Meridian Source - January 12, 2023

Buzz the Bobcats brings in over $32,000 for mental health

The Lloydminster Bobcats beat the Canmore Eagles 7-4 on home ice last Saturday, but the real winners were local youth struggling with mental health.

Last October, the Bobcats teamed up with the Lloydminster Region Health Foundation (LRHF) and started a fundraising campaign to support mental health initiatives and resources throughout the Lloydminster public and Lloydminster Catholic School Divisions.

A $25,000 goal was set, and if met, the entire team would shave their heads.

Last Friday, and with only one day of fundraising left, the boys were $1,800 shy of their goal, which is when the United Way showed up in the dressing room with a blank cheque.

The United Way got the team to its goal and added an additional $5,000 when the coaching staff agreed to get a buzz cut.

“This is unbelievable, I’m just so happy right now,” said Bobcats forward Jayven Leslie,

who spearheaded the initiative. “This community just keeps coming through for all of us, and we’re thankful for everyone that’s supported us throughout this, and will continue to support us through it all.”

An advocate for mental health, Leslie knows how important it is to have these potentially tough conversations and even joined Kurt Price and Maverick Hann on Nov. 17, 2022, for a Let’s Talk Men’s Mental Health podcast, recorded in front of a live audience at the LloydMall.

“You see slowly and slowly there’s more awareness being

brought to it, and you really can’t explain how important it is,”

said Leslie.

TAYLOR WEAVER EDITOR

Photo by Jackie Tomayer

Taylor Weaver Meridian Source Bobcats captain, Ben ByGrove, left, was the first to get buzzed after a 7-4 win over Canmore on Saturday night as the Bobcats held up their end of the deal and shaved their heads after raising $25K for mental health initiatives. Teammate Jayven Leslie, right, who organized the fundraiser, was next to lose the lettuce.

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“One’s mental health, no one really sees what goes on behind closed doors. I just want to get people help when they’re younger, (something) the older generation didn’t get.”

Now in his fourth year with the Bobcats, Leslie stated Saturday’s crowd was the best he’s ever seen.

“It’s awesome to see everyone coming out and supporting us, and all the people that are still in the stands right now, it’s kinda crazy,” he said right before getting his head shaved.

Bobcats captain, Ben Bygrove, knew how special Saturday night was and is hoping it brings the team even closer together.

“It’s good when you have something like this for the community and everyone comes together and gets a big

win on a special night like this, it’s pretty special,” he said.

“Jayven put all this together and it means a lot to him, so it’s great to see we all came together and got a win for him.”

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One’s mental health, no one really sees what goes on behind closed doors.

Forward Matthew Swanson, who’s been a teammate of Leslie’s for roughly seven years and arguably had the best flow on the bench, was also elated to see the night turn into such a success.

“Jayven’s a great guy. He’s always out in the community doing what he can to help out. He came to us with this

idea to shave our heads to try and raise money for mental health, and we all agreed. It’s going to be good,” he said just before to his cut.

One thing Bobcats fans might not be aware of is the fact the team dressed two new players on Saturday, who didn’t know about the buzz cuts until game day.

“We were in the dressing room with the blank cheque and everyone’s wearing matching sweaters except Caden Cabana and goaltender Matthew Syverson,” said the United Way’s Tricia Hunter.

“That was their first day with the team. It was basically a ‘welcome to Lloydminster, we’re shaving your head on Saturday’ moment for them. But what an amazing time to step in and be a part of something so big; like, instant brotherhood.”

Photos by Jackie Tomayer

Left: Forward Matthew Swanson gets his turn under the clippers on Saturday night. Right: Bobcats head coach and general manager, Nigel Dube, gets his head shaved by LRHF CEO Stephanie Munro on Saturday night after a 7-4 win over the Canmore Eagles.

Rotary briefed on Cenovus plans

new ones and involve the installation of new equipment.

Margetts also touched on the upgrader feedstock replacement project as a part of the company’s so-called Rewire Alberta initiative.

“We want to bring oil from Alberta to here,” said Margetts, noting the upgrader would be expanded to access heavier crude from Cold Lake and Foster Creek.

“This would also enable Cenovus to produce more diesel production,” he said.

The upgrader currently has a capacity of 81,000 bbls/day.

GEOFF LEE WRITER

Cenovus Energy is making the Lloydminster area the centre of its integrated oil universe with multiple ongoing and planned projects at the Lloydminster Refinery and Upgrader.

Kerry Margetts, the company’s vice president of Canadian manufacturing and downstream technical services, provided an overview of some local projects at the Rotary Club of Lloydminster’s Monday lunch.

He first spoke about an ongoing refinery debottlenecking project and a refinery feedstock replacement project.

“We’re talking in the neighbourhood of $100 million for these projects,” said Margetts.

The de-bottlenecking project, to be completed in late 2023, will increase throughput by 3,000 barrels a day of feedstock crude to produce an additional 1,500 bbls/day of asphalt.

The refinery currently has a capacity of around 29,000 bbls/ day.

The project involves upgrading and installing new equipment with another possible expansion that Margetts says Cenovus is still mulling over.

“... but we’re looking very hard at a further expansion that would put an additional expansion of the refinery up to 50,000 bbls/ day,” he said.

“That will also allow us to process crude from the Cold Lake

area at the refinery and upgrader. We’d like to have options on how we feed our plants, even though it is all our oil.”

Currently, Cenovus can only feed the plants with Lloydminster-produced oil.

The feedstock replacement project has a 2026 completion target and will allow the refinery to produce an additional 7,500 bbls/day of asphalt.

The project will replace the existing rail terminal with two

“We want to take our higher quality Lloyd barrels and sell them for a greater value into Hardisty and sell them into the market. It’s just a replacement. We’re not reducing production here.”

Margetts says expanding the upgrader in terms of capacity and feedstock will allow them to capture additional diluent to return to the upstream facilities, resulting in less diluent imports from the U.S.

