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Connor Murray, currently a Grade 7 student at GLS, from Tompkins had an opportunity of a lifetime this past winter. He has been a member of the Elkwater Ski & Snowboard Race Club at Hidden Valley Ski Resort for the past few years. He practices at Elkwater Saturday & Sunday every weekend during the ski season and competes in 2 races in the mountains. This winter was a little different, he had the chance to participate in the Alberta Winter Games (AWG).

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On Monday he competed in 2 giant slalom races and then got to attend a dance with all the competitors.

Tuesday, the third and final day was a dual slalom competition and then homeward bound.

Connor made lots of new friends and enjoyed the games a lot, except for the waking up super early for supper in order to go for breakfast.

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BY C A M DA H L a major marketing campaign. I do not want bread on CanaRecord Date for the determination of the sharePresident of Cereals Canada dian shelves made from Australian wheat because they holders entitled to receive Notice of the Annual allow the baker to make a sustainability claim and we don’t. of South West Terminal Ltd. to be held on As an industry we As alsoa result need of tothe recognize not all against Meeting I saw a cartoon recently that showed an oil company

By Jordan Parker ongoing that investigation him, 21st, 2016 These. are on top of the sexual assault, invitation to July customers are the same.

Our industry needs to be flexible executive at the Department of Motor Vehicles asking if Chamberlin has seen additional charges, including sexual touching, sexual interference and sexual exenough to respond to the trend driven market signals of this was the place to buy a socialCabri license.

If only actually was man RyanitChamberlin arrested again two sexual assault charges, an invitation to sexual ploitation DATED this 24th charges day of laid May,against 2016him in late February. some customers, like those in North America or Europe, worked that way.

Friday, March 20 and charged withwhile additional crimes touching charge, and a count each of sexual interferHe appeared in Swift Current Provincial Court keeping our price sensitive customers at the table.

What is “social license” anyways? Generally speaking as more victims came forward in the case against him. ence, sexual exploitation and a corrupting children March 23, and was released on an undertaking before

BY ORDER OF The sustainability file is one of these long-term trends it is the acceptance by society of a particular industry charge. a judge on conditions.

THE BOARD that the grains industry needs to address head on. There or industry practice. The issue is becoming increasingly Chamberlin, 39, was a hockey coach in several are about a million definitions of “sustainability.” For me the Rhonda Undseth, important to agriculture because more and more consumsimplest definition is treating the land and water we use for Presidentsouthern Saskatchewan communities throughout his ers – especially consumers in wealthy developed countries adult life. agriculture in a way that ensures it will be productive for – are becoming concerned about the origins of their “stuff ”. generations to come.

I don’t know of any farmer who would There is a publication ban in place to protect the Did that beautiful coat once belong to a seal? One hundred disagree with this objective. identity of the victims, and Chamberlin’s next court years ago, that answer would not have mattered, but today ~ Brian ZinChuk Responding in a~meaningful and reasonable way to the appearance will be April 13 at 9:30 a.m. it does. And the answer has meant the end of an industry growing number of consumers who are asking the quesThe investigation is ongoing, and investigators inthat has been part of the Canadian landscape longer than tion “where does my food come from” is the reason why vite people with additional information to come forthe life of the nation itself. the Round Table for Sustainable Crops (CRSC) has been ward.

This might not be all that difficult to address if the things created. that drive the evolution of society’s norms were rational and We also want to ensure that producers are not saddled based on careful thought. However, many times the fad of with a different approach for every crop they grow. That D. Wayne Elhard, MLA the day is not based on fact or rationality and in some cases would not be cost effective. We need to have one program fads are driven by those who profit from misinformation.

Cypress Hills Constituency that is an umbrella for all crops grown on a farm. The Round This brings up the first difficult task of farmers and Making your voice heard in Regina.

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With book number three – Native Plants for the Short Season Yard – Lyndon Penner is establishing himself as the latest prairie garden write. Unlike his previous books, which may be great primers for novice gardeners, this book may appeal to more seasoned gardeners who are looking for something more challenging to experiment with in their gardens.

In Section One, Lyndon explains why we may not find any native plants in our local greenhouses. Yes, demand may not be there, but more importantly the most coveted plants may be slow to establish and therefore won't be a good choice for the average consumer looking for "instant gratification." For example, Lyndon mentions a native fritillaria which blooms only for one week in May. "Fritillaria pudica is one of the easier fritillaria to grow from seed needing only four to five years to get from seed to bloom." Because native plants are often difficult to propagate, they are not an economically viable option for most nurseries. In this section, Lyndon touches on the ethics of wild flower collection: digging or picking is a definite no-no unless the land is slated for development or the native prairie is going to be ploughed under.

Propagation, seed collection and growing from seed are discussed, as is collecting cuttings for rooting and layering. If this seems overwhelming, don't despair: at the end of Section Three, Lyndon provides a list of native seed (and in some cases, small plants) suppliers.

Section Two of the book deals with the plants themselves and includes an extensive listing of native plants, divided into sun and shade subsection with each subsection arranged alphabetically by botanical name (with their common name in brackets). Lyndon goes beyond the descriptive and talks about each plant’s native habitat in addition to its use by animals and by First Nations.

For each species, he outlines optimum growth requirements and often includes companion plants that appear with it in the wild. If cultivars and hybrids are available, he might recommend those to you because of wider and brighter available colours, better growth habits and more adaptable to growing in your garden. As usual Lyndon's humour shines through the pages with little gems like "Just as the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum) is neither a cow nor a parsnip, beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) is neither a bear nor a grass."

Section Three deals with potential threats to native plants and their habitat and how we can help intervene when things go awry. He discusses plants that we should avoid in our gardens, but also acknowledges that some plants that may be noxious weeds in British Columbia may be perfectly fine to grow in our prairie gardens where conditions are not as hospitable and danger of spreading is minimal.

In Section Four, Lyndon interviews friends and acquaintances he has met along his exploration of native plants in the wild over the years. They include a photographer; a seed collector and native plant grower; and a native healer and keeper of traditions who grew up in Jasper National Park. These and others share their

secrets and successes with native plants and provide different voices and encouragement.

Lastly, Lyndon devotes a section on lists, including his bucket list of plants he knows about but has never quite captured in bloom. He also includes lists of plants that are bee-friendly, butterfly-friendly, hummingbird friendly, etc.

All in all, this book was a joy to read and a welcome addition to my favourite bookshelf for future reference.

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Happy reading. [PS-Lyndon Penner will be giving number of workshops (including one on gardening with native plants) at the University of Saskatoon during Hort Week, July 2 - 9. See https://ccde.usask.ca/gardening/ hortweek, email master.gardeners@usask.ca or call 306966-5546 for information on more than 30 classes and workshops on a wide range of gardening topics (some of them free).]

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Commentary Don’t worry, I’ll help myself

POINT OF VIEW

40 things I learned about life from school

BY S H E R I M O N K

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he other day I decided to buy myself a new outfit. I hadn’t done so in months because of school and figured it was time to treat myself. I quickly headed over the local mall where I wandered from store to store in search of an outfit for the cheesy supper date I’d planned for my boyfriend.

However, as I wandered in and out of store after store a pattern became increasingly clear. No one was interested in helping me. It’s not to say they didn’t do their due diligence, they did look up when I entered the store and at least 60 per cent of them greeted me, but that was it.

There was no small talk, no smiling face, instead they’d quickly welcome me before hurrying back behind the counter to gossip about what’s her name’s new boyfriend who just couldn’t be dreamier.

I realize my complaints in this situation make me sound a bit like a curmudgeon, but I assure you it runs deeper than that.

I’m a sucker for family owned businesses. Blame it on the years I spent working in one or the fact my whole childhood is centred around my father’s gas station, but I can’t help it.

As committed as I am to saving money I can’t help but spend a couple extra dollars to support the small local entrepreneur who is trying so desperately to get ahead or at least hold on.

There’s a level of pride in a family owned business that doesn’t translate to a chain-operated company. In fact, until I began working for a daily newspaper I’d never worked for a company that wasn’t family owned.

The gas station, the zipline, and the Advance were all great places to work because as employees you’re committed and invested in the product you’re supplying to people.

So yes, I was a little disappointed when the employees at the clothing stores weren’t readily willing to help make my

day better. I know that’s not their job, but the service industry isn’t about doing the bare minimum; it’s about providing a service.

Everyone has rough days and certainly dealing with the public is the most trying job out there.

I’m surprised more people are fleeing to computer science as a means of escape. It goes both ways, for every time I’ve been disappointed with how someone in the service industry has acted, I’ve been equally disappointed with the public they have to deal with.

Tipping, for example, is a special pet peeve of mine.

When I was moving out of Saskatoon my younger brother came from Cadillac to help me.

As a thank-you I decided to take him out for supper, my treat.

He ordered a medium-rare steak and lobster which arrived well done. He nor I was upset, instead we felt awkward. The waiter actually brought up the state of the steak before we’d said anything. Without a word he whisked it back to the kitchen to get a new one, the second one returned nearly as bad as the first, but my brother didn’t say a word.

The waiter was clearly upset with how this whole situation was going and, again, without a word took the price of the steak of the bill without our request.

We left him an exceptionally large tip. Why? Because he was trying his best. Yes, we paid good money for our food, but why take it out on the waiter who is clearly trying his best?

However, I’ve seen people become more irate with waiters and waitresses for less.

I guess the moral of the story here is have a little pride in your work and soon other people will take pride in you. Support the little guy, whether it’s a family owned business or just a family man trying to make his/her dues at a chain-owned company.

Business transactions can be so much more than an exchange of money.

