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Watch for West Nile Virus this summer It’s been 20 years since West Nile virus was first detected in Saskatchewan and while the risk has decreased in the last few years, all residents are asked to continue to use best practices to protect themselves against mosquito bites.

“It’s a fact of life that prairie summers include mosquitoes but most of those that find us at our campsites, in our yards and in our parks are merely a nuisance,” Health Minister Paul Merriman said. “Simple prevention can save you from more than just itchy ankles. Keep West Nile virus in mind when heading outdoors.”

“West Nile virus is now considered endemic in Saskatchewan,” Deputy Chief Medical Health Officer for Saskatchewan Dr. Julie Kryzanowski said. “While the number of Culex

tarsalis mosquitoes detected in Saskatchewan has declined in recent years, taking precautions against mosquito bites is always a good idea.”

West Nile virus was confirmed in a dead magpie in Regina in the summer of 2002 with the first human case confirmed in the province the following year. Since 2007, the number of West Nile cases in Saskatchewan has substantially declined. In 2021, there was only one human neuroinvasive disease case and no one has died of West Nile virus in Saskatchewan since 2018.

This summer, the Ministry of Health will transition to a more targeted approach to mosquito surveillance. Provincial mosquito monitoring will continue in three commun-

ities (Saskatoon, Regina and Estevan) and will be used in combination with environmental conditions to approximate the threat of West Nile virus provincially.

Weekly West Nile virus reports will continue to be posted publicly each week beginning in June on the Government of Saskatchewan website at https://www.saskatchewan.ca/residents/health/diseases-and-conditions/ west-nile-virus.

You can reduce your exposure to mosquito bites by: • Using appropriate insect repellent when outdoors; • Wearing light-coloured, loose fitting, long-sleeved tops and long pants when outdoors; • Reducing the amount of time

spent outdoors between dusk and dawn when Culex tarsalis mosquitoes are most active; • Maintaining door and window screens so they fit tightly and are free of holes; and • Reducing mosquito habitat (standing water) around your home and yard.

Most people who become infected with West Nile virus experience no or mild symptoms. A small number of people may develop a more serious condition known as West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease. If you have been bitten by a mosquito and experience fever, confusion, neck stiffness or an unusually severe headache, seek medical attention.

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Brooks Bandits win their second straight Centennial Cup

By David Willbery SASKTODAY.ca ESTEVAN - The Brooks Bandits have won the Centennial Cup for the second straight season and for the third time in the last decade.

Brooks scored four times in the third period to defeat the Pickering Panthers 4-1 in the final of the Centennial Cup, presented by Tim Hortons. The game was played Sunday at Affinity Place in Estevan.

Ethan Doyle had the lone goal in the opening 40 minutes, as he scored 10:47 into the opening frame for Pickering after the Panthers had an odd-man

rush. The goal came against the flow of the play, as Brooks held a 12-3 edge in shots on goal.

Brooks had a great scoring chance with less than three minutes to play in the first period, but hit the post.

Still, Pickering managed to keep Brooks to the outside for most of the first period, limiting high-quality scoring chances for Brooks.

Brooks upped the pressure in the second period, with a couple of close calls on scrambles in front of the Pickering goal. They also hit another post with about 7 1/2 minutes to play in the period.

Pickering, meanwhile, had

their best chance to score with just over three minutes to play in the frame.

The first two periods have offered lots of continuous play with few stoppages.

Brooks finally broke through on a goal by Aiden Fink 6:54 into the third period. Fourteen seconds later, Devin Phillips put Brooks in the lead. Phillips was injured moments after scoring.

Ryan McAllister then scored twice in the final seven minutes of the third period to put the game away.

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The Bandits were the dominant team throughout the tournament. The Alberta Junior Hockey League champions, they have gone 5-0 during the competition, and have outscored their opponents 40-9.

Twice they have tied the tournament record for most goals in a game with 11.

One of their victories was a 9-1 win over Pickering in the round robin on Tuesday afternoon The Bandits had a bye to the semifinal after winning Pool A, and beat College Francais de Longueuil from Quebec 11-2 in the semifinal round.

Brooks also won the tournament the last time it was held in 2019.

As for Pickering, the Ontario Junior Hockey League champions had two regulation wins, an overtime win and the loss to Brooks in the round robin. They won 3-2 in double overtime over the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League representatives, the Flin Flon Bombers, in the quarter-final round, and blanked the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s Dauphin Kings 2-0 in the semifinal round.

The next edition of the Mercury will have more on this story.

Good news for Southwest Sandhills REGINA, SK — The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) announced recently that SaskEnergy has provided $50,000 to support conservation and stewardship in the Southwest Sandhills in Saskatchewan.

SaskEnergy’s support will fund research, conservation plans and partnerships to implement activities that will support the sustainable management of the area and a diversity of species, several of which are at risk.

The Southwest Sandhills are a delight for birdwatching and activities such as nature photography. Located west of Swift Current and extending to the Alberta border, the area features large tracts of intact native grasslands, sand dunes and sandy prairie, the Great Sand Hills, as well as a large section of the South Saskatchewan River.

The area is of historical, cultural and spiritual significance to many Indigenous Nations, with over 200 heritage resource sites of archaeological and cultural significance. The area also contains medicinal plants important to Indigenous Peoples.

The Southwest Sandhills area has a long

history of supporting ranching. Grazing animals are an important part of the ecosystem and the economy of rural Saskatchewan; they help support a diversity of species as well as help maintain the health of grasslands. The area provides habitat for 39 species at risk, including burrowing owl, chestnut-collared longspur, piping plover, monarch butterfly and little brown myotis. This is also the only known area where the Ord’s kangaroo rat is found in the province.