Margetts also touched on the company’s role in the Pathways project as one of six major oil sands producers in Canada committed to net-zero emissions by 2050, mainly through an estimated $24 billion carbon capture and sequestration investment using an underground formation in the Cold Lake area.

The Alberta government recently gave its approval to scope the site.

“Now, we have to go and look at the geology to see if the geology is appropriate to be able to sequester the amount of CO2 we want to look at,” said Margetts.

He also spoke to Rotary about the company’s community and

Indigenous partnerships and its sponsorship and donations

programs in the Lloydminster area in 2022.

Geoff Lee Meridian Source

Kerry Margetts, the vice president of Canadian downstream manufacturing and technical services with Cenovus, provided Rotarians with an overview of Lloydminster operations and expansion projects at their Monday meeting.

Gold Circle Network official CPCA tour sponsor

ship will help the association offset costs involved in the season, including event staff and judges.

“We have overhead as well, so it’ll help with all of that,” she added.

The sponsorship announcement was made on Dec. 15 at the grand opening of the newly-renovated and re-branded Gold Circle Inn, formerly known as the Ramada on Highway 16.

“The Gold Circle Inn is an example of reconciliation at its finest,” said Lloydminster Mayor Gerald Aalbers during the grand opening of the hotel.

and that tells me they see the value they bring to the community, and they want to share the assets they bring each and every day.”

because we’re still working out the details, but there’s a strong potential we’ll be racing in some new locations as well as adding some race days to our existing schedule,” she said.

Phipps invites race fans to follow the CPCA across social media platforms to stay in the know.

Dallas Dyck was one of a handful of drivers in attendance for the announcement and expressed his excitement about the upcoming season.

Margetts has been in the oil and gas business for more than 37 years and says he has two main priorities in his current role that he assumed in April 2022.

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While many Lloydminster and area residents were scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping, the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) was celebrating a pre-Christmas partnership to make

the upcoming season bigger and better than ever.

“The Gold Circle Network came on board this year as our tour sponsor, which is very exciting because it’s been a number of years since the CPCA has had a tour sponsor,” said CPCA sponsorship and

marketing manager, Wendy Phipps.

“It’s huge for us and this sponsorship helps us get down the road and put on these shows. It’s an expensive sport so we need operating money, and businesses like this really help us.”

Phipps went on to explain the sponsor -

“It’s an example of economic growth and working together handin-hand with our community. The work they continue to do every day in our community and our businesses. We’ve got members of the Salvation Army, the Lloydminster Exhibition and other organizations in our presence,

“I want to thank them for being the tour sponsor for us. Our sport is sponsor-driven, and we don’t get down the road without them.”

Phipps also alluded to some exciting structure changes chuckwagon fans can look forward to.

“We haven’t released anything official yet

“One is I take care of all of the downstream Canadian assets for Cenovus in terms of the safe operations of those,” he said.

“I also have a technical services team that provides the deeper higher level technical support for both the Canadian and U.S. downstream operations.”

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CPCA sponsorship marketing manager, Wendy Phipps, was all smiles with drivers Logan Gorst, Dallas Dyck, DJ King and Duane Antoine when it was announced the Gold Circle Network stepped up to be the official tour sponsor for the upcoming season.

Our sport is sponsordriven, and we don’t get down the road without them.

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Young gains ground for area seniors

GEOFF LEE WRITER

It is good to hear that project is being looked at very favourably by the Saskatchewan government. The thinking there is we should get moving on some new beds and a new building.

Young kicked off her update at Tuesday’s meeting with news a replacement for the aging Jubilee Home has moved up a notch on Saskatchewan’s capital building schedule.

She told the meeting the health minister said it was time to build a new facility following a tour of Jubilee in 2022.

“It was on the capital building list, but not for another 10 to 15 years, but that discussion now has moved up,” said Young.

“I am very hopeful on the discussions I have been having that there is something that will happen sooner rather than later.”

Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) and Alberta Health Services (AHS) have previously identified the need for 60 long-term care spaces by 2025 and 148 by 2035.

There are 29 people awaiting placement in Lloydminster either being in hospital taking up acute care spaces or sent to out-of-town facilities without access to family and friends.

Young says she also pitched the idea of building a hospice and a long-term care facility on the same site and the minister said ‘go for it.’

“I have been having discussions about a proposed land opportunity looking to see

what their contribution might be to providing the land,” said Young.

“If that moves ahead, that would probably move the hospice to get approved sooner and the LTC to come in the future.”

That was music to the ears of Concerned Citizens president Graham Brown who has been beating the drum for more long-term care spaces for several years.

“It is good to hear that project is being looked at very favourably by the Saskatchewan government. The thinking there is we should get moving on some new beds and a new building,” said Brown.

“That gives our committee the excitement and enthusiasm to move forward.”

Young will also pass along a request from

seniors to have input into the design of a new LTC facility.

“I think that community consultation is really important when it comes to what works best, not just for the residents, but for the staff that have to work in those buildings,” she said.

Brown says his group wants to ensure it is senior-friendly and operationally friendly so that it functions to its optimum.

“Sometimes we find things get designed and they create more problems than they solve,” said Brown.

Young also shared the news AHS and SHA have activated the Long Term Spaces Working Group to update the 2013 Lloydminster Integrated Health Services and Facility Infrastructure Needs Assessment.

The decision to move forward on the Lloydminster region plan came before Christmas.

“It’s good to hear that updating the plan is moving ahead. That’s basic. We’ve got to have that done in order to move any of the projects forward,” said Brown.

“The working group is getting going on it. We’re on step one. We’re doing it so that’s pretty positive.”

Young also touched on the physician shortage in the area. She says three foreign doctors would love to work here via the Saskatchewan Immigrant Physicians Program, but the federal government requires permanent resident status first.

“That’s some of the conversation our minister is having in regards to changes to that program,” said Young.

Lloydminster MLA Colleen Young got to act as the bearer of good news for the Lloydminster Concerned Citizens for Seniors Care Society.

