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LOST It’s not the way Gull Lake residents wanted to start off Fire Prevention Week or Thanksgiving Sunday. Fire alarms went off at approximately 8:00 am and Gull Lake Fire and Rescue responded to a blaze at the historic Clarendon Hotel. The hotel was built in 1907 by Bert Jacobs. We will have more on the fire and the hotel’s history in next week’s Advance Southwest. Photo by Kate Winquist

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#DriveSober Saskatchewan: SGI and Police Focus on Impaired Driving in October CONTRIBUTED

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Impaired driving is the traffic safety spotlight for the month of October.

"With the recent tragedies in the province, SGI and Saskatchewan law enforcement are putting additional focus on impaired driving,” Minister responsible for SGI Joe Hargrave said.

“Too many people are needlessly killed or injured due to impaired driving and it has to stop. Don’t risk your life or the lives of others. Always plan a safe ride home.”

Throughout the month, police across the province will be watching for drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Police will also be watching for distracted drivers, as well as other unsafe driving behaviours such as speeding and failing to wear a seatbelt.

SGI will also be raising awareness of the dangers of impaired driving through advertising and social media promotion.

Preliminary numbers for 2015 show

53 people were killed and 562 others were injured in Saskatchewan in crashes related to impaired driving. In 2015, 44% of traffic fatalities in the province involved alcohol or drug use.

Follow these tips to help keep our roads free of impaired drivers: • Plan a safe ride home before you start drinking and your judgment is impaired.

• Know the laws. Consequences for impaired driving begin at a blood alcohol content of 0 for new drivers and .04 for experienced drivers.

• Don’t let your friends or family drive impaired. Take away their keys, offer to call them a cab or safe ride service, or let them stay the night.

• Volunteer to be the designated driver. Take turns with your friends or coworkers.

• Don’t get into a vehicle with someone you know has been drinking or using drugs.

• Call 911 to report suspected impaired drivers to police.

“You may think it could never happen to you, or you only had a few drinks and you feel fine, or you’re a good driver and won’t crash,” Hargrave said. “But the reality is, it can happen to you.

Think about other people on the road and the loved ones they want to get home to. Impaired driving isn’t worth the risk. The only true safe blood alcohol content while driving is zero.”

Consequences for impaired driving in Saskatchewan are serious and include immediate roadside licence suspensions and vehicle seizures, mandatory ignition interlock in some cases, education requirements such as completing a Driving Without Impairment course, fines and even jail time. See the attached media backgrounder for details.

Visit SGI’s website at www.sgi.sk.ca for more information about impaired driving and its consequences. Follow SGI on Facebook and Twitter for tips safety tips to #TakeCareOutThere. Use SGI’s free Safe Ride app to keep track of your safe ride options.

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Gull Lake dancer wins big in Saskatchewan

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IT'S WHAT WE DO. The beautiful and elegant Leila Zanidean. Photo courtesy Photos by Amanda

BY K A I L E Y G U I L L E M I N

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For many people of all ages, dance is a lot of fun. It’s a form of art. It’s an exercise routine. Maybe it’s a way to meet up with your friends once a week.

For whatever reason you may be in dance though, it can bring out passion and a competitive side in kids which can lead to many awards – physical competitions or inner joy.

For Gull Lake’s 15 year old Leila Zanidean, her past 12 years of dance have been fun for her, and somewhat unexpected as well.

“It’s just something I enjoy. It’s something that I think I’m good at so I kind of like knowing that,” Zanidean explained. “I have a very strong passion for it.”

Those with the non-profit organization Dance Saskatchewan thought so as well.

This past March 6 in Leader was the Leader Dance Fusion Dance Competition.

This was an all-day event which brings in dancers from across the province.

Zanidean won Dance Saskatchewan’s

Youth Ambassador Award. This award is given to one student each year to be the face for dancers across the province.

“I didn’t even know it existed until I won it,” Zanidean laughed. “I was shocked because it seems like this was things that happened to other people and not someone from a really small town.”

Zanidean’s passion for her dancing, along with her leadership skills, helped showcase her in front of hundreds of other dancers in the province.

“I think it proves that it doesn’t really matter where you’re from, just what you believe,” Zanidean said.

You’ll find Zanidean at the Southwest Dance Company in Gull Lake practicing her list of classes: “ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, pointe, musical theatre and acrobatics.”

She will even be teaching a class of her own.

Zanidean hopes she can take her dancing farther, making it a career as a dance teacher. She would also like to move to the city after high school and attend university for psychology.

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Write Out Loud is pleased to welcome Lionel Hughes, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Prairies North, to the Lyric Theatre on Wednesday, October 19. He’s entitled his talk, “The Confessions: Meaningful First-Person Narrative After Facebook”.

Prairies North was launched in 1998 from the farmhouse kitchen table of Lionel and Michelle Hughes near Norquay, Saskatchewan. The quarterly publication is renowned for its stunning photography and engaging stories. The goal of the magazine is to share Saskatchewan’s landscapes, recreation, culture, and people with a print and, now, online audience.

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Write Out Loud celebrates 30 years of author readings and literary cafes this season with an exciting lineup of prairie authors. This October presentation by Lionel Hughes of Prairies North is the second of seven interesting and informative evenings scheduled from now until next May. Write Out Loud, featuring Prairies North, takes place October 19 at Swift Current’s Lyric Theatre. Admission is $8.

Doors open at 6:30, talented local musicians Marc and Amanda Ruel will entertain at 7:00, and the featured author will follow.

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Municipal elections, the rural politician’s D. Wayne Elhard, MLA Would Obama be a slave today? quandary

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BY M E G A N L AC E L L E

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Warning: the following article contains sensitive information that could potentially be distressing to some readers.

Last year around this time I was travelling to Saskatoon from visiting family in southwest Saskatchewan. It was a tough trip back, tougher than usual, because I’d said good-bye to my boyfriend who was leaving for southeast Asia for a month. I remember being a little distracted, but no more than usual.

It was one of those nights where you noticed it was getting darker earlier, a cool night but not yet cold. I put on an audiobook to help pass the time.

