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For many families, Christmas season is a time to take a drive around town and check out the lighting displays.

Again this year, the Moose Jaw Knights of Columbus will be holding their annual lighting contest around the theme, “Keep Christ in Christmas.”

It’s still not too late to submit an entry!

“Eager participants will submit an online entry on our website

or drop one off in person. Then on Saturday we will go around town to the location of those who have put an entry in and judge the displays,” explained Dominic Mancuso, trustee of council #9760 Moose Jaw Knights of Columbus.

Mancuso has been a devoted member of the catholic men’s fraternal organization since approximately 1987.

“We will be looking for displays that support the theme of the lighting contest. We like to see the manger scene with Mary and Joseph, the idea behind this contest is to remember and recognize Christ as the true meaning of Christmas,” he said.

Three Judges will choose three winners on the contest’s final day, December 18th at 6:00 p.m. and award them a cash prize.

Displays will be judged based on creativity, animation, variety of colors.

“My favorite part of this contest is seeing the effort and imagination people use in preparing and putting the displays together.

The big moving factor to winning is keeping Christ in Christmas.

Anyone who has a Christian faith or a belief knows that Christ is the reason we have Christmas. All the commercials, presents and even Santa himself is all extra.”

Contest entries are free, however the only requirement is to submit a local light display.

“We got kind of a good laugh this year because we have received entries from the United States which we kindly declined as this is a local contest,” chuckled Mancuso. .To enter the contest, visit www.mjknights.ca and click a form button that can be found at the bottom of the page.

For additional inquiries or information please phone Dominic Mancuso at (306) 693-0642.

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Issue of homelessness in Moose Jaw challenges existing resources Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com

The responses below are presented as originally as possible while edited for length.

This is part one of a two-part series.

A press release from the province on Oct. 28 stating that “Warm and safe shelter is available to everyone this winter” ignited a heated online debate. MooseJawToday.com reached out for additional comments from relevant sources regarding the homeless situation locally and in the province. This story follows several weeks of investigative journalism.

Taylor Carlson, executive director of Moose Jaw Pride, says the warming space at Rainbow Retro Thrift Shop is overwhelmed.

Taylor Carlson was interviewed in person on Nov. 18 at Rainbow Retro Thrift Shop. A previously-unused room at the thrift shop has been converted to a warmup space that is accessible during business hours. It is staffed by volunteers and supplied by donations.

Due to a lack of available shelter, Carlson said, “Pretty quickly, we’re going to have someone dying in a snowbank on Main Street. I have no doubt, and it’s heartbreaking.”

Carlson said that two main factors are making this year worse than others: COVID-19 restrictions are keeping people struggling with homelessness out of 24-hour fast-food restaurants because they don’t have health cards or ID to be vaccinated, or if they have been vaccinated, they often lose their proof.

Changes to Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS) cut direct payments to landlords. SIS users are being given the money directly. This is a problem because many people on SIS cannot manage their own money for reasons including domestic abuse, traumatic brain injuries, addictions, or mental illness.

Volunteers at the space and staff at the thrift shop use personal phones to assist their guests in connecting to SIS. According to Carlson and the volunteers at the warming space, wait times are around two hours, and SIS staff are on lunch from 12 to 1 p.m. In an emergency, such as a severe

winter storm, there is nowhere to go.

Carlson said that the situation is not the fault of SIS social workers, but of the severe lack of resources: every shelter in the city is full – waiting lists are usually several weeks. There is no women’s shelter, and the men’s shelter at Riverside Mission is down to four beds due to COVID restrictions.

“There’s nowhere at all [to go] in Moose Jaw. A city of 34,000 people, and there’s nowhere for anyone who’s homeless to go at night or during the day… except for a 100-year-old building… being run by volunteers,” Carlson said, gesturing at the space around them.

According to Carlson, they can accommodate perhaps 15 people at a time.

During the first blizzard this fall, 52 people came in.

At 6:00 p.m. Rainbow Retro Thrift Shop must close its doors and hope its guests have somewhere safe to spend the night. “What happens after six, when we have to close… it’s shameful,” Carlson said. “There are folks out there in the cold without respite.”

Moose Jaw North MLA Tim McLeod provided the following statement by email: In response to MooseJawToday.com’s request for comment on the issue of homelessness in Moose Jaw, MLA Tim McLeod made this statement by email on Nov. 23.

“Thank you for your question regarding homelessness in Moose Jaw. The issue of homelessness in any community is an unfortunate one that the provincial government and I, as a local MLA, take very seriously.

“Through the Ministry of Social Services, anyone in Moose Jaw who needs a safe and warm place to sleep can have access to assistance by simply presenting themselves to the Social Services office at 1235 Main Street North during business hours, or to the Moose Jaw Police or RCMP after hours, and shelter will be found for them.

“The Ministry of Social Services can pay for short-term hotel stays for individuals or families who are in need of emer-

Homeless in winter surviving as best they can (Getty Images) gency shelters. We know the root causes of homelessness are incredibly complex and it will take all levels of government to address this very serious concern.”

Craig Hemingway on behalf of the City of Moose Jaw Craig Hemingway is the city’s communication manager. He responded by email on behalf of the city on Nov. 23.

The city said that other than the warming space at Rainbow Retro Thrift Shop, support for the chronically homeless includes Riverside Mission, the Food Bank, and the John Howard Society, whose ‘My Place’ program “assists vulnerable people in finding safe housing.”

Hemingway said that homelessness is a provincial problem and that Moose Jaw and other cities have been requesting provincial changes to address the crisis.

He also said that no one from any community-based organization (CBO) has reached out to the city for help.

Jody Oakes, director at John Howard Society in Moose Jaw Unfortunately, Oakes could not be reached for comment on this article.

However, in a public Facebook post dated Nov. 11 that directly referenced the

province’s statement, Oakes said that she was “sad and hurt” and “felt deflated.”

She said that her work fighting homelessness is a 24/7 effort that is overwhelming CBOs, and that “there just isn’t enough support and services.”

Oakes said that the homelessness problem in Moose Jaw is not one to two, or 10 to 20 people; it is over 100 and “we know there (are) more.” “…please understand that there (aren’t) places for everyone. Finding places in our city is not easy! We do not have a homeless shelter for women, who can be physically and sexually abused each day,” she said. “For our men, we have way more need than beds and not everyone can access a shelter bed for various reasons. You can’t access hotel rooms for a long period of time, winter doesn’t last a couple of nights!! Our program tries to pay for hotel rooms when needed but it becomes very expensive and isn’t a solution.”

She added, “We need a place in our community where people can access each day and have supports, we need longterm solutions!! These issues aren’t Monday-Friday 8-5 they are 24/7 365!”

St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church Donates $20,000 to the Moose Jaw Health Foundation Submitted by Moose Jaw Health Foundation

Pictured above are Amy Jane Lunov, Secretary and Jean Tkatch, President of the St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church, presenting a $20,000 donation to Moose Jaw Health Board Member Camron Howe.

The St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church was formed on July 21, 1953, with 12 members. The church is a fixture on Grandview Street, with its Byzantine architecture symbolic of Ukrainian churches worldwide.

For years members of the church would hold fundraisers, suppers and activities to help people in the community. They helped heal the mind, body and soul of Moosejavians for many years. In November 2021, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Church held its final service. Members of

the church wanted to continue helping the people of Moose Jaw. At Festival of Trees, they were happy to provide a $20,000 donation to recognize church members who contributed so generously to the community.

A big thank you from The Moose Jaw Health Foundation to everyone from St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Your legacy of caring will be recognized at the hospital and will help patients have access to the latest and best medical technology in Canada for years to come.

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Issue of homelessness in Moose Jaw challenges existing resources (part two) Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com

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This is part two of a two-part series regarding the homeless situation locally and in the province Moose Jaw Mayor Clive Tolley Mayor Tolley provided a phone interview to MooseJawToday.com on Nov. 22 in which he expressed that he was aware of the problem of homelessness and that the city is taking it seriously.

“I can tell you that the mayors and city councillors in the province have a meeting with Don McMorris every two weeks, and this issue is raised quite a bit,” Tolley said.

During his campaign for mayor, he said, he went downtown and “knocked on the door of just about every business.” So naturally, he also met Taylor Carlson at Rainbow Retro Thrift Shop. “I don’t want to speak too much for him, but he seems like a very compassionate, empathetic individual who’s trying to help people.”

“While I was there, it was getting close to closing and he was telling people in the warming space to get ready, and reminding them to go down to (Riverside) Mission to check if there was space there for the night.”

Tolley said that seeing that situation first-hand had an effect on him. He said that the problem was primarily a provincial one, but that city council was looking into ways they might help.

Cameron Choquette, CEO of the Saskatchewan Landlord Association The Saskatchewan Landlord Association (SLA) issued a statement in September 2020 in response to the implementation of the Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS) program. The statement says that the SLA was not consulted on the program,

“even though our members are some of the largest providers of housing to individuals on income assistance.”

The statement also says that “Since the introduction of this program in July 2019, tenants and landlords have seen significant issues with implementation, government employee conduct, and rent arrears. The most detrimental change to the SIS program was the elimination of joint and/or direct payment to landlords.”

The province announced on November 12th that they are “increasing support for Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS) clients with complex challenges who are at risk of homelessness.”

This increase in support takes the form of reinstating direct payments to landlords – but only for “high-needs” clients.

Cameron Choquette, CEO of SLA, was reached by phone on Nov. 23. He said that direct payments were the biggest difference between the Saskatchewan Social Assistance Program (SAP) and SIS. SAP was phased out in August 2021.

“We’ve seen an increase in arrears and evictions,” Choquette said, “because clients are not paying their rent with the money they’re receiving and our members don’t have an unlimited runway to backstop rent arrears. So we’ve seen an increase in evictions as a result.”

The reversal by the province on direct payments, Choquette said is “a step in the right direction.”

However, the province is still working out the details of who exactly qualifies as high-needs. There is “no timeline yet,” according to Choquette, on when that framework will be ready.

Jeff Redekop, executive director of Income Assistance Service Delivery with

the Ministry of Social Services When contacted by MooseJawToday. com staff, Jeff Redekop replied by email on Nov. 22. He restated the Ministry of Social Services’ position that “Help is available in Moose Jaw 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

Redekop said that the SIS office at 1235 Main Street North would help with emergency shelter and that the MJ Police Service or RCMP could be contacted after hours.

“The Ministry of Social Services continues to listen to feedback from community members following the launch of the Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS) program,” Redekop stated. “We’ve seen that the majority of income assistance clients are capable of managing their finances, but that some clients with high needs may need help paying their bills. The changes announced earlier this month will allow us to make direct payments of shelter benefits on behalf of clients with high needs and to offer more support to clients who need help managing their benefits.”

He said that the ministry has a process for listening to landlord concerns, and that clients’ needs are being assessed on a oneto-one basis.

Redekop went on to say that the SIS program is a “whole income” approach that takes into account other money they may be receiving; from the federal Canada Child Benefit, for example. He said that SIS had increased earned income exemptions so that clients could earn more money before their benefits are reduced.

MLA Meara Conway Meara Conway was interviewed by phone on Nov 17. Conway is the NDP’s official critic for the opposition on social

services, human rights, housing, and community-based organizations (CBOs).

Conway held an emergency public consultation in Moose Jaw on Nov. 5 at the Timothy Eaton Centre. The subject was “The Homelessness Crisis & the SIS Income Assistance Program.”

She has extensive criticism of SIS and has held forums around the province she says have confirmed that the SIS program should be scrapped in favour of the previous system.

Conway said that one of the issues with SIS that isn’t getting enough attention is that it does not make fiscal sense.

“The best use of resources, fiscally, is emergency shelters,” she said. “Because if we don’t help them, they end up in the hospital, in the justice system, EMS needs to come out. I mean, we have a choice about whether to prevent the problem or deal with it downstream, and we know which one is cheaper. We know it’s cheaper and takes pressure off of our emergency services and healthcare services if we make sure these people are housed. And when we remove that option, it doesn’t force people to be self-reliant, it just means it is going to cost more later.”

Conway said SIS has made everything worse for everyone: landlords are struggling, unpaid utilities are hurting Crown corporations, CBOs are overwhelmed, and emergency services already overburdened

by COVID must now also cope with increased need from SIS clients.

“It baffles the mind why they decided to do this without consultation,” she said.

“It is objectively worse in every way.”

Alice Cooper is coming to Mosaic Place with Buckcherry in April 2022

By Gordon Edgar Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com

Legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper will be performing his critically-acclaimed new album Detroit Stories at Mosaic Place on April 10 with guest rockers Buckcherry.

Cooper started his career in 1964 at the age of 16. Now 73, Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier) has no intentions of ever stopping. Detroit Stories is his 21st solo album and 28th album overall.

Rolling Stone said in their review of Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories that when Cooper and his long-time producer Bob Ezrin “hit their stride, it’s a lot of fun.”

They also praised the humour of the album and its classic macabre touches, as well as the influential guests and backup singers.

Alice Cooper has always been dedicated to making his music a theatrical performance. He has become known as one of the originators of “shock rock,” particularly after an incident with a chicken in Toronto in September 1969.

The chicken did not survive that experience. Although Cooper claimed it was an accident and that he didn’t kill the chicken himself, rumours spread that he had bitten its head off and drank its blood. According to the 1991 documentary Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts, what actually happened is that the chicken fell into the front rows of the concert, occupied by wheelchair users who then tore the animal apart.

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Cooper is frequently spattered with fake blood, dressed in extraordinary costumes, fake tortured on stage, etc. He has been mock-executed during his concerts many times by a variety of methods – most famously a guillotine. He has reportedly had several close calls with safety ropes failing while he pretended to be executed by hanging.

A born-again Christian, Cooper has also credited God for his long-term sobriety and 45-year marriage.

Guest act Buckcherry is an Anaheim, California-based rock band formed in 1995. Buckcherry have a tumultuous history, forming and reforming several times

in the years since. They have toured with acts like AC/DC, Motley Crue, and KISS. Their latest album Hellbound was released in June 2021.

AP News titled their review “Alice Cooper loses his mind in Detroit Rock City.” They praised Detroit Stories as a “masterpiece of classic rock, soul and R&B in homage to the city that produced him.”

VIP tickets to the show on April 10 are now available. General admission tickets go on sale tomorrow. Tickets can be purchased on the Mosaic Place website.

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Budget news… bah, humbug!

By Joyce Walter - Moose Jaw Express

The news came at the same time as local organizations were requesting even more help this year to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and to bring a bit of the Christmas season to the less fortunate in the community.

This news was to be expected but the timing, at first glance, seems a bit heartless, a bit grinch-like as residents deck their halls with boughs of holly, put out a substantial amount for the Christmas turkey and now are forced to consider where they will get the money to pay the potential increased amount of civic taxes.

The news: a projected municipal tax increase of 4.86 per cent for the 2022 tax year. This figure includes a 1.61 per cent increase for the Moose Jaw Police Service. The budget also calls for an additional three per cent increase in sewer rates and an additional three per cent increase in water rates.

And the infractructure levy will rise to $100 from $65.

Merry Christmas from the city fathers and mothers.

On Christmas Eve carollers will sing: “We wish you a Gloomy Christmas and a more expensive unhappy New Year.”

At one time budget discussions took place in the early months of a new year, meaning the news might reveal a tax increase but by April or May, bills from Christmas had been paid and so there wasn’t the double whammy effect of the figures being announced just weeks before Christmas To be fair to council, budget planning before the new year begins makes considerably more sense than waiting until it is half finished. Council figured that out several years ago and made valiant attempts to finish deliberations before the noisemakers signalled the start of a new year.

However, the timing of a tax increase announcement just before Christmas can’t help but draw negative comments from any number of citizens, especially those who will have to scrimp to pay increased taxes and skyrocketing water and sewer bills.

Council members sit there between a rock and a hard place, trying to balance needs with wants and attempting to figure out how to pay for the services residents expect for their money — with expenses up and revenues down on both sides of the fence.

As council debates the city’s finances, perhaps sharpened pencils will reduce some of the taxation heartache that is taking away our Holly, Jolly Christmas mood.

Joyce Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel.net The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the position of this publication.

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Moose Jaw Community Choir Caroling Dec. 20th at the Wakamow Winter Wonderland Valley of Lights Moose Jaw Express staff

The Moose Jaw Community Choir will be performing at the Wakamow Winter Wonderland Valley of Lights on December 20 at 7 p.m.

The choir will be caroling at the new Lorne Calvert campground down in valley.

“This is the only performance that we have planned this Christmas season and we are excited to perform a variety of about 40 different Christmas carols,” said Diane Rhodes, director of the Moose Jaw Community Choir.

“People will be inside the cars driving through and we hope the weather is cooperative and allows them to open the windows and hear our caroling. While caroling is not the same as a performance, it will still be fun as Christmas music is enjoyable to sing.”

Prior to the pandemic, the choir consisted of approximately 80 members. Currently, the choir has approximately 56 members that practice every week at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church.

The choir hopes for COVID-19 restrictions to ease in the spring so that a formal concert can be planned next year.

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New members are always welcome and encouraged to join. All members have to be fully vaccinated.

Anyone that may be interested in joining the Moose Jaw Community Choir can contact Diane Rhodes, the choir director at (306) 640-8098 or send a message through the Moose Jaw Community Choir Facebook page.

City, SGI team up to offer free bus service with ‘Ding in the New Year’ Moose Jaw Express

In the photo are Minister Responsible for SGI Don Morgan (fourth from the right), Moose Jaw Wakamow MLA Greg Lawrence (far right), Mayor Clive Tolley (second from right), City of Moose Jaw transit supervisor Krysti Johre (far left) and members of Vanier Collegiate’s SADD chapter. Photo courtesy City of Moose Jaw The City of Moose Jaw is proud to once again partner with SGI to provide safe transportation so you and your friends can “Ding in the New Year” with a free ride on Moose Jaw Transit.

This year marks the 32nd edition of the program, which offers free Moose Jaw Transit service for anyone celebrating the New Year, whether at a local establishment or a private gathering within city limits.

Moose Jaw Transit’s regular fixed-route service will be effective from 7:55 p.m. New Year’s Eve (Friday, Dec.

31) through 3:15 a.m. New Year’s Day (Saturday, Jan. 1), and you can view the entire schedule at MooseJaw.ca/ Transit.

“The New Year is a time to celebrate with friends and family, and getting home safe from those celebrations is paramount,” said Mayor Clive Tolley. “We thank SGI and all of our partners for supporting ‘(Ding) In the New Year’ and allowing Moose Jaw Transit to offer you a safe, free ride to and from your New Year’s destination.”

“New Year’s Eve will look different this year for many people, but the focus on preventing impaired driving is one thing that hasn’t changed,” said Don Morgan, minister responsible for SGI. “SGI is pleased to partner with Moose Jaw Transit to offer people a safe, convenient, free option for people to get home. Whatever you do this New Year’s Eve, make sure you have a plan for a safe ride home.”

