Estevan Mercury - May 16, 2012

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Almost one year after a flood devastated the village, a deal is close to rebuild Roche Percee.

As was reported last week in The Mercury, a meeting was held May 3 where a redevelopment proposal was presented to roughly 80 of the village’s residents. Although there are many nuances to the package, the deal essentially offers those people who lost their homes in last June’s flood a land swap. In exchange for their land on the flood plain, the property owners would get a parcel of land on the village’s south hill. “(It’s) a direct swap,” Reid Lillico, the chief administrative officer of the Commonwealth Group told the meeting. Commonwealth is the group hired by Roche Percee to facilitate the new development. “All

Close to one year after floods devastated Roche Percee, a deal is nearing that would offer residents who lost their homes a land swap. (Mercury file photo) the costs to develop the 38 lots, including water, sewer and road, sidewalks, etc., the whole development, would be covered by government.”

Lillico also informed the residents that they had until May 15 to accept the

deal.

A second meeting was scheduled for Monday which was expected to include a representative from Commonwealth, representatives from the village, including the council and a committee of five residents

that was formed following the meeting.

“We are going to see where we are at, what needs to be changed in the proposal, and at that point in time I am hoping we will have a final draft and then it will go forward to the

government, hopefully for approval,” said Roche Percee administrator Lyndon Stachoski who added that reaction to the deal has largely been positive.

“There are three people that would rather stay and develop where they are in the flood plain. That is not going to be an option and if they do insist on reconstructing there, then they are going to have to demonstrate that they will hold the municipality harmless in the event of any damages in the future and the province.

“The majority are definitely in favour of the proposal and some have already expressed that they would like to take part in that land swap.”

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Dog service restored at North Portal The Canada Border Service Agency has apparently had a change of heart with regards to the dog detector service at the North Portal Border Crossing.

The Mercury was informed last week by Souris-Moose Mountain MP Ed Komarnicki and others that the service, which is made up of handler, Toban Tisdale, and Holly, was to be restored.

As was reported May 9, the move was part of the CBSA’s first round of cuts after they were ordered by the federal government to trim their budget by $143 million over the next three years. In all, 19 dog and handler teams were initially cut across the country.

Once word of the cuts became public, a number of area residents, spurred on by a poster campaign

started by Pat and Sam Dzuba of Roche Percee, began calling Komarnicki’s office to voice their displeasure with losing the only detector service in Saskatchewan.

Komarnicki jumped on the issue and contacted the minister responsible for CBSA and came away from the conversation confident the service might be spared. Although an official announcement was not

made by the CBSA, word of the news began to circulate May 8.

Brea Lewis, president of Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Immigration Union, said as of Friday they had not received official notification from the CBSA but was excited at the likelihood that Tisdale and Holly would remain on the job.

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Former chamber president passes A man who made a big impact on the community in the short time he was here, has succumbed to cancer.

Herb Padwick, who was the owner of Murray GM and was heavily involved in the community, passed away May 5. He is survived by his wife Leslie and son Chris.

Born in Winnipeg, Padwick grew up in Regina and began work in the Queen City where he worked in sales for IBM. However, Padwick was a car guy at heart and eventually moved into automobile sales with Percival Mercury.

After a lengthy career at the dealership, which included time as the general sales manager, Padwick started a consulting career in 1992 and began doing sales training for the Murray Auto Group in Winnipeg and other stores throughout the country.

It was his association with the Murray group that eventually brought Padwick to Estevan as he partnered with the company on the local dealership and remained here until his retirement in 2008.

Padwick wasted little time in getting involved in the community. He joined the Estevan Chamber of Commerce and eventually

Herb Padwick became the organization’s president and was also involved in other local groups. Padwick was also president of the group that lobbied the provincial government to locate the clean coal plant at the Boundary Dam Power Station.

Padwick was also involved in the Estevan Municipal Airport. He earned his pilot’s licence when he was 65 and was also active in the management of the facility.

Aside from his wife and son, Padwick is also survived by his parents, Herb Sr. and Isobel who reside in Calgary; grandchildren, Ryan and Lauren and sisters, Anne and Cathy.

A celebration of Padwick’s life will be held May 29 in Regina at the Wascana Country Club from 3 to 5 p.m.

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Proposal heading back to province ⇠ A1 a decision by midJune. If the government approves the deal, there is a chance work on the new development could begin

by July 1.

“Commonwealth has all of their supporting contractors in the background.

They have planners, engineers, a law section … everything that is needed to do the development and they are waiting in the wings until something happens and hopefully it will be ‘ya, let’s do this.’ They believe July1 they can actually get the shovel in the ground if the government approves the proposal.”

Although life will never be the same in Roche Percee, Stachoski said the deal could

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allow residents to make a decision on their future. Many have been left in limbo while they wait for a decision to be made on the village’s future and have grown frustrated as the situation has dragged on.

“Some have moved on, some are waiting to see what will happen. Others may still even consider returning home,” he said. “I think what we’ll see is a combination of redevelopment in the new area from previous residents, some who are still kind of hanging in there close by who are renting or living with relatives.

“I think there are five potentials that are going to go ahead and say ‘ya, let’s start construction on a new lot. We want to come

home.’”

The land swap concept is open to all residents whether or not they have moved on or wish to rebuild.

“They will be able to swap their lot in the flood plain for one up top and conceivably go ahead and sell it to recoup the money on the loss of their lot on the flood plain,” Stachoski said. “PDAP did not pay for the dirt, they paid for the structures.”

Although Stachoski admitted he may be overly optimistic, he feels there is a chance to build an even better Roche Percee. With the potential new development on the hill, there is an opportunity to develop a park on the flood plain and create

a tourist attraction.

“I think it was $5.6 million just to redo the dike.

Why not spend $5.6 to develop up top and turn the (flood plain) into a park? The rocks are there and they are a tourism draw, so are the trail rides. It’s beautiful down there and I think there is potential for tourism growth there as well.”

Stachoski said the village is also working to decide where to locate a potential new community centre.

Their previous one, which was a hub of activity for the village, was destroyed in the flood. They have been negotiating with PDAP on a settlement and once that is completed, they will decide where to put it.

Fight on to restore intelligence position ⇠ A1 “When we do have issues we at least know that there is a dog there that we can call upon. One of the cuts announced was also a reduction in travel budgets, so even if we did need someone, we needed to justify it to be able to call them out of Coots (Alberta).”

Lewis added the CIU is working to get the other 18 dog and handler teams that were cut reinstated and feels the North Portal decision is a positive step in that

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“This is definitely a step in the right direction,” she said. “(The article in last week’s Mercury) has already hit Montreal. I’ve gotten e-mails from some of the union presidents out there saying they have seen the article and it’s just one step towards helping us get our dogs restored out here.”

Lewis said from the moment the cuts were announced, the CIU has been questioning the decision, especially with the CBSA making public comments that they wanted to increase border security. The cutting of Tisdale and Holly also came at a curious time on

a local level as there have been numerous reports of an increase in crime along the border.

“Then they go and take away one of the quickest and fastest tools that we have for the elimination of drugs and firearms and currency as well. It totally took all of us by surprise.”

Lewis said the CIU was also taken aback by the announcement that five intelligence officer positions, including one in Estevan, would be cut at this time.

They are also working to get those positions restored.

“The federal government of the day has said they want to go to more of

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an intelligence-led agency which is in-line with every other police agency and border agency and then they go and announce a reduction in the intelligence officers. It took us completely by surprise where they were announcing the cuts. It was definitely not where we were expecting.”

Lewis added the CIU is also fearful of what the future holds as this is just the first year of cuts. One major area of concern is the possible automation of crossings, which are deemed as small by the federal government.

“According to Ottawa, every port in Saskatchewan other than North Portal is considered small. That is a grave concern for us.”

In response to repeated requests for an interview, the CBSA sent an e-mail response to The Mercury Thursday. In it, the CBSA said they are confident the cuts will be carried out with minimal negative impacts to the public and their employees.

“The CBSA remains unwavering in its commitment to deliver its mandate of protecting Canadians and facilitating travel and trade. The health and safety of Canadians will not be compromised through the implementation of any of these budget reduction initiatives,” the e-mail said.

“The CBSA remains committed to its relationship with domestic and international partners, and will continue to collaborate and liaise with them regularly.”

With respect to detector dogs, the e-mail indicated that although dogs are effective in some areas and environments, there are areas where other methods have proven more successful.

May 16, 2012

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“Until 2011, the United States couldn’t thank Canada enough.”

- Bill Redekop, author

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Dams of Contention book launch in Estevan Rafferty and Alameda Dam project seen from another perspective Dams of Contention, a book that could raise eyebrows in southeast Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota, written by Winnipeg-based journalist Bill Redekop, was unveiled to local readers at a public launching in the Estevan Public Library May 8.

Much of the book focuses on the battle waged

by Alameda area brothers Ed and Harold Tetzlaff who railed against the construction of the Alameda Dam, part of a multi-million dollar dual dam project in this corner of the province in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The brothers were joined at the reading by 16 other curious listeners, including a few whose lives had been turned upside down by last spring and summer’s devastating floods.

Since Dams of Contention addressed what Redekop referred to as a poorly planned, poorly assessed and politically motivated project that contributed to last year’s woes, they too, wanted to hear what he had to say.

Redekop noted in his remarks that the Rafferty and Alameda Dams were examples of environmental degradation and governments’ abuse of power, coupled with financial mismanagement. They had one redeeming result, and that was the creation of the first environmental laws in Canada. Before that, there had been only guidelines.

“This story started in 1969 and ends in 2011,” said Redekop who read a few passages from the book and answered questions from the audience before signing copies of the book for customers.

“While everyone was

Bill Redekop ... looking at the Rafferty and Alameda Dam project from another perspective. focused on Rafferty, the Alameda Dam project did an end-around and made it to the end-zone untouched,” said Redekop, killing the Tetzlaffs’ cattle business in the process.

“There was the absurd wisdom in Saskatchewan to build something to protect the United States with a $120 million dam that was going to use $41 million from the United States. It ended up costing $310 million with $60 million from the U.S. for water storage. Until 2011, the United States couldn’t thank Canada enough,” he said during his presentation.

The cost of the Alameda Dam alone was about $80 million, said Redekop, and the value to southeast Saskatchewan is limited from a recreational or business perspective since it has attracted only a few cottages, a nine-hole golf course and a bit of fishing.

Current Green Party leader Elizabeth May also plays prominently in Redekop’s book. At the time the project was being touted by politicians, she

“was a little-known adviser to federal Environment Minister Tom McMillen,” said Redekop.

The author said that a licence to build the dams was granted without proper study for approval and “it was a back door political deal until the Free Press out of Winnipeg broke the story,” he said.

“In Mr. Hood’s book, Against the Flow, May also plays an important part,” said Redekop. “She added a new twist in her search for redeeming qualities and questioned why they escaped a full environmental study,” he said.

Redekop said he agreed that last spring and summer’s floods were “not Saskatchewan’s fault. The dams probably saved Minot from a worse fate and Minot kind of understands that. But it was a goofy situation because someone else was responsible for Minot’s flood protection.”

Redekop said later he and others did a lot of research because as a journalist he had been attracted to the story since there were so many facets at-

tached to it and in the end, “Elizabeth May’s version was true.”

Redekop said he had been writing and researching the book well before last summer’s flood, but that event lent itself as an opening for the book.

“Minot made the decision to pursue the Canadian option,” he said.

There was a mixture of opinion from those attending the launch in Estevan.

It varied from the dam critics such as the Tetzlaffs and those who saw the project from the perspective of someone who had lost a home or property last summer ... to the dams’ proponents, one who simply stated that “anywhere in this province where you can create a viable body of water, you should do it.

We can’t forget all those drought years.”

Harold Tetzlaff noted succinctly that one good message out of all the stories that have evolved over the two decades since the dams were built was one that would tell you, “don’t build on a flood plain.”

George Hood, who was the vice-president of planning and operations for the Souris Valley Development Authority, the organization that was formed to steer the project to completion, when contacted by The Mercury at his Kingston, Ont., home, said he stood behind the project from Day 1 to present. “There are no regrets for this. After two decades I’m still proud of the fact we accomplished this and so should the people of southeast Saskatchewan.

Rafferty provides coolant for Shand Power Station, flood protection for the entire basin, not just Minot,

and yes, there was a once in 100 or once in 500 years event and that was unfortunate and obviously devastating for all concerned.”

Dick Henders, a member of the SVDA board of directors at the time and an avid wildlife advocate said ensuing comments about the dams destroying wildlife and habitat just weren’t true.

“The Estevan Wildlife Federation and Ducks Unlimited supported the project. Mitigation measures more than compensated for any losses and that’s evident today. There is plenty of wildlife and birds in the valley and plains,” Henders said. “Yes, the dam project was very political, but with things like this, I kind of like to stick with the truth. As years go by, that disastrous fluke we had last year will be remembered, but so will the appreciation of these dams grow.”

Henders said from a recreational perspective, areas such as Mainprize Park, the Bible camp on the

shore plus boat launches, golf courses and recreation sites will increase in volume and value.

As far as steamrollering the process through without proper study and licensing, Hood said, “there are over 3,500 pages of archived material. I had over 6,000 pages of environmental study materials alone. The project went through a provincial environmental review, plus two federal reviews with one of those including public hearings. This was a project that was important, it was a life changer for the better for me and I say again, it had a positive outcome, I harbour no regrets and defend those projects.”

Redekop and representatives from Heartland, the publishing company that has produced his book, said they were slated for a bookstore reading in Minot the next day and then would return to Winnipeg.

Prior to the Estevan launch, the group had appeared for a reading and public consultation in Regina.

Harold and Ed Tetzlaff, the Alameda area farmers who are featured in the book Dams of Contention, by Bill Redekop were in attendance at the book’s launching event held in the Estevan Public Library last Tuesday evening.

Hearthstone campaign inching closer to $5 million mark They’re somewhere between $4.8 and $4.9 million and surely closing in on the target of $8 million kick-start a major project to replace the Estevan Regional Nursing Home (ERNH).

The Hearthstone Community Campaign administrators suggested they could reach the $5 million mark within the next week if public response to their latest appeal continues to reverberate throughout the city and surrounding rural

municipalities, towns and villages.

“We just received a generous cheque from the Bruno Wanner estate for over $61,700 and there might be a bit more to come once all the estate taxes and details are completed,” said Don Kindopp, chairman of Hearthstone’s campaign team.

The funds were realized from the Wanner’s home auction and Kindopp said it was nice to be included in the family’s

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donation decision.

“We’re thankful the family saw fit to make the money available this way and for this cause.

It’s interesting he saw the two organizations as being very important and not conflicting,” Kindopp said, referring to the fact the estate also made a strong donation to the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation.

In fact, he added, both were serving a pretty common purpose in providing

health, safety and comfort for local citizens.

Another anonymous donation for a healthy amount was also made through a unique system that included stock options that were cashed in to aid the building fund.

Hearthstone member Vern Buck explained that making a donation of stocks or stock options “benefits the donor from a tax perspective.”

Hearthstone has just recently launched their

community-wide appeal, beginning with a mail-out campaign and there are a few early results being felt with this part of the drive.

The committee stated that once they zero in on the $8 million target, they will make a formal request to the Sun Country Health Region to seek Health Ministry approval and follow-up funding for a $40 million 80-bed facility that will replace the current ERNH which was constructed over 50

years ago.

The current facility is needing to be replaced since it can no longer adequately serve the community’s needs in spite of several innovative refurbishments over the years.

The request will be made with the knowledge that the funding split between the provincial government and local agencies for the construction of public facilities is 80 per cent from government and 20 per cent from the local group.

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Tax evading couple gets jail time A couple convicted of evading income taxes of more than $90,000 over a four-year period ended up with jail sentences.

Alida residents Norman and Dorothy Desautels were found guilty on Feb. 27 by Judge Karl Bazin.

Norman was found guilty of evading income taxes between 2004 and 2008, assisting Dorothy in receiving a child-tax credit to which they were not entitled, as well as failing to remit roughly $6,600 of GST that he received through his oil-well servicing business.

Dorothy was found

guilty of evading income taxes by not reporting Norman’s income and for receiving the child-tax credit of about $8,800.

The couple has been in custody since failing to attend the sentencing hearing on April 26. Norman was sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to pay a fine of $105,922.47, while Dorothy received six months in jail and a fine of $99,548.80. The fines are equal to 100 per cent of the evaded tax, tax credit and unremitted GST. In his decision, Bazin equated the Desautels’ actions to a “long-term

fraud.”

“The GST conviction for Norman Desautels and the conviction for the childtax benefit is nothing short of deliberate theft,” said Bazin. “The Desautels’ actions speak louder than their words. They did what they did for money.”

An aggravating factor to these offences is the time frame, as the Desautels failed to complete tax returns from 2004 to 2008.

Bazin said the Desautels’ actions are further aggravating because they continued to benefit from a tax system that they stopped paying into, noting

that they accepted a childtax credit and Norman charged companies GST through his business.

“He simply charges them the GST and does not remit the money to Revenue Canada. Such an act shows that despite what he professes, that his reason for not following the Excise Tax Act is based on it not being legal and his profession that there is only one law, being God’s law, actually tells us that, at the end of the day, he did it for the money,” said Bazin.

“The evasion of tax, the receipt of child tax and GST is done out of personal

desire and greed. They simply carry on their lives, which includes trips and holidays.”

As the Desautels refused to participate in completing a pre-sentence report, there was little in terms of mitigating factors for Bazin to go over. He did note Dorothy has no previous criminal record and that Norman has very limited and unrelated convictions.

The Desautels each have five years to pay their fines, and could face further jail time in default of payment of those fines. Their jail terms began as of April 26 when they were arrested

and held in custody.

Bazin asked the Desautels if they had any questions, but cut them off when it was clear they had other statements to make.

They both then asked the judge, “Do you hold us against our will?” a question Bazin ignored.

The Desautels also were charged with failing to attend court as they were absent from the sentencing hearing in April. Both refused to enter a plea, so Bazin entered not guilty pleas for them. A trial for those matters was set for July 26.

Late-night workers get acquainted with Jimmy’s Law Late night visits to Estevan’s all-night workers were completed when MLA David Forbes was in the Energy City Sunday to see what work conditions are like and to canvass employees regarding possible steps to take to ensure all workers are safe.

Forbes has been touring around the province, stopping in to speak with graveyard-shift employees at retail stores, in order to promote his private member’s bill in the provincial legislature that looks to set out safety requirements that employers who operate late-night retail premises must fulfil.

The bill was put forward in December 2011 after Jimmy Wiebe was shot and killed last June while working a late-night shift alone at a Yorkton gas station. In honour of Wiebe, the bill is being dubbed Jimmy’s Law. Along with the NDP MLA, was Aaron Nagy, a good friend of Wiebe’s who has teamed up with Forbes to move the initiative forward. Darren Kaytor, who was held up twice while working at a gas station in Saskatoon, once with a shotgun and again just a week later with a samurai sword, was also in Estevan to talk to some of the local employees.

Nagy stressed Jimmy’s Law isn’t simply about ensuring there are two employees working late at night.

“What we’re looking for is to teach people proper safety precautions,

New Democrat MLA David Forbes speaks to 7-Eleven employee Jay Trivedi, during an overnight shift on Sunday. Forbes is talking to late-night shift workers about working conditions and safety, as he moves a private member’s bill, dubbed Jimmy’s Law, through the legislature. which include barriers, locked doors, glass partitions, Lazy Susan type (windows) where they do business through the door.

It’s common sense stuff is what we’re trying to say.”

It’s also important to have a second person working, not just for safety reasons but health reasons, if an employee is alone throughout the night and has a serious medical issue, like a heart attack, he added.

