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New Hunting, Angling Government introduces additional cougar control and Biodiversity measures Mapping Tool Now Available Online Contrubuted editor@advancesouthwest.com

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The Ministry of Environment launched a new client-centred, online mapping tool called HABISask (Hunting, Angling and Biodiversity Information of Saskatchewan) that combines new and existing information on hunting, angling and biodiversity.

“The online mapping tool will help you plan your hunting and angling adventure, assist you in the early planning stages for projects or environmental reviews, or help you protect Saskatchewan’s wildlife through your conservation activities,” Environment Minister Scott Moe said.

“HABISask is also accessible on mobile devices such as your smart phone or PC tablet.”

HABISask offers mapping information and tools based on four map themes: • Hunting includes wildlife management zones, game preserves, road corridor game preserves, wildlife refuges, bird sanctuaries, wildlife biologist management areas and conservation officer field offices.

• Angling includes water body locations, fish species presence, fish stocking history, special regulations, bathymetric (underwater depth) map links, fisheries management zones, fisheries

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biologist management areas and conservation officer field offices.

• Project screening includes rare and endangered species observations and ecological protection specialist districts.

• Wildlife viewing includes managed areas, Saskatchewan Bird Atlas and ecoregions.

“This is a fantastic resource for our outdoor enthusiasts across the province,” Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation Executive Director Darrell Crabbe said.

“HABISask has something for everyone, whether you’re planning a hunting or angling trip, or looking for the best bird watching spots.”

HABISask provides a window to species and habitat data as well as additional spatial information sources. By selecting one of the themes, HABISask will pre-select respective map layers and provide mapping tools to help you quickly begin your planning efforts. If you need to select additional map layers, they are all available to enhance your mapping experience.

The HABISask tool, and additional information is available online at www.saskatchewan.ca/government/notarize-documents-queens-printer-maps-and-other-publications/maps.

The Government of Saskatchewan is implementing a number of new initiatives to complement some of the measures already in place to reduce cougar conflicts and improve public safety.

“Sightings have become more common in the Cypress Hills region and along the entire length of the forest fringe from Meadow Lake to Hudson Bay,” Environment Minister Scott Moe said. “Although cougars are a protected animal and are a natural part of the Saskatchewan landscape, we take the concerns of residents seriously and will implement measures to reduce conflicts.”

Conservation officers and Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation staff will remain the first point of contact for all predator-related complaints. Conservation officers will continue to investigate all incidents where public safety is at risk and will now respond in one or more of the following ways: • contact a local predator control specialist to trap and dispatch the cougar; • acquire the services of trained houndsmen to help deal with known cougar encounters; • ensure that specialized equipment, including functional live traps, is available in problem areas; • allow landowners to retain animals killed when protecting property, under a permit.

“These options will focus directly on issues when and where they occur, and will help provide a safe and effective response to problem issues, and a better chance of capturing problem animals,” Moe said.

“We believe that the additional measures the Ministry of Environment has put into place are a positive step toward

reducing cougar conflicts,” Saskatchewan Stock Growers President Shane Jahnke said. “Cougar encounters have become more frequent in many areas of the province, and these measures will provide more options to address public safety concerns and incidences of livestock predation.”

“We are pleased to see that the Ministry of Environment is implementing new initiatives to deal with cougars,” Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) President Ray Orb said.

“As cougars have been an ongoing threat to public safety and to livestock, SARM's members have passed resolutions over the years requesting more attention to this matter. SARM is hopeful that these initiatives will reduce cougar incidents and protect our members’ livestock.”

Trappers who incidentally trap a cougar will be allowed to keep and sell the cougar pelts with a permit. They must report it to a conservation officer to ensure that accurate harvest records are maintained and biological samples can be acquired.

In addition, the ministry will issue permits to rural municipalities that are experiencing ongoing concerns with cougars to bring in an approved specialist to deal with specific human-wildlife conflicts.

The exact population of cougars in Saskatchewan is difficult to determine.

Cougars are evasive, secretive and wary of humans, and they typically avoid human activity.

Anyone who is having problems with cougars or other predators should contact their local Ministry of Environment office or call the TIP line, 24 hours a day, at 1-800-667-7561 or from their SaskTel cell phone at #5555.

More information about human-wildlife conflict is available at www.saskatchewan.ca/residents/environment-public-health-and-safety/ wildlife-issues/problem-wildlife.

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NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the Rural Municipality of Webb No. 138 intents to adopt a bylaw under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 2002-02, known as the Zoning Bylaw.

INTENT The proposed bylaw will change a definition, add a section to the administration, make an addition to the general regulations, change sections in the Lakeshore Development District, Lakeshore Development District Two, Country Residential District and change a portion of land in the Agriculture District to Country Residential District.

AFFECTED LAND All land within the Lakeshore Development District, Lakeshore Development District Two, Country Residential and a portion of the SE 04-12-16 W3 in the R.M. of Webb No. 138 will be affected.

REASON The reason for the amendment is to provide clarification, organization, and to develop temporary alternatives in the seasonal residential areas on the Duncairn Dam Reservoir being Reid Lake.

PUBLIC INSPECTION Any person may inspect the bylaw at the R.M. of Webb No. 138 office between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday excluding statutory holidays or e-mail a request for a pdf file of the bylaw to rm138@xplornet.com.

PUBLIC HEARING Council will hold a public hearing on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at the R.M. of Webb No. 138 municipal office (618 Railway Avenue, Webb SK) to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaw. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing (or delivered to the undersigned at the municipal office before the hearing).

Issued at the R.M. of Webb No. 138 this 31st day of October, 2016.

Signed: Raylene Packet, Administrator

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commonly held belief is that cacti are tougher and more resistant to neglect than other plants. This reputation is likely due to two factors. First, their spiny, well-protected exterior gives them the appearance of being able to look after themselves. Second, they are slow to show distress. While other plants will yellow, drop leaves and wither soon after experiencing stress, a cactus will often simply suffer in silence until it’s too late.

The first step in growing a healthy cactus is to start with one that is already in good shape. Avoid purchasing plants that have damaged spines, obvious signs of bruising, or lopsided, spindly or uneven growth.

Ideally, buy your cactus as soon as possible after it has arrived at the store.

Contrary to popular belief, most cacti do not prefer to live in pure sand. However, since they are slow growing and most require full sun (some exceptions), they can quickly be crowded out in richer soils.

In the home, where competition from neighbouring plants has been eliminated, cacti grow well in free-draining media richer than sand. Commercial cactus mixes are available, but you can make your own by combining one part very coarse sand or grit with two parts regular houseplant, peat-based potting mix.

The quantity and frequency of watering is one of the biggest dilemmas cactus owners face: since a cactus does not wilt at the first sign of drought stress, the plant itself offers few cues when it needs water. A good rule of thumb is to water when the top inch of soil is dry. This rule should be adjusted with the season, as plants require

more water during their active growth period (early spring to mid-summer) than when they are entering a slower or even dormant phase. In winter, plants may require water only once a month: supply just enough water to prevent the roots from drying out completely.

One of the most important considerations is that the pots must never stand in water. Waterlogged media can quickly lead to rotting roots with disastrous consequences for the plant.

For fertilizer, use a specialty cactus fertilizer or something like1515-30 + minor nutrients. Fertilize every second watering during the summer; in the winter, fertilize every fourth watering at only half strength.

While most cacti tolerate a wide range of temperatures, most will do well at regular room temperature. Do not expose them to chilling drafts or trap them behind a curtain on a windowsill in winter.

Sun-loving cacti are native to dry regions where they receive direct sunlight for most of the day. In the home, place them near a window with a south or west exposure to receive direct sunlight for at least a few hours each day. During the summer, your cacti will appreciate being moved outdoors where they can receive brighter light combined with cooling daytime breezes and cool humid air at night. When moving cacti outdoors, be sure to place them in partial shade for the first few weeks, then slowly move them to a sunnier location. Plants going directly outside into full sun will be scorched by the more intense light found outside the home until they have acclimated.

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: Nov 23, 7:30pm – Two Gardens, East and West; with Sara Williams; Emmanuel Anglican Church.

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By Megan Lacelle megan@advancesouthwest.com

Millions of people across the world were shocked when Donald Trump was announced the President of the United States of America last week.

It was around 2 a.m. where I was staying when the news finally rolled in and Trump took the stage for his acceptance speech. Through heavily lidded eyes I watched him walk to the mic.

I excepted the same dribble he’d be spewing the entire election – quotes about building walls, “bad hombres,” a quick discussion on how he could not have raped that women because “have you seen her?”

Instead, it was something a little different.

Instead I heard this: “Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division, have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people.”

I exhaled deeply.

The campaigns by both Trump and Clinton were exceptionally divisive. Trump aimed his campaigns at the unrest among the working class while Clinton targeted the issues facing minority groups. It felt like a vote for Trump was a vote against women’s rights, against immigration and against minorities – a reason why the hurt ran so bad across America when he won.

The hate and intolerance was palpable so many times throughout the election.

Those minority groups felt rejected by the people of their country. Women wondered how much respect their country could have for them after electing a man who used the phrase “grab them by the p***y.”

