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SERVING THE ENERGY CITY SINCE 1903
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
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Estevan and Coronach are to decide on how to use $10M for coal transition By Ana Bykhovskaia abykhovskaia@estevanmercury.ca
Communities of Estevan and Coronach will get to decide how to use $10 million allocated by the provincial government for coal transition. Premier Scott Moe announced the creation of a fund in the throne speech on Oct. 23. The money will be used to assist Estevan, Coronach and surrounding areas in the transition to new economic development opportunities for workers affected by the federally-mandated phaseout of coal-fired electricity by 2030. “It ’s really exciting that we are going to be able to help out the communities with this funding,” said Estevan MLA Lori Carr, who is also a minister of Government Relations and also holds a number of other cabinet postings. “I think it’s a step in the right direction. We are happy to see that we were able to get some funding
sooner than later to help mitigate the closures of Units 4 and 5 at Boundary Dam, which are coming up in 2021 and ‘24. So this will help us to get economic activity in place to help make up for the losses we will be facing come the closures of Units 4 and 5,” said Mayor of Estevan Roy Ludwig. The fund is just in its infancy, which means that it will take some time still to work out the details. The committee will be set to flesh out the details and decide on the best ways to use the money. “We will be setting up a committee made up of members from the communities of Estevan, Coronach and the ministr y. This committee will be setting the parameters and guiding the path forward. And I want to be clear that this will be something that will be what is in the best interest of all of these communities and ideas put for ward by them,” said Carr.
so they can work out the details as soon as possible,” said Carr. This is 100 per cent provincial funding that’s going to the municipality. When all parameters are fleshed out, it will be up to the communities affected by the coal phase-out to decide what steps need to be made to ensure the smooth transition. The fund will be directed towards such things as economic development initiatives to improve the local business environment, municipal investment attraction initiatives,
hosting investment delegations, outgoing investment attraction missions, community development planning and strategy formulation and some other efforts. Carr also said that the fund that they are setting up now will be focusing strictly on trying to get more economic development within the regions that are being affected. “Hopefully when the time comes we have other jobs in place for these people to be able to transition to and stay in our community,” said Carr.
“I wish that we didn’t have to do this. I truly wish that we could do business as usual, and we could run our coal plants the way they are into the future, but due to the nature of the federal regulations that have come down … these are decisions that have to be made. This is what we can do right now to ensure the best outcome for when things start happening and job losses start happening as far as power and coal go.” These dollars will be used to try to ensure that there are jobs for people to work in their communities, so they can stay in Estevan and in Coronach and be able to continue to have the lives that they love here. At this stage, it’s not clear yet, if the money will come all at once or will be spread out over a period of time. The funding will be significant support for the re-organization of living of the coal-oriented communities, however, both Carr and Ludwig said that it’s just a part of the money needed to ensure Coronach and Estevan can keep the employment opportunities. A2 » MONEY
St. Joseph’s Hospital announced late on Monday the formation of the South East Family Medicine, Obstetrical & Surgical Group, formerly known as the South East Medical Group. The group will remain located in St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation’s Medical Clinic adjoining to the hospital. This group, including family physicians and physicians with obstetrical and surgical training, will be important to providing uninterrupted obstetrical services in Estevan, including the critical element of C-Section coverage. Dr. Edward Krickan
and Dr. Brian Geller both presently provide services at St. Joseph’s Hospital and will continue to work in this group practice, providing both obstetrical and surgical services. Krickan announced earlier this year that he will be relocating to his home province of B.C. before the end of 2019, but he will be coming back to Estevan on a part-time basis. Geller currently resides in Regina but has been working in Estevan as a locum physician. New to Estevan, Dr. Christy Trafananko will join the group in January, providing obstetrical coverage.Their coverage will include prenatal and newborn care. All three
will also provide family medicine services along with Dr. Ryan Cormier and Dr. Neal Cabigon. In addition, Dr. Andrey Babkis, who is an anesthesiologist, has now committed to the provision of anesthesiology services in Estevan moving forward, which is critical for all emergency operating room procedures, including C-section services. Greg Hoffort, executive director of St. Joseph’s Hospital, said that this group offers the community a very important service and will meet an ongoing need. This week’s edition of Southeast Lifestyles will have more on this story.
From left, city councillor Greg Hoffort, Estevan MLA Lori Carr, Estevan Mayor Roy Ludwig and city manager Jeff Ward were at the throne speech release on Oct. 23. Photo submitted The process is supposed to start in the near future. “This is all going to go through my portfolio, through Government Relations and be managed through that portfolio. So I’ve directed my officials to reach out to both Mayor Roy Ludwig and the mayor of Coronach and arrange the meeting
Business leaders recognized at awards night By David Willberg
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Outstanding accomplishments in Estevan’s business community were saluted Friday night during the fifth biennial Estevan Business Excellence Awards, presented by the Estevan Chamber of Commerce. Awards were handed out in 10 different categories during the evening, with the two biggest awards saved for last. Josh L eBlanc won the Murray GM Business Leader of the Year Award, not only for his work at Coldwell Banker Choice Real Estate and at the Estevan Comprehensive School, where he teaches entrepreneurship, leadership and financial literacy, but for his efforts to promote the com-
Josh LeBlanc, was named the Business Leader of the Year. munity and bring big events to Estevan. LeBlanc stressed there are some amazing business leaders in the community who have won the award in the past, and he is honoured to be included in the list with them. After thanking his family, those at Coldwell Banker, including his business partner Meigan Wilhelm, the people at ECS and the community as a whole,
LeBlanc gave a call to action on the future of the city that earned a standing ovation from the crowd. “It’s going to require all of us to think outside the box and all of us to participate, but I can’t think of a better community to tackle the challenge,” said LeBlanc. He also paid tribute to the City of Estevan and city council, the local economic development committee and A2 » AWARDS
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« A1 the Estevan Chamber of Commerce for their efforts to promote Estevan during a challenging time for the community. And he recognized Estevan MLA Lori Carr for her work to secure provincial coal transition funding for Estevan. LeBlanc said it was important to get that message across. “Tonight is a night of celebration. It’s something to basically celebrate what we’ve achieved so far in the past two years. There’s no doubt in my mind that the community is going to face some challenges here, and it’s time that we all come together and it’s time that we all work together to find some solutions to the challenges that are going to come before us.” LeBlanc said he loves being involved with both the teaching and the real estate, and he enjoys bringing the big events to Estevan. “Everything that I do, in terms of events and work and all of that, it’s not possible without the community,” he said. Murray GM won the MNP Business of the Year
Award. All businesses nominated for an EBEX award were eligible. General manager Brad Pierson said it was an overwhelming feeling to win the award, and they were happy to win one earlier in the evening, the Inland Audio Visual Community Involvement Award. In his acceptance speech for the community involvement award, Pierson said he wished LeBlanc would have won, since LeBlanc was a finalist, but Murray GM was honoured to take home that prize. “I think community involvement is something … where you have to have a focus,” said Pierson. But he was even more surprised to win the Business of the Year recognition. “It’s just a huge honour that Murray GM is thought of in that context to be business of the year,” said Pierson. The awards reflect a team effort, he said, one that extends throughout the staff. “There are so many people who don’t get any limelight. I just happened to be the one
Report from the Legislature October 24, 2019 Over the past 12 years, Saskatchewan has enjoyed a remarkable period of strong and sustained growth we hadn’t seen in a long time. As we prepare to enter the 2020s, our goal is to keep growing so all Saskatchewan people continue to bene�it. In the coming weeks, we will release a new Growth Plan with speci�ic targets and a roadmap of how we will achieve them. These targets include 1.4 million people living in Saskatchewan and 100,000 more people working in Saskatchewan by 2030. The fall sitting of the legislature is now underway and our government has introduced our vision for a new decade of growth. We have outlined a number of measures the government will be taking during the upcoming legislative session, including: • Creating a fund of up to $10 million to assist Estevan, Coronach and surrounding areas transition to new economic development opportunities for workers affected by the federally-mandated phase out of coal-�ired electricity by 2030; • Introducing and funding a plan to reduce surgical wait times; • Introducing legislation for the regulation of vaping and vaping products; • Taking measures to improve the safety and well-being of First Nations children and reduce the number of children that need to come under the province’s care; • Opening the new Regina Bypass; • Introducing tougher penalties for cell phone usage while driving; • Continuing the constitutional challenge to the federal carbon tax in the Supreme Court; • Continuing to explore the potential for small modular reactors to produce emissions-free electricity using Saskatchewan uranium; • Implementing Clare’s Law, which allows police to disclose information that could help protect potential victims of interpersonal violence; • Introducing a new Fisheries Act to provide greater protection against invasive aquatic species; • Amending The Lobbyists Act to address recommendations made by the Registrar of Lobbyists in his recent annual reports; • Strengthening the enforcement of maintenance orders for child support payments; and • Amending The Saskatchewan Employment Act to increase parental leave by eight weeks to ensure that employees who are entitled to the new shared parental Employment Insurance bene�it have job protection while using the new leave bene�it and to extend employment leave to individuals who are running for election to a First Nations Band Council. The government plans to introduce about 30 pieces of legislation during the fall sitting and will table a budget during the spring sitting that is expected to make signi�icant investments in infrastructure. Our government will continue to plan for a growing province by keeping our economy strong, investing in important government services and ensuring everyone in Saskatchewan continues to enjoy the bene�its of growth. The recent federal election results show that the path and policies of the federal government these past few years has divided our nation. The growing sense of frustration and western alienation is now undeniable. Canada now has a Liberal minority government that did not receive the popular vote, has no clear mandate and will be supported by either a 4th place party that has never governed, or a party that does not want to be part of this nation. This government also has no representation from Saskatchewan or Alberta. In his election night address, Prime Minister Trudeau stated to Saskatchewan and Alberta: “I’ve heard your frustration. I want to be there to support you.” Saskatchewan has made it clear: if the Prime Minister is serious about acting on his words, he can cancel the federal carbon tax; commit to negotiating a new equalization formula that is fair to Saskatchewan and Alberta; and commit to developing a plan to build pipelines and get our exports to international markets. It’s time for a new deal with Canada. The Prime Minister says he’s heard our frustration and wants to support us – Saskatchewan stands ready to meet with him so he can prove it.