Forbes also said that what businesses should have is a violence or robbery plan.

“There’s no plan what-

soever. If somebody comes to the door and asks you for money, what do you do?

And that’s a basic occupational health and safety issue. So every employee should be asking, ‘what’s the plan?’ If there is no plan then you have some questions to be asked.”

Forbes said these policies are only developed about 20 per cent of the time by businesses.

“Everybody knows somebody who works in retail, and in terms of graveyard shifts, people get worried about their kids working (them). You hear stories across Canada, es-

pecially for young women working graveyard shifts, people get nervous out there.”

Forbes isn’t entirely sure what will come of his bill, which is to be discussed further in session this week.

“Whether it will be regulation, our emphasis is that there is some greater protection.”

Jimmy’s Law isn’t popular with everyone.

Forbes noted it has been critiqued as a “knee-jerk reaction.”

But he said they’ve

counted eight “dangerous occurrences,” in this situation, including Jimmy’s murder, three of Kaytor’s, as his workplace was robbed a third time when he wasn’t present, and there were four separate incidents in Regina on one night in January.

“This is not a kneejerk reaction. What we’ve found on our tour is that there are some really good employers who have created a situation where there’s lots of things happening at their workplace.

They’ve got two workers

but they’ve also got a series of safety precautions, like the lock boxes.”

After stopping at Estevan’s 7-Eleven stores, the group headed to Weyburn to visit some more late-night workers. Forbes issued a press release Monday morning following the local tour, and noted that most businesses here do schedule multiple employees to cover late-night shifts.

“Nobody is saying this is the magic bullet that all of a sudden this will stop crime,” added Forbes.

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Baby boom on again at St. Joseph’s

As the roster of doctors has been slowly rebuilt in Estevan, so too has the restoration of services at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

For a period the hospital was unable to deliver babies as it was without an obstetrician and an anesthetist following the departure of Dr. Di Naidu to Saskatoon.

However, the South East Community Health Committee was able to recruit Dr. Yusuf Kasim, who is an obstetrician and gynecologist, to fill part of the void. To help cover the anesthetist gap, the committee brought in Dr. Medhi Horri from Ontario.

Kasim said he and his family, which includes his wife and three daughters, are enjoying Estevan and all the community has to offer.

“They have been going for skating classes, dancing, music, swimming. They are enjoying it.”

On a professional level, Kasim said after a slow start to his tenure in Estevan — he was initially seeing five to six patients a day — he is

Dr. Yusuf Kasim and Dr. Medhi Horri now up to an average of 15 per day.

“One of the initial problems was because we didn’t have an anesthetist,” said Kasim, whose clinic is located in the St. Joseph’s Foundation Clinic. “People

felt there is no need to come and see me. Seventy-five per cent of the bulk of our work has to do with pregnant ladies and deliveries. (During a delivery) the best form of pain relief is an epidural.

(Without an anesthetist in

RM of Cymri receives funding The RM of Cymri is among a handful of rural municipalities in the province to receive money for infrastructure work.

The provincial government announced last week it is providing $23.5 million in new provincial funding to improve more than 165 km of rural municipal roads and 28 bridges and culverts in 51 rural municipalities.

Highways and Infrastructure Minister Jim Reiter and Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) president David Marit Friday announced a list of projects that will receive funding from the Municipal Roads for the Economy Program (MREP).

The 2012-13 budget provided $23.5 million in new provincial funding for MREP. “Transportation is integral to our economy and rural municipal roads are an important part of the transportation system,” Reiter said. “The provincial government is pleased to support our municipal partners so our rural economy can continue to grow.”

MREP provides grants to upgrade RM roads impacted by increasing truck traffic, develop primary weight routes through the

Clearing the Path Initiative and repair and replace bridges and culverts. MREP grants generally cover 50 per cent of the costs of road projects and 30 to 90 per cent of the costs of bridge and culvert projects.

Highlights of the 2012 MREP grants include: • 15 RMs will receive a total of $7.3 million in grants for 16 heavy haul/high volume road (HH/HV) projects.

• 16 RMs will receive a total of $4.3 million in grants for 16 projects to develop primary weight truck routes through SARM’s Clearing the Path (CTP) initiative.

The RM of Cymri will receive $500,000 as part of this program according to a press release.

• 24 RMs will receive a total of $4.8 million to replace or repair 28 bridges and culverts.

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In addition to the grants to individual RMs, SARM will receive a total of $1.6 million for the Municipal Traffic Count Program, the Municipal Bridge Inspection Program and overall program administration of MREP. The improvements made to RM roads through MREP complement the 1,200 km of improvements to provincial highways that will be made during this construction season.

Estevan) they preferred to go to Regina. Now that we’ve had one the last one month … people are coming to see us now. They are quite happy that we have something locally.”

Asked if he was happy

to see the addition of an anesthetist to the local physician roster, Kasim smiled and let out a sigh of relief that spoke volumes.

“It is painful to tell a lady ‘sorry I cannot (handle) your delivery, you have to go to Regina,’” he said. “It breaks the doctor–patient relationship. It’s somebody you have been looking after and have established a kind of relationship with.

“With an anesthetist on the ground now, it cements the relationship between the doctor and patient in terms of looking after them through pregnancy and delivery.”

Since his arrival, Kasim estimates that he has completed roughly 20 regular and 20 C-section deliveries.

“The staff here is fantastic and I have enjoyed working here. It’s just you want to do more and we are getting more equipment that will (add) some services here in Estevan and they won’t have to go to Regina.”

In Estevan for roughly one month, Horri, who is both a general practitioner

and anesthetist, said he is also enjoying his new surroundings at the hospital and Estevan Medical Group clinic.

“It’s busy, quite busy.

But the community has been deprived of doctors for years and they have been coming and going. They need follow-up, they need a family physician and that is what we are doing, providing services that are way overdue,” said Horri.

“It’s such a headache to go find a doctor. To sit there for hours for a refill of medication, they just give up. I am hoping with this new situation we are carrying part of the weight and helping them in that aspect.”

Both men credited the work of the local committee with helping them get settled in Estevan and making the transition to the community a smooth one.

Along with Horri and Dr. Andre Grobler, the Estevan Medical Group clinic also recently added Dr. Jimi Akinsete, a general practitioner who is ready to accept patients.

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It’s still a good dam story Revisionist history can make for some interesting conversations and revive some frustrations and criticism which is what Dams of Contention and author Bill Redekop did last week with the launching of the book in Estevan.

According to Redekop’s revisiting of the records surrounding the Rafferty and Alameda Dam projects, it was a $310 million boondoggle that proved nothing other than the power of a political will to put a big project on the books by a desperate government.

The author makes a case that there are no redeeming features or facts surrounding these two dams, especially the Alameda Dam. At least Rafferty’s reservoir provides coolant for the Shand Power Station, he notes in the book. The promises of recreation and irrigation have been unmet and, he argues, the the dams’ ability to provide flood protection for downstream residents was pretty well demolished last summer.

While Redekop hammers home some interesting opinions, and will probably find more than a few flood victims of 2011 who can now agree with his assumptions, Dams of Contention, the book written more than 20 years after their construction, does not address or merely skips over facts that continue to support the concept of holding the water back on one of Saskatchewan’s more erratic river systems.

Dams of Contention does not pretend to defend any aspect of the Rafferty and Alameda Dam project, while playing the negative card.

The author misses a few historical facts in the missive, and chooses to gloss over, ignore or dismiss the dam advantages. That’s his privilege.

For instance, in the 20 years since their commissioning, the dams have provided significant flood protection and a lot of recreational opportunities.

Their value in drought seasons does not need to be amplified here, they are just that obvious.

Granted, the anticipated irrigation projects have not materialized, but that’s not the fault of the dams or the developer. To declare that the valley land that was yielded and replaced by large volumes of controlled and retained waters was more valuable than what is there now just doesn’t fly.

Water is more than a mere commodity, it’s a life force ... as important as oxygen and sunshine. To finally ensure the presence of water control in an area where dams had been discussed as a priority for more than 80 years prior to their construction was, and is, to be applauded.

As George Hood, vice-president of the Souris Basin Development Authority, the group that got the dams built, noted in a recent e-mail, we could take a look back and see all the positives that emerged. He noted that 20 government agencies in the United States and Canada were at the table at one time or another, hammering out an agreement. When was the last time that happened? It was a textbook example of how a bilateral international contract can work. And to do it with a water project? Name another!

There isn’t one.

The international joint agreements that focus on this unique waterway that flows from Saskatchewan to North Dakota and then back into Canada at Manitoba should be celebrated.

When you get an opportunity to make good use of water in Saskatchewan, you take it and run with it and use it wisely.

Yes, there have been faults and there was last summer’s freak temper tantrum from Mother Nature that nothing was going to control.

And we readily admit that the Rafferty and Alameda Dams were rift with political controversy. But the conclusion has to be that these may be Dams of Contention, but they are also dams that are needed and no post conceived conceptions or misconceptions will be able to change that fact.

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

Little wonder Sask. rejected fed. NDP Although it has been fewer than five years, there’s something about today’s Saskatchewan that makes it feels that it has been eons since the provincial NDP ran the province.

Perhaps it’s the fact that the Saskatchewan Party - notwithstanding some slippage this past legislative session on adding MLAs and a few other issues - is still riding high under the charismatic leadership of Premier Brad Wall. And Wall’s success can be directly attributed to the success of the province’s oil-driven economy. Whatever the foibles of the Sask. Party government, there is little doubt that it’s free enterprise philosophy is more in tune with what’s making the province work right now.

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Did you folks realize that we’re only one slightly offbalanced computer hacker away from total meltdown?

Nope, I didn’t either.

I honestly thought we had some kind of Battlestar technological wizardry policing, defending and protecting us at the highest levels. But when your highest level of defence strategy is Peter McKay, the guy who has more trouble with numbers than I do, we might be a tad vulnerable.

On a recent British Broadcasting Corporation news feature, it was pointed out that public utilities are the easiest things going in terms of hacker haven.

It seems during Hacker 101 courses, you know, Computer Hacking for Dummies, shutting down power grids would be an elementary early morning exercise. Smoking out generators is something they could do before the first coffee break. Messing up railroad schedules ... same thing. Messing with airline reservations, another piece of cake.

Of course the airlines do a pretty good job of screwing up their own systems, so it might be difficult to differentiate between the self-destruction by Air Canada and a hacker-induced slop over.

According to the hackers interviewed by BBC, taking down power grids is akin to messing around with Guitar Hero after four beers. It’s something they’d do if they were having a real boring day and wanted to create a little anxiety in Peter McKay’s

Norm Park All Things Considered little circle of friends.

Apparently these super hackers have been pulling consistent pranks like this since 2007.

One Russian techno geek hacked into more than one million computers at once by just focusing on one computer system ... taking it down in less than an hour. I’m sure you heard about it.

How do you think those centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear plant were messed up? Yep, remote hacking. No need to bomb them, just take down their nuclear system by infiltrating their computers.

Laptops trump machinery in our new world order.

Internet dependent nations have the most to lose. Those in Third World nations, where the people earn less than $2 a day and don’t own a telephone, let alone a laptop or bank account ... won’t lose much at all. We do.

If we can operate machinery by remote control and fly armed drone aircraft into foreign territories, so can the other guys. And sometimes those other guys are smarter than Peter McKay, our Defence Minister of the Month.

The hackers then noted how medical equipment could be sabotaged, even without the assistance of government bu-

five years ago that former premier Lorne Calvert’s NDP ruled the province.

That said, it has actually been even longer that the NDP has had any federal representation from Saskatchewan - an even more amazing reality when you consider that the NDP once dominated the federal scene in Saskatchewan nearly as much as the provincial NDP dominated the Saskatchewan legislature.

Many will recall growing up in a time when the majority of the MPs that Saskatchewan sent to Ottawa were either CCF or NDP. In 1988, the province sent 10 NDP members to Ottawa out of a possible 14 MPs. The numbers did dwindle to fewer than half a dozen in the 1990s and early 2000s, but that was still a relatively healthy presence.

Then along came the distribution prior to the 2004 election in which there were no longer any pure city ridings - something that greatly reduced NDP prospects. Ironically, though, it was actually NDP MPs who most complained about representing rural ridings that were geographically too large.

Nevertheless, since that 2004 election, the Saskatchewan NDP candidates have been shut out in four consecutive federal elections. One has to start thinking that the issue goes beyond unfavourable electoral boundaries. And given the recent pronouncements of new federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, it’s rather evident the federal NDP is badly out-oftouch with Saskatchewan.

In an interview with CBC Radio recently, Mulcair expressed his distain for Western Canadian prosperity ... or at least the way oil has created a high dollar that the he says is

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reaucrats. We use networks for medical information that enemies access on a regular basis. They only need a good reason to bring our systems down and apparently our only real defence will be what kind of respect they have for us.

Regular rules of war need to be redefined to include cyberspace. The Geneva Convention makes no reference to Apple or PC. Or we can just keep bopping along thinking everything’s OK at Peter McKay’s fishing camp as we download Taylor Swift’s latest tune, Google Donald Trump or Bev Oda’s limousine driver or Friend Brian Burke on Facebook.

Hey, we know what’s important.

Speaking of Facebook, sorry I can’t post anything this week, Chris ... every time I try to connect this stupid commercial for Cialis shows up. Facebook’s folks are telling me I need to reconnect, reboot or redux something or other, but I’m afraid to because I know that it’s probably not the Facebook people. It’s those guys in Iran, a Nigerian banker or gulp, Nickelback. I don’t want to chance it. So Chris, send me a letter, or better yet, maybe we’ll talk face-to-face during lunch tomorrow. That will be unique!

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now responsible for destroying the manufacturing industry in Eastern Canada.

“It’s by definition the ‘Dutch disease,’” Mulcair said in reference to the Netherlands’ economy of the 1960s that saw North Sea natural gas push their currency higher and allegedly hurt that country’s manufacturing sector.

Mulcair went on to suggest that while an “artificially high dollar” might be “fine if you’re going to Walt Disney World” it’s “not so good if you want to sell your manufactured product because the American clients, most of the time, can no longer afford to buy it.”

Well, actually a high Canadian dollar tends to hurt the Western oil and gas sector as well. And then there’s the reality that much of the dollar issue is out of our control anyway because it’s driven by U.S. monetary policy that’s doing a better job of keeping their dollar artificially low.

But setting aside all this, plus the fact that the United States’ manufacturing sector is struggling as badly as Eastern Canadian manufacturing, what’s most irksome is how little respect or appreciation someone striving to be prime minister has for the West and its economy.

As Premier Brad Wall said on his Twitter account: “If Thomas Mulcair thinks a strong resource sector is a ‘disease,’ what is his ‘cure’? Higher resource taxes?”

The problem here isn’t just that the federal NDP doesn’t get the West. Given Mulcair’s view, it would seem the NDP has abandoned the West.

Is it any wonder that Saskatchewan hasn’t elected an NDP MP in more than a decade?

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Sacred Heart adding on to accommodate growth The trustees attending the May 9 meeting of the Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division learned that work has now started on the construction of a new portable classroom for Sacred Heart/Sacre Coeur School in Estevan.

The school finds itself in need of the additional space due to some unprecedented growth and there is an expectation of continued enrolment increases, said principal Mary Ellen Barreth.

The additional space is for one regular classroom plus the adjoining hallway. The new space will accommodate the 14 Grade 7 and 8 French immersion students expected in the next school year.

The space that this class vacates will then be used to house 16 youngsters who will be enrolled in the pre-kindergarten program, Barreth said.

“At present St. Mary’s School has two pre-kindergarten programs, so next year we’ll have one of those for students that are in our area ... kids who would normally come to our school but haven’t been able to because of this space problem,” she added.

The addition will alleviate some of the pressure on the school, but only temporarily since they will

Province creates app for Royal visit The provincial government has created an app to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Royal visit to Saskatchewan next week.

The Crown in Saskatchewan app is a way to stay up-to-date on all aspects of the visit.

The app will stream live tweets, pictures and video clips from His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales as he tours Regina with The Duchess of Cornwall on May 22 and 23.

Users will also have the ability to send personalized digital postcards depicting idyllic scenes from across the province directly to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in celebration of her 60-year reign and her close relationship with the people of Saskatchewan.

The app is also a source of information on diamond jubilee related events going on across the province throughout the year.

Through the app, the province is working directly with stakeholders and provincial partners to support and promote community based events that will be taking place through the diamond jubilee year.

The Crown in Saskatchewan app is the first to be developed by the government and can be downloaded at http://jubileesk.ca or find it on the App Store.

The diamond jubilee, which began on February 6, 2012, is a year-long event recognized across the Commonwealth celebrating the 60-year reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

still find their computer laboratory being accessed for other classes due to the current growth cycle.

“Our school enrolment is growing. We have 252 students registered this year. I think that’s the largest number we’ve had in a long time and with residential construction being focused on this part of the city, we can expect more increases in the future,” Barreth added.

Sacred Heart is also the only elementary school in the city that offers a full French immersion program and that is also growing significantly. Barreth noted that Sacred Heart is now home for 104 French immersion students in their kindergarten to Grade 8 facility.

“So far we have a full complement of teachers for the French immersion. We’ll need a French speaking educational as-

sistant next year, but on the teaching front, we’re doing just fine. We’re really blessed here to have the additional space being made available. Yes, we’ll probably be needing more as we all continue to grow, but it’s helping to solve the problem we have right now.”

Barreth said moving the French Grade 7 and 8 program to the new classroom and then inserting the new pre-kindergarten children into the space vacated by them instead of putting the pre-K kids into the new classroom was necessary for logistical and regulatory reasons.

She cited the need to put the younger students closer to washrooms and other services as one significant factor.

Holy Family is also engaged in a major renovation and addition at St. Michael’s School in Wey-

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burn where they report the interior retrofit is complete and the exterior work is slated for completion this summer.

The board also reviewed their policy on governance succession planning since this is an election year. The board has discussed the trustee information package that will be made available to interested candidates.

The Holy Family’s school improvement and accountability bi-annual conference with the Min-

istry of Education took place April 24 with a number of trustees and office staff providing input. The school division reported on a number of areas including reading, mathematics, writing, First Nations and Metis education and English as another language courses. They also referenced continuous improvement plans and all the reports are available on the school division’s website.

The trustees were also informed by director Shel-

ley Rowein that staffing issues are being addressed with teachers having until the end of this month to tender resignations. Following that, the staffing needs and wishes for each school will be finalized for the beginning of the new school year in early September.

Holy Family provides Roman Catholic educational services with facilities and programs in Estevan, Weyburn, Radville and Wilcox in southeast Saskatchewan.

“Our school enrolment is growing. We have 252 students registered this year. I think that’s the largest number we’ve had in a long time and with residential construction being focused on this part of the city, we can expect more increases in the future.”

- Mary Ellen Barreth

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Provincial parks open Thursday Huge employment jump in April Saskatchewan provincial parks and recreation sites are once again gearing up for a busy camping season, opening on Thursday.

Visitors to parks will notice numerous upgrades and improvements and some changes to the camping program.

An alcohol ban will also once again be in effect in all campgrounds and picnic areas within all provincial parks and recreation sites during May long

weekend (from Thursday, May 17 through to 11 p.m.

Monday, May 21). Cottages and commercial businesses in provincial parks will not be affected by the ban. The ban will also be in effect in 25 regional parks.

“A visit to a Saskatchewan provincial park is the perfect early start to summer,” Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Bill Hutchinson said.

“Our provincial parks are great places to enjoy nature,

spend time with family and friends and create memories that last a lifetime.

