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Teddy Bear Talent . . . Canada Music Week was a different beast this year with a socially distanced performance at the Biggar Majestic Theatre, Tuesday. The concert, which raises money for the Theatre, had performers come to perform in smaller groups with no audience other than parents. A video of the concert will be broadcast this Friday on the Biggar Music Festival Association’s Facebook page. We will feature more pictures in next week’s Independent. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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Remembrance Day services were cancelled across the country or substantially revised to meet socially distanced rules. In Biggar, Legion members held a private, socially distanced service at the cenotaph to remember and honour those from our area who served and to those who lost their lives in service to their country.

While short, the service was no less poignant and moving.

(Independent Photos by Kevin Brautigam)

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Biggar Senior Nats to stream games On Demand Biggar’s Senior Nationals will be hitting the airwaves with the installation of LiveBarn, an On Demand streaming service.

The move comes due

to the limited amount of people allowed at the rink due to pandemic concerns.

Two cameras will be installed to cover the games. One camera will

show the ice surface. It will have the ability to show a panoramic view or a tracking view, allowing viewers to follow the action on the ice. A second camera will show the

score clock. When watching, the score clock will always be positioned in the corner of the viewers screen.

The Town is looking to get LiveBarn installed in the rink, and will be taking the necessary steps to install the equipment.

Once installed, people will have the option to subscribe to LiveBarn.

The basic monthly package is $17.95/month.

Anyone who is a LiveBarn subscriber can view any arena that is set up with LiveBarn.

With the current

COVID-19 pandemic, the Senior Nationals are excited about this service and how it will give fans a chance to watch what they want to watch, and give relatives or friends that do not live close a chance to see as well.

New Legislature To Sit Starting November 30 Premier Scott Moe announced this week that the first session of the new Legislative Assembly will begin on Monday, November 30.

The session will begin with the election of the Speaker in the morning followed by the Lieutenant Governor delivering the Throne Speech in the afternoon.

“Our government has received a new mandate from the people of Saskatchewan and I know all MLAs on both sides of the House are looking forward to getting into the Assembly and debating the important issues facing our province,”

Operation Christmas Child concludes . . . Linda Dyck and Pastor Doug Motz show just some of the many boxes filled with items collected from the Operation Christmas Child Shoebox campaign. A total of 85 boxes were filled with items that will go to children in struggling nations. While the numbers were lower than in previous years, 85 was still a healthy number considering the current pandemic, and local volunteers have to be commended for their efforts. (Independent Photo by

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Moe said. “Of course, our immediate focus with be on managing through the ongoing pandemic keeping Saskatchewan people safe while keeping our economy open and working toward a strong recovery.”

The Assembly has been reconfigured to create more space for safe physical distancing between the members and plexiglass shields are being installed on the desks. Members will all wear masks when in the Assembly. The number of members who will be present in the Assembly at one time remains under consideration.

The fall sitting is expected to last two weeks, which will allow for debate and passage of the Throne Speech and introduction of several pieces of legislation, including bills required to fulfil the government’s campaign commitments.

“We are grateful that the people of this great province gave our government a strong renewed mandate to keeping building a strong economy, strong communities, strong families and a strong Saskatchewan, and that’s exactly what we intend to do,” Moe said.

Day Care Pizzeria . . . Biggar and District Daycare Director, Erin Hadden, left, looks over the items in their fund raiser as Kevin Fick, centre, picks up his order, Thursday, November 12. The local day care raised $1,600 on the socially distanced day, much needed operating funds! (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

Gov’t of Canada supports 340 jobs in Sask. through targeted help A $1.925 million fund has been announced to support Saskatchewan jobs through the pandemic.

From the outset, the Government of Canada has taken action to support businesses affected

by COVID-19, and to protect their contributions to the Canadian economy.

“Across the Prairies, COVID-19 has caused pain and anxiety for small businesses and the people they employ,” said Terry Duguid, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages (Western Economic Diversification Canada) and to the Minister of Environment and

Climate Change (Canada Water Agency). “The Government of Canada is helping business organizations in the community plant seeds of hope, giving many small businesses the tools they need to respond to the challenges this pandemic has thrown at us.”

One measure of support is the $1.5 billion Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF), delivered

by Canada’s Regional Development Agencies and intended for small and medium-sized enterprises that have been unable to access other federal relief measures, putting jobs and livelihoods at risk.

The pandemic has created new barriers and challenges for Saskatchewan businesses, including access to capital, and there has been strong demand for RRRF funding. The traditional broad range of supports available to entrepreneurs through the business ecosystem, such as industry associations and chambers of commerce, face their own pandemicrelated challenges. These not-for-profit organizations, best placed to identify and nurture locally relevant initiatives that meet regional needs, are struggling at the time that they are needed most.

Duguid announced

the $1.925 million from Western Economic Diversification Canada, on November 13. This funding for 24 organizations will ultimately support over 2,600 enterprises in all stages of the business lifecycle, from nurturing start-ups to the ongoing development of mature firms. Many of the programs being funded are already under way, bringing immediate support for local companies, and making a difference for families and communities across the West.

The funding supports over 340 jobs directly in the funded organizations, as well as many more in the small businesses that

benefit from the programs they deliver. This contributes to the Government of Canada’s campaign to create one million jobs, restoring employment to previous levels.

For example, the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce plans to analyze, coordinate and provide support to local labour markets in rural Saskatchewan communities. Under this project, the Chamber will work with at least 12 rural chambers of commerce to develop policies and actions that help integrate Indigenous, immigrant, youth, and women into the local workforce.

