Weyburn Review - October 17, 2018 by Weyburn Review

The Review, Weyburn, Saskatchewan, October 17, 2018 - 11

Care-A-Van continues to offer transportation options

Care-A-Van offers transportation options

Review Photo 9312 — Greg Nikkel

Sandra Montgomery, driver for the Weyburn Care-A-Van bus at left, showed both of the vehicles operated by the charitable group to transport people who have mobility issues. The Care-A-Van’s new bus, at left, is available for people Monday to Friday in Weyburn, and it isn’t just for people who are in wheelchairs. The van at right can hold up to two wheelchairs, and can be driven by anyone holding a Class 5 driver’s licence. It can be driven anywhere in Saskatchewan, and with both vehicles the Care-A-Van Society pays the fuel. Call Community Home Care to arrange a ride with the bus, or the Special Care Home to rent the van, seven days a week. The Weyburn Care-A-Van Society will continue to provide two different transportation options for Weyburn residents, with the in-town bus upgraded with a new vehicle. The service is available for people who have mobility issues, such as those in a wheelchair, and don’t have their own transportation. The bus is available within Weyburn’s city limits, with the Care-A-Van driver, Sandra Montgomery, while the van is available for rent as long as the renter can supply their own driver. The advantage of the van is that it is available seven days a week, and can travel anywhere in Saskatchewan, while the bus is available Monday to Friday, and only within city limits. As Montgomery noted in an interview, prices have been lowered for the van to help keep the cost down for out-of-town travel. “We feel this was needed to have a wheelchair van available to help with the travel challenges that have come about,” she said, noting they heard of a recent occurrence of a woman who paid $200 for a taxi ride to Regina. This happened as a shuttle service is no longer operat-

ing from Weyburn to take people into Regina, so the van rental is being put forward as an alternative to an expensive taxi ride. The Care-A-Van Society is prepared to pay for the fuel for the van rental. There is a cost per ride on the bus, while the van is rented on an hourly or daily basis. The new rates for the van are, for out-of-town travel, $85 per day plus 50 cents per kilometer after the first 100 km. For in-town use, it’s $20 for the first hour and $10 per hour after that, with a charge of 50 cents per kilometer after the first 100 km. For the bus, the cost is $8 per ride each way, $40 an hour after hours, with a standby rate of $10 per hour. Montgomery also noted that the bus isn’t just for people who are in wheelchairs, as the bus has provided transportation in the city for people with intellectual disabilities, and even for students who have other disabilities such as cerebral palsy. The bus can transport up to three wheelchairs, or up to eight people with two wheelchairs. The van can accommodate up to two wheelchairs, or four people plus one wheelchair, and a driver need only have the normal Class 5 licence.

The van is available where a taxi may not be able to accommodate taking a person in a wheelchair out of a longterm care facility to a family function in town or to an appointment here or out of Weyburn. “A lot of people don’t realize our services are there, even nurses sometimes aren’t aware that we’re available,” said Montgomery. A plus with the van is there is a user-friendly ramp for a wheelchair that is not mechanical, and can be used by anybody. She operates the wheelchair lift to get into or out of the bus. Montgomery has been driving for Care-A-Van for 26 years, and the new current bus is the fourth bus the organization has had. This bus is slightly smaller but wider than the previous bus, so it actually accommodates more people. It also has a four-point system to secure a wheelchair in, along with a shoulder/lapbelt, where the first bus she drove only had a hook for the wheelchair. To ask for a ride on the bus, which is available Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., call Community Home Care at 306-842-6870 or 306-861-2219. To rent the van, call the Weyburn Special Care Home for bookings at 306-842-4455.