We want to ensure that everyone has a safe and enjoyable weekend.”

Visitors are encouraged to use the new online reservation system at www.saskparks.net to check campsite availability or make, change or cancel a reservation. Visitors can also make their reservation, or see what’s going on at the park, en route on

their mobile device by using the new mobile website (http://m.saskparks.net).

Other changes to the camping program include the expansion of the 14-night maximum stay program to include more campsites and the addition of five parks to the reservation service.

“Our provincial parks continue to be popular tourist attractions for Saskatchewan residents and visitors alike, welcoming a record breaking 3.37 million visits

in 2011,” Hutchinson said.

“We are hopeful that 2012 will be another great year as our government continues to invest in the services and amenities that make our parks better.”

Over the past four years, the government has invested $33 million to improve Saskatchewan’s provincial parks. This camping season marks the first year that all 1,100 newly electrified sites will be available to the public. Other

upgrades and improvements made in the last four years include a number of new or upgraded service centres, change houses, boat launches, entry kiosks, picnic tables, barbecues and more. The government will continue to invest in the parks, committing to add another $10 million over the next four years.

Those planning on visiting a park on May long weekend are reminded to call ahead.

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April turned out to be a big month for Saskatchewan on the employment front.

According to Statistics Canada, employment in the province grew by 13,100 in April 2012, a 2.5 per cent increase in job growth compared to a year ago and the largest jump since June 2009. The employment growth rate in Saskatchewan was the third highest among provinces.

Monthly record highs were set for the month of April in the following cat-

egories: • Labour force at 561,900.

• Employment at 531,800.

• Full-time employment at 435,800 (year-overyear increase of 17,500).

Saskatchewan’s unemployment rate remained the lowest in the country in April, tied with Alberta at 4.9 per cent and well below the national unemployment rate of 7.3 per cent.

“The Saskatchewan story is one of strong employment growth and con-

tinuing bright economic prospects,” Advanced Education, Employment and Immigration Minister Rob Norris said. “Business optimism remains strong and this is great news for those building a career in our province.”

Other highlights in the Statistics Canada report include: • In April, Regina’s unemployment rate was 3.8 per cent, the lowest among major Canadian cities while Saskatoon’s unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent, the

ninth lowest.

• Solid year-over-year employment gains were recorded in the province’s two major cities - jobs up 5,700 (4.8 per cent) in Regina and up 5,100 (3.6 per cent) in Saskatoon.

• Aboriginal employment increased by 3,200 (8.9 per cent) for 11 consecutive months of yearover-year gains.

• Youth employment increased by 4,900 (6.4 per cent) year over year.

Nearly 12,000 job vacancies are posted today on

the SaskJobs.ca website.

The NDP also weighed in, noting that although April’s job numbers were up the report noted that 30,100 people as unemployed and actively looking for work.

“It’s welcome news whenever Statistics Canada reports an increase in jobs in our province, but the government cannot ignore the negative statistics that exist, including the high number of people who say they are having difficulty finding jobs,” employment critic Cam Broten said.

The NDP release also claimed the number of people who are unemployed in the province has increased 53 per cent since the Sask.

Party became the government, while the number of people working has increased just 6.5 per cent.

“Part of the problem is that the Sask. Party government cut important job training and employment development programs that helped to ensure Saskatchewan residents had the skills needed to land a job,” Broten said.

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Traffic volumes at two border points still climbing 450% increase in commercial traffic at Estevan Highway port Thanks to a need to bring oil to refiners and to market, commercial truck traffic at the Estevan Highway Port between North Dakota and Saskatchewan was up by almost 450 per cent in April of this year compared with April 2011, said the Canada Border Services Agency in a report issued May 11.

Regular passenger vehicle volumes were about the same at this port with

2,738 vehicles that were carrying 4,980 travellers.

But when it came to commercial trucks, the number increased to 608 trucks in April of this year compared with 112 last year in the same month.

“This is due to an increase in commercial imports of bulk oil,” said Lisa White, spokeswoman for CBSA. T h e t r a ff i c a t t h e North Portal crossing, the

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busiest border crossing in Saskatchewan, also continued to increase significantly.

There were 29,906 travellers crossing into Canada from the United States at North Portal last month, an increase of 7.5 per cent compared with last April. Although the non-commercial passen-

ger numbers were up a bit at North Portal, the number of vehicles they were in was fairly constant compared with last year at 7,917.

The commercial truck traffic at that station was up, by 18 per cent to 11,303 trucks, which is continuing a trend of significant and steady in-

creases of commercial truck traffic at that port over the past couple of years. The one exception was last summer when highway traffic throughout the region was slowed or curtailed completely for several weeks at a time due to flood conditions.

That meant many commercial loads that would have

normally crossed into Saskatchewan at North Portal or the Estevan Highway were scrambled around, with companies finding alternate routes. That began in late May and continued through to August before repairs could be completed that enabled drivers to resume their normal routes into Canada.

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Eye safety prominent at SCSA seminar

The Saskatchewan Construction Safety Association was in Estevan last week, to present a brief seminar on safety at the job site.

There was a station set up to test eyewear, where nails were fired into lenses at point-blank range, as well as a fall-protection system and a melon drop. SCSA’s Gary Schreiner went through the eye-safety demonstration for the small crowd of local employees just outside the Souris Valley Aquatic and Leisure Centre.

He said the SCSA goes to job sites to talk to employers and employees, and that’s how they decide what they talk about during these seminars. Last week’s had a particular focus on eye safety.

“We are industry driven,” said Schreiner. “What the industry is looking for, what they’re asking for.

This is what we hear, so we derive something to help fix that.”

Attending the seminar were some City of Estevan employees, as well as personnel from electrical and framing companies and general construction.

“The eye demo, we’ve heard a lot of complaints about how ‘I get my guys to wear their safety glasses.

I’ve got to tell them every day,’” said Schreiner. “So we came up with a demonstration: we shoot a fastload air nailer onto safety glasses and non-safety glasses. It’s very vivid, the demonstration. Just regular sunglasses, it busts them right apart. The nail actually goes through and they stick into the mannequin head that we’re shooting on.”

With safety glasses, the nail just bounces off.

Schreiner noted that they

are shooting from about six inches away, and the glasses are offering protection.

“We don’t expect on the job site that you’re going to take a nail toward the face, but we needed to build something that was safe when we were demonstrating and to demonstrate the purpose of the safety glasses.”

For the demonstration, the glasses are placed onto a mannequin head that was encased in a box of bulletproof glass. The nails are fired from small holes in one side of the box.

The fall-protection system includes a wall-walker system to hang on the top of the wall, as well as railings, and it can be adjusted to various height levels.

“We’ve (also) got a netting system here, not so

popular yet in Saskatchewan, but in Ontario they’re also using it for residential houses. You’ve got to picture that 10 or 20 feet off the ground.”

The final demonstration, which can get a little messy, was the melon drop. For this, they placed a watermelon, in place of a human head and dropped hammers, pry bars and even a 12-pound sledgehammer onto the melons both with, and without, a hard hat.

“It’s pretty vivid as well, I mean, the 12-pound sledgehammer blows the watermelon apart without the hard hat on.”

He said they’ve looked into the similarities of a watermelon and a human skull, and said they’ve found that it is a good reference point for a demonstration.

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Council debated the new contract they are currently negotiating with the Estevan Chamber of Commerce.

The contract is for one year and asks for the chamber to develop a long-term economic plan for Estevan.

• • • • • • The minutes of the April 18 meeting of the Estevan Municipal Airport Liaison Committee were presented to council.

Of note, the committee had a presentation from Aaron Elmy of Sharptail Aviation who asked for room to create a larger hangar to hold their plane for their charter service.

The minutes noted other groups have also expressed interest in a larger hangar and that Sharptail may be able to join that development.

The minutes also noted the City is continuing

to deal with the Provincial Disaster Assistance Program on their claim from last year’s flooding. They are also dealing with high water table issues at the airport.

• • • • • • In his report, city manager Jim Puffalt provided a list of the upcoming events in Spectra Place.

The Estevan Bruins Celebrity Sportsman’s Dinner will be held in the arena on May 25 while the Hard Knocks MMA will make its return to Estevan on June 1. The Shrine Circus is scheduled for June 6 while the Rotary Lobsterfest is June 8.

The next concert at Spectra Place is Burton Cummings on June 15.

Simple Plan is also scheduled to perform in Estevan Aug. 12.

• • • • • • The Estevan Mercury was awarded the City Page

contract for the next three years.

Both The Mercury and Estevan Lifestyles placed bids on the contract and although the Lifestyles tender was lower, city clerk Judy Pilloud recommended The Mercury tender, noting that having both The Mercury and Southeast Trader Express as part of the deal allowed for greater flexibility to get their message out to the public.

In the brief debate that followed, Councillor Roy Ludwig suggested alternating the contract between the two papers.

Councillor Lynn Chipley rebutted Ludwig, pointing out that the public has grown accustomed to looking for the page in The Mercury and Trader.

The motion to go with The Mercury passed 5-1 with Councillor Brian Johnson the lone dissenter.

• • • • • • Council gave first reading to a bylaw to rezone a parcel of land from an urban holding zone to a commercial shopping centre zone.

The land, which is located behind Walmart, was sold to an Alberta developer earlier this year. As part of the agreement, King Street will be extended to run behind the current businesses in the area to the land in question.

• • • • • • Council also passed a bylaw amendment regarding property maintenance and nuisance abatement in the city.

Under the bylaw, the definition of a junked vehicle is more clearly defined with an eye towards giving the City power to fine or remove the vehicles which have become something of an epidemic in areas of Estevan.

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May 16, 2012

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“We don’t foresee a shortage here in the near future and we just simply can’t have that.”

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– Greg Hoffort, Executive Director of St. Joseph’s

State of local health-care improving The executive director of the St. Jospeh’s Hospital said the local health-care situation is on much stronger ground after enduring some shaky periods over the last couple of years.

Greg Hoffort, who took over as director roughly six months ago, was the featured speaker at the Estevan Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon last Wednesday at Allie’s Dining. He said the doctor shortage that plagued the area in 2011 is slowly becoming a thing of the past and local health-care personnel are now focusing on other matters of importance to the residents of Estevan and area.

Hoffort noted there are currently 11 physicans practising in Estevan which is getting close to a comfortable level. Of the 11, nine are general practitioners, one is a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics and one is a GP and anesthetist which was an important addition to the local medical roster.

“Since Vino Padaychee and Di Naidu’s departure from Estevan, we have been without the ability to provide emergency surgery and at-risk child births,” said Hoffort. “Though we could do our surgical slates by bringing in an anesthetist from Weyburn, you can’t plan for an emergency, of course.

“With one in town we are able to do that again and the staff rave about him; he’s an exceptional physician, so we are thrilled to have him.

We are actually looking for another one just like him.”

Hoffort said the local consortium recruited Dr. Medhi Horri from Ontario and will be looking to Ontario for another anesthetist as the current turmoil in that province’s medical system has led doctors to begin looking elsewhere.

In a significant departure from last year when Estevan was down to five doctors at one point, Hoffort said they are now giving thought to just how many doctors to bring to Estevan.

He noted the government and Sun Country Health Region feel 13 is a good number for the city.

“We are happy to say that we think we have a suitable environment for the physicians; we don’t foresee a shortage here in the near future and we just simply can’t have that.”

To ensure the city and region don’t have to endure a similar shortage, Hoffort said they are working on establishing a family medical residency program at St. Joe’s. He said the program would bring four medical school graduates to Estevan to complete their residency under the supervision of local doctors.

Hoffort, Dr. Edward

Tsoi and Mayor Gary St. Onge recently made a presentation to the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan and received “some pretty strong assurances” that a program would be created here in the next couple of years.

“It’s really a game changer,” said Hoffort. “It can’t happen soon enough for us. We would desperately like to bring it here by next year and get this program rolling. We are going to be doing all we can to try and expedite that and make it happen next year.

“We have a motivated physicians to do the supervision, a motivated hospital, motivated community representatives … we have the facilities and we think we are ready to go.”

Hoffort said there are many benefits to such a program. It would provide an obvious training ground for new doctors but also a teaching opportunity for the current physicians, something he said they are excited about.

“It’s something that will be a recruiting tool.”

The director also touched on equipment. He said the current focus of the hospital is a CAT scan service for Estevan, an item which has been on the local wish list for years. Hoffort said two hours to the nearest machine is too long and many doctors, when tak-

ing a look at Estevan, cannot believe the community does not already have one.

They are currently lobbying “anyone that will listen” including the minister of health and hope to meet with Premier Brad Wall in the future.

“Estevan is the city farthest from a CAT scan; two hours is too far. Then you multiply that for the folks in Carnduff and Gains-

New president for provincial chamber The Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce has a new president.

Fred Titanich was sworn in as the chairman of the SCC at its annual conference on business in Saskatoon.

The chamber serves as the voice of business in Saskatchewan and Titanich will lead the organization as it continues to improve the competitiveness and attractiveness of Saskatchewan’s business climate.

Titanich has served as president and CEO of CAA Saskatchewan since 1997, and has been a member of the SCC board of directors since 2009. He is actively involved in a number of business and community groups, having served as

president of the Regina and District Chamber of Commerce in 2008, and as chair of the SCC’s Investment and Growth Committee.

“We are very excited to have Fred as our new chair,” said Steve McLellan, CEO of the Saskatchewan Chamber. “His leadership and commitment to Saskatchewan’s business community are extraordinary, and his knowledge of the province’s business potential will serve the chamber very well.”

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Greg Hoffort borough. We can’t sit and wait, we have to move on it and we will be doing everything we can to make that happen.”

Hoffort also praised the work of the South East Community Health Committee for their work in recruiting doctors, providing a lobbying voice for the region and supplying funds to back up health-care initiatives through a levy.

The committee began as a partnership between the RM of Estevan and City of Estevan but has since grown to include the RMs of Cymri, Coalfields, Benson, Browning and Cambria.

“It’s pretty clear to see the great impact they have had on health care,” he said.

“There has been progress on each of the impediments that we have identified. It’s been a great success.”

PROPERTY SALE TENDER South East Cornerstone School Division is offering for sale by public tender the Estevan Teacherage, located on 710 Eva Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan. Legal description of the property is; Lot K, Block/Parcel 19, Plan No. 101918336, Ext. 0 Title #: 134671495 Sealed tenders are to be clearly marked ‘Estevan Teacherage’ and will be received by the undersigned until 2:00 p.m., CST on Thursday, June 14, 2012.

The School Division wishes to inform bidders of the following conditions: 1. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all tenders received and the highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

2. The provisions of The Education Act, 1995 regarding disposal of real and personal property must be strictly adhered to.

Further information may be obtained by contacting: Andy Dobson Manager of Facilities South East Cornerstone School Division No. 209 80A – 18th Street NE Weyburn, SK S4H 2W4 Phone: (306) 848-4726 andy.dobson@cornerstonesd.ca

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The provincial NDP and Sask. Party have been sparring about resources for some time but the recent comments by Mulcair that the high price of oil is bad for Eastern Canada has ramped up the rancor.

In a recent press release the Sask. Party alleged that when asked by a reporter

about Mulcair’s comments, NDP Energy and Resources critic Cathy Sproule passed the buck.

“If there are issues around economics, that’s something the federal government would have to deal with,” said Sproule.

The Sask. Party was quick to seize on those comments and contend that if the NDP were to regain power they would hand over control of the province’s resource sector to the federal govern-

ment.

“I now understand why the NDP never had a plan to grow Saskatchewan’s economy - they think it’s a federal responsibility,” said MLA Kevin Doherty.

“They would put the future of our province in the hands of people like federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who thinks our strong resource sector is a disease that can only be cured by slowing down our potash, mining and oil sectors, killing thou-

sands of jobs. Heaven forbid Mulcair should ever become prime minister.

“We don’t need this type of economic prescription for Saskatchewan and Canada from the federal NDP leader - and we don’t need that sort of abdication of responsibility from the provincial NDP,” added Doherty. “A strong resource sector is good for all of Canada. It’s time Thomas Mulcair recognized that and stopped pitting one region of the country against another.”

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Drug bust leads to further charges

Three men were arrested and charged with being in possession of a controlled substance when their vehicle was stopped in the central part of the city by Estevan Police Service (EPS) on the night of May 9.

As a result of the incident, a 17-year-old and a 21-year-old face charges of failing to comply with conditions of their release while the third man, an 18-year-old, faces charges of being in breach of his probation conditions.

The vehicle that was involved in the event was seized by police.

Later that same night, police were asked to look into an incident that in-

volved bottle throwing in the Hillcrest area. A home owner was warned about his actions and no further police action was required.

EPS members were asked to look into a report of dangerous driving, which they did, and later noted that charges are pending as a result of their investigation.

A 32-year-old Saskatoon man was arrested and charged with being intoxicated in public following a complaint from a local restaurant. The man now has a June court date.

EPS members said they are investigating a complaint of uttering threats following a road rage incident that occurred in the central part of the city May 9.

On May 11, EPS members checked a vehicle that was being driven at night without headlights on. The subsequent check of the vehicle resulted in a number of charges being laid.

The 30-year-old driver was charged with impaired driving and driving while his blood-alcohol level was over .08 per cent and for having open liquor in a vehicle.

Two male passengers were charged with having open liquor in a vehicle and were arrested for being intoxicated in public and for being in breach of conditions that had been imposed on them by the court.

A report of a vehicle being driven in an erratic

fashion in the Willow Park Greens area of the city resulted in police arresting a 28-year-old man who was charged with impaired driving and for driving while over .08.

The man had lost control of the truck he had been operating and ended up getting stuck in a ditch in the park.

A female passenger was arrested for being intoxicated in public and another male involved in the incident was arrested for public intoxication and for consuming liquor in public.

On May 12, a 50-yearold man was charged with impaired driving and driving while over .08 and three other men were arrested for

being intoxicated in public while two women were charged with consuming alcohol in public.

EPS members responded to a four-vehicle collision in the north central area of the city on May 13 during a day shift.

A vehicle prematurely proceeded forward on a green arrow at the intersection and collided with a vehicle directly in front of it which forced that vehicle into the rear of a third vehicle. The fourth vehicle then became involved when it was struck by the first vehicle that backed up into it.

No injuries were reported as a result of this event.

A grass fire reported in

the valley area near Woodend Place was quickly extinguished by members of Estevan Fire Rescue Service on May 13. EPS members attended the scene and have opened an investigation into the incident.

A railway crossing arm in the central part of the city was struck and damaged on May 13. Another arm was damaged in the west central area. CP Rail crews were called out to make the repairs on the damaged arms while police issued an alert to the general population to be mindful of the railway warning arms since they are there for public protection due to the number of trains that pass through the city on a daily basis.

Speeding gets expensive for local man A local man received a one-year prison term last week after pleading guilty to stealing a vehicle.

Dion Blom had been in custody since the beginning of April when he was arrested for breaching conditions of a release order from Regina. In Estevan provincial court on May 10, he pleaded guilty to theft over $5,000, impaired driving, driving an unregistered vehicle as well as a number of breaches. A count of break and enter was

stayed by the Crown.

Blom took the keys to his roommate’s SUV and drove to Regina. The vehicle was vandalized by others while he was there, and they faced charges in Regina provincial court.

Blom was also charged with impaired driving when he was detected driving on Fourth Street in Estevan at about 100 km/h. Upon his arrest he produced two blood-alcohol samples of .18, more than twice the

legal limit.

For these offences, presiding Judge Kenn Bellerose accepted the joint submissions by the Crown and defence that both asked for time served in remand and an additional 12 months in jail. Following that, he will be subject to a 12-month probation order.

