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Richer drills into border health woes GEOFF LEE
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.................................. Meet local health system detective and critic Paul Richer. Richer is the volunteer chair of the Lloydminster and District Health Advisory Council (LDHAC) board and has uncovered faults in the bi-provincial health care system and what needs fixing. Richer told fellow members of the Rotary Club of Lloydminster via Zoom on Monday, it may be a case of the advisory committee needing to be the proverbial squeaky wheel to get the grease. He referenced a recent car crashing through the front door of Lloydminster Hospital as one way to get on with a list of $2.2 million of upgrades previously funded by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health. “I would suggest sometimes you can get renovation by running through the front doors,” said Richer sarcastically. Richer has been the chair for more than a year and urges Rotari-
ans to speak up on the LDHAC Facebook page to get the attention of both provincial health ministries. “I call on the folks that are listening in and the community at large, my work and this work is not going to be enough. These bureaucrats are very expert at delaying things,” said Richer. He listed local health priorities as being medical file sharing, mental health and addictions, Lloydminster Hospital upgrades, EMS ambulance and dialysis relocation. Another issue is an amended Memorandum of Agreement between the two provincial health ministries yet to be signed in Lloydminster. “When two ministers do come to Lloydminster, this document has little impact other than the fact we’ll get two health ministers in the same room in Lloydminster,” concluded Richer. He says overall, there are too many inequities and foot-dragging, the way both provinces
deal with the issues starting with medical file sharing. “Local tests and imaging are still not accepted in neighbouring provinces, causing people a delay in services and tests to be done in a different city,” said Richer. He says people have to have their medical files in the trunk of their car when they go see a doctor in a different province. “With today’s technology, it’s bloody ridiculous,” said Richer, noting Alberta has done its part by enacting Bill 46 with help from Rotary’s MLA Garth Rowswell while they wait on Saskatchewan to legislate change. “In this electronic age, it’s all hogwash. We should have no trouble sharing files, especially on approval of the patient,” said Richer. On the mental health and addictions file, Richer points out Lloydminster is the only city of its size in all of Alberta and all of Saskatchewan that does not have stabilization beds. He says the Thorpe Recovery Centre
recently received a fund boost from Alberta while Saskatchewan has not upped its funding support for the past eight years. “That’s on the heels of Saskatchewan topping up another $33 million last year for mental health and addictions. Lloydminster and the Thorpe got zero,” said Richer. “This region, after years of Project Sunrise, got zero.” Richer noted in his opening remarks some of the inequities resulting from the fact Alberta has a health budget of $33 billion a year compared to $6.5 billion for Saskatchewan. “So two vastly different size organizations and we’re in the middle, so I think you know where I’m heading,” said Richer. “When I took on this role, I was determined money’s not an issue, getting the money is the issue, but the money is there.” Richer suggested it doesn’t help Lloyd that Andrew McClatchy, vice president of Integrated Northern Health, cover-
Lloydminster and District Health Advisory Council board chair Paul Richer. Photo courtesy Nicole Noyce Photography ing a huge area, resides in Prince Albert when his predecessor, David Fan, lived closer in North Battleford. Richer says there’s also been some delays on promised upgrades to the hospital, citing $500,000 for exterior brick replacement and $150,000 for repaving the parking lots as examples. “If we say nothing and d o n’t g e t u p together we’re going to keep on getting more of the same,” said Richer,
including inequities with EMS ambulance and no resolution in sight on the dialysis file. “All these things can be solved, and if I didn’t paint the picture properly, we’re not getting the fair share either from the eyes of Alberta or the eyes of Saskatchewan,” said Richer. “We’re not asking for more. We’re asking for equality. If we had equal we’d be great, a lot better.
