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Canada’s biggest weekend in birding is happening soon

Port Rowan, Ontario — More than 40,000 enthusiastic bird lovers in Canada are expected to venture outside their homes this weekend to find and count birds as part of the global Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)—all in the name of helping birds.

Birds Canada, the Canadian coordinator of the event, keeps an eye on the health of Canada’s bird populations, thanks in part to the support of over 70,000 caring volunteers who submit their bird sightings through Citizen Science programs like the GBBC. In 2021, an estimated

300,000 people from 190 countries participated in the GBBC documenting over half of the world’s bird species in just 4 days. Birders in Canada submitted an impressive 43,500 bird lists and recorded 263 different species. Only the U.S. submitted more observations. More people participating means more information for Birds Canada’s bird population scientists.

More people than ever have discovered the joys of watching birds, and we likely have the pandemic to thank for this. According to Statistics Canada, 27%

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Participating in volunteer Citizen Science conservation efforts is a clear win-win for us humans and the birds around us.

“Sometimes people feel intimidated about jumping into the world of birds if they have no previous experience,” said Patrick Nadeau, President and CEO of Birds Canada. “The Great Backyard Bird Count is a wonderful way to get your feet wet, feel the warmth of the community, and start to realize the wonders in your own neighborhood. The tools and resources are free. And you are helping birds when you get involved.”

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guide tool. Participation can be done in as little as 15 minutes on one of the 4 days of the event. Results can be viewed live as observation lists roll in from around the world.

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Tories’ Barr welcomes lifting of health protocols

By Jon Perez, SaskToday.ca Saskatoon — A candidate for the leadership post of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan said the people of the province are eager to go back to their daily lives and choose what’s right to do during this pandemic.

Doug Barr, who announced last year that he’s running for the Tories’ leadership, welcomed the decision by Premier Scott Moe to finally lift the vaccine passport mandate beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 14.

He said the decision made by Moe was what he advocated when he announced his candidacy to become the next leader of the PCPS last year in the City of Warman.

“This is good news for the people of Saskatchewan [lifting of vaccine passport mandate]. I felt [when I announced my candidacy] that this policy was wrong for our society and that it would cause division and hatred,” Barr said.

“Here we are just over five months later and I have never seen such division in this province or country. It is time to move forward and unite us once again. We must restore our civil liberties and governments must be less intrusive in our daily lives.”

He believes that the government should be less intrusive as businesses and other individuals want to move forward and continue with their daily lives.

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“We have all made tremendous sacrifices over the last few years but I am hopeful that this is the beginning of better days for all of us.

Governments must listen to the needs and wants of the people.”

Barr said that if given the chance to lead the Tories to the 2024 Saskatchewan General Election, he promised to make the government transparent but will have boundaries to the extent of not overreaching.

“Under my leadership, the [PCPS] would be a smaller and less intrusive government and a more accountable and transparent government. We will respect and defend our civil liberties and as one of our party’s core principles, we will ensure everyone is equal under the law,” added Barr.

“I am excited to continue to work to make Saskatchewan better and to ensure we all have better days ahead.”

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USask researchers collaborate with Indigenous communities to address health inequities with new federal funding SASKATOON – Two University of Saskatchewan (USask) research teams have been awarded more than $2.8 million in federal funding to address systemic inequities in the lives of Indigenous people in the areas of home life, mental and sexual health.

eyed Seeing) will be applied to braid Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing about sexuality, gender roles and responsibilities with Western knowledge of HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and other sexually transmitted bloodborne illnesses,” said Froehlich Chow.

Funding was awarded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant program. CIHR Project Grants are awarded to researchers undertaking projects with the potential to advance health-related knowledge, research, care, systems and patient outcomes.

Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Holders, youth, teachers and community members with diverse lived experiences will collaborate to lead the development of a new arts and landbased sexual health and wellness program aimed at students in grades six through nine in 12 schools that primarily serve Indigenous youth. The program will be unique by incorporating each community’s own teaching methods and beliefs into program delivery.

“The range and diversity of projects funded by CIHR in this competition is indicative of the vibrant research ecosystem we have at USask,” said Vice-President Research Baljit Singh.

“Our researchers are pursuing discovery that will clearly improve the health and prosperity of Canadians.”

In total, USask research teams were awarded $4,145,226.

Sexual health education rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing

Dr. Amanda Froehlich Chow (PhD) from the USask School of Public Health will spearhead a community-led, culturally rooted research program titled atotitum (Becoming of Age).

The project will aim to expand current sexual health curricula and accompanying resources, in a way that includes Indigenous teachings and teaching methods that are culturally appropriate and inclusive for today’s Indigenous youth. “etuaptmumk (Two-

“We are aiming to incorporate diverse Indigenous voices, which is important because currently the Ministry of Education’s sexual health and wellness curriculum is primarily rooted in Western ways and teachings,” said Froehlich Chow.

“This exciting project will be rooted in multi-generational collaborations to ensure Indigenous youth have the opportunity to explore sexuality, sexual health and wholistic wellness through Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing taught by Elders, Knowledge Holders and others from the many First Nations and Métis communities across Saskatchewan.”

The project received a total of $1,434,376 and will be conducted over four years.