Blom has a record dating back to 2004, and Bellerose noted that since that time, he has been before the court every year.

In other court proceedings, local man Jerry McCaw received the maximum fine of $1,000 for speeding, after being clocked at 124 km/h on Highway 39 east of Estevan. Bellerose said it was the first time he has ordered a fine for a speeding ticket greater than what the ticket actually was.

RCMP officers pulled McCaw over on the highway, but he refused to produce his driver’s licence and said he didn’t recognize one

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The officers told McCaw that he would be placed under arrest if he did not comply with their request to see his licence.

He locked the doors to his vehicle. The officers then warned him he would be charged with obstruction of justice, but he refused to exit his vehicle.

Two more officers were called to the roadside stop.

The air was let out of McCaw’s tires, and after continuing to talk with him, he eventually exited the vehicle.

Bellerose found that the officers didn’t have grounds to arrest McCaw for not producing his licence, because by law he is not obligated to produce that material, he is only required to identify himself when asked. Because that is the case, he was not obstructing justice when he refused to submit to an arrest.

However, Bellerose said that because McCaw turned a routine five to 10 minute traffic stop into a large production with multiple police officers at the scene in order to prove a point, he upped the fine to the maximum.

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Raising pennies for CNIB The students of Spruce Ridge School proved they can be incredible hoarders but also incredibly generous.

As part of Vision Health Month the students were challenged with raising pennies from May 1 to May 11. In that week and a half

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Rhett Handley scored four goals and added two assists to help the Big Dogs to a 9-8 victory over the Yorkton Bulldogs in the team’s season opener on Saturday at the Lignite Miners Centre.

A four-goal outburst in less than six minutes in the second period pulled Estevan into a 5-5 tie entering the third period.

Handley scored an insurance goal while shorthanded with 3:52 left in regulation, after Dylan Smith hit him with a pass from behind the net. That goal proved crucial as Yorkton’s Tyson Hass lit the lamp with 82 seconds to play. But the Big Dogs held the lead.

“I thought we started off slow, but as the first period went on and into the second period, we started playing a lot better defence, we started getting smarter and we started getting the ball on net,” said Big Dogs head coach Evan Handley.

“We ran them into the ground. They don’t have nearly the numbers (on their roster) that we do.”

The first period was a

Rhett Handley of the Estevan Big Dogs beats a Yorkton player to a loose ball during the Big Dogs’ 9-8 win over the Bulldogs in their season opener on Saturday. somewhat frustrating one for the Big Dogs as they dominated the visitors, hitting roughly six posts and having two goals called back. They trailed 3-1 at the intermission despite garnering the majority of the possession and scoring chances.

“We knew we hit about five posts and we made a lot of mistakes, because we weren’t mentally ready for it — loose ball fouls, turnovers,” said Handley. “The

kids knew after that first period, we’re down by two goals, we dominated, we knew we could beat them.”

Smith had the team’s lone goal in the first, scoring stick side from point blank range.

Jerrison Fisher, Zach Soke and Justin Genaille scored for Yorkton.

Soke and Genaille then scored again in the first half of the second period to put the Bulldogs ahead 5-1, but then the Big Dogs stormed

back.

Handley started the rally at 10:38, and Tanner Froese scored 32 seconds later.

Five minutes after that, Handley lit the lamp again, and just 16 seconds later, it was Kelsy Omland tying the game.

“We just started playing smarter in the second period. We started to slow it down and use more of the clock,” said Handley, who talked to his team

about taking advantage of the shot clock and taking time to set up shooting opportunities.

Yorkton pulled ahead again at 7:16 of the third period after a big hit was thrown on Estevan’s Kaleb Memory at centre and led to a 2-on-1, which Soke scored on to complete a hat trick.

Estevan’s Ryan Curzon was sent to the box after a hit that injured a Yorkton player, but the Big Dogs got most of the chances on the penalty.

It paid off at 8:41 when Handley scored on a shorthanded breakaway.

But the Bulldogs responded less than two minutes later when Genaille completed a hat trick.

Froese tied the game at sevens at the 11:35 mark, firing a laser from way out.

Shortly after, Curzon missed a chance to give his team some insurance when he hit a post. But he made up for it with five minutes left on a shot from the middle of the zone, shortly after a Big Dogs goal had been called back.

Handley scored his fourth goal with under four minutes to play on what was the eventual winner.

The Big Dogs ap-

peared to generate more scoring chances and were more aggressive on the attack than they were last year. Handley attributed it to the core group of leaders who learned the team’s system last season.

“I think it’s just because we’ve been together a year longer and everybody seems to know where they’re supposed to be. I’m playing the exact same offence I played them last year, they just seem to get it,” said Handley.

“It helps having Omland back and Curzon and Rhett, all these kids who have played before. It’s nice.

They know what to do, they’re a year older and a year smarter.”

Still, there are certainly things to work on for the Big Dogs heading into Friday’s road game against the Regina Riot.

“It’s game number one.

We did some things well.

We gotta work on our defence — after you shoot the ball, getting back, because as soon as we’d shoot, they had two guys going up the floor. In the first period, they got a couple of goals like that,” Handley said.

The team’s next home game is June 3 when they host the Riot.

Haulers win opening doubleheader It was a clean sweep for Estevan Minor Baseball’s AA teams on Sunday as both the bantam Sherritt Coal Haulers and peewee TS&M Tornados won both games of their doubleheaders at home.

The Haulers took on the Moose Jaw Mallards in their home opener and had no trouble with the visiting club, winning the first game 7-2 and thumping them 12-1 in a second game that required only five innings.

“I think we got a chance to have our guys see enough at-bats today to get them into a rhythm. Now that we’ve had a few at-bats, I think this is a good indicator of what we’ll see this year,” said Haulers head coach Kent Phillips.

In the first game, both teams started off slow, with the Haulers breaking the ice in the third inning when Bailey Lonsberry singled, stole second and went home on an error at third base.

The Mallards took the

Cole Piché throws some heat during a weekend ball game at Cactus Park. The bantam Haulers went on to beat their Moose Jaw opponents 7-2 and 12-1. lead in the top of the fifth, scoring a pair of runs on a passed ball and a wild pitch.

But the Haulers responded in the bottom of the inning as Mitchell Clark and Kyler Phillips scored on a combination of a Ty Brown single and an error at second base.

Estevan then broke the game open in the sixth with

four runs.

Carson Perkins scored on a passed ball, Brandon Hutt came in on a wild pitch, and then Mac Fichter and Damon Hutt were each walked and came in to score.

“We started off a little bit slow, as to be expected; it’s our first game this year,” said Phillips.

“But as the pitchers wore

in and we saw a few more at-bats and guys got a little more comfortable — we got some guys with some butterflies who have never played AA ball before — they got a little more comfortable as we went along too.”

The Haulers continued where they left off to start the second game, knocking in five runs in the first inning.

Preston Hutt hit a leadoff single, stole second, and scored on consecutive singles by Clark and Colton Gingras, who both also scored. Phillips singled, stole second and came in on an error at shortstop, followed by Lonsberry scoring on an error by the catcher.

Moose Jaw got on the board in the second when one of their players accomplished a rare steal of home.

The Haulers were then held scoreless for three innings before exploding for seven runs in the fifth.

Leadoff batter Perkins

was hit by a pitch, stole second and crossed the plate on a passed ball. Cole Piche reached on an error and also scored on a passed ball.

Two forceouts later, the Haulers went on to score five runs with two outs.

Preston Hutt reached on a fielder’s choice, got to third on a pair of passed balls and was then walked home.

Clark and Gingras also came in to score, and then Brandon Hutt came in on a passed ball after stealing third.

Phillips was plated on a single by Lonsberry to end the scoring for the Haulers.

The game was called after the fifth inning.

Phillips said he felt Brandon Hutt, Lonsberry, Phillips, Perkins and Gingras were among the standouts on the day. Hutt was playing with a broken finger.

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“I think that’s going to come down to be a real asset for us this year. Our infield is going to be very tight and I think we’ve got some guys who can track the ball in the outfield and read the ball very well off the bat.”

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Tornados sweep Melville in doubleheader The Estevan TS&M Tornados are off to a good start on home turf.

The peewee AA club won both ends of a doubleheader against Melville in their home debut on Sunday at Cactus Park.

In their first game, the Tornados needed only five innings to paste the visitors 16-5.

Shae Little got the start for Estevan, with Zack Miller, Brady Long and Kale Martens coming on in relief.

Jordan Stein had a base hit and an over-the-fence home run, while Long added a pair of singles.

Tornados head coach Landon Lafrentz said he was “thrilled” with his team’s performance.

“They played just awesome. I was really, really happy,” he said.

“The bats were alive and the defence was strong and they were just good all-around.”

He said the key was that everyone chipped in and the team didn’t rely on a handful of players to supply the offence.

“No one really was just outstanding. Everybody hit and that was really what did it for us. When everybody hits, you generate a lot of runs, and that’s what we did,” said Lafrentz.

“We were patient at the

plate and I told the boys, ‘if we’re patient at the plate, we can draw walks.’”

The second game was a much tighter affair as the Tornados hung on for a 6-4 win.

Estevan scored twice to take the lead in the bottom of the sixth and then shut down Melville in the seventh.

“They had baserunners though. It got pretty tight, but the defence did their job at the end,” said Lafrentz.

Brett MacMurchy, Hunter Piche and Carter Kuchinka were on the mound for the Tornados.

MacMurchy led the team at the plate with a single, double and triple, falling a home run short of the cycle.

Kuchinka and Piche each added two doubles, with Piche’s second double knocking in the gamewinning run.

T h e t e a m ’s r e a l l y starting to come together.

They’re starting to play as a team and swinging the bat. They’re being patient at the plate. You can have the best defence in the world, but if you don’t score any runs, you’re not going to win any games,” said Lafrentz.

“It’s a good start and a solid foundation, so that’s going to help out a lot.”

Dawson Nobiss hits a single for the Estevan peewee Tornados during a game on Sunday at Cactus Park on the way to a win for the club.

He said the team needs to work on smarter baserunning and fine-tuning some players’ swings.

The Tornados were scheduled to play a double-header in Moose Jaw on Saturday but it was

postponed because no diamond was available.

The team was set to host Weyburn last night.

The Tornados will play at the Legasse tournament in Regina this weekend.

Southeast Twins lose three of four on road The Southeast Legacy Twins played some tight games, but in the end managed one win on a four-game road trip on the weekend.

The Twins split a doubleheader in Swift Current against the Indians on Saturday, then lost a pair to the Saskatoon Cubs on Sunday in Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League action.

Of the three losses, the Twins were never more than three runs behind.

“Our kids need to learn to expect to win. Losing isn’t normal,” said Twins head coach Tom Copeland.

“Last year they were a very young club, and it’s time to change the expectations from ‘losing close games is OK’ to ‘we’re going to do whatever it takes to win this game.’ If we can change our

attitude, we’re going to be a force.”

The Twins started the weekend on the right note, riding a six-run sixth inning to an 11-8 victory over the Indians.

“We hit the ball well in the first game, gave them some leads back, made some errors and that’s the only reason that game’s even close,” said Copeland.

Swift Current roared back to score four runs in the seventh inning to make the game close, with Copeland estimating that his team made six errors in the inning.

“We were doing our best to give it back to them.

Walks and errors will kill you. We needed all of that lead and thank God we got it. It’s all about putting teams away because

otherwise you just burn up the pitch count,” he said.

Tanner Orsted allowed two hits in five innings for the Twins while striking out seven and walking four.

John Gaab led the team at the plate with two hits and five runs batted in.

Nolan Axten had three hits and three RBI while Jolan Lingelbach had two hits and three RBI. “He’s really coming into his own,” Copeland said of Gaab. “I didn’t even know who he was and I wouldn’t have put him on our team last year coming into camp, but he’s a guy who’s really done the job. Against right-handed pitching, he has a great approach and he’s a great fastball hitter. He had a tremendous game on Saturday.”

In the second game, the Twins ran into Indians pitcher Zac MacKay, who threw a complete game gem with three hits and 13 strikeouts. Swift Current won 3-0.

Lingelbach, Carver Krafchuk and Ketter Hoium had the hits for the Twins, who started Mackenzie Lamontagne.

Copeland said MacKay got hurt in the first game of the day and then came back to pitch the second one.

On Sunday, the Twins lost a pair of close games to the Cubs.

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Krafchuk went 2-for-3 for the Twins, with Orsted and Lamontagne also getting two hits.

Justin Chuckry went four innings and Garrett Fitzpatrick took the loss.

Copeland said it was a tough day on the pitching front.

“I think our guys would tell you they’d rather have those games back. Ramsay ate us up.

We couldn’t get anything by him, he killed us,” said Copeland.

The second game was a 4-2 win for the Cubs.

Both of the Twins’ runs came in the third inning, with Josh Ferris and Orsted both crossing the plate on unearned runs.

Gaab, Ferris, Nate Koszman and James Giroux had the hits for the

Twins.

Giroux started the game but was hurt in the first inning, so Nolan Axten came in for the next five innings and allowed five hits and two runs, one of them earned.

He said one positive was being able to tighten up after allowing baserunners.

“We definitely pitched out of some jams this weekend and that’s something we couldn’t do last year,” he said, noting that his team stranded a leadoff triple in one inning.

“It was a good tight ball game is all it was,” added Copeland. “We didn’t play poorly. Some days you’re just going to lose a good ball game.”

He said Giroux and Odgers are injured, but he doesn’t expect them to miss much time.

The Twins will play at a tournament in Moose Jaw this weekend.

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Schlamp finds hockey home in Australia A Bienfait native and former Estevan Bruin is now one of the biggest stars in Australian ice hockey.

Michael Schlamp is entering his fifth season with the Sydney Bears and is the captain of the Australian Ice Hockey League club.

Schlamp, who played with the Bruins from 19992002, ended up in Australia through former Bruins coach Kelly Lovering, who had some contacts in the country.

Schlamp played that first year in 2002 with the Newcastle North Stars along with Lovering’s son, Tyler, who is now the commissioner of the AIHL. Schlamp worked in Australia until December of that year, came back to Bienfait for a year and then applied to study chiropractic in Sydney, where he began living in 2004 and has ever since.

“It was a little different at first. It’s like playing summer hockey,” Schlamp said via e-mail. “The weather here isn’t that warm in the winter. It is usually about 1618 C during the day and the lowest it will get in Sydney is about 4 C, so not too bad

Bienfait’s Michael Schlamp has made a career of playing hockey with the Sydney Bears in Australia.

He is seen here playing with the Australian national team at the Division 2 worlds last month in Poland. (submitted photo) compared to Saskatchewan.

“I have definitely gone a little soft when it comes to

the weather now, compared to when I used to live back in Saskatchewan,” he said.

Schlamp finished 13th in AIHL scoring last year with 20 goals and 45 points in 28 games. He said the quality of the AIHL has been improving but still would be considered a low-level league in Canada.

“I suppose you could compare it to a high-quality senior league back in Canada,” he said.

“There is a fair bit of travel in this league as well, so we have to fly to a lot of the games. There are three other teams within a 3.5 hour drive, but the other five places we fly to, so that is interesting.

“Imagine a senior league in Canada spanning from Vancouver to Toronto and having nine teams.

That’s us, pretty crazy,” he said.

Each team in the AIHL is allowed four import players, who usually come from pro leagues in the U.S., the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and other countries, which suits the league and the players, because the AIHL season is opposite to other leagues.

Schlamp had a brand new experience last month

Bruins announcer gets the call at RBC Cup

Walter Wood is used to being the public address announcer for the Estevan Bruins for 28 home games each year.

Last week, however, he took on a whole new challenge.

Wood was asked to be the PA announcer for seven games at the Royal Bank Cup in Humboldt.

The process began at the Bruins’ last home game of the season when team marketing manager Becky Tait mentioned that he should be doing some work at the RBC Cup. “About six weeks before the RBC, I got a call from Humboldt and they

were wondering if I would be able to go to Humboldt and help them out.”

Wood was asked to work the four opening games of the tournament on May 4-5 as well as the two semifinals and the championship final this past weekend.

The playoff games ended up pitting Humboldt against the Woodstock Slammers and the Penticton Vees against the Soo Thunderbirds in semi-final action on Saturday.

The Slammers faced the Vees in Sunday’s final after upsetting the host Broncos in overtime.

“It was very interesting.

It was a very loud building there on Saturday when Humboldt was playing Woodstock,” said Wood.

“In a matter of 20 seconds, it went from one of the loudest buildings I’ve ever been in to one of the quietest buildings I’ve ever been in. You could just see the whole life of the building and the tournament get extinguished.”

Penticton went on to win the tournament after edging the Slammers 4-3 in the final, scoring the winner with 51 seconds left in regulation.

Wood said the final provided a different experience because TSN was broadcasting the game, and with that

came extra cameras, extra personnel and extra lights.

“It was a unique challenge and it was a lot of fun,” he said.

Wood was part of a team of five announcers, including two English and three French.

“There were a lot of similarities to what we do with the Bruins, but Hockey Canada takes it up an extra step,” he said.

“After seeing what Estevan did with the (SJHL) showcase in the fall … I really think that (the RBC Cup) would be something we can pull off and I hope we’re striving for it in the future.”

when he suited up for Australia at the International Ice Hockey Federation Division 2 world championship, which is the third tier of world tournaments.

The event was held in Krynica, Poland from April 15-22. It was Schlamp’s first time playing for his new country. The Aussies went 0-5 and were relegated to Division 3.

“It was really good quality hockey. All the players from the other countries are full-time professionals, so it’s a great achievement for Australia to play at that level,” said Schlamp.

“We competed very well and played great against the difficult teams and probably should have won a couple of games, but took some penalties and had poor starts against Romania and Lithuania. Otherwise, I think we could have beat them.

Such a great experience.”

As a Canadian playing in a country less familiar with the game, Schlamp finds himself taking on a bit of a mentorship role.

“I do help run the occasional hockey school over here and work with some of the younger kids. There are some talented athletes over here and hockey would be a lot better, but lack of rinks and numbers hold it back.”

He said he’s seen vast improvement in the quality of Australian hockey since moving Down Under.

“The league here has improved a lot and the Aussie players keep getting better. They have moved up a lot in the international ranking and now are competing very well with the Division 1 teams. I think it will still take a few years before they are consistently in Division 1. “ Australia is poised to hit a huge milestone this summer in having its first ever player taken in the NHL draft.

Australian forward Nathan Walker, who has

been playing in the Czech Republic, is ranked to go in the third round of the draft.

Schlamp played on a line with Walker at the worlds.

“This would be great for Australian hockey. There are a few more players over here that are close to getting their citizenship as well, which would add to the quality of the team and Australia’s chances,” said Schlamp.

The former Saskatoon Blade was recently interviewed by Fox Sports Australia, which was considered a great accomplishment for the sport.

“Yeah, it was pretty cool. It’s like the equivalent of being on SportsCentre on TSN. We really don’t get too much media coverage over here, especially on TV. It is getting to be a little better, but sports like rugby get the majority of coverage over here. Rugby over here is like hockey in Canada,” he said.

The Bears finished last in the AIHL last year with a record of 2-21-2, but Schlamp hopes the team will have better fortunes this season, which began earlier this month.

“We had a few injuries last year and ended up having a rough year. We have a few good imports this year, two really good players from the Czech Republic, so hopefully we can have a strong season and make the playoffs.”

The top four teams make the AIHL post-season.

Schlamp, 31, believes he has a few more years in him.

“I think I will probably play a couple of more seasons. I really enjoyed playing at the world championships and would like to do that a few more years. I still love playing the game and it’s like having a little piece of back home here with me, so that is nice as well,” he said.