Geoff Lee Meridian Source

Lloydminster MLA Colleen Young, left, listens to a comment by Graham Brown, president of Lloydminster Concerned Citizens for Seniors Care Society, during her presentation on seniors’ issues she has been working on behind the scenes.

Lloyd upgrader recovers from cold

unplanned operational issues and third-party pipeline outages significantly reduced the company’s North American downstream throughput in December.

and technical services

Kerry Margetts spoke about the situation in Lloydminster before speaking to the Rotary club on Monday.

GEOFF LEE WRITER

Cenovus Energy reports the Lloydminster Upgrader and U.S. refineries are in recovery mode following

the impact of recent extreme winter storms and severely cold temperatures on throughput.

Weather related issues as well as

Cenovus provided an update on Jan. 8 noting the Lloydminster Upgrader and U.S. Borger Refinery in Texas are each expected to return to full rates by about the middle of January.

Cenovus’s vice president of Canadian downstream manufacturing

“Most of that announcement was about the U.S. We have a lot of refineries in the U.S. that aren’t used to that very cold weather so we do prepare for it and do the best we can,” said Margetts.

“We did get through it safely and our units are back up and operational.”

The update noted the Lloydminster Refinery has continued to run well through December and into January and the U.S. Lima Refinery in Ohio is now operating at full rates.

The Wood River Refinery in Illinois, currently operating at approximately 65 per cent capacity, is expected to continue to increase rates through the first quarter.

The revised estimated Q4 2022 throughput at Lloydminster

Oil bonspiel will rock the house

GEOFF LEE WRITER

It is socially acceptable to throw stones toward a house at least once a year at the Lloydminster Oil and Gas Open Bonspiel.

The next opportunity for industry curlers to create mayhem with rocks will be at the 54th annual bonspiel, March

16-19, at the Lloydminster Golf and Curling Centre.

Organizers have put out a call for teams to register foursomes and for sponsors to step up to keep the traditional event going, with the first spiel held back in 1968.

Opening ceremonies are set for March 16

with the mixed banquet and Oilman of the Year Award at the WLC Convention Centre the evening of March 17.

“We have seen a lot of growth and change in the industry, and events such as the bonspiel keep us all connected while we doing what we love every day,” said the commit -

tee in a statement.

“The oil and gas industry plays an important role in our day-to-day lives and we believe in celebrating the men in women that have dedicated their years to the industry.”

Entry fees are just $440 per team, which includes a minimum of four games and four

banquet tickets.

Dancing shoes are recommended after the banquet with some toetapping music from a

downstream operations is expected to be approximately 90,00095,000 barrels per day and about 370,000 to 380,000 bbls/day in the U.S.

As a result of these impacts, Q1 2023 downstream refinery throughput will be lower than anticipated.

If necessary, Cenovus will provide an update to its 2023 corporate guidance in February when its 2022 fourthquarter and full-year results are announced.

band and DJ on a full stomach at 9 p.m.

Organizers are also accepting prizes and donations as usual.

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Lloyd runners jacked up for frost race

GEOFF LEE WRITER

Local runners are jumping on the bandwagon to beat the winter blues.

The Lloydminster Runners club is hosting a new winter race at Bud Miller All Seasons Park on Jan. 28 with registration numbers higher than initially expected.

The inaugural Winter Runderland event offers a 5km or 10km distance on a 2.5km out-andback course that loops around the lake on a plowed asphalt bike path.

“A lot of people have signed up for it. There’s a lot of interest,” said club founder and runner Chris Bogue on another win -

ter day for jogging.

There is a registration link on the club’s website noting a 10 a.m. race start at the PSM Building.

“We’ve never done a winter race before. We put it out to the community and we said ‘hey if 10 people show up, great,’” explained Bogue.

“It looks like our

number is going to be way better than that. There are people interested in freezing their butts off in the cold running around in the park, which is great.”

All registrants will receive a finishers’ medal and zipper hoodie with a frosted Lloydminster Runners logo.

Athletic author catches her breath

and runner, Susanna Pankiw, is catching her breath after finishing the third and final book of her fantasy fiction series War of the Dragons.

The Wings of Change was released over Christmas and is available on Kindle under Pankiw’s pen name S.J. Walker.

reader is transported into a make believe world of dragons and magic where anything can happen and certainly does, according to her publicist.

This book is also a fantasy where good versus evil on different levels.

that seek to destroy their world.

The book is targeted for readers aged 15 and up.

She spent her last 15 years in the classroom teaching a Grade 3-4 class in Dewberry.

real name.

GEOFF LEE WRITER

That’s all she wrote, but there’s likely more to come.

Marwayne author

Just like her first two books in the series, The Legend of the Stone and the Embryo and Breaking the Illusion , the

Battling fantastical creatures and warring dragons, main characters Reollyn and Arvandar must find the courage and strength to overcome the powers

More clubroot detected in Lloyd area

Clubroot continues to establish a strong foothold in commercial canola fields in the Lloydminster area.

The new 2022 Saskatchewan Clubroot Distribution Map, released earlier this week, shows six rural municipalities in our area where clubroot has been identified.

Clubroot is a soilborne disease that can cause significant yield

Pankiw writes full time since she took early retirement in 2021 following a 29-year teaching career with the Buffalo Trail Public School Division.

Pankiw was also a liaison with the Vermilion Standard and the Vermilion Voice newspapers and got her start in self-publishing with a children’s book, What’s My Colour using her

Pankiw is well known in local running circles and paced the last two legs of the Iron Horse Ultra (38.33 km) last fall for one of her running friends.

She lives year round in Marwayne with her family, two dogs and several cats.

loss when pathogen levels are high, a susceptible crop is grown and when environmental conditions are favourable.

The pathogen has also been detected in RM 469 in the Lloyd area, but is not yet showing any symptoms.