Modifications have been made to regular transit routes to accommodate service to New Year’s Eve events being held at venues such as the Fraternal Order of Eagles Club and ANAVETS Club. Most restaurants and lounges are located within walking distance of a bus stop.

However, additional bus stops have been added at popular locations such as Brown’s Social House, The Crushed Can Rec Room & Bar/Cask 82, Chiller’s Brew Pub and Douly’s Billiards & Lounge.

Paratransit is also available for free as part of the “Ding in the New Year” campaign. T book this service, you can call Moose Jaw Transit at 306-694-4488 or email transit@MooseJaw.ca.

Masks are mandatory on City of Moose Jaw transit.

For full details on the latest COVID-19 safety protocols, visit MooseJaw.ca/coronavirus.

Quilt Guild Always Busy doing charity work Submitted

The Quilt Guild is always busy doing charity work. As they do every year, they made and donated a quilt to be auctioned off at the Festival of Trees.

The guild also make pillowcases for the childrens ward at the FH Wigmore hospital and have donated 925 in the last 2 years. They also have donated 70 pillowcases for chemo, dialysis and hospice patients.

Beautiful placemats are also made for Christmas.

Last year a total of 356 were made.

They were distributed as follows: 72 for meals on wheels in Craik, Rockglen, Lafleche, Gravelbourg, Assiniboia, Moose Jaw 17 Imperial Care Home 33 Herbert Manor 30 Herbert Long Term Care 60 FH Wigmore Hospital 60 Providence Place 25 Westpark Arbour The guild has made 231 so far this year but still have to match last year’s total or surpass it!

Quilters are also making quilts to enter into the Quilt Show that will be held April 21/22, 2023.

New members are welcome. The Quilt Guild meets the first and third Thursday from September to May. Rgistration fee is $50 yearly. For further information call Lizanne Knox-Beam, President 406-630-7582.

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From The Kitchen

By Joyce Walter - Moose Jaw Express

Last minute solutions for planning that goes awry

Despite all the advance planning, sometimes the need arises to come up with quick and efficient solutions to properly fulfil all the holiday cooking requirements.

If the turkey’s cavity is too small for all the stuffing that is required for the size of the gathering, solve that dilemma by preparing extra stuffing in advance.

If there’s not enough pumpkin pie to go around when extra folks show up for a meal, a pudding made in the microwave will be a quick solution.

And after the dishes have been cleared away, everyone deserves a glass or two of a creamy shake.

This week’s recipes address all of those eventualities.

••• OVEN STUFFING 1/2 cup or more butter 2 cups diced yellow onions 1 1/2 cups finely diced carrot, optional 1 1/2 cups diced celery 2 tbsps. poultry seasoning 2 tsps. rosemary 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. black pepper 18 cups dried bread cubes 1 1/2 cups or more chicken broth Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a roaster with non-stick spray or grease with butter.

Melt butter in a large saucepan. Add onion, celery and carrots and cook 8-10 minutes or until vegetables begin to soften. Stir in seasonings and cook 5 minutes longer.

Place bread cubes in the prepared roaster. Add vegetable and butter mixture. Stir then add chicken broth and stir again to moisten bread cubes.

Cover and bake 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Bake uncovered for 10 minutes.

Dressing may be made ahead, stored in refrigerator and then reheated before serving. Dressing may also be frozen.

Notes: If dressing is too dry, add more chicken stock while cooking. Taste about halfway through cooking time to ensure the proper amounts of seasonings have been used. As a quicker method for the onions, use the M&M frozen diced onions.

••• MICROWAVE PUDDING 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup cranberry sauce 2 tbsps. golden syrup 1/2 cup brown sugar 2 medium eggs, beaten 1/2 cup flour 1 tbsp. mixture of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg 1 1/4 cups dried fruit, chopped

1 medium apple, peeled, cored and grated Grease a 2 1/4 pint pudding basin or similar microwaveable dish.

In a small bowl, stir cranberry sauce and syrup. Spoon 2/3 of the mixture into the prepared basin. Reserve remaining cranberry mixture.

Beat butter, sugar, eggs, flour and spices, dried fruit and apples until combined.

Spoon over cranberry mixture. Press a large piece of parchment paper on the pudding to cover the surface.

Microwave on high for 9 minutes or until firm to touch. Let stand 10 minutes before removing parchment paper and turning onto a plate. Spoon reserved cranberry mixture over the top. Serve immediately with ice cream or a favourite sauce.

••• ORANGE PINEAPPLE SHAKE 2 cups orange juice, chilled 1-8 oz. can crushed pineapple in its own juice 1 1/2 cups vanilla ice cream 1/4 cup spiced rum, optional Combine ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth and frothy. Makes about 6 servings.

Joyce Walter can be reached at ronjoy@ sasktel.net

Crystal meth committee highlights its accomplishments before shutting down Two years after coming together to warn the community about the dangers of crystal meth, the Moose Jaw Crystal Meth Strategy Committee is winding up and reflecting on its accomplishments.

The committee (MJCMSC) formed in 2019 and secured funding from two provincial programs to conduct a prevention and awareness campaign in 2021, explained public relations co-ordinator Mary Lee Booth. The committee’s goal was to inform residents about the harmful effects of meth and target parents and educators so they could be more comfortable speaking with youths about crystal meth and other drugs.

The objectives of the committee — composed of residents and several human service organizations, with the Moose Jaw Police Service as the lead organization — were to stimulate conversations that dispelled myths, addressed stigma associated with addictions and informed residents about resources and supports.

Since the MJCMSC’s prevention and awareness campaign concludes Dec. 31, the group summarized its activities and celebrated its accomplishments since March.

Documentaries The committee worked with Shaw Spotlight this year to produce two locally filmed videos featuring former meth users and families affected by loved ones’ drug use.

The first video, “Stop Mething Around,” was released in June and featured stories from two people with experience of crystal meth addiction. The video has since racked up over 9,000 views.

Following that documentary, the committee received comments on social media about the need for support and information for families of people affected by meth, Booth said. So, the committee and Shaw produced “Stop Mething Around: A Family Affair” and released it in November.

Both videos can be found on YouTube.

Presentations The committee — particularly Booth — gave several presentations to community groups, organizations and staff meetings throughout the year. One presentation, “Spread the word on meth,” outlined the facts about crys-

Moose Jaw Express staff

Meagan meth: Meagan Jasper, a recovering crystal meth addict, speaks in the documentary “Stop Mething Around.” This documentary was one of the activities this year of the Moose Jaw Crystal Meth Strategy Committee. Screenshot from the documentary tal meth and was delivered 15 times.

Meanwhile, “Meagan’s Journey,” a powerful story about a young woman who experienced a crystal meth addiction, was delivered in person to 25 classrooms in Moose Jaw and the area throughout the year.

Awareness weeks The Moose Jaw Crystal Meth Strategy Committee (MJMSC) honoured Crystal Meth Awareness Week from June 6 to 12 by giving community presentations and launching “Stop Mething Around.” It also acknowledged National Addictions Awareness Week from Nov. 21 to 27 and helped lead several events, activities, and presentations, and launched the sequel to “Stop Mething Around.”

The group also recognized National Meth Addictions Day on Nov. 30.

Meanwhile, the committee used social media and its website to promote awareness about crystal meth. The website contains PowerPoint presentations, a parent toolkit, links to both videos, Grade 9 health lesson plans, and two recorded presentations.

Booth thanked many of the community agencies involved in the committee and commended them for recog-

nizing the need to address crystal meth.

Those groups included the police service, Thunder Creek Rehabilitation Association (Wakamow Manor Detox), Moose Jaw Literacy Network, transition house, the Saskatchewan Health Authority, Medavie Health Services West, both school divisions, city council and family services.

“While the MJCMSC will conclude, there is a commitment from partners to address community concerns regarding addictions or other issues requiring a multi-sectoral approach as the issues are brought forward,” said Booth. “Many issues, including addictions, impact the community and the work of several sectors, and require an interagency approach to finding solutions.”

Community supports There are many community resources available to people struggling with addictions or family members with loved ones experiencing addictions, she continued.

Wakamow Detox Manor offers a safe withdrawal management program with 20 beds. Two extra beds are available for people waiting for a treatment centre. For more information, call 306-694-4030.

Mental health and addictions services has a centralized intake that will discuss concerns of individuals or family members and determine the appropriate response to the request, which may include individual or group services. Call 306-691-6464 for information.

Crescent View Clinic — located at 131 First Avenue Northwest — provides needle exchanges and safe inhalation supplies, as well as take-home Naloxone kits, HIV, hepatitis and STD testing, a methadone clinic and education and information services. Call 306-691-2040 for information.

One available peer group is Narcotics Anonymous on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Salvation Army office on First Avenue Northwest. Another peer group is Nar-Anon for family members, which meets at the Alliance Church on Mondays at 7 p.m.

Booth added that the resources on the committee’s webpage would continue to be available.

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Tables loaded with baked goods beckon and entice

There’s no better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to ronjoy@sasktel.net attend a Christmas trade show The views and opinions ex- and bake sale — part of it seen pressed in this article are from the other side of the table. those of the author, and do For some reason, I am not necessarily reflect the po- quick to spot the tables that sition of this publication. feature the home made baking and the canned products. Like a fly to honey, those tables are always my first stop — telling myself every time to just look and not touch and to keep my money in my pocket so as not to increase the girth of my body.

Because I am acquainted with so many people in the community, it is imperative that I salute their talents by shelling out a few dollars for some chocolate chip cookies, butter tarts with raisins (I always ask to make sure there are raisins inside the shell), buns and bread, and always for Housemate — ginger snap cookies with tops that are crackled.

When he shows up at the bake table, he zooms in on the lemon meringue pie and most other flavours of pies.

He looks beseechingly at me for permission to indulge and how can I possibly remind him, there in front of friends and strangers, of his diet restrictions. So I relent, on the condition he uses his own money and agrees to at least allow me a slice or two.

And so we wander around the room, seeing other familiar faces, with baking on their tables, and again we cave in.

For the reason that we have little will power, we don’t visit as many bake sales as we once did in this season.

I still miss Minto’s cookie walk when customers arrived with empty ice cream buckets to find their favourites on the dozens of tables filled to overflowing. When I express my hope for a reprise of the cookie walk, certain members of the sponsoring group just raise their eyebrows and shake their heads. I guess that means “sorry, but no, bake your own.”

I do regret that we do not buy much else at trade fairs and sales. I’ve been encouraged, yes even told, to start downsizing, so that means I cannot give in to the craving for cutesy knick knacks, knitted items, Christmas tree ornaments and wreaths, geese made from welded equipment parts (bless the ingenuity though), beautiful paintings and sketches, candles, jewelry, perfumes, purses and other fine merchandise.

At the most recent bake sale event, I was honoured to help sell baked goods for Branch 59, Moose Jaw Royal Canadian Legion. I even made my own contributions of baking, snuck in and put in place when not many others were yet present. There’s nothing more deflating when someone picks up a packet of my muffins and mutters “they don’t look very good” and moves on to someone’s

banana loaf.

Stealth was used and no one was wiser about what I contributed.

One lesson I’ve learned is that the early shopper gets her/his choice of what’s on sale and this particular Saturday was no exception. Customers came through the doors and few passed by the bake table without at least stopping to admire the display. Some brought their own bags and admitted they were doing their Christmas baking.

I had already done the same thing, selecting a variety of cookies to purchase, showing my co-worker what I would be taking home and putting my money in the envelope. Minutes later I caught my co-worker just as she was about to remove cookies from a bag — the very bag I had put away for safe keeping.

We had a good laugh about her eagerness to re-sell my cookies. After that I moved them further out of her sight but I still kept my eye peeled just in case.

It was a happy time, helping others with their baking and ensuring they had excellent products made by local homemakers willing to share their talents for a worthy organization.

I’m still deciding which of the three packages from my stash contains the best chocolate chip cookies. Such a seasonal dilemma!

Joyce Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel.net

City recognizes long-serving employees, retirees, and special achievements during awards luncheon

By Gordon Edgar - Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com This year’s annual awards luncheon was for both the 2020 Chris Heisler (parks & recreation, 2021) and 2021 honourees and was held on Wednesday, Nov. 8 *Jason Zerr (parks & recreation, 2021) at Mosaic Place.

20 years of service Mayor Clive Tolley thanked everyone who worked Brenda Hendrickson (finance, 2020) for the city, especially those who have spent long careers *Jeff Calvert (fire department, 2020) as employees. He wished the retirees all the best and ex- *Ian Clark (fire department, 2020) pressed his wish that every city employee would continue *Richelle Grocott (fire department, 2020) to find their employment enjoyable. *Jae Unser (fire department, 2020) “For all of you who have dedicated your work life *Daily Lennox (parks & recreation, 2020) to the city of Moose Jaw, thank you so much,” city coun- *Dale Free (transit, 2020) cillor Heather Eby said during her words of reflection. *Rod Klippenstein (fire department, 2021) “The experience you have is invaluable and it cannot be 25 years of service replaced.”

Group photo at the conclusion of the service awards Brad Nyhagen (finance, 2020) “For those of you who are retiring,” Eby continued, Les Coghlin (public works & utilities, 2020) “I pray that retirement is everything that you’ve dreamed Al Bromley (human resource services, 2021) Brian Usher (public works & utilities, 2020) it would be.” *Juliette Mitchell (parks & recreation, 2021) Staci Dobrescu (public works & utilities, 2021) *asterisk denotes absence from luncheon *Scott Ward (parks & recreation, 2021) 30 years of service *Roy Bodie (public works & utilities, 2021) 15 years of service *Nathan Justason (public works & utilities, 2020) *Rich Miller (public works & utilities, 2021) *Chris Mealing (fire department, 2020) Shelly Howe (parks & recreation, 2020) *Shel North (public works & utilities, 2021) Bret Rowlinson (information technology, 2020) Brian Acker (finance, 2021) *Les Rigden (public works & utilities, 2021) *Denise Cook (parks & recreation, 2020) 35 years of service *Kevin Wilson (public works & utilities, 2021) Michelle Sanson (planning & development, 2020) Greg Abell (public works & utilities, 2020) Special achievement awards *Darryl Howse (transit, 2020) 40 years of service Bret Rowlinson (2020, honoured for his implemenSandy Campbell (finance, 2021) Wes MacDonald (public works & utilities, 2020) tation of geographic information systems in the city, inRobin Mitchell (finance, 2021) Rod Stapleton (fire department, 2020) cluding his design and implementation of the Santa Claus Devin Foster (public works & utilities, 2021) Greg Stewart (public works & utilities, 2021) tracker used by families in Moose Jaw to participate in the 45 years of service Melanie Patoine (public works & utilities, 2021) Santa Claus parade for the last two years.) *Rich Miller (public works & utilities, 2020) Mark Caringal (2021, honoured for the work done *Paul Therens (public works & utilities, 2020) with his team at engineering services in moving multiple Randy Sutcliffe (public works & utilities, 2021) important projects along quickly and seamlessly, includRetirees ing the Buffalo Pound transmission line and the new high *Monty Davis (public works & utilities, 2020) service pump house) Wes MacDonald (public works & utilities, 2020) City manager Jim Puffalt said that “having long-term *Paul Therens (public works & utilities, 2020) employees… is an absolute critical success factor for *Randy Toni (public works & utilities, 2020) our organization.

Along with their corporate knowledge, *Laurie Evans (fire department, 2020) long-term employees provide stability, support systems, *Brock Knipfel (fire department, 2020) training… without them, it’s tough sledding.” Puffalt add*Dale Free (transit, 2020) ed another thank you to the city’s long-term employees *Pearl Anderson (city clerk/solicitor’s office, 2021) and reiterated that “We can’t do the work that we do withMyron Gulka-Tiechko (city clerk/solicitor’s office, 2021) out you.”

Call: 306-692-3443 • 301 4th Ave SW Moose Jaw Rod Stapleton (fire department, 2021)

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RSM begins plans to add a new super-predator fossil to their collection

By Gordon Edgar - Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com

The Royal Saskatchewan Museum is excavating the fossilized skeleton of a Prognathodon in Grasslands National Park and hopes to exhibit it in three or four years Fossils like this Prognathodon lie buried for incredible passages of time before being exposed by erosion, excavation, construction, or mining. They are surprisingly delicate despite being rocks, and palaeontologists take their time in the retrieval and study process. Every detail of the fossil must be preserved to extract as much data as possible.

“This is a very significant find and we are very excited about the prospects of this specimen,” Parks, Culture and Sports Minister Laura Ross said. “This is another example of the excellent work being done by the RSM’s research staff - and that there is always something new happening at the RSM.” Prognathodons were marine lizards in the mosasaur family. They were a massive super-predator that ranged all over the globe. This particular animal lived in the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow conti-

nental sea that connected the Gulf of Mexico with the Arctic Ocean about 75 million years ago.

Mosasaurs were some of the largest aquatic predators that ever lived, although there were some members of the family who only grew to about a metre. More commonly, they grew to about 4 meters (13 ft.). The largest could have exceeded 17 meters long (56 ft.).

Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs, but air-breathing aquatic reptiles, similar to today’s sea turtles.

The excavation by RSM staff in Grasslands National Park

Parks Canada was first contacted about the discovery in 2012 by an area resident. The dig permit was secured in 2019, and Parks Canada staff, RSM palaeontologists, and graduate students began the excavation in earnest in September.

To date, RSM staff have collected the majority of the skull, most of the neck, and a few bones from further back in the skeleton. It appears as though this specimen had a skull approximately 130 centimetres in length. This would likely mean that the living reptile was over 10 meters (33 ft.).

“Some of the world’s most exciting fossil finds have been unearthed in Western Canada and this giant Prognathodon, found in Grasslands National Park, adds to our knowledge of the ancient sea life that once covered Saskatchewan,” said Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada. “Parks Canada is proud to work with the Royal Saskatchewan Museum to expand our scientific knowledge, fire our imagination, and share these discoveries with the public for years to

Some of the pieces recovered so far

come.”

Bearpaw Shale, a rock formation known for its fossils, was deposited by the Western Interior Seaway across much of southern Saskatchewan. Grasslands National Park West Block is one of the best places to find fossils in this rock layer because of the park’s extensive badlands exposures. It is hoped that more of the body can be recovered in the coming summer and could add another marine reptile more than 10 metres in total body length to the provincial collection.

Creative and unique Christmas gift idea: MJMAG program registrations are now online

By Gordon Edgar - Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com

Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery has opened their art programs to online registration before the holidays for those looking for interesting gift ideas Their available programs explore art in a variety of themes, mediums, and styles. They are designed for everyone from kids to seniors.