Writing program has successes in SE Cornerstone schools By Greg Nikkel A program that promotes good writing skills has had success in the Southeast Cornerstone School Division, and will run again this year with a contest component where the winning students can have their work published in a student anthology. The program was provided as an example of the successes which have been seen in Cornerstone, as part of a monitoring report on achievement levels in southeast schools. The writing program is called Turning Points, and is a national program for students in Grades 6 to 12, with the goal to promote character awareness, resilience and literacy among students through written expression. Three students were on

hand for the monthly board meeting at the Cornerstone head office on Wednesday, all of whom have their works in this year’s anthology, and they read their personal essays to the trustees. They included Alex Spencer and Kiarra Biette, who were both in Grade 6 at Westview School in Estevan last year, and Grace Pederson, who was in Grade 7/8 at Lyndale School in Oungre last year. She is currently attending the Weyburn Comprehensive School. Their essays were about a family dog named Dayna (Alex), a letter (Kiarra) and “distant memories” of a friend from Assiniboia who died (Grace). Program coordinator Michael Graham explained that students work on “personal narrative stor-

ies about things that have really resonated in their lives”, and the works are submitted anonymously online to a panel of judges, who then look at the submissions from each of the grade levels. He noted last year was a pilot program for Turning Point, so the schools started later than they ordinarily would have. In Cornerstone, there were 15 schools that took part with 19 teachers and a total of 273 students. For those teachers who took part in teaching the lessons in writing personal narratives, there were teacher resources available on-line, and depending on the grade level, the essays were between 500 to 1,200 words in length. When it came time to submit essays for judging,

TAX ENFORCEMENT LIST RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF BROKENSHELL NO. 68 PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN Notice is hereby given under the Tax Enforcement Act that unless the arrears and costs appearing opposite the land described in the following list are fully paid before the 17th day of December, 2018, a tax lien will be registered against the land. Note: A sum for costs in an amount as prescribed in the regulations, is included in the amount shown against each parcel (Section 4(3) Tax Enforcement Act). DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY SW NE NW SE NE NW SE SW LOT 16

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only about 25 per cent of the essays were chosen, based on school and class registration enrolments, to keep the numbers of essays at a manageable number, so out of the 273 students who took part, 65 essays were submitted, and all identifying information was removed so the judges did not know who wrote the essays. Out of the Cornerstone essays, five students were picked from Grade 6, two from Grades 7/8, and one from Grade 9. Of the three who read their submissions at the board meeting, Alex earned an honourable mention, and Kiarra and Grace each won third place for their works. The plan for this year is to start in December, and

the resulting essays will be allocated in March with judging in March-April, and awards will be given in May or June. Looking more generally at academic and other achievements in Southeast Cornerstone, the report notes that Cornerstone high school students scored above the provincial average in 18 out of 20 subjects at the end of the 201718 school year, including English Language Arts, science, math, biology, chemistry, physics, and environmental science, at the 10, 20 and 30 levels. In looking at reading levels, in Grade 1, 60.3 per cent of Cornerstone students were at or above grade level, with the provincial average at 68 per

cent. In Grade 2, 73.3 per cent were at or above grade level, with a provincial average of 72.4 per cent, and in Grade 3, 74 per cent were at or above grade level, with the provincial average at 74.8 per cent. In the early years evaluation teacher assessment, kindergarten children in Cornerstone attained the goal of 90 per cent in three out of five domains. These included awareness of self and environment (93 per cent), social skills and approaches to learning (91 per cent) and language and communication (91 per cent). Cognitive skills were at 86 per cent, fine motor development was at 85 per cent, and gross motor development was at 93 per cent.

TAX ENFORCEMENT LIST RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF WEYBURN NO. 67 PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN Notice is hereby given under the Tax Enforcement Act that unless the arrears and costs appearing opposite the land described in the following list are fully paid before the 17th day of December, 2018, a tax lien will be registered against the land. Note: A sum for costs in an amount as prescribed in the regulations, is included in the amount shown against each parcel (Section 4(3) Tax Enforcement Act). DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY SW Parcel A SW SE SE Prcl B SW Parcel A SW Parcel V NE Parcel E SW Parcel A NE NW SE SW

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Dated at Weyburn, this 17th day of October, 2018.

Pamela Scott, Administrator

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