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Jeers to drivers who hit the brakes at the last second during extremely icy conditions.

Jeers to the limited action on creating reasonable living spaces through a modern apartment complex or two. We can’t all live in hotels throughout the year.

Jeers to drivers who keep changing lanes without checking blind spots, signalling or having a single care in the world. The rest of us care about you running us off the road.

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Cornerstone’s final offer voted on by SEIU

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The Service Employees’ International Union (SEIU-West) fired a warning shot across the bow of the South East Cornerstone Public School Division this week.

Faced with no other option than to take it to their membership for a vote, Barb Cape, president of SEIU-West, which represents about 300 employees in the local public school division, said their negotiating team was handed a final, take it or leave it situation by the public school division just before the Christmas break.

With no other outstanding issue other than wages on the table, Cape said the members will be asked to either accept or reject a two per cent wage increase for the first year of a two-year contract offer and another two per cent hike in the second year.

“They’ll vote next week on the offer and it will take a day or two to gather and tabulate the results,” Cape said.

Cornerstone is the only school division in the province that has reached this point in the negotiation process, she added. SEIU has prepared their opening presentations for the Chinook public division and Holy Family, the other local school division operated by the Roman Catholic system, is not yet in negotiations with either SEIU

or the other service union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

That union recently closed a negotiated deal with Cornerstone that is close to what is being offered their SEIU counterparts, according to Cornerstone spokeswoman, Lynn Little, the division’s director of education.

SEIU members include workers engaged in such positions as bus drivers, food service, teacher assistants, library

“I know there is a lot of pressure on the school division by the Ministry of Education, and the timing of this offer is interesting, but I believe, coincidental.”

– Barb Cape assistants, administrative support staff and facility maintenance employees.

“We had held about seven or eight bargaining sessions with Cornerstone and we thought we were going in the right direction and then we received this take it or leave it, final offer,” said Cape. “I know there is a lot of pressure on

the school division by the Ministry of Education, and the timing of this offer is interesting, but I believe, coincidental.”

Cape went on to say, “the two per cent is below the annual cost of living index and the language in the contract needs improvement, but they felt this final offer was the way to go. To be honest with you, I haven’t talked with our negotiating team yet, but I feel it’s difficult when you force an offer on the employees at this point in the process.”

Cape provided some assurances that whatever the results of the vote are, strike action probably wouldn’t be the first or preferred option.

“We would probably choose mediation, or ask for it,” said Cape, and Little echoed that sentiment of mediation or conciliation as being preferred over a strike.

“I don’t think this group of employees has ever struck before, so I don’t see them wanting to do it right away, but I have heard rumblings of discontent with the offer and it’s timing,” said Cape.

She added, “good faith negotiations require more than a few meetings to find and meet the needs of the employers and employees.

I don’t think enough effort was expended on this contract, before they gave our union a take it or leave it situation.”

By looking for other

immediate options, other than strike, Cape said SEIU could provide assurances to mothers and fathers of students that there are a number of steps that would have to be taken before they picked up picket signs and removed themselves from the workplace. She said the Labour Ministry has to be notified as well as the Education Ministry and the school division.

Little said strike action would probably not “shut the system down, but at the end of the day, student safety and welfare is the priority. But, I believe we’re a long way off from that at this stage.

I definitely hope this will be resolved.”

Cape agreed that any strike action would not be imminent, but if it was deployed, it would eventually impact the school division negatively since they would be without janitorial and utilities service,

library assistants, education assistants, front office and administration support personnel on several fronts.

“This is just a heads up to the division so they can be aware and that no one is caught off guard,” said Cape.

Little said the division’s bargaining team had felt they were down to the point where they were near

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The Annual January CLEARANCE is on now!

Don’t abandon your responsibilities Winter, and the freezing temperatures it creates, can result in many frowns and resentment towards quests beyond the fireplace. It also creates a rearrangement of priorities as the holidays roll around, and unfortunately, this often means neglect of the furry members of the family.

