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CRIME

Clarendon Hotel fire

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By Kate Winquist kate@advancesouthwest.com

Residents of Gull Lake were shocked and in disbelief last week when news broke that the fire that claimed the historic Clarendon Hotel may have been deliberately set.

30 year-old Phylisia Smiley, originally of Shaunavon, and 46 year-old Roy Williams of Swift Current have been charged in connection with the blaze that burned down the 109 year-old landmark in the southwest Saskatchewan community on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 9.

Mayor of Gull Lake, Blake Campbell said, “While I cannot comment as to the arson charges laid yesterday (Wednesday) as the matter is currently before the courts, I will say the loss of the Clarendon Hotel was tragic, and it was equally sad to hear that the fire was ruled as arson.”

Smiley has been charged under Section 434 of the Criminal Code with intentionally or recklessly causing damage by fire to the hotel, break and enter, theft, two counts of dangerous driving and two counts

of breach of probation.

Williams has been charged with one count of arson, breach of probation, break, enter and theft and possession of stolen property. The Crown alleged he was in possession of money, liquor and a safe thought to be taken from the Clarendon Hotel.

Both Williams and Smiley have been ordered to have no contact with one another or Roger Bouvier, the owner of the hotel.

Williams will be back in court Monday while Smiley will remain in custody until her bail hearing on Tuesday, October 25.

Section 434 of the Criminal Code states, “Every person who intentionally or recklessly causes damage by fire or explosion to property that is not wholly owned by that person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.”

“This loss for our community is compounded because it was a horrendous, malicious act not an accident” said longtime Gull Lake resident, Maureen Holizki.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2016

CRIME

Swift Current Drug Raid

By Kate Winquist kate@advancesouthwest.com

Hello folks, My name is Bernie Ford. Once again I’m letting my name be put forward for division trustee for Ward 4 in the Chinook School Division.

I represent the students, staff and communities of Tompkins, Gull Lake, Wymark as well as six Hutterian Colonies.

I have been an advocate for students and education not only in Ward 4, but in all of the Division. I believe I have done that to the best of my ability and hope to continue to do so.

Talk of once again expanding school divisions to the size of Health Regions is troubling to me. My concern that the decisions effecting Rural Education will not be adequately addressed or listened to. I would most certainly be opposed to such a move.

My health is good, I have the time and the experience and the desire to represent Ward 4, the students and staff as well as the parents.

I would ask that you consider me with your support on election day, Wednesday, October 26th.

Bernie Ford

Four southwest Saskatchewan residents were taken into custody last week after Swift Current City and Rural RCMP executed a search warrant onTuesday, October 18 at a home at 461 - 1st Street NE in Swift Current.

The Swift Current Police Dog unit also assisted.

An undisclosed amount of Methamphetamine (Crystal Meth), Canadian and U.S. currency, prohibited weapons, stolen property and tools used for Break and Enter were all seized during the search.

The 4 people taken into custody were 50-year-old Dwayne Anton Gilbertson of Swift Current; 26-year-old Brittany Vanessa Wiens of Herbert; 19-yearold Diamond Crystal Meszaros and 22-year-old Kayleigh Mary Frances Braithwaite both residents of Eastend.

Weins was remanded in custody and appeared in Provincial Court on Wednesday to answer to the following charges: • Possession of Methamphetamine (Crystal Meth) • Possession of a prohibited weapon Judge Karl Bazin heard Wiens' case from Crown Prosecutor Curtis Wiebe, who recommended a suspended sentence of one year.

The length of sentence was agreed to by Judge Bazin. He ordered Wiens to immediately report to probation upon her release.

Weins must not have any contact with Gilbertson, Braithwaite, or Mesza-

ros as part of her condition of release.

Weins must also refrain from any drug or alcohol use and undergo an assessment for her addiction. She must also continue on the Methadone program for her previous use of heroin.

The charge of possessing a prohibited weapon was stayed.

Dwayne Gilbertson's appeared in Swift Current Provincial Court on Friday morning. Gilbertson plead guilty to the following charges: • Possession of Methamphetamine (Crystal Meth) for the purpose of trafficking, • Possession of a prohibited weapon Gilbertson's charges of possessing Breaking and Entering equipment (he had 2 sets of brass knuckles in his possession and a stun gun), as well as possession of stolen property amounting to less than $5000, ($2920 cash) were both stayed.

The case has now been adjourned until December 5th in Provincial Court for sentencing.

Gilbertson would be conditionally released to his current residence of 461 1st Ave NE, the site of the drug raid, upon payment of his $500 cash bail.

The same no-contact order was upheld between Gilbertson and Brittany Wiens, Kayleigh Braithwaite as well as Diamond Meszaros.

Braithwaite and Meszaros have been charged with being in possession of methamphetamine (Crystal Meth) and will be appearing in Provincial Court in Swift Current on November 14th, 2016 at 9:30 AM to answer to these charges.

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Influenza immunization clinics will be held throughout the Cypress Health Region during October and November. The clinics that are being provided in the Cypress Health Region are listed below – please find one that fits into your schedule and plan to attend.

The vaccine is available to all Saskatchewan residents at no cost.

Please note that any person can attend any clinic to receive their influenza immunization. Clinics are offered in a “drop-in” style and no appointments are necessary. Please remember to bring your Saskatchewan Health Card and be prepared to stay an additional 15 minutes after receiving your immunization.

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Swift Current Sky Centre, Living Sky Casino .............................................. Mon. Nov. 14 ................ 12 pm – 8 pm Swift Current – Credit Union i-Plex Broncos Game .......................................Fri. Nov. 18 ...................3 pm – 9 pm Swift Current Mall ...............................................................................Mon. Oct. 31 .................9 am – 4 pm ....................................................................................................... Thurs. Nov. 3 ................ 12 pm – 8 pm ....................................................................................................... Sat. Nov. 5 ...................10 am – 5 pm ....................................................................................................... Thurs. Nov. 10 ...............12 pm – 8 pm ....................................................................................................... Thurs. Nov. 24 ...............12 pm – 8 pm ....................................................................................................... Sat. Nov. 26 ..................10 am – 5 pm ....................................................................................................... Mon. Nov. 28 ................ 10 am – 5 pm Abbey Legion Hall ...............................................................................Wed. Nov. 9 ..................10 am – 2 pm Burstall Friendship Centre .................................................................... Wed. Nov. 9 ..................10 am – 2 pm Cabri Senior’s Centre ...........................................................................Tues. Nov. 1 ..................10 am - 3 pm Climax Border Health Centre .................................................................Wed. Nov. 9 ..................12 pm – 7 pm Consul School ....................................................................................Fri. Nov. 18 ...................10 am – 1 pm Eastend Wolf Willow Health Centre .........................................................Wed. Nov. 23 ................ 11 am – 6 pm Fox Valley Community Centre ................................................................ Mon. Nov. 7 ..................12 pm – 6 pm Frontier - Honey Bee Manufacturing ....................................................... Mon. Nov. 14 .................11 am – 3 pm Gull Lake Community Hall .....................................................................Mon. Nov. 7 ..................12 pm – 8 pm ....................................................................................................... Tues. Nov 22 .................11 am – 5 pm Herbert New Horizon’s Centre................................................................ Wed. Nov. 2 ..................10 am – 2 pm Hodgeville Community Centre ............................................................... Tues. Nov. 1 ..................10:30 am – 12:30 pm Leader Friendship Centre .....................................................................Tues. Nov. 1 ..................10 am – 4 pm ....................................................................................................... Tues. Nov. 8 ..................11 am – 6 pm ....................................................................................................... Tues. Nov. 15 .................9 am – 4 pm Mankota New Horizons ........................................................................ Wed. Nov. 9 ..................10:30 am – 1 pm Maple Creek - Southwest Integrated Healthcare Facility (SIHF) .....................Thurs. Nov. 3 ................ 9 am – 4 pm ....................................................................................................... Fri. Nov. 4 .................... 9 am – 4 pm ....................................................................................................... Thurs. Nov. 10 ...............10 am – 5 pm ....................................................................................................... Thurs. Nov. 17 ...............9 am – 4 pm ....................................................................................................... Thurs. Nov. 24 ...............9 am – 4 pm Ponteix Town Hall ...............................................................................Tues. Nov. 8 ..................1 pm – 8 pm ....................................................................................................... Tues. Nov. 22 ................ 12 pm – 5 pm Shaunavon Hospital & Care Centre .........................................................Wed. Nov. 2 ..................9 am – 4 pm ....................................................................................................... Wed. Nov. 16 .................12 pm – 7 pm ....................................................................................................... Wed. Nov. 30 ................ 9 am – 4 pm Tompkins Senior Centre .......................................................................Mon. Nov. 14 .................10 am – 1 pm Val Marie Library Building .................................................................... Wed. Nov 2 ..................10:30 am – 1 pm Vanguard Health Centre .......................................................................Wed. Nov. 16 .................10 am - 1 pm

