the Midale junior tourney they should do well in their final two competitions at the Oxbow Prairie Horizon School Black Knights tournament this weekend and the South East District Athletic Association (SEDAA)

junior volleyball district finals at ECS on Nov. 10.

“We’re bumping up into the intermediate districts,” said Podovinnikoff, noting they’ll be playing against Grade 9 and 10 squads including the Elecs junior girls team at the SEDAA championships.

“Our competition will be tougher, but that’s good. If we went to the lower-end districts we would be playing against girls in Grade 7 and 8 potentially, so that’s why it’s nice to bump up and to host. The juniors decided to host, so we said we would go in with them.”

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Panthers meet Ravens challenge

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Power Tech midget AA Panthers proved they belong among the South Saskatchewan Female Hockey League (SSFHL) elite this weekend.

The Panthers (4-0-1) fought back to earn a 1-1 tie against the Regina Capitals (2-0-1) in their first road game of the season on Saturday at the Co-operators Centre before knocking off the defending SSFHL champion Regina Ravens 4-1 at Affinity Place on Sunday.

“We’re doing really good,” said Panthers centre Karli Colpitts. “If we keep working hard we could come out on top.”

Colpitts got the Panthers off to a hot start against the Ravens (1-2) slamming home a Kenzie Balon rebound five hole on Regina goalie Ryleigh Carson 2:59 into the game. The Ravens battled back using their up-front speed to get to the net quickly in search of a rebound off shots from the point courtesy of their defence only to find Estevan netminder Morgan Fayle wasn’t surrendering any second chances.

Both the Panthers and Ravens generated opportunities in the second period including Regina forward Sophia Buckberger ringing a shot off the post six minutes into the frame while her club enjoyed sustained presence in the Estevan zone. Panthers forward Michaella Matthies replied with a chance of her own five minutes later driving to the net and firing a shot at the low corner only to have Carson spring out a pad to make the save.

A penalty kill early into the third period where the Panthers forced the Ravens to the outside not allowing them to create any real opportunities seemed to give the home side

Panthers forward Kenzie Balon moves the puck past Ravens defenceman Olivia Leggett during the second period of Estevan’s 4-1 win over Regina at Affinity Place on Sunday. Photo by Jamie Harkins. the momentum. Estevan forward Jasynn Monteyne capitalized on the surge burying the puck on a jam play off an offensive zone faceoff with 6:46 remaining to put the Panthers up 2-0.

Colpitts notched the third goal while short handed into an empty net at the 17:21 mark only to have Raven Brook Holt reply a minute and a half later. Not to be outdone,

the veteran Panthers forward potted the hat trick with 54 seconds remaining in the game to finish off the scoring.

“I was just in the right position at the right time,” said Colpitts. “Me and my teammates kind of click well together, so we’re pretty good at passing and stuff like that.”

The Panthers will welcome the Ravens back to town for a rematch this Friday.

Colpitts said if they continue to work hard for the lucky bounces and come out with a team effort they should be able to once again match the opposition’s intensity.

“I expect them to come out strong and want to beat us because they are one of the top teams in the league,” she said. “They want to win it, so we’re going to have to just keep fighting back.”

Elecs fall in first round of playoffs

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) Elecs football team’s season came to an end on Saturday with a 57-0 road loss to the Swift Current Comprehensive Institute Colts in the first round of the Moose Jaw High School Football League (MJHSFL) playoffs.

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Mark Schott, head coach of the Elecs, said the Colts focused in on their top receiver Donny Mortenson from the getgo constantly double and triple teaming the 2016 MJHSFL pass receiving leader. He said a struggle to run the ball coupled with a few drops from their receiving corps due to the wet playing conditions also contributed to their tough

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“Defensively our game plan was to shut down or at least try and contain Tristan Lockman, their running back,” said Schott. “We put in a defence, a 44 defence, just especially for him and it did a fairly decent job.

We seemed to catch Swift Current by surprise with that defence and we made some big tackles in the backfield.”

Schott said the 44 system features four defensive linemen and four linebackers all within three to four yards of the line of scrimmage, which forced the Colts to look to someone other than Lockman, who led the league with 19 touchdowns and 151 rushing carries for 1,385 yards this season, for their

offence. He said Swift Current then started throwing the ball a lot more than they usually do and ended up making some big plays allowing them to build a 35-0 lead by halftime.