How house and home affect Indigenous mental wellness

USask College of Medicine Distinguished Research Chair and renowned agricultural medicine expert Dr. James Dosman (MD) will lead a team of researchers in a project that examines what contributes to the mental wellness of Indigenous peoples in the home setting.

The project will use the values of Tipi Teachings – how each aspect of the tipi structure represents a fundamental part of the environment and community – as the basis for examining mental health risks and protective factors present in house and home.

The project will focus on how the mental health of Indigenous peoples can be affected by their life in both their houses and in their home communities. This includes how risk factors, such as poor housing, can contribute to negative mental health outcomes, and how protective factors such as good community infrastructure, accessible childcare and food security contribute to positive mental health outcomes.

The aim of the study is to allow communities to promote fundamental issues around housing and identify how community members view their house as a home and the corresponding effects on mental wellness. The project hopes to affect public health policy that addresses the mental health of Indigenous peoples.

The project received a total of $1,399,950 and will occur over a span of five years.

The expansion of the FIRST program will see support offered to families living in the Moose Jaw, Estevan, Weyburn, Carlyle and Nipawin areas. The outreach program delivered by Envision Counselling and Support Centre Inc., the Moose Jaw Transition House and the North East Outreach and Support Services Inc. will have trained outreach workers in place to build relationships with families in the community and intervene early to provide collaborative and timely services to support families in crisis.

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Dr. Juan Ianowski (PhD) (Nominated Principal Investigator – USask College of Medicine – Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology), Dr. Julian Tam (MD) (Principal Investigator – College of Medicine – Department of Medicine), Dr. Veronica Campanucci (PhD) (Principal Investigator – College of Medicine – Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology), Dr. Anderson Tyan (MD) (Principal Investigator – College of Medicine – Department of Medicine), Dr. Julia Montgomery (DVM, PhD) (Principal Investigator – Western College of Veterinary Medicine – Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences), and Dr. Asmahan AbuArish (PhD) (Principal Investigator – College of

Medicine – Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology) $810,900 for a five-year project titled, Cellular bases of cystic fibrosis lung disease: epithelial ionocytes transport bicarbonate and control airway surface liquid pH; while club and goblet cells control hydration and volume.

Dr. Anil Kumar (PhD) (Nominated Principal Investigator – USask College of Medicine – Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology), and Dr. Tom Hobman (PhD) (Co-applicant, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta) – $300,000 for a three-year project titled, Functional analyses of pathogenicity determinants of SARSCoronavirus-2 delta variant.

Dr. Deborah Anderson (PhD) (Principal Investigator – USask College of Medicine – Department of Oncology), and co-applicants Dr. Jane Alcorn (DVM, PhD) (USask College of Pharmacy and Nutrition) and Dr. Brent Page (PhD) (Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia) – $100,000 for a one-year project titled, Targeting metastatic breast cancer.

Dr. Andrew Leask (PhD) (Nominated Principal Investigator – USask College of Dentistry), and coapplicants Dr. LynneMarie Postovit (PhD), Dr. Muhammad Aslam (MD), Dr. Bruce Riser (PhD), Dr. Murray Baron (MD) – $100,000 for a one-year project titled, The contribution of CCN proteins to scleroderma fibrosis: cellular and molecular mechanisms.

Other CIHR-funded USask research projects

Province invests to expand family violence support program The Government of Saskatchewan is investing $1.1 million over the next three years to support the expansion of the Family Intervention Rapid Support Team (FIRST) program in the province.

“Enhancing community safety and the wellbeing of Saskatchewan families is paramount,” Justice Minister and Attorney General Gordon Wyant said. “The FIRST program effectively supports families at a higher risk for violence with early intervention techniques that help to mitigate potential crisis situations at home.”

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Matthews scores 300th NLL goal as Rush struggle for wins The Saskatchewan Rush are having the kind of season that has a lot of heads shaking and questions being asked as they sit fifth in the National Lacrosse League’s West Division with only two wins in eight games.

If the playoffs were to start tomorrow the Rush would be golfing, not playing, which is an unexpected position for a franchise that was in the NLL Championship final every season from 2015 to 2018, winning in 2016 and 2018.

Wrapped up in the middle of the somewhat dismal season is a landmark goal for team leader Mark Matthews.

Matthews potted a pair of goals Feb. 20 in Colorado, the first being his 300th career goal.

Asked what the goal meant, Matthews said he hadn’t even been aware he achieved the milestone.

“Shatts (Jeff Shattler)

said something about it after the game actually,” he said.

So, unless someone with the team was keeping track, the milestone ball just stayed in-game, a game which the Rush lost 12-10.

And, to be fair there are a lot of goals scored in box lacrosse. Ten players have 400-plus with John Tavarres leading the way with 815.

So are personal achievements unimportant to Matthews?

That seems the case.

“Unless it’s like 1000 points -- I’ll care about that one,” he told Yorkton This Week. For the record he has 797 regular season points.

Matthews did add he recalls his first goal, a powerplay marker in Edmonton.

“I might have had a hat trick in that one (game) too,” he said, adding getting his first early

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Matthews was picked first overall by the Rush in the 2012 NLL draft and was named rookie of the year in 2013.