It’s no secret that pet abandonment - an example of irresponsibility that cannot be excused no matter what season it is - increases during the winter months.

The recent vomit-inducing scenario about the two dogs found frozen in garbage bags in Prince Albert is a story I’m sure many couldn’t stomach past the headline.

Tragically, it’s no doubt just one of the many similar situations where a dog or a cat is stranded in the blistering cold.

As if the situation isn’t awful enough, this lack of care extends beyond animals and has even infected the lives of human beings. Just look at the toddler in Winnipeg who was found abandoned in a recycling

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Stories like this irk me. The mother of the child, who obviously didn’t throw her toddler out herself but was making poor decisions when she decided to host a party with a bunch of intoxicated teens while her child was in the house, could have done so much to prevent this from happening.

Both of these outcomes could have been so different with minimal effort.

If you do find yourself during, before or after the holidays, in a situation where you can no longer care for your animals, please, at least, put them up for adoption if you cannot find a friend or family member to take care of them.

Animals aren’t stuffed dolls that one can decide to just throw away at a moment’s notice. Having a pet is a significant responsibility to embrace.

It goes without saying that children are a monumental responsibility, too. Having fun with friends while being a new parent is obviously

Writing Prevents That Sinking Feeling bin. Not only was she tossed carelessly into the bin after having her face crushed by the weight of a senseless teenager who tripped and fell on her, she spent 15 minutes alone in the freezing cold. Only the intervention of a young man, who found her shortly after, prevented the situation from escalating further to new levels of tragedy.

I don’t fully know where I’m trying to go with this spiel, but the lack of common sense on display in all of the aforementioned scenarios is startling. I would put an adjective before the word startling that would emphasize how startling it really is, but that word is not allowed here.

The owner of the dogs shouldn’t have made the decision to have pets. Simple as that, and I hope he or she feels horrible and is never given the responsibility of caring for an animal. I love animals

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by Carson Demmans and Jason Sylverstre. attainable and I’m sure, at times, even necessary. That brain thingy, however, has to be turned on and put to good use as well. If you are having a bunch of young people over for drinks, try and find someone, friend or family, who can take care of your child. If not, look at your guest list and gauge how hard they party. Are they a danger to your child? Yes? Don’t

invite them, and if they are your friends and you trust them to some extent, tell them to tone it down.

The winter season can be tough to get through sometimes for multiple reasons. It’s also the season that literally has the ability to deteriorate a person’s mood. But that’s no excuse for abandonment. Pay attention, assess the situation, and act accordingly.

Good to know some gardening Strange things continue to inspire thoughts of farming for me.

A couple of nights before the old year turned to the new I was watching Jeopardy. It’s a show I have to admit I love, and tape daily, which allows a quick fast forward through the advertisements and boring talks to contestants, turning the show into about 18-minutes a day of mind exercise.

I fail mightily on categories about American politics, opera and a host of others, but I manage to get a few answers daily, and I like the challenge of it.

However, back to the particular episode. There were a couple of questions where flowers were the response, the azalea on one occasion, and the other now forgotten. But I managed to pluck both answers from my mind ahead of the contestants, which I have to thank my paternal grandparents for. Both were avid gardeners, both to fill the larder, and for the aesthetics of beautiful flowers.

I had not really thought the gardening gene had made it from their generation to mine, but at least some of the knowledge stuck.

And, while I am now graying around the temples, largely because most of my hair has long ago fled to greener pastures somewhere, I may be beginning to manifest some gardening interest.

As an example, I have long marveled at bonsai trees, and am thinking that I may take the plunge

Calvin Daniels Trader Agriculture Columnist to try growing one this year.

I also have to say, as I was contemplating a topic for this week’s column I was sitting with a coffee in hand looking out the window of the restaurant on a frosty, but bright morning, and my mind somehow settled on how in my youth my parents and grandparents would be anticipating gardening catalogues arriving as the New Year arrived.

