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Wastewater plant exceeds capacity

By Jordan Baker editor@estevanmercury.ca

Estevan’s wastewater treatment system is operating at peak capacity, and as the annual wastewater and water quality reports for 2014 noted, the system is

regularly operating beyond its capacity.

With the wastewater treatment plan going online in 1996, the system was designed for a maximum daily flow of 6,000 cubic metres per day. Wastewater treatment plant manager

Kevin Sutter’s report on 2014, published earlier this month, found that system operated past that flow 26 days last year. A chart submitted by Sutter showed daily spikes beyond 7,000 cubic metres and even one beyond 8,000 metres in

September.

Sutter has said continuing to operate at the treatment plant at the current level is similar to running the system like a car at full speed.

“The things that are broken down on it will

show up a lot faster than if you’re idling along,” Sutter said.

To alleviate that, city council, when the 2015 budget was approved, passed a motion to move forward with a plan that will invest millions of dol-

lars in the City’s water and wastewater infrastructure.

For wastewater, Sutter noted the City provides SaskPower with effluent through a lagoon system.

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SaskPower outlines plans for 2015

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Saskatchewan’s population is growing, and to keep up with the increasing demands, SaskPower has a number of projects planned, specifically for the southeast, which they say will help meet those demands.

In addition to the recently completed 230kV interconnection substation in Kisbey, which connects with the existing S2P transmission line located west of Forget, SaskPower is proposing the construction of a new 138-25kV substation approximately 12 km west of Torquay.

The substation is currently slated for completion between July and October of 2015.

“Both of these projects support increases in customer demand for power that we’re seeing in the Estevan area, and across the province,” said Tyler Hopson, a spokesperson for

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SaskPower’s capital budget for 2015, according to Hopson, is $1.2 billion. A large chunk of that, approximately $956 million, will go towards accommodating the rising demand for power and to improve the existing infrastructure.

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“It’s been fairly consistent over the years, 2014 was no exception.”

He also noted approximately 11,000 new customers were added to the electrical grid in 2014.

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Man receives sentence for assaulting police Chad Westgard, 30, received a 60-day intermittent prison sentence for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest in 2013, and breaching an existing probation order in September 2014 that required Westgard to abide by a curfew.

We s t g a r d p l e a d e d guilty to the charges at Estevan provincial court on Feb. 23, where the joint submission was made and accepted by presiding

judge Lane Weigers.

The Crown said that on Sept. 27, 2013 at approximately 3 a.m., a police officer on patrol on the south side of the avenue behind Gibby’s Bar in Estevan noticed several males outside of the bar, two of which were fighting.

The officer, who recognized Westgard, apprehended him by grabbing his left arm and escorting him to the police cruis-

er. Westgard was being charged with being intoxicated in a public area.

The Crown said as the pair neared the police vehicle, Westgard began to resist the officer by pulling away and twisting his body. It took three additional police officers, who arrived on scene shortly after, to place Westgard into the police vehicle.

Police transported Westgard to EPS station and he was placed in a

cell, only after a significant struggle between the accused and police. The Crown noted that Westgard at one point grabbed and tugged at an officer’s shirt while screaming.

Police had to use pepper spray on the accused, and only a few minutes later, did the accused stop resisting.

The Crown said police reports also noted Westgard was heavily intoxicated and screamed

several obscenities at the officers.

Westgard has engaged in altercations with police in the past, as the Crown noted the accused received an obstruction charge in 2006 and another assault on a police officer in 2013.

The defense said this is an incident “(Westgard) would like to put behind us,” and that it was a serious error of judgment. *** In other proceedings,

Nathan Mullen appeared in court via closed-circuit television.

Mullen is charged with second-degree murder following the death of Leslie Erin Dwyre, who was found dead in her Petterson Drive home April 21, 2014. He appeared via closed-circuit television on Feb. 21.

His case was adjourned to March 16 when a preliminary hearing will be scheduled.

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“I don’t think it’s slowed us down, it’s one piece of the puzzle we’ve been working on to help keep up with the growth we’re experiencing,” Hopson said. “It’s stable base load power that we get from that plant that is available more or less 24 hours a day and seven days a week.”

Hopson also stressed the importance of continually upgrading BD3, especially in these early stages of its existence.

In addition to BD3, a number of large-scale projects are either already underway or in the planning phase across the

province.

Hopson said that SaskPower forecasts an additional 850 megawatts of added power by 2019, some of which will come from the 177 megawatt (MW) Chaplin wind farm, a project that was given the green light in 2012, after the carbon capture project was OK’d in 2011. Another large chunk of power will come from the 205 MW expansion made to the Queen Elizabeth PowerStation in Saskatoon.

A significant number of resources will also be put on upgrading power lines, power poles and facilities within communities, Hopson said.

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The City discharges that treated effluent to holding cells and over the summer months, SaskPower removes the effluent by pumping from Holding Cell J. The waste sludge produced by these processes is de-watered and disposed of at the landfill.

Sutter noted the City is required to maintain an effluent quality that leaves Cell J. Construction was completed on the biosolids building last year, and the equipment involved in the de-watering process will be purchased and installed this year, with the expectation that the entire plant will be operational sometime in the summer.

Sutter said the City is expecting to work more closely with SaskPower during any future upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant, as they use the effluent for cooling purposes. The process at the moment requires the effluent to be stored for 180 days, and Sutter said the parties are looking at eliminating the lengthy process, which would save the City form having to expand the lagoon cells.

Sutter also submitted a water quality report based on readings gathered

The above chart shows the TTHM levels in the water leaving the treatment plant between 1992 and 2014. over the course of 2014.

As has previously been the case, the City’s water complied with the majority of regulations, except for those that set a limit on the total trihalomethanes (TTHM), which were above the maximum 100 parts per billion allowed. Last year’s average was 113 parts per billion.

High TTHM levels are something the City has been dealing with for years. The average concentration of TTHMs dropped from above 200 in the early 1990s but leveled off to about 120 around 2000 and have been roughly unchanged

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TTHMs are created when free chlorine comes into contact with carbonbased organics and are regulated because of the possible carcinogenic properties the compounds hold.

With the City unable to get the concentration below the maximum threshold through other means, there are plans to draw water from the Rafferty Reservoir.

With fewer dissolved organic carbons in Rafferty’s water, running a pipeline from Rafferty is expected to allow the City to meet the regulatory requirements.

That project is one the City has applied for under the New Building Canada Fund, and if it is accepted Sutter said the new intake could be completed as early as the end of 2016.

The water quality report noted that the Wellock Reservoir, which went online in October 2013, has increased the stored treated water in the City to two days of average use. The reservoir has also given the City a sufficient water supply to continue ongoing development in the North part of the city where there is still a lot of new residential work planned.

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i v t a e n t c n o i a v s e helm SaskMu E st “(SaskMusic) has always played such an integral role in the Saskatchewan music industry,” he added. “The past couple of years I’ve just been watching the attention growing from out of the province for Saskatchewan artists more and more.

It’s an exciting time to be part of the Saskatchewan music industry.”

Dawson spent five years serving as the artistic director of the Culture Exchange, where he

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He has been working with his Library Voices bandmates, and they’re hoping to release new music this Saskatchewan music appears to be in good hands. year, and are slated to perform at SXSW in Austin, With last week’s announcement of Estevan native Texas in March.

Michael Dawson’s appointment as executive director With members getting married and some for SaskMusic, the Mercury had a chance to speak with now having children, he said they’ve gotten Dawson, and though he has been living the ins and outs away from touring 10 months of the year. of the music industry with his band Library Voices and As he begins his new role at SaskMuthrough his time working various other aspects of the sic, he will be continuing on as the artistic industry, it’s not just his hands that hold the future of director at the Gateway Music Festival in the Saskatchewan music scene.

Bengough, which he has been part of for During a phone interview prior to Dawson beginning the past few years. the post on March 2, he said Saskatchewan musicians “That’s been a passion of mine. Groware creating buzz. People are taking notice. It’s not just ing up in Estevan, there wasn’t necessarily Saskatchewan awakening to its homegrown talent but (a venue) for original music to take place. the rest of the world. And it’s not just about artists makWhether we were borrowing a back room at ing a big splash and bursting onto the airwaves like The an arcade or having a concert in someone’s Sheepdogs and The Deep Dark Woods. basement, it was the do-it-yourself ethic What’s happening is that Saskatchewan musicians of making it happen,” said Dawson, are finding an audience, and Dawson said that audience who said part of why he got inis now looking elsewhere in the province to see what volved in Gateway was be inother prairie tunes there are to discover. volved in presenting music “I would argue it’s the strongest (the Sask. music to a small community. industry) has been at any time that I can remember. “ I t ’s s u c h a It’s across every genre,” said Dawson. unique thing to “It’s funny. I was just overseas in the fall have a major for a conference called Reeperbahn Festival in music festival Hamburg, Germany and had the opportunity with a few to meet a few people, and it was interesting thousand hearing from people in Germany about how people atthey look at Saskatchewan as potentially tending in one of those next little scenes like the way a town that you look back at some place only has like Seattle that exploded.”

400 peoEstevan’s Mike Dawson has been appointed at SaskMusic’s new executive director. Photo submitted Dawson said what’s inple. That’s teresting about Saskatchewan as a scene is that there is booked and/or promoted over 400 concerts a year, before part of the charm of Saskatchewan,” he said. no defining sound. The province has a wealth of music moving on to become the talent buyer for a number of He has also worked on the Cultural Exchange’s from all genres that is primed for export. venues in Western Canada.

Presenters Network, a project that identifies places be“Every genre seems to be growing and people are Dawson previously owned and operated Young Soul yond the province’s two major cities to locate venues getting attention,” said Dawson.

Records, part of the EMI Associated Labels Division, for musicians to perform. The Estevan Art Gallery and He added that SaskMusic has been a part of moving releasing more than a dozen albums by Saskatchewan- Museum’s After Dark concert series is the result of that musicians forward in the province through a combination based artists, and has participated in numerous juries program. of programming and workshops. including FACTOR (The Foundation Assisting Canadian “Now that has taken on a life of its own, and “They’ve helped prepare those artists with the nec- Talent on Recordings) and the Lieutenant-Governor they’ve done such a phenomenal job of showcasing essary information, or what have you, to really pursue different emerging artists from around the those opportunities and help instigate those opportuniprovince.” ties.”

And there are more emerging artists in SasDawson said a lot of that groundwork was laid by katchewan than ever before. Dawson pointed to the previous executive director, Derek Bachman, who Regina bluegrass band The Dead South, who died suddenly in December following a brief illness. recently returned from Germany where they “Derek had just started so many great things. I had were selling out shows. the opportunity to be along with him on one of the export “It’s maybe not stereotypically what you’d missions that they’d worked on so seeing those connecexpect to be a German market kind of thing, tions he’d made and getting an opportunity to meet those but I think it speaks to the calibre of music that people he’d been working with, it felt like it’s really on they’re playing and the interest that’s out there,” the cusp of something that’s going to keep growing and said Dawson. growing, which is exciting for the province.”

Every day on Facebook he sees friends and The industry has been growing in the province Saskatchewan musicians who are all over the and that growth is coming with more support world playing music. With the kind of reach the and resources, like SaskMusic’s funding partner, province’s music has at the moment, Dawson CreativeSask.

— Mike Dawson said it’s only a matter of time before it really “I do think we’re seeing direct results from these clicks and Saskatchewan music starts getting opportunities the artists are being afforded to take adthe acceptance so many have been working so vantage of,” said Dawson. hard to receive.

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Central trade corridor concept back on front burner

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The implications surrounding the impending twinning of Highway 39 and Highway 6 (south) in southeast Saskatchewan is now stretching into the neighbourhood that includes North and South Dakota.

Steve Pedersen, a coordinator and advocate for the Central North American Trade Corridor that embraces the No. 39 and No. 6 highway route for international movement of goods and people, told the Mercury last week there will be a corresponding need to super size the connecting highway(s) on the American side of the equation. Not to do so will, “create a bottleneck of trade and traffic in North Dakota.”

Pedersen, a former educator at Minot State University, said the CNATC is lobbying the federal as well as the state governments for an action plan that will work in concert with the Saskatchewan plan to create a four-lane expressway from North Portal to Regina.

“I honestly think that as the talks move forward, Minot representatives should be joining your Estevan and Weyburn representatives at the table for mutual planning sessions,” said Pedersen.

Marge Young, spokeswoman for the Time to Twin committee in Estevan and Weyburn, said she and twinning advocate Laurali Ireland met with Pedersen last week and engaged in a wideranging discussion regarding their mutual interests in getting highway-based traffic moving more efficiently and safely.

The trade corridor committee has been working diligently on a preferred route from northern Mexico up to western Canada for a couple of decades and has been making progress in terms of unifying regulations

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and formulating commercial trucking routes that would encounter the least resistance.

The committee also focuses on other central NA trade and traffic issues such as airports and airlines, rail routes and international border requirements. They focus on the four T’s, they said in a recent release. That means, trade, tourism, technology and transportation.

Pedersen said the corridor advocates and committees have had periods when they are very busy and consumed by regional interests and then have taken a rest, only to be revived again when new problems or ideas surface that need to be addressed. These interests include interstate and international trade involving Midwestern and panhandle states and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

“Estevan to Minot and Minot to Estevan is already a busy highway so there have to be efforts made on both sides of the border to make it safer. We may not be able to get a four-lane highway built, but we should be able to get a Super 2 highway,” he said, explaining this meant a highway with wider shoulder widths and frequent and strategically placed passing lanes.

“If we built a four lane on Highway 52 south of

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Leading the time to twin contingent in Estevan, Marge Young was among those calling for the twinning of highway between Regina and North Portal for a number of years.

Kenmare, through the valley, crossing the river and railway, it would mean a huge expense,” said Pedersen. “But if oil bounces back again, we’ll certainly have a stronger voice as advocates for safety, just as your people did.”