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Last Tuesday, the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) alerted the public of an increased risk of COVID-19 variants of concern in the Border City and area. The Meridian Source spoke with SHA’s North West Medical Health Officer, Dr. Mandiangu Nsungu, on Friday to discuss the situation in the Border City. What can you tell us about the current situation in Lloydminster in regards to COVID19 variants of concern? We have identified 18 cases involving variants of concern in the Northwest area, the area I am in charge of. The concerning situation when it comes to Lloydminster is, all of those 18 cases involving variants of concern have been identified within the City of Lloydminster. We know that not
all of them are active. Five were already declared as recovered, but we have 13 that are still active, and those 13 cases are within the City of Lloydminster. What makes things more concerning is, of those 18, seven were identified on Thursday after the initial PSA was released on Tuesday. This is a life and death situation and it’s going to continue deteriorating unless all of us do all that we can to slow down the spread of those variants of concern. Can you tell us which variants of concern SHA is finding in Lloydminster? For the time being, we have two tests. We have the test that has a very short turnaround time, 24 hours, and that’s the test that’s being done on all cases that are positive for COVID-19, and that test will just tell you it’s one of those three variants of concern,
but the test does not tell you exactly which variants it is. That is not the most important thing for us in public health, because most of the public measures will be the same for the variants. The test that determines exactly which variant it is has a turnaround time of around one week, so we can’t exactly say which variants of concern we have here at this moment. What should people be doing to protect themselves as well as their neighbours? Make sure that you’re social distancing, make sure that when you’re in public that you wear your mask, keep to your household bubble because we know that COVID-19 in general, and including the variants of concern of course, are being transmitted through the mingling of different households. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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Metis candidate promotes unity
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Lashburn resident Crystal Miller is running for election as an area director of Western Region 1A of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan covering the Lloydminster and North Battleford areas. GEOFF LEE
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.................................. It’s Miller time, Crystal Miller that is. The Lashburn resident is hoping to get elected as an area director of Western Region 1-A for the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan (MNS) when voting takes place on May 29. “It’s time for change,” said Miller, who says the regional leadership is divisive. She says the top issue for the Metis Nation in this area is unifying the region by involving and growing all of the local chapters in Lloydminster and North Battleford, up to Frenchman Butte and down to Wilkie. Miller says it’s time to rid the region of a “them and us” mentality the current leadership has created. She’s a member of the board for the Border City Metis Society representing about 350 to 400 members and says none of them has seen any benefits offered through MNS as well as a lot of other locals. “They have favoured where they’re from; I believe it’s for personal gain,” said Miller. “I think it’s time for inclusive, honest and involved leadership and I’m the person for the job.” If elected, Miller also intends to assist in the
missing and murdered Indigenous women movement and issues relating to the Sixties
Scoop that uprooted Indigenous children from their families. Miller had hoped to host campaign meet and greets the old fashioned way with coffee, tea, soup and bannock, but a recent uptick in COVID19 cases has ruled that out. “We just got a warning with the COVID thing that Lloyd is a hotspot and that travel is not advised,” she said on April 12. She says booking venues right now is really challenging, but she’s doing her best to come up with an itinerary and a social media presence. She has a website millercampaign.com and a Facebook page. “With the pandemic, it’s going to be hard, but we’ll navigate through it. I want them to get to
know me. I feel like once they hear me out and get to know me, I’ll have this vote. I just know it,” she said. Miller comes from a long line of Metis people who changed the world around them, including her ancestors who took part in the Frog Lake Massacre during the North-West Rebellion of 1885. “Having a history like that where people fought for what they believed in, even to the death; it’s honourable and it’s humbling,” she said. Her election biography states: “They took action and their word was their bond. They were courageous and full of hope. That blood runs in my veins.” Her grandparents John and Helen Ross started the first Metis
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Miller’s mother, Myrtle, is president of Local 76, the parent group of the Border City Aboriginal Headstart Program, which has operated in Lloyd for nearly 30 years. Miller also sits on the board as vice pres-
ident/secretary and has sat on the parent advisory committee for Headstart as well. In addition, she has attended MNS annual assemblies since she was a teenager and more recently participated as a delegate. Miller is married
with two children and has worked in Human Resources most of her life. She decided to run for elected office after seeing the needs of the region ignored over the past decade. “I’ve been getting more involved over the past few years attending meetings and whatnot,” she said. “I just felt it’s time for new blood. We’re in the pandemic, I believe we’re coming to the end of it because of the vaccines. “We will see our way out of it but, there’s a lot of rebuilding to do after this.” Miller says the Metis community in the region took a hard hit during the pandemic with unemployment and thinks having educational opportunities and retraining and things like that will really help. “The MNS has really good supports for mental health right now, which is good,” she said, She says as a director she wants to address unique needs like housing, education and health and sports in the region. “The demographic between Lloydminster and North Battleford is very different. The needs are unique. “What I would do in that position is make sure all the Metis in this area know about these things and have access to these things,” said Miller.
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CAPP leader likes funding relief in budget GEOFF LEE
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.................................. Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers president and CEO, Tim McMillan, gives the thumbs up to new funding measures for the energy sector in Saskatchewan’s spring budget.
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In today’s hypercompetitive environment, smart policy decisions can be the difference between jobs created in Saskatchewan or seeing those job-creating investments move elsewhere in the world.
The provincial 202122 budget, tabled on April 6, includes $200 million for the Accelerated Site Closure Program (ASCP) to support Saskatchewanbased oil and gas service companies and more than 2,000 jobs in the sector. The total includes the addition of $100 million for the final year of the $400 million federally-funded program. CAPP commends the Saskatchewan Government for its collaborative approach with the oil and natural gas industry for the budgeted-industry programs. “In today’s hypercompetitive environment, smart policy decisions can be the difference between jo b s cre a t e d i n S a s katchewan or seeing those job-creating investments move elsewhere in the world,” said McMillan. He made the comments prior to his
scheduled virtual presentation on Saskatchewan’s opportunities for a strong recovery to the Lloydminster Chamber of Commerce on April 17. He also lauded new budget measures to attract investment and create jobs in the oil sector by modernizing and expanding the High Water-Cut Program. This will bring about a change to the royalty status of high-water wells for producers who make new investments in water handling. McMillan says the redesigned High Water-cut program and other measures in the budget will make Saskatchewan and the Lloydminster area a more competitive place to invest in for oil and natural gas companies.