The winter solstice might be the actual signal of lengthening days, and the calendar turning heralds a new year, but the gardening catalogues somehow made those days warmer. Spring seem so much closer as well.

Now as a suite resident there is no garden for me to tend, and I’m not sure I would if there was space. But I do know I could.

I understand planting, weeding, watering, fertilizing, watching for insect issues, and harvesting.

I might need a quick refresher, but the idea of blanching and freezing vegetables is not foreign

to me, nor the basics of canning, although no bean deserves the indignantly of being canned from what I recall of the texture of the darned things on the plate.

But, I sit here knowing that while my son might be able to read a book and grasp the concepts of preserving food, he has not seen it at the elbow of parents as I did.

There is a loss of the intergenerational transfer of the basic skills of feeding oneself.

I truly wonder if you dropped a dozen chickens at every home in a city like Regina today, how many people would know how to care for them, gather eggs, and butcher them for the table if needed?

And it goes farther than food too.

I profess I might succeed at sewing on a button, but it would be an ugly job.

Darn a hole in a pair of socks? You might as well ask me to operate on a brain.

Somehow we have allowed ourselves to have complete faith in food filling store shelves from now until eternity.

We are more comfortable buying new socks than taking a moment to repair the old.

Such things might be seen as progress I suppose, but I am left wondering what happens should we need once more to garden to fill larders to survive? What if we were required to do so without the stocked shelves of department stores?

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Cadet Tucker Sharp, 13, son of Tom and Shelley Sharp of Carlyle, will be off to the Saskatchewan Provincial Biathlon in February held at Camp Saskadet. After winning the junior division (12-years to 14-years-old) with a time of 19 minutes and 59 seconds, he qualified for the provincial race, which takes from on Feb. 6 to 8.

This is also Tucker’s first year in the Air Cadets.

What is about the biathlon you enjoy?

I like to run, that’s my thing. I’m also in cross-country and the biathlon is like that but there’s shooting in it too.

I have an interest in guns as well, so it’s a lot of my interests in one event.

How do you train for it?

In the biathlon you do skate skiing, not just cross-country running. I haven’t been able to train yet with the skiing, so I’ve just been running to stay conditioned. I’m hoping that Kenosee grooms their trails because it can’t be light snow, it has to be pact down, otherwise you can’t skate ski.

What’s the difference between skate skiing and regular cross-country skiing?

Normal cross-country skis have gripped bottoms that you can push off with. Skate skiing skis have a smooth flat bottom, that’s why it’s called skate skiing because you’re basically skating. You push off with your poles and your legs at the same time and move forward like your skating.

Cross-country is more like walking, skate skiing is more like skating.

What does a biathlon consist of?

In a biathlon there are three laps, and they consist of two shooting ranges.

Each of them has five targets. So you skate ski about a kilometre and shoot five targets. Then you go ski kilometre and shoot a target. Then you ski another kilometer to the finish line. The first time I did it I ran it, so I’m not exactly sure if the distances are different with skis. There’s a 30 second delay between each person at the start so everyone isn’t bunched up. In the Olympics you carry your gun, here our guns are waiting for us by the targets. We are using .22s this time instead of air rifles. Once you get up to the gun range you have your bullets next to you, which you have to load yourself. In the Olympics if you miss a target you have to skate a penalty lap. For us, it’s just extra time added to our final score.

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Bruins overcome Terriers in overtime The CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins played through a thrilling game against the Yorkton Terriers on Jan. 6, a game that had to be decided in a shootout.

The Bruins opened the scoring first during the opening period when Taylor Ross scored a power play goal from Charlie Manley and Keegan Allison. Dylan Johnson tied it up late in the period, scoring his fifth of the season.

Shots were 10-10.

Kurt Sonne spearheaded the Bruin’s scoring blitz in the second period, while Chase McKersie was able to increase the Bruins lead to two 11:14 into the period after taking a feed from Zach Douglas.