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Kerr attends two U.S. pro bodybuilding shows Cea Anna Kerr is expanding her horizons.

The Estevan bodybuilder, who won the national figure championship in 2007, is now competing in the new physique division as an International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness pro.

Kerr said she found she had to take her training down a notch in order to enter figure competitions, and a new physique division was created for others in the same position.

“Every pro figure show I did, any of us who came in a little too big, they downsized and told us we were too built for figure. “(In the physique division), we do open hand posing, and it has to be

very elegant, very feminine posing. It’s a cross between bodybuilding and figure.”

Kerr recently attended two physique shows in the U.S. On April 14, she entered the Los Angeles Grand Prix show and finished eighth out of 16 competitors. She was the only Canadian in the field.

Two weeks later, Kerr finished eighth out of 21 at the Europa Show of Champions in Orlando, Fla. She was one of only two Canadians at the event.

Kerr’s next event will be a pro event in Toronto on June 1, where she’s aiming for a top five finish.

“I think it’s a good opportunity in our own

country, since I have done well in the U.S.,” she said.

Kerr averages two or three shows per year and said she’s happy to have made the switch to the physique category.

“With figure, I had to downsize, so I wasn’t able to really train much.

I wasn’t really happy with that because I’ve been doing it for almost 22 years and it’s hard when that’s your lifestyle, to be told not to train. It suits my physique better and it’s more my style for me. It feels good to be back in the gym and train.”

Kerr’s husband, Chad, is also a bodybuilder so she said the support from him is invaluable.

“It’s awesome to have that person where we un-

derstand each other, because the diet does take a lot out of you with your feelings and emotions, because you’re not at your best. It gets really hard to endure the diet and all the vigorous training you’re doing every day,” she said.

She added that friends and coworkers have been supportive and she’s confident entering the Toronto show.

“I’m bound and determined. I’m ready. I know I can do it, so I’m going to come in even a little bit tighter than I was for the last show. You’re always having to work on things, adjust your physique, your diet, your training. It’s such a science to get your body to respond for that one day.”

Estevan’s Cea Anna Kerr recently competed at a pair of International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness pro events in the United States. (Photo by Nga Azarian)

Track club wins six gold medals at Regina meet Estevan softball The Estevan Legion Track and Field club sent eight members to the Regina Spring Classic Outdoor Track and Field meet on the weekend.

The club came home with six gold medals, four of them coming from William Chamney in the midget division.

Chamney was first in long jump with a jump of 5.08 metres, first in the 100 metres with a time of 12.35 seconds, first in the high jump at 1.60 metres and first in javelin with a throw of 24.04 metres.

Tatiana Dutka earned first place in the triple jump in the bantam division with a jump of 7.12 metres.

Keena McKnight also earned a gold, taking top honours with a jump of 1.35 metres in high jump in the midget division.

Brendan Dickie, in the peewee division, was second in the high jump (.90 metres), third in the 60 metre dash (10.05 seconds), third in long jump (3.40 metres) and second in shot put (3.71 metres).

Dutka was also second in the 80 metre dash (12.63 seconds), third in long jump (3.60 metres) and fifth in

season underway The Estevan Girls’ Softball season is underway for 2012.

More than 130 players are registered with four teams in the Learn to Play division, two squirt teams, three peewee teams and three bantam/ midget teams.

The peewee and squirt teams play on Mondays and Wednesdays while the bantam/midgets and learn to play teams are in action

Erik McKersie of the Estevan Legion Track and Field Club leaps into the air during a long jump attempt at the Regina Spring Classic meet on the weekend.

(Submitted photo) the 150 metres (24.22 seconds).

In the midget division long jump, Eric Dryden was third (4.38 metres), Darian Dickie was sixth (3.71 metres) and Erik McKersie was seventh (3.57 metres).

In the 100 metres, Dryden was second (13.93 seconds), Dicke was fifth (15.16 seconds) and McKersie was sixth (15.77 seconds).

Dryden was third in the high jump (1.35 metres).

In the 200 metres, it was Dryden in second (29.59 seconds), Dickie in third (33.09 seconds) and McKersie in fourth (34.14 seconds).

McKnight was second in the 800 metres (2:38.38) and second in long jump (3.76 metres).

Tr a c k c l u b c o a c h Kristina Chamney competed in the youth division. She placed second in high jump (1.35 metres), second in the 100 metres

(13.85 seconds), third in long jump (4.08 metres) and eighth in the 800 metres (3:41:09).

The club members of qualifying age will compete in the Southeast Cornerstone School Division’s district meet on Thursday in Carnduff with their school teams.

on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The association is also fielding peewee and bantam provincial teams this year and hopes to have a squirt team as well.

Estevan will be hosting the bantam Zone 1 playdown for the Saskatchewan Summer Games June 30-July 1.

The association will also host year-end tournaments for all four divisions in June.

ECS winless at provincials The boys’ doubles team of Carter Daoust and Harley Doerr represented Estevan Comprehensive School at the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association provincial badminton championship on the weekend in Melfort.

The team went 0-3 in their pool and missed the playoffs.

In their first game, Daoust and Doerr pushed

Biggar to three sets, losing 19-21, 21-12, 21-12.

Their second game against Meadow Lake was over in straight sets as they lost 21-19, 21-14.

Daoust and Doerr also went down in straight sets in their final game against Prince Albert St. Mary’s, being defeated 21-6, 21-13.

A team from Fox Valley went on to repeat as provincial champions.

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Improvements clear to see for Big Dogs

Last season, the Estevan Big Dogs didn’t get their first (and only) win until their second-last game of the year.

They got that out of the way right off the bat this time around.

The Big Dogs we saw on Saturday at the Lignite Miners Centre looked much more polished and refined in their offensive attack than they were last year.

Lacrosse is still a niche sport and as such, it’s key to have returning veterans to provide some

Josh Lewis Hear Me Out continuity from year to year.

Having players like Ryan Curzon, Ty Currie, Dylan Smith, Kelsy Omland, Mark Moriarty, Marshall Holzer, Wayde Curzon, Tanner Froese and

Rhett Handley back with the team means you have about half your team already versed in the team’s game plan.

It means less time spent repeating drills and more time shaping the

offence into a well-oiled team.

The Big Dogs certainly looked like they knew what they were doing on Saturday, at times dominating a Yorkton team that got lucky with a few missed chances and posts on the home side’s part.

Now that some chemistry has developed and many players have some experience with the sport, the Big Dogs should experience more success than they did last year.

That doesn’t mean that there isn’t a long way

to go, and it doesn’t mean they’ll be competing for first place, but they should at least be competitive, unlike last year’s 1-8-1 team.

And although the cramped quarters at the LMC don’t help matters, it’s much easier for a community to embrace a winning team when the sport is unfamiliar to many fans.

A successful Big Dogs team would also encourage more younger kids to give the sport a try at the lower levels and could go a long way

toward helping Estevan Minor Box Lacrosse create a sustainable feeder system. It’s a win-win.

Josh Lewis can be re a c h e d b y p h o n e a t 634-2654, by e-mail at sports@estevanmercury. ca, on Twitter at twitter. com/joshlewis306 or on his Bruins Banter blog at estevanmercury.ca/bruinsbanter. In the meantime, he implores you to check out the new web series called “10 Questions with Parksie” at estevanmercury.ca. Just do it.

Woodlawn to be busy over next two weeks The long-awaited golf season at Estevan Woodlawn Golf Club is about to heat up.

The course is hosting three of its annual tournaments in the next two weeks.

As Woodlawn is redesigning its back nine holes this year, all holes will be played on the front nine.

The Marv Symons

Memorial Open will go ahead on Monday.

Next weekend sees the annual Estevan Comprehensive School Classic on Friday, followed by the Estevan Bruins Alumni par-three event on Saturday.

All three tournaments were cancelled last year after flooding decimated the course.

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Mondays & Wednesdays @ 3:00, 3:30 & 4:00 pm – Hello Computer! – Come and get answers to your computer questions in ‘one-on-one’ thirty minute sessions. Bring your own laptop or use a public computer. When registering please indicate what you would like to learn.

Thursday, May 17th @ 6:30 pm – Cover to Cover Book Club: Sarah’s Key – This month we will be discussing Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay. This is a compelling fictional story of the Occupation in Paris which “unlocks the star crossed, heart thumping story of an American journalist in Paris and the 60-year-old secret that could destroy her marriage.� Call 636-1621 to pick up your copy today.

New members always welcome!

Friday, May 18th @ 10:30 am – Baby Time – Ages 0 to 18 months old & their caregivers. This is a perfect way to welcome baby to the Library! Join us for 30 minutes of interactive songs, rhymes and a short story. We’ll make a special craft then stay and chat with other new parents! Occasional guest speakers will be on hand also!

Saturday, May 19th @ 2:00 pm – Victorian Tea Trays For Adults – Victoria Day is approaching! Celebrate your Canadian identity.

Come to the library and craft a Victorian tea tray with Mod Podge and unique Victorian images. There will also be a brief multimedia presentation on Victorian society.

Tuesday, May 22nd @ 6:00 pm – Common Sense Gardening – Are you curious about gardening? Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting out, you will benefit from a discussion with professional gardener Gerry Fichtemann. Come and get answers to all of your gardening questions! No pre-registration required.

Thursday, May 24th @ 5:30 pm – Adult Movie Night: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (94 minutes - Rated PG-13) – May is Holocaust Remembrance month. Commemorate the occasion by viewing The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The film is set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp.

Bruno is forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Refreshments will be provided. Call 636-1621 to register.

Tuesday, May 29th @ 2:30 pm – Tuesday Afternoon Book Club: the Uncommon Reader – Can’t make it to Cover-to-Cover Book Club Thursday evenings? No problem! To accommodate your busy schedule Jill is hosting a Tuesday afternoon book club focusing on an alternate title. This month we will be discussing The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom becomes obsessed with books after a chance encounter with a mobile library. The story follows the consequences of this obsession for the Queen, her household and advisers, and her constitutional position. Call 636-1621 to pick up your copy today.

Thursday, May 31st @ 6:00 pm – What to Read Next? – Unsure what to read next? Jill will introduce you to reader’s advisory databases, focusing on Novelist and Fiction Connection. She will teach you how to select new titles based on your favourite books and authors. Come and learn how to select books you enjoy. Don’t miss out on your next great read! Call 636-1621 to register.

Please pre-register for all programs unless otherwise indicated. Call 636-1621.

The library will be closed on May 20 & 21.

Museum and Gallery Assistant We are looking for an energetic individual to assist in the day-to-day activities of a museum and art gallery.

Tasks will include the setting up and striking of contemporary art exhibitions, cataloging and researching of artifacts and assisting in the design, construction and maintenance of the museum. The successful candidate will provide occasional tours of our art exhibitions and our museum and will work alongside our Educator and Director/Curator.

Requirements: • proďƒžcient in both Windows and Mac operating systems • proďƒžcient in Microsoft Ofďƒžce Suite and Photoshop • able to do light physical labor Assets: • possess a current drivers license • knowledge of/interest in Canadian history and contemporary art • experience working with the public The position begins on May 18, 2012 and will end on August 25, 2012. Speciďƒžc hours are negotiable, but it is a 35 hour work week. Wage: $15.00/hr.

Education Assistant We are looking for an energetic individual to assist in the development and implementation of educational programming currently offered at the Estevan Art Gallery & Museum. Tasks will include leading gallery and museum school tour groups, organizing senior art workshops, developing and assisting with various art and heritage summer camps, and researching and creating immersive education packages based on our current contemporary art exhibitions and museum exhibitions. The successful candidate will provide occasional tours of our exhibitions and museum and will work alongside the Educator.

Requirements: • experience working with the public (speciďƒžcally children) • must submit to a criminal record check Assets: • programming experience • ability to work independently • possess an active drivers license • enrolled in a post-secondary/tech school education program

POLICE CONSTABLE

The Estevan Police Service was established in 1906 and has been built on a tradition of excellence.

The City of Estevan has experienced a great deal of growth in the past three years, especially in the energy sector including oil, coal mining and power generation. This growth and economic boom has created several challenges within the City of Estevan including the Police Service.

The Estevan Police Service is increasing the size of the Police Service and currently has two vacancies for the position of Constable. The Estevan Police Service has a rigorous application process; however, this process is to ensure that the people we hire to wear the Estevan Police Service uniform are the right people for the job.

If you are hired as a new recruit you will enter a rigorous training period of 42 weeks. The ďƒžrst 18 weeks will be at the Saskatchewan Police College in Regina, Saskatchewan where you will receive instruction in criminal law, ofďƒžcer safety, self defence, ďƒžrearms, report writing and cross cultural training. After graduating from the Police College you will receive a further 24 weeks of ďƒželd training under the guidance of a Field Training Ofďƒžcer.

Experienced members are encouraged to apply. The Estevan Police Service offers an exciting career in law enforcement with excellent beneďƒžts and a competitive salary.

GUARD/MATRON

The Estevan Police Service is seeking applications for the position of Guard/Matron. Successful applicants must be honest, trustworthy and able to work independently with little supervision. The Guard/Matron will provide constant observation of persons who are being held in custody.

Retired persons are also encouraged to apply. Successful applicants will be on call and will have the right to turn down shifts.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (Dispatcher)

Duties and Responsibilities: The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills. This person will handle incoming telephone calls, general public inquiries and complaints, and will communicate via radio transmissions with members on patrol. Must be able to work independently under stress as well as produce a high degree of accuracy.

To apply or receive further information please see contact information below.

Application packages can be picked up at the Estevan Police Service or mailed out upon request.

Please return the completed package with an updated resume in a sealed envelope to:

Estevan Police Service

301-11th Ave., Estevan, Saskatchewan. S4A 1C7 or call 306 634 4767.

You can also email: schartrand@estevanpolice.ca or jpierson@estevanpolice.ca Del Block – Chief of Police, Estevan Police Service Only successful candidates will be contacted.

SUPPORT WORKERS NEEDED

Southeast Regional Victim Services is looking for volunteers in the Estevan City Police / Estevan RCMP detachment area to work with victims of crime and traumatic events by providing information, advocacy, support and referral. Victim Services is a police-afďƒžliated program.

The following qualiďƒžcations are needed: * 18 years of age or older * pass a police security screening and take an oath of conďƒždentiality * sincere interest in and the ability to work with people * successfully complete initial training program and participate in ongoing training and staff meetings Training is provided free of charge.

Funded by Saskatchewan Justice.

For further information, please call 634-8040.

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Permanent Full Time Positions • Ensure the safety of Aquatic Centre Guests • Instruct lessons for children and adults alike. • Administer First Aid in the event of an emergency • Keep environment clean, and free of hazards.

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The position begins on May 18, 2012 and will end on August 25, 2012. Speciďƒžc hours are negotiable, but it is a 35 hour work week. Wage: $15.00/hr

Tip of the Week The Estevan Police Service would like to remind the residents of the following: According to By-law 2005-1709 regarding animalsThere are several sections regarding this by-law however we would like to highlight a few of them; - No animal is permitted to run at large at any time - A dog barking for a length of time or being a nuisance to other residents is not permitted - If an animal defecates on public/private property, it is the owners responsibility to dispose of it properly All offences could result in a ďƒžne ranging from $50.00-$250.00.

According to Section 209(6)(a) of the Trafďƒžc Safety Act: It is unlawful to disobey a stop sign. Drivers are to come to a complete stop in order to ensure it is safe prior to proceeding. Fine for this offence is a minimum of $230.00.

If you have any questions regarding any of these tips, please call the Estevan City Police Service at 634-4767.

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Apply to: Kelvin Pillipow - Human Resources 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan SK S4A 0W7 Phone: 306-634-1842 Fax: 306-634-9790 Email: hr@estevan.ca

RCI The City of Estevan and Province of Saskatchewan Rental Construction Incentive Program is now taking applications for funding. The Rental Construction Incentive Program provides a $ 5,000 grant per door for new rental units or conversions of housing to rental units. This $ 5,000 is matched by the City of Estevan through the CANDO Rental Construction Program full property tax abatement for the year of construction and 1st four years after.

To be eligible: - The housing units must be rental and cannot be converted to condos for a minimum of ďƒžve years - This grant cannot be stacked with other rental grant programs For further information please contact: Jim Puffalt, City Manager 1102 - 4th Street, Estevan, SK, S4A 1Z9 306-634-1802 ~ citymanager@estevan.ca

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Long weekend driving tips • Don’t drive aggressively. Jackrabbit starts and hard braking can increase fuel consumption up to 40 per cent.

• Eliminate driver distractions such as cellphones, eating, drinking, adjusting radio dials and smoking.

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SCHEDULED PASSES INFORMATION FOR EXTERNAL USE (PUBLIC RELEASE)

There will be 2 scheduled passes after the Spring Clean-up. They are outlined as follows, with the dates listed as TENTATIVE

PASS 1

MONTH MAY

WEEK 3 4 5 1

JUNE

2012 TENTATIVE DATES May 14th – May 18th May 22nd – May 25th May 28th – June 1st June 4th – June 8th

AREA NE Corner SE Corner SW Corner NW Corner

WEEK 2 3 4 1

SEPTEMBER

2012 TENTATIVE DATES Aug 13th – Aug 17th Aug 20th – Aug 24th Aug 27th – Aug 31st Sept 4th – Sept 7th

CITY OF ESTEVAN – 2012 WATERMAIN FLUSHING SCHEDULE Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday May 15, 16, 17, & 18, 2012 Hillside Area – Bounded by Souris Avenue and King Street, Spruce Drive and Princess Street Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday May 22, 23, & 24, 2012 Trojan Subdivision, including 9th Street, 8th Street and 7th Street Centennial Park Areas and Soo Industrial Subdivision Friday, Monday, Tuesday May 25 & 28, & 29, 2012 Area bounded by Valley Street and 1st Street, Souris Avenue, 6th Street, Alice Road, including Westview Place

PASS 2 MONTH AUGUST

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AREA NE Corner SE Corner SW Corner NW Corner

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday May 30, 31, June 1, 2012 Area bounded by Souris Avenue, Kensington Avenue and 6th street, Perkins Street, including the Valleyview Subdivision, Jubilee Place and Bay Meadows Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday June 5, 6, 7, 8, 2012 East of Kensington Avenue (within city limits)

NORTH WEST June 4th – June 8th September 4th – September 7th

NORTH EAST May 14th – May 18th August 13th – August 17th

WANTED PROGRAM ASSISTANT

SOUTH WEST May 28th – June 1st August 27th – August 31st

Individual to assist with arranging and promoting the council’s programs, grant applications and follow-up reports and be available for media interviews.

Part-time position with exible hour up to 15 hours per week.

Program information at www.estevanartscouncil.com Starting salary $16.hour.

SOUTH EAST May 22nd– May 25th August 20th – August 24th

Apply, with resume by May 18, 2012 to: Estevan Arts Council 701 Souris Avenue ESTEVAN, SK S4A 2T1

Construction Bulletin KENSINGTON AND ROONEY ROAD The City of Estevan is undertaking construction for Concrete and Surface Works The affected area includes Rooney Road and Nesbitt Drive and Kensington Avenue intersection.

Property access and parking restrictions are to occur.

This work will commence April 2, 2012 and will take approximately four (4) weeks to complete (subject to weather) Glen Peterson Construction Ltd and Souris Valley Paving will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations and specications.

Water Main Replacement The City of Estevan is undertaking concrete work and road works at: Souris Avenue – Seventh Street to King Street The purpose of this work is to provide timely and cost effective replacement of existing cast iron water main with PVC pipe, replacement of existing water and sanitary sewer services from water & sewer main up to the property line and surface restoration. This work would require closure of immediate areas of excavation and may necessitate parking restriction in adjacent areas. This work will commence during the week of April 9, 2012 (from Seventh Street) and will take approximately Four (4) Weeks to complete (subject to weather). Glen Peterson Construction Ltd. will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations.