While African Americans tweeted and posted about feeling scared to walk in the streets after the new presidential election.

It seems, more than anything, Americans

seem to be voting for a change. This seems like an oxymoron considering they just elected a rich white man, but I digress.

Some voted for Trump because of his straightforward approach to politics, others voted for his economic policy, and some because they are socially backwards and sick of apologizing for it.

Clinton won the popular vote, but Trump took the victory overall. BBC news reported 53 per cent of men voted for Trump.

Of those 53 per cent, 58 per cent were white, 29 per cent were Hispanic, 29 per cent Asian, eight per cent black and 37 per cent other. BBC news also reported in certain demographics that seven out of 10 non-college-educated white men voted for Trump while six out of 10 non-college-educated white women did the same.

For many minority groups a vote for Trump felt like 10 steps back in social policy, for other groups it was a chance to “make America great again.”

Now that the long and arduous election is finally over, it’s time to stop splitting the country by race, education, and gender. It’s time to respect the new values of America and work to make it the safest and most economically viable it can be.

Maybe Trump will stop pandering to his non-college-educated white voters and do as his speech said, “come together as a united one people.”

Maybe he will strengthen the economy and create a better America for all to live in, maybe he won’t. One hopes when it comes to social policy issues, such as the reversal of Roe v Wade, he’s met with so many checks and balances that he can not remove the rights fought so hard for by so many.

One thing is for certain, if Trump does not serve the country the way he plans, he will be out of office in four years.

OPINION

Keystone XL looks a lot more likely now

By Brian Zinchuk brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net

Well, I guess I get to eat some crow for breakfast this morning.

Just a few hours ago, around 2 a.m. Saskatchewan time, Donald Trump was declared winner of the United States presidential election.

When people have asked me what I thought of the idea of Trump winning, I would respond that a guy named Adolf was also elected.

That has been my biggest concern – that his statements about Mexicans and Muslims echoed 1930s statements about Jews in Germany. Hopefully these concerns are unfounded.

However, when it comes to the Canadian oilpatch, Trump’s the guy.

My mind keeps going back to that astonishing day in May, the day when he was confirmed as the Republican candidate for president.

I got a chance to ask him a couple questions on the key foreign policy issue Canada had with the United States for several years. Would he approve the Keystone XL pipeline, and would he invite TransCanada to build it?

His response, in part, was, “I’m saying, “Yes, absolutely, we’ll approve it. But I want a piece of the profits because we’re making it happen through eminent domain and other things. I want a piece of the profits for the Unites States.

That’s how we’re going to make our country rich again, just one way out of thousands, but that’s how we’re

going to make our country rich again and how we’re going to make America great again. You understand what I’m saying?”

At this point, I was looking the future president of the United States eyeball-to-eyeball, about 15 feet away. My heart was going a mile a minute.

I then followed up with a question about TransCanada’s proposed Upland Pipeline, part of the Energy East proposal, which would allow North Dakota oil to be exported into Canada, shipped eastward for either Canadian consumption or export via a port at Saint John, New Brunswick.

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If he does half of what he said he would do, Trump is going to shake up the energy paradigm in North America to the extreme.

A remarkable exchange followed.

Not familiar with it, he asked me, as a reporter, if I liked the idea. I said I love the idea.

He said he wasn’t familiar with it, but his bias would be to approve it.

You can bet oil baron Harold Hamm, who was standing beside him and Trump had name dropped significantly just minutes earlier, explained to Trump while walking down the hallway to the auditorium

how this new pipeline would make things better for North Dakota. I had pointed out to Trump that Hamm could export his oil on Upland pipeline. “What’s this other pipeline, Harold?” I imagine he asked.

Did this question, from a most insignificant Canadian journalist in a sea of election-coverage press, have a slight impact on American foreign policy? When TransCanada makes its formal pitch for the Upland Pipeline, will he remember this interchange in Bismarck?

A day ago, I thought that brief three minute window in time will have been lost to the winds of time.

Today, it has whole new meaning.

With the inauguration on Jan. 20, it’s too late to start construction this winter season. But next summer, it’s a very real possibility that southwest Saskatchewan will buzz with Keystone XL construction. Upland is entirely dependent on TransCanada’s Energy East getting built. If Keystone goes ahead, that might no longer be necessary.

If he does half of what he said he would do, Trump is going to shake up the energy paradigm in North America to the extreme. If he hangs on for two terms, we could see North American energy independence.

For the energy industry which I report on, and am a part of, Trump was the best thing that could happen. Hopefully, for Mexicans and Muslims, he’s not the worst thing.

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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An Australian harvest sunset.

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SSGA “Beef Drive” Calls On Ranchers to Help Food Banks Contributed editor@advancesouthwest.com

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Good Times & Beer Fines By

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e are finally into harvest! I don't need to tell the majority of you just how much of a relief that is. We arrived at Woodstock Farms, located near Newdegate, Western Australia, over two weeks ago, thinking we'd be just in time to get into the full swing of harvest. But of course, as you know, things like that never go quite as planned. The crops were green, and some still are, but we're getting started with what we can – the canola and the barley.

I'm beyond ready to really get going with it all, because that means I get to escape the kitchen! I've spent the past couple of weeks cooking for the harvest crew and doing odd jobs, cleaning, and gardening. Fortunately, our new camp cook, Hannah from Germany, showed up early this week.

I've done my training, logging buddy-seat hours and supervised hours on the “header” (Aussie slang for combine) in both the daylight and the moonlight. As of Tuesday I've been trusted with the harvesting equipment all on my own. The organized system set up here is that the bosses and/or the mechanic goes out first thing in the morning to service the headers, then the daytime operator comes out and begins harvesting. Then, later in the afternoon once the night shift operator has caught up on their sleep, they'll take over the header and carry on until the moisture levels are too high to continue. Or they fall asleep in their seat. Whichever comes first.

The best part of harvesting over here is seeing kangaroos bounce through the crop. I'm also told one of the worst parts of harvesting over here is the kangaroos bouncing through the crop. Or more so, laying in the midst of it. On one of my early training sessions our employer, Charlie, warned me to be on the lookout for kangaroos laying down in the field in front of the combine.

He went on to tell horror stories of farmers accidentally running a kangaroo through the header. You're welcome for that visual. But I still don't think seeing their fuzzy little ears sticking up through the barley will get old.

Today I spent most of my day out on the header until... it rained. Classic, right? It never fails that when you're really feeling the itch to get some acres (or hectares, as they go by down here) off, it rains. But it's what happened after the rain started that I'm shaking my head about. I received a beer fine.

What exactly is a beer fine, you ask? It's the working disciplinary system for the everyday mishaps and mistakes that take place on the farm.

Basically, if you mess up you pay the beer fine, meaning beers are on you next time. For example, today the header operator, Rusty, filled up the combine's grain tank so that it overflowed all over the front of the header. Charlie, our boss, watching from the grain cart, (or the chaser bin as it's called down under), could be heard over the two-way radio, issuing a beer fine. However, Rusty argued his case claiming that his full tank alarm never signalled, meaning that the farm-hand mechanic, Jan, did not fix the alarm. And so the beer fine was passed onto Jan and Jan will be picking up the tab on the next round of Emu Exports.

Ideally your accidents occur while nobody is watching, waiting to call out, “That's a beer fine!” However, I could not hide my wrongdoing today.

I got the combine stuck. Not bogged in mud, but tilted in the ditch. It was the moment I had been dreading, knowing that it was very unlikely I would make it off the farm without some sort of embarrassing screw up.

So there it was. I did everything I could think of to try to get myself unstuck, but finally had to resort to calling Charlie to come rescue me.

Luckily it only took a few minutes to pull me out and he didn't seem too upset. His chuckling at my stupidity was more than welcome. In fact, his lack of words made me wonder whether I was going to get out of this one with just a warning. But I should have known better. Once we made it back to the quarters where we all gather for supper, Charlie finally piped up, in front of everyone.

“Well I think Cleo's earned her first beer fine.”

The Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association is launching a Beef Drive to help out Saskatchewan’s food banks.

Members can help by contributing an animal, or by donating cash to defray the cost of processing. The meat will be processed into hamburger for distribution through food banks across Saskatchewan.

Fresh protein is difficult for food banks to collect through individual donations, so a bulk donation like this is a welcome gesture.

“Saskatchewan’s ranchers are legendary for their willingness to help out a neighbour,” said SSGA President Shane Jahnke. “We hope this Beef Drive can help people put good nutritious food on the table.”

“We’ve set a goal of 1,000 pounds of hamburger,” Jahnke said. “I’m positive we’ll reach that pretty quick.”

Beef is tasty, versatile, easy to prepare and highly nutritious. Besides its obvious protein value, beef is an excel-

lent source of vitamin B12 and a very good source of niacin, vitamin B6, selenium, zinc and phosphorus.

“Nutrition only counts if people eat the food,” Jahnke said. “Just about everybody likes beef, so I’m sure the food banks’ clients will be able to make good use of what we’re able to raise.”