PLEASE CUT OUT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. For a complete listing of clinics offered throughout the Health Region please refer to the flyer that is being circulated to mailboxes throughout the region or check out our website at www.cypresshealth.ca.

The Dr. Noble Irwin Regional Healthcare Foundation together with Racquel Roch, RN, Melissa Martens, RN and Ashley Swartz, RN of the Cypress Health Region are proud to show off the latest technology of the new Panda Infant Warmer in Swift Current that will help babies, mom’s and dad’s for years to come. Photo by Andrea Carol

Sandra Schmirler Foundation helps Maternity at CRH Contributed editor@advancesouthwest.com

A new piece of equipment has been added to the Women's and Children's ward of the Cypress Regional Hospital, thanks to the generosity of the Sandra Schmirler Foundation.

The Schmirler Foundation donated $48,300 to the Dr. Noble Irwin Regional Healthcare Foundation during the 2016 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, the gift was designated toward helping newborns. The Panda Infant Warmer is a critical piece of life-saving technology designed as a tool to help save the lives of newborns. Not only does it weigh the infant and keep him or

her at an optimal temperature, it also provides the medical staff with an array of tools to monitor the child, and if necessary, resuscitate, clear airways, provide oxygen, and more.

With this purchase, the Cypress Regional Hospital now has a Panda Infant Warmer in each of the delivery rooms, providing newborns with the best possible level of care available should they require it.

The Dr. Noble Irwin Regional Healthcare Foundation would like to extend our sincere thanks to the Sandra Schmirler Foundation for giving to the residents of the Cypress Health Region, and helping to Keep Healthcare Strong, for our smallest patients!

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Frequent rain and snow, “I think the provincial government is perform other forms of media including precipitation, Vanguard 18 mm, Yorkton s style of command. One what-if centred on the along with cool temperatures have stalled 35 mm, Outlook 22 mm and Lake Lenore missing an important method of reachthe daily newspapers and radio stations. harvest for almost three weeks. Eighty-one 25 mm. The Meadow Lake area received ing rural taxpayers,” said Steve Nixon, The weekly newspaper also has a longer per cent of the 2016 crop is combined and 35 cm of snow during the past week.

Executive Director of SWNA. “The newsshelf life with a good chance that it is 15 per cent is swathed or ready to straightProvincially, cropland topsoil moisture papers provide an excellent tool for tarsaved and referred to throughout the cut, according to Saskatchewan Agriculis rated as 57 per cent surplus and 43 geting rural taxpayers and voters. ” week until the next issue arrives. ture’s Weekly Crop Report. The five year per cent adequate. Hay land and pasture The present provincial government Nixon is fierce in championing this (2011-2015) average for this time of year is topsoil moisture is rated as 30 per cent has, however, abandoned community 97 per cent combined. industry that touches every corner of 70 per cent adequate. Field The southeast has 90 per cent of the surplus and Makes newspapers and have turned to social the province. conditions are very wet, a andGreat some pro-Gift Idea! harvest in the bin. Eighty-five per cent of media to get their message out.

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Commentary A twisted tail

By Megan Lacelle megan@advancesouthwest.com

I’m currently in the middle of a rather vengeful semester. I’m trying to write two major papers and one minor while keeping up with classes like Administrative Law. At this point I’m lucky if I can string two coherent sentences together which is why, this week, I’ve written a column solely on the trials and tribulations of curly hair.

When I was around four years old I remember having a stern argument with my mom. She insisted on me brushing my twisted locks while I was adamant in my refusal.

My mom insisted my curly hair would turn into a rat’s nest if I didn’t brush it, I refused regardless.

I was staunch in my stance against her tugging and pulling her way through what little brown curls I had.

“Princesses brush their hair,” my mom said, trying to lure my five-year-old self into an agreement.

“Then I don’t want to be a princess,” I vehemently countered.

The argument in regards to my hair lasted years, at one point my mom cut it all off. My kindergarten pictures feature a small brown bob resting just below my ears.

I’ve inherited my knotty waves from my great-grandfather, appropriately named, Curly.

He’s photographed with a mop of curls on the top of his head in nearly any photo you can find. We both have ringlets that like to intertwine and tangle together.

The process of tugging a brush through these tangles often ended in tears, whiplash or broken combs. By the end of the session my hair was more of a fuzzy ball than princess curls – it often looked as though I had been electrocuted.

So for years the battle raged between my mom and I – her trying to make me a presentable human being and me trying to evade her attacks.

To this day my hair and

I struggle to reach a compromise. Anyone who has curly hair can appreciate the struggle – hair of this type has a mind of its own.

During high school I tried a number of methods to tame the beast. I’d bush my hair before the shower, during the shower and after the shower in an attempt to cut down knots. I’d let it dry naturally, blow dry it or put product in – mixed results at every turn.

To this day it’s more likely than not you’ll see my hair tied on the back of my head with a worn hair tie. I don’t think I’ve been seen without an elastic hair band on my arm in 15 years.

It’s not as though I don’t like wearing my hair down, it’s more so the way my hair changes during the day. If I wash my hair in the morning and go outside before it dries you can expect a frizzy mess.

If I wash my hair the night before and sleep on it then I wake up to flattened twists and matted curls. If I brush my dry hair it, as previously noted, becomes a fuzz-ball.

Sometimes I straighten my hair, a way of avoiding the daunting task of actually styling it. But add some water and those curls are back with a vengeance.

Why don’t you just cut it all off if it’s such a nuisance, you may ask, because my facial characteristics bear a striking similarity to those of my brothers. Contrary to popular belief, being mistaken for your younger brother in a public venue isn’t the greatest on your self esteem.

Both of my parents have relatively straight hair, so the fact they ended up with curly-headed children is an ode to genetics.

I’d say there’s hope for my children, maybe they’ll be blessed with straight manageable hair, but at this point I’d say they’re out of luck.

My partner has even curlier hair than I do.

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OPINION

There’s something in the water this fall

By Brian Zinchuk brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net

It’s hard to put my finger on it, but there must be something in the water this fall when it comes to municipal elections.