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who had the nameplate behind my name that gets to stand up and accept these awards, or gets to be seen in the community.” Pierson has long recognized the value of business in the community. The Pierson and Symons family was inducted into the Nick and Verna Morsky Estevan Business Hall of Fame in 2013. “Our grandparents made us work,” Pierson said. “At the
age of 12, we were called to the carpet and that was the time to work. We got a general vision, not only from my grandparents, but from my mother and father, to have a strong entrepreneurial spirit.” Numerous other awards were handed out Friday night. The winners were: • Dutch Media Growth and Expansion Award: Chamney Crushing and Paving for adding paving to their line of services and expanding their service area. Other finalists were Murray GM and Save the Stress Cleaning Services Limited. • Access Communications Outstanding Service Award: A Loving Touch Florist for their willingness to serve their customers needs. Other finalists were Great Canadian Oil Change, Murray GM Estevan, Prairie Animal Health Centre of Estevan, and Save the Stress Cleaning Services. • Community Futures Sunrise New Business Venture Award: Save the Stress Cleaning Service, which has grown to 16 employees and has ex-
perienced considerable growth since opening in 2017. Also nominated were Lemon Wedge Marketing Group and Thunder Oilfield Construction Ltd. • Bear Claw Casino and Hotel Outstanding Employee Award: Kim Pastachak from Encompass Fitness Studio for her work ethic and commitment to clients. Also nominated were Collen MacMillan with the Estevan Family Resource Centre and Melanie Mantei with the Southeast College. • SaskTel Diversity in the Workplace Award: JTK Food Services Estevan McDonalds, which has employees from around the world and also has employees with disabilities. Other finalists were Days Inn Estevan/Beefeater, Kelly Panteluk Construction Ltd. and Trent’s Tire. • WorkSafe Saskatchewan Safety in the Workplace Award: TS&M Supply for the importance they place on safety in the workplace and mental health. Also nominated were Carson Safety Service Ltd. and Sawyer Safety Training and Consulting Ltd.
• Affinity Credit Union Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Nolan Tide of Tide Enterprises, which produces a zero spray landscape sprayer that attaches to the front of a zero turn mower; most parts are custom made and assembled in Estevan. The other candidates were Cristina Bohn from Save the Stress Cleaning Services; Danielle and Kyle McGillicky, Tyson McGillicky and Tatum Unger from Thunder Oilfield Construction; and Dr. Sarah Sliva from South East Eye Care. • The other finalists for the Inland Audio Visual Community Involvement Award were Fresh Air Fitness/Run the Course/Coal Country Run; Mr. Mikes Steakhouse Casual; and Save the Stress Cleaning Services. Also during the evening, Garry Hirsch of Hirsch Holdings Ltd. was inducted into the Business Hall of Fame, in honour of Hirsch’s success in business over more than 50 years. The next edition of Southeast Lifestyles will have more on the Hall of Fame induction.
« A1 “As we move forward the actual closings in ‘21, ‘24, of course, we would be looking at more help as far as transitions with the employees, the training and things along those lines,” said Ludwig. He went on to note that there is also the federal transition committee with SPC representatives and other im-
portant stakeholders from the community. “We are meeting every couple of months with that committee as well. So as we get closer to those dates, and probably even before those dates come to fruition, we will be looking at help from the federal government as well to help top up some of the needs
that we’ll face moving forward,” said Ludwig. Ludwig also thanked everybody who worked together to have this fund happening. “I would like to thank our MLA Lori Carr for going to that force and for helping to make this happen. I would also like to thank Minister ( Jeremy) Harrison and of course Mr. Premier, Scott Moe. And all of the cabinets and all of the MLAs that had to weigh in and make a decision on this. And obviously
they made the right decision, in our opinion, and we really appreciate that,” said Ludwig. Carr also thanked the people who put an effort to keep the coal phase-out affected communities going. “I would like to thank Mayor Ludwig and his team for their positive and constructive advocacy for this type of fund. These are the kinds of results that can come from working together on a common goal,” said Carr.
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By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca
For 60 years, Sacred Heart School/ École Sacré Coeur has been providing great education to local students in both official languages, while stressing the importance of their faith. The school, which is part of the Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division, is a kindergartenGrade 8 school with 378 students this year. For parents who want their children enrolled in French immersion, it’s the school they turn to. “I think we have something special here in that we have an English school and a French immersion school that share the building, and we work well together in having those two schools together,” said Michella Prokop, a Grade 1 French immersion teacher who has been at Sacred Heart since 1993.
Sacred Heart celebrated its 60th anniversary last week. There was a school-wide assembly on Oct. 21, in which students read poems and sang songs, and there was a holy mass on Oct. 25 with Father Anthony Sathiadas from St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church. But the biggest celebration came on Oct. 24, with a community event that attracted about 200 people. Old yearbooks, photos and other historical memorabilia were set up in the school’s gymnasium. A video recapped some of the school’s history and had messages of congratulations from people in the community. The school’s praise choir sang several songs during the evening. People could also take tours of the school, and there was a come and go tea in the library so that people could enjoy snacks and refreshments, and reminisce and chat about
Retired librarian Hanna Keating was among those who spoke during the celebrations.
The praise choir from Sacred Heart School/École Sacré Coeur provided entertainment during the 60th anniversary celebrations. Sacred Heart’s history. Several people spoke during an open mic session following the praise choir’s performance. Prokop, who was involved with the planning of the event, said she still loves the school. Most of her tenure was teaching kindergarten. “I really find it amazing that because I mostly taught little children, how they can come in at five years old, and play tag in the hall and run in the hall and bug their friends and do all of the things that kids do, and before you know it, you’re looking at a grown up adult who has done something amazing,” said Prokop. Kids have so much potential, and it’s incredible to watch them grow and see what they are capable of. “To be part of our Sacred
Heart School/Sacré Ceour family is just very special,” said Prokop. An open mic session allowed people to share their stories about the school. Gail Hilstrom, who is the motherin-law of current principal April Hilstrom and the mother of one of the teachers, noted she came to Sacred Heart in 1961, not long after the school opened, and continued until Grade 8. She recalled that there used to be a big rivalry with St. Mary’s School and St. John’s School over sports back when Estevan had three Catholic schools. Hanna Keating, meanwhile, was the school’s librarian for nearly 20 years. All four of her children attended the school as well.