Steve Compton, Executive Director of the Food Banks of Saskatchewan agrees. “Whether in a stir-fry or spaghetti sauce, beef completely increases the amount of good nutrition when paired with some of our other food staples like pasta and fresh vegetables,” he said.

So far, Western Prime Meat Processors in Weyburn and Treen Packers in Swift Current are accepting donated animals, and are offering a significant discount on processing. SSGA has sent out a call to other provincially inspected packing plants, and the list is expected to grow.

For more information on how you can contribute to the Beef Drive, contact the SSGA office at (306) 757-8523.

RU R A L RO O T S

Five years ago today By

Christalee Froese

Five years ago today, I woke up in a hotel room in Beijing. In a bleary state of jetlag weariness and time-change confusion I looked up at a foreign ceiling above me and tried to figure out where I was, what the time could be and why I had come to this place. I was in China. It was 7 a.m. I had come to get my daughter.

As we made our way to a second airport to board another plane destined for central China, my swirling mind was filled with excitement, fear, anticipation, nervousness and questions—mostly questions. At the other end of this flight there was a baby girl waiting for us. Would she like us? Would we bond with her? Would she cry? Would we cry? Would we fall in love at first sight? Would she be traumatized?

So it was that we entered a hotel in Nanchang in a state of overwhelmed anxiety. And there she was. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a little pink jacket being held by a group of Chinese officials.

I made a bee-line through that lobby toward her but I was stopped in my tracks by our adoption guide, and by my husband. They said we couldn’t just go over and grab the child. We had to follow some sort of family friendly protocol in which we’d deliver our luggage to our rooms, gather ourselves and head down to the lobby in a state of calm.

As I threw cold water on my face in our hotel room and tried to steady my frayed nerves, I listened to our guide-di-

rected plan of action. We would go down to the lobby together—my husband, our 13-year-old son, my mother and I. We would not grab the baby. We would simply visit with the baby and let her grow accustomed to the sounds of our voices, the colour of our skin and the foreignness of our speech. We would not grab the baby.

And if it was going well, then we’d work on holding the baby and slowly getting her used to us over a period of time. As we set off down the elevator to the lobby, I repeated to myself…’do not grab the baby.’

We walked up to the table of officials… and before I could meet anyone, or be seated in a chair across from my baby, I did the only thing that was humanly possible for me in that moment. I grabbed the baby! I just grabbed her and I held her and I looked into her eyes and a silent promise passed between us. It was a simple promise—it was a promise of love—to love wholly and completely and unconditionally.

Five years ago today I grabbed the best gift a family could ever dream of receiving.

We are humbled, thankful and forever mindful that all that really matters in the life of a child is that they are here, and they are LOVED. Being grabbed by foreigners isn’t even such a bad thing if what follows afterwards is pure appreciation and love.

Email comments to LCfroese@sasktel. net and follow Christalee Froese’s 21days2joy Blog at 21days2joy.wordpress.com.

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Remember, every day By

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nce again our thoughts focus on commemorating the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war.

For the past seven years, the Advance has taken the time to put together a special edition to honour those who have served, past and present, to the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

It is something that we continue to do with great pride and I hope it shows in the final product.

I was able to attend both the ceremony at Gull Lake School and the Legion Service this past week. I must admit, it is my favourite public event that I attend every year. It makes me reflect on how lucky I am to be able to do what I do and share my passion with others.

We received a nice surprise on Thursday from Newspapers Canada telling us that The Advance had been selected as their very first Member Spotlight - a new initiative from Newspapers Canada that features exceptional work from newspapers across Canada. They chose our 2015 Remembrance Day special section, “Lest We Forget,” to be featured, as it was the winner of the 2016 Great Idea Awards Special Section across Canada for papers with circulation up to 24,999.

A great honour indeed, and one which I am extremely proud of.

We take the time, one day of the year, to pay homage to those who courageously volunteered for the cause of freedom and peace. We take the time to wear poppies and visit memorials and attend ceremonies. We take the time, one day of the year, to stop in silence for thought and reflection and for that one brief moment, we remember why … why we must work for peace every day of the year.

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Steve Sanford

Master Bombardier Steve Sanford, who now resides in Gull Lake, spoke at both the Gull Lake School and Legion Services last week.

Steve served in Afghanistan in 2008

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deported to Afghanistan in February and returned home in September of 2008. I was 23 years-old.

People often ask me how it was. I didn’t really know how to answer that question to somebody who never had any military experience.

Some people would ask if it was like a hit blockbuster movie or Call of Duty? I can tell you this. From my experience, it is not like that and there’s a lot more to it than that.

The hardest part of going to war in my experience, is knowing that you may never come back and the thought about leaving your wife without a husband and your kids without a father is almost unbearable.

Before deporting, soldiers had to prepare for the worst case scenario. There were 19 yearolds writing their wills. For me, it played on my mind constantly.

I had two kids … my oldest, 5 and my youngest, 8 months old.

I couldn’t stand the thought of not being in their lives.

Before I deployed, I did all the standard health care coverage.

I even video recorded myself reading bedtime stories, so that if something were to happen, I would still be there to read to them at night.

On February 22, 2008, the day came when my family saw me off on a plane to Afghanistan.

I flew to Germany and then to Dubai, where we were given our weapons, ammunition and body armour. Reality then started to kick in when I landed in Kan-

dahar. We got our vehicles and specialized equipment. News of soldiers being killed was already getting around. It didn’t seem real to me at the time, even though I prepared for this for years.

During my preparation in Kandahar in the middle of Taliban country, I wrote the most difficult letter I have ever wrote, will write. I wrote an “in case of my death” letter to my wife and kept it in the right pocket of my uniform.

During my seven month deployment, we lost 19 soldiers in combat. Seeing and hearing your brothers falling was difficult. I couldn’t help but think how their family would cope with the news of their loved ones never returning home.

I would call home using satellite phone and on one occasion in particular, we were talking as normal when all of a sudden we were being attacked by mortar fire. Instinctively, I just hung up the phone, headed for the bunker to help find where the mortar fire was coming from.

About two hours later I decided to call back home and continue my conversation.

I noticed my wife was upset and I then found out why. When we were talking, my wife heard a loud explosion and suddenly, the phone went dead. With all of the media coverage at the time, she couldn’t help but think of the worse case scenario.

We always knew when a Canadian soldier died because orders would come down on the

radio.

They didn’t want people calling home or post anything to Facebook and a family finding out what happened before the appropriate people could properly inform them.

We normally would patrol for 12 hours in 50°C, loaded down with 80 lbs of equipment. That was the easy part.

I witnessed some horrifying event that I won’t get into detail here, but that was the difficult part of our mission.

Every soldier, and I mean every soldier who goes to war, will never come back the same person. Every soldier will have their demons to battle. Some will battle them for the rest of their lives and I know I have mine.

There were 158 soldiers who died in Afghanistan, but unfortunately that isn’t the total.

Another 54 soldiers who were battling their demons died of suicide and I’m sure that number will keep rising.

As I conclude, I just want to ask one favour from you all.

You are the future. Please keep Remembrance Day alive. Never forget the men and women who died to protect this great country. Wear a poppy with pride and know the hardship that every soldier went through was to keep peace and freedom within our borders.

As Aaron Kilbourn once said, “The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.”

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Captain Keith Mirau Life before & memory today

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orty-two years ago the Buffalo 461, filled with Canadian Peacekeepers, was flying over the Middle East before being shot down, killing all nine crew members.

Now since 2008, August 9, the day the “Buffalo Nine” were killed in Canada’s greatest loss of life in a peacekeeping mission, is known across the country as National Peacekeepers Day. It is a day to reflect on those who gave the greatest sacrifice, and those currently on serving as Canadian Peacekeepers.

But what still remains a vivid memory of that day is news to some, including the connection Gull Lake has to August 9 and the “Buffalo Nine”. Captain Keith Bradley Mirau was a Gull Lake citizen before joining the Canadian Air Force, enlisting on February 19, 1963.

Captain Keith Bradley Mirau Born October 19, 1944 in Swift Current, Keith and his family moved to Gull Lake in the early 1950s. Younger brother to Garth Mirau and older brother Neil Mirau, they were raised with the small town feelings Gull Lake has to offer.

“I think we were probably more or less the epitome of a normal Gull Lake family,” younger brother Neil Mirau reminisced about his childhood in the small town.

“Garth and Keith played hockey, I played high school football and a couple other sports.”

“I liked growing up there and we did all the normal small town things.”

Keith was a quieter man to some, but liked by all. He was academically inclined which helped

him get into the Air Force. Keith was more or less the ideal candidate for the position.

Despite being eight years younger, Keith and Neil were quite close.

Although going through typical brotherly fights, Neil idolized his brother.

“He was kind of a hero figure for me,” Neil explained. “When he went into the Air Force that was just amplified.”

“If I was going to summarize Keith up in a few kind words, I think gracious, sincere and genuine would be some of the ones I would attach to him.”

For as long as Neil could remember, his older brother was going to be not just a pilot, but with the Canadian Air Force. When the time came that Keith was asked to join the peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East, without question Keith joined. But not everyone in the family agreed with this decision and by this time, Keith was married to Gloria Mirau.