Many rural communities

in Saskatchewan have struggled to incorporate local labour groups, and this situation was worsened by COVID-19 social distancing and economic impact.

This RRRF funding complements existing programs offered

by Western Diversification, such as the WES Ecosystem Fund and the Regional Innovation Ecosystems (RIE) program.

RRRF will help industry sectors retain the knowledge and skills of valuable employees, and maintain the capital flows and supply chains needed to build back better in an economic recovery.

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Fear is the foundation of government power We live in interesting times.

And Robert F. Kennedy, who in 1966 said just that, went on to say, “They are times of danger and uncertainty.”

Never a more true statement was said as we continue to find ourselves muddled in COVID-19 and pandemic worry.

But there is a final bit to Kennedy’s quote that deserves stating: “They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.”

Those words came from Kennedy’s Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966.

And while we most certainly live in interesting times, governments may be using fear and uncertainty to control and manipulate to their own ends.

Goes without saying our own “Federal Follies” have had their minority government propped up by the pandemic.

Time and time again, we’ve watched our government try to take more power. A bill in March would have given the Liberals power to spend and tax without parliamentary approval, all using coronavirus as the excuse. The media busted Trudeau and the Liberals on that one, but they continue to use fear as means to control?

The never-ending disaster pandemic series that has become the evening news has people in full-on “head for the secret cabin in the woods, ammunition and alphagetti stocked for a year”, lockdown mode.

Every second commercial is pandemic this and COVID that. Little wonder people have become naughty, rejecting masks, social distancing and other rules, not because they don’t know better, but because they are tired of an authoritarian government.

Governments keep people in fear to plant the seed for new taxation, new erosion of rights, new rules, all, they say, to keep us safe from the pandemic.

Machiavelli says “the temper of the multitude is fickle.” And lately we are “fickle”.

Governments need to change their approach and offer hope or they will become the real pandemic.

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Is Biden about to alter the war on climate change?

by Rashid Husain Syed With the incoming U.S. administration of Joe Biden vowing to embark on an extraordinarily ambitious international climate agenda, the world is reaching a tipping point as far as climate is concerned.

The president-elect has announced the U.S. will return to the Paris climate agreement on day one in office. The incoming administration has also released a transition web site that puts climate change as a top priority.

The Paris agreement on climate change bound nations to hold global temperature rise to well below 2C, with an aspiration of 1.5C. Biden’s climate policies are in sharp contrast to those of President Donald Trump. Trump has been keen on global “energy

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dominance.” Maintaining the nation’s status as the world’s No. 1 oil and natural gas producer has been a significant objective of the departing administration of Trump.

Biden, however, has promised to transition away from fossil fuels.

During the last presidential debate in late October, Biden underlined that fossil fuels must be replaced by renewable energy sources over time, with the U.S. moving toward net-zero emissions.

The president-elect proposes to make U.S. electricity production carbonfree by 2035 and to have the country – the world’s second-largest polluter after China – achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of the century.

That doesn’t mean the end of the fossil fuel era.

Even Biden admits that.

After the TV duel, Biden clarified that fossil fuels wouldn’t be eliminated until 2050. He emphasized that “we’re going to still need oil. We’re gonna still have combustion engines.”

The global climate camp is energized by Biden’s election. His climate plan could put Paris agreement targets within striking distance, Helen Regan said in a piece for CNN. Biden’s plans to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and make a $1.7-trillion investment in a green recovery from the COVID-19 crisis would reduce U.S. emissions over the next 30 years by about 75 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalents.

Calculations by the Climate Action Tracker

(CAT) show that this would be enough to avoid a temperature rise of about 0.1C by 2100.

“This could be a historic tipping point: with Biden’s election, China, the U.S., EU, Japan, South Korea – two-thirds of the world economy and over 50 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions – would have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century,” Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics, a CAT partner organization, said in a statement.

“These commitments are very close, if not within, 1.5C-consistent pathways for this set of countries and for the first time ever, puts the Paris agreement’s 1.5C limit within striking distance,” Hare said.

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CAT says this would bring more extreme storms, heat waves, greater sealevel rise and, for many parts of the world, worse droughts and rainfall extremes.

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The Great Black Shark

I don’t know when it was, but some years ago a friend of mine and his wife from Biggar showed up at Perdue, and Phyllis and I had them in for coffee in our new gazebo!

It was a nice summer day and we sat and gossiped for some time!

Finally, just before we parted, our friend held out a present that he had manufactured at his home near Biggar - a hat with a

Special No. 4, in fact, I didn’t win may games at all, I simply played for the thrill of hitting the ball a far way!

I suppose my sentiment about golf was “The game is the thing!� A fellow really relaxed while playing.

Sometimes I wish my friend were here so I could thank him for his “Down Under� present.

I always felt my friend was there with me while I played!

Sometimes I wonder if the “Great White Shark� of Australia valued his hat more than the “Great Black Shark� and his Bear Hills Special No. 4!

I still go back to that time in our gazebo, enjoying our coffee, our friendship and ourselves!

But life goes on . . .

tified swim instructor at the British Swim School in Bayonne.

And yeah, he has only one leg. Eat your heart out, Baywatch, this is a real lifeguard.

On November 10, Capuano was leaving a gym where he had just finished his workout with his friend, Marcelino Cruz. Suddenly, they heard screaming and saw some 20 people gathering at the shore of Newark Bay, Capuano told Jersey Journal. “I saw people running and we did the same,� he recounted in a separate interview.

When Capuano reached the group, he realized the seriousness of the situation. An SUV had plunged into the bay and was rap-

idly sinking some 50 feet away from the shore.

The driver was locked inside the car.