MJMAG’s over-the-phone art classes for seniors have been a tremendous hit this year. The classes are coordinated with Seniors’ Centre Without Walls (SCWW), which was started in Moose Jaw in 2020 to help relieve the harmful effects of isolation in the 55+ age group.

COVID has made social isolation much worse. Ll-being Many international studies examining the effects of social isolation on health and well-being have shown that high-quality social connections are a fundamental human need. Without those connections, health risks across many categories rise sharply.

Helping an older relative who may be feeling isolated to connect with others using art is a wonderful holiday gift idea.

SCWW’s programs are easily accessible over the phone – and completely free.

MJMAG education coordinator Christy Schweiger, an instructor of the art classes over the phone, says the program has been very successful in increasing participants’ sense of connectedness. Participants have also succeeded in terms of creating “real art,” which can be a surprise and a pleasure for many who have never tried being creative before.

SCWW art projects with MJMAG’S Christy Schweiger are Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. There is a different theme each month: January 6 –Make art supplies from recycled materials at home January 13, 20, 27 – Fire (watercolour, scratch art) February 3 & 10 – Water (watercolour, using water in art) March 3 & 10 – Air/Wind (mixed-media birds) April 7 & 28 – Earth (recycled art, clay)

More provincial money to WDM to enhance programming

By Natalie Lund, - Moose Jaw Express

The Western Development Museum (WDM) has been given an extra $50,000 this year to support the expansion of virtual programming which will improve access and enhance customer experience.

“Like many institutions, the WDM had to make adjustments to their operations and programming due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has resulted in costs increasing as they transition to a virtual environment for programming and move to an online booking system,” said Laura Ross, minister of Parks, Culture, and Recreation.

Joan Kanigan, CEO of the Western Development Museum said, “This will mean being able to share Saskatchewan’s rich histories in more accessible ways.

Museum staff will also be trained on ef-

fective techniques for developing virtual programming.”

In 2020, the museum purchased video equipment for filming and live-streaming events, additional equipment will be purchased to allow flexibility for hosting events.

The new online booking system will be used for virtual and in-museum programs for both school and public program bookings. It will aid in allowing staff and guests to create bookings and view availability on program times and calendars.

The system will send out automatic replies such as booking confirmations, links for live stream programs, updated emails, or program reminders. Guests will also be able to access a pay online option.

May 5 & 12 – the Colours of Spring (colours and flowers) MJMAG classes offer a combination of online and in-person programming.

The in-person programming requires small group sizes to comply with public health guidelines, and participants must be masked and double-vaccinated if they are over 12. 00 The art class categories are youth (11 & under), teen/adult (12 & up), CREATE-

abilities (for individuals with learning differences), and senior (55+).

Some of the art themes coming up in 2022 include winter art, Easter and Valentine’s projects, and elemental/spring colours and ideas. The mediums which will be explored include water- and oil-based paints, acrylics, clay, etc. as well as combinations of them all.

Check out www.mjmag.ca/artprograms to give a gift of art this Christmas.

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Saskatchewan’s Busiest Week for International Beef Marketing

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EXPRESS Saskatchewan just saw a significant increase in international cattle buyers led by the 50th annual Canadian Western Agribition.

Agribition’s CEO Chris Lane noted that the people who did attend “really participated in the programs, sales, and had a positive attitude around being at the show.”

One of those engaged visitors was Norwegian cattle buyer and President of the Norwegian Beef Breeders Association, Erling Gresseth. Gresseth was joined by three other colleagues and was one of over one hundred international buyers to visit the province during the last week of November.

“It’s wonderful to be here and see all these nice cattle, and meet some breeders who are putting a lot of work into their animals,” said Gresseth. He explained how

it’s most impressive to see intergenerational farms putting an extensive amount of work and passion into improving genetics and quality of livestock here in Canada.

Gresseth explains that his delegation makes the trip to Saskatchewan for Agribition in search of the best cattle genetics in the world. As many countries can not easily import live animals, many international buyers purchase embryos and semen here in Saskatchewan.

These international buyers also make the most of networking opportunities at large shows like Agribition to get to know cutting-edge breeders abroad and connect them with other producers in their home countries.

He elaborated that the most sought-after breeds in Norway are the Charolais, Black, and Red Angus, Simmental, Limousin, and Hereford and that he saw some of the best here in the province during the show.

A lot of the cattle in Canada, and especially in western Canada, support what

they are trying to do to improve Norway’s cattle genetics. “The world is going greener and greener; we have to be looking for very efficient animals. Animals who can go do the work themselves out in a pasture with grass,” said Gresseth.

Much like many of the other international buyers, Gresseth believes that many Visiting Saskatchewan is nothing new for Norwegian of the Canadian breeders he Cattle buyer and President of the Country’s Beef met during the week will re- Breeds Association, Erling Gresseth, but on every trip main long-term contacts due he witnesses even more impressive cattle. Photo by to what they saw regarding Norsk Landbruk the quality of Canadian livewere live streamed to more than 3,700 stock on display. While Covid-19 travel people, and its virtual content was viewed restrictions affected the number of inter- more than 31,000 times. national buyers visiting the province last Within the province, the show also month, those who did come certainly did generated substantial economic revenue. not leave empty-handed. Several others According to Chris Lane, CEO of the orgenerated international interest through ganization, merchandising sales were three virtual bidding. times better than average, and the final Agribition’s livestock shows and sales night’s rodeo was sold out.

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By Ron Walter For Moose Jaw Express

Farmers should learn to call a spade a spade when government programs help them

The Saskatchewan mid-year financial report drew some unwanted attention to the farm community.

Finance Minister Donna Harpauer’s review of Saskatchewan’s record $2.7 billion budget deficit mentioned unplanned causes of the deficit, other than the pandemic.

The provincial government paid $1.8 billion in crop insurance claims that wasn’t planned in the budget.

That explanation hit a sensitive spot

among farmers. Spokesmen for the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan said “it painted us in a bad light.’’

And they claimed the finance minister should have pointed out that farmers pay premiums for crop insurance.

Harpauer called the comments “ingenious” and “an attack on the government.”

One observer of the situation described it as childish.

What was Harpauer supposed to do?

Tell us our government spent $1.8 billion on non-budgeted items but we can’t say here because it will offend some people.

So why would farmers be upset at her review?

Most farmers think of themselves as independent free enterprisers taking on the elements to produce food. Letting people know they depend on government programs contradicts that image.

In 2019, farm support programs amounted to 44 per cent of farmers’ net income in Canada.

Having grown up on a farm in the 1950s to the 1960s, this writer perfectly understands the need for programs supporting farmers. In those times only two types of aid existed: private hail insurance and the PFRA program known as a dried out bonus.

It kicked in if crop yields fell below eight bushels an acre.

The current slate of programs was developed to void the frequent requests for money every time farmers fell on hard times. It hasn’t done that.

When times get tough, farmers still have out-stretched hands looking for assistance.

Farmers have an array of programs supporting them in tough times.

Crop insurance, dating back to 1959, is but one. Farmers do pay insurance premiums but the federal and provincial governments pay 60 per cent of the premiums.

Most home owners would jump for joy

if government paid part of their insurance.

The Agri-Stability program offers payments if a farmer’s margin slips by 30 per cent.

The Agri-Invest program allows farmers to accumulate cash reserves by placing a percentage of revenue in an account. Government matches one per cent of revenues.

The program is intended to be used for withdrawals in hard times. Many farmers use it as a retirement plan.

The Agri-Recovery plan pays out in times of emergency and disaster like last year.

Under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership farmers can receive matching grants into the thousands for marketing, developing management skills, water infrastructure, environmental plans and a host of other improvements.

Those are the main subsidies farmers receive. No other sector in Canada gets those kind of benefits Why try to hide it?

Many farmers also think of government assistance as welfare, and that contradicts the image of independent free enterprise operators.

Let’s call a spade a spade.

Ron Walter can be reached at ronjoy@ sasktel.net

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the position of this publication.

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Retired CP Rail conductor on mission to find past acquaintances from 43 years ago

By Gordon Edgar - Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com

In 1978, one of the very last trains operated by CP Rail on the Canadian route from Vancouver to Toronto was stopped in its tracks in Kicking Horse Canyon, BC. It was October 29, coincidentally the day Via Rail took over the Canadian line from CP Rail. John Cowan was a rookie trainman and amateur photographer whose job that day was to ride the last coach of the train.

As they approached the canyon, a railway patrolman radioed the conductor to report an obstruction on the tracks.

The train rolled to a stop and the conductor, Len Timpany, realized they had a major problem. The rock on the tracks was less of a rock and more of a boulder. There was no way the six train employees (one conductor, two engineers, two trainmen, and the patrolman) were going to be able to move it on their own.

Timpany called the issue in to the nearby town of Golden, BC. The train order operator there, responsible for timetable coordination on that section of track, phoned the local maintenance crew. Early on a Sunday morning, that attempt proved fruitless.

By this time Cowan had left the rear of the train and walked up to see what was happening. Cowan was a serious train enthusiast who had been taking train photos since he was ten. He sees what happened next as one of the most memorable incidents of what became a 35-year career.

Timpany decided to ask the passengers to help. “He got on the intercom and explained what was happening,” Cowan said. “He said, ‘Hey folks, we’re going to be here all day unless we get some help.’ And people responded!”

Even then, Cowan said in a phone interview, it was a risky idea. The conductor’s primary responsibility is the safety of the passengers. If anyone had been hurt in the attempt, Timpany (and probably the rest of the crew as well) would have been in big trouble.

Nevertheless, they put a boulder-shifting team together with eight or nine male passengers. The patrolman supplied a long crowbar, but their heaving only lifted the boulder slightly on one side – they couldn’t get it to turn over.

At that point, their hero arrived. “This woman came up the side of the train and asked to help, and she made all the difference,” Cowan says. He remembers that she was from a farm somewhere in Saskatchewan. She took the central spot in the team.

“She was so strong!” Cowan says. “It took all of us, for sure, but she made the difference.

We couldn’t have done it without her.”

The boulder was quickly moved off the track, and the train was able to proceed. Cowan took a group shot before they left. He also col-

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lected contact information for everyone in the photo, and later sent them a copy.

Unfortunately, after sending out the photos, he figured he didn’t need their contact information anymore.

After all, the incident was resolved. So, Cowan threw the information away – something he regrets tremendously.

He is on a quest to reconnect with the boulder team.

Cowan, now 64, retired as a conductor. He is publishing a book filled with stories and photos (Canadian Pacific Trackside 1977-2012, available in April 2022 from Morning Sun Books).

He hopes someone will remember the boulder incident in Kicking Horse Canyon on the morning of Oct. 29, 1978.

If the photos attached to this story stir any recollections for our readers, Cowan can be contacted at johnpcowan@shaw.ca.

He can also be found on Facebook.

The next PSSD board meeting is Tuesday, Jan. 11.

Carbon tax has forced PSSD to pay extra $100K in utility costs The carbon tax forced Prairie South School Division to pay an extra $100,000 in utility costs during the 2020-21 school year, even though it worked to make its buildings more energy efficient.

The federal government introduced the carbon tax on April 1, 2019, and set the rate at $20 per tonne. That rate will hit $50 per tonne next year and $170 per tonne by 2030. This will further raise the cost of gasoline, natural gas, home heating and other goods dependent on fossil fuels.

Darren Baiton, buildings manager with the division, presented a buildings accountability report about the 202021 school year during the board of education’s December meeting. Among other things, his report looked at the division’s costs for electricity and natural gas.

Electricity The buildings department continued to upgrade the lighting in most schools to light emitting diodes (LEDs), which will give the division better energy payback on those more efficient lights, said Baiton.

However, hidden in the total electrical costs was an increase of $50,000 because of the carbon tax, even though the division’s consumption level declined, he added.

Total electrical consumption in Prairie South decreased from roughly 1.2 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2017-18 to about 560,000 kWh in 2019-20 and then in-

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creased to 600,000 kWh in 2020-21, Baiton’s report said.

Consumption levels spiked briefly in 2017-18 to nearly 1.2 million kWh since the division was upgrading A.E. Peacock Collegiate and power was running 24/7.

Meanwhile, total electricity costs for PSSD decreased from roughly $1.17 million in 2017-18 to almost $1 million during the 2020-21 year.

The average electricity consumption per day in the division was 478 kWh. A.E. Peacock had the highest consumption at around 2,100 kWh, while John Chisholm Alternative School had the lowest consumption per day for schools at around 90 kWh. Natural gas Prairie South consumed around 2.2 million cubic metres of natural gas during the 2017-18 year, before falling to around 1.9 million cubic metres in 2019-20 and then rising to roughly 2 million cubic metres in 2020-21, the report said.

Meanwhile, the cost of natural gas has steadily risen during the past four years. In 2017-18 costs were around $440,000, while that number rose to around $590,000 in 2020-21.

The average natural gas consumption per day in the division was 156 cubic metres. Peacock had the highest consumption at around 580 cubic metres, while John Chisholm Alternate School had the lowest at around 30

cubic metres.

The division is on a five-year contract for natural gas, which means total consumption has held the line while costs have steadily increased, said Baiton.

“Division-wide, we’re approximately a $100,000 increase due to (the) carbon tax,” he added.

Baiton later added that Peacock has twice the amount of utility consumption as other schools because the building is three blocks long, has more square footage and is twice as big as other buildings.

Trustees’ concerns Trustee Robert Bachmann told the board that these increased costs are a concern, especially when the division is making efforts to be more energy efficient and not seeing a financial return on investment.

The federal government is supposed to provide money through the Climate Action Incentive Fund (CAIF), but neither it nor the provincial government can agree on how to distribute that funding, he continued. This means the division can’t spend money it doesn’t have even though it’s being asked to do more with less.

“That is a major concern for us, that our funding is not keeping up with our expenses even though we’re much more efficient than we have been,” he added. “So … what more can we do?”

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City Hall Council Notes The final budget meeting is possibly on Wednesday, Dec. 15.

External lawyers should review all files until new city solicitor hired, Luhning says

City hall has lacked an in-house lawyer since Myron Gulka-Tiechko retired in July, which is why Coun. Dawn Luhning wants external lawyers to review all sensitive files until a new solicitor is hired.

During the Dec. 6 regular meeting, Luhning introduced a motion to have all outstanding, current, and future legal files and agreements sent to external counsel for review and opinion, effective immediately.

This would remain in effect until a new city solicitor comes on board.

After discussion, council voted 4-3 against the motion. In favour were councillors Luhning, Heather Eby and Jamey Logan, while opposed were Mayor Clive Tolley and councillors Kim Robinson, Crystal Froese and Doug Blanc.

Hunting for a new solicitor City hall has no in-house legal counsel and has hired a national headhunting firm to find a new solicitor, said city manager Jim Puffalt. Meanwhile, they are following legal templates that were previously laid

Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express out. If contracts or agreements are beyond Luhning pointed out that she couldn’t those templates, city hall sends the docu- work on assumptions since her job was to ments to outside legal parties for review. help ensure council’s bases were covered City administration asks five questions if an issue returned to hit them in the face. about any contract or agreement before de- While there would be costs to this initiatermining whether to handle it internally tive, they would be less than future legal or externally, he added. Sending out such expenses against the city. documents costs between $500 and $600 She added that she regularly came to per hour. city hall to sign stacks of agreements that Outside opinion needed the public rarely saw when she was acting Luhning believed that city administra- mayor. tion was performing its duties well in the Eby agreed with Luhning, saying short term with handling legal files but still while Puffalt does good work as the city wanted the opinion of an outside lawyer to manager, he is not the solicitor or legal review agreements since she was not a le- counsel. gal expert.

“We are not trying to circumvent what “I’m on the hook if something goes is going on. … We are now giving the diwrong anywhere. And until we have a city rection and permission to use external lesolicitor in that chair, I think it’s only pru- gal counsel for all agreements to ensure we dent of us to ensure that we have the le- have all our Is dotted and Ts crossed,” she gal opinions to execute these day-to-date added. agreements,” she said, noting businesses Duplication of work and corporations acquire legal opinions on Robinson was opposed because he issues every day. thought the motion was something city

administration was already handling and it would cost money that council didn’t need to spend. He also thought that large stacks of documents meant many agreements were “frivolous.”

Mayor Tolley understood what Luhning wanted but noted most agreements are standard files, while this motion would capture every document. He thought Puffalt should use his discretion to determine which documents would put council in jeopardy and ensure those were vetted.

This would create less work.

He added that if work needs to be sent to external parties, he wanted that material sent to local lawyers.

Blanc and Froese both thought it wasn’t necessary to spend extra money to perform the same work outside when city administration was using existing in-house templates to address files. Meanwhile, Blanc said he agreed with Tolley about giving community lawyers the work if it needs to be performed elsewhere.

Mayor hears concerns about lack of details in police service’s 2022 budget Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

Mayor Clive Tolley says he will bring concerns about the Moose Jaw Police Service’s 2022 budget — and its lack of details — to the next Board of Police Commissioners meeting.

Moose Jaw media raised concerns about the police service’s budget during a media scrum following the Dec. 6 regular council meeting.

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agency’s 2022 operating budget only includes the request for three new officers and a funding increase of $498,719, or 4.67 per cent. The document — unlike other budget reports — does not include a line-by-line breakdown of revenues or expenses.

The police budget comprised 23.2 per cent of the City of Moose Jaw’s budget this year.

The Board of Police Commissioners did not question the lack of details during its mid-November meeting when the budget was presented. Likewise, city council — including councillors Dawn Luhning and Doug Blanc, who sit on the board — did not say anything when Police Chief Rick Bourassa presented the budget during council’s third-party budget meeting in late November.

Robert Thomas, a reporter with MJIndependent.com, asked the mayor whether he thought the budget was detailed enough for residents or the media. Thomas pointed out that Moose Jaw media cannot ask questions after the police board’s meetings here, unlike in Prince Albert, Saskatoon or Regina, which also provide detailed budget documents.

Thomas held up a file folder containing the Prince Albert Police Service’s 2022 budget. He also provided the mayor with a copy before the scrum started.

The reporter pointed out Prince Albert’s police service has adopted new COVID-19 protocols that will allow that agency to save $50,920 this year, which is only known because of its detailed budget.

In comparison, no one knows how much of Moose Jaw’s police budget goes to salaries, mental health initiatives, new officers, or pandemic protocols, as examples.

“I’m thinking more in the way of transparency,” Thomas added.

In response, Tolley replied, “I know that the police commission submitted their budget to the city. It’s under consideration as all the other submissions in the budget process. I’m not sure about what Prince Albert is doing versus what we’re doing.

I’d like to have a closer look at it before I answer something like that.”

Simply because a police agency elsewhere provides detailed budget documents doesn’t mean that should happen here, Tolley continued. However, he promised that he would read the information Thomas provided.

“I’ll bring that (the concerns) forward to the police commission and ask some questions and see what the answer is,” he added.