Over the years I’ve covered city councils and elections in Saskatoon, Rosetown, North Battleford, and filled in on occasion for Battleford. This fall in several of Saskatchewan’s small cities, there are a huge slate of candidates running, much more than I have ever seen.

Estevan is relatively tame. It has three candidates for mayor, and 12 for six council positions.

In Weyburn there are only two candidates for mayor, but 14 running for six council positions.

North Battleford has 15 people running for the six positions on city council. However, it’s the outlier in that Ryan Bater has been acclaimed as mayor.

Swift Current has three people running for mayor, and 17 running for six council seats.

Prince Albert has four mayoral candidates. There are 19 candidates for eight council seats.

However, Prince Albert uses a ward system, with eight wards. Seven of those eight seats are contested, with only ward 8 being acclaimed.

Moose Jaw has five people running for mayor, and 23 running for council.

Yorkton has four mayoral candidates. It has a whopping 24 candidates for six council positions!

That’s a four-to-one ratio of candidates to positions available. It’s insane!

Thus, it’s quite clear something is going on here. Whether the voter turnout will reflect the high interest level of candidates remains to be seen. But in Canadian democracy, generally speaking, new admin-

istrations are not so much voted in as old administrations are shown the door.

Perhaps there is a high level of dissatisfaction with current administrations? Maybe. But to gain some insight on this, I phoned the one guy on this list who was acclaimed as mayor, North Battleford’s Ryan Bater, a man I’ve known for many years.

He pointed out that, if you’re a political type in this province, your chances of getting elected are nearly zero unless you are with the Saskatchewan Party on the provincial level, or Conservative Party on the federal level. There is, of course, a caveat for long-time Liberal MP Ralph Goodale, but otherwise, that’s the reality. So if you are of a different political stripe, and want to get elected, municipal politics may be the chance you seek. Since Saskatchewan does not have political parties at the municipal level, a person can run at that level without the baggage a political party might entail.

In his own case, as former leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, he couldn’t crack 15 per cent at the polls in a provincial election. But when he ran for city council four years ago, he had the highest plurality of votes.

NewsTalk radio host John Gormley has long espoused a similar sentiment, noting that unelected provincial NDP politicians often revert to the municipal level. Deb Higgins, running for re-election as mayor in Moose Jaw, would be a prime example.

With oil, gas, potash and uranium all down at the same time, Saskatchewan’s having a tough year economically.A wet harvest hasn’t helped some areas, either. And that was before a looming carbon tax on everything gets imposed. When times are tough, that’s often when changes in government take place.

That could be another reason for the huge influx of candidates.

I wonder how many of these candidates have been able to truly get some sort of message out there.

I attended the first part of the Estevan candidate’s forum, and the huge slate meant very little time for each candidate to differentiate themselves. How much space in local newspapers has been devoted to each candidate? While community cable, like Access Communications, often covers candidate forums, how many people still even have the local cable connection, as opposed to SaskTel Max or satellite?

Yet, with today’s social media, it is possible for candidates to reach their audience. Live Facebook streams, Twitter, YouTube, targeted advertising to specific demographics – all these options are available to those running for office. But how many will actually take that step?

I don’t think most people realize that the mayor position on council is just one vote, usually among seven. They don’t have overriding executive powers like a premier or prime minister. But they generally steer the direction of council, act as the city’s chief advocate and spokesperson, and are also the head complaint-collector. When other levels of government wish to communicate with that community, it’s the mayor that the minister calls.

It will be interesting to see the fallout on Oct. 26. If there are large scale changes of councils, it will be a sign of “voting the bums out.”

But if councils remain static, then it will be a strong affirmation in those who are incumbent, since there were plenty of options to pick a replacement.

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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Airplane Math

By Cleo Morvik editor@advancesouthwest.com

ond couple I sat next to on our flight from Auckland to Perth were quite pleasant indeed. They were an older Australian couple, who explained that they lived down on the Southern coast. They asked me where I was heading. I explained that I was also going down to the Southern coast, first to a place called Hopetoun.

They responded with open mouths. My new acquaintances were from Hopetoun. Small world, right? This is what (travel) dreams are made of, my friends.

PLUS, 5 back-of-theseat movies: Finding Dory, the Legend of Tarzan, How to be Single, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Money Monster (plus a couple episodes of the Walking Dead). There is seriously no better way to kill time on a plane than by watching movies. All our flights had a really great selection, and here's another thing you'll know if you've ever met me – I have a terrible time deciding on things, so as an added bonus I'm sure I crushed at least an extra hour just deciding what to watch! The only thing we were sad to not have available for our viewing pleasure was the Blue Jays game.

PLUS, 2 free glasses of airline wine: Air New Zealand had this really great thing where you could order any drink, for free, and have it brought right to you using the touch screen at your seat. I definitely regret not taking better advantage of that.

Seriously, only two??

PLUS, approximately 5 hours of sleep: that's all within the 37 hour time frame it took to get from Calgary to Perth. Definitely feeling the jet lag.

PLUS, probably like a hundred time zone changes: I warned you earlier I'm not good with math, so we'll just round up with that one. Here in Australia we are 14 hours ahead of you blokes in SW Sask, so I am actually saying hello to you from the future. Or should I say, g'day.

Now, did anyone get out their pencil and paper for the calculations? Me neither, but the answer to that highly advanced mathematical problem is, one extremely excited, overly exhausted, neckcramped, fresh-air-deprived, slightly smelly, yet happy, Cleo.

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Ask your life Q: How did you get your name?

By Madonna Hamel

madonna@advancesouthwest.com

I am pleased to announce that Kerry and I have arrived safely in the state of Western Australia, or as the locals affectionately call it, the WA. We landed in Perth, the capital city. A customs officer at the Houston airport told us he figured Perth was a good spot to be, should a zombie apocalypse occur, since Perth is known for being an extremely secluded city.

Personally, I think we'd be just as safe at home in Eastend.

We've done a lot of two things in the last couple of days, and that is plane rides, and math. Since you and I just getting acquainted I'll let you in on something – I actually enjoy planes. I like the people watching, the unnatural feeling of the plane taking off, and the time to relax.

Now, if you do know me, you will know that I do NOT enjoy math. It literally just doesn't add up for me. I'm a lost cause with fractions and long division makes a fool of me.

However there's a motto I picked up that has really stuck with me, which is if you're feeling uncomfortable, it probably means that you're learning. Being uncomfortable is a good place to be. So this is me, doing some math for you, because being uncomfortable is a good thing.

Plus it's just addition, so I should be fine.

Ok, so here's the question. What do you get when you add...

26 hours of flight: the accumulated hours in a flying aircraft, spent mostly sitting, twisting, shifting, and battling my backpack for more leg room.

PLUS, 11.5 hours spent in airports: that's the total time spent hanging out in airports in between flights. Our longest layover was in Auckland, New Zealand where we spent 5.5 hours wondering where the best corner might be to take a nap.

PLUS, 4 in-flight meals: which included a lovely morning tea served by Air New Zealand at about 4:00am local time. And a lot of weird, lettuce-less salads...

PLUS, 4 seat neighbour strangers: the first couple I sat next to on our long-haul flight from Houston to Auckland did not speak English. This made it difficult to communicate when the lady closest to me kept trying use my seatbelt. The sec-

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Some days I forget I have an interesting name. Until the barrista asks for it. Once, when I said: “Madonna” I received the response: “Oh, my, it’s been a red letter day. I just served Beyonce!” Beyonce was a twentyish Asian man with a sense of humour. “No, really,” I explained for the umpteenth time,” that’s my real name. And I’m not a wanna be…. Actually, I’m older than her.”