“I have just the best memories. I worked with … a few different principals, and they were all absolutely awesome, and this school is awesome,” said Keating. She always watches the Estevan Mercury each week to see what Sacred Heart is up to, and it’s wonderful to see the things that are happening in the school. Prokop said the video was a highlight during the evening, because it showed the past and the present of the school. “We got quite a few videos of people sent in, and then we took some videos, mostly just congratulating us on our anniversary or on our birthday, and expressing their memories or the good times that they remember having at Sacred Heart,” she said.
Many of the items in the memorabilia displays were events that she remembers. She has a hard time believing that some of the people she taught in kindergarten when she first started at the school are now grown up, and have children of their own. The staff hoped to see a lot of former of teachers, staff and students at the anniversary celebration, and their wish was fulfilled. There were lots of former students, parents and people from the community. “I have hugged lots of people already,” Prokop said. “A few former staff, a few former students that I taught in kindergarten who are now grown adults, and there were lots of people who we maybe didn’t expect to show up.”
Plenty of cats: Estevan Human Society is flooded with whiskers By Ana Bykhovskaia abykhovskaia@estevanmercury.ca
When it comes to cats, the Estevan Humane Society is steadily over the max capacity. With about 25 cats and 20 kittens, they have their hands full. It’s almost like a revolving door for the shelter, said Angela Prette, who is the president of the Estevan Humane Society. As they get about eight cats out, they get another eight or 10 coming in. And a lot of them are kittens. “We have a lot of kittens right now. A lot, a lot of kittens. That’s what we are focusing on right now. If people are looking to give us any donations, we can really use some kitten kibble and kitten food, kitten milk replacer,” said Prette. She also added that even
when people find kittens on the street, it doesn’t necessarily mean that those furballs are in trouble. “If you find kittens, if they are warm, if they are clean, then mom is probably nearby and they’ll be better off if you leave them and let mom take care of them,” said Prette. With the amount of stray and feral cats in town sooner or later something will have to be done. Prette said that they would really like to start a capture, spay or neuter and release project. “The city hasn’t done it yet, but they are doing it in other towns and we would really love to start. It’s a huge venture, a huge project that would be. We are looking into it as a board. And we just hired a new manager, so that’s something that we’ll have her looking into as one
Many cats are available for adoption. Photo submitted of her projects. Something that we can do to control the cat population here.” If someone brings in an intact animal, the shelter has a policy in place. Any animal that they adopt out has to be spayed or neutered, and
the cost of the procedure is included in the adoption fee. The adoption fee is $150 for a cat and $295 for a dog whether it’s a spay or a neuter. “Sometimes we get a cat that is already fixed. Doesn’t matter, it’s still the same price because we actually lose money on fixing them, so it kind of evens out if we get some of them that are already fixed,” explained Prette. And if the animal is too young to be fixed, then the adopter has to sign a contract obligating them to ensure that the animal is spayed or neutered when the time comes. The shelter arranges the process and when the owners bring the animal in, everything is already paid for. It’s already getting colder, and there is a good chance that there will be even more cats coming through the Este-
van Humane Society’s doors. But Prette said they are ready for the winter. “We have contracts in place with the City of Estevan and with some other RMs as well that we have a set number of kennels put aside with the city and the RMs. So if a bylaw officer or RCMP brings in an animal, we have to take it and we’ll have the room for them. We guarantee that we have room for them for up to 72 hours then. So they cannot bring in more until that 72 hours is done.” However, if a member of the public wants to relinquish their dog or cat, and the shelter is at max capacity, then at that point they have to turn them away. But the staff will try to help to find someone willing to foster or adopt an animal. Humane society also
uses foster homes a lot to get some room at the shelter. Prette said that there are quite a few people fostering animals in Estevan, which is a big help especially with kittens as they need a lot of time and care, but they always can use more. “If somebody wants to foster, we will pay for all their medical if something were to happen while they are on foster. We’ll supply the food. If it’s a cat, we’ll supply litter. All the foster really needs to supply is their home.” And if someone is willing to help by donations, with so many animals at the shelter they are always in need of such supplies as bleach, paper towels, multi-purpose cleaners, extra large garbage bags, non-clumping litter and of course kitten food. Canadian Tire money is always welcomed as well.
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Funding is welcome news for Estevan For more than a year, local residents have been wondering when the provincial government would step forward with coal transition assistance for Estevan. After all, the federal government has announced support for Estevan (and other communities) after the feds decided to fast-track the phase-out of conventional coal power plants from 2042 to 2030. It was imperative that the province step forward with funding of its own. After all, their decision to retire Units 4 and 5 at the Boundary Dam Power Station once their respective life spans expire in the 2020s has nothing to do with the 2030 phase-out of coal-fired power. So after the speculation and the waiting, and after a request by the city for $5 million, the provincial government announced in the throne speech last week that it was stepping forward with $10 million in funding for Estevan and Coronach. We’re not 100 per cent sure how that money is going to be distributed just yet, but early speculation is that it will be $5 million for each community for their adjustment to life after coal. The Estevan Business Excellence Awards last week happened two days after the announcement, and the crowd was fairly upbeat. It was certainly a much friendlier and more positive scene for Estevan MLA Lori Carr than what we saw last month, when a chamber coffee talk turned
into a fairly hostile reception for Carr, who was the guest speaker for that meeting. Most people who attended the awards last week seemed to be pretty happy with the money. The announced funding from the province is also another reminder of the need for local action. The city, the chamber and the economic development are showing early initiative. But economic development activity can move at the speed of a tectonic plate at times. It can take a lot of slow-moving work that isn’t always rewarded. We can’t afford to wait for Unit 4 to come offline in 2021 or Unit 5 to come offline in 2024 to move forward or take action or think of ideas or formulate plans. We need to do these things now, and we need to have the right people in place. The kicker is that we’re not going to find that one project that is going to generate the same number of jobs as coal-fired power. A lot of smaller developments and initiatives will be needed. We’re at a crossroads in the history of our community.Ten or 15 years from now we’re going to look back on this time as a point in which we banded together, regrouped and pursued other options, and came away a stronger and a more diverse community. Or we’re going to look back at this time as the point in which we lost something that we
never replaced. It’s not the beginning of the end, but we don’t want to be a community of 5,000 or 6,000 people, either. Yes, it sucks that the day is coming in which coal power won’t be as strong in Estevan as it is now. The people who have their jobs at the mines and at SaskPower are proud of the work they do, and rightfully so. But we have to accept our new normal is on the horizon. And frankly, while it’s great the province has stepped forward with this funding, more is still needed. More from the feds. More from the province. We’re looking at major job losses over the next five years that will have an indirect impact on all of us. Estevan should get more than Coronach. After all, we’re a much bigger centre than Coronach and our needs are greater. Coronach absolutely needs help from the province to deal with the phase-out of coal-fired power, but also keep in mind that their needs aren’t as pressing as ours, since the two units at the Poplar River Power Station won’t come offline until 2030, while we have two units at Boundary Dam that will be shuttered in the next five years. But at least $5 million in funding from the provincial government is a positive development that should be welcomed by everyone in the Estevan area.
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In the recent speech from the throne, the Saskatchewan government announced it is seriously looking at small modular nuclear reactors for future power generation in this province. It is readily apparent that any small nuclear reactor design is going to have its roots firmly anchored in the United States Navy’s nuclear submarine program. And from that, there is much to be learned. In 1955, the USS Nautilus changed the world, setting sail under nuclear power. Her revolutionary new power plant allowed her to be the first to sail under the icecap to the north pole. The U.S. Navy was soon putting nuclear reactors in everything it possibly could. Eventually its entire fleet of submarines were nuclear powered, with about 200 nuclear submarines built. For decades this was all done under the watchful eye of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of the nuclear navy. I don’t mention Rickover lightly. Until the early 1980s, he personally interviewed every officer who had anything to do with nuclear reactors (which meant, basically every officer to serve on submarines), and instilled a culture of perfection that still likely permeates to this day. The U.S. Navy’s nuclear safety record is effectively perfect. No sub or ship has been lost due to failure of its nuclear power plant. The U.S. Navy also went heavy into nuclear reactors for its surface ships, to a point. It quickly realized that nuclear reactors were not practical for anything smaller than an aircraft carrier. They built nine cruisers with nuclear power plants, and that was that. As for the carriers, the first was the USS Enterprise. It was built with a whopping eight nuclear reactors, each one essentially replacing a conventional boiler from previous oil-fueled carrier designs. They only built one of her, before going with a two-reactor plan for the Nimitz and Ford classes. Why is all of this significant to Saskatchewan?