The highway from Swift Current to Rosetown, and eventually Saskatoon, is a familiar one. The flat landscape only broken up by the occasional town and the large hill by the Saskatchewan Landing.

The hill, if you’ve never seen it, is a steep curve eventually leading down to a beautiful view of the hillside and water below.

That night I remember thinking about tapping off my cruise control in case I was approaching the downhill curve too quickly, but instead stayed the course. I remember feeling odd as I made my way down the hill, noticing shadows to my right and what appeared to be a large object in the ditch. I assumed if it was an accident that it was old. However, by the time I reached the bottom of the hill I noticed a strange number of cattle roaming by the highway.

I pulled over and phoned my parents, telling them where I was and that I thought I’d come across an accident. Soon after I pulled over so did a family of three – we all agreed to travel back up the hill to see what was happening.

We pulled over, put our flashers on and walked to the other side of the highway. The sound was the first thing to hit you.

Hooves slamming against trailer walls, cattle bellering in pain. The cattle trailer was twisted like a crushed can, while the

truck was upside down, lights still on.

“Is anyone out there?”

The man yelled into the abyss. We called a couple more times until we heard someone cry for help.

Making our way down the hill we found the driver still attached by his seatbelt. Over the next couple hours, after many hurried 911 calls, we were joined by what seemed like dozens of other travellers. Some with trucking experience, others with their first aid. It was a chaotic blur of dead cattle, running motors and fearful discussions about how to handle the situation.

In the distance the driver’s cellphone rang continuously, trapped beneath the truck. The RCMP and paramedics arrived as quickly as they could and before long they encouraged us to leave the scene.

I remember looking back as I travelled up the hill, at the lights set out for the Stars ambulance, thinking this man would be alright.

I was wrong. The next morning my mom phoned me just before my 8:30 a.m. class to tell me the news was reporting the driver as dead. I cried in the university bathroom.

The next week I looked up his obituary using the name he’d given us and the trucking company.

I read about how he’d grown up in rural Saskatchewan, loved baseball, fishing, and his family.

I’d never met this man in my life and yet, he was my father, my brother, my uncles, my friends. He was every man I’d ever known but still a complete stranger to me.

I think about this man every now and again.

Every time I get too overwhelmed with school or work I remember this is it, all we get. We are given a few years on this planet with the opportunity to make the most of it. It doesn’t mean you have to live extraordinarily or outside your means, but it means you are obligated to make the most of the opportunities you’re given.

I’ll likely never meet this man’s family, but offer my sincerest condolences.

I’m sorry we couldn’t have done more to save him.

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What about carbon capture?

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

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While provincial and federal environment ministers were meeting in Montreal, discussing carbon taxes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trumped their discussions by announcing in Parliament, at the same time, he would be imposing a national carbon tax.

Newfoundland and Saskatchewan environment ministers walked out. Premier Brad Wall was aghast in his response. “I cannot believe that while the country’s environment ministers were meeting on a so-called collaborative climate change plan, the Prime Minister stood in the House of Commons and announced a carbon tax unilaterally.

“This meeting is not worth the CO2 emissions it took for environment ministers to get there.

The level of disrespect shown by the Prime Minister and his government today is stunning. This is a betrayal of the statements made by the Prime Minister in Vancouver this March. And this new tax will damage our economy.”

For all those talking heads around the country who seem to think Wall doesn’t give a damn about the whole CO2 thing, they are dead wrong. If I stand on my roof, I can see the $1.5 billion investment into carbon capture and storage this province made in recent years, about $1,300 for

every man, woman and child. Sure, it took a while for a lot of the kinks to be worked out, but the Boundary Dam 3 Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project works. It is, right now, preventing over 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each and every day, and still allowing us to burn coal for power.

No one else has done that. Ontario shut down its coal, and created horrible green power strategy that has doubled bills, pays huge subsidies to wind and solar generators while selling excess power for next to nothing to American markets.

Now Alberta is on the same track, shutting its coal fleet down in coming years, assuming the NDP are around long enough in government to make it happen.

So Saskatchewan has taken the risk, put down the money, and it is working. But will we get credit for it?

Former Saskatchewan environment minister Herb Cox pointed out something this past summer after a tour of the carbon capture facility. Paying for this plant has been something of an implicit tax for Saskatchewan’s people. Indeed, they did pay for it, through our Crown-owned utility. And they will pay for it again, and again, if carbon capture is implemented on the other generating units.

What most people don’t seem to cotton onto is that this initial project was for just a small portion of the power plant, one generator unit out of six (the two oldest and

smallest have now been retired, so now it’s out of four units). There’s still another three units to go at Boundary Dam, two at Poplar River, and one at Shand.

If Saskatchewan spends the billions of dollars to retrofit all these coal plants with carbon capture units, we might be looking at a $7 to $10 billion investment, maybe more. Doing so would dramatically cut our carbon dioxide emissions, but would be such a strain on the province’s finances, it could be unbearable. The decisions on the next Boundary Dam units need to be made in the next few years.

Would a carbon tax, implemented by Ottawa, but payable internally to the province, be used to finance such a program? If so, would it be a satisfactory response to the feds?

Or do they just want to see our economy ground to a halt, like the Ontario Liberal government has been striving to do to their own province for years?

Will we have to pay for retrofitting our coal plants and pay a carbon tax on top of that? If so, maybe we should just build a massive nuclear plant near Estevan instead, using the Rafferty reservoir for cooling.

Saskatchewan has already walked the walk. We’ve spent huge money on reducing carbon dioxide emissions. How much will be enough?

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

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this newspaper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Advance Southwest.

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Ask Your Life COMMENTARY

BY M A D O N N A H A M E L

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Q: Are you open?

I collect questions. It started as a professional pastime- asking myself questions about the characters I created for my art.

And then, when performance shifted to songwriting, the characters came with me, telling me their stories in verse rather than monologue. When I became a journalist the need for great questions became more pressing: I was no longer ‘asking my life’ but the lives of others. And, every time, without exception, the key to a successful and revealing interview hinged on one really great question.

I’ll give you an example. I was doing a profile on Harry Connick Jr. on the occasion of his visit to Quebec City to tape a special.