The 300th goal might have been of greater significance too, if the team were not struggling to find wins.

“It was pretty well the last thing on my mind,” he said, adding the priority “is to get this thing turned around.”

If the Rush are to make a second half of the season rally, Matthews will be a big part of it, as the team offence

flows through him as a perennial assist leader.

He holds the league record for most assists in a year – 84 -- which he did in 2018 while being named the league’s Most Valuable Player.

In spite of the loss in Colorado, Matthews said he does feel the offence was closer to a serious breakout.

“I thought we played a lot better offensively,” he said, pointing to the Rush firing 60 shots at Mammoth netminder Dillon Ward. “. . . Ward made some wonderful saves in the game.”

Add in a couple of

posts and the Rush were close to getting the goals to win.

Not rolling up goals is something Matthews admitted he’s not used too, and he’s feeling the pressure and frustration.

He had to look back to his first years in Edmonton to find a Rush team that was scoring at a good clip “and I don’t think we were nearly as good as we are now.

“It’s the most frustrated I’ve been in my career.”

So why the goal drought?

Well, there are new pieces on the offensive side of the ball, veterans like Dan Lintner and Josh Currier. They are players with pedigree but Matthews noted the Rush have a system developed and refined over five or six seasons and it’s taking time – more than might have been anticipated to fit in.

“We were so lucky to play five or six guys together for five, or six years. We knew were everybody was going to be at any given time,” said Matthews.

The new guys “have never played that system before,” he added stating this version of the Rush offence has to find its “own identity.”

To find that identity the Rush they may just have to relax more.

Matthews said as losses mount it might be a case of trying to do too much, but the 60 shots in Colorado was a good step.

The Rush host the same Mammoth team in Saskatoon Saturday, Feb. 28. Matthews said they’ll be looking for a win “to kind of right the ship.” With a win he said there is a sense the team “could go on a bit of a run and get back into a playoff position.”

“Name the Puppy” 2022 It is that time of year again. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) needs help in naming the puppies that will become Canada’s future RCMP Police Dogs.

The Police Dog Service Training Centre (PDSTC) in Innisfail, Alberta is asking young Canadians to suggest names for 13 German Shepherd puppies that will be born at the Centre in 2022.

Children are encouraged to be original and imaginative in finding names that will serve these puppies well in their careers with Canada’s national police force.

When thinking of names, it is important to keep in mind that these are working police dogs, not pets.

Winning names will be chosen by the PDSTC staff. A draw will determine the winning entry in the event of multiple submissions of the same puppy name.

Although there can be only 13 winners, names not selected for the contest will be considered for other puppies born during the year.

Prizes

The 13 whose names are selected will each receive a laminated 8×10inch photo of the pup they name, a plush dog named Justice and an RCMP water bottle.

Contest rules are simple:

Contestants can suggest only 1 name (1 entry per person) The name may be for a male or a female pup The name must start with the letter “R” The name must have no more than 9 letters The name must be 1 or 2 syllables Contestants must be 4 to 14 years old Contestants must live

in Canada Entries must be received by March 17, 2022

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To enter the contest, visit us online: Name the Puppy contest

After entering online, children have the option to enter their artwork to the Police Dog Service Training Centre at puppychiot@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

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The PDSTC is home to the RCMP national police

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The deadline for entries is March 17, 2022.

Contest winners and prizes will be announced on April 13, 2022.

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USask researcher awarded SSHRC funding to build more engaging online learning platforms SASKATOON – University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher Dr. Shan Wang (PhD) has been awarded funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to investigate how to improve online discussion forums for students on e-learning platforms.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions have turned to online learning platforms as a strategy to continue program delivery when in-person meetings were limited, thus making the platforms an integral part of many student experiences.

“Learner engagement is one of the biggest challenges of online learning,”

said Wang, principal investigator of the project and associate professor in USask’s Edwards School of Business.

“Online discussion forums have the ability to alleviate the problem of lack of interaction and communication in the remote, asynchronous online learning environment.”

Wang stresses that many online education discussion forums are not fully developed and may not contain the same functionalities as those used in fields such as e-commerce.

The work will focus on demonstrating the academic value of short-form responses by students and instruct-

ors in online learning platforms by conducting a textual analysis of the responses and the participation rates of students.

“Short responses are defined as learners’ brief, non-substantive responses to online content in e-learning forums,” said Wang. “This content is considered to be low-quality participation in the prior online discussion forum literature, but our observation is that short response participation is a major participating behaviour.”

The team will then use the basis of these observations to make suggestions for functionality enhancements and platform improvement to the partner

company.

Shan Wang’s research team, including professor Dr. Fang Wang (PhD) from Wilfred Laurier University, and associate professor Dr. Zhao Du (PhD) from Beijing Sport University, will work with EduWind, a company that specializes in building online platforms for educational institutions.

The project has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage grant of $24,997. These grants support partnered research activities that will inform decision-making and meet the needs of a partner organization from the public, private or non-profit sector.

Birds Canada and partners launch major new fund to help conserve the Chimney Swift Port Rowan, Ontario — The Canadian population of Chimney Swifts has declined by nearly 90% since 1970. Birds Canada is delighted to announce the launch of the Chimney Swift Chimney Restoration Fund, a major new initiative to help conserve important habitat for the Chimney Swift, which is listed as Threatened under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. The project is being undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada through the federal department of Environment and Climate Change, and with help from conservation partners from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia.

