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Area resident initiates rejuvenation of country cemeteries Courtesy of Canora Courier As the population of rural areas continues to decrease in many regions of Saskatchewan, the condition of a large number of country cemeteries has suffered. But instead of just watching this trend continue, Adeline Dutchak, who lives on a farm near Buchanan, decided it was time to take action. Three nearby cemeteries were of special concern. The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church Virgin of Sorrows Cemetery, located on her property, was quite overgrown and in need of some work. “The small church building always attracted many motorists to stop in and take pictures, but the cemetery was in rough shape. The previous caretakers had passed away,” said Dutchak. She was also concerned about two other cemeteries in the RM of Insinger. The Mamornitz cemetery is where her husband Daniel and his family are buried, and it was mainly in need of regular maintenance. The third was the Chabaylo Cemetery, where Dutchak’s father Alex and his brother Nick are buried. “Previously people couldn’t even see there was a cemetery there

and the wooden crosses were rotted,” recalled Dutchak. She became aware of a work program at Whitespruce Provincial Training Centre (WPTC) in Yorkton, and contacted WPTC to find out more. Her efforts were successful, and the first crew of workers was sent out about 10 years ago. They have been looking after the cemeteries through the spring and summer months ever since. Spokesperson Margherita Vittorelli said the program provides labour for several cemeteries near Yorkton and around the East Central region. “Whitespruce (WPTC) community work crew employs up to 10 offenders (now reduced to five to ensure adherence to public health orders) to conduct general maintenance such as lawn care,” said Vittorelli. “Through this work the inmates learn basic skills such as outdoor maintenance skills and teamwork, experience job satisfaction, and have the opportunity to give back to the community. The work is volunteer, although some of the communities will make a donation to the inmate collective trust account, which is used to purchase items for the inmates.” Dutchak said plans are in place to put up a

The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church Virgin of Sorrows Cemetery and church has long attracted photographers, mainly due to the tiny, unique church. But with regular maintenance, including the removal of overgrown vegetation and renovations to the church, the cemetery is once again visible and the site has a whole new level of appeal. sign at Chabaylo cemetery which will include the cemetery’s name. “It feels good to see this work being done,” she said. “Cemeteries should be clean, showing respect to people buried there. People buried tend to be forgotten about when the cemeteries are not looked after.” Some have started calling Dutchak “an angel in disguise.” Among those who have shown their appreciation for Dutchak’s work and provided support are Phyllis Viczko of Yorkton and Cheryl Kaban, who lives near Foam Lake. Both have relatives buried at the Chabaylo cemetery. Kaban has helped with killing weeds and Vicko provided assistance with fixing broken monu-

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Forbes Brothers helped to install a new pole and platform that will be used to help relocate the nest of Osprey in Endeavour.

2018 season and finished in early 2019. They laid eggs and the two young chicks were visible during the summer of 2019. They migrated in the fall but will be back in early April. Most of the residents in the Village of Endeavour were disappointed when they realized that the Osprey nest located on the cell tower had been destroyed for the first time. When the SaskTel Human Resources and Environment manager

was contacted he indicated there was a complaint of damage caused to the tower by the Osprey nesting activity. He had stated that the tower was not designated for the extra weight of an Osprey nest. He had said that a possible buildup of ice and snow along with a strong wind could compromise the structure. He had also reported that when service people need to climb the tower, the Osprey dive at them creating a safety hazard Continued on Page 3

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Local man explores crafting in off-season Courtesy of Kamsack Times Many locals may be familiar with Alan Bennett and his 25 years of tapping trees in Saskatchewan to make the unique and everpopular Assiniboine River Taps maple syrup. As the spring season warms up, Bennett is preparing for the 2021 syrup harvest from his pipeline setup in the bush along the Assiniboine River. However, what may not be common knowledge is the fascinating work that occupies Bennett’s down time during the winter months. “I don’t watch any T.V.” said Bennett. “I’ve got plenty of projects to keep me busy.” Bennett lives and works in a studio that many artists would likely envy. Inside the beatendown and weathered exterior of the Sugar

Shack on Kamsack’s Queen Elizabeth Boulevard, is a formidable workspace with cathedral style ceilings adorned with custom laminated trusses. One area in the open space is undergoing renovation and closed off to the rest of the building, previously known as the Elks Lodge in Kamsack. “That is my woodworking area,” explained Bennett. “It’s not finished yet, but that plastic works well to keep the dust down.” Bennett grew up at his family farm in the Kamsack area. He admits that while there are many things he misses about life on the farm, there are also a number of things he doesn’t miss, like the financial hardships that came with the lifestyle. In transforming the former community hall, Bennett has created a

This custom loom was designed and built by Allan Bennett of Kamsack. Bennett said his beadwork displayed on the loom is finally ready to be added to a belt. In total, the custom beaded piece hosts over 10,000 individual beads, all added by hand.

unique resident studio in which he lives and works. Aside from his private suite, the hall hosts stations for beading, wood working, sewing, and his Assiniboine River Taps maple syrup processing. An avid outdoorsman, Bennett still spends much of his time out in the bush and uses a number of natural elements in his creations. Carpentry skills come in handy for Bennett, serving a number of his creative pursuits. For his beading work, Bennett has created custom looms and bead organizers to streamline the intricate and time consuming nature of beading by hand. Using his mitre saw to thinly slice tree branches, Bennett dips the pieces of wood in a sealant, punches a hole, and adds a ring to create a one-of-kind keychain. As a leather crafter, Bennett

Allan Bennett holds up the very first pair of beaded earrings he made in his studio in Kamsack. has made items such as moccasins, bags, belts, and custom clothing items. Porcupine quills are another natural element that Bennett uses in custom jewelry designs.