Yorkton came out in the third all barrels blazing, and scored three unanswered goals in the first eight minutes (Evans, Gatzke, Rossiter) to take their first lead of the game 4-3. Bruins’ goal keeper, Tyler Fuhr, made some

key saves, and was able to tie the game on a two on one rebound opportunity by Keaton Longpre, which eventually sent the match into overtime. Shots in the third were 22-10 for Yorkton for a total of 39-37 after regulation.

Overtime was filled with opportunities for Estevan.

The Bruins controlled most of the play, but Terrier goaltender Dawson MacAuley was impenetrable and forced the game into a shootout.

Estevan was up first and Zach Douglas pushed his shootout record to 5/5 on the year as he scored on his attempt. Riley Hunt went first for the Terriers and failed on the five-hole opportunity. Mahlon Head was up next for the Bruins and beat MacAuley high glove side, giving the Bruins a two goal advantage. Brandon Soorko failed to keep the shootout going as Fuhr robbed him with the glove to put an end to the game, giving the Bruins two big points, gaining one in Yorkton.

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• Family Play Date!

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• Manga Club 2:00 pm @ Estevan Public Library • Beginner Yoga 2:00 pm @ Estevan Public Library

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• ECS Senior Boys basketball tournament Friday and Saturday

• Intro to Needle Felting 3D Creatures Part 2 10:30 am @ Estevan Public Library

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• Exhibition reception 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm @ Estevan Art Gallery & Museum

• Bruins road game Estevan Bruins @ Melville • KUDU Youth Bonspiel Friday, January 16, 2015 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm

• Puck N Funny Comedy/Pasta Night 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm @ Wylie Mitchell Hall

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Annual draft introduced to SJHL

W M e’ ov ve ed !

The multi-purpose room at Affinity Place was bustling with basketball action on the weekend.

A long-lasting discussion surrounding a draft within the SJHL has come to an end.

Starting this summer, the SJHL will hold a draft in which Saskatchewan prospects who have completed their bantam hockey are eligible.

Players’ rights will be determined by who picks them in the draft.

Players who live directly in one of the 12 SJHL centres will continue to be protected by that team automatically and not included in the 50man list.

SJHL president Bill Chow said the matter of the auto-protects was one of the main concerns coaches and governors had.

“We’ve talked about different scenarios and one of the concerns was the local players being protected, being able to still protect them under the rules we currently have and then moving forward into the draft. I think that’s eased some concerns in that regard.”

Chow said the draft, which was announced on New Year’s Day, had been approved at one of the governors’ meetings in 2014.

Under the current system, players can be added to a team’s 50-man protected list

on their 15th birthday, and the team that lists the player first gets his SJHL rights.

The 2015 draft will take place during the league’s annual general meetings in early June. It will consist of six rounds, with teams drafting in reverse order of the previous year’s standings.

Teams must have an open spot on their 50-man list to draft a player. Players who go undrafted can be listed by any team on their 15th birthday.

Draft picks can be traded at any time of the year.

Chow said one of the biggest benefits to holding a draft is allowing teams to establish a long-term relationship with their prospects, helping them convince their youngsters to play for them.

“When it comes to recruiting and retaining players, we just felt like in similar other drafts, you allow the teams to then have the opportunity to recruit and retain that player over a period of two to three years before they actually have to play for you. It’s a different relationship than we have currently.

“It’s a little bit more exposure for the league and teams in that regard. Still having (undrafted) kids going to spring camp, it allows you an opportunity to then learn

more about the player, learn more about the family and then when it comes to drafting that player in June, whether that’s what your choice is or not. I just think it’s a better opportunity to build some relationships.”

The Manitoba Junior

Hockey League holds a draft, while the Alberta Junior Hockey League and British Columbia Hockey League do not.

Chow said there was a committee of SJHL coaches that put the details of the draft together.