“I do remember his response…I thought it showed his character in the correct detail,” Neil explained Keith’s response to his reserved parents about being a Peacekeeper. “He simply said look, I joined the Air Force to serve the country.

The country has asked me to do this, I’m going to do it.”

“He was not at all reluctant. He was enthusiastic about it.”

But when that day came, on August 9, 1974, when the now older Neil from Calgary was visiting his parents back in Gull Lake, the Mirau family changed.

As the news was spreading of a Canadian Peacekeepers plane being shot down, the tension in their mother was growing. RCMP informed their father of the news that the plane shot down was the

These pages commemorate southwest Saskatchewan’s war dead. Those men and women who perished in service to their country for the high ideals of peace and freedom. We apologize if we have omitted anyone.

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Pte Alexander Ralph Eby - WWI Pte George Johnston - WWI F/S Robert Jones - WWII Pte Arthur Leggett - WWI Pte George Richard Low - WWI P/O Lennox Cameron Main - WWII Pte Thomas McCandless - WWI Pte Hugh H. McCormick - WWI Pte Gordon John McDonald - WWI Pte Edgar William Sheldon - WWI Gds Gordon Otis Pederson - WWII Pte Vernon Earl Taylor - WWII F/O Frederick Harold Viney - WWII

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Buffalo, Keith’s plane.

“So dad went home and mom saw him walking up the driveway in the middle of the day, which was unheard of, he wouldn’t be home,” Neil explained. “She knew exactly what had happened and of course, all hell broke loose in our house.”

“We were all sort of beside ourselves with grief.”

Support starting rolling in from friends across the town to the Mirau family. The Town of Gull Lake came together to support one of their own in crisis.

Although the family eventually moved on, their mother carried her grief with her until her death in 2010.

proclamation.

“Something that when it happens to a small town person, at the moment it happened it set the town on its ass,” Frook explained. “I’m proud of that little town would do that.”

When told about the proclamation, Neil and his brother Garth were happy to hear their hometown giving recognition to their late brother’s sacrifice for his country. Although he was surprised to hear who it came from, Neil was happy Tom helped bring the proclamation to life.

“I was really gratified after we heard that it had been done, that it come from Tom,” Neil explained.

“I just had no idea that it would come from Tom, but we’re really pleased If I was going to summarize that it did.”

Keith up in a few kind words, The proclamation I think gracious, sincere and speaks to Gull Lake’s dedgenuine would be some of the ication to remember all ones I would attach to him.” veterans, past and current,

“

Proclamation of Captain Keith Mirau Day The story of Keith Mirau and his tragic death on August 9 was not one widely known to everyone.

But for one man in particular, he can still remember the day the world for the Mirau’s changed forever.

Tom Frook, a former resident of Gull Lake who now lives in Nova Scotia, grew up down the street from the Mirau family. Fathers of both families being local entrepreneurs, playing street hockey with the brothers, Frook had a connection with the family.

“I can tell you the community felt horrible. I did as well. It was a profound in the day…A tragedy involving anyone’s family is something that stands out in your mind,” Frook explained remembering the day the news broke about Keith’s death.

So this past summer it was noted on his Facebook Page of Keith Mirau’s contribution to Canadian Peacekeepers and little recognition to the man himself, Frook took that seriously and contacted the Town of Gull Lake.

August 9 would be known as Captain Keith Mirau Day alongside National Peacekeepers Day in Gull Lake.

“I wrote an email to the mayor and I gave him a brief background of the story…I explained to him what I could remember of what happened in Gull Lake in 1974,” Frook said.

Mayor Blake Campbell and the town council knew of the events on August 9. But what was not known was what came afterwards, that because of the deaths of Keith and the other eight Peacekeepers on the Buffalo, this led to the national recognition of Peacekeepers Day. “We discussed it at council and we unanimously agreed that we certainly were in favor of making that proclamation,” Mayor Campbell explained.

Frook was delighted to hear the town agreed on the

and their sacrifice to this country.

“The one thing I have to say with Gull Lake, as long as I’ve lived here this seems to keep growing, we have a very strong connection with our men and women in the Canadian Armed Forces,” Mayor Campbell explained. “I think it will give us a whole, a much deeper appreciation for National Peacekeepers Day and what it means.”

In a letter to the Town of Gull Lake, Garth and Neil on behalf of the Mirau family thanked the entire town and those involved in the proclamation of Captain Keith Mirau Day for their recognition and remembrance of not just Keith’s sacrifice but Peacekeepers across the country.

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Letters Home The following are excerpts taken from a diary of letters written by flying officer Don Elliott to his parents in Swift Current, and who is now a prisoner of war in Germany. Don is well known to many in and around Gull Lake, and we are indebted to the Swift Current Sun in being able to pass on this very interesting article. At the time he was brought down, Don was a Pilot Officer, but just recently his parents have received information that he has been promoted to Flying Officer.

July 11, 1941: Dear Family: Bailed out over Germany.

Landed easily in wheat field.

Bruised toes and back eye only damage. Rest of crew safely same way. Treatment by Luftwaffe has been chivalrous food and quarters quite good. Scenery is grand ... Later I may ask for clarinet, books, etc. Hear BBC news daily so still can keep us with the world. P.S. At last I’ll save some money.

We were taken to an R.A.F. camp near Frankfurt and then had a great reunion when Robin Hunter was brought in.

Now we are in an army officers camp near Saizburg on the Austrian frontier. Our quarters are quite good and food also thanks to the Red Cross. I also have received clothing, winter underwear and socks, sweater, battle dress. Food can only be sent through the states. Could use some orange juice, chicken, chocolate with nuts, etc. I am feeling fine and going to study the clarinet. French, German and may be shorthand. Will try my best to make good use of my time. I can only write three letters a month.

Learning French with a Free French pilot; that should make Miss Murphy happy. Then each day we play a game - combination of rugby and basketball. I also have been given a clarinet and practice half an hour a day.

They have quite a good orchestra here, lucky for me. All the army officers have been here over a year and things are very well organized. We get our own meals and yesterday Johnny Argrell actually concocted a marvelous chocolate cake. It was so good I was quite homesick, remembering the ones you used to make, Mother. We now miss the war news particularly the daily scoop of the R.A.f. vs the Luftwaffe.

August 2, 1941: I am sitting at the window of my cell looking at Salzburg castle with the evening sun shining on it, It is about 15 miles away and makes a pretty picture silhouetted against the mountains which are high enough to have snow on them. Just across the river is a small Austrian town with trees and fields around it. Weather has been grand although it rains on the slightest provocation. We are staying in what used to be in olden times the Archbishop of Salzburg’s hunting lodge and it is quite an edifice with courtyard, etc. We get up at 8, parade at 9, Shorthand 10-11, dinner.

French 12 to 1, German 1 to 2, clarinet 2 to 2:30. Then basketball, tea at 4, supper at 8 in bed at 11. We have some good books and also play a bit of cards. I’m up about $25 in cash

and about $150 on the books.

Let me know all the news about the major leagues and Bob Feller. Send me scores of games as I mentioned before.

Ask Aunt Gertrude to send things with Vitamin C. There are 19 in the Air Force here, three Canadians and we’re all living together happily. Hope crops are good.

August 12, 1941: Looking forward to hearing from you.

Last letter I had was dated June 10. I don’t even know how July 1st in Swift Current came off. I was invited out for dinner last night and had some American food. George Kane, a fellow Canadian from Toronto, had a parcel from a girl friend in the U.S.A. I helped him demolish it. Food is one of our most important topics and you must be prepared for a run on the refrigerator when I get home. Felt very good today. The Decca people sent us a gramophone and records and we had a jam session - seemed to soothe me somehow.

Join the air force and see the world. Tomorrow morning we are off again. This time our permanent R.A.F. came at Lubeck, 40 miles from Hamburg on the Baltic. There is even a possibility we shall go via Berlin. I am rather sorry to leave Laufen because we have been treated most kindly here. The army officers have been kind and with the help of the Red Cross we are well equipped for the winter. What I would like is a rugby ball and the book “The Marks of An Educated Man” by Wiggam.

Trip will probably be two days on a passenger train. I just weighed myself this morning and am 171 lbs. So you can see my misfortunes are not weighing very heavily on me. I’m still looking forward to seeing the rest of the world. Wish you could have the rain that’s now falling.

August 28, 1941: We didn’t go through....(Berlin) after all but changed trains four times.

Then we came on here. (This letter heavily censored. Ed.) I must admit Germany is a very beautiful country especially in the south. I was struck by the industries in an agricultural country. It seemed strange after the plains of Saskatchewan.

This camp has all the officers from Crete as well as the

R.A.F. so now I’ve gained a fair knowledge of the war. We are hoping the privileges we had at the other camp come here soon.

September 4, 1941: (Apparently parcels had been delayed)... How often have I thought of spareribs and dressing or toast with bacon and cheese. You know how I like potatoes and I eat them eagerly. Seems funny how we longed to be called up now its for the war to be over. So when I return, I expect the fatted calf

literally.