SaskEnergy’s support will help fund the following conservation projects: · Development of a 10-year Southwest Sandhills Natural Area Conservation Plan that outlines biodiversity targets and threats, partnerships and restoration projects. The plan includes input from Indigenous advisors and land users, as well as with a variety of agencies and stakeholders. The development of a new natural area conservation plan for this area was made possible thanks to partners such as SaskEnergy and funding through the Government of Canada’s Nature Fund. · Public engagement

events are planned for this summer (webinar August 4, in-person event August 13), hosted jointly between NCC, Nature Saskatchewan and Birds Canada. Participants will include landowners, land managers and land users in the area to discuss some of the conservation initiatives planned.

For more information, contact kristen.martin@ natureconservancy.ca · A core working group including NCC, Nature Saskatchewan and Birds Canada has been formed to coordinate conservation efforts within the area. This partnership will help maximize the effective use of resources and funding by identifying opportunities for collaboration and partnerships. · NCC is working with two community pasture patron groups within the area. This summer’s species at risk surveys and range health assessments will support grazing management plans for the pastures that address the challenges and resources of individual pastures.

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We have always been here: historians search for LGBTQ2S+ stories in rural Sask.

By Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The StarPhoenix)

behind those stories have always been here.

As a curator and historian, Donny White was often the go-to person for odd and interesting archival documents that turned up in rural southeastern Saskatchewan and southwestern Alberta.

But one letter, in particular, stands out to him.

Around 20 or 30 years ago, he recalls, a local small-town hotel was being torn down, and the owner found a letter wedged under the floorboards. He brought it to White, who saw that it was written by a younger gay man to another man who used to stay at the hotel.

It’s not a love letter — as White describes it, it’s something closer to blackmail, with the younger man asking for money and the fear of being outed “hanging in the background as you read it.”

But as a piece of gay Prairie history, White treasures it.

“There are so few things like this,” said White, 68, now retired and living with his partner in Maple Creek, Sask.

“I look for our history, and in many ways, it’s gone.

“It’s irretrievable because no one saw fit to write anything down — and if they did, those that came behind would probably have destroyed it for fear of being exposed.”

Valerie Korinek, a professor in the history department at the University of Saskatchewan, has spent decades of her career exploring queer Prairie histories.

In 2018, Korinek published her book Prairie fairies: A history of queer communities and people in Western Canada, 19301985.

But her work on this topic started in 1997 when she learned that community activist and University of Saskatchewan librarian Neil Richards had donated an “incredible collection” of archival documents about queer Prairie life to the university and the provincial archives.

“I hadn’t expected to find that kind of an archive here,” said Korinek.

“So it was a really fortuitous moment — Neil wanted an academic to use the archives and begin to write these histories up, and I thought it was a gold mine of material.”

In the archives and through her research, Korinek has found stories about vibrant rural queer life in Saskatchewan — which often run up against stereotypes about prairie life.

“I think in some people’s minds — certainly, those who live outside the Prairies — there has been a tendency to see prairie people as isolated; whether they were isolated on farms or they were isolated in small towns or they were isolated in relatively large cities, because there’s a lot of distance between prairie cities, and certainly a lot of distance between prairie cities and the coasts.”

But in Saskatchewan,

White doesn’t know what happened to the men in the letter or how it got under the hotel floorboards more than a century ago.

But when he looks at it, he sees it as a “little hint” of the long legacy of gay life on the Prairies.

It’s a reminder that, though so many stories have been lost to time or destroyed, the people

‘Like opening another world’

SANDHILLS Continued from Page 2 environmental pressures of the pasture.

“We are grateful for SaskEnergy’s support for NCC’s conservation work in the Southwest Sandhills area,” says Matthew Braun, program director of working landscapes for NCC in Saskatchewan. “This area contains unique habitats such as sand dunes, that support a diversity of species, including some that are found nowhere else in Saskatchewan. Support from partners such as SaskEnergy ensures that NCC’s work can continue to support these vital habitats and species over the long term.”

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proud long-time sponsor of the NCC in its efforts to protect Saskatchewan’s natural spaces and the diversity of plant and wildlife species in areas such as the Southwest Sandhills,” SaskEnergy’s Acting President and CEO Mark Guillet said. “Protecting our province’s environment—including plant life, wildlife, wetlands, native prairie and atrisk species—is a big part of SaskEnergy’s commitment to environmental stewardship, along with reducing emissions from operations and supporting customers in reducing their end-use emissions.”

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I hadn’t expected to find that kind of an archive here, — Valerie Korinek, Professor, History Department University of Saskatchewan distance doesn’t necessarily mean isolation — the archives are full of stories about people regularly driving long distances to meet up, attend a queer cultural event, watch a movie or join an activist group.

“People had to travel around ... but that doesn’t mean that people weren’t getting together,” said Korinek.

The Saskatchewan Gay Coalition (SGC) was a prime example of that.

In 1978, a group of activists started making trips to rural communities and small towns, “trying to foster some sort of social space for gay and lesbian people to come together.”

Doug Wilson was the most prominent member of the group — in fact, in a 1985 interview with Briarpatch Magazine, he described himself as “the most openly gay person for at least a thousand miles in any direction.”

Wilson, who was born and raised in Meadow Lake, Sask., was a writer and a prominent human rights activist in the province and Canada at large.

In the 1970s and ‘80s, he fought against discrimination because of his sexuality at the University of Saskatchewan, served as the executive director of the Saskatchewan Association on Human Rights and went on to be the first openly gay candidate to be nominated by a major political party to stand for Parliament in Toronto.

But in his involvement with SGC, Wilson would drive to a small town, rent a hotel room, and encourage gay, lesbian and queer people in the area to meet each other and watch a movie.

In the archives, Korinek found letters from people who had attended these movie nights, where they wrote about “how anxious they had been to go to the hotel and ask for Doug

Wilson’s room, and go up to this room and be one of three closeted gay men in this small town watching a film with Doug Wilson.”

To decide to go to that movie night or events like those was always “a daunting first step to take,” said Korinek.

People in town might see guests going into the hotel or recognize their car parked out on the street and figure out that they were gay — and people kept taking that risk, in small communities throughout the Prairies, for the chance to meet others like them.

