Moose Jaw Express November 30th, 2022

The Wakamow Valley Au thority started a new holi day season fundraiser last year, the Wakamow Valley of Lights, which turned out to be a huge success for the

The spectacle begins on to make up the majority of

All funds raised go to support the upkeep and oper ations of the park’s 500 acres of recreational and natural

came to see the inaugu ral ‘Winter Wonderland’ Christmas light show last

donation at the gate entitled lighted loop as many times as

The Wakamow Valley Authority (WVA) is asking that limousines donate $50 for admission, and that limos and paratransit buses call to On wagon ride nights, scheduled for

Henry the Moose is a 17-foot Christmas-light moose that was unveiled and featured in the 2022 Grey Cup Festival in Regina (Donna MacQuarrie-Bye)

Tears began streaming down Dar’ya Shy sko’s cheeks the moment she started to tell the story of the Russian occupation of her hometown of Kherson, a city of nearly 300,000 on the Dnipro River that came un Shysko, 39, and her family were happy mournfully, recalling a vacation to neighbour ing Georgia before the war, and summers

husband Sergei, 42, made good money selling apartments on behalf of a local construction company, and her daughters — Masha, 11, Shysko herself worked as a nurse and as a

perienced that, they can never imagine what Shyshko didn’t believe the war would Russia began its invasion on 24 February, her

“For us, it was kind of like, all of a sud

Dar’ya and Sergei Shyshko and their daughters Masha and Milana are now safe in Moose Jaw following their escape from their hometown of Kherson in Ukraine, where they suffered three months of ter

Dar’ya Shyshko told her story in an interview with MooseJawToday.com.

[Warning: this article contains graphic descriptions of war and war crimes. Reader discretion is advised.]

Russian forces broke through the city’s defences on March 1 and had complete Shyshko, 39, described watching Rus “You could see, there’s just kilome tres of military equipment and military them; they were just coming and coming, because we’re like an entrance gate for Traumatizing as it was to watch her city used as a staging point for the inva

pation by undisciplined men with guns, whose leaders apparently did not care to “They had an order not to let anyone are not allowed on the streets, or you will Shyshko said that while it was aw ful in the city, they suffered less than the

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“My sister phoned me and said they had they were invading from the north, from the couldn’t invade from was the west, because it

There were hundreds of kilometres of cars on the roads, bumper to bumper with peo sister and her family spent two days in their

Meanwhile, in Kherson, the Russians Bridge — one of the main crossings of the Dnipro, and a key route from occupied Crimea north through the city of Mykolaiv and into paused to collect herself as she remembered

Shysko said that the bridge was supposed to be destroyed, but Russian sympathizers in the local police and SBU allowed the Russians

Without proper weapons or training, wielding mostly improvised gasoline bottle

The Shyshko family(l-r: Sergei, D ar’ya, Milana, and Masha) are now safe in Moose Jaw (photo by Gordon Edgar)

bombs, or molotovs, these young men were

“The Russians came with huge tanks, against these young guys,” Shysko said, cry

collect the pieces and bury them, but Russian

There is a park near the bridge, where the

crossed the bridge and the makeshift defend ers began to run, they ran to this park to draw

“There were so many bodies in that

The Russians were coming, and they didn’t want to run to the residential places, because

The Russians used heavy, vehicle-mount

“The trees were all broken,” Shyshko de

Thus began the Russian occupation of Kherson, which lasted three months for the Shyshko family before they managed to es

nizable pieces, were left on the streets radiat in high-rise apartment buildings, giving the Residents came down afterwards to try and

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and an internet connection, she and others just steal stuff, they come into the houses, they take whatever they want, they rape

“Even when they drove, they didn’t people they killed just driving around in our hometown?”

There was no controlling them, Shy

children, just in case, then left to another Surviving under occupation But after that, those people who stayed

When the invasion began, there was a rush on gas stations, grocery stores, and ed immediately after Kherson’s capture, let any medication into the city, any food, grew their own food, who had chickens

gave away what food they could bring

ko’s husband Sergei went out and joined the long lines for bread, and searched for hoods, and in the beginning they were giv “We didn’t know how long we would “so we were drying the bread in the oven

When the electricity came back on, they would charge their phones so their chil

Escaping occupation fear, Shyshko and her husband decided Kherson is Ukraine, Kherson is Ukraine,

and videos of Russian war crimes and Shyshko said she made posts on Facebook

“They followed lots of people who are participating in these rallies,” Shysh

Russian soldiers, supposedly search ing for weapons and hunting partisans, were going door-to-door — looting, kill

if the entrance collapsed we would all be in our houses and apartments, just between two walls, far away from the windows,” dows so they wouldn’t break into small

“We took off all the glass from our

‘I will never forget that day’: Ukrainian family from Kherson tells their story

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Expansion of province’s Early Learning Intensive support (ELIS) program will support 150 more preschool-aged children

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Minister of Education Dustin Duncan vis ited King George School in Moose Jaw on Nov. 24 to announce the expansion of the province’s Early Learning Intensive Support (ELIS) program, which will now support an additional 150 preschool-aged children for the 2022-23 school year.

The ELIS program is for three- and

disabilities and developmental delays.

Greg Lawrence, MLA for Moose Jaw Wakamow, was the emcee for the announcement. Also in attendance was Ryan Boughen, director of education with Prairie South School Division (PSSD), Amanda Olson, PSSD superintendent of learning, and Jill Tressel, principal of King George School.

The announcement was held in pre-kindergarten teacher Hannah Delain ey’s classroom, and Lawrence thanked Delainey for hosting the event.

“We’re gathered here to share some

exciting news about the Early Learning Intensive Support program, also known as the ELIS program, here in Saskatche wan,” Lawrence said. “This program is active here at King George School and it provides a high-quality early learning ex perience for children to get a good start in life and help ensure that they reach their full potential.”

2018 with 120 spaces in Regina and Sas katoon. It was expanded in 2019 and 2020 to include additional communities.

Today’s announcement brings the number of spaces in the province to 392.

“This program has been an enor mous help to my son,” said parent Kayla Haanen. “Prior to this program, he had lit tle to no experience in settings where he was given opportunities to interact with children his own age.

“This lack of experience combined

The Introduction of The Child and Family Services Amendment Act, 2022 will strengthen child welfare legislation

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The Government of Saskatchewan wants to strengthen child welfare legislation by introducing The Child and Family Ser vices Amendment Act, 2022.

“Renewing our province’s child wel fare legislation will strengthen and bet ter recognize the importance of family, cultural and community connections for children and youth in care,” Social Ser vices Minister Gene Makowsky said. “I am proud to say, in addition to sector part ners, several youths with lived experience engaged with us on the proposed amend ments.”

These are the three main focuses of the proposed amendments:

· Raising the age of the child, to receive protective services, from up to 16 years to up to 18 years of age.

tiality in the best interests of the child or former child in care who is now an adult.

· Strengthening language in the ac to en hance family, community and cultural

connections for children and youth.

“Expanding information-sharing and disclosure will ensure the child’s right to know their identity and familial back ground and will allow the child or former child in care to identify and establish fa milial and community connections if they wish,” Makowsky said. “The ministry rec ognizes the importance of this information to support family and personal healing.”

The proposed legislation will also work for Indigenous children and fam ilies, including information-sharing to culturally based care and inclusion within planning with Indigenous children. Indig enous Governing Bodies and expanding notice to First Nations Child and Family Services agencies will aid to embed the

If passed, the government will contin ue to engage with Youth Advisory Teams, the Advocate for Children and Youth, as well as Indigenous and child welfare sec tor partners to update the regulations and standards before coming into force.

faced with have created barriers that he would have had to overcome while trying to transition into fulltime school days en tering into kindergarten and grade one.”

Haanen added that she was pleased to see two additional afternoon spaces

ELIS.

Boughen spoke on behalf of PSSD to thank the province for the expansion. He noted that the ELIS program has been a

implemented, and praised the more inclu sive learning resulting from the program.

Senior program and policy analyst Debbie Thompson, a subject matter ex pert with the ministry of education who has been with the ELIS program from the start, said the program now exists in 26 school divisions in Saskatchewan.

“With this program, there’s funding for an additional staff in the classroom, to ensure safety ratios,” Thompson ex plained. “There’s also some funding for specialized services, so … some divisions are using it for speech and language sup port, or occupational therapy, or an expert teacher who has experience in inclusion ary practices.”

“Supporting our youngest learners is essential to their success in their future education paths,” Duncan said. “We are pleased to continue to support and increase

the availability of the ELIS program to more preschool-aged children across the province.

“The (ELIS program) expansion to bring it up to nearly 400 spaces is an ad ditional $2 million, that brings it up to $5 million in total.”

This funding is made available through the Canada-Saskatchewan Bilat eral Early Learning and Child Care Agree ment 2021-26, signed on August 13, 2021.

Lawrence told media following the event that he remembered being hyper active in school, and his teachers simply doing their best to distract him.

“Then there was a separate class room for the kids with special needs,” he recalled. “Now everybody’s integrated together with the No Child Left Behind program, and it’s just better for growing the kids.”

Haanen said that while her son is en rolled in private therapies as well, those therapies cannot recreate the unique ex periences and situations that come from being among peers.

“The ELIS program has also provid ed the other children in the classroom the opportunity to be exposed to my children and other children with different or higher needs than they may have, or are used to.

“I believe that was extremely import ant to getting my son integrated with his peers.”

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Kayla Haanen, who has a child in the ELIS program, speaks during the an nouncement. (Photo by Gordon Edgar)

Education Minister Dustin Duncan an nounces the expansion of the province’s Early Learning Intensive Support pro gram. (Photo by Gordon Edgar)

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I know that in the commercial ism of the season, most people require more cash than their pocketbooks can afford.

I have always appreciated monetary donations given to a charity at this time of the year, as a gift in our family name. One such one was a donation to underprivileged children and families in a third world coun try - soccer balls and chickens. Sounds a little funny, but when you don’t have anything, a soccer ball to kick-around and a chicken to raise for some suste nance is quite heart- warming to most of us that feel very fortunate for our life and circumstances in this country.

I was especially thrilled to read about the young seven year old in Moose Jaw who has taken on fundraising for men’s health and wellness this November, during the an nual Movember challenge and fundraiser, especially at his age. He certainly isn’t old enough to grow a moustache but has been wearing a false moustache every day for the cause and raising money for the endeavour. He is just at the early stages of his life and doing this now, the sky is the limit in what he can accomplish in the future. I particularly want to commend his parents, as I am sure he has had nurturing over the years to be generous and considerate of other’s needs. “The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree,” as they say.

If you haven’t already considered a donation to feed the children of Moose Jaw by supporting the annual “I Bought Lunch” campaign for Hunger in Moose Jaw, please think about it. Our children are our future and an investment into their lives and education is of the utmost priority.

I am sure many have heard, “To whom much is given, much will be required.” (Luke 12:48). This is just a remind er to all of us that we should be mindful of how blessed we really are, and be generous with others as much as possible.

Although the campaign is coming to a close, the need is always there, so any support for the cause is appreciated throughout the season. You can donate directly by dropping St. W, or by an e-transfer at hunger.moosejaw@sasktel.net a cheque.

I would be amiss if I forgot to mention the Salvation Army and all their wonderful endeavours this time of the year. Please give generously. It’s not how much you give but every little bit helps, and it all stays here in Moose Jaw to support the less fortunate. I have personally tried not to walk by a Salvation Army kettle at any store I have gone to during the season without putting in something, even if it is just the change I have left in my purse. As I have said before, it’s not how much you give but every donation helps the fundraiser and does our hearts’ good.

For the last few years, the Moose Jaw Express has tak en on the ‘Stocking Fund’ fundraiser for the Salvation Army that the Times Herald started many years ago. You can drop

required. You can follow the amount of donations received throughout the season on the front page of the weekly Moose Jaw Express.

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‘Empty Bowls’ fundraiser for warming centre and women’s shelter well supported

Square One Community Inc. hosted a fundraising campaign to help develop a Warming Centre and Women’s Emergen cy Shelter in Moose Jaw. The “Empty Bowls Event” was held in the Timothy Eaton Social

“I am so grateful for the Square One board and volun teers,” said Della Ferguson, Grief Support worker at W.J. Jones & Son Funeral Home and Chairperson of the Square One Community Board. “I am grate ful for all the front-line people who are there working with

Ferguson says the Empty Bowls event’s original idea was born several years ago in the states when some crafts people got together with some soup makers to highlight homelessness. Today, such events take place worldwide.

Therefore, Moose Jaw’s Empty Bowls event was not much different, in that the community wanted to help so the Square One Community reached out to different restaurants for support. “We have got six different soup

providers from our community, which is fantastically gener ous,” said Ferguson.

The restaurants included: Gordon Food Service, Canadi an Brewhouse, Evolve, Grant Hall Hotel, The Mad Greek, Kinsmen Café and Families For Change Inc.

At 11 a.m. representatives from the restaurants brought in the soups and immediately people started to pour in. The YMCA and Salvation Army do nated the bowls, and everyone grabbed a bowl and enjoyed hot delicious soup, loaves of bread and dessert. Coffee was also available, as well as vendors selling Christmas gift cards, artworks, ornaments and decorations.

All the funds and donations will go to help to develop the Warming Centre and Women’s Emergency Shelter.

The sponsors of the event included SGI Canada and SaskEnergy, along with the Co-op, Real Canadian Super store, Thunder Creek, YMCA and Moose Jaw & District Seniors Association Inc.

Moustachioed seven-year-old has raised nearly $600 for Movember so far

Seven-year-old Casper Wilderman has been rocking a ‘stache for nearly an entire month and in the process has

mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer.

“One day I just decided I wanted to wear a mous tache to school, and my dad found this thing on his phone called Movember,” Casper explained in an interview with MooseJawToday.com.

“We started out drawing moustaches, but then we bought a moustache kit.”

white, traditional mustache, very comfortably occupying space on his cheeks.

However, he revealed that his favourite style is the horseshoe moustache. He has an extensive collection at this point.

“He just decided he wanted to draw moustaches on his face,” laughed Casper’s father Dillon Wilderman. “I thought, hey, maybe we could turn it into something. I de scribed to him what Movember was, and he thought it was a cool idea.”

“So, I asked at the perfect time!” Casper pointed out.

Dillon and Trynda — Casper’s mom — thought it was a great opportunity to show Casper that even small ideas can turn into helping other people. They decided to

on the Facebook fundraising page, Casper was completely excited.

“We told him that if he kept it up to a certain point, we’d get him a moustache kit,” Dillon said. “Then, you can upgrade from drawing them to these fuzzy ones off Amazon.”

Trynda Wilderman said the moustache kit has real

ly worked out — the only issue being that sometimes Casper’s upper lip is sore by the end of the day. He’s had to remain committed, and has succeeded with determina tion and encouragement from his family.

“For only being seven, it’s been awesome to watch him be so dedicated with something. Every morning, he wakes up, and sometimes he says, ‘Oh, I’m not sure,’ but he puts it on anyway,” Trynda said. “Every time we get a donation, we involve him with it … and he gets so ex cited!

we had a little celebration.”

His parents are proud of him for sticking out the whole month, although Casper admitted he is ready to be done with moustaches at the end of November. At least for a little while.

“It’s helping people, even though it’s a silly and fun idea,” Casper said about Movember. “It’s for raising money for men’s health and cancer.”

Casper Wilderman’s Movember donation page can be found on the Canadian Movember page at https://

The QR code below can be scanned with a smart phone to take you right there.

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A Square One Community Inc. endeavour, supported by businesses, restaurants and attendees

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Bowls donated by YMCA and Salvation Army.

Sponsors of Square One Community Inc.

The Wilderman family pose for a photo in their home. (l-r) Felix, Trynda, Casper, and Dillon (photo by Gor don Edgar)

tache on Monday, but his favourite style is the horse shoe moustache (photo by Gordon Edgar)

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this publication.

By Ron Walter For Moose Jaw Express

Methods of media have changed over the years BIZWORLD

The district woman asking my partner about the media was concerned.

“What’s wrong with the media?’’ she asked. “They don’t cover things like they used to. Are they too cheap to hire some one to go out and get the news?”

She was unaware of the Moose Jaw Express and its online sister publication MooseJawToday.com that provides reg ularly updated local news along with na tional, world, sports, and business news and obituaries.

Her husband had been reading an other online news service and is unhappy with the coverage.

What’s happened with the media is a question this Scribbler hears a fair number of times, particularly from older readers.

The complaints are usually about broadcast media and regional newspa pers, with a comment, “We’re lucky to have the Express’’ tossed in.

Television news complaints focus on the repetitive nature of newscasts. The difference between TV’s late news, to morrow’s noon news and the early eve ning news might amount to two or three items of breaking news. That’s it.

The same applies to radio. Tired of the local radio’s repetitive all day broad casts, Yours Truly tuned to a Regina sta tion, only to hear mostly repetitive news.

One factor in the local radio news was the loss of the Moose Jaw Times-Her ald. The station used to have new news items minutes after the Times-Herald hit news stands.

The Regina radio station has a dai ly newspaper to steal news from but the Leader-Post local news is a skeleton of glory days when that newspaper’s edito rial content rivalled The Calgary Herald.

Post Media, the news media chain, once controlled by Conrad Black, pro

duces a national news section that is published in its papers, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Sas katoon Star-Phoenix, Regina Leader-Post, Hamilton Spectator and others.

This canned product is fed to sub scribers along with reduced local report ing.

Newspapers, radio and television used to be like owning a licence to print

gins of 45 per cent were common but not anymore.

About 20 years ago with Internet ad vertising, the advertising dollar and circu lation for newspapers started to fall off.

When demand for a product declines the owner has two options: improve the quality of the product, or cut costs.

margins owners cut costs, resulting in the loss of droves of readers and advertisers.

Many weekly community newspapers switched to free newspapers, surviving

In Canada, newspaper circulation revenues between 2015-2010 fell from $630 million to $522 million, according to Statista.

Between 2018 and 2020, newspaper revenues fell almost 22 per cent, accord ing to Statistics Canada.

Where did all the lost advertising dol lars go? An estimated 68 per cent of ad vertising in Canada is online with Google and Facebook taking a large share.

Newspaper online revenue in Cana da is still a tiny portion of the total.

Loss of print media’s local coverage became a side effect of the Internet’s ad dictive draw.

Ron Walter can be reached at ronjoy@ sasktel.net

Moose Jaw Art Guild held their opening reception for their annual exhibition at the Moose Jaw Museum and Art gallery (MJM&AG) on November 19th. This

The exhibition started with an open ing speech from Director McRorie and President of the Art Guild, Beth Crabb was invited as an honourable guest speak er for her valuable thoughts and comments about the art exhibition and the people of Ukraine. The exhibition space was paint ed yellow to blend with the theme of sun

Director and Curator of the MJM&AG, Jennifer McRorie said they have a long-standing relationship with the Art Guild of Moose Jaw. “We really ap preciate being able to support local artists

and presenting their work and aiding to professional development.”

“I just really want to express that we are so appreciative of the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery for allowing us to show with them and providing this beauti ful reception for all the hard work in mak ing this exhibition happen,” said Cathy

Sinclair, Secretary of the Moose Jaw Art Guild.

“Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gal lery have been involved with people from Ukraine for a very long time,” Education Coordinator of MJM&AG Christy Sch weiger said. She has been working, sup porting and aiding Ukrainian individuals and families for quite some time. She uses social media platforms to communicate with Moose Jaw people to lend a helping hand to this cause.

Sinclair interpreted one of the art works from an artistic aesthetic by de

contain life. “I think we have seen such er seeds that can withstand drought and weather calamities and still produce sun

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From The Kitchen

By Joyce Walter - Moose Jaw Express

Thousands of cookbook sales prove quality of contents

One of my many favourite cookbooks is the Canadian Mennonite Cookbook, found on a long ago summer-time visit to Manitoba.

Published in 1965, more than 70,000 copies were initially sold and in 1974 it was in its 18th printing, proving the popularity of the recipes inside.

with some personal tweaking.

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MENNONITE

2 cups sugar

2 cups syrup

1/2 lb. butter

1/2 lb. lard

1 tsp. cloves

1/2 tsp. ginger

1/2 tsp. mace

2 eggs

PEPPERNUTS

pieces the size of small marbles.

Place pieces close together on a greased baking sheet. Bake at 425 degrees F until they begin to turn a light golden brown. These hard

be dusted with cinnamon sugar.

