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City Hall remains closed to public It appears that Estevan City Hall will remain closed to public access for a little while yet. During the inquiries portion of Monday night’s Estevan city council meeting, Councillor Shelly Veroba wanted to know when City Hall would be open to the public again. Mayor Roy Ludwig responded city council will ultimately have to make that decision. City manager Jeff Ward said he has been part of a conference call with other cities in the province twice a week. Most cities are trying to align the opening of their municipal office buildings with Phase 4 of the province’s Re-Open Saskatchewan Plan, which includes recreation facilities. A date has not been set for when Phase 4 would occur.
Some smaller communities have opened their town or village offices already, including a few in southeast Saskatchewan. “We did look at the potential opening for a couple of hours per day last week in discussion with our staff. We’re just trying to have that balance of everyone feeling safe, while still being accessible to public,” said Ward. People Veroba has talked to believe that if they can go to a retail store, they should be able to come to city hall and pay their water bill. She suggested they pay using direct deposit, but they would rather come to city hall and pay. Since March 17, city hall services have been available over the phone. Payments can be made through a drop box at the building, via a bank or online.
The unbearable beauty
The powerful long horns crown the head of this beautiful steer living in the Estevan area. With one horn growing up and another one down this steer, with the snow-white back, looks like a magical creature that just stepped out of a fairy tale. Accompanied by another long-horned friend, he spends his days enjoying the touches of the soft spring sun and watching the life around him. Photo by Anastasiia Bykhovskaia
Police chief hopes expansion can be finished in 2020 from Quorex that he believes should alleviate some concerns. “We intend to post an ad for local labour within the community,” the correspondence said. “Should qualified c andidates be available, Q uorex Construction is willing to hire individuals, as required, to complete work scopes.” Quorex has previously used local contractors within the community, he said, and if competitive pricing is
« A1 The mayor pointed out that the architect has a lot of experience with these projects, and Quorex has experience with projects such as police stations. After the police board announced its decision to go with Quorex on Monday af ternoon, many people criticized the decision, saying the project should go to a local firm. Police Chief Paul Ladouceur says he has received a written correspondence
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mended the construction of a new police station, but council rejected it due to the high costs. The expansion is expected to be 5,000 square feet, and expand the police station’s size by about 50 per cent. Ladouceur said construction is scheduled to start in the very near future. “Obviously there will be some time that Quorex needs to discuss work with their contractors and things
like that, so there will be a bit of time there, but the idea is to initiate construction sooner rather than later, with the hopes of being completed by the end of this year, or very early next year.” The expansion will give the EPS additional office space and room for files. “The file room is quite congested. In fact, we had to remove some ceiling tiles just to fit some of the files in there, and so it’s a very narrow room that ’s over-
loaded. We’ve moved files into several different rooms in the basement just to try to make storage for them.” There are minor renovations that the EPS would like to do with the existing building as well, such as a public washroom and security upgrades to provide interview rooms right off of the front lobby, but those will happen over time, and Ladouceur said those would be coming from the building maintenance budget.
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received, local materials will be sourced for the project. Councillor Lyle Yanish wants to know if there’s a way to ensure that the cost of the project comes in at $2 million instead of $2.5 million. Ladoucuer suggested negotiating a fixed price before going ahead with the project. The expansion of the police building has been discussed extensively in recent years. A study in September 2018 recom-
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Students won’t physically return to school for the rest of the school year.The government said it’s working on what happens if schools can’t reopen in September. Gordon Wyant, the provincial education minister, said they are working on a number of different scenarios. “We are in constant contact between the response plan-
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