I’ve been giving some thought to my plans after the war. I have a lot of fun building castles in the air. I’m longing for a letter even more than a Red Cross parcel. How was July 1st and who’ll be playing in the World Series? I’m still well and cheerful.

September 16, 1941: What I wouldn’t give for a letter. The football season will just about be starting and I guess I’ll miss Saturday afternoons with my ear to the radio. The weather has been cold and rainy but we remain cheerful. Each new batch bring in good news and the coal issue starts October 1st. Studying has become difficult - we are quite cramped for space and its impossible to bet away by oneself. But I’m continuing my French and shorthand. Country around here much like our own but doesn’t compare with Laufen which was a paradise. Tell the Burkes I can no longer write to Doug in England. Still going to bed at 10:30 up at 7:30. It’s unbelievable.

October 2, 1941: Great news this week. Jimmy arrived.

(Pal. Jim Davies, who started out in airforce with him.) You can imagine how pleased I was

to see him. A great reunion.

He says he received your letter before coming down via parachute. Have been longing lately that you got in touch with a Quota club Kiwanis club Junior Chamber of Commerce in the United States for food parcels, if they could adopt us it would help immeasurably.

All our English comrades could then share in them. Perfect football weather, reminds me of home. The arrival of Jimmy has assured our trip around the world. Tell all my friends to write by air mail as I’m starved for news. If we have friends in Norway, Denmark, Holland or Sweden they could help too.

October 25, 1941: Got your first letter today with Jess’s and Evelyn’s. Imagine how thrilled I was, read and re-read them. I’ve moved again to a camp where all the English P.O.W. officers have been gathered. We’ve received Red Cross parcels. We can always use vitamin foods, milk powder, biscuits, etc. Mother will you look after my Christmas gifts for me. You’ll notice my wants change with conditions so it’ll be a trial figuring out what I need.

November 8, 1941: Received your letters on September 8.

I’m sure I read each a dozen times. 3 Canadian, 2 French, 1 Australian and 10 Englishmen in my room. Make at least half of my personal parcels chocolate. Now after a month of Red Cross parcels my weight up to 178 and I feel stronger. Any clothing is welcome. Cigarettes are always wanted. Funny, next door lives Ken Mackie, Asst.

Accountant at Guelph and Jeff Peat of the Royal. It looks like Saskatchewan here and the camp is much like the airport without hangars of course. I’m healthy and we keep occupied cooking, reading, etc. Changing camps makes study difficult.

December 3, 1941: Looking forward to Christmas. Wish I could be with you all. While you’re eating turkey I’ll be having steak and kidney pudding from cans. Four of us are saving for the day and we are going to be able to have a real breakfast and dinner. Hope one of my American parcels arrives before then. We are planning to have a real cake too. Have written to have then send you a ‘caterpillar’ for my parachute jump. It was quite interesting, just like a movie, burning aero-

plane, etc. I got out at about 6000 feet and when my chute opened it caught in my feet and I must have been 500 and 1000 feet before it got free. I was fourth out and first down.

Even beating the plane. Elliott luck again. Weather has been wet and chilly but no snow.

My mustache is gone but I’m trying a pipe. Happy New year, etc.

December 7, 1941: So sorry to hear Brooklyn was beaten.

Our little stove keeps us warm and I cooked Johnny Argell’s and my supper, a tin of corned beef and prunes on it. Had toast for breakfast and soup for dinner so feel quite full.

December 13, 1941: Very unlike Christmas. I’m feeling well but naturally a little home sick after all it’s my first Christmas away from you.

December 26, 1941: Considering everything, had a good Christmas. With typical luck your parcel arrived December 24... And a Canadian cigarette parcel. After saving for six weeks we had a relatively large breakfast of sausage and bacon and were so full we had only soup and steak and kidney pudding for supper. Your parcel was grand especially the shoes and gloves. Winter has arrived at last and everything reminds me of home except the barbed wire but we’re healthy and get along splendidly, thank Heaven.

January 8, 1942: We are to move again to an air force camp. Weather grand, cold and clear. Lowest temperature zero. I’ve seen a couple of grand shows put on by fellows, musical comedies written here with some wonderful female impersonations. We’ll miss them when we go. Washed my socks today, a big job. Guess I’ll have to rip one to get wool to mend the others. What with cooking I’ll be a real domestic.

Had a quiet New Year’s Eve, a few came in for a sing song.

Tell the Kinetics to write me.

January 18, 1942: We are feeling quite cheered by the news and are hoping for the best. My French is improving.

We made a little rink and skate on it with clamp on skates. I’ve been playing a little poker and making the odd lagermark, following father’s rules. You’d be surprised how famous they are. We are all very interested in the newest films and songs, so a review of some of them would be really appreciated.

I’ve been a prisoner six months now ... really it doesn’t seem that long.

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L-R: P/O Bruce “Dad” Maclennan (Gull Lake, SK), F/O John Joseph “Clark Gable” Gladish, F/S W.H. “Milly” Milne, F/O Don “Bogey” Bowes, F/S G.R. Berry, Sgt. John “Jack” Rea, F/S R.W. “Bill Rowly” Rowlands. Only Berry, Milne and Rowlands survived and were captured.

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light Sergeant Bruce MacLennan, 21, of Gull Lake paid the supreme sacrifice after his Lancaster KB869 squadron was attacked by a ME262 jet fighter - one of the Luftwaffe's newest weapons. The ME262 was causing heavy losses in raids by Bomber Command and the USAAF bomber units. This ME 262 from most likely from Luftwaffe III/JG 7, caused severe damage to the Lancaster, bring-

ing it down at Hittfeld 9 km South of Hamburg on March 31st, which was as the air war was coming to an end. Three members of the crew became POWs and the remaining four were killed in the action.

Bruce is buried in Nenndorf Cemetery, 12 miles south of Hamburg, along with one other members of his crew.

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l Countryman eventually opened Al’s Bakery in Gull Lake after his service in WWII ended. He was a transport driver with the Canadian Service Corps. The Service Corps job was to haul fuel, food, ammunition and other supplies in to the front line soldiers so they would be able to keep pushing ahead toward final victory. Without the efficient work of the transport drivers like Al the Allies never would have won the Second World War. Al recently told us about some of his experiences in the war.

“I arrived 14 days after the Invasion (of Normandy). We were stuck in the worst storm on the ocean for two or three days before we could land. We came in on the LST (Landing Ship Tank) we called them naval Boxers.

We were supposed to drive the tanks off into the water, but the cab was only 2 ft above the water. How were you supposed to get the darn things off? Anyway we did. After that I was mostly driving trucks.”

Al remembers the battle for Caen particularly well.

“When we were at station there we watched the planes for 3 or 4 weeks going over and over. Caen was just all beat to hell in the bombing campaign, you know. Somebody had ploughed it—they had to plough a road through for us so we could drive through...

One time we drew straws to see who would have to haul this water equipment up near the front lines in Caen.

I drew the short straw and an English Pioneer came with me, and I remember we had this water dripping all over…As I drew near Caen I could see these big puffs once in awhile. It was the damn Germans shooting 88s from

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an island there by Caen shooting at us! I got there, unloaded and got out of there as quick as I could.

“All the way back to camp you’d see a puff once in awhile. I got all the way back to where we were bivouacked and, I think it was a small truck and three or four big trucks, they’d (the Germans) hit the camp while I was gone.”

Another operation Al remembers very well to this day was when the Allies were looking to close the Falaise Gap. “I went to the Falaise Gap and that was where the Germans really bucked us hard. If they’d had any brains they would have bombed the hell out of us on the road ‘cause we couldn’t go anywhere, too many people, we just sat there for two days… You never knew when they were going to hit you. The SS had these what we called Moaning Minnies (Nebelwerfer rocket launchers). They’d shoot a shell at you and it’d moan and groan and then hit with an explosion. It’d scare the hell out of ya. Toward the end you wouldn’t pay no attention to it; you’d just keep on going.”

Later in the war Al hauled ammo and supplies to drop off points and would bring German prisoners back on the same truck.

“All we did was drive to where we were supposed to drive. The English Pioneer Corps would unload us and we’d be on our way. We’d haul things like ammunition and high octane gas and we’d haul German prisoners out.

We’d stack them in there like posts and pull a strap around them after.”

The German prisoners never gave him or his guys too much trouble Al

tells us; they just seemed happy to be out of the war.

“One time our sergeant or corporal got lost so we stopped for a rest beside an apple orchard. I fell asleep.

Pretty soon there was a tap on the shoulder. It was one of our prisoners!

‘We got to get going,’ he said; ‘we’ve been over in the the orchard getting apples.’

“I looked and all of them guys (the German prisoners) came back.

They’d jumped out to pick some apples! And I hadn’t been the only guy sleeping; it was most of us. That was near the end of the war.”

Al’s war time service ended a few months later when his Transport unit was charged with bringing some coal back from the Ruhr in Germany. Al slipped and broke his ankle badly when he jumped down at the coal field. He was eventually sent back to England to recover. Since the war was pretty much over at that point, when an English nurse came through and asked if he wanted to go home on a hospital ship Al readily agreed.

