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Summers to sizzle with Ribfests GEOFF LEE
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.................................. Border City Connects has signed a five-year deal with the Western Canada Ribfest Tour as a major summer event and fundraiser for the Lloydminster region. Notably, Ribfest will help fund the nonprofit’s fleet of specialty vehicles serving Lloydminster area residents and benefit other charities. The deal follows the overwhelming success of the first COVID-friendly drive-thru format of Ribfest, held Aug. 21-23, by raising $25,000 net for the transportation service in partnership with the Lloydminster Agricultural Exhibition Association. The vehicle count at the four meat vendors was 2,869 to the amazement of Glenn Fagnan, the director of Border City Connects. “It was crazy; it was lined up from one end of the Lloyd Exh to the other and even out to the street, and that was for hours and hours of that,” said Fagnan earlier this week.
“The ribbers were very happy and we were very happy; it’s pretty amazing how everything worked out.” The event also generated $15,000 from the sale of 3,000 50/50 tickets with Lloyd resident Taryn Mardes winning a $7,500 prize share. Aaron Buckingham, marketing coordinator at Border City Connects, describes the initial event as a taste test of what’s to come with a full-scale Ribfest in the future. “We can have a fullfledged beer garden and entertainment and everything that goes with it,” anticipated Buckingham. “This will be Border City Connects major fundraiser for years to come—this is going to be a long-range commitment to this group and we’re looking forward to hosting it and watching it grow.” Fagnan says Ribfest is not just a fundraiser for Border City Connects, but an event for Lloydminster. “When we are back
to normal, it will be an event to go on for 20 years,” he said. The initial Ribfest was his group’s first and main opportunity for any fundraising this year. Border City Connects gets a donation fee from the Ribfest companies along with all of the proceeds from refreshment sales, sponsorships, and their own 50/50 raffle tickets. The bulk of the funds will go toward paying off the remainder of a new van purchase while helping with the operating cost of the fleet. “The fixed costs just don’t go away. We’ve had the lowest payroll we’ve ever had as well as the lowest fuel cost, but it’s still an expense on the insurance,” said Fagnan. The fleet includes Border City Connects’ buses to transport area residents with mobility issues and Care-AVans that shuttle residents and seniors door-to-door to medical appointments in Edmonton as well as Saskatoon.
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Aaron Buckingham, left, marketing manager of Border City Connects, does an elbow bump with Andrew Reinhardt, organizer of the Western Canada Ribfest Tour and owner of Billy’s BBQ last Friday at the Lloydminster Exhibition Grounds. Ribfest will become a major annual fundraiser for Border City Connects.
“There are so many things that we do in the community and more exciting things to come. We need an event like this to help to continue the good work Border City Connects does,” added Buckingham. “We are very excited the proceeds are going to Border City Connects, which is a vital service in the city. It’s not provided by anybody else and it needs to be provided.” Event organizer,
Andrew Reinhardt, a Niagara Falls Ont. resident who owns Billy’s BBQ in Michigan, says helping non-profits “is a big deal right now” with the pandemic going on. “ I t h i nk c o mm u ni ties and businesses are hurting, so we are doing everything we can to raise money,” he said. Ribfest vendors donated roughly $14,000 worth of leftover food products to The Olive Tree.
Reinhardt says the success of Ribfest is due to it being based on the idea communities will rally behind the events knowing they financially support community charities like Rotary, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Border City Connects in Lloyd. He says when that happens, they can grow it into a partnership that lasts. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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New shuttle service to roll out GEOFF LEE
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.................................. Former pressure truck operator Dion Boser is reinventing himself as the owner of a new Rockin Rolla Shuttle Service for the Lloydminster area. The entrepreneur is expecting to begin bussing passengers to medical appointments, shopping trips and airport trips in Edmonton and Saskatoon on weekdays starting Sept. 14. “I’ve been promoting that date right from the get-go. I’m just working out all the kinks and the paperwork just to make sure everything’s legit,” he said on Monday. He’s also currently scouting for a local bus depot in Lloydminster while operating from his acreage in the region. The shuttle will also FROM PAGE 1
“We are planning to do this here for as long as we can,” said Reinhardt. Locally, Ribfest also benefits the Lloyd Exh, another non-profit that is feeling the financial pinch with COVID-19 restrictions on hosting revenue-generating events. “We get a little bit of rental and any-
offer private transportation on weekends for groups up to 20 for events such as concerts, weddings and sporting events and limousine service for eight passengers. A hotshot service in an enclosed trailer and trailer rentals are part of the business mix. Most of Boser’s supporters on Facebook think it’s the best idea ever and Boser hopes they’re right after he was laid off in March due to COVID-19. “They’ve been spreading it around themselves. They are hoping it launches really good, so am I,” he said with a laugh. Boser is billing his Monday to Friday shuttle in a wheelchair accessible bus as an upscale service focused on seniors.