The CNATC has held international symposiums and plenary sessions in the past to bring interested parties together and they will be doing so again May 18-20 in Bismarck, N.D. “It’s a summit that is attracting all types of people interested in this trade corridor because the corridor has advantages,” said Pedersen.

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‘If oil bounces back again, we’ll certainly have a stronger voice as advocates for safety, just as your people did.’

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“That’s why we hope to have some Canadian representation there. I understand your provincial government has put a block on travel budgets, but I know the premier has been an advocate of increased relationships between Saskatchewan and North Dakota and Montana in the past. We’d like to see someone here representing Saskatchewan interests because we have pretty positive things happening between our governments.”

Pedersen said traditionally speaking, highways are built in the U.S. using a formula that places 80 per cent of the cost on federal shoulders and 20 per cent on the states.

In some instances, the state has moved forward with highway upgrades ahead of schedule, such as those that were needed to accommodate the increased traffic in North Dakota thanks to the Bakken and Three Forks oilpatch rush, near places such as Watford City and Williston.

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So you’ll have more traffic, we’ll have more traffic and it needs to run safely,” Pedersen said.

“Truckers have deadlines, so they have to pick up lost time if they are delayed at crossings or due to weather.”

The corridor advocate also noted that there is a rail traffic increase, including trains now coming from the Northgate hub, and that traffic is coming south with 100 car loads. “Airlines will be getting busier. It all means

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more activity and need for better infrastructure. On our side, for instance, we have to look at what it costs to build a new four-lane road from Williston to Portal. My guess is around $250 million,” Pedersen added.

He said the trade corridor team’s summit in Bismarck will be addressing not only transportation but also other types of businesses that can be interchangeable such as mining and power production, once the visionary minds get to work.

“It’s all rather exciting.

Transportation is changing dramatically, so we have to decide what we’re building and how we’re building it,” he said.

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The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) released the first report of 2015 from Saskatchewan’s port of entries in the southern part of the province.

On January 18, officers at North Portal seized a record 162 magazines from a Kentucky man en route to Alaska. He declared five firearms and 15 magazines, which were overcapacity rifle clips.

Upon closer examination, officers noted one of the guns was a restricted assault rifle that wouldn’t be allowed to cross the border. When officers began the vehicle search, they found more than what they were looking for: 162 military-grade magazines (including 147 prohibited) valued at over $5,000. The man was issued a $1,000 penalty and returned to the U.S. In the beginning of January, officers in southern Saskatchewan made several seizures of On January 18, CBSA officers at North Portal seized a record 162 magazines from a Kentucky man en route to Alaska. Photo submitted prohibited weapons and a 65-year-old U.S. male were issued a total penalty ellers in 12,588 vehicles commercial trucks were cers completed 63 permadevices. cleared. nent resident landings, and On January 1, North on January 8 for previous of $8,850 for making a were cleared. criminality including terfalse declaration.

There were 13,819 A t E s t e v a n H i g h issued 41 work permits, Portal officers seized a roristic threats, stalking Quick Facts for southcommercial trucks cleared way, 3,860 travellers in and 5 study permits. switchblade, a prohibited and harassing. ern Saskatchewan in Januin southern Saskatchewan.

2,044 vehicles; and 328 North Portal, officers weapon in Canada. On On January 11, Ounary 2015: A t N o r t h P o r commercial trucks were refused entry to 44 foreign January 6 and 11, North gre officers refused enAcross southern Sastal, 20,107 travellers in cleared. nationals for criminality or Portal officers seized one try to a 50-year-old U.S. katchewan, 39,005 trav4,764 vehicles; and 9,916 At North Portal, offiother reasons. overcapacity magazine each from two U.S. men commercial driver with seeking entry, one travel- four offences for burglary, ling to Alaska. As these theft and embezzlement. were all first offences for On January 28, Estevan non-reporting and officers officers refused entry to believed them to be unin- a 43-year-old U.S. man tentional, these men were with multiple convictions allowed to continue into including assault, theft Canada minus their weap- and stolen property, and two DUIs. ons and devices.

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Can we be managing the water?

With the first spring runoff forecast of the year, comes attention for spring.

Though most of us are prepared to bid a farewell to winter, spring in southeastern Saskatchewan over the last few years is something met with a tad of trepidation. The water is high. It has been high for several years now, and that leaves many low-lying areas on the edge of a tipping point and one good rain away from serious flood potential.

We aren’t here to raise alarm bells that as yet have no business sounding, but we do notice the language now common to discussing water on the prairies. No more are we hearing about dust and drought.

Now we’re hearing about high water tables, fully-charged wetlands and the keen observations of such minute details as snowwater equivalent. All of it plays a role in the water we can expect to run through the Souris Valley river system in the months ahead.

The weather factors we have no control over. The snow will melt as fast as the warm days demand and the rain will fall in whatever manner it chooses.

Unfortunately, there is more at play than

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

Boom better for cities than rural Sask.

Clearly, the great Saskatchewan job and people boom has been better for the cities than the rural areas.

Consider Regina: Canada’s fourth fastest-growing city that saw its population (including surrounding area) increase by 2.8 per cent last year to 237,758.

The increase was largely caused by immigration (4,350 more people) and births (3,086 more people).

And Saskatoon’s numbers were even better, as Canada’s third fastest growing city.

But what may be a little frustrating for rural folks is that the great Saskatchewan job and population boom may be coming to an end without rural Saskatchewan having participated in it as much as they hoped they would.

Not since before the Great Depression of our grandparents have we seen a growth

simply Mother Nature. While we can absolve ourselves of the role the weather plays, there are other factors we can consider with a level-headed and sustainable preoccupation.

This isn’t just a matter for us to sit and wait and hope the water remains as manageable as we want it to be.

It has been well documented the level by which Saskatchewan has drained its wetlands, and when we see the term fullycharged in reference to the current state of the local wetlands, we must wonder how better we might be able to handle the high water table had we been less hasty to turn those unproductive wetlands into something we deemed much more useful.

There are things we can do to alleviate the hardships of additional and unwanted water, but we don’t always have the foresight to do so.

While flooding that was seen in this area in 2011 and last year to the northeast can’t entirely be chalked up to an elimination of wetlands, we do question whether or not we have been destroying the wiggle room we once had, room that previously would have absorbed excess water and saved our

properties from damage.

Once again we’re heading into a spring with high water levels in the ground. Though there isn’t any prediction of flooding, we hear the forecasts of “near normal” runoff accompanied with a caveat we feel is growing tiresomely familiar. One heavy rainfall during a warm day could present problems.

A big snowfall in March could throw the problem-free forecasts out the window.

In short, we don’t have the wiggle room we once did. We’re fully charged, and we’re dancing on a precarious edge that for some could mean big problems.

Slowly, we have groups working with landowners to restore wetlands in order to create a healthier water system that will be less susceptible to flooding and more flexible in managing the changing times in this area of the country.

We hope that as runoff forecasts roll out over the next couple of months they will be met less by individuals bracing themselves for the what-if scenarios and instead by people willing to engage in a conversation about what watershed stewardship really means to communities along the Souris River.

spurt in Saskatchewan’s population like the one we saw from 2004 to 2014.

In that decade-long period, Saskatchewan grew by 128,098 people. And similar to that last period of growth, the vast majority of newcomers – 98,272 of the 128,098 or 76.7 per cent – were working-age people (between 15 and 64 years) who came here in search of job opportunities.

They didn’t come to seek welfare or unemployment cheques. During that decade period, unemployment fell from a respectable average of 5.3 per cent in 2004 to an unbelievably low 3.8 in 2014.

But it’s also quite clear that most of these people didn’t set up home in Saskatchewan for jobs in the oilpatch or the potash mines … although people in places like Kindersley, Swift Current, Weyburn, Estevan, Moosomin, Esterhazy, Lloydminster and Langenburg are surely thankful for the ones who did.

According to Statistics Canada, Saskatoon and Regina also have more working age people than just about anywhere in the country.

With 70.8 per cent of Saskatoon’s population between 15 to 64 years, Saskatoon is well above the national average of 68.2 per cent and third highest in the nation behind only Calgary and Edmonton. Regina is also above the national average at 69.7 per cent of the population.

But what should be even more disconcerting is that two largest cities (still less than half the province’s population) are also well above the overall provincial average that indicates 66.6 per cent of people are between

15 and 64 years.

And it’s much worse in specific rural areas, according to StatsCan’s numbers.

For example, the median age in Saskatchewan is now 36 years. We are actually younger than we’ve been in some time, but you might not know that by looking at rural Saskatchewan.

The median age in the Yorkton-Melville region is 43.4 years with only 61.1 per cent between 15 and 64 years and 20.9 per cent 65 and older.

In Swift Current-Moose Jaw, the median age is 42.2 years with only 63.7 per cent in working age category while 19.2 per cent are seniors.

The Prince Albert region fares a little better, with only 15.5 per cent seniors (still, slightly higher than Regina or Saskatoon), but there are still only 63.2 per cent in the 15 to 64 years category.

So despite making overall progress – Saskatchewan has gone from the highest rate of seniors in the 2006 census to the seventh highest percentage of seniors in the 2011 census – the rural areas still have more retirement-age folks than the cities.

Although many farmers don’t subscribe to the notion of retirement at 65 years, this can’t be good news if we are now losing jobs.

And in January, Saskatchewan had 1,200 fewer working people than a year earlier.

This is hardly reason for panic. This may not even be a trend.

But if we are headed for a downward slide, it’s not great news for rural Saskatchewan, which hasn’t benefited as much from the boom as the cities.

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The benefits of crowd funding I want to do a little crowdfunding.

Some great things can be accomplished using this money gathering tool.

There are also a lot of not-so-great things being done.

A significant portion of the budget required to film the Corner Gas movie in Saskatchewan was raised in this manner.

I learned the funeral expenses for that little three-yearold Toronto boy who died of exposure were met through crowdfunding. In fact, this heart-wrenching incident led to family friends setting up an account to raise $20,000 to help meet the expected funeral costs. At last count, the fund had exceeded $173,000.

We have heard of people using crowdfunding so they can go on adventures or provide volunteer work. So on a purely charitable and emotional level, crowdfunding has a rightful place: use modern cyberspace technology to attain a financial objective so you can do good.

But what about the low lights?

Well, there was the mother who decided to crowdfund her child’s birthday party. It seems birthday party expenses are getting a little out-of-hand, and they apparently happen on an annual basis.

There are party favours to purchase and swag bags to fill for those who attend. In other words, the kids bring gifts and receive gifts. It seems professional entertainment has to be provided at these social functions, too. Apparently kids don’t know how to have fun using their own resources, imaginations and a few props.

The one I heard about was ridiculous in scope and when I learned the whole affair was being carried out to help the kid celebrate a first-year birthday, I had to laugh. The kidlet in question will never remember a darn thing. But, I’m sure there will be professional photographs of the event to help remind her how much she was loved.

I don’t remember much about any of my birthdays until I turned 27. What does a one-year-old know outside of whether her diaper is empty or full? And even that is speculative until … well, you know.

Weddings are another over-the-top event that now cost tens of thousands of dollars and usually end up with a bunch of people resenting another bunch of people because of money.

So I want to do a little crowdfunding. My needs are simple, so it won’t take you long to raise the required cash and forward it to me in whatever manner is used for crowd funding.

I would like a 40-inch television. I know it’s yesterday’s technology, but then, so am I. I have a 32 or 36-inch screen.

I would be happy with 40. I don’t need 60. I am not greedy, and I don’t need my birthday party funded by third-party investment counsellors.

I need a new parka. There is nothing wrong with my current parka, except it is now five years old, and it’s a boring beige with a new zipper installed three years ago. If you can’t raise the funds, I’ll understand.

The bride gave me new gloves last year, so I’m good to go in that department. My winter work gloves I got through a beer promotion four winters ago. My winter boots are also well past their best-before date, in the event you raise more than enough for my parka.

Let me know how you’re doing, or maybe just keep it a surprise for my birthday, which, I suppose, you may fund in mid-April, if you insist. By then parkas will be on sale.

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Greens call on landowners to act The Saskatchewan Green Party is urging landowners to each write a letter to Premier Brad Wall to demand the new Saskatchewan Surface Rights and Acquisition Act be tabled during the Spring Sitting of the Legislature. The revised Act was supposed to be brought forward in the Legislature last fall. The best chance of having the new legislation be tabled is if the Premier is asked to make it happen. If you want to get the provincial government to get anything done, you better

ask the Premier to do it.

Otherwise, you’ll be waiting a very long time for any action. In addition to acting on the demands of landowners, the new Act should include the following changes: • Open an Advocacy Office for farmers, ranchers and other private landowners when negotiating with energy companies over surface rights, • Drilling must be a minimum distance away from occupied dwellings, at a distance to be mutually agreed to by the energy company, the landowner

or landowners, and the people living in the dwelling, • The lessee of the surface rights must assume liability for any damage caused by any activity on land owned by farmers, ranchers or other private landowners, • Decisions made by the Arbitration Board under the Saskatchewan Surface Rights and Acquisition Act will be nonbinding.

• A Fair Compensation Board that is separate from the Arbitration Board would be estab-

lished under the Saskatchewan Surface Rights and Acquisition Act, to ensure that farmers, ranchers and other private landowners are compensated for any damage on their property that is caused by the lessee of the surface rights.

It is time that the province start representing private citizens and not just giving everything to the resource companies. It’s time for Real Change.

Victor Lau, Leader of the Saskatchewan Greens

MP states case for anti-terrorism act The Editor: As we have seen in Canada, the international jihadist movement has declared war and Canadians are being targeted by these terrorists simply because they hate our society and the values it represents.

One only need to look back over the past several weeks at the terrorist attacks in Ottawa and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu as well as attacks abroad in Australia and Paris, to see that the threat of radical Islamic extremism is a very real threat.

These threats require

a strong response.

That is why, under the strong leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, our Conservative Government took action and brought forward the Protection of Canada from Terrorists Act and Anti-terrorism Act 2015 that takes steps to protect Canadians against jihadi terrorists who seek to destroy the very principles that make Canada the best country in the world to live.