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MENNONITE AMMONIA KUCHEN COOKIES

1 cup butter

3 cups white sugar 2 cups sour cream 1 cup milk 3 eggs, beaten 1/4 cup baking ammonia 30 drops peppermint oil

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 cup buttermilk

In a large pot place the sugar, syrup, butter, lard, cloves, ginger and mace. Heat until everything is dissolved or melted. Stir often. Do not boil. Remove from heat and cool.

Pour cooled mixture into a large bowl. Add the

make a smooth dough. Cover and let stand eight hours in a warm place.

Cut off small portions of dough and form into

Lay sticks in parallel rows and cut across, making

Cream butter then add sugar and beaten eggs, cream and milk. Add the ammonia which has been dissolved in a little of the milk. Add the peppermint oil and stir.

surface, roll out dough. Cut with round cookie cutter, place on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes. Cookies should be light in color. Cool then remove from cookie sheet. If desired, cookies may be iced with a butter icing and sprinkled with coconut.

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MENNONITE HONEY FRUIT CAKE

1 cup butter 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup honey

5 eggs

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1/4 tsp. cloves

1/3 cup pineapple juice

1 tsp. brandy

1 lb. mixed peel

1/2 lb. each of candied cherries, walnuts, seeded light raisins and dark sultanas

Cream butter thoroughly. Cream in sugar and beat in the honey. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.

again with salt, baking powder and spices. Add to creamed mixture, alternately with pineapple juice

Mix fruits, raisins and nuts together then add well coated. Add to mixed batter.

Spoon into 2 loaf pans lined with heavy paper that has been well greased.

Bake at 300 degrees F for about 2 1/2-3 hours. Cool in pans then turn out onto a rack and cool completely. Wrap in heavy foil and let set for a week before cutting. Cake may be frozen.

Joyce Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel. net

Church volunteer receives education award for supporting

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A provincial education organization has given a Moose Jaw Catholic deacon an award for his efforts to support students and teachers in Holy Trinity Catholic School Division.

During a ceremony in mid-November, the Saskatchewan Catholic School Boards Association gave Deacon Lamont Dyck the SCSBA appreciation award, which is provided to people to honour their com mitment and contribution to Catholic edu cation in Saskatchewan.

Dyck has volunteered with the school division and been a pastoral assistant at St. Joseph Parish since 2006, while he has been a deacon since his ordination in 2018. The division asked him to become more involved after his ordination.

“Deacon Lamont shares his gifts abundantly. His love of his faith and pas sion for Catholic education is contagious for anyone who has been fortunate enough to meet him … ,” the division wrote on his nomination form. “Staff, students and our community are very lucky to have his

support and expertise.”

That same nomination form shows Dyck is a busy guy.

Some of his activities include partic ipating in vice-principal faith meetings, leading presentations for students about the Mass, giving church tours, giving blessings to Bibles, wreaths or candles, leading school prayers and liturgies, cele brating graduations — and generally being in schools often.

“I’m very honoured. It was very unex pected, to say the least. The award shows more about the community than me … because they’re the ones that nominated me,” Dyck said. “And to be very honest, Holy Trinity … has given me the oppor tunity to serve, so that’s always a great privilege.”

Young people are the future, so it’s important to form them in the image of Je sus Christ, he continued.

lead people closer to Jesus. So, he does that in schools — and the community —

by acting as Christ’s hands and feet via in volvement in people’s lives. This includes discussing faith or hot-button topics or coaching basketball at St. Agnes School for four years.

With a chuckle, Dyck said most hot topics revolve around sexual morality. He approaches the issue by discussing sexual ethics from a Catholic and Christian per spective and offering his view.

“What’s kind of interesting when we talk about morality (is) I don’t think you have to be a believer to agree with the morality of the Church,” he added. “You don’t have to have supernatural faith. You can gather those conclusions by reason.”

It was tough for Dyck to pinpoint what he enjoyed most about doing in schools, although he thought everything he did brought joys and challenges similar to other activities.

As an introvert, volunteering stretched him and made him slightly uncomfortable, especially when interacting with staff and

personal situations.

“There’s a big joke that I say, ‘No one phones the church when they’re having a good day.’ So being in the thick of things in a lot of struggles and sadness paradox ically brings joy,” he said. “When you’re phoning me up … I’m usually at the bot tom of the list.”

Meeting the community’s needs is a great joy for Dyck, while coaching basket ball is his “bread and butter” that brings him “raw joy and happiness.” This is most noticeable, he added, when he’s coaching on the sidelines.

Local poverty rates reduced substantially

Almost one-third of Moose Jaw resi dents living in poverty were lifted out 2020.

The number of local folks living in poverty in 2015 fell from 4,210 to 2,840 during the period, according to Statistics Canada.

The rate of poverty varied among age groups.

Poverty rate for age zero to 19 was sliced from 18.3 per cent to 9.4 per cent. The poverty rate for ages 18 to 64

was reduced to 9.6 per cent from 10.7 per cent.

Also cut in half was the poverty rate for those aged 65 and over with the rate cut to 3.2 per cent from 6.5 per cent.

In Saskatchewan, the poverty rate declined from 12.7 per cent to 8.4 per cent.

Throughout Canada the poverty rate fell from 14.5 per cent to 8.1 per cent.

Ron Walter can be reached at ronjoy@ sasktel.net

Jason

Lamont Dyck, a deacon at St. Joseph Parish (centre), receives a provincial education appreciation award from Ward Strueby, education director of Holy Trinity Catholic School Division (left) and Jerome Niezgoda, president of the Saskatchewan Catholic School Boards Association. Photo submitted

Ron Walter - For Moose Jaw Express

Ontario legislation undermines the majority vote on municipal councils TRADING THOUGHTS

Many Canadians thought the use of the Emergencies Act by the federal government was an abuse of the democratic right to protest.

Now another Act passed by the Ontario government threatens the very foundations of our democratic system.

Premier Doug Ford’s government passed a bill al lowing municipal councils to pass local legislation with out a majority approving the matter.

Councils in Ontario can approve actions with only one-third approval. Two-thirds of council can vote no and still see the action pass if the mayor wants that action to proceed.

This provincial Act is completely contrary to the cen turies old practice where the 50 per cent plus one is need ed to approve legislation or elections.

Cynics will say what’s next? A law allowing onethird of the voters to elect a government?

Mayor John Tory of Toronto, also has agreed to adopt the new one-third carries the day bill, but promises to use

it sparingly.

The mayor of Ottawa has said thanks but no thanks.

Bewilderment has accompanied this outrageous un

that allow councils to stop or delay projects by developers to building new housing.

The objections to new development zoning range from oversized buildings for the neighbourhood, destruc park space for developments.

Ford has already approved legislation to allow devel opers to build on green spaces set aside for parks. And he reduced the number of councillors in Toronto to try and get his way with that city.

The Ontario premier is safe in taking these dictatorial actions. The Opposition vote is split leaving Ford in the position of keeping power for the long term.

Fragmented or weak opposition allows governments to abuse power and follow ideological or corrupt paths

By Ron Walter For Moose Jaw Express

The views and opinions ex pressed in this article are those of the author, and do not neces publication.

instead of abiding by the wishes of a majority of voters.

Accusations have been levelled that some developers knew this law would be approved and acquired land on the cheap to develop later.

If continued this kind of legislation violating our rights will accelerate the trend to fewer people voting.

Look for a court challenge of the law.

Ron Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel.net

Hunger in Moose Jaw director updates community on fall fundraiser

The annual “I Bought a Lunch” fall fund

ger in Moose Jaw began on Oct. 14 and was scheduled to end on Nov. 25. The fundraiser is extremely important to the

es every day for schoolchildren in Moose Jaw and expects those numbers to rise.

“We are approaching our last week

Moose Jaw director Sharla Sept. “We have not reached our goal as of yet, but we are hopeful that we will raise it by the end of December.”

Moose Jaw won’t stop accepting dona tions because the need this year is great than ever.

“We have seen record highs in num year,” she added, “and the cost to make our lunches has doubled.

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daily in January, we saw it happen in Oc tober. This is a strong indicator that our numbers may reach the 400 mark by the end of the school year.”

Sept said that she and her staff, the

volunteers are extremely grateful for the donations that have come in already. The nutritionally complete lunches they offer each day to schools in Moose Jaw may be

ger in Moose Jaw an essential component of the education the children receive.

In September, when the Burns & McDonnell power plant team presented

safety administrator Jade Wilcox noted program growing up.

“I was actually able to use the pro

Wilcox told MooseJawToday.com at the cheque presentation. “Sometimes it was

my only meal in the day, so to be able to be Moose Jaw) is so amazing and magical.” Wilcox’s comments are a remind er that without proper nutrition, children tional goals.

Jaw include: ways to donate to the campaign include: Stadacona Street West E-transfer to hunger.moosejaw@sasktel. net

Mail-in cheque

On their website at hungerinmoosejaw.org “Each and every dollar counts to wards our mission to support children and families through educational and nutri tional programming,” Sept said.

Hunger in Moose Jaw (HiMJ) kicked off its annual I Bought a Lunch fund raising campaign on Oct. 14 with a ta ble at the Moose Jaw Co-op. (l-r) HiMJ board member Brad Leidal, HiMJ ex ecutive director Sharla Sept, and Mi chaela Turner, the Co-op’s manager of marketing and community relations (photo by Gordon Edgar)

Reflective Moments

The recipe box on the kitchen counter, and the dozens of cookbooks in the cupboard started calling to me several weeks ago, and with good intentions I began planning what I might produce for the Christmas season.

I dug through my Christmas baking supplies box and made a list of what I would need to make the Christmas cakes, the pudding, some favourite slices, a cookie or two and even some fudge that will be given to friends and fam ilies as a waist-expanding gesture of our love and friend ship.

I did a bit of baking last Christmas but I confess the local bake sales helped me as I dithered over when to bake and when to read a good Christmas novel or watch a Hall mark Christmas movie. Therefore, I did not realize there would be an almost-insurmountable impediment to my best intentions this year.

Certainly, I watch and listen to the news and know that prices have gone up and gone up again. I refused to

noting it was mostly leaves and the parts that were sup posed to be white were already brown.

But once I reached the baking products aisles, it was a moment of horror as I calculated how much it would cost to produce the family’s traditional Christmas cake. With only half the ingredients available on the shelf that partic

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2. A cheque for 5% of the amount of the tender must accompany the tender (cheques will be returned to unsuccessful bidders).

3. Bids will be restricted to only those that are for both quarters.

4. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

5. Bidders must rely on their own research and inspection of the property and confirm acreage (acreages shown are taken from Land Title records), condition and other particulars.

6. The closing date for the sale shall be January 6, 2023, or as mutually agreed upon between the Vendor and the Purchaser.

7. No tender shall be accepted which is subject to financing.

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Written objections to the granting of the permit may be filed with SLGA not more than two weeks from the date of publication of this notice.

Every person filing a written objection with SLGA shall state their name, address and telephone number in printed form, as well as the grounds for the objection(s). Petitions must name a contact person, state grounds and be legible. Each signatory to the petition and the contact person must provide an address and telephone number. Frivolous, vexatious or competition-based objections within the beverage alcohol industry may not be considered and may be rejected by the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Licensing Commission, who may refuse to hold a hearing.

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By Joyce Walter - Moose Jaw Express

ular day, I had already spent $84. Yikes.

Maybe I won’t make two batches this year and will pare down the list of folks who each year receive a slice or two of homebaked Christmas cake. I then wondered if they actually enjoy the cake or are simply being polite, pretending to be delighted with our gift. That is a question I can’t politely ask. What if they told me they hated the cake and re-gifted it to a neighbour who annoys them.

But I bravely went forth to another store and House mate searched at another until we found most of the bak ing ingredients required. I delved more deeply into last year’s box and found two bags of sad looking raisins. They perked up right away after I soaked them in boiling wa ter and dried their wrinkles. No one will know the raisins have been resuscitated — well they know now but they still won’t know in which recipe I used “old” dried grapes.

Former work colleagues always gagged and made faces when I talked about the candied mixed peel that is essential to any morsel baked for Christmas. Some of that disdain must have worn off as this year it has been a chal

sale but by the time I got there the shelf was bare and a new delivery was not expected until the next day. The sale off the shelf.

I was more successful at another store and the clerk expressed the hope she wouldn’t run out when I mentioned my dilemma.

So, back home, I did some quick calculations and de

termined it would be cheaper to hang out at every bake sale in town than to try making my own cakes and cookies.

towards baking for the season. She individually supplied all the bachelors and elderly residents of our town with buns formed into the shape of Christmas trees, cookies and some thinly-sliced Christmas cake. She kept the short bread for our own enjoyment. And when company called, there was always Christmas cake for lunch — despite my best efforts to make sure there remained a slice or two left over for my school lunch.

mas cakes, made a different recipe on the next day and now it is time to decide what recipes I won’t build this year. I certainly don’t want to waste ingredients that won’t keep year after year and have no regurgitated value. For instance, I didn’t take a chance on the expired condensed milk I found in the back of the cupboard. The colour didn’t er more expensive cake additives. So it went to the con densed milk heaven.

Before doing much more planning, the date for a ma jor bake sale is marked on the calendar. Thus I will set off

— and I won’t ask the age of the raisins.

It might be just as expensive baking this way, but sharing Scott Moe’s cheque means it is the sweetest thing he has ever done for me. Those other bakers will thank me. Joyce Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel.net

Moose Jaw’s four emergency service organizations will engage in friendly rivalry during the next couple of weeks as they see who can collect the most winter clothing for the Salvation Army.

The Moose Jaw Police Service is challenging the

with winter attire — such as boots, jackets, scarves and mitts — so the gear can go to Sally Anne. The initiative, appropriately enough, is called “Fill the Squad Car.”

The challenge starts now and goes until Thursday,

Residents with gently used clothing can take the rectly to the Salvation Army’s venues.

nizers hope it is successful and want to make it an annual event, explained Const. Reggie Pawliw. Several in-house police groups — including community strategic services and victims services — came together recently to brain storm ways to support the community.

Their collaboration produced the “Fill the Squad Car” project.

“I just believe in Moose Jaw (that during) our winter seasons, we have some pretty cold weather … and I feel like I’ve seen lots of people throughout Moose Jaw in the past couple of years not wearing the appropriate winter

clothing,” said Pawliw.

be struggling (with) other addictions needs and whatev er else. So I thought this would be good to help those in need.”

The police service doesn’t have a goal of how many be great if each emergency services organization each packed one car.

Pawliw agreed that this project would allow the four and participate in a mini challenge of collecting the most clothing. Yet, the community will be the big winner of this initiative.

The constable added that the winning emergency ser vices organization would win bragging rights but no prize

Residents interested in donating gently used clothing — winter or otherwise — can drop off the items in the lobbies of their preferred emergency services organiza tion.

The Moose Jaw Police Service is located at 21 Fair

and Medavie Health Services is at 777 High Street West. West and its church is at 2 Wintergreen Drive.

Good news for travellers across Saskatchewan.

An application is created to check Highway Hotline through smartphones. The new version of this app has cleaner graphics and new features added, such as ex panded route planning which updates road conditions.

“As Saskatchewan’s trusted advocate on road user safety, we encourage drivers to check the Saskatche wan Highway for updates on the road conditions,” CAA Saskatchewan Director of Corporate Communications Christine Niemczyk said. “We include the Saskatchewan Highway Hotline in our safety messaging because we know the weather in our province can change quickly. It’s important to adapt our driving behaviour to the cur rent weather and road conditions, and to rely on resourc es such as the Saskatchewan Highway Hotline to help keep all road users safe.”

a phone-based service and information provider. Today, ter, there were 13 million hits in this service for several intense storms.

The app also has maps and continuously updates about highway conditions, construction zones, road clo sures, ferries and border crossings. Everyday, informa tion is updated at least three times and winter storms are updated regularly.

Information about Highway Hotline can also be

This free application is available in Google Play and the Apple Store.

For more information about winter safety on the roads check saskatchewan.ca.

The views and opinions ex pressed in this article are those of the author, and do sition of this publication.

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By Patricia Hanbidge

Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Cacti

These three popular houseplants are very similar but there are some differences that are worthy of discussion. They are cherished in many homes as a multigenerational plant and often get to be quite large! All three are consid ered “short day” plants so cool temperatures and lengthy periods of darkness will cause them to bloom. They all are native to Brazil and happily hang out in the tropical trees that also grow there. They are not really cacti, but are succulents which are plants that are drought-resistant

they are a tissue which can store water.

The true Christmas cactus (Schlumberger gridge sii) will generally bloom in the month of December. The cousin considered the Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumgera truncate) will generally bloom a bit earlier. Both are na

Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners Notes

The number of drug-related arrests this year might be down by half compared to 2021, but the quantity of drugs that police have seized has increased, the police chief says.

Moose Jaw police have made 26 arrests for drug pos session from January to October of this year, including four for cocaine, six for marijuana, eight for methamphet amines and eight for other types.

In comparison, during the same period last year, cocaine, 10 for marijuana, 24 for meth and 17 for other types.

Overall, this is a decline of 54.4 per cent in drug-re lated arrests.

Meanwhile, police seized 37.5 grams of illicit drugs from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, 2021, while during the same peri od this year, they captured 884.4 grams. The largest quan tity of drugs seized by type during both years has been methamphetamine.

investigations.

“So we have (had) a couple situations (recently) … . We will have more of these as we actively engage in proj ects, getting at the supply of the illicit substances in our

tive to the rain forests of Brazil. The Christmas cactus has teardrop or scalloped edges to the leaves while the Thanksgiving cactus has claw-shaped points on leaf edg es. These cacti need cooler temperatures of around 55 to

fall off. When not in bloom, these cacti can be exposed to full, direct sunlight.

The Easter cactus (Rhipsalidopsis gaetneri) will bloom in the months of April or May, which is typically

yellow stamens and crimson coloured petals. They need a more humid environment than the Christmas cactus and prefer warmer temperatures of about 75 to 80°F (24 to 27°C). These cacti are native to the natural forests of Brazil and thrive in partial sunlight.

Both cacti have epiphytic tendencies so will be found growing on rocks or trees. As a houseplant, we tend to grow them terrestrially so it is important to ensure that we are indeed giving these plants the proper conditions for growth. The Easter cactus should be kept evenly moist, but never soggy. If under- watered, the plant segments will collapse towards the pot and begin to turn yellow. If over-wa tered, the seg ments will break off of the plant. The Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti need to be kept cooler

but the plant will shrivel and die if the soil is not kept evenly moist. Overwatering any of these cacti will result in root rot and dying top growth that often appears to be shriveling.

All of these cacti are considered popular holiday

the leaves are actually stems. Flowers are produced from notches in the stems. Fertilization should occur before

If you wish to propagate your cacti so you can share it with your friends and family members, this is not a that consists of at least two or three joined segments. En sure you take the cutting from healthy foliage to be the most successful. Let the cutting sit to dry for a few hours prior to potting it up. Place the cutting into slightly damp media in a well-lit area but not in direct sunlight. Do not overwater at this stage and succulents root better if the moisture is limited. Within a few weeks, there should be evidence that the cutting is sprouting roots and at this time, can be potted up if you so choose. Do not overwater at any time and increase the light gradually. Once it is well-rooted, then fertilization can also begin.

Happy holidays to all of you and may you have many holiday plants gracing your space!

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The number of crimes committed against people is down nearly 10 per cent year-to-date over 2021, although prop break-ins seeing the highest spike.

The Moose Jaw Police Service presented the October crime statistics during the Board of Police Commission ers’ recent November meeting. That data showed crimi nal offences for October 2022 and 2021 and year-to-date (YTD) offences for this year and last year.

People-related crimes

From Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, there were 426 crimes com mitted against people compared to 459 such crimes in 2021. This is a decline of 7.2 per cent.

The YTD data for this year versus last year shows:

Homicide: 1 / 0

Attempted murder: 2 / 2

Assaults (sexual, common, with a weapon/cause bodily harm, aggravated, against police): 265 / 255

· Robbery: 8 / 5

· Threats under section 810: 66 / 48

Domestic disputes: 84 / 149

Property-related crimes

From Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, there were 1,352 crimes com mitted against property compared to 1,316 such incidents in 2021. This is an increase of 2.7 per cent.

community,” Police Chief Rick Bourassa said during the recent Board of Police Commissioners meeting.

Bourassa thanked the board for allowing the police investigation section (CIS). This has allowed it to pur sue additional projects and identify suspects allegedly involved in the importation and distribution of drugs. Moreover, the recent creation of the tactical unit has al lowed the organization to go after distributors.

For example, the unit pursued a project two months

Lee Booth. Meanwhile, she appreciated how the police

was important for them to receive praise for keeping the community safe.

It may look as if there is an increase in those three

ing situations that have gone undetected for months and years, said Bourassa. While it might seem as if the situa tion is growing worse, that’s not true; it’s the work police are doing to detect and suppress that.

