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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Mayor Roy attends Mayor School
Cuddling a baby piggy at the Duck Derby
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Jacey Fletcher gets to hold and cuddle a baby piggy as her brother Finley eagerly awaits his turn, at the petting zoo set up as part of the Duck Derby fundraiser event at the boardwalk area along the Souris River, hled on August 27. The City of Weyburn held the Duck Derby as a fundraiser for the Weyburn United Way, to help kick off the 2017 Communithon.
Mayor Marcel Roy was one of 40 Saskatchewan hometown mayors that attended the third annual Mayors Summer School, held by the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association at the University of Regina campus from August 20 to 22. “The Mayors Summer School was to give us a good general overview and understanding of what being a mayor is all about. A lot of times there is not a lot of clarity defined in any of our acts about what our powers are, or how council is supposed to work, and what things we can and cannot do,” said Mayor Roy. Currently serving his first year as Mayor of Weyburn, Marcel found the Mayors Summer School to be very useful. “It was a very valuable session to attend. Hopefully through the years of being mayor, we can generate our own study and training session so that next time there is an election, the new council can sit down and
have their own training session right here in the city. We want to have that sense of maintenance and a similar focus on growth.” Mayor Roy noted that there were many discussion points during the Mayors Summer School that the Weyburn City Council is already thinking about. “There was discussion about regionalization, which Weyburn has seen with our fire protection program deals with RMs in the area.” “There are many things that the federal and provincial governments want us to look at, including policing policies. We need to look at the direction provided by those governments and really push at our own goals.” In September, SUMA will be hosting some regional meetings. “We will talk about things in our own region that are important to us, like our water, land and infrastructure,” said Mayor Roy.
Weyburn cadet has an experience of a lifetime By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca Bailey Gaignard expects that he will never forget the experiences he had this summer through the Maple Leaf Exchange. Gaignard is a member of the No. 23023 Weyburn Army Cadets, where he is a chief warrant officer and the regimental sergeant major. He lives in Estevan and is the son of Daniel and Sarah Gaignard. Due to his time in the cadet program, Gaignard was selected for the Maple Leaf Exchange, a senior course cadet opportunity that sent him to the United Kingdom, Belgium and France this summer. Gaignard has been part of the cadet program for the past four years. During that time, he has taken different courses, including basic marksman, sports and fitness, and drill and ceremonial. In addition to that, he has been part of some regional expeditions and has volunteered. All of those efforts helped him qualify for the exchange. Only 60 cadets from across Canada were selected. “It was basically your national Star of Excellence points,” said Gaignard. “You get points for doing activities, volunteer work and excelling in the cadet program.” Gaignard’s journey started on July 5, when
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he travelled to the Connaught Cadet Summer Training Centre near Ottawa. He was there until July 9. From there, Gaignard and the other members of the exchange travelled to the United Kingdom. They started at the Holcombe Moor Training Camp in Manchester for two weeks. Much of the time was dedicated to field craft. “One of those things was we had four hours to go about 800 metres in a field and to get up to a hill,” said Gaignard. “The hill had a sign on it, with words on it, bigger words on the top and smaller words at the bottom.” The goal was to read the small print on the sign. The cadets needed to crawl the entire 800-metre distance across the field. They also participated in marksmanship courses with the L98 cadet rifles, and in breaching and patrolling drills without rifles. Their next stop was adventure week training. The cadets were split into two groups for a week; Gaignard’s group went to Halton in England, while the other half went to Capel Curig in Wales. “We all did our different things,” said Gaignard. “There was kayaking, canoeing, rock climbing, mountain foundation and hiking.” He noted that while kayaking, he volunteered to have his kayak launched from an eight-foot “Where Quality and Customers are no. 1”
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rock face. “The kayak got fully submerged, and then popped back up,” he said. Then they were off to London for a culture week. On the way to London, they viewed the original D-Day maps, which Gaignard marvelled at. While in London, they toured a graveyard for Canadians, a rifle museum, a ship museum, Fort Nelson, the Bovington Tank Museum, the Royal Observatory and the Royal Museum in Greenwich, and viewed attractions such as Big Ben, the London Eye, Trafalgar Square, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Castle, where they had their photo taken in front of the Canada Gate. They toured Canada House, where they received their cadet vocational qualification organization from a Canadian general and they viewed some mock trenches set up in a resident’s backyard. “We went to a lot of places,” said Gaignard. “Every single day. There weren’t any rest days on the exchange.” Their final week in Europe saw them take a ferry to Belgium for a battlefield study week. They started with a ceremony of remembrance at the Menin Gate in Ypres. Continued on Page 2
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