From the Top of the Pile BRIAN ZINCHUK First, we know that small nuclear reactors are possible, functional and repeatable. They have been at sea, in conditions where there is no backup, and no alternative, for 65 years. But we also know that those entrusted with their operation, at least for the first three decades, did so in a culture that allowed zero mistakes, basically ever. You cannot talk about small nuclear power and not talk about Rickover’s overwhelming influence. This could be achieved in a military environment, where a highly structured and disciplined culture can enforce this sort of culture. It was also a situation where those who ran the reactors very lives depended upon their safe operation every second they were on board. They didn’t go home at the end of the day. Can we expect the same of civilians working for a Crown corporation? Perhaps so. Obviously large-scale nuclear power has been operated by civilians since the mid-1950s as well. Then there are the end-of-life issues. What do you do with these small nuclear reactors when they are done? If you are the U.S. Navy, you dig a mammoth hole and bury them. Literally. Smack dab in the middle of Washington State, on the shores of the Columbia River, is the very arid Hanford nuclear site. This is where the U.S. basically learned how to build nuclear reactors, and used them to create the material for tens of thousands of nuclear warheads. Its decommissioning is a decades-long process, and the immediate area will likely never be used for anything again, ever. In the middle of this site, never to be used again, is Trench 94. You can find it by plopping
this into Google: 46.5656006,-119.5201509. There you will see 128 giant cylinders, painted white. There’s a reason you don’t see many nuclear submarines as museum ships. When they retire a nuclear submarine, they chop it up into three sections: the forward, the reactor, and the aft. The defuelled reactor is then loaded on a barge, shipped up the Columbia River, and transported to Trench 94. Sealed up for eternity, there it will eventually be buried as low-level waste. All this is a lot better than what the Russians used to do, which was simply dump them somewhere in the Arctic Ocean. Now they are apparently following a strategy similar to Hanford. If Saskatchewan is to begin using small nuclear reactors, we need to have a plan for their eventual disposal, up front. Does that mean putting them in a big hole somewhere? There are lots of holes left over from coal mining near Estevan, but unlike very dry Hanford, these tend to fill up with water. Water that would rust steel reactor sections. So what are our other options? Former uranium mines up north? Do we bury them somewhere else? And will they remain dry? Submarines are also relatively small, tidy packages. The aircraft carriers are not. It took four years from keel laying to maiden voyage for the Enterprise. It’s going to take 10 years to take the Enterprise fully apart beyond what has already been done. They’re not even starting until 2034, 22 years after it was decommissioned. That means its disposal might take a total of 32 years, and billions of dollars. Will small nuclear reactors for power generation be anywhere near as complicated? Not likely. I’m guessing they will be much closer to the submarine. Whatever it will be, we need to get these issues sorted out from the get-go, and not be wondering what we will do further down the road. Brian Zinchuk is editor of Pipeline News. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net.
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Oh, it’s just a cough You know those curious people who always conduct surveys about everything in the world? They found out that about 90 per cent of Canadian workers admit that they keep going to work even when they are sick. The flu season is at the doors, and the first sneezingcoughing-sniffling-groaning melodies are on here and there. I noticed it before that a lot of people don’t take those first symptoms of disease seriously and keep going with their lives as if nothing has changed. The survey discoveries just fortified my observations with quite solid numbers. The surveyors talked to 500 Canadian workers and 445 of them said that they’ve come to the office with a cold or flu symptoms (all of which can be read as spreading their happily reproducing bacteria all over the area). What does it say about Canadians? I’d say the results of this survey suggest that about 90 per cent of Canadian workers struggle with a serious addiction named workaholism. (Well, it may also say something about the system, where many workers are not covered for sick days, or overwhelmed with the amount of work and are worried that they will be judged by colleagues for putting an extra burden on them). But I feel that coming to work when sick is not the best way to let your workaholism spiral out of control. It may feel like a heroic move – despite the terrible condition, weakness, headache and all the discomfort I’m battling the disease and sacrificing myself, spending a full day at work and trying to keep up with everything. But I sincerely believe it’s not. I actually think it’s rude. Not only do people put their own health to the test (when instead of letting the body rest and recuperate for a bit to fight the disease and get back to being strong and healthy, they get themselves through constant physical and mental stress, pretending that they are “figne” (read aloud) and potentially getting themselves into even more serious health issues), but they also put others at risk. Respiratory infection is transmitted through coughing, sneezing, handshakes or contact, like door handles or countertops, for example. Usually, as soon as such symptoms as fever, sniffles and sore throat go away, the disease is not contagious anymore and the person can’t get themselves into more serious health issues. So all it takes is a bit of care given to self in the early stages. I’m no medical expert, but as far as I know, an infection may go a long ways. Even if my immune system is strong and I experience it in a mild form, I may forward it to somebody else. An elder or a kid who often has weaker immune systems. I know it sucks to get sick, but to get sick because of somebody else being irresponsible feels like a double whammy. Besides, personal experience suggests that when my nose is stuffed and the head feels like it was filled with bubble wrap (and some of those small bubbles blow every so often causing pain and a kind of sick hypnosis), I’m not capable of doing anything properly. My work capacity and quality go down. And if I still try to push, smaller or bigger mistakes don’t hesitate to remind me to back out and let the organism do its job. On top of that, with the traditional initial symptoms, your body gives you a red flag, asking for attention and help. By ignoring it you tell your organism that others’ needs are more important than your own, which may result in further degradation of your health. And in the end, you risk missing even more time at work. And finally, it does piss people around you off. And the fact that it’s impolite to openly demonstrate the disgust or walk away from a coughing colleague (especially if there is power imbalance) usually disturbs people even more, as they are now keeping their mind off work as well. So with the first snow covering the ground and little nasty virus cells whirling in the air like snowflakes, please take that cough seriously. It’s easy to fix. It’s safer for you to fix it on time. And it’s also polite to keep it to yourself.
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The editor: What was the reason for the poor ticket sales for the Tre Twitty and David James concert here in Estevan and the show’s cancellation? Tre Twitty, who is Conway Twitty’s grandson, and Tayla Lynn, Loretta Lynn’s granddaughter, were here
last year on Jan. 22, 2018, at the Estevan Comprehensive School Cafeteria. No one seemed to know they were here last year, either. This is great entertainment for that price in Estevan and if we, the people, do not attend, we will not be getting this calibre of
entertainment again. The money for tickets purchased can be refunded, or, if you choose to, you could have gone to a second concert in Moose Jaw. The first concert in Moose Jaw was sold on a Tuesday, so the promoters decided to have a second
show. I hope someone has some answers to this problem. Also, since we have no bus service, it’s a little hard to get to Moose Jaw. Debra-Lynn Storey Estevan
Train engine fire was extinguished A CP train engine caught on fire at about 11 a.m. on Friday while at the Southland Pulse inland terminal west of Estevan. “Just before 11 a.m. fire crews were dispatched to possible train on fire on the tracks along Highway 39 by the pulse plant,” said Estevan Deputy Fire Chief Rick Davies. “Once we arrived we made contact with the CP Rail train crew. We found that there was a mechanical issue with one of the locomotives, it was on fire.” Davies said that when the crews arrived, the fire they saw coming out of the locomotive was quite sizable. The fire occurred in the middle engine in the mechanical part of the train. CP Rail crews went through all the necessary procedures
Fire destroyed a part of CP locomotive Friday morning. Photo Carlee Dyck shutting off the train, and once that was done the fire immidiatly went down. Once it was safe to approach the scene the firefighters accessed and proceeded with extinguishing the remaining fire. They also had to make sure that everything was cooled down to safe temperatures. The engine fire caused
a small grass fire, which was quickly extinguished as well. No injuries occurred as a result of the incident. The fire was suppressed quickly, however it still did some noticeable damage to one engine. Firefighters were on the scene until about 11:45 a.m. The traffic on Highway 39
was restricted during that time. The entire process from the moment the crews were dispatched out until they safely returned to the station and got all their equipment back in order took about two hours. By 12 p.m. the fire was completely extinguished and the scene was cleared.