With his carpentry skills, Allan Bennett created this custom bead separation board. Bennett said the system helps keep colours organized and the fabric base can be removed for washing.

While some of Bennett’s creations sell locally, the majority of them are sent to members of his retail network on the west coast. Bennett says that tourists visiting the port city of Vancouver are eager to purchase items like his maple wood key chains or beaded giftware to take home as souvenirs that represent Canada. Although most of his products are shipping across the country, Bennett has big visions when it comes to the Sugar Shack and his studio in Kamsack. “I would love to make a gift shop in the front,” outlined Bennett. “There could be a place for

people to learn how to do beadwork. There could be a storefront. I think it would be great to showcase some of the local artists and put their work up for sale. There is a lot of talent in this area.”

Allan Bennett spent five years to complete this dream catcher by hand.

RELOCATION OF OSPREY Continued from Page 2 issue. He told Romanchuk that the towers across North America are all experiencing the same type of problems with Osprey. Apparently these nests also tend to start forest fires in remote areas. Either lightning or a short in the live wires starts the nests on fire. The Osprey is a unique bird that is unmistakable when seen at close range, stated the bird view website. It is the only species in its family, and it is found worldwide. Its breast and belly are mostly white, with some dark streaks. The white extends out the wings, but the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers are mottled black-andwhite. The back is mostly black or dark brown. The head is distinctive with a white crest, a face bisected by a dark eye-stripe, and yellow eyes. While there is much variation, the female tends to have a streakier breast than the male. The Osprey’s talons are uniquely adapted for catching and carrying fish: their surfaces are rough, and their toes can be held with three forward and one back, or with two forward and two back, an arrangement seen in owls but not in other diurnal raptors. In flight, they are most often confused with gulls because of their long wings, which are bent at the wrist. However, Ospreys have a bounce to their flight that gulls lack.

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EDITORIAL Easy way out for wildlife conservation isn’t what it appears H.L. Mencken once wrote that “there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” This is often the case with society’s responses to human-caused wildlife decline. Take salmon populations along B.C.’s coast. According to assessments by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, only two of 29 wild Chinook salmon populations aren’t at risk of extinction. (Data is lacking to determine the status of three. All the rest are at risk.) A number of factors cause salmon populations to decline, including overfishing, climate change and stream, river and estuary degradation. Because it’s a challenge to reduce catch quotas, restore streams and change development and resource-extraction practices, authorities often take an easier way to recover dwindling salmon numbers: hatcheries. Now, 23 federally controlled hatcheries release hundreds of millions of juvenile salmon into the wild every year in attempts to maintain fisheries and offset their decline. Yet salmon hatcheries only appear to be a simple solution. Salmon released from hatchery stocks add strands of complexity to the threats facing wild salmon, and are believed to contribute to wild salmon declines. “The latest science shows that large hatcheries cause wild salmon more harm than good,” David Suzuki Foundation senior research and policy analyst Jeffery Young said. “Hatchery salmon weaken wild salmon genetics, compete with wild populations for limited resources and drive fisheries that continue to harm wild fish.” Human activity is also putting caribou at risk throughout Canada. Their decline is driven by habitat loss and degradation, especially from linear corridors such as seismic lines, logging roads and recreational trails. Predators use these corridors to increase their

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Science Matters caribou-hunting success rates. In September 2020, Jasper National Park declared that one of three caribou populations living within its boundaries had winked out, while the other two were “dangerously small.” Declines in Jasper have been driven by poor wildlife management, like elk introduction, and compounded by habitat loss and degradation in adjacent ranges. Although the park has stabilized the elk populations, evidence from Jasper’s recently extirpated Maligne caribou herd, as well as other available scientific research, indicates more should be done, including limiting human access. Backcountry ski and snowmobile supply routes into Jasper’s Tonquin Valley pack trails and bring noise and people into high-quality caribou habitat. Recreational activity can stress caribou, displace them from the best habitat and make it easier for wolves to gain access and kill them. In November 2020, Parks Canada announced it was contemplating its first captive caribou breeding program in Jasper. “We expect a captive herd for breeding purposes could start producing animals for release as early as 2024,” Jasper’s conservation manager said. In February 2021, Jasper lifted access restrictions

mid-season in the highly imperilled Tonquin herd’s range, despite the conservation community’s calls to keep them in place to give the caribou a greater chance of survival. It appears the park’s staff — unwilling to invest in current conservation measures to decrease risks and apply a precautionary approach to the remaining herds — is banking on captive breeding as the panacea to its declining caribou problem. But as with hatcheries, captive breeding programs are not as simple as they appear. Captive breeding is a risky undertaking that involves semi-domesticating wildlife. The risk is compounded if it entails population augmentation — taking caribou from places where they’re surviving and putting them into an environment where survival has failed in the past. Further, as the icing on the oversimplified-solution cake, captive breeding is often accompanied by predator control — killing animals that prey on caribou. This practice throws a wrench into the elegant symbiotic dance between predator and prey that has existed for thousands of years. Steve Jobs once said, “If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.” Here the primary problem is our failure to set limits to the impacts of human activities in spaces wildlife depend on to survive. Our current solutions indicate that we haven’t had the courage to address our problems head-on, nor the sense of responsibility required to roll up our sleeves and clean up our messes. As long as we capitulate and default to easy solutions to complex problems, we’ll likely continue to drive wildlife decline and disappearance. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Boreal Project Manager Rachel Plotkin. Learn more at davidsuzuki.org.