As Prime Minister Harper clearly said, our Government rejects the

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argument that every time we talk about security, our freedoms are threatened.

Canadians understand that their freedom and security go hand in hand. Canadians expect us to protect both, and there are protections in this legislation to do exactly that.

The fundamental fact is that our police and national security agencies are working to protect our rights and our freedoms, and it is jihadi terrorists who endanger our security and who would take away our freedoms.

Providing national

security agencies with new tools will ensure that gaps in sharing information about suspected terrorists does not limit their ability to prevent attacks on Canada or against Canadians.

We as politicians do not enforce the law, but we have the duty to make sure that law enforcement has the necessary tools to keep Canadians safe.

We will continue to do just that.

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Back to working in the city help me as I know the city pretty well and kind of what goes on throughout the year. That being said this community is constantly changing as there are more and more diverse groups moving to the city.

With this city having a diverse culture, there are interesting story ideas out there because of the many unique traditions among the various cultures.

In the most recent National Household Survey, it said that Filipinos make up 13.6 per cent of the population, and it does show as there is a Filipino market down town.

With so many new cultures coming into the city I look forward to reporting more on what growing diversity means for a small prairie city.

By Mackenzie Hientz sports@estevanmercury.ca

I’ll be working for the Mercury for the next couple of months, filling in for Josh. I’m looking forward to continue my journalism career with the Mercury, following the experiences I had working for Lifestyles the past two summers.

I’ve been with the Mercury for the past two weeks now and the stories that I’ve been covering have been mostly minor sports, which include the conclusion of the various hockey teams’ seasons, and the start of playoffs.

I’ve just finished going to school at Lethbridge College, but I’ve lived in Estevan for the majority of my life, so I do know the community pretty well.

I’m excited to continue covering events and stories throughout the community. My past experiences did include writing about minor sports so I hope to continue doing that for the Mercury, but I’m also looking forward to covering other topics as well. Please email me at sports@estevanmercury.ca with any stories or information regarding sports or other topics.

My time reporting in Estevan is a great opportunity to continue writing and getting better at the craft.

The experiences I had last summer have made the transition smooth because I’ll probably be talking to some of the same people I have recently, covering similar stories.

One of the aspects that I like about journalism is the photography, especially sports photography, and working here in Estevan, I get to improve my photo taking skills as usually with every story there is a photo to take with it.

I think growing up in this community will especially

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Locals to share during Sask. seed exchange

By Alex Coop acoop@estevanmercury.ca

Residents in southeast Saskatchewan will be able to participate in a seed exchange on March 15 at the Estevan Public Library.

A seed exchange, or “Seedy Sundays” as they are often referred to across Canada, is a grassroots movement involving gardening enthusiasts who collect and share all aspects of gardening.

Estevan’s first annual Seedy Sunday, which is sponsored by the Estevan Community Gardens Committee in partnership with South East Regional Library and Sun Country Health Region, will feature seed vendors and exchanges, garden workshops, children’s activities, community groups, musical, refreshments and prizes.

Proceeds will go towards the Slow Food group.

“It all leads back to sustainable gardening,” said Barb Wright, pub-

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“We want to use it to promote better health,” Dubreuil said, noting the importance of knowing where a lot of food comes from and how to grow it.

“It’s not all just pretty flowers.”

She said in addition to the four to six new flowerbeds, interest in the community gardens has spread across the city, including to St. Mary’s, where one class is hoping to use the program as a teaching tool this spring.

Dubreuil said the local community gardens is A seed exchange, also known as “Seedy Sundays” will looking forward to finaltake place at the Estevan Public Library on March 15. izing its numbers around Chantelle Dubreuil maintains were garden at the comApril in order to commence munity garden last season. File photo planting shortly after.

Chantelle Dubreuil, “It’s all about fundlic health nutritionist for Sun Country who is also the Estevan Community ing,” Wright said. “But that a prominent figure with Gardens co-ordinator, said becomes clearer as more the Estevan Community she looks forward to some people come forward to let us know if they are coming back.”

The weather, she added, is also a significant factor that determines when the program really gets underway, referring to the committee’s late May commencement last year due to wet weather.

“Sometimes it’s Moth— Chantelle Dubreuil, er Nature who decides Estevan Community Gardens Co-ordinator what time we start,” Wright said.

She also thanked the Estevan library’s involvement with the local community garden, as it has of the interested parties provided them with a venGardens.

The garden workshops participating in the Seedy ue for the Seedy Sunday will cover vermicompost- Sunday to carry over to event.

“They’ve been so ing, seed saving and a basic the gardening community, which took shape last year great to us,” Wright said. introduction to planting.

‘We want to use it to promote better health.’

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Surveillance footage helped police track down a purse snatcher on Feb. 20. The purse was returned to its owner. (File photo)

Purse theft leads to arrest and charges An Estevan woman got her purse back, thanks to efforts expended by the Estevan Police Service and some video surveillance recordings.

The purse was stolen from the woman at a local retail store around Feb. 20. The theft was reported to police who viewed the surveillance recording and obtained a good image and received a good description of the purse and what had been taken.

Later that day, an Estevan Police Service member on foot patrol noticed two people who fit the description of the suspects so an arrest was made with the man and woman being charged with theft of goods and cash valued at less than $5,000.

After the charges were laid the two were released with a pending court date.

EPS members also looked into the theft from a residential garage on Feb. 19. Entry had been gained by shouldering the door to the building that had been rented out as an apartment. The caretaker of the facility was not certain as to what may have been taken and the person renting the unit was not immediately available so the matter was placed under investigation.

On Feb. 21, EPS received a call from a grocery store where staff members had caught a shoplifter. The 20-yearold man was taken into custody and charged with theft of goods valued at under $5,000. He now has

a scheduled court date.

A man attended to the police station later that day, complaining that his cellphone had been stolen.

The phone was “pinged” to trace its location and police visited that residential address where the homeowner stated he had found the phone in a taxi.

The phone was returned to its owner.

On the night of Feb. 21, EPS members received a request to contact a man who was supposed to be on his way to Estevan from Medicine Hat, but had not made contact with those who were expecting him.

A check with the man’s cellphone indicated he was actually in Calgary so the police service in that city were advised of the request.

A 15-year-old driver from Weyburn was stopped at a roadside checkpoint since the automated license plate reader in the police cruiser indicated he was driving an unregistered vehicle. The driver, it was learned, did not have a valid operator’s license either so he was charged with driving an unregistered vehicle and driving without a license.

He was later released into the custody of his parents.

EPS members initiated several traffic stops during the course of the evening and during this period they arrested a 34-year-old Estevan man because of his erratic driving actions. He was found to be impaired, so he was taken back to the

police station where he was charged accordingly and lodged in cells until sober.

Another man was also checked in a similar manner and the 51-year-old was arrested and charged with refusing to provide a breath sample for analysis.

He too, was lodged in cells until sober. Both men have court dates scheduled in early April.

During the Feb. 22 day shift, EPS members were asked to attend to a possible domestic disturbance in the north central area of the city. When they arrived they noted there was no indication of a domestic dispute but noise from a toddler was considered to be the cause of the complaint.

Police also looked into another complaint regarding garbage being piled up against a fence near a commercial property in the east central area of the city. This matter remains under investigation.

On the night of Feb. 22, EPS members responded to a complaint coming from a local business regarding a disturbance.

When they arrived, the subject of the activity was outside the building.

He was warned about his actions and transported to his home with no further policing action required.

On the Feb. 23 nightshift, EPS members were dispatched to the northern part of the city to check into a report of a break, enter and theft incident where some frozen meat

and liquor had been taken.

Police managed to identify a suspect and the 41-yearold man was taken to the police station where he was lodged in cells after being charged with being intoxicated in public.

He now has an April 6 court date where he will be asked to answer to the charge of break, enter and theft.

Minor injuries were sustained by people involved in a motor vehicle collision in the central part of the city on the night of Feb. 23. A southbound vehicle had gone into a skid at an intersection and was in a collision with another vehicle that had stopped at a traffic light.

Estevan police also looked into another ve-

hicle damage report involving a car parked near a local apartment block.

Police learned that the vehicle’s door had been swung open in a violent manner inflicting damage on the car door as well as the building. Alcohol was believed to have been a factor in the event which remains under investigation.

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Wetland restoration hoping for growth

By Jordan Baker editor@estevanmercury.ca

They started small, but there are plans to get much bigger.

The Upper Souris Watershed Association’s wetland restoration program has revitalized nearly 85 acres of wetlands.

In conjunction with the three other watersheds, the hope is that the program can restore 200 acres per year across the province and about 60 acres per year in the USWA. Dave Pattyson, Upper Souris Watershed Association’s watershed coordinator, said the projects in those first two years have ranged from as large as about 16 acres and as small as about a quarter acre.

The watershed is in the process of launching a new wetland restoration program in 2015.

This program offers financial incentives for producers who restore drained wetlands and works similarly to how the watershed ran the restoration program in previous years. A different funding formula means producers are compensated based on acres restored to the tune of $2,000 per acre, up from $1,000 per acre. The program used to pay landowners either per drainage plug or per acre, but this year the financial incentives are based only on acres.

The increase in incentives is meant to reflect an increase in land values, noted Pattyson.

Dave Pattyson, USWA co-ordinator The process is rather simple following a landowners application.

The USWA conducts

how many acres would be “inundated” as part of the restoration project.

Restoring areas to

have had more acres than the program has been able to accommodate, leaving each project to be ranked.

Only those deemed most worthy are then pursued.

Projects are ranked by Ducks Unlimited’s wildlife biologists who determine what the environmental merits of the project will be. That includes identifying the potential impacts, either negative or positive, both up and downstream.

“If somebody was going to receive an impact upstream with the potential to have flooding issues or downstream where we’re potentially pulling water out of somebody’s dugout, adversely affecting them, that would automatically disqualify the project,” said Pattyson.

One of the challenges in restoring one acre back to a historical wetland is that often other changes have been made within the water system. A planned restoration in one

‘One of the things we’ve come to experience over these couple of years of developing this program is each one of the situations we encounter is unique insofar as the size and scale of the restoration.’

— Dave Pattyson USWA co-ordinator site visits to determine what the traditional water levels in the water body would be and determine

their historical norms are what the projects have been attempting to do.

Pattyson said they

area doesn’t automatically mean everything in the system goes back to normal.

“We don’t want to

have any negative impact on any of the producer’s neighbours,” said Pattyson.

There are further considerations when the team has to identify whether a project would affect something beyond water, like a municipal road allowance even if there is no road.

The USWA wants to avoid that situation. What they’re really hoping to do is keep water on the landscape.

“That’s a positive, however some of the things that would make it an ideal project would be if it’s draining directly into a lake, a stream or any other water body, because restoring a wetland in that situation can actually have an improvement on the quality of water in the water body by acting as a natural filter,” noted Pattyson.

Projects are also ideal if they are within a waterfowl target area or if they can otherwise enhance local biodiversity.

T h e U S WA i s partnered with Ducks Unlimited Canada, which installs a ditch plug designed so that when a wetland fills to its traditional level, the water will spill around the outside of the plug, which is designed with a convex profile. That’s what allows the water to drain around the edge of what is the old drainage ditch.

Each plug is designed specifically for each project.

“One of the things

Ducks Unlimited looks at in the design process is the actual drainage area into the basin so they can calculate out roughly the amount of water that would be flowing around the ditch plug,” said Pattyson.

Some plugs may designed differently to accommodate the amount of flow that may be going around the plug.

“One of the things we’ve come to experience over these couple of years of developing this program is each one of the situations we encounter is unique insofar as the size and scale of the restoration and then also there is a huge variance in the depth of the water that traditionally was in that wetland,” he added.

Draining wetlands in Saskatchewan began almost as soon as the land in the province was settled.

“It goes back quite some time, however there has been a rapid acceleration in the removal of wetlands from the landscape over the past several years,” said Pattyson, noting an “alarming” decrease began in about the 1950s.

That’s when the availability of aerial images began.

While the USWA’s restoration program puts only a little back, and doesn’t operate on a large scale, Pattyson said it’s about giving producers the tools to do their part to try to make some positive changes to the landscape.

The watershed is now accepting expressions of interest for the 2015 restoration program.

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“The open house gives us the chance to invite members of the community to celebrate with us. We have connections to so many agencies and organizations and

we hope to share the spirit of International Women’s day with others,” said Daku.

“As well, the open house is an opportunity for someone to make the choice to be an agent of change in her own life. At Envision, we have programming and services for individuals, families and couples. We’re offering the public the chance to take a look at what we do, in a non-threatening way.”

Funding for these open houses has been provided by the Status of Women, Saskatchewan office.

Each year International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8. The first International Women’s Day was held in 1911. Thousands of events occur to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women. organizations, governments, charities, educational institutions, women’s groups, corporations and the media celebrate the day.

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Sworn In At last week’s meeting of the Estevan Board of Police Commissioners, new public member Loren Resler was sworn in by City Clerk Judy Pilloud.

Photo by Jordan Baker

SGI to fund SIIT program SGI is funding the pilot for a new pre-employment auto body repair program at the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT).

The program aims to prepare students for employment opportunities and to increase the number of auto body repair technicians in Saskatchewan.

SGI partnered with SIIT, the Saskatchewan Automobile Dealers Association (SADA) and the Saskatchewan Association of Automotive Repairers (SAAR) to develop the new pre-employment auto body repair program for Aboriginal students.

“The program helps address the difficulties SGI and the auto body repair industry are experiencing in recruiting and retaining qualified journeyperson auto body repair technicians,” Minister responsible for SGI Don McMorris said. “This partnership will help attract students to the auto body repair program and ensure there are enough qualified auto body repair technicians in Saskatchewan long term.”

SGI is providing SIIT with almost $80,000 in funding to develop and deliver the program. SGI will also host the first wave of students at its Claims Technical Research facility in Regina, giving them six weeks of hands-on experience. SADA and SAAR provided guidance and expertise for development of the program and will assist graduates with finding employment in the auto body industry.