“Having said that, we do know we’re not an anomaly and we are seeing this increase in guns, gangs and drugs across the country,” he continued. “And we’ll keep work ing on that.”

drugs, weapons and money.

“I want to commend our members … on their dili gence and their thoroughness and their reduction of harm,

“They were still able to take this person into custody without harm to anybody else. And that’s a real testament

Guns, gangs and drugs all seem to come together and are rarely isolated, which is alarming because they lead to an increased risk of violence, said commissioner Mary

Bourassa added that there has been a gang presence in Moose Jaw for some time, but he didn’t know if it was increasing, especially since “crime is so mobile” and it frequently travels between communities.

Moose Jaw is subjected to gang behaviour, especial ly when people come here to participate in initiation pro cesses with existing members, said Supt. Devon Oleniuk. Over the years, such activity has remained consistent in Canada’s Most Notorious City.

During the police board meeting, Chief Rick Bourassa re iterated that police continue to investigate these incidents and lay charges when they can.

The YTD data for this year versus last year shows:

Break-ins (business, residence, other): 245 / 273

Motor vehicle theft: 53 / 49

Theft over $5,000: 17 / 15

· Theft under $5,000: 734 / 611

Arson: 8 / 27

Mischief under $5,000: 295 / 341

Other crimes and offences

The YTD data for other crimes and offences for this year versus last year shows:

Impaired driving: 104 / 114

· Failing to comply with court orders: 723 / 693

Motor vehicle collisions over $1,000: 220 / 173

Provincial liquor infractions: 130 / 154

· Summary offence tickets: 1,178 / 1,524 Drugs (cocaine, marijuana, meth, other CDSA drugs); 26 / 57

Calls for service: 16,100 / 13,501; this is a 19.3-percent increase

The next Board of Police Commissioners meeting is Thursday, Dec 8

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Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners Notes

“I grew up in Moose Jaw. I never locked my doors. I nev er thought this type of stuff would happen,” Sergeant Tay lor Elder of the Moose Jaw Police Service (MJPS) told a special meeting of Moose Jaw City Council.

The MJPS was at the council budget meeting to pres ent their 2023 Budget to Council.

A request which would see the MJPS spending a budgeted $13,439,566 which, when predicted revenues of $1,658,507 are included, will see the MJPS spending $11,781,059 or an increase of 5.49 percent ($612,933) from the $11,168,126 for 2022.

It works out to a 1.84 percent increase in the munic ipal mill rate.

nally have the resources and the funding to attack drugs, guns and gang driven crime waves the city has been expe riencing over the last few years.

Last year the MJPS requested a 5.58 percent budget

Elder, who is a 13-year veteran of the MJPS, de scribed it as a situation that has just exploded over the last six months after 12.5 years of relative calm.

“We rarely saw a gun. We maybe saw a gun now and again but in the last six months I have had to text my wife just wanted to put that point down and let everyone know we are doing our best to keep the city of Moose Jaw safe.”

“The Friendly City isn’t what it used to be anymore. The trends are changing; we are having dangerous people come from out of town and set up shop and really, you know, put our public safety in jeopardy.”

been showing its ugly head that needs to be dealt with was a message backed up by Chief Rick Bourassa.

“This is the direction we have been moving in to keep our community safe. We have had some of these issues that have been there for awhile but now we are able to deal with them and bring them out into the light,” Chief Bourassa said.

Bourassa would go on to list the various other con cerns the MJPS is attempting to deal with which ranged

NOTICE TO BIDDERS LEASE OF FARM LAND ON A CASH BASIS

Sealed tenders marked "TENDER FOR LEASE OF FARM LAND" will be received by Chow McLeod Barristers and Solicitors up to 2:00 p.m. (Central Standard Time), on December 2nd, 2022. Due to the unknown, public safety and public health measures to control the potential spread of COVID-19, tenders will be opened privately in the presence of two witnesses after December 2nd, 2022. A summary of bid and price information will be made available upon request. In total, one (1) location of farm land as follows is available to lease under the following terms and conditions:

Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw #161 Section 16 Township 17 Range 25, West of the 2nd Meridian 557 Acres (more or less) making up the land surrounding the Moose Jaw Municipal Airport (the “land(s)”)

Lease of the said land(s) shall be on a cash rent basis only and shall commence December 1st, 2022 and will terminate October 15th, 2027 (5 year term). This lease will be solely for the use by the Tenant, not to be assigned or sublet or occupied by anyone other than the Tenant without prior written consent from the City. The Tenant will be responsible for any costs associated with farming the lands, with the exception of property taxes. The Tenant shall cultivate, seed, control weeds, insects and disease and harvest crops on the land in a sustainable manner. Continuous cropping is allowed. This land is to be leased on an “as is” basis. There are no warranties offered or implied on the condition of the property.

Tenders shall be submitted in a sealed envelope and must be accompanied by a bid form and certified cheque, trust cheque or bank draft in the amount of 20% of the bid per location, which will be returned to unsuccessful bidders. Failure of the successful bidder to conclude the transaction will result in forfeiture of the deposit as liquidated damages.

Payment for leasing the farm land is to be paid in two installments: the first is a pro-rated payment made upon execution of the Lease Agreement and the remaining is payable on or before December 15th, 2022, with all subsequent payments to be made upon receipt of MJMAA invoice.

The MJMAA reserves the right to accept any tender submitted in whole or in part or to reject any or all tenders and to waive any irregularities. Tenders submitted from parties who are in arrears with the City of Moose Jaw will not be considered.

Tender documents, including bid forms, specific locations, maps and the Draft Lease Agreement may be obtained at the following address:

Police Paint Picture Of Rampant Crime Problems Needing More Funding To Fight

By Robert Thomas

for several decades,” Chief Bourassa said, adding “and it is very far behind. We have been working diligently this year and we have budget money in there to get that system up to speed where it should be. We anticipate that should be done within the next few weeks.”

“At that point we will be enabled to start moving forward with technological upgrades that will keep our ing.”

The MJPS want to spend $235,000 in order to bring these technology areas up to speed or introduce them street.

Provincial Pedo Problems

Internet Child Exploitation (child pornography pos session, making, sharing and adults luring children online) is a major problem in Moose Jaw, Chief Bourassa

foremost.

from rampant child exploitation, to gangs, drugs (crystal methamphetamine) as well as the modern resources need

For Sergeant Elder, the tactical team is one of the keys to cleaning up the streets.

“So now with the addition of the tactical response who are trained to deal with these high risk offenders and but all of these jobs we were doing [are now being done] off of the side of our desk,” he said.

It needs to be noted the MJPS largely developed its Tactical Team capabilities in an opaque environment and did not publicly announce the expenditures (a reliable

“Internet child exploitation is something we are working on. We have two members trained and equipped to do that. We believe additional (provincial) resources would be very helpful,” he said.

gang activity in the community.

“It involves a lot of work behind the scenes in terms of gathering intelligence, surveillance and doing all of those things that we have to do to get some of these is sues. With the resources we have been provided over the past little while, we have been able to get the appropriate

he said.

Sergeant Chad Schesky said the Criminal Investiga tive Section (CIS) is attempting to focus on the growing issue of narcotics in the city.

“We are really trying to put our focus into the drug

were thwarted by simply redacting entire reports.

Elder asked for more resources to help keep up with the changes and growth in crime in the community.

“We are here to ensure public safety. All of our of we are doing our best to maintain public safety but it is the trends.”

be funded by the Province to help deal with the policing challenges being felt at the present time.

For Chief Bourassa keeping up with the criminal larger than normal capital expenditure this coming year.

Cost $235,000

The MJPS is asking for two main technology up grades in the budget request - computer enabled dispatch using the laptop computer in their vehicles.

The computer enabled dispatch will allow for pho tographs, descriptions and other information to be sent return to the police station to pick up the information.

“Everything will be controlled by computers and the transfer of information will be so much more enhanced then it is right now,” Chief Bourassa said.

The other ability technology will create is the ability

“This will enable the in car reporting abilities so our now. There will be much less demands on them to come to police headquarters and the building to complete some

The MJPS is presently preparing for the upgrades and the majority of the funding would be for licensing the

areas and “they wear many hats.”

CIS liaises with Child Protection and Social Services and the unit “averages one investigation a week through them. Which is basically responding to the safety of chil dren. And at times we have had three or four of these in takes within a week,” Schesky said.

“As you can imagine crimes against children, be cause they are at risk, those will take priority and that will divert our attention away from some of the other things that we have been working on.”

The addition of a full time constable in 2022 has lead

other drugs, a handgun and over $6,000.

“Guns and drugs are now together and with that we have created a tier B team (to deal with it)”

ecutions.

Bourassa said that the guns and drugs being found is and able to address.”

“A lot of data you are hearing is we have the resourc es to tackle these challenges now. When we were getting into this in the past, part of the challenges were not only tical resources we needed because as Chad has said there

capability and we built several years building that tactical

years and no public warning had been issued.

It also needs to be noted the MJPS did not raise the alarm regarding the prevalence of Meth and gangs in 2015 when they reappeared and waited until 2019 to make it public.

Bourassa pointed out that crime is not contained in one place but it is transient in nature.

“So much of that is not contained within a geograph ical area. Everything is spread out across regions so we work very closely with police departments across the province. And actually across the country, so we are ask

he said.

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these crimes with our other provincial partners,”

The next Board of Police Commissioners meeting is Thursday, Dec 8

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Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners Notes

Dec 8

City Council Budget Meeting discusses MJPS crime rates, public image and needs of a growing force

By Robert Thomas

Crime Rates

MJPS Police Chief Rick Bourassa discussed the crime rates in Moose Jaw.

“In 2021 when we talked about crime rates, each crime that is committed and reported in the community counts as one. And when we look at the data in 2021 we were a little bit higher than many of the municipalities in the province and lower than one other municipality - so we have crime like other places have,” he said.

Bourassa said the Moose Jaw crime rate has tradi

The Statistics Canada weighted crime rate indexesCrime Severity Index (CSI) and Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI) - paint a different picture on local crime by attaching a weighted severity based upon the crime.

tuations…Our crime severity index is driven by more property crimes than crimes against the person. So breakins and those sort of things drive that; however, crimes against the person, we saw this over the last few years, as did every other jurisdiction, we saw increases of those kinds of crimes reported to us. Much of it related to the restrictions of the pandemic.”

The calls from the public for service were up sub stantially in 2022.

“It has been consistently around the 16,000 range. In 2021, it was around there but what we have seen this year is we are up about 20 percent from today to where we were last year. We have had several thousand more calls for service this year than we have had in previous years,” Chief Bourassa said.

There is an increase in the number of tickets the MJPS has issued in 2022 but the majority of them are due to photo radar.

Bourassa said the photo radar at the intersection of 9th Avenue NW and the Trans Canada Highway is a bit of a paradox.

The paradox is the number of severe accidents re sulting in death and serious injury have been substantially reduced but the number of tickets remain consistent year over year.

“Since the implementation of automatic speed en forcement….particularly on the highway, we haven’t seen serious collisions or fatalities, but what we have seen is the number of vehicles that are exceeding the speed lim it…are staying the same.”

“So it is a bit of contradictory facts we are seeing. We don’t quite understand that. The speeds continue, and people continue to speed through those places, but we’re not seeing the serious collisions we have in the past,” he said.

capita rate is now a thing of the past and the force is now

Police

The Moose Jaw Police Service may be over budget in nine revenue and expense categories this year, but the po shape.

The police service had spent 78.6 per cent of its bud geted expenses as of Nov. 1, leaving roughly $2.7 million to be spent.

Its total budgeted expenses for 2022 are $12.7 mil lion.

Meanwhile, the police service had received 34.98 per cent of its budgeted revenues while waiting for more than $1 million in outstanding revenues.

Its total budgeted revenues for 2022 are $1.5 million.

In total, the Moose Jaw Police Service (MJPS) had completed 84.74 per cent of its net budget, with $3.7 mil lion in budgeted expenses/revenue remaining.

“Overall, we’re running in good shape this year,” Po lice Chief Rick Bourassa said while presenting the orga nization’s monthly budget update during the recent Board of Police Commissioners meeting.

The police service may have a year-end surplus be ed surplus. The agency will likely know its overall total at the end of February.

The police service is over budget in six expense cat egories by a total of $51,069.34, with the biggest over expenditure being $30,861.31 in the vehicle maintenance

new vehicles to replace aging ones that require regular re pairs, while fuel costs have been higher than anticipated.

The good news with acquiring new vehicles is some

on par with other police forces in the province, thanks to Council and the Province approving new hirings.

“That is a thing of the past and it is enabling us to do some of the work we were unable to do in the past.”

MJPS Public Image

Chief Bourassa said the MJPS will be addressing an

versity of Regina.

The 2019 survey showed high levels of satisfaction in the MJPS work and the direction the MJPS was head

ability to get their message out to residents.

“There was one area where we were given relatively poor marks and that was in our public information area, providing information to the public, providing updates and providing crime prevention information,” Chief Bourassa said, adding the MJPS recognizes it as a problem and as

“We are operating on a 30 year model where a po handles all of that information and unfortunately in our world, that kind of gets moved to the side,” he said.

“We have put forward a position for a public infor mation position that would take that role on. And not only the service’s needs but the community’s expectations of us.”

It needs to be noted the MJPS works in a traditional symbiotic relationship with the local media where many police forces control access and information based upon the perceived “friendliness” of the news source. The mod el has widely been discredited in many books and journal

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Deputy Chief Rick Johns. This means the agency can start decommissioning older units, which should reduce this expense category next year.

The other eight expense categories that are over bud get and their dollar/percentage variance are:

Travel and conventions: $2,027.46 / 140.55 per cent

Education and training: $14,811.92 / 124.69 per cent

Subscriptions and publications: $1,191.28 / 147.65 per cent

Radio communications: $2,15.64 / 126.88

Prisoner meals: $26.73 / 100.67

The police service is catching up on educating and training its members because the pandemic prevented of

while, subscriptions are expensive because of licensing fees and maintenance agreements for software programs. However, both areas should improve next year.

The three revenue categories that are over budget in clude:

· Alarm response annual fees: $6,715 / 122.38 per cent

· Alarm response false alarms: $407 / 105.09 per cent

Commissioner Doug Blanc pointed to the over $1 million in outstanding revenues and noted that other po lice agencies are in similar situations because they expect ed that funding in July. He wondered if this was unusual compared to past years.

He also noted that prisoner meals are $26 over bud get and asked about that.

Many revenue categories are based on transfer agree ments with the province or municipality, but those trans fers haven’t happened yet, said Bourassa. The delays in some categories are somewhat later than expected — but

To Be In Public Places

where the public is - parks, Downtown core and events.

“We heard what the public was saying. We heard what the businesses were saying downtown and we hear what the Commission (Moose Jaw Board of Police Com missioners) was saying - there was a greater need to have

public safety in general,” Superintendent Devon Oleniuk fairly frequent basis this past summer. The results that we got…was fairly overwhelmingly satisfying. So we realize that is an issue we want to continue moving forward.”

Oleniuk spoke about the partnership with the City, where the Commissionaires have been patrolling the downtown and other areas on a nightly basis.

After the program completes in about a week’s time, what has been found by the patrols will be looked at to determine its usability and effectiveness.

“There are a number of factors to consider. The time liness of it. The timeliness of it based upon such things at the weather and those kinds of things might skew the results. But nevertheless, I think it is a very good program going and want to see results from that.”

After the results are analyzed, a decision will be made on whether or not to continue the patrols on a reg ular basis.

Growing Force Needs More Space

With a growing force and a growing list of exhibits and other propertythey need to store, the MJPS also said they needed more space for their operations.

Deputy Chief Rick Johns gave a brief report as to why the force needed the additional space.

“At any given time, we house over 3,000 exhib its of various sizes which unfortunately forces us to cut out space from our existing areas and re-designate that as storage. With the addition of a number of policing di visions…it has presented us with some further space re strictions,” Johns said.

As the force grows, the MJPS is stretched in the area of lockers and changing areas for members.

“As a result, we have been exploring a number of options to acquire additional space nearby,” he said.

The space requirements and the solutions found are included as part of the 2023 proposed MJPS budget.

With a unanimous vote, Council decided to refer the budget to a future special Council Budget 2023 meeting to be voted on.

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they are coming.

The provincial transfers are late because the provin cial government was still signing contractual agreements. Furthermore, the Ministry of Justice usually issues fund ing quarterly.

Meanwhile, the MJPS is a regional detention centre and accepts prisoners from other agencies such as the RCMP, he continued. So, the police service will recover that extra $26.73 in that category.

“I’m not suggesting you take their Pop-Tarts and cut them in half,” chuckled Blanc.

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CITY HALL BUDGET TALKS

The next regular council meeting is MONDAY, NOV 28. The next budget meeting is WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30.

Third-party community groups are collectively asking city council for nearly $700,000 extra in budget funding for 2023, something council will have to discuss during its budget deliberations.

Council kicked off its 2023 budget talks on Nov. 22 by hearing from 15 groups, ranging from police to seniors to arts and culture to business to environment.

The total operating funding requests the groups are asking for next year is $14,226,010, compared to $13,545,466 this year, an increase of $680,544.

The Moose Jaw Police Service is asking for net operating funding next year of $11,781,059, which is $612,933 more than this year. It also wants capital fund ing of $235,000, compared to $254,500 this year.

The Moose Jaw Public Library is asking for net fund ing of $1,259,441, which is $23,509 more than this year.

The Moose Jaw and District Senior Citizens Asso ciation is asking for $36,771, which is $1,071 more than

in 2022.

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The Cosmo Senior Citizens’ Association wants $20,000 to $25,000, compared to the $15,300 it received this year.

Tourism Moose Jaw and the Canada Day Committee want $97,680 and $2,663, respectively, which is $2,845 and $78 more, respectively, than this year.

The Festival of Words is seeking $8,265 next year, compared to the $8,024 it received this year.

The Cultural Centre wants $168,788 in operating funding, which is $4,916 more than this year.

The museum and art gallery is seeking $150,065 in operating funding, which is $9,819 more than in 2022.

The public art committee wants $10,000 in operating funding for next year, which is $3,525 more than this year.

The Saskatchewan Burrowing Owl Interpretive Centre is asking for $6,754 in funding, compared to the $6,557 this year.

Local watershed group’s

Next year the Moose Jaw River Watershed Stewards group celebrates its 20th anniversary, but it will likely be an odd time because it is currently amalgamating with its parent organization.

The group is one of nine provincial watershed stew ardship groups (WSGs), while its parent organization is the Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds (SAW). All have been discussing restructuring since 2018, but they began the process this year.

“The reason for this (restructuring and amalgama

pots of money and to just stop competing with one an other because we all have the same initiative,” Carmen Kaweski, executive director of the Moose Jaw River Wa tershed Stewardship group, explained during city coun cil’s 2023 budget deliberation meeting on Nov. 22.

“So, we really started building partnerships amongst ourselves, and … we are in the process of amalgamating with SAW.”

Moose Jaw and SAW will now share employees — Kaweski and watershed technician Stephanie Huel now work for SAW — while Moose Jaw will carry on within its regional programming.

Furthermore, the group will continue working with the Prince Arthur School Co-op Community Food Farm and help establish a committee to maintain and monitor the garden.

It will continue with its leafy spurge and purple loosestrife projects, including expanding its pull days, while it will also establish more leafy spurge beetle sites.

It also plans to hire a summer student to continue

Wakamow Valley Authority is asking for a statutory levy of $346,290 for next year, which is $10,086 higher than this year.

The Downtown Moose Jaw Association is seeking funding of $44,290 in 2023, compared to the $43,000 it received this year.

The Moose Jaw Municipal Airport Authority is ask ing for $30,000 next year — similar to this year’s amount — and an extra $10,000 in cost-share money to develop its site master plan.

The humane society wants $253,282 in funding next year, compared to the $248,610 it received this year.

The Moose Jaw River Watershed Stewards are seek ing $10,000 in funding next year, the same amount it re ceived this year.

The Moose Jaw Express will continue to produce sev eral more stories from the evening’s presentations.

merger with parent organization will

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programming, and continue working with industry, orga nizations and SAW.

the regional programming from the Moose Jaw River Watershed Stewards (MJRWS). As you can see, we’re quite busy. We do a lot of excellent projects to protect the water in the watershed,” added Kaweski.