“That’s one of the things that comes through, pretty much no matter which oral interview I did or which activist I learned about through their papers in the archives,” said Korinek. “That first step toward communitybuilding or in search of other people like themselves was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time.

“They all approached it like ‘am I going to find somebody?’ ‘What’s it going to be like?’ ‘What are the risks’? But when people walked through the door or up the stairs ... it was like opening another world.”

But she says the way SGC approached their community-building efforts was a very ‘Saskatchewan’ thing to do.

“In a place like Saskatchewan, people here are involved in all kinds of activism and community organizational projects,” she said.

She says small-town organizers have historically brought a “can-do spirit” to their efforts that she finds “emblematic of Saskatchewan.”

“People ... are not stopped by weather or distance or the fact that there won’t be 300 people engaged in whatever kind of group they get going,” she said. “If they’re able to attract five or ten people, it’s a

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start, and they’re happy to start there.”

But this is far from the only type of queer connection and community that grew and thrived in rural Saskatchewan.

In the archives, Korinek also learned about Doreen Worden and Isabelle Andrews, a couple who moved from Winnipeg to Canora, Sask., in the 1970s to gather a rural lesbian feminist archive and start a newsletter.

“They were sick of the city, they were sick of some of the politics in socialist groups and women’s groups — you name it — and they moved to Canora, which seems like an unlikely place to move to be openly feminist lesbian activists in the 1970s and ‘80s, or at least it does to me,” she said.

Their newsletter, Voices: A survival manual for wimmin, combined “women’s health, natural health practices, their own kind of theological or spiritual followings, and lesbian activism,” said Korinek.

They drew all their illustrations, mimeographed their magazine onto colourful paper, and sent copies through the post.

“It certainly wasn’t going to win any design awards, but the content of it and the impulse behind it is just extraordinary,” Korinek says.

She says these types of magazines and periodicals “were so vital to creating this sense of community and giving people the ability to begin to figure out who they were and resources for where they might want to go.”

Support and action When Donny White reflects on gay Prairie history — those who came before him, the

things he was a part of, and all that will come next — he often thinks about the kinds of support he has seen over the years in his community.

In the ‘90s, when he told a local paper that he hoped to start a support group for gays and lesbians, the response was overwhelmingly positive.

“I think I had upwards of 50 phone calls that day ... and all I got was an outpouring of support,” he said.

But when he went door-knocking with petitions about antidiscrimination and marriage equality, people were more reticent.

“People would say ‘Donny, I might lose my job if I sign this,’ or that kind of thing,” he said.

“And that was in the ‘90s.

“That was disappointing to me, as a gay person.

I guess you know who your friends are when they will not sign something that will give you the same rights as them — that I can’t lose my job or my home, or that I can get married. So that was a lesson.

“It was one of the first times I realized that support didn’t necessarily mean action.”

Things have changed since White grew up in small-town Saskatchewan — now “there’s internet, there’s television, and you can seek positive gay role models.”

But to grow and live and thrive where you are, you need more than just a vision of life elsewhere.

“I told someone once, in regards to us, I said ‘on one hand, you can say there’s acceptance, but until we’re embraced, we haven’t made it,’ “ said White.

“Acceptance runs surface-level. Embracing runs deeper.”

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EDITORIAL Book looks behind scenes of ‘Summit Series’ It is without a nanosecond of hesitation that I say Paul Henderson’s goal in the last minute of the 1972 Summit Series is the greatest moment in Canadian sports history.

The entire eight game series captured the imagination of almost everybody in this country, with our collective psyche battered by the then unknown Soviet team dominating the first four games in Canada.

And, then when the series moved to Moscow, it got worse as they won game five.

It was a gut punch to the nation.

But then Paul Henderson, something of a workman-like player in the NHL went into an imaginary phone booth somewhere in Moscow and emerged a superhero, scoring massive goals in the final three games, including the iconic series winner. In the process he salvaged the series and restored our faith in our hockey heritage.

I was 12, in shop class at Centennial Junior High School watching on television when Henderson scored, and I still recall the emotion, the exuberance of the moment, even now 50-years later.

That it was 50-years ago seems impossible given the vibrancy of the memory, but it has always been one of our proudest as a nation.

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Sports So now, a half century later it’s not surprising the series is being marked by a number of new books. One of those is Ice War Diplomat by Gary J. Smith.

Smith pens the book from a very different perspective, that of a young Canadian diplomat in Moscow who would end up being at the table of many of the negotiations leading to the series even happening, and then being in the rinks for all eight games.

As a story which takes you behind the scenes of diplomatic talks there was a chance this book could have been dry, written too much like a diplomatic report.

But, Smith stickhandled around that pitfall like Yvan Cournoyer in the series, and wrote a book rich in unique insights – the member of the Russian delegation wanting to see The Godfather, another seeking a veterinarian for a medicine for his dog not available in the Soviet Union at the time, to the ‘swallows and ravens’

Russian women offering ‘comforts’ in hopes of gathering information, while still managing the highlights of the series.

“When I started ... I asked who was the reader?” Smith said in a recent interview with Yorkton This Week. “It wasn’t for a bunch of bureaucrats in Ottawa. It was for the average Canadian. I’ve got to make this exciting.”

Mission accomplished on that for Smith.

But how did Smith manage all the detail a half century later?

“My memory’s still pretty good,” he said, but added he didn’t leave it to memory, delving into boxes filled with files in Ottawa, many he had himself penned back in 1972.

That was one of the intriguing aspects of the Summit Series, it was very much the creation of government at the highest level.

“They had been working on this for years and years and years,” said Smith, adding all the efforts by hockey organizations to get a team of Canadian profes-

sional players on the ice against the powerhouse Soviets had failed, even as Canada pressured by pulling out of World Championship play.

Then Canada and the Soviet Union signed a General Exchanges Agreement the door to facilitate the series.