“They don’t always have service to get to the city,” he said. “My wife works in the industry and you have to p ay an e xo rbitant amount just to go to the city— they can just book me, it’s way cheaper.” He defines upscale as meaning a worry-free round trip for seniors to their destination in the luxury surroundings of the bus. “It’s actually pretty nice hanging out in there,” said Boser, who is ordering some decals and signage. Boser said he got the idea for a shuttle business while seeing a shuttle bus for sale on his way back from the lake. “It just kind of caught my interest and it just kind of snowballed from there,” he explained.
time we bring people to the grounds is a good thing,” said Jackie Tomayer, assistant GM of Lloyd Exh. Lloyd Exh volunteers were also selling their Chase the Ace tickets at Ribfest. “We are excited to partner with these guys for a few years to help out local charities and have it on the grounds,” said Tomayer. “We are a non-profit,
and if we can partner with other non-profits in the community to bring something as great as this to Lloydminster, we’re happy to do it.” Buckingham calls it a win-win for everybody to have a facility like the Lloyd Exh to host an activity like Ribfest. Lloyd Exh is going ahead with plans to host its Roundup cattle show Nov. 4-7.
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Partners revisit Dinner Thyme days
Supplied Photo Youth involved in this year’s Dinner Thyme curbside food deliveries gained confidence, skill and pride helping families according to a project update. GEOFF LEE
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.................................. The Dinne r Thyme program, run by the Lloydminster Community Youth Centre (LCYC) during the critical months of the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to be talked about by the project partners. The LCYC and Safeway Canada, that provided the program with $2,100 in gift cards from Safeway Canada through Sobeys Inc. Community Action Fund, provided an update to the Source with some lasting benefits of the partnership for youth. To recap, the youthbased program ran for 14 weeks up to July
23 and provided more than 1,200 servings of food to the community rocked by oil patch layoffs and the pandemic shutdown. Youth packaged and conducted a once-aweek curbside meal drop off with recipes to families involved with LCYC programs. Micheline Huard, program manager LCYC, says Safeway’s grocery gift card donation brought the program to life. “We were able to support 16-20 families each week through the Dinner Thyme program,” said Huard. “Families were grateful for the groceries, but also for the weekly activity the program
offered their children during isolation.” Each package was presented in a nice gro-
cery bag with the LCYC logo and a “thanks” to Safeway inside. “We were able to provide nutritious ingredients and challenges for youth and their families,” said Huard. She says the curb-side meal deliveries during COVID-19 allowed outreach workers from LCYC to connect to youth who were feeling isolated and anxious. “The staff and the youth looked forward to seeing each other each week for a quick sidewalk conversation,” said Huard. “Youth gained confidence, skill, and pride as they helped their families.” Laura Brown, manager of community investment, Sobeys, says LCYC reached out and applied for support from Safeway Canada
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The Burly Bee’s creating buzz, beautiful local honey TAYLOR WEAVER
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What started out as
a side project to better the education of local Grade 9 students has
evolved into a business venture for Shaun Donald, an Eco 9 teacher at E.S. Laird Middle School, and once the outdoor education enthusiast got a taste, The Burly Bee was born. “I got into this four years ago when I was looking at creating a program at E.S. Laird that was more handson outdoor education that was land-based for Grade 9 students,” said Donald. “A couple of friends said there was a session about bees at Peavey Mart. We went to it, and I found it really interesting, so I decided to learn as much as I could about bees and get some of my own.” Donald incorporated honey bees into the Eco 9 curriculum to help students connect back to the land, to where their food comes from, and back to life a bit. “We’re all several generations away from the farm now, and we don’t necessarily grasp where everything comes from, and that’s very important,” he said. “Bees are fascinating creatures to watch, to see how they work, and I find being in with the bees very calming. A lot of people freak out when they’re around insects, and when you have hundreds of thousands, or millions of insects flying around you, it can be daunting, but the beehive itself is really calm, and I fell in love with that. They’re FROM PAGE 2
The bus was an older City of Regina unit that was converted to more of a luxury bus when he and a silent business partner bought it.