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Visible clubroot symptoms were recorded in two more commercial canola fields in 2022 and the clubroot pathogen was detected in four new fields in the province.

To date, visible clubroot symptoms have been confirmed in 82 commercial fields while the clubroot pathogen has been detected through DNA-based testing in 42 fields where there were no visible symptoms.

These results show the importance of continuing to monitor and manage clubroot, which is a declared pest under The Pe st Control Act.

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Photo courtesy of local runner Mikey Dubz.

Big win for Bobcats on Buzz night

Bygrove and Brock Krulicki all lit the lamp before the 5:35 mark in the second frame, getting the crowd on their feet and igniting a fire on the bench.

The Eagles may have drawn first blood, but after 60 minutes of hard-fought hockey, the Lloydminster Bobcats were the ones soaring.

The Bobcats (12-24-11) hosted the Canmore Eagles (17-19-2-2) of the AJHL south on Sat-

urday night and earned themselves a 7-4 win.

The night brought the team even closer together as the entire roster, as well as the coaching staff, kept a promise by shaving their heads after raising over $32K to support local mental health initiatives.

Canmore’s Owen Jones was first to light the lamp at the 12:22 mark in the first frame, but Bobcats forward Matthew Swanson would answer back minutes later.

The second period, however, saw the ‘Cats take a 6-2 lead.

Jayven Leslie, Ben

Canmore’s Vincent Scott was quick to respond to Krulicki’s goal, but both Bygrove and Krulicki got another goal before the end of the period. Canmore also saw a goaltending change at the 14:07 mark in the second.

Canmore came out of the gate in the third looking for revenge and found it with goals from Casey Black and another from Scott on the powerplay.

Still carrying the momentum from the second period, the ‘Cats continued fighting and would see Hayden Prosofsky pot a seventh goal for the home team before the final buzzer.

“This was a big night

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Right: Bobcats defenceman Andon Coles muscles Canmore Eagles forward Kai Billey off the puck on Saturday night.

and could be a turning point in the season. You get one win, and on a night like this, it’s something that brings a group together, and hopefully, we keep it rollin,’” said captain Ben Bygrove after the win.

Bobcats’ new associate the skills coach, Jeff Woywitka, echoed Bygrove’s remarks and added things are starting to come together.

“There was a good effort from the guys tonight and it shows we’re starting to feel good about ourselves,” said Woywitka.

“I know we didn’t get the results against some pretty high (ranked) opponents like Spruce Grove and Bonnyville before the break. They came at us hard, but we did see some good things, and now we’re starting to see guys are feeling better.

“There’s a lot of good things and it’s starting to build. There’s potential with these players, and when we can play connected on the ice, like we did tonight, we can put up seven, and it’s good for guys to start feeling good.”

TAYLOR WEAVER EDITOR

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Bobcats forward Jayven Leslie challenges Canmore Eagles goaltender Andreai Proctor-Ramirezon on Saturday night at the Civic Centre.

When we can play connected on the ice, like we did tonight, we can put up seven, and it’s good for guys to start feeling good.

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SHIRLEY L. SCOTT SPECIAL TO THE SOURCE

We are beginning a new year with all that it holds for us. We have hopes and expectations, some we will enjoy, but some will find the new year will be bearing the pain of losses.

It takes courage to

The courage the grieve, well

grieve and emotional energy.

Following are a few things to consider on your “journey through grief,” and as you begin the “new normal” of life. (lovingly lifted from Courage To Grieve by Judy Tatelbaum)

- Be able to cope with feelings and environ -

ment, and face our loss at our very gut level not just our head. (going through our grief)

- When emotional pain lessens, it does not mean we are forgetting our loved one or our loss. (It is like they are woven into the tapestry of our lives)

- Waves of grief will

A tale of a new tradition

WHISPERS OF THE PAST SANDRA L. BROWN

Now that the holidays have passed, the reminders of our traditional Christmas collections are carefully wrapped and packed away for another year.

Traditions are often passed down from one generation to the next. Some are written down; others come alive as stories are retold. Folks may not even know how or when they actually originated.

When the first pioneers settled in this area in 1903, there was a blending together of their British traditions with new experiences. Together they made their first prairie Christmas and new year’s even more memorable. Whether it’s a tradition of a cultural collection, a favourite dessert whose recipe is generations old or the beginning of something new, it’s still a tradition to enjoy.

In 2020 many of us were determined to have somewhat of a traditional Christmas celebration with our families during the ongoing pandemic.

After rushing home from work on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, I quickly got the turkey into the waiting oven. I thought it was rather odd there wasn’t a popup timer as this was a standard feature on every turkey I’ve ever roasted.

But I figured 2020 wasn’t exactly a normal year anyway and maybe this applied to turkeys too.

As the delicious scent of roasting turkey filled the kitchen, many traditional side dishes and desserts were prepared. Each time I basted the turkey with its own juices, I kept wondering why this particular one looked so different from the many others I had cooked before. My sons and their families arrived; soon my home was filled with laughter and excited voices.

It was finally time to take the turkey out of the oven and let it rest for a few minutes before carving. The turkey was carefully placed on a spacious platter.

With a carving knife in one hand and a large fork in the other, my hands hesitantly hovered over top of the golden-brown turkey ready to carve the white breast meat. But for some particular reason, I couldn’t find any white meat. Something wasn’t right and panic was starting to set in.

“There’s something wrong with this turkey. It’s all bones and dark meat…” Stopping

in mid-sentence, I suddenly noticed something unusual and burst out laughing. The turkey’s wings were upside down.

This particular turkey, which had been cooking all afternoon and basted every hour, was actually upside down in the roaster. So, I quickly flipped it over. The pop-up timer was exactly where it should have been. I had literally cooked our Christmas Eve turkey upside down!

But wait, there’s a point to this story.

From roasting upside down and slowly basting in its own juices all afternoon, the white meat was very moist and tender.