“Among the prime minister’s briefing papers, there had been a confidential note prepared by External Affairs about Canada – Soviet hockey relations, with five paragraphs of “talking points” to raise with the Soviet premier, either formally or informally.

It was similar to what had been prepared for his visit to Moscow. The first sentence stated the obvious: “One of the most important channels of contact between the people of Canada and the Soviet Union has been international hockey competition.”

The final paragraph referred to the efforts of

Hockey Canada and the CAHA, with the Soviet Sports Committee and Ice Hockey Federation, to find a solution to the current impasse. The last sentence of the paragraph stated, “This should be encouraged at the government level by both Canada and the USSR to mutual advantage,” wrote Smith in the book.

Overall, the book is a gem, for its honesty too.

We reveled in the win in 1972, but as the book brought into focus more than I would have realized as a 12-year-old, there were elements of the series Canadians should have felt shame over too.

“Meanwhile, Bobrov – and it seemed everyone else in the USSR – now had a public enemy number one in the form of Bobby Clarke, a slashing poster boy for everything that was wrong with ‘hooliganism’ in Canadian hockey.

Despite Yakushev’s comments after game five, many Soviet observers would say the crippling of Kharlamov was the real turning point of the series. The incident stuck in the minds of Russians for decades afterwards. One subsequent Canadian ambassador who served in Moscow in the early 1990’s said that in some circles it was equated with dark events like the 900-day German

Once-in-a-lifetime shot to open season for local golfer Courtesy of Canora Courier Terry Wilson of Canora has been golfing for 35 years, so it was no surprise that he was out on the course for the 2022 opening day on May 23. But Wilson did something that he had never accomplished before, shot a holein-one.

“It was a great way to start the season! It came on Hole 5 from the blue tees,” reported Wilson. “It measured 187 yards that day.”

Wilson said he was facing into a fairly stiff breeze when he hit the big shot.

“So I hit a four iron. I knew it was well hit and it was on a good line. I lost sight of it due to the glare as it came down, (and I’m old!)”

Wilson and Aaron Herriges, his golfing partner for the round, knew it was a good shot right away.

“As we started walking

toward the green, Aaron said it should be close to the hole but he couldn’t see it and pondered if it was in. I assumed the wind had died and the shot went over the green. As we approached the green Aaron saw the ball mark a few feet in front of the hole and confirmed it had gone in!” recalled Wilson.

Wilson and Herriges agree that the greens at the Canora Golf & Country Club are in immaculate condition for area golfers to enjoy during the coming season.

Donna Rock, clubhouse manager, was pleased to hear of Wilson’s memorable start to the new season. She said the course is completely open, including for those who like to use golf carts.

“We currently have four new tee boxes in use, the forward white and red ones on holes one and two,” reported Rock “Red tee boxes are under construction on holes

four and nine, and hopefully will be operational next season.”

The only way to book a tee time currently is to phone the clubhouse.

“The golf course is in great shape to start off the season this year,” reported Rock. “The greens wintered beautifully and the course is very lush.”

Planning is already underway for a number of special events and tournaments for the coming season.

The Darryl Rock Memorial - Steak and Beans tournament is scheduled for July 2. The Hole-in One-Tournament is coming up on July 10, followed by The Ladies Tournament on August 10.

Events which are being planned, but with the dates still to be announced include: The Men’s tournament, The Seniors tournament, and The Pigs and Gigs event.

encirclement and siege of Leningrad during the Second World War,” wrote Smith.

Imagine had that happened to Henderson or Phil Esposito?

But, it was still an event so Canadian it has never left our memories.

“Thursday, September 28, 1972, had been a momentous day for Canadians.

While Henderson’s goal was scored during the evening in Moscow, it had been midday or earlier in Canada. Workers across the country had laid down their tools, telephones and order books, students put aside their studies, all to gather in front of television sets for the rare shared experience of watching game eight. A coming together of national anticipation. Not just a sporting moment, but a defining cultural event of “where were you when” dimensions. Like the US astronauts’ moon landing on July 20, 1969,” writes Gary J. Smith.

Yet, it might be a Soviet star who best summed up the series Smith captures so well in Ice War Diplomat.

“The Russians on the other hand were always happy to celebrate a positive occasion, and they considered 1972 not as a defeat, but as a spectacular event in which “both sides won.” “Hockey itself was the victor” went the claim, often stated by Vladislav Tretiak, who at this point was the president of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation,” writes Smith.

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Christine Tassan Et Les Imposteures are the first scheduled band to take to the stage at the Preeceville Community Legion Hall on October 19. For more than 20 years, Christine Tassan, an outstanding guitarist, has been steering her ship with boundless enthusiasm and confidence, according to a release. Blessed with an absolutely contagious dynamism, she is one of the rare female jazz and gypsy jazz guitar soloists; and she stands out for her sensitive playing, her quiet strength, and her irresistible audacity. As a singer, composer, writer, director, and producer, she has contributed to numerous musical projects in Quebec and internationally, both as a leader and as a guest musician (most notably with The Lost Fingers, Paul Kunigis, Le trio Martin Bellemare and Canto Tango).Trained in classical guitar, she quickly

became interested in many styles, studying folk, pop, jazz and developing an early and obvious talent as a singer-songwriter. Her interest in gypsy jazz, jazz and improvisation was definitely triggered by her discovery of Django Reinhardt’s music in 1998, a style she learned by joining the classes of masters such as Angelo Debarre, Emmanuel Kassimo or Yorgui Loeffler.

In 2003, she founded her gypsy jazz and swing band, Christine Tassan et les Imposteures. The band was an immediate success and became an unmissable part of the gypsy jazz scene. Unique in its kind, this all-woman band (for many years) has performed in over 600 festivals and venues in Quebec, Canada, Europe, the United States and China. Each time enthusiastically received by the public and the media, the band was applauded at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, at the prestigious Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-surSeine (France), and at the famous DjangoFest NorthWest (USA). The quartet has seven albums to its credit, including Entre Félix et Django which was awarded the

Opus Prize for “Jazz Album of the Year” in 2017 as well as a nomination for “Show of the Year” in 2018. Django Belles, their most recent release in 2018, incorporated two new female musicians on horns for an original ode to Quebec winter.