Shaun Donald, owner of The Burly Bee and an Eco 9 teacher at E.S. Laird Middle School, poses with roughly 1,400 lbs of honey that was recently extracted from one of his two bee sites. Photo by Taylor Weaver Meridian Source
always doing something interesting and it’s great working with them and seeing what they’re doing.” Donald started off with four hives on his acreage just east of the Border City and is currently runing 45 hives at two different bee yards this season. “I’m hoping to e xpand e ve r y cou ple of years depending on how the market goes, but for me, this is an example of ‘do what you love and love what you do,’” he said. “I’m a teacher because I love it and find it fascinating and
really engaging, and I got into bees because of the same reasons, and I’ve come to love beekeeping.” Donald also explained there are environmental benefits to beekeeping, specifically related to farming. “Bees bring in more pollinators, and in Saskatchewan and Alberta there’s over 400 species of bees,” he said. “Learning about bees and talking to people about bees helps to bring up a variety of topics, including health, climate change, farm and agriculture health, because they’re
all connected.” Donald may be back in the classroom as teachers and students prepare for the upcoming school year, but The Burly Bee is busier than ever after extracting over 1,400 lbs of honey in the last few weeks. Looking to taste some of Donald’s sought-after honey? The Burly Bee products are stocked at many local businesses including Harvest to Home and the Down Town Cafe. Interested in purchasing honey? Contact Donald at theburlybee.com or on the business’s Facebook page.
“We had to bring it up to safety, but it didn’t really cost that much,” said Boser. The shuttle service will make stops in Maidstone and the Battle-
fords on Saskatoon trips and Vermilion and Vegreville on the Edmonton trips. Booking and pricing information is available on the Rockin Rolla
website. Boser will be following all of the bi-provincial COVID-19 prevention guidelines and cleaning procedures to operate the shuttle service.
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Opening day brewing at north Tim’s GEOFF LEE
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.................................. Lloydminster’s newest Tim Hortons Restaurant could be open in time for the Labour Day long weekend. The tentative opening date will be independent of the Lloydminster & District’s North Stop Co-op Gas Bar, sharing the same property at the intersection of 62 St. and 50 Ave. “We’re hoping to open Sept. 4 if everything goes well,” said restaurant owner Kristine Whitney with the construction basically completed. FROM PAGE 3
Brown says Sobeys wanted to support communities in need, and knowing an organization like LCYC was in search of help for their Dinner Thyme program, they jumped at the chance. “As part of Sobeys Inc. Community Action Fund, we wanted to give back to our local communities in need,” said Brown. Nationally, Sobeys’
The new Tim Hortons tenant at the North Stop Co-op Gas Bar could tentatively open on Sept. 4. Crews were pictured working on the site last Friday. Photo by Geoff Lee “We’re putting in equipment and finishing up and hooking up the Internet, phone and all that kind of stuff.”
Whitney says she will need the green light from health inspectors in order to open to the public.
community fund aims to give its 1,500 grocery and pharmacy stores across Canada enhanced support to address their communities’ most urgent needs. “The support for Dinner Thyme came at a critical and difficult time for the community and we are so very thankful we had Sobeys financial support,” said Huard. She noted the LCYC and the Youth Centre
Kitchen are open again, but they do not have available staff for curbside delivery. Huard added all the programs they run are entirely dependent on grants, gifts, and fundraising. “The prospect of fundraising this year is not as promising as past years, and we are working very hard and creatively to maintain our programming,” she said.
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She says as long as the inspection gets done before Sept. 4 they should be able to open the doors and the double drive-thru. “I am excited. It’s been a long time coming and it’s finally happening. It’s kind of crazy right now,” said Whitney, who notes a grand opening will likely take place later in September. “My son’s grad was supposed to be in May and now it’s Aug. 29 — my daughter’s wedding is Sept. 12 and this is happening. The restaurant was supposed to open two months before my daughter’s wedding, not a week before—it’s kind of a hectic time.” Whitney is currently training a new team of about 35 full-time and part-time employees with more hiring expected to accommodate staff turnover. The training is taking place at her flagship Tim Hortons Restaurant at 3902-50 Ave.
that opened on Dec. 15, 2008. She also opened the first Tim Hortons in Vermilion a few years ago and ran it for a while with her ex-husband, who now owns it.
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I am excited. It’s been a long time coming and it’s finally happening.