There was confusion amongst the crowd about how they should help the man. Capuano heard someone ask if anyone knew how to swim, and that’s when his lifeguard instincts kicked in. “I was just like: ‘Oh, I guess that’s me,’� he told Jersey Journal.

Before getting in the water, though, Capuano astonished the gathered crowd by pulling off his fake leg.

Just seconds after, Capuano was joined in the water by his friend Cruz. Together, they swam out to the car.

Capuano told Jersey Journal that he and his

Woman, 102, dubbed world’s oldest living curling player A British Columbia woman is now a Guinness World Record holder after being confirmed as the world’s oldest living curling player at age 102 years, 37 days.

Lola Holmes of Vancouver said she first started curling, a stonesliding game played on ice, when she was 24-years-old, and she took up the hobby again at 80.

Holmes said her tenure as a curling player nearly ended when she was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome at age 83, but she learned a technique known as stick-assisted curling that allowed her to continue to play the sport.

Holmes now plays the lead and curl position with the Vancouver Curling Club in the Ladies Seniors League.

“I am in the game of curling to win. I love to win games with our teams. I am equally unhappy when I lose,� she said.

Holmes said she was excited to receive the Guinness World Records title. She said she hopes her accomplishment will inspire other seniors to remain active in their later years.

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Heroic lifeguard sheds prosthetic leg to save man They say heroes come in all shapes and sizes.

But it takes a very special kind of person to decide that having a full set of limbs would just slow you down.

Yet, that is exactly what a New Jersey lifeguard determined before jumping into Newark Bay and swimming out to pull a man out of a sinking car.

All with just one leg.

Granted, when it comes to ripping off your own leg, it helps a lot when said appendage is already prosthetic. Nonetheless, it doesn’t make the lifeguard’s stunt any less mindblowing.

The hero in question is Anthony Capuano, a resident of Elizabeth, New Jersey. He is a professional lifeguard and a cer-

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fellow rescuer reached the car at the last possible second. “It was that moment when a car goes into a body of water where all the air releases and then the car sinks. That’s basically when I pulled him out,� he said.

He recalled that the 68-year driver, Joseph Kadian, was gripped by panic. And for a good reason – the man couldn’t swim. “I said: ‘It’s OK, I’m a lifeguard,’� said Capuano.

And guard the man’s life he did. The two rescuers swam to the shore and pulled the shocked driver onto dry land, safe and sound.

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you go golfing,� he said, so I put “The Great Black Shark� on it in memory of the great Australian, Greg Norman, ‘The Great White Shark’.

The hat, with my ‘Great Black Shark’ would let people know that Saskatchewan had a great golfer, too! It still is in my golf bag, threads coming from the band. I’ve used it on many a course, and it always got me many a comment.

It never gave me any wins! As a matter of fact, I don’t think I have ever came near to winning while I wore it! But the thought was good and I always wore it with pride!

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name printed inside it: “The Bear Hills Special�, made in his spare time!

Over the years an old canvas binder from the 1930’s had cluttered up his shop, and he had manufactured six hats from it. Read on!

He had cut the pieces, not to neatly, and sewed the whole thing into a hat. It was not tidy with threads hanging about here and there. He had found an old faded ribbon somewhere and fastened it to the hat with an old rusty safety pin, and wrote - none too neatly! what number of the Bear Hills hats was ours.

Over a cup of what was a cooling coffee, he presented me the hat as though it was some great prize only given to great people. “Wear this hat when

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Bear’s convenience store crime spree halted A Lake Tahoe bear’s months-long crime spree has come to a close after officials from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife trapped and moved him to a “large expanse of wild, suitable bear habitat.” The bear, a 16-year-old male, has a poorly healed broken leg and took to stopping in stores throughout the fall for snacks.

Bears are apex predators. They’re massive, brutal animals capable of eating up to 90 pounds of food a day before tucking in for hibernation.

Human encroachment reduced this poor guy to carb-loading with tortilla chips he stole from a Safeway.

The technical term is “habituated” when bears lose their fear of humans and start living as the people do. The frequent outcome of habitu-

ated animals is someone gets hurt or killed, and authorities euthanize the animal in response.

The bear stopped into a Kings Beach gas station three times: once the employee attempted to scare the bear away, but he wasn’t having any of it. You can see the frustration in the employee’s body language when the bear returns for the third time. It takes some kind of guts for a person to willingly stand between a wild animal and snacks.

Fish and Wildlife gave it a bizarre send-off, shooting it with beanbags to drive it into the woods. A spokesperson for BEAR League told the local CBS news that the relocation wasn’t ideal.

“I think this was not good for the bear,” said Ann Bryant, “If he was taken to another bear’s habitat, that other bear

is going to be territorial. This bear is compromised. It’s crippled. He’s crippled.”

The BEAR League is a grassroots organization that doesn’t seem to have any formal credentials for that kind of work. They were the subject of a 2015 lawsuit for cyberstalking and cyberbullying a couple after they called the Department of Fish and Wildlife regarding a bear breaking into their car. A state senator also requested an order of protection due to harassment from The BEAR League after the DFW trapped a habituated bear on his property.

The bear will probably be fine in the Tahoe wilderness, but it’s now sporting a GPS collar so wildlife officials can intervene before he makes another snack run.

Egg fight after woman was told to shush for Remembrance Sunday silence A grocery store in the U.K. was left covered in smashed eggs after a fight broke out between customers over a twominute silence.

While the rest of the supermarket in Middlesbrough came to a standstill, one woman continued shopping and talking.

She was told to shush while other customers observed the silence

in honour of fallen servicemen and women.