SIIT President and CEO Riel Bellegarde said the program will “provide individuals the necessary knowledge and skills for careers in this high-demand trade, and improve Aboriginal employment rates overall.”

The 10-week program is designed to prepare Aboriginal people who are interested in a career in the auto body repair industry. It includes eight weeks of training and two weeks of direct work experience in an auto body repair shop.

Students will leave the program with some basic hands-on skills and an understanding of job requirements.

The course will also teach them the safety and labour standards related to the job.

“One of our objectives is to help promote and recruit personnel for the automotive repair industry,” SAAR President Pat Quinney said.

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Sales at the 2014 Estevan Farmers’ Market exceeded those of 2013 by more than $12,000 thanks to a doubling of indoor Christmas season receipts.

Market manager Patricia Thompson said that when the market closed its outdoor season last fall, overall sales were down by about $4,000 compared with 2013 numbers.

But a huge hike in sales volume during the four Saturday sales prior to Christmas, allowed the market to register an impressive hike in overall vendor income.

The market moved into the Estevan Shoppers Mall main concourse for the four Saturdays leading up to Christmas.

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“We had phenomenal Christmas sales at the mall,” said Thompson.

The winter season sales that totaled $32,324 in 2013 in the previous location, soared to $64,083

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“The Christmas season sales saw a good turnout of vendors and shoppers,” said Thompson. “There was one little slightly downward tic and that was on the Black Friday/Grey Cup weekend, so that would just be expected.”

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As a result of the increased sales, Thompson said the $4,000 deficiency in sales volumes from the spring and summer sales, turned into a $12,000 gain.

“After the summer season, total sales in 2014 were $242,064 compared with just over $246,000 in 2013. But with the extra $32,000 coming in at Christmas, our total for the entire year came to $306,147 compared with $274,070 in all of 2013,” Thompson said.

The manager attributed the slight slump in outdoor market sales to some erratic weather situations that made it a challenge on some Saturdays. Some of those weekend days started with high winds or cold temperatures and the season also ended with some challenging conditions.

There were some similar circumstances witnessed in 2013, but 2014 proved to be just as challenging, if not more so. Even with the last minute cancellations of some vendors due to weather conditions, the outdoor markets averaged between 15 and 20 vendors each Saturday with the high points being the periods in early July and throughout August.

The market members are now focused on their annual general meeting coming up on March 11 at 7 p.m., which will be held in the main concourse of the Estevan Shoppers Mall.

“There will be a few items that will require some votes. There are some terms on the executive that are concluding, so there could be changes there,” she said, noting that veteran marketer Lynda Dunbar served as the market president last season.

Thompson said an ongoing contract with the mall has been confirmed for the outdoor market season once again, which will place the farmers’ market on the east side of the mall parking lot, close to the Tim Hortons retail outlet. She said the members will be asked to make their preferences known regarding the indoor locations for the winter events.

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Helping Out Enbridge Pipelines Estevan field office Safe Community program representatives delivered a cheque in the amount of $10,000 to the Estevan Fire Rescue Services captains on Monday evening. The local volunteer fire and rescue teams will use the money to purchase more equipment for their hazardous materials trailer and emergency response unit. From the left: Jeff Yanko, Enbridge public relations and communications; Captains Kyle Luc, Rick Davies (president of the volunteer fire rescue association); Charles Olsen, John Williams, Enbridge Pipelines director and Dean Nagel, Enbridge employee for 42 years and 38-year veteran of the Estevan fire and rescue service volunteer team.

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McLeod emphasizes the rivalry Basketball slowly accumulating greater interest

By Alex Coop acoop@estevanmercury.ca

It could be a staring contest, but if it’s between Estevan and Weyburn, tensions are sure to be through the roof.

For Dustin Wilson, the Estevan Comprehensive School’s senior boys basketball assistant coach, it’s been a rivalry that he has watched from the bleachers, participated in directly and coached from the sidelines.

“Anything that has to do with those two cities squaring off, it usually gets pretty hyped up,” Wilson said.

The flailing hands and overthe-top cheering was a good indication of the high-level excitement surrounding the McLeod series on Feb. 11 at ECS, as hundreds cheered on Estevan and Weyburn who squared off once again.

It was an evening, however, that Wilson won’t soon forget.

“It all climaxed at the end of that game,” he said. “It was something that I haven’t seen before.”

Underneath the enthusiasm allocated towards the McLeod series is perhaps another reason for excitement; the growth of the sport of basketball in southeast Saskatchewan.

H o c k e y, u n s u r p r i s i n g ly, still attracts a large number of children at a young age each year, creating a large pool of potential future talent for hockey

A number of girls and boys from the ECS senior basketball teams participated in the Estevan Student Basketball Association, which has garnered the interest of many children entering the sport for the first time. teams. Associations like the Estevan Student Basketball Association, however, has garnered the interests of young children year after year since its emergence in 2005 and is now the starting point for many children jumping into the sport.

“It’s definitely grown since it started,” said Kevin Kobitz, the ESBA’s co-ordinator.

Kobitz also noted how a number of players on the senior girls and boys basketball teams had played in the ESBA years prior.

Rob Andrist, a prominent figure in the basketball community in and around Estevan, is a basketball referee and mentor for a lot of basketball players in the Energy City.

Before the ESBA emerged, Andrist was the guiding figure for many young players entering high school.

“Rob was a huge part of our enjoyment for basketball as we got older,” Wilson said, while reminiscing about the last McLeod series game he played in 2004.

Estevan lost that series, but Wilson made sure to stick with the sport and keep close tabs on the ESBA and the players that entered high school, much like Andrist. As a result, he was able to work with several young players during their junior years in high school. A lot of them made it on to this year’s senior team that won the McLeod series.

Interestingly enough, the boys team that won the popular basketball series this year played a similar style to the one played by

the 1984 team, which according to Andrist, consisted of a ‘run and gun’ attitude.

“There were no big, dominant players in the paint,” he added.

“We scored a lot on the fast break.”

Even Weyburn mirrored their 80’s counterpart.

“They’re always this very well-coached team with a structured system,” he said.

The senior boys poor start to the final match against Weyburn this year, was also an exact reflection of the hole the ’84 senior boys team put themselves in, as they fell behind 10-0 early on in the game.

Wilson and other basketball enthusiasts have come together to spearhead the creation of a club team in Estevan, currently known as the Boomslangers.

The team first emerged in 2014 shortly after the basketball season at ECS came to an end.

It has attracted teens from Estevan, Oxbow, Carnduff and Lampman.

The team is hoping to build on last year’s success sometime around April.

Andrist and Kobitz acknowledged the growth of basketball in recent years, but noted the sport requires a significant amount of hand-eye coordination and quick feet, alongside an in-depth understanding of the long-list of rules. “ I t ’s a c o m p l i c a t e d sport,” Andrist said.

A magical adventure is promised in upcoming Koncert for Kids outing It will be magic time in the Energy City on March 8 when Sheldon Casavant brings his talents to the stage at Westview School as part of the community’s Koncerts for Kids series.

The Sunday afternoon concert will begin at 2 o’clock, featuring the magic and illusion skills honed by Casavant who engages his audience, especially young audiences, in a family-orientated event.

The show features fast-paced sleight of hand magic that he has perfected over 10 years practicing and performing. The young magician will make borrowed items vanish and then reappear, he will read minds and bring inanimate objects to life. He even allows audience members to perform impossible feats, with his assistance, of course.

His unique style of magic has taken him throughout Canada and the United States as well as through Mexico, Panama and China as well as more than 630 shows in Japan.

The concert is brought to Estevan through the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils and their Koncerts for Kids series.

The OSAC community concerts as well as those for the children attract more than 75,000 audience members every year.

OSAC also receives the support from Saskatchewan Lotteries, Saskatchewan Arts Board and Canadian Heritage.

Local concerts and events such as Stars for Saskatchewan and the Energy City Film Circuit and visual arts programs are also supported by the City of Estevan.

Magician Sheldon Casavant will be on stage at Westview School in a special Koncert for Kids celebration.

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St. Joseph’s Health Care Auxiliary

Submitted by Joanne Bill The auxiliary held it’s first meeting of 2015 on Feb. 16 with 20 members present in the hospital auditorium, with president Sharon Heintz presiding.

We were pleased to have two guests, Martha Holzer and Clara Freitag.

Clara presented us with honourariums for her mother, Audrey Loustel who passed away in December.

Member Laura Baryluk presided over a memorial service for five of our members who passed away in November and December, namely Verna Styre, Helen Marriott, Lil Gedak, Pearl Marcotte and Audrey

Loustel. All were longtime members, actively involved for many years, one as far back as 1952.

May they rest in peace.

The auxiliary made a gift presentation to the New Year’s baby, Cole Lockart.

Plans were made for our Spring Tea and Bake Sale on Wednesday, May 6. Raffle tickets for cash prizes will go on sale next month.

Volunteers are still needed in our gift shop and for canteen delivery to the rooms. Those wishing to volunteer do not necessarily have to attend meetings but can just be an associate member.

The canteen only takes about half and hour and is greatly appreciated by

the patients. The gift shop takes one and a half to two hours, morning or

afternoon.

Lunch convenor Marge Heidinger saw fit

that we end our meeting with coffee and goodies.

Our next meeting is Mon-

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Last week I reported we had 10 and one half tables for cribbage. Well, our president informed me we had 12 so I stand corrected. For the benefit of our new members here is a rundown of our activities: Monday – hand and foot canasta at 12:30 p.m.

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Thursday – cribbage 1 p.m.

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Cellist featured in next Home Routes concert The third presentation in this season’s Home Routes classical concert series will feature cellist Leanne Zacharias, who will be the featured guest and entertainer at the Bridget and Mark Bittman household on Sunday evening, March 15 beginning at 7:30.

This is one of the few concerts that are being offered on a Sunday night, said co-ordinator Shirley Andrist.

Those looking for a ticket to this concert that is limited to the seating capacity in the Bittman home, are asked to contact Andrist at 306-634-9302 to make arrangements. Andrist noted that tickets will be available up until March 13. All the money raised from the admission fee goes to the performer.

The intimate Home Routes series has gained in popularity over the past three seasons, and they have offered a variety of performances in the intimate and comfortable home settings that allow audiences and performers to get to know one another even better.

Cellist Zacharias brings an approach to her musical life that indicates she is not afraid to collaborate with artists in other genres such as choreographers, writers,

architects, visual artists and all kinds of musicians. With that, she has emerged with a uniquely vibrant contemporary voice in the musical world.

Zacharias has been artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts with San Francisco’s Odyssey Works and Sweden’s Elucian Ensemble and served an apprenticeships with Montreal’s Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and she has shared stages with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Toronto’s Aradia Ensemble, The Hylozoists, Tafelmusik, Baroque Orchestra, the Boundary Ensemble, Toca Loca, Whitehorse’s Longest Night Ensemble, Wiretap’s Jonathan Goldstein, the Miro Quartet, Edgar Meyer and the Weakerthans.

With longtime cohort, songwriter Christine Fellows, Zacharias has toured the continent and contributed music for videos, modern dance, five albums on Shooter Records and the Winnipeg Arts Councilsponsored Reliquary performance project. She is also on the artistic direction team of the Brandon Chamber Players.

Originally from Morden, Man., Zacharias has studied with Arek

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Tesarczyk and Paul Marleyn at the University of Manitoba before receiving a masters degree from Rice University as a student of Desmond Hoebig. She received her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin where her interdisciplinary performance research was supported by the Getty Foundation, a Roberts Endowed Presidential scholarship, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Amati Foundation and a prestigious graduate continuing fellowship. While there, she was a company member of the American Repertory Ensemble, the Movable Feast performance collective and worked closely with Josh Gindele of the Miro Quartet, composer Dan Welcher and musicologist Phil Ford.

Zacharias has been a Brandon University cello professor, orchestral director and chamber music co-director since 2008. She is a popular guest lecturer and adjudicator and was a featured performer at the 2011 International Cello Festival of Canada where she curated the festival’s opening event in Winnipeg’s Exchange District.

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By Jordan Baker editor@estevanmercury.ca

The CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins find themselves in a tight spot, squeezed by opponents on all sides.

In one hand, with two games left, the Bruins’ destiny is under their control. One point back of the division-leading Melville Millionaires with a homeand-home series this weekend against the Mils, a pair of wins would launch the Bruins into the playoffs and a bye into the quarter-finals as the Viterra Division leaders.

With two losses, depending on the outcomes of games played by Weyburn (21-24-6-2), Humboldt (2224-5-2) and La Ronge (2026-3-5), the Bruins could find their season come to an abrupt end on the outside looking in. For that to happen, La Ronge would need to win both of their remaining games against the Flin Flon Bombers.

Still, it means a lot is riding on the two games this weekend – Friday at Affinity Place and Saturday

The Bruins have a lot on the line with their final two season games coming in the form of a home-and-home series against the Melville Millionaires as the two teams faceoff in the division lead on the line. Above, Chase McKersie moves the puck into the opposing zone against the Yorkton Terriers during a 7-4 win on Friday night. Photo by Jordan Baker in Melville – against an opponent the Bruins have played to a 2-4 record so far this season.

The Bruins will need a bounce back effort following Sunday’s 9-3 loss to the

Notre Dame Hounds on the road, but the team has the entire week to prepare for the Millionaires.

“You just have to put it behind you. You have to learn from it,” said head

coach Chris Lewgood. “The guys have to understand what we could have done differently on the game plan side of things but also learn, and I’m going to keep pounding away that you

can’t take nights off.

“It’s a different opponent and we prepare differently for Melville, so we’ll have to go over some of the smaller details and really just have to think

about Melville and not about Notre Dame.”

And with playoffs so close on the horizon, Lewgood stressed how important it is to remain focused ⇢ B2 Mixed

Chargers edge out Blues in playoff series

By Mackenzie Hientz The Estevan Power Dodge bantam A Chargers knocked the third seed Regina Blues out of the playoffs in round one,

during a two-game, totalpoints series.