At the concert his rapport with his musicians impressed me. He cajoled and joked so engagingly with them that the audience was in stitches most of the evening. The next day I sat in the lobby of Hotel Frontenac, waiting for my timed fifteen minutes with the star. I was assured that he was open, game for anything, and proved it by taking the ice toboggan behind the hotel in -46C weather earlier in the morning. But by the time he got to me he was looking tired after a day of musical chairs with network journalists.

I launched into the interview with a question about something that intrigued me: “Where did you find your drummer? ” He lit up immediately and went into a detailed story about how found his drummer at a jam while taking a break during a movie shoot. Even though the drummer had never played jazz, Connick Jr. was so impressed by his skills that he signed him up on the spot. The next day he took the young man to a record store and loaded him up with jazz classics and told him to learn them by the time they went into rehearsals.

After about twenty-five minutes, Harry Connick rose to shake my hand, confessing he enjoyed our conversation and was

pleasantly surprised because, frankly, he was dreading “where do you go on a date?” question. He was thrilled when he actually got to talk about music, you know, the thing he’s paid to do? I walked away from that interview with the reminder that people love talking about their passions. Let them tell you what is most important to them and talking to them won’t feel like pulling teeth.

Maybe you’re not a journalist or a researcher, but who doesn’t prefer a lively conversation. And if you’re from Saskatchewan I’ll wager big bucks a great part of your day is spent ‘visiting’, swapping tales, maybe even making stuff up. I just got back from a two-day workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage, a term used by UNESCO to define things like: oral traditions, arts and crafts, festivals, rituals, “knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe”, which I suppose could mean spiritual or religious practices. Suffice it say: I’m fired up about asking questions in my village of Val Marie, especially after learning how many communities are fractured and fading because we spend little time considering what we’ve got and what we can pass on.

Actually: “Are you open?” is technically a bad question, because it’s a yes-no question. It’s not, as we say in the business, open-ended. But the journey of a thousand stories begins with one word: Yes. Yes to giving yourself and others the gift of listening. Yes to expanding your awareness. Yes to realizing that we all have different ways of telling stories and we should try not to assume we “know where this is going”. DH Lawrence claimed that it wasn’t “familiarity that breeds contempt, but assumption of knowledge”. And Herbert Spencer warned against “contempt prior to investigation”. So when I ask: Are you open, I am asking: Are you open-minded enough to suspend judgement long enough to dispel contempt?

Language is a great example of an intangible- ungraspable- heritage. Expressions like “storm stay” and “coffee row” go a long way to describe both weather and pace as part of rural Saskatchewan living. How many cities need either? In many countries

when a language dies, a tradition dies with it. Imagine not having a place to stay warm in the middle of a blizzard? Imagine the old guys having nowhere to go to swap stories, gossip, stretch the truth and drink bottomless cups of coffee?

Or maybe, if you’re like our village, you don’t have to imagine it, because, at the moment we have no coffee row. And that’s not the fault of the café and hotel because the owners can’t find anyone to work mornings. (It’s a myth that there’s no work in small towns. The truth is: there’s no help.)

And then, when the grocery store still had tables and chairs, before the new slushy machine, the women running the place just got tired of the endless F-bombing coming from the mouths of some of the old guys.

But see, this is our inheritance too: lack of help, shifting work hours, more cussing in public, etc. We, as a community get to decide which inheritance we’d prefer.

I learned last week about an epic poem that once took several days to recite. Today there’s no one left to recite it. It’s been preserved on a two hour cd, though. Some folks are saddened by that fact. Others could care less. I’m curious about what it is that now fills all the hours and days that were once spent in recitation. And another shift in tradition that made me definitely wistful: a culture that had a courtship song couples sang to each other before their marriage. The song still exists, but they don’t need to know it, it gets played on a computer and the couple can sing along if they so choose by following the projected lyrics.

For some reason the courting song loss really disturbs me. I guess I think if they can’t be bothered to throw themselves into it when they are still fresh and dewy- eyed about each other, what are they going to do when they’ve been married a decade?

Or maybe they are self-conscious about their voices; they are not ‘good’ singers, they sing off-key. But even that’s a recent development. Thanks to pop culture reality shows focusing on rivalry and money, singing has become a competitive sport, another means to a shot at fame and fortune. One minute you’re at a campfire, the next minute someone suggests you enter a

contest, ‘become’ a star. Or they shame you for not being able to carry a tune. Or maybe it’s not about the song at all, maybe I just mourn the loss of courting, period.

Our workshop leader asked us to go back to our communities and ask questions like: What do you worry about? What are you going to lose? What events do you want to continue or revive? Which ones need to die off? And my favourite: Who are our elders?

Because we may have old-timers, seniors, even a few curmudgeons and codgers, but who are our mentors, role-models, elders?

Maybe a question like: “What is your biggest passion?” is too vague a question, but if you ask something like: “What do you find yourself returning to in your thoughts and conversations?” “What was the hardest thing/biggest challenge/most niggling doubt about your profession/ craft/ skill, but yet you knew you would stick it through?” People love to talk about problems solved, about innovations and insights, about making it through to the other side. Rural people, whether farmers, ranchers or cooks, know how to jerry-rig, troubleshoot and makeshift until they can get to town for the right part or ingredient.

The first impulse is not to buy a cleverly packaged product when this old thing will do just as well.

Other people’s passions can engage us and draw us into subjects we never suspected would interest us. We may come to the realization that we got lazy about learning, letting a handful of taste-makers decide what it is we, the public, ‘need to know’. It’s a sad fact that thousands of stories get left untold simply because we don’t ask great questions. I suspect we are all like wallflowers at a rodeo dance, just dying to be asked. But, whether your aim is to reflect on a life, expound on a passion, bequeath a legacy or revive a relationship you’ve taken for granted (including the one with yourself), a good question can make all the difference. This column is dedicated to helping you get the stories flowing, one question at a time. Whether you want to interview your parents or get your sullen teens talking instead of texting at the dinner table, your life will be richer for it. So, are you open?

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We’ve had the luxury to access the internet for decades, to the point where you don’t think twice when logging on.

But even in 2016, parts of Saskatchewan still struggle to access quick and reliable internet services.

Ranchers in the southwest corner of Saskatchewan rely on the internet in order to move their businesses forward.