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FINALLY. I’m done school. I just finished the work experience portion and miraculously, I somehow managed to pass. I still have to write the formal exams for the Alberta College of Paramedics, so I can’t practice until I’m successful, which means about a month of studying needs to happen, stat.

But this whole going back to school thing has taught me a myriad of life lessons, and it’s been incredibly humbling.

I decided to compile a list of these lessons, which will come in handy for anyone considering going back to school, or for anyone who might need an ambulance one day, or for anyone considering a career in EMS, or nursing. I will be as honest as possible, so the following is NOT for the squeamish.

1. Even if you think you’re pretty hip and happening for your age, you’re still going to seem old in a classroom full of 20-year-olds.

2. If 20 doesn’t seem that long ago, just go drinking with a few, and you’ll soon know otherwise.

3. If you didn’t fit in during high school, there’s a good chance you won’t fit in now either, and that’s still ok.

4. School is still hard, especially when the weather is nice outside and there’s a billion other things you’d rather be doing.

5. However, paying $10,000 tuition changes your motivation to succeed rather significantly.

6. If you are studying, your children will constantly interrupt you.

7. Children care less about their parents getting high marks than parents care about their children getting high marks.

8. If someone is watching, there is a 99 per cent greater chance you will be unsuccessful starting an IV on a patient.

9. Pee now. You might not have a chance to later.

10. You will not locate and subsequently open a vomit bag fast enough.

11. Awful things happen to wonderful people all the time.

12. Not everyone has a bed to sleep in tonight.

13. Sometimes awful people catch the breaks the wonderful people didn’t.

14. Some of our success, health and happiness depends a lot on where we were born and how we are taught to live.

15. There are places in Canada that are more like Third World countries than we’d like to believe.

16. If it wasn’t for alcohol, there would be a lot of police, fire and ambulance people out of work.

17. Despite that, I still love my red wine.

18. There are too many children in the world suffering from poverty, hunger, and a lack of caregiver nurturing. It is heartbreaking.

19. Some people manage to escape their circumstances with their humanity intact and that is the closest thing to magic you’ll ever see, next to true love.

20. When people need help, they no longer care what you look like, whom you love or what/if you worship.

21. Doctors should treat nurses better.

22. Your editor doesn’t care if you’ve been working for 48 hours straight – deadlines are still deadlines.

23. CPR doesn’t always save lives, no matter how hard you try.

24. Sometimes doctors don’t know what to do either.

25. Though not recommended, people can function on sporadic 10-minute naps.

26. As soon as you remove your work pants and shoes, you will have another patient to go to.

27. Everyone wants to be loved. Even those who think they aren’t worthy of it.

28. Poverty is to crime and addiction what smoking is to cancer.

29. Every child should have the luxury of believing they have a future, but many don’t.

30. Eat while you can. Also, have dessert every time. No one wants their last meal to be celery sticks.

31. Wearing your seatbelt is more important than clean underwear.

32. In fact, if I had to choose, I’d rather a patient have clean socks than clean underwear.

33. Take care of your elders and visit often if you can.

34. Everyone is afraid of dying and those who say they aren’t, are lying.

35. No one plans on being “the bad guy”.

36. Even when you’re in your 40s, if you’re hurt, you still want your mom.

37. Life is too short to carry grudges.

38. Some people are jerks, but most people are lovely.

39. A warm blanket can make life bearable again.

40. You will never regret saying “I love you” just one more time.

Examining impaired driving implications of marijuana legalization CONTRIBUTED

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Premier Brad Wall announced last week that he has asked Justice Minister Gordon Wyant, Corrections and Policing Minister Christine Tell and SGI Minister Don McMorris to examine the implications on driver safety of the federal government’s plan to legalize marijuana.

“The federal government has said marijuana legalization is coming but I don’t think we have clear answers on the potential effects on driver safety and what the plan is to prevent impaired driving due to marijuana use,” Wall said. There are still too many accidents and deaths due to drunk drivers and all governments are taking steps to crack down on that.

Legalizing marijuana could certainly mean more impaired drivers, which no one wants.

“Right now, there isn’t a clear standard for what constitutes impairment and there isn’t a roadside test like there is for drunk driving,” Wall said. “These are the kinds of issues that need to be sorted out before the federal government makes marijuana use legal.

“I’ve asked the three ministers to work together,

with their officials and with key stakeholders to recommend how we can ensure that the federal government’s legalization of marijuana doesn’t lead to more deaths and injuries on Saskatchewan roads.”

The federal government recently established a Task Force to look at the legal and regulatory issues surrounding marijuana legalization. Wall said the findings and recommendations of the three Saskatchewan ministers will be submitted to the federal Task Force.

The ministers will focus on three priority areas: legal framework, enforcement, and public education and prevention. Wall said he expects the ministers will look at the experience in other jurisdictions that have legalized marijuana and will talk to law enforcement officials and groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students Against Drinking and Driving, and the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators.

“The Prime Minister has indicated that the federal government will release its plan for legalization next spring,” Wall said. “We need to do our work now to ensure that when it happens, the safety of Saskatchewan drivers and passengers is protected.”

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FARMLEAD

Questioning Satisfaction

BY B R E N N A N T U R N E R

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rains continue to sit around their highs as we get closer to the end of May and the Plant 2016 season. The elevated levels relative to a few months ago continues to be mostly based on managed money building up their long positions in the market and extending their bullish push as El Nino officially ended last week. With the very good spring weather and low amount of winter losses, crops in the Black Sea are looking pretty deluxe.

As such, consensus seems to be that Russia will harvest another 100 million tonnes of grain, oilseeds, & pulses this year, including 62 – 64 million tonnes of wheat. At the global pulse crop convention in Turkey, the consensus seems to be that there will be a tighter pipeline situation for green lentils than for red, due to the large number of increase in acres of the latter. As such, the math suggests the green lentil market may have more upside throughout the 2016/17 marketing year.

Finally, the driest of areas in Saskatchewan and Alberta finally got some rain – now it’s a question of how long will it satisfy fields until?

In any commodity market downturn, you tend to see an increased level of merger and acquisition activity (M&A). This year is no different for the ag industry with Syngenta-ChemChina, Dow-DuPont, and now Bayer-Monsanto. The $62 Billion USD bid by Bayer for the St. Louis seed company was rejected initially but there’s likely more to that number (rule of thumb in negotiation: the first offer is never the best). While B.A.S.F. could get in the mix (they have a bigger money chest to work with) and make things a bit more hostile, the final number to close a deal will likely be a lot of stacks (and I’m not just talking about the dollar bill kind….). The combining of 2 complimentary businesses – Bayer with its chemical game and Monsanto with its seeds – has more than a few farmers worried about the resulting pricing of the new company’s products.

The Western half of the Canadian Prairies got a good shot of moisture over the Canadian long weekend, but those in the northern Peace region got snow while the southern and central areas got “A Billion Dollar Rain”. The A.A.F.C. believes that canola acres have been maxed out due to disease and insects building up over the course of consecutive years of no rotation. That being said, the Canadian Ag Ministry is channeling Statistics Canada by calling for 19.3 million acres this year, a significant drop from the A.A.F.C.’s previous estimate of 20.86 million acres of the oilseed. With production now pegged at 15.4 million tonnes, consistent demand both locally and internationally will push ending stocks fdown to 700,000 MT, a 48% decline from this current marketing year’s expected carryout.

However, with the generally drier conditions contrasting a price rally, like soybeans, how many canola acres have been added thanks to the rally of the past few weeks? Again, contrasting weather against a higher number, the market is likely going to be satisfied at current prices.

To growth,​Brennan Turner President, FarmLead.com

Brennan Turner is originally from Foam Lake, SK, where his family started farming the land in the 1920s. After completing his degree in economics from Yale University and then playing some pro hockey, Mr. Turner spent some time working in finance before starting FarmLead. com, a risk-free, transparent online and mobile grain marketplace (app available) that has moved almost 180,000 MT in the last 2.5 years. His weekly column is a summary of his free, daily market note, the FarmLead Breakfast Brief. He can be reached via email (b.turner@farmlead. com) or phone (1-855-332-7653)

OPINION

I have seen the boom, and now I have seen the bust

BY B R I A N Z I N C H U K

editor@gulllakeadvance.com

The last week in May sees me in Bismarck, N.D., for the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference.

It alternates between Regina one year, and the other in Bismarck.

This is my fourth time at this conference.

Each time I have made a point of driving through Williston, epicentre of the boom, just to see what is really happening. Each time I’ve gone through, it’s been astonishing.

In 2014 it was just crazy. The road between Watford City and Williston had become known as “The Gauntlet.” Driving down it was worth your life. A local from Williston recommended I stay off it, but I wanted to see for myself. They were right.

It was like rush hour on the Deerfoot Trail in Calgary, except instead of cars, it was tanker semis, frac pressure units, flatbeds and one-tonnes pulling 35 foot trailers making suicide passes. In the midst of all this, the state was widening the road to four lanes (not twinning it, as it the Saskatchewan custom), which meant there was road construction all along the route.

Nearly every side road had a drilling rig or two on it, as there were 186 rigs working, and all this traffic was meant to service those rigs and the completion of

the wells they drilled.

On May 23, the roadwork had been all completed except for a twinned bridge across the Missouri River just south of Williston. Watford City had been bypassed. But more importantly, the traffic had vanished. This four-lane road was now no more busy than Highway 10 from Yorkton to Regina. It was a leisurely pace where one could use cruise control instead of white-knuckling it.

We stopped at a Hawaiian restaurant in Williston mid-afternoon, when you’d expect the place to be empty. It was. The two workers there had both come from elsewhere to join the oil boom, just before it went bust. One was from Indiana, the other from Washington state.