However, she took umbrage to this.

“We were all standing still, observing the two minutes’ silence when we heard lots of screaming and shouting,” a witness said. ‘‘Everyone was looking at each other, we were like ‘what’s going on’.

I heard someone shout ‘you’ve disrespected my mother’.”

She added that there were smashed eggs all over the floor of the store.

“Following a verbal altercation, reportedly involving a man and woman and another two women, a man allegedly assaulted the two women.” said a police spokesman.

Witnesses are being asked to contact police.

Howling ‘Monster Wolf’ robots deployed in Japan to scare away wild bears A Japanese town has deployed robot wolves in an effort to scare away bears that have become an increasingly dangerous nuisance in the countryside.

The town of Takikawa on the northern island of Hokkaido purchased and installed a pair of the robots after bears were found roaming neighborhoods in September.

City officials said there have been no bear encounters since.

Bear sightings are at a five-year high, mostly in rural areas in western and northern Japan, national broadcaster NHK has

reported. There have been dozens of attacks so far in 2020, two of them fatal, prompting the government to convene an emergency meeting last month to address the threat they pose.

The so-called ‘Monster Wolf’ robot consists of a shaggy body on four legs, a blond mane and fierce, glowing-red eyes.

When its motion detectors are activated, it moves its head, flashes lights and emits 60 different sounds ranging from wolfish howling to machinery noises.

Machinery maker Ohta Seiki has sold about 70

units of the robot since 2018.

The real Japanese wolf roamed the central and northern islands of the country before being hunted to extinction more than a century ago.

Takikawa city officials said that bears become more active and dangerous as they search for food before going into hibernation in late November.

A decrease of acorns and nuts in the wild this year may have driven the animals to venture closer to towns in search of sustenance, according to local media.

Hairdresser got drunk “Necking Gin” while at work: Part One Emily Hunt, 24, went to a former work colleague for a highlight touchup and to get some extensions put in.

But her hairdresser had other ideas.

Emily says her pal said yes and asked for a small fee to cover the cost of the hair dye and to sew in the hair piece. Everything got weird after that though.

The hairdresser took over four hours to do her work, including washing her own hair and “necking gin.”

Emily said it was the worst hairstyle of 2020 and that her hair just summed up the year.

Someone even commented on her post with “if 2020 was a weave,” saying it was “so bad.”

“As she was leaving I knew it was terrible, I just wanted to go upstairs and die. She was drunk when she did my hair, she got drunk drinking my gin. I think it was a combination of her being a bit drunk and not being very good at weaves.

“She’d said ‘I thought I was going to come round for a drink’ and I said ‘yeah we can have a drink if you want and we can do my hair another time’ and she went ‘no we can have a drink and I’ll do your hair. Trust me it’ll be fine I’ll be able to do it’.

“I thought she’d only have one while she was doing it, I didn’t expect her to get that bad. I’d bought this bottle of gin, she was drinking it more than me. She had about

four or five glasses of gin, I only had two.

“The next day when I looked in the mirror I thought ‘I can’t even go out like that’. I tied it in a bobble very low down on my head and tucked it underneath my coat and walked to the hairdressers. When I got out of the hairdressers I cried with relief that my hair was sorted.”

The woman demanded Emily pay her for the service, even after admitting that she was “sure she’d done a terrible job” from what she could “remember.” Emily hated her hair, even contacted the hair salon at 2 a.m., pleading for any last minute appointment.

Bad Bosses and the *!?# they say: Part Two Have you read Bad Bosses and the *!?# They Say: Part One? Because this is part two, and you’re going to want to read all of these, too.

Um, Thanks?

“One day our area manager came into my workplace, stared at my chest, and said, ‘I see why you got the job.’”

Proving Death “I once told my supervisor I couldn’t cover a shift because a close

family friend had passed away and the shift was the day of his funeral. My supervisor told me I had to bring in a death certificate.”

Judgy Much?

“I had to get an emergency hysterectomy, and my boss told me that if I went through with the surgery my man would leave me because I’d be a ‘useless woman.’”

Not Great Work Ethic “My coworker and I

were both scheduled to come in late one day.

Well, he beat me to work by a few minutes, and when I walked in, I joked, ‘Aww, you beat me here.

You’re making me look bad.’ My boss, who heard, responded, ‘Trust me, you don’t need anyone else to make you look bad.’ My coworkers fell silent, and I just laughed awkwardly from pure embarrassment.”

It Doesn’t Work Like

That “My former boss told me that my being a married gay man made everyone uncomfortable because he and his friends couldn’t ‘be guys’ around me.”

Safety Doesn’t Matter “I worked at a bakery for four years and loved my job. But when I mentioned to my manager that the freezer door would shut automatically behind me and my

coworkers, locking us in, she stopped giving me shifts. Months later, I emailed her, and she told me that they’d given my job to someone else because I was a ‘whiny bitch.’ I never set foot into that store again.”

Not Enough Men “I told my boss that I couldn’t work with just one guy, that if he didn’t hire more for the crew that I would quit. He told me to, “Have a nice life.”

Umm, God “I politely asked my boss for an availability change due to religious obligations, and he told me I had to choose between my job and God.” Snail Speed “My boss was watching me learn a task for the first time, and said, “If you were any slower, you’d be going back in time.”

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Agriculture

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All things past and present

Agriculture Calvin Daniels

It is the time of year when this journalist tends to become reflective on a career that has now stretched beyond three decades scratching stories for Yorkton This Week.

When I first received a letter offering me a position at the then ‘Enterprise’ it was a position where I was to focus some effort weekly on agriculture.