“But they’re also going to have access to some of the bigger programs that we’re running through SAW.” Council queries

Based on the council’s questions, Kaweski con

MJRWS has a relationship with Wakamow Valley Authority and its food farm

· MJRWS has a relationship with the Water Security Agency, which actually created the WSGs

· MJRWS engages with city hall about invasive species and would work on joint projects

· The leafy spurge beetle keeps the invasive plant in check by eating its roots; the bugs are caught in July when they surface to breathe

· Sheep and goats can keep leafy spurge in check, but

· Leafy spurge spreads easily, including on shoes, clothing and tires; it is worse here than in Saskatoon

· MJRWS is looking for purple loosestrife beetles that could perform a similar function as their leafy spurge counterparts 2022 activities

The MJRWS gave two presentations in July during the Yara Centre’s summer camps, where it discussed the

health of watersheds and gave a tour of the food farm, explained Huel.

Meanwhile, 121 people visited the group’s table at the farmers’ market, while 11,700 people saw its posts online and 718 engaged with them.

This was the third year the group worked with Gib son Energy to pull purple loosestrife weeds from the banks of the Moose Jaw River, an event that was suc other location with a purple loosestrife outbreak, which the group hopes to tackle in 2023.

full growing season that produced many strawberries, raspberries and grapes. A back-to-school barbecue on Sept. 27 also allowed over 200 people to take carrots, tomatoes, squash, beets and peppers.

Meanwhile, the WSG collected 64,000 leafy spurge beetles from an area campground — about 5,000 more than in 2021 — and distributed them to producers throughout the watershed.

“We’re also very excited to announce that we have now working toward establishing more colonies within the valley.”

The MJRWS freely gave 370 trees to local schools during its adopt-a-tree program, she added, while it dis tributed 1,500 trees across the watershed for $5 during its Tree for Life program.

Airport’s success prompts some councillors to admit

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The Moose Jaw Municipal Airport Authority has expe rienced such great success over the past couple of years that some city council members admitted they doubted the venue would ever succeed.

Board chairman Greg Simpson and vice-chair Jarrett Johnson spoke about the airport’s activities and upgrades discussion on Nov. 22.

The authority wants $30,000 next year — same as this year — and $10,000 in cost-share money to develop its site master plan.

Airport highlights

Some highlights from the authority’s presentation

· A new 4,000-foot-long airstrip can accommodate Snowbirds and air ambulance planes; the former has engaged in daily exercises there, while the latter used the airstrip to save a two-year-old girl’s life

· The airport houses 35 private airplanes in 15 hangars; a new hangar starts construction in 2023, while there is room for another six to 10 such buildings

2015 Council’s mea culpa

“I have no problem sitting here admitting that I was one of those people that wasn’t sure that it was the right

to see the proof in the pudding,” said Coun. Dawn Luh ning.

“So congratulations to all of you for the work you’re doing out there and I can sit here and say I was wrong.”

Council is often asked to take a leap of faith to sup port big ideas, and sometimes the ideas fail while oth er times they succeed “beautifully,” said Coun. Heather Eby. She commended the authority for producing better results than council thought possible.

“And I know it’s going to get bigger and better,” she added. “… it is because you both came in here so pas sionate about it all the time that we couldn’t not believe that you were going to do what you said you were going to do.”

Mayor Clive Tolley applauded the board for show ing wisdom in planning for the venue’s future. He noted that the airport is on a large piece of city land that the board manages. He thought it was smart for the board to develop a site plan to maximize space.

The authority doesn’t want to saddle future boards with poor decisions made now, so the master plan allows it to focus on the bigger picture and properly use the land, said Johnson.

“I’ve supported this right from the get-go because I can see the potential in this, and you’re following through on everything you said you would do,” said Coun. Crys tal Froese.

It’s great that the board is pursuing a site plan be

cause that creates ideas and helps it understand what’s going on in the industry, especially with travelling, busi ness and tourism, she continued. She thought it was im

tourists, while the Snowbirds landing there regularly also created opportunities.

The board is working on a marketing plan to attract people, including advertising in industry magazines, said

will stop in Moose Jaw. The authority also wants to en gage with tourism at multiple levels and work with com munity boards.

here, he added. Meanwhile, a national industry magazine plans to feature the airport in an upcoming article.

in Moose Jaw that would attract over 100 planes, but the authority doesn’t have the proper land developed, said Simpson. The master plan would inform that develop ment, while the authority needs to work with local tour

The airport — not just a private club — will create “a very large economic spinoff” for Moose Jaw because there is no provincial bus service anymore, said Coun. Doug Blanc. He noted that many people stayed in Moose Jaw for the Snowbirds’ 50th-anniversary reunion and want to return — and the airport will facilitate that.

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BUDGET TALKS

The next regular council meeting is MONDAY, NOV 28. The next budget meeting is WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30.

Moose Jaw wouldn’t be the same if it didn’t have a library or a vibrant arts and culture scene, but such activities need funding so residents and visitors can continue to enjoy them.

Fifteen third-party community groups gave presen Nov. 22, including the library, the Festival of Words and the cultural centre.

The Moose Jaw Express highlights a few presenta tions.

Public library

In-person visits and circulation of materials at the Moose Jaw Public Library returned to near pre-pandemic levels by the summer, while the overall situation began to look normal again, said head librarian Gwen Fisher.

The organization provided different literacy materi als to children, youths and adults, while it added more lit erature in different languages — such as Chinese, Arabic, Filipino, Persian and Ukrainian — thanks to a provincial grant.

The provincial library association selected Moose Jaw as a pilot project site for a dyslexia program for chil dren and youths. Dyslexia, Fisher explained, is a most cent of people affected.

“From personal experience, you might know how ing to do so, so this dyslexia-friendly collection is dedi cated to serving those people and trying to spark a love of reading and learning at a young age,” she said.

Besides being a community hub, the library is also on the front lines of Moose Jaw’s growing social issues, Fisher continued.

this year, so it committed to addressing them by having staff take training in areas like First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, reconciliation and trauma-informed care. It also worked with the John Howard Society and engaged with commissionaires.

as patrons slowly returned to the building.

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“Your presentation highlights the fact that the Moose Jaw Public Library is so much more than just a library … ,” said Coun. Heather Eby. “I really do believe that the pandemic (shone) a spotlight on the library more than ever because so many people relied on it … so maybe that was a silver lining in a dark cloud.”

Festival of Words

Sarah Simison, acting artistic director of the Festi val of Words, highlighted the organization’s three main services: community outreach, youths and the summer festival.

Year-round, the group has the Performer’s Café, writers-in-schools program, CineView, fundraisers, pub

The summer festival features 60 events over four days, including the teen writing experience, kids’ ink workshop, children’s story time, writing workshops, book

Most events, she said, occur within the Mae Wilson the atre, “the gem of our city.”

The festival also generates over $100,000 in eco nomic spinoff locally since it attracts over 500 people, while it spends roughly $200,000 locally on goods and services, enhances literacy, builds lifelong learning and adds to the community’s social fabric.

“One of the programs we’re proudest of is writers in schools. This program reaches thousands of children per year … ,” said Simison about the free initiative.

“After our writer visited his classroom, one Moose Jaw teacher stated, ‘Disengaged writers wrote, reluctant speakers spoke and students who were facing tough, personal times found a voice, a vehicle to truly express themselves. Not only do I think this program is valuable, I think it is necessary.’”

The festival annually operates on a balanced budget — between $250,000 and $300,000 —with zero debt, she said. Federal grants have contributed to a balanced ledger.

This year, the organization faced several challenges because of the pandemic, such as authors and artists can

tain an optimism as we focus on what we can do rath er than what we can’t and look towards the future as an opportunity to experiment and try new things,” Simison said, adding the organization is already booking authors for its 27th annual festival.

Coun. Crystal Froese praised the festival, saying, “It always blows my mind with how much the Festival of Words does. It’s so much more than just our city. The ef fect you’ve had on literacy with kids just can’t go unno ticed. It’s a diverse festival and we’re lucky to have the

Cultural Centre

The Mae Wilson Theatre is a gem and cultural hub that offers many events, said Simison, the cultural cen

and provides a destination for artists and residents to en joy many experiences.

Simison highlighted how important the venue is, pointing to its art gallery; the space it has for groups such as the Festival of Words, pottery groups, Moose Jaw Pride and the local Aboriginal group; its yearly partner ships with the festival and gamers association; and being the new home of a theatre company.

projects, as two community directors did recently.

The centre hosted 200 events, meetings and pro grams this year while several shows sold out, said Simi son. While it’s exciting that the centre sold 15,000 tick ets, staff faced major burnout, so the organization hired a curator to reduce the number of shows and maximize audience numbers.

Simison wants to diversify the cultural centre’s rev enue streams — especially with a recession looming — by pursuing more arts grants to help expand community and host more workshops.

She also wants to pursue several building and equip ment upgrades.

“I don’t think the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre has re alized its full potential yet,” Simison added, “and I hope to be able to build it into something new.”

City hall’s public art advisory committee has been active for less than a year but is already looking toward the fu ture and the potential projects it can pursue or promote.

Committee chairwoman Jennifer McRorie spoke about the group’s activities this year and its upcoming goals during city council’s Nov. 22 budget meeting.

The public art advisory committee wants $10,000 next year, which is $3,525 more than this year. Its goal is to ask for $13,000 in 2024 because that is traditionally what it received as the murals management committee.

The committee will also carry forward $29,495.51 from this year, which means its budget next year will be $39,495.51.

McRorie highlighted some of the group’s activities in 2022, such as:

· Renewing an agreement for 10 years with SaskTel for the Aboriginal mural at 55 Ominica Street West Rejecting a proposal to install a mural on the Snow birds Expressway underpass on Main Street South while continuing to explore opportunities there

Crescent Park to support mental health initiatives

· Approving a mural maintenance plan from artist Grant McLaughlin, who refurbished the Lost Murals, Clark Bros., Cruising Main Street, Centennial Mural, Air Force Blue, For the Veterans and the Discovery Mural

· Purchasing a metal bison sculpture from artist Bill Keen for $8,800 and spending $5,500 for its installa tion and addition of recognition plaques

· Discussing relocating the “Stormin’ Main Street” mu

· Taking a trolley tour to see all the downtown murals Some of the committee’s objectives for next year in clude:

· Finalizing the installation of the bison sculpture

· Documenting all public art in city spaces

· Identifying, repairing and maintaining municipal art, including the murals

· Promoting and educating the public about the com munity’s art collection; updating the murals brochure

and city website to include all public art

· Finding a new home for the Chinese mural and the Stormin’ Main Street mural

· Reviewing the public art policy to ensure all priorities and objectives are met

ter its creation was its budget allocation, explained Coun. Heather Eby, council’s rep on the committee. While the

cant enough for the group to install new public art.

In the past, it would cost the murals advisory com mittee $25,000 to install a new mural annually or biannu ally, she continued. Furthermore, the group would use its funding to maintain murals for one year and then save the rest for a new mural the next year.

“This committee is now looking to the future to accu mulate funds for when we can do a bigger project,” Eby stated.

Bill Keen’s sculpture — on which the committee and

— is an exciting piece and an amazing artwork, she said. While it cost the city $8,800 to purchase the sculpture, the

actual value of it is between $70,000 to $100,000.

Eby commended the committee for taking the trolley tour since it generated conversation about what members wanted to see with murals and where their focus should be.

“It is a fantastic project,” agreed Mayor Clive Tolley.

Coun. Crystal Froese appreciated McRorie’s exper tise on the committee, while she was excited to see where the group’s ideas led. She understood that bigger projects require more money but wondered if the group could pur sue smaller initiatives.

The committee is open to all possibilities, such as painting more benches since they have added to the city, said McRorie. That — and other projects — are not out of the question.

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The next regular council meeting is MONDAY, NOV 28. The next budget meeting is WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30.

There may not have been a cute burrowing owl to admire was a rambunctious shelter dog that wanted to meet ev eryone.

The Moose Jaw Humane Society and Saskatche on Nov. 22 during a 2023 budget meeting focused on third-party groups.

Tankie, a Pyrenees cross, accompanied his handler and continually thumped his tail against the podium as he excitedly viewed all the humans.

ings, but the avian died a few weeks ago and the organi zation didn’t want to risk the remaining ambassador owl, ties to protect the bird.

The humane society wants $253,282 in operating funding next year, an increase of $4,672 from this year.

The burrowing owl centre — located on the Moose Jaw Exhibition Grounds — wants $6,754 next year, an increase of $197 from this year.

Humane Society

Dana Haukaas, executive director of the Moose Jaw Humane Society, spoke about the shelter’s activities and services.

The organization took in 244 stray dogs and 477 stray cats this year, with dog numbers similar to 2021 and cat numbers about 44 higher. Those numbers do not include

or health issues, nor for people hospitalized, in domestic shelters or in police custody.

The humane society successfully reunited 208 dogs and 86 cats with owners, while 15 per cent of canines and

shelter dog steals hearts

82 per cent of felines needed new homes.

as much as the dogs … ,” Haukaas said, although a mi crochipping program should help reunite cats and owners in the future.

The humane society works closely with Animal Protection Services of Saskatchewan (APSS), especially during investigations when animals are surrendered or seized, she continued.

to a shelter outside the community to protect them, while it brings seized animals from rural areas to Moose Jaw.

we’re failing him a little bit at 175 days (with the shelter), but he’s big and hairy and not everybody wants that,” she said.

The shelter’s ability to adopt animals successfully caught the attention of its insurer, Trupanion. The insurer pilot project that encourages people to register for adop equipment and support.

Haukaas added that the organization expects to start a capital campaign for a new building next year.

Burrowing owls

This year the burrowing owl centre faced restric

en, explained bird handler Lori Johnson. Those restric tions also led to 1,800 in-house visitors — compared to normally 3,000 — and lower revenue.

Furthermore, the centre held 15 outreach initiatives, which is higher than in 2020 and 2021 but still lower than the usual 60 events that reach over 1,000 people.

“We may have to reduce some of our outreach pro grams until we’re able to hand-raise another ambassador owl, just so we can Cricket doing as well as he can for a senior owl,” Johnson said.

Johnson added that the centre would use the extra funding to install a new boundary fence to protect the

The next regular council meeting is Monday, Nov. 28, while the next budget meeting is Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Seniors’ groups claim during council presentations to make city’s best cinnamon buns

City council may have to judge who makes the best cinna mon buns in town after the community’s two seniors’ or ganizations claimed they did during recent presentations.

The Moose Jaw and District Seniors Association and the Cosmo Senior Citizens Centre presented to council on Nov. 22 during the start of 2023 budget deliberations. The seniors’ groups were two of 15 third-party organizations that spoke about their funding needs for next year.

The association is asking for $36,771, which is $1,071 more than this year, while the centre wants $20,000 to $25,000, compared to the $15,300 this year.

Seniors Association

The association has 442 members and has begun sell ing memberships for 2023, and so far, it has sold 54 new ones, said board secretary Elaine Parsons while reviewing the organization’s activities.

The association has a café at its Timothy Eaton Gar dens location, which serves breakfast, lunch, and after noon coffee and dainties during the week — and “the best cinnamon buns in the city on Thursdays,” she continued. “They are very, very good.”

Parsons also claimed that the Moose Jaw and District Seniors Association has the best chef and encouraged resi

City to host town hall to discuss safety measures at Ninth NW and Highway 1

The City of Moose Jaw is inviting residents and af fected stakeholders to a town hall meeting to discuss the potential of safety enhancements at the intersec tion of Ninth Avenue Northwest and Highway 1. The event takes place on Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Events Centre in room 204-205, starting at 5:30 p.m.

regular meeting to hold such a meeting with residents, businesses on the North Service Road and other stake holders.

ments and send them to the Ministry of Highways for consideration.

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dents to take advantage of her catering and cooking skills.

The organization plans to hold its third annual seniors’ Christmas card campaign this year, which sees it collect cards and distribute them to all seniors in every care home, she said.

Meanwhile, it recently collected winter clothing for residents as part of another outreach initiative. With the recent cold, the organization encouraged the newcomer centre to send over immigrants so they could take socks, sweaters, coats and other clothing.

“We need money, so we have ongoing fundraising,” continued Parsons.

Some initiatives include an Elvis Presley tribute

out supper on Dec. 5 and an afternoon with Santa Claus — Glenn Hagel will suit up — on Dec. 17 with Grade 7 and 8 students at St. Margaret School.

Parsons added that several businesses have donated money so the association can give every student a gift bag.

The organization expects revenues next year to be $255,507.12 and expenses to be $252,548, leaving a sur plus of $2,959.12.

Cosmo Centre

Before he started his presentation, Cosmo treasurer Robert (Bob) Cobbe joked that he took “umbrage” with Parsons’ comments about Timothy Eaton Gardens hav ing the best cinnamon buns in town, to which she replied,

Jamey Logan chuckled as the rest of council laughed.

Cobbe then reviewed the centre’s activities and ser vices, noting several weekends ago, the organization host ed a four-day square dance reunion that attracted 94 peo the pandemic.

“So they really had fun,” he said, adding 10 dancers from North Dakota planned to come, but “the little snow fall” Moose Jaw received convinced them to stay home.

The centre started a pickleball program two weeks Cobbe said. The group expects to lose $1,500 and $2,000 in pickleball revenue next year because — he humorously pointed out — the city opened new courts this year.

The organization is also facing rising costs for ev erything —repairs, maintenance, cost of living, utilities — and doesn’t want to raise prices because fewer seniors could afford to participate, which means more isolation for them, he continued.

The centre may have to replace two furnaces and an air conditioner next year, which could cost $95,000, Cob be added, which is why it also wants to split building re pairs 50/50 with the city.

The organization has roughly 300 members, while it projects expenses and revenues next year to be $116,896.

“They are.”

Haukaas admitted that she has “pretty high stan dards” for who can adopt Tankie. This is because many people who adopted pets during the pandemic are giving

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Give us a kiss! Tankie the shelter dog, a Pyrenees cross, gets up close to a laughing Coun. Crystal Froese. Photo by Jason G. Antonio

CITY HALL BUDGET TALKS

The next regular council meeting is MONDAY, NOV 28. The next budget meeting is WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30.

While Tourism Moose Jaw’s visitor num bers and trolley revenue in 2022 were the highest in years, the organization knows it still faces future challenges, including an economic downturn and an aging build ing.

The pandemic heavily affected the tourism industry the past two years, but the organization weathered the storm due to grant funding and good decision-mak ing, executive director Jacki L’Heu reux-Mason explained during the special city council budget meeting on Nov. 22.

Tourism Moose Jaw (TMJ) and the Canada Day Committee want $97,680 and $2,663, respectively, next year from the city, which is $2,845 and $78 more, respectively, than this year.

TMJ experienced two “very painful” years in 2020 and 2021 with tourist num bers, as roughly 7,500 people and about 16,000 people visited, respectively, she continued. However, this year felt more normal as it attracted over 25,000 visitors

About 31,000 tourists annually is nor mal, but there were slightly fewer tourists this year because the continued border

Tourism centre’s visitor numbers, trolley revenue highest in years, council hears

closure prevented more Americans from coming. However, TMJ noticed a jump in U.S. visitors after the border reopened in September.

“Our overall revenue looks really, really great this year,” continued L’Heu reux-Mason.

This year, the organization experi enced many victories, from doubling mer chandise sales to $72,000 to breaking trol ley revenue records with almost $100,000 in ticket sales. It also sold out every seat in October — over 350 spots — thanks to its Halloween-related tours.

TMJ acquired a $300,000 grant to pur chase a new trolley, but Transport Canada thwarted its efforts to bring a new vehicle across the border, so it was forced to buy a second-hand vehicle, L’Heureux-Mason continued.

“To say I’m disappointed would be a massive understatement,” she remarked. “I don’t like leaving money on the table from the feds, but this was our only op tion, and I will be happy (because) at least we will have two trolleys next year, which will be useful to us after this year.”

TMJ expects the trolley to arrive in

Numbers

Wakamow Valley Authority (WVA) is pleased with how 2022 turned out, espe cially since some well-known programs — like the farmers’ market and communi ty garden — continued to do well.

Donna MacQuarrie-Bye, the new general manager of WVA, spoke about the organization’s activities during city coun ing on Nov. 22. She had been on the job for just eight days when she presented.

Wakamow Valley Authority is asking for a statutory levy of $346,290 next year, $10,086 higher than this year.

The organization hosted about 20 events this year, ranging from private rent als of buildings to special events, Mac Quarrie-Bye said.

Meanwhile, the Mosaic Community Food Farm did well because it produced more than 15,000 pounds of food. That produce was delivered to charities such as Hunger in Moose Jaw, the food bank, the multicultural centre and Riverside Mis sion.

The food farm has produced more than 68,000 pounds of food since its in ception.