“Coming back I was on a hospital ship with 200 people; it was like a cork in a bathtub … We got home just before Christmas in 1945.”

Al was confined to a stretcher case all the way back to Regina. After that he was on crutches for awhile. When he got back to Gull Lake he threw his crutches away and never looked back when he got off the train. Al was just happy to be home and in mostly one piece.

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mines and got blowed up; hit with shells, you know.

We seen a lot of those guys coming back ‘cause we were closest to England there, right where they let them off (on Juno Beach).”

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Never known, but never forgotten

By Kailey Guillemin

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or many, it’s an honour to meet veterans of past wars. To hear their stories and see into the eyes of those who lived through devastation and to express gratitude for their service.

For one young man, words cannot explain the feelings that overcome him when shakes the hand of a veteran. Or when he walked on the ground where men fought and died in the two World Wars.

Kyle Hansvall, 21 year old native to Shaunavon, had the opportunity to visit the Netherlands where he finally got to meet his great uncle Arthur and thank him for what he did for his country.

Brother to his grandfather on his dad’s side of the family, Arthur left to fight in World War II in 1942.

“It was something I was always kind of…drawn to it and I was really humbled that he did make that sacrifice,” Hansvall explained. “That was my drawing factor, to always want to learn more about him and know more about him.”

Arthur, born in 1923, came from a large family – three brothers and four sisters. The family homestead was stationed south of Tompkins. But when the war broke out and it was time for someone from the family to head to war, the oldest brother did his duty.

Arthur never returned home, killed in 1944 at the age of 21.

One day Hansvall and his family came across the letter that was sent to Arthur’s parents after his death. According to this letter, Arthur, alongside his friend from the war, were repairing defences near the German and Dutch border before an artillery shell hit the ground in front of them. They were both killed on impact.

“When I found that letter it kind of gave me more information on him which was great,” Hansvall explained. He had troubles tracking down information about his great uncle so the letter gave him a glimpse as to what happened.

So this past year, Hansvall packed up and headed off to the Netherlands to find where his great uncle Arthur is buried, and to finally meet him.

After long flights, almost impossible missions of navigating through Dutch streets when you only speak English, Hansvall stumbled across a little bar in Nijmegen where he was staying. Hansvall went in wanting a beer and some food, he left with more knowledge about his great uncle and the area he fought at.

An older gentleman overheard Hansvall tell the bartender why he was in Nijmegen which sparked his attention.

The man wanted to know more about his great uncle and why Hansvall came to a place barely anyone would visit.

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“The old guy he took his glasses off and he burst into tears I the middle of this bar…the guy he was sobbing and he excused himself and walked out,” Hansvall explained after he told the man what he knew about Arthur. “The bartender came up to me and said his family was very effected by the war and he still cries every time he learns of a soldier who died for Holland.”

During the war, Netherlands was under Nazi control. Canadian soldiers played a leading role in liberating them from Germany’s grasp.

So for the old man at a random Nijmegen bar to see a young Canadian man come out to the It was something I was area to pay his respects, means everything. always kind of…drawn Hansvall spent the to it and I was really next couple of hours humbled that he did with the bartender, the old men and a war make that sacrifice,” historian discussing his great uncle and the battles he was in. Arthur found with the Second Canadian Infantry and died just short of making his way into Germany.

The next day, Hansvall journeyed to Groesbeek where the Canadian War Cemetery houses great uncle Arthur.

Around 2400 Canadians are buried in the cemetery. After about 45 minutes of walking through rows of tombstones, there he spotted Arthur Honsvall.

“When I did find him, it stopped me dead in my tacks because all those, they’re all marble, they’re all vaguely the same,” Hansvall said. “That’s all guys from home who is this was 70 years ago, this very well could have been me.”

“That’s what hit me the most standing on my great uncles grave because he died when he was 21 and when I was there I was 21.”

Hansvall’s experience at the Canadian War Cemetery and seeing how the war still impacts families today, his outlook on the wars and his appreciation for veterans has changed.

“You sit there and you try to find words to describe it but really it’s something like thank you?” Hansvall explained. “But it seems just such a pitiful, that’s all, there’s gotta be something more you can say or something more you can do but when you’re there in that moment, you struggle for anything else.”

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ON July 28, 1944 seven men were shot out of the sky in their bomber. Three men survived, later to be held as prisoners of war.

By Kailey

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lexander Robinson was A only 29 when he was held prisoner for 10 months

in Germany during World War II. His wife Phyllis was back home in Kincaid hearing the news about the events, wondering if he would come home.

She was expecting their first child, Alexander unaware he would become a father when he returned.

“That time of my life, many, many prayers I’ll tell you,” Phyllis explained. “It was on your mind and thank goodness he did return because I was afraid for a while that he wouldn’t get back.”

Laura Loverin, youngest daughter of Alex and Phyllis, is in awe of her father and those who fought during the war. Although Alex didn’t share many stories of his time, she knew enough.

“You just have to admire their grit, everything that they went through,” Loverin exclaimed. “Wow, the stories of what they went through and the bravery of all the men and women that served, how they volunteered to go in and through that.”

When Alex’s plane was shot down they took refuge in a farm house nearby. But that didn’t last long until a worker on the farm spotted them and they were reported.

During his time at prison, the family didn’t know if he would survive, or how he even did survive. Packages being pillaged, little to no food, starving every day, marching for days on end and the threat looming of being shot for not following orders.

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For Phyllis, in her eyes the Red Cross is what saved her husband.

“If it hadn’t been for the Red Cross it would have been pretty tough going,” Phyllis explained. “That was one thing they could count on was food from the Red Cross.”

The Red Cross was one of the few organizations that were able to get some form of food within the prison camps.

To this day, Phyllis and her daughter are both strong supporters of the Red Cross as well as the Kincaid Legion.

Upon returning home, the Legion was a source of comfort for Alex and the family allowing the veterans to come together and help support one another.

“When all those guys were still in the legion, what fun they had,” Loverin said. “I truly think they knew, they appreciated being able to have that fun.”

The day Alex came home was a special moment for Phyllis. Not only was her husband finally returning home safely, he was meeting his daughter for the very first time.

“Oh he couldn’t keep his eyes off her, the baby for a while,” Phyllis explained. “It made tears come to your eyes almost.”

It took a while for Alex to get his strength back to continue on a normal family life.

1981 at the age of 65, Alexander Robinson passed away.

The family will always have a great amount of gratitude towards the Red Cross and their efforts within the war.

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emembrance Day. A day to reflect on what we have and how it came to be. To remember those who sacrificed their life in duty and to those who came home, but still live with the memories.

I had the honour of talking to Gordon Hartley a 93 year old World War II veteran from Swift Current. Talking with this man not only amplified my appreciation for all those who were involved in the war, it changed my outlook on war itself.

History class was always the most interesting hour of school.

It was the moment that you learned the significance of the great wars. You read about the plans to liberate places like Holland from Germany’s grasp, or to watch documentaries of the two World Wars and see all the men lining the trenches before charging through enemy lines.

The more knowledge I craved, the more it became glorified.

You think by learning you’re showing your gratitude and respect. I attended Remembrance Day ceremonies, wore my poppy, took a moment to reflect on the freedom I have.

It was the right thing to do, at least that’s what I was told.

But then I listened to a man who’s seen it. The destruction, the fighting, the pain and suffering from civilians caught in the cross fire.

He made it real. He opened my eyes to what I was raised to know was the proper thing to do – respect and honour our veterans – and made it real life.

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Happiness for being back on Canadian soil.

Sadness for your fallen brethren that could have been you.

I’ve always had a mountain of respect for the men and women who were involved in war over the years. For the ones who volunteered to head overseas to a whole new world filled with disaster and darkness. With death.

But war is not cool, it’s terrifying. It’s not fun, it’s trauma-

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tizing. As interesting as it may be to learn the history of the events, it should come alongside with respect for those within the events.

In 1942 Hartley signed up for the war joining the Royal Canadian Corp Signals. At that time, it was the thing you did. War had broken and you went overseas to protect your country.

Not sleeping in a bed. Trying to communicate with family back home but not evening knowing if anything you’re sending makes sense. Seeing the mess that was ahead of you, and left behind by you.

This is what he, and those within his outfit of the Signal Corp went through until he made it back home New Year’s Eve, 1945. A bittersweet moment. Happiness for being back on Canadian soil. Sadness for your fallen brethren that could have been you.

So this is for you Gordon, and for all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice that I cannot ever imagine. I can say thank you every day for the rest of my life and it wouldn’t be enough.

So I stand tall, raise my right hand to just above my eye and I salute you.

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Why wear a poppy?

By Don

Crawford

"Please wear a poppy," the lady said And held one forth, but I shook my head.

Then I stopped and watched as she offered them there, And her face was old and lined with care; But beneath the scars the years had made There remained a smile that refused to fade.

A boy came whistling down the street, Bouncing along on care-free feet.

His smile was full of joy and fun, "Lady," said he, "may I have one?"