CAPP CEO Tim McMillan. File Photo Oil producers will also benefit from $3.8 million in annual royalty relief to help them invest in new methane emis-
sions reduction projects, and help support capture and commercialization rather than venting and flaring.
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Sask budget good for Lloyd
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.................................. The City of Lloydminster is in sync with Saskatchewan’s 2021-22 budget being all about protecting, building and growing the province. The budget, tabled on April 6, projects a $2.6 billion deficit in the fiscal year dealing with COVID-19 with a return-to-balance in
2026-27 with progressively smaller deficits. “The City of Lloydminster appreciates the Government of Saskatchewan’s practical approach to economic realities of the pandemic and current affairs,” said Mayor Gerald Aalbers. “Despite the challenges we’ve all experienced, the provincial
government continues to invest in the prosperity of its communities through a fair and transparent budget process.” The city will receive $2,351,685 in municipal revenue sharing from a provincial total of $276 million for provincial communities. Aalbers says the money is invested into
File Photo the growth of the community and helps maintain essential infrastructure such as roads, water and sewer, and waste services.
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by 118 per cent since 2007-08. Aalbers also welcomes a record-high budget investment of $458 million toward mental health and addiction programs and services across Saskatchewan, an increase of $23.4 million or 5.4 per cent over last year. “We greatly appreciate the government’s commitment to mental health and addictions support throughout the province, especially when taking into consideration the ongoing effects of the pandemic,” he said. Mental health and addictions programs and services account for
7.5 per cent of the overall health budget. This budget will also help Lloydminster continue to grow by reinstating the Community Rink Affordability Grant, providing $2,500 per ice surface. The City was eligible to receive $2,500 each for the Civic Centre and the Lloydminster Golf and Curling Centre to go toward general operating costs. The $1.7 million program helps cover eligible operating costs, COVID-related costs and minor capital improvements for more than 600 ice surfaces in more than 350 communities.
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City awards SIP to ASL Paving
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On Monday, City Council approved the award for the 2021 Street Improvement Program – Construction Contractor to ASL Paving Ltd. of Lloydminster, in the amount of $1,271,536.90, excluding GST, to be allocated from the 2021 Capital Budget, and that the Mayor and City clerk be authorized to sign and seal all necessary documents. In addition, that Council approve a con-
tingency allowance of 15 per cent in the amount of $191,000, excluding GST, to be allocated from the 2021 capital budget. Due to age, condition, and deterioration of the existing surface works infrastructure, administration must continually rehabilitate, maintain, and replace the existing infrastructure (i.e., asphalt concrete pavement, concrete curb and gutter, and sidewalks) to adequate levels of service for residents and businesses
throughout the city. The 2021 Street Improvement Program (SIP) is an annual progr am t hat maint ains and improves the city’s transportation network system. The SIP repairs and/ or replaces City infrastructure on the surface within the road right of way. The program is divided into two (2) major categories and locations as follows: Street Improvements: - Mid-Block Lane South of 43 Street between 57 Avenue and 59 Avenue - 49 Avenue from 38 Street to 42 Street - 57A Avenue from 27 Street to 29 Street - 18 Street and 52 Avenue Intersection - 50 Avenue West Side Service Road from 57 Street to 60 Street Sidewalk Improvements: 52 Avenue from 57 Street North to the
Mid-Block Lane The city issued a bid document to acquire the services of an experienced prime contractor to complete all construction activities for
this program on March 18. The bid document package was issued and posted on the City’s Bids and Tenders website as well as provided to the City’s
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pre-qualified surface works contractors. The 2021 Street Improvement Program - Construction has an approved budget of $1.7 million.
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Tax break for small biz in budget GEOFF LEE
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.................................. Saskatchewan’s 202122 budget notes a recent temporary small business tax rate reduction will continue to help Saskatchewan small businesses through the pandemic. The rate was reduced f rom 2.0 per cent t o zero effective Oct. 1, 2020, and will provide $96 million in tax savings to Saskatchewan small businesses in 2021-22. The rate will increase to 1.0 per cent on July 1, 2022, and return to 2.0 per cent on July 1, 2023, as Saskatchewan recovers from the pandemic. Business will also be stimulated by the new Saskatchewan Home
File Photo Renovation Tax Credit of 10.5 per cent on up to $20,000 of eligible home renovations done between Oct. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2022, beginning with this 2021 tax year.
The tax credit is forecast to cover $66.4 million of costs in 202122, creating jobs in the building trades and making life more affordable for Saskatchewan people.