The Elecs went 1-5 during the MJHSFL regular season posting a 42-28 win over the Moose Jaw Vanier Collegiate Institute Vikings on Sept. 24, which was followed by a 70-12 loss to the Colts (5-1) one week later.

Schott said the win over the Vikings, which was their first in three years, was definitely a highlight for the team this season. He said there were also a lot of individual accomplishments with Mortenson, quarterback Andrew Kehler, defensive

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a league-best 1,600 yards this season bringing his career total to 3,523 passing yards that places him second all time in the MJHSFL behind current Canadian Junior Football League and Regina Thunder standout Sawyer Buettner.

Schott said the team will lose all of these players to graduation this June along with regular starters Troy Leptich, Colten Reed and Ethan Veroba. He said they will be missed, but there are 10 to 12 players on the Estevan Lions Club bantam Oilers that have a chance to move on to high school football next year and the hope is they and their friends take up the opportunity to help the Elecs advance on the gains they made this year.

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Safe contact paramount in Moose Jaw Minor Football League olds, an atom division that helps eight and nine years olds acquire a footing in the game, the peewee ranks for 10 to 12 year olds and the bantam league where 13 and 14 year olds meet on the gridiron. The learn-toplay league features light contact, the atom division has full-contact controlled scrimmages and the peewee and bantam leagues employ regular full-contact games.

Morhart said the idea of eliminating hitting for kids in peewee-and-under football, which has been in effect in hockey across Canada since 2013, has been brought up, but the consensus has always been to stick with contact for player enjoyment and teaching. He said there has been a move by a majority of their bantam coaches to limit full contact in practices as a way to reduce injuries like many university teams such as the University of Calgary Dinos do now and their Head’s Up program also relays that message.

“They have more conMinor Football know that trolled drills now for contact the entire Weyburn Minor and quick whistles so the Football League, the Weykids don’t get hurt,” said burn Ravens and the Moose Morhart.

“Our equipment has Jaw Minor Football League advanced so much too (and) promote fair play throughthat sure helps cut back on out their association from the injuries.” atom ages to high school.

The idea of creating Please accept our apolseparate divisions based on ogy and we will use better skill within the age categojudgement next time. ries such as A and B peewee Jason Bresciani leagues has been tried in On behalf of Penta HUGE EQUIPMENT, Regina, noted Morhart, but Completions EstevanRV, Mi- VEHICLE in a small organization like nor Football. and that is his right.

Morhart said he could not see any dirty play by the Ravens when reviewing parts of the game film and judging from Weyburn’s previous games in Moose Jaw he knows they are a hard-hitting and respectful team that is well coached. He said all of the coaches in the MJMFL take a Head’s Up program prior to the season that instructs them on how to teach tackling properly and safely to ensure there is no dangerous contact such as hitting from behind or spearing and noted in his 30 years in minor football the times a kid gets carried away on the field has been minimal.

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The Estevan Century 21 peewee Chargers recent game with the Weyburn Ravens proved that sometimes things can get out of hand in a rough sport like football, but it is believed by the Moose Jaw Minor Football League (MJMFL) that measures are in place to make sure the safety of its players is paramount.

Owen Morhart, president of the MJMFL, confirmed the Chargers left Darold Kot Field with 3:50 left to play in the fourth quarter against the Ravens on Oct. 8.

He said Chargers head coach Jason Bresciani told him the reason they pulled their players off the field was because he felt they were in danger

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the MJMFL that isn’t really possible. He said that would limit the amount of teams in each skill level meaning the travel and cost would increase with some teams such as the Chargers not being able to properly field a team in one division due to lower numbers.

Morhart said the hardhitting play in the Chargers and Ravens game is unusual for its controversy, but they are confident the refereeing that is in place can and will catch and stop any possible dirty conduct. He said the hope is any misgivings between Weyburn, Estevan or the referees are now forgiven and forgotten and the game of football can again become the focus.