When she'd pinned it on he turned to say, "Why do we wear a poppy today?"

The lady smiled in her wistful way And answered, "This is Remembrance Day, And the poppy there is the symbol for The gallant men who died in war.

And because they did, you and I are free That's why we wear a poppy, you see."

"I had a boy about your size, With golden hair and big blue eyes.

He loved to play and jump and shout, Free as a bird he would race about.

As the years went by he learned and grew and became a man - as you will, too."

"He was fine and strong, with a boyish smile, But he'd seemed with us such a little while When war broke out and he went away.

I still remember his face that day When he smiled at me and said, Goodbye, I'll be back soon, Mom, so please don't cry."

"But the war went on and he had to stay, And all I could do was wait and pray.

His letters told of the awful fight, (I can see it still in my dreams at night), With the tanks and guns and cruel barbed wire, And the mines and bullets, the bombs and fire."

"Till at last, at last, the war was won And that's why we wear a poppy son."

The small boy turned as if to go, Then said, "Thanks, lady, I'm glad to know.

That sure did sound like an awful fight, But your son - did he come back all right?"

We salute our veterans

A tear rolled down each faded check; She shook her head, but didn't speak.

I slunk away in a sort of shame, And if you were me you'd have done the same; For our thanks, in giving, if oft delayed, Thought our freedom was bought - and thousands paid!

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I thought of my pa the world so clea pa, who had gone off to fight, So n, and I looked out at him near, A nd do so bright, I wish he was with me, wn my cheek ran I a single, salty tearwanted .

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One day in the m ail, a letter arrived to cr y, The pa , my mother okay!” I said withper said “MIA” “Missing in Actioread it, and began n? dread, I pictured him in my head, ! This is not cold, suffering, possibly dead.

“Months have go brave man.” Said ne by.” I said with a sigh, “Your m papa’s a strong, him! He should bea with a twinkle in her eye, “Oh, m here, at home!” D arling don’t worryother! I miss , we’re not alone.”

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(L) Newspaper courtesy King Gin. (R) A copy of the original document Corporal Dayton Toney of Gull Lake received declaring that the war was over.

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Lest We Forget

By Kit Simpson Originally published November 6, 2012

G

ull Lake resident Dwight Small had the chance a few years ago to hear the end of a tale the beginning of which he had been involved 66 years earlier.

“On the night of Dec. 14 and 15 in 1944,” says Small, “we went on behind the German line to get a prisoner. (It was my first patrol.)

The Germans opened up on us. Our officer told us we were on our own as we could find our way out as there was no way he could take us out. (There were about 15 of us.)

“On the way out I found a wounded man. He said he was dying and to leave him and save myself. I wouldn't leave him. I pulled him up by the shoulder and told the man with me to take his legs. We had to take him over a thing four dich water on the other side. Had to wade in the water. Finally we got him back to our line. He took my hand and thanked me for getting his body out.

Figuring the man had later died, Small continued on with his life and his war.

It was 66 years later that he struck up a conversation with a man who seemed oddly familiar with the rescue story.

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"It was his dad,” says Small, “and his dad had told the same story.

The person was Merle Undseth ... he lived for 50 years or more after that night."

Military documents subsequently proved what they already knew to be true – or as Merle Undseth’s son said to Small that night, “If not for you, I wouldn’t exist.”

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Troop Train - June 1940: Stop at Gull Lake for Route March for Exercise. Photos taken by Grade 12 student, Nettie Badge.

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We will never forget They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. lest we forget.

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Home Based Education Status Report

By JP Claire Superintendent of Schools

As outlined by provincial legislation, Home-Based Education students (between the ages of 6 and 15) are to register with their local school division or directly with the Ministry.

Parents/Guardians are to provide school divisions with an educational plan in the areas of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies that fit with the Ministries Goals of Education prior to the commencement of the Home-Based program/school year.

Parents/Guardians are also required to submit an Assessment or Progress Report to the School Division at the end of the school year and prior to registration approval for the following year.

The Board has approved funds of up to $300 per child per annum to support the costs of educational materials and resources.

The total enrolment of students in Home-Based Education has increased

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Energy and Resources Minister Dustin Duncan officially announced new oil and gas tenure regulations in Saskatchewan, effective October 27, 2016, which replace four tenure regulations and implement the Crown Minerals Electronic Registry for oil and gas tenure in Saskatchewan.

Modernizing oil and gas tenure and addressing shortcomings in the regulations will provide certainty of tenure that is comparable to that in Alberta, Saskatchewan’s main competitor, simplify and reduce administrative burden and red tape, and ensure that Saskatchewan continues to provide a world-class oil and gas tenure regime.

“Oil and gas is key to Saskatchewan’s economic growth, and it is imperative that we modernize our services to be competitive,” Duncan said. “The shift to a self-service online oil and gas tenure registry was initiated in November 2015, and

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with implementation, the full potential of the electronic Integrated Resource Information System, IRIS, will be realized.”

Key changes in the new regulations: • Replacement of more than 20 service fees with a single application fee; • Electronic information in the registry prevails over hard-copy documents; • Providing regulation to manage defunct companies; • Payment by pre-authorized debit only; and • Improvements to tenure regulation that encourage exploration and development.

The four regulations that have been repealed and replaced by The Oil and Gas Tenure Registry Regulations are The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulations, 1969, The Helium and Associated Gases Regulations, 1964, The Oil Shale Regulations, 1964, and The Lease of Spaces Regulations.

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slightly from 123 in 2015-2016 to 130 in the current school year of 2016-2017.

Currently, the bulk of the students are in grades 3-12.

Data is collected at the point of registration for the parent/guardian to indicate their reasons for home schooling.

Three categories were identified: Faith, Programming/Choice, and Safety/Security, with Faith being the most popular reason overall (68), followed very closely

by Programming/Choice (60). Very few families (<1%) have indicated that Safety/Security was the reason they chose Home-Based Education.

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Philanthropists from the land down under visit Gull Lake

Earlier this summer, I was introduced to a most fascinating couple from Australia, Steve and Dorene Carroll.

They were in Canada visiting some friends in Gull Lake and I was invited over to hear their story.

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teve Carroll is the Chairman of the Rotarians Against Malaria. It is a volunteer-run organization working to eliminate malaria - an infectious disease caused by a parasite that is spread by the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. People catch malaria when the parasite enters the blood.

The parasite causes a deadly infection which kills many people each year.

Dorene and Steve Carroll have experienced first hand the devastation of contracting malaria while on an adventure holiday.

“In 1989, our daughter, who was 19 wanted to go to some of the places that Steve had fought in the war. He was in the army for 30 years.

He went to Borneo, New Guinea, Malaya and Vietnam (twice), Dorene explains. Steve said, I’ll take you on a holiday to those places and show you .”

They explored jungle rivers and villages, visited the orangutan re-education centre and climbed Mt. Kinabablu. The kind of trip so many young Australians do now to Malaria infected countries.

Two weeks later fever struck both of them. Another 24 hours and Michelle was fighting for her life. Just three months later after being evacuated to Australia she lost the battle.

Over the years Steve has suffered 3 primary infections and 4 relapses.

In 2015, Steve and a fellow retired soldier Grahme Rayner wanted to honour Michelle’s memory and raise money for the fight against Malaria. The Rotary Club of Williamtown undertook the Rotary Ride Around Australia Against Malaria (RRAAAM), travelling around Australia in 52 days on motorcycles.

The Carroll’s started their around Australia Motorbike Ride with a farewell fundraiser at the local pub with

about 100 people in attendance. The trip lasted 52 days covering 20,000 kms, driving 500 km per day. They stopped at 40 towns where they gave a power point presentation on their Malaria control project, mainly to Rotary clubs. They would stay with relatives and friends, sometimes being billeted at homes. Some clubs would put them up in Motels, Hotels or apartments. All-in-all they spoke to 70 clubs, reached 1700 people directly, had 3 civic receptions, 5 newspapers coverage, 4 TV appearances, 2 radio interviews and raised an amazing $30,000.

But this is only part of Steve’s remarkable story.

The military veteran re-entered the warzone back in 2010 by helping to remove more than 80 of the unexploded land mines from the grounds of Kohai Village School on the Ho Chi Mihn Trail with the help of Australian mine clearance experts.

When word spread of the grounds being safe, the school was soon overrun by some 600 students, many who travelled long distances and could not return home at night.

Carroll donated $10,000 along with his time to build two accommodation blocks, two toilets, two kitchens and a water well at the school.

“They have nowhere to sleep, most of them build straw huts each night, Carroll told the Examiner News. They have one toilet block for the entire school.”

When he was asked if he felt a duty to help the Laotian people following his two tours of duty 40 years ago, Steve replied: “The whole world owes these people … they have been the most bombed country in history and are still suffering. They deserve to finally live in peace.”

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The whole world owes these people … they have been the most bombed country in history and are still suffering.

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here has been a lot of upheaval and uncertainty around this world and indeed in our own province this last week. Rather than dwell on the unknown, I’m going to cover a topic that is as certain as death and taxes – the rancHER’s trip to the city.