One worked as a cook at two camps that had been shuttered.

The other worked in administration for an oilfield construction company where the staffing dwindled until she was essentially the last woman standing in her department, then her hours were going to be cut to the point where she asked for a layoff. Both were happy to have found jobs, essentially “normal jobs,” in Williston.

By the time we got to Bismarck, I realized we had not see one drilling rig – not one – during the whole trip. The 28 working that day (down 85 per cent from two

years ago, and 87.6 per cent from the peak) had all concentrated in the heart of the play. The periphery had been abandoned.

There were 930 wells drilled, but not completed, in the state.

Each one is expected to average about 1,000 barrels per day for the first 30 days before production drops off substantially.

The conference itself is half the size it was two years ago. With roughly half the booths sold, they no longer needed to use the arena for speakers, instead using the vacant end of the exhibit hall.

That hall had been doubled in size to accommodate this show.

Attendance was down by a little less than half, too. It had been buoyed by the big news that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would be filling that otherwise unused arena on the last day.

Oil today might hit US$50 per barrel. That had been the magical number many people were saying in January we needed to see for activity to resume. Well, no magic is being worked today in either Saskatchewan or North Dakota.

It’s going to take more than $50 to see this bust turn around just yet. What that is, I don’t know yet.

Brian Zinchuk is editor of Pipeline News. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net.

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Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, First Home Plan Old Stories and Fibs open for application

BY T O M F R O O K

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The Government of Saskatchewan is now taking applications for First Home Plan. This new initiative allows eligible post-secondary graduates to borrow up to $10,000 of their unused Graduate Retention Program (GRP) tax credits to put toward the down payment on their first home. The plan will help recent graduates who have the income to qualify for a mortgage, but may be having challenges saving for a down payment.

“The Graduate Retention Program First Home Plan supports our government’s election commitment to make Saskatchewan the best place in Canada to go to school, find a job, buy a home and start a family,” Social Services Minister and Minister responsible for Saskatchewan Housing Corporation Donna Harpauer said. “This plan will also help support Saskatchewan employers to recruitment graduates from both in and out of province.”

“Our government is committed to ensuring young people have the opportunity to build a career in our province,” Advanced Education Minister Scott Moe said. “The Graduate Retention Program has benefitted tens of thousands of graduates and now the First Home Program allows them to achieve another milestone with home ownership.”

Under the GRP, recent graduates are

eligible for rebates up to $20,000 of tuition fees if they live in Saskatchewan for seven years following graduation.

Under the First Home Plan, graduates will be able to borrow up to $10,000 of their future tax credit as an interest-free loan to be used toward a down payment on their first home. Borrowers are required to repay the loan using the GRP tax credits they receive annually as part of their income tax filing. These payments will be made directly to Saskatchewan Housing Corporation (SHC). Borrowers will be required to sign a promissory note and abide by the conditions of the loan.

“First time buyers are very important to the real estate market as their purchases often result in several subsequent transactions,” Association of Saskatchewan REALTORS® CEO Bill Madder said. “Recent studies show that each home sale in Canada will result in an average of over $50,000 in spin-off spending, creating one job for every three transactions. We are pleased to see the government's commitment to recent graduates and the Saskatchewan economy through the First Home Plan.”

First-time homebuyers and those who have not owned a home in the last five years may be eligible for the First Home Plan. Those who took possession of their home on or after May 1, 2016 are eligible for the program.

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About this time of year, about fifty years ago, you'd show up at school one day and the teacher, or teachers, would either distribute a list or announce the list of “recommends” for the year. A recommend was an acknowledgement that the student had done well enough during the year that he didn't have to write an examination to prove that he understood the class, or course.

It was a big deal, getting a recommend gave you a number of things. A recommend got you out of school a little earlier and into the swimming pool and the other summer adventures just a little bit before those that had to write the exam. A recommend also gave you a tiny bragging right as well.

If you didn't get a recommend it meant that you'd not paid a lot of attention in class time and that the teacher didn't think that you were very proficient in whatever class or course it was that you were taking. Without the recommend you'd have to write a final examination, and, of course, that meant extra study was required. What it really meant was that you missed a week of swimming pool and baseball while others were already loose.

I did pretty well for a long time, then, something happened, I wasn't nearly as interested in school as I had been. I found myself writing that dreaded “Provincial Final” and waiting for results.

The real story, however, is just where some of the classes eventually took the student. I'll freely admit that I neither understood,nor had any interest in algebra, geotrig or chemistry, none … I just didn't understand the topics and I couldn't be made to apply myself to any of it. I can no longer

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recall who the poor teachers were that tried, I know that Harry Nizami was the chemistry instructor, but the mathematics teachers have escaped my memory. I also found myself writing the Provincial final exam in French, Glady Hart had tried very hard to pound it into my head, some stuck, some didn't, but I did manage to pull a “Pass” out of French. The mathematics and chemistry wouldn't stick long enough and I believe I may have set a Provincial record for achieving the lowest mark ever recorded.

Now, all these years later I'm still not certain what it was that I was supposed to take away from some of those classes. Among a lot of other folks, I can safely say that not once, not even one time in the last 55 years have I been called upon to use an algebraic solution to anything I was doing, nor have I been called upon to decipher some chemical formula, I somehow got by using some common sense, luck and self reliance.

So, if there exists such a process in this day and age, I really wish all the students in Gull Lake all the best as exam time approaches.

There will be some that will be outstanding in what they've learned and there will be some, like me, that struggled but managed to stumble along. You'll all do well, I know, that's a given for a Gull Lake student.

When you, as the student, finish your class year,however, please do us old folks a favor and take two minutes to say to your teachers, “Thank you for making sure that I was able to do my best” I'd certainly like to have the opportunity to go back all those years and tell some of my teachers just how much of an impression they'd really made on my life.

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Marie Bohnet holds a rhubarb stock, the key ingredient to the top selling wine at Cypress Hills Vineyard & Winery. Bohnet is the owner of Cypress Hill Vineyard & Winery located about 20 kilometres from the Town of Maple Creek. Photo by David Zammit

ONWARD AND UPWARD

BY DAV I D Z A M M I T

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CYPRESS HILLS – Nestled in the beautiful valleys of the Cypress Hills region is the highly regarded Cypress Hills Vineyard & Winery that was established over a decade ago.

Before the Winery was founded, Marty and Marie Bohnet shared a ranch with Marty’s side of the family until 2003 when the serious decline in cattle prices affected their families. In the spring of 2004 they sold their shares in the ranch to Marty’s brother and set out on their new adventure, the dream of making wine.

“You should never let fear or common sense hold you back ( from your dream),” Marie said.

The couple had some success in the past with wine, but on small levels. They had been experimenting in small doses since 1994, and even bought three vines in 1995. It took them three years to gain enough grapes to make a small batch of wine.

They received their license to produce wine in 2005, and built the winery in 2006

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opening the doors to public in 2007.

After being open to the public for the past ten seasons, the winery will be closing its doors to the public in the fall of this season. They wanted to allow their wines to prosper and garner attention from the province, before the decision was made to allow the Winery to shift its focus towards production.

“It was always part of our original business plan to go into more of a manufacturing role, we’ve had ten really great years here,” Marie said. “We are in enough liquor stores now that we will be able to make a nice living, we are in 106 throughout the province.”

With a shift towards focusing strictly on production, it will benefit the company allowing them to expand into new markets.

“If we want to get into the Alberta market we will need a little bit more wine so by closing the frontend we will be able to take that wine and go to Alberta with it,” said Marie.

Cypress Hills Vineyard & Winery has four acres of grapes and about one and a

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You should never let fear or common sense hold you back (from your dream)”

“This year unfortunately our grapes came out of dormancy far earlier than normal because of the very mild winter and the very early spring, we have lost all our primary buds,” Marie said. “We might get some off our secondary buds.”

The company makes nine varietals of wine with all the fruit coming from either the vineyard or somewhere in Saskatchewan. They have five different labels cur-

rently available at liquor stores.

At the Winery they offers seven of their flavours, Sour Cherry, Rhubarb, Saskatoon Berry, Chokecherry, Black Current & Honey, Spring and Mead.

The Rhubarb is their top seller and has been dubbed “King” by Marie. It’s an off dry white wine which pairs extremely well with Asian spices such as Thai food and curries.

Cherry was a double gold winner for Best Fruits Wine (Dry) category at the 2015 All Canadian Wine Championships.

Spring also won double gold in the Meads category at the 2014 All Canadian Wine Championships.

“It’s an amazing feeling, it’s really a validation for all the long hours,” Marie said.

“To be able to stick it to the big boys from Ontario and British Columbia, I’m pretty happy.”

The Winery is a must visit before the doors close to the public. If you aren’t able to make it to the Winery head to your local liquor store and try some of the award winning wines, from the only Winery in southwest Saskatchewan.

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The Sellinger family prepare for the opening of their new business the Grotto Gardens. The five family members include father Dan Sellinger, mother Dana Hassett, daughters Silken and Sayla and son-in-law Taylor Zoethout.

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FOR SALE BY TENDER Turn ‘Em Save the Date for the

Pioneer Co-operative Association Limited is offering for Sale by Tender the following:

Lots Block Plan Address

Out Bull Sale Cowtown Livestock Exchange Maple Creek, Sask.

11 to 17 (zoned commercial) 2 G5812 103 Center Street Cabri, SK (former Pioneer Grocery store)

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 1:00 pm • 30-35 Black Angus Bulls • A Good Selection of Heifer Bulls Saskalta Farms Alsask, Sask Kim 306-463-8405

Sheidaghan Anghus Maple Creek, Sask Tom 306-662-8120 info@sheidaghananghus.com

This approximately 7,756 square foot building and lot is available for sale by tender.