“So a lot of the teams had input into the draft and how they would see it work.

I don’t really see that there were any concerns. I think a lot of those concerns have been dealt with,” Chow said.

One potential worry is that top prospects may not

want to play for the team they’re drafted by and could end up leaving the province.

“If that’s the situation, that’s where the team has to sit down with the player and his family and discuss what’s going to be in the interest of both parties. “

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“Animal welfare is and always will be a priority for us,” Saskatchewan SPCA Board of Directors

President Constance Roussel said, noting they had a lengthy discussion about which direction to move in going forward, and felt that focusing on education and prevention would serve animals better.

“We thank the ministry for working with us through this transition and look forward to continuing to work with them under our new focus,” he said.

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Because you’re in a resourceful frame of mind today, you will be clever about introducing reforms and improvements to your job. You might decide to improve your health as well.

TAURUS

(April 20 to May 20) A discussion with someone powerful might lead you to think of new ways to relate to children.

Similarly, a powerful discussion might give you better advice about how to handle romance.

GEMINI

(May 21 to June 20) Think about how you can reduce your debt today and get a better handle on issues with shared property. You can come up with some good ideas. Talk to others.

CANCER

(June 21 to July 22) Conversations with partners and close friends, especially females, will be powerful today. Someone might advise you on how to pull your act together.

LEO

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There is always room for improvement.

VIRGO

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LIBRA

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SCORPIO

(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) A powerful discussion with a female in a group situation might cause you to alter your goals. Try to come up with what is best for everyone concerned.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) People in authority will be impressed with your suggestions today, especially if they relate to cutting costs and making improvements. Not to worry, because you see ways to do this!

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Someone might convince you of his or her way of thinking regarding politics, religion or racial issues today. This person’s arguments are very persuasive!

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You might see a better way to handle something related to shared property, inheritances or your debt. What can you do to improve your approach to these areas?

PISCES

(Feb. 19 to March 20) A frank discussion with someone close to you actually might improve the relationship itself. This is a good day to put your cards on the table.

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Bicentennial is here for Father of Confederation

By Arthur Milnes Special for the Southeast Trader Express For better or for worse, Canadians have traditionally not done a very good job in honouring our heroes, particularly past political leaders.

Unlike our American and British cousins, and peoples in many other nations, we have been collectively hesitant to do so.

Until now that is.

With the bicentennial of the birth of Canada’s Father of Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald on Jan. 11, being marked across Canada and in his home Canadian community of Kingston this month, the tide is turning.

From Prime Minister Stephen Harper on through historians, playwrights, historical societies, students and so many others, Canadians are uncharacteristically pausing to consider the life and legacy of an immigrant to our shores who went on to found and then transform a great nation.

And that is a good thing, because in considering the story of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canadians are realizing that in our first prime minister we were

very fortunate to have such a skilled man on the scene when our young nation needed leadership most.

And in Sir John A. Macdonald we had a leader who would have ranked as front bench material anywhere in the world.

Before Macdonald, joined by Cartier, Brown, McGee and select others, got to work, what was to become Canada, to use a modern phrase, was a failed state. So rife with division was it that we could not even pick a capital city.

Divided by race, religion, geography and so much more, no betting person back then would have laid down serious money and backed our future.

But Macdonald of Kingston did.

“We are a great country and shall become one of the greatest in the universe if we preserve it,” he said.

“We shall sink into insignificance and adversity if we suffer it to be broken.”

This wily politician, a man who reeked of humanity and all its juices, played the key role in bringing the Fathers of Confederation to the table. Once he had them in his pocket, he went on to extend his vision for Canada all the way to the

Pacific coast.

By the time he died in 1891, in office still as prime minister after 19 years, Canada was a transcontinental reality, united by a band of steel. The CPR was a feat of engineering and raw political will that still boggles the mind and continues to spark the Canadian imagination.