Moosomin church adapts to COVID-19 by going online Spencer Kemp - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The WorldSpectator - Moosomin) Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Bethel United Church in Moosomin has seen a dip in donations but has kept their congregation safe by utilizing the Zoom platform for services after the government imposed maximum sizes of in-person congregations. Churches are currently limited to 30 per cent of their capacity, to a limit of 150 people. Rev. Carolyn Woodall, the interim pastor for the Bethel United Church, says the move to the online platform was a difficult one to make. “It’s been quite a radical shift for us to move online. Our Sunday morning worship is now a Zoom gathering, so we are present with each other in the zoom windows. Doing that means that people can adjust their own volume and we can see one another’s faces, our smiles because we don’t have to wear masks. We did open for in-person worship for a while in the fall until things

got pretty bad again at the end of November. And it was lovely to be together again in the worship space, except that we had to maintain distance, we had to wear masks, people couldn’t linger to do any visiting. So that was challenging. It’s sort of both, the joy of being together and yet we’re not together in a way we’re used to being together. We also made a decision, we have a committee in the congregation that we call the Re-Opening Committee that has reviewed the information that we’ve had from the provincial health authorities as well as our regional church authorities, and we made the decision that even when we were in person, we would not be singing, even using masks. And I continued, as a worship leader, to keep masks on,” Woodall said. She says that while the change to the online platform had some difficulties, they did it for their congregation which has at-risk individuals in attendance. “Our congregation has a number of older folks who have susceptibility because of their age or

pre-existing conditions and we have a group of people who work in parts of the community where they are interacting with people who might be more susceptible to COVID-19 where there’s a lot of bubbles coming together. Those people really felt like they didn’t want to cause a risk to the older folks in the congregation,” Woodall said. “Having Zoom worship means those people can participate, having in-person means they can’t, but then having Zoom worship means some of the older folk can’t participate because they don’t know how, but where they live just doesn’t have that strong of internet.” To help minimize contact, the Bethel United Church provides all its materials to its congregation through digital means. “We’re trying hard to stay connected with one another, we do our meetings, we have our bible study, we have our fellowship together one morning a week as well as our Sunday worship and it’s all on Zoom. In addition to that, all of our tools we use for worship

get sent by Email.” For those without email or internet, Woodall explained that they set up a buddy system when they moved to their online platform. Using this system, an individual who could access the internet would print off the materials and supply them to the members who couldn’t access them. Financially, however, Bethel United Church has seen a drop in donations since the start of COVID-19. Like most other churches, donations fund a large part of their operations and help keep their doors open to the public. “We have what you’d call a bit of a dip, but many many people in the congregation have been quite faithful in sending their offerings in various ways. In the United Church of Canada, we do have a remittance program, and that’s administered by our national church. Some of the people in our congregation are signed up for that program and so their offering is taken right out of their bank account by their authority, then the amounts of that are sent

to our congregation each month.” Woodall attributed the dip in funds to the congregation waiting to donate once they could return to in-person services. While they were able to return to these services briefly, Woodall says they returned to Zoom meetings shortly after when COVID-19 cases began to rise. While the shift to an online platform was a difficult one to make, Woodall believes that it will stick around even after the pandemic saying the pandemic only proved to accelerate these advancements. “I think the reality is there’s going to need to be an online presence for any congregation that intends to have an ongoing life. What it may be is a kind of hybrid where there’s an in-person service that’s streamed or recorded for others to participate in at the moment or later. There have been video conversations or things posted by some of the churches in the United Church that have found a really powerful way to be together and supportive of one another

and I don’t see that ending. All the ministers across the province of Saskatchewan have an opportunity to be together every week on a Tuesday afternoon. And that’s possible because of the internet. I don’t see us going back.”

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McNaughton grads in Moosomin working on mural for community Spencer Kemp - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The WorldSpectator (Moosomin) The Moosomin Community Theatre will soon be sporting a new mural courtesy of two McNaughton High School grads Former students Primo Oroyo and Kadence Meredith have spent nearly a year working on the project, which is now nearing completion. Kadence Meredith explained that they chose to incorporate a theatrical theme into their mural to best represent the theatre. “The location is going to be the theatre where a lot of performance arts happen. So we decided to focus on performance arts and we wanted to include a bunch of different types of art,” Meredith said. “We started by just sketching on pieces of paper. We cut out three different pieces to represent the three different parts of the mural. Then once we had that down, we started painting, drawing outlines, then base coats and it changed as it went on. New ideas formed and it just kept evolving. Every time we went to paint we would stop and look at it and wonder what our plan for the day was, then implement something new. You’d paint something one day then something else overtop it.” The mural is a first for Meredith. “This is my first mural. I usually work on smaller scales, so the bigger scale is much harder to put in details because you have so much space. Something you could usually paint on a smaller canvas could be done in around 30 minutes, but on a bigger canvas, it could take a full day. And that’s the big thing about this mural, there’s just so much space.” The project has been a big one for Meredith, who is currently studying Creative Technologies at University of Saskatchewan. She says that the young artists have lost track of just how much time they have spent on the project. “We’ve lost track of how much time we put into it. It’s hard to tell, we put in a few hours here and there, and then other days we just come in and paint for eight or nine hours. It’s different from what we expected and it’s a bigger challenge than what we expected, especially with being a full-time student and having a job, it’s been difficult to fit it in. But it’s coming along for sure.” Primo Oroyo, who is currently studying Architectural Technologies at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, explained that