“I know what was said and I’ve seen what happened and I don’t agree with all of it, but referees do miss calls and coaches do get excited if they think that a call is bad when it’s not,” he said. “We’re human. That’s why there is replay in the professional leagues, but it’ll all work out in the end and hopefully we can move forward and make everybody stronger.”

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Miller banging home a McChesney rebound from the top of the crease with 1:19 left to notch the winner.

“We changed our forecheck a little bit, so we were just hard on them,” said Miller. “We were making simple plays, simple shots and that ended up being the big thing at the end.”

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The Western Hockey League’s Prince Albert Raiders reassigned 18-yearold goaltender Curtis Meger to the Bruins on Oct. 17.

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The Bruins made way for Meger by trading 18-year-old goalie Kurtis Chapman, who suited up for two games with the team this year where he recorded a 3.39 GAA and .900 SP, to the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s Portage Terriers on Oct. 19 for a player development fee.

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Halloween Haunt popularity grows They nearly doubled last year’s attendance figures, so the popularity of the Estevan Art Gallery’s (EAGM) Halloween Haunt can’t be denied.

“We were actually running out of the food supplied for this event, and dug into the gallery’s food supply to get us through,” said the gallery director/curator Amber Andersen on Monday morning.

“And we’re just completing the cleanup this morning,” she said.

“Last year, we had 178 people (children and adults) which we considered pretty darn good and this year it was 329. It was pretty busy around here right from the start at 5 p.m. to around 7 p.m., and then the crowd dwindled down a bit to the closing at 8 p.m.,” she said.

The Halloween theme was evident throughout the entire facility as youngsters took on some challenging crafts or played a couple of the games set up in the main gallery. They also had an

opportunity to enjoy a continually running animated Halloween themed movie in the education room that was turned into a temporary theatre.

The admission was kept to a low $2 per head, which hopefully would cover the expenses for the event that was boosted by the donation of some food and beverage items by local restaurants and the local NDP Estevan Constituency committee donated gift cards which helped defer expenses.

“If we do end up making any profit on it, the money will be directed toward childrens’ programming,” said Andersen.

The Halloween Haunt began as an Estevan Chamber of Commerce organized event a number of years ago, and four years ago they took on the EAGM as a partner in the venture and Andersen said, since then, the gallery has pretty well taken it on as a community contribution, relieving the C of C of that particular event

Hunter Istace received a helping hand from Courtney Colbow as she attacked some Halloween themed craft projects at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum’s Halloween Haunt on Oct. 22. Photo by Norm Park responsibility.

“This year was obviously the largest ever Haunt we’ve had,” said Andersen.

“We see it appealing to

the younger kids now, but we have costume contests (winners not decided yet, since it is to be judged as an online feature based on

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photos taken at the gallery), games, crafts for all ages. We pretty well have it down to a science now, but we will definitely keep adding to it,” she said. The costume contest votes are being recorded on the EAGM’s Facebook page.

“We had a good turnout of volunteers too. We had six of them as a core group who handled a lot of traffic.

The next event for the gallery will be the first-ever Kentucky Derby horse race on Nov. 5 with $100 hobby horses being decorated and ready to ride and prizes for the top horse and jockey. The entry fee, Andersen said, not only gets you a hobby horse to enter, but also two admissions to the event, one for the jockey and the other for the dice-throwing trainer.

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Come out and join in the fun at the Estevan Derby! Watch the horse races on November 5, 2016. For details contact EAGM.

SOUTH SASK PHOTO CLUB with JON GILLIES Love photography? This club is for beginners and advanced photographers alike.

Bring your own camera and any questions you may have.

WHEN: Nov. 29 TIME: 7:00 - 9:00pm COST: $25/person for an annual membership GIVE AND TAKE Join us for a delicious cup of gourmet tea or French pressed coffee and bring a recipe or craft that is unique to give to the small group. Bring samples and/ or do a demonstration. Take away new recipes and skills! Space is limited so register now!

WHEN: Nov. 30 TIME: 7:00 - 8:30pm COST: $5/person *Preregistration is required SCRIPT WRITING with MAUREEN ULRICH Maureen will teach those new to writing techniques to develop stories, and how to create compelling works for the stage.

This is a great workshop for anyone young Contact Martina Veneziano to register.

or old to stretch their writing skills.