Whitney says her new north end restaurant couldn’t be in a better location. “We’ve got lots of good feedback about being on the north side, so we’re definitely excited,” said Whitney, with the restaurant being a site tenant next door to the Co-op “That is a really good location. I’m excited to have Co-op with us. I think they’re going to be great partners,” she said. Whitney says her ambition to have another restaurant took
root a couple of years ago with a request for Musgrave Development to develop a second property. “I wanted something on the north end and I said, ‘oh well, Coop’s looking at something too’ so we’ll work together,” said Whitney. The restaurant has a seating capacity of a bo u t 4 8 c u sto me r s, but with COVID-19 inside customer limits in place, the drive-thru will get a lot of traffic. “Even before COVID, 75 per cent of my business was drive-thru — especially with COVID, it was most of it, of course,” she said. Whitney also plans to offer customers at the new location the same Skip the Dishes service she introduced at her main location earlier in the pandemic. The north end restaurant also has the new franchise decor look with predominant brown and white beige tones, but no red colours.
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Rural cancer survivors wanted GEOFF LEE
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.................................. Rural and remote cancer survivors in the Lloydminster area are invited to take part in a new virtual exercise program promoted by the Lloydminster Primary Care Network. The Exercise for Cancer to Enhance Living Well or Excel project, for short, is looking for area participants to help kick off the program in Alberta on Sept. 14. “This is a new offering for rural communities,” said exercise specialist Heather Mielke with the care network that works with physicians to provide support services to residents. Excel will be offering free exercise classes for 12 weeks to encourage individuals undergoing or recovering from cancer treatment to make
regular exercise a part of their long-term cancer care. Mielke says she’d like to see eight people register, but they can take as many as 15. “Because the program is going to be offered virtually, we could bring a group together from all over the province,” she said. “People can be from just about anywhere, but if we did get enough numbers from Lloydminster, then we would run it as a second group.” Excel is a five-year project funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Alberta Cancer Foundation, to increase the accessibility of exercise programs for rural cancer survivors. “These types of programs are typically only
offered in the bigger centres. If you are living somewhere more rural, it might be something you haven’t been able to access conveniently until now,” said Mielke. The program will be delivered by Zoom video conferencing, focusing on cardiovascular, resistance training, balance and stretching exercises using available equipment at home. “We can make do with things you might have around the home—soup cans and bottles of water and that kind of thing,” said Mielke. “A lot of the exercise doesn’t require any equipment at all.” The course requirement is an Internet connection and a device such as a tablet or a smartphone. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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Letter to the editor ... Protecting the future of Alberta families: save our health care
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y name is Shelley Wiart and I am a resident of Lloydminster,
Alberta. I am currently finishing my fourth year of a Bachelor of Arts program in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Athabasca University. I am the proud mother to three daughters ages 11, nine, and seven. I am a passionate advocate for an Alberta health care system that is accessible, equitable, and free of financial burden or other barriers. I am deeply disturbed by the passing of Bill 30, the Health Statutes Amendment Act. This legislation creates opportunities for corporations to deliver health services and facilitates expanding the number and nature of surgeries delivered in private facilities. It increases health inequity by creating a two-tiered health system - one tier for the wealthy that can afford to gain access to faster services and one for disadvantaged Albertans that cannot afford expensive medical costs. Furthermore, the UCP government is using out-of-date, and misleading data suggesting that Alberta physician’s compensa-
tion is out of step with other comparable provinces. The UCP is attempting to villainize Alberta physicians’ by forcing them, through Bill 30, to publicly disclose their compensations without accounting for the full expenses of their practices including wages for their employees, overhead expenses, hours worked and taxes. Meanwhile, the UCP government is using pressure tactics against Alberta physicians due to a protracted compensation dispute between the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) and the government. The UCP Health Minister, Tyler Shandro, is refusing to cooperate with the AMA to come to a reasonable agreement. The result of the UCP’s attack on Alberta physicians is many doctors, especially in rural areas and smaller communities can no longer afford to keep up their practice; rural physicians’ are leaving our communities. We are living in the midst of a pandemic, which requires a health care system that can adequately support our current health crisis. The UCP government is risking the lives of Albertans by passing
Bill 30 – a bill that aims to privatize health care – and by devaluing the roles of physicians, especially in our hour of need. Moreover, I live in a rural location where there is a shortage of physicians, and I am concerned about this community’s ability to access qualified physicians during the pandemic. I do not support the UCP government’s passing of Bill 30 or the pressure tactics used against physicians. I am not affiliated with any political party. My focus is saving Alberta’s health care from privatization and supporting our health care professionals. I offer my deepest gratitude and support for our front line Alberta health care workers during this pandemic. I am a concerned mother advocating for the future of my children and all the families in Alberta that will be impacted by a two-tiered health care system. Please join my Facebook page, Protecting the Future of Alberta Families: Save Our Health Care to learn more about how you can help us protect rural health care. Sincerely, Shelley Wiart
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Leeway from Lloyd: Life is getting noisy STAFF WRITER GEOFF LEE
Life used to be a lot quieter in small towns and big cities, especially during the summer. Here in small-town Lloydminster, it seems not a minute goes by when you are subjected to an over-thetop noise to shatter the peace. The obvious offending sounds come from motorcycles or vehicles, or boom box stereos, or beeping trucks backing up, or honking horns due to someone hitting their panic button key fob. Add to that the arrival of construction
equipment or noisy maintenance equipment like leaf blowers and weed whackers at very odd hours —before breakfast and on some Sunday nights where I live. Recently, some workers were jackhammering a sidewalk in my area for an entire weekend and I had to shut all my windows despite the heat. I’m sure most cities in c ludin g Llo ydm in ster have noise bylaws, but how do you enforce a temporary noise in your area emitting from a passing motorcycle or vehicle? Municipalities can’t really prevent businesses from installing mobile noise products
either, but they could restrict noisy work to weekday hours.