In fact, my cooking blunder was an undisguised blessing. It accidentally resulted in a new tradition of roasting the turkey upsidedown which will be repeated for many years to come. And just maybe a future generation will wonder exactly how this cooking tradition originally began.

still cover us but they will not be as intense or cause such a deep reaction. (drowning)

- See when looking ahead, that life can be worthwhile after looking back at your survival through the rough and the darkest hours.

- Remember that we will grieve other losses as grief comes with loss.

- Energy and self–esteem are depleted – Being able to start releasing guilt, shame, blame, and resentment allows healing to begin more quickly.

- Having the willingness to reconcile to the new life, letting go of the pain gently and being willing to heal. If we are resisting, what are we holding on to?

- There will be renewal and reinvestment, (honouring the memory). “Spring does not refuse to come because it was preceded by winter.”

- Believing that one will never reconcile or have a new beginning after grieving, examine

the belief about recovery (reconciliation). These beliefs can be self-fulfilling.

- Examine what you believe. Does the belief or habit make sense now? Revisit the beliefs. Then decide, do I need to change my belief? The Walking Thru Grief Society will be offering programming for those who are grieving. In 2023, supports offered include a weekly support group for those who experience life losses, death, end of life, health, homicide, suicide, or relationship loss. Individual support is also offered.

We will continue offering Hope After Loss – Audra’s Legacy, - grief support for children impacted by the death of

a loved one. Ages 6-16. Please register for the next session starting Jan. 24, Contact Gayle at 780-808-1645 or Shirley at 780-8462576/c780-871-1750

As you enter this new year, may you face the pain of your grief with healing, new focus, skills and the Courage To Grieve well.

The Walking Through Grief Society believes grief is normal and affects people of all ages and from all walks of life. They serve Lloydminster, Kitscoty, Vermilion, Wainwright and surrounding areas and are funded by FCSS City of Lloydminster, FCSS County of Vermilion River, FCSS Town of Vermilion, FCSS Village of Kitscoty, and FCSS Village of Marwayne.

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World Junior Championship hits close to home

EDITOR Taylor Weaver

In life, there are certain major events when you’ll never forget exactly where you were or what you were doing.

The IIHF World Junior Ice Hockey Championship recently wrapped up in Halifax with Canada beating Czechia 3-2 in overtime.

Guenther potted a beautiful game-winning goal ... and what a night it must have been for him.

The last time the tournament was held in Halifax was 20 years ago, and just like the 2023 tournament, Canada had a game-winning hero in 2003.

That hero was none other than the Lloydminster Bobcats’ new associate and skills coach, Jeff Woywitka.

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When Canada wins gold, everyone remembers (and when we lose, we stew over it for 12 months thinking ‘I could have made that play’).

I won’t get into the details of the game as I’m sure I was one of many Lloydminster residents tuning in ... but I will say my blood pressure hasn’t been that high in a while!

Needless to say, I was sharing in the excitement when Dylan

CLUB ROOT FROM PAGE 7

All producers with visible clubroot symptoms or fields with the presence of the pathogen have been notified. The specific land locations are kept confidential and not shared publicly to protect the producer’s privacy.

Land locations are only shared with the appropriate RM if they have clubroot-specific bylaws enacted and visible symptoms have been confirmed.

“Clubroot can impact our producers, landowners and the province’s strong canola market,” Agriculture Minister David Marit said.

“This map helps the ministry to track and manage clubroot while preventing it from reaching other fields.”

Jeff scored the gamewinning goal in the semi-finals against the U.S. before Canada lost to Russia in the finals, and it was no surprise to hear him say he still gets asked about it today.

“I was 19 years old at the time. You’re playing for your country and Team Canada had just finished playing in Halifax and you saw the atmosphere there. It’s a great atmosphere, it’s a great tournament … it’s a lot of work, but

you see how great of fans Halifax has,” he said when asked about the goal last Saturday night.

“For me, to score that goal and give my team a chance to go on to the gold medal game with about eight minutes to go against the U.S., it was something special.

“My family was there then, and people still talk about it to this day. It was good to kinda put Vermilion on

the map.”

A native of Vermilion, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Jeff a couple of times since he’s been with the Bobcats, and I’m excited to see how the rest of the season plays out with his input.

The Bobcats return to the Civic Centre this weekend as they host the Drayton Valley Thunder for 7 p.m. games on Friday and Saturday.

More than 500 fields were inspected in 2022 as part of the clubroot monitoring program. Producers and industry agrologists were able to receive a free soil testing kit via the Ministry of Agriculture’s website or a regional office.

In total, 39 soil samples were submitted for laboratory analysis and SaskCanola covered the cost of each test.

“SaskCanola funds province-wide disease testing for clubroot to ensure we have a good understanding of the regions where the disease is present.

This way canola growers can make the best management decisions for their farm to prevent the spread of this invasive soilborne disease,” chair of SaskCanola’s Research

Committee Keith Fournier said.

The clubroot monitoring program includes in-field surveillance, free on-farm soil DNA testing for producers and agrologists and encouraging clubroot

reporting from producers and industry.

Proactive clubroot management, a combination of rotation, resistant varieties and sanitation practices, is key to reducing possible yield losses due to clubroot.

Jeff Woywitka at a recent Bobcats practice. Taylor Weaver Photo

Leeway from Lloyd: Will Bedard flame or fizzle?

shoot, skate, score and dangle.

he seems to have fallen flat.

STAFF WRITER GEOFF LEE

Will hockey phenom Connor Bedard shine in the NHL or fizzle out as some previous first-overall picks have in the league entry draft?

I guess only time will tell, but after watching the Connor Bedard Show, otherwise known as the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship, my guess is he will excel, eventually.

The kid strikes me as a potentially more lethal version of Mitch Marner from the Toronto Maple Leafs as a small guy who can,

Bedard is just 5’7” tall and only weighs 185 lbs and seems to do his best work inside his opponent’s blue line where the most goals and assists rack up.

Currently, he doesn’t seem to get involved in a lot of back-checking like the well-rounded Marner, but he can throw his weight around.