Tolley was then asked whether it was a double standard for the police service to provide a budget document that lacked information while other third-party community groups had to provide detailed documents to receive funding. He replied that he was unsure if there were regulations or bylaws to cover that.

He deferred to city manager Jim Puffalt, who pointed out that the police commission works under separate legislation from the city. Council can only approve the budget as a whole and not the details, which the police board handles.

“It’s treated not a whole lot different than school taxes, for example. We (the city) have to collect the taxes for them, but again, city council only gets to approve the budget as a whole,” Puffalt said, adding the municipality could not comment on what other communities were doing with their police budgets.

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City Hall Council Notes The final budget meeting is possibly on Wednesday, Dec. 15.

Bylaw changes will affect livestock operations, Main Street, and city committees Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

City council has approved several bylaw amendments that affect intensive livestock operations in the city, the zoning of Main Street North, and a code of conduct for residents who serve on committees or boards.

Council gave three unanimous readings to each of the four bylaw amendments during the Dec. 6 regular council meeting. The amendments are now in effect.

Official Community Plan Council approved an amendment to the Official Community Plan that removes from the plan intensive livestock operations (ILO) that no longer operate in Moose Jaw. It also corrects technical mapping errors.

Furthermore, the amendment simplifies separation distances for one existing ILO by removing distances based on the number of animals an ILO can hold. It also amends the separation distance to 1,600 metres from 4,800 metres for institutional, commercial and multi-unit land use as laid out in the Official Community Plan.

M&T Feedlot at 2750 River Street West is the only ILO business in Moose Jaw and can handle more than 2,000 animals.

Meanwhile, Lister Feedlot at 2855 Brittania Road is no longer operational and will be removed from the

OCP. It will also be removed from the M2 district as a prohibited use in the zoning bylaw. Council unanimously approved an amendment to the zoning bylaw to remove the feedlot from M2.

Main Street North Council approved an amendment to the zoning bylaw that rezones the 1000 and 1100 blocks of Main Street North to R2 medium density residential and R3 high-density residential districts from CS community service/institutional district.

The zoning was changed to accommodate this area’s current and future residential land uses. In particular, existing homeowners have been unable to acquire mortgages from their properties because of how the area is zoned.

City hall provided public notice for the proposed bylaw amendment, a council report said. It received no written responses about the change.

Code of conduct Council approved a disclosure bylaw and code of conduct for committee and board members. The bylaw establishes and applies a code of conduct and disclosure of land holdings requirement for non-council members appointed to council-created boards and committees. It also

establishes a code of ethical behaviour that members must follow.

This standalone bylaw mirrors the City of Moose Jaw’s ethical provisions found in other municipal bylaws and sets out relevant reporting procedures, a council report said.

Meanwhile, city administration is working to create a bylaw amendment to the elected members’ code of ethics bylaw to address four areas: Providing greater detail on the nature of ethical behaviours and the types of behaviours that will be monitored Expanding the complaints procedures component to address how and when an external investigation may be initiated Providing specific leave of absence provisions for a council member wishing to pursue provincial or federal politics Giving city administration the leeway to monitor additional matters that it believes council should review It is not known when city administration plans to bring forward this amendment.

Former Hillcrest Sports Centre a busy place under new managers Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

The Golden Ticket Sports Centre — formerly Hillcrest Sports Centre — has been busy since opening under new management, with hundreds of youths and adults participating in programs since July.

City hall and Golden Ticket Sports Inc. signed a fiveyear lease agreement on June 1 to operate the former Hillcrest Sports Centre building. The agreement allows the municipality to maximize community access to the sports venue while providing much-needed indoor gym space.

“Golden Ticket Sports has made significant investments into the facility since taking over, greatly enhancing what the facility can offer,” Derek Blais, director of parks and rec, said during the Dec. 6 regular council meeting.

Some investments include exterior and interior painting, recarpeting a classroom, updating the gym floor and adding rubber surfacing, installing basketball and volleyball equipment, adding a classroom, adding turf, upgrading the washroom and showers, replacing lights and adding glass protectors at court level to keep spectators safe.

Meanwhile, 212 youths have participated in camps and programs between July 20 and Nov. 21, Blais continued. Furthermore, the venue has allotted about 25 hours per week for drop-in basketball and volleyball activities,

with 70 monthly members between the ages of 12 and 45 using the venue during those periods.

Moreover, the sports business has signed long-term leases with the tennis club, Sowden Flanagan Baseball Academy, Holy Trinity Catholic School Division and Gottselig Athletic Performance. It has also signed rental agreements with Moose Jaw Adult Volleyball League, Sask. Stealth Volleyball and Queen City Canadian Junior Basketball League.

Golden Ticket Sports is still waiting for Pickleball Moose Jaw to confirm times for its members, including guaranteed time outside of regular drop-in occasions.

“Discussions with Pickleball Moose Jaw are still ongoing … hopefully, there can be some movement that way,” said Coun. Heather Eby. “This (update about the venue) is good. I’m glad we’re at this stage, and it’s a good move we made a year ago (to have Golden Ticket Sports manage the building).”

The lease agreement says that Golden Ticket Sports must provide the municipality with an annual contribution of five per cent of gross annual revenues up to $25,000, with that funding put into a capital reserve for future building upgrades, Blais said.

No free downtown parking this Christmas after chamber pulls request Jason G. Antonio Moose Jaw Express

Residents wanting to shop downtown during the final week of Christmas will have to pay for parking, after the chamber of commerce informed city hall that it was withdrawing its request.

Rob Clark, CEO of the Moose Jaw and District Chamber of Commerce, approached city council during its Oct. 25 meeting and asked for free two-hour parking from Dec. 21 to 24. Council later voted to table the request until city hall acquired more input from the downtown business association.

However, on Nov. 10, Clark sent the city clerk’s of-

fice an email asking that the free parking request during the Christmas season be tabled until Dec. 6. He then sent another email on Nov. 19 advising that the chamber was withdrawing its request.

“As a result, this communication (report) is presented to council with the recommendation that the matter be received and filed,” a council report said. “This will enable the city clerk’s office to close the file regarding this matter and reflect the history of the chamber’s request.”

During the Dec. 6 regular meeting, council voted unanimously to receive and file the email that Clark sent.

By July 31 — the end of Golden Ticket Sports’ fiscal year — the company had contributed revenues of $29,852.92, with $1,492.65 applied to this year’s reserve.

Meanwhile, the parks and recreation department completed $60,000 worth of remediation projects to ensure the building remains structurally and mechanically sound, he continued. Emergency repairs were required to the roof and HVAC/electrical systems, costing $11,200 from the department’s operating budget.

A recent inspection indicated there are major concerns with the building’s boiler. The department plans to replace the boiler with savings from this year’s capital projects.

This will avoid emergency costs over the winter while resulting in savings in the 2023 capital budget.

“It’s on its last legs. It could go at any time,” said Blais, who noted that replacement of the machine could occur within the next month.

During the next five years, the parks and rec department plans to replace the roof in three phases from 2022 to 2024; complete exterior grading and landscaping upgrades next year; complete HVAC updates in 2023; update air handling units, dehumidifiers and air conditioning in 2026; and upgrades lights to LEDs in 2025.

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City Hall Council Notes The final budget meeting is possibly on Wednesday, Dec. 15.

Moose Jaw will get over $6.4M next year through provincial grant program City hall is ensuring that all necessary paperwork is updated so that the City of Moose Jaw can continue to receive funding through the provincial government’s municipal revenue sharing grant program.

The provincial government has provided this grant — which comprises about one-fifth of Moose Jaw’s revenues — to Saskatchewan municipalities for years.

During the 2018-19 fiscal year, the Ministry of Government Relations began reviewing the program, a city council report explained. The main changes to the program were: Funding would be based on 0.75 of one percentage point of the provincial sales tax (PST) from the second preceding year Funding percentages would remain

Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express roughly the same but would be rounded to statement, and council members’ public one decimal point disclosure statements.

Since 2019-20, targeted sector support If municipalities do not meet all six of $1.5 million from municipal revenue requirements or submit their declarations sharing is being allocated to support pro- before the closing date in January, their grams, projects and initiatives directed at municipal revenue sharing grant for 2021 good governance, legislative compliance may be withheld until all requirements are and increased inter-municipal and regional met, the report said. They will have to take co-operation the necessary steps to meet all the requireMunicipalities must attest to their ments and notify the ministry that this has compliance with a set of legislative provi- been completed before funding is released. sions to remain eligible Grants from the province make up The six eligibility requirements in- roughly 21 per cent of the City of Moose clude providing an audited financial state- Jaw’s revenue, or about $10.5 million, acment, waterworks reporting (if applicable), cording to this year’s budget. education property tax returns (being in Moose Jaw received $6,831,325 this good standing), council procedures bylaw year in municipal revenue sharing funding document, an employee code of conduct but is expected to receive $6,448,564 next

year. This represents a decline of $382,761.

During its Dec. 6 regular meeting, council voted unanimously to submit all the necessary documents and have the director of financial services sign the declaration of eligibility and submit it to the Ministry of Government Relations.

“We are in compliance overall with all of the requirements, so we will be able to go online and complete our eligibility declaration … ,” said finance director Brian Acker.

Acker acknowledged that Moose Jaw receives significant funding through the municipal revenue sharing program. Even though next year’s grant will be less, it will still form a major part of the city’s overall provincial funding.

Changes to city hall accounting software makes judging 2022 budget difficult, Luhning says Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

Coun. Dawn Luhning is concerned that changes to an accounting software program at city hall make it difficult to judge accurately how much funding each department needs for 2022.

City hall switched to a new program this year called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), a software that allows organizations to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and compliance, and supply chain operations.

The municipality is still working out the bugs and plans to fully implement the program next year, according to the 2022 budget report. The taxation portion of the project will move forward then, as will other components such as e-billing, virtual city hall, job costing, fixed assets, asset management and procurement.

Those short-term problems concerned Luhning, who pointed out during the Dec. 8 budget meeting that some numbers in the report didn’t add up. For example, in the engineering department, many line-item expenses are projected to increase 100 per cent next year. However, total expenses are to decline 31.1 per cent, to $261,881 from $379,968.

This is a problem that seems to afflict every other department, based on the proposed 2022 budget report, she added. This was frustrating since she could not determine what areas needed to be increased or decreased.

Expenses in engineering’s operating budget are down because, after city administration reviewed costs in that area, they found many capital-related expenses, explained finance director Brian Acker.

Therefore, those costs were allocated to the appropriate areas, which caused the reduction.

City administration attempted to remove all capital costs from the operating budget this year but still found several such expenses that they removed before producing the proposed 2022 budget, he said. The introduction of the ERP system means the previous accounting program and the cur-

rent system are not matching up.

“For this year, because of that transition period, that’s the resolution we have.

We don’t have the ability to distribute the old budget to the new charted accounts just because it was so significantly different … ,” Acker added.

“How do I see that employee benefits are up in engineering services or clothing or office expenses are up?” Luhning said, adding the department’s employee benefits this year were $200,000 and are expected to be $30,000 next year.

City administration did provide projections of 2021’s expenses, which is the

best comparison they could develop, said Acker. Those projections are also where city hall expects those expenses to finish in the new budgeting format.

As for the employee benefits, that decline is due to a new payroll system this year.

“This is all part of the struggles with moving to the new ERP system. Things are not cut and dry; we can’t map them over,” he added. “This is one challenge we have with the budget. Going forward, we will have the 2022 budget figures.”

Coun. Heather Eby understood Luhning’s frustration but thought Acker and city administration had done the best they could under difficult circumstances, while switching to new software.

“Next year, it will look different, but this year I don’t know how else it could have been done,” Eby added. “I know they are struggling through this system.”

Acker also understood Luhning’s frustration, particularly since she didn’t have the appropriate information to make proper resolutions. Still, the projections in the 2022 budget should help somewhat, while he thought council needed to rely on administration’s expertise.

As an accountant, Coun. Kim Robinson said he has been involved with ERP and changing accounting systems and sympathized with city administration.

While this situation has been difficult, he thought this would be the only time they would face this problem.

After sitting in storage for several years, the City of Moose Jaw is bringing back decorative Christmas lights that will add an extra dose of cheer to the season.

City administration unveiled — and briefly lit up — an example of the Christmas lights during the Dec. 6 regular council meeting. The light was a third-quarter circle with a snowflake in the middle.

Darrin Stephanson, director of public works, explained that SaskPower replaced all the light standards in downtown Moose Jaw several years ago. This forced city hall to keep the Christmas lights in storage until it found a suitable way to power them.

“I’m happy to announce that we’ve

Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express reached an agreement with SaskPower to electrify all those standards, and that work was completed this last weekend (of Dec. 3-5),” he said.

There are 26 new decorations that city hall found in storage, with two different examples comprising the collection, Stephanson continued. City crews will install the decorations over the next week; crews have already installed some on the south end of Main Street.

The lights — low-powered LEDs — Darrin Stephanson, director of public are not hooked into the photosensor on works (left), speaks to council about — the light standard and are on continually, relatively new — Christmas lights that so city crews will have to fix that when city hall found in storage recently. The installing the decorations, he noted. lights will be installed in the coming “We’re hoping they’ll look very week. Photo courtesy Robert Thomas nice once they’re all installed throughout

downtown,” Stephanson added.

Coun. Heather Eby praised the public works department for finding the decorations. She had expressed interest in them during previous meetings after hearing that these lights might exist.

Besides the city’s Christmas light, Eby praised Wakamow Valley Authority for creating a winter wonderland tour in the River Park Campground featuring more than 100,000 lights.

“It really is lovely. It’s just the beginning of something more exciting over the years. I want to encourage everyone to go down there … (to support this) fundraiser for Wakamow,” she said. “Kudos for them for coming up with something new.”

A chart from the 2022 budget shows operating expenses in the engineering department. Photo courtesy City of Moose Jaw

After years in storage, city to install ‘new’ Christmas lights downtown

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City Hall Council Notes The final budget meeting is possibly on Wednesday, Dec. 15.

City plans to spend nearly $3M in 2022 to replace aging equipment Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

City hall plans to spend nearly $3 million next year to replace aging equipment, with the public works department expected to spend the most money to upgrade several heavy-duty vehicles.

City administration provided an overview of the 2022 equipment reserve budget during the Dec. 8 budget meeting. The budget report indicates that city hall expects to spend $2,655,294 next year from that account to replace equipment and technology.

Meanwhile, city hall plans to use $3,207,454 in carryover funding that it did not use this year to support further upgrades in 2022.

Purpose of equipment reserve The equipment reserve account provides a three-fold value for Moose Jaw, the budget report explained.

The first is that city hall can save money for future purchases, which allows the fund to generate roughly $1.25 million in annual earnings toward purchasing equipment.

Secondly, if city hall did not save this money, it would have to borrow, the report continued. This would add high costs to the overall price, while additional taxation could be required to cover the costs.

Thirdly, putting money into the equipment reserve ensures that city administration does not take away from equipment purchases to complete other capital projects.

Public works equipment Darrin Stephanson, director of public works, explained that his department’s carryover funding for equipment purchases is larger than expected — $2,116,114 — for several reasons.

One reason is the department prepared its equipment reserve early this year, so not every item was considered for tendering. Secondly, staffing turnover affected the department’s ability to issue tenders. Lastly, the pandemic is affecting the supply chain.

Some equipment the department wants to replace using carryover funding includes a snowblower, trucks, street sweeper, dump trucks, excavator, a trailer, a lathe and other small equipment.

Meanwhile, the department plans to spend $888,526 from its actual equipment reserve budget to replace nine items. Some items include a camera van to monitor the quality of sewers and storm lines, a street sweeper, two three-quarter tonne trucks, a solid waste utility truck, and a front-end loader.

“All the equipment we want to replace on this list is a minimum 15 years old. Some is up to 31 years old,” Stephanson continued. “That is an effort we’ve undertaken in the last few years, is to modernize our fleets and getting a more realistic service life expectation.”

Some heavy vehicles see extensive use and wear out,

which means there is an increase in costs and repair time, added. This creates a “double whammy” since the department has to cannibalize the fleet service’s time to ensure the machinery still functions and does the work it’s supposed to do.

Transit The public works department also looks after transit and plans to use $763,366 from the equipment reserve budget to purchase a 40-foot bus and scheduling equipment.

The new bus will replace an older model with 500,000 kilometres on it, while the existing software program is nearly 10 years old and is considered old, said Stephanson.

Parks and recreation The parks and recreation department plans to use $300,779 from its equipment reserve to upgrade five items, including an 11-foot riding mower, a new timing system and digital clock for the Kinsmen Pool, six spin bikes and a utility turf vehicle for Yara Centre, two pool vacuums and a floor scrubber for Pla-Mor Palace.

The mower will replace an older model destroyed in a roll-over two years ago, explained director Derek Blais.

Meanwhile, the department purchased six spin bikes this year but did not have money for the rest. So, it split the budget over two years.

Capital budget provides nearly $9M in 2022 to enhance roads, bridges, traffic needs Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

City hall plans to spend $8.6 million next year to address transportation infrastructure such as roads, bridges and related traffic needs, according to the general capital budget.

City administration spoke about most 2022 capital projects during the Dec. 8 budget meeting. Below is a summary of some of those projects.

Transportation The engineering department has budgeted $3 million to address roads, such as full rebuilds, isolated deep repairs, milling and paving, thin overlays, levelling, crack sealing and micro surfacing, said director Bevan Harlton.

Other initiatives include: · $656,200 to repair sidewalks, curbs, medians and gutters, with $47,000 carried forward from this year · $500,000 for intersection upgrades, including adding signalled pedestrian crossings, with $200,000 carried forward · $166,800 for maintenance of lanes and gravelled roads · $4.3 million for structure upgrades — particularly bridges — and $742,000 carried forward About 45 per cent of this funding is for the Thunderbird Viaduct rehabilitation project, Harlton said. Since 90 per cent of the project is designed, he will present the project to Canadian Pacific Rail so it can help share costs.

Next year will also see further assessments on the viability of the Coteau Street East bridge, along with the creation of a new bridge management plan, he added. · $500,000 for local improvement projects; this money is carry-forward · $10,000 for professional and technical

consulting services · $25,000 for legal support · $25,000 to purchase new downtown Christmas decorations; this will be a 10year project · $1,445,604 in repayments on the multiplex loan · $69,221 to install solar panels on five city buildings · $254,500 to renovate the police station Other services City hall plans to spend $300,000 to install instruments at four high priority areas where the land is slumping, with $135,000 carried forward, Harlton said.

A consultant completed the slumping strategy this year and determined there were four high priority areas, seven medium-high priority locations and 13 medium-priority locations, he continued. More instrumentation will be installed over the next few years.