George Street – Dufferin Avenue to Bannatyne Avenue The purpose of this work is to provide timely and cost effective replacement of existing cast iron water main with PVC pipe, replacement of existing water and sanitary sewer services from water & sewer main up to the property line and surface restoration. This work would require closure of immediate areas of excavation and may necessitate parking restriction in adjacent areas. This work will commence during the week of April 9, 2012 and will take approximately Three (3) to Four (4) Weeks to complete (subject to weather). Glen Peterson Construction Ltd. will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations.

Woodlawn Reservoir The City of Estevan is undertaking construction of a Treated Drinking Water Reservoir.

This Right of Way is not a though road and no trafc will be allowed in the area that is not involved with the reservoir construction.

This work will commence March 5, 2012 and will take approximately ten (10) months to complete.

Ledcor Construction Ltd. and JV&M Constructors Inc will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations and specications.

Safety Construction site could be dangerous. If you have children, please ask them to keep a safe distance from the site. We will take every precaution to ensure public safety, but we need your assistance to constrain the natural curiosity of younger children. Please DO NOT attempt to go close to areas affected.

Theft or Vandalism If you see any act of vandalism, theft or anyone suspiciously tampering with equipment, signage or barricades please contact call Police.

Questions and Concerns The City of Estevan, Engineering Services apologize for any inconveniences that this work may cause and thank you in advance for your cooperation

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WATER & SEWER UTILITY RATES INCREASED AS OF JANUARY 1, 2012 Property Tax Discount

May

2012 DISCOUNTS

.5%

Tax notices will be sent out in June, once taxes have been levied

ESTEVAN MEDICAL GROUP 110 – 1175 Nicholson Road, Estevan S4A 2S7 Phone: (306) 634-2661; FAX (306) 634-8821 • Dr. Jimi Akinsete • Dr. André Grobler • Dr. Mehdi Horri

MEDICAL CLINICS AT ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE 1176 Nicholson Road, Estevan S4A 2V6 • Dr. Yusuf Kasim – Suite 300 Phone: (306) 637-2770; FAX (306) 2772 • Dr. Sunday Olowu – Suite 400 Phone: (306) 637-2765; FAX (306) 637-2767 • Dr. Charles O. Omosigho – Suite 600 Shalom Medical Clinic Phone: (306) 637-2760; FAX (306) 637-2762 • Dr. Khalid M. Sheikh – Suite 500 Phone: (306) 637-2750; FAX (306) 637-2752

PUBLIC NOTICE The Council of the City of Estevan, pursuant to Section 209 of the Saskatchewan Planning and Development Act, 2007, gives notice of its intention to amend Zoning Bylaw #2010-1834 as hereinafter provided: Consideration is being given to make a number of amendments to the Zoning Bylaw #2010-1834 which are of a minor nature – specically errors and omissions that have been discovered since the passing of the Zoning Bylaw (2010).

The affected area includes The Woodlawn Avenue Right of Way North of the St. Joseph’s Hospital.

and patience. If you have any question or concerns, please call at 634-1818 or approach the supervisor or foreman on site.

MEDICAL STAFF IN ESTEVAN MEDICAL CENTRE 137 King Street, Estevan S4A 2T5 Phone: (306) 634-6444; FAX (306) 634-9187 • Dr. Kofi Amu-Darko • Dr. Allison Christie • Dr. Hakan Pehlivan • Dr. Edward Tsoi • Nurse Practitioner – Lois Coffey

The amending “housekeeping” bylaw (No.2012-1876) may be inspected by any person at the Legislative Services Business Division, 1102 4th Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan, between the hours of 9:00am and 12:00 noon, and 1:00pm and 4:00 pm, Monday to Friday.

City Council, at it’s meeting to be held on June 11, 2012 at 7:30pm in the Council Chambers, City Hall, will consider any written submissions respecting the proposed bylaw, provided such submissions are received by the City Clerk, Legislative Services Business Division, City Hall, 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan, no later than 4:00 pm on June 6, 2012.

Dated at the City of Estevan this 8th Day of May , 2012.

Taxpayers are encouraged to take advantage of the pre-payment discount the city offers on 2012 Property Taxes if paid before June.

Please note that you will not receive a prepayment notice. If you wish to take advantage of the discount please stop into City Hall or call 634-1812 or 634-1811 to determine what your 2012 discount will be.

LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY!

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• Plan your route carefully to avoid driving unnecessary kilometres.

• Buckle up and ensure children are properly secured in their safety seats.

• Don’t speed. It’s dangerous, and driving above 90 km/h decreases your fuel efficiency exponentially.

• Slow to 60 km/h in construction zones and when passing emergency vehicles or tow trucks assisting motorists.

• Don’t drink and drive.

LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY!

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“Slowing d o w n , driving l e s s aggressively and ensuring your vehicle is in top condition are just some things that will improve your safety on the road and help to reduce your vehicle’s fuel consumption.”

To help stay safe and save money, follow these tips: • Ensure your vehicle is in top shape with properly inflated tires. A poorly maintained vehicle can use up to 50 per cent more fuel.

Under-inflated tires also reduce fuel efficiency.

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As travellers prepare to hit the road for the first long weekend of the summer, CAA Saskatchewan is offering them tips on how to drive safely, save money and help the environment.

Traditionally, the May long weekend brings increased traffic, including cyclists and pedestrians, as well as more road construction and detours, all of which can increase the chance of traffic collisions.

It also often brings higher gas prices.

“Many people don’t realize that being a safe driver also makes you a fuel-efficient driver,” said Lisa Wilson-Sturm, director of communications with CAA Saskatchewan.

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“Being as I had just relocated to a new city, a new province that was quite different than my own, I thought I would make this show come from a very personal place.”

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Avengers Assemble

The blockbuster movie The Avengers has been a hit with local fans as the Orpheum Theatre decided to carry the movie over for an additional week. A number of fans also came out to the movie dressed as their favorite Avengers character.

Exhibit explores comforts of home The latest exhibit at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum shows off the aspects of a home that give it meaning beyond the building’s physical structure.

Melanie Hiske was all smiles, unable to hold her excitement, when the exhibit, dwelling, opened at the art gallery last week, featuring some of her photography along with other artists’ work.

The exhibit includes seven artists from Saskatchewan and Ontario and is Natalie Buongiorno’s final assignment during her stay at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum.

She spent the last two semesters as the gallery’s assistant-curator intern and is now back in Ontario, the province she calls home.

She said the inspiration for the exhibit came after her move from Toronto to Estevan, trying to make a new city home.

“It was through my own circumstances that made me question this idea of home and what exactly it was,” said Buongiorno.

“Being as I had just relocated to a new city, a new province that was quite different than my own, I thought I would make this show come from a very personal place. Because I was missing home quite a bit at this time — I had already been in Estevan for three months — I decided that I would explore what it was that makes a home a home.”

At the opening of the dwelling exhibit at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Natalie Buongiorno, the exhibit’s curator, poses for photos at left with local artist Melanie Hiske, who has three photographic works in the exhibit.

She began the search for artists, and thought it was prudent to include pieces from both her home province as well as Saskatchewan. She was fa-

miliar with the art scene in Toronto and knew some places to begin her search for the exhibit’s artists. It was different discovering local pieces here.

That was where Hiske came in. She was recommended to Buongiorno and submitted several pieces for the exhibit.

Hiske said, “(Buon-

giorno) was doing this exhibit called dwelling, which kind of showcases comfortable things at home, and what you know at home, things you know.”

After being contacted

by Buongiorno, Hiske immediately said she would like to participate in the project and had some say as to what pieces would be included.

“I submitted a few more (than what is on display),” said Hiske, “and Natalie picked which ones she wanted to put in here.

It’s kind of rare that they ask you, because it’s quite a process to submit your résumé and pictures, and all that kind of stuff. I think it’s pretty rare for a first-timer to have gotten asked or approached to do it.”

Hiske has had pieces juried in competitions before, but this is her first exhibit.

The three black-andwhite photographic pieces

by Hiske show a coffee cup as well as a rotary dial telephone and a doorknob.

She admits the subjects are ordinary but added that she tries to capture those subjects when the lighting is right. “ W h e n t h e l i g h t ’s right, I take it. That’s kind of how it works. My thing is taking stuff that I know.

I take pictures of stuff that I know. You know, at home, what’s around, and then when the light’s right.”

The photo of the cof-

fee cup, with rising steam, was a piece she has submitted to a competition before, so it was ready for display. The other two had to be prepared for the exhibit.

“The coffee cup was one that I wanted to do. I had that one in my head.

That actually takes place at my sister’s house. The light was right, and the steam came up, and I grabbed my camera, and it was there. The doorknob, when you’re just looking at something, your eye catches it, but it’s a picture of a doorknob.”

Hiske said the experience of having her work alongside other artists has been lots of fun, particularly during the exhibition’s opening night.

“It’s amazing. It really, really is. I’m kind of excited,” she understated, beaming from ear to ear.

“It’s kind of cool to see it on a big wall. It’s kind of surreal.”

Buongiorno noted the artwork displays ordinariness in the home, as many people find comfort in what they are familiar with.

“A lot of the artists in this show share an interest in our emotional connections to home and the fundamental qualities of home that define our lives and reinforce a positive, central place,” she said.

“I hope that through this exhibit, homes are seen as more than a physical space, but actually a state of being.”

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Midale community happenings

By Catrina Moldenhauer Midale Correspondent Congratulations to Connie Fonstad and Doug Moberg who were engaged on April 27 in Las Vegas.

Connie’s daughter Trinity Maser and Doug’s daughter Jen Wingert were there with them to celebrate.

The Midale 39ers had a very successful Mother’s Day tea and art and craft show with more than 60 people in attendance.

Twenty people displayed their arts and crafts as well. They also held a draw and first prize of an Avon gift basket donated

by Margaret Penill went to Wendy Rosengren, while second prize, a potted plant donated by Garnet Kerr, was won by Bill Groves.

Bev Sobush-Melby presented her art at the Estevan Christian Women’s After 5 Club meeting where she was the featured artist and speaker. She will be displaying her “Horse Play” themed art at the Weyburn Credit Union Art Gallery for the months of May and June. The display includes artwork with rodeo, trail rides and family pictures.

The Midale Lions

Club is having a steak night on Saturday, June 2 at the Midale 39er’s Centre. Doors will open at 5 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available from any Midale Lions Club member or most local businesses.

Mainprize Marketplace will run on May 26, June 16, July 14 and August 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pederson Place.

For more information or to book a table call Julie VanAlstyne at 458-2535.

SCHOOL NEWS The Lions Club and SaskPower Shand Greenhouse donated trees to all Grade 3 and 4 students, encouraging them to make a difference by planting a tree. SaskPower Shand Greenhouse grows hundreds of thousands of seedlings each year to help protect our environment and offset the damaging effects of greenhouse gases.

The windup for the mentorship program will take place on Wednesday, May 30. The students will be attending Puss and Boots at the Orpheum Theatre in Estevan in the afternoon. The parental/ guardian consent form must be properly completed and returned to the school in order for mentor-

60 and Over Club Notes Submitted by Shirley Graham Club Secretary

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When the water main broke, a customer phoned the city and asked, “The water in the toilet is brown, is it safe to drink?”

It’s always nice to welcome new friends to our club! Two new couples have joined us for canasta as well as bridge.

Bridge played on Wednesday, May 9 had the following as winners: Joan DeRosier took first place, second went to Bernie Collins and coming third was Audrey Lausch.

Welcome!

The Thursday, May 10 cribbage winners were: Jim Ward and Dennis Zimmerman, first; Charlene Anderson and Al Fellner, second; and Pat Parent and Angie Friesen, third.

Some dates to remember: The potluck supper will be held on Thursday, May 24 and the cribbage

tournament will be held on Saturday, May 26. Please advise if you would like to play in the tournament.

Play begins at 1 p.m., and there will be door prizes and lunch.

Story of the week: A woman had been bitten by a mad dog and was about to die. The doctor told her she had better make out her will. Taking paper and pen, she began to write ... and she wrote and she wrote! The doctor said to her, “That’s a very long will you are making!”

“Will, nothing!” she raved. “I’m making a list of all the people I’m going to bite!”

Have a great day!

ship students to attend the wind-up.

The deadline for returning the forms to the school is Monday, May 28th. All Grade 10, 11 and 12 students will participate in the Internship Program that runs from June 4 to 8.

Students need to have their jobs recorded in the office

by May 25.

If your son or daughter is between the ages of nine and 14 and would like to compete in the Hershey track and field meet on June 5 in Weyburn at the Comprehensive School

track, please let Mrs. Klemenz know their chosen events by Thursday, May 24. Elementary track practices will continue to run Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunchtime.

The jumping pits located behind the gym are in need of a till. If anyone out there has a rototiller and would like to volunteer to till it up, the students would love to start using it for track practice.

A reminder to all the graduates that the grad banquet tickets must be

St. Mary’s School Community Council would like to recognize May 14-18 as Catholic Education Week.

Thank you to all of the St. Mary’s teachers who make Catholic

education a priority for our children, and provide a safe and loving environment in which to learn.

purchased by May 31.

Their class histories are also due in the office May 31.

Mr. Rau will be running golf instruction at the school until June 14.

Grades 3 and 4 will practice Tuesdays from 3:30 - 4:15 p.m., Grades 5 and 6 will go on Wednesdays from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. and Grades 7, 8 and 9 will practice Tuesday from 4:30 - 5:45 p.m. On Thursdays, golf will be offered at Mainprize Golf Course from 3:45 - 5:30 p.m.

Students are strongly en-

couraged to bring their own clubs to practices as there are limited sets of clubs at the school and park. Students in Grades 7 to 9 should bring money to purchase a set of range golf balls to practice with. *** The Midale Oilmen’s Association have set July 27 for their annual fundraising golf tournament at Mainprize Park. Contact Darren Moldenhauer at 458-7780 or Catrina Moldenhauer at 458-2887 to enter or for more information.

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Estevan Idol Auditions will be held Sunday, May 27th at the Exhibition Hall Senior Auditions - 2:00pm (16 yrs and up)

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ALL DESIGNS, PLANS AND RENDERINGS © COPYRIGHT JENISH HOUSE DESIGN LIMITED

THIS DESIGN INCLUDES AN UNFINISHED BASEMENT

MAIN FLOOR PLAN 2318 SQ. FT. (215.3 M2) 9'-0" CEILING HEIGHT

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This ranch-style charmer with its arts-andcrafts ornamentation is sure to delight any family looking for a home with the living area all on one floor.

Glass doors at the covered entry lead into a compact foyer, with a study to the right, separated from the great room by a wall of glass blocks. A flight of stairs to the left leads to the unfinished basement included with the plans.

The great room features a gas fireplace. Sliding glass doors open onto a covered deck-with access from the dining room. The deck will be perfect for al fresco warm-weather meals. Separated from the great room by swinging doors is the open-plan dining room/kitchen. A smaller covered deck off the dining room provides a sheltered spot for yearround barbecuing.

The kitchen’s generous island has an unusual round eating bar for snacks and casual meals, as well space for storage and a work surface. The U-shaped counter configuration will save many steps. Off the kitchen is the laundry room, with a two-piece lavatory tucked into a corner, as well as access to the double garage.

There’s a spacious walk-in closet nearby.

The master suite boasts its own covered balcony overlooking the back garden. The en suite includes a soaker tub and a glassed-in shower, as well as his-and-hers basins. The

huge L-shaped walk-in closet will provide lots of storage.

The second and third bedrooms, one with an extra-wide sill, share a three-piece bathroom with a double sink. A linen closet is conveniently placed near the bedrooms.

Exterior finishes include siding and brick, with painted trim. Partlymullioned windows and a multi-gabled roof line add character.

This home measures 65 feet, four inches wide and 63 feet deep for a total of 2,318 square feet.

Plans for design 1-3599 are available for $746

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CURTIS, KEN May 17, 1999 We do not need a special day To bring you to our minds The days we do not think of you, Are very hard to find.

They say time heals all sorrow And helps one to forget But time so far has only proved How much we miss you yet.

God gave us strength to take it And courage to bear the blow But what it meant to lose you, No one will every know.

Your never failed to do your best Your heart was true and tender You worked so hard for those you loved.

And left us to remember.

- Sadly missed and forever loved

by Mildred, sons and their families.

Marvin H.N. Olischefski October 18, 1934 May 22, 2010 The world changes from year to year, Our lives from day to day, But the love and memory of you, Shall never pass away.

This day is remembered And is quietly kept, No words are needed, For we will never forget.

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In the light of day you can smile and life goes on It’s those dark quiet hours before the early dawn Tears flow and we feel the most alone Our hearts ache for them to come home Never imagining that this day Will be the last time you see, touch or speak Things left unsaid, unresolved always thinking You’ll do it when you see them next week Make every day like it’s your last Hug often and say I love you Time is precious it goes by so fast We’ll laugh in the sun, quietly weep in the dark You will always be remembered Kept in a special Place in the heart.

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In Loving Memory of James Douglas Forrester June 13, 1926 - May 19, 2009 You can shed tears that he is gone Or you can smile because he has lived.

Your heart can be empty because you can’t see him Or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back, Or you can do what he’d want: Smile, open your eyes, love and go on!

- Loved and sadly missed, Helen & Andre Bouthillette and family.

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William Mantei In Loving Memory of Bill Born April 29, 1918 Passed away May 15, 2006 Sadly missed along life’s way Quietly remembered every day No longer in our lives to share But in our hearts you’re always there.

- Remembered and loved each day, Wife Lillian; daughter Gail and Jim Sewell and family: Tanya & Andrew, Jennifer, Chad & Terri; daughter-in-law Florence Mantei and family: Glenn, Jordan & Amber and Bill’s 5 great grandchildren: Nicholas, Kaitlyn, Sasha, Sierra and Ashlyn.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THEODORE FICHTER, LATE OF MIDALE, IN THE PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN, DECEASED. All claims against the above estate, duly verified by statutory declaration and with particulars and valuation of security held, if any, must be sent to the undersigned before the 22nd day of May, 2012.

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SOUTHEAST SASK USED CAR SUPERSTORE CARS

2011 CHEV MALIBU PLATINUM EDITION 30,000 kms .......................... $18,900 2008 CHEV COBALT 4 door, sport red, 56,840 kms ...................................... $12,700 2008 CHEV COBALT COUPE auto, power roof, 40,800 kms ......................... $12,700 2007 PONTIAC SOLSTICE CONVERTIBLE GXP, 260 HP, leather, SOLD $22,800 13,000 kms ...................................................................................................

2006 BUICK ALLURE local trade, 124,000 kms .............................................. $9,950 2004 CHEV CORVETTE CONVERTIBLE auto, leather, chrome wheels, Sale $32,300 $33,900 8,600 kms .....................................................................................................

TRUCKS, SUVS, VANS

2011 GMC YUKON cloth, 20’s, white, 54,000 kms ...................................... $36,700 2011 DODGE DAKOTA CREW 4X4 19,200 kms....................................... $26,900 2011 CHEV SUBURBAN leather, 4x4, 34,000 kms ...................................... $39,700 2011 GMC TERRAIN SLT2 V6 leather, roof, dvd, nav, 2,200 kms................. $38,700 2011 FORD ESCAPE LTD loaded, leather, power roof, only 15,500 kms .......... $29,900 2011 CHEV TRAVERSE AWD, LT, quad, buckets, 43,400 kms ........................ $29,900 2010 GMC CREW 4x4 1500 leather, power roof, 91,000 kms .................... $26,900 2010 CHEV 1500 CREW 4X4 6.2L, max pkg, 134,000 kms, local trade ...... $21,980 2010 CHEV AVALANCHE LTZ power roof, nav., leather, 20’s, SOLD $29,970 140,000 kms, local trade.................................................................................