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Parkinson reaches out during COVID
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LloydMall hosted a Parkinson Disease 101 presentation on April 10. Left are: Shannon McEwen; Triovest Realty Advisors Inc., Stephanie Munro; development officer LRHF and Sherry BowerGagne; client services coordinator, Parkinson Association of Alberta, Lloydminster Region. GEOFF LEE
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.................................. The Parkinson Association of Alberta (PAA) is hoping to capture some awareness of the disease this month while COVID-19 rages on. The effort is being helped by a new Circle of Help initiative that promotes the organization as a circle of awareness, support and hope throughout the province. “I think people are becoming a little bit wary of hearing about COVID every day, so it’s good to bring something new and really good information to their attention,” said PAA CEO Lana Tordoff. She says the Circle of Help is almost a little bit complicated in its simplicity. “It really is about
making sure people know they have support when they get a diagnosis and through the progress of their disease, which can be a long one.” That’s also the PR task of client services coordinator, Sherry Bower-Gagne for the Lloydminster Region during Parkinson awareness month. Bower-Gagne teamed up with Lloydminster Region Health Foundation development officer, Stephanie Munro, to deliver a Parkinson Disease 101 presentation at LloydMall on April 10. “They are going to video it as well, so it will go out virtually as well,” said BowerGagne in advance of the event. “It’s nice having the
Lloydminster Health Region involved as well. They’ve been really awesome. The biggest thing is bringing awareness.” Parkinson’s disease is a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement. Symptoms start gradually, sometimes with a barely-noticeable tremor in just one hand. “Smaller handwriting is one a lot of people talk about; it’s not just the tremors,” said Bower-Gagne. There’s no cure, but research has shown that regular aerobic exercise and medications improve the symptoms. “Basically, we’re trying to get people as early as we can and give the supports and the education so they can
improve their quality of life,” said Bower-Gagne. Parkinson’s is a complicat ed d isease and Tordoff says people sometimes don’t know who to ask when they have questions, especially with limited access to health professionals during the pandemic. “People are really challenged by getting in to see their physician. We’re not a medical organization, but we can answer questions related to Parkinson,” she said. Bower-Gagne notes one of the organization’s goals this month is getting people comfortable talking about it because there are so many things people can do when they notice those symptoms. These include checking out the resources on the new PAA website with links to some videotape client stories and media campaigns during aware-
ness month. “We’re pleased to have support across the province and, of course, COVID has made our world quite a bit smaller,” said Tordoff. “We’re able to support more places in the province than we ever have before because of going virtual and having opportunities for people to participate from their homes.”
Bower-Gagne says all the support groups in the Lloyd region are through Zoom during COVID with some phone access too. “We have exercise programs, educational programs, webinars and a memory concentration program. They work on different ways of improving their cognition,” she said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right EDITOR
Taylor Weaver
This week I had the honour and privilege of interviewing Charity Bachman to talk about her recent and very real battle with stage 3 c2 cervical cancer. I’ve known Charity for roughly a year and consider her a friend. It’s amazing how friendships can be made at the gym! At only 26 years of age, Charity is now living with the reality that doctors gave her a 30 per cent chance of living for another five years. Read that again and let it sink in. COVID VARIANTS FROM PAGE 2
People should avoid mingling with different households; I think that will go a long way in reducing the transmission. Make sure you avoid unnecessary travel. We know that in the case of Lloydminster, many of those cases are actually associated with inter-provincial travel between (Saskatchewan) and Alberta. If you can work from home, please do that, because as we know, a lot of
This was a rather tough interview and story for me to write as it involves a friend, and I can’t thank Charity enough for trusting me with her story. As unbelievable and heartbreaking as Charity’s situation may be, she’s still going through life, and to her appointments at the Saskatoon Cancer Centre, with a positive attitude. Hat’s off to you, girl! Over the years I have had the pleasure of telling the stories of others; the good, the bad, and the sad, but, every time I write a story similar to the one found on Page 16 in this paper, it makes me fall in love with my job all over again. As we’ve seen in recent weeks,
transmission also takes place in the workplace. If you have symptoms, stay home and seek testing. Aside from being a good neighbour, what can residents do? More importantly, now that we have the vaccine, if you are in sequence to have a COVID-19 vaccine, go ahead and get the vaccine that’s offered to you at that time because all of the vaccines that we have are safe. We know that for
not everyone can take a joke and they’re not afraid to voice their opinions over email (I would like to thank the number of you who sent me ‘thank you for the laugh emails’), but I don’t let that stuff get to me very often anymore. Care to know why? Life is too short. Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right. Find one thing that makes you happy and hold onto it, because it can truly make life worth living! What does that look like for me? I’ll have to do some thinking on that one, but for now, I’ll keep writing. Until next time.