“Oh sorry. It’s just that people like to have fun with their names when I ask for it.”

I want to ask why, in this empty coffee shop at the back of a quiet pharmacy, they even need to write my name on my drink. I’m the only one here. No one is going to take my green tea soy latte, I feel certain.

For the longest time being Madonna meant sharing my name with the mother of God. And I was ok with that. I collected Madonna and child postcards. Perhaps I subconsciously tried to reflect the Eternal Mother’s poise and compassion for all of her rag-taggle brood. Yet I never had kids, but for a whole year I had a recurring Madonna dream. I was in a scary part of a big city and a group of kids were begging me to take them home. I did, and then I bathed and dressed them in pajamas and tucked them into a cozy, quilted bed.

As a young woman I was furious at the Church’s need to keep the Madonna a virgin. “Let’s keep this perfectly clear”, the creeds declared, “she had a baby without losing her virginity.” Really? And why is that so important? For thirty years I read it as the Church’s condemnation of the body, shaming enjoyment of the ultimate sensual act as some kind of reprehensible defect of character. And, for the literalist-fundamentalists, that’s exactly what that was all about.

One of humanity’s greatest frustrations is trying to put words to the ‘ineffable’. All we can do is allude to it, through symbol and story. As the Buddhist’s say: Religion is a finger pointing at the moon; study the moon not the finger. With the help of biblical scholars, language experts and the writings of the great mystics, and, above all, my own contemplations and musings while walking for days in the ‘wilderness’; I have grown to understand that virginity is less about an intact body than an intact soul.

The virgin goddesses were archetypes of women who maintained their authentic, original, genuine selves, despite how the forces around them pressured them to relinquish self, completely. And here’s the paradox: in order to be a Madonna one must learn how to be an Artemis - keep true to oneself, protect one’s deeper inviolability and essential solitude. And then, and only then, can a woman ‘serve’ without resentment or losing oneself.

Now, would I have bothered launching into such an indepth exploration of what it means to be a Madonna if I hadn’t been given this name? And would I watch the exploits of that ‘other’ Madonna with such curiosity? I have long

stopped getting pissed off at remarks like: “Oh, I thought when they said Madonna was here they meant the real Madonna?” “Nope”, I would reply. “Just me. I’m not larger than life. I’m just actual size.

And actual size is plenty”. Unlike that ‘other’ Madonna I am less tempted to ‘re-invent’ myself than evolve. In my mind, reinvention involves anticipating the needs and demands of the outside world. Evolution is driven by a deeper inner need to reach one’s full, soulful potential.

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That’s what happens when you get saddled with a famous name; you must try extra harder to find your essence.

That’s what happens when you get saddled with a famous name; you must try extra harder to find your essence. And then there are others who work in the other direction, as impersonators: what is life like for the Elvises and the Marilyns of the world? How much is your identity tied up with your name?

Were you teased for it? Were you a boy named Sue? Were you a girl named Dick? I love the names of my women friends in Quebec: MariePierre, Marie-Claude, Marie-Paule.

And what about that Marie? When you are born into a French-Catholic culture you become, first and foremost, a young Mary as a girl and Joseph as a boy. Quebec has become proudly secular in many aspects, but Mary lingers on. (And I secretly cheer. How can I not? She is my namesake.)

And while we’re at it: what about pronunciation? I lived my whole life a HAM-el in the west until I moved to Quebec at 35 years old and became a ham-EL. You cannot be a HAM-el in Quebec.The hamELs have been in Canada since the sixteen hundreds. Two brothers, Charles and Jacques, came from France, and the thousands others of us came from them. Today I’m back in the west, in Val Marie Saskatchewan, where I am suddenly a HAM-el again. And the Cotes are Codys, the Carliers are Colliers, the Morins are Morens.

Actually, at this very moment I am in Toronto, attending, among other things, an Author’s Festival. On the slate are several panel discussions hosting authors with names like: Nosrali, Olafsdottir, Galappatti, Kloeble, Iwasutiak, Hasssan, names that reflect the rich diversity of the most cosmopolitan of the world’s cities. Toronto does diversity like no other city, writes the travel writer Jan Morris. In fact, she once said that if a Martian asked her to plop him down into an archetypal planet-earth city, she’d drop him in Toronto. I took a subway car this morning, and from The Danforth to the CBC, I only heard English spoken once, and that was someone on a cell phone.

Not everyone would enjoy that subway experience, but I loved it.

I felt proud to be a Canadian. I looked up at one point and read a museum ad with a picture of an Asian mom, an African dad and their children. It read: “In Toronto our little mixed race family blends into the tapestry of our beautiful city”.

Are you someone who prefers your neighbours to be the same as you? How does a name define sameness or difference? Should immigrants change their names to be more pronounceable? Did you change yours? To escape persecution? Or even the tedious chore of correcting people’s constant mispronunciation? Did you feel defeated when you made that decision?

I am reading Madeleine Thien’s Booker-nominated book “Do Not Say We Have Nothing”. The main character has four names: “Girl”, “Ma-li”, Li-Ling” and “Marie”. But which, she is asked, is her ‘real’ name? The character responds: “I doubted and wondered, and feared that each name took up so much space, and might even be its own person, that I myself would eventually disappear.” Do you have more than one name? Which one suits you more? Did you wish you were named something else? Do you feel you have to ‘live up to’ your name?

Do you secretly call yourself another name? Is it nice? Is it mean, self-deprecating, pejorative or just plain goofy?

I once had a beau who, after five years of dating, finally took me to meet his aunt and uncle in Philadelphia. They were the only family he had left in the world. And they all called him the sweetest, most unhip nickname I’d ever heard. He made me promise never to let his band know about that name, it would blow his cool. But man, did I see a whole new side of Mr. Cool, a side that relaxed completely into the vulnerable little boy that lived beneath the smooth bluesman.

And I loved him for letting me get a glimpse of that child through his secret family name.

That bluesman was a third. He shared his name with father and son. Are you a second or a third? A Sr. or a Jr.? Does that come with a certain expectation or burden? Do you resent being cast in the shadow of your parent? Do mothers name daughters after themselves and the matrilineal line? Or is that just a patriarchal thing? I know a man who doesn’t mind being a junior because his father is his hero, but I know few men who say such a thing about their dads. I have a sister who inherited our grandmother’s name. It felt like a pressure, as if the awesome responsibilities of grandma came along with it.

I know people who have changed their names became they just couldn’t match the face in the mirror with the person inside the skin.

I know someone on the lam and is life starting over, with a new name. I know an identical twin who posed as her sister in an emergency and signed her name perfectly. Our names might be the thing we take most for granted. A name sticks closer than a shadow. A friend once told me that her grandmother reminded her to take pride in her name. She escaped Russia during a pogrom. “All I had was my name.

They could never steal that.”

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The CCA Rodeo wrapped up in Swift Current on Saturday. The city will host the event for the next 5 years.

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Take car of black knot in the fall and winter for best results

By Erl Svendsen editor@advancesouthwest.com

Black knot is an ugly, disfiguring disease of some of the tree and shrub species in the plum and cherry genus (Prunus). Most susceptible are our native chokecherry (including purple-leaf selections like Schubert chokecherry) and the European mayday (aka European bird cherry). Also affected are wild plums, and, to a much lesser degree (I’ve never noticed it), Amur, Nanking, Mongolian, pin, sand and sour cherries; apricot; and ornamental flowering plum.