WHEN: November 23 TIME: 6:00 - 9:00pm COST: TBA * Pre-registration is required CRAFT AND COFFEE FOR SENIORS Come for the coffee and crafts stay for the company.

WHEN: November 16 TIME: 10:30 - 11:30am COST: $5 /session (preregistration is not required) AFTER DARK Join us for our live music series which features up and coming musicians performing original music in our gallery space. All ages are welcome to attend these events.

WHEN: Nov. 18 (Justin Labrash) TIME: Doors open at 8:00pm COST: $20/person, tickets available at the door ESTEVAN KENTUCKY DERBY FUNDRAISER Bring your staff, bring a friend, come solo, just come out for a fun night of bidding on your favourite “horse�! Tickets are sold individually, but group seating will be accommodated. Support the Gallery and experience this unique event at the same time. Contact Amber for further details or for tickets.

118 4th Street Estevan, SK, S4A 0T4

“A Call to Artists�

The Ev Johnson Memorial Adjudicated Art Show 2016 Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 7:00 PM at Estevan Art Gallery and Museum Deadline for entry is Oct. 21, 2016.

WHEN: November 5 @ WYLIE MITCHELL TIME: Doors open at 7:00pm Races begin at 8:00pm COST: $20/ticket HOMEMADE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Finish up your Christmas shopping at the most unique craft show in town! Featuring only handmade, original, art, craft and dĂŠcor. Not sure what to do with the kids?

Drop them off in the craft room for a fun Christmas craft.

WHEN: December 3 TIME: 1:00 - 4:00pm COST: $2/person FAMILY ART Come create, explore and learn with your little ones through art! For toddlers aged 18 months and up. Parent/guardian participation is required.

WHEN: October: 27 November: 3, 10, 17, 24 December: 1, 8, 15 TIME: 10:00 - 10:30am COST: $10/family/month DROP INTO ART AFTER SCHOOL Join us for art after school! We will be doing a variety of art projects and encour-

WORKSHOP Working in Layers Paper cuts & Stencil Making Workshop Ages 15+. Presented by Diana Chisholm Sat., Nov. 12, 2016, 10 AM - 4 PM Fee: $40 Art Room - Leisure Center *Pre-registration with Estevan Arts Council required.

aging the development of creativity each week. For children ages 7-12.

WHEN: November: 9, 16, 23, 30 December: 7, 14 TIME: 4:00 - 5:30pm COST: $5/child/session KINDER KLUB Drop into the Art Gallery after kindergarten to do some art! We will be doing a variety of art projects catered towards improving fine motor skills and developing creativity. This workshop is open for all children ages 4-6.

WHEN: October 27, November: 10, 24 TIME: 4:00 - 5:00pm COST: $5/child/session KIDS ART JOURNALING Join us each month and create your own art journal in this drop-in art class.

Learn how, express yourself and put your thoughts onto a page in a creative way!

For children ages 10-15.

WHEN: Nov. 29 TIME: 4:00 - 5:00pm COST: $5/session *This workshop is free for those with a family membership to the EAGM

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Notice of Advance Poll In the City of Estevan PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that provision has been made for advance polls for electors who: • are physically disabled; • have been appointed as election officials; or • anticipate being unable to vote on the day of election.

Voting will take place at on: Advanced Polls City Hall 1102 4th Street, Estevan, SK • Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 between the hours of 4:30 pm and 7:30 pm and • Sat, Oct. 22, 2016 between the hours of 10:00 am and 2:00 pm Special Advance Polls Trinity Towers Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 between the hours of 9:30 am - 11:30 am Special Poll St. Joseph’s Hospital Wed, Oct. 26, 2016 between the hours of 10:00 am – 12:00 am Creighton Lodge Wed, Oct. 26, 2016 between the hours of 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm Midtown Manor Wed, Oct. 26, 2016 between the hours of 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Hillview Manor Wed, Oct. 26, 2016 between the hours of 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Valley View Heritage Place Wed, Oct. 26, 2016 between the hours of 9:30 am - 11:30 am Inglis Court Wed, Oct. 26, 2016 between the hours of 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Yardley Place Wed, Oct. 26, 2016 between the hours of 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Judy Pilloud RETURNING OFFICER

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OCTOBER 29 @7-9PM TS&M Woodlawn Golf Course Clubhouse

$25.00 (includes supplies & 2 drinks) Age 19+ No experience neccessary Paint your own picture.