Firefighters were called to a vehicle rollover The Estevan Fire Rescue Service (EFRS) had another busy week. Firefighters were called to assist with a single-vehicle rollover with unknown injuries and leaks on Oct. 26 at about 5 p.m. The accident involved a transport truck. At the time of the call, firefighters didn’t have the information about what kind of goods the vehicle was carrying. Fortunately, at the scene, it was found to be hauling fresh water. However, there were engine and fuel tank leaks occurring. “Crews provided traffic control, assisted with the mitigation of transfer of fluid from one truck to the other and mitigated all of the leaks from the vehicle itself,” said Estevan Fire
Chief Dale Feser. The driver didn’t sustain any injuries as a result of the rollover. At about 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 21 EFRS members were called to a residential fire alarm in the northwest area of the city. The alarm went off in a single-family dwelling. Firefighters responded to a call, and once on scene found out that the alarm was cooking related. “There wasn’t enough smoke in the home to warrant any ventilation efforts on behalf of the Estevan fire department, so the scene was turned back to the homeowner and they just used natural ventilation to clear the smoke out of the home,” said Feser. On Oct. 24, firefighters were called to a commercial
fire alarm that went off in the north-central area of the city. Crews arrived on scene to find that the fire alarm panel was in full alarm. After further investigation, it was found that a young child had pulled the fire alarm. Firefighters were able to quickly downgrade this scene and make sure that everybody was safe. They also assisted with resetting the fire alarm pull station along with the fire alarm panel. “We are reminding the parents as well to have the talk with their children to make sure they are not pulling these emergency devices as they do actually initiate the full response on behalf of the fire department to ensure there is no emer-
gency occurring,” said Feser. “For children who are quite a bit older as well as adults it is a criminal offence to tamper with any fire life safety devices within the occupancy. Of course, we don’t take this route with smaller children, but definitely have chat with them and let them know what’s consequence their actions were in this particular scenario.” In the evening of Oct. 22, EFRS held their regular 1001 training. They were tackling another part of their professional training, which was building construction. They were learning how fire reacts on different structures, windows and how they operate, as well as door closures and various construction designs.
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Co-op’s Trail of Terror a hit with families
The Southern Plains Co-op’s Trail of Terror has become a popular event in the community for families looking to enjoy a Halloween activity, and to get spooked a few times during the evening. The third annual event was held Saturday night at the Preddy Trails inside Woodlawn Regional Park. People met up at Rotary Hall inside the park and then embarked on a journey that had plenty of creepers, props and other scary sights. Carol McKay, who is the human resources manager for the co-op, said they attracted about 500 people this year. It was down a little from last year, but she was still pleased with the numbers because of the cold and windy weather. “We had lots of little ghosts and goblins show up. There were lots of screams and lots of scares,” McKay said. Many of the attractions remained the same from previous years. There was an area for small kids just before the bridge. Hot dogs and refreshments were served. Co-op representatives dressed up as the creepers, and props were set up along the trail. Everything during the night was free.
Among the new props for this year was Crouchy, an 11-foot clown with a psychotic look. Jack Straw popped out at those walking along the trail. “We were a little concerned with the wind in the area, but the trees kept everything pretty covered, so overall the event went very well,” said McKay. They even managed to scare a few of the adults during the evening. Also new for this year was a pumpkin patch that was set up inside the park. Previous years featured a pumpkin trail. “The people really enjoyed that,” said McKay. “I was really quite surprised. There were lots of people over there, taking pictures and things. We did have, in the trail, lots of props, and we added props to it this year. Every year it just gets better and better.” A goop and goblin corner allowed people to touch and feel eyes, bones, brains and guts. It drew a lot of laughter from the public, McKay said. “We had lots of comments that it was good, and that it’s great the co-op puts
A skeleton greeted people on the Trail of Terror. Photo submitted it on. It’s a good family event,” said McKay. Approximately 85 per cent of the people who turned out were in costumes, which McKay was also pleased
to see. It takes a lot of work to get the Trail of Terror up and running, she said, but it’s worth it when they get all of the people out on the trails.
Crouchy the 11-foot clown was among the frightening sights that people saw on the Trail of Terror this year. Photo submitted
City of Estevan to host Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Conference for 2020 The City of Estevan won the right to host next year’s Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association (SPRA) conference to be held on Oct. 21 – 24, 2020, at Affinity Place and other locations throughout the city. Each year the SPRA gathers individuals working
in the recreation field in a different Saskatchewan location for its annual conference and general meeting. SPRA will be inviting people who live and work all over the province to congregate in Estevan to learn about the latest trends and issues in parks and recreation. The aim is to provide
education, networking and energy building to parks and recreation professionals in the hopes that it will inspire an increase in the quality of life in Saskatchewan. Erin Wilson, program manager and committee chair, explains: “This is a great opportunity for Estevan to show
off some of our facilities and what we have accomplished in our area over the years. We last hosted the conference in 2007, and a lot has changed since then. We will be bringing in speakers to share messages to inspire and motivate us, and though our focus is recreation, parks and culture, these speak-
ers will be available to our community members as well.” “Our conference has over 75 years of history, and we are excited to partner with the City of Estevan for our 2020 event,” Todd Shafer, SPRA chief executive officer adds. “As we come together to learn, connect and celebrate excellence, we
build on the energy of the City of Estevan, Saskatchewan’s recreation community, and the momentum of the framework for recreation in Canada.” Sponsorship and admission opportunities will be available in the coming months and will be available on the SPRA website at www.spra.sk.ca.