This was the second year for the farmers’ market and WVA saw over 900 visitors attend each week, said MacQuar rie-Bye. An average of 36 vendors attend ed weekly, although the opening day was the largest, with over 55 vendors.

The organization’s special events committee hosted a Christmas craft and had done so in two years, she continued. More than 250 people attended, while there were 25 vendors.

The second annual Valley of Lights initiative is an upcoming initiative in the

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early January.

Meanwhile, Sidewalk Days attracted over 25,000 during the three days. While tourism staff and volunteers were quite tired afterward, they were also very happy to see it return since it’s a major economic driver, she said.

Canada Day also broke attendance records, but TMJ plans to discontinue or goals and takes up employees’ time. How those are cost-neutral.

support its members — 182 and growing — its foremost goal is to operate a visi tors’ centre that is clean, accessible, safe and welcoming, said L’Heureux-Mason. It also wants to offer the downtown ambas sador booth program as an excellent visi tor resource.

Moose Jaw needs one or two new ma jor attractions to bring in more people and out. TMJ estimates that the community at tracts 300,000 to 400,000 total visitors an nually who contribute $70 million to $100 million to the economy.

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Lorne Calvert Campground. This year there will be a 17-foot moose sculpture covered in lights — it was on display in Regina during Grey Cup week — and a family of rabbits two to three feet in height.

Furthermore, WVA is working with Peacock High School’s welding class to create four star displays that will accom pany the candy canes students created last year.

“An extra highlight this year will be the lighting of the Sioux Bridge as you en ter into the (Valley of Lights) event,” Mac Quarrie-Bye said. “Wakamow Valley has programs scheduled throughout the month of December geared toward enhancing the complete experience of the event.”

The goal is to increase the event’s visitor numbers by 3,000 to 5,000 people by extending the event into January, she continued.

The organization’s future goals in clude repairing the boardwalk at Plaxton’s Lake, upgrading campground showers, enhancing parking near the Oval to ac commodate large events, improving light ing at The Sportsman’s Centre, working on retaining staff and increasing capital costs for the Valley of Lights.

“Being new to this position, our pri mary focus at the moment is to ensure the Valley of Lights can be a successful event,” MacQuarrie-Bye added. “And we are still diligently looking for sponsorship for the event and expanding our volunteer base and, personally, becoming more fa miliar with the operations of Wakamow Valley.”

Coun. Crystal Froese commended MacQuarrie-Bye for appearing before council on her eighth day of work and ex pressed excitement at the leadership she

would bring to the organization.

Froese expected the second annual Valley of Lights event to be “pretty spec tacular,” especially with the lit bridge that she thought would amaze people, while she knew this was one of Wakamow’s big gest fundraisers.

“This is one of our bigger fundraisers of the year,” agreed MacQuarrie-Bye.

The VIP night occurs Sunday, Nov. 27, while the event kicks off on Thurs day, Dec. 1 and runs until Saturday, Jan. 7, she continued. Last year’s budget was $41,000, while this year’s will be slightly higher.

“We’ve also added some walkthrough

Tourism Moose Jaw expects to face several challenges in the coming year, in cluding a nationwide recession, she con tinued. However, TMJ believes Saskatch ewan is “extremely uniquely poised” to weather that storm more than other prov inces.

Therefore, the organization’s market ing message in 2023 will likely focus on how Moose Jaw is an affordable place for families to visit.

A second challenge TMJ faces is an aging building that requires work — painting, a new heating system, and a new septic/sewer system — increased wages, building costs, utilities and daily opera tions.

“We are a bit of a jewel on the No. 1 highway. We have people stop in (who were) so thankful that they have a phys ical location to understand what Moose Jaw has to offer,” said L’Heureux-Mason.

The executive director added that over 2,000 people downloaded TMJ’s app this year, the website received around 110,000 hits, and — to her surprise — the physical tourism guides continued to be popular.

nights, which we didn’t do last year,” MacQuarrie-Bye added. “And we have in creased the number of wagon ride nights, so that will be an exciting addition to see come to fruition.”

It’s good to know that the moose sculpture appeared during the Grey Cup festival, said Coun. Heather Eby. Mean while, she thought it was important for residents to know that Wakamow has a year-round disc golf course that enables them to explore “every nook and cranny of the valley.”

“I would not play in the winter,” she joked, “but for winter-loving people, they can.”

Prairie artist and painter William Fred Philpott expresses his artistic style through folk art, oil on canvas

Prairie artist and painter William Fred Philpott is a remarkable painter; through out his career several paintings have been exhibited here in Saskatchewan and throughout other art galleries in Canada.

“Paint what you know,” his father said. These are words that still resonate in his ears and have motivated Philpott in his artistic career.

“I take my sketchbook home, and this gives me my ideas for my paintings,” Phil pott said.

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vases in his home, which are up for sale.

ty paintings that are in progress.

SkArts Permanent collection has a collection of his paintings; he has also won numerous awards and his work is exhibited throughout Saskatchewan.

“I was proud to be included in the group exhibition called A Prairie Vernacu lar at the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gal lery,” said Philpott.

His artistic journey sees him driving around his hometown on Sunday after noons with his wife Winnie, as he makes sketches at every road stop. These give

ished work. “I will pull over and grab a sketch pad and ballpoint pen and make dia grammatic sketches of the scene.”

itats surrounding it. His paintings express his love for rural Saskatchewan.

“I paint from the sketch and by mem ory, and then I incorporate the stories [that

down to the intensity of a glowing coal.”

Then layers of details are added to add more life to the painting.

“I paint expressively with rural life style being my subject.”

He grew up in Central Butte, Saskatch ewan and was raised at Butte Lee Farms. His father was an internationally recog nized purebred cattleman so most of his childhood was spent on the cattle ranch and observing the life of Saskatchewan’s cow and calf producers. At age three, he started painting. He went to Central Butte School and took a course in commercial arts. He later attended Medicine Hat College for two years of Visual Communications and took a two-year course through Art Instruc tion School in Minneapolis.

“I paint in an expressive style of Sas katchewan Folk Art, oil on canvas,” Phil pott said. He usually works on about six canvases at any given time. Currently, he

After several sketches of various what he wants to paint.

Philpott takes several journeys every month that he calls “sketching expedi tions.”

His painting process starts directly on canvas with wide brushes and oil colour and linseed oil. All his ideas come from the prairie lands of Saskatchewan and the hab

Philpott likes to add farm elements with animals grazing on the sagebrush-cov farmsteads, birds playing around the grain bins and relics of the past. He likes to use punches of bright colour mixes like water colour that drip and run with action move ment. He then lets the colours dry overnight as the paintings cure.

After completing this process, he gen tly coaxes the colours by restraining them.

One of his most ambitious projects was a piece of art that consists of four canvases, total of twenty feet end to end. He says his wife was commissioned to paint a panora ma of the Beechy Sand Castles, along with some forty kilometres of the length of Lake Diefenbaker near Beechy Saskatchewan. It took him until the end of the following year to complete it. “I went home and completed the full painting by the end of the second year.”

He wants to display this painting in ex hibitions even though his wife claimed it.

“I have learned that painting is a pas sion and [realize that even though I love it,

as a professional artist,” he said.

In 1985, Philpott’s eleven paintings were exhibited in the province through the Organization of Saskatchewan ARTs Coun cils (OSAC).

You can view Philpott’s personal paintings or eBooks as digital copies on his website; the original paintings are for sale directly or you can buy a printable wall art that can be reproduced on a computer. If you are interested in viewing his original paintings in-person, you can make an ap pointment for a tour of his home studio in Central Butte, Saskatchewan. Please text at 639-923-7113. His website can be found at theartofwilliamphilpott.com.

Mossbank author publishes book on agricultural hail damage

Frozen Fury: Agricultural Crops and Hail Damage by Malcolm Bucholtz, published in March, 2022 by Wood Dragon Books in Mossbank, SK, serves as a resource for farm operators, agricultural students, and hail adjustors.

Malcolm Bucholtz is a lifelong learn er with a passion for math and science. His background includes 16 years in the Cana dian steel industry as an engineer; a mas ter’s in business administration from Heri ot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland a Master of Science in brewing and distill ing in 2017, also from Heriot-Watt.

book, The Bull, the Bear and the Planets (2013), along with many of his subsequent works, gives readers important tips on ancient principles of Freemasonry, esoter ic mathematics, planetary transit lines, and astrological principles.

He is an avid home brewer and regu lar teaches technical courses related to the

science of brewing and distilling.

Bucholtz begins Frozen Fury with a basic explanation of weather and cli mate, and asks whether the current climate change trends are totally due to human ac tivity.

“Frozen Fury seeks to educate the contributing to climate change,” Bucholtz explained in an email. “Factors such as the angle of tilt of the Earth, the orbital path of the Earth around the Sun and the rotational wobble of the Earth all have been proven to have contributed to periods of climate change going back hundreds of thousands of years.”

Bucholtz concludes that climate change is due to a combination of vari ability in Earth’s orbital patterns, natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, and anthropogenic (human-caused) factors. He says climate change is driving an in crease in severe or erratic weather — in cluding hail storms.

What, then, he goes on to ask, can we

do to mitigate the damage caused?

Bucholtz dives into the birth of agri culture, reviews the science on hail forma tion in clouds, notes the experiments con ducted around the world in attempting to suppress hail storms, explains how seeds germinate and the stages of their growth, how crops at various stages are affected by hail, and more.

It makes for dense reading, but Bu choltz remains dedicated to providing simple explanations using diagrams, sim ple language, and bullet point summaries at the end of each chapter.

“While researching this book,” Bu choltz said, “(I) discovered that our high school educational system is not teaching students enough about how crops grow.

“What is also not being taught in school is the fact that agricultural crops that experience hail damage will recover to varying degrees.”

Bucholtz became a hail insurance adjuster in 2020, and there are several sections in the book addressed directly to fellow hail adjusters, such as advice on collecting evidence and integrating tech nology into hail adjusting.

He notes that hail insurance is highly evidence-based, structured around aca demic research on the extent to which var ious crops will recover and re-grow after being damaged by hail.

That information makes Frozen Fury an especially helpful resource for farm op erators. The book can help them decide on strategies to mitigate crop damage, how much insurance to have, and how to help insurance adjusters assess damage accu rately.

Bucholtz in cludes a glossary and reference list at the conclusion of his book, which will surely prove an indispensable part of reading it.

Agriculture is the foundation of society — in fact, society didn’t ex ist before the Ag ricultural Revolu tion. It remains a $2.5 trillion industry and the only source of food for the human population, which recently exceeded eight billion.

If civilization is to cope with the ef fects of climate change on agriculture, books such as Frozen Fury will prove im portant.

Frozen Fury: Agricultural Crops and Hail Damage is available from Penny University Bookstore in Regina or online from Amazon.ca.

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Frozen Fury: Agricultural Crops and Hail Damage was published by Wood Dragon Books in Mossbank, SK (March 2022). (photo supplied by Wood Drag on Books)

The Friendly City Optimist Club celebrates 60 years of Optimism in helping the youth of Moose Jaw

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The Friendly City Optimist Club held an anniversary celebration on November 22, ‘60 Years of Optimism in Moose Jaw’ in helping the youth of the community.

“We are getting a nice bunch of peo ple to come and hope we have a good event,” said Bill Heath, current President of the Friendly City Optimistic Club.

Although Moose Jaw City Mayor Clive Tolley was unable to attend, he sent his well-wishes for the club’s grand cele bration.

“I extend a warm welcome to the Friendly City Optimist Club celebration of 60 years of Optimism in Moose Jaw. Special thanks to Lloyd and Lynann Peth ick for all their hard work and dedication. The club provides funds and assistance to youth projects, programs, pediatrics and various other youth and community activ ities,” Mayor Tolley said.

Friendly City Optimistic Club longtime member and Secretary Lloyd Pethick said the club is very active in the com munity. “We do lots of barbecues for the WDM and we also do pediatrics at the hospital by donating toys every Christ mas. We also help support the Minor Girls Optimist Park on South Hill.”

Pethick is a charter member of the Band City Optimist Club before they merged with Moose Jaw Optimist Club. The club has four other charter members and a total of 38 members in the club.

“I just met people we haven’t seen for almost 20 years, who are former members. Just to see these people, yeah, wonderful. It’s just good to see these old friends,” Second Vice-President Lynann Pethick said.

The club’s motto is “Friend of Youth.” Over the years, since 1986, the club has supported numerous youth in Moose Jaw with their scholarship pro grams, essay writing and oratorical con tests and many more. Right now, the club is giving out $1,000 in scholarships every year. Two receive this scholarship equally and are selected by a committee of judges when candidates meet certain criteria. The

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scholarship is only given to high school students and every youth is welcome to apply for these scholarships.

Optimist projects and activities over the years from 1962 – 2022 have includ ed the Terry Fox Run, Respect for Law, Block Parents’ programs, Life-size out door Snakes & Ladders, Remembrance Day wreath, Chem-Free grads, Sidewalk Days food booth, and many others in the community.

“We want the community to know that we are here and what kind of work we do,” Lynann said.

This coming summer, Moose Jaw Friendly City Optimist Club is giving $7,000 to renovate Optimist Park with wheelchair-accessible walkways and plat forms to become all-inclusive. everyone can have access to the Optimist Park.

“We have got a lot of people from Regina, from Optimist clubs to celebrate and reminisce,” Optimistic Club member Keith McCaig said.

He says, it is always important to keep the youth happy and Friendly City Optimistic Club has been supporting the youth for quite some time. It seems other clubs are taking the same initiative. “Our goal is to make sure the kids are happy, and we pay for what the parents can’t af ford.”

The 60 years of Optimism was cele brated with an evening of festivities, lots of laughter and reminiscing. There was a photo booth where archived photos of previous club activities and celebrations were kept for everyone to enjoy.

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Old photographs of The Friendly City Optimistic Club over the years.

Mrs. Harper, my English 30 teacher, introduced me to Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen

I had the good fortune of attending a small Alberta high school. The Teachers were excellent. My Grade Twelve English Teacher, and Homeroom Teacher, Mrs. Harper, was outstanding.

She encouraged students; was non-judgemental – and, in my case, didn’t care about my inability to spell. Mrs. Harp er wanted to know our thoughts, ideas and stories.

Mrs. Harper was very proud of our new library – our “Internet” of the day. She sent students there to research and write on original topics and assigned topics.

In that small library, Mrs. Harper in

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troduced me to Norwegian Playwright Henrik Ibsen. I was the ninth student to get an assignment that day. I was given the ‘I’ something to write about.

I found Ibsen. He died in 1906, long before my high school days, but his pas sion for social issues remains with me.

Henrik Ibsen is described as the “founder of modernism in theatre” but for me he was the Dude who questioned soci ety and the status quo. The annoying, “Yes but why?” guy.

In 1879 he wrote the controversial ‘Feminism’ play, “A Doll’s House”. It tells

of the lack of opportunity and lack of equal rights for women in male dominated Nor

wegian society.

What is Feminism?

Feminism is considered radical. Web

“The theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.” Ergo Gender Equality. That shouldn’t be radical!

How far has Canadian society come presented?

Do we have ‘gender equality?’ Do we have gender equality in Saskatchewan?

Mrs. Harper wants to know!

LevelUp 2022 convention attracts hundreds of players for school gaming event

When Riverview teacher Janice Lamb was approached by a student about forming a Dungeons and Dragons club in back in 2017, little did she know it would all grow and develop into a popular gaming con vention at the local high school.

But there they were on Saturday after noon, playing video games, board games, painting miniatures, playing cards and, of

course, running a series of D&D sessions, all part of what has become the annual LevelUp gaming event.

Hundreds of participants took part in the proceedings throughout the day and into the evening, marking the continued growth of a convention that has the most unique of origins.

“We have kids from Grade 7 to 12 all

Public Notice is hereby given, pursuant to The Planning and Development Act, 2007, that the Council of the Rural Municipality of Pense No. 160 intends to amend the Zoning Bylaw as follows:

Description

1. To amend Zoning Bylaw No. 02-2013, Section 2, Definitions, by adding the following definition in appropriate alphabetical order:

Transloading Facility: Shall mean a facility used to transfer resources or agricultural products from one mode of transportation to another and may include rail lines, pipelines, tank storage, rail loading buildings, instrumentation, related office buildings, and other related facilities.

And,

2. To amend Zoning Bylaw No. 02-2013, Section 5, Discretionary Use Standards for Development, is amended by adding the following directly after subsection 5.15: 5.16 TRANSLOADING FACILITIES;

.1 As part of the development permit application, the applicant may be required to submit information regarding any hazardous material to be kept or stored on-site, emergency management plan, site grading and drainage plans, and proposed truck routes.

.2 The applicant may be required to enter into a road maintenance agreement. The construction or upgrading of a road and/or approach required for access to the development shall be at the cost of the applicant and meet municipal standards.

.3 Transloading facilities shall not be located within 90 metres of a residence or such greater distance deemed acceptable to Council after consultation with adjacent landowners.

.4 Screening of the facility from neighbouring properties may be required to the satisfaction of Council.

.5 There shall be adequate fire suppression on the site. The development applica tion may be referred to the local fire department for comment.

.6 Council may require the developer to undertake specific safeguards to address safety issues related to material kept on site and nuisance issues related to dust, noise, odour, or similar conditions.

.7 Transloading facilities shall be developed and shall operate in compliance with all relevant federal and provincial requirements.

coming together and playing games, from video games to board games and party games, and a lot of role-playing games like D&D, we had a bunch of DMs (game runners known as dungeon masters) that have come and volunteered their time to play with the students,” Lamb said during a short break from wrangling activities. “It’s been great seeing how this has grown, we’ve had a lot of players here today and we’re really pleased with how things turned out.”

It all started with Riverview student Skie Nancarrow way back in 2017. Look ing for an extracurricular activity, Nan carrow proposed starting up a D&D club in the school to Lamb, and it wasn’t long before things took off -- even if there was

“I wasn’t sure if it would take off, but once they got going, I just fell in love with it,” Lamb said with a huge grin.

It’s no coincidence that the role playing game -- created in 1974 by Gary rules updates -- was a major focal point of sessions running at once at one point.

with it now one of the largest extracurricu lar activities currently in action, even out drawing the always popular sports teams. Seeing that level of interest led Lamb to look into creating a special event, and it wasn’t long before LevelUp came into ex istence.

“We have four tables that play every week, and the natural extension was to collaborate and form a convention where we could celebrate this lovely nerd culture that we’re building up, enjoy the hobbies that we love and have fun playing games,” Lamb explained. “It’s been such a great culmination from one student who had a desire to start something to see it grow into this.”

And,

3. To amend Zoning Bylaw No. 02-2013, Section 7, Agricultural Resource District (AR), is amended by adding the following directly after Section 7.2 w):

x) Transloading Facilities

The intent of this amendment is to give the Council of the Rural Municipality of Pense No. 160 authority to include Transloading Facilities in the Agricultural Resource District (AR).

Any interested person may inspect the bylaw at the R.M. Office during normal business hours from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday (excluding holidays). Copies of the bylaw are available at cost.

Council will be holding a public hearing on December 14, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers of the Rural Municipality of Pense No. 160 Office at 324 Elder Street, Pense, S0G 3W0 to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed amendments. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing, or delivered to the undersigned prior to the hearing. The office email is rm160@sasktel.net.

Issued at Pense, Saskatchewan This 10th day of November, 2022.

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Nancarrow and some of the DMs from the beginning were on hand to help out, too, running mini-campaigns for play ers throughout the day.

D&D has grown in popularity at Riv erview in the years since the club began,

and was a modest success before growing substantially in the spring of 2020. Two weeks after that event, the pandemic took full hold, and LevelUp 2021 had to be can celled.

Fast forward to this past May, and the convention returned in more of a feel ing-out mode while staking open just to students in Grades 9-12. The decision to expand to Grades 7-12 and hold a second LevelUp in the fall led to Saturday’s suc cessful showing.

The question now is just how big LevelUp can go, and that’s something Lamb will be looking into for the event in 2023 and beyond.

“We’re going to continue with once a year for now, but I’d eventually love to see it get bigger and have more schools in volved, too,” she said. “I know there’s a demand for D&D groups in other schools, but there’s a limited number of teachers who can do this kind of thing.

So we’d love to build programs in other schools, and if I have to ask 20 peo ple to DM for me over a weekend because there’s so much interest, I’d love to be able to do that.”

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The Super Smash Brothers tournament drew plenty of players to try their hand at the Nintendo Switch game.

Youngsters could even paint up some gaming miniatures if they felt like in dulging their artistic side.

Players had a choice of a host of differ ent games to play throughout the day.

Warriors Fan on your christmas list!