Pre-register and payment prior to event.

Call Melanie at 634-3942 to register

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In Loving Memory of John Len Little did we know that morning God was going to call your name.

In life we loved you dearly, In death we do the same.

It broke our hearts to lose you, The day God called you home.

You left us peaceful memories, Your love is still our guide.

And though we cannot see you, You are always by our side.

Our family chain is broken and nothing seems the same.

But as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again Lovingly Remembered Linda, Jamie, Clark, Landon and Logan

In Loving Memory Of Troy Yoner Time slips by and life goes on, But from our hearts you’re never gone, We think about you always, We talk about you too, We have so many memories, But we wish we still had you.

We love you and miss you. Mom and Kendra

Shawn Fernandez May 15, 1980 - Oct. 25, 2009 Our Angel Our hearts are full of memories with pride we speak your name though life goes on without you it will never be the same We love you, we miss you You will live in our hearts for eternity Love Mom, Dad, Allision, Todd and families

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In Memory of Rose Hildahl April 25, 1925 October 18, 2011 Oft we think of you, Mother Dear, And our hearts are filled with pain.

Oh, this earth would be a heaven Could we hear your voice again.

Five years have swiftly passed away But still we don’t forget, For in the hearts that loved you best Your memory lingers yet.

Forever Loved Clark and Robin McClelland and Families

Marlene Hayward I think about you always I think about you still You have never been forgotten And you never will I hold you close within my heart And there you will remain To walk with me throughout my life.

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Obituaries

Obituaries

Obituaries

Obituaries

Gerald Kolke 1933 - 2016 Gerald passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at Hillview Manor, Estevan, SK at the age of 83 years.

Gerald Edward Kolke was born on April 22, 1933 in the Outram area. Gerald moved with his parents to their Midale area farm at an early age, where he took all of his schooling. After graduation Gerald attended STI Moose Jaw to become an autobody mechanic. He worked for Trout Chevrolet in Estevan before eventually making a move to Holmgren Motors which later became Senchuk Ford, where he retired in 1993.

Gerald met his wife Doreen and they married in 1953 and to this union two children were born and raised. This gave Gerald the four greatest joys of all, his grandchildren!

Gerald and Doreen bought their first home on the 200 block of 3rd Street in Estevan which was eventually becoming too small for their growing family so they bought another home at 921 3rd Street. This home was where they would remain until long after Gerald retired.

In 2003 the decision was made to downsize and downsize they did, joining several good friends and making many more at Sussex Arms, part of the Beefeater group. They lived there happily until the need for daily care came in 2015. It was a blessing to both Gerald and Doreen to find a welcoming and caring group at Hillview Manor.

Through the years, Gerald was a stock car racer, a curler, golfer and snowmobile enthusiast.

Gerald never hesitated to help family and friends with almost any project. Some of his favourites were the Estevan Fire Department (serving over 40 years) and Estevan Legion (life-member award).

Until just recently Gerald and Doreen found time to travel to visit family at least a couple times each year and also went on some memorable vacations (Panama Canal, Alaska, Hawaii, and Australia were their most memorable).

Gerald was predeceased by his wife Doreen; parents, Hank and Ella, brother and sister-in-law Loren and Lorraine Kolke, brother and sister-in-law George and Isabelle Storey, sister-in-law Margaret (Vernon) Perkins and parents-in-law, Frank Storey and Clara (Joe) Debienne. He is survived by his son Ken (Eileen) Kolke and grandchildren, Shari Kolke and Ben Kolke; daughter Shelley (Paul) Carroll and grandchildren, Rob Carroll and Brendan Carroll; brother Marvin (Rose) Kolke, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and other extended family.

The Funeral service for Gerald was held on Monday, October 17, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan with Sandy Dalziel officiating. Interment took place at Souris Valley Memorial Gardens, Estevan, SK. The lunch reception followed at the Royal Canadian Legion, Estevan.