COVID-19 to stop being transmitted we need to vaccinate a very high proportion of people, but the fact is, it will take time to vaccinate the majority of the population. During that time, that’s when we implement all of the public health measures because COVID-19 will continue to spread. That is the message I would like our communities to get in such a way that all of us are doing what we should be doing in terms of
public health measures to slow down the transmission of COVID-19 in general, and the variants of concern in particular, and get vaccinated. What are your thoughts on other provinces wanting to vaccinate younger people first to help avoid further transmission of variants? These are ideas that will have to be considered at the highest level of our structure. There are a lot of ideas out there, but what we really have to look into is to make sure that, first of all, those that are the highest risk are vaccinated first, and that’s why Saskatchewan has, so far, been doing by the criteria. For testing, residents in the City of Lloydminster can dial 1-877-8000002 (instead of 811) to access HealthLine 811. This will help ensure direct contact to Saskatchewan’s HealthLine 811 regardless of provincial location. Residents may also contact their physician for a referral or visit your local drivethru testing site. Testing locations can be found on at saskatchewan.ca/ COVID19 under Testing Information.
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Leeway from Lloyd: Time to dose younger set STAFF WRITER GEOFF LEE
COVID-19 variants are game-changers and government health authorities need to pivot their vaccination plans to halt the spread. They need to start giving some doses to younger people who are more likely to be essential workers as well. People who are younger are becoming very sick and spreading the virus to others while stressing the healthcare system to the breaking point. Giving additional doses to the younger generation might allow vaccinations to outpace the spread of new variants so we can all return to normal.
The switch is already happening in other provinces like Quebec, which will vaccinate essential workers and the chronically ill in a new vaccine rollout schedule. Ontario is also working on a vaccine rollout to include essential workers and teachers later this spring and Saskatchewan is mulling a change as well. Of course, the bigger problem is the war on COVID is being run more by politicians than health officials, despite the fact we have been in a global health crisis for more than a year. I don’t go to my Member of Parliament if I need a prescription filled! A leadership analogy would be putting nurses in charge of
the invasion plans for D-Day while generals look on! Maybe that’s why some pharmacies in Alberta are giving leftover vaccines to anyone on a waiting list because common sense tells them not to waste a single dose or their time asking for permission t o d o t heir own job. Giving vaccines to younger people is also better than closing businesses when the focus should be getting ahead of variants. Closing businesses might make sense if they paid businesses to close, but they don’t. When governments close a business like a gym during COVID, t heir masked client s continue to inhale and exhale somewhere else
File Photo and spend their money somewhere else. All of the closures to date haven’t slowed COVID, as variants are
once again proving. It’s time to pivot to meet the new threat and not hope that closing a gym is somehow
going to make it all go away. It’s just going to make the gym go away along with health and fitness benefits. 21043PM1 21043PM2
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Young recaps budget rebates
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.................................. Saskatchewan taxpayers will have a little extra jingle in their pockets with auto insurance and power bill rebates from the provincial 2021-22 budget. A $285 million Auto Fund recovery rebate (SGI) will provide an average of $285 to all Saskatchewan vehicle owners while SaskPower customers will enjoy an average saving of $131 their power bills. Lloydminster MLA Colleen Young says she hopes the reaction of her constituents will be positive. “I hoping that it will be very positive especially over the last year and a half with the pandemic and the challenges of people—some are not working and some have reduced working hours,” said Young. PARKSINON FROM PAGE 9
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The Lloyd region also offers one-onone supports for nonmotor symptoms like stress and anxiety during COVID.
“So this will be there to help support them getting their bills paid. It provides some relief” The SGI rebate is from the Rate Stabilization Reserve with cheques to customers expected in May. “We have seen a number of dollars into our Sask Auto Fund so it’s good to give it back out to those in our province who have contributed by purchasing vehicles locally,” said Young. SaskPower customers will continue to enjoy a bill reduction that started on Dec. 1, 2020, for a period of 12 months. “SaskPower’s rates for relief for our community will be very beneficial and the same with the SGI on vehicles,” said Young. With these rebates, in 2021, Saskatchewan residents will pay the lowest total utility rates
in the country. “It was part of our election promise in order to support people in our province and reduce their power rates for a year to help them out,” said Young. Young calls the April 6 budget, a pandemic budget with a $2.7 billion deficit and a plan to return to balance in 2026-27. “Before March of
2020, we were to have a balanced budget with a surplus of about $39 million, but the pandemic came and we immediately had to put about $1.5 billion into PPE equipment and changes to our health care systems,” said Young. She said the government also had to funnel money into safe school plans.
The campaign also hopes to lessen the need for some Parkinson sufferers to keep the disease hidden. “There can be quite a stigma to this dis-
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Tordoff. “We want people to be open and willing to talk about this because there are opportunities for help and for hope in the future.”