The disease is caused by the fungus Apiosporina morbosa. It usually infects recent thin-barked growth (current or last season) or enters through wounds on older growth. It starts out in the first year as a 2 – 6 inch long, largish swelling or canker with cracked bark along a branch. In subsequent years, the canker develops further into a large, hard black mass (one of it’s common nicknames is sh*t-on-astick). Stems may continue to grow to the outside of the canker; but if the canker completely girdles the stem, further growth is limited and the stem eventually dies. The disease spreads by windblown spores produced by the mature black cankers during wet periods in spring, particularly around blooming time.

Eradicating black knot is impossible since we are surrounded by natural stands of highly susceptible and infected wild chokecherry. The only practical treatment is regular monitoring and pruning. In the late fall and winter (i.e. from now to March), when the leaves are off and the cankers are dormant and easy to spot, inspect susceptible trees and shrubs. Remove infected branches, making the cut at least 6 inches below the knot – use good pruning techniques and cut back to a branch junction or to the point where it meets the trunk to avoid leaving stubs. Dip your pruning tools in rubbing alcohol between cuts

and after finishing for the day to prevent spreading the disease. Destroy diseased wood by burning or burying it or send it to the landfill – cankers can produce spores for several months after being removed.

It may seem like I’m painting a picture of doom and gloom. But with a bit of care and maintenance, it is quite easy to manage black knot. In my old yard, despite having a neighbour with a wild chokecherry shrub riddled with black knot, I planted two ‘Midnight Schubert’ purple-leafed chokecherry trees. Every November, I would look up into the canopies giving myself a crick in the neck. On occasion, I would spot one or two cankers that I removed promptly. Really: no more than a matter of 20 to 30 minutes of effort. When I moved, I left the new owners with two beautiful, 25-foot tall trees without any unsightly cankers.

Bonus: this is a great time to inspect all your trees for 1-cm long light to dark brown, barrel-shaped tent caterpillar egg masses. They completely encircle young branches, usually 3 – 6 inches from branch tips. To remove, gently scrape them off, taking care not to damage the bark.

This column is provided courtesy of the Saskatchewan Perennial Society (www. saskperennial.ca; hortscene@yahoo.com; www.facebook.com/saskperennial). Check out our Bulletin Board or Calendar for upcoming garden information sessions, workshops, tours and other events.

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Since the winter of 2015, the T.Rex Discovery Centre, a part of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, has been offering the chance to the public to experience a day as a paleontologist.

Through the Tea & Fossils program available once a month Saturday afternoon, community members get to have a hands on experience with the fossils at the museum. Afterwards you can have a hangout time with the paleontologists.

Dr. Emily L. Bamforth is a paleontologist at the T.Rex Discovery Centre and is excited to see this event continuing on.

“So this is a really unique opportunity. It’s not an opportunity that’s offered at a lot of museums,” Dr. Bamforth said.

“Even though the facility is closed, this is a way the people can come in and still enjoy the T.Rex Centre.”

The Tea & Fossil program attracts in community members from the surrounding area to prepare the fossils found in the field. You can work with the plaster jackets that protect fossils, work with tiny fossils or pick away at rocks to see what is underneath.

Not only does this event allow people to come and learn about fossils while having some fun. This also helps the T.Rex Centre and their two paleontologists keep up with their workload.

“We estimate we have about a hundred person years of preparation work to do in just this facility,” Dr. Bamforth said. “There is a lot of work to do and it’s a lot of work for two people.”

The program attracts a variety of people ranging from age eight all the way up to 91.

Baylee Out is a research technician at the Swift Current Research and Development Centre who has now gone for three Tea & Fossil gatherings, and loves it every time.

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Eastend paleontologists offers the chance to discover Eastend fossils

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world actually where you get to not only work with fossils, like actually to get your hands in,” Out explained.

“They let you participate with the plaster casts of the fossils they transport them in the summer and unearth them.”

Each semester Out has co-op students from as far as Victoria who come and work with her who she’s taken to the T.Rex Discovery Centre for this event. Some students have loved it so much they’ve come back for another Saturday event.

“They think it’s phenomenal,” Out said. “Especially even the museum part of the centre is one of the highlights of their whole term out here in Saskatchewan.”

For Out, being able to hold that piece of matter that can be millions of years old is what keeps her coming back. Not only that, Dr. Bamforth and her colleague are there to not only show you what to do, but to explain what it is you are holding.

“When you are brushing away the dirt and rubble and you suddenly come across something that is bone,” Out explained. “That moment, that kind of eureka of oh my goodness, I found it.”

Both Dr. Bamforth and Out hope to see this event grow to more than just once a month as this event not only benefits and engages the public, but helps out the staff at the T.Rex Centre as well.

“We do hope to build up a core group of volunteers…the other thing is to promote the fossil resources in the province to get a little bit more exposure for us,” Dr. Bamforth explained.

“Also, it’s just to give people an experience they may not get elsewhere.”

There will be two more Tea & Fossil events for this year, November 26 and December 10. For more information on this or the T.Rex Centre, visit the Royal Saskatchewan Museum’s website, www.royalsaskmuseum.ca.

Keeping serious criminals out of Saskatchewan Contributed editor@advancesouthwest.com

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is pleased to share a sample of September highlights from its border crossings in Saskatchewan.

Part of the CBSA’s mandate in protecting Canadians is keeping inadmissible persons from entering the country. At the North Portal border crossing alone, officers refused entry to 38 foreign nationals who were inadmissible to Canada because of their criminal history. These included: • A Michigan man convicted of child abuse and sexual assault • A New Jersey man convicted of assault with intent to murder • A North Carolina man convicted of impaired driving and making terroristic threats Directly south of Estevan, at the Estevan Highway crossing, officers refused entry to nine foreign nationals because of their previous trouble with the law. These included a North Dakota man convicted on 10 counts of battery, and a South Dakota man with a pending charge for manslaughter.

There were several significant contraband seizures, including the interception of a prohibited .38-calibre revolver, which had not been declared, from a commercial truck at North Portal on September 21. An Illinois man was released on a promise to appear, and is scheduled to appear in Estevan Provincial Court on December 5.

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On September 3, officers at North Portal found five overcapacity magazines (holding 30 rounds each) in the trunk of a sport utility vehicle. The driver, a United States (U.S.) resident moving to Alaska, was allowed to continue into Canada without them. At the remote Northgate border crossing on September 26, officers seized two overcapacity handgun magazines (holding 17 rounds each) from a Nebraska man. They were located in a cabinet in a moving trailer, and he was also allowed to continue into Canada without them.

At the Monchy border crossing on September 18, officers seized 258 grams of suspected marijuana-infused fudge, which was in a fridge inside a van. A Michigan woman claimed ownership and was refused entry to Canada and issued a $1,100 penalty. At the Northgate border crossing, officers seized more than four grams of suspected liquid morphine from a Texas man, as he did not have a prescription for it. He was allowed to continue into Canada without it.

At Regina International Airport on September 28, officers were clearing a private aircraft when they uncovered CAN$14,000 in undeclared currency in a Louisiana man’s toiletry bag. Travellers are required to report when importing or exporting $10,000 or more, and therefore the currency was seized. Once officers determined it legitimately belonged to the traveller, the currency was returned upon payment of a $250 penalty for failing to declare.

CBSA officers in Saskatchewan process an average of 64,271 travellers in 15,789 cars, 12,424 commercial trucks, and 263 flights every month. (based on 2015 statistics).