In memory of Gerald, memorial donations may be made to Royal Canadian Legion - Estevan Branch, 1317—4th Street, Estevan, SK, S4A 0X1.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Joseph M. Tuchscherer 1952 - 2016 Joseph Tuchscherer, late of Bienfait, SK passed away at home on Monday, October 17, 2016 at the age of 64 years.

Joe will be lovingly remembered by his two daughters, Cindy (Jason) Wasylyk and Carrie (Jeremy) Johnston; 6 grandchildren, Chelsea (Landon), Miranda, Mason, Jaron, Kailey and Keegan; brothers, Toni (Debbie), Andrew (Shirley) and Emil; sister Pauline and numerous nieces and nephews.

Joe was predeceased by his loving wife Shirley (Feb. 11, 2005); parents, Leo and Pauline Tuchscherer and two brothers, John and Lester.

It was Joe’s wish that there be no service. Memorial donations may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Obituaries

Obituaries

Katherine Melle 1917 – 2016 Katherine Melle passed away on Friday, October 14, 2016 in Estevan, SK at the age of 99 years.

Katherine was predeceased by her husband, William J. Melle; parents, Anton and Nymphia (Minnie) Mack; brothers, Jacob, Leo, Edward and Lloyd Mack; sisters, Ella Messer and Carol Froehlich; as well as grandchildren, Allan J. Verbeem, Owen J. Verbeem, Shelley M. Verbeem and Aaron J. Murias.

Left to cherish Katherine’s memory are her children, Marie (Joe) Verbeem, Gloria (Frank) Murias, Loretta (Darcy) Smith, Angeline (Marvin) Fichter and Peter (Karen) Melle; brothers, Mannie (Doreen) Mack, John (Margaret) Mack, Lawrence (Thelma Short) Mack, Gerald Mack; sisters, Berna Hagel, Lorraine Rohatyn, Agnes Young, Anita (Delbert) Messer; as well as 12 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.

A Prayer Service was held on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan, with Sr. Jacqueline Lussier officiating. The Funeral Mass was celebrated on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John the Baptist R.C. Church, Estevan, with Rev. Brian Meredith presiding. A luncheon followed in the parish auditorium, after which a private family interment took place at the Estevan City Cemetery.

Those so wishing may make donations in memory of Katherine to the Hillview Manor Activities Fund, 1401 - 1st Street Estevan, SK, S4A 2W7.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

60 and Over Club hightlights Submitted by Shirley Graham A visitor to the zoo noticed one of the keepers sitting in the corner, quietly crying.

When the visitor asked an employee why, he was told, the elephant just died.

“Oh, fond of him, was he?” the visitor asked.

“No, he was tending the grave,” the employee said.

Overheard on coffee

row: “My wife and I had words. I didn’t get to use mine.”

Shuffleboard winners for the week of Oct. 17 were Jake Fichter and Connie St. Onge. Nick Morsky and Mary Martin were second.

Cathy Hoffort was the winner in bridge. Doris Heidinger was second and Lorna Stubel was third.

The cribbage tournament winner was Verna Morsky. Pat Abernathy was second, Lucy Dyck

came in third, Joan Francis was fourth and Jim Ward was fifth.

One night in late October, when I was far from sober, returning with my load with manly pride.

My feet began to stutter, so I laid down in the gutter, and a pig came and laid down by my side.

A lady passing by was heard to say, you can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses, and the pig got up and slowly walked away.

Your Guide to Area Faith Lutheran Church Sunday Service 10:30 am Nicholson Centre Pastor Dan Krauss Phone: 306-471-8130 All Are Welcome Faithlc.ca

ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH Sunday Worship 10:30am Nursery & Children’s Ministries Available Sunday School at 9:30am

Friday Night Youth 7:30 pm (gr 7-12)

Sunday Worship Service and Sunday School • 11:00 am Jason Richards

EMAIL:

Children’s Clubs -Wednesdays- 7-8 pm 140 King Street (across from Staples)

306.634.2601

www.estevanalliancechurch.com /estevanalliance

PASTORS: JIM KEDGE & WAYLON KLIX

Trinity Lutheran Church E.L.C.I.C.