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Here in small-town Lloydminster, it seems not a minute goes by when you are subjected to an over-thetop noise to shatter the peace.
Things are even worse in cities where, maybe a constant state of COVID-19 is the answer to quieter streets and environments. When I was a kid
growing up in Ottawa, the loudest noises of the summer were sonic booms from military jets breaking the sound barrier. Thank goodness planes can no longer do that over land. Those booms scared the heck of most people and rattled your bones. Today, the concept of quiet is a matter of coping with a relative degree of noise. A lot of people simply can’t deal with silence and that’s why so many of us wear earbuds to listen to music. Silence is a foreign concept in our modern world that is hard to find.
Every time I go camping in the “quiet” of Banff National Park, I am awakened by multiple whistles of trains t hat ru mbl e t h r o u gh town 24/7.
Even the chatter of squirrels can be irritating at times too, but I will take that over sonic booms any day. Silence isn’t golden since it doesn’t exist.
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Donated shields to protect educators
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Saskatchewan teachers will be better protected from COVID-19 when classes resume o n S e p t . 8 t h a n ks to
a donation of 28,000 reusable masks. The Canadian Shield, a Waterloo Regionbased Personal Protective Equipment manufacturer, is donating
the face shields to Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Education to prepare teachers for a return to classrooms this fall. The face shields, which the Canadian
Shield has been certified to produce, will be distributed by the public sector to protect teachers and educators from potential exposure to COVID-19 or other serious health risks. “We are thrilled to be working in partnership with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Education to offer our face shields to teachers and educators across the provFROM PAGE 8
The initial instructors will be exercise physiologists from the University of Calgary who have been running this program and will continue to run it. Mielke will act as a moderator then take on some instruction as the program progresses. “The hope is, long term we will continue to offer this in Lloydminster and I will take this on,” said Mielke. She says exercise can help alleviate the
File Photo ince,” said Canadian Shield president Jeremy Hedges in a news release on Aug. 20. “We want to make sure that every teacher
going back to the classroom this fall has a Canadian Shield to keep them safe.”
fatigue experienced by people that are either living with a new cancer diagnosis or recovering from treatment while improving their function. “ P e o p l e h ave mo re energy and they are better able to do the things they need to do to get through their daily life by increasing their strength or their stamina and their flexibility and mobility,” said Mielke. She says there’s the mental health benefit to
exercise too as dealing with a cancer diagnosis can create stress in a person’s life. Interested individuals can register by emailing wellnesslab@ucalgary. ca or by phoning Mielke at 780-874-0490 for more information. “There is something really powerful in a group setting to be involved with others who are going through something similar to you. The power of the group is a really great thing,” said Mielke.