The sixth seed Chargers defeated the Blues 3-2 in Regina on Feb. 21, and tied them 3-3 at home the following day. Estevan

Local football athletes thrive in Texas

By Mackenzie Hientz Two local high school football players had a special opportunity to play in Texas with the South Sask.

Selects U16 football team.

Full back Kolby Dyck and running back Levi Pick recently participated in a tournament in San Antonio that involved some hard hitting action.

The South Sask. Selects team was formed in late November and had been practising every other week leading up to the

tournament in San Antonio.

The two local boys had success with the team as they won all of their games and were the overall champions, as they outscored their opponents 124-8 in three games.

They played Mexico as a warmup game before the tournament and defeated them 36-0. The first game of the actual tournament was against the Red Raider Chiefs, and the South Sask.

Selects defeated them 40-0. ⇢ B3 Four-team

outshot Regina 6-5 to take the series.

In Game 1, Regina scored the only goal in the first period to take the lead.

Estevan scored all three of their goals in the second.

Jasynn Monteyne, P a y t e n Wi l s o n a n d Makenna Morrison each found the back of the net.

Taya Mckersie earned an assist on two of the goals.

Regina scored the lone goal in the third.

Coach Trevor Morrison said the game was the team’s best of the year.

“We just played very disciplined, we worked hard, we didn’t make many mistakes … and every girl played well. It was a really good team effort,” he said.

He also thought the C h a rg e r s c o u l d h a v e scored more goals but the Regina goalie was on her game he said.

“We played a really, really good game. We should have won by more than what we did,” said Morrison.

Estevan scored the first goal in Game 2, when

Taya McKersie pokes the puck to the net during a playoff game at the Civic Auditorium on Sunday. Photo by Jordan Baker Taylor Dukart lit up the lamp in the opening period.

Mckersie and Tasia Trobert assisted the play.

In the second period, Araya Wheeler scored for Estevan, but Regina also scored two goals of their own. The Blues also scored in the third.

Morrison said that because they only have 10 players it is hard to play back-to-back games, espe-

cially when the other team has a full roster. “ We h a v e a s h o r t bench. We don’t have a lot of players. We play with two lines but everybody is playing well,” he said.

The Chargers will be playing Parkland in round two and Morrison said the team will have to bring their A game.

“They’re a very strong team, so we’re going to

need a couple of bounces to go our way as well,” he said.

Morrison said he was unsure of the date that round will begin, the best of three series has to be finished by March 9.

Not only do the Charges play Parkland in league play but they also have a two-game, total-points series in the provincial playoff.

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Mixed results heading into playoffs ⇠ B1 on the next game in front of them.

“The guys are pretty focused on Melville and what they can do in those two games, and then we’ll start thinking about the playoff games,” he said.

Sunday’s got saw the Bruins get behind just 30 seconds in, and after a 2-1 first period, the Hounds opened up the Bruins with a five-goal second period. Sam Aulie led the way with three goals and assist for the Hounds.

“We just didn’t play well. There are a lot of factors that go into whether it’s a good or bad effort and most of those factors led to bad. There were very few bright spots. It’s hard to see them at this time anyway,” said Lewgood on Monday. “It’s concerning.

That should never happen.

We need to make sure we follow the plan and work a lot harder.”

Prior to that loss, the Bruins won two straight at home, 5-2 against La Ronge last Wednesday and 7-4 on Friday night when they hosted the Yorkton Terriers.

Taylor Ross scored a hat trick in the Friday game.

“You need more than a couple of guys contributing, and his line has been really good. It’s a good example of (secondary scoring),” said Lewgood.

It was Brad Arabia who opened the scoring Friday night at Affinity Place. He knocked one in seven minutes into the first period.

Ross scored his first of the game three minutes later assisted by the brothers Duret.

For Jason Duret, it was his first of four helpers on the night.

Just 20 seconds later Mahlon Head made it 3-0 and the Bruins carried that lead into the second.

In the second, the Terriers scored back-to-back goals just 12 seconds apart

the Bruins exited the period up 5-2.

Fuhr started Friday’s game, stopping 16 of 18 shots through two periods. Gutenberg went in for the third, and Lewgood said Fuhr was suffering no symptoms, but the coach thought it was a good opportunity to give Gutenberg some playing time.

In his first minute of play, the Terriers slipped one past Gutenberg. The goal came on a shot from the point that was deflected fluttering over defenders and past the Bruin goalie who never saw it in the air.

Ross completed his hat trick just five minutes later, and the teams exchanged goals in the final minutes for to make the 7-4 final.

“I thought Friday’s game was really good. I thought we played better than what the score showed.

Seven goals is a lot, but I think defensively, the four goals were a poor indicator

Taylor Ross led the Bruins with a hat trick during Friday’s win against the Yorkton Terriers. That effort was followed up on Sunday with a 9-3 loss to the Notre Dame Hounds. Photo by Jordan Baker of how well we played. I thought they had some lucky bounces,” said Lewgood.

Duplicating Friday’s effort rather than Sunday’s will go a long way in determining the Bruins’ immedi-

ate future.

“It’s very important.

We would be reaching our goal is we win both games.

It comes down to those two games. If we win both we met our goal of winning our

division,” said Lewgood.

“It’s big, but if we don’t then we gotta make the playoffs.

If we don’t finish first when we make the playoffs, we gotta deal with the hand we’re dealt.”

SJHL playoffs just around the corner

By Mackenzie Hientz With less than a week left in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) regular season, the playoffs are just around the corner.

It is the second year that the SJHL is using a three division format instead of a two division structure, as the division leaders earn the top three seeds in the quarter-finals.

Instead of the first three rounds being played within the division, teams in the overall league can end up playing each other.

The seventh to 10th overall seeds after the regular season will play in the wild card round. The round is a best of five series, with the seventh seed playing the 10th,

and the eighth and ninth seeds playing each other. The two winning teams then advance to the quarter final as they’ll be seeded one through eight.

Positions are determined by regular season points, and the number one seed will play the eighth, number two will play the seventh, the third seed will play the sixth, and the fourth and fifth seeds will be playing each other.

After the quarter-finals the four remaining teams advance to the semifinals and are ranked one through four, and the positions again are determined by regular season points. The top seed plays the fourth and the second and third seeds play each other.

The winners from that round will be matched up in a final series to determine the winner of the Canalta Cup. The quarter-finals, semifinals and final are a best of

seven series.

As it stands right now the Melfort Mustangs, Kindersley Klippers and Melville Millionaires are first in their division, which means they earned the top three spots in the quarter-finals. Melfort has already clinched the Sherwood Division and leads the league in points.

The Notre Dame Hounds, Nipawin Hawks and Flin Flon Bombers are sitting fourth through sixth, which would give them byes to the quarter-finals.

The teams that are in the wild card round are the Battlefords North Stars, Humboldt Broncos, Estevan Bruins and Weyburn Red Wings.

The Bruins are also in a tight race to win their division as they’re only one point behind the Mils with a home-and-home to be played this weekend.

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Four-team tournament highlights football experience in San Antonio ⇠ B1 Thunder of the Canadian Junior After that game they adFootball League. And playing vanced to the final of the fourfor the South Sask. Selects team team tournament against Mexico. and the experience in Texas has Mexico would score eight helped him prepare for the trypoints in the first quarter, but outs that are in the spring. the South Sask. Selects defeated “It should help a lot, just the them 48-8. experience in playing, plus some Dyck and Pick both enjoyed of the coaches from the Regina the culture of playing football in Thunder actually helped coach Texas, noting religion was very part of the 12U and 14U and 16U important in the state. teams, so they already have kind “We all get together, both of seen me,” he said. teams, and after the games, no He also said leading up to matter what the score is, we got the tryouts he is going to attend together and prayed,” said Dyck. some practices the Thunder are Both players had the same having. favourite moment during one of One of the aspects that Dyck the games, when Pick scored a enjoyed about playing football in 50- plus-yard touchdown, with Texas was how the rules differ Dyck contributing a block. from the Canadian league, which Throughout the tournament includes playing four downs inDyck said that he mostly played stead of three. the slot back position, but in “It was interesting. I kind a couple of plays in the fourth of like the four down system. It quarter of the final, he was put at just gives you that extra bit to just fullback, which he played during to try to push it and get that 10 the ECS Elecs season. yards,” said Dyck.

“I just followed his block, he Pick, who is in Grade 11 and popped a linebacker right in front has one more year of high school of me, I broke off and right before football eligibility, agrees that his I hit the end zone I trucked a kid experience with the Sask. Selects to get in,” Pick said. will help him for the season this During their next offensive fall. possession in the quarter Dyck “There are a lot of things continued to make blocks for that I picked up like a lot of new (L-R) Kolby Dyck and Levi Pick helped the South Sask. Selects U16 football team when a tournament moves I could use in a game,” Pick.

“He was just popping kids in Texas. Photo submitted. said Pick. in front of me, popping this The different skills he linebacker, and popping the safety,” Pick Even though the opposing team played Dyck said. learned were how to dip his shoulder when said. “It was the last time we were going at a fast, competitive pace he was able to “In minor football, a lot of people running and several other techniques of to play together, so we wanted to go off score a touchdown a couple of plays after always over look our records, but we have how to leave the holes when he is making with a bang.” the kickoff return. probably one of the hardest working kids his move to get down field.

Even though both payers have been Both players came up through the Es- out there,” Pick said.

Pick also enjoyed the intensity of the playing football since the inception of EMF, tevan Minor football system as the program “And playing on the Minors, Chargers, games and how every team was competiPick still had some nerves during his first helped both athletes get to where they are and Steelers and now high school, I kind of tive, taking the sport as seriously as he does. play of the first game in San Antonio. today in their football careers. progressively got better throughout those “They hit harder, they’re way faster, so “I actually botched the kick return. I “It was just from all the football that years, from the coaching I got and all the that’s the type of things you got to expect was so nervous, I don’t know why, it was I’ve played, just coming up throughout the hard work that I put in.” down there,” Pick said. “That’s the type of one of my first times on the field and I didn’t years, starting out with the minor league Dyck, who is graduating high school football I like to play, competitive football, know what to expect,” said Pick. “I didn’t puma team and just making it all the way up this year, said that he is going to still pur- and not only is it more fun, but it’s better know if they were going to hit super hard.” through the Elecs, sticking with football,” sue football by trying out for the Regina for me to develop as a player.”

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Apex on hot streak entering playoffs

By Mackenzie Hientz sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Apex midget AA Bruins recently picked up seven points in four games and have earned points in seven straight to move up in the standings.

Estevan defeated the Swift Current Hurricanes 6-5 on Feb. 21 and tied the Moose Jaw Warriors 3-3 the following day. They were in Midale when they defeated the Weyburn Red Wings 5-4 on Feb. 19, and they scored four answered goals in a 5-3 home victory against the Notre Dame Hounds.

In the game against Moose Jaw, Josh Skjonsby scored the lone goal in the first period, as he was assisted by Cole Piche and Marc Shaw.

The Warriors would go on to score three straight , leaving the Bruins trailing 3-1 early in the third.

Kolton Ganson and Wyatt Bayliss lit the lamp for the Bruins in the period, but the team couldn’t break the tie. Colton Winton, Matt Bill and Marc Shaw had the assists.

On Saturday, the Hurricanes struck first in the opening period. Twenty-one seconds later Dylan Massicotte scored for the Bruins.

Shaw and Skjonsby earned the assists.

Estevan took the lead shortly after when Piche scored, but twenty seconds remaining, Swift Current tied the game at two.

Fifteen seconds into the second period, Shaw regained the lead for Estevan. Kale Martens had the assist.

Peyton Stevenson tries to collect the loose puck in front of the net, which led to Estevan’s first goal of the game. Photo by Mackenzie Hientz

Swift Current tied the game again and would go on to score another to lead 4-3.

Estevan scored two goals in the first half of the third period to lead 5-4 with 11:47 remaining in the game. Bill and Piche had the goals, and Josh Giblett and Shaw the assists.

Swift Current later tied it up for the third time, and Estevan responded when Mitchell Morrison scored the go-ahead goal.

In the matchup against Weyburn, Estevan fell behind three-and-a-half minutes into the game, but Bill tied it at one midway

through the period. Payten Stevenson and Kale Martens assisted the goal.

Estevan scored again as Bill put the Bruins up 2-1. He was assisted by Shaw and Bayliss.

The Bruins earned another goal with 53 seconds left to go up 3-1. Ganson was the scorer, and Skjonsby and Piche had the assists.

In the second period Weyburn scored two consecutive goals to tie the game. Estevan regained the lead after Shaw netted one.

Bill and Stevenson had the assists on the play.

Bruins led 4-3 after two.

Stevenson earned a hat trick in the third to put the game away.

During the game on Feb.17, Estevan scored first, when Peyton Stevenson put the puck past the left pad of Riley Higdon in the opening period. Bayliss and Colton Gingras assisted him.

The Hounds would respond later in the period when they tied the game with five seconds remaining in the Bruins’ penalty kill.

In the second, Notre Dame capitalized on the power play again to go up by one.

Despite outshooting the Hounds, the Bruins found themselves trailing 3-1 in the first half of the period.

Coach Blake Jamieson told his team to keep driving to the net, and just past the midway point, Massicotte netted one to put the Bruins within one. He was assisted by Preston Brodziak.

With 1:29 remaining in the period Brodziak tied the game at three, with Massicotte and Giblett assisting.

Estevan continued to score in the third as Bayliss gave them the lead. Morrison had the helper.

Estevan added to their lead when Brodziak lit the lamp as the Bruins went up by two.

Jamieson said he has been impressed with the goaltending over the past week.

Estevan concluded their season on Tuesday against Yorkton and will start league playoffs in the upcoming week.

Atom team goes undefeated in U.S tournament

By Mackenzie Hientz sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan A&S atom AA Bruins were the champions in the A final during the Fargo International Youth Hockey tournament.

They competed in the squirt B division from Feb. 20 to 22, winning all six games they played.

Estevan opened up the tournament Friday morning with a 4-0 win over Farmington, MN. In the evening the Bruins beat Eden Prairie 6-1, and that advanced them to the A bracket.