With farming in my background and my then wife having family at Yorkton it was easy to say yes.

As it happened one of my earliest assignments was to head down and find Shaun Morin, then manager of the Yorkton Exhibition Association (YEA) to interview him on the upcoming Harvest

Showdown which was being launched. I found Shaun pounding pegs through the asphalt to anchor tents being erected to house part of the show.

So, each November when Harvest Showdown arrives I roughly mark my own anniversary in the city.

Of course this year there was no Harvest Showdown, the event lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet I feel this anniversary more keenly than all the others.

There are a few reasons I am more reflective starting I suppose with my 60th birthday in April, and added to that was a decision to move within the city, leaving a place that had been home for 22-years. Nothing gets you thinking about your past than moving the accumulation of decades of being something of a self-professed pack rat.

The move included taking a Bernie Brown print off the wall presented to me by the YEA for having covered Harvest Showdown in each of its first 20-years.

The same year the YEA

marked exhibitors that had participated in each of the first 20-years as well – among them was John Simpson, a red Angus producer from Theodore.

I mention John because he recently died, and the announcement on social media hit rather close to home. John and I were ‘fair’ friends, meaning our paths crossed at YEA events over the decades as he volunteered at the summer fair, helped at 4-H events, was a director at Harvest Showdown and showed there and Agribition as well.

Simpson was simply one of the ‘good guys’ who was always someone I liked running into for a quick word about cattle or weather both topics being about as rural Saskatchewan as you can get.

When Harvest Showdown returns it will never be quite the same without John Simpson. You will be missed my friend.

And, then within a few days of learning John had passed I read Gary Dunbar had also died.

Gary and his wife Carole have raised horses for decades and that includes standardbreds they raced

including for several years on Friday nights at the YEA races in the city that were so popular until the Saskatchewan Party government killed standardbred racing by cutting the small annual grant it had provided.

I was fan of pacers and trotters since I was young and watched Dauphin’s

Jim Wallace race at summer fairs, attracted inpart no doubt because of his feisty daughter Sharon who led me into trouble as I was growing up.

In Gary Dunbar I found a mentor of sorts in the finer points of racing, and I was an eager ear for his stories of trading horses and showing all over

the continent through the years. I had not seen him since the days of racing here, but he too is one that is missed in my thoughts.

And, so I reflect on the years past, friends gone, and wonder at what the future holds, as we all 3 col/6 must do, as tomorrow is always a mystery.

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Called interprovincial because the park stretches from the southeast corner of Alberta to the southwest corner of Saskatchewan.

Cypress Hills is one the most travelled to parks in Saskatchewan, with its picturesque beauty and the activities available its fun for the whole family.

There is biking, camping, fishing, tours, more water activities, winter activities.

How about touring the hills on horseback or the adventure of a treetop zipline? And if you want something to do at night there is the Dark Sky Preserve Observatory to watch the stars.

If that is not enough activity then try out one of the golf courses that are within the park.

One can’t go to Cypress Hills without a visit to Fort Walsh which was one of the most important, largest and most heavily armed forts of the North West Mounted Police during the early years of the West.

There are plenty of places to stay in Cypress Hills, and its a definite on the bucket list.

Next we turn east on Highway 13 and travel through the hilly landscape to the little community of Eastend.

Eastend is know as the Valley of Hidden Secrets and is home to “Scotty the T.Rex” which was dug up near the town and on display at the T. Rex Discovery Centre.

The Eastend area has a rich Metis background where there was a Hudson’s Bay trading post.

Many years later the site became known as Chimney Coulee, derived from the remnants of stone chimneys that were once part of the Metis homes.

The T. Rex Discovery Centre features an assortment of fossils from millions of years ago including the fossil of Scotty.

The centre will take you back in time where dinosaurs ruled the earth.

The population of Eastend is only about 500 residents; however the town has everything in services to make your stay enjoyable.

Staying east, we travel to the town of Shaunavon with a population of around 1700.

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Shaunavon serves a large agriculture area and is the largest community for many communities around the area.

It was once fueled by the coal industry within the surrounding hills.

Shaunavon is also a large cowboy town where living the western lifestyle is quite evident. The hunting around the town is very good with large herds of Mule and Whitetail deer.

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by Shaunavon until you have had a meal at the Harvest Eatery and Fresh Market. This restaurant is “Big City Dining” with small town hospitality and is listed as one of the best places to eat in Saskatchewan. You will not be disappointed in what this restaurant has to offer with its fantastic menu and even better service.

Shaunavon is a great place to visit.

Stay tuned for more adventures.

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New Horizons Report

by Chasity Kreutzer Since the last newspaper report, there have been a couple of events at New Horizons.

Currently, the COVID restrictions in place state that public places such as New Horizons are allowed to have up to 30 people if social distancing is able to be maintained.

To clarify: the restrictions to gatherings of 10 people applies to in-home gatherings only. All of our activities have been held in the hall to allow for social distancing.

However, our exercise classes will need to have no more than 8 people due to the latest update to the restrictions.

During the provincial election, we hosted the advance polls from the

20th to the 24th. We had a good number of people come down to vote over those five days and the COVID restrictions were followed to a T. Congrats to Randy Weekes for being elected once again as our MLA. At our last Bingo on October 28, we had a great turnout of 14 players.

The winner of BOTH the blackout and half-andhalf games was Linda Vermette. If handshakes were acceptable right now, I’d ask her for one in hopes of her luck rubbing off on me!

The Stitching and Exercise clubs have continued to bring in a lovely group of ladies.

The groups have done a wonderful job of sanitizing and social distancing

during their activities, so here’s to hoping that we can continue hosting these activities in light of the rising COVID numbers.