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Coal car receiving much-needed repairs
An old coal car has been sitting at the corner of Fourth Street and Souris Avenue South in Estevan for decades, serving as a tribute to the three people killed and thea many injured in the Estevan Riot of 1931. But the years have taken their toll on the coal car, and now it’s been taken in for repairs. The coal car was removed from the site on Oct. 23. Sky Lift Services used one of its pickers to lift the coal car and place it on the back of a flatbed truck. Repairs are expected to take four to six weeks. Dave Dukart of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Local 7606, who has been taking the lead on a small committee working on the project, said they started looking at the refurbishment project in the summer. “It was brought to our attention at a union meeting that the coal car condition was deteriorating to the point where something had to be done,” said Dukart. The coal car came from the former Cundall mine site south of Estevan, and was discovered in an old mine shaft while land was being mined decades ago. It was removed and was in perfect condition, Dukart said. The discovery occurred a couple of years before the 50th anniversary of the Estevan Riot. Then-premier Allan Blakeney committed a parcel of land on the Estevan Court House lawn to the coal car, since that’s where the miners were shot and killed. The coal car was placed there by the Estevan Labour Congress, which has since disbanded, and nobody has taken ownership in recent years. The UMWA local has decided to fix and restore it, while maintaining its authenticity. “Hopefully it will look a lot better when we’re done,” said Dukart. The metal, which is flaking, will be sandblasted and painted. The boards, which are rotting, will be replaced, and Dukart said they want to have boards as close to the original as possible. The plaque has faded over the years, and has become difficult to read. “We’re going to try to do some sort of a different plaque,” said Dukart. “We have a different committee working on the plaque.” The tribute that is inscribed on the plaque will be the same, because the meaning is still there. But they want to find a way to make the words more noticeable. The union has contacted the city, the court house, past local UMWA presidents and others to find out information
The coal car that has been located at the corner of Fourth Street and Souris Avenue South was taken in for repairs on Oct. 23. on the coal car. The court house asked them to remove the coal car when doing the restoration work to protect the lawn, and the union was more than willing to oblige, he said. Then they approached Sky Lift Services to move the coal car. Dukart hopes the restora-
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Chargers dominate Weyburn in season finale
The Estevan Century 21 U12 Chargers put the finishing touches on their season Friday night with one last lopsided victory. The Chargers trounced the host Weyburn Eagles 45-2 Friday night in the QCollar Bowl. The game was essentially a third place contest for the Moose Jaw Minor Football League, as Estevan and Weyburn dropped their semifinal games. Estevan led 18-0 after the first quarter and 31-2 at half time. Then they added scores in each of the third and fourth quarters. “We knew that we were going to go in there with a pretty good chance to win, as long as the kids played our style of football,” said Chargers coach Matt Schell. “ We jumped out on top pretty quickly.” Both the offensive and defensive units had great games. Schell noted the Chargers had their first defensive touchdown of the year on a score by Peyton Klyne after Schell said Klyne essentially grabbed the ball out of the Weyburn quarterback’s hand. “He took the handoff instead of the running back, and he ran it 60 yards for a touchdown, which everybody was really excited about,” said Schell. Cornerback Nevin Tedford made an interception late in the fourth quarter in
The Estevan Century 21 U12 Chargers celebrate after winning the Q-Collar Bowl Friday night in Weyburn. Photo submitted his own end zone to keep the Eagles off the scoreboard on that drive. Offensively, running back Cooper Pukas had several touchdowns, including one in which he lined up at the quarterback position on the final play of the first half. Payton Tend ler and Hunter Ciepliski also had strong games, while Turner Petterson had some good
runs. “Our o-line (offensive line) was just so physical,” said Schell. Weyburn’s lone score came off of a safety. Schell lauded the progress the Chargers have made this season. They won five of their last six games, and the lone loss since starting 0-3 was by one point to the eventual league champions,
the Moose Jaw Spartans, in the semifinal round. The win in the bowl game also avenged a loss to the Eagles earlier in the season. The Chargers coaches knew they had some talent at the start of the season, but it was a matter of the players buying into what Schell called “tough guy football.” “Be a pain in the rear
ends of the other team, don’t quit,” said Schell. “Be in their face and be aggressive, and don’t let them push you around. If they do, push back.” He was also pleased with how they recovered from their loss to the Spartans in the semifinal. At a team social a few days before the Q-Collar Bowl, he reminded them that this
was a chance to close out the season against their rivals, and to finish on a high note. Eleven of 24 players from this year’s team are eligible to return next year. T h e C h a r ge r s h a ve one other event before the season ends, their annual awards night, and Schell said the coaches have some very tough decisions ahead of them.
Peewee AA Bruins go undefeated at home tourney The Estevan Meter peewee AA Bruins went undefeated at their home tournament this past weekend. The peewees opened the tournament with a pair of 2-2 ties against the Regina Royals on Friday afternoon and the Regina Buffaloes on Saturday morning. Tristan Brownridge and Conrad Hase had Estevan’s goals against the Royals. The Royals forced the tie with a goal late in the third period. Draeton Morrissette and Carson Deichert scored against the Buffaloes. The two goals came late in the second period to give Estevan a 2-0 advantage, but the Buffaloes responded with two of their own in the third. Then they broke out offensively in a 9-3 rout over the Weyburn Wings Saturday afternoon. Morrissette scored twice and Conrad Hase also scored in the first period to give Estevan a 3-0 lead. Then Deichert scored twice in the second, and Carter Hirsch and Gunner Moore also scored in the middle frame. Payton Phillips and Ashton Martin tallied in the third. The pee wee Br uins wrapped up the tournament with an 8-1 blowout victory over the Royals. Deichert had the first two goals of the game, and Axton Martin also scored twice. Moore, Hirsch Blake Martin and Daelyn Brown also scored. Amy Swayze and Chase Borreson shared goaltending duties during the weekend.
There wasn’t a gold medal game for the tournament. Rather, the teams played a round robin on Friday and Saturday, and then had one more game Sunday. Peewee Bruins coach Aren Miller wasn’t disappointed with the lack of a gold medal game. “Early on like this, I think it’s important that teams just play games, and compete against teams that are right there with you,” said Miller. The two Regina teams didn’t want to come to Estevan to play each other twice, nor did Estevan and Weyburn want to meet two times, since they play five games in league play. So Miller wanted to see Estevan and Weyburn each have a second game against a
Regina team on Sunday. Miller was impressed with the team’s competitiveness, their speed and their conditioning. They were also excited to score 17 times in the final two games, but their big focus this past week was on the defensive side of the game. “I thought they really bought in. We didn’t give up very many goals this weekend,” said Miller. Miller is confident the performance in their home tournament will give the peewees a confidence boost as their attention shifts from early season tournaments to league play. They have played just one league game thus far, but now they’ll be playing league games steadily until Christmas.
Gunner Moore scored for Estevan against Weyburn on Saturday during the peewee Bruins 9-3 victory over the Wings.
Elecs win home playoff game The Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) Elecs football team’s first home playoff game in eight years proved to be a successful outing. The Elecs defeated the Moose Jaw Vanier Viking 32-19 Friday night at the Woodlawn Athletic Field in the Moose Jaw High School Football League’s Tier 2 semifinal. The Elecs will face the Moose Jaw Peacock Tornadoes in the Tier 2 final next Saturday. ECS raced out to an 11-0 lead on a receiving touchdown by Nigel Mack, a field goal by Ilya Korita and a punt single by Kaleb Bechtold. Coach Mark Schott noted it was the first field goal by the Elecs in 10 years. Vanier responded with a pair of touchdowns to lead 13-11, but the Elecs rallied. Bechtold had a 65-yard
touchdown run and Hunter Eagles added a 29-yard rushing touchdown late in the first half for a 25-13 advantage at half-time. “Our message at the half was we have to close this out and we have to come out and make a big statement to open the second half and finish the game off,” said Schott. “We did just that.” Eagles returned the opening kickoff of the second half 80 yards for a touchdown to increase the lead to 32-13. The score remained unchanged until a Moose Jaw major in the final minute of the game. The Elecs defence allowed some yards in the second half, but didn’t surrender a major until that final possession. Vanier’s offence pushed the ball deep into ECS territory with their
first two possessions of the second half, but the first drive ended on a fumble, and the second ended when the Elecs stopped Vanier on a third down gamble. “Those were two big stands by our defence that really crushed Vanier and took back the momentum,” said Schott. It was the second time the Elecs have defeated the Vikings this year. Last month ECS blanked the Vikings 35-0 in Moose Jaw. “After we played them (in September), they revamped their offence, and they just went to more of a power run scheme, so they ran the ball a lot more yesterday and throughout the second half of the season,” said Schott. The Vikings were also much better at blocking down the field, Schott said. Schott noted there was a good crowd out on Friday night, including
some fans who travelled some from Moose Jaw. ECS will face Peacock in the Tier 2 final for the first time since the opening week of the season. The Tornadoes beat ECS 27-7 that day. Schott is expecting Peacock to key on Elecs running back Jonah Bachorcik, so other ECS players will need to have strong games. “He’s a huge part of our offence, but we’re still going to continue to use him and get him the football because he’s a talented player, but we have other guys as well that we can spread the ball around to, and weapons that can make an impact as well,” said Schott. O f f e n s i v e l y, t h e To r n a does are a balanced team that r uns and passes the ball well, which the Elecs will have to plan for.
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Bruins swept by Red Wings in home and home The Estevan Bruins dropped a pair of 2-1 decisions against the Weyburn Red Wings in a home and home series on the weekend. In Friday night’s game in Weyburn, Brady Nicholas had Estevan’s lone goal 16 minutes into the first period. The goal tied the game at 1-1. The score remained tied until late in the third, when former Bruin Nikolas Sombrowski scored the winner with 21 seconds to play. “We just had a net-front battle, and our guys are fishing for pucks. One guy came around (the net),” said head coach and general manager Chris Lewgood. Mathieu Belanger had Weyburn’s other goal. Saturday night’s game was decided in overtime. The Bruins appeared to take the lead in the opening minute of the first period on a redirection by Kolton Leslie, but it was waived off for a high stick. Weyburn took the lead late in the first period on a power play goal by Ben Hiltz. Devan Harrison’s power play marker tied the game late
in the second. His point shot found a way through traffic in front of the net. Harrison said it was the type of goal the team needs to generate more often. “Lots of times we’re putting pucks on net and there are rebounds, but nobody’s there, or we’re shooting straight into the goalie with no tips or anything,” said Harrison. “Once we get better around the net we’ll
score more.” Neither team scored in the third, although the Bruins outshot the Wings 10-5, after outshooting the Wings 13-5 in the middle frame. Hiltz scored the winner for Weyburn midway through overtime. Keenan Rancier was in goal both nights. He stopped 36 shots on Friday and 20 on Saturday.