The Chimney Swift is a small greyish bird with a cigar-shaped body and crescent-shaped wings.

It breeds in central and eastern North America and spends much of the rest of the year in northwestern South America.

In Canada, this longdistant migrant nests in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, where its buzzy twittering calls are still a characteristic sound of summer in the skies above many towns and cities. The new Fund aims to keep things that way!

As their name implies, Chimney Swifts nest and roost in chimneys, but 400 years ago, they relied on large, hollow trees in old-growth forests. As these disappeared from the landscape, the species was able to survive by relocating to humanmade structures, such as chimneys, as an alterna-

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tive. As we only use our chimneys in the colder months, Chimney Swifts are able to use them safely during the spring and summer. Fortunately, they are good guests and their tiny nest poses no fire risk. In addition, they live off flying insects, so provide an insect control service.

The reduction in the number of accessible chimneys is a contributing factor to the decline of these fascinating birds.

“When aging chimneys are capped, screened,

lined or demolished, this represents a loss of habitat, which is a threat to the survival of Chimney Swifts,” said Véronique Connolly, coordinator of the Chimney Swift Chimney Restoration Fund. “The Fund will aid recovery efforts by providing financial support for the restoration of chimneys and other structures known to be important for Chimney Swifts in Canada.”

Visit the Chimney Swift Chimney Restoration Fund’s website to find

out about the eligibility criteria and application process. The application deadline is April 21, 2022, and we hope to be able to support over 25 projects across the species’ Canadian range.

The website also contains links to stewardship tips on how to be a good host to Chimney Swifts and information about how to be a part of citizen science programs, such as SwiftWatch, that are helping fill critical information gaps about this species.

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East Central Newcomer Welcome Centre helps with transition of newcomers to Canada

By Sierra D’Souza Butts Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The World-Spectator Moosomin) The East Central Newcomer Welcome Centre aims to help newcomers, immigrants and refugees in East Central Saskatchewan and works with many newcomers in the Moosomin area.

By providing services and information to newcomers, the organization strives to make the transition of individuals who are new to Canada, a welcoming and helpful

experience.

Executive director of the agency, Edith Montesclaros said the main purpose of the agency is assist newcomers in connecting with the community.

“There’s a history of newcomers spending two years in one small community, then they leave for a bigger city because they claim that bigger cities have more to offer, but there are so many things that smaller communities can offer to newcomers,” she said.

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students and permanent residents in Canada.

Montesclaros said there is no limit to how long individuals can use the services that are offered from East Central Newcomer Welcome Centre.

“Years ago we were told it should be two to five years, but we had this gentleman who was 83 years old. He came to us, he just discovered he was just a permanent resident and not a Canadian citizen, so we helped him,” she said.

“He’s been here for more than 50 years and thought he was a permanent resident, who would help him? Service Canada couldn’t help him so we helped him because he needed it.

So whoever needs help, we’re here. If a newcomer is independent we don’t have a problem if they do their own thing, but if someone needs help we’re here to help them for as long as they need. To me, that’s my take on the service.”

Between the 10 staff members, Montesclaros said individuals can communicate with newcomers through a total of 10 languages. Some languages include Filipino, Cebuano, Ukrainian, Russian, a Nigerian dialect of English, Punjabi and more.

Many services offered

Montesclaros said the clientele the agency usually receives, are referred by family members who are already present in the community. However, she hopes to expand awareness of the agency, so that more people can benefit from its services.

“People who come here for help have different statuses, the most common status we have now is permanent resident through the family unification, meaning that a permanent resident who’s already here, decided to sponsor their family members like a spouse, the children or the parents, so that’s the family reunification program.”

The non-profit agency offers its services to a variety of different people, Montesclaros said.

“People are referred through the college, like international students of the college. The college usually refers their students to us and we provide services to them.

At one point, Parkland College had the largest number of international students referred to us.

This was pre-Covid, but after Covid the numbers got affected because of restrictions for international students to

attend in-person classes.”

“We also have temporary workers who were hired by the hospitality sector, that includes Tim Hortons, McDonald’s, and they were hired directly or from recruiters to come here. Those individuals usually hear about us and would come to our office if they need something,” she said.

“We have permanent residents, naturalized citizens, non-permanent residents which include international students and temporary workers, so that’s our target population.”

Because the East Central Newcomer Welcome Centre Inc. is a non-profit organization, its services are free of charge. Children, parents and families can benefit from the services that assist them in adapting to the community.

Montesclaros said the agency’s newest program, the Local Immigration Partnership, connects stakeholders and people in the community to work together.

“Our new program targets stakeholders and volunteers in the community, in trying to make our region a welcoming place. Let’s face it no community is perfect, so they have these 17 characteristics of a welcoming community and we haven’t met at least half of those characteristics,” she said.

“But it has to be identified by the immigrants, so stakeholders are brought at the table and we try to figure out how to develop a welcoming community for newcomers.