Always looking for new horizons, Christine studied composition and jazz arrangement at Berklee College of Music in 2014. In 2020, in parallel to the saga of Les Imposteures, she conceived Voyage intérieur, a new quintet project. This inner journey gathers ten instrumental compositions, fruits of an introspective and musical research at the same time. Aficionados will discover a new facet of the guitarist, in her exploration of electric and bebop sounds.

Recognized for her teaching and communication skills, Christine has also been a member of the Django in June teaching team since 2013. Django in June is a music camp that annually brings together more than 200 gypsy jazz enthusiasts in Northampton (Massachusetts, USA).

Christine Tassan regularly gives courses and

master classes in Quebec and abroad.

The second performance scheduled will be Twin Flames at the Sturgis Community Hall on November 9. Building bridges across cultures, continents and styles, Twin Flames bring together a richness of personal history and musical experience, stated a release. Blending indigenous and western instruments as well as their own unique sonic creations, this duo floats between Inuktit, French and English music. Twin Flames push the boundaries of contemporary folk music. They have received The Canadian Folk Music award for aboriginal songwriters of the year.

The final performance will be Chris Henderson who will be performing at the Sturgis Community Hall on March 3, 2023.

Chris Henderson’s blend of a modern country sound, with strong traditional roots has quickly helped him become one of Canada’s busiest Country Recording Artists, according to a release. Since his debut album released in 2008, the former high school teacher has been touring the prairies and Canada relentlessly, and

Christine Tassan Et Les Imposteures are the first scheduled band in the set of three Stars for Saskatchewan concerts sponsored by the Whitehawk Arts Council for the upcoming fall and winter season. They will be performing in Preeceville on October 19. has released 16 singles to National radio including, Don’t Miss Your Kiss Goodbye (peaked at No. 47 on the BDS charts), I Sure Hope He Loves You (51), My Regret (47 on Mediabase), and Kissing Sadie.

The veteran singer/ songwriter released his fourth studio project in October of 2019, and has been nominated for more than 40 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards over the course of his career, including the win for “Song of the Year” in 2014 for Don’t Miss Your Kiss Goodbye, and as the Male Artist of the Year’ in 2018, 2019, and 2020.

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native has been featured in Country Weekly Magazine in Nashville, Country Music News, and on the cover of Lifestyles, and the QC, as well as many other publications across North America.

Henderson has appeared on stages such as the Craven Country Jamboree, Big Valley Jamboree, Boots & Hearts, Dauphin Countryfest, The Gateway Festival, the Telemiracle cast and many more. He has also showcased at the CCMA’s for the Official Songwriter Series, at the WCMA’s, and was named as a member of the CCMA Board of Directions in September of 2017.

Kamsack air cadets raise funds to purchase a flight simulator Courtesy of Kamsack Times Although COVID19 threw a wrench into the Kamsack air cadet squadron’s plans to travel to Newfoundland two years ago, it resulted in the squadron being able to acquire a much-appreciated flight simulator.

After their European trip, the cadets were looking forward to visiting Eastern Canada and were well on their way raising money for that trip. The collection of redeemable bottles and cans was the group’s main impetus, said Lt. Karen Tourangeau, the commanding officer.

For three summers the cadets collected those cans and bottles, said Karen Bodnaryk, a

civilian instructor, who explained that one former cadet, WOI Aidan Broda, and his mother Becky Patterson, who is still the squadron’s treas-

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As part of their collection methods, Aidan and his mother told their friends and neighbours

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CADETS Continued from Page 5 total of $5,800 which went towards to purchase of a flight simulator which cost $6,800.

“We still have to raise about $1,000 to finish paying for the equipment,” Bodnaryk said.

“So, we’re still collecting cans and bottles.

“Purchasing the flight simulator last July was the realization of a dream,” she said. The squadron has been wanting the equipment for its aviation class for a while.

The simulator allows cadets an experience similar to what pilots use to train before being seated in an actual cockpit, Tourangeau said, explaining that the equipment can be set to mimic a variety of cockpits for a variety of aircraft.

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The Kamsack squadron held its annual ceremonial review yesterday (June 1) at the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute where Cpl. Mike Rosset, a former Kamsack RCMP officer, was the reviewing officer.

By themselves, former Kamsack air cadet WOI Aidan Broda who graduated in 2021, and his mother Becky Patterson, the squadron’s treasurer, were responsible for the collection of redeemable cans and bottles that generated $3,500, which represented nearly half the cost of the new flight similar that the air cadets were able to purchase last summer. Before graduating from the squadron, Broda presented his mother with a medal in recognition of 10 years of service with the squadron.

The cadets will be visible at the Kamsack branch of the Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Decoration Day service at Riverview Cemetery on Sunday (June 5) and their parents will be busy selling hot dogs and burgers during the Canada Day celebration at the Kamsack Sportsground on July 1.

Come September, the cadets will once again be raising funds with the sale of Mom’s Pantry products and their calendars.

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Air battles between squadrons of fighter planes hold a sort of romanticism of the two great wars.

Of course in the first war it was the somewhat awkward biplanes doing battle at speeds pilots and could almost shake hands had they not been shooting at each other.

By the second war the planes were faster, deadlier, and names such as Mosquito and Mustang became famous.

The battles are still remembered, spawning movies such as the 2012 Red Tails and the 1995 TV release The Tuskegee Airmen, the mid air dogfights making exciting film scenes.

So it’s no surprise the dogfights of old would be something gamers would want to play out on their

tables.

The challenge of course is that board games and game tables are flat, one dimensional fields, and air battles take place in the sky.

How does a game deal with the movement of plans in two dimensions?

The double challenge is having a system that captures flight, and at the same time is something players can grasp easily.