Harrison doesn’t believe there is an issue in the matchup with the Red Wings; rather, he thinks the problem lies with the Bruins themselves. “We’ve been having trouble scoring all year. Two games and two goals is not enough to win. I don’t think it’s just them (Weyburn); I just think we need to be better all-round, and against every team we need to start scoring.”
Lewgood said Saturday’s game was a much better effort for the Bruins, and they were better in all aspects of the game, but they couldn’t convert on their chances. “When that happens, you let the other team hang around, especially a gutty team like that,” said Lewgood. “They wanted it, and they found a way.” Estevan played with speed,
made good decisions with the puck, and they competed hard, according to Lewgood. “I thought we won a lot of battles, right from the faceoff dot to half-wall battles. Our forecheck was good. I thought we won most of the battles that we had the opportunity to win tonight, whereas last night we didn’t win many battles,” said Lewgood. He agreed with Harrison that the team’s problems with scoring against Weyburn stem from their own internal issues. “I don’t think we have that creativity and that nose for scoring, that natural scoring ability,” said Lewgood. “We have to defend really well and we have to play better defensively.” Estevan’s roster currently stands at 27 players, including 17 forwards. Lewgood said the club needs to trim the roster quickly, well before the Dec. 1 deadline to have rosters at 25 players. The Bruins record is 4-8-2-1. Their next game is Wednesday night at home against the Humboldt Broncos. Game time is 7 p.m.
The Estevan Apex midget AA Bruins have now won their first seven games to start the season. The midget AAs won a pair of overtime road games – 2-1 over the Weyburn Wings on Oct. 23 and 3-2 over the Melville Millionaires on Oct. 25 – and then crushed the Regina Capitals 9-0 on Oct. 27. The first two periods against Weyburn were scoreless, but Weyburn scored early in the third for a 1-0 lead. Cale Adams tied the game with about 12 minutes to play in the third. Kolby Kaban notched the winning goal with 4:15 to play in overtime. Logan Nagel stopped 22 of the 23 shots he faced. Melville scored twice in the first period on Oct. 25 to lead 2-0, and the lead remained in tact eight minutes remained in the third, when Chase Gedak scored for Estevan. Cade Bendtsen forced overtime when he scored with 10 seconds to play in the third, and Kieran Stewart scored the winner with 2:51 to play in the extra frame. Jackson Miller stopped 20 shots in the victory. Estevan scored five times in the second period to break open a 2-0 game against the
Capitals. Kieran Stewart and Kaden Chrest each scored twice in the middle frame, and Adams also scored. Mason Fichter had both of Estevan’s goals in the third. Joey Meredith and Tayce Miller also scored for Estevan. Nagel made 20 saves for the shutout victory. • • • The Estevan TS&M bantam AA Bruins (1-4) dropped two lopsided games on the weekend: 10-2 to the Regina Pat Blues on Oct. 25 and 10-3 to the Regina Monarchs two nights later. Jordan Marcotte scored in the first period against the Blues to make the score 1-1 at that point. Carter Onrait had the other goal Estevan goal that day. Keagan Carley made 26 saves in the loss. Macade Ochitwa opened the scoring for Estevan against the Monarchs, but the Monarchs pulled away from there. Spencer Copeland and Strahn Douglas had Estevan’s other goals. Ty Fehrenbach made 17 saves in the loss. • • • The Estevan Western Star Hotel Tier 1 atom Bruins went into Melville and came away with two victories over
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the game. Logan Kolenz also scored twice. Kale Kuchinka, Broden Henry, Chernoff, Milbrandt and Logan Piper were the other goal scorers. Easton Pushie was in goal for the win.
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Fun with pets The Estevan Humane Society hosted its annual pet parade on Thursday evening at the Estevan Shoppers Mall. People dressed up their pets, and in some cases, the animals and the owners had matching costumes. Dozens of dogs were entered, but this year there were also two cats and a dog. Pictured are, from left, Leslie Naka with her son Jude, humane society president Angela Prette and her son Carter, and new humane society manager Michaela Pho. Photo submitted
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Three impaired drivers charged in a three-day span Members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) apprehended several people for impaired driving-related charges during the past week. A 43-year-old man was arrested for impaired driving in the evening on Oct. 24. The vehicle was stopped in the 600-block of Fourth Street. The motorist was found to be four times the legal limit. He was lodged until sober and then released with a Jan. 6 court date. Police arrested and charged a 19-year-old man from Benson with driving while impaired and driving while over .08 after a traffic stop in the downtown area Oct. 25. The vehicle he was operating has been impounded for a minimum of 30 days and he will appear in Estevan Provincial Court in December to answer to the charges. Members also arrested and charged a 34-year-old Bienfait man for impaired driving and refusal to provide a breath sample Saturday after a call to the Report Impaired Drivers line about a vehicle on Perkins Street. He was lodged in cells until sober and was released for court in December. His vehicle has been impounded for 30 days and his driver’s license
suspended indefinitely. Names were not immediately released. In other recent police news, on Oct. 22, officers arrested a 21-year-old Estevan woman for breaching her release conditions. She appeared in court later in the week. The same day, police received a report of a missing Estevan elderly couple.The couple was en route from Estevan to another destination and didn’t arrive. Police located them several hours later in a different city. The matter is concluded. Police also received a report of criminal harassment. The matter is under investigation. On Oct. 23, officers arrested an Estevan man who had an outstanding warrant for his arrest. The man was held in police cells overnight and appeared in court. Police received a call about an assault later the same day. The complainant was spoken to and found to have suffered minor injuries. Police have taken statements and are continuing to investigate the incident. On Oct. 24, members received a report of criminal harassment.The matter is under investigation.
Officers are also looking into a complaint of fraud over the Internet. The public is reminded not to provide any personal or financial information over the phone or Internet to persons or parties they do not know. Police responded to a suspected theft from a business located inside the Estevan Shoppers’ Mall. The matter is under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the EPS or Crime Stoppers. EPS also responded to a report of a possible hit and run at a local business. The matter is under investigation. Throughout the evening of Oct. 24, members were patrolling and looking for distracted driving offences as well as vehicle equipment violations. Some inspection tickets were issued to drivers who need to make necessary repairs to their vehicles. A couple of tickets were also issued for drivers using electronic devices while driving. Police received a call Oct. 25 from a homeowner about his residence in south Estevan being entered. Officers went to the area and found that the residence had been forcibly entered and some items had been taken.
Members are now investigating the matter. Anyone with information is asked to call the EPS or Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers. Members were out conducting traffic enforcement when they found a truck carrying dangerous goods off the truck route. The driver was fined $500 for not using the approved route. Officers responded to
a complaint of a suspicious male in the Nicholson Road area. The matter is still under investigation. A 29-year-old Estevan man was issued a 72-hour driving suspension for impaired driving Oct. 26 and the vehicle he was driving was impounded for three days, after he was checked by officers during a high-visibility check stop at Ninth Street and 13th Avenue.
The No. 2901 Estevan (Elks) PPCLI Army Cadet Corps and the South East Military Museum will team up in early November to mark an important anniversary. A presentation will happen on Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion’s Estevan branch. Craig Bird, the commanding officer of the army cadets, will be making a presentation. He has spoken in April the past three years to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and is now expanding his presentations to include something on the Second World War. The Battle of the Scheldt was selected because the 75th anniversary of the battle is this fall. “We’re using it as a learn-
ing point for the cadets so we’ve invited all of the cadets from the local area to learn about some World War II history,” said Bird. Bird’s presentation will focus on the units from southeast Saskatchewan that took part in the battle, such as the South Saskatchewan Regiment, and he’ll give some history on the battle. It will be free for anyone to attend. The Battle of the Scheldt took place in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands from Oct. 2-Nov. 8, 1944. It was led by the First Canadian Army and involved Canadian, Polish and British units, to open up the shipping route so that the port in Antwerp, Belgium, could be used to supply the Allies in northwest Europe.