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Care to dance? PRAIRIE WOOL HELEN ROW TOEWS
With school starting soon, although differently than usual, it got me thinking about one of the curriculum requirements for kids; namely the dance component. Often, depending on the age group participating, dance classes are met with varying degrees of either blissful anticipation, handclapping-joy, excitement, loathing, dread, or fear. When I was faced with this grim prospect in the 10th grade, I FROM PAGE 12
The face shields are made-in-Canada with 100 per cent recyclable material and they can be sanitized and reused up to 15 times. “To ensure schools are a safe place for students and staff,
fell solidly into the last three. I knew only four people (my tiny 9th grade graduating class) in the whole school of at least 600 students and not a soul in this gym class. However, we were told we had one day to pick a partner and choose a song. Then we were to choreograph some cool dance steps for the duration of our tune and perform it for the whole class. Horrors! I rode home on the bus that afternoon thinking desperately of escape. Perhaps I could cite some newly-found and
highly significant religious convictions prohibiting the frivolous playing of long-play records or repetitive movement. Maybe I could claim the sudden overnight onset of club foot, or state that irreparable damage had been done to an Achilles tendon after saving an old lady from being hit by a runaway train. Or, what if I blacked out one side of my glasses with a marker and told the teacher I’d lost an eye after being gored by a bull as I saved my sibling from certain death. A girl couldn’t be
expected to dance if her religious convictions disallowed it, right? Or if she had a disfiguring foot impairment brought on by sacrificial acts of kindness? Or, for sure if she’d temporarily lost the vision in one eye after selflessly saving her little brother, yes? Apparently not. With some irritation on the part of our teacher, Irene was chosen as my partner, and we were sent to a far corner of the stage to think. While Irene was lovely, she didn’t know what the heck to do either; nor were either of us up to date
we are using an allhands approach, utilizing a strong partnership between the public and private sector,” said deputy premier and education minister Gordon Wyant. The donation is part of The Canadian
Shield’s national donation campaign that will see 750,000 face shields shipped out and distributed to registered teachers by education ministries across Canada. The monetary value of the donation is
$7.5-million. The Canadian Shield began manufacturing face shields in March 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Canada was having difficulty sourcing PPE from its global suppliers.
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on popular songs. This was a problem. The fateful day arrived and all the other giggling girls performed intricate, coordinated and ultra-cool moves to their “rockin’
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Lloyd library reopens for Express Service
he Lloydminster Public Library was
happy to announce, as of Tuesday, they have moved to the next stage
of their re-opening plan and are able to offer inperson Express Service. Express Service allows readers to access some in-person library services, including: • browsing parts of the library collection in person • picking up and checking out your holds using our self-checkout machines • in-person services such as library card registration and read-
er’s advisory assistance from our staff • express (limited) computer access (30 minutes per day) A soft launch occurred on Aug. 19 and library staff are happy to welcome users back to the library in person, with a few changes. To maintain safety and prevent the transmission of COVID-19 we are asking everyone to observe the following:
• Please refrain from visiting if you have any signs of COVID-19, have been in close contact with someone with COVID-19 or have been out of the country in the last 14 days. • A mask covering your face and mouth must be worn at all times while in the library • Be aware that social distancing limits to 30 people in the library at a time and that you may
have to wait to enter • Keep your visit short – about 30 minutes – so that we can serve more visitors. • Any returned items and items that are touched but not borrowed will be quarantined for five (5) days for safety The Library is open M o nd ay - F r i d a y , 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. The first hour of each day is set aside for service for at-risk patrons.
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caught sight of several men on the cover holding accordions. Naw, that had to be wrong. As the record player clicked into position and the music began to play, Irene grabbed me firmly about the waist and we clasped clammy hands together as she hissed, “I’ll lead.” And we were off. Music blared as the Avsenik Brothers Ensemble launched into one of their better-
known polka numbers, and we began a complicated series of maneuvers, made up on the spur of the moment. Red-faced, we marched clumsily about the room with knees banging together, elbows askew, and muffled apologies murmured, until the last few miserable notes were released from the ivory keys of the lead accordionist, and it was finished. To say th e re w a s a
stunned silence at the conclusion of this event is understating things by quite a bit. Nonetheless, thanks to Irene, Slavko Avsenik, and his band of charismatic brothers, it was done and over and we breathed a sigh of relief as we and the mighty men in embroidered shirts took our leave. And so, in answer to the title of this piece – I think I’ll sit this one out, thanks.
The teacher was pleased, the other students were pleased, heck, even the janitor, peering at us as she swept a nearby floor, was pleased with these girls – and then, it was our turn. Irene strode forward confidently, and handed the teacher an album she’d brought from home. I didn’t even know what music she’d chosen but thought I
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Sports
Overcoming challenges and embracing new opportunities ple give when keys are returned or just through using the key tags provide financial support for the kids with funding the different prosthetics. Some are kids needing daily living prosthetics and some are using sports attachments. Elijah has only ever used the recreational attachments for different sports and the War Amps has helped us with those.”