the process required a lot of thinking before they were able to start painting. “There was a lot of brainstorming happening and we tried incorporating different art styles. We have fauvism happening, some realism, some cartoonism, and the biggest challenge has been piecing that all together to make it cohesive.” Said Oroyo. But with both of the artists now studying at university, the biggest hurdle has been scheduling. “The biggest struggle was mostly the scheduling because we’re both students and have hectic schedules, and I also work part-time at the store. So it’s mostly time constraints that we struggle with. We were sup-

posed to get this done a few weeks ago, but things come up,” said Oroyo. “We come in and we try to figure out what we are going to do, then we decide what we can do with the allotted time that we have been given on that certain day. We brainstormed a lot. It’s not just my idea but it’s our ideas.” Oroyo expressed pride in his work on the project, noting that he did not expect it to turn out as well as it did. “I like all of it. I painted the camera and I like how it turned out, it’s pretty detailed. I like how nice it worked out in the end because it’s a pretty large-scale mural and the best you can hope for is for it to look good, but I wasn’t expecting it to look like

this.” The idea was initially brought forward by Terry Grant with the Moosomin Community Theatre. Vice Principal of McNaughton High School, Sherrie Meredith, says it’s not the first time they have done these types of projects in the community. “We’ve had opportunities to do large scale artworks for display in the school and in the community. For example, several years ago we did a mural alongside the Legion. Most recently a student of ours did one on the side of the Cork and Bone. We were also helpful with the swimming pool mural restoration after the flood back in 2014. It’s a nice way for Continued on Page 7

Primo Oroyo works on a community mural Moosomin students are creating

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Courtney Schaefer remembered in Slow Down, Move Over events Started as a memorial for Courtney Schaefer, an Esterhazy tow truck operator killed in a collision Rob Paul - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The WorldSpectator - Moosomin) Fire departments, tow trucks and emergency vehicles across Saskatchewan flashed their lights at the side of the road on Sunday, March 7 and Wednesday, March 10 as part of the Slow Down Move Over Awareness Event. The event is held to raise awareness of rules around passing emergency vehicles on the side of the highway. It started as a memorial for Courtney Schaefer, an Esterhazy tow truck operator who was killed in a collision on March 7, 2017. A combined ‘Slow down and move over’ event and memorial was held in Esterhazy Sunday evening, and Rocanville, Moosomin, Redvers, and Wapella were among the communities that also held ‘Slow down and move over’ events this past week. ‘Slow down and move over’ is an event where emergency responders spread awareness about the importance of laws in place to protect tow truck operators, first responders, and highway workers.

Remembering Courtney Dallas Baillie of Baillie Brothers Towing said the event in Esterhazy served two purposes. “We wanted to make the memorial and move over and slow down campaign the same event together, and so ourselves with the tow company, EMS, police and fire set up on the side of the highway west of town on the #22 highway. “The idea was to make it basically a memorial to Courtney and to get our message across about the slow down and move over laws in Saskatchewan for anybody that is working on the side of the road, whether it’s emergency vehicles or construction workers or whatever. This will be the fourth year that we’ve done it. We started doing this the year that Courtney was killed.” The first ‘slow down, move over’ event quickly spread across the province, and led to changes in provincial legislation, such as allowing blue flashing lights on tow trucks, not just the traditional amber lights. Baillie said he was

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Family and friends of Courtney Schaefer, a tow truck driver who was killed on the side of the road while responding to an accident near Esterhazy in 2017, at a Slow Down and Move Over event held on the anniversary of his death. surprised how the first event in 2017 captured the public’s imagination. “It took off all over, and I think that is just a testament to how important safety is to all of us that work on the side of the highway, whether it’s EMS, fire, tow trucks, tire change guys, whatever, because at the end of the day we all want to go home too. “It’s unfortunate an accident had to happen to get this movement going. But because of it the movement is all over Western Canada now and we’re working on sending our message down into the Eastern provinces, but we’ve got a pretty good stronghold on Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta for the slow down and move over laws.” What does he want to get across to the public? “We just want people

to understand that if you see flashing lights on the side of the road, it really doesn’t matter what color of flashing lights, that means something is going on there, so slow down, move over, give room to whoever it is working on the side of the road because at the end of the day everybody wants to go home from their job and some jobs are more dangerous than others. We’re working for our families and a living, and we just want to go home safe.” Baillie said he sees the slow down, move over movement as one positive coming out of the tragic accident at Esterhazy four years ago. “It was a tragic event but it happened and it brought much more publicity to the fact that we need safety on our highways,” Baillie said. “Today’s drivers are so much more distracted

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us to get students’ art out in the community. We have also done a number of mural projects in our high school over the years. It’s always been something that’s been a source of joy and pride in our school. So when talking to Terry, the idea of doing a mural for the theatre had been a few years in the making. They actually renovated not that long ago so it seemed that now was a good time to create a mural as it would be a nice addition to the space.” ” Meredith said. The project had been delayed due to the 2019-2020 school year being cut short .

than they were even five years ago, with all of the technology in vehicles. They need to pay attention when they’re on the road. An accident like that was very tragic but again it started this movement and this movement is getting stronger every year.” Baillie said he was happy that members of Courtney Schaefer’s family were planning to be at the event in Esterhazy. “We stand on the side of the road, just to show respect to Courtney and his family, and Kim has been a great advocate for this,” he said. “Obviously she was impacted because of the tragedy in her life, but she’s been instrumental in helping us with this movement, and so every year we want to recognize her and her young daughter for allowing us to continue to go ahead with

this movement, basically in Courtney’s name.”