It’s all about the newcomers and stakeholders, so we discuss what can we do about it, is it fixable or solvable, how can we adjust those challenges. It has to be the community who decides what’s prioritized and how are we going to go about it, if it’s really fixable and stuff like that, but we need to have a discussion on it.”

Another program the agency offers—The Settlement Worker in Schools Program (SWIS)—is directed for helping parents and students from two school boards in the East Central region.

“We have an agreement with Good Spirit School Division and Christ the Teacher School Division, so we cover all of their schools and community needs,” Montesclaros said.

“We help students and families because sometimes the students Continued on Page 7

EAST CENTRAL NEWCOMER Continued from Page 6 are referred to us by the school, and it’s actually the parents who need help, so we help the parents as well.”

“We’ve been around for years but of course not everyone has heard about us, that’s why we’ve been trying to promote our services because we’re here to help. Our services are at no cost, we’re funded by the government. Our volunteers have a good heart because they try and help people with their settlement and other things that are needed of assistance.”

Montesclaros said she and her team are proud

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to be part of an organization that helps newcomers connect within their communities.

“We always talk about it. We’re just so proud, especially when we started working with someone and they started out as a temporary resident, and then become a citizen.

We’re just so proud when they leave and they’re so happy because they had their oath taking for Canadian citizenship.”

“You’re just so satisfied that you have provided services to individuals and they finally got their main objective of becoming a citizen.”

The East Central Newcomer Welcome

The East Central Newcomer Welcome Centre provides free settlement services to newcomers in east central Saskatchewan. Members of the agency are (left) Babatunde Olaleye, Shanley Allard, Freda Balan, Leah Lutz, Anshu Raina, Scott Sharpe, Edith Montesclaros, Poonam Kaur and Jeisel Tolentino.

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Throw some dice and play some baseball While board games are a definite area of interest, it’s not the only one, at least for a few of our group.

The majority follow sports at some level, and that includes a summer fascination with baseball – predominantly the Toronto Blue Jays after the Major League Baseball allowed the Montreal Expos to move to Washington for the 2005 season.

Typically, if you follow baseball you would be rather excited at this time of year, as pitchers and catchers report for the earliest stages of spring training, which is the hint that winter will end and the game will be back in full swing soon.

Alas, this year spring training is in limbo as

MLB and its players haggle over a new contract.

As part of that process players have been locked out, and fans are left to read about the snail’s pace of negotiations rather than about how pitchers are looking in their early sessions.

Of course baseball fans, especially those who also like board games, can substitute a baseball-themed game to fill the void for a while.

There are tons of options – some such as Stat-o-Matic Baseball being truly classic – a very realistic simulation of the game, for those wanting to feel what it might be like to manage a team. There even used to be a league locally where a group met weekly at the Yorkton Public Library –

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But, if you want some simpler baseball gaming, then the answer might be Canball.

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The game is simply the player who is batting

Dance Festival set for April return Parkland Dance Festival is excited to welcome hundreds of dancers and their families to Yorkton in April.

Parkland Dance Festival attracts youth dance students from studios in Yorkton and across Saskatchewan to showcase their talents on the Anne Portnuff Theatre Stage at the Yorkton Regional High School.

Parkland Dance Festival has been providing a quality dance experience for over 15 years. The festival is a not for profit event, organized by a volunteer board of Dance

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A significant attraction for competitive youth dancers to Parkland Dance Festival is the opportunity to compete with their peers for awards and scholarships that are completely funded through the gen-

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The festival organizing committee is looking for community support of the awards and scholarships presented to the youth performers during the festival. A number of sponsorship opportunities are available.

To find out more about Parkland Dance Festival and how you or your organization can help, please contact Angelina Kardynal at 306.621.5180.

Parkland Dance Festival is excited to have over 500 dancers registered to attend April 22 through 24, 2022.

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Woman says more supports needed after losing brother, niece to overdose deaths within two years

By Sierra D’Souza Butts Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The World-Spectator Moosomin) Shattered bodies, minds and souls.

That’s what it has been like for Brenda Johnston and her family for the last six years of their lives.

After losing her both brother and her niece in less than two years from overdose deaths, Johnston is calling for action to support those who are facing ongoing battles of addictions and mental health, in rural areas of Southeast Saskatchewan.

“It didn’t start out this way for my brother. So many people have preconceived notions of people with addictions issues and it wasn’t that way for 50 years with him,” said Johnston, who runs Red Market Barn in Kenosee.

Johnston said her brother, Jack, lived a normal life. He was healthy individual, a farmer his whole life and grew up around family members who loved him.

“He was the youngest of the family on a farm, he had three oldest sisters, was kind, considerate. We talked to him every day because we just did, his three sisters,” she said.

“We lost our mom when he would’ve been 20, so he definitely phoned all three sisters every day. He loved to talk on the phone, and was always checking to

Former nurse and teacher Brenda Johnston of Red Market Barn in Kenosee, shares her experience of losing both her brother and niece to overdose deaths in less than two years. She hopes what can come from her losses is to see change and more support for people in rural areas who are currently experiencing battles with mental health and addiction. make sure he was doing things right, or what he was up to, because it was kind of the oil boom as he got older, when he first started. It was a really successful business, lots of physical work and he still farmed with my dad.”