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Val Marie District Ambulance Celebrates 20 years of Service Community Helps Celebrate Important Milestone

Contributed editor@advancesouthwest.com

September 28th marked a very important milestone for the Val Marie District Ambulance as it celebrated 20 years of emergency care services to the residents of Val Marie and the surrounding districts. A large crowd of residents and school children gathered in the village square to take part in the festivities which included a bbq lunch, slide presentation, children colouring contest, a teddy bear first aid station, wheel chair and stretch-

er relay races, ambulance tours and prizes.

The Val Marie District Ambulance currently employs 10 Emergency Medical Responders and 1 Primary Care Paramedic. Each member was presented with a certificate of appreciation for their years of service and Trudy Hayes, a founding member, was honoured for her 20 years of professionalism as an Emergency Medical Responder.

It was a wonderful afternoon of celebration!

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BOOK REVIEW

CITY NEWS

“Convictions” Review by Shelley A. Leedahl editor@advancesouthwest.com

I've now read enough of Judith Silverthorne's numerous books to know that anything she writes will be a worthy read, and my belief was confirmed again with her latest, the historical novel Convictions. This time the multi-award-winning Regina writer (and Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild) has penned an action-packed, factbased tale about 14-year-old Jennie, a British lass sentenced to serve seven years in a penal colony in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania, Australia) after she was ungenerously convicted of theft. First however, Jennie must survive the four or five months of sailing on a convict ship with 234 other women and children, and a crew that includes more than a few letches. It's cramped, filthy, and there's precious little food or medical aid. Before long Jennie finds herself stitching up a fellow convict, Lizzie, a "doxie" who’s been flogged almost to death by the evil guard Red Bull.

I'm in awe of how Silverthorne pulls it all together: the historical and sailing details, the adventures (including fistfights, a hurricane, and a shipwreck of Titanic proportions), and even the first sparks of a romance between Jennie and the ship's youngest guard, Nate. This is

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extremely competent writing, and what’s more, it's a story that's hard to put down.

It's 1842. Jennie's doomed to the faraway penal colony because she stole “a mouldy sack of oats" from a garbage bin to feed her starving family. Silverthorne brings the story to life in paragraph one via sensory details, including “sun-baked cobblestones" that burn Jennie's bare feet, and the "sudden cloying stench of dead fish, rotting wood and slime."

As with an establishing shot in cinema, the author immediately transports readers into the story's time and place. In the next paragraph she introduces conflict. A guard yanks Jennie, and she "winced as he cuffed her wrists behind her back. A second guard snapped shackles on her ankles". Soon after, the veteran writer includes a scene: we hear the rough voices of other convicts and guards, plus bystanders' comments, and this dialogue smartly provides background information while also increasing the story's plausibility.

The convicts get little time on deck, but when they do Jennie notes "no sign of a coastline in any direction; only the never-ending grey sea mirrored by the dreary mackerel sky. The desolate sounds of the wind, the water and the odd call of a seabird." Red Bull and other guards are constant threats, and the women's nights are spent "fending

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off vermin and nightmares." Prisoners are threatened with a flogging frame, and there are "punishment balls and torture irons strapped to the wheelhouse."

This is no pleasure cruise. Jennie's smart, resourceful, and strong, but when she finds herself having conversations with herself, she worries she'll end up like "Crazy Mary".

Fortunately there are a few warm hearts on board, including matronly Sarah and young Alice, who become Jennie's closest friends during the life or death journey.

Will they survive? The answer's in the book. I highly recommend you discover it.

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The SPCA Bookstore celebrates a milestone this year : its 40th year serving the community. An anniversary celebration will be held at the bookstore, located at 37 1st Ave NE in Swift Current on Saturday November 5th with the public welcome to attend. The event will run from 9:30 to 5pm and the store will remain open over the noon hour.

Bookstore Manager Anne Whitlock explains the event: “Coffee, tea and goodies will be available all day and there will also be great savings on our already low prices on books. “ She notes that the store also has gift certificates available for gift giving. “We are hoping our customers, current volunteers and past volunteers will stop in to see us and help us celebrate, “ says Whitlock. “We’d also love to talk to anyone who might like to volunteer with us in future.”

The bookstore is staffed exclu-

sively by volunteers and dozens have helped out over the store’s 40 year history, with some volunteers serving for many years.

Shifts can take as little as two hours per week and involve sorting and shelving materials as well as serving customers. The store takes public donations of books and puzzles, comic books and DVD’s. The bookstore is the SPCA’s biggest fundraiser annually and all proceeds from the store support SPCA Shelter operations.

The store began in 1976 at the former Cooper Co-op location, then occupied a property on the land where Five Point Electric now stands on 1st NE, and finally moved into its current location in March of 2006. The store houses over 15,000 books in categories including Fiction/Romance, Mystery/True Crime, Religious Fiction and Theology, Biography, Children`s to Young Adult , Collectibles and Classics, Harlequin Romances , Canadiana, Coffee Table Books, Fitness and Health, Crafts, Science Fiction,

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Paranormal, Cook Books, and some books in languages other than English. The store’s regular hours are Monday to Friday 9:30 to 11:30a.m. and Monday to Saturday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The Swift Current SPCA is a local volunteer-directed registered charity which receives no provincial or federal funding, is not affiliated with nor funded by the provincial SPCA, and must raise 80% of its $300,000 annual operating budget from the community each year. It serves approximately 300 domestic pets (cats and dogs) annually, providing 24/7 – 365 day a year shelter, food, and care with a high standard of health safety. It also provides required medical services including a spay/neuter program, foster and adoption services, pound services for the City of Swift Current, and a lost and found registry and microchipping program to help reunite strays with owners. The SPCA has operated animal shelter services in Swift Current since 1973.

On August 12, 2016, Henry Banman held a media conference to announce his candidacy for City Council and made defamatory statements about Swift Current Mayor Jerrod Schafer.

Mayor Schafer provided Mr. Banman an opportunity to publicly apologize before a civil claim was filed with Court of Queen’s Bench due to statements made about Mayor Schafer and his wife, Kelly. After a period of time elapsed with no apology, a civil claim was filed on August 30, 2016.

A hearing on Tuesday October 18 with Mayor Schafer, Mr. Banman, and a mediator from Saskatchewan Dispute Resolution Office concluded with a signed apology from Mr. Banman which reads as follows: “During my address announcing my intention to run for City Council, I said that Mayor Schafer hired his own wife to work at City Hall. From my experience on Council I am aware the mayor is not formally involved in the hiring process except for senior management. I am aware Kelly Schafer’s position is not senior management. Therefore, Mr. Schafer did in fact NOT hire his own wife.

In my presentation I asserted that Ms. Schafer was still being paid while away on leave. I was informed

by City Hall that she is on unpaid leave of absence and is not being paid at this time.

I apologize for my misrepresentation of what happened and for any harm this may have done to Mayor Schafer and/or Ms. Schafer.

In the past I have unfairly criticized Kelly Schafer in the community and I sincerely apologize for doing so.”

Upon receipt of this apology, Mr. Schafer is willing to drop the civil claim and consider the matter closed.

“I appreciate the response from Mr. Banman, as apologies are never as easy to say as they should be,” said Mayor Schafer.

Schafer continued, “I hope that moving forward this raises the bar in how we treat our elected officials and volunteers. It is one thing to respectfully disagree with policies, decisions or vision but it is important to stick to the facts and refrain from personal attacks on individuals or their family members.”

Jerrod Schafer will be unavailable for further comment on this matter.

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If you missed her this past summer, you’re in luck. Mirian Kay will be back at Lily’s in Gull Lake next month.

Mirian is a Toronto based singer who has been growing with popularity. Her soulful music comes straight from the heart in hopes of taking you on a journey through her past.

