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Whitesand project causes concern

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Residents along Pheasant Grove in the City are not pleased with how a drainage ditch out their backyards looks.

And Monday Glen Walsh, one of the resi-

dents affected by the ditch, was at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council to voice his displeasure.

The drainage ditch is part of the Whitesand Drive Stormwater Improvements, but Walsh said the ditch is having a

detrimental effect to residents on the north side of Pheasant Grove.

“The big part of our concern is property values,” he said.

While admitting no homes have sold recently to gauge the impact he said the unsightly ditch

had to affect the value, adding the ditch is about 38-feet across at the top, and about seven-feet deep.

Walsh said their preference would be to have a drainage pipe installed and covered to address the situation.

Federal money for drainage project

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer

culverts with a concrete bridge,” said Buchholzer.

The project selection was based on the flood mitigation report that identified the storm water drainage ditch, located from York Road to Highway 9, requiring upgrading.

“The drainage culverts under Highway 9 are collapsing and the 1.7 kilometer long, 100 year-old, 1 meter diameter sanitary outfall pipe requires replacement,” explained Buchholzer.

“The drainage channel and the sanitary outfall are a major component of the city’s infrastructure.

The channel diverts the majority of the City’s storm water to Yorkton Creek and the sanitary outfall is the only connecting pipeline from the City to the wastewater treatment plant.”

“We are pleased to advise that the City’s grant application was approved for $3,710,000 of federal funding.”

The City of Yorkton has received word it will receive a significant grant through the New Building Canada Fund (NBCF).

“Infrastructure Canada created a funding program known as the New Building Canada Fund (NBCF) to help fund projects of national, regional and local significance that promotes economic growth, job creation and productivity,” explained Michael Buchholzer Director of Environmental Services and Capital Projects, with the City at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

“The objective of this program is to support infrastructure projects related to economic growth, a clean environment and stronger

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communities. This program supplies funding for up to two-thirds of the eligible costs with the remaining one-third to be committed by the municipality.”

In January of 2017, Council supported the application for the PTIC Grant titled “North Sewer System Upgrades.”

“This project provides for the construction of a new sanitary trunk sewer main and upgrade to the north drainage channel that includes replacing the existing

If that is not possible Walsh said the residents would like to be part of discussions for undertaking landscaping, building a possible walking bridge and addressing walking trails.

After Walsh’s presentation Council received

a report on the situation.

The material noted, “At the October 29, 2018 meeting of Council, Administration was directed to award the contract for the Whitesand Drive Stormwater

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Council approves budgets

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer

Tabled at its regular meeting in December Yorkton Council approved the City’s 2019 operating and capital budgets at their first meeting of the new year.

At the December meeting, Administration proposed a 2.90 per cent increase in taxation revenue for the 2019 year. This includes 1.0 per cent for future Capital projects, and 1.9 per cent for all other Operational expenditures, explained Ashley Stradeski, Director of Finance with the City at Monday’s meeting.

In terms of feedback Stradeski noted on the morning of December 11, 2018, the 2019 Budget Submission, 2019 Operating Budget, 2019 / 2020 Capital Budget, and “Loonie Pie Chart” were posted on the City website for public review.

“As of January 21, 2019, there was zero completed feedback forms received, as well as no other

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WHITESAND Continued from Page A1

Improvements to Wyonzek Bros. Constr.

Ltd. for $880,686.45 with a total project budget of $1,200,000.

“This project mainly consists of a 1.2 m diameter PVC pipe extending from the intersection of Whitesand Drive and the southern leg of Pheasant Cove, north to York Road.

The pipe would then extend east from the intersection of York Road and Whitesand Drive to an open cut ditch with 3:1 side slopes to the ditch outlet near the Yorkton Creek.”

“Since the contract was awarded, the contractor has cut in almost all the open ditch portion

of the contract. The ditch has not been top soiled or landscaped yet and the remainder of the construction is scheduled to take place as soon as possible in the spring,” added, René Richard, Director of Engineering & Asset Management, with the City.

Richard added, since the construction of the ditch began, several concerns have been received from some of the homeowner on the north leg of Pheasant Cove and on January 16, 2019, correspondence was received from a group of residents suggesting two potential options for Council to consider instead of the open ditch that has been constructed.

The first option was to install pipe at the location of the new ditch and bury the pipe.

This option could likely be added to the existing contract but would cost an estimated additional $510,000 making the total project $1,710,000. It is not known if the contractor would be available to extend his timeline on this project, said Richards.

The second option was to Instead of the proposed alignment, install 1.2 meter diameter PVC pipe from the intersection of Whitesand Drive and the southern leg of Pheasant Cove south to Madge Way and then east to the outlet at Yorkton

Creek.

This is the same alignment that was preliminarily proposed in the Integrated Engineering drainage mitigation study that was presented to Council in January of 2017, said Richard.

