Young pins Sask Party bid on results

Lloydminster MLA

Colleen Young hopes her track record will give her a leg up to win the nomination vote as the Saskatchewan Party candidate in the fall 2024 provincial election.

The nomination meeting will take place on Nov. 30 at the Paradise Hill Community Centre and voters must have a membership and be on the registration list.

“I have been working hard, making phone calls, knocking on doors, meeting, listening to and speaking with constituents and selling memberships through - out the constituency,” said Young in an email. Young is contesting the nomination with rival James Thorsteinson who held a meet and greet in Lloydminster last Thursday evening.

If Young wins, she will campaign to get elected to the Legislature in Regina for her fourth term.

“I have had very posi tive responses and sup port from constituents,” she said.

“I am confident the advocacy and represen tation I have done over the years for my constit uents will return me as their Sask Party candi date for the 2024 pro vincial election.”

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Senior Care Society Celebrates Milestone

“Our lobbying has paid off in the ambulance service and with the building of the (Lloydminster) Continuing Care Centre,” said Brown with the Jubilee Home rebuild on the horizon.

“We do get listened to now, whereas it wasn’t like that before.”

Sayeed noted the seniors’ care society has been instrumental in the development of the original Lloydminster Integrated Health Services and Facility Infrastructure Needs Assessment in 2013.

“Now, we are redoing that same needs assessment and we are putting pressure on them (provincial governments) to move along with the assessment,” said Sayeed.

Sellers thinks lobbying progress on seniors’ issues over the years has been limited by continuous changes in government and continuous changes in the biprovincial health ministries, including his past time in the group.

“It would seem like every time we ‘d get two steps ahead with the health minister who finally got oriented to the portfolio, he would be shuffled along and there would be a new minister and we’d have to start all over again,” he lamented.

“I know we still have problems in Lloydminster with extended care beds.”

Sellers believes the Seniors Care Society does serve a very important function for change.

“It’s important that we keep politicians’ feet to the fire because there’s certainly lots of problems in our healthcare system,” he said.