On Monday, November 9, we had such a big dump of snow that we had to shut down the Courtesy Car for the day to allow the Town to plow some of the deep snow off of the streets first. The Exercisers and Stitching club also decided not to meet on this day, so we locked up and called a snow day. This was the first time I’ve seen this happen since I started as Co-ordinator four years ago!

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Christmas is going to be different this year

By Delta Fay Cruickshank for the Biggar Museum and Gallery Christmas this year will be different, let us embrace that difference and make new traditions, celebrate in smaller groups and shop in our own town.

The numbers are climbing again, seems this 2020 pandemic is following the

same pattern as the 1918 pandemic, the second wave came and was shattering in its affects.

Let us stay home . . . are we not lucky here in Biggar that we have all the essentials we all need for day-to-day existence.

It has been so long since I have been to the city, I believe it was hot last time I went.

Christmas Magic Auction is the Gift Headquarters! Santa will be checking his list twice to see if you have been naughty or nice, and picking up the presents at the Biggar Museum and Gallery!!

The Biggar Museum and Gallery will be having their Annual Christmas Magic Auction on Facebook this year. There are

so many beautiful gifts donated by businesses, individuals, and artists from our town. The volunteers from the museum have created a beautiful display of all the donations up for auction in the gallery. All bids will only be on Facebook though, keeping in mind the safety of our community. Bid sheets and pens just can-

not be sanitized.

The Annual Cookie Sale will be on this year, but the sales will be made in the museum. We have some of the best bakers in the world right here

in Biggar, and they all donate their cookies to this sale. Yum . . . that is all I have to say!

It is going to be different, but it is still going to be great!

Biggar Museum and gallery Christmas Magic Auction

There are gifts for everyone in the family in the Christmas Magic Auction (Photos by Biggar Museum and Gallery)

School asks parents to stop throwing late students over closed gate An elementary school in France put up a pair of posters outside their fence with an unusual request for parents: Don’t throw late students over the closed gate.

The Trillade school in Avignon put up signs

outside its gate showing a cartoon of a parent sending a small child airborne to get over the fence. The text on the sign asks parents not to throw their children, and instead wait for the gates to be opened again at 10

a.m. or 3 p.m.

Principal Sanaa Meziane told La Provence that parents “literally threw their children” over the gate when they arrived to find it closed.

Meziane said there were only a few scattered

incidents, and no reported injuries, but there were enough tossed children to inspire school officials to take action and post the warnings as a “reminder.”

Game on . . . Biggar’s Kayler Gidluck, centre, looks for the pass, Saturday at the Jubilee Stadium as the Biggar/Wilkie U15’s played the visiting Macklin Mohawks. The game ended in a 7-5 Macklin win. (Independent

Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

Train saved from disaster by giant whale A train driver’s life was saved by a giant whale tale after his train crashed through the barriers at the end of the track.

The train plunged straight through, and would have ended up in the water below if the artwork hadn’t broken its fall.

Nobody else was on the train and the driver was able to escape to safety himself.

The carriage is now still suspended 10 metres above a footpath at De Akkers metro station in Spijkenisse, near Rotterdam.

A local safety board

spokesman said “We are trying to decide how we can bring the train down in a careful and controlled manner.”

The sculpture, made of polyester, was made

by Maarten Struijs and placed in the water at the end of the tracks in 2002.

“We woke up at a quarter past twelve. There was a blow of two to three seconds,” a neighbour said.

“Then I suddenly saw that the tail was occupied. I thought: hey, something very strange is going on.”

It is not yet clear what caused the train to overshoot the track.

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Losing Trebek, Meeker sad day for Canada

Penton on sports Bruce Penton

Canada lost two broadcasting icons on one day, Nov. 8, and while Alex Trebek is known almost solely for his work on the television game show Jeopardy, both he and Howie Meeker had connections to Hockey Night in Canada.

Ken Campbell in SIThe Hockey News wrote the story about Trebek, at the time doing a variety of broadcasting work for CBC, being one of five finalists in 1970 as a replacement for the recently fired Ward Cornell on HNIC. Dave Hodge ultimately got the job, but Campbell’s story said that executive producer Ralph

Mellanby preferred Trebek above all others.

But his boss, Ted Hough, overruled Mellanby, saying he didn’t like his hosts to have moustaches, a Trebek trademark.

Later, Trebek told Mellanby he would have been happy to cut off his moustache to get the job, but thanked him for bypassing him for the job because … well, he went on to California and became a beloved, and very wealthy, TV figure south of the border.

Meeker, meanwhile, passed away in Nanaimo at the age of 97. He was a hockey lifer, playing 12 seasons in the NHL for the Leafs, winning four Stanley Cups along the way and capturing the rookie-of-the-year award in 1946-47, beating out, among others, fellow freshman Gordie Howe.

He also coached the Leafs for one year, was a Member of Parliament for two years in the 1950s, and then spent a couple of decades as a between-periods analyst on Hockey Night in Canada and,

later, TSN. Meeker certainly had his admirers, but he had plenty of detractors, too.

He sprinkled his analysis with enthusiastic but out-of-date catchphrases - “Golly Gee” and “Gee Willikers” were among his favourites and bought the phrase “hoop around a barrel” into common Canadian lexicon to describe a forward making a defenceman look silly trying to defend a rush. “He went around him like a hoop around a barrel,” Meeker would say.

He was the first to use a telestrator to show fans at home exactly what happened on a particular play. A generation of hockey viewers not only knew what happened on a particular play, but why it happened, thanks to Meeker.