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On Feb. 21, Estevan started the day with a 3-1 victory over the Detroit Lakes team. After the win they were matched up against Stillwater and the Bruins defeated them 6-2.

Even though the Bruins won by four goals, coach David Lavoie said it was a pretty close game for the majority of the contest. It wasn’t until toward the end of the game when Estevan opened up the scoring, he said.

On the final day of the tournament Estevan defeated Prior Lake 5-2, which advanced them to the A final.

Again the score was deceiving as Lavoie said that it was actually a close and competitive game. Once the Bruins went up 2-0 nothing, it remained that way for a while, according to Lavoie.

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Lavoie said that Sioux Falls went up 1-0 in the first period, and then in the second Estevan tied it at one. Mason Fichter had the goal and Blayze Siebert and Kaden Chrest contributed with the assists.

By the third period, Sioux Falls led 2-1 and with eight minutes remaining, Siebert tied it up for Estevan. Fichter and Conner Terness had the assists.

In the first overtime Lavoie said it was a five-on-five, five minutes sudden death format. When it remained scoreless, they played four on four, for another five minutes.

In the third overtime they went to three-on-three hockey and when the clock expired the officials let the teams play until somebody scored. Kyler Gingras had the winning goal for Estevan.

By the end of the game Lavoie said that his team was “tuckered” out.

Lavoie said the tournament helped prepare his team for their league playoffs as the competition kept getting more challenging with each game.

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Panthers deliver blow to Hounds

By Mackenzie Hientz sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Power Tech midget AA Panthers outshot the Notre Dame Hounds 11-3 in a two game total points playoff series, to move on to round two.

Estevan was in Wilcox on Feb. 19 and defeated the Hounds 7-1, and also earned a 4-2 victory at home on Feb. 22.

In Game 1, Kaily McLellen of the Panthers opened the scoring early in the first period, while Brooklyn Dukart and Taylor Colbow earned the assists. Notre Dame tied the game up 47 seconds later.

Colbow scored the lone goal in the second to give Estevan a 2-l lead. Mackenzie Ronyk had the helper.

Coach Chad Chapman said the Panthers “exploded for five goals” in an eight minute span during the third period.

Megan LeBlanc had two goals and an assist, Hayley Ronyk scored once and had two helpers, and Colbow and McLellen also lit up the lamp in the period.

Teanna Sieben, and Brooklyn Dukart also had assists.

Chapman said that his

The game was scoreless until 1:30 left in the first period when Ashley Chapman found the back of the net for the Panthers. Colbow and Dukart contributed with assists.

Estevan took a 2-0 lead in the second with a goal from Sieben and assists from LeBlanc and Haley Ronyk.

Two minutes and 30 seconds later, Notre Dame cut the lead in half and tied the game later in the period.

In the final frame McLellen regained the lead for Estevan midway through the period.

Haley Ronyk also scored with one second remaining in the game.

Throughout the game coach Chapman said that the defence was solid and there was great goaltending from Litesha Spittal.

Going into round two, he said that the team has to show that level Haley Ronyk attempts to get past a defender during weekend playoff action at Affinity Place. Photo of emotional, physical and consisby Jordan Baker tent play for the full 60 minutes.

Round two will be a best of team didn’t play well in the with our fore check and dump and as much desperation compared to three games. first two periods but was glad chase, that we were able to capital- the previous game, as they had a “There’ll be a different mindto see them play with determi- ize on a couple of mistakes,” he six goal lead going in. But he was set we’ll have to have going into impressed with the way they still them, knowing we have to win not nation and desperation in the said.

During Game 2 Chapman “grinded” out the game like they just stay close and hopefully score third.

“We wore them down enough said that his team didn’t play with should. more goals… to get ahead.”

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Cenovus Energy Inc., headquartered in Calgary said it expected to cut staff by about 15 per cent with the majority of those cuts coming from contracted workforces.

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Cenovus said with oil prices expected to remain low for most of 2015, they will focus on expansion at its Foster Creek and Christina Lake projects that are already well advanced.

CEO Brian Ferguson said the company finished 2014 in a solid financial position with $900 million in cash and equivalents

and debt ratios well within target ranges.

The cuts were being made due to the current oil price environment and the desire to preserve the company’s financial resilience.

“We have additional flexibility to further reduce capital spending if oil prices continue to fall or remain low for an extended period,” said Ferguson.

Cenovus cut its 2015 capital budget by $700 million to $1.8 billion.

On another front, Husky Energy said they were reducing their capital budget by as much as $400 million and seeking a further $600 million in additional savings from operations.

Again, sinking oil prices were cited as the main reason for the curtailment

of projects and spending.

The new capital plan calls for capital spending of between $3 to $3.1 billion on long-term growth projects. They have a couple of projects due to come on line this year and in 2016.

The operational savings will come from contracted suppliers and contractors, they said. Dividends to shareholders will remain unchanged.

Husky reported a $603 million loss in the fourth quarter, mostly caused by asset writedowns and inventory reductions.

Excluding those two elements, the company’s net earnings for the quarter were $147 million.

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SaskEnergy has received reports that individuals claiming to be from SaskEnergy are contacting customers threatening disconnection of their natural gas service unless a payment is made. The caller claimed to be a SaskEnergy representative.

The calls are reported to be coming from 1-800-9831304 and the caller ID reads SaskEnergy (the name or number on your call display may vary). The caller asks for a payment by prepaid debit or credit card.

This is not a SaskEnergy representative. While SaskEnergy does contact customers via phone from time to time, the Corporation never requests payment

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information over the phone, and does not accept prepaid debit or credit cards.

Anyone who has received calls of this nature should report the call to Phonebusters (the Canadian Anti-fraud Call Centre) at 1-888-495-8501. If a customer has provided personal financial information, including bank account or credit card information, over the phone, they should report the matter to their local police, as well as immediately contact their financial institution.

If you have questions about your SaskEnergy bill, or are unsure if the person contacting you is from SaskEnergy, ask for the person’s name, and call SaskEnergy back at 1-800-567-8899 to verify the caller.

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Homeowners should be careful around gas meters SaskEnergy today reminded customers to work safely when clearing snow from around buildings, including rooftops, so as to not bury or damage natural gas meters or risers. This reminder comes after SaskEnergy responded to four incidents over the last three days where natural gas meters and above ground facilities were damage by equipment during snow removal.

Homeowners and businesses are also reminded to check their natural gas meter as melting snow from rooftops can also form ice on the natural gas meter, as moisture freezes overnight.

SaskEnergy has the following winter safety tips when dealing with a natural gas meter: • K e e p t h e m e t e r, regulator and shut-off valve free of snow and ice. Heavy amounts of

snow or ice caused from sleet, freezing rain or a leaking eavestrough can cause damage to meter fittings and pipes, which can increase the risk of a natural gas leak.

• Remove any builtup snow by hand – do not use a sharp instrument to scrape or chip off the ice or snow. Do not hit or kick the meter to break the ice or remove the snow build-up.

• Do not use a snow-

plow or snow-blower near your meter. Make sure you know where your gas meter is before you start your snow removal.

SaskEnergy’s natural gas meters are designed

to safely operate in Saskatchewan winters.

However, ice buildup may affect the operation of the natural gas regulator. This is a safety design feature which pre-

Increase in crude going through the pipelines

Canadian pipelines net receipts of crude oil and condensates, and other liquefied petroleum products, totaled 36.1 million cubic metres in December 2014, up 9.4 per cent from the same month in the prior year.

According to Statistics Canada, the increase reflects higher receipts from processing plants (up 13.2 per cent to 19.1 million cubic metres), as well as higher receipts from fields, refineries and imports. Conversely, receipts from other sources, such as rail and truck terminals, fell 10.7 per cent from the same month a year earlier to 1.3 million cubic metres.

Net deliveries of crude oil and condensates, and other liquefied petroleum products reached 36.0 million cubic metres in December, up 7.8 per cent from the same month last year. The gain was mainly attributable to deliveries to processing plants, which rose 11.9 per cent to 14.4 million cubic metres. Deliveries to refineries edged down 0.4 per cent to 5.8 million cubic metres.

Net receipts by pipelines amounted to 392.2 million cubic metres at the close of 2014, up 6.7 per cent from the total in 2013. Saskatchewan, at 18.1 per cent, posted the largest percentage increase in net receipts among the provinces, followed by Manitoba, 15.1 per cent.

Net receipts in Quebec declined 23.5 per cent, partly as a result of changes in pipeline operations.

Net deliveries of crude oil and condensates, and other liquefied petroleum products by pipeline totaled 391.1 million cubic metres in 2014, up 6.4 per cent from 2013.

Crude oil and condensates rose by 7.9 per cent, while deliveries of other liquefied petroleum products increased 0.6 per cent.

In 2014, 142.7 mil-

lion cubic metres of crude oil and condensates were exported, up 8.8 per cent from a year earlier. Conversely, exports of other liquefied petroleum products declined 43.6 per cent to 1.9 million cubic metres, largely stemming from a change in pipeline opera-

tions in Western Canada.

Inventories of crude oil and condensates, and other liquefied petroleum products held in tanks and terminals rose 11.3 per cent to 6.2 million cubic metres compared with the same month in 2013. Inventories held in pipelines increased

3.6 per cent to 12.6 million cubic metres.

Natural gas Natural gas sales totaled 9.756 million cubic metres in December, down 4.5 per cent from December 2013.

The volumes of sales to the residential (-11.4

per cent) and commercial (-8.7 per cent) sectors were down while the industrial sector (+0.5 per cent) was up compared with the same month a year earlier.

Total sales in December were 15.4 per cent higher compared with the previous month.

vents pressure from building up on gas supply lines inside a facility.

Each winter, SaskEnergy responds to gas leaks caused by ice build-up on meters, or from damage to meters which occur during snow removal.

If you have any concerns about possibly damaging the natural gas meter and regulator this winter, please contact SaskEnergy at 1-888-7000-GAS (427) to have the ice safely removed by one of our technicians.

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Law enforcement issue nearly 400 intersection-related tickets Close to 400 motorists were ticketed during January’s traffic safety spotlight on intersection safety. Saskatchewan police issued 383 intersection-related tickets, including: * 220 tickets for disobeying traffic lights * 95 tickets for failing to stop/proceeding from a stop sign before safe * 65 tickets for failing to yield the right of way * Three tickets for failing to yield to a pedestrian

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$1,500 Yearly Tax Credit In Loving Memory of Carly Ehrmantraut October 18, 1988 February 24, 2006 Your life was a blessing, Your memory a treasure.

You are loved beyond words, And missed beyond measure.

Forever in Our Hearts Love Dad, Mom, Curtis, Cara, Brian, Cohen & Mylo In Loving Memory of Gerry Mitchell June 18, 1955 February 23, 2013 Your memory is a keepsake, With which we’ll never part.

God has you in his keeping, We have you in our hearts.

Forever loved and always missed;

By Mom Louise, and brother Brian and Family

$15,000 Lump Sum Refund (on avg) Covers: Hip/Knee Replacements Back conditions and Restrictions in walking and dressing

Notice to creditors In the matter of the estate of Edith Grace Panteluk, late of Estevan, in the province of Saskatchewan, deceased.

In Loving Memory of Our Granddaughter Carly Ehrmantraut October 18, 1988 February 24, 2006 God has you in His keeping We have you in our heart.

- Love Grandma & Granddad Worsnop

All claims against the above Estate, duly verified

by Statuatory Declaration and with particulars and valuation of security held, if any, must be sent to the undersignedbefore the 12th day of March, 2015 Orlowski Law Office Prof. Corp.

1215 - 5th Street, Estevan, SK S4A 0Z5 Attention: Stephen J. Orlowski Solicitor for the Executors

Houses for sale House For Sale: Main Street Midale, mixed commercial/residential.

Currently owner occupied. Numerous renos. One bedroom, den, kitchen, laundry in basement. Lots of parking, See on discoverestevan , $127,000 obo. 306-471-7001 In Loving Memory of Richard Weisgerber April 28, 1946 February 26, 2012 We thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday and days before that too.

We think of you in silence.

We often speak your name.

All we have are memories, and a picture in a frame.

Your memory is a keepsake, with which we’ll never part.

God has you in his keeping, We have you in our heart.

Sadly missed and remembered, always with Love; Joanne, Stephen & Stephanie

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For more information please visit: www.rdiec.ca FLEA MARKET/GARAGE SALE Estevan’s Largest Garage Sale & Flea Market.

Saturday March 14, 2015 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Wylie Mitchell Bldg.

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Land Auction: Thursday March 5th ,7 p.m. at the Days Inn. One quarter in the R.M. of Estevan No. 5, NE 20-03-07-W2. Mack Auction Company. Phone 306-634-9512 www.mackauctioncompany.com PL 311962

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Career OppOrtunities Heavy Duty Mechanic

required for prevetative maintenance, repair and service of heavy equipment fleet Journeyman’s License +10 yrs min exp with CAT, JD, and heavy trucks req’d. Both camp and shop locations. Service truck and accommodations provided.

Wage negotiable.

Send work references and resume to: Bryden Construction, Box 100, Arborfield, Sk. S0E 0A0; Fax: 306-769-8844 Email: brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www.brydenconstruction andtransport.ca

February 25, 2015 B11 General employment

Career Training

“ PA RT T I M E O P P O RT U N IT YANDERSON MERCHANDISERSCANADA INC.” requires a Merchandiser to service and maintain various product lines in Estevan retail outlets. Reliable transportation, computer with internet and printer, access to digital camera and able to lift up to 50lbs. is required. Approximately 5-8 hours per week. Salar y is negotiable based on experience. Email resume to:hrcanada@amerchca.com or fax to 905-763-6785

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Obituaries

Obituaries

Jean McAllister May 3, 1964February 14, 2015 Jean McAllister, late of Hitchcock, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, February 14, 2015 at the age of 50 years.