By advancing his vision, Macdonald – through six majority victories and while experiencing political ups and downs that would have crushed a lesser man and leader – forever ensured the existence of a distinct nation, separate from the United States, on the northern half of our continent.

If that isn’t greatness I don’t know what is.

Were there mistakes made on the road to cementing the Canadian nation?

Absolutely. Building the CPR came at great cost to Chinese labourers and Aboriginal peoples. The execution of Louis Riel left divisions that still haven’t fully healed. The Pacific Scandal makes the Watergate break-in, by comparison, seem like an amateur sideshow.

And on the personal front, our Father of Con-

federation’s drinking would not be tolerated in today’s less forgiving times. But historians and commentators largely agree that Sir John A. had it right when he told the Canadians of his day that “this country prefers John A. drunk to George Brown sober.”

Indeed it did.

Upon his death it was his most worthy political opponent, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who summed Macdonald’s continuing challenge to Canadians best. It is one we still must rise to in our

own time.

“Before the grave of him who, above all, was the Father of Confederation,” Laurier told a hushed House of Commons in June of 1891, “let not grief be barren grief; but let grief be coupled with the resolution, the determination that the work in which the Liberals and Conservatives, in which (George) Brown and Macdonald united, shall not perish, but that though (a) United Canada may be deprived of the services of her greatest men, still

Canada shall and will live.”

Perhaps Canadians are turning a more mature page in taking time to pay tribute to Sir John A. Macdonald.

We are debating, discussing him in our schools and finally, and most importantly, embracing the Macdonald legacy.

It is very hard to separate the Macdonald story from that of the Canadian community that defined him most, as he in turn defined it. I speak, of course, about Kingston, Ontario. ⇢Pg.19

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Celebrations Government provides $1.5 million centred in in charitable gaming grants Kingston ⇠Pg.17 That is why so many of the celebrations and commemorations of the Father of Confederation’s bicentennial are centred in Kingston. The community, in fact, is inviting all Canadians to come “home” to Kingston in 2015. An impressive suite of activities and events are planned for all of 2015. You can learn more at www.canadacomeshome.ca Until then, and as we mark Sir John A.’s bicentennial in communities from coast-to-coast-tocoast this month, let us, together, celebrate what matters most: Canada itself.

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Happy 200th birthday Sir John A. Thank you for the country you bequeathed us.

Arthur Milnes is a journalist and political speechwriter, and he is the City of Kingston’s Sir John A. Macdonald Bicentennial Ambassador and the co-editor, with Dr. Sarah Gibson, of Canada Transformed: The Speeches of Sir John A. Macdonald, A Bicentennial Celebration, published by McClelland and Stewart.

More than 700 groups across the province are receiving a total of about $1.5 million through the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA)’s charitable gaming grant program.

“Volunteers in our communities are the people that coach minor sports, the local residents who work to raise funds for a new community facility or the individuals that tirelessly give their time to a service club,” Minister responsible for SLGA Don McMorris said in a press release. “We’re grateful to have such generous people in our communities and our government is pleased to recognize those efforts by providing additional dollars through the charitable gaming grant program to help

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NOTICE NEW TRAFFIC SIGNS Public Notice is hereby given that the City of Estevan has amended the Traffic Bylaw to erect new traffic signs at the following locations: Stops signs: • On Larter Road – West Bound to stop at Nicholson Road; • On Larter Road – North Bound to stop at Morsky Drive; • On Nicholson Road – North Bound to stop at Morsky Drive; and, • On Morsky Drive – East Bound to stop at Highway 47 North.

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The City of Estevan invites interested citizens to sit on the following council committees: • Estevan Board of Police Commissioners - 1 year term • CP Rail Advisory Committee - 1 year term Please respond in writing by January 16, 2015 to: City Clerk, 1102 - 4th Street, Estevan, SK, S4A 0W7 • Ph: 306-634-1852, Fax: 306-634-9790 email: cityclerk@estevan.ca

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