“It was the moment that I realized that once someone heard my voice or heard my songs that they had an emotional reaction to it,” Mirian explained.

“That connection with others and sharing what I’ve done with others is definitely what feeds my fire, absolutely.”

Mirian has Syrian and Jordanian roots in her that flows into her music, giving it an out of the box experience.

You’re not going to hear your everyday pop song or run of the mill electro.

Mirian can almost create her own genre of music.

“I just love incorporating exotic sounds and fusing genres together to kind of create something completely new,” Mirian said. “I’d like to think that my culture has helped me for sure.”

At the age of 24, Mirian dived full time into her music career. Now at 27, the singer/actor is touring across Canada once again.

But it didn’t come easy. Mirian worked full time at the beginning while trying to kick off her music career. Not only that, Mirian went on the life jour-

ney of who her true supporters were.

“A lot of people say that they’ll help you in whatever way, a lot of people talk about believing in you and believe in your music and then it’s just talk,” Mirian explained. “So that’s definitely been a hurdle that I’ve gone through in terms of getting here.”

Mirian appreciated her time in Gull Lake this past summer, calling Gull Lake a “small but mighty town.”

She looks forward to her second tour through the community.

“I love it honestly because it’s so refreshing to me,” Mirian said. “I’m from downtown Toronto and there’s people everywhere all the time.”

“What I find in coming out to smaller towns is that it’s so much more appreciation for your time, for you being there.”

Community is of high value to Mirian so she hopes that by coming through with her music, it helps bring the community of Gull Lake together for the evening.

No matter where Mirian’s music career takes her, whether it be to the next small town prairie community or down to Hollywood, Mirian will always remember her time in places like Gull Lake, and they’ll always have a place on her tour.

For more information about Mirian Music, to see tour dates and to see her latest singles, go to www.mirianmusic. com. Mirian will be at Lily’s in Gull Lake on November 11th.

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Albert Edwin Steele STEELE, Albert Edwin "Pete", age 88 of Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, passed away Wednesday October 12, 2016 at the Gull Lake Special Care Home. The funeral service was held at 1:00 October 19th from the Gull Lake Community Hall with Corola Anderson officiating. The pianist was Millie Spagrud, organists was Nora Rudolph, saxophones were King Gin and Ken Jensen accompanied by the Gull Lake Community Choir. Eulogy was read by Robert (Bob) Hansen and Bernard Kirwan. Ushers were Tyler Sells and Myles Baumann. Pallbearers were Bob Hansen, Brian Tucken, Larry Sletten, Steve Retzlaff, Loren Anderson, and Gerry Todd. Honorary Pallbearers were Joe Metz, Michael Crook, Bernard Kirwan, Jim Craig, Wilf Parsons, Terry Winter, Einer Jorgenson, and Howard Couch.

Interment service was held at the Verlo Cemetery. Albert is survived by his wife of 65 years Beatrice Steele, son Ronald Steele and his children Samantha (Curtis) Pelzer and their children Jackson, London, Easton; Richard Steele(Chantelle), Douglas (Phyllis) Steele and their children Nicole (Eric) Morley and their children Kohen and Hudson; Burton (Audrey) Steele, Brittany Steele, Crystal (Danny) Dokken and their children Ashley (Patrick) McKee and their children Owen and Nora, Stanley Tucken, Lars Dokken, Sister; Jo Schlenker; brothers; Floyd (Darlene) Steele, Richard Steele, Sister-inlaw; Esther McMullen, brother-in-law; Norman (Jean) Johnson, nieces and nephews: Willa (Walter) Posnikoff, Diane (Don) McPhee, Brad (Alice) Steele, Shelly (Curt) Thierman, Tracey Trapp, Bruce (Faye) McMullen, Gwen McMullen, Kevin (Melanie) McMullen, Karen (Wade) Perry, Shelley Johnson, Brent Johnson, Eric Johnson, Steve (Diane) Retzlaff, Janet Retzlaff (Curt), great nieces and nephews-Ryan McPhee, Sharise (Dallas) Dyer and their children Hayley and Austin; Shawn (Heather) Steele and their son Ethan; Chelsea (Jesse) Acott; Cody (Ashley) Thiermann and their daughter Ally; Brandon Trapp, Chad (Paige) Trapp, Nigal and Nikita Trapp, Jaycee Trapp; Terri Ann (Brennan) Halmrast and their

Steve Sherwick Steve Sherwick passed away on September 13, 2016 in the Meadow Lake Hospital. There was a graveside service on September 19 at the Green Lake Cemetery. The pallbearers were Mark Klink, Roy Montgomery, Jeff McKay, Ray Lloyd, Randall Brown and Phil Modern. Don Sherwick presented the eulogy and Steve’s granddaughter Jayda Cassel shared her memories of Grandpa. On October 15 there was a celebration of Steve’s life in Shaunavon with Pastor Linda Hall officiating. Jayda shared her memories of Grandpa.

Stephen Hal Sherwick was born on March 28, 1955 to Harold (Harvey) and Alice Sherwick. Steve attended school in Admiral, graduating in 1973. He did very well academically and was very proud of the academic ribbons and medals that he earned. After graduation he spent a year at University in Saskatoon. He then attended STI at Moose Jaw where he graduated in Industrial Instrumentation. Steve worked in Medicine Hat and Faro Yukon before going to the oil rigs. During the summers of 1973 to 1976 he worked as a roughneck for various drilling companies while he attended college. He worked his way up from a roughneck to a driller over a couple of years and drilled for several companies in Western Canada until he went to work for Talisman in 1983.

He worked for Talisman Energy from 1983 - 1993 as a Production and Engineering Tech. He worked with Production Engineers to develop R & M programs for well work overs, frat programs, acidization programs as well as improving measurement in the field. “Fair - Honest & Hard Working” - these are words that Steve lived by and overtime he got a new day planner, the first thing he did was write these words on the first page. He was incredibly strong and hard working.

He could pick up the v-door and he could flip the false floor by himself. The men he worked with nicknamed him “The Bionic Jap” - it was intended as a compliment because of his strength.

In 2003 he was hired by Penn West as a battery operator.

Steve loved his work and always felt that if you’re going to do a job, do it right and do it safe! He was very respected in the oilfield.

In 1976, Steve, Lane and Hugh bought their Great Uncle Frank Nishimura’s land. In 1909, the Nishimura family was the first family of Japanese race to homestead in Saskatchewan. Steve was very proud of his heritage. In the 70’s, he, Lane and Hugh also bought their first cabin at Lac Pelletier.

Steve had 3 cabins and a lakefront home at Pelletier over the years. He & Hugh also had a parasail to add to their adventures at the lake. Steve LOVED the water - fishing, swimming, boating and looking out over the water to relax and feel peaceful.

Steve wasn’t one to go to church regularly but he had a strong belief in God and prayed daily. When we were kids we were given a copy of the New Testament at school and Steve carried his copy for 50 years - he dated his March 30, 1966.

There is one section folded over titled “all will be judged by God.” He often spoke of how when he went to be judged by God, he had nothing to fear.