The world works in mysterious ways. Trebek was a moustache away from perhaps being the host of a sports program showing games in which Meeker was the analyst.

So the answer to the

question: What was one of the saddest days for Canada? The answer is Nov. 8, 2020.

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “MLB announced it won’t discipline Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner for returning to the field to celebrate his team’s World Series championship after testing positive midgame for COVID-19.

Hey, it was either that or suspend him for 10 spring-training games.”

• Myron Medcalf of ESPN.com, on Fighting Irish fans rushing the field en masse after beating Clemson: “Is Justin Turner Notre Dame’s crowd consultant?”

• Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun: “(MLB’s) Rob Manfred is consistent - every day he is the worst commissioner in professional sports.”

• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “The New York Jets are going to follow Donald Trump’s lead and are going to sue all 16 teams that beat them.”

• Fark.com: “Formula One decides doing busi-

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• Greg Cote of the Miami Herald: “Alex Cora is back as Red Sox manager after a one-year ban for cheating. Adjusted bromide: ‘Cheaters Almost Never Prosper’.”

• Norman Chad of the Washington Post, on Twitter, recalling numerous late collapses by the Falcons: “As Falcons take 20-3 lead at halftime over Broncos, Atlanta fans start to chant, ‘Stop the count!’”

• Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: “With all the craziness and uncertainty in 2020, it is really good to know there are some constants - like the NY Jets will ALWAYS find a way to lose.”

• Michael Farber of SI.com, on Twitter: “Not saying it took long for Bryson (DeChambeau) to play that 13th hole, but they’ve put him on the sun dial.”

• New York Post reader Bruce Christoffersen: “Brian Cashman (of the Yankees) built a team to win the Home Run Derby, not the World Series.”

• Steve Simmons again: “True story: Boxing promoter and convicted felon Don King once had a financial adviser named Joseph Maffia.”

• Another one from Janice Hough, on the glut of 49ers on the NFL’s Injured Reserve and COVID-19 lists: “At this point the Niners may need to allow fans in the stands just to have a pool of players for pregame tryouts.”

• Dwight Perry one more time: “The Texans fired vice president of communications Amy Palcic, the first woman to run an NFL team’s PR department. ‘New team motto: Make Bad Trades, Shoot The Messenger’.”

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REFLECTIONS

God is Sovereign over all things!�

by Pastor Doug Motz, Biggar Associated Gospel What an interesting 2020!

We’re still in the midst of a pandemic; then you add governmental elections both provincial, civil, and what’s taken place with our neighbours south of the border - makes for a mixed bag of emotional ups and downs no matter who was elected to office!

We need to consider ourselves blessed, that we have the privilege to vote as we do. There is one important thing that we all must understand, and that is this; “God is Sovereign over all things!�

You may ask, what does God have to do with me casting my personal preference of where I put the “X� for the person, or persons I wish to see elected for governmental affairs?

Glad you asked. Let me briefly explain.

The Bible says; Romans 11:36; “36.

For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever, Amen.�

The Apostle Paul wrote the following to the church of Colossae, Colossians 1:15–17; “15. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all cre-

ation. 16. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.�

Now let’s turn back to what Paul wrote to the church at Rome, Romans 13:1, 4-6; “1. Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed

by God. 4. For he (governing authorities) is God’s minister to you for good.

But if you do evil, be afraid; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. 5.

Therefore, you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. 6.For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this thing. ‌�

The Apostle Peter says much the same thing in 1Peter 2:13–17. Also note

Paul’s letter to Titus – Titus 3:1 and 2.

You see, even though we may or may not like those governing authorities that have been elected to office, God sovereignly appointed them. So then, that means we that means we have been given a responsibility!

The two main responsibilities are these. The Bible clearly says in both the Romans 13:1–7; Titus 3:1 and 2; 1 Peter 2:13–17 passages, that we must submit to the governing authorities so long as they govern within their God given jurisdiction. Why? Because as we’ve observed – God has ordained them to be in those positions of authority. The second responsibility is this. In Paul’s first letter to Timothy – 1 Timothy 2:1–4 he wrote; “1. Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2. For kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4. Who desires all

men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth . . .�

You see whether we agree with the results of the elections that have taken place or not, I want to remind us that it doesn’t change the fact that God is Sovereign, and is over all things, and has all things under His control! He is on His throne in heaven, and does have the final say at the end of time!

He knows what’s best, and He does have the power to raise governments up, and He has the power to remove them from their office – (read: Isaiah 40:23 and 24; 1Corinthians 1:26–29).

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ROGAL

Catherine Marie Rogal was born to John and Alice Zimmer in the Landis area.

Mom's birth was kind of a miracle as just prior to her birth, the doctor had presumed that she was dead in the womb. However, Mom surprised the doctor and was born a healthy baby. She grew up on the farm with her parents along with her brothers, Fritz and John. She was very close to her Uncle Owen Duggan and Grandma Zimmer who lived with them on the farm. Mom attended Porter School, Heart Lake School and finished her education at Landis. Following graduation, she attended Normal School in Saskatoon then began her teaching career. She taught in numerous country schools which included, Cactus Lake, Denzil, McGee, Biggar Convent among others. After teaching approximately ten years, she met our dad Joseph Rogal from Handel. They were married in 1953 and resided in the town of Handel, where dad farmed and together, they ran the post office.

Five children were born; Patrick, Joanne, Gerald, Les and Don. During the time when the children were young, Mom sub-taught at Handel School. Often students would ask her if she would teach their class as they all loved Mrs. Rogal.

During this time, they took in two foster children Elaine and Noreen. In 1970, Mom and Dad bought the Plenty Hotel.