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On Monday, Council also approved the award of the 44 Street Rehabilitation – Construction Contractor, to Knelsen Sand & Gravel Ltd., of La Crete, Alta. in the amount of $5,887,031, excluding GST, to be allocated from the 2021 capital budget and that the Mayor and city clerk be authorized to sign and seal all necessary documents. In addition, that Council approve a contingency allowance of 5 per cent in the amount of $295,000, excluding GST, to be allocated from the 2021 capital budget. The 44 Street Rehabilitation (62 Avenue to 75 Ave) and concrete intersection improvements (44 St and 62 Ave), now referred to
as the 44 Street Rehabilitation, will improve the quality and service life of the transportation infrastructure along 44 St (Highway 16). Both projects ha v e be e n a mal g a mated into a single project at the approval of their respective funding agencies to allow for efficient project delivery. The scope of the 44 street rehabilitation program will entail the following: Concrete intersection improvements (44 St and 62 Ave) capital project: - Underground infrastructure upgrades - Construction of a new southbound right turn lane, and - Reconstruction of the intersection with a concrete structure. 44 St Rehabilitation (62 Ave to 75 Ave)
File Photo 2021 Capital Project: - Deep patching of the roadway as required between 66 Ave and 75 Ave - Asphalt concrete pavement overlay of the roadway between 66 and 75 Ave - Concrete curb and gutter replacement as required while building up the existing median between 62 Ave and 75 Ave - Construction of a new eastbound right turn lane at 66 Ave, and - Complete reconstruction of the roadway between 62 Ave and 66 Ave. CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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Country redneck remedies 101 PRAIRIE WOOL HELEN ROW TOEWS
“If onion juice is good enough for monkeys, it’s good enough for me,” my Uncle Don said, smacking a palm on the table to emphasize the weight of his statement. He was outlining his plan of action for the next time he got sick. Apparently, he’d seen a show on this somewhat unorthodox cure for baby orangutans who were suffering from the common cold. According to my uncle, veterinarians ground up a bag of onions, set it out under the hot Bornean sun, and waited for the juice to flow. Then, the little orangutans slurped up the liquefied onion like it was candy (hard to believe) and were cured. This story caused me to ponder other treat-
ments, particularly ones promoted by my redneck relative. Glucosamine for arthritis is not an unusual remedy, but Don wasn’t sold on its beneficial properties by his doctor, a naturopath or by reading learned essays on the subject. No, he bought a bottle because he saw how it worked for his dog. “That dog could barely move before the doc gave him a pill, but afterward he jumped around like a pup,” Don remarked in amazement. “That’s when I bought a bottle for myself.” Then there was the time I decided to make a batch of bread for him, but griped about having nothing to mix it in. “Wait a minute, I found a nice metal bowl at the dump a few weeks ago,” Don exclaimed. “Likely it was tossed ‘cause it’s full of holes,
but I can fix that.” Rustling around in a drawer near his chair he drew forth a hefty roll of duct tape and brandished it in the air with quiet triumph. The bowl was then washed, dried and numerous strips were strapped strategically across the bottom. I have to admit, it worked. While we were on the subject of unusual remedies that day, my uncle told me about a man that used to run a service station just down the street. One day, Don noticed the man had a tire patch fastened to his forearm with several lengths of packing tape. My uncle couldn’t help but ask why. “Well, it holds air in a tire, so I figured it’d hold blood in my arm,” the man said irritably, as though this common-sense thinking shouldn’t have to be explained.
I countered Don’s tire-patch story with a tale of my own from truck driving days. It was the first day of work for a new employee, and I stood with him as he waited for the boss to arrive. Trying to make small talk (something I’ve never been good at) I complained to him of a stiff knee. The man leaned toward me con-
spiratorially. “I’ll tell ya what you need,” he said with a grin. “WD-40.” “You’re kidding!” I said incredulously. “Nope. Just look at this.” Flipping open his jacket, he pointed to an area on his chest where a bone protruded unpleasantly. “I got a slipped rib, but every day I spray on WD-40, rub it in and
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it fixes me right up.” He shrugged his coat back into place with a self-satisfied smirk and marched away. I mean, I knew the stuff was good for rusty hinges and squeaking doors, but I’m pretty sure it was not created to lubricate aching bones and dislocated joints. Yikes! Redneck remedies strike again.
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Local motocross racer and rope access technician, Charity Bachman, is pictured on her dirt bike prior to a race as her dad, Gary (right) watches on.