When their monthly packages aren’t living up to expectations, they’re left wondering what is going on.

Connie Delorme, owner of South Shadow Angus near Robsart, has been on the ranch her entire life. When she’s not outside working with the cattle, horses and everything else, you’ll find her attempting to run the ranch’s website – usually in the middle of the night.

“I find myself up between midnight and 6:00 am uploading pictures and videos of our animals or downloading updates,” Delorme said. “Just because [the internet] is so slow during the day that things time out, or dropped service.”

Her SaskTel unlimited data plan actually caps out at 10GB. If she has to go past her allotted data, which she regularly does, her high-speed internet goes down to dialup speed. But even her high-speed internet doesn’t live up to the name.

“You could be in the middle of something and you lose your connection,” Delorme explained.

Delorme will find herself extra devices to help boost her internet connection. She’ll even hotspot off of her phone,

but that can cause her to reach her maximum GB levels on her cellular package.

She even struggles trying to keep her computer software up to date.

“I have to watch…if I lose my service, I have to redo them,” Delorme said. “A lot of them will start right from point zero. So then I’ve doubled up, I’m reusing valuable data space because I’ve been dropped.”

Delorme has contacted SaskTel many times to figure out why she loses service when there’s a cellular tower nearby. However she hasn’t made very much progress.

SaskTel’s Director of Communications Michelle Englot said in an email that “SaskTel has invested significantly in delivering Internet services to rural areas and SaskTel continues to invest significantly in infrastructure in Saskatchewan with planned expansions for rural ethernet transport network, LTE, and Fusion that will continue to improve Internet services in Saskatchewan.”

Englot also explained that SaskTel is committed to expanding internet services in rural Saskatchewan, adding that “in 2016, SaskTel will complete work to add Fusion (‘offers download speed of up to 5 Mbps’) to 9 additional towers in rural Saskatchewan.”

As for now though, Delorme would like to have SaskTel come out to her ranch for a day to experience was she does on a daily basis.

“So for $290 for 35GB and I still get dial up speed, dropped service, corrupt files,” Delorme said.

“It would be nice to have even three quarters of the service that the city [gets].”

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“The 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote in Canada and Saskatchewan” is the theme of Women’s History Month in Saskatchewan this year. Women’s History Month is recognized every October across Canada in association with the anniversary of the “Persons Case” of 1929, in which Canadian women were formally recognized as “persons” under the law.

This year marks the journey of a woman’s right to political participation in Saskatchewan, bringing equality to the provincial democratic process. On March 14, 1916, Saskatchewan women won the right to vote and hold provincial office.

“The right to vote is one of the most fundamental privileges of citizenship,” Minister responsible for the Status of Women Tina Beaudry-Mellor said. “It empowers citizens to influence government decision-making and to safeguard their human rights. Our government is pleased to support Women’s History Month and honour the work

of remarkable women throughout Saskatchewan’s history who pressed for change, despite social barriers, discrimination and resistance, to make Saskatchewan a better place for all.”

In 2016, Saskatchewan women make up 51 per cent of the population and bring their own unique perspectives to influence dialogues on social, economic, political and public policy issues. To celebrate the journey of women’s right to political participation in Canada and Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Status of Women Office website (www.saskatchewan.ca/swo) will profile distinguished women who served in public office and made a mark in Saskatchewan history each week in October.

Some women of distinction include: • Sarah Ramsland, Saskatchewan’s first female Member of the Legislative Assembly; • Ida M. Petterson, first Saskatchewan woman to serve as mayor of a Saskatchewan city; and • Sylvia Fedoruk, first woman to serve as Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan.

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The Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association (SPRA) is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Saskatchewan Communities in Bloom program, and to recognize all forty-three (43) of the provincial participants after another very successful year. Communities in Bloom participants work towards enhancing their community in relation to the following six (6) criteria: Tidiness, Environmental Action, Heritage Conservation, Urban Forestry, Landscape and Floral Displays.

The following Provincial Winners excelled in these six (6) criteria: Population Category 501 – 1,000 Town of Gull Lake, 4 Blooms Special Mention for Community Involvement Population Category 1,001 – 2,000 Town of Eston, 5 Blooms Community Profile Book and Centennial Park Population Category 5,000 and higher City of Moose Jaw, 4 Blooms Special Mention for Community Involve-

ment and Bike Park Development Note: The following provides the 2016 Provincial Results and Bloom Ratings within Saskatchewan.

Special recognition must also be given to those communities representing Saskatchewan in the 2016 National Communities in Bloom Competition. The following communities’ achievements and the national competition results will be announced at the Communities in Bloom National Symposium on Parks and Grounds, hosted in conjunction with the SPRA Annual Conference in Regina, SK on October 27-29, 2016: • • • • • •

Village of Denzil Town of Kinistino Town of Maple Creek City of Humboldt Town of Ituna Town of Indian Head

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The new Safer Medication Administration through Technology (SMART) pumps installed throughout the Region provide innovative technology through the use of a pre-programmed, provincial standard drug library that includes minimum and maximum dosing limits. There are currently over 700 medications in the provincial adult drug library.

The pumps feature error reduction software to assist healthcare providers in programming and calculating dose and delivery rates. When used properly, these features help prevent IV medication errors and reduce patient harm in both acute and home care settings.

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mented Racquel Roche, Program Manager – Acute Inpatient Services and SMART Pump Implementation Lead for Cypress Health. “This technology will help increase patient safety in all areas of IV medication administration and we are excited to be able to introduce our new SMART pumps throughout the Cypress Health Region.”

In addition to increasing patient safety, the wirelessly connected Hospira Plum 360 SMART pumps can collect data for future quality improvements at both regional and provincial levels.

Regionally the implementation of SMART pumps began on October 3 and has been completed in Cabri, Climax, Eastend, Gull Lake, Herbert, Leader, Mankota, Maple Creek, Ponteix, Shaunavon, and Swift Current. All staff members receive hands-on, on-site training prior to using the new SMART pump machines.

SMART pumps will be introduced in all regional health authorities within Saskatchewan by December 31, 2016. Other regions, including the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, the first in the province to implement the new technology, have already completed or are in the process of completing their rollouts of the new devices.