“At the time of the study, it was anticipated that major roadwork would be necessary on Madge Way so the storm sewer upgrade could be potentially part of that. Since then, repairs have been completed to Madge Way, and there are no anticipated major road improvements in the near future,” he said.

“Ultimately the alignment that was awarded in the contract last October

was chosen because the piping lengths required are much shorter, and much less asphalt roadway would need to be reinstated therefore reducing overall project costs greatly.

“The 2017 drainage study estimated that the Madge Way alignment would cost approximately $1,630,000. With two years passed since the study, it should be noted that the estimate provided is now somewhat dated.

The actual costs for the current Whitesand Drive Stormwater Project were much greater than estimated so it’s likely the Madge Way alignment estimate of $1,630,000 is also on the low side.

Detailed design was

never completed for Madge Way so clearing existing utilities over a longer length would likely bring about additional challenges.

Since the contract for Whitesand Drive Stormwater Improvements has already been awarded, it is unknown if the contractor would be willing to wait for a detailed design for Madge Way or again if he would be available to extend his timeline.”

In the end Council was unanimous in proceeding with the contract for the Whitesand Drive Stormwater Improvements as it currently stands.

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In terms of funding, the new money will help the City avoid needing to borrow money for the project.

“The total cost of the project is estimated at $11,130,000 which was initially approved in the 2016 Capital Budget. At

that time a portion of the funds was to come from waterworks utility reserves and approximately $8,700,000 would need to be borrowed,” said Buchholzer.

“We are pleased to advise that the City’s grant application was approved for $3,710,000 of federal funding.”

Now it’s a case of paperwork.

“Upon signing the federal agreement, the province will submit a separate agreement for their portion of the grant,” said Buchholzer.

Buchholzer said the City expects the province will match the federal dollars.

“Fortunately with $3,710,000 in federal and $3,710,000 in provincial grants, the City will not need to borrow funds to complete this project. The tender process will commence in February with construction starting in early summer,” he said.

City paves way for new urban reserve

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Yorkton Council approved a new sub division of property in the city to help the process of it becoming urban reserve.

“The subdivision is proposed by the owner, Cowessess Flood Claim Holdings, so they may apply for Federallydesignated Urban Reserve status on a

newly-created 2.99 acre lot, and to defer development plans for the 16.38 acre remnant portion,” Michael Eger Director of Planning, Building & Development, with the City told the regular meeting of Council Monday.

“The owner has proposed to name the new street “Little Child Way”.

They have advised that this originates from their Treaty Four signatory,

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Chief Kwîwinžance. He was Saulteaux and the meaning of his name translated to “small boy”/“little child”. In 1886, surveyors approximated the spelling of the Chief’s name to Cowessess, which formed the Nation’s namesake and is the thusly translated to mean “little child”.”

Pursuant to Bylaw No. 26/2001, Council approval is typically not required

for a subdivision creating no more than two parcels, however, a new roadway is proposed and the name must be approved in accordance with the City’s “Naming of Civic Property and Development Areas” Policy.

Eger said work done by the property owner helped expedite the process.

“Cowessess, in conjunction with their team

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written submissions nor feedback by telephone,” he said.

“Council was able to keep increases low to cover the cost of inflation while maintaining services and continuing to fund important programs like streets, roads and drainage,” said Mayor Bob Maloney, in a release.

“This year we will see an unprecedented number of construction projects undertaken as we work to meet the needs of our residents,” said the Mayor. We have been able to do this while keeping our tax increase to less than $5.00 a month. This covers the Saskatchewan Consumer Price Index cost of living increase and provides a 0.9 per cent increase in funding for capital projects,” he said.

Key Capital projects planned a 2019 and 2020 include: • Paving Broadway East from Myrtle Avenue to Highway 9 - $1 million.

This continues work done in 2018 with the repaving of Broadway West; • Reconstruction of the main storm water drainage outfall for the City, from Dracup Avenue and York Road to Highway 9, emptying into Yorkton Creek - $3.8 million. Eighty per cent of the City’s storm water flows through this area and the current condition of the underground pipes in this key part of the city’s drainage system has created a choke point on the system; • Sanitary sewer trunk line from Dracup Avenue and York Road to Highway 9 – $3.4 million; • Highway 9 bridge

of professional consultants, have worked closely with City officials throughout the development process,” he explained.

“Cowessess is nearing completion of a draft Concept Plan and will soon submit for City consideration. This Plan will provide the basis for future development and subdivision of the remnant lands.”

Little Child Way would become a City asset upon completion of construction and warranty obligations by the developer.

“The details of this, along with installation of underground City services, required dedication for municipal reserve (or money-in-lieu) and payment of Development

Levies would be addressed through a standard servicing agreement,” said Eger.

“In consideration of the extensive work carried out by Cowessess and of the Federal requirements for the Reserve-status application, Administration is satisfied to have the subdivision proceed at this time. Administration further supports the naming of the road as “Little Child Way”, as it is accordance with our “Naming of Civic Property and Development Areas” policy, and with best practices for street name designators.”