The Moose Jaw Warriors are off to a sol id start on their longest road trip since the 2019-20 Western Hockey League season. The Warriors picked up wins in two urday. Prince George 5, Warriors 2 riors a quick 2-0 lead. period was out and would go on to put up night with two points.

The Warriors had 21 shots on Prince George starter Ty Young. Warriors 3, Kamloops 2 win of the trip. second.

to hold the lead. loss. Warriors 4, Kelowna 3

Warriors saw a third-period lead slip away ond-longest ongoing run in the WHL. Yager scored a pair of power-play off the swing.

Hockey League.

The winning run has seen the Warriors

Swift Current 7, Warriors 3 The Warriors didn’t get off to a great

helpers for Moose Jaw. win. Warriors 4, Estevan 2 Moose Jaw scored a pair of goals in

Warriors 4, Yorkton 1 goals and an assist as the Warriors opened period. other end of the ice.

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Members of the Moose Jaw Warriors gather for a photo during their ferry crossing to Victoria. They faced the Royals on Tuesday, Nov. 29.

Moose Jaw U15 AA Warriors win ‘C’ side at Winnipeg Jets AAA Classic

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The Moose Jaw U15 AA Warriors have al ready seen some solid results in Sask AA Hockey League play, and now that success is translating into impressive tournament showings.

The Warriors put together a 3-2 re cord at the Winnipeg Jets AAA Classic tournament this past weekend, winning the ‘C’ side in the process.

Moose Jaw opened the tournament with a 10-6 loss to the Regina Pat Blues, but rebounded with one of their biggest wins of the season -- a 5-3 victory over the Winnipeg Wild Red, who hadn’t lost a game in regulation in the Manitoba AAA league this season.

Their luck wouldn’t continue in their they’d lose a heartbreaker 4-2 to the Pem bina Valley Hawks.

The 1-2 record sent the Warriors into

The Moose Jaw Winmar Warriors put themselves back in the win column on

selves with plenty of company in the Sask Male AAA Hockey League standings.

with a pair of goals in the third period and would go on to a 3-2 victory over the Es tevan Bears at the Moose Jaw Events Cen tre.

The win moved Moose Jaw into a four-way tie for sixth place in the 12-team league, joining Prince Albert, Warman and Estevan in sitting six points back of the

Things didn’t get off to a good start for the home team on Thursday night, as Carter Tuplin scored the lone goal of the give the Bears a 1-0 lead.

Rhett Perrin tied the game for Moose

Evhan Allan restored the Bears lead with

the ‘C’ side playoffs, and it was clear sailing from there. Moose Jaw rolled to a 4-1 win over the Parkland Rangers and followed up with a 5-2 victory over the

Southwest Cougars to claim the ‘C’ side championship.

Ryan Gibbs and Carson Deichert continued their solid seasons, with Gibbs

leading the team in scoring for the week

goals and 11 points in the same span.

Goaltender Jayce Finiak emerged as the star of the show, though, as he was named the tournament’s All-Star Goal tender, an honour that could come with

was voted on by Western Hockey League scouts.

2-0 record, 2.00 goals against average and .939 save percentage.

The Warriors were right back in ac tion on Tuesday, Nov. 29 when they host ed the Weyburn Wings, with the score unavailable as of press time. Next home action is Sunday, Dec. 18 when the War riors host the Humboldt Broncos.

frame with a one-goal edge.

That set the stage for the third-period comeback, with Dylan Duzan scoring on the power play to tie things up at the 3:11 mark and Liam Fitzpatrick potting the game winner with 7:26 to play.

Jake Britlz -- who was named the Warriors’ game star -- picked up a pair of assists on the tying and winning goals, while Grady Hoffman also had a pair of helpers on the night.

Ryan Bain turned aside 24 shots in taking the win, Kaden Perron had a 36save showing for Estevan.

The news wasn’t quite as good for the Warriors in their outing earlier in the week, as they dropped a 4-2 decision to the Swift Current Legionnaires on Tues day, Nov. 22.

contest, with Cobe Perlinger scoring the game’s opening marker with 1:05 to play in the opening period.

The Warriors would respond quick en tied the game 1:26 into the frame and again when Hoffman scored on the power play midway through the frame.

Swift Current has sat among the

league leaders since the start of the season for a reason, though, with a quick-strike offence being a part of that. Two goals in 12 seconds late in the second would see the Legionnaires take a 3-2 lead out of the period, with Campbell Pinsonneault scor ing with 6:58 remaining and Jace England with 6:46 on the clock.

England added his second of the game on the power play with 6:53 to play in the third.

Ryan Hicks made 26 saves in the loss, while Berney Weston had 29 saves for the Legionnaires.

The Winmar Warriors had the week end off but are back in action on Wednes day, Nov. 30 when they travel to Saska toon to face the league-leading Blazers. Next home action is Saturday, Dec. 10 when the Warriors host the Regina Pat Ca nadians.

Original 16 Cash League sees plenty of favourites roll to a win

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It was a good night to be a favourite in the Original 16 Cash League at the Moose Jaw Curling Centre on the night of Wednesday, Nov. 23.

Team with the better records all re corded victories on the night, with four of

That included the meeting between Matt Froehlich (5-1) and EMJ Marketing (Joe Gunnis, 2-4), which saw Froehlich

the second for a quick 3-0 lead. Gunnis got two back in the third, but Froehlich used the hammer to score one in the fourth

things to an early end.

John’s Music (Ryan Wenarchuk, 4-3) also got back on the winning track, and had an even better start than Froehlich in his match with Paws N Play (Jaedon Mill er, 2-4). Wenarchuk picked up a pair in the 5-0 edge. The two teams exchanged single points the next two ends, and after Miller hands on a 6-3 Wenarchuk win.

Rod Montgomery (4-3) put togeth er a string of steals to take a 5-1 victory over Pro-Tec Electric (Stan Barnsley, 3-4).

then stole a pair in the second before add ing singles the next two ends to lead 5-0.

ed that was enough for the night.

ProTec Studios (Tyler Krupski, 4-3) followed a similar path to Montgomery in their win over RK Sunview Farms (Dayne Heisler, 0-7). Krupski opened with a sin gle point, stole three in the second, added another single in the third and stole two more in the fourth for a 7-0 lead. Heisler

but opted to shake hands.

The lone game on the night to go the distance looked like it was going to follow the same pattern as the other games early, but Barry Silk (Fountain Tire, 3-4) would stage a comeback to take a 6-4 win over KalTire (Dustin Woloschuk, 2-5). Krupski took a 3-0 lead out of the second end, but Silk got all that back with a three-ender in the third. He then added a steals of one in

the teams exchanged single points the next two ends to give Silk the two-point win.

The battle of unbeatens between BTN Chartered Accountants (Penny Barker, 5-0) and KMS Construction (Ben Gamble, 4-0) was postponed.

League action continues every Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Moose Jaw Curling Centre.

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Assiniboia wins high school boys volleyball provincial championship

The Assiniboia Rockets have done it.

Just over two weeks after falling in the Rockets went undefeated on their home courts on their way to winning the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic As sociation 3A boys provincial champion ship this past weekend.

ping only two sets throughout the tourna ment on their way to claiming gold.

The Rockets wasted little time getting Assiniboia then closed out the round robin with one of their closest games of

That was good enough to send the Rockets into the playoff round as the top they’d have a chance to play for a medal. ware would be gold after Assiniboia con

through their preliminary round pool with out dropping a set and gotten past Regina game.

punch their ticket to the gold medal game. As one would expect from two teams barnburner.

ting up a winner-takes-the-province third

gym.

Things didn’t go as well for the city clones at the 4A boys championship in Meadow Lake.

The Vikings ran into the defending

medal game. win over Marion Graham and closed out That was good enough for a quar decision. around -- Meadow Lake would claim gold tleford.

provincial champion North Battleford

Rockets go undefeated through 3A tournament, defeat Osler in three sets in gold medal game; Central and Vanier miss medals at 4A provincials

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The Assiniboia Rockets celebrate after the winning point at the 3A boys volleyball provincial championship in Assiniboia.

By Robert Thomas

“It’s still kind of setting in. I am super ex cited. I feel it won’t set in for me until I ac tually get there but I am so grateful to have this opportunity,” a 16 year old Brooklyn Nimegeers said about committing to play hockey for the Princeton University Tigers in two years time.

Yes, Princeton University as in Ivy League Princeton. Also Princeton as in the town in New Jersey.

“It feels awesome. The process has has been a long one. Yeah I committed to Princeton (Tigers) and it feels great. I

lot of schools and Princeton just stood out for me compared to all of the other ones,” she said.

Nimegeers was actively pursued by over a dozen NCAA US schools wanting her to play for them.

“They have an amazing hockey pro gram. A big part of why I chose them was because of the coaching staff. They kind of just set it apart from all of the other schools I talked to. They have two Olym pians on their team which is super cool.

hockey team,” Nimegeers said.

At Princeton, the former Moose Jaw Mavericks as well as a player in the Moose Jaw Minor Hockey boys program, will be coached by a trio of the top coaches in elite females’ hockey - Cara Morey, Court ney Kessel and Shelly Picard.

Princeton was a major factor in my deci sion,” she said.

Cara Morey (head coach) coached Team Canada at the U-18 World Champi onships, and was a gold medalist as a play er with Team Canada.

She will also be coached by Courtney Kessel, a Team Canada World Champion player, head coach of the Toronto Furies of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) last season, and Current Head coach for Hockey Canada U18 Team.

the tutelage of is Shelly Picard, assistant coach, a former team USA Olympic silver medalist and four-time IIHF World Cham pion.

“One of the really cool thing about the coaches at Princeton is they all played

at the national level on Team Canada and Team USA. All three coaches are defence which is really cool and that is another rea son I chose Princeton because they are all super experienced,” she said.

The announcement of where Nime geers, now in her third season with the Saskatchewan Female U18 AAA Hock ey League’s Regina Rebels, has yet to be made public with Brooklyn telling only a few people. They have been ‘super excit ed’ for her.

Nimegeers said her minor hockey ca

hard to believe in just under two years the future Vanier Collegiate graduate will be entering an Ivy League university.

“I don’t know what I am going to study in school yet but they told me that is

I am interested in once I get there, so yeah, I am so really excited.”

Nimegeers had a stellar minor hock ey career in Moose Jaw with her former coaches and people who have seen her play saying that as young as the age of 11 she was destined to be one of Canada’s greats in female hockey.

Playing for the Moose Jaw Pee Wee Mavericks in 2018-2019, Nimegeers had 49 goals and 14 assists in the course of 10 games as well as being a member of a boy’s team.

As a 13 year old she traveled to France to play hockey which at that time she said was a trip of a lifetime but with where her playing career has gone since then has just turned out to be a stepping stone along the way.

She would be a stalwart as a rookie with the Mavericks (Midget) U18 A team in 2019 - 2020 and her name appeared numerous times as the player who helped lead the team on one of the most exciting playoff runs in Moose Jaw Mavericks his tory.

For the 2020-2021 season Nimegeers, as a 14 year old, received SFHL (SHA) Exceptional Player Status and approval to play, as an underage player, with the Sas katchewan U18 AAA Regina Rebels. This after being recruited by other teams in that league.

She is in her third year with the U18AAA Rebels and leading the league with six goals and two assists playing de

and 21 assists for a total of 26 points - the top defence player in points for the league last season.

She will be part of Team Saskatch ewan at the Canada Games in February 2023.

The decision to attend Princeton may have been easy given the caliber of the coaching staff and the female hockey pro gram but it also comes with a high price tag - $125,000 Canadian per year.

leagues but I feel it will be worth it.”

According to Princeton University’s web site, the annual tuition is $56,010 USD in 2021-2022 but there are grants available to eligible students with 61 per cent of applicants receiving a grant that covers the full tuition.

Pays - $68.75/wk

“The one thing about Ivy League schools is they are not allowed to offer scholarships so I have to pay the full price there,” she said, adding “that (the cost) is the one thing that is unfortunate for Ivy

Despite there not being any athletic scholarships available Nimegeers says she feels she made the correct decision.

“I talked to a lot of other schools. I got multiple full scholarship offers but the big decision for me was trying to decide the team that (I wanted to be part of). The Ivy League path, the public school path, the private school path but in the end the Ivy League felt the right path for me be cause you get to play at the highest level of hockey but also having the highest level of education which is really cool.”

Nimegeers said the quality of educa tion was “a big factor” in making the de cision to commit to the Princeton Tigers program along with the hockey program.

“I think Princeton is one of the top schools, if not the top school in the Unit ed States, so I think I will get an amazing education and an amazing job out of that school.”

Although her goals are to someday play for Team Canada and make it to the Olympics, Nimegeers sees a degree from Princeton University as a key to a bright future away from hockey.

“As of right now I am not involved with Team Canada but I am hoping to be in the future,” she said mentioning a soon upcoming U18 camp she is hoping to be invited to.

About the jump to New Jersey from Moose Jaw, Nimegeers said it will be a change.

change from Moose Jaw to New Jersey but I am super excited. I never thought I would be able to go to a school like Princ ents (Jody and Natalie) are so excited. My whole family is so excited for me and yeah I can’t explain how excited I am.” https://www.mjindependent.com/sports/ 2022/11/11/former-moose-jaw-maver icks-player-nimegeers-commits-to-princ eton

Briercrest Clippers pick up key win over Portage in ACAC men’s hockey

Two months remain on the Alberta Colleges Athletic Con ference men’s hockey schedule, but it’s already shaping up to be a solid campaign for the Briercrest College Clippers.

The Caronport-based squad put together another sol id weekend Friday and Saturday at the Barkman Arena, falling 4-3 in overtime to the Portage Voyageurs before rebounding with a 3-1 victory in the rematch.

As a result, the Clippers are now in striking distance of the upper echelon of the ACAC standings -- their 5-61-0 record sees Briercrest two points back of fourth-place NAIT and Concordia and three points back of Augustana for third.

It was a bit of a tough one in the weekend opener, led 3-2 through two before Portage tied things up midway through the third.

Blake Astorino scored the game-winner for the Voya geurs in overtime.

Jake Dale and Cole Stevenson scored for Briercrest in the second before Portage scored goals 59 seconds apart late in the period to pull within one.

Brayden Dale scored his second of the game for the Voyageurs at 8:32 of the third to tie the game 3-3.

Kolter Pawlick stopped 26 shots in taking the loss, the Clippers had 36 shots on Portage’s Alex Brousseau.

There were no big comebacks in the rematch Satur day.

period, Dale made it 2-0 early in the second and Jacob in the third.

Portage’s Gavin Mattey scored their lone goal with three minutes left in the second period.

Dominik Tmej had 22 saves for Briercrest, Jacob Gnidziejko stopped 33 for Portage.

The Clipper’s mens’ basketball team didn’t have a lot of luck on their side against Calgary-based St. Mary’s

University, falling 98-66 on Friday and dropping a 113-82

The opening contest saw the Clippers trail 28-15 after quarters.

Oroma Bongomin led the Clippers with 14 points, while Moose Jaw product Danny Mullens scored 13 off the bench and hauled in seven rebounds. Matthew Bry ant also had 13 points and added eight rebounds, while Cyclones product Kaedyn Banilevic picked up an assist.

Caleb Jipp led St. Mary’s with 24 points. Vanier grad for the Huskies.

Things were far closer in the early going of Satur day’s game, as St. Mary’s held a three-point lead after the the break saw the Huskies pull away, though, and they’d go on to their comfortable win.

Brock Dewsberry went off for St. Mary’s, scoring 41 points on 12 of 16 shooting, including eight three-pointers.

Bryant had a solid game of his own for Briercrest,

gomin picked up 19 points and Corbin Gegenbach added 12. Seaborn had nine points and seven rebounds, Banile vic a pair of offensive rebounds.

The Clippers are now 1-9 on the season and tied for seventh place in the South Division.

The Clippers women’s basketball team found them selves in a pair of close battles with St. Mary before falling

The opening match was as close as could be for three quarters -- the Huskies led by one at the half and by three score the Clippers 24-6 to pull away.

Amber Fichtner led BC with 20 points and 13 re bounds, while Brooklyn Martens had a 15-point outing. Melissa Ellis scored 11 off the bench.

Andria Stitt led St. Mary’s with 33 points.

The rematch followed much the same pattern, with

nal frame. There, it was much the same as Friday, as St. Mary’s put together a late surge to outscore the Clippers

Martens had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead Briercrest, Fichtner added 14 points and nine rebounds, Dori Sunderland 12 points and Ellis 10. Maddison Beattie added 10 points and seven rebounds.

The losses dropped the Clippers to 5-5 on the sea son, good enough for a tie for fourth place in the South Division, two points back of second-place St. Mary’s and SAIT.

The Clippers volleyball teams weren’t in action this weekend but return to the court for a two-game set against Lethbridge College during the Dec. 2 weekend.

Clippers split weekend set with Voyageurs, falling 4-3 in over time before taking 3-1 victory in rematch at Barkman Arena; men’s and women’s basketball both lose pair to St. Mary’s

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The Clippers men’s hockey team picked up three out of four points this past weekend in ACAC action. Briercrest Clippers Facebook

Upcoming Events in Moose Jaw

If you would like your notice or event added to this list, contact us at: jritchie@ moosejawtoday.com

Superannuated Teachers of Saskatch ewan Moose Jaw Branch Future meet ing dates: Wed. Jan. 18/23, Wed. March 15/23, and Wed. May 17/23.

Lawn Bowling at the Yara Centre: Drop in Tuesdays @9:30 am & Thursdays @1:30pm. Yara fees/memberships apply. For beginners Moose Jaw Lawn Bowling members plan to be available to demon strate. If you have bowls, please bring your own.

Moose Jaw Prairie Hearts Quilters meet in the Masonic Temple at 1775 Main Street North. Membership Fee is $50 per year. For more information write Moose Jaw Prairie Hearts Quilters’ Guild Inc., Box 484, Moose Jaw, SK S6H 4P1 or email prairieheartsquilters@yahoo.ca Meeting Schedule December 01 & 17 and 2023 schedule: January 05 & 19/February 02 & 16/March 02 & 16/April 06 & 20/May 04 & 18 (last mtg until Sept)

Christmas in Our Hearts & Homes Presents ‘Wrapping Up Christmas’ will be hled on Friday, December 2nd at 7pm at Hillcrest Church, 1550 Main St. N. Guest Speaker is Daycee Richard son; Music by Christy Stockdale and Cornerstone Christian School Concert Choir. There will be delicious appetizers and desserts. Tickets $15pp available at Hillcrest Church Monday to Thursday and on Sunday morning or contact Sharon at 306.631.8238.

ROTARY CAROL FESTIVAL—The Moose Jaw Rotary Club is presenting its 76th annual Carol Festival on Monday, December 5, and Tuesday, December 6. The event will be held at Zion Church on Main each night at 7 p.m. The acoustics at this venue enhance the sound for the ing will be taken and funds go to Rotary projects in the city. Come one and all and get into the holiday spirit!

Church of Our Lady Bingo tales place at the Church of Our Lady Community Centre, 566 Vaughan Street on Tuesday evenings. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Bingo begins at 7:00 p.m.

The Moose Jaw Stamp Club Meetings are the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 6:30pm at the Lindale (north entrance). Call 306-693-5705 for information.

The Moose Jaw Community Choir regu lar choir practices are on Mondays @ 700830PM at First Free Methodist Church. Performances in the community may also take place on alternate evenings. New members are always welcome and en couraged (especially tenors and basses) and no audition is required. New mem bers who are interested should contact the Choir Director Diane Rhodes at 306640-8098 or message us through Face book @Moose Jaw Community Choir.

Moose Jaw Camera Club has resumed monthly Club Meetings. Interested pho tographers are welcome and invited to join and Be Focused With Us! For more information: Wanda - 306-693-7440 or Len - 306-693-7685. themoosejawcam eraclub.com

Toastmasters Big Country Club pro vides a mutually supportive and posi tive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop oral communication and leadership skills,

personal growth. For more information email secretary-3418@toastmaster sclubs.org or text 306 690-8739

Line Dancing every Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. at St. Andrews Church. Call 306.692.7365 for more information.

Moose Jaw Public Library, 461 Lang don Cres. Phone 306.692.2787; visit their website at https://www.moosejawlibrary. ca/

Youth Programming IN PERSON & VIR

TUAL PROGRAMS

Teen Dungeons & Dragons Thursdays until December 15 at 6:30-8:30 pm in MJPL Archives for ages 12-16. New and seasoned players welcome. Registration required. For more information or to regis ter, email youth@moosejawlibrary.ca.