Sunday Worship & Sunday School - 10am

738 - 2nd Street, Estevan Church Office: 306-634-5684 E: trinity.luth@sasktel.net Website: www.etlc.ca

THE SALVATION ARMY Estevan Community Church

10:30 a.m. - Sunday Service ALL WELCOME!

1302 - 8th St., Estevan Office Phone: 306-634-3116 Email: estevan.cofc@sasktel.net TIM PIPPUS

SUNDAY SERVICES: Bible Study - 10:00 a.m. • Worship - 11:00 a.m.

Evening Worship - Sunday and Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.

Bible studies on any subject can be arranged at your convenience. Please call us.

GOSPEL CHAPEL ESTEVAN

1202 - 2nd Street Phone: 306-634-3761

“Holding fast the faithful word”

REAL LIFE

REAL PEOPLE

10:00 am

Followed by coffee time 100 King Street, Estevan, Sask • (306) 634-8133 • livinghope-ca.org

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 130 Souris Ave. N. Reverend Randy Kleemola Phone: 306-634-2024 email: st.peters@sasktel.net

www.stpeterslutheranestevan.com

Wednesday: Club DJ for kids 6:30 p.m.

9:30 a.m. - Bible Study 10:30 a.m. - Divine Service with Holy Communion and Sunday School

An Associated Gospel Church

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church Corner 12th Avenue & 2nd Street

Phone: 306-634-2190

Fax: 306-634-6845

Pastor: Father Brian Meredith MASSES: Saturday: 7:00 p.m.

Sunday: 10:00 a.m.

REAL GOD

Sunday Service at

Sunday:Worship 11:00 a.m.

Tuesday: Prayer Meeting 7:00 p.m.

www.estevangospelchapel.ca 1107 4th Street • 306-634-2074 • www.facebook.com/salvationarmyestevan

306-634-2885 • 1418 3rd St. Estevan

CHURCH OF CHRIST

PASTOR STEWART MILLER

Coffee & Fellowship after Worship

stpaulsuc@sasktel.net Website: stpaulsestevan.ca ALL are Welcome!

Sunday Worship

A Congregation of LUTHERAN CHURCH - CANADA

His Glory Bible Church

(Light of Life Ministries International) Join us in Glorious Praise and Worship With: Pastors Dr. and Mrs. Jimi Akinsete Where: Westview School When: 10am on Sundays Experience Healing, Deliverance and Breakthroughs

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Estevan Mercury

September call volume was down with nine assaults and one sexual crime.

There were another 30 crimes against property, with 13 mischief/willful damage complaints and 12 incidents for theft under $5,000. They also had two residential break and enters, two business break and enters and one theft of a motor vehicle.

September also had two charges under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act, with one for possession of drugs and another for pro-

duction.

Finally, seven motorists were charged for impaired driving.

“We’re seeing a lot of the offences going down, which is a good thing,” said police Chief Paul Ladouceur. “But robberies seem to be going up.”

The total number of calls for service for the first nine months of this year is 6,036, which is about a two

per cent increase from the 5,936 calls in the first nine months of last year.

Bylaw enforcement officer Michelle Pickering released her monthly report for the police board meeting.

She handled 165 infractions and inspections last month.

Animal calls accounted for the biggest share of her work with 33 occurrences.

She also handled 27 unkempt property inspections,

25 parking violations, set up 17 skunk traps and handled 15 other parking complaints.

“Michelle is an absolutely exceptional employee, when you look at what she has to contend with,” said Ladouceur. “It’s not a glamourous job at times, but certainly she’s diligent and she keeps on top of things.”

Ladouceur noted Pickering cracked down on property appearance violations

during the spring and summer months, as she had 383 general cleanup calls this year, compared to 222 last year, and she had another 202 unkempt property inspections, compared with 186 in 2015.

He noted that Pickering’s busiest months of the year come during the summer, since that’s when she’s focusing on unsightly properties.

MILLWRIGHT

CAREERS

The Estevan Police Service saw a decline in calls for service and infractions in September, but overall the numbers for the year are still up.

Figures released during the Oct. 18 meeting of the Estevan board of police commissioners show that local officers had 568 calls for service, including traffic infractions, in September. It was a decrease from the 681 recorded in September 2015.