Johnston said during that time, her family experienced the unexpected loss of their sister, which had impacted the family but brought them closer.

“He was really hurt when my mom died and then my sister died quite suddenly in 2000. It was an adult crib death which I never heard of, but once it happens in your family then you start researching. She was 41, and left her three boys behind,” Johnston said.

“You know, every-

one suffers from mental health issues, as those things happen in families, but because he did so much physical work on the farm, he cut wood and he did lots of oil field work which was heavy physical work too.”

After decades of working on the farm, Jack was prescribed pain killers to reduce the pain caused from his work of farming,.

“He had a bad shoulder like me, and I truly believe his addiction probably started with him being given drugs.

Then you get addicted, and you can’t live without them.”

Johnston said throughout the years of him suffering with addiction and mental health issues, her family tried their best to help him, but due to the lack of sup-

port in the area, there was only so much she and her family could do for Jack.

“There is just no help, there is no hope. There’s no services in rural Saskatchewan, our only outlet was to go to the RCMP a lot of the time.

Some of them would be really good and some wouldn’t,” Johnston said.

“I came from health care initially, I have nurses training and I can’t believe how people get treated. And in small towns it’s probably worse because everyone knows everyone.”

Johnston worked in health care for 20 years, as a nurse in doctors offices, as well as in acute and long term care.

Currently, she has been working as an educational assistant and librarian for the past 24 years.

Based on her brother’s experience with addiction and mental health, Johnston said she was shocked to find out the lack of support the systems for people in rural areas.

Asking the government for support

In October 2019, a year after Jack passed from an overdose, Johnston wrote a letter to various government officials.

“The past four years, since October 2015 we have dealt with a family member with mental health issues, diagnosed with drug addiction and bipolar.,” she wrote.

“Four years ago we realized our 47 year old brother had developed a

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“We have lived the past four years how no one should have to live.

As the addiction progressed and incidents accelerated, we struggled 24 hours a day, every day for four years. Our brother’s health continued to deteriorate physically and mentally.

“There were numerous visits to health care facilities during this time. Episodes of psychosis increased and became more unpredictable and violent. Our 84 year old dad was in constant danger and lived under threats each day as they farmed together and lived in the same yard.

“We spoke with the local RCMP several times requesting help, but until there was an incident, no help was available. They had numerous reports of threats to community members, but no one would press charges.

“My family quickly realized that there was nothing we could do until the addiction caused criminal charges and jail time.

“Several times he was arrested for violent episodes and threats.

Several times he was held for 72 hours and

then released.

“He was assessed at North Battleford during his first incarceration for only a few days. He was incarcerated several times for various crimes during the four years.”

“The last incarceration being the past year, August 2018- August 2019 for one year. It took over seven months for him to even contact us. Before the addition we spoke daily on the phone or visited. This is why I strongly feel it takes months for many addicts to even function somewhat normally as they did before addiction.”

“He was sent to Pine Lodge to finish his sentence. My sister, niece and I picked him up August 20, 2019 from Pine Lodge. He was very much his old self and had many plans in the days ahead.”

“On that evening, August 20, 2019, he passed away. We are still waiting for the autopsy result.”

Johnston did everything she could, but needed help beyond her control After she sent a letter to Saskatchewan’s premier and the ministry of health, Johnston said the response she received did not acknowledge how severe Jack’s experience with addiction was.

“I wrote a letter to the government after my brother died, responses were pitiful. They were sorry and stated they were doing so much,” she said.

“I was very hurt and angry from their cold responses that I threw them in the garbage.”

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OVERDOSE DEATHS Continued from Page 8 believe the way the government handled situations like these.

“So I have addicts incapable of making the right choice, and if they had Alzheimers or dementia, there are supports and help for individuals to be looked after when they are no longer capable, not so much for people with mental health and addiction issues.”

Johnston said families of individuals who are experiencing addiction and mental health issues should have the same access to help for their loved ones, just as families who do, for those experiencing other mental conditions, such as Alzheimer’s.

Throughout the four years Jack suffered from his addiction, Johnston said she and her family could legally not enrol him into rehabilitation programs without his consent.

“The only thing they (the law) can do, unless something criminal actually happens, is the police can charge them to get some help or get them committed, then they can be legally held for 72 hours and that’s it.”

“So he would be taken to a psych centre, a mental health centre and then they would keep them in there, for three days. During their psychotic episodes, there is no help other than the police.”

The options for individuals who want to help a family member or friend who does not realize that he or she needs help, are: • Contact their family physician • Contact their mental health clinic • Call HealthLine at 811; or • Call 911 if someone is at risk or harming themselves or others Within those four years of Jack’s episodes and need for help, Johnston followed the system’s public guidelines and it still was not enough to get the help that Jack needed.

She said she took her brother to a psychiatrist a year before his passing, and the doctor disregarded Jack’s need for professional help.

“The last one we went to before my brother went to jail for a year, we went to Weyburn. We met with a psychiatrist and the nurse in the facility and he looks at me and says, there’s nothing wrong with your brother, you just have to tell him no.”

Johnston said during that same week, is when Jack had almost burned down their father’s house, during one of his psychotic episodes. However the police could not arrest him until her

father layed charges.

She said her and her family tried everything they could within the four years of Jack’s constant battles with addiction and mental health, but were out of options.