Jean leaves to mourn, her husband of 29 years, Joe of Hitchcock, SK; her sons, Tyler (Marie) of Weyburn, SK and Trevo r o f H i t c h c o ck , S K ; granddaughter Hailey; mother-in-law Mary Ragab; brother Don (Elaine) Miller; brothersin-law, Jim (Kim), Charles (Cathy) and sisters-in-law, D o n n a M i l l e r a n d S h i r l ey Mainprize, as well as many nieces and nephews. Jean was predeceased by her parents, Vernon and Gladys and brother Grant.

In keeping with Jean’s wishes there will be no Service.

Donations in memory of Jean can be made to The Kidney Foundation of Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Branch 1- 2 2 17 H a n s e l m a n Co u r t , Saskatoon, SK S7L 6A8.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

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Ethel Agnes Eleanor Selk (Wilson) Ethel was bor n August 12,1921. She peacefully found her window at the age of 93 at the City Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Ethel was survived by her sister Audrey; children Larr y, Joyce, Carol Ann (Murray) and Dianna: grandchildren David, Carey, Kelly, Bridget, Kristina, Lisa, and Bradley: great grandchildren Norah, Hartley, Adam, Zoe, Winter, River, Rain, Lake, Sunny and Eddy.

She was predeceased by husband John Selk, parents Ernest and Susan Wilson and sister Mary.

Ethel was born in Benson, SK. living her childhood there,

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meeting and marrying John Selk on March 17, 1942. They were married 52 years.

Ethel started singing at an early age and continued all her life.

While living in Benson during the 30’s she worked with her father and sisters in the post office.

She followed her husband to Regina then to the M&S Mines.

While at the mines she served as the church organist.

The family moved to Estevan in 1958.

She held various jobs in Estevan and was an active member of the Harmony Unit holding many positions in her beloved church. She sang in Saint Paul’s United Church for over 40 Years. She was know for her elephant collection, sewing and knitting, she loved to travel, dance and chat with everyone she met.

In later years she bragged about her grandchildren and great grandchildren. The last short years of her live she spent at the Bentley Manor in Saskatoon.

She was the thread that held our family together;she was the center of our lives. She will be greatly and genuinely missed.

There will be a “Celebration of Live” in Estevan. at Saint Paul’s United Church on May 17 at 2pm. followed by lunch and the interment. The officiate will be Reverend Brenna Nickle. In lieu of flowers please donate to the charity of your choice.

Getting His Footing Young Jack Holden was out trying his new skates last week at the Rusty Duce Park ice rink with aunt Whitney Holden showing him his edges. Above, Estevan visitor Lyric Papineau tested his hockey skills at the rink as well. Photos by Jordan Baker

STC fares on the rise Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC) passenger fares will increase by an average of 4.5 per cent beginning March 2, 2015.

The average fare increase per ticket will be $1.65 based on an average one way trip of 182 kilometres (113.4 miles).

“STC takes pride in offering safe, affordable and accessible passenger services,” STC President and CEO Shawn Grice said.

“Small annual increases help to offset the amount of government subsidy that STC requires.”

The price of the medical pass will not increase and will remain at $66.20.

STC continues to receive very high customer satisfaction ratings and will continue to offer the Frequent Rider Card. The purchase of a Frequent Rider Card for $30 (plus tax) allows passengers to save 20

per cent off of every adult or student ticket purchased for one year.

The last STC passenger fare increase was 5.5 per cent effective August 1, 2014.

The Saskatchewan Transportation Company is a provincial coach company that provides safe, affordable and accessible bus passenger and parcel express services to communities throughout Saskatchewan.

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Using the grazing response index in pasture management plans

By Nadia Mori PAg, Regional Forage Specialist, Watrous Winter is a good time to reflect on your pasture planning and pasture monitoring strategy. One of the more recently develop assessment tools is called the Grazing Response Index or GRI for short. The index originated in the western US and British Columbia. Over the past four years, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has been actively involved in testing the validity of the GRI for the Prairie Provinces. Their preliminary findings indicate that the index can be a valuable tool in pasture assessments. The grazing response index is an attractive assessment tool for producers who are looking for a simple and relatively quick way of making management decision based on their current season grazing management.

A GRI assessment uses three components including: Frequency, Intensity, and Opportunity. Frequency looks at how many times grazing animals had an opportunity to graze plants. Opportunity for animals to re-graze the same plant is based on estimated plant growth rates. Where animals remain in the same pasture, opportunity for grazing is considered to occur every 7-10 days. For example, if a paddock is used for 30 days, there would be three 7-10 day periods within those 30 days. Intensity looks at how much leaf material has been removed during the grazing period. Intensity falls in one of

three categories, including light, moderate, and heavy utilization. Heavy utilization is considered when more than 56% of the plant material has been removed. Opportunity refers to how much time the plants have to regrow between grazing events. Assessing opportunity can be somewhat subjective as recovery periods will also depend on whether conditions were favorable for plant growth. The categories in the opportunity rating range from “no chance to recover” to “full season” to recover.

The overall GRI rating will be the sum of the frequency, intensity, and opportunity index values ranging from +4 to -4. A positive overall value indicates that the current grazing management is beneficial for plant health. While a negative overall number indicates detrimental long-term effects of the current grazing management. A zero rating is neutral.

Although a GRI assessment is a quick and relatively easy tool to use, it should still be combined with an on the ground range health assessment. Range health assessments should be completed in five to seven year intervals while GRI values can be calculated annually.

Producers will have to decide for themselves which assessment tools work best. Monitoring is key, because if something is not measured, it cannot be managed. Also keep in mind that a tool is only a means to the end goal of maintaining or improving pasture condition.

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Your Guide to Area Faith Lutheran Church Office 1132 4th Street • 306-634-3773 Sunday Service 10:30 am Nicholson Centre Pastor Dan Krauss and Joshua Lowe Phone: 306-471-8130 All Are Welcome Faithlc.ca

Sunday Worship 10:30am Nursery & Children’s Ministries Available Sunday School at 9:30am

Friday Night Youth 7:30 pm (gr 7-12) Children’s Clubs -Wednesdays- 7-8 pm 140 King Street (across from Staples)

306.634.2601

www.estevanalliancechurch.com /estevanalliance

PASTORS: REV. JIM KEDGE & WAYLON KLIX

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Sunday Worship & Sunday School - 10am PASTOR STEWART MILLER

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

REAL PEOPLE

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Sunday Service at

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.

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

THE SALVATION ARMY

ESTEVAN COMMUNITY CHURCH

Followed by coffee time

1107 - 4th Street Phone: 306-634-2074 www.facebook.com/salvationarmyestevan

100 King Street, Estevan, Sask • (306) 634-8133 • www.livinghope-ca.org

Pastors: Lieuts. Brian & June Bobolo SUNDAY: 11:00 a.m. Worship Service with Children’s Program

10:00 am

Live Russian Translation

GOSPEL CHAPEL ESTEVAN

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

“Holding fast the faithful word”

Pastor: Josh Permann Sunday:Worship 11:00 a.m.

Tuesday: Prayer Meeting 7:00 p.m.

Youth Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

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

www.estevangospelchapel.ca

An Associated Gospel Church

St. Joseph’s Prayer Centre Everyone welcome to join our daily prayers, inspirational Bible DVD viewings and lively discussions

2 - 4 pm Monday - Friday Series topics change monthly Call for more information 1033 3rd Street Estevan

306-634-9191

Sunday Worship Service and Sunday School • 11:00 am • Minister: Rev. Brenna Nickel stpaulsuc@sasktel.net Website: stpaulsestevan.ca

306-634-2885 • 1418 3rd St. Estevan

CHURCH OF CHRIST

Trinity Lutheran Church

REAL LIFE

ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church LC-C Isabelle & Souris Reverend Randy Kleemola Phone: 306-634-2024 email: st.peters@accesscomm.ca

Sunday Worship

9:30 a.m. - Bible Study 10:30 a.m. - Divine Service with Holy Communion Sunday School A Congregation of LUTHERAN CHURCH - CANADA

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: 9:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Pursuing God Buiding Relationships Impacting Lives

1920 Wellock Road, Estevan • (306) 634-7955 Estevan Church of God • www.estevancog.com 10:30 a.m., Sunday Worship with Children’s Ministries & Nursery.

7:30 p.m. Fridays theGROVE Youth Ministries.

Please call us or visit our website for more information about other ministres and events.

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

St. Giles

Anglican Church

Parish of Estevan

317-12th Avenue

Sunday Worship: 8:00 & 10:00 am September - May Children’s Sunday School: 10:00 am The Rev. Mark Osborne ALL ARE WELCOME! Church Office: 306-634-4113 www.estevananglican.com

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Big River Wins Big Estevan played host to the Saskatchewan Broomball Association’s provincial midget championships over the weekend. In the ladies tournament, the Big River Crusaders beat the Debden Roadrunners in a 1-0 final on Sunday.

Photo by Jordan Baker

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES CITY PAGE 1102 4TH STREET • ESTEVAN, SK 306 • 634 • 1800

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

The City of Estevan is looking for an independent and self-motivated individual to assist in the maintenance and operation of our water and wastewater treatment facilities. The ideal candidate would possess significant mechanical aptitude and attention to detail.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Organizes and operates a preventative maintenance program for the Water Treatment Plant and Wastewater Treatment Plant.

• Identifies malfunctions in equipment and systems operations and performs repairs.

• Ensuring compliance with all regulations stipulated by the Environmental Management and Protection Act regarding the production and delivery

of potable water and the treatment and disposal of wastewater.

• Works as a relief operator of the Water Treatment Plant and Wastewater Treatment Plant when required.

This position requires: • Grade 12 • Valid Class 5 Driver’s License • Two years of post-secondary education in one of the following: • Chemical Engineering or Chemical Technology • Environmental Engineering or Environmental Technology • Water Sciences • Instrumentation Technology or Instrumentation Journeyperson • Water/Wastewater Treatment Operator’s Certification and Fireman’s Certificate would be an asset The City of Estevan offers competitive wages, a comprehensive benefits package, and emphasis on work/life balance. If you’re looking for a career that contributes directly to a growing, thriving community, then apply to: Aubrey Agarand, Human Resources City of Estevan 1102 4th Street, Estevan, Sk S4A 0W7 Phone: (306) 634-1841 • Fax: (306) 634-9790 • Email: apply@estevan.ca

DENTAL HYGIENIST Wanted for part time position

(with the possibiliy of position turning into full time) applicant must have: excellent communication skills and be detail oriented please hand deliver resumes to:

dr. daniel Crooks, dmd dentist 1322 3rd street

* only those selected for interview will be contacted

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We are currently looking for an Advertising Sale Representative in Southern Saskatchewan.

The ideal candidate will have a warm, outgoing personality and loves dealing with people. She/he will have good computer skill, (word/excel) as well as excellent verbal/ written skills.

A valid driver’s license is a must and the ability to travel.

Time management and multi-tasking abilities are essential for this fun, fast-paced environment.

• Competitive compensation • Benefit plan • Company car supplied Please email your resume to: ernie.wilson@tc.tc For more details, please go to www.sasknewsnow.com.

Only those selected for an interview will be notified

Independent

dIstrIbutor opportunIty Old Dutch Foods is looking for an individual that is career oriented and passionate about sales and customer service.

• must be self-motivated and enjoy a challenge • individual must reside in Estevan and service Estevan and surrounding areas.

The successful applicant will receive sufficient training to take over the route as an independent distributor.

Applicants must supply a driver’s abstract along with a resume to: Tom.Earle@olddutchfoods.com

• Foods Ltd.

The Estevan Mercury have a immediate opening for a

Part Time Copy Editor

The Prairie Newspaper Group is looking for a part-time copy editor and proof reader. Responsibilitees will include proofreading all editorial copy for grammar, spelling and adherence to canadian press style for each of our publications: Estevan Mercury, Estevan Lifestyles, Southeast Trader Express and Pipeline News.

The position will also include proofreading copy that appears in advertisements, obituaries and classifieds.

The Hours for this position will run from Monday to Wednesday.

Qualifications: • Excellent understanding of the english language • Knowledge of CP style a asset • Attentin to detail • Experience a asset but not necessary • If you found 8 or more mistakes in this ad we want to hear from you.

Please e-mail resume to: editor@estevanmercury.ca

We would like to thank all applicants for your interest, however only those chosen for an interview will be contacted.

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M4929 C1823 Tax Enforcement List

143402194 4,550.03 139773853Estevan 980.80 Mercury 139773965 69 C1823OF ESTEVAN 136403355 6,450.22 CITY 50 M4929 139212008 3,045.92 50 M4929 140948040 1,816.21 PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN 97 C1823 109897330 3,310.87

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1102 4TH STREET 10 given63 M4929 2,923.78 Notice is hereby under The Tax EnforcementESTEVAN, Act142642751 that unless theSK arrears and costs appearing opposite the land and title number described in the following 17 97 C1823 109897442 2,653.53 306 • 634 • 1800 list are fully paid before the 14th day of April, 2015, an interest based on a tax 2 98 C1823 lien will be registered against the land.

10 98 C1823

Tax Enforcement List CITY OF ESTEVAN PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN Notice is hereby given under The Tax Enforcement Act that unless the arrears and costs appearing opposite the land and title number described in the following list are fully paid before the 14th day of April, 2015, an interest based on a tax lien will be registered against the land.

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY Part of Lot Part of Section

Lot

Block

Plan

Section

Twp

Range

8 7 26 12 13 36 71 30 39 20 12 A 12 28 34 28 25 36 9 7 14 15 1 4 3 4 Unit 1 11 14 G D Unit 1 10 16 A C K 20 12 8 19 28

167 168 169 170 137 137 133 133 133 132 133 133 123 125 128 128 128 121 42 43 26 26 23 28 4 13

15 2 33 33 32 16 1 408 406 404

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3 27 1 9 A 5 16 1,2

404 402 403 403 17 46 96

99SE16042 102070257 102070257 102100431 88R41149 88R41149 88R41149 86R46879 86R46879 84R49410 83R20116 76R14861 AL8667 AM3427 AM3427 AM3427 AM3427 AL8667 77R15653 76R51959 76R51959 76R51959 101954976 D4772 I3279 I3279 102068142 I3279 I3279 101274285 76R24787 102021905 I3279 I3279 59A00058 59A00058 AL2843 I3279 I3279 77R22532 76R46557 76R34555 76R34555 101345273 68R22717 68R22717 68R22717 68R22717 B3484 M4929 M4929 C1823

1 7 9 6

69 50 50 97

C1823 M4929 M4929 C1823

10 17 2 10 1 12 9 5 3 9 9 7,10

63 97 98 98 150 99 111 71 71 72 73 75

20 13 19 19

Title No.