Community helping Bachman beat cancer TAYLOR WEAVER
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The stars were all starting to align for Charity Bachman until a trip to the doctor revealed she had stage 3 c2 cervical cancer. The 26-year-old rope access technician and avid competitive motocross rider was set to start a new job in Fort McMurray on April 4, but that all changed quite quickly. “I went for a regular Pap checkup like any girl does, in July (2020), and they found some abnormal cells, and then it took six months before I could get back in to see the doctor, and at that point I was having some signs that I didn’t know were can-
cer signs,” she said on Monday from her home in the Border City. Bachman was told there wasn’t much to be concerned about that day and was given a prescription for antibiotics and sent on her way. “I was back a month later and still having those same signs, and then my doctor got concerned,” she said. “My doctor took a biopsy and one week later the cancer centre was calling me, and that’s when things really went into full gear. Test after scan, after test after scan, bloodwork, it was a lot.” It’s been roughly two weeks since Bachman’s
first visit to the Saskatoon Cancer Centre and she’s already set to begin treatment next week. “Going into that first appointment, I was expecting the worst but hoping for the best, but, I had a feeling I wasn’t going to like what I heard.” Bachman was diagnosed with stage 3 c2 cervical cancer, which means it has reached the para-aortic lymph nodes, and as she explained it, ‘I’m one step away from stage 4.” “They said it hasn’t reached any organs or bone at this point and that it’s contained in my abdomen area, so that’s a good sign.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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Getting Bachman back on the bike
FROM PAGE 16
Bachman starts treatment next week at the Saskatoon Cancer Centre and will go through radiation treatment from Monday to Friday for five weeks and then start four-hour chemotherapy sessions every Wednesday.
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I think there’s a 30 per cent chance that I’ll live for another five years.
“Depending on how my body responds, I’ll either be staying in Saskatoon or I’ll have to go to Edmonton because they have a piece of equipment that Saskatoon doesn’t have, but, for the last two weeks I’ll be getting four intense radiation treatments where I’ll be gett i n g ra d i a t i o n i nt e r nally, straight to my cervix, and that’s a fourhour procedure where I’ll be sedated, four times,” she said. “If that’s not the right treatment for me, then they’ll send me to Edmonton to do a four-
day intensive internal radiation treatment.” Once Bachman knew she did in fact have cancer, she said there was almost a sigh of relief due to the fact she finally knew what was going on with her body. The hardest realization for Bachman, however, was fearing “that I could die.” “I think there’s a 30 per cent chance that I’ll live for another five years, so, that’s definitely been the hardest one. I just have a lot of life left to live,” she said through tears. “This was just the luck of the draw. Cancer doesn’t run in my family, so it was definitely a shock.” As difficult as it has been for Bachman, she feels very blessed to have such a great support system backing her. “Everyone has been super supportive, but my dad, my sister and my brother have been unreal support systems for me,” she said. “Honestly, I couldn’t have asked for a better support system. Everyone is right there next to me 100 per cent.”
44 STREET CONTRACT FROM PAGE 14
Although the two projects will be managed as one, each project will be financially tracked separately to ensure the costs are captured by the applicable budgets and due to the significant amount of grant funding which has been made available to the City. The Concrete Intersection Rehabilitation project is funded through the Municipal Economic Enhancement
Bachman hasn’t only been receiving support from her family though, as a friend of hers started a GoFundMe page to help cover upcoming costs involved in her treatment. The GoFundMe page, which went live at roughly 7 p.m. on Monday night, brought in an astounding $10,590 by 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. “I don’t even know what to say, except for, thank you,” she said. “It’s honestly blowing me away, and I tear up looking at the GoFundMe page. All of the nice things people are saying to me is just overwhelming in the best possible way. “I never thought I’d be in this situation, and I never thought I’d be the one asking for anything like this, usually I’m on the other side of it, so that’s been tough, too.” For women ages 21-29, most provincial and territorial guidelines recommend that, if you are at least 21 years of age and are sexually active, you should have a Pap test every three years, a time
Program (MEEP) under the Government of Saskatchewan with the 44 Street Rehabilitation project being funded through the Municipal Stimulus Program (MSP) under the Government of Alberta. Both grant coordinators, i.e., MEEP and MSP, have confirmed the ability to combine the projects into one construction package provided the financial aspect remain separate.
gap which Bachman believes should be much shorter. “Get checked. Get checked. Get checked,” she said. “I have friends going to their doctors explaining how their friend was just diagnosed with cervical cancer, and even though they were just recently tested, they want that testing done again. “I think three years is way too long in
between tests, because they think I’ve had this for three years, so if I got checked on my third year then waited three years, I’m already at Stage 3. I told my friends even if the doctors shake their heads at you for going too often, I’m learning the hard way, and this could be a lesson for anyone out there.” If you would like to support Bachman
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through her battle with cancer, check out her GoFundMe page “Lets’s help get Charity back on her bike.” “The only thing I can be grateful for, and this is how I look at it, is the fact they’ve caught it. We know what’s going on now, so the only thing we can do is move forward, treat it, and hopefully, it goes away and I can move on with my life.”