Johnston said the day Jack was released from jail, was the same day he overdosed.

“We picked him up in the morning from Yorkton from a half way house, and he had been in jail for a year but he had so many plans and just everything.”

She said when someone passes away from an overdose, it sometimes takes three to six months for the families to get an autopsy report back.

Mourning the loss of her niece

A year and a half after Johnston’s brother passed away, she experienced the loss of her niece to an overdose.

“My niece died in December of last year during Covid, and she came from Alberta and we got her treatment,” said Johnston.

Johnston’s niece, Emily Bryce passed away at the age of 26.

Johnston said when her niece wanted to get better, they took her to a doctor and had to wait almost nine hours before the doctor assessed her.

After she was eventually admitted, Emily was on the wait list for eight weeks before being placed in a treatment center in Regina, due to the shortage of space.

“This summer it will be two and a half years since my brother died, and it doesn’t ever leave you. Because you think you should have done more.”

“At least with Emily if I had walked away and not listened to that doctor, and said we would just wait for a phone call, but I have more peace at least with her, because we were able to get her help.”

“She willingly went, and she did not get to the point of where the addictions had destroyed her nearly as bad as my brother.”

After Emily spent a couple of weeks in treatment, she was able to get a home for herself in Regina. Yet, Johnston said there were no follow up programs for her to stay on that path.

“That’s why it takes months to undo all of those things, you have to give your body time to heal,” she said.

“I know she was utilizing homeless shelters and different things because we could contact her sometimes, or we would hear from her sometimes through that.”

“Still ultimately, they found her in the freezing cold, frozen to death in the street.”

“Even with treatment, yes people are going to overdose or do this, but my concern is that more people have died from overdoses because of Covid.,” said Johnston.

“There needs to be indefinite support groups, and part of the problem is that it’s rural. I mean with my niece, she had no car and it’s rural so how does she even get to somewhere for help?”

“There needs to be better support groups, there needs to be caring, feeling, in person I mean all this online stuff, it gets no where. It’s just about driven everyone over the edge with Covid. That’s not the answer. It needs to be more, and yes she did fail but I mean you at least have to try. You might fail, but you at least have to try and I don’t feel like we’re doing that.”

Johnston said the urgency of follow up treatment programs are crucial to helping people who are experiencing mental health and addiction issues.

“My whole point of what my brother went through, cost the government a tenfold of what providing treatment may have cost.”

Overdose deaths have become higher in the province

Unfortunately Johnston’s loss of her two family members connects to a bigger issue across the province.

According to Saskatchewan’s Coroners Service, there were 464 confirmed and suspected overdose deaths in 2021, an immense record.

Since Johnston lost her brother Jack pre-Covid and her expressing her concerns with the government about more support systems needing to be in place to prevent his loss, the number of overdoses skyrocketed during the pandemic.

“I think our society has changed, as society evolves different problems come up and we have to learn to deal with them as they come up.”

Johnston said the stigma behind mental health and addictions, needs to be changed by society as a whole.

“We have to deal with these problems, they’re not going to go away.

Unless you have a family member anything regarding addictions, anything is derogatory. They just don’t understand it’s beyond a persons’ control,” said Johnston.

“I’m advocating for change that families need to get help, that our processes

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are so long and we can’t wait until they ask for help because that’s probably not going to happen.”

“As a family you should be able to get help and a judge should be able to say, I order you for treatment. Like in all these cases, why did we have to wait for something criminal to happen? Why couldn’t he have been court ordered to go for treatment? But the idea is, unless they want to go it’s not going to happen, but my point is that we at least have to try.”

“I mean we have to change laws and try to get them help but they make it so hard for them to try and get help. The only break we got in those five years, was that year my brother was in jail, mentally for us,” said Johnston.

“We individuals in society at least have to try. At this point this is not happening, we treat all medical conditions but not mental health and addiction issues.”

“If I went to the doctor and said I had cancer I would get treated, if I had a broken leg I would get treated but if it’s mental health and addictions then nothing happens.”

“In rural Saskatchewan there really isn’t anything, you can go to an AA meeting for support, but that’s it. Any type of mental health, it’s so lacking.

I think you can see mental health counsellors in Carlyle from 9 a.m to 5 p.m, Monday to Friday but to get into them and actually get help is tough, we require more.”

“We require active treatment. There are times of crisis. If they are physical and you have a heart attack you get taken care of but if it’s mental health, depression or suicide, there isn’t emergency care,” she said.

“We have to at least try and if they have go to rehab then we need way more mental health beds and rural services because they don’t exist. They need follow-up programs as well.”

Johnston said there is a lot more needed to be done from the government, in order to support individuals with mental health and addiction needs in rural areas.

“We don’t have the services and the laws to get help I guess, because there are really good health care workers out there and there’s really bad ones just like any profession, but we don’t have the laws and services that families require to deal with an addict. We don’t have the support, we don’t have the system to at least attempt to get them help.”

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Public Inspection Farmsmay for Sale Farms for Sale Any person inspect Bylaw Z2/12 at the municipal ofÀce in Yorkton, Saskatchewan during regular ofÀce hours between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Copies are available at cost.