2009 BUICK ENCLAVE CX AWD 64,685 kms, very well equipped ................ $32,880 2009 GMC SIERRA SLT 1500 72,785 kms, Crew, loaded ........................... $25,900 2009 GMC R/C lwb, V6, auto, air, cruise, tilt, 69,500 kms ............................. $14,980 2009 CHEV UPLANDER SWB quad buckets, very nice, 59,300 kms.............. $15,500 2008 HUMMER H3 fully loaded, cloth buckets, very clean, 69,000 kms........... $28,600 2008 SATURN VUE AWD a/c. cruise, tilt, pw, pl, 78,000 kms...................... $18,990 2008 DODGE NITRO 4X4 loaded, only 48,911 kms .................................. $21,800 2008 FORD EDGE LIMITED AWD, black, local trade, 101,300 kms ................ $19,900 2008 ACADIA SLT AWD, Red Jewel, tint coat, leather, local trade, 93,000 kms.. $26,900 2008 CHRYSLER ASPEN leather, 4x4, DVD, 90,700 kms..............................

SOLD $19,980 2008 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED auto, 4x4, 90,000 kms .....................

SOLD $21,900 2008 ACURA MDX leather, power roof, only 102,000 kms ............................ $19,700 2007 GMC CANYON CREW 4x4 local trade, only 54,000 kms ................... $19,900 2007 CHEV TRAILBLAZER SS AWD 395 HP, leather, power roof, 100,000 kms ................................................................................ $23,700 2007 PONTIAC TORRENT A/C, pw, pl, cruise, tilt, AWD 110,000 kms ........ $15,700 2005 PONTIAC MONTANA EXT 105,300 kms .......................................... $10,700 2004 CHEV AVALANCHE 4x4 only 117,314 kms....................................... $15,700 1994 CHEV E/C 4X2 very clean, 209,000 kms ............................................. $4,995

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USED CARS

2009 MAZDA CX-7 40,000km......................................................... $29,900 2009 SEBRING TOURING Very nice car ....................................... $15,995 2008 DODGE CHARGER 68,000 kms............................................ $17,500 2008 VW NEW BEETLE CONVERTIBLE 64,000 kms ................... $17,995 2008 CHRYSLER SEBRING Only 20,000 kms .............................. $14,995

USED TRUCKS/VANS

2011 FORD F150 CREW CAB 24,500 kms .................................... $32,995 2011 TOWN & COUNTRY .............................................................. $31,900 2011 GRAND CHEROKEE ............................................................. $39,500 2011 DODGE 1500 CREW CAB BIG HORN 49,800 kms .............. $33,900 2010 DODGE JOURNEY SE .......................................................... $16,995 SOLD 2010 FORD XLT SUPER CAB ....................................................... $21,900 2010 GMC SIERRA 1500 CREW CAB 59,000 kms ....................... $27,995 2010 DODGE CALIBER ................................................................. $13,995 2010 RAM 3500 Diesel SLT ............................................................ $36,995 2009 RAM 1500 CREW CAB LARAMIE Loaded ........................... $32,500 2009 DODGE JOURNEY RT Loaded ............................................. $27,995 2009 JEEP PATRIOT LTD.............................................................. $21,995 2009 CHEVY UPLANDER LT 69,000 kms, DVD............................ $11,995 2008 FORD ESCAPE...................................................................... $13,900 2008 FORD EDGE LTD 62,000 kms............................................... $22,995 SOLD 2008 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN SXT ......................................... $15,995 2008 GRAND CARAVAN 78,000 kms ............................................

SOLD $16,995 2007 GRAND CHEROKEE 57,000 kms ......................................... $19,500 2007 TOWN AND COUNTRY ......................................................... $12,995 2006 GRAND CARAVAN 40,500 kms ............................................ $10,995 SOLD 2006 RAM 1500 ST 4X4 Nice shape .............................................. $17,995 2005 GMC 1500 CREW CAB ......................................................... $19,995 2005 DODGE 1500 Q/C SLT 87,000 kms....................................... $14,995 2003 FORD F-150 XLT ................................................................... $13,995 2003 DODGE 1500 Q/C SLT 2WD ................................................... $9,900

TRAILERS/MOTORHOMES/RVs

2008 RPM TOY HAULER, 26 Ft. .................................................... $24,900 2008 ROCKWOOD WINDJAMMER, 28 Ft. .................................... $20,900 2006 ROCKWOOD TRAILER, 26 Ft. Bunks & slide out................ $16,500 2006 BRISTOL BAY 5TH WHEEL LOADED ................................. $31,995 1980 TRAVEL AIR MOTORHOME, 24 Ft. ....................................... $6,500

MOTORCYCLES

2007 HARLEY STREET GLIDE 10,000 miles, mint, 96 cubic inch, GSP trans, chipped and piped......................................................... $17,900

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Used Cars

2010 LINCOLN MKS, Loaded w/power roof, navigation, 25,000 km ........................................................................................$33,995 2011 FORD MUSTANG V6 5 speed, loaded, 26,000 kms..............$21,995 2010 MUSTANG V6, Auto, loaded with only 54,000 kms ...............$17,995 2009 MUSTANG V6, loaded, only 7,500 kms .................................$17,995 2008 CHEVROLET COBALT SPORT, 2 door, loaded, 55,000 kms ......................................................................................$12,995 2008 DODGE CHARGER SXT, All wheel drive, loaded with 105,000 km......................................................................SOLD 2006 BMW Z4 3.0I CONVERTIBLE 38,000 miles ..........................$22,995 2006 TAURUS SE, fully loaded with only 72,000 kms ....................$10,500 2003 MONTE CARLO LS V6, 2 Door, loaded, Auto, 118,000 kms ......................................................................................$6,995

Used Trucks, SUVs & Vans

2012 RAPTOR SUPERCREW 4x4 only 1,075 kms ........................$64,995 2011 EDGE LIMITED ALL WHEEL DRIVE, fully loaded with Navigation & moon roofs, only 26,000 kms .....................................$38,995 2011 EXPEDITION MAX, loaded with Navigation, 23,000 kms ......$51,995 2011 CHEV EXTENDED CAB 4x4 loaded, only 11,000 kms .........$24,995 2010 F150 PLATINUM SUPERCREW 4x4, loaded with 30,000 kms...............................................................................$41,900 2010 F150 XLT CREW CAB 26,000 kms .......................................$29,995 2009 DODGE RAM LARAMIE QUAD CAB 4X4, loaded with 142,000 kms ....................................................................................$22,995 2009 ESCAPE XLT 4x4, 3.0L V6, loaded, with 100,000 kms .........$17,995 2008 F150 LARIAT SUPERCAB 4x4 5.4L, V8, loaded with only 54,000 kms ..............................................................................$23,995 2008 EXPEDITION LIMITED MAX 4x4, fully loaded with 126,000 kms.............................................................................$29,995 2008 GMC 2500 SLE CREW CAB 4x4, 6.0L, V8, 86,000 kms ......$24,995 2008 F150 XTR SUPERCREW 4x4 113,000 kms ..........................$18,995 2008 DODGE LARAMIE QUAD CAB 5.7L Hemi loaded with leather, 83,000 kms .........................................................................$22,995 2008 F350 XLT CREW CAB 4x4 6.4L Diesel, loaded with 168,000 kms ....................................................................................$19,995 2007 NISSAN TITAN CREW CAB 4x4 103,000 kms ........................SOLD 2007 ESCAPE XLT 4x4 only 90,000 kms .......................................$14,500

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2009 DODGE CHALLENGER White, 83,005 kms..........................$22,900 2008 CHEV MALIBU LT Silver, 72,340 kms...................................$14,900 2004 CHRYSLER CROSSFIRE Black, 66,000 kms .......................$12,900

Used Trucks, SUVs & Vans 2011 FORD ESCAPE XLT Leather, red, 10,758 kms .....................$24,900 2011 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO Black, 30,078 kms ....$36,900 2011 CHEV TRAVERSE Loaded, white, 21,000 kms .....................$34,900 2011 CADILLAC ESCALADE White, 39,500 kms..........................$59,900 2011 JEEP PATRIOT Silver, 17,444 kms .......................................$23,900 2010 DODGE JOURNEY RT Red, 41,021 kms ..............................$27,900 2010 RAM 3500 CREW LONG BOX Tan, 67,000 kms ..................$39,900 2009 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN Red, 47,000 kms .....................$19,900 2009 JEEP COMMANDER SPORT Leather, 59,000 kms ..............$23,900 2009 FORD ESCAPE XLT Red, 65,761 kms..................................$19,900 2009 JEEP PATRIOT Red, 46,905 kms .........................................$17,900 2009 GMC YUKON XL SLT Leather, 45,607 kms .............................SOLD 2009 FORD ESCAPE XLT 86,507 kms ..........................................$19,900 2008 CHEV AVALANCHE LS Tan, 108,013 kms...........................$24,900 2008 FORD F350 LARIAT DUALLY Black, 170,000 kms ..............$32,900 2008 CHEV SILVERADO CREW DURAMAX Red, 59,000 kms, ......SOLD 2008 FORD F-150 LARIAT CREW White, 81,010 kms .....................SOLD 2008 FORD ESCAPE XLT Red, 57,258 kms..................................$17,900 2008 CHEV SILVERADO LT Blue, 82,385 kms .............................$18,900 2008 JEEP LIBERTY LTD Black, 78,987 kms, leather...................$22,900 2008 CHEV SILVERADO LT 2500 60,821 kms..............................$29,900 2007 DODGE RAM SPORT REG CAB White, 48,382 kms ...........$17,900 2006 JEEP LIBERTY LTD Red, 101,000 kms ................................$12,900 2006 DODGE DAKOTA CREW CAB Grey, 76,000 kms ................$15,900

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CARS

11 Chev Impala LS 4Dr factory warranty 45,000km ................................ $17,995 07 Pontiac G6 SE 4dr factory warranty, loaded ....................................... $11,995 06 Nissan Maxima SE 4dr sunroof, warranty .......................................... $14,995 05 Chrysler Sebring 4dr 37,000km warranty ............................................ $8,995 04 Chev Monte Carlo SS 2dr Dale Earnhardt Jr. Series warranty ........ $11,900

TRUCKS, VANS & SUV’s

11 Dodge Grand Caravan SE Stow-n-go factory warranty..................... $22,995 11 Mitsubishi RVR SE 4WD factory warranty .......................................... $24,995 10 Chev Silverado LS Crew Cab 4x4 factory warranty ........................... $25,995 10 Dodge Dakota c/cab SXT 4x4 factory warranty.................................. $23,995 09 Dodge Journey SXT AWD loaded, warranty .........................$173.78 Bi-wkly 09 Ford Escape EXT 4WD factory warranty ............................................ $20,995 09 GMC Sierra SLE Ext/cab 2500 HD 4x4 6.0 V8, factory warranty .....$174.70 Bi-wkly 08 Chev Trailblazer 4x4 71,000 kms, factory warranty............................ $19,995 08 GMC Canyon SLE crew/cab 4x4 loaded, factory warranty ...$201.65 Bi-wkly 08 Honda CRV LX AWD loaded, warranty ............................................... $17,995 08 Nissan Rogue SL AWD sunroof, warranty.......................................... $19,995 07 Chev 2500 HD crew/cab Diesel warranty ........................................... $26,995 07 Ford F150 XLT Ext/Cab 4x4 loaded, warranty....................... $181.80 bi-wkly 05 Buick Rendezvous AWD CXL, 4dr, 7 pass, warranty ......................... $6,995 05 Buick Rainier CXL AWD warranty ...................................................... $13,995 05 Nissan X Trail 4x4 warranty ................................................................ $13,995 04 GMC Denali AWD 7 pass., leather, sunroof, warranty ........................ $17,995 03 Chev Venture Van EXT 8 pass, 92,000 km, warranty........................... $7,995 03 Chev Silverado LS E/Cab 4x4 loaded warranty ................................. $13,995 02 Pontiac Montana Ext Van loaded, warranty ..........................$107.60 Bi-wkly 99 Ford Ranger Stepside SLT warranty.................................................... $5,995

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October 28, 1930 - April 15, 2012 Teresa passed away at Estevan, Sask. on Sunday April 15, 2012 at the age of 81 years.

Teresa was born and grew up on the family farm southwest of Estevan. She began her school years at Berdahl where her love of the classroom began.

Teresa became a teacher and taught in the Estevan School Unit for 35 years - 34 of those in Torquay.

In 1952 she married David Halvorson and their life together began with the farm becoming a big part of her life. After Teresa retired from teaching, David and she travelled the world and she took up the hobbies she didn’t have time to do while she was teaching.

Teresa often said that October 13, 2004 was a bad day and a good day for her. She was told by her doctor that she had MS and later that day she received a phone call informing her that her second great-grandson, Magnus had safely arrived. Over the next seven years, the MS affected her mobility and after David passed away in 2011 she moved into Hill View Manor where she participated in all of the activities that she could.

Survived by her daughter, Narrie (Trevor) Lowe, Torquay; sisters, Mary Mack, Estevan; Grace Carlson, Estevan; brother, Gerald (Agnes) Seipp, Estevan; sisters-in-law, Louise Seipp, Estevan; Grace Unger, Whiterock, B.C.; Lilly Coward, Turner Valley, Alta. and Irene Halvorson, Estevan; three grandchildren, Kaley Lowe, Saskatoon; Janel (Brett) Pearson, Flin Flon, Man. and Stacey Lowe, Torquay; great grandchildren, Bon Lowe, Magnus, Nole and Ellis Pearson.

Predeceased by her husband, David; her parents, Anton and Mary Ann Seipp; brothers, Francis (Mary) Seipp, James (Marg) Seipp, infant brother, Richard Seipp and Leo Seipp; sisters, Isabel (Ed) Gough, Eileen (Keith) Coller; in-laws, Jacob Mack, Milo Carlson, Leonard Halvorson, Mabel (Earl) Sovdi, Anne (Godfrey) Strem, Hazel (Ron) Ellway, John Unger and Cecil Coward.

Funeral Service was held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, April 19, from Trinity Lutheran Church, Torquay, with Pastor Daniel Krauss officiant. Interment followed at Torquay Lutheran Cemetery.

If friends, so desire, donations may be given to a charity of your choice in memory of Teresa Halvorson.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Thank You

Thank you to Hill View Manor staff and residents who made Teresa’s stay pleasant and comfortable. Thanks to those who visited. Thanks to Dr. Grobler and staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (ESTEVAN)

St. Joseph’s Hospital relies on donations to fund equipment purchases. Your Memorial Gift honours your loved one and makes it possible for our hospital to continue providing quality care for Estevan and area residents.

A letter will be sent to the family acknowledging your gift; please include their name and address as well as your own. You will receive an income tax receipt.

Please send your donation to:

St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation Box 5000-203, Estevan, SK S4A 2V6 Phone: (306) 637-2474 e-mail: rblackmore@schr.sk.ca

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Estevan Mercury Obituaries Herb (Paddy) Padwick

Herb (Paddy) Padwick passed away on May 5, 2012 at Kelowna General Hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer at the age of 70 years.

He is survived by his wife, Leslie; his son, Chris (Karen), and grandchildren Ryan and Lauren of Colorado; his parents, Herb Sr. and Isobel Padwick of Calgary; sister, Anne Reid (Mike) and family of Calgary, and sister Cathy Coates (Joe) and family of Calgary.

Herb was born in Winnipeg Manitoba. He grew up in Regina and Regina Beach. He married Leslie Lemcke from Wolseley, Sask in 1968 and lived in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he worked at Roloflex, a family owned business. Following his time at Roloflex he worked for IBM and won Rookie of the Year in his first year. However, Herb was a quintessential “car guy” at heart. He joined Percival Mercury in Regina and quickly distinguished himself as a top salesman.

After a long and successful career as general sales manager at Percival Mercury, he started his own consulting company in 1992, and began doing sales training for the Murray Auto Group in Winnipeg, Manitoba as well as other dealerships across the country.

His relationship with the Murray Auto Group flourished and he and Leslie moved to Winnipeg where he joined the Murray GM store. They became partners with the Murray Group in a GM dealership in Estevan, Saskatchewan in 2003.

Herb had a great fondness for Estevan and enjoyed the time he spent with the Estevan Chamber of Commerce among other local organizations. After several successful years of running that dealership, he retired in 2008. Herb always wanted to be a pilot. He got his pilot’s licence at the age of 65 and was very active in the maintenance and management of Estevan Airport.

Herb embraced the snowbird lifestyle, and shared his time between Canada and the United States, where he would visit his grandchildren in Colorado and golf in Arizona.

Throughout his life, Herb was a music lover. He spent many years playing guitar and singing in several bands that performed throughout Saskatchewan. Herb had a very positive effect on many people’s lives and he will be missed by his family and friends.

We invite you to join us to celebrate his wonderful life at the Wascana Country Club, Regina, Saskatchewan, on May 29, 2012, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.springfieldfuneralhome.com 250-860-7077

Estevan Gospel Chapel 1202 - 2nd Street Phone: 634-3761

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Pastor: Josh Permann Sunday: Family Bible Hour 10:00 a.m.

Worship 11:00 a.m.

Weekly: Bible Studies, Youth Group, Prayer Meeting

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St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church Corner 12th Avenue & 2nd Street Phone: 634-2190 Fax: 634-6845 Pastor: Reverend Joel Rama Associate Pastors: Reverend Peter Nijssen Father Thomas Mutavanathu

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Obituaries

Obituaries Michael John Pho

July 10, 1970 - April 30, 2012 Michael John Pho, passed away suddenly in Estevan on Monday, April 30, 2012 at the age of 41 years.

Michael is survived by his wife, Michelle, Estevan; his two daughters, Michaela and Mariah, Estevan; his mother, Lorraine Pho, Estevan; his sister, Heather (Greg) Leclair, Regina; mother-in-law and father-in-law, Dianne and Vernon Eagles, Macoun; brother-in-law, Vern (Cathy) Eagles, Macoun; sisterin-law, Stephanie (Jeff Willmer) Eagles, Red Deer, Alta.; five nephews, Brayden Leclair, Kennedy Leclair and Garrett Leclair all of Regina, Weston and Erik Eagles, Macoun; in-laws, Dora Eagles, Macoun and Charles Hodgson, Macoun.

Predeceased by his father, Dennis Pho; infant sister, Marilyn Pho; his grandparents, Bruno and Anne Pho, Mathias and Gretta Faber, in-laws, William Eagles and Margaret Hodgson.

Funeral Service was held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 4, in St. Paul’s United Church, Estevan with Pastor Bob Schultz officiating. Interment followed in the Estevan City Cemetery.

Those so wishing may make donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society in Michael’s Memory.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

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Thank You

It is with grateful hearts we thank this community. We would like to thank everyone who stopped by the house, brought food, cards, donations/gifts and flowers. Special thanks to Victim Services, Dr. Omosigho, the St. Joseph’s Hospital nurses and staff, and the Estevan EMS and police services. We would also like to send special thanks to Pastor Bob Schultz, St. Paul’s United Church and their ladies group, Ira Pylypuk for his kind words during Michael’s service, Caleb Rieger, Dennis Freitag and his team for the beautiful music, and Hall Funeral Services, especially Allan and Shirley. Lastly we would like to thank our family and friends for each word, thought, prayer and gift given. We will especially treasure the wonderful things you shared about our Michael. He has such a special place in our hearts.