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Sask welcomes Clean Seed to province Leading agricultural technology company expands operations with Sask facility MERIDIAN SOURCE STAFF
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On Tuesday, the Government of Saskatchewan welcomed Clean Seed Capital Group
Limited (“Clean Seed”), an Agricultural Seeding Technology company, to the province. Clean Seed is expanding its operations
through the lease of a newly built 16,000 square foot facility located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which will be the heart of the company’s Canadian prairie operations and cornerstone for early commercialization plans for the SMART SeederTM MAX/MAX-S. “We are delighted to welcome Clean Seed to Saskatchewan,” said Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison. “This is great news for our province that will create good local jobs, support economic recovery and help our province continue to grow. Clean Seed’s uniquely-all-Canadiancreated SMART Seeder
technology is set to make a difference from the ground up in Saskatchewan, as the province continues to lead in revolutionizing the global ag sector.” As a business that will be performing research and development activities in Saskatchewan, Clean Seed becomes the first company in the province to benefit from the Saskatchewan Commercial Innovation Incentive (SCII) program. The first of its kind in North America, SCII is a new-growth tax incentive that offers eligible corporations a reduction of the provincial Corporate Income Tax Rate to six per cent for 10 consecutive years for corporations that commercialize their qualifying intellectual property in Saskatchewan.
Companies can extend the benefit period to 15 years if at least 50 per cent of the related research and development was conducted in Saskatchewan.
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Much of our technology development work was rooted in Saskatchewan and we look forward to driving rapid growth with the most sophisticated planting and seeding technology on the market, proudly built here in Canada.
The SCII is administered by the Ministry of Trade and Export Development and helps to make Saskatchewan
an attractive, competitive jurisdiction for businesses to commercialize exceptional intellectual property. “Clean Seed is proud to be building the operational foundation of our organization in Saskatoon,” said Clean Seed Capital Group Chairman and CEO Graeme Lempriere. “Much of our technology development work was rooted in Saskatchewan and we look forward to driving rapid growth with the most sophisticated planting and seeding technology on the market, proudly built here in Canada.” The Saskatoon facility will focus on electronics and machine assembly, sales, customer experience, customer training, parts, service, warranty, as well as research and development.
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Condo reserve funds key to stability MIDWEST MINUTE VERN McCLELLAND
My father used to say, “a working church is a happy church!” I think this principle is applicable to any group of people who strive to achieve something together, whether it be a board, sports team, or a service club. If everyone involved feels a part of an initiative and strives to make its mission successful, then it is healthier all around, for both the collective and the individual. However, what we are seeing today in some of the area’s condominium associations is anything but healthy. Our team had three sales in three separate condominium complexes go down in flames this week, not because of the inability of the buyers to complete their end of the deal, but due to instability of association finances for each site. You see when you buy a unit in a condominium, you also became a shareholder in the entire complex – roof, walls, courtyard, parking lot, all the common use area. And like any struc-
ture, it requires continuous upkeep to preserve its function, safety, and value, no different than any single-family home. For example, the sto rm w e had a c o uple of weeks ago ripped patches of shingles off the roof of both our house and detached garage. Those shingles needed to be replaced quickly or else any moisture Mother Nature gave us would cause even greater damage. So, I asked a contractor friend to made sure the repairs were done quickly and correctly. The same urgency and importance apply to mature adult townhouse/duplex developments and apartmentstyle buildings. This is why the prudent collective unitholders through a condominium association must ensure sufficient funds are set aside monthly to not only address the relatively minor repairs that may arise on a day-to-day basis but also to fund the maintenance of “big ticket” items like elevators and flat roofs. Not saving for the literal “rainy day” will come back to haunt the owners.
One complex in the city learned the hard way several years ago when each unitholder in it needed to come up with approximately $50,000 in a special assessment to fund major exterior repairs, otherwise, the two buildings would have become inhabitable, therefore worthless. Compounding the reticence to increase condo fees in accordance with recommendations from professional reserve fund studies has been the slumping economy combined with the escalating cost of securing insurance on these large structures, in some cases, a yearover-year increase from 40 to 60 per cent! I get it; money is tight. But what we have noticed is this inaction is particularly notable in those buildings where the majority of unit ownership rests in the hands of a relatively few investors/absentee landlords. An increase in condo fees would require a higher rent being asked of their tenants, and with the current elevated vacancy rate in the city, there is a significant risk to the investor of having no
File Photo income to service the debt associated with the unit. The lack of accountability for five or more years of poor fiscal management within their association is starting to defeat the dreams of those individuals and families looking to step away from condo ownership. There can be only one solution. Get involved. Have the tough conversations with your neighbours and together get your association back on track financially. This problem is not going away any time soon. Realtors and lawyers cannot in good conscience recommend buyers purchase
a unit in complexes, which cannot prove their affairs are in order without ensuring they fully understand the risk that comes with taking an ownership position in them entails. Vern McClelland is
an associate broker with RE/MAX of Lloydminster and an active partner in his family’s livestock operation. Comments on this article are welcome either by emailing vernmcclelland@remax.net or calling 306-821-0611.
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