Steve was the most selfless person I’ve ever met. He always put everyone else’s needs ahead of hi own and was always taking care of everyone else right up to the end. When I

children Bree-ann and Torrin. Jordan and Travis Retzlaff, Carla (Ken) Pinsent, Jackie Retzlaff, and her children Mason and numerous others in Alberta. He was predeceased by Father Albert Sr. and mother; Agnes, Father-in-law; Einer Johnson, Mother-in-law; Martha Johnson, sister; Margaret (Steele) Watson, brother-in-law; Garnet Watson, brother-inlaw; Emil Schlenker, sister-in-law; Helen Retzlaff, brother-inlaw; Jack Retzlaff, brother-in-law; Barry McMullen, daughter in infancy, great granddaughter Adeya Morley, nephew; Terry Steele, great niece Shayna Trapp. Albert (Pete) was born at Gull Lake February 28, 1928. He attended school at the White Craig School. He married Beatrice Johnson on July 25, 1951 in Gull Lake. Albert worked in the bush as a young man logging as seasonal work. He became an elevator agent for 11 years while running a mixed grain farm until he retired in 2002 to live in Gull Lake. Albert was an Elks member in Gull Lake, a director for the Credit Union in Hazlet, and a councillor for the RM. of Gull Lake for many years. Albert enjoyed going to auction sales where he could visit with people from far and wide. Albert and Beatrice loved to go on bus tours where they met many people who became lifelong friends. He enjoyed attending gun and hobby shows and collecting antiques while spending many hours talking about his special finds.

Whenever time allowed he would love to go fishing at his fishing hole. His favourite pastime before he became ill was his regular Monday trips to the Living Sky Casino in Swift Current. Albert and Beatrice enjoyed dancing and would regularly attend the Friday night dances in Gull Lake until he was not well enough to go. Whenever the grandkids came to visit. Albert enjoyed time spent telling stories and jokes.

He always enjoyed talking about family history, the history of the area and politics with family and friends. His family will miss Albert. In Albert's memory, donations can be made in his memory to Gull Lake Autumn House or the Gull Lake Special Care Home. Warren's Funeral Home in care of arrangements. Warren's Funeral Home were entrusted with the arrangements. For further information call 306-773-8831 or 1-800-267-6606 or visit our website at www.warrensfuneralhome.com and express your sympathy to family members in our book of condolences.

spent the day with Steve on August 18 in the Meadow Lake Hospital, he was giving me advice about the oil changes for my truck and he was worried about me making the long trip home. In May 2015, he started building his dream cabin at Green Lake. He was so proud of his cabin - he designed it and built it just the way he wanted it. It’s beautiful at Green Lake and offers everything that Steve and his sons love - the lake, hunting, fishing, boating and just enjoying the great outdoors. The cabin is his final gift to his family and even when he was very sick it was very important to him to finish it so they could enjoy it for many years to come.

Steve loved life! He loved his family, his work, his motorcycle “Suzie”, his “retail red Ford short-box truck” Shorty (he named all his vehicles) and he loved to visit, even though he always said, “I’m not a visitor.” Steve, Don and Tyler went on their first moose hunting trip in 2005 and he looked forward to every moose hunt that he went on. Steve loved to tease and he loved to laugh. Steve used to write notes on the back of his cheques to Georgia - the manager of the Simmie Credit Union. The one she remembers most was, “I’m in the bar Georgia. I know I shouldn’t be here, but I’m going home soon.” He loved farming and wondered how harvest was going and how my new bin was working out. He calculated how much our crops were going to pay this year. Steve was “The Candy Man” in our neighbourhood and bought at least 40 chocolate bars at a time to leave on the rock pile for Codee, Cassidy, Carissa and Coy. He would tell whoever was in line with him Dollarama why he was buying all these chocolate bars. He loved doing this. I don’t know who enjoyed it more - Steve or the kids. He was the Santa Claus for the Penn West Christmas party one year - Jayda still doesn’t know who the “man in red” really was! Steve loved his grandchildren and was there when Jayda and Ben were born. Steve loved to spoil everyone he cared about and he loved to buy flowers he bought me dozens of red roses. He was a gentleman and always opened the door for me, pulled out my chair,helped me with my coat and helped me into the truck. Three years ago we got our puppy and he spoiled Eva as well.

On February 18, 2005 Steve and I had our first date - he surprised me with 50 white roses and a birthday cake. I asked him if he had ever thought about buying a motorcycle and travelling on the bike. He went home and immediately started shopping. Steve bought Suzie and we made many happy memories on our motorcycle trips. On June 28, 2008 we were married.

Steve was predeceased by his grandparents Harold and Olive Sherwick and Tommy and Toka Tanaka. He was also predeceased by his parents Harvey and Alice Sherwick, his brothers Lane and Hugh and several aunts, uncles and cousins.

Steve is survived by his wife Barb, his son Don (wife Janelle) and their sons Brock & Ben; his son Tyler (partner Briana); Barb’s daughter Kristin and her daughter Jayda; and Barb’s son Keegan. He is also survived by his sister Wendy and her husband Cliff Brazier and their sons Kelly and Clayton and Lane’s family - his wife Val and their daughter Shelby and her partner Daryl; Lane’s son Carson and his wife Samantha and their daughter Luna. He is also survived by his aunt Germaine, his sister-in-law Fauna and numerous cousins.

Steve was a very special man with a heart of gold. We are very blessed to have had his in our lives and we will love him forever.

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The last time June Pauline Stevens’ family heard from her was August, 1948. Now, 68 years later her niece, Valerie Stevens-Lee, is trying to discover what happened to her aunt.

June was born June 8, 1930 in Cadillac, Saskatchewan to Leonard Etienne Stevens and Anna Oleksuk. She played baseball, babysat and went to school in Cadillac until August 1948 when, at 18, she decided to travel to Port Alberni to visit her mother.

She hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

Stevens-Lee said it’s been a family mystery trying to discover what happened to their aunt.

A couple months after Stevens left in 1948, the family’s home was destroyed in a fire and her dad and younger brother, Lawrence, left the area. Stevens-Lee said this, combined with limited forms of communication, is the reason the family lost touch with her aunt.

“My dad [Lawrence] traveled with Crown Lumber… he moved a lot so in order for them to keep in touch it just wasn't there,” said Stevens-Lee, who now resides in Whitelaw, Alberta. She said had her aunt tried to contact her family via mail it would have been nearly impossible to find an address.

Although, Stevens-Lee said her dad never stopped looking for his sister.

“We've been searching for her for years and years and years...we've done an RCMP search, and I've been through the Salvation Army and other searches and we've come up with absolutely nothing,” she said. Sadly, her father died in July of this year, leaving his daughters to continue the search.

“It's a passion we've had ever since we were

June Pauline Stevens, around 16 or 17 years old, standing by a building near Cadillac, Saskatchewan.

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DATE OF BIRTH: March 11, 1966

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young, to find her. We've got reports that she's got no marriage certificate, no death certificate... no identified remains found,” she said. “Where is she? Someone has to know.”

Stevens-Lee said her aunt wouldn’t have just left and not told someone.

If June Pauline Stevens were alive today she’d be 86 years old, but Stevens-Lee said even if her aunt isn’t alive she’d just like to know what happened to her and find out if she has any other relatives.

“We're desperately searching for her and we would like to find her, I'm not sure she's alive right now but it would be nice, really nice to know is she or isn't she,” she said.

Stevens-Lee says after years of research the family has met roadblocks at every turn.

“She was 18 [when she left for Port Alberni] so how did she get there? Bus? Train?” she asked.

“There's lots of questions, no answers.”

She said even having a name to go off, if indeed her aunt did get married, would help them immensely. In desperation for answers, Stevens-Lee set up a Facebook page in her aunt’s honour. Photos of her aunt have been shared on the website nearly 500 times, yet still no answers.

“June is actually the last member of that family so my sister and I decided we're not going to stop searching and I don't know what I'm going to have to do in order to find her,” Stevens-Lee said.

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Walking for Wellness is a program developed to provide a safe place to walk and stay in motion during the fall and winter months.

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