He may or may not live up to the hype in his first NHL season.

A few tournaments ago, we remember the superstar talking about Alexis Lafreniere in the world juniors.

He was the 2020 first-overall pick by the New York Rangers, but

The 21-year-old forward only had five goals and 12 assists in the first 36 games this season and he will be a restricted free agent this summer. Recently he was also the subject of trade talk.

Last season, he posted 19 goals and 31 points in 79 games adding two goals and nine points in 20 playoff games.

In his first 173 career games with the Rangers, Lafreniere had 36 goals and 69 points.

By contrast, in 173 games during three QMJHL seasons, he scored 297 points (114 goals, 183 assists).

Bedard is also rack -

ing up the points with the Regina Pats and is probably more of a sure thing in the NHL than Lafreniere, who didn’t light up the world juniors as Bedard has, twice.

This year’s NHL entry draft will take place in June, a month before Bedard turns 18, so he might still play another year of junior.

His WJHC teammate, 19-year-old Shane Wright, the No. 4. pick in the 2022 NHL draft by the Seattle Kraken has just been relegated to the OHL.

I turn 74 in April and I will be lurking for Bedard’s rookie card with a plan to retire on eBay!

Letter to the editor: A tale of the Turtle Lake Monster

Over the past year or two, I’ve been doing some research on the Turtle Lake Monster (North of Glaslyn/Livelong Sask; approx 80km NorthEast of Lloydminster)

According to my research, the earliest “recorded” encounter with the Turtle Lake Monster (I’ve located thus far) - occurred in 1923.

(See John Kirk’s book In the Domain of the Lake Monsters - The Search for Denizens of the Deep, page 195).

First Nations oral tradition may predate this encounter, but this puts the legend of the Turtle Lake Monster at 100 years of age (at least) in 2023.

As a youth, my brother Dave and I were graced with a sighting of the TLM in early August of 1985 - in the bay of Kopp’s Cove.

It has thus been a fascination of mine ever since. We

were out in a Sportspal canoe with a 4hp engine, and we saw what we thought was 1/2 a telephone or power pole bobbing gently out in the bay.

The water was absolutely calm and still that particular evening (quite a rarity on this sizable lake). We had a rope and an engine, so we thought we’d go and tow the log out of harm’s way for fellow boaters.

As we approached the object we realized it wasn’t a log but rather a smooth dark fish-like creature - perhaps 7 to 10 feet in length. It was lounging quietly (i.e. not particularly moving much); Dave remembers seeing a dorsal fin.

Having heard the TLM legend for many years as kids, Dave and I knew exactly what it was, and rather than waiting to see what the creature did next, we raced back to

shore to tell our parents and yank them down to the beach (they were up at the cabin making supper). By the time we returned with parents in tow, the creature was gone.

The prevailing theory is that the TLM is (or was?) a River Sturgeon (or perhaps a group of up to three sturgeon); and this lines up nicely with what we saw.

Additionally, the Turtle River drains into the North Sask River, so sturgeon in the lake isn’t really a stretch.

River sturgeon can live 100+ years, which lines up nicely with the sightings we have on record.

With that said, however, other personal encounters with the creature describe its morphology in several forms.

Until someone pulls concrete evidence out of the lake, this creature must therefore be considered a cryptid (a

creature as of yet unclassified by science) - which is what makes this such an interesting topic to discuss and research.

Many newspaper articles have been published on the TLM over the years (I have located about 30 so far), with the pinnacle of writing seeming to be in the late 70s to mid-80s. Since then, whether due to audience fragmentation or fewer/no new sightings, stories have subsided somewhat.

As I age I started to realize we need to make sure the stories of our provincial monster are kept alive for future generations.

I started collecting books, stories, and newspaper articles on the TLM as a hobby. If anyone has family stories to share, I’d love to hear them. I have a Facebook page/interest group dedicated to the monster and

I can be reached here: https:// www.facebook.com/StoriesTurtleLakeMonster/ Additionally, for anyone interested, an article was recently published on our experience in Prairies North Magazine (summer 2022 edition), and another article was printed in Folklore Magazine (fall 2022 edition) published by Sask History and Folklore Society.

B.C. has Ogopogo, and Saskatchewan has the Turtle Lake Monster. Let’s make an effort to keep our monster legend alive for future generations.

It’s part of our provincial heritage and can easily be lost to time. Not only does it make great campfire chatter, but it’s just plain good for SK tourism as an added bonus. Let’s make sure we don’t lose our Sask monster to time.

Thanks!

- Rob Grosse

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

The Meridian Source Calendar of Events is a free service provided for non-profit organizations located within our coverage area. All events are in chronological order, as space permits and at the editor’s discretion.

Square Dancing Introduction

NEW LOCATION!

Intro to square danc -

Passport to YLL

To place an event, email taylor@meridiansource.ca or fax 306-825-5147

ing will be held on Wednesday nights from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at City Church, 5115 -

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49 Street. Walk to the beat of music by following simple instructions from the caller. Come alone or bring a friend. Wear whatever is comfortable. First evening is FREE!

Bingo at the Moose

The Moose Lodge, located at 5213-57 Street, Lloydminster, hosts bingo nights every Monday and Wednesday. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and play starts at 7 p.m. The Moose also hosts crib tournaments every second Sunday of the month. Start time is 10 a.m. The cost to play is $10 and lunch is $12.

Lloydminster Indigenous Market

The Lloydminster Exhibition Association is hosting an Indigenous Market on Jan. 14 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Jamboree

A jamboree is being held at the Islay Community Hall on Jan. 15 at 1 p.m. Admission is $10, participants are free. Everyone welcome and lunch will be served. For more info, call Dixie at 780-744-2204. Funds raised support maintenance of the hall.

QuitCore Tobacco Cessation Group

The Lloydminster Primary Care Network is offering a free tobacco cessation support group starting Jan. 16 at 2:15 p.m. The program runs once weekly for six weeks and is led by trained facilitators. Get the support you need to quit smoking for good.