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Lloydminster’s Elijah Belanger received a prosthetic device through the War Amps CHAMP Program earlier this summer, allowing him to better grip a kayak paddle. JAMIE HARKINS
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A summer spent on t he w at e r and at the basketball court is a dream come true for a local seventh-grader. Elijah Belanger, who was born without a right hand, received prosthetic kayak and basketball devices through the War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program this past June. The 12-year-old St. Thomas School student has taken full advantage of the new opportunities these devices present, working on his right-hand dribbling
and shooting skills at the court as well as heading out onto the lake for frequent kayak trips during the last few months. “We appreciate the War Amps support,” said Belanger, noting CHAMP has provided him swimming and bicycle riding devices in the past. “I’m able to try stuff that I want to try which I wouldn’t be able to do before. And, I can do it on my own.” Danette Belanger, Elijah’s mom, said their family has been involved with the War
Amps throughout her son’s lifetime. She said the CHAMP program has helped them acquire recreational devices for Elijah by providing financial assistance along with methods to overcome the challenges of living with an artificial limb through seminars focusing on issues such as teasing and bullying as well as parenting a child amputee. “War Amps runs on donations and their biggest program is the key tag service,” said Danette. “The donations peo-
It’s allowed me to grip the kayak paddle a lot better so I can get a lot more power in the strokes. It’s a lot faster, easier and not as much work for my left hand.
Belanger said kayaking has been his summer passion for the past six years. He said trips onto the water started with riding along with his dad and progressed to enjoying chances out on his own, despite the challenges it presented going one-handed. “I’ve taken advantage of the device and gone kayaking quite a bit this summer,” said Belanger. “It’s allowed me to grip the kayak paddle a lot better so I can get
a lot more power in the strokes. It’s a lot faster,
easier and not as much work for my left hand.”
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Everything comes back to Seinfeld SPORTS EDITOR JAMIE HARKINS
If of a cert ain age, dear readers, you may recall an episode of Seinfeld which features Jerry and Elaine attempting to mingle this and that while avoiding the other. Jerry and Elaine come up with rules to allow this and that such as no calls the day after and sleeping over is optional. When told to George, he laughs at the latter decree, noting the expectation is always one must spend the night no matter the temperature of the room nor the size of the bed. You may also recall that the proposed reopening of professional sports to a captive audience was met with a raised eyebrow by many just a few months ago. Well, sports on television is gold, plus the NHL released a report
on Monday noting no cases of COVID among the bubble boys. Hockey and NBA basketball is the ideal of having this and that without the other. Major League Baseball is an example of why George is skeptical. Tyson Jost, a forward for the Colorado Avalanche, recently opined they’re part of history competing for the Stanley Cup while also providing a distraction for social distancing fans in the midst of a pandemic. With strict measures in place and operating in a secured environment, the NHL and NBA seem to have solved the other dilemma. Baseball went with a lackadaisical approach to reopening, making the bet not on which team might win the World Series but whether the championship would be rewarded at all. Those cardboard cutouts of fans lining the
first few rows of stands also look pretty terrible. And an empty stadium behind them doesn’t help with the whole escape reality for a few hours objective either. Anomie is what sports fans were feeling during the shutdown. It refers to normlessness in that sporting events are considered rituals and give us meaning, so when taken away, we become unmoored. I wasn’t sure how the return of hockey, baseball and basket ball would catch my attention. The Edmonton Oilers versus Chicago Blackhawks series served as a hook and the Toronto Raptors advance to a secondround battle against the Boston Celtics is the hold. Both have and continue to mingle this and that. Plus, they’re making sure the other doesn’t ruin the fun.
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Real Estate
The cat came back MIDWEST MINUTE VERN McCLELLAND
You cannot go into as many homes as we do as realtors without having an uncomfortable encounter with a family pet on occasion. Every time I drive by a particular acreage by the North Saskatchewan River, I recall the time I was showing the home to a prospective buyer. I had arrived a few minutes ahead of my client, so I unlocked the house and started going through the rooms turning on lights and opening curtains. For some reason, I felt I was being watched and sure enough, up on top of the kitchen cabinet crouched a very
unhappy, incredibly large, and now vocal, tomcat. He didn’t change his posture until I waived a broom in front of his face, causing him to jump down from his perch and disappear into a back bedroom never to be seen or heard from again during our visit. The only time in my life I have been bitten by a dog was just after opening the front door of a bi-level house in the city. The furry rat came barreling down the stairs from the toplevel, slashed me on the calf as he went by on his way to hide in the basement. Not that I haven’t had a scare or two, but I always give dogs the benefit of the doubt
when arriving at their home. After all, it is their place, and they often feel the need to protect it from strangers, especially when the owners are not there. Once, however, both the buyer and I decided it would be more prudent to not attempt entering a country home as two dogs the size of small ponies were doing their best to jump through the living room window at us. When I told the absentee landlord later that evening his tenant’s pets had prevented a showing, he informed me this was the last straw in a difficult relationship between them and would result in eviction. CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
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Universities, colleges and polytechFROM PAGE 17
Upon examining the home after the renter made a “midnight move” and skipping out on several months’ rent, the landlord found evidence of a modest-sized grow-op in the basement. It’s not just cats and dogs we bump up against either. Screeching birds, reptiles of all sizes, rabbits, hamsters, rats, mice, and even the occasional potbellied pig! But the one I remember the most was a pitch-black house cat. The elderly owners weren’t allowed to take the feline to their new apartment and so I volunteered to rehome her with my wife’s pamp e r e d fa r m c a t s w ho live a life of leisure in the loft of our barn. About fifteen blocks
nics recently received an extra $98 million to restore learning spaces and get hundreds of from their house the she-devil somehow managed to pick the door lock of her travel kennel and proceeded to sp rint aro und the inside of my truck, including bouncing off my head a time or two. When I pulled over and opened the rear door to catch her, she escaped off into the night. They just laughed when I phoned them the next day, saying their little darling had been sitting on the back step that morning asking to be let in. We agreed a new home with a family member might be the better choice. Vern McClelland is an associate broker with RE/MAX of Lloydminster and has written over 600 columns on real estate and life in the Midwest.