- The family of Michael Pho.

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Church Office: Phone: 634-5684

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Pastors Rev. Christopher Smith Pastor Waylon Klix

Sunday School for all ages 9:30 am

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May 16, 2012 B15

Hunter survey still ongoing North Portal community news Hundreds of Saskatchewan sport hunters and anglers are having their say on the province’s hunting and angling regulations.

Because of that, the provincial government is extending the survey deadline from May 9 to May 23.

“Hunting and angling regulations hit home for thousands of Saskatchewan families whether they go out on the land to put food in their freezers or just get away and relax,” Enterprise Minister Jeremy Harrison said.

“It’s great to see hundreds of hunters and anglers taking the time to have their say and let us know how we can make regulations

work for them.”

The survey is collecting views from hunters and anglers from across Saskatchewan as well as stakeholders and out-ofprovince visitors. Enterprise Saskatchewan is leading the province’s regulatory modernization process and will be coordinating this review.

The feedback received through the survey will be forwarded to officials with the Ministry of Environment for analysis which will then be considered by the government’s Red Tape Reduction Committee.

The Red Tape Reduction Committee is made up of several members of the legislative assembly.

The committee has been tasked with reviewing all regulations that have an impact on business to ensure that Saskatchewan’s regulatory structure is effective and efficient.

“Saskatchewan hunters and anglers are providing us great feedback on our regulations and extending the deadline will create more opportunities for us to get more first-hand viewpoints,” Environment Minister Dustin Duncan said.

An electronic link to the survey can be found on the Enterprise Saskatchewan website at www. enterprisesaskatchewan. ca. The survey will close on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. (CST).

By Betty Baniulis North Portal Correspondent The bridge club met at the home of Trish Barker on Monday, April 30 with two tables in play. Bette MacDonald took high honours, with second high going to Arva Walters.

Born to Ashlea Fairweather at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Estevan on April 8, a son, Kim Teegan, weighing 6 lb. 10 oz., 19 1/2 inches long. Grandparents are Clarissa and Jack Fairweather.

Angie Walters and sons Toby and Jasper of Beulah, N.D., Jocelynn Neufeld of Eastend and John Fairweather of Estevan were Easter guests of the Fairweathers and also

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to celebrate the birth of Teegan Fairweather.

Yv o n n e a n d D a v e Neufeld of Eastend were weekend guests with Clarissa and John Fairweather.

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Betty Baniulis and Maxine Amos of Oxbow flew to Calgary, Alta., on May 4 to attend the funeral for Maxine’s niece, Helen Sargent. Her memorial service was held at Snodgrass Funeral Home in Okotoks.

Her interment was also in Okotoks. Maxine and Betty returned home on

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Estevan Mercury

Government to invest in health innovation

The provincial government is investing $3.6 million to strengthen primary health care services in the province.

To guide this work, the government also released the Framework for Achieving a High Performing Primary Health Care System in Saskatchewan.

“Our government is committed to the transformation of primary healthcare to better meet the needs of the patients, communities and health-care providers,” Health Minister Don McMorris said. “Our aim is a

primary health-care system that is sustainable, offers a superior patient experience and ensures better access to services as the foundation of our health system.”

The funding announced last week will support all regional health authorities to improve access to primary health care providers and services and engage with partners and communities.

Funding will also be allocated for designing and implementing innovative models of primary healthcare delivery in eight sites.

These sites are in dif-

ferent stages of establishing primary health-care teams that will work collaboratively to better meet the needs of the patients and communities they serve with a focus on improved patient experience and increased access to care.

The framework is a road map to a patient centred, community designed, team delivered approach to primary health care in the province. The framework will help to guide health regions, health providers and communities to work together to design primary

health care services most suitable for their area.

Enhanced primary health-care makes better use of a broad range of health professionals, working to full scope of practice, with a physician as a key team member.

Communities play a vital role in determining the design of health-care services in their areas.

For more information on primary health care in Saskatchewan visit the Ministry of Health website at http://www.health.gov. sk.ca/primary-health-care.

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Temporary and full time positions are available for local residents. Accounts Payable, Data Entry, Excel and Word experience is necessary.

A valid driver’s license is also required.

KPCL offers competitive wages, with overtime paid after forty hours per week.

is currently seeking a

Sales Consultant

Experience in sales an asset, but willing to train the ideal candidate. Individual must have a positive, ambitious attitude.

Competitive wages & health benefits available.

Interested individuals can drop off, email or fax resume, in confidence to: bradp@powerdodge.ca Phone: 634-3221 or Fax: 634-3935 409 Kensington Avenue, Estevan, SK

Forward your resume, complete with references to: elly@kpcl.sk.ca Attention: Elly Panteluk No phone calls please.

Maintenance Person Required for Days Inn & Sussex Arms.

Full time hours.

Certified Energy Services is looking for experienced services rig personnel

Positions Available: SERVICE RIG PERSONNEL DRILLER DERRICK HAND FLOOR HANDS

Join a small locally owned and operated company that will value and reward your efforts and contributions.

Become a key element of a growing company and be rewarded with growing opportunities.

Certified Energy Services is 100% committed to its employee’s health, safety and well-being

Top wages and comprehensive benefits package To apply: Mail resume to

Apply in person to: 1305 - 9th St. Estevan, SK.

Journeymen Electricians and Apprentices PowerTech Industries Ltd. in Estevan is seeking Journeymen Electricians and Apprentices for work in the Estevan and Carnduff areas.

Experience: Safety Certificates are needed.

1st Aid/CPR, H2S. Applicants must have a valid driver’s license. Full benefits packages and RSP plan.

Duties: Day to day electrical construction and maintenance in the oilfield.

Wage/Salary Info: Depending on experience & qualifications.

To Apply: Fax: (306) 637-2181, e-mail sschoff.pti@sasktel.net or drop off resume to 62 Devonian Street, Estevan, SK.

PO Box 1720 Estevan, SK S4A 1C8 Or email to

Dave.Odgers@certifiedenergy.ca

Progressive based Ground Disturbance Company is seeking an

AREA REPRESENTATIVE & EXPERIENCED LINE LOCATORS In the Estevan, Saskatchewan area.

Company is looking to expand its existence within the area so the representative should have a vast knowledge of the Southern Saskatchewan, line locating and the ability to look after the day to day operations.

Company will provide training, competitive wages and great benefits in a drug free environment with opportunities to travel. Must be reliable, motivated and have valid driver’s license. A benefit program is offered which includes medical, dental, life and disability insurance. Standard oilfield tickets are required.

When submitting resumes please refer to Competition # LFSASK-03-07 and email to humanresources@linefind.com Fax Resume to: (403)793-2811 For any additional information regarding the company, please see our website at: www.linefind.com

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Estevan Mercury

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Triple J Pipelines

STC Bus Depot Delivery Driver

is now accepting resumes for the following positions for the Estevan division.

• 1 full time position • Monday to Friday • Must have a valid or class 5 Drivers License • Experience an asset, however, employer is willing to train • Good Communications skills required • $15.50/hour starting wage. 40 hrs/week with benefits

• FOREMAN • LABOURERS • PIPEFITTERS • HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS CAL009147B 1 Experience is an asset.

Please fax resume to:

Motel Supervisor 2/29, 3/7, 3/14 & 3/21 2012

634-6220

or Please drop off resume at at

Hwy 39 west, Malmgren Drive

• 1 full time position • Minimum grade 12 • 2-3 years experience • Good communication and basic computer skills • $15.00/ starting wage with benefits HALBRT1000

LECUTSHA Estevan

Please fax Resume to 634-2019 or email to city728@hotmail.com

CARPENTER/CONCRETE FOREMAN Required Immediately

Experience in concrete construction and general building construction.

Competitive wages, benets program and more for the right candidate.

Call: 634-7276 or email:

dave.turnbullexcavating@sasktel.net

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I WANT TO SEE HOW FAR I CAN GO.

1401 - 2nd St, Estevan • 634-2624

SO DOES HALLIBURTON. Halliburton is hiring Operator Assistants, Service Operators, Heavy Duty Mechanics and E-Techs for Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Grande Prairie, Regina and Estevan.

We’re looking for people who want the challenging work and deep rewards that are a part of Halliburton’s culture. We also want people with great communication skills and who enjoy working as part of a team.

This position will require relocation to either Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Grande Prairie, Regina or Estevan. Relocation assistance is provided.

Requirements • A valid class 1 or 5 driver’s license with good driving record • Ability to promote safety awareness • Actively participate in quality improvement process Halliburton offers a competitive salary and benefits package, a challenging work environment and countless pathways for professional growth.

Candidates can apply by visiting www.gohalliburton.com Medicine Hat office Address 2175 Brier Park Place NW Fax 403-526-3750 Halliburton is an equal opportunity employer.

CONSTRUCTION LTD.

EXCAVATING, SAND AND GRAVEL • REDI-MIX CONCRETE Glen Peterson Construction, SK leader in aggregate, trucking concrete construction and sewer and water installations, is growing. Immediate openings for: Safety Coordinator: Must have COR safety program and all safety qualications for Sewer and Water, Concrete construction and aggregate operations. Full time position. Fax resume to 634-4643 or phone Tyler at 421-3474 Technical Engineer: 2 years experience. Must be able to run lieca survey equipment. Full time. Wages depend on experience. Fax resume to 634-4643 or phone Tyler at 421-3474 Sewer & Water Labourers, 4 Openings: $15 -$17/hour depending on experience. Phone Tyler at 421-3474 Equipment Operator: Experience in operating loaders, hoes, dozers, and crusher a denite plus. Must be dependable. Full time position.

Wage depending on experience. Fax resume to 634-4643 or phone Tyler at 421-3474 Diesel Mechanic: 50-80K depending on experience. Must have tools. Experience in diesel, hydraulics, electrical systems. Welding ability preferred. Fax resume to Tyler 634-4643 or phone 421-3474 Concrete Foreman, 2 Openings: 2 years experience in all phases of concrete work. Wage depending on experience. Fax resume to 634-4643 or phone Sam at 421-1168 Concrete Labourers, 3 Openings: Must have reliable transportation, Wage $15 - $17/hour depending on experience. Fax resume to 634-4643 or phone Sam at 421-1168 Driver, 2 positions: Experience with tandems, belly dumps, loaders, A-Train, and B-Train. 1- licence required. Looking for a long term opportunity? Fax resume to 634-4643 or phone Sam at 421-1168 Concrete Truck Driver, 2 Openings: Must have 3-A Licence, Wage $22 - $24/hour depending on experience. Fax resume to 634-4643 or phone Ken at 4217119 Glen Peterson Construction Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to a safe, drug-free workplace. We offer excellent wages and benets, plus overtime, incentives and bonus.

Glen Peterson Construction Ltd. 314 - 6th Street, Estevan, SK S4A-2V7 Ph: 306•634•2741 Fax: 306•634•4643

CAREER OPPORTUNITY Penta Completions requires a

Field Service Tech for our Estevan operation.

Applicants should possess oil well operation knowledge, related industry service experience or technical certicates and practical experience. You should possess good communication skills, organizational, problem-solving skills and be able to work in a team environment. Computer experience would be an asset.

Duties to include dynamometer data collection, analysis, optimization, rod string design, sucker rod eld service tech, installation and servicing of oil well automation and variable frequency drives. We offer a competitive salary plus eld bonus & service vehicle.

Penta is an industry leader in all aspects of rod pumping sales, applications, analysis and automation. This is an opportunity for the right individual to acquire skills and knowledge to enhance their qualications in technical eld service.

Please forward resumes via e-mail, fax or in person. Qualied applicants will be contacted for interviews.

Penta Completions Supply & Services Ltd. 58 Devonian Street P.O. Box 667 Estevan, Sk. S4A 2A6 Attention: Lyle Haukeness Fax: 1-306-634-6989 Email: lhaukeness@pentarods.com

Has an opening in their

Production Department The Estevan Mercury requires a full time ad builder in their production department for a maternity leave position.

Applicants must be able to muti-task in a fast paced, deadline driven environment, He/she must be a team player with an eye for detail. Knowledge of Mac Computers and Adobe Creative Suite is an asset, but we are willing to train the right applicant.

The position is Monday to Friday during business hours. Our company offers a health benet package.

Please mail or e-mail resume to:

Melanie Tribiger, Production Manager prepress@estevanmercury.ca The Estevan Mercury Box 730 Estevan, SK., S4A 2A6

www.estevanmercury.ca

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Dempsey Laird Trucking Ltd. is seeking

Oilfield Drivers 1A or 3A license.

Safety tickets and oilfield experience would be beneficial.

Scheduled hours and days off.

Competitive wages and benefit package available.

Fax resume Attention Richard to (306) 458-2996 or email dlt@eclipsewireless.ca or phone for appointment to (306) 458-2331

The Town of Lampman and the R.M. of Browning No.34 Recreation Board Is looking to fill the following positions: Seasonal Swimming Pool Staff • 1 Full Time Manager • 2 Full Time Lifeguard/Instructors • 4 Part Time Lifeguards Competitive wages based on experience and training, when sending in resumes, please specify which position you are applying for with a full list of all qualifications. Swimming pool jobs to commence casually approximately May 25, 2012, regular pool hours of operations to start June 1, 2012 to September 2, 2012.

Deadline for all positions advertised above is May 18, 2012.

Please forward resumes to: Lampman Recreation Office Box 70, Lampman, SK, S0C 1N0 Or email to lampmanrecreation@sasktel.net

Big Country Energy Services LP

Class 1A Driver Responsibility is to load and move heavy equipment to various locations.

We offer competitive wages and an excellent benefit package.

Please drop off resume at: 403 Kensington Avenue or contact: Mike Brasseur at 634-4554 or 461-8111 or Brad Alberts at 634-4554 or 461-8153

Kitchen Helpers/ Short Order Cooks Tower Cafe is looking for 2 cooks for permanent full-time employment

Prepare & cook pizzas, salads, sandwiches as ordered. Set up & stock line to maintain proper levels of ingredients required. Train new staff.

Use proper weights & measurements to make/prepare consistent product. Clean equipment & clean line & work area as required. Must be available to work until midnight. $13.00 per hour permanent full time available.

Apply in person with resume to

1124 4th Street Estevan

Sherritt Coal is Canada’s largest thermal coal producer, with nine surface mines in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Producing more than 94% of the thermal coal produced in the country, Sherritt currently supplies domestic utilities and international companies with fuel for electricity generation.

The Boundary Dam mine is located approximately 15 km SE of Estevan.

This open pit mine operates 6 draglines and provides employment to over 400 employees.

Boundary Dam Mine has an immediate opening for: Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic Position Summary This position would be responsible for the safe repair and maintenance on equipment at the mine working as a team member in the maintenance department. This position is required to work 12 hour shift rotations, days and nights.

Are you interested in supporting your community?

1. Sun Country Health Region is looking for people willing to train as Emergency Medical Technicians.

A bursary up to $5,000 per year is available to help with the education costs. For those willing to train as Emergency Medical Responders, the Region offers the 80-hour course for free. Education programs are often available within the Region.

2. We are also looking for employers willing to allow some of your staff to take ambulance calls during work hours.

Please call Charles Eddy, Regional Director, EMS Services, 842-0223 or email at Charles.Eddy@SCHR.sk.ca for more information.

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Boundary Dam Mine

Qualications: A Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic Certicate is required as well as an Interprovincial red seal. Candidates must also possess either a 3A or 1A driver’s license. Previous mining experience would be an asset but not required.

Sherritt Coal offers a competitive benets package and wages.

Interested candidates should email or fax a resume and cover letter. E-mail: careers.BDMandBFT@sherrittcoal.com Fax: 306-634-7058.

Applications may also be submitted in writing to: Human Resources, Sherritt Coal, Boundary Dam Mine, Box 3000, Estevan, SK S4A 2W2 We thank all candidates for their applications, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Disability Management Coordinator Sun Country Health Region (SCHR) is located in South East Saskatchewan where more than 2,200 employees deliver a breadth of health services to a population of 55,000 people.

SCHR operates 28 facilities and has a budget of over $1 million.

is responsible for developing andforsupporting The Disability Manager Management Coordinator is responsible developingstandards, and programs and training programs for employees Sun Country Health Region supporting standards, and of training for employees of Sun(SCHR) Country who require post-injury caserequire management.

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This Manager provides direct support to other management regarding This Coordinator provides direct support to other management regarding employees' injury injury cases, employees’ cases, accommodation accommodationand andreturn returntotowork workprograms. programs.The position is to be proactive as the employer's liaison between managers, The positionhealth is to beprofessionals, the employer’s liaison employees, unions, andbetween income managers, replacement providers employees, unions, and income replacement providers. with regard health to jointprofessionals, processes, problem solving, and statistics compilation.

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This full time position reports to the Regional Director Employee VP of Human Resources and Health is based and Services and is based out of Weyburn. out ofSupport Weyburn.

Applicants must possess the following knowledge skills and abilities: • Minimum of 2-year diploma in a health-related program • An interest in employee relations and workplace injury prevention and intervention with a minimum of 2 years of related experience • Knowledge of income replacement plans and applicable legislation (WCB, Disability, OH&S, Sick Leave, SGI, etc.)

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The Sun Country Health Region offers excellent benefits, and compensation commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Apply in confidence to: Sun Country Health Region Human Resources Box 2003, Weyburn, SK S4H 2Z9 Fax: (306) 842-8740 Email: jobs@schr.sk.ca Web: www.suncountry.sk.ca Closing Date: Tues., Fri. July 10,22, 2009 May 2012 We wish to thank all applicants, however, only those individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

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Estevan Mercury

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

TOWER CAFÉ Help wanted for 5 food and beverage servers. Full time permanent employment to serve food, greet customers, present menu and bill.

Salary $11.00 per hour.

Previous experience preferred but not required.

Contact Pete at 634-2220 or apply with resume in person.

FOOD SERVICE WORKERS We are accepting resumes for part & full time positions.

Duties include: Food preparation, stock and inventory, serving customers, some baking, making sandwiches, operate cash register and be able to give proper change as well as general cleaning and equipment maintenance

Starting wage - $11.01/hr.

If you are interested in joining our team apply in person with resume or call: Margaret - Subway 517 - 4th Street, Estevan • 634-6616

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Integrated Geomatics is a privately owned Canadian company providing Geomatics and Land Surveying services to the energy industry. To support our continued growth we are looking for a motivated entrepreneurial SLS to start and manage a southern Saskatchewan Land Survey ofce.

Contact careers@integratedgeomatics.com

We’re Listening.

You’ve told us what you want, and we’ve listened! The ownership and management of the Estevan Shoppers Mall have been working towards enhancing your shopping experience, and we’re very excited to share what we’ve been doing!

Recent enhancements inside the mall include the addition of new stores and the expansion of some existing ones, including Sportchek, Dolly Sue’s Boutique, Day Spa and Salon, Eclipse Ladies Fashions, Nana’s Lunch Box, Better Homes and Gardens Signature Real Estate Service, and the newly expanded Mark’s. We are continually exploring our options to bring new stores to the center, and offer new services to the community. Tim Hortons will be joining us on the lot this fall, and we couldn’t be happier.

To further enhance your shopping experience, we will be starting the following upgrades to the shopping center: repaving & repairing the parking lot, upgrades to the roof, HVAC system, and the installation of a new parking lot entrance between the shopping center and Canadian Tire. These changes will of course mean minor disruptions for you, our customer, and we thank you for your patience as we work towards completion. Change is tough, but change is good!

The Management & Staff of the Estevan Shoppers Mall wish to thank all our customers, past and present for your patronage, and we look forward to serving you even better in the future!