Police had 10 crimes against people in September,

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Spruce Ridge early education program discussed with board members

By Norm Park normpark@estevanmercury.ca

The teacher, Robyn Ruzicka and the speech language pathologist, Susan Swirski were joined by a parent, Loni Hollingshead and the principal at Spruce Ridge School in Estevan, Doug Stallard, to talk about progress being realized in the school’s ambitious kindergarten programming, during the Oct. 20 meeting of the South East Cornerstone Public School board.

Stallard introduced the trio who provided further details about the program that is fitting in comfortably with the youngsters as well as parents and administration.

Ruzicka said orientation to the year of learning was set at a pace of about five students at a time along with their parents and started with craft activities to get acquainted and to build relationships. Smart boards were also used for interaction events as the youngsters were eventually encouraged to start to make choices under the scrutiny of the parent and educator(s). Parental involvement was encouraged as well.

While this early part of the introduction process was evolving, Swirski would attend certain ses-

sions to assess oral language skills and how they interacted and, also to assess their recognition skills.

Each child received a book and was introduced to the school and its inner workings. Swirski said she took detailed notes, especially at the start to help her identify with the children and their particular traits.

Ruzicka said the two kindergarten classes saw equal numbers in gender and were arranged, again through a process that would help the youngsters find a good comfort level.

Rules and routines became a part of the young students’ lives and a digital portfolio was developed for each one, reducing the usual large paper record-keeping load.

“Reflection is tough for kindergarten kids, but the digital applications helped the parents keep track of what their kid did, or what he or she is doing. It’s done on the iPad and has been a positive,” said Ruzicka.

“Visual aids are used because these kids are prereaders, they are just getting introduced to the alphabet, so we keep an open mind as we moved from traditional paper-based binders to the digital.”

Hollingshead, who had a youngster in the program, provided insight for the

From the left: Susan Swirski, Robyn Ruzicka, Loni Hollingshead and Doug Stallard attended the Oct. 20 board meeting of the South East Cornerstone Public School Division to discuss the school’s kindergarten programs as they relate to students, teachers, counsellors, administration and parents. Photo by Norm Park. does the family counselor and early literacy consultant and perhaps an English as another language instructor.

Ruzicka said kindergarten students are also partnered with Grade 3 and Grade 8 buddies who help them learn as well as interact with her in the class.

The immediate feedback was helpful for everyone, she said.

Cognitive skill-building and self-awareness developed in this particular environment and ensuing field trips helped the young-

board members, from a parental perspective, lauding the fact that her child’s every day adventures in the classroom were noted with good suggestions available through direct communication. “I saw a lot of growing happening,” she said.

As the year has progressed, teacher and students are now able to better reflect on past activities and early reading skills are coming on with counsellors like Swirski coming in to talk about social issues as seen by the youngsters, as

sters learn “why we do things the way we do and why rules are there. They learn respect for rules,” Ruzicka added.

Introductions to the alphabet and mathematics is phased in as the youngsters develop problem-solving skills while building their vocabulary and other communication skills using descriptive language. Motor skill development is also tracked during playtime and gymnasium classes for the early years evaluation process.

Swirski said such tools as rhyming and syllable repetitions are used to build language skills, especially for those who are being introduced to the language.

“We have seen strong improvements from start to finish,” she said.

“All the while, we keep in mind that balance is critical,” added Ruzicka.

The presenters were thanked for their involvement in the program as well as the delivery of the information, by board chairwoman, Audrey Trombley.

Two arrested on cocaine charges Two men are facing charges after members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) conducted a traffic stop on Oct. 18 near the corner of King Street and Souris Avenue North.

The passenger in the vehicle, 25-year-old Kyle Forsyth of Regina, was arrested on offences stemming from an investigation last month, in which he allegedly fled from police.

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He has been charged with failing to stop for police and dangerous driving in connection with that incident.

Following the traffic stop on Oct. 18, he has also

been charged with trafficking cocaine, possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine, resisting arrest, and five counts of breaching his release conditions.

The driver of the vehicle, Kevin Jardine of Estevan, also 25, has been charged with trafficking cocaine, possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine and possessing the

proceeds of crime.

A small amount of cocaine, believed to be worth around $1,000, was seized during the arrests.

Both are slated to appear in court on Nov. 7.

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