“On the four locations that were identified, there’s some public infrastructure that could be at risk. There’s some Crown utilities and other park space; there’s other potential impacts,” Harlton added: · $300,000 for major (above-ground) storm sewer upgrades and $345,000 for minor (below-ground) storm sewer upgrades, with $975,000 carried forward; · $500,000 to install new PVC mains in areas where none existed, with $176,000 carried forward; this program also includes ongoing maintenance of roughly 2,800 water main valves and 959 fire hydrants · $3,657,000 to enhance the city’s three water reservoirs, with $6.31 million carried forward to complete the high service pumphouse The pumphouse will be commis-

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sioned in fall 2022, while the South Hill pump station equipment will be upgraded, said Harlton. Meanwhile, the three reservoirs provide 10.5 million gallons of water.

In an emergency, that storage could supply three days of water in the summer and about a week in the winter. · $300,000 to upgrade feeder mains, with $50,000 carried forward · $1,642,750 to install advanced metering infrastructure, with that same amount carried forward · $150,000 to create a strategic plan to decommission the old 600-millimetre diameter steel transmission pipeline from Buffalo Pound, with $500,000 carried forward · $7.1 million for cast iron water main replacement, with $500,000 carried forward Cast iron project City hall replaced 3,000 metres of pipe this year and plans to complete a similar amount next year, said Harlton. Meanwhile, they are also upgrading sidewalks, roads, underground storm and sewer pipes and correcting deficiencies during the re-

placement.

This project “is near and dear to my heart,” said Coun. Heather Eby. “When we first approved it way back when, I don’t think we ever imagined the program would evolve … . It’s becoming a much more complete scope of work.” · $350,000 to complete the new Wellesley Park lift station, with $1.45 million carried forward; half of the carry-forward is for the new Crescent View lift station, which is 60 years old and limits future community growth, especially in the agri-food industrial park · $250,000 for upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant, with $400,000 carried forward · $3.392 million for design and construction of sanitary sewer trunk mains to address future growth, with $771,000 carried forward to complete relining of pipes · $500,000 is to address the landfill closure, with $414,500 carried forward Together, all the main spending — excluding carry-forwards — adds up to $26,239,075.

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City Hall Council Notes The final budget meeting is possibly on Wednesday, Dec. 15.

2022 capital budget dedicates about $3M toward parks and rec projects Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

The 2022 capital budget for the parks and recreation department proposes to spend $2,665,291 next year to address areas such as Crescent Park, Pla-Mor Palace and the former Hillcrest Sports Centre.

City administration spoke about most 2022 capital projects during the Dec. 8 budget meeting. Below is a summary of some projects in parks and rec.

Parks and recreation The department plans to provide $32,600 to Wakamow Valley Authority to upgrade the parking lots and general area of the Kiwanis Pavilion, with the authority providing similar matching funding, said parks director Derek Blais.

The pavilion area needs upgrades since it hosts weekly farmers’ markets in the summer. · $117,832 for Crescent Park, including general upgrades, spray park decking replacement and tennis court resurfacing, with $12,783 carried forward from this year · $315,602 for general park upgrades, with $494,319 carried forward; main projects include park and pathway sign

replacements, Sunningdale Park building roof replacement, Iron Bridge landscaping improvements, Memorial Field backstop replacement and baseball diamond upgrades · $919,808 for the former Hillcrest Sports Centre, including a full roof replacement and exterior grading and landscaping Golden Ticket Sports Inc. — which manages the building — invested $300,000 into the venue this year, so it’s important to protect that, Blais said. The parks department will send out tenders for the roof replacement and believes it can combine this project with replacing the roof at Pla-Mor Palace to save money.

There are 13 roof sections at Hillcrest, with six requiring immediate replacement and the rest in the coming years, he added. · $36,610 for building improvements, with $114,417 carried forward; main projects include an annual contribution to the buildings reserve account and replacing water fountains — “which have become a thing of the past, especially during the pandemic,” said Blais — with water bottle filling stations

· $15,053 for cemetery improvements, including a new refrigeration system at Rosedale Cemetery for the vault where caskets are stored · $39,968 to upgrade pathways and extend paths into new areas · $60,212 toward the new outdoor pool, specifically completing the drawings for new change rooms and mechanical buildings · $9,287 in carry-forward money to continue planting trees through the reforestation program · $32,182 toward accessibility upgrades in municipal buildings, with $73,940 in carry-forward money · $90,317 for upgrades at city hall, such as repointing exterior bricks and sandstone and hiring a consultant to address a roof leak, with $353,236 carried forward The carry-forward money is being used to replace the cooling system, while the consultant will help city hall discover why an area on the fourth floor leaks, said Blais. · $33,500 toward the community capital grant program, with $29,385 carried for-

ward · $30,106 to develop a parking lot for the baseball diamonds near the Western Development Museum, with $53,114 carried forward · $827,387 for a full roof replacement at Pla-Mor Palace, with $147,102 carried forward “We’re excited to address this one next year,” said Blais. · $45,157 to hire a consultant to help with replacing the cooling system at the cultural centre · $10,900 to improve the emergency exits at Yara Centre; meanwhile, $1 million will be spent in 2025 to replace the turf, with funding coming from the centre’s reserve account · $36,336 toward adding fall protection to the roof of the city complex, with $480,307 carried forward · $22,321 to replace the humidifier blower at the museum and art gallery, with $35,356 carried forward

Nearly $10M to be spent in ’22 capital budget on land development Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

While there are only three projects listed in the 2022 capital budget for land development, one of those projects could be a major economic driver that helps grow Moose Jaw. City hall plans to spend $9,333,286 next year to address land development, including phase 5 of the Westheath development ($125,000), city property cleanup ($20,000) and the agri-food industrial park ($9,188,286).

City administration gave an overview of those projects during the Dec. 8 budget meeting.

Agri-food industrial park Funding for this project will include servicing costs for the SaskPower Great

Plains Power Station, installation of a water reservoir and pumphouse, sanitary lift station, and linear and surface infrastructure to serve development within the park, said Michelle Sanson, director of planning and development. City hall will recover this money through lot sales within the park.

Sanson added that a new addition to this part of the capital budget is the inclusion of salaries for the engineering team managing this project.

The project’s engineering consultant provided two reports that focused on the immediate servicing that is required and servicing the first phase over the next five years, explained Bevan Harlton, director of engineering services. While this devel-

opment is dependent on the sales of lots, there is an informed plan with costs.

Installing the sanitary gravity mains, water mains, storm outlets and road work is expected to cost $1.7 million, he added. However, city hall is ready to proceed with the work to support the park’s development when sales warrant it.

Westheath development Construction of the joint-use school on the Westheath neighbourhood is expected to begin in 2022, and from that, the municipality will gain 36 housing lots from the development and after investing $125,000, said Sanson. It is estimated that city hall will see revenues of $3,342,500 from the phase 5 project.

Meanwhile, the municipality will be responsible for developing portions of the school’s roadway, with the school expected to open in late 2023 or early 2024. Also, the remaining property in phase 6 can be developed as lots in phase 5 are sold.

The overall net revenue from the development of phases 5 and 6 is expected to be roughly $2 million.

City property cleanup City administration plans to spend $20,000 to clean up municipally-owned properties that require attention, such as vacant lots, Sanson said. This includes the Grayson Business Park, which is overgrown with weeds and needs to be cleared out. This will likely happen next spring.

2022 budget not truly ‘status quo’ due to inflation, tax hike, salary increases Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

If you think the proposed “status quo” budget for the City of Moose Jaw in 2022 means no tax increases, you may want to think again.

For city administration, maintaining status quo means zero reductions in services but increases in property taxes. Other proposed initiatives, if approved, along with the request from the Moose Jaw Police Service (MJPS), mean there will be less cash in property taxpayers’ wallets.

The City of Moose Jaw’s 2022 operating, capital, and equipment budgets total $132.8 million in spending, an increase from $119.3 million this year, the budget report says.

The proposed budget proposes a general tax increase of 3.25 per cent, adding $48.36 per year or $4.03 per month to most taxpayers’ bills and $1,011,344 extra to municipal coffers. Furthermore, the Moose Jaw Police Service wants an increase of 1.61 per cent or $498,179 extra, adding $24 per year or $2 per month in taxes.

Moreover, the annual infrastructure levy could increase to $100, adding $35

per month or $2.92 per month to bills.

These three areas would add an extra $107.36 per year or $8.95 per month to most taxpayers’ household bills.

“Even with these increases … the average house in Moose Jaw would pay $1,597.93 on an annual basis (or) $133.16 per month in municipal property taxes, one of the lowest rates in Saskatchewan,” the budget says.

Meanwhile, the budget proposes increasing the water and sewer utilities by three per cent each next year. In 2021 both utilities increased by a combined four per cent and added $29.46 per year or $2.45 per month to most residents’ bills.

‘Status quo budget’ “Expenditure items of note, this is a status quo budget. Any changes to the budget, we are asking council’s approval before those become set in the budget. That’s been our practice for the last number of years,” finance director Brian Acker said during the recent budget meeting.

“Bottom line, with the budget, whether it be revenues or expenditures, it does cost more each year to provide the same

programs and services. So even though it is a status quo budget, costs do increase.”

City administration proposes spending an extra $1,456,024 next year in the operating budget, an increase of 2.78 per cent.

However, some pressures increase costs, he added, such as: Negotiated collective agreement increases Inflation of two per cent in non-salary areas Natural gas price increases of 14.4 per cent Electricity cost increases of 3.5 per cent Mosaic Place wants $935,444 next year in subsidy; this year, it was $864,387 The police want $12.73 million next year; this year, that was $12.18 million While city administration has not included any new projects, it wants council to approve additional initiatives. Some include hiring a consultant for $227,000 to implement the climate action plan; spending $285,000 to install pickleball courts; approving $1.23 million for the public library; and providing $13.6 million to community groups.

Providing services

“In our terminology, status quo means we’re providing the same amount of service as we did last year with no additional staffing. So, to us, that’s a status quo budget,” city manager Jim Puffalt said during a media scrum after the budget meeting.

“We know that there’s inflationary costs upon us. Even if we had the same amount of people that were doing the exact same thing, that collective bargaining agreements raise the labour costs, and so … it costs a little bit extra to do the same thing.”

Puffalt added that city hall can’t control inflation, utility rates or negotiated salary increases, but it can manage labour and the services it provides.

When asked whether city hall had looked at reducing services or contracting out to the private sector, Puffalt replied that city administration usually looks at those while creating the budget.

“We look for efficiencies all the time in productivity and costing,” he added.

“So yeah, absolutely.”

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Fall legislative session closes; provincial government says it was a success in many ways The provincial government is pleased with what they accomplished this fall, and Moose Jaw’s MLAs agree that the province is on the right track.

Yesterday, Dec. 9th, brought to a close the Second Session of the Twenty-Ninth Legislature.

Premier Scott Moe said that “the pandemic has divided our communities and now is the time for Saskatchewan people to come together in unity. It’s more important than ever to take the time to listen to one another, and I believe that the people of this province are making great strides as we overcome the challenges this pandemic has created.”

“We got the work done that we said we were going to do, so it was a good session,” Moose Jaw Wakamow MLA Greg Lawrence said.

Moose Jaw North MLA Tim McLeod explained that the fall session last year was abbreviated, while the spring session this year was unusual because Regina was in lockdown. “So this was the first traditional-length session (in awhile), and I thought it was really good. It was a very busy one for the government and we introduced dozens of bills.”

The province is highlighting a few accomplishments, in particular starting with the success they’ve seen in vaccinating children aged five to 11 against COVID-19. Over 37,000 vaccines have been administered to five-to-11-year-olds, representing one-third of that age group in the province. The province reports that this means Saskatchewan is leading the country in this area.

More than 840,000, or 71.3% of Sas-

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Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Regina, SK. (Shutterstock) katchewan residents are now fully vaccinated.

“I think, you know, the COVID virus is likely something that we’re going to have to learn to live with,” McLeod said.

“That’s why it’s been so important to get the vast majority of the community vaccinated.”

McLeod said other COVID treatment options are becoming available now that will further reduce the negative outcomes of the virus and avoid hospitalizations. He added that once people have accepted the long-term reality of COVID and everyone has learned to adapt, the stress will be removed from the healthcare system.

The province and Saskatchewan Health Authority are planning aggressive actions to eliminate the backlog of surgeries caused by the pandemic. MooseJaw-

Today.com will cover those actions and targets in another article.

The Sask Party is also pleased with the economic recovery the province has seen.

Employment has now recovered to over 98% of pre-pandemic levels, giving Saskatchewan the third-lowest unemployment rate in the country. Off-reserve Indigenous employment is up 11.8% in full-time jobs, and exports have increased 42% in October 2021 as compared to last October.

MLA Greg Lawrence was especially happy with the economy.

“Nearly $10 billion in private investments has been announced this year,” Lawrence said. He listed a new potash mine, three new canola crushing plants, Canada’s first-ever wheat straw pulping facility, a new urea fertilizer plant, a new oriented strand board mill, and a new tim-

ber mill as part of the private money that will “fire up the economy.”

Lawrence noted that in addition, there are 16 school projects taking place across Saskatchewan, including the proposed school in the Westheath development plan that was approved on November 8th. He was also happy with the Great Plains power station under construction just south of the city and said the two projects would create an employment boom over the next four years.

Tim McLeod said that “the latest studies show that [Saskatchewan] is predicted to lead the country in economic growth in 2022… So the economy in this province is looking very strong.”

Other initiatives were also highlighted: · the creation of safe zones around hospitals and schools to protect people from harassment · enhancing efforts to reduce crime through the creation of new Trafficking Response, Warrant Enforcement Suppression and Crime Reduction teams to target gang-related criminal activity, outstanding warrants, and areas seeing surges in crime · taking steps to protect vulnerable people by strengthening the ability to enforce child and spousal support payments; · expanding harassment protection provisions in the Saskatchewan Employment Act · Introducing new measures to stop the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.

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Pick by pick: Warriors select 10 players in Western Hockey League Prospects Draft A closer look at each of the players chosen by the Warriors on Thursday afternoon Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw Express

The 2021 Western Hockey League Prospects Draft might have taken place a few months later than usual, but the level of talent and skill available to the WHL’s 22 teams was as high as ever.

The Moose Jaw Warriors made a total of 10 picks in the event last Thursday afternoon, selecting five forwards, three defenceman and two goaltenders.

Here’s a pick-by-pick look at the Warriors 2021 Prospects Draft.

Marek Howell (first round, 16th overall) Calgary’s Howell, is a 6-foot-3, 187-pound defenceman who currently plays for the Calgary Royals in the Alberta Elite Hockey League U18 division.

Howell had a short but productive season in 2020-21, scoring once and putting up nine points in five games with the Royals U15 AAA program during the pandemic shortened campaign.

Playing against players three years his senior, Howell has four goals and six points in 18 games so far for the Royals.

Howell also suited up to Team Alberta at the WHL Cup this past fall, scoring the overtime winner against Saskatchewan in the round robin. The goal was his only point for Alberta’s silver-medal winning crew.

Howell also brings a solid hockey pedigree to the Warriors — his father Mark Howell is the head coach of the University of Calgary Dinos.

Lynden Lakovic (second round, 27th overall) With their first pick in the second round, the Warriors added one of the tallest players in the draft in 6-foot-5, 174-pound Lynden Lakovic from Kelowna.

Playing with Rink Hockey Academy Kelowna in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League U15 division last season, Lakovic had three goals and seven points in four games. He moved on to West Vancouver Academy U18 Prep for the current

Calgary’s Marek Howell was selected by the Moose Jaw Warriors 16th overall in the 2021 WHL Prospects Draft.

Twitter season and has three goals and six points in 10 games. Lakovic has also played two games with the West Kelowna Warriors of the Junior A BCHL this season.

Lakovic played for Team B.C. in the WHL Cup and had a goal and three points in five games with the gold-medal winning crew.

Brady Ness (second round, 35th overall) The Warriors added another left-hand shot defenceman with their second second-round pick, selecting Edmonton’s Brady Ness.

Like Howell, Ness brings plenty of size to the position at 6-foot-3 and 171 pounds. Playing with the CAC Canadians U15 AAA program in the Alberta Elite Hockey League, Ness scored twice and had five points in four games. Playing with the Canadians U18 team this season, Ness has a goal and six points in 21 games.

Owen Berge (third round, 57th overall) Moose Jaw used their third-round pick to bolster their forward corps with the addition of Edmonton’s Owen Berge.

A 5-foot-11, 172-pound forward, Berge has played the last two seasons with Northern Alberta of the Canadian Sport School Hockey League. In four games with

the U15 Prep Xtreme in 2020-21, Berge had four goals and seven points; he’s off to a solid start in the U16 Prep division with 12 goals and 25 points in 18 games to go along with an assist in a single game with the U18 crew.

Ethan Hughes (fourth round, 72nd overall) With their fifth selection in the top four rounds, the Warriors added Edmonton’s Ethan Hughes from the CAC Canadians U16 AAA team.

Playing alongside Ness with the Canadians last season, the 5-foot-7, 141-pound forward had four goals and nine points in four games with the U15 Canadians. This season, Hughes has scored 11 goals and 24 points in 13 games with the U16 Canadians.

Hughes carries a bit of fame into the organization as well — after being diagnosed with kidney cancer as a 10-year-old in 2017, Hughes was profiled by the Edmonton Journal for his dedication to hockey despite his illness.

Ryan Seeley (fifth round, 104th overall) The Warriors continued their run of Alberta selections by adding Olds, Alta. defenceman Ryan Seeley from North Alberta Extreme U16 Prep.

A 5-foot-10, 150-pound right-shot rearguard, Seeley played for the Red Deer Rebels in the AEHL U15 AAA loop in 202021 and had three assists in four games. He joined Berge with the CSSHL Northern Alberta U16s this season and has three goals and 10 points in 18 games.

Joshua Banini (eighth round, 160th overall) The Warriors had a long break until their next pick in the eighth round where they selected goaltender Joshua Banini from Edmonton CAC U16 AAA. The 6-foot-2, 195-pound Edmonton product played two games for the U15 Canadians in 2020-21 and recorded a shutout

in one of those. So far with the U16 team, Banini has seen action in 10 games and has a 2.29 goals against average and .921 save percentage to go along with a pair of clean sheets.

Jake Briltz (eighth round, 161st overall) The team’s scouting crew didn’t have to forage far for their next pick, as the Warriors selected Regina product and Moose Jaw AAA Warriors forward Jake Britlz.

The 5-foot-9, 165-pound forward had a solid showing with the Regina Pat Blues in the Saskatchewan AA Hockey League U15 division in 2020-21, scoring six goals and 12 points in five games. Britlz has also put together a decent rookie campaign with the AAA Warriors, with four goals and 14 points in 24 games.