Legislation one legacy of Schaefer’s death One change that came about in response to Courtney Schaefer’s death is a change in provincial legislation. In April 2017, the Government of Saskatchewan introduced and passed legislation to improve safety for tow truck operators. The Traffic Safety Amendment Act permits blue light to be used in conjunction with amber lights on tow trucks.

The legislation was introduced and passed in the same day—which requires the unanimous support of the Legislature—after Schaefer was killed March 7, 2017 in a collision along the roadside near the Gerald area during blizzard conditions. Saskatchewan became the first jurisdiction in Canada to introduce a two-color lighting combination for tow trucks. Since then, Slow Down Move Over Day has been introduced and has grown each year.

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A life of sport and science By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Leslie Kozak was a pretty good hockey player in his younger days. Although born in Dauphin his family was from Yorkton. “My mother returned to Yorkton with my brother, Garry, and me in 1943 when I was about threeyears-old. We lived with my grandparents, Alex and Anne Nimeck, and the other six siblings at 156 Myrtle Ave, across from the high school. My grandfather came from the Ukraine alone as a teenager around 1910; my grandmother was born on a farm near Yorkton. I regret that I did not record more of my grandfather’s journey to Canada.” As a young hockey player in the city, Kozak had a dream inspired by a local hero of the game. “Inspired by the achievements of Metro Prystai from the time I was seven-years-old I set a goal to be an NHL player, an ambition that drove my life,” he related. “I believe that Metro had a profound influence on shaping my character and career as well as that of many of the youth of Yorkton during our formative years in the 1950s. He provided a model of excellence in sport and goodness and generosity as a member of the community. When he returned to Yorkton after the NHL season was over he would load his car with the neighborhood kids and take us for ice cream.” That inspiration pushed Kozak to excel at hockey and set him on the path to the pros, a tale he tells in a recent book; ‘Play Up! Play up! And Play the Game’. “In the middle of the night of August 15, 1956 when I was 15-years old I left Yorkton by Greyhound Bus to attend St. Michael’s College School in Toronto on a scholarship,” he told Yorkton This Week. “I studied and played hockey at St. Michaels until 1960. “In 1961 I played professional hockey for

less than a year for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Rochester Americans. My hockey career ended in February 1961, when I fractured my skull. I changed the focus of my career goals to scientific research and pursued studies in chemistry and biology at St. John Fisher in Rochester, NY as an under-graduate, Notre Dame where I received my PhD, then post-graduate studies at Michigan State University until 1970 when I accepted a position as assistant professor to study the genetics of brain development at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. “I eventually became a full professor at the Jackson Lab where I remained until 1998 when I accepted a professorship at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I remained at Pennington until 2010 when I took a position in Poland to teach PhD students to do research in the field of energy expenditure and obesity. In 2015 I joined up with my high school sweetheart (Loraine Harvey) and we currently spend six-months in Maine and six on Lake of the Woods, Ontario.” But, why a book? “One of the gifts of a life in scientific research is the opportunity it provides to travel and meet other scientists from many parts of the world,” said Kozak. “This has often led to the formation of deep friendships that have lasted a lifetime. I have also found in my travels that people in general have trouble identifying with scientists. For example, when I am part of a social gathering of non-scientists it is difficult to sustain a conversation talking about my scientific research. “In contrast, the realization that I played for the Maple Leafs on a line with Dave Keon elicits a completely different response, “Oh wow you played for the Leafs” from the average reader. “Knowing this beforehand I thought that bring-

Leslie Kozak and wife Lor ing the average reader, exemplified by my children, to the book through this unusual coupling, hockey plus science, might entice additional readers to the science. Also, the realization that I was successful in achieving international recognition in athletics and science suggested that I had a story worth the telling.” That all said the work was one thinking of family first. “If it helps my family know me better, the book was worth the writing,” said Kozak. “Telling the story of someone who was able to combine science and hockey is somewhat novel and it might interest other young athletes to take the same career path.” Kozak said the book came from memory. “I did not rely on a set of notes, the first part of the book was based on my memory of growing up in Yorkton and St. Michaels, which was very personal, while the second part relied on my memory of the research that went on in my lab over 50 years,” he related. “I used published papers to check on the accuracy of what I describe. For the most important research I described, and

I was only interested in reporting this research, the research projects frequently took years to complete. Consequently, with such an immersion in this research it was not difficult to remember the details of the work even after decades have elapsed. Unfortunately, over the past threeyears I have developed Parkinson Disease, I could not write this book today.” When asked what was the most challenging aspect of the project? Kozak had a short reply; “making the years in science as interesting as those in hockey.” The science actually showed itself early in Kozak’s life too. “During my studies at St. Michael’s and in college I began to discover that my academic strength lay in the sciences. Hence when I was no longer able to play hockey because of a head injury I changed the focus of my studies to the sciences, but I maintained a devotion being an athlete,” he said. The St. Michael’s years were significant for Kozak. “Becoming a student athlete at St. Michael’s College in 1956 with a pass to Maple Leaf