This was their new home, where mom was very busy cleaning and cooking as in hunting season, many a hunter would stay there. Hotel life was very busy but mom always made time for people making each person she visited with feel like the most important person in the world.

In 1978, Dad suffered a stroke and they decided to retire and move to Rosetown where they met many new friends.

During this time, Mom took in boarders and Uncle Fritz resided with the family a number of years. In 1986, Dad passed away and Gerry continued to stay with Mom over the years. In 2016, Mom moved into Rose Villa Long Term Care where she received care with compassion and love.

Mom lived a full life, she loved her coffee and cigarettes and visiting with neighbors, friends and family - family and friends were her life. Mom always enjoyed acting and was involved with the Rubber Boot Theatre in Rosetown. She was so proud of all her children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, the last onebeingbornOctober30th. Momwa salifelongmemberoftheCWL,shewasafaith-filledwomanwho lived the gospel and was full of Irish wit and charm.

On November 11, Mom passed away peacefully with family.

We are very grateful to Gerry for all the love and care that he gave her over the years.

Mom leaves to carry on her legacy Pat (Donna), Gerry, Les (Jamie) and Don; along with many grandchildren, greatgrandchildren and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her parents, brothers John and Fritz, husband Joe, daughter Joanne, sisters-in-law Luella Zimmer and Mary Rogal and brothers-in-law Paul, Albert, Jack and Louis Rogal.

A Private Family Funeral Mass will be celebrated followed

by Rite of Committal at the Handel Cemetery.

In memory of Mom, donations may be made to the Heartland Health Region (Rosetown & District Health Centre Long Term Care), P.O. Box 653, Rosetown, SK, S0L 2V0 or to a charity of choice. To send online condolences please visit shanidarfuneralservices.com. Arrangements entrusted to Amanda Starosta.

COMING EVENTS FRIDAY, Nov.20: Annual Theatre Fundraiser Concert celebrating Canada Music Week at 7 p.m.

This energy filled, fun live concert can be seen on the Biggar Music Festival Facebook page.

Attend virtually and donate at local businesses. “Come out� and support local performers and your local theatre.

Cookie Sale Biggar Museum & Gallery Thurs. - Friday November 26,27 Bakers, cookies are to be dropped of at the museum on Tuesday, November 24.

Packages of cookies will be for sale for $10 in the museum, on the 26th and 27th 9:00 - 12:00 1:00 - 5:00 Biggar Museum Christmas Magic Auction will be online, at Facebook “Biggar Museum’s Christmas Magic Auction�. last day for bidding will be Saturday, December 12, at 3:00pm.

All items on display in the gallery at 105-3rd Ave. West Open Tuesday-Friday 9:00 - 12:00 1:00 - 5:00, Monday 1:00 - 5:00

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Jordan Skye Hagel May16, 1995 - Nov. 18, 2017

Granddaughter Your life was a blessing Your memory a treasure You are loved beyond words Missed beyond measure missed by Gramma & Grampa Montgomery

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THURSDAY, NOEVEMBER 19, 2020

Thank You I would like to thank everyone who came out to vote in our civic election! The weather of course was not perfect for everyone to be able to get ou, but in true Saskatchewan spirit we endured!

A big thanks to those that supported me at the polls and throughout the campaign - I truly am humbled. I congratulate all the candidates on their participation in the process. It demonstrates our dedication to participate in our towns future and maintain the need to be a unified community.

Ray, Thank You for your dedication to Biggar! Your passion was evident. You truly wore your heart on your sleeve!

Penny and Kirk - appreciation for your dedication cannot be expressed in a few words - but “Thank You”!

I assure everyone that I will fulfill the duties of mayor to the best of my abilities. I know there will be bumps in the road, as with everything else in life that’s worth the journey, however, I want everyone to know that I am open to hearing their concerns - good, bad or indifferent - so the bumps can be fixed and we can work towards a smooth journey The common goal of “what’s best for Biggar” is primary, let’s keep the momentum!

Thanks again Jim Rickwood

Thank You for your support Thank you Biggar for entrusting me to be part of the teamto serve you for another four years, I am truly humbled and honoured and will continue to do my best to hear and bring your concerns to the council, and strive to keep Biggar a safe, vibrant and growing community. I look forward to continue to work with the dedicated, hardworking women and men we have working for your community. Your administration, management and staff at the town hall, along with your foreman. utilities, public works and recreation crews, are the ones that keep your community running.

Congratulations to Jim Rickwood, Nicole Hoppe and Dakota Ekman on your election as well as to Alan Boyle, Kevin McNicholls and Ivan Young on your re-election. I look forward to working with all of you. Thank you to Gerry Besse, Jim Besse, Dale Buxton and Jordan Horst for letting your names stand for election.

Thank you Penny McCallum and Kirk Sherbino for your many years of dedicated service to the Town of Biggar. Your contributions are many and appreciated. It was a pleasure and privilege to have served the past four years with you. Best wishes in your retirement from council.

Thank your Mayor Ray Sadler for your many dedicated years of service to the community of Biggar! You put your heart and soul into your position as Mayor and your love for and contributions to the citizens of Biggar will forever be remembered and appreciated. It was a pleasure and privilege to serve with you.

Again, thank you Biggar for putting your faith and trust in me to help make this community a place that we can all be proud to call HOME! 1/4 Page Edward Young

Helen Buxton knew what last months What’s it? was, finally breaking our What’s it? lady’s streak of being able to stump everyone for ages!! Helen knew they were wave clips, used for decades when waves in the ladies’ dos were popular. (Photos courtesy of Biggar Museum and Gallery)

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