Council was unanimous in accepting the plan to sub divide the land.

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The attraction of good sauasage

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer On Saturday night, you could see the cars lined up and down the streets – the lines of people spilling out through the doors hungering for over a dozen varieties of local, handcrafted sausage and perogies. Not only are hungry patrons lined up to sample the wares, but they’re also there to witness a battle royale of sorts. At the Willowbrook Community Centre, each of these makers of handmade sausage are competing to see who will be crowned the winner. A jury will decide which sausages are the best. Competition, as one can surmise from the length of the line, is stiff.

Vincent Somogyi, the organizer of the festival and competition, acknowledges how proud the passionate chefs are of their craft.

“We have twenty entries this year,” said Somogyi.

“When we started, we only had seven. This is our 12th year. As you can see, the competition is big now. The businesses who make the sausages go first. Once they’re judged and the winners are picked, the sausage is put out for people to try.”

He motions to the huge crowd with a smile.

“They can’t wait, and neither can I.” The winners for best sausage in this year’s competition: Eugene Osicki, 1st Place; Kelvin Werner, 2nd Place; Linda Kerr, 3rd place.

Somogyi reported over 430 people in attendance for the dinner.

Hungry sausage and perogy enthusiasts wait in line to sample the offerings from this year’s competitors.

Willowbrook Lions volunteers dutifully mind the till, keeping the pace of the crowd. According to organizer Vincent Somogyi, over 430 people were in attendance.

Ekphrastic: A celebration of fabric and poetry

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer The Fibre Art Network (FAN) holds a special exhibition at the Dean Gallery from January 7-February 23.

Ekphrastic: A Celebration of Fabric and Poetry, pairs the winning submissions of twelve poets with a quilted work.

“It is a unique event,” said Don Stein, Executive Director of the Dean Gallery.

“The visual works you see here in textile form are directly inspired by the poem, and thusly paired. The visuals come from the artist’s interpretation of the poet’s text.”

FAN artists come exclusively from the Western provinces of Canada, with the distinct variety of outlook covering the cultural range of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba.

The Yorkton presentation of the Ekphrastic exhibition was curated

by Donald Stein and Edith Skeard, assisted by Nickita Longman of Winnipeg.

For more information, visit the Dean Gallery at 49 Smith St. East.

The stunning attention to detail in the demanding medium of textiles is a key draw of the Ekphrastic exhibition.

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Perspective Where legitimate Trudeau criticism crosses the line

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Politics There is reason to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s policies.

Opposing government policy is everyone’s right based on their own beliefs, values and — quite often — needs.

It can be legitimately argued that Trudeau federal Liberal government policy like carbon pricing does not match the need of Western or rural Canadians where oil production and agriculture would be hardest hit.

And people in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have the right to go challenge Trudeau and his government on this or any policy they see fit.

There may even be reason to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his personal style.

Style should always be less of an issue, but there can be little doubt that Trudeau has made his personal style a political selling point.

If photo ops and selfies are what attract some voters to Trudeau, it seems only reasonable that others should be allowed to dislike him because of his presentation.

Being bothered by the “ahs” and “ums” we heard from Trudeau at his recent town hall in Regina may seem petty criticism. But longwinded and disjoined responses that really don’t answer a question can be a legitimate frustration.

Credit Trudeau for holding such open public forums that exposed him to unfettered criticism from anyone who shows up. This is something that neither former prime minister Stephen Harper dared do nor is something that Trudeau’s current competition is doing.

But that shouldn’t necessarily spare Trudeau from criticism if voters find his answers unsatisfactory or even if they simply don’t like the way those answers were presented.

However, what should be unacceptable is personal, petty nastiest aimed at anyone — whether it be Trudeau or Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer or any public officer holder simply trying to offer something he or she believes would be to the betterment of us all.

The level of nastiness aimed at Trudeau is something none of us should tolerate.

This is not to say that Stephen Harper wasn’t subjected to similar out-of-bounds treatment.

Nor is it suggest that Scheer and others don’t face their fair share of abuse.

But it is say that in today’s social media environment and political climate, there are those who don’t bother with civility and think they can get away with whatever into their head.

The problem isn’t just simple manners or productive debate. It is becoming an issue of downright racism that needs to be addressed.

These thoughts cross one’s mind because of Trudeau’s recent town hall where he faced not only a few nasty accusations and unfounded Internet conspiracies but some downright racism that deserved the strong condemnation possible.

One man stated at the town hall suggesting Muslims and Christians can’t mix. It should be condemned by all people and all politicians.

Trudeau should have responded with something other than a polite answer about free speech.

Free speech was being allowed to ask Trudeau tough questions on pipelines, the carbon tax and on why he seems to think maledominated construction camps are threats in rural settings. That happened at the town hall and people can judge Trudeau’s answers for themselves.

But free speech isn’t spewing the racist and nonsensical conspiracies we sometimes heard at the Regina town hall.

And