Gardens when I had just turned 16-years of age was a remarkable gift and privilege,” he said. “I was essentially tutored by a faculty of young priests devoted to the education of young men. Although this was a Catholic school the education was not narrow or dogmatic, but based on the philosophy of Christian humanism, a philosophy of life that begins with Aristotle in the fourth century BC. He was a Greek philosopher who pioneered systematic, scientific examination in literally every area of human knowledge and was known, in his time, as ‘the man who knew everything’. “Aristotle’s philosophy was applied to Christian thinking by the Dominican theologian St. Thomas Aquinas who believed that people could have both faith and reason and said that both kinds of knowledge came from God so it was alright to have both. Christian Humanism was applied to modern Christian thinking by the French philosopher Jacque Maritain. These ideas, seeking to develop a balanced life of body, mind and soul, caused me to take a year off when I was 19-years of age to see whether I had a vocation to become a Trappist Monk. I didn’t, after 8 months I left the monastery, returned to Toronto and continued with my hockey career. “When I left Yorkton in August, 1956 on that bus ride through Winnipeg, Chicago and Detroit to St. Mikes in Toronto I came under the influence of a brilliant, magnetic young priest, Father David Bauer. He had been a student of St. Michael College and the brother of NHL star Bobby Bauer of the famous Kraut line for Boston in the 1940s. Father Bauer was a terrific hockey player and a key player for the St Michael’s Junior A team that defeated Moose Jaw for the Memorial Cup in 1945 and in what is a bizarre twist of fate, the Moose Jaw team was led by none other than

Metro Prystai of Yorkton. Following his achievements in hockey David Bauer became a priest went on to become a remarkable and inspiring mentor and leader to maintain the amateur status of Olympic hockey. He coached the St. Michael’s team to the Memorial Cup in 1960. Then in the 1960s and 1970s he led the effort to develop a truly amateur National Canadian hockey team for international competition; he was the coach of the Canadian Olympic Hockey team ... This effort to maintain the Olympic teams as amateurs eventually failed because the Pros did not get on board and support the program.” It was in school he had the focus that would one day help in writing his book too. “Until I was 21 years old my academic interests were in literature and philosophy -- my major in college was English Literature with a secondary concentration in chemistry,” said Kozak. “However, as long as I could support myself with a salary as an NHL player it allowed me to indulge my interests in the arts. “However, this changed after I fractured my skull and had acquired a young wife and son. I realized that I must get serious about an alternative career. It did not take much thinking to realize that academically my future lay in the sciences. It was a good choice; I found that I had a gift for scientific research and discovery and the competition in a hockey game very much resembled the drive to be the first to make an original scientific discovery. “Subsequently over 50 years as a scientist (1965 to 2015) I wrote scientific papers (175 of them) and dozens of grant applications. I have made significant and original contributions describing the role of brown fat to the induction of thermogenesis to reduce obesity and type 2 diabetes. The book is available online at Friesen Press.

Government announces increased funding for channel clearing Recently, Premier Scott Moe announced $2 million over two years in funding to expand channel clearing for Rural Municipalities across Saskatchewan. “As we work through economic recovery, investments in our communities will help build our future,” Moe said. “Increased funding for water management in rural communities will not only help protect essential infrastructure but also help our producers grow Saskatchewan’s economy.”

The Water Security Agency originally budgeted $600,000 over two years for channel clearing. This increase in funding will allow for the program to grow to $500,000 for the 2020-21 fiscal year. In 2021-22, funding will increase again to $1.5 million for a total investment of $2 million over two years. This is an additional $1.4 million over two years to support RMs with channel clearing activities. Channel clearing involves removing beaver dams, debris, trees and shrubs, and the removal of silt and blow dirt

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Barta-Bonk named honorary Hungarian consul Rob Paul - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The WorldSpectator - Moosomin) Candace BartaBonk was recently named Saskatchewan’s Hungarian honorary consul, a role focused on protecting the interests of Hungarian citizens in Saskatchewan and promoting the culture. Although born in Saskatchewan, BartaBonk has deep family ties to Hungary and has always had a connection to the rich Hungarian

community in the province and even spent time living in Hungary. This led to her involvement with the consulate. “I am a fourth-generation Canadian, but I have pure Hungarian roots,” said Barta-Bonk. “All of my great-grandparents were born in Hungary. This has led me to be involved in the Canadian Hungarian community. “I was approached by the Hungarian Ambassador to Canada and asked if I would be willing to take on this role. It is a great honour

for me and of course, I accepted. “I feel that it is a way to give back and serve two different countries that I have called home. I grew up in Moosomin but moved to Kipling while I was in high school. I have also lived in Hungary Kaposvár for a large portion of my working career. I believe that this will give important context when fulfilling my duties in this role.” The journey to becoming Saskatchewan’s honorary consul began a few years ago for Barta-