This tender is based on “as is where is” condition and cannot be a competing business of Pioneer Co-op in Cabri. The successful bidder is responsible for all investigation on the property, but can be assured the property is free and clear of any encumbrance.

Available anytime after the close of tender. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Tyler Cronkhite Jim Wilson Brent Weiss Gordie Cameron Rocky Houff

Closing date for tenders will be June 30, 2016.

Darvin Mason

Submit sealed bids to: The Pioneer Co-op (Administration Office) Atttention: Alain DeGagne – 306-778-8823 1150 Central Ave. North, Swift Current, SK S9H 0G1

COWTOWN LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE INC. Manager 306-661-8786 or 306-672-4385 (cell) Auctioneer 306-558-4410 Auctioneer 306-558-4401 Auctioneer / Fieldman 306-622-2234 or 306-741-7077 (cell) Fieldman 403-527-0352 or 403-548-9829 (cell) Fieldman 306-662-3497 or 306-662-8218 (cell)

UPCOMING SALES

Tuesday, May 24: Regular Sale with Cow/Calf Pairs Tuesday, May 31: Regular Sale Tuesday, June 7: Regular Sale Tuesday, June 14: Regular Sale

MAPLE CREEK, SASK.

“100% Community Minded” 306-662-2648 1-800-239-5933 PIONEER

www.cowtownlivestock.com

~ ALL CATTLE MUST BE CCIA TAGGED ~ FEEDER FINANCE PROGRAM AVAILABLE

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he Sellinger family races in their final preparations in order to open the gates on June 1st to Maple Creeks newest business the Grotto Gardens Country Market.

Grotto Gardens name was chosen by the family of five in dedication of their late son, Dean Sellinger who passed away in 2006 after a long bout with Leukemia. In 2010, Dana built a rock grotto as a final resting place for her son Dean, and is where the name the Grotto Gardens came from.

In 2007, the family purchased the family homestead from Dan Sellinger’s father, located one mile south of Maple Creek on Highway 21. They rented the property out until the fall of 2010 when they moved back to the area from British Columbia to care for both Dan and Dana Hassett’s aging parents.

Upon arriving back in the area, the couple decided to expand their careers. This led to the family pooling ideas together about the endless possibilities of the land they owned.

One idea that stuck to them was something Dan’s mother thought of in the past. She had envisioned a little business on the large open area of grasslands, including mouth-watering ice cream and delicious homemade pies.

“We put the orchard in and it just got bigger and bigger,” Dana said.

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“We then thought of what kind of a building can we put up that would attract people and we came up with logs.”

With the building materials and design picked, Dan headed to Chilliwack to a log builder where he assembled it. He disassembled it, loaded it onto a semi and shipped it back to the property. The family ( father Dan, mother Dana, daughters Sayla and Silken and son-in-law Taylor Zoethout) accompanied by Dan’s brother would construct the log building.

“We wanted something we could involve our kids with, at least for part-time of the season,” Dan said. “They have all been in the food industry business, and have all made their careers so that they could come out here for four months of the year.”

The biggest challenge the family has overcome was the financial burden of building this dream with their own money, aside from the helping hand they received from Community Futures.

Dan and Dana acknowledge how grateful they’re that it has been a complete family effort to ensure the business is successful.

“Bringing the two daughters and son-in-law in, they’re very willing to be part of it. Otherwise, we would not have the energy to do it,” said Dan.

AGRICULTURE

New Deputy Minister appointed to Ministry of Agriculture CONTRIBUTED

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Deputy Minister to the Premier Doug Moen announced a new senior leader for the Ministry of Agriculture. Rick Burton will assume the role of Deputy Minister of Agriculture effective July 1, 2016.

"A strong agriculture industry means a strong Saskatchewan and Rick's leadership will be critical to continued growth in this sector," Moen said. "I want to thank Rick for accepting this important assignment."

Burton has served as the Ministry of Agriculture's Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) of Policy since October 2013. Previously, he was the ADM of Regulatory and Innovation. Burton has spent more than 25 years in various positions in the ministry, including Director of Crop Development Policy.

Burton has a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Economics.

Burton takes over for Alanna Koch, who was recently named Deputy Minister to the Premier.

Southwest EMS professionals awarded Exemplary Service Medals CONTRIBUTED

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On Monday, May 30, 2016, Lieutenant Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield will present Exemplary Service Medals and Stars of Life Awards to Emergency Medical Services professionals at Government House, in Regina. Two southwest residents are among the recipients: • Blake Campbell, Gull Lake & District Road Ambulance • Michel Forest, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Gravelbourg The Governor General’s EMS Exemplary Service Medal is Canada’s highest honour for paramedics.

The Medal and subsequent bars recognize 20, 30, and 40 years of service in responding to pre-hospital emergencies in Canada. The Stars of Life Award recognizes outstanding commitment and acts of bravery.

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Dan and Dana have applied a lifetime of hard work and dedication into this project over the past five years, having built three buildings on the property.

“Yah it’s about time (everything has come together),” Dana said. “It’s been long and really hard, with lots of long hours, so we are definitely in need of making our first dime.” One of facilities is a processing plant for their ten acres of Northline Saskatoon’s berries, rhubarb and chokecherries. The two other buildings are a little woodworking shop and the giant log barn for visits to enjoy.

Inside the log building, they have a café lounge area where you can relax while enjoying a large variety of baked goods, ice cream and tasty beverages. You can also find unique gifts and souvenirs inside the artistic log barn.

The Grotto Gardens Country Market offers Saskatchewan’s first goat walk. The goat walk will provide enjoyment for everyone as they scale their way along planks, rooftops and ramps and will continue their ascend higher if you chose to feed them.

This new fabulous business is a must visit for tourists travelling to Cypress Hill Interprovincial Park and the residents of Maple Creek.

The Sellinger family will welcome you with open arms to southwest Saskatchewan’s finest bakery.

Silken Sellinger make a fresh batch of cookies Wednesday morning in preparation of the Grotto Gardens opening on June 1st. Silken is one of five members of the Sellinger family who will be working at the Grotto Gardens over the summer. Photo By: David Zammit

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Budding Blossoms

BY DAV I D Z A M M I T

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GULL LAKE – Community in Blooms Gull Lake was pleased to hold their grand opening Thursday evening displaying the completion of phase three on Xeroscapes garden.

Gull Lake Community in Blooms started four seasons ago, the first season spent mainly planning and laying the groundwork for their projects. Over the last three years the group has evolved their ideas into reality, something Ed Lowenberger Chair of Community in Blooms applauds.

“All idea’s ( from the core committee and volunteers) are brought forward, we do a lot of brainstorming (as a group),” Lowenberger said Friday afternoon in the newly renovated garden. “If it’s something that makes sense, is feasible and workable, more often than not it will develop and flourish.”

The group is made up of a core committee of seven to eight people with a volunteer group ten to 15 that can be called upon anytime. The core committee meets once a month to work on future ideas for the town and to discuss how past experiences unfolded.

The Gull Lake Community in Blooms was started by town council and interested citizens of the community, who just happened to stumble across the opportunity introduced by an outside source.

“We liked what it (the group) represented at that time, we were searching for something that would help to rejuvenate the interest in the town and rejuvenate the town itself,” said Lowenberger.

The newest phase entailed an invit-

ing wooden fence being constructed, and four raised flowerbeds added to the existing two. With the leftover wood, they build a board recognizing the business who have helped make this garden possible. On top of the posts flies two flags, a Canadian and Saskatchewan flag purchased by Lowenberger.

Included in this stage was planting of some shrubs alongside the fence to go with three types of fruit trees, two apple, two pear and two plum.

A customized bench and birdhouse were added in memory of the late Tony Olsgard, a member of the Gull Lake town crew. Olsgard passed away last year after a battle with cancer.

“This was a small token of our appreciation for all the years he worked for the Town of Gull Lake,” Lowenberger said. “I know he liked the birds quite a bit and enjoyed watching them, this is a token for the gentleman himself, he was a value employee and is greatly missed.”

With the completion of the third instalment, construction on the garden is done for the year. That isn’t stopping the group from looking ahead to next year’s phase four. That stage will contain a raised gazebo, giving you an elevated view to admire all the hard work invested in this project.

Since joining Communities in Bloom four years ago, the Town of Gull Lakes bloom rating has only risen. The first year they weren’t judged, but in 2014 they scored two and a half blooms out of five, and topped that last season with three blooms. They look forward to their next evaluation that will come sometime later this summer.

Ed Lowenberger, Chair of Gull Lake Community in Bloom stands amidst the Xeroscape garden in Gull Lake. The group recently completed phase three of the garden including a customized memorial bench in memory of Tony Olsgard. Photo By: David Zammit

ENVIRONMENT

LARGE FARM EQUIPMENT AUCTION FOR: SELENSKI FARMS LTD. (Dennis & Donna Selenski) Ponteix, Sk. (306) 533-3766

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 Starting at 10:00 a.m.

Switzer Auction

Location: From the Junction of #13 Hwy. & Ponteix turn off, 10 miles South on #628 road, 1 mile West, 1/2 mile South.

Photo: Branimir Gjetvaj Photography

National Endangered Places List includes PFRA pastures CONTRIBUTED

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Saskatchewan's PFRA community pastures have been named as one of Canada’s top 10 Endangered Places by the National Trust for Canada, an organization working to save historic places and our historic environment. (See attached media release and backgrounder.)

The sixty-two PFRA pastures in Saskatchewan comprise some of the largest intact blocks of original grasslands in the northern Great Plains, managed for conservation values and other benefits to the public, including access. They provide critical-habitat for over thirty species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects and plants at risk on the Saskatchewan prairies.