Call 780-874-0490 or email heatherm@ lloydpcn.ca for more information or to register.

Trip to Mayfield Inn Dinner Theatre

Tickets are currently on sale for the Legacy Centre’s “DAY-AWAY” to Edmonton to the Mayfield Inn Dinner Theatre. The trip is on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Call the Legacy office at 780-875-4584 for more details.

Spades Tourney

The Legacy Centre is hosting a Spades tournament on Jan. 19. Play begins at 10 a.m. The cost to play is $10/person, lunch is available for $12. Everyone welcome! Call the Legacy office at 780875-4584 for more info.

Jamboree/Dance

The Legacy Centre is hosting a Jamboree/ dance on Jan. 19. Doors open at 5 p.m. and supper will be served at 6 p.m., then the jam begins. Admission is $15/person at the door, all members and guests welcomes. Call the Legacy office at 780875-4584 for more info.

Aaron Goodvin at the Vic Juba

The Vic Juba Community Theatre presents Aaron Goodvin with opener Hailey Benedict on Jan. 20 for a 7:30 p.m. show. Tickets are $55 each and are available online or at the Vic Juba box office.

Robbie Burns Nite

The Edgerton & District Historical

Society is sponsoring the 33rd Annual Robbie Burns Nite at the Edgerton Agricultural Hall on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Happy Hour and Silent Auction begin at 5:30 p.m., and supper at 6:30 p.m. with a ceilidh to follow. Tickets are available at the Edgerton Village Office at 780-755-3933 or Toys and Treasures, Wainwright at 780-8423903 or at the door. Adults are $30.00 and children 12 and under are $5.00. Call Louise at 780-755-2189 for more info.

Robbie Burns Dinner and Dance

The Flagstaff Scottish Club is proud to bring you its 15th Annual Robbie Burns Dinner and Dance on Jan. 21. The club invites you to the Killam Community Hall to celebrate. Doors open at 4:30 and the Haggis will be piped in at 5:45 p.m. Fraid Knot takes the stage at 9 p.m. Dress is Scottish Formal and tickets are $75+fees per ticket or a table of 8 for $550. Tickets are available at www.flagstaffscottishclub.com/robbieburns

Cribbage Doubles

Tourney

The Legacy Centre is hosting a Cribbage doubles tournament on Jan. 26, so bring a partner. Play begins at 10 a.m. The cost to play is $10/person, lunch is available for $12. Everyone welcome! Call the Legacy office at 780875-4584 for more info.

Pancake Breakfast

The Legacy Centre

is hosting a pancake breakfast from 911:30 a.m. on Jan. 29. The cost is $12/ person ($6/12 years and under), everyone welcome! Call the Legacy office at 780875-4584 for more info.

Cribbage Doubles

The Dewberry Senior Centre is hosting a cribbage doubles tournament on Jan. 28. Register just after 10 a.m. and play begins promptly at 10:30 a.m. Cost is $25/person, $10 fees plus $15 for lunch. Bring your partner, everyone welcome! Call Maxine at 780-847228 or Mary Ann at 780-847-2287 for more information.

Luke McMaster at the Vic Juba

The Vic Juba Community Theatre and the Lloydminster Concert Series Association brings Luke McMaster to the stage on Feb. 1 for a 7:30 p.m. show. Tickets are $40 for adults and $5 for students and are available online or at the Vic Juba box office.

Jake Vaadeland & The Sturgeon River Boys at the Vic Juba Jake Vaadeland & The Sturgeon River Boys will be taking the stage at the Vic Juba Community Theatre on Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $34.20 and available online or at the Vic Juba box office. If you have something you’d like to see in our community calendar, please email the listing to taylor@meridiansource.ca

It’s never too late

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of renowned novelist Mary Ann Evans. She grew up in England during the Victorian era when writing was considered unladylike.

At that time, women authors faced many obstacles when trying to publish their work, which was part of the reason for her use of a male pseudonym.

Her motivating words, hastily penned on the back of an old grocery list (by me, not George Eliot) and attached to my desk with a length of sticky tape, have been inspiring.

I won’t bore you with a tedious trip down memory lane, but I’ll tell you I wanted to be a writer as early as I can remember.

When I was 11, my mother wrote to W.O. Mitchell, acclaimed Canadian and Saskatchewan writer, performer, and teacher, asking him what steps her daughter Helen should take to become an author. Remarkably, he replied, albeit briefly.

“Tell her to write something every day,” he scrawled at the top

of my mother’s letter.

At the time, it had seemed a poor response for a girl hungry to learn the inside secrets to success, but it was, in fact, excellent advice.

Writing ‘something’ every day, even when you don’t feel like it, the cat has thrown up in your shoe, the baby is crying, or your brain feels dry as dust, causes you to improve, whether you like it or not.

However, although I wrote little bits of stories in-between having children and being a wife, mother, and truck driver (an odd combination, I’ll admit), I’d given up on my dream of being an author.

Then, miraculously, one shining day, I was given an opportunity by former editor, Mike D’Amour, to write a column called Prairie Wool for the Lloydminster Meridian Source

Hooray! Fear of failure, the ravages of old age, or the unhappy decay of imagination would not claim my sorry hide just yet. I was given a chance to be what I might have been.

I’ll always be grateful to him and to this newspaper. George Eliot, you were right!

*Canned applause*

That was almost eight years ago. Although it isn’t always easy to come up with a fresh new column each week, it’s meant a lot to

hopefully send a smile your way through my humorous anecdotes. It also opened the door to a whole new world.

I first published three books of the best of my Prairie Wool tales. Then, wrote four books in an epic fantasy series called Runestaff Chronicles. They have been likened, by readers, to The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings. High praise indeed. Although I do not claim to place myself in their illustrious company, I’m proud of my books.

Most recently, I’ve written my first romance. One Golden Summer was released this past weekend and is doing well.