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Candace Barta-Bonk, left, with Hungarian Ambassador to Canada Dr. Balint Odór and Moosomin MLA Steven Bonk, on a visit by the ambassador to Bekevar Church, an early Hungarian settlement in Saskatchewan, located near Kipling. points of common interest. The honorary consul is also responsible for organizing and preparing a program when the Hungarian Ambassador visits Saskatchewan.” With a large Hungarian community in Saskatchewan and a strong history in the province, Barta-Bonk is excited to help continue the tradition and share the heritage. “Hungary and Saskatchewan have a long connection,” she said. “The very first Hungarian settlements in Canada were in Saskatchewan—they were started in the late 1880s at Kaposvár near Esterhazy, Otthon near Yorkton, and Bekevár near Kipling. Many other Hungarian settlements in Saskatchewan followed. There was also a second wave of immigration from Hungary following the 1956 revolution. The Hungarian community is very proud of their shared heritage and traditions. There are very active Hungarian communities in Regina and Saskatoon, with festivals, celebrations, language

schools and folk dance groups for all ages.” Barta-Bonk says it’s a privilege to be able to represent Hungary in Saskatchewan as an honorary consul, and she emphasizes the importance of keeping the cultural connection alive. “This is something that is very important to me and the main reason why I took this role,” she said. “I feel that it is important for people to know where they come from and to understand their history. The Hungarians who came to Saskatchewan were tough, resourceful people, who integrated into Canadian society but were able to hold on to their culture and traditions, so the Hungarian culture was all around me when I grew up. There was always Hungarian singing, food and of course, the language. I know that this is a similar story for many people in Saskatchewan, and it is my hope that now we have an honorary consul, we can make a stronger connection between Hungary and Saskatchewan.

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Bonk when she hosted Balint Odór on his trip to Saskatchewan. “In 2017 the Hungarian Ambassador to Canada at the time, Balint Odór, visited Saskatchewan,” she said. “On his trip he visited the Kaposvár Hungarian settlement near Esterhazy and the Bekevár Hungarian settlement near Kipling. I had the privilege of hosting the Ambassador at Bekevár. “It was very special for me as it was my greatgrandparents who were the settlers who helped to build the church. It was after this visit that the ambassador wanted to create an honorary consul position for Saskatchewan. Up until that point, the honorary consul in Calgary was also responsible for Saskatchewan.” In her role as honorary consul, BartaBonk’s priority is working with Hungarians in Saskatchewan and helping to foster the country’s culture in the province. “The role of honorary consul is to help facilitate cultural, economic, and social relations between Hungary and Saskatchewan,” she said. “The responsibilities also include assisting Hungarian citizens living in Saskatchewan with notarizations, and authentications of documents as well as directing them to the consul general in Toronto or the Hungarian Embassy in Ottawa. A very important aspect of the role is to promote economic and scientific relations between Hungary and Saskatchewan. “The Hungarian ambassador to Canada, Dr. Mária Vass Salazar, has a very keen interest in innovation and science, and I am working towards highlighting

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The Honour Our Veterans Banner Program is back for its second year, and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 77 is looking to build on the program’s successful rookie year. Last year 100 veterans were honoured the month leading up to Remembrance Day, with banners flying high along Broadway and Darlington Street around the cenotaph. Tami Hall, the committee chair, said that the program gives people

a chance to honour veterans for more than just one day. “It makes awareness of the sacrifices that people did for us. It makes that a little bit better known.” Hall said that last year’s program went excellent, and she is hoping to continue that this year. “It was just a celebration of loved ones. It was a way of our community showing honour, respect, and appreciation for the veterans,” she said. “Nobody loves war, nobody wants to send people to war, but when they go, and they willingly try to make the world a

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Rocanville School’s wheelchair swing project one step closer Rob Paul - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The World-Spectator - Moosomin) Rocanville School’s planned wheelchair swing is one step closer to reality with a donation of $8,235 from Borderland Co-op. With the local support Borderland Co-op has received, they wanted to pay it forward by donating to a local cause. The donation was a result of Nutrien purchasing a considerable quantity of gift cards for their staff to use at Borderland Co-op locations which in turn allowed Borderland Co-op to make a donation to Rocanville School. Rocanville School student Sofia Laidlaw is a wheelchair user and the school staff wanted to make sure she would be able to participate in playground activities as she grows older. “It’s actually a two-year project in the making,”

said Rocanville Principal Nathan Bromm. “We have a swing for her right now, but she’s just outgrown it and for the safety of her and teachers and EA’s we needed something bigger. We started investigating it and CNIB recommended an appropriate swing. “This one will have seating for her and her wheelchair and it has a ramp so she can just be rolled onto it and she won’t have to leave her chair. It also has two seats on the side so that friends can sit with her and it’s more inclusive that way. When we saw there was those kinds of options out there we thought it would be a good opportunity for her. Plus with the playground, nothing is really wheelchair accessible other than a ramp platform—we did have that when we built the new playground a couple of years ago to ensure she had something. “The main reason is for Sofia right now, but we have other intensive needs students that will benefit. It was more about what can we get for Sofia that gives

her an opportunity on the playground to play with her friends, as well as, not have staff lifting her and being worried about injury to them or her. So that’s where the idea came from.” Receiving such a large donation from Borderland Co-op has accelerated Rocanville School’s swing project with the funds accounting for over half of what the school needs and they’re optimistic local donations will cover the rest. “It’s huge because the swing are incredibly expensive—they’re about $12,000,” Bromm said. “To get a donation like that really helps. We’re doing a little fundraiser with the town where the town is matching personal donations as well and giving tax receipts. So we still hope to see donations coming in, but with this donation it basically allows us to order it and hopefully we get enough to fill in the rest. This is good for the community.”