Adult programming

Regular programming:

Tech Time — by appointment only, get help with all your technology frustrations. To book, call the MJPL at 306-692-2787. Moose Jaw Colours Thursday, December 1 at 2:30 pm Join us for a special holiday themed Moose Jaw Colours with some holiday snacks. Come, stay, relax, and colour the afternoon away. All materials will be supplied. Refreshments will be served. Location: South Meeting Room Magic the Gathering Saturdays, Magic the Gathering December 3 & 17 at 2:00 pm. Whether you’re an experienced play er or just starting out, there’s room at our table. Play commander with the group or one-on-one if that’s more your speed. Bring your own deck if you have one or if you’re new to the game, we have decks to spare. Location: South Meeting Room

Youth programming

Adult Digital D&D is a new MJPL club for ages 15 to 22. Members meet every Fri day from 4 to 6 p.m. on Discord and all experience levels are welcome. To regis ter, email youth@moosejawlibrary.ca.

Regular programming:

Teen D&D — ages 12 to 16, every Thurs day until Dec. 15 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Registration is required by emailing youth@moosejawlibrary.ca.

Teen eBook Club on Discord — ages 13 to 19, Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 4:30 p.m. A place for teens who like to read and dis cuss their reading with peers. This month is Once Upon a K-Prom by Kat Cho.

Teen Movie Night — ages 13 to 19 in the Theatre, Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 6:30 p.m. The movie is Uncharted, based on the popular video game franchise. Mark Wahlberg, Tom Holland, and Antonio Banderas bring the star power.

Teen Anime Club: “Tokyo Godfathers” & “Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting” Satur day, December 3 at 2:30 pm Join us for an afternoon of Anime and Japanese treats! We will be enjoying snacks from a Japanese Tokyo Treat box and watching “Tokyo Godfathers” and then some epi sodes of “Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting” together, thanks to Crunchyroll! No reg istration required. Free admission. Loca tion: MJPL Theatre For ages 13-19

Children’s programming

Regular programs:

Lego Weekends! — for ages 4+, every Saturday and Sunday in the children’s de partment. Creations will be displayed in the library window.

Children’s Take ‘n Make Series — For ages 4+, pick up a kit at the library circu lation desk.

Cloud Dough Mania! Saturday, December 3 at 10:30 am Have fun making your very own cloud dough to take home and enjoy some fun sensory activities and stories! Registration required. Location: Chil dren’s Program Room For ages 2 and up. Please register at the MJPL.

Children’s Take ‘n’ Make Series until De cember 6: Popsicle Stick Heroes! Decem ber 7 to December 31: Popsicle Stick Or nament! Come to the Library’s Circulation Desk and pick up a craft kit to take and make at home. Book suggestions and extensions activity ideas included with all Take ‘n’ Make kits. For ages 4+

The Royal Canadian Legion – Branch 59 Moose Jaw, 268 High St W Moose Jaw; Contact: 306-692-5453. Facebook

@ ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION-Branch 59 Moose Jaw. Instagram: @Royalcanadi

all Legion events.

Bingo every Monday evening in the Lounge. Play starts at 6pm, Paper goes on sale at 5pm. Playing ten regular games with 2 parts each and 3 extra games, all games are cash prizes. Please invite your friends for a fun night out.

Dart League every Thursday starting at 6pm. $25 to enter for the season. No membership required.

Cribbage every Tuesday at 1:30pm. Registration at 1pm. Cost $2 and please pre-register your team by calling 306.693.9688.

at 7:00pm.

Chase the Ace/Meat Draw every Satur day. To see the total check out Facebook page on Wednesday and Fridays for the upcoming Saturdays numbers.

For current listing of events online visit: Monthly Calendar | Royal Canadian Le gion Branch 59- Moose Jaw (royalcanadi anlegionbranch59moosejaw.ca)

Legion BR 59 Christmas Dinner to be held on December 10th – Cocktails 5:30 pm/Supper 6:30 pm – Silent Auction and 14 and under $15. Tickets available in the Legion lounge.

Moose Jaw and District Seniors: For more information Call: 306-694-4223 or Email: mjsenior@shaw.ca Fitness Level & Indoor Walking Track open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Wood working area – Monday to Friday 8 am – 4 pm

Timothy Eaton Cafe open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Cin namon Buns are on Thursday’s. Tuesday is pie day. Kitchen is open Monday to Fri day.

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 morn ings @ 10 a.m. - Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday after noons @ 1 p.m.

- Monday & Thursday evenings @ 7 p.m. Fitness- Chair/Low Impact Fitness Mon days & Thursdays @ 1:00 p.m.

Cribbage – Wednesdays @ 1 p.m. Hand & Foot Card Game for Beginners –Thursday @9:30 am.

Mah Jong – Wednesday @1 p.m. 500 Cards – Thursdays @ 1 p.m.

One Move Dominos – cancelled for now. Scrabble – Monday’s at 1pm Carpet bowling – Has moved to the out doors for the summer Line Dancing – Tuesdays @ 10 a.m. Intro to Line Dancing – Wednesday’s @ 11am

Art & Crafts – Monday, Tuesdays & Wednesdays @ 1 p.m.

days @ 1 p.m.

Paper Tole – Tuesdays @ 1 p.m. Nickle Bingo – Fridays @ 1 p.m. Quilting – Every Friday 9am to 4pm Lounge – Friday’s from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Jam Sessions – Friday’s 9 a.m.

Cosmo Senior Citizens’ Centre Weekly Activities

WEEKLY EVENTS

Monday: 9:30am Pickle Ball; 1pm Floor

Tuesday: 9:30am Jam Session; 1pm Pick le Ball; 7pm Friendship Bridge Wednesday: 8:30am TOPS; 9:30am Pick

Hand & Food Canasta

Thursday: 10am Line Dance; 1pm Pickle Ball

Friday: 10am Beginner Pickle Ball; 1pm Pickle Ball

Christmas Banquet to be held on THURS DAY, DECEMBER 1, 2022. Supper is at 5:00 pm, the cost is $20.00 per person and the menu is Chinese Food from the Uptown Cafe. Deadline to get tickets is November 28, 2022. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

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 Thursday at 1:30 pm Crib

Friday Evening Fun Pool and Darts at 7pm Saturday At 4:30 pm is our Meat Draw, 50/50, Gift Card Everyone is welcome to join the fun!

Saturday meat draw @ 4:30pm - 50/50, Gift Card Everyone is welcome to join the fun!

For More Information on anything Hap pening at the ANAVETS #252 Call or Text 306-681-5998 or 306-692-4412 email anaf252@sasktel.net

Everyone Including Non- Members are Welcome to all our events!!

FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES #3395 MONDAY EVENINGS: (– to April, 2023): Drop in Cribbage – registration 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm – play starts at 7:00 pm. $2.00 per person – two person teams. Bring a partner or spare. Prizes depend on

number of persons registered. Everyone Welcome.

WEDNESDAY EVENINGS: (– to April 2023) - Drop in Darts – play starts at 7:00 pm – draw for partners. $2.00 per per son, per night. Everyone Welcome

EVERY THURSDAY: Ladies Auxiliary “Meat Draw” – ticket sales start at 5:30 pm, draws start at 6:00 pm – Meat Draw, 50/50, “Chase the Ace”

EVERY SUNDAY: Aerie “Meat Draw” –ticket sales start at 2:30 pm – Meat Draw, 50/50, Mystery Draw, “Chase the Ace”

MONDAY THRU SATURDAY – DROP IN POOL – 1:00 pm to 1:30 start time. Sin gles and Doubles. Partners draw from those attending to play.

FIRST AND THIRD SUNDAY – Aerie meet ing – 11:30 am

FIRST AND THIRD TUESDAY – Ladies Auxiliary meeting - 7:00 pm

NOW – New Year’s Eve Tickets on sale – available at the Eagles Club Bar – Early

to December 25, 2022 then goes to the regular price of $30.00 per person. Get your tickets early.

NOW - A donation box will go up in the Eagles Club lounge for all donations for our Children’s Christmas Shopping taking place on December 4, 2022. If you have any household items, ornaments, jewelry, toys, gift wrap/bags/boxes etc. that you wish to donate, we will gratefully accept all donations. Our proceeds go to help other children.

NOW - If you have any winter coats, etc. your donation of used winter clothing –jackets, mitts, socks, hats , will be grate fully accepted. Please put your donations outside our Ladies Auxiliary Secretary’s door in the Eagles Club Games Room at the back of the lounge. All donations will go to help Moose Jaw’s Homeless.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2022 – Ladies Auxiliary will be hosting a bake sale in the lounge starting at 11:00 am.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2022 - Mu sic Bingo – starts at 7:00 pm

NEW YEAR’S EVE: 2022 – Doors open at 7:00 pm – Dance to the music of a su perb band - BRANDON and COMPANY –Luncheon Served at 11:00 pm. Tickets available at the Eagles Club Bar… Early

to December 25, 2022 then goes to the regular price of $30.00 per person.

Western Development Museum; 50 Diefenbaker Drive, Moose Jaw. Please call for more information (306) 693-5989. You can read more about the upcoming sessions and how to sign up for the free

return to this popular program, especially because we will have some special guest speakers at two of the sessions. Topics this fall and early winter include: December 20 - “Holiday Traditions”

WDM is once again hosting A Christmas Long Ago on Dec. 10 and Dec. 17. – This is an interactive presentation where at tendees would engage with real-life ar chives from the museum. The session has an in-person and a virtual presentation. In-person sessions will be hosted on Dec. 10 & 17 from 10.00 a.m. and another at 2.00 p.m. Virtual session will be on Dec. 23 at 7.00 p.m. Tickets are required to purchase to attend the in-person sessions but the virtual presentation is complete ly free. Tickets for WDM members cost around $12.69 for adults and $9.51 for youths (5-18). For non-members, $15.86 for adults and $12.69 for youths (5-18). Participation is limited to 25 people per session. Pre-registration is required for participation. To register for this program please go to wdm.ca/winter. For more in formation contact 306-693-5989.

the museum galleries. Young visitors will try and locate these images and record where they were found. At the end of the hunt, there will be an announcement with a great big prize basket for the holidays. WDM will also be handing out a Christ mas at the WDM booklet containing guided questions about winter and holi day traditions, and artifacts archived in the museum galleries. There will also be screening in their Saskatchewan Theatre throughout the month.

New owner of M&M Food Mart enthusiastically takes management reins

Kollin Schmalenberg is a lab scien tist-turned-businessperson who is very happily learning the ropes as the new owner of M&M Food Mart. He’s hoping his enthusiasm for the product and the storefront will retain long-time customers’ loyalty and bring curious new shoppers

“I’m really loving this so far,” Schmalenberg said in an interview with MooseJawToday.com. “It’s been a lot of fun. The learning curve is huge, I’ve never more things I need to do.

“It’s good, because the more I learn, Schmalenberg and his wife are from Regina, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology, concentrating on cel lular and molecular biology.

“I grew up in Regina,” he explained, “and we would always go to M&M Food lots of nostalgia with that.

Gordon Edgar - Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com

dealing with the same kind of sample turn over, say, where things get old and have

ness is sealed in, so you don’t lose the quality of the food, either.”

Schmalenberg has taken a temporary leave from his role at the Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory while he sets up

that with the holiday sample season com ing up, he can put his expertise in creating sterile environments to good use — partic ularly considering how people might be a little cautious after recent events.

“We’re going to be sampling food in the beginning of December, and that’s the

before COVID,” he laughed. “It’s nice having that backwards understanding … of how viruses and bacteria and what-not affect food safety.”

The sampling promotions start Dec. 1, and Schmalenberg makes sure his team can actually make informed recommenda tions to their customers. That means trying the food and learning how to describe it.

Staff at Chateau St. Michael’s Care Home will stay toasty warm this winter with new scarves created by a resident who has been knitting for over nine decades.

“I’ve been knitting for 91 years, so I should know what I’m doing,” chuck led Irene Morrell, who turned 96 on Nov. 15. “My grandmother taught me when I very good.”

Morrell — born and raised in Sas katoon — moved to the care home 15 months ago and has been knitting since making sweaters for her family.

“We’re not selling product we don’t know,” he said. “You can only make up stuff so much, right? You’ve got to actu

at Chateau St. Michael’s

around feeling sorry for herself — which is what too many people do, she pointed out. So, she decided to make scarves for all the full-time staff at Chateau St. Mi chael’s.

Her son bought her $300 worth of yarn — reds, greens, blues and purples — so she could make scarves that suit each care home employee.

Since September, she has produced more than 50 scarves, each taking oneand-a-half to two days to complete. Each scarf has 26 stitches per row, four rows per inch and is 43 inches long, for a total of 4,472 stitches per unit or 223,600 stitches for 50 scarves — and millions since she

“It gives me something to do. You can’t sit and watch TV all day — at least my sight, so I can’t read the way I used to read. I used to read two to three books a day, but I can’t do that anymore.”

Making scarves is not challenging for Morrell, who pointed out that if she can design and make dresses and coats, then scarves are easy. While she has no idea how many items she has created during likely used “miles and miles and miles” of yarn.

Morrell recalled her Grade 1 teacher sending a note home suggesting she do something else at recess besides knitting. maybe that’s a good idea. But I was try

ing to get something done for my doll,” laughed Morrell.

Morrell’s family moved to Dawson Creek, British Columbia during the Great Depression so her father could work. They then moved to Vancouver, where she met her husband, Jim, from Saskatoon. The couple later had two children, three grand children and four great-grandchildren.

The grandkids and great-grandkids know how to knit, but they don’t do it very

top, with real cream and not milk pow der.’”

“We come together as a team and say, ‘OK, if you were making this, how would

with, you know, how do we make a full meal out of it?”

Schmalenberg is happy with his em ployees, most of whom stayed on through the ownership transition. He credits as sistant manager Brenda Kulach as being instrumental in helping him set things up.

laughed. “Now I’ve managed a transition from franchise to corporate and back to franchise, so I’ve been running the store.”

One of the things Schmalenberg want ed to highlight is M&M Food Mart’s Dis cover program, which brings new prod ucts out for sampling every two weeks. He buys some of the product for his staff to

BGC Canada.

“That’s always a good selling point, too, knowing that a portion of the proceeds goes to help underprivileged kids in the country.”

often because they have more interesting things to do, said Morrell.

the avid knitter plans to start working on sweaters for her two great-grandsons. She

take her a while because one great-grand son is 6-2 in height and has long arms.

While knitting is a fun hobby for Morrell, she says her most important con tribution — and one that makes her proud — was reading to visually impaired law students at the University of Saskatche wan for 37 years.

Because of her volunteer contribu

“Woman of Distinction” award in 2007 for her lifetime achievements.

Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

The YWCA gave Irene Morrell a

Photo submitted

Staff from Chateau St. Michael’s care home display the scarves that resident Irene Morrell (front, second from right) created for them. Photo by Jason G. Antonio

Irene Morrell, a resident at Chateau St. Michael’s care home, displays the many balls of yarn she has and uses to make clothing such as scarves, toques and sweaters. Photo by Jason G. Antonio

Kollin Schmalenberg is the new own er of M&M Food Mart in Moose Jaw (photo by Gordon Edgar)

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

-- Mary Kay Ash --

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MISCELLANEOUS

Bike repairs starting at $10, Kids bikes tune ups 20in and smaller $25$35, Adult bikes 24in and larger regular tune up $55, Premium tune up $90. Pick up and delivery available in Moose Jaw. I have 35+ years experi ence with all makes and models. Please call or text 306 690 2611

Large assortment of clean

For Sale Hydraulic bath tub lift for more info call 306-690-7227 or 306693-4321

Assorted electronic ca bles, selling all together$2. 306-681-8749

9 egg cartons- 25 cents all. Toss cushion brown color, new $7.00. Framed mirror, 37 1/4”x44 x11/2”d; $29.00. Red leather look arm chair like new, at Brick is $1600.00 plus taxes, sell for$399.00. 26 bath towels 2 face cloths, $20.00all. Photo album –new $4.00. Brass head board, double size, (was lacquered, so no need to polish) $125.00. Steel bed frame on 4 roller casters, adjusts twin, double, or queen size, ends have at tachment for head or foot board $15.00. Comforter, bed skirt & 3 pillow cov ers, double-queen size. $20.00 all. Navy polar fleece throw 50x60inch es, for household, camp ing etc. $6.00. Dk. brown pleated drapes, polyes ter, with back tab panel, 48x45inches, insulated foam back, and new 14.00 pr. dk brown drape, 96x84 inches, pocket rod on back tab panel, black out.$22.00. Teakwood entertainment unit , on 4 roller casters, adjustable shelves, & 1 with pull-out for record player, or print er, etc. and side pull out drawer for tapes, d’s etc. 181/4 depth x 51” h, x 32”w $125.00 .. 2- 20 kg bags of rocks (natural stone color) for yard, garden, flower/ tree beds etc. $2.00 all 5 boxes firewood for fire pit, camping stove, etc. $15.00 for all. Double size, mushroom color, fitted & flat sheets, washable, & 2 pillow covers 10.00. Call 306-586-9263

FOR SALE: Gold-tipped arrows (6-pack). No arrow heads, just shaft and end. Still in packaging, never used. $50. 306-313-4643.

Wooden China Cabi net and Hutch, medium brown in color and in ex cellent condition, beautiful piece of furniture. Mea sures 82”Hx58”W, 2 glass shelves in cabinet with fin ger touch tri-light. $1500. 8 piece rectangular wooden dining room set, includes table measuring 57”Lx 43”W, leaf measuring 18” and 6 chairs. Matches very well with the China Cabinet and Hutch. Ask ing $1000.00 but would sell China cabinet, hutch and dining set for $2300. Gorgeous 8 piece queen size bedroom suite, queen size pillow top 18” mattress, wooden head board and footboard with 2 drawers. Dresser with 7 drawers, 2 night stands with 2 drawers and mirror. All in like new condition, currents sells at the Brick for over $6000, asking $2500 for the set. Metal wall hanging, 30”Lx22”H, brown, rust, yellow and oranges hues, $30. Met al wine rack, 54”Hx24”W, holds 39 bottles, could easily be spray paint ed to match your decor, $30. 3 dark brown wicker baskets, 15”x11”x8, never used, $15. White-washed glass sided box, used for cards at wedding and as Xmas decor, $15. Asst table clothes that fit the aforementioned dining ta ble, 68”Lx57”W to 100”Lx 60”W, $5 ea. or all for $25.

9 Keuring 2.0 filters, $5. All items come from pet free and smoke free home and all located in Moose Jaw. For more information or pictures, please contact Gale at 306-421-7459.

Kids hoola-hoop - $2. Call 306-681-8749

CLOTHING

Female dress size xl, aqua color, V-neck with collar, s.less, poly /span dex, $8.00. Female navy slacks, wider leg, size med. cotton/spandex, $7.00. Male size 10 Vul can water/mud boots- 13” height, like new$12.00. Male beige London fog coat – new- size 42-44, zip out lining, $22.00. Male profile studio dress slacks, size 36w, 34l, has 1/2” hem if need longer or can shorten, like new, black, $18.00. Wayne Gretsky sweater #99, long sleeve, size 2xl, 1/2 zip at front neck.dk. Blue color, new $15.00. hagaar male , size xxl sweater, l. sleeve, collar, with 3 buttons at neck. Dk. burgundy col or, new $10.00. Female navy coat, mesh lined, new, front zipper and snap closure, pleat at back. Size xl, washable, $12.00. Call 306-586-9263

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SERVICES

Need work done? Con tact Bill at 306-630-2268. Interior/exterior, renova tions, formwork, framing, finishing, tiling, painting and all construction, roof ing/ siding- no job too big or small. Reasonable rates, 30 years experi ence.

OF WORK. IF THEY SAY THEY NEED THE MONEY TO GET SUPPLIES FOR GET IT, TROUBLE COULD BE BREWING. (10) Hope this helps all you people looking for a contractor. Will pick up, move, haul and deliver furniture any where in and around Moose Jaw - $40 and up. 306-681-8749

Will pick up, move, haul and deliver any size of TVs in and around Moose Jaw - $30 and up. 306681-8749

Will pick up, move, haul and deliver appliances in and around Moose Jaw - $45 and up. 306-6818749

For sale: GE electric fry pan, 12 in. square, quality made. $25. Call 972-2257

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KING SIZE SATEEN SHEET SET-Comes with 1 fitted sheet, 1 flat sheet and 2 King size pillow cas es. Easy care and wrinkle

Raised garden bed$40.00. Call 306-6818749

Concrete backsplash, (for under eaves) 29” l x 11”w x3 1/2”h, like new $7.00. 2 bags of rocks (20kgsize) natural stone color, for yard, garden etc. $2.00 all. 5 ft. vinyl scalloped edging for trees, flower beds etc. includes spikes & connector.new$2.00 all. Bulbar garden tool with wood handle. $1.00 .6 plant pots (includes 1 with drain tray) & pkg. of mira cle-gro food plant spikes, $1.00 ALL. CALL 36-5869263

WANTED Help Needed! Did you know Moose Jaw has 2 of the oldest trains, one CPR and one CNR, they are lo cated in Wakamow Park.