Total Arrears

Meridian

140403204 143425469 142941977 143942351 145514820 142267271 138448783 134482035 109805597 144186071 138345318 129449278 144842070 144110696 138704306 138780298 110422808 144830066 138110127 109965550 109965268 109965279 142220056 135179141 142253603 141925473 113620047 109765941 140387755 144057012 145759719 144380527 109764849 110012656 110012667 145210609 127143716 137165216 110053684 144120743 137711718 139545344 139545377 142017667 142428090 109900414 106340958 109683928 131716076 143402194 139773853 139773965 136403355 139212008 140948040 109897330

1,151.45 889.96 3,179.76 883.31 2,118.38 6,781.58 9,779.54 3,319.95 4,475.51 6,224.20 8,728.69 1,308.34 4,054.15 2,534.66 2,895.98 2,135.69 836.83 3,107.68 1,649.21 3,609.73 2,714.86 4,322.34 3,211.85 1,364.66 172.20 3,499.36 2,881.57 6,105.74 2,574.65 24,787.44 5,126.57 528.02 2,726.42 5,131.12 4,057.85 3,863.79 1,215.70 2,056.25 2,568.34 1,814.67 421.99 3,433.50 4,954.09 1,922.77 173.65 3,451.83 6,113.44 1,422.19 1,804.30 4,550.03 980.80 6,450.22 3,045.92 1,816.21 3,310.87

1 150 AM7960 12 99 C1823 9 111PROPERTY 64R03907 DESCRIPTION OF 5 71 AH4858 3 71 AH4858 Part of Lot Lot Block Plan 9 72 AH4858 Part of Section Section Twp Range Meridian 9 73 99SE25693 AH4858 7,10 75 8 167 99SE16042 101257095 7 168 102070257 1 210 80R36263 26 169 102070257 4A 209 97R17681 12 170 102100431 17 14 B4225 13 137 88R41149 36 19 12538 36 137 88R41149 1,2 44 12538 71 133 88R41149 30 133 86R46879 24 43 12538 39 133 86R46879 20 132 84R49410 pt 14 15 41 12675 12 133 83R20116 3,4 54 12675 A 133 76R14861 Unit 89R11533 1215 123 AL8667 5 53 12675 28 125 AM3427 5-7 52 12675 34 128 AM3427 28 128 AM3427 25 128 AM3427 26 55 101837336 36 121 AL8667 9 211 83R14205 9 42 77R15653 24 216 101922960 7 43 76R51959 11 216 101834658 14 26 76R51959 3 216 86R37046 15 26 76R51959 15 221 101922960 1 23 101954976 Unit 1 102005356 4 28 D4772 2 220 101922960 3 4 I3279 Unit 11 102090664 4 13 I3279 1 503 101998851 Unit 1 102068142 3 62 B4225 20 I3279 11 9 62 B4225 14 13 I3279 14 67 M4929 21 67 101305729 11 68 M4929 13 68 M4929 1 35 A1059 25 22 B4225 8 81 C3929 Unit 2 102032356 16 36 A1059 9 37 A1059 Unit 2 102044629 16 92 101862110 10 29 AG4740 10 27 M4929 6 27 M4929 Unit 1 102143214 7 90 C3929 A 90 62R01467 3,4 94 C3929 2 308 86R17044 Unit 1 102101162 Unit 3 102101162 Unit 4 102101162 Unit 5 102101162 Unit 6 102101162 Unit 7 102101162 Unit 8 102101162 Unit 12 102101162 18 88 C3929 2 103 C3929 2 86 C3929 2 B 64R21593 13 4 59A01748 1 308 96R56607 C 60A01773 10 119 AL4893 18 114 AL4893 18 118 AL4893 30 119 AL4893 14 116 AL4893 3 116 AL4893 2 321 76R09232 Unit 2 85R14510 15 2 74R18373 R 101833017

116209953 142051474 128165238 134084156 143929378 144445934 140018521 Title No. 109964537 109859305 144338362 140403204 144338373 143425469 146131691 142941977 118739762 143942351 143100841 145514820 138829719 142267271 138933513 138448783 138933546 134482035 109844578 109805597 109844589 144186071 110004152 138345318 130948320 130948331 129449278 145466231 144842070 135293104 144110696 136962355 138704306 136962388 138780298 136962445 110422808 128770319 144830066 110199483 138110127 143934543 109965550 144157361 109965268 137711460 109965279 139117664 142220056 138641519 135179141 142306792 142455641 142253603 144013968 141925473 131951099 113620047 140317826 109765941 142034015 110357748 130752121 142836352 143889700 139944291 142962330 139887983 129182137 109737052 141055129 143507392 109683591 127807308 109974123 144392395 141445368 138569888 142087620 142889709 143130596 143130653 143130664 143130732 143130765 143130800 143131036 143131216 130608480 109963378 128256486 140147816 141549778 103512956 130285920 137428151 140494440 110300779 115315040 143481449 14034601 129302333 140690808 105486374 127196769 127196781

1,411.30 2,481.17 10,683.84 3,083.11 5,788.66 2,881.57 Total 7,230.03 Arrears 3,064.93 85,615.65 1,728.95 1,151.45 889.96 482.33 3,179.76 11,660.02 883.31 1,817.73 2,118.38 2,122.69 6,781.58 1354.63 9,779.54 3,319.95 1,109.10 4,475.51 6,224.20 1,860.84 8,728.69 3,288.31 1,308.34 1,131.92 4,054.15 1,912.34 2,534.66 49,012.78 2,895.98 2,135.69 836.83 1,787.67 3,107.68 4,150.40 1,649.21 4,396.23 3,609.73 834.03 2,714.86 3,842.47 4,322.34 5,570.50 3,211.85 3,350.37 1,364.66 5,139.17 172.20 2,540.21 3,499.36 20,648.17 2,881.57 1,771.07 6,105.74 1,788.28 2,574.65 1,926.54 3,396.94 1,800.98 2,623.34 1,386.67 1,896.13 3,746.70 2,490.77 1,835.35 2,720.86 4,200.45 6,002.72 2,678.74 2,141.24 1,607.02 4,707.32 200.21 4,697.34 744.88 5,426.21 4,389.69 4,022.71 4,022.71 4,022.71 4,022.71 4,325.33 4,325.33 4,022.71 2,371.74 2,057.00 2,545.07 106,882.80 10,409.22 2,245.11 6,031.63 3,456.78 2,639.97 3,609.34 995.49 5,248.14 5,771.85 4,113.40 1,531.66 8,017.43 50,278.16

M4929 142642751 2,923.78 C1823 109897442 2,653.53 C1823 116209953 1,411.30 C1823 142051474 2,481.17 AM7960 128165238 10,683.84 C1823 134084156 3,083.11 64R03907 143929378 5,788.66 AH4858 144445934 2,881.57 AH4858 140018521 7,230.03 AH4858 109964537 3,064.93 Dated this 13 th day of February, 2015.

Trina Sieben, City Assessor 99SE25693 109859305 85,615.65 AH4858 144338362 1,728.95 101257095 144338373 1 210 80R36263 146131691 482.33 4A 209 97R17681Bylaw 2015-1952 118739762 11,660.02 February 9, 2015 and with this approval increased waterworks, City of Estevan Utility Rates was passed 17 14 B4225 143100841 1,817.73 sanitary sewage and storm drainage utility rates by 10%.

36 19 12538 138829719 2,122.69 If you have any questions or would like a complete copy of this bylaw please contact Judy Pilloud City Clerk 634-1852, 1,2 44 12538 138933513 1354.63 cityclerk@estevan.ca or 138933546

Public Notice Utility Rate

Jeff Ward Treasurer 306-634-1813 j.ward@estevan.ca if you have any questions.

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“The occupier of property in the City of Estevan shall remove any snow, ice or other obstruction from the public sidewalk adjacent to such property within twenty-four (24) hours of the time such snow, ice or other obstruction appears on such public sidewalk. In the event that this subsection is not complied with, the City may remove such snow, ice or other obstruction at the expense of such occupant or owner, and in the event of the non-payment of such expense, such expense may be charged against the property as a special assessment to be recovered in like manner as and with the taxes”.

Contact us for more information on our programs

306-634-3942 www.estevanartscouncil.com WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WINTER AT THE ESTEVAN ARTS COUNCIL?

Illustration (Adult, 14+) Thursdays, February 26, March 5, 12, & 19, 7pm - 9pm $75.00 (supplies included)

and City of Estevan bylaw 89-1294 Section 34 (c):

Spring Clay Project (Adult, 14+) Saturday, February 28, 10am - 4pm $65.00 (supplies included)

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MARCH 13

Please be advised of City of Estevan bylaw 89-1294 Section 34 (e):

“No person shall deposit any substance on any highway, public sidewalk, boulevard or ditch within the City of Estevan” Notice of Intention to Issue Debt

Notice of Intention is hereby given by the City of Estevan, pursuant to Section 101 of The Cities Act , for City Council’s consideration of a bylaw to borrow money for the purpose of completing the 2015 General Capital Program with particular emphasis on the Airport Runway/Taxiway project.

The proposed Bylaw #2015-1953 will authorize the City to issue debt in the amount of $5 million over a 15 year term loan.

1102 4TH STREET ESTEVAN, SK 306 • 634 • 1800 TICKETS THROUGH TICKETMASTER.CA OR CHARGE BY PHONE 1-800-970-7328 IN ESTEVAN AT HENDER’S DRUGS

CITY WIDE REGISTRATION MARCH 24 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM If you have an organization, team or group that would like to participate please contact Erin at e.wilson@estevan.ca for more details

Public Notice Utility Rate City of Estevan Utility Rates Bylaw 20151952 was passed February 9, 2015 and with this approval increased waterworks, sanitary sewage and storm drainage utility rates by 10%. Effective March 1, 2015 If you have any questions or would like a complete copy of this bylaw please contact Judy Pilloud City Clerk 634-1852, cityclerk@estevan.ca or Jeff Ward Treasurer 306-634-1813 j.ward@estevan.ca if you have any questions.

Lifeguard

The proposed bylaw may be inspected by any person in the City Clerk’s Office, on the main level of City Hall, between the hours of 8 am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, all holidays excepted, commencing at 8 am on Monday, February 16, 2015 and up to 4:30 pm on Wednesday, March 11, 2015.

City Council will hear any submissions respecting the proposed bylaw on Monday, March 16, 2015 at 6 pm in the Council Chambers, Main Floor of City Hall.

If any person wishes to address City Council on the proposed bylaw, they must contact the City Clerk’s Office prior to 1 pm on March 12, 2015.

If you have any questions regarding the 2015 Budgets please contact Jeff Ward, Treasurer at 306-634-1813 or j.ward@estevan.ca.

The City of Estevan is looking for an energetic, selfmotivated, and team focused individual join our lifeguarding crew. The ideal candidate would possess a passion for aquatics coupled with strong leadership and interpersonal skills.

Dated at the City of Estevan, in the Province of Saskatchewan, this 11th day of February, 2015.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Judy Pilloud, City Clerk

• • • • • •

WHEN: Thursdays

Public Notice –

February 26 WHEN: Thursdays March 5, 12, 19, 26 • April 2, 9 , 16, 23, 30 • May 7, 14, 21, 28 February 26 10 - 10:30amMarch 5,12,19,26 April 2,9,16,23,30 May 7,14,21,28

10 - 10:30 am WHERE: WHERE: The Estevan Art Gallery The Estevan Art Gallery COST: COST: $5/family/week$5/family/week

Ensures the safety of Aquatic Centre customers by enforcing policies, rules, and regulations.

Teaches Aquatics lessons. Completes all paperwork such as work sheets and report cards at the conclusion of a set of lessons.

Administer First Aid in the event of major or minor incidents within the facility.

Maintenance and cleaning of the guard area, pool areas, and change rooms.

Logs, records, and reports information such as water tests, time sheets, and tasks performed.

Promotes pool programming and maintains positive public relations between staff and customers.

The successful candidate would require: • A minimum of 16 years of age • Current National Lifeguarding Service Course or Red Cross Lifeguard • Current First Aid and CPR C Certificate • Current Red Cross Water Safety Instruction Certificate The City of Estevan offers competitive wages, a

City of Estevan Rates Bylaw 2015-­1951 was approved and will result in comprehensive benefits package, and emphasis on work/ life balance. If you’re looking for a career that contributes directly a growing, thrivingb community, then apply to: solid waste utility rates changing. Effectived rates atore listed elow.

Pre-Register with Karly at 634-7644 or by email at galleryed@sasktel.net.

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Public Notice

Aubrey Agarand, Human Resources City of Estevan 1102 4th Street Estevan, Sk S4A 0W7 Phone: (306) 634-1841 Fax: (306) 634-9790 Email: apply@estevan.ca

If you have any questions or ould like a complete copy of this bylaw Rates effective March 1, w 2015 please contact Judy Pilloud, City Clerk, at 306-­634-­1852 or the Estevan City of Estevan Rates Bylaw 2015-1951 was approved and will result in solid waste utility rates changing. Effectived rates are listed below. If you have any questions or would like a complete Landfill at 306-­634-­4750. copy of this bylaw please contact Judy Pilloud, City Clerk, at 306-634-1852 or the Estevan Landfill at 306-634-4750.

Landfill Service Automobiles and trucks solid wastes up to 1000 kg Recycling Fee Solid Waste Pick up

Fee $10.00 per entry $16/dwelling unit $16/dwelling unit

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Estevan Mercury

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