Let me preface this by stating that I love to shop locally every chance I get. Groceries, parts, fuel, hardware, herbicide, prescriptions; the list of purchases I make in our two nearby small towns goes on. Prices are usually competitive, and I appreciate not having to drive an hour to buy the things we need. Plus, it’s usually friendly service with a smile with the exception of one local business that insists on addressing me as Old Lady Davidson…. but I digress.

Alas, operating a ranch inevitably requires taking a trip to the big city 100km away. Whether it’s for specific parts, banking, dental appointments, new chore clothes, or wine-making supplies (don’t judge me), eventually you have to hop into the pick-up and head off for the bright lights.

My love for lists is well known, and no list is more complex, organized, and edited, than my list for the city. The list is a “living” document if you will, continually evolving with new additions as time passes between trips. I like to categorize the list

according to stops and priority.

I usually aim high, and try to get everything done on my list, but as my caffeinated motivation, time, and spirits flag throughout the day, realistically there will be places that I don’t get to. I organize my list of stops made throughout the city so that the route makes sense, taking into account any closed overpasses, any Trans Canada highways that bisect my route, and of course, any stores that have potential restroom stops for my three passengers (or as every retailer predictably refers to them as, “mommy’s little helpers”).

My husband’s approach to a day in town is completely different. We rarely travel together to the city except for important business transactions, family funerals, or say, the birth of our children, so I always marvel at his cavalier method of shopping.

As I’m furiously categorizing my list en route (basically taking all of the fun out of a family trip to town) my Other Half casually grabs a livestock manifest and randomly scribbles a few places to stop on the back of the book. When he accompanies me, I guarantee the kids and I spend way more time waiting in the truck, we spend way more money than I anticipated, and we come home with at least one item that my Other Half deemed 100% essential to the operation

of our ranch, even though up until he buys it, I had no idea it even existed.

A few weeks had passed between my required urban journeys when we ended up making a recent unscheduled trip to the dentist. I was trying my best to get organized, get one child on his way to school, and the other two packed up for a big day of adventures in town. I quickly reviewed my quintessential list, set out things that I needed by the door, and got everyone dressed and ready to go. As I left, I looked for my list and realized it had disappeared. I looked in my usual places, I looked in odd places, upstairs and down, and I looked in the truck, in case I had set it in there earlier. I had just had it!

The clock was ticking. You really only have a few brief moments between having the kids ready to load in the truck and having them decide they should have one last drink of water or wear a different outfit.

What could I remember from my list? Did I have an old manifest book in the truck that I could scrawl on?

I found the list. In the deep freeze.

A bit confused, we set off for another expensive day in the city so we could come back home and keep living the dream.

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Chinook School Division held their annual Organizational Meeting and Elections on November 7, 2016, with five new Trustees introduced for four subdivisions: Kimberley Pridmore elected in Subdivision 5 – Consul, Maple Creek; Shannon Armstrong elected in Subdivision 6 - Shaunavon, Eastend, Frontier; ​​​ Susan Mouland​elected in Subdivision 7 - Vanguard, Ponteix, Val Marie, and; Allan Bridal​​ and Dianne Hahn elected in Subdivision 8 – Swift Current. Trustee Profiles are available on the Chi-

nook website. ​ It was also announced that Larry Caswell will continue as Chair and Shane Andrus will become Vice Chair for the 2016-2017 term. Larry Caswell represents Subdivision 2 which includes Abbey, Cabri, Hazlet, Stewart Valley and Success. He was elected as a Board member when Chinook was formed in June 2005 and he will be serving his 2nd year as Chair. Shane Andrus is trustee for Subdivision 1 in the northwest corner of the Division, which includes Burstall, Leader and Fox Valley. Shane was elected to the Chinook Board in 2012.

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Phyllis Henderson Phyllis Henderson (Murdock) was born on April 17, 1921 at Verlo, Sask, and passed away on Oct. 31, 2016 at the Southwest Integrated Healthcare Facility in Maple Creek at the age of 95. She was predeceased by her loving husband, Mervyn on Nov. 23, 2005.

Phyllis is survived by her son Garth & Linda; their children Kevyn Henderson, Erin Habscheid and her children Zach & Alex Habscheid ; her daughter Gloria & Wayne Flaherty and their children Kendra & TJ Baird, Brody, Brandyn & Jett and Crystal & Carla Flaherty, also many nieces & nephews. She was predeceased by her parents Annie & Elmer Murdock, her sister Stella & Bill Middleton and Keith & Lorraine Murdock.

Phyllis & Mervyn farmed north of Gull Lake until 1974

when they retired to Swift Current. They spent 16 winters in Mesa, Arizona and also travelling to Australia, New Zealand, the Maritimes, Branson, Missouri and many camping trips. She moved back to Gull Lake in 2006 and then to the Lodge in Maple Creek in 2012.

She was a very caring person and her family was the most precious thing to her. She enjoyed gardening, flowers and vegetables, canning, baking & sewing. Phyllis & Mervyn spent many happy hours playing cards in the evenings with friends and their card club.

There will be a family graveside service at a later date in Swift Current. Binkleys Funeral Service, Maple Creek & Leader in charge of arrangements, 306-662-2292. www.binkleysfuneralservice. com

One of these sweaters doesn’t belong here … We came across this old curling photo the other day and were curious if anyone knew who these handsome gentlemen were. As it turns out, it is a rink from Tompkins, but we can only name three ope the men: Bill McLavish, Bill Carlson and Dave Beisel. Does anyone know the fellow in the white sweater?

The Meadows, receives CCPPP Award for Innovation and Excellence in P3s Contributed editor@advancesouthwest.com

The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP) is proud to announce that The Meadows, Swift Current Long-Term Care Centre is the Silver Award recipient in the Infrastructure category of the 2016 National Awards for Innovation and Excellence in Public-Private Partnerships (P3s).

The Meadows replaces three aging facilities in the region adding beds for long term and palliative care. It significantly modernized the delivery of health services in southwest Saskatchewan.

The Meadows is Saskatchewan’s first P3 project. The Design Build Finance and Maintain project had a total cost of $ 108.5 million and a Value for Money saving of $ 16.5 million.

The success of The Meadows demonstrates the benefits often attributed to the P3 model – cost-savings; on-time, on-budget delivery; and design innovations.

Positive feedback received upon completion of this project proves that P3s have earned their place in the Saskatchewan market.

The Awards Panel was impressed with the “human design” of the project – moving away from institutional facilities towards family design and the integration of inter-generational elements. Panelists also applauded the high level of local contractor and community involvement.

The CCPPP National Awards will be presented on Monday, November 14th, 2016 at the 24th Annual CCPPP National Conference – Innovating Our Future at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in downtown Toronto.

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he legendary traditions of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are based on individual members who excelled. In The Life & Times of Lighthouse McNeil: An Adventure in the RCMP, George Garrett chronicles the exploits of one such legendary member – Alexander Stirling McNeil.

Born in Winnipeg in 1908, McNeil joined the RCMP in 1931, taking his training at “Depot” Division in Regina. By the time he retired in 1966, he had served in more than thirty detachments across Canada and became a legend in his time.

He earned his nickname “Lighthouse McNeil” in 1931 while playing with the Regina Roughriders, forerunner of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Standing at six feet, four inches, he made an easily visible receiver. Returning to the huddle after one particular play in which the quarterback hadn’t thrown to him, he protested, “Why didn’t you throw the ball to me? I’m like a ruddy lighthouse out there!”

McNeil was involved in several significant events in Saskatchewan’s history, such as quelling a coal miners’ strike in Estevan in 1933, and helping track down Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper of Rat River.

In the course of his career, McNeil met several prominent personalities, including Wop May, a First World War ace who was nearly shot down by the Red Baron, and Grey Owl, whom he called “a scoundrel.”

McNeil arrested a drunken Grey Owl one morning when he was chasing the camp cook with a meat cleaver.

When the RCMP formed an aviation section in 1937, McNeil became part of it. He was on a flying mission when Canada declared war on Germany. He immediately radioed in to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, spending much of his military career doing intelligence and security work. After returning to the RCMP, he was appointed Officer in Command of the Musical Ride.

Garrett demonstrates that McNeil was a strict, no-nonsense disciplinarian. One of the problems he faced while in Prince Edward Island was the high number of fatalities caused by speeding and drunk drivers. McNeil ordered zero tolerance for violations. Within a year there were no traffic fatalities on the island.

McNeil was also incorruptible.

Garrett cites several examples of him standing up to temptation.

For instance, when the Premier of Prince Edward Island asked him not to enforce the Liquor Act on election day, McNeil curtly informed him it was the law of the island and would be strictly enforced.

Garrett quotes excerpts from McNeil’s memoirs, allowing readers to hear him speak in his own words. This helps bring to life the man behind the legend. Garrett also quotes recollections from McNeil’s wife and two children, as well as testimonials and reminiscences from other members of the Force, for the same effect.

The RCMP has created many legends throughout its existence.

Thanks to Garrett’s The Life & Times of Lighthouse McNeil, the legend of “Lighthouse” McNeil lives on.

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