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1. Rake leaves/fallen fruit: Do not give mold, mildew and other diseases a chance to take hold in your lawn. Rake up leaves, fallen crabapples and anything else that will trap moisture or rot. These will make an excellent addition to your compost bin.

2. Mow lawn: Mow your lawn one last time, but leave it longer than you would normally to help it survive the winter in better condition. Use your mower to suck up leaves if you don’t want to use a rake.

3. Mulch garden: Mulch performs a number of functions including protecting the root zone from our ultra-low prairie winter temperatures. Those leaves you picked up with your lawn mower makes for excellent mulch.

4. Cut back perennials: If you do this now, there’s less chance to damage early succulent spring growth. In my garden, it ‘s the ornamental grasses that start growing sometimes before the snow is completely gone. But it’s a balancing act: for some, the dead aboveground plant material acts as a protective layer against low temperature as well as trapping an insulating snow layer.

5. Water trees and shrubs: This is especially important for your evergreens likes spruce and cedars. Even though they don’t grow in winter, they still respire and require water throughout the fall, winter and spring. Deciduous trees and shrubs also benefit from a deep drink, providing a spring reservoir to draw from when they start to grow again.

6. Rototill: Get your vegetable garden and new planting beds ready now. This is an excellent time to add compost, manure, ground up leaves, etc. to enrich the soil.

7. Plant bulbs: It’s getting pretty late to be planting bulbs, but there are likely some good deals by now. Take a chance

and you’ll be rewarded with early spring colour.

8. Turn off outside water/blow out sprinklers/drain hoses: Water expands as it freezes. And while this characteristic means that ice floats and gives us ponds to skate on in winter, it also means that water filled pipes and hoses burst when that water freezes.

9. Winterize lawn equipment: To winterize gas-powered equipment, you can either (A) drain the gas (if it’s regular gas, add it to your car’s fuel tank or snow blower), or (B), fill the tank and add fuel stabilizer according to label instructions. In fact always use fuel stabilizer when you fill the jerry can to prevent the fuel from going stale even during the summer. This is also a good time to give any gas-powered equipment an oil change, replace air filters, get blades sharpened, refill the string in your lawn edger, etc.

10. Clean & sharpen tools: Clean your hand tools and sharpen shovels, hoes, pruners, etc. before putting them away for the year. Give them a light wipe with mineral oil to prevent rust.

11. Clean gutters: Gutters are a great water distribution system. But they also are excellent leaf collectors which reduces their ability to handle water. Now that most of the leaves have fallen and before the bitter cold hits, get out and remove the trapped leaves. You’ll thank yourself the next time it rains.

12. Get out your snow shovel: Don’t kid yourself. Climate change will never give us a tropical prairie winter. You’ll have to get on a plane and go elsewhere in February to have one of those.

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The Abrams: Stories To Tell

Newgrass duo opens Blenders concert series

BY K AT E W I N Q U I S T

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John and James Abrams have been playing theatre since they were little kids. The brothers are already seasoned veterans of the music industry, having been on the road for fifteen years. In 2005, they became the youngest Canadians to perform at the Grand Ole Opry at age 11 and 9.

As the Abrams travelled down the TransCanada Highway into Swift Current, they knew it was going to be a special night playing at The Lyric.

“We are the fourth generation in our family touring and playing music on the road. We were talking as we were coming into town, looking up some of the history on the theatre. It’s the oldest operating theatre in Saskatchewan - 1912. That Vaudeville era of theatres … our great-grandparents were the first generation that played in Vaudeville theatres just like this. So this is kind of special for us. Not only have we played a number of shows similar to this over the years, but this is delving back into our ancestor’s history as well.”

With the encouragement that they received from their mother and the musical influence from their father, grandfather and grandmother, John and James have made music their life.

“Our Mom didn’t really play music, but she was really important in terms of encouraging us. When we started playing, it was really through her and her love of whatever it was that we did that gave us the confidence to think that we could play music. Our Dad plays the guitar … he had the musical influence from his parents that’s particularly how John and I started, was playing with our dad and our grandfather and grandmother,” said younger brother James.

John added, “When you have people getting together playing banjos and fiddles and guitars because they couldn’t afford to have a piano in the house - that kind of community based music is exactly how country music was born with the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers and people coming around and being a community.

That’s exactly what we had with our family growing up in and around Kingston, Ontario.”

The Abrams still get together for family jam sessions. In fact, their great-grand-

mother was turning 99 this week. It hasn’t been recent, but John recalls the four-part harmony across the four generations.

The brothers recently signed with Warner Music and their new EP and single “Fine” were released this past May. “We feel this new record is truly our Abrams sound - it’s country. A lot of the lyrics were influenced by towns just like Swift Current, just south of the border.

When you listen to the EP, you can probably picture Swift Current in some of those lyrics … the farm towns, grain silos, the railroad, dust rising up in the summer.

This stuff is very much a part of the lyrics.”

“It’s an interesting point in our career, where we have this kind of paradox going on, where we have all this history, this road knowledge and a lot of stories to tell, we’re just packed full of stories. There’s this youthful unrest that we still have.”

John and James feel very fortunate to have met Gavin Brown, who produced their most recent record. Gavin’s credentials include working with the likes of Three Days Grace, Lady Gaga, Billy Talent, Road Hammers, and the Tragically Hip … he’s got a fantastic history of developing sounds for groups.

“He was able to work collaboratively with James and I to take this history, these stories, feelings that we have to put into lyrics and we honed this sound.”

The Abrams music has been touted as “newgrass” with their story-telling lyrics.

“For us, newgrass is a very specific thing …a 1970’s form of bluegrass … The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, [Creedence Clearwater] Revival, so for us to be called that is special. What it really means is whether we’re called country or newgrass or whatever, those sentiments mean that we’ve come up with something fresh.

The Abrams opened up the Blenders 2016-2017 concert series on October 1 to a near capacity crowd at The Lyric Theatre.