Spencer Masters (ninth round, 192nd overall) The Warriors went back to Edmonton for their next selection in the ninth round in forward Spencer Masters from Edmonton SSAC U18 AAA. Another sizable player at 6-foot-2, 174-pounds, Masters had five goals and six points in five games with the SSAC U15 AAA program last season; so far in 202122, Masters has scored four times and put up 10 points in 19 games.

Dimitri Fortin (10th round, 204th overall) With their 10th round and final selection the Warriors went back to the crease with the addition of Winnipeg’s Dimitri Fortin.

Playing with the Winnipeg Bruins in the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League this season, the 6-foot-1, 183-pound Fortin has seen action in 13 games, putting together a 3.42 goals against average and .872 save percentage. Fortin also saw action in the WHL Cup with Team Manitoba, playing two games and finishing with a 4.52 GAA and .836 SP.

AAA Warriors take win over Swift Current, fall to Blazers in league action Moose Jaw sees four-game winning streak snapped with 5-4 OT loss in Saskatoon, defeat Legionnaires 4-1 earlier in week Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw Express

The Moose Jaw AAA Warriors might have seen their four-game winning streak snapped on Saturday night, but that’s not to say the local squad isn’t still playing exceptionally well.

When you’re facing one of the top teams in the Saskatchewan Male AAA Hockey League and earn a point, suffice to say things are still looking not too bad.

The Warriors dropped a 5-4 overtime decision to the Saskatoon Blazers on Saturday night after extending their winning streak to four games with a 4-1 win over the Swift Current Legionnaires last Tuesday.

As a result, the Warriors have points in five straight games and find themselves with a 16-8-0-1 record, two points back of the Blazers for fourth place and three back of the Regina Pat Canadians for third.

Blazers 5, Warriors 4 (OT)

The Saskatoon Blazers Warriors into the break with a scored three times in a span of 4-3 lead.

2:21 late in the second period Liam Rodman tied things to erase a three-goal deficit and for Saskatoon 4:57 into the would go on to a 5-4 overtime third, and there things revictory in Saskatoon. mained until Tyson BuczkowsThe Warriors couldn’t have ki brought things to an end with asked for a better start, as Jack1:31 remaining in overtime. son Allan and Liam Fitzpatrick Allan and Fitzpatrick both scored the only goals of the first had three-point nights, Daxin period, and Allan made it 3-0 AAA Warriors logo Peterson had a pair of assists.

5:50 into the second.

Ethan Fechter got the start But things came apart at the 8:55 in goal and faced 34 shots, while Eric Kahl mark of the frame -- Riley Ashe scored had 24 saves for the Blazers.

Saskatoon’s first goal, followed by Roger Warriors 4, Swift Current 1 McQueen 1:04 later and Tyler Phipps 35 The Warriors held the Swift Current seconds after that.

Legionnaires to only 16 shots on their way Just like that, a 3-3 draw. to their victory in Swift Current.

Fitzpatrick saw to it things wouldn’t Things were close in the early gostay tied for long, though, scoring a little ing with Grady Hoffman scoring the lone over a minute after Phipps’ goal to send the first-period marker to give Moose Jaw a

1-0 lead.

Connor Miller extended the edge to 2-0 in the second as the Warriors poured on the pressure, outshooting Swift Current 20-6 in the frame. They’d still only hold a one-goal lead, though, as Phoenix Larose got one back for the Legionnaires midway through the period.

There things stood until 2:28 remained in the game when Peterson scored an insurance marker, and Hoffman closed out scoring with an empty netter with 42 seconds to play.

Ryan Bain made 16 saves to earn the win, while Swift Current’s Liam Ernst faced 43 shots.

The Warriors are back in action this week when they travel to Wilcox to face the Notre Dame Hounds; game results unavailable at the time of publication. .

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Warriors add defenceman, forward in U.S. Prospects Draft

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Texas’ Doyle, California’s Chiovetti selected with 22nd, 23rd overall picks in annual selection of top-ranked American prospects The Moose Jaw Warriors might have had to wait a while to make their selections in the Western Hockey League U.S. Prospects Draft last Wednesday, but in the end they were able to land a pair of players they hope will have an impact in the near future.

The Warriors had the 22nd and final selection in the first round of the event and selected Austin Doyle from Odessa, Tex. and followed by picking forward Tyler Ciovetti from El Segundo, Cal. with the 23rd pick.

The WHL U.S. Prospects Draft is open to 15-year-old players who reside south of the border and in the western United States.

Doyle, a 5-foot-8, 140-pound defenceman, played for the Dallas Stars Elite 14U AAAs last season and had two assists in 19 games in 16U AA; through 29 games

Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw Express points in 56 games to go along with five goals and nine points in five games with the Tier I Elite Hockey League. This season in 15U AAA, Chiovetti has 13 goals and 27 points in 32 games.

“Chiovetti is smaller, but he’s really gifted offensively, he’s a good skater and Draft logo we have some good background on him, this season in the 15U AAA Doyle has four too,” Ripplinger said. “His dad (David) is from Canada, so he knows all about the goals and seven points in 29 games.

“He’s grown quite a bit from the last Warriors.”

There’s also a Saskatchewan connectime we’ve seen him and he’s puck-movtion with Doyle — his father Adam played ing defenceman that defends pretty well, in the SJHL with the Minot Top Guns in kind of a hybrid defenceman,” said Warriors general manager Jason Ripplinger in 1994-95 and went on to play three seasons with the University of Regina Cougars bedescribing the team’s newest rearguard.

Chiovetti, a 5-foot-6, 127-pound for- fore joining the Odessa Jackalopes of the ward, has shown some offensive push in Central Hockey League.

As one might expect, putting together the past two seasons. Playing with the the U.S. Draft was a bit of a process over Los Angeles Junior Kings in 14U AAA in the last few months, especially with limit2020-21,, Chiovetti had 28 goals and 63

ed viewing of American players due to the ongoing pandemic.

“From years past we’ve been able to put some ticks beside some names as underage players, so we had a good idea of what was out there,” Ripplinger said. “It was tough to get across the border this year to actually watch these kids, so we had to watch a lot of video on these guys and work with our contacts in the states as well, just to see where they’re at.

“It was a lot of work for us, but we did it and were able to do our job and pick the right guys.”

The Seattle Thunderbirds used the first overall pick to select Vancouver-born Macklin Celebrini, who put up 50 goals and 141 points in 14U AAA with Shattuck St. Mary’s least year and has 20 goals and 42 points as a 15-year-old with the 18U Prep team this season.

Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw Express ing into it, but it was something that had to Lynden Lakovic from Kelowna. One of be addressed a little bit,” Ripplinger said the tallest players in the draft, Lakovic is a of the five forwards, three defencemen and natural power forward with plenty of overtwo goaltenders added on Thursday after- all skill. noon. “I don’t want to be a small team, I “He can do it all,” Ripplinger said. don’t mind being an average-sized but it’s “He’s a really good skater for his size; he always nice having those big guys, be- plays physical and goes into the dirty areas cause when you have players like (Max) to score goals. He brings a lot of intangiWanner and (Lucas) Brenton, when they bles to our list. He’s the kind of player I get older and we bring in the new guys didn’t think we had in that department, so with that size, it’s hard to play against in a he’ll be a welcome addition.” seven-game series.”

The run on big guys didn’t stop there, It all started with their first selection as 6-foot-3, 171-pound rearguard Brady in Calgary’s Marek Howell, a 6-foot-3, Ness of Edmonton was up next at 35th 187-pound defenceman who the Warriors overall. picked 16th overall in the opening round.

“He’s a big strong kid, maybe not “It’s the old cliché; you didn’t think as physical as Howell but he has a lot of he was going to be there, but other teams skill,” Ripplinger said. “And he’s another are looking for different guys in different smart player, and having that long reach positions,” Ripplinger said. “For us, he’s a makes a difference when defending, so throwback defenceman, he’s a guy who’s we’re in good shape.” all about being a physical player, the first Edmonton forward Owen Berge (57th one in the corner battling to try and get the overall, 5-foot-11, 172-pounds), Edmonpuck out. And when he gets the puck he ton forward Ethan Hughes (57th overall,, makes a great first pass, he’s smart, and he 5-foot-7, 172-pounds), Olds Alta. defencehas a great one-timer. So I’m not saying man Ryan Seeley (104th overall, 5-foothe’s going to be our number one guy run- 10, 150-pounds), Edmonton goaltender ning the power play, but at the end of the Joshua Banini (160th overall, 6-foot-2, day he can play minutes out there as well.” 195-pounds), Regina forward Jake Britlz The Warriors got even taller with their (161st overall, 5-foot-9, 165-pounds), Edsecond selection in 6-foot-5, 174-pound monton forward Spencer Masters (192nd

overall, 6-foot-2, 174-pounds) and Winnipeg goaltender Dimitri Fortin (204th overall, 6-foot-1, 183-pounds) were also picked throughout the day Thursday.

Among the interesting looks from the list, Ripplinger pointed to the addition of Banini and Fortin in the same draft as a way of fostering competition in the crease and getting the best of goaltending crew in the future.

“It’s not too often you draft two goalies in your draft class, but there were two goalies that we liked and we decided we’re going to let them compete against each other and push (current back-up Jackson) Unger,” Ripplinger said. “And we also have (2019 pick and current BCHL Victoria Grizzly) Kyle Kelsey whose signed and will be here, so I think the goaltending future is looking pretty bright.”

All in all, the entire Draft process was a matter of following the plan that was laid out in the beginning.

“We just kept following the list,” Ripplinger said. “To me, bouncing around doesn’t make sense, so you go with your guts, believe in your list and I think our scouts did a heck of a job.”

The Warriors are back on the ice on Friday night when they travel to Swift Current to face the Broncos.

Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw Express now things are getting pretty packed at the Cornea got back within one with a deuce top of the league standings. in the third. Barnsley promptly respondMatt Froehlich (7-1) and BTN Char- ed with two of his own and after Cornea tered Accountants (Penny Barker, 6-1) scored on in five, the two teams shook were scheduled to face one another but hands. were forced to postpone. That left room Wenarchuk (6-3) joined the six-win for Pro-Tec Electric (Stan Barnsley) and crew with a 7-3 victory over KMS ConJohn’s Music (Ryan Wenarchuk) to get struction (Ben Gamble (5-2). It was a fast into contention for the league lead with start for Wenarchuk, who scored points in wins in their respective contests. each of the first four ends — singles in the Barnsley would do his part, improv- first and second to go along with deuces in ing to 7-2 with a 6-3 victory over Fonger the third and fourth for a 6-0 lead. Gamble Wealth Management (Nick Cornea, 1-7). It clawed a few points back with two in the ended up being a short night for the two fifth and another in the sixth but would get teams even with the relatively close score, no closer. as Barnsley scored three in the first before In other league action, KalTire

(Dustin Woloschuk, 3-6) took a 6-2 victory over Walchuk Masonry (Tyler Krupski, 2-6), stealing single points in the third and fourth ends to go up 3-1. Krupski got one back in the fifth, but Woloschuk would pull away in the later ends to secure the win.

Motion-Golden Mobility (Lorraine Arguin, 3-5) used one big end to secure a victory over EMJ Marketing (Joe Gunnis, 1-8). Things were tied 1-1 after two ends, but Arguin scored five in the second to take a 6-1 lead. She stole another in the fourth and the two teams called the contest.

Action in the Original 16 Cash League takes place every Wednesday night at the Moose Jaw Ford Curling Centre.

Warriors general manager Ripplinger looks back on Prospects Draft Size, skill and smarts order of the day as Western Hockey League club adds 10 new players to list

Calgary’s Marek Howell was the Warriors first-round selection in the 2021 WHL Prospects Draft.

For the Moose Jaw Warriors in the Western Hockey League Prospects Draft, the first thing that pops out is the overall size of their class of players.

Of the eight skaters selected, four are six feet or taller, and two others come in at 5-foot-11. And these are 15-year-olds we’re talking about, meaning they still have plenty of growing to do in the coming years.

Adding size might not have been the primary focus for the Warriors heading into Thursday’s festivities, but it was something on their mind according to general manager Jason Ripplinger.

“I don’t know if that was the plan go-

Logjam forming at top of Original 16 Cash League standings Two teams sit with seven wins, two others at six as plenty of contenders emerge

Curling file With the top two teams in the Original 16 Cash League not in action last Wednesday night, it was an opportunity for other rinks to close a bit of ground at the Moose Jaw Ford Curling Centre.

That’s exactly what happened — and

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Warriors’ Jordan happy to be back on ice after lengthy injury layoff Calgary Flames fifth-round pick in 2021 missed 24 games with lower body injury Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw ExpressMoose Jaw Warriors defenceman Cole Jordan gave it his best shot at the start of the season.

But after battling his way through training camp and the first two games of the regular season, a lingering lower-body injury sustained in the off-season wasn’t improving. In fact, it had reached the point that it was seriously hampering his play.

And with that, Jordan and the Warriors training staff decided it was time to shut things down.

Two months went by as the Warriors took every precaution possible with the Calgary Flames fifth-round draft pick. Jordan practiced with the yellow non-contact jersey for a few weeks, then slotted into a regular defensive pairing for a couple of weeks after that.

All told, it was lots of time off and even more practice. All with the goal of having his return to the ice be as smooth and uncomplicated as possible.

This weekend was finally that time.

The 18-year-old rearguard returned to the ice in Swift Current on Friday night

and played his first game at Mosaic Place since the home opener on Teddy Bear Toss Night on Saturday.

“It almost felt like it was my first game of the season all over again,” Jordan said with a grin after the Warriors’ 4-2 win.

“Having 24 games off is a really long time, but it felt unbelievable to get out there with the team. We didn’t put out a great effort last night but we had a really good bounceback tonight.”

Jordan didn’t get into specifics with his injury, but suffice to say, it was better to stay off the ice rather than risk something far worse happening by forcing things.

“It was a lower-body injury that happened toward the end of the off-season and I came into camp trying to play through it a little bit, but wasn’t feeling like myself,” Jordan said. “So I took some time off, came back feeling a lot better and like myself again.”

The benefits of taking so much time to

Moose Jaw Warriors defenceman Cole Jordan keeps a close eye on Swift Current’s Cole Nagy during action Saturday night. get back on the ice showed in the weekend set. Looking completely unhindered, Jordan admitted he had a bit of rust right off the hop, but saw things improve as time went on.

“It was pretty good, for sure,” he said.

“The first couple shifts yesterday were

shaky but it got better as the game went on.

The wind was a little bit out of me in the third, but it was good to be back out there and playing and it’ll get better.”

The Warriors themselves certainly noticed his play Friday, as Jordan slotted into the top defence pairing alongside Denton Mateychuk for the rematch. Seeing the team show that kind of confidence in his abilities was heartening.

“I think I try and take pride in the way I play defensively and trying to play offensively,” Jordan said. “So being put out there like that felt really good and I just wanted to help the team win tonight…

Now it’s just getting my wind back 100 per cent, get in the best shape I can be and play a solid 60 minutes and contribute to the team as much as I can.”

Jordan and the Warriors will be looking to do exactly that this week Tuesday, when they host the Brandon Wheat Kings.

Game time is 7 p.m. at Mosaic Place.

Warriors take pair of wins out of three close games in WHL action Moose Jaw defeats Brandon on home ice Tuesday, fall 4-1 in Swift Current, rebound with 4-2 win over Broncos on Teddy Bear Toss Night

One thing that’s become certain for the Moose Jaw Warriors this Western Hockey League season is that every night is going to be a close, hard-fought battle.

CANADIAN MADE

Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw Express This past week offered the latest example, as the Warriors picked up a pair of wins out of three games against Brandon and Swift Current.

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The Warriors opened the week with a 2-1 win over the Wheat Kings on Tuesday at Mosaic Place before falling 4-1 to the Broncos on Friday and rebounding with a 4-2 win over Swift Current on Teddy Bear Toss Night on Saturday.

Moose Jaw is now 13-13-1-1 on the season and will look to move over .500 for the first time since the first weekend of the season when they host the Brandon Wheat Kings on Tuesday.

Warriors 4, Swift Current 2 The Warriors didn’t waste time getting the Teddy Bear Toss goal out of the way on Saturday night, as Thomas Tien sent the bears flying only 5:47 into the game.

“Before the game, coach said our line was one of the hardest working and he wanted to see us on the forecheck, so that’s what we did and we got a reward for that,” Tien said. “I was just happy to be around the net and able to bang one in.”

Jagger Firkus and Brayden Yager scored to make it 3-0 early in the second before Cole Nagy got two back for the Broncos in the third. Ryder Korczak added an empty netter to close out scoring.

“We’ve been able to bounce back after a lot of games where we’ve been down, so it was huge to be able to come back and play a lot better,” said Warriors defenceman Cole Jordan, who returned to the lineup in Swift Current after missing 24 games with a lower body injury. “And it was the Teddy Bear Toss game, a good crowd so it was exciting and great to come out with a win.”

Carl Tetachuk turned aside 25 shots to earn the win, Isaac Poulter stopped 11

shots in 23:02 of work before giving way to Reid Dyck, who stopped all 16 shots the rest of the way.

Swift Current 4, Warriors 1 The Warriors got off to a decent enough start in Swift Current one night earlier, but an awful second period saw Swift Current score three goals to pull away while taking complete control of the game.

Sam McGinley scored the Broncos’ Teddy Bear Toss goal at 4:12, while Raphael Pelletier and Josh Filmon had their other markers in the period. Pelletier then made it 4-0 on 1:17 into the third.

Josh Hoekstra scored his first of the season with 37 seconds remaining to snap Poulter’s shutout.

Tetachuk faced 27 shots in taking the loss, while the Warriors fired 34 at Poulter.

Warriors 2, Brandon 1 Moose Jaw got off to a rough start in their opening game of the week, as Brandon outshot the home team 13-5 and 15-7 in the first two periods and took a 1-0 lead out of the first frame on a goal from Ben Thornton.

But for as much bend as the Warriors showed, they didn’t break. And that was just enough to let them take advantage of the opening when it came.

Matthew Gallant and Brayden Yager scored 37 seconds apart midway through the second, and the Warriors would turn in a much better third period to secure the win.

Jackson Unger had another solid game in goal with a 35-save performance, while Ethan Kruger had 24 stops for Brandon.

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Final decision on high school basketball season coming soon

Concerns over ongoing pandemic see league organizers issue vaccination survey, how schedule plays out to be determined from there Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw Express The Moose Jaw high school sports scene has done an ad- another direction,” said Derrick Huschi with the Prairie breathing heavy mirable job of keeping their players, coaches, officials South School Division, adding that the plan is supported and all that…

We have coachand fans as safe as possible from the ongoing pandemic by Holy Trinity and the Ministry of Education. through the fall sports season.

“We put it out to coaches and families (Tuesday) and es and players The high school cross country, soccer, football and have fielded some calls, then we’re collecting the data who are fearful volleyball campaigns all ran mostly without a hitch, even and schedules will start, regardless of what happens, next too, so we’re trying to make with the occasional outbreak causing teams to miss and week.” reschedule games.