USask researchers receive SHRF funds for projects with a virtual focus SASKATOON — Virtual follow-up with discharged intensivecare patients is just one of the University of Saskatchewan (USask) research projects recently awarded funding from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF). The grants were awarded as part of SHRF’s new Solutions Program that aims to mobilize the research community and its partners to focus and coordinate their diverse skills and perspectives to address timely Saskatchewan health challenges. The grants are awarded in two categories, impact and innovation, with a focus on virtual care. In all, USask received almost $680,000 for 10 projects. “The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed us all to find new ways to work together safely and stay connected,” said Dr. Baljit Singh, USask vicepresident research. “In that spirit of innovation, the research projects funded today through SHRF will help ensure patients and caregivers have access to health care and supports no matter where they live, or what other barriers they may face.” Projects include: Dr. Eric Sy (PhD), of the College of Medicine, was awarded $150,000 to evaluate the effectiveness of a distance-based intensive care unit (ICU) follow-up on patients discharged to their home. The creation and piloting of a virtual health ICU follow-up clinic in Regina will take the ongoing COVID19 pandemic into context. Dr. Tracie Risling (PhD) and Dr. Don Leidl

(EdD) in the College of Nursing will examine creating virtual reality tools to help both patients and practitioners deal with chronic kidney care with a grant of approximately $43,000. Saskatchewan patients wait an average of 2.8 years for a kidney transplant, creating mental and physical burdens that must be addressed. In the College of Nursing, Dr. Noelle Rohatinsky (PhD) and Dr. Juan-Nicolas PenaSanchez (PhD) of the College of Medicine were awarded $47,000 to study virtual care experiences of individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and gastroenterologist providers. It is hoped that virtual care can enhance access to services for persons with IBD while decreasing direct costs to the health-care system and to patients. Dr. Jonathan Gamble (MD) and a team in the College of Medicine will develop a pilot project aimed at increasing access to high-quality, virtual multidisciplinary preoperative assessment in Saskatchewan. This research, awarded just under $50,000, could potentially reduce time and travel-related cost for some of the 10,000 patients who are assessed each year, especially those from rural and remote areas. Communication in ICUs is always challenging, and has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drs. Sabira Valiani (MD), Jennifer O’Brien (PhD), Cari McIlduff (PhD), and Carrie Bourassa (PhD) of the College of Medicine, along with Dr. Salima Suleman (PhD) and the Connect-ICU team, were awarded almost $46,000 to engage diverse stakeholders and discover how communication

technology can facilitate patient and family-centered care, encourage meaningful communication, and build therapeutic relationships in the ICU. Two projects on dementia were co-funded by SHRF and the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan. Both organizations provided almost $50,000 each for the two projects: Dr. Megan O’Connell

(PhD) of the College of Arts and Science will study the effectiveness of virtual, culturally safe support groups for caregivers of Indigenous people living with dementia. Co-led by a neuropsychologist or social worker, the groups will share what they have learned through their experiences, and have access to expert information. During the pandemic,

caregivers of people with dementia in rural and remote Indigenous communities have experienced great strain. Dr. Gary Groot (PhD) of the College of Medicine will study how providing tablet devices and internet service to caregivers can improve access to support for caregivers, and thus the quality of care received by patients. In all, SHRF

announced more than $1 million to support Saskatchewan-based interdisciplinary research teams to develop, implement and evaluate virtual care approaches to many of the health challenges the province faces. Full details, including team members, project summaries, etc., are listed in a searchable database at shrf.ca/ results.

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CUPE worried over move of lab services By Tanner Wallace-Scribner Staff Writer A week ago, the Executive Director with the Health Foundation said that there is a possibility of lab work from the Yorkton Regional Hospital being sent to Regina. The situation was confirmed in an email from the Saskatchewan Health Authority, which noted the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s Laboratory Medicine Provincial Program in Yorkton has been experiencing staffing shortages for hard to recruit classifications for over a year. While the SHA Laboratory Medicine team is actively recruiting across the hard to recruit classifications of MLT’s, CLXT’s and MLA’s the email noted they are exploring options to ensure staff and the delivery of service for both specimen collection and diagnostic testing is supported in Yorkton for the patients of this com-

ment. Cuts and privatization are once again hitting small communities the hardest.” According to CUPE, a recent survey showed that eight per cent of lab workers stated that heavy workload had kept them from doing their jobs to the best of their ability, with 92 per cent citing appropriate support and direction from management as a factor negatively impacting their job performance. “Centralization is not a long-term solution to the staffing crisis in lab services,” said Linda Renkas, General Vice-President CUPE Local 5430 (Region

Yorkton Regional Health Centre munity and surrounding area. As a provincial program within SHA, Laboratory Medicine can now draw on a full provincial team of expertise and capacity to provide support to our Yorkton health system team. Ross Fisher noted that this is because there are not enough young people to replace the old (retirees) to keep up with the demand. CUPE health workers are worried that cutting the microbiology lab ser-

vices at Yorkton Regional Health Centre would increase diagnostic health wait times in rural Saskatchewan. “Rural health services have been struggling under this provincial government, and the cutting of lab services would further erode rural health care services in Saskatchewan,” said Sandra Seitz, president of CUPE Local 5430. “Having to send samples to Regina would double the wait time for test

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