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student-centred spaces that will serve the region for years. “Alberta’s Recovery Plan is spending $10 billion on vital public infrastructure in every corner of the province,” said Minister of Infrastructure Prasad Panda. “This includes $2 billion on shovelready capital maintenance and renewal to create jobs today while Albertans face record unemployment.”
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WIEBE: Harold John Wiebe was born on April 25, 1929, at Lorette, Manitoba, to William and Anna Sobering Wiebe. He peacefully passed away in his sleep August 6, 2020, at Lloydminster Hospital, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. Dad lived a full life reaching the age of 91 years. Dad spent his early years on the family farm, working together with his family. He attended the Blumenhof School. Carpentry piqued his interest from a young age and he built many projects out of apple boxes as a young lad. Dad gave his heart to the Lord and was baptized into the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite at Steinbach, Manitoba, on December 29, 1945. He walked faithfully until God called him Home. Dad married our mother, Laura Giesbrecht on May 8, 1956 at Steinbach, Manitoba. They shared almost 47 years of married life until she passed away in March 2003. Dad and Mom made their first home in Winnipeg in a new
house that Dad built. Dad worked in construction for another 2 years until they moved to Abbotsford, BC. Here he continued his carpentry career, along with purchasing and expanding the chicken farm. During this time their 4 children were born. Dad gave freely of his time to the communities he lived in, including the fire department at Mount Lehman, rebuilding homes at Lillooett, BC, and building Valhaven Home. In February of 1971, Dad was ordained as a Deacon. He faithfully served until his retirement. In the fall of 1978, Dad and Mom accepted an invitation to serve the Neilburg Congregation. We packed up and moved to the prairies where we built up a cattle and grain farm. 1997 brought another move to their retirement home in Neilburg. Dad kept busy tilling gardens, pampering his small herd of cattle, and gardening. On October 30, 2004, Dad was joined in marriage to Irene Penner at Linden, Alberta. They enjoyed 15 happy years together. As a family, we are so grateful for Mom’s unwavering love and devotion to our Father. In January of 2019, our parents moved to Dr. Hemstock Assisted Living in Lloydminster, Alberta. Dad appreciated the time he spent there.
Dad will be lovingly remembered by: his wife, Irene; the children: Ken and Barb, Kris and Natalie (Nolan, Elise), Andrea, Robyn and Arne (Gunther); Pat and Cheryl, Allison and Darren (Lacey, Kohl, MaKenna), Bethany and Jasper (Mila, Harper), Nathan, Luke; Rob and Shannon, Connor, Cory, Lauren and Kayo, Cassidy; Audrey and Lowell, Lars and Shari, Kendal and Kristi Jo, Tristan, Marty; his sisters, Susan and Harvey Toews, Barb and Harvey Thiessen; sister-in-law, Jean Wiebe; and brother-in-law, Herb Regehr. Dad was predeceased by: his wife, Laura; daughter-in-law, Valerie; two sisters, Florence Regehr and Marion and her husband Vernon Boese; and his brother, Jake. The Funeral Service for Harold was conducted from Church of God in Christ, Neilburg, Saskatchewan on Monday, August 10, 2020 at 1:00 PM. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express thanks for the care and kindness shown to Dad and our family by the staff at Dr. Hemstock Assisted Living, the HomeCare workers, the Lloydminster Hospital, and our many friends. Also we would like to extend our thanks to Joel and the staff at McCaws Funeral Service for their kindness and compassion during this time.
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