It was a good mix of the tradition and history that they have had in their fifteen years of touring with classics such as Red Haired Boy and Country Roads along with new hits like Fine and Champion off of their recent EP. The next Blenders concert will be the Terra Lightfoot Band on October 22. For more information call Shann at 306-7782686 or email srgowan@yourlink.ca

The Abrams put on a high energy performance at The Lyric Theatre on October 1.

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At 26 years old, John Abram is already a seasoned veteran of the music industry.

He’s been touring since he was 11.

James Abram is a wizard on the fiddle (and the banjo). He and his brother John were the youngest Canadians to ever play the Grand Old Opry

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With the coming of October, the pace of cattle moving from summer pasture to fall grazing and wintering areas accelerates. Separating the calves from the cows for weaning often coincides with these moves.

Along with the sudden change in diet and separation anxiety from not being with mom, calves are often moved to a different location, vaccinated and introduced to different herdmates. All of these stressors contribute to making freshly weaned calves susceptible to bovine respiratory disease (BRD).

Take some time to review your weaning protocols and ask yourself if doing things differently would reduce stress on the calves. Some changes may result in healthier calves with a lower BRD treatment rate. Some examples of strategies to reduce stress include; vaccinating at least 3 weeks prior to weaning; use of low stress handling techniques during gathering and sorting; utilizing the fence line weaning method or the two step weaning method.

During the review, identify the materials that you are likely to require and take steps to have what is required on hand. For example, if you keep the calves following weaning, make

sure that your BRD treatment protocol is up to date and the antibiotics required to treat any calves that get sick are on farm, stored properly and have not exceeded their expiry date.

It is also important to inspect and repair the area the calves are going to be placed into. Confirm the water source is clean and operating properly. If the calves have been creep fed on the pasture, placing a creep feeder filled with the same ration in the weaning pen can help maintain feed intakes. Anything that encourages the calves to eat and drink will bolster the immune system and assist in reducing the likelihood of sickness developing. Dry matter intakes of two and a half per cent of body weight or greater indicate that a calf is well.

When calves are sick, they do not grow and gain weight. In a study evaluating the effects of weaning strategies on the performance and health of calves, 15 per cent of the calves weaned using a fenceline weaning strategy required treatment versus 30 per cent of the calves that were truck weaned.

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Growing Forward 2 is a Federal-Provincial initiative for the period 2013-2018 to support many agriculture and agri-food programs including the Farm Business Development Initiative (FBDI) which, for the last three years, has been available to producers, ranchers and agribusiness of this province and will continue to be available until March 2018. The FBDI program has been helping to improve farm business management skills.

The following information is provided to briefly explain the program: the farm business management practices that are eligible for the FBDI program funding; how a farmer would apply for the funding; what is new in applying for the funding; and, who is eligible for funding.

The purpose of the FBDI program is to help farmers enhance farm business management practices such as Business Strategy, Marketing, Production Economics, Human Resources, Financial Management, Business Structure, Succession Planning, and Environmental Strategy.

The application process for financial support starts with completion of a self-assessment tool called Taking Stock which assists farmers in examining the current status of their farm business management practices. This process assists farmers in identifying areas to concentrate on to improve their business management skills. To make the application process more user-friendly, applicants can register online to create an account and start the process by completing the Taking Stock self-assessment step. Once the self-assessment step is completed, the applicant is encouraged to contact the Regional Farm

Business Management Specialist in his or her region to discuss training opportunities and the possibility of engaging a consultant to assist in preparing a Farm Development Plan.

The Farm Development Plan helps the applicant in set goals and determine actions for the areas targeted for improvement. Once these steps are completed, the applicant can apply for funding to access information, training and/or consulting services. Applicants may be reimbursed up to a maximum of $10,000 per eligible applicant for training and/or consulting services provided by a third party, subject to eligible maximums for each management practice considered. Once all these steps are completed, clients can verify the status of their application by logging into their account.

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October Land Sale Doubles CONTRIBUTED

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The October public offering of Saskatchewan’s Crown petroleum and natural gas rights on Tuesday effectively doubled the amount for the 2016–17 fiscal year so far, raising $17 million and bringing the total to $34 million with two sales remaining.

This was by far the largest revenue among the four public offerings held to date in this fiscal year. At $376 per hectare, Saskatchewan’s average per-hectare price is the highest among western Canadian public offerings, indicating sustained interest being shown by the industry in the province’s petroleum and natural gas resources.

“Nothing has changed in Saskatchewan when it comes to our accessible resource base, our favourable operating environment and our transparent policy regime,” said Energy and Resources Minister Dustin Duncan. “This results in clear investment opportunities for the industry, and we continue our work to encourage

and enable those opportunities in anticipation of future development.”

Part of this work includes a petroleum geoscience program undertaken by the Ministry of the Economy that provides technical information to attract and support oil and gas exploration and development in the province. A key component of the geoscience program is the Subsurface Geological Laboratory, which houses an extensive collection of drill core and cuttings from the Saskatchewan part of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.

In Tuesday’s public offering, two exploration licences located west of Estevan received bonus bids totalling $6.9 million for 2,832.814 hectares. Millennium Land Ltd. was the successful bidder of these parcels that are prospective for multiple targets including the Midale and Frobisher Beds of the Madison Group, the Bakken Formation and the Three Forks Group/ Torquay Formation.

The next public offering of petroleum and natural gas rights will be held on December 6, 2016.

SPIRITUAL GLEANINGS

Autumn Renewal: A Recollection

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I was stressed, exhausted and feeling sorry for myself. The day was overfilled with meetings and details that needed attention. In between, I had to stop by our local Park to pick up a friend.

Near the Park entrance a magnificent display of autumn splendour catapulted my thoughts from WOE to WOW! Brilliant yellow aspens were framed by green fir, red kinnikinik and a royal blue sky. My anxiety melted. Despair changed to delight.

By the time I pulled up to my friend’s cottage, my better senses assumed control. I appreciated the invite to supper, and took time to enjoy the moment …

Food for the body and food for the spirit.

The sun had set by the time the two of us left the Park, but the memory of the brilliance of that transforming moment repeatedly comes to mind through the

cold days of winter … and the smoke shrouded days of August.