The first criteria is proof of vaccination, which is ex- sure everyone Now the key is to carry that success over into the up- pected to cover a large portion of players. From there, the is comfortable coming high school basketball campaign — and there’s unvaccinated will have to decide whether they’re willing and as safe a no shortage of caution being taken. to provide a negative test. A positive response, and it’ll be possible.”

The good League organizers have taken into account concerns full systems go. news is that reover the coronavirus from multiple angles and have put Anything else, and decisions will have to be made. together a plan that will see teams submit their vaccinaA major factor is the willingness of officials to work gardless of how tion status and plans to a third party, from which final games with unvaccinated players, in addition to concerns things turn out, One way or another, high school basscheduling decisions will be made. from players and coaches given the high aerobic intensity basketball will ketball will be back on the court next be played. It week.

How that works is simple — teams from all over of the sport.

Prairie South School Division and Holy Trinity Catholic “If every team won’t provide that, then we’ll have to might be a far School Division will inform the third party whether or not go with the officials who said they’d officiate regardless shorter season than usual with fewer games, but as of right they’re fully vaccinated or will have unvaccinated players of status and that would reduce the number of games we now, the plan is to see things tip off at some point during submit the standard 72-hour negative test. How that mass can offer,” Huschi explained. “The officials are no differ- the Dec. 13 weekend. survey turns out will determine what direction the various ent than anyone else, everyone has their different levels of “All we’re trying to do right now within our curhow they feel about COVID. Some are a little more con- rent circumstances is try and find a solution, doing probleagues take when it comes to final scheduling.

“So if students are willing to provide a negative test, cerned and they’re saying they’re not comfortable where lem-solving that will allow us to maximize the season,” that would go one direction and if students are not, it’ll go they’re running up and down the court with these kids Huschi said.

Central boys win Prince Albert tournament to open new basketball season Cyclones take pair of comfortable wins before defeating Carlton in title game, Peacock also in action The new high school basketball season might be in the earliest of early stages, but the Central Cyclones have already sent a message to the rest of the 4A boys teams in the province.

When you go undefeated while winning your first tournament of the season — and do so largely in convincing fashion — odds are pretty good you’re going to have a solid campaign ahead of you.

The Cyclones won all three of their contests in the Crusader Classic Basketball Tournament in Prince Albert during the Dec. 4 weekend, battling to a 68-64 victory over the host Carlton Crusaders in the title game.

The win answered a whole lot of questions for Cyclones head coach Shaun Muchowski and his charges, the largest of which being just where they might stand in the greater scheme of things.

“We played well, but we didn’t really know what to expect since we were coming off of no basketball for so long,” Muchowski said. “We were hoping we would fare well and didn’t really know. But the first couple of games were pretty good, we were able to get out to some big leads and get everyone quite a bit of playing time, so that was really good. Then the final was really hard fought; it was back and forth the whole way, they’d be up a couple and we’d be up a couple, the crowd was into it. It was a great game to finish things off.”

Central had little difficulty in their first game of the season, rolling to a 90-50 win over Meadow Lake. They

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The Central Cyclones got off to a solid start with a tournament win in Prince Albert over the Dec. 4 weekend. followed up with an equally as dominant showing in an 87-49 semifinal victory against Prince Albert St. Mary’s.

That sent them to the title game against Carlton, where things were decidedly closer.

“It was fun, the kids worked hard and pulled it out in the end,” Muchowski said. “It was exciting; everyone was really fired up and it was really good to start the season off that way, get the confidence up and feeling good about the season.”

As the scores would indicate, the Cyclones’ overall

team defence was sharp throughout the weekend, but it took a bit of offensive diversity to get things done in the title game.

“We hadn’t shot the ball all that well in the first couple of games; we were getting to the basket but weren’t shooting all that well,” explained Muchowski. “We had to make some big threes in the final and were able to do that, so it was pretty good… We’re not really big, so we have to be quick and knock down shots and that’s something we’ll keep building on.”

As important as the game was for team confidence, it also acted as a statement towards the rest of the province as well.

“That was actually a message that the coaching staff had for the players this weekend: let’s plant the seed with this tournament on what we plan to do this season,” Muchowski said. “So it was a good statement to make.”

The Peacock Toilers were also in action at the tournament and won their opening game 52-40 over Warman before falling 76-42 to Carlton in the semifinal and 66-63 to St. Mary’s in the third-place game.

The Cyclones will now join the rest of the Moose Jaw high school league teams in waiting for final word on when the 2021-22 will officially tip off.

“We’re just going to continue to practice and play in tournaments until things are figured out, but I expect we’ll be on the court and playing games here really soon and everything will turn out okay,” Muchowski said.

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Upcoming Events in Moose Jaw If you would like your notice or event added to this list, contact us at: jritchie@moosejawtoday.com For current information on Sask regulations on COVID-19 visit saskatchewan.ca/COVID19.

Wakamow Valley Winter Wonderland Valley of Lights with over 80 trees decorated and 100,000 lights is available for viewing until December 31st in the campground down in Wakamow Valley. Because this is a fundraiser with for Wakamow Valley Authority, they will be asking individuals to donate $10 at the gate to drive through.

The Moose Jaw Community Choir will be performing at the Wakamow Winter Wonderland Valley of Lights on December 20 at 7 p.m.

Knights of Columbus Father Gilpin Council #9760 Annual Keep Christ in Christmas Lighting contest.

There is no charge to enter. Entry forms are available on the website www.mjknights.ca or you can contact Pat Meuse at 306-692-8111.

Judging will take place on Saturday 18 December 2021 starting at 6:30 P.M. Prizes will be awarded for the top three entries.

Moose Jaw Community Choir regular practice has resumed. The Moose Jaw Community Choir is an amateur SATB Choir with a mission to have fun, create beautiful music together, and share it with the community. The choir practices on Mondays @ 7PM at Emmanuel Lutheran Church; performances in the community may also take place on alternate evenings (as restrictions allow). New members are always welcome and encouraged (especially tenors and basses) and no audition is required. New members who are interested should contact the Choir Director Diane Rhodes at 306640-8098 or message us through Facebook @Moose Jaw Community Choir.

Superannuated Teachers of Saskatchewan Moose Jaw Branch Luncheon Meetings at Masonic Temple Hall, 1755 Main St. N on Must show Identification and Provincial documentation for Covid-19 double vaccination. Masks are man-

datory when not eating. Please note future upcoming STS Luncheon Dates: January 19, 2022, March 16, 2022, May 18, Line Dancing every Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. at St. Andrews Church. Call 306.692.7365 for more information.

The Royal Canadian Legion – Branch 59 Moose Jaw, 268 High St W Moose Jaw; Contact: 306-6925453. Facebook @ ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-Branch 59 Moose Jaw. Instagram: @Royalcanadianlegion59. SHA restrictions in effect at all Legion events. · LOUNGE HOURS: Mon to Thurs 9:30-6:00/ Fri 9:30 to 8:00/ Sat: 10:30 to 6:00 · VETERANS’ MORNING COFFEE Monday-Friday @ 10:00 am AND Saturday @ 10:30 · DARTS –Thursday @ 7:00 pm Non-members & New Players welcome · FRIDAY SUPPERS – Friday @ 5:15 pm – Purchase Tickets at the bar or by phone previous Wednesday. Suppers provided by various Moose Jaw Businesses. Price range $10 - $15 depending on menu. · MEAT DRAW FUNDRAISER & CHASE THE ACE - Saturdays @ 3:00 pm - Everyone welcome · SHUFFLEBOARD –Fridays @ 7:00 pm - Drop-in League - Everyone welcome TRIVIA NIGHT – Saturday, December 18th @ 7:00 pm - hosted by Steven - $5 per person – Tables of 8 - call 306-692-5453 to book your table.

EVERYONE WELCOME! Moose Jaw and District Seniors Fitness Level & Indoor Walking Track open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Timothy Eaton Cafe open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Billiards open daily from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. as well as Monday & Thursday evenings from 4:30 – 8 p.m.

Pickle Ball – Monday & Thursday mornings @ 10 a.m. - Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday afternoons @ 1 p.m. - Monday & Thursday evenings @ 7 p.m.

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Thursdays @ 1:00 p.m.

Cribbage – Wednesdays @ 1 p.m.

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Mah Jong – Wednesday @1p.m.

500 Cards – Thursdays @ 1 p.m.

Carpet bowling – Thursday’s @ 6:30 Kaiser – Fridays @1 p.m.

Line Dancing – Tuesdays @ 10 a.m.

Painting Class – Monday & Tuesdays @ 1 p.m.

Floor Shuffleboard – Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 1 p.m.

Paper Tolle – Tuesdays @ 1 p.m.

Nickle Bingo – Fridays @ 1 p.m.

Lounge – Fridays 2-4p.m.

Jam Sessions – Friday @ 10 a.m.

Technology (Computer) – Questions and help from Ron Smallwood – Tuesdays @ 11 a.m.

Christmas Supper – Turkey, stuffing, veggies, mashed potatoes, gravy, coleslaw and Tina’s Christmas Cake.

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Annual Membership fee for 2022 - Membership Fee - $40.00 Basic Membership/$60.00 Enhance Membership. If you are a new member, come in to our “ONE-OF-A-KIND” Seniors Center and we will give you a tour. Our Facility offers more than any other in Saskatchewan and we are proud to be a part of it! For all new members, you will receive your 20/22 membership, as well as the rest of 2021 for free!!

Cosmo Senior Citizens’ Centre Weekly Activities Monday: 9:30 Pickle Ball – 1:00 Shuffleboard – 7:00 Camera Club (1st Monday @ month) Tuesday: 9:30 Jam Session – 1:00 Pickle Ball – 1:00 – H&F Canasta 7:00 Friendship Bridge All activities are cancelled if it is a Blood Clinic Tuesday Wednesday: 8:30 TOPS – 9:30 Pickle Ball – 1:00 Floor Shuffleboard Thursday: 10:00 Line Dance – 1:00 Pickle Ball Friday: 1:00 Pickle Ball Moose Jaw ANAVETS: Army, Navy & Air Force Veterans Unit #252 – 279 High St. W, Moose Jaw. 306.692.4412 or 306.681.5998 anaf252@sasktel.net Currently Evening Sports Cancelled

Meat Draws – Saturdays @ 4:30pm.

EVERYONE IS ALWAYS WELCOME! Tickets still available on 50/50 Draw - You can win up to $5000 only 1000 tickets to be sold. Tickets $10 available at the Anavets or for sale at the Town & Country Mall; etransfer can be sent to anaf252@sasktel.net and you will be sent a picture of your ticket Seniors’ Centre Without Walls: To register for any of the SCWW’s upcoming events, call the office at 1 (306) 631-4357 or email seniorswithouthwalls2021@gmail.com.

The Saskatchewan chapter of Senior Centre Without Walls (SCWW) has undertaken a unique project to bring fine art into the living rooms of local seniors - via phone. “A Taste of Art” is a new initiative that uses the SCWW format similar to a “party line”, where participants phone into a common line and participate in an inclusive and accessible audio-only format. Stay tuned for more “over the phone” art programming for seniors in early 2022. For more information contact: Christy Schweiger Educator Coordinator, MJMAG 306-692-4472 educator.mjmag@sasktel.net Western Development Museum: All WDM locations are now open 7 days a week and times for WDM Moose Jaw are 10:00 am - 5:00 pm daily.

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Grab a cup of coffee and settle in as we explore the WDM collection with our Virtual Coffee Club. All sessions will take place via Zoom so you can participate from anywhere in the province (or beyond). You can register for one or for them all and the best part is they are free! Each session will take place from 10:00 – 11:00 am. Following the presentation, share your memories and experiences while connecting with others.

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A look at COVID numbers from December 4 to December 10 As of Friday, December 10, there are 35 active cases in the South Central 2 subzone. There are 653 active cases in the province overall.

Saturday, December 4: 68 cases reported in the province, 4 in the South Central (3 in the South Central 2 sub-zone).

Zero deaths reported in SK, 90 recoveries.

Sunday, December 5: 70 cases reported in the province, 8 in the South Cen-

tral (5 in the South Central 2 sub-zone).

Zero deaths reported in SK, 96 recoveries.

Monday, December 6: 48 cases reported in the province, 3 in the South Central (2 in the South Central 2 sub-zone).

Two deaths reported in SK, 107 recoveries.

Tuesday, December 7: 47 cases reported in the province, 1 in the South Central (0 located in the South Central 2 sub-zone). Three deaths reported in SK, 70

recoveries.

Wednesday, December 8: 48 cases reported in the province, 2 in the South Central (1 located in the South Central 2 sub-zone). Two deaths reported in SK, 50 recoveries.

Thursday, December 9: 62 cases reported in the province, 4 in the South Central (2 located in the South Central 2 sub-zone). Zero deaths reported in SK, 49

recoveries.

Friday, December 10: 69 cases reported in the province, 6 in the South Central (3 located in the South Central 2 sub-zone). One death reported in SK, 42 recoveries.

Vaccine delivery: 1,771,230 total. As of December 10, 87,511 doses have been administered in the South Central.

More residents eligible for booster doses

The following groups who have received two doses of a Health Canada-approved COVID-19 vaccine are eligible to receive their COVID-19 booster dose five months following their second dose: - Individuals aged 50 years and older - Individuals 18 years and older living in the far north and those living on First Nation communities - All health care workers - Individuals born in 2009 or earlier with underlying health conditions that are clinically extremely vulnerable, including those with diabetes To see all groups currently eligible

Recommended Interval Reduced From Six to Five Months

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Booking Your Booster Dose You may receive your booster dose through any Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) clinic currently as well as through participating pharmacies. Information on booking an appointment or clinics near you is available at saskatchewan. ca/covid-19.

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For persons who received two doses of AstraZeneca, it is recommended that a third, mRNA booster dose be given five months following the second dose, regardless of age. Residents will only be able to receive AstraZenca as a booster if there is a documented medical contraindication to

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Persons who have received an AstraZeneca dose followed by an mRNA dose and have not received additional doses for travel purposes can also receive a booster dose five months after their second dose.

Those who have received a Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) single dose are eligible to receive an mRNA booster dose two months after your first dose.

General COVID-19 Information General public inquiries may be directed to COVID19@health.gov.sk.ca.

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Available in both the Apple and Google Play store, the SK Vax Wallet app has been updated to display the full vaccination certificate with the Saskatchewan and Canada identifiers to support international travel.

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About 25% of the Saskatchewan population refuses to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Anti-Vaccine movement is as old as vaccines themselves. Vaccine reluctance is often associated with religious beliefs.

My old friend, Historian Patrick Folks of Lion’s Head, Ontario sent me a wonderful article that confirms the repetitive nature of history.

In the early nineteenth century, an effort was made to vaccinate people in Upper Canada (Ontario) against smallpox. The October 13, 1841 issue of the Christian Guardian, a Wesleyan Methodist weekly newspaper, published in Toronto, carried this story about vaccinations.

“Methodism Contagious “A lady belonging to the Church of England lately refused to have her child inoculated with vaccine virus taken from a Methodist child. She said she would not allow her children to be made (into) Methodists.”

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It is an individual traveller’s responsibility to ensure understanding of vaccination requirements in other countries. More information about international travel can be found on the Government of Canada website.

Accessing medical care over the holiday season The Saskatchewan Health Authority would like to remind everyone that some physician and primary health clinics may reduce their office hours during the holiday season.

Please make plans to visit your family physician or health care provider in advance of Christmas and New Year’s to address chronic conditions and medical needs, such as prescription refills. If this isn’t possible, be sure to consider the other options should their care provider’s office be temporarily closed. · Some conditions can be managed through self-care at home. If you are unsure whether you can manage your symptoms at home or you need medical help, call HealthLine 811 for 24/7 medical advice and mental health and addictions crisis support and information. A licensed health-care professional will

provide options and information to help you with your questions and concerns in a safe, caring, confidential environment. · Check the hours at any walk-in clinics available in your community or communities you plan to visit during your holidays. · Community pharmacists are trained to prescribe medication for a variety of minor ailments and selfcare conditions, including diaper rash, cold sores, oral thrush, birth control, and bladder infections.

More information on how pharmacists can help is available on the Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan website.

If you believe your situation is urgent or requires emergency care, always call 911 or visit the nearest emergency department. Stay safe this holiday season.

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Are we messing around with Wakamow Valley heritage?

I am very saddened by the announcement made by the Saskatchewan Government and the Wakamow Valley Authority in regard to the renaming of our old River Park Campground and the renaming of part of the River Park Walking trail.

We did find out that the campground will be from now on called the Lorne Calvert Campground and part of the walking trail will be called “The Lorne Calvert Loop.”

Now we will have to pay to make a new sign, new brochures, changing the name on the map and modifying many websites on many levels of city hall & others levels of government. I am sure there could be many additional costs that this will create besides paying for the time that our own public servants will need to do all that.

Don’t get me wrong; I am not against the idea of identifying something with a name of a politician,

artist or any other kinds of identification, as long as it truly relate to the environment or to the cause that the name is there to represent.

Our River Park Campground known as that should not be change. I just can’t make the connection between this new name they chose and what it has to do with camping by the river or a trail in the woods in Wakamow Valley park.

When I read “The River Park Campground, “it give me the idea that the campground is close to a river. When I read “The river of Turns, “it give me and idea of some possible walkway.

I do appreciate the story and the connection that the Calvert Family and many others family have with the valley, but I believe in regard to this situation we should not mix politics with the livelyhood of our Park. We should keep our old name for the campground and the path as they are. We should also re-change our Provincial building / landmark policy dedication that was changed in 2017 that outline

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the guideline for renaming building and landmark after former Premier.

This new change policy should say that we don’t need to rename buildings or landmarks after former Premiers and so on. Our Politicians are already in our historic “Book of Life“ so to speak and I don’t think we truly need to perpetuate this pattern of our colonization to pass and spend our time and money changing name and things that don’t truly need to be changed at all...,, like the re-branding of some of our Saskatchewan corporations for example.

We sure enjoy having such a lovely valley here to go to. It is our precious heritage to care for and to keep as natural as possible, including the name we chose to connect with this beautiful natural environment.

Thanks for your time Michel Labonte

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Obituaries / Memorials MARSHALL, DAGNY Dagny Thelma Marshall (Steiro) was called home on December 1, 2021. She was born at home on the farm on March 24, 1933, to Reidar and Signa (Ekness) Steiro.

Mom grew up on the family farm which was adjacent to her grandfather’s farm on the other side Canada/ United States border. She attended school at Round Grove School and Bromhead School before training as a CNA. While working at the Providence Hospital in Moose Jaw, Sask, she met Alfred Marshall and the two were married at Central Lutheran Church in Moose Jaw on September 23, 1953. Mom also had the lunch counter at the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Livestock Yards for years. Dagny enjoyed many hobbies and activities including knitting, crocheting, sewing, baking, playing cards, dancing, bowling, going for long walks and visiting with family and friends.