While the story begins here, on the Prairies, the reader soon escapes to sundrenched Provence, France, where dreams really do come true.

My next novel will take place in the Cinque Terre, along Italy’s gorgeous coast, since my love of travel has found release.

So, to sum up this column of blatant selfpromotion, I hope you might be interested enough to give some, or all, of my books a read. They can be found on Amazon or on my website helentoews.com.

But most of all, remember, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”

PRAIRIE WOOL HELEN ROW TOEWS

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Careers

Sask showing strong job growth in new year

Last week, Statistics Canada released December 2022 job

numbers, showing Saskatchewan’s continued economic

growth has added 7,700 jobs when compared to December 2021, with month-to-month employment also increasing by 4,200.

“Last year was a very good year for Saskatchewan, with remarkable economic growth, record population gains, and thousands of more jobs to close the year,” said Minister of Immigration and Career Training Jeremy Harrison.

“There is reason to be optimistic about the coming year here in Saskatchewan, as our province is the best place to work, live, play and raise a family in Canada.”

The province’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 per cent from 5.5 per cent when compared to December 2021. The province

ranked second among the provinces and is below the national average of 5.0 per cent.

Last year was a very good year for Saskatchewan, with remarkable economic growth, record population gains, and thousands of more jobs to close the year.

The province reached an all-time historical high population aged 15 and over, hitting 910,000. Off-reserve Indigenous population, aged 15 and over, also reached an alltime historical high of 110,200.

Saskatchewan has set

several record highs for the month of December:

- Saskatchewan Employment: 573,600 - Saskatchewan FullTime Employment: 462,800 - Saskatchewan Female Employment: 271,700 - Off-reserve Indigenous Employment: 60,400 - Off-reserve Indigenous Full-Time Employment: 49,500 The off-reserve Indigenous-unemployment

rate was 7.2 per cent, a record low for the month of December. Indigenous employment was up 2,800 (+4.9 per cent) compared to a year ago, marking 25 consecutive months of yearover-year increases. In the major cities, Regina’s employment was up 2,500 (+1.8 per cent), and Saskatoon’s employment was up 3,000 (+1.6 per cent) compared to last December.

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ALLEN: Kaye Frances Allen passed away peacefully in the Lloydminster Hospital, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at the age of 84 years.

Kaye will be sadly missed by her children, Debbie and Al Haftner of Turtleford, Terry Lynne and Marty Hines of Marwayne, John and Karen

Allen of Lloydminster, Layne Allen and Tara of Lloydminster; 14 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; sister Cora and Ron Bodnar of Loon Lake; sisters-in-law, May Fanthorpe of Lloydminster, Anna and Jim Clayton of Paradise Hill, Grace Allen of Lloydminster, May Allen of Spruce Grove; as well as many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

She was predeceased by her husband, Johnny; grandson, VC Hines; sisters, Zona, Hazel, and Garnet; and brother, Budd.

The funeral service was conducted from the Marwayne Alliance Church, Marwayne, Alberta on Monday, October 31, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. with Pastors Kevin Nelson and Ed Parke officiating. The eulogy was read by Pastor Ed Parke.

The hymns sung were "What

A Friend We Have in Jesus", "The Lord's My Shepherd", and "In the Garden" accompanied on the organ by Pat Fox.

The pallbearers were Daniel Blake, Craig Blake, Brett Hines, Mark Hines, Justin Allen, Kyle Allen, Dallas Dyck, and Chris Volk.

The internment was held in the Marwayne Cemetery.

McCaw Funeral Service Ltd. of Lloydminster, Alberta administered the funeral arrangements.

CARD OF THANKS

The family of Kaye Allen would like to thank all the doctors and nursing staff of the Lloydminster Hospital who looked after Mom during her stay there. We would also like to thank all the staff at Pioneer House for their wonderful care of Mom for the last 4 years.

We would like to thank all our neighbors, friends, and relatives for the food, visits, cards, phone calls, texts, prayers, flowers, and donations.

Thank you to Pastors Nelson and Parke for doing the service and reading the eulogy, Pat Fox for playing, Colleen Hozack for providing the lunch, the grandsons for being pallbearers, and McCaw's Funeral Home for their help and professionalism.

In lieu of thank you cards, we will be making donations to the Palliative Care at the Lloydminster Hospital and 2nd floor at The Pioneer House.

Debbie & Al

Terry Lynne & Marty, John & Karen, Layne & Tara & Families

It is with tender hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved wife and mother, Cindy (Bukieda) Thompson, on December 23, 2022 at the age of 57 years.

After a 5-year journey with breast cancer, Cindy passed peacefully surrounded by the love of her husband and daughters. Cindy was a remarkably positive, radiant, kind, gentle, loving, strong and optimistic woman, whose legacy will live on through her

husband, Dean Thompson, daughters, Olivia (Brad) Ward and Brenna Thompson (Kris Kozjak), mother, Edith (Tony –passed) Bukieda and brother, Trevor Bukieda (Carolyn Hines Bukieda), as well as all of her extended family and friends.

Raising her children, cooking, having family dinners, visiting on the phone, hiking in nature and adventuring with Dean were her greatest joys in life.

Cindy’s radiant smile, continuous optimism and strength will

forever be remembered. A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, February 18, 2023 in Ardrossan, AB.

For full details and obituary, please visit https://forms.gle/ZerVHzeDMUzQ8mKP9.“

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Officer Position

The Summer Village of Island Lake, being Alberta’s largest Summer Village and located on the shores of Island Lake, approximately 20 minutes northwest of the Town of Athabasca, is looking for an outgoing and enthusiastic individual to fulfill a part time contract position for a Development Officer services within our community.

Please visit online for complete details and instructions: www.islandlake.ca Summer Village of Island Lake, Box 8, Alberta Beach, T0E 0A0 svislandlake@wildwillowenterprises.com Position will be open until January 12, 2023 or a suitable candidate is found