It is a bit of a mind-twist getting your head around planes being at different altitudes.

Red Skies from Warlord Games does it by having the planes tilt.

Level they are sort of at a base altitude with other craft in the air. Nose down they are in a dive, and nose up they are at a higher level. What the Continued on Page 7

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DOGFIGHTS Continued from Page 6 orientation of a plane is to another determines which has the better ‘shot’ in the dogfight.

It’s a slick and simple system but you have to wonder if the plastic stands would last through repeated changes over a lot of play.

Similarly, the planes sit on the raised plastic stand through a small insert attachment, and again how long before that wears and makes for a loose fitting is unclear, but the suspicion is it will wear.

Another interesting aspect of airplanes is that they are never stationary, so every turn they must move at least somewhat.

Think about it and it of course makes sense, but it still is a bit of a mind shift in-game.

A lot of mini skirmish games, and Red Skies is simply one in the air, run into an issue of the various factions ending up all being largely the same in game play, and in this one it is even more noticeable.

Fighter planes were all generally the same.

Yes, the American Mustang was a tad faster and the Japanese Zero a little less armoured, both reflected in the game stats of Red Skies, but there is a sameness here.

Having different pilot

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The miniatures are pretty basic, not that there was a lot of difference in the actual planes either. They do come in different colours for ease of immediate play, but dedicated Red Skies players are going to want to paint their models.

Our group is sort of split on this one.

One among us really likes the game and has bought a few packs of different planes.

A couple of others are a bit less enthusiastic. If it is on the game table and he is supply-

ing a squadron we are not averse to playing, but to buy a box and suggest Red Skies – well it’s not likely happening.

It should be noted Warlord Games has created a lot of product for the game, including unique pilots, different country’s planes and extending the game into other eras such as the Korean War.

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I Needed a Class I think many of us have, at least, heard about people who’ve died shortly after retiring. I suspect this sometimes happens because they’ve suddenly screeched to a halt, after running for decades, and their bodies are in shock because of what just happened.

My seventy-six year old father was one of those people. Only weeks after selling the business he’d grown over a lifetime, he received a diagnosis of terminal cancer.

I asked if he regretted that he hadn’t quit work earlier. He answered, “Yes. I should’ve retired two months sooner.” I laughingly didn’t understand that then, but I feel as though I might now.

I, unlike my dad, decided to retire early and I find myself missing nursing more and more.

Before taking the plunge, my husband and I attended a few meetings regarding all things financial, but I now firmly believe that I should have better researched how to smoothly transition inside this supposedly exciting milestone.

Perhaps some sort of class might have been offered.

There are classes for almost every other huge change in our lives.

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Revisited your dream job. Premarriage counselling, so you can learn to focus on someone other than the selfish oaf you’ve become. And then the stupendous classes of all things pre-parenting, wherein you might think, “Maybe John Dutton wasn’t kidding when he said in that episode of Yellowstone, ‘Once you have kids, the livin’ for yourself part is over’ ”.

But the classes stop there — perhaps because by the time we’re this old it’s expected that we’ll be smarter. (Of note: Although many might disagree, I didn’t feel I needed a class for the exhilaration of tasting TOTAL adult freedom again, after our “nest” emptied.)

Being a person who has weathered all of the above, however, I feel compelled to now complain about the huge change in which I currently find myself.

NO ONE warned me about retirement.

At least, the only things I’ve

heard have been, “Good for you!”, “You’ll love it!” and “Now you can do whatever you want!”.

Interestingly, most of those comments were said by people not yet retired.

Don’t get me wrong.

There are bonuses. Not having to set an early morning alarm is lovely.

Watching an occasional movie in the middle of the day is a perk, but with the exception of those few things, this seems to be a more accurate depiction of my life right now: Besides the fun of living on a fixed income, I’m looking across the room at my husband, who is chewing — ice-cream — loudly. I politely ask if he’d please turn up the TV’s volume, since he apparently owns the remote. I’m thinking louder entertainment will drown out the increasingly annoying sound he is making. He peers at me and asks if I am deaf. I, of course, can Continued on Page 8

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Continued from Page 7 prove that untrue since I can still hear him chewing, but I wisely say nothing more.

Giving up, I stick my earbuds in. I will watch my own show, with my own preferred volume, on my own laptop.

Don’t get me wrong. I love this man wholeheartedly, albeit historically from more of a distance, but friends assure me that we are just “adjusting” and that things will improve. I think, “Weren’t you the ones just saying how we’d simply ‘rock’ this?!”

Although I suspect I often grate on my spouse’s last nerve as well, to his credit he says nothing about that.

He is, indeed, a much better human being than I. “Can this really be my life now?” has breezed through my brain in recent days and I wonder if it has wafted through his too, but I doubt it. When a friend asked us, just the other day, how we were finding retirement he didn’t skip a beat. “I love it!” he exclaimed, while I, shockingly, kept quiet.

The bottom line is: If you enjoy your vocation at all, my advice would be — keep working! Or, if you’re considering retirement, you might seek out a class. Maybe I should find a support group.

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Crop development behind due to wet soil conditions

By SASKTODAY.ca E A S T- C E N T R A L SASKATCHEWAN — 21 per cent of the crop is seeded in the east-central region. This is up from 13 per cent last week and well behind the five-year average (2017-2021) of 64 per cent for this time of year. The recent rainy weather delayed seeding but will allow a moisture reserve in the soil for crops to draw. Some producers Auctions QUICK SOLD AUCTION serving SE Saskatchewan. Let us help you get the best price in the least amount of time. Get Canada and USA wide coverage on our Online auction. Specializing in estate, antiques, collectable’s and vintage sales of all kinds. Certified antique and personal property appraiser.

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have begun alternative seeding methods such as using broadcast spreaders to get the crop in areas where fields are extremely wet.