This is to all the people who are looking for some one to do work for them. (1) Get three estimates, ask if they charge FOR ES TIMATES if they do, don’t use them. (2) do a written contract, with how long to do the job, and the total cost. (3) DO NOT PAY BE FORE WORK IS DONE. (4) DO NOT PAY FOR BUILD ING MATERIAL UNLESS YOU ARE A SUPPLIER AND IT IS BEING DELIV ERED TO YOUR RESI DENTS. (5) It should not take 5 months to shingle a 1200 sq. foot home. (6) Get names of people your contractor has worked for and make sure they are not his friends. (7) If you are not comfortable when first meeting your contractor, chances are you are right, don’t deal with him. (8) If you’re looking for a contractor, check with your building supplier, they sometime have names of good re liable people that do the work you are looking for.

(9) THE MAIN POINT IS DO NOT GIVE MONEY UP FRONT FOR ANY TYPE

Moving jobs done reason ably: appliances, furniture, dump runs. Call to do it all. $45.00 a load. 306-6302268

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Semi-Retired Contractor – 47 years in business, residential and commer cial. Enjoys small or large projects involving plaster, drywall, concrete, paint ing, taping, texturing, stuc co repair, tile and T bar. I work for the Heritage Society and enjoy beau tification projects. Quality work. Free estimates. Dis count for seniors. Phone Bob Huston 1-587-8891000.

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GREGOR, DORIS

Doris Elaine Gregor (née: Hegge) aged 86 years, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. She was predeceased by her husband of 50 years, Ronald Paul Gregor; siblings, Laverne and Dennis Hegge, and Deanna Mattin (Hegge).

Doris is survived and lovingly remembered by her sister, Marilyn (Dahl) Hegge; children: Bradley Gregor, Lorn (Gizelle) Gregor, and Darla (Richard) Verity; grandchildren: Nolan (Adrienne) Gregor, Alexandra Gregor, Johnathan and Emma Verity; and great-granddaughter, Juniper Gregor.

Doris was born January 1st, 1936 to Thom Julius and Elin Hegge in the family farmhouse near Bromhead, SK, located nine miles north of the Canada/US border. Doris entered the Regina General Hospital School of Nursing in 1955 and graduated as an RN from Graduate Nurses training at the Moose Jaw Union Hospital in January 1958. She became the night supervisor of the MJUH in a nursing career that spanned 44 years. Doris was well known to be the only person to be able to start

Doris married Ronald Gregor on July 16th, 1960. Together they lovingly raised a family of three children: Bradley, Lorn and Darla, in the city of Moose Jaw, SK. They also farmed at Chaplin, SK and then at the Tuxford/Marquis area.

and hard work. She saw things through during the best and worst of times. She was a person you could always trust to turn to in times of trouble and need. Her life laid the foundations of ours. She will forever be in our hearts.

The family would like to thank the staff of Westpark Crossing, and Lorn Gregor who provided for Mom’s care.

The Funeral Service was held on Saturday, November 26th, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. in Hillcrest Apostolic Church, 1550 Main St N, Moose Jaw, SK with Pastor Steve

donations in Doris’ name may be made to the Hillcrest Apostolic Church, 1550 Main St N, Moose Jaw, SK S6J1L3. Arrangements are entrusted to Moose Jaw Funeral Home, 268 Mulberry Lane. Gary McDowell, Funeral Director 306-693-4550 www.moosejawfuneralhome. com

MARLOW, PHYLLIS

January 30th, 1944November 18th, 2022 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mother, Phyllis Roberta Faith Marlow (née: Clark) on Friday, November 18th, 2022 at the age of 78 years. She was a loving mother, stepmother, mother-in-law, proud grandmother, greatgrandmother, devoted sister, aunt, cousin and caring friend. Phyllis’ outgoing and spunky personality, as well as her sarcastic sense of humour, brought smiles to all who were fortunate to know her. Her heart of gold extended to the animal kingdom as well, being known to rescue and care for abandoned birds, stray cats and the neighbourhood squirrels.

Phyllis was born in Halifax, NS and lived in various Jaw, SK in 1987. She was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, enjoyed teaching paper tole, was proud of her various fundraising efforts with local community groups, and maintained a strong social circle of friends.

She was predeceased by her parents, Philip and Laura Clark; brother, Robert; daughter, Velvet; step-daughterin-law, Ava; and her devoted and loving husband, Richard. Phyllis will be lovingly remembered by her sons: Walter (Gillian) Coxe, Phillip (Joanne) Coxe, Richard (Melissa) Coxe, and Kevin (Crystal) Coxe; stepchildren, Bill Marlow and Patricia (Ken) Shields; sister, Maureen White; grandchildren: Brittany, Denis, Tina, Rebekah, Shaylah, Aidan, Alexandria, Kierra, Kaden, Trevor, Amy, Logan, Layne and Tennessee; as well as numerous great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.

At Phyllis’s request there will be no formal funeral service. A come and go gathering to celebrate Phyllis’ life will be held on Saturday, December 3rd, 2022 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Social Hall at Zion United Church, 423 Main St N, Moose Jaw, SK. A private interment will take place for the family at a later date. Flowers are gratefully declined. As an expression of sympathy, memorial contributions may be made in Phyllis’ name to the Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Fund, 268 High St W, Moose Jaw, SK S6H 1S8. Arrangements are entrusted to Moose Jaw Funeral Home, 268 Mulberry Lane. Michelle Ellis, Funeral Director 306-693-4550 www.moosejawfuneralhome. com

LABUIK, HELEN (nee RICE)

With heavy heart, we announce the passing of Helen Labuik (nee Rice) from Galilee, SK on November 14, 2022 at the age of 91, to join her husband William (2019) and eldest son Bill (2017). She is survived by one of her seven siblings and her remaining children Mary, Barbara, Lorraine, Kalvin and Peggy and her eight grand children.

OPINION/EDITORIAL TO THE EDITOR LETTERS

RE: ENJOYED STAY IN MOOSE JAW

The week of November 21, my wife and I spent three nights in Moose Jaw and had a wonder ful time. It was such a treat to enjoy a vibrant downtown as this is something we do not have in Prince Albert.

During our stay we visited the delightful shops, while enjoying the meals we ate in sever al of the independent restaurants.

Moose Jaw is a hidden Saskatchewan se cret and we will certainly return in 2023 to ex plore the sites and sounds we were unable to take in during this visit.

Norman Folk

Kendall Kerr

Obituaries / Memorials

LANGAGER,

AUDREY ELIZABETH 1923-2022

Audrey was born the eighth of twelve children to Barbara and Hugh Halladay on July 22, 1923 and passed November 19, 2022 with her son at her side. She was born in Riverhurst, SK and grew up in Lawson and Gilroy. She often shared stories that demonstrated not only the hardship of those times, but the love, laughter, and music as well. She spoke highly of her mother, and the legend and lore of the Halladay sisters is known by friends and family far and wide. Audrey wanted to join the Air Force in WWII but wasn’t allowed to go once her brothers sent word back to their mother not to let her. As she shared this story recently with her niece and right hand gal, Val, and her granddaughter, Angela, one can’t help but think she still hasn’t forgiven them for it! She never shied away from adventure here at home though! Her love

right until the end) kept her busy as long as her body allowed it. That’s not to say she didn’t enjoy the more cerebral things in life too! She taught most of, if not all of her grandchildren to play Scrabble and took great joy in “schooling” us well into her 90s. She loved a good word search, the Royal family, and music. It was a tough loss when her hearing took the latter away from her, yet through it all she found things to be grateful for. A kind cook at the Villa saving her a fresh bun or two, the thoughtfulness of her nieces and their friends, and a good laugh, often at her own expense. She also wasn’t one to keep her opinions to herself. She loathed Donald Trump and her thoughts on him were quite entertaining

off her many “collections” and notes. She preferred Barq’s root beer over any other kind and Pepsi over Coke. She often worried that those who cared for her, namely her niece Val, was doing “too much” and would forget that in her day, she often went over and above to help friends and family. She was a farm wife. She

Then she was the great-grandmother of eighteen, and great-great grandmother of two. She wasn’t what you would call “warm and fuzzy” but that doesn’t mean she didn’t let you know you were loved - often with a hearty cuff to the arm. Her upper body strength was the stuff of legends! Her other super power was the ability to keep going while being dealt loss after loss. She was predeceased by her parents and her husband, but also all of her siblings, four of her children, and two grandchildren. Her faith was strong and what we believe helped her navigate such immense loss and grief when others may have found it too much to bear. She is

and two great-great granddaughters. She was last living of an era. We have lost stories of days gone by, we have lost the matriarch of the family, and we have lost the quick wit and charm of one of the strongest women to have ever lived. It is hard to imagine the world without her but knowing she was so lovingly welcomed to the next chapter by all of those who left before her makes it easier. Though none of us will ever receive a greeting card with every other word underlined several times, or be told a hideous photograph of ourselves is “natural”, made over the years. Those of us who were privy to her Facebook era will miss the updates and occasional demands for updates on our lives… She went from a time of a radio being a novelty to using an iPad to keep in touch with the world at large and that’s really just the tip of the iceberg of changes she saw in the world in her lifetime! In remembering Audrey, take the time to enjoy the small things in life: a cold mug of root beer, mashed potatoes with gravy, a good ball game, and get yourself some wonton soup, and if you’re feeling lucky stop at the Casino for a spell. The family would like to extend deep gratitude to her niece Val for all she did for Audrey. Companionship, comfort, errands, and advocacy were provided with grace, love, kindness, and compassion right until the very end. A Graveside Service will be held at the Skudesnes Lutheran Church Cemetery northeast of Loreburn, Sask. at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to: the Saskatchewan Lung Association; TeleMiracle; Ronald McDonald House or Saskatoon’s Children Hospital. Arrangements

MEIKLE, VIVIAN JOYCE

Gently, peacefully, and surrounded by her children, on Sunday, November 20th, 2022, Vivian Joyce Meikle joined her daughter Nancy.

Vivian was born in 1928. While living in Pennant, SK, her parents, Edward and Matle Housego welcomed her younger brother Ian in 1931.

In 1948 Vivian moved to Moose Jaw, SK and completed her training as a registered nurse at the General Hospital. In 1950 she married Robert Meikle, and they welcomed mother, she pursued her career as a nurse in a variety of settings: Moose Jaw Union Hospital, Victorian Order

Public Health nurse upon completing her public health diploma at the University of Saskatchewan.

Vivian also gave of her time and talents to many organizations including both the local and provincial Multicultural Councils, the Scottish Society, St. Andrew’s United Church community, and the Order of the Eastern Star, amongst many others. Her contributions were recognized with numerous awards throughout the years.

Most people who knew her would also remember that in her “spare time” she was an avid crafter and they likely have something she made and gifted to them. In spite of all of her activities, she always put her family

Canada, and she travelled frequently to spend time with her children and their families. She also travelled many times to New Zealand while her daughter Nancy lived there and joined her on many occasions while she was working on healthcare projects in locations around the world.

She was predeceased by her parents; the father of her children; her daughter, Nancy; and infant granddaughter, Robyn. Vivian is survived by her brother, Ian (Billie)

Vancouver, BC; daughter, Pat (Mac) Aldred of Moose Jaw and grandchildren Brodi (Pam), Riel (Gill), and Merran (Jesse); daughter, Sandra (Shane) Nichol of Calgary, AB and grandchildren Aaron (Kim) and Mike (Cathy); daughter, Judy (Ed) Fredeen of Medicine Hat,

and Garrett (Randi); and son, Rob Meikle (Catherine) of Winnipeg, MB. She also loved to visit and adored her thirteen great-grandchildren.

and caregivers who have been part of her 94-year independent, resilient, determined, and giving. Vivian was all of these and more. Her house was a gathering place for all and a home not only to her immediate family but also to many others who became extended family to us all.

staff and her resident family at Providence Place where the loss of her independence and mobility a challenge, she faced it with her usual grace, and we are so grateful for the care she received and the new friendships she developed.

26th, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church, 60 Athabasca St E, Moose Jaw, SK with interment to follow at a later date. Wouldn’t it be great to see lots of purple! If friends so desire, please consider donating to a charity of your choice in memory of our mom. Arrangements are entrusted to Moose Jaw Funeral Home, 268 Mulberry Lane. Michelle Ellis, Funeral Director 306-693-4550 www.moosejawfuneralhome. com

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

Glitch

The United States of America has enough election prob lems and challenges that they did not need any glitches during the recent November vote. However, Sudiksha Ko chi of USA Today, on November 9, 2022, wrote, “Election machines at about 60 voting sites in Maricopa County ex perienced a simple ballot printing glitch.” Watch out for those glitches.

glitch as a minor malfunction or problem that causes a temporary setback. The word probably comes from the Yiddish word glitsh, meaning slippery places. [Yiddish is a Germanic language histor ically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews that has become one of the world’s most widespread languages.] Glitsh derives from glitshn indicating to slide or glide. The Old High German word glitan was used to denote to glide. Many Yiddish words migrated into English when descendants of Yiddish-speaking immigrants found no English word to describe what they were trying to express.

In the early 1900s some radio announcers used glitsh to designate on-air mistakes. Tony Randall, of Odd Couple

ing different from the Yiddish) was in 1941 in Worces ter. I got a job there as an announcer at WTAG. When an announcer made a mistake, such as putting on the wrong record or reading the wrong commercial, anything techni cal, or anything concerning the sales department, that was called a glitch and had to be entered on the Glitch Sheet, which was a mimeographed form. The older announcers told me the term had been used as long as they could re

In a 1953 ad in Broadcasting Magazine, RCA boasted that their TV camera has “no more a-c power line ‘glitch es an ad in a 1955 issue of Billboard showing two techni cians monitoring the TV signals that were broadcast on Bell System lines: “When he talks of ‘glitch’ with a fellow technician, he means a low frequency interference which appears as a narrow horizontal bar moving vertically through the picture.”

Astronaut John Glenn, in his 1962 book Into Orbit,

a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical circuit which takes place when the circuit suddenly has a new load put on it.”

From this mid-1990s usage glitch moved into every day English. All sorts of things can be described as having a glitch if something isn’t quite right and you suspect an abnormality. I recently had some medical tests come back that indicated a higher number than normal. I wondered,

to determine if the high result came because of a glitch in my blood or the test procedure.

The world of computer issues has used glitch to de scribe many false or spurious electronic signals that dis rupt a computer’s operations. If you’re a gamer you might even take advantage of a glitch that causes something

game. Everyone once and awhile the lights in our house seem to dim or brown out, and I wonder if it is a glitch in the electrical grid.

glitch is a temporary setback. So, if you run into a glitch, chill out, and move forward. How ever, if it turns out not to be a glitch, maybe there is some thing to be concerned about or there is something that needs to be adjusted. Remember that glitches have been happening since humans walked the earth, but we have only named them such during the last 100 years. As we move into the hopeful season of Advent, may the prob lems in your life be just glitches.

Columnist John Kreutzwieser loves to research words and writes this weekly Word Wisdom column for Moose Jaw Ex press/MooseJawToday.com. He has an interest in the usage, origin, and relevance of words for society today. Greek and Lat in 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

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.

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Tractor, combine supply to stay tight for two years: economist

Ron Walter - For Moose Jaw Express

Farmers wanting to buy a new tractor or combine need deeper pockets and patience with delivery.

“Overall demand for farm equipment is projected to remain strong into 2023, despite rising interest rates and a weakening Canadian U.S. exchange rate,” says a report by senior economist Leigh Anderson of Farm Credit Can ada.

Demand is buoyed by strong farm cash receipts, even with commodity prices softening from peak levels.

Farm equipment manufacturers are expected to in crease the delivery of new equipment orders but inven tory levels will remain below pre-pandemic levels and “could remain tight beyond 2024.”

Disruptions in supply chains by the pandemic have reduced equipment sitting in the lot.

Increased sales of higher horsepower tractors and combines are projected for 2023.

Sales of 100 horsepower plus tractors should increase 8.7 per cent, compared with a 4.4 per cent increase year

to date.

Four-wheel drive tractor sales are estimated to in crease 13.9 per cent with a 6.6 per cent decrease year to date.

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Combine sales should be up 19.3 per cent compared with 2.9 per cent increase year to date.

Impacted by slower economic growth sales of small er tractors, under 40 horsepower will decline fractionally while 40-100 horsepower unit sales will increase by less than one-half per cent.

and the Canadian dollar, which adds about one-third to the American price. Most tractors and combines are made in the U.S.

Should the dollar appreciate against the U.S. curren cy, prices may decline.

Canadian implement makers increased production 10 per cent in 2012, went up 22 per cent to the end of Octo ber and will increase output by 32 per cent next year.

Driven by new implement shortages prices of used equipment have increased. That market will stay robust into 2024.

Ron Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel.net

The City of Moose Jaw will soon have a new therapy business that can provide counselling for families, cou ples and people struggling with mental health issues.

During its Nov. 14 regular meeting, city council unanimously approved a discretionary use application from Jeremy Zacharias to use a classroom inside Em program. The city considers this application discretionary because it does not see the program as part of the church’s programming.

Mayor Clive Tolley was absent because of illness; Coun. Kim Robinson recused himself from the vote be cause he attends that church.

Emmanuel Lutheran Church is located at 15 Paul Drive, just off Ninth Avenue Northwest.

really needed in our community as it is in many com munities,” said Coun. Heather Eby. “And kudos for the church for thinking outside the box and doing things a little bit different than what’s always been done.”

Coun. Doug Blanc also approved this initiative, say ing the community needs — and could use — a service like this. He wondered whether the church would still pay taxes on that classroom despite a non-church business op erating in it.

rector Brian Acker. “(However), sometimes it takes a while for us to become aware of it, but yes, they are as sessed on that.”

City hall received a commercial business licence ap plication in October for a marriage and family therapist explained.

In his application, Zacharias explained that he has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and is an associate member of the Canadian Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He is also contracted through the counselling agency Only You Forever to pro vide therapy for marriages, families and mental health.

Those types of therapies would occur mostly online with some in-person sessions.

The church’s property is zoned CS community ser vice and institutional district, while the closest CS district is about 350 metres south of the building, the report said. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints operates building.

Meanwhile, the closest developed commercial dis 730 metres north near the North Service Road. This area

mainly services vehicle-oriented businesses with access to Highway 1.

The zoning bylaw requires that there be adequate parking for the therapy business based on the classroom’s

ed. Meanwhile, the church’s parking lot has 104 parking spots, “which is ample parking space” for any in-person counselling sessions.

Photo gallery: 2022 Festival of Trees raises $173,000

hospital

The Moose Jaw Health Foundation’s an nual Festival of Trees fundraiser for the Dr. F.H. Wigmore Regional Hospital moved online for the pandemic, so this year’s return to in-person mingling at the Moose Jaw Events Centre was a big deal.

Led by Moose Jaw Health Foundation (MJHF) Executive Director Kelly McEl ree and Festival of Trees committee Chair person Holly Jorstad, that goal seems to have been accomplished.

The Festival of Trees took place on Saturday, Nov. 26.

The holiday decorations were spec tacular, and the local businesses and orga nizations who sponsor the trees went all

out.

Top Chef Canada Dale McKay pro duced the night’s menu with the help of the Events Centre staff.

The night’s grand auction featured va cations and experiences, one-of-a-kind art pieces, and celebrity donations.

Saskatchewan band Rock Candy played the night away, getting guests up

The evening’s total of funds raised for laboratory and surgery equipment at the Moose Jaw hospital was $173,000.

Included are photos of a sampling of the trees that were up for auction.

Gordon Edgar - Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com All photos by Gordon Edgar

Jones-Parkview Funeral Home entry for Festival of Trees 2022 Main

Jadewell Yoga and Activewear entry for Festival of Words 2022

Hillcrest Dental entry for Festival of Trees 2022

Aspen Dental entry for Festival of Trees 2022

Moose Jaw Elks Lodge entry for Festival of Trees 2022

Wayne and Tammy Erskine’s entry for Festival of Words 2022 was a family sleigh ride with prairie Percheron horses

E-bike entry for Festival of Words 2022

Murray GM’s entry for Festival of Words 2022