In addition to cattle ranchers, the

pastures are used and enjoyed by hunters, photographers, First Nations, researchers and the general public on educational tours.

The pastures contain many heritage sites. This includes Indigenous sites, Metis settlements and homesteader sites, including the author Wallace Stegner's homestead. The historic 80-year legacy of the PFRA Community Pasture Program, and the involvement of pasture patrons, the ranching community, and the local Community Pasture managers and their families is reflected in the corrals, buildings and managers' quarters on the PFRA land.

PPPI would like to offer the media the opportunity to get more information on this announcement, the grasslands and the importance of these heritage grasslands to this province and its people.

TRACTORS - 1997 JD 9200 4WD diesel Tractor GPS & Lightbar -Outback E-Drive GPS control box *3 Outback Receivers & globes *LED Field Lightbar System *4 Hella High Power Field Lights TRUCKS & TRAILER - 2006 International Eagle 9400i Tandem diesel Grain Truck, 1,088,034 kms. *1972 GMC 5500 3-ton Grain Truck, 66,425 miles *Trailtech Bumper Pull Trailer AIRPLANE - 1971 Cessna 172 Skyhawk II Airplane (Approx. 150 hrs. SMOH. Always hangered, mint condition (Sells subject to the owners acceptance of the highest bid) HIGH CLEARANCE SPRAYER - 2012 JD 4730 SP High Clearance Sprayer, 100’ HD Stainless Steel Boom, 7 boom sectional control, gauge wheels, boom height & levelling control, 800 gal. stainless steel tank, chem. handler, 5 body spray nozzles & elec. end nozzles, 420/80R46 tires, fenders, JD 2630 GS3 Star Fire Monitor, auto steer, self levelling air bag suspension, remote spray test nozzle checking system, lighting pkg., Motorola Radius SM50 2 way radio, 215.6 spray hrs. 657 eng. hrs., 33,512 acres, New Condition SEEDING & TILLAGE - 45’ Flexicoil 5000 Air Drill *45’ Degelman Landroller *50’ Valmar Granular Appl. *Rockmaster Rockpicker *Degelman Rock Digger BINS - 7 Weninger Magnum-F Hopper Bottom Bins *41 Westeel Rosco F/B Bins *1200 Bu. Butler F/B Bin *Inline Aeration Fans *Bin Mover HARVEST - 2010 JD 9770 STS diesel Combine, JD SF1 GPS w/auto steer, terrain tracer, 1079 eng. hrs., 843 thr. hrs. w/JD 914 Pickup Table, 14’ 7 Belt pickup w/plastic fingers (Mint Condition) *New Set Pea Concaves for JD 9770 STS Combine *2013 35’ Macdon FD75 Draper Flex Header, pea auger, own transport (only cut 3800 acres) *2000 Westward 9250 SP Swather *Grain Augers *9’ FK Metal Swath Roller *Pea Auger fits 25’-30’ Macdon Draper Header, like new ACREAGE EQUIP. - 1979 JD 4440 Tractor w/FEL *1983 JD 750 MFWD Tractor, 3 pt. ht. *20’ Brandt 3 pt. ht. Sprayer *2014 JD Z465 Zero Turn Lawn Mower *JD Z520A Estate Series Ztrak Zero Turn Lawn Mower Kurt & Kim Gillespie (306) 478-2680 - 2003 16’ Frontier Macdon MC1216 Hydroswing Haybine AUCTIONEERS NOTE: All machinery will be started and demonstrated 1 hour before machinery sale time.

For further info call Dennis at 306-533-3766 Terms: Cash or Cheque w/Letter of Guarantee Machinery, Vehicles & Airplane Sell at: 2:00 p.m. Selling w/2 Rings

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BOOK REVIEW

Unreserved Public Farm Auction

Windy Plains Limousin Inc. – Steve & Shannon Small Gull Lake, SK | June 14, 2016 · 11 am

“Wind Leaves Absence”

by Mary Maxwell

R E V I E W BY S H E L L E Y A . L E E DA H L

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2004 New Holland CR940

2005 Willmar Eagle 8500 90 Ft

1992 John Deere 8560

1992 Bourgault 8800 40 Ft w/4300

2005 Freightliner Columbia T/A

AUCTION LOCATION: From the Junction of Hwy 1 & the Southwest Terminal West Turnoff, go 5 km (3.1 miles) South, then 5 km (3.1 miles) East, then 5 km (3.1 miles) South, then 0.8 km (0.5 miles) East OR From SHAUNAVON, SK, go 40 km (24.8 miles) North on Hwy 37, then 13 km (8.0 miles) East, then 3 km (1.8 miles) North, then 0.8 km (0.5 miles) East. Yard on the South side. GPS: 50.047960, -108.290157 A PARTIAL EQUIPMENT LIST INCLUDES: 1992 John Deere 8560 4WD Tractor · 2004 New Holland CR940 Combine · 2001 Honey Bee SP30 30 Ft Draper Header · Case IH 730 30 Ft Pull Type Swather · 2005 Freightliner Columbia T/A Grain Truck · 1978 GMC 6000 S/A Grain Truck · 1975 International Loadstar T/A Grain Truck · 1968 Chevrolet S/A Grain Truck · 1984 Ford F150 Pickup · 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis Car · 1981 13 Ft T/A Stock Trailer · 2013 PJ Trailers 20 Ft T/A Tilt Trailer · 1992 Bourgault 8800 40 Ft Air Seeder · John Deere 665 40 Ft Air Seeder · Morris CP-531 31 Ft Deep Tillage Cultivator · John Deere 1915 30 Ft Discer · 1980 Flexi-Coil Y & D 60 Ft End

Pull Harrow Packer · 2005 Willmar Eagle 8500 90 Ft High Clearance Sprayer · (4) Titan TT49V 320/90R50 Sprayer Tires · H & S Bi-Fold-8 8 Wheel Hay Rake · 1993 New Idea 5212 12 Ft Mower Conditioner · 2013 Westfield MK100-61 10 In. x 61 Ft Mechanical Swing Grain Auger · 2004 Sakundiak HD8-1600 8 In. x 53 Ft Grain Auger · Champion Grain Roller · Redekop Chaff System · Rem Chaff Wagon · (2) Sukup Aeration Fan · (35) Corral Panels · Koenders Calf Warmer · (2) Trimble EZ-Steer Auto Steers · Chem Handler 2 In. · Poulan Pro 27 In. Walk Behind Snow Blower ...AND MUCH MORE!

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com Steve Small: 306.672.3908 (h), 306.672.8154 (c) svsmall550@gmail.com Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager – Ben Clutton: 306.421.5066 800.491.4494

I read Saskatoon poet (and nurse) Mary Maxwell’s first book, Wind Leaves Absence, with interest and no small amount of admiration. Many first books of what’s often called confessional poetry are a compendium of high\low events experienced over the writer’s lifetime, and what results is a wildly disparate package. Maxwell daringly takes on the landscape of grief, specifically the pain experienced upon the deaths of her father, two brothers, friends, and patients.

Religion is also front and centre in this collection.

These mostly quiet poems often reveal life’s disquieting ironies, ie: funeral orchids have “choked\fallen over\gone dry” while in another room “birthday flowers\loudly proclaim spring”. After a night of summer joy-riding a friend’s daughter remains unresponsive in hospital.

When the poet walks home from this scene, “Cars roar past, music\blaring, girls laughing”. In “Sweet Old Lady,” the author\nurse finds a diabetic woman’s apartment filled with candy while her feet have “gone black,” the “sweetness eating [her] alive”.

Maxwell does not obscure the raw realities of death, nor does she makes saints of her dead. In a poem titled “Fool,” she writes “I’m standing in line at The Bay to buy\a pair of pants for my brother’s corpse”. She shows us that just as winter “falters into spring,” so must we move on after unfathomable grief, and writing it all out is good medicine.

FARM EQUIPMENT AUCTION FOR: K & D Hymers Skyline Organics Inc. (Ken & Dianne Hymers) Swift Current, Sk. (306) 741-3668 or (306) 773-7007

SATURDAY, JUNE 11 starting at 12:00 Noon Location: 5 miles West of Swift Current on #1 Hwy. to curve, 6 1/2 miles North on #32 Hwy. to the Junction of #32 & #332 Hwy., 1/2 mile East on TWP RD 165, 2 miles North on RGE RD 3152 TRACTORS - 1977 JD 8430 4WD Tractor *1986 AC 8070 MFWD Tractor *Kubota B2710 MFWD Tractor w/FEL GPS - Outback S-Light GPS *Raven GPS w/mapping system TRUCKS -2006 Kenworth T300 Tandem Grain Truck *1982 Ford 600 3-ton Grain Truck *1975 Dodge 800 4-ton Grain Truck *1966 Chev C50 3-ton Truck, bale rack, metal deck *1982 Dodge 350 1-ton Truck *1996 Dodge Caravan SEEDING -28’ New Noble Seedovator 9000 Air Drill *Miskin M4800 5 Yd. Earth Scraper *36’ CCIL 1001 Discers *30’ Versatile Noble Blade *48’ B3 Morris Rodweeder *35’ Friggstad Cult. *37’ Morris Vibra Shank Cult. *47’ Phoenix Rotary Harrows *56’ Morris Harrow Drawbar *Riteway Rockpicker HAYING -Kuhn Knight 1140 Manure Spreader *Hesston 5580 Rd. Baler *Hesston BP-25 Bale Processor *Creep feeder *High Hog Gates *Rd. Bale Feeders *Pressure Treated Posts *Hyd. Wire Roller *Wheatheart Post Hole Auger HARVEST -1989 MF 8450 SP Combine w/MF pickup table w/12’ Super 8 Victory pickup *1995 Case IH 8820 SP Swather, 25’ Pickup Table *1997 25’ Case IH 8220 pto Swather, U2 pickup reel *Grain Augers *3 Pt. Ht. 62” Buhler FK Finishing Mower *ATV -1997 Polaris 500 ATV AS WELL AS SHOP & YARD ITEMS.

NOTE: All machinery will be started and demonstrated 1 hour before machinery sale time. For further info call Ken at (306) 741-3668 or (306) 773-7007 Terms: Cash or Cheque w/Letter of Guarantee.

Machinery & Vehicles Sell at: 12:00 Noon

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Glenn Switzer

Sal the Squirrel munches on some sunflower seeds at Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park this past weekend. Photo by Nicole Bateman

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Our People | Our Heritage

The first permanent Dixon Brother’s store taken in the early 1890s. Posed left to right D.C. Dixon, J.O. Beesley sr., Unknown, Mr. Stone in the doorway, John Dixon, A.L. Dixon and Chester Dixon. In the early decades, two large, three story additions were added to the west of the original store making for one of the most impressive mercantile edifices in the Territories. (Photographer unknown – courtesy of Donny White)

JOHN DIXON

Entrepreneurial Giant of the Southwest

BY D O N N Y W H I T E

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lthough many men and women of vision settled the southwest, none exemplify the entrepreneurial spirit more than John Dixon and few can rival his accomplishments. Dixon descended from an early Peterborough County, Upper Canada family and was educated at the School of Military Instruction in Kingston. By the late 1870s he and his brother Isaac Chester had established themselves in the general mercantile trade in Oshawa. In 1882, anxious to explore opportunities in the west, John made an exploratory trip as far as Brandon, Manitoba. Hearing the railroad would reach Calgary the following year, the brothers sold their business, made accommodation for their wives and headed west with a carload of effects. Arriving in Maple Creek with the railroad in the spring of 1883, John and Chester realizing the rails would not reach Calgary until fall, decided to capitalize on the bustling trade taking place at this point and set up business in a tent. By fall, the Dixons decided to remain in Maple Creek they secured temporary quarters from the CPR until their new store was completed the following year.

The Dixons’ business savvy proved profitable and within the next two decades the small store grew in size and scope becoming one of the largest and most reputable firms between Moose Jaw and Calgary. Chester looked after the day-to-day operations, while John “worked the system”, establishing relationships with the NWMP, the CPR, the North-Western Coal and Navigation Company, the 76 Ranch Company, as well as the Territorial & Federal Governments. These contacts paid off for the Dixon Brothers.

In 1884, John secured the government contract for the post office and temporarily located it to the company store. The firm also supplied banking services to the community until the establishment of the Merchant’s Bank of Canada in 1901. Another lucrative venture was the trade in buffalo bones - Dixons shipped carloads of bones to dealers and fertilizer firms in Minnesota and Illinois. The trade was so successful in 1890 that John Dixon petitioned the CPR for additional train-cars to accommodate the bones stockpiled at various railway sidings.

They had already shipped 31 train-cars full of bones that year.

In addition to these ventures, Dixons also

established one of the largest ranches in the southwest. They ran hundreds and at times thousands of head of cattle, sheep and horses on the open range primarily north and northwest of Maple Creek. The Company was forced to scale back operations following the winter of 1906/07 and the subsequent arrival of the homesteaders.

However by 1922 the DB Ranch still encompassed over 24,000 acres of deeded and leased lands.

Soon after their arrival in 1883, a residence was built on Chester’s homestead on the west side of Maple Creek and the brothers

the Alberta College in Edmonton in 1903, appointed to its first board of governors and remained until 1912. He was also named to the Board of Governors of the new University of Saskatchewan in 1908 and the Regina College in 1912 – positions he held until 1921.

John Dixon was the driving force behind the development of the village/town of Maple Creek and certainly deserves the title, “father of Maple Creek”. He was instrumental in the development of almost all its early institutions and organizations and at one time or another he held executive positions

Cattle in front of the Dixon Brother’s home on the west side of Maple Creek c. 1900. “The Maples”, built in 1895/96, replaced the earlier house lost to fire in 1894. The John & Chester Dixon families shared this significant home and entertained extensively. In the acres surrounding the property, Dixon’s planted thousands of trees, including Maple, Oak and Willow as well as raspberry & currant bushes. They also planted an extensive garden including vines, flowers, strawberries and traditional garden produce. (Photograph by D.J. Wylie – courtesy of Donny White)

sent for their wives. The two families shared this home until 1894 when fire destroyed the residence, resulting in the death of Chester and Harriett’s daughter Gracie. The Dixons replaced the home with a commodious residence called “The Maples” which the two families continued to share. Following the fire, headquarters of the ranch was moved to the Sand Hills north of town.

John, being the more entrepreneurial of the two brothers, secured a number of important government appointments which were advantageous to the firm and his own ambitions. Already appointed Post Master in 1884, he was named Notary Public in 1889 and 1906 and Justice of the Peace in 1892. A member of the Home Guard during the 1885 uprising, Dixon used the store as a small armoury for the distribution of weapons to the settlers. A staunch advocate of education, he was a founding member of

with most. He was First Vice President of the Maple Creek Agricultural Society 1888, President of the first board of trade 1889, the first mayor of the newly incorporated town in 1903/04 and first president of the Saskatchewan Range Growers’ association in 1906. He was a charter member of the Maple Leaf Lodge #56 Maple Creek 1893, district deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba 1903/04 and the Grand Lodge of Saskatchewan 1907/08. He held executive positions with the local branches of the Ancient Order United Workmen and the Independent Order of Foresters. A devout Methodist, Dixon was responsible in securing the services of an itinerant minister in 1884 and the establishment of the church in 1886.

In addition to all his civic duties and responsibilities, Dixon continued to explore business opportunities, invest in real estate

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throughout the Territories and purchase shares in numerous companies across the prairies. In 1909 he became a major shareholder in the Alberta Clay Products Company Ltd. of Medicine Hat and appointed vice-president from 1911 to 1920 and president in 1921. Dixon sat on the board of directors for the Saskatchewan Loan and Investment Company Ltd. of Moose Jaw 1912-21 and was vice-president of the Canadian Hunt Manufacturing Company Ltd. 1920-21.

A staunch Liberal and confidant of Thomas Scott, the Liberal leader of Assiniboia West and first premier of Saskatchewan, Dixon was not without political aspirations of his own. In the early years of the century and on occasion thereafter, Dixon lobbied for a seat in the Canadian Senate. Although he had strong support from Scott, his bid for the Senate did not materialize. On advice from Scott, Dixon ran as the Liberal candidate for Maple Creek in the first provincial election, but surprising to most he lost to well-known rancher D.J. Wylie. Following this loss it appeared he was content to focus on his civic and business responsibilities, however correspondence with his brother Jonathon in Reno, Nevada reveals that early in 1921 the federal government had considered Dixon as successor to Sir Richard Lake, the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.

Apparently Dixon refused the offer citing his reasons to Jonathon but intimated he was still desirous of a Senate position.

It is evident from Dixon’s tone in his correspondence that he was tiring. On January 3, 1922 Dixon died suddenly at his home in Maple Creek, leaving behind a lifetime of achievement to his community and the province he helped shape. Although his brother Chester had died in 1918, two of Chester’s sons, Alfred and Dawson had picked up the operational side of the company. The well-known DB Ranch continued operations until the mid-1940s and the “Dixon’s Store” famous in the southwest and beyond closed in 1958. Predeceased by daughter Bessie in 1901, he left to mourn his wife Agnes (1858-1930), daughter Ethel (1883-1946), sons Howard (1885-1946) and John (1888-1945). John Dixon is buried in the Maple Creek Cemetery alongside his wife.

Elements of the above story were taken from a biography I wrote for the Canadian Dictionary of Biography Volume XV 1921 to 1930 and published by the University of Toronto 2005.

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J O R D A N D O U G L A S H A N S O N 1992 - 2016 Jordan Douglas Hanson, born in Eastend, Saskatchewan on October 25, 1992, was the oldest son of Jon and Candice Hanson. He was raised on a small farm, 10 kilometres south of Eastend, where he was homeschooled by his mother, from kindergarten through grade 12.

Jordan spent most of his spare time playing piano and working on computers. From a young age, Jordan was very gifted in music; he made home recordings and was the leader and song composer for his family band, “The Hanson Hillbillies,” later retitled, “Jordashay.” Before leaving home at age 18, Jordan was studying Level 10 piano of the Royal Conservatory. In Colorado Springs, Colorado, Jordan met Nadine Reitz, who shared his love for travel; and they were married on May 10, 2012.

Jordan died from exposure, May 1, 2016, on Mount Washington, British Columbia. He is predeceased by his grandfather, Oscar Anhorn. He is survived by his parents, Jon and Candice Hanson; two siblings, Dawson and Shanay; his grandmother, Margaret Anhorn; and his grandparents, Glennis and Enid Hanson. He is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. The Funeral Service was held on Monday, May 23, 2016 at EMMANUEL GRACE CHURCH, Eastend, Saskatchewan at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Keith Pickerill officiating. Interment followed at Eastend Cemetery.

Donations may be made in Jordan’s memory to Rock Solid Refuge, PO Box 1622, Shaunavon, SK, S0N 2M0.

Condolences may be sent through www.saamis.com or to condolences@saamis.com subject heading Jordan Hanson. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to SAAMIS MEMORIAL FUNERAL CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM, “The Chapel in the Park”, Medicine Hat, Alberta. Should you wish any additional information, please telephone 1-800-317-2647.

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My five-year-old daughter loves caterpillars. Her mother tolerates them. Her mother is not afraid of them … if they have soft fuzzy coats of fur covering their bodies or if they are the size of a pin.

Her mother is petrified of them if they are naked, slimy, creepy, crawly or large! Her mother considers these kinds of caterpillars ‘worms’ and she will run and scream from anything that looks, acts or creeps like a ‘worm’.

So it was that my daughter and I were enjoying a perfectly wonderful breakfast in her outdoor fairy garden in our backyard. It’s a beautifully enclosed space thanks to the towering trees, woodpile and fence that surrounds it.

I was squished comfortably into a pint-sized child’s lawn chair. She was seated at the miniature table across from me, enjoying her breakfast smoothie. I was admiring the trees all around us when I spotted the cutest little caterpillar.

It was a little naked, but it was so tiny as to make it appear cute and unthreatening.

It was inching along our fence so I pointed it out to her. She immediately leapt up and began talking to it.

That’s when I spotted another caterpillar of similar size, but questionable cuteness, right behind it. And when I looked further down the fence, I spotted another, and another and another. The ‘anothers’ went on for as far as the eye could see.

That’s when these caterpillars officially stopped being cute, and started being downright creepy. As my eyes lifted to scan the destination of this line of creeping crawlies, I spied the leaf on which they were gathering. There were hundreds of them! When I surveyed even farther up the tree, I saw thousands of them in clusters of black wriggling blobs.

I immediately went into ‘freaked-out’ mode, running for cover with my daughter.

I remember seeing these black moving blobs in my younger days when we suffered an infestation of tent caterpillars and I immediately knew I was in the caterpillar battle of my life.

I ran for a can of spray and I sprayed the blob. The creepy crawlies dropped from strings, hanging like horrendous and hideous suspended worms. I shuddered.

I sprayed some more. But wherever I looked, there was another blob. It was no use.

I retreated to the safety of our home and I holed up with my daughter for the rest of the day.

When evening fell, I decided to venture out for a run in our local park. As I was running on the crusher-dust path, I noticed a black hose lying right across it. I approached the source of impediment and was about to move it when I noticed it was not a black hose. It was a moving, creeping, live mass of tent caterpillars transferring from one tree to the next.

I screamed and I ran straight home.

The next day I slowly ventured out of our house – on the look out for the ‘enemy’. I found one on our driveway and encouraged my daughter to squish it. She refused, saying, ‘but it’s so cute mommy!”

‘It’s not cute. It’s not fuzzy. It’s a creepy, slimy, multiplying worm. And it’s going to eat all of the leaves in our yard, and maybe us too!’

That’s what I wanted to say.

But I didn’t.

All I said was, ‘Let’s go inside for a while honey.’

And I’m not coming out until every single tent caterpillar is gone.

According to Google, that’s about three weeks this summer and two to three years after that.

See you in 2019 (if the tent caterpillars are gone!)

SPIRITUAL GLEANINGS

The Gift of Friendship

BY J OYC E S A S S E

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She’s proud to be 96 years old, proud to be able to transfer herself from her bed to her chair (in spite of having both legs amputated), and proud to be able to continue looking at the positive side of life.

65 years ago, when a handful of young girls in our tiny community wanted to form a C.G.I.T. group, Jessie Snow volunteered to be our leader. She was a bride from “The East” raising a family, managing a ranch and caring for aging parents.

Not only did she make time for us, she learned what she could about leadership and found a vocation for herself as a youth counselor.

It was a wonderful way for us to learn about babies and stuff (since we accompanied her through three additional pregnancies and child rearing).

It was also a way to learn about organizational work and group dynamics as we practiced rules of order, conducted meetings and planned projects.

Our motto “to cherish health, seek truth, know God and serve others”.

Early in our group life we decided our church, newly built after a fire, needed a carpet down the aisle and across the front. Why not get it? Jessie backed our venture with the money she was saving for a fur coat. (It was the 50’s!)

It is amazing how the enthusiasm and audacity to five 12-year olds could encourage church and community members to support our venture.

At our Christmas Vesper Services, she thoughtfully found a way to suggest I could better contribute through doing readings instead of with my off-key singing.

Years later we both were overwhelmed by tears as I made my ordination vows.

Our conversations now are bounced off lives full of challenges and opportunities. Pain, grief and death have been there in full, as well as joy and great memories.

Thank God for those who nurture us and encourage us to realize our potential

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Roast Beef Supper $10 to follow approx. 5 PM. 21-2c There will be a wedding shower honouring Chris Larson and Kendra Ostrovsky, June 12 at 2:00 PM at the Simmie Hall.

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Wong Guy arrived in Gull Lake in 1917-18 during a time of turmoil as the Spanish Flu was raging. He cooked for the patients during the epidemic and cemented himself into the heart of everyone in the community.

He operated his shoe and harness repair shop for 55 years and took a sincere interest in everyone who came through the doors.

After he closed his business, the building and its contents became a living time capsule of a by-gone era.

Any person wishing to object to the proposed designation must serve Council with a written objection stating the reason for the objection and all relevant facts not less than three days prior to consideration of the bylaw.

306-625-3689 152 Centre St., Ponteix

Autumn House Independent Living Facility is a personal care home in Gull Lake, SK that provides assisted living for seniors. We are currently seeking a Part Time Maintenance person to work every other weekend, 6 hours per weekend and be on call that weekend in case of emergencies.

Duties: Maintain and repair anything to do with the facility when needed. We have 20 rooms, a kitchen, laundry room, bathroom, tub room, etc. Check equipment daily (boiler, compressor, walk-in cooler, etc.) Seasonal duties like mowing lawn, shovelling snow, etc.

Education/Experience: It would be an asset if you have your Grade 12. Also would be a huge asset if you have experience.

We would like you to have your First Aid/CPR, but if don’t have that course they will be arranged.

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Notice is hereby given that not less than thirty days from the date of service of this notice, the Council of the Town of Gull Lake intends to pass a bylaw pursuant to the provisions of The Heritage Property Act, to designate as Municipal Heritage Property the following real property known as Wong Guy’s Shoe Shop legally described as Lot 41, Block 3, Plan 99SC13358 and located at 2387 Proton Avenue.

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Swift Current Indians preview

The Boys of Summer are Back

Swift Current Indians outfielder Liam Goodall takes some practice hacks Tuesday evening in preparation of opening day. The Indians will open the season with five of six away from home, but will return to Mitchell Field Sunday, June 5th to take on Moose Jaw Miller Express. Photo by David Zammit.

BY DAV I D Z A M M I T

david@gulllakeadvance.com

SWIFT CURRENT – As you slowly approach the grandstand, you catch the enticing smell of fresh cut grass in the air. You see the freshly groomed foul lines in bright white chalk, and as you turn to take your seat, you anticipate the PA announcers address to the maximum capacity crowd at Mitchell Field.

The Swift Current Indians will take to the field in their 16th season in the Western Major Baseball League, a league designed for collegiate baseball players during the summer time. The WMBL has expanded this year from 10 to 12 teams, with the recent additions of the Brooks Bombers and the Fort McMurray Giants.

The new teams will balance out the league and will now form two divisions, each consisting of six teams - an Eastern division with all Saskatchewan teams and a Western division with all Alberta teams.

Last season wasn’t so kind to the Indians going 19-29, but they did finish with a five game win streak to scrape into the playoffs. In the postseason they would be ousted in three straight games by the Lethbridge Bulls en route to being crowned 2015 WMBL champions while reeling off nine straight wins in the playoffs.

Indians General Manager and Head Coach Joe Carnahan is ready to right the ship and guide his team to a championships, something he is very familiar with having won as a player in 2001, 2005, 2006 and as a coach in 2010. “(Last year) wasn’t a typical year for around here (in Swift Current),” Carnahan said. “This year it’s time to get back to where the bar has been set before, we have some talented guys coming in to hopefully do that.”

The standard to which he is referring to is an unprecedented 10 league championships since 1992, with the ball club winning the division every year since 2002, with the exception of last season.

The most recent crown was in 2010, with a finals appearance in 2014 ultimately losing to the Medicine Hat Mavericks 3-1 in the series.

“Our expectation is to win a championship (this year),” Carnahan said Tuesday evening at Mitchell Field. “That’s what the players are coming here for is to develop and leave at the end of the

summer with a ring.”

One thing that stood out to Carnahan from last year’s team was the lack of options on the squad, something that is an essential ingredient if your team has a legitimate shot at competing for the championship.

“We should be fine this year, I mean we have a lot of talented guys and have some depth, something that is always important when you are playing 48 games in two months,” said Carnahan.

The Indians will have about 24-25 players on the roster this season, with a handful of them still competing in their respective divisional tournaments at the collegiate level in the United States. The club is hoping to have all hands on deck

by June 8th.

The roster makeup of the team is very diverse with players coming from all over looking to take their skills to the next level, with a chance at playing for a baseball team with a rich history of winning in the past.

“You look at a map (of Canada and Untied States) and we can point to someone from (just about) anywhere,” Carnahan said acknowledging what it is like to have a diverse culture of player. “That’s the fun part of summer baseball it’s not a long time, so you have to be able to accept each other, mesh pretty quick, be outgoing and open. Usually the teams that are like that, are the teams that are successful in the end.”

Indians outfielder Liam Goodall from Nanaimo, British Columbia played for the Indians in their run to the finals in 2014. He is happy to be back in Southwest Saskatchewan’s premier city, Swift Current.

“I just got here about an hour ago (to Swift Current), but it’s nice, kind of new because I haven’t been here in a few years, but familiar (to me),” said Goodall.

He will look to bring an impressive bat to the Indians lineup, boosting an average of .377 in the NCAA Division II this past year playing for Embry-Riddle University in Florida.

“I’m just looking to win games and have a fun summer,” Goodall said. “I’m a senior so this is it. I’m looking to go out on a good note.”

The Indians will play five of their first six games away from Mitchell Field this season, and will return to host the Moose Jaw Miller Express on Sunday, June 5th with first pitch at 7:05 P.M.

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Oh Canada!

OUT OF THE PARK WITH DAVID ZAMMIT

of any rearguard from Canada over the past two years. He deserves some serious consideration as well, but has been snubbed in the past by Canada, with healthy concerns and not the strongest player in his own zone.

The last defenceman who I believe is eligible to grab a spot is Calgary Flames captain Mark Giordano, who was the Norris Trophy front runner in 2014-15 until injuring himself.

Now let’s take a look at the forward crop Canada can choose from for their final 4 roster spots.

To start, let’s take a look at 2014 Olympic forwards, Matt Duchene, Chris Kunitz, Patrick Marleau, Rick Nash, Corey Perry, Patrick Sharp and Martin St. Louis.

We can automatically eliminate St. Louis because he has retired. We could also remove Kunitz as his game has severally diminished, and I seriously doubt Sidney Crosby can make this roster twice again; as he did in the Olympics in Sochi. Marleau looks to be another long shot as he is losing his speed and his production is declining quickly. Nash and Sharp look to be on the outside looking in with less than stellar seasons hurting their chances at cracking this squad.

The two left are Duchene and Perry who again fit the mold of big and strong on the puck and can play the possession type of game Canada dominates.

Joe Thornton the ageless wonder himself has to be in some serious consideration for a spot on the team, leading the league in assists over the past two seasons. The way big Joe can run a powerplay is incredible, yes he may also be a step slower, but he still can use his giant body to protect the puck like a wizard at times.

Although Claude Giroux has been left off Team Canada for most if not all of the big competitions in the past this may be his chance to grab the 13th forward spot. He could be used in certain situations such as the powerplay and when the team is in search of a goal.

Edmonton Oiler former first overall pick Taylor Hall has also made a strong case of making the team with his offensive skills that are elite.

Other forwards who may have an opportunity are Boston Bruins Brad Marchand, Philadelphia Flyers Wayne Simmonds, Nashville Predators Ryan Johansen, Los Angeles Kings Tyler Toffoli and Dallas Stars Jason Spezza.

Team Canada played a heavy game at the 2014 Olympics and sort of bullied their opponents by playing keep away with their big rugged skilled bodies. The team only allowed 3 goals the entire tournament which is simply remarkable and didn’t allow a goal in their final 144 minutes of play!

I believe the seven open spots will fit into the role of protecting the puck and making incredibly smart decisions when possessing the puck. My opinion is the four forward spots will go to Corey Perry, Taylor Hall, Joe Thornton and Matt Duchene, and the final three spots on defence will go to Brent Burns, P.K. Subban and Alex Pietrangelo.

The final seven spots for the club will be announced no later than June 1st. Stay tuned.

BY DAV I D Z A M M I T

david@gulllakeadvance.com

Hockey Canada claims yet another gold at the World Hockey Championships held in Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia on May 22nd. It’s back-to-back golds for Canada at the Championships. Our 20th gold medal achieved at the springtime gathering of Lord Stanley Cup playoff castoffs.

The 23-man roster was filled with youth, with only 5 of its players being born in the 1980’s and the oldest being, 31 year-old Captain Corey Perry. A fact which is mindboggling with the World Cup of Hockey on the horizon and Canada only able to select 24 year-old players and up.

The World Cup of Hockey will be hosted at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto from September 17 to October 1st, and will feature more than 150 of the NHL’s elite on eight teams.

The eight teams will contain six of hockey’s finest countries: USA, Canada, Russia, Finland, Czech Republic and Sweden. There are two teams which are new to the tournament. The first is Team Europe, which will consist of players from Austria, Belarus, Denmark, France, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. The second team is Team North America and will include players 23 years-old and younger from Canada and the United States.

On March 1st, Canada revealed its’ preliminary roster consisting of a 16-man group. All three goaltenders were announced; Carey Price, Braden Holtby and Corey Crawford.

Canada chose four defenceman: Drew Doughty, Duncan Keith, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Shea Weber. The nine forwards selected are Jamie Benn, Patrice Bergeron, Jeff Carter, Sidney Crosby, Ryan Getzlaf, Tyler Seguin, Steven Stamkos, John Tavares and Jonathan Toews.

This preliminary roster only leaves seven openings for Team Canada to fill, preferably three defence and four forward players.

The toughest role will lie on the defence, with only three jobs up for grabs with possibly 10 skaters vying for those coveted jobs. The four who have already been picked were all part of Team Canada at the Sochi Olympics 2014 who won gold.

The four others who made the roster were Jay Bouwmeester, Dan Hamhuis, Alex Pietrangelo and P.K. Subban. It is safe to assume Subban and Pietrangelo are ahead of the other two on Team Canada’s pecking order, but the best part is there are never any guarantees in sports.

Other Canadian defenceman who deserve a shot at cracking the lineup are San Jose Sharks defenceman Brent Burns, who would fit the mold of Canada’s blueprint; big, strong on the puck, very offensive and can certainly handle his own on the defensive end of the rink as well. Burns has the most points of any Canadian defenceman in the last two seasons by 14 points.

The player who is second to Burns in the same category is Pittsburgh Penguins Kris Letang who holds the highest points-per-game SPORTS

Sask-Alta Baseball League Standings as of May 28 Teams

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EAST Gull Lake Greyhounds

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1

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Cabri River Rats

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SwiD Current Yard Goats

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Climax Cardinals

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WEST Maple Creek Mohawks

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40

17

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Burstall Braves

3

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5

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Richmound

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2

2

12

11

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Medicine Hat Cypress County Black Sox

1

2

2

12

13

Lost 2

Medicine Hat Vipers

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4

4

17

43

Lost 4

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FOR SALE BY TENDER

Unreserved Public Farm Auction

JanRon Farms Ltd. – Ron & Janet Olson Gull Lake, SK | June 21, 2016 · 10 am

Pioneer Co-operative Association Limited is offering for Sale by Tender the following:

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2011 Case IH 7088

2006 Case IH 2388

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PIONEER CO-OP OIL SHED, ANEROID 1997 New Holland 9482

1990 John Deere 8760

2014 Brandt 1020XR

AUCTION LOCATION: From WEBB, SK, go 4.02 km (2.5 miles) West on Hwy 1, then go 19.3 km (12 miles) South on Clairbank Rd, then go 4.3 km (2.6 miles) East OR From Shaunavon, SK, go 42.9 km (26.8 miles) North on Hwy 37, then go 16.6 km (10.3 miles) East, then go 3.2 km (2 miles) South on Hwy 631, then go 4.3 km East (2.6 miles) East. Yard on South side. GPS: 49.989432, -108.197173 A PARTIAL EQUIPMENT LIST INCLUDES: 1997 New Holland 9482 4WD Tractor · 1990 John Deere 8760 4WD Tractor · 1964 John Deere 3020 2WD Tractor · 2004 Massey Ferguson GC2300 4WD Utility Tractor · 2011 Case IH 7088 Combine · 2006 Case IH 2388 Combine · 2009 MacDon FD70 35 Ft Flex Draper Header · 2000 Honey Bee SP36 36 Ft Draper Header · 1983 Massey Ferguson 885 30 Ft Swather · 1987 John Deere 590 30 Ft Pull Type Swather · 2005 Freightliner Columbia T/A Grain Truck · 1996 GMC Topkick S/A Grain Truck · 1994 GMC Topkick S/A Grain Truck · 1977 Chevrolet C60 S/A Grain Truck · 1976 Dodge 600 S/A Grain Truck · Custombuilt S/A Water Trailer · 1996 Bourgault 8810 40 Ft Air Seeder · 1996 Bourgault 9200

38 Ft Deep Tillage Cultivator · 1993 Assie 40 Ft Land Roller · Degelman R5705 Rock Picker · 2004 Spra-Coupe 4640 80 Ft High Clearance Sprayer · 2009 Free Form PLS-7400 Liquid Storage · 2000 Bourgault LFC2000 Fertilizer Cart · Green Drop Bandwagon 1500 Fertilizer Cart · 2007 Kodiak Ol’Grizz 3615 15 Ft Batwing Rotary Mower · 2009 Yamaha Rhino 700F1 SP 4x4 Side By Side · 2011 Batco 1585 15 In. x 85 Ft Grain Conveyor · 2000 Westfield MK130-71 13 In. x 71 Ft Mechanical Swing Grain Auger · 2013 Meridian HD8-46 8 In. x 46 Ft Grain Auger · 2004 Wheatheart BH36-8 8 In. x 36 Ft Grain Auger · 2014 Loftness GBL-10 10 Ft Grain Bagger · 2014 Brandt 1020XR 1000± Bushel S/A Grain Cart ...AND MUCH MORE!

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com Ron Olson: 306.672.3994 (h), 306.672.8044 (c) jrolson@yourlink.ca Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager – Ben Clutton: 306.421.5066 800.491.4494

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This tender is based on “as is” condition.

The successful bidder is responsible to remove the shed within 10 days of the close date.

Will be available any time after the close of the tender.

Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Can be viewed in Aneroid, SK (Call Alain DeGagne for information) Closing date for tenders will be June 30, 2016. !

Submit sealed bids to: The Pioneer Co-op (Administration Office) 1150 Central Ave. North Swift Current, SK S9H 0G1 Attention: Alain DeGagne, Branch Division Manager (Phone: 306-778-8823)

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