Many parts of the region received significant amounts of rain over the past week, mainly on the weekend. The Rhein area received the most with 86 mm, the Rama area 82.5, the Foam Lake area 74 mm, the Lipton area 58 mm, the Langenburg area 40 mm and the Raymore area 32 mm.

Cropland topsoil moisture is rated as 30 per cent surplus, 62 per cent adequate, seven per cent short, one per cent very short. Hay and pasture land topsoil moisture is rated as 16 per cent surplus, 73 per cent adequate, 10 per cent short and one per cent very short. Pasture conditions are rated as 16 per cent excellent, 27 per cent good, 38 per cent fair, 15 per cent poor and four per cent very poor.

Overall, most of the crops are behind in development for this time of year due very wet soil conditions are and the cool overnight temperatures of the past few

weeks. Most of the crop damage this week was from frost, flooding and hail that occurred during the rainstorms.

There are growing report There are growing reports of a possible pre-seed and in crop herbicide shortage in the region as well as no extra fertilizer is available, producers will have to stretch their inputs as far as they can.

Provincial overview: Still behind average Seeding progress climbed throughout many regions in the past week, despite a storm that brought snow and rain to parts of the province.

Fifty-two per cent of the 2022 crop is now seeded, up from 33 per cent last week. This is still behind the five-year average (2017-2021) of 78 per cent for this time of year. The rainfall received over the past week in drier areas will help improve soil moisture conditions and establishment of early seeded crops.

The west central region is the farthest along with 81 per cent of the crop seeded. Seventysix per cent of the crop is seeded in the northwest, 73 per cent seeded

in the southwest, 44 per cent seeded in the southeast, 22 per cent seeded in the northeast and 21 per cent seeded in the east-central region of the province.

The east received significant amounts of precipitation. The Hudson Bay area reported 88 mm, the Jedburgh area 85 mm, the Rama area 83 mm, the Indian Head area 32 mm and the Biggar and Cando areas 11 mm. While rain is welcome in the eastern half of the province, many producers are eager to continue their seeding operations.

Soil moisture continues to improve across the province, mainly in the eastern regions where most of the spring precipitation was received. Cropland topsoil moisture is rated as 15 per cent surplus, 58 per cent adequate, 18 per cent short and nine per cent very short. Hay and pasture land topsoil moisture is rated as six per cent surplus, 63 per cent adequate, 20 per cent short and eleven per cent very short.

Pasture conditions are rated as 10 per cent

excellent, 27 per cent good, 36 per cent fair, 16 per cent poor and 11 per cent very poor. Pastures in the western half of province are struggling to establish this spring due to very limited precipitation causing many livestock producers in the area to continue to feed cattle on farm.

Earlier seeded crops have started to emerge where moisture is sufficient, but cool weather over the past week has slowed development of many crops. In general, most crops are rated as normal for their development except for canola, which was rated as 67 per cent behind. This is likely due to the extremely dry conditions in the southwest and west central regions, delaying growth and the recent cool weather across the whole province. Most of the crop damage this week was due to minor flooding, light frosts, drought conditions and flea beetles. Producers continue to report that there is a shortage of farm equipment parts. There are also some reports of input and herbicide shortages throughout the province.

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A picnic was held to help the community come together.

Ministers join forces to serve hotdogs The Yorkton Ministerial served free hotdogs, drinks and desserts for church folk and the local community Saturday.

The event took place at the Ukrainian Pioneer Park on Henderson and First.

“It was a wonderful day in the midst of a very busy weekend for Yorkton with children taking part in the rock painting station and the wet park,” reported Deborah Smith, the Yorkton Ministerial Secretary. “We give thanks for such a blessing of families and community.”

The event was simply one to build community.

“In a divisive world that seems challenged at the moment to come together, the ministers of eight churches came together to show we can and do work together and have fun doing so,” said Smith. “Our diversity is our strength.”

The eight ministers/churches involved were Pastor Peter Laniya (Dominion Chapel), Pastor Jailyn Corbin (St. Paul Lutheran), Father Louis Nguyen and Carm Molnar (St. Gerard’s Roman Catholic), Pastor Steven Schmidt (Parkland Community), Pastor Des Klingspon (Prairie Harvest), Pastor Steven Rosluk (First Baptist), Pastor Kevin Sawatsky (Yorkton Dream Centre), and Rev. Deborah

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25th Close Cuts for Cancer raises $69,029

By Tyson Off Staff Writer YORKTON – The Brayden Ottenbreit Close Cuts for Cancer was held over the weekend earning $69,029.20 for cancer research.

The annual event sees people shave or cut their hair in order to raise money to be donated towards cancer research.

“The Brayden Ottenbreit Close Cuts for Cancer head-shaving event started in 1998. It began when Brayden Ottenbreit, a young boy from Yorkton, was diagnosed with cancer before his fourth birthday. To support him, his dad Greg, his uncle Grant, and a group of friends decided to shave their heads,” read a statement on the Cancer Foundation of Saskatchewan’s website.

“The 25th anniversary was a bit of a big deal for us,” said Greg Ottenbreit, the Yorkton MLA who cofounded the organization with his wife Leone.

Among the people in attendance to have their hair removed was notable Saskatchewan Youtuber, Dickson Delorme, AKA, ‘Quick Dick McDick’, who typically sports a large beard.

“Last year I stum-

bled across the Brayden Ottenbreit’s Close Cuts for Cancer fundraiser that’s been happening for the last 25 years right here in Saskatchewan,” said Delorme in a Youtube video entitled ‘Save It Or Shave It’, adding, “what can we all do to help?

I don’t have a medical degree, I don’t work in healthcare – maybe I can make a funny video every now and then and cheer somebody up, but I want to do more.”

Delorme, who has a subscriber-base just shy of 80,000, said, “I want to help this fundraiser this year by lighting up a donation page for the month of May – and we’re going to raise some money and have some fun.”

Delorme held a ‘Save It or Shave It’ campaign in which participants donated money to the ‘Save It’ side or ‘Shave It’ side. Whichever side totalled more on the 28th would dictate the fate of Delorme’s beard.