Her door was always open, and many relatives stayed with her and Dad over the years. Many people over the years have enjoyed and have some of her handiwork.

Dagny was an active bowler (70 years) and achieved many medals including some from the 55 plus games.

She was very active in the Girl Guide movement as a Brownie Leader and with the Trefoil Guild (over 43 years) with the grandma for Grandma Group (13 years), a member of the local Scandinavian Group (40 years) and Sons of Norway. Dagny catered many funeral lunches at the Church for many years as a longtime member of Central Lutheran Church. Dagny is survived by her children Brenda (Dave) Colenutt, Dale (Alice), Darlene, Elaine (Dale) Reimer, and Stuart; grandchildren Charles (Rebecca), Cheri-Lee, Christa (Aaron), Chad (Mandee), Brayden, Michaella, Don (Gillian), Jordon, Levi, and Alia; great grandchildren: Brianna, Elizabeth, Daniel, Adam, Isabella, Alexander, Dawson, Carter, Kaleena, Lilly, Bailey, and Holden; Sister Helen Steiro; Brothers Carl (Betty), Raymond and Ralph (Ella). Sisters-in-laws Yionna Rushford and Evelyn Marshall as well as extended family members and those welcomed as family members. Mom will be buried in Marshall Cemetery reunited with her husband Alfred, her parents, stepmom Hellen, her brothers, and sisters. Due to Covid restrictions and mom’s wishes a memorial will be held in the spring and she will be buried in the Marshall Cemetery with her husband Alfred. Instead of flowers a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated by the family.

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GROSS, LORRAINE It is with our deepest sorrow we announce the sudden passing of our dearly beloved wife, mother, sister, and grandmother Lorraine Lucille Gross (Geres) on November 30, 2021. Lorraine was born on October 19, 1944, in the little town of Bateman, SK. Lorraine arrived two minutes ahead of her identical twin sister Lorna Louise Bishop and jokingly reminded Lorna throughout her whole life that she was the “older sister”! After graduation, Lorraine and her beloved twin Lorna set out on an adventure to Moose Jaw, SK. Lorraine went to work at Providence Hospital as a nurse’s aid and there she met the love of her life, Walter Gross. They got married at Church of Our Lady on August 5, 1967, and later had three children: Greg, Karen, and Jason. Lorraine started working at Pioneer Lodge as a special care aide, where she worked for 25 years until her retirement in 2009.

Lorraine was known for her compassion for caring for the elderly and continued this work after retirement in private practice. Lorraine loved people and people loved Lorraine. She lit up every room she was in with her loving energy and beautiful smile. Lorraine kept busy from morning to night by going bowling, shopping, reading, attending bible class on Mondays, doing puzzles, going for coffee with friends and ending the evening with a nightly call at 7pm with her favourite twin, Lorna. Lorraine also loved travelling with her husband to Las Vegas, shopping in Minot and exploring Cypress Hills and southern Saskatchewan. Lorraine is predeceased by her parents Peter and Katherine Geres.

Lorraine will be sadly missed by her loving husband of 54 years Walter Gross; her children Greg (Maureen), Karen and Jason; grandchildren Jordan, Shelby (Dylan), Stephan and Teanna (Bryce), Dustin (Sara), Dakota (Kristine), Brett; great grandchildren Deagan, Brett, Mannix, Zander and Zoey; sisters Gladys (Barry) Raymond, Lorna Bishop, Marge (Gene) Morin, Donna (Lloyd) Jesse; brothers Gerald (Ann) Geres, and Jim (Judy) Geres. A Funeral Service will be held on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM at W. J. Jones Chapel, 474 Hochelaga St W., Moose Jaw, SK. Reverend Doug Shepherd will officiate.

FOLK Norman (Norm) John Folk passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Sunday, November 28, 2021 at the age of 82 years. Norm was born in Holdfast, SK on December 8, 1938. His family moved to Moose Jaw in 1952. He is predeceased by his parents, Conrad and Margaret Folk; father and mother in law, Ben and Agnes Richardson and brother, Ernie. Norm will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Myrna of 57 years and their three children: Wendy (Trevor) Enns, Rick Folk and Natalie (Jody) Nimegeers. He will be dearly missed by his grandchildren: Kyle and Kara Enns and Drew, Jaylan and Brooklyn Nimegeers all of Moose Jaw. He is also survived by his brother, Gerry (Jeanne) Folk. He will be greatly missed by his grand dogs, Woogy and Lucy. Norm was always very proud of this children and grandchildren’s endeavours. Norm’s work journey began at York Auto Machine Shop on February 2, 1957 at the age of 18 until present day, a record that will never be broken in any profession, truly amazing and a real inspiration. Working on vehicles was a real passion of dad’s, including his 67 Red Satellite Plymouth that he enjoyed driving on Sunday’s. Dad went to many family reunions of the Frohlick Family.

Dad and mom travelled to the West Coast and also the East Coast as well as several US States. Dad always dedicated himself in helping others, he would do anything for anyone. You couldn’t of asked for a better Husband, Dad or Grandpa. Dad was a loving, giving, patient and understanding man. The family of Norm Folk would especially like to thank the Doctor’s and Nursing Staff of the Dr. F.H. Wigmore Regional Hospital. A Celebration of Norm’s life will be held at a later date. Donations in memory of Norm may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Sask. Unit 26 - 1738 Quebec Avenue Saskatoon, SK S7K 1V9 or The Canadian Diabetes Assoc. 919B Albert St Regina, SK S4R 2P6 or to the STARS Air Ambulance 2640 Airport Road Regina, SK S4W 1A3. Arrangements are entrusted to Moose Jaw Funeral Home, 268 Mulberry Lane. James Murdock, Funeral Director 306-693-4550 www.moosejawfuneralhome.com

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Obituaries / Memorials MYERS, HARVEY The family and friends of HARVEY DAVID MYERS announce his passing on Thursday December 2nd, 2021 at the age of 61 years.

Harvey was the youngest of three children born to Raymond Myers and Evelyn Myers (Coborough) of Coronach, Saskatchewan.

Harvey’s mother died from pneumonia while Harvey was still a small child. Soon after, Harvey spent nearly 2 years living at Fort San with his sister as they battled tuberculosis. When Harvey recovered, he returned to Coronach where he resided with his maternal grandmother, May Coborough. In his younger years, Harvey worked at the local SaskPower facility and for the R.M. of Hart Butte. As an adult, Harvey lived for a short time with his father in Congress, Saskatchewan before Harvey relocated to Moose Jaw. There, he resided in group homes and independently in his own home for a number of years.

Harvey was a fun-loving man filled with boisterous character. He made many friends in Moose Jaw. He was a memorable personality in his neighbourhood, the group homes in later life and at Pioneer Lodge, where he spent his final years.

Harvey was predeceased by his father Raymond (2007), mother Evelyn (1963), brother Virgil (1983) and sister Geraldine (Delmer) Kirby (2021).

He is survived by his nieces, his cousins, his friends and his loving caregivers at Pioneer Lodge.

Donations in memory of Harvey can be made to the Canadian Mental Health Society - Moose Jaw Branch, 200 Main Street South Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan S6H 1S9.

In keeping with Harvey’s wishes, no Funeral Service will take place. Interment will take place in the family burial plot at Coronach Cemetery in Coronach, Saskatchewan at a later date.

Arrangements are entrusted to Moose Jaw Funeral Home, 268 Mulberry Lane. Gary McDowell, Funeral Director 306-693-4550 www.moosejawfuneralhome. com

FARQUHAR, MARIE Marie was born and grew up in an English village, building childhood memories with sister Eileen and brother Harry. She married Ian the love of her life, and they settled in Canada. His medical profession allowed them to live in three provinces, and as a result Marie developed numerous lifelong friendships. Marie was fascinated with Nature and the Arts. She was an accomplished cook and baker, but had fond memories of her taste buds being very satisfied with fine dining and savory meals in favorite places like The Diplomat and Hotel Sask. Her elegance and style were even more enhanced attending the RSO, Opera or Ballets by chauffeured Wrapture Limousine. In Marie’s wallet I found a clipping from a local newspaper on which she wrote, “very nice and so true”. It was a poem, written by a grade 9 Vanier Collegiate student Maddyson Kerney. It is entitled “My Garden”. Life is like a garden. You can be the tree. The flower, or the weed. You choose what you become. No one can make you who you are. Rely on two people, you and GOD, and mistakes can be repaired. After a long day of sun and water, you always get a new start. Your goodness can be restored, and you become, again, who you want to be. Marie’s daily prayer was, Our Father in Heaven, we thank Thee for this day. For Light, For Work, For Friendship. For this beautiful Earth and we ask your help in everything we do. Amen.

Marie has gifted her body to the Human Anatomy and Pathology department. From every corner of the globe would you join her families and friends as we grieve this sophisticated soul, we ask you to raise a wee dram with her favourite, Johnny Walker Black Label. “May the wings of friendship never lose a feather”. For all we have shared with you and everything that you have taught us, your Memory will be Eternal.

TRUDEL, JOSEPH (LOU) Lou Trudel passed away peacefully on Monday, December 6, 2021 at the age of 93 years at Extendicare Moose Jaw. Lou was born at St. Malo, MB on August 15, 1928. He is predeceased by his parents, Joseph and Cleóphee Trudel; older sister, Denise (Paul); brothers, Johnny (Theresa), Rodger (Leona), Gilbert (Helen), Richard, Réne and Marcel (Claire). Lou will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Anna of 70 years; daughter, Carol (Bill) McCreary and sons, Laverne (Val) Trudel and Dwayne (Sheena) Trudel. He will be dearly missed by his grandchildren: Daniel, Aaron, Jason and Michelle, as well as his seven great grandchildren: Tahlor, Taisley, Colton, Anna, Silas, Crue and Archie.

Sisters, Murial (Barney) and Claudette (John) and brothers, Guy, Raymond (Yolande) and Riel (Janette) as well as many nieces and nephews, friends and family. Lou’s work journey began in Saskatchewan in 1949. He worked on Highway #1 from Herbert to Rush Lake, later settling down in Morse, SK, where he met the love of his life, Anna Gammel. Together they ran the Purity 99 Garage in Morse for 12 years. After they sold the business, Lou went and worked as a heavy duty mechanic with the Herbert School Unit. In 2000 they moved to Moose Jaw, where he finished his work career at the Moose Jaw Co-Op Grocery Store. Due to his health starting to fail, he moved into Extendicare in August 2019. A Celebration of Life to honour Lou will be announced at a later date. Donations in Lou’s memory may be made to The Canadian Diabetes Assoc.

919B Albert St Regina, SK S4R 2P6. Arrangements are entrusted to Moose Jaw Funeral Home, 268 Mulberry Lane. Andrew Pratt Funeral Director 306-693-4550 www.moosejawfuneralhome.com

SANDVOLD, SANDY Sandy (DeVone Garry) Sandvold passed away peacefully at home on November 22/21 at the age of 85. He was predeceased by his loving wife of 64 years Ramona in 2020 and his daughter Heather in 2004. Predeceased by his father Alvin when he was 6 years old and later his mother Lillian (Clive) Draycott.

He will be sadly missed by his son DeVone (Delaine) and his daughter Nola.

Sisters Vi (Ernie) Millar, Loretta Morton, Opal (Ron) Hein, and Karen Smith. Brothers Alvin (Marj) Sandvold and Roald (Mary) Draycott. His in-laws Eileen (Don) Jewitt and Pat (George) Siemens as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family.

He cherished time with his grandchildren Trelee (James), Amber (Gaege), Nolan (Paige), Kelci (Dallas), Chantel (William), Gavin (Kristen) as well as his great grandchildren, Rhyder, Drake, Harper, Ameera, Foster, Linzy, Zade and Hardy.

Sandy was born in Beechy and married Ramona in 1955. They raised their family in Bethune, Brownlee, and Kindersley, then later retired in Redcliff.

He had a passion for horses from an early age which often involved gymkhana and trail rides with the family.

Playing hockey and baseball were sports he enjoyed and there were many snowmobiling adventures as well.

He made sure his children made it to all the events they were involved in throughout the years, quite often coaching and helping where required.

Sandy and Ramona enjoyed various musical and dancing events with both family and community occasions. They were often caught dancing in the living room in recent years.

Mom and dad were inseparable in life and are now reunited along with Heather. He will be greatly missed by all that knew him.

Flin Flon vendor brings hobby to Legion trade show

By Ron Walter - For Moose Jaw Express

again before being put in the decoration.

“I thought about doing this 10 years ago and I just finally got the courage to do it.”

She and her husband, who retired after 39 years woking in the mines, have made this a retirement project, travelling to craft shows around Saskatchewan.

“It’s just a hobby; it’s good for the soul.”

The trade show was good for the Legion’s finances with strong attendance on the first day, less the second day due to snowfall.

The show featured an array of items from Christmas gifts and decoration to clothes, sports memorabilia, snack dips, candles and so on, as well as tables of baked goods from Legion members and a concession.

The Legion Trade Show at the mall attracted vendors from all over including Joan Skevington of Flin Flon.

She was selling crafts made from things she and her husband collect while on long walks in the bush around that mining community.

The materials are made into what she calls a shadow box for wall decorations.

“We go into the bush and collect bark, trees moss and rocks,’’ she said. “I make a picture in a shadow box or I take and collect different types of birch bark for the different looks.

“It’s hard work, not just twigs in a box.”

While it takes about an hour and one-half to make a box she said the craft involves skill and lots of patience.

The twigs are washed, rinsed with vinegar and rinsed

Ron Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel.net

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1310 Vaughan St

306-694-4747 324 Main Street N. Moose Jaw, SK

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$199,000 Original hardwood, one bedroom with an ensuite on the main floor. The second floor has three bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen one of the bedrooms could easily be converted to a living room, offering a second living space, extra living space on the third floor, recent renovations and updates, Paint exterior on house and double detached garage, gutters and shingles house and garage, early possession is possible.

$138,900

2 bedrooms, Full 4 piece Bath. Lower Level has 2 dens and plenty of storage, open for development. Fully Landscaped Yard, situated on a 50 x 117 ft Lot with room for a garage. Close to Parks and Local College, Public and High Schools.

Great little starter home or potential Revenue property for those looking for an investment.

Take the time an go see for yourself.

$209,900 952 sq ft, remodeled kitchen, with plenty of counter space 2 Bedrooms and Full 4 Piece Bath.

Lower Level is fully developed with Family Room Area, Hi EFF Furnace and 100 Amp Electrical Service Panel, Some PVC style windows have been replaced, shingles on House and Garage.

Fully Landscaped Yard, with Artificial Grass Back and Zero Scape Front Double Detached Garage, heated and insulated!

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$264,900

1074 sq ft spacious Kitchen/Dining Rm Area, Master Bedroom with 2 additional bedrooms, 4 Pc Bath. Basement developed with Family Rm, Den/Office, 3 Pc Bath, combined Laundry/Utility Rm & plenty of Storage. Recent Updates include: Newer PVC style windows, 200 amp Electrical Service Panel, Deck,Shingles ,Furnace Patio doors leading off the Dining Rm to a Covered Deck Single Detached Garage and Large Shed.

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Rev. Dr. John Kreutzwieser is a retired pastor from Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Moose Jaw, SK. He graduated with a doctorate degree in 2006 from the Robert Webber Institute for Worship Studies in Florida.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the position of this publication.

Covet

Gerri stood patiently in line as her four year old approached the Santa Claus in the mall. Dylan climbed up on Santa’s knee and she heard him softly say, “I have my heart set on a puppy this year.” Gerri smiled and thought, “Like that’s going to happen.” They had repeatedly told Dylan that a puppy was not a good fit in apartment living.

Gerri had her own desires for Christmas. She had her heart set on owning a house sometime soon. Her husband had his heart set on large screen TV so the football would look a lot bigger during the Rider games. “Maybe Santa could arrange those things too,” she pondered.

There is nothing wrong with hopes, dreams, and desires. In fact, that keeps us going at times. Working hard to find fulfillment in attaining them is crucial. However, when desire turns into an ungoverned, selfish craving, it is called “coveting.” The dictionary defines “covet” as to desire what belongs to another in an inordinate or culpable way. To covet means to long for something in a way that exceeds reasonable limits to attain it. To covet means

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to crave something so much that the way you anticipate acquiring it merits condemnation. Coveting leads to unethical actions.

In the Book of Exodus God commanded, “Do not covet,” as the last of the basic principles for living as the Creator intended. Many people are aware of these standards as the Ten Commandments. If you have been reading this column for the past months you may have realized I have been focusing on the verbs contained in the Exodus directives.

The Hebrew word used in Exodus 20:17 is khawmad, meaning to desire greatly and take pleasure in. In a good and positive way the word is used in Song of Songs, “As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With khawmad I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.” However, the word is used most often in a negative sense that leads to sin. The implication is that as you desire something so much, you might act in a way that breaks one of the preceding commandments to attain it. “To set your heart on something” must be controlled and kept in proper perspective. Or it is as Jesus said, “For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.” (Mark 7:21) The Biblical creation account clearly portrays the difference implicit in khawmad. After creating the man of dust, Genesis chapter two records, “And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is khawmad to the sight and good for food.” Trees that provide sustenance to people are to be desired for the pleasure they bring in eating their fruit. This is a good thing.

However, when Satan tempted Eve to desire the one tree in the garden that God had commanded of them not to crave and eat, desire turned to covet, which acted out in disobedience and wrongful action. “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was khawmad to

make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”

(Genesis 3:6) Desire is a matter of the heart, which needs to be regulated. As James penned, “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel.” But people do not like to practice self-control, as we are encouraged to be true to ourselves and do what is “right for me”. So, to desire greatly can become coveting.

We all need to work on this. As Jesus declared, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” (Luke 12:15) Most sins start with coveting. The story of King David and Bathsheba clearly illustrate this issue. (Read 2 Samuel chapters 11 and 12).

So, there is nothing inherently wrong with “setting your heart” on something. But be careful. Keep a moral compass. Be guided by ethical strategies. We all need a framework that leads to good and wholesome actions.

What is it that frames your actions and guides your heart?

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Columnist John Kreutzwieser loves to research words and writes this weekly Word Wisdom column for Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com. He has an interest in the usage, origin, and relevance of words for society today. Greek and Latin form the basis of many words, with ancient Hebrew shedding light on word usage.

John would like to know if anyone has a sincere interest in a relevant word that he could possibly research for an upcoming column. If so, please send your requests to wordwisdom2021@gmail.com . Words will be selected according to relevance and research criteria. We cannot confirm that all words will be used.

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