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Public Hearing Council will hold a public hearing on October 11, 2012 at 10:30 a.m., at the R.M. OfÀce at 26 - 5th Avenue North, Yorkton Saskatchewan, to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed Bylaw Z2/12. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing, or delivered to the undersigned at the municipal ofÀce before theWade.Berlinic@HammondRealty.ca hearing.

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C. JONES TRUCKING SERVICE INC. BRATUSA, Heidemarie (Daubner) December 31, 1946 – January 29, 2022 It is with heartfelt sadness that we announce the passing of Heidemarie Bratusa (nee Daubner) at Regina General Hospital on January 29, 2022 in her 76th year.

Born in Germany in 1946, she im-migrated with her parents to Cambridge, Onatrio. She and her loving husband Peter were long term residents of Saltcoats, SK, where they ran an emu farm and raised miniature horses before retiring to Yorkton. She was happiest working in her gardens and looking after all the farm animals. She is predeceased by her mother Martha (nee Schmidtke) and father Adolf Daubner, both of Cambridge, ON. Heide will be deeply missed by her husband Peter, her children Christine (Bernie), James, and Deborah, grandchildren Chantel (Matt), Courtney (Jesse), Emily, Rysia, Natalie, Issac, and Isabella, great-grandchildren Charlotte, Marcus, and Rosalie, as well as many friends and family.

At Heide’s request, there will be no funeral. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to a charity benefiting animals.

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Preeceville local cross country Olympic hopefuls excel Courtesy of Preeceville Progress The Maier children of Megan and Nathan Maier of Preeceville rose to the challenge of cross country skiing against some of the best during the Cross Country Saskatchewan Nordic Ski Provincial Championships.

The event took place in Saskatoon at the Gordon Howe Sports Complex outdoors on February 12 to 13.

The Nordic ski clubs in attendance were: La Ronge Nordic, Sturgeon River Nordic, Saskatoon Nordic, Regina Nordic, Preeceville Nordic, Flin Flon Nordic, Humboldt Nordic and Il La Crosse Nordic, with a total of 100 athletes competing.

Isaiah Maier competed in the U18 category on Saturday and it was a classic ski 5km combined with a 5km freestyle (skate ski) race. Then on Sunday he raced a 10km classic race and received a first place medal on both days.

Hudson Maier competed in the U14 age category skiing a 3km classic combined with a 3km freestyle race. He made a mistake and did an General Employment

The R.M. of Garry #245 located approximately 40 kms from Yorkton, will be accepting applications for a seasonal operator full-time April-October or as weather permits, laid off for the winter.

The main responsibilities would be as a maintenance person and mower operator but the right individual will also be trained on the grader as a back-up operator.

Preference may be given to fully vaccinated applicants.

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Wages are to be negotiated depending on experience.

Applicants should submit a complete resume stating experience, qualifications, with references and salary expected to: R.M. of Garry No. 245, Box10 Jedburgh, SK, SOA 1RO Phone: 306-647-2450 • Fax: 306-647-2452 rm245@yourlink.ca

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extra lap that cost him the win and he ended up in seventh place. Then on Sunday he raced a 5km classic race and finished first.

Levi Maier competed in the U12 age category doing a 2km classic combined with a 2km freestyle race. He placed first on Saturday, and on Sunday he raced 3 km classic race, coming in second.

Charis Maier competed in the U8 category and raced a 500m classic plus a 500m freestyle race and placed sixth. She raced a 1km classic race on Sunday and placed fourth.

“Our Nordic club does our classic ski training in Preeceville and is extremely grateful for those who keep the Lions family ski trails groomed and in great shape,” said Megan Maier, mom. “We do our skate ski/freestyle training in Yorkton.

The boys’ future training goals are to compete next year in the Western Canadian championships and Isaiah is eligible to compete for team Saskatchewan at the Canada winter games if he makes the team next year,” she concluded.

Charis Maier of Preeceville had fun skiing her hardest during the Cross Country Saskatchewan Nordic Ski Provincial Championships held in Saskatoon.

Hudson Maier of Preeceville joined his brothers on the podium to accept his gold medal.

Isaiah Maier of Preeceville received two gold medals for each of his races in the Cross Country Saskatchewan Nordic Ski Provincial Championships.

Isaiah is eligible to compete for team Saskatchewan at the Canada winter games if he makes the team next year.

Kinsmen Club holds pancake breakfast for National Day of Kindness Tyson Off Staff Writer YORKTON -- The Kinsmen Club of Yorkton celebrated National Day of Kindness with a free pancake breakfast this past Saturday in the Blue Room at the Kinsmen Arena.

“We had a little over 100 people show up,” said Blair German, President of the Kinsmen Club of

Yorkton.

German said he was hoping for more people to attend, but said the weather likely played a factor in what he considered low attendance.

“It was cold, it was snowing.”

German added that the Kinettes were out in the cold delivering hot chocolate to people on various snow hills throughout the city.

Delivering kindness didn’t stop at dishing out a free breakfast, later in the day the club visited the Terrier game to raise money for Telemiracle. “We raised $800 for Telemircale at the Terrier game,” said German.

Telemiracle holds its 46th event this year and will take place on the 5th and 6th of March in Regina.

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