“He raised a significant amount of money within his first three hours [of the campaign],” said Greg, adding, “it just took off in leaps and bounds.”

In the end, the ‘Shave It’ side won and Delorme lost his beard to a noble cause with donations

MLA Greg Ottenbreit and co-founder of the organization removes the beard of Saskatchewan Youtuber, Quick Dick McDick. from both sides totalling $55,937.80.

The $69,029.20 represents the amount of money that has raised by participants.

“We still have some additional donations that need to be added, including donations to our Local Cancer Initiatives

Program,” said Leone.

Other donations included $500 from Legacy Co-Op, $500 from the Yorkton Professional Firefighters, and $1,000 from the Kinsmen Club of Yorkton. “$1,000 from Bill Barsi [was donated] in memory

of his wife Darlene that will be designated to palliative care through the Health Foundation, and he hopes that this will inspire others to support this program that aims to enhance the lives of local cancer patients and their families,” said Leone.

The organization has

several cancer initiative events planned for the near future which include the Bell BBQ at the Bell store on Saturday, June 11, from 11 am to 2 pm as well as the Maple BBQ on Wednesday, June 22, from 11:30 am to 2 pm at Maple Ag & Outdoor.

Funding committed to agriculture carbon sequestration research REGINA — A total of $3.2 million in funding for research on carbon sequestration in perennial forage and pastures May 30 has been announced by the Saskatchewan and federal governments.

The funding was approved under the Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) which advances research to address complex challenges faced by the agriculture and agri-food sectors.

The project, jointly undertaken by Dr. Angela Bedard-Haughn of the University of Saskatchewan and Dr. Cameron Carlyle of the University of Alberta over the next five years, will examine soil carbon stocks in perennial forage systems across Saskatchewan, and investigate the link between producer management practices and carbon stores to identify practices that promote carbon sequestration. One of the outcomes of the project will be maps providing an accurate estimate of carbon in Saskatchewan’s pasture and rangelands.

The application included 11 letters of support from different industry organizations, which reflects the importance of this work

to the provincial agriculture sector, according to a press release.

The project is co-funded by the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association which contributed $100,000 to the total amount and a $25,000 inkind commitment.

“The carbon economy must be built on a credible foundation,” Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association chair Arnold Balicki said. “Despite a lot of activity, there still needs to be this baseline building on hay and grassland.

This should help cattle producers credibly participate in whatever the carbon opportunity is.

Meanwhile cattle producers will continue managing their land for productivity along with the biodiversity and carbon sequestration that are intrinsic to grazing cattle.”

“Creative, collaborative and co-operative research is how our institution strives to deliver long-term benefits and resources for Saskatchewan’s agriculture sectors,” University of Saskatchewan VicePresident of Research Baljit Singh said.

“This project will contribute significantly to our understanding of a complex issue. A better

understanding leads to better decision making and practices within the industry. Ultimately, that is the kind of discovery the world needs.”

The SRI is funded through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a five-year, $3 billion

program by federal, provincial and territorial governments that supports Canada’s agriculture, agri-food and agri-products sectors.

This includes a $2 billion commitment that is cost-shared 60 per cent federally and 40 per cent

provincially/territorially for programs that are designed and delivered by provinces and territories, including a $388-million investment in strategic initiatives for Saskatchewan agriculture. Details on the SRI can be found at https://

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Colin Scheyen accepting the Ruth Shaw Best of Saskatchewan award for his film ‘Toxic Neighbour.

Director of Nalajuk Night, Jennie Williams, accepting the Best of Festival award for her short film.

‘Toxic Neighbour’ and ‘Nalajuk Night’ win Ruth Shaw and Best of Festival Awards

By Tyson Off Staff Writer YORKTON – The 75th annual Yorkton Film Festival was held over the weekend.

The three-day event featured screenings, seminars and lectures with the Golden Sheaf Awards Gala being held on Saturday night.

27 awards were given out during and included the Ruth Shaw Best of Saskatchewan award which was awarded to the film ‘Toxic Neighbour’ and accepted by director Colin Scheyen.

“I wasn’t expecting this

at all,” said Scheyen upon accepting the award, adding, “I will say I want to thank my producers Ann Shin and Hannah Donegan for their dedication to helping me make, whatever this was.”

Toxic Neighbour is a 25-minute film focusing on Ann and Eugene Bourgeois, who were sheep farmers living next to the largest nuclear complex in the world; the Bruce Nuclear Station in Ontario, according to Scheyen.

The director said the Bourgeois’ initially had no fears associated with their farm being so close to the

nuclear plant, but when the plant was releasing hydrogen sulfide into the air in the 1980s and 1990s issues arose.

“The film was shot in Ontario but all the post production was completed in Saskatchewan,” read a paragraph in a press release from YFF. “Most importantly, I want to thank Ann and Eugene who are the centerpieces of this film – who just wanted to live beautiful and creative lives and were interrupted by a nuclear industry that was ambivalent to who they are as people and their dignity – and so I want to

thank them for everything they gave me to make this film.”

Jennie Williams’ ‘Nalajuk Night’ was the recipient of three awards throughout the evening including the Documentary Arts/Culture, the Kathleen Shannon Award, and the Best of the Festival.

“This is my very first film that I’ve ever made,” said Williams after receiving the award, adding, “this short film was filmed in -40 and we did it in two days – it took us four years to make.”

Nalajuk Night, “documents the unique cultural tradition of ‘nalujuk night’

among the Inuit people of Nunatsiavut. Essentially sort of a cross between Christmas and Hallowe’en, nalujuk night is an annual event in which community members dress up as nalujuit, mythical sea creatures, and go around the community on January 6 giving treats to children; ‘good’ children get their treats right away, while ‘bad’ children get “chased” by the creatures until they sing a song to earn their treats,” according to the film’s Wikipedia page.

“There’s definitely going to be many more because I’m hooked on it now,” said Williams.

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