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Estevan Army Cadets Commanding Officer Craig Bird There were 12,873 Allied casualties; half of them were Canadian. Bird said it’s a battle that isn’t as well known as Dieppe or D-Day, but Canada had a pivotal part in the liberation of a strategic point. “It’s not just the battle, it’s the soldiers from this area who took part in it,” said Bird. “It’s to give a little bit of history and to show the kids what was going on, and how our involvement in southeast Saskatchewan played a pretty big part in this battle in particular.” He would like to create awareness of a different Second World War battle every year before Remembrance Day, while honouring the military history in the southeast. Lunch will be served after Bird’s presentation. After lunch, there will be a preview of the South East Military Museum, which will be partially located in the legion. The museum will celebrate its grand opening on Remembrance Day. Bird and some historians will have static displays set up in the afternoon. (For an in-depth story on the museum, please see next week’s edition of the Mercury).
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Police will be continuing to conduct check stops well into the new year. As a result of a traffic stop in the Willow Park Greens area, a 27-year-old Estevan man has been charged with possession of a prohibited weapon and failing to comply with an undertaking to a justice of the peace. He was released and will answer to the new charges in December.
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The talents of nine southeast Saskatchewan artists were on display Saturday at the Estevan Leisure Centre’s multipurpose room during the Ev Johnson Memorial Adjudicated Art Show, hosted by the Estevan Arts Council. Each artist had to submit five works of art from a particular medium and pertaining to a theme. Their efforts were evaluated by adjudicator Sylvia Ziemann, who had the difficult task of selecting a winner of the show, who will have an exhibition at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum next year. Ultimately, she chose two artists: Estevan’s Cheryl Andrist and Wolseley’s Marilyn Malo, due to the similarity of the fabric mediums they selected. She believes the two exhibits will look good together in the gallery. “I’ve seen a lot of fabric work, and this is more art fabric,” Ziemann told the Mercury. “They’ve put thought into it. They have ideas, Cheryl’s work is with the butterflies … and there’s a lot of little weird secret stuff in there, and Marilyn’s work is very Prairie, but it’s also very collagey, and it really says something about this place that we live in.” The two artists didn’t know each other before this year’s reception, but now they’re going to collaborate together on an exhibit. Andrist has entered the adjudicated art show on numerous occasions, and she was the curator at the EAGM at one time. She was excited to have her artwork selected for an exhibit. “It’s hand-dyed fabric, and then I’ve quilted on top of the hand-dyed,” said Andrist. “Before that, I looked at the hand-dyed pieces of fabric, and I wanted to do butterflies that were from the North American continent.” She researched what butterflies would eat and the colours for the fabric, and she machine-quilted images or shapes of flowers and leaves. “Then I painted the fabric butterfly, and I painted some of the fabric afterwards on top of the leaves to pop the flowers and the leaves out.” She only started dabbling in this medium in the past three years. Andrist, who is a former curator-director of the EAGM, is looking forward to having an exhibit at the building. Malo started working in fabric to develop art quilts. Several of her submissions involved the depiction of grain elevators. She submitted the quilts to receive an adjudicator’s feedback on her work. She selected the Prairies as a subject because of her love for Saskatchewan. “I’m a Prairie girl. I love the farm. I was raised on a farm,
I live on a farm, my family all farms, and I like the old buildings. I like the Prairie icons. I’m a big fan of elevators and old trucks and that sort of thing.” She had a touring show through the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils in the 1980s using watercolour painting. Malo was pleased to see the calibre of the art submitted for the show, and described it as a wonderful event. Ruth Langweiser was selected as the runner up for the show, and Ken Frederickson was third. He also won the People’s Choice Award for his bronze sculptures. Ziemann lauded the efforts of two young artists, Katie Wempe and Sadie Huber, who are still in school. They entered so they could receive feedback, and Ziemann believes they managed to compete with the adults. Other participating artists were Kayla Hanson, Nancy Samoluk and Melina Shepley. “I’ve seen a lot of art in the many years I’ve been working in the arts, and I’m just really warmed by this community and the wonderful effort that’s gone into what you’ve all made,” said Ziemann. She was pleased to see so
Participating in this year’s adjudicated art show were, from left, artists Katie Wempe, Kayla Hanson, Melina Shepley, adjudicator Sylvia Ziemann, and artists Ken Frederickson, Marilynn Malo, Cheryl Andrist, Sadie Huber and Ruth Langwieser. Missing: Nancy Samoluk. she believes she could have selected five winners from the show. Ziemann spoke with the artists before the reception about their submissions. She also led a workshop on Sunday morning in which she taught participants to make artist trading cards.
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FITNESS SCHEDULE MONDAY GRIT 6:10 AM - 6:50 AM, 9:10 AM - 9:50 AM AQUA AWE 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM EASY STRETCH 10:10 AM - 10:50 AM FOAM ROLLER 10:10 AM - 10:50 AM MOM & BABY PIYPO 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM SPIN 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM, 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM SCULPT 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM AQUASTEP 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM GRIT 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM WEIGHT ROOM 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM TUESDAY SPIN 6:10 AM - 6:50 AM AQUA AWE 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM SPIN 9:10 AM - 9:50 AM CHAIR YOGA 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CORE 2.0 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM, 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM PIYO FLOW 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM MOM & BABY AQUA FIT 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM ZOOMER 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM SPIN 5:30 PM - 6:10 PM GRIT 6:15 PM - 6:55 PM WEIGHT ROOM 6:00 AM - 9:00 PM
ESTEVAN LEISURE CENTRE EFFECTIVE September 23- December 20, 2019 AQUASTEP 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM CORE 2.0 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM BEGINNER BOOT CAMP 6:15 PM - 6:55 PM WEIGHT ROOM 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM THURSDAY SPIN 6:10 - 6:50 AM, 9:10 AM - 9:50 AM AQUA AWE 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM ZOOMER 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CORE 2.0 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PIYO POWER 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM MOM & BABY AQUA FIT 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CORE 2.0 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM ZOOMER 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AQUASTEP 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM SPIN 5:30 PM - 6:10 PM GRIT 6:15 PM - 6:55 PM WEIGHT ROOM 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM FRIDAY GRIT 6:10 AM - 6:50 AM AQUA AWE 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM P90X 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EASY STRETCH 10:10 AM - 10:50 AM FOAM ROLLER 10:10 AM - 10:50 AM WEIGHT ROOM 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM
WEDNESDAY GRIT 6:10 AM - 6:50 AM AQUA AWE 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM GRIT 9:10 AM - 9:50 AM CHAIR YOGA 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EASY STRETCH 10:10 AM - 10:50 AM MOM & BABY PIYO 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM GRIT 12:15 PM - 12:45 SCULPT LIGHT 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM P90X 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM
SATURDAY WEIGHT ROOM 6:30 AM - 10:00 PM SUNDAY DEEP WATER POWER 8:00 PM - 8:45 PM WEIGHT ROOM 6:30 AM - 10:00 PM
NO CLASSES: OCT. 14 & NOV. 11 Schedule Subject to Change. Please visit www.estevan.ca for updates on closures and cancellations. Proper footwear and exercise wear is required to participate. Please note during school breaks, (Teachers Convention, Spring Break and Christmas Break) Fitness, Aquatic Centre and Arena schedules may vary. Please visit our live schedules at www.estevan.ca
The Estevan Police Service, supported by the Community Initiatives Fund; proudly presents:
YOUTH NIGHT
Who: Youth between the ages 8- 15 are welcome to join! When: Every 2nd Wednesday, beginning November 6th, 2019 Where: Church of God - Gymnasium (1920 Wellock Road) 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Different group activities each session! Other dates include November 20th, & December 4th. We will start again in the new year.
Floor hockey Dodgeball Basketball Kickball