“Unto the hills do I left up my eyes” the Psalmist wrote. Out there he was reminded that his help comes from the Lord. Whether it be the beauty of wild prairie, the comfort of a mountain valley, or the exquisiteness of a garden, these gifts of the Creator are like drops of living water feeding parched spirits.

Each of us has some corner of creation where we can look on the face of God. When we are overwhelmed by anxiety and sadness, and our spirits feel crushed, let us look to the hills and remember the Creator.

As we watch the autumn leaves fall like tears, let us not dwell on the emptiness, but remember that this is how the trees prepare for spring.

We, too, can learn to let go of our burdens so our wounds have opportunity to heal. This we can do knowing God so graciously cares for us.

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150 Celebration Garden Gets Growing at Cabri

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We hope that everyone had a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend. This wild turkey was captured by Carrie Inman a couple of years ago at Elkwater Park.

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Cabri’s Community Garden was a busy place on the sunny and beautiful day of Sunday, Sept. 25th! A work bee was held to plant 500 red and white tulip bulbs which will bloom next spring to honour Canada’s 150th birthday celebration. Members of the volunteer garden committee were joined by enthusiastic helpers from the community to undertake this large task!

The wet and heavy clay soil was no match for the determined crew, who took great care with preparing the soil to encourage optimal growth from the tulips.

This spring, and hopefully for many more to come, Canada’s colors will be in

full bloom throughout the Community Garden. Look for cheerful clusters of red and white surrounding the labyrinth and the gazebo and throughout the perennial bed. Also watch for a special design in the native garden bed corner- a Canadian flag displayed via tulips!

The Community Garden and Cabri School were joint recipients of 1000 special tulip bulbs to create a 150 Celebration Garden. The school’s upcoming planting celebration will take place soon in early October.

Watch for information on Blooming Ceremonies at both places in the spring!

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FIRE PREVENTION WEEK

Local Fire Chief gearing up for Fire Prevention Week they need help. He hopes by talking and showcasing what one looks like, the fear will go away.

Fire Prevention Week starts up “We promote the kids, you know from October 9 to October 15, hopwhen you hear the noise and see the ing to bring awareness to fire safety firefighter, you go to them,” Gibson and ways to prevent a fire in the said. “They’re your best friend.” first place.

While Gibson tends to focus on The yearly campaign is promotthe younger kids for fire prevention, ed by the National Fire Protection he hopes the message will stick with Association with this year focusthem and be taken home to the ing on smoke detectors. This year’s rest of the family. Reinforcing the slogan, “Don’t Wait – Check the basic fire safety tips like the imporDate! Replace Smoke Alarms Every tance of stop, drop and roll, keeping 10 Years.” flammables away or in a safe area Gull Lake’s Fire Chief Bentley Giband not to play with fire and fire son is happy to take the opportunity starters. to get into the schools and talk to But Gibson would also like to kids about fire safety. tell the communities that fire safety “I find it very good,” Gibson said. talks is for the whole family, not “Little education [in] the school, just the kids. Many fires can start it’s very good to teach a little bit on acreages by forgetting simple of those kids in the school atmothings. sphere.”

“Things can burn seven or eight But fire safety and prevention days, two weeks later because it talks with students isn’t designated flares up underneath the old grain,” to one week of the year for Gibson.

Gibson explained. “Also have a little He’ll pop in at Gull Lake School fire protection on their place…It’s throughout the year. amazing what happens if you stand “Nothing better than teaching right there and the fires happening, little Johnny,” Gibson explained. what it takes to put it out. Not very “They’re always a good listener and much.” they try hard.”

So for this year’s Fire Prevention Gibson has been the current Fire Week, remember to have working Chief since 1990 and has done many smoke detectors. They should be talks with students on fire prevenreplaced every ten years and battertion. One safety tip Gibson hopes to ies replaced on a yearly basis. drive home is the importance of the PO Box 28 firefighter during Gull a fireLake, situation.

SK S0N 1A0 “You can always replace property but you cannot replace the human Gibson notes that kids tend to Phone 306-672-3522 scare away from a firefighter when life,” Gibson said. “There’s no way.”

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Saluting Our Volunteer Firefighters!

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We Salute Our Local

BURSTALL

Russell Job - CHIEF Terry Volk - DEPUTY Bryce Bader Dave Cunningham Jr. Randy Gill Todd Gramlich Zac Jansma Nelson Langridge Peter Neudorf Landon Sox John Stewart Ben Tschetter Adrian Tschetter Darius Tschetter Albert Tschetter Lance Wenzel Myron Wenzel

Larry Jarman Lane Johnson Ron Johnson Dennis Klein Kevin Kluzak Michael Mitchell Ray Peterson Reg Smith Mathew Toeckes Mike Toeckes

EASTEND

Bob Stork - CHIEF Bill Arendt - DEPUTY Jason Barton Larry Bird Stacey Breen Ken Connell Clint Davisson Andrea DeMaere Emily Elrix Mike Wicks - CHIEF Brent Giverhaug Kenton Anderson Colin Hammer Mark Bang Crystal Hanson Dean Garrett Laurelei Hanson Lindsay Higginbotham Jim Johnson David Korven Shawn Johnston Jolen Knittle Clint Lewis Scott Napper Ravi Mudiliar Brad Paquin Alok Patel Chris Paquin Rafe Ring Box 150Chris Siddons Al Ward Dean WernickeGull Lake, Sask.

Hal Topham Randy Wernicke Terry Walter www.gulllakesk.ca Travis Wills

CABRI

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FRONTIER

Kim Bennett - CHIEF Myles Puszkar - DEPUTY Bryan Swarbrick - DEPUTY Tyler Allemand Kirtus Andrejcin Ray Arendt - EMS Val Bennett Carrie Carlton - EMTa Bonnie Evenson - PCP Crystal Hanson - Captain Kevin Hofer Jessie Kleinsasser Jake Kleinsasser We- CHIEF Salute Our Gull Lake Volunteer Kim Bennett Phillip Kleinsasser Rob Shirley - DEPUTY FireKent Glass CHIEF Mandal Department Larry Allen Akre Kolton Obritsch - DEPUTY Levi Mandal Lloyd Bakken Karry Andrie Neil Mayadag Ivan Bennett Blair Anton Skyler Onerheim Val Bennett Steven Anton Joey Quiambao Daniel Benoit Kyle Bachmier Doris Robertson - EMS John Bertram Kelly Bakanec Manager/PCP Boyd Coburn Daniel Buye Kendall Shirley Maureen Dukat Ernie Buye Rob Shirley - Captain Darren Duxbury Ronald Buye Raylee Swarbrick - PCP David East Sean Checkley Shaun Turner Robert East Dave Entz Owen Vasseur Allen Erickson Levi Entz Luke Entz Cody Glenn Bentley Gibson - CHIEF Entz & OPERATED OWNED Roger Goodall LOCALLY Mark Tim Jones - DEPUTY Brendon Eresman Russell Goodall 306-295-3655 Randy Hunt - Captain Thomas Folk Chris Gryde Pete Fehr - Captain Anthony Hoffart Brent Havervold Jeff Harvey Mark Hudec Brent Heck North • Eastend, SK Jones Brendan Howard Jackle Jason Jarman104 Maple Avenue

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LANCER

Kelly Bradford - CHIEF Lindsay Nobbs - DEPUTY Jackson Bradford Ernie Wagner Jack Clary Jim Clary Clayton Hartman Darren Wagner Andrew Nairn Ian Andreas GW Green Garth Green Rob DeFord Marcel Andreas Connie Andreas Ken Nelson Arnold Groves Tom Dillman

Stu Ellis Dustin Heatcoat Dwight Hoffman Chris Huber Bryce Klippert John Kobelsky Wes Miller Dave Redman Todd Schimpf Neil’s Septic Service Thierry Deux John Butt Neil Holohan

MAPLE CREEK

Wayne Burton Keith Stork Trent Empty Blaine Becker Darcy Chmilar Garrett Harrigan Jamie Blakely Ryan Fryer Chesarae Lyman Dwight Smith Joseph Hancock Jordan Martin Ross Scherer Robert Rutherdale John Stasienko Jordan Bauer Keegan Martin Kevin Thompson Dane Jackle

Doug Graham Dean Garrett Corey Garrett Bryan Logan Raymond Bell Ryan Gaunt Lyle Patzer Brad Gaunt Jason Dowdeswell Darren Titmore Ken Undset Tyson Garret Keaton Dowdeswell Kenton Anderson Greg Rempel Heath Winquist Patrick Marlin Mike Wicks

PONTIEX

Derek Gloster - CHIEF Shawn Larochelle - DEPUTY Brian Walters - DEPUTY Shelby Layman - DEPUTY Greg Tinant John Tinant Jerome Lacroix Aaron Desautels Wayne Gorilla Neil Gorilla Raf Feji Cody Douville Kayla Auger

SCEPTRE

Joel Armstrong - CHIEF Glenn King - DEPUTY Shirley Diehl - Dispatch Greg Roh - CHIEF Charlene King - Dispatch David Montgomery Terry Diehl Deputy Rob Piggot Owen Adrian Bradley Dietz George Byklum Robert Heck Ryan Dutertre Ron Trew Kelvin Glydon Glenn Sutton Barry Haidt Jeff Pedersen Cam Lang Cal Campbell Trevor Moss Leo Brown Ryan Olynick Tyler Trew Jason Spate Trevor Schmaltz Julianne Dick Tanya Schmaltz Ryan Dutertre Bruce Kales Mark Bauer Gerald Peters Box 28 Justin Malik RobertPO Gaunt - CHIEF Gull S0N 1A0 Landon Sutton PaulLake, Rogg -SK DEPUTY Trevor Peterson Phone 306-672-3522 Hugh Williams - DEPUTY

MORSE Thanks

Firefighters!

Saluting Our Volunteer Firefighters!

LEADER Doug Clary Chance Cocks John Cocks Ashley Dayton Richard Garrett

PENNANT

Peter Geisbrecht

RM OF SWIFT CURRENT Louis Cherpin - CHIEF Monty Allan - Captain John Ball Joey Cherpin Ritchie Dyck Darren Fehr Duane Fleck - DEPUTY Conner Keys Matt McConnell Kelly Peterson - Captain Rick Taylor Scott Weatherall

SHAUNAVON

Dean McNabb - CHIEF Jayden Dayman Jared Doherty Jeff Cooper Leonard Cote Brian Earl Grant Glover Merrick Goldstein - DEPUTY Corey Gulaga Justin Matyka Betty Richards Bryan Richards Devin Rucks Peter Shields Kevin Szwetz Ron White - Captain

SWIFT CURRENT

Denis Pilon - CHIEF Darren McClelland - Deputy Peter L’Heureux - Deputy Rhonda Winter - Administration A platoon Rod Smith _ Captain FF Ryan Hunter FF Jim Green FF Doug Leibel Aux Pat Thibault Aux Trent Meyer Aux Joel Rodgers Aux Jason Holderbein B platoon Greg Campbell - Captain FF Trevor Braun FF Mark Galbraith FF Regan Darby

Aux Darcy Henderson Aux Andrew Purcell Aux Bailey Habscheid Aux Justin Kehler C platoon Rick Anderson - Captain FF Kent Silbernagel FF Chris Haichert FF Keith McLeod Aux Todd Condie Aux Gord Frank Aux Scott Sundquist Aux Derek Jahnke D platoon Jerry Funk - Captain FF Earl Braun FF Cody Yolland FF Aaron Stewart Aux Darvin Giesbrecht Aux Shane Powell Aux Karla Cairns Aux Dion Hunter

TOMPKINS

Pat Robinson - CHIEF Ron Cote Jeff Hughes Brian Macgillivray Blake McGregor Dylan McGregor Ryan McGregor Ken Mitchell - DEPUTY Rayburn Jahnke Les Sloan Joe Stewart Craig Todd

VANGUARD Jeff Hornung - CHIEF Clint Arnason John Bickner Gordon Clark Melanie Clark Kevin Carey Myron Finlay Larry Fox Danny Fox Wes Kirby Sandra Krushelniski Ryan Rister Teresa Richards Mike Ritskes Brian Rousseaux Jeff Talbot Jill Talbot Kelly Williamson Shauna Wright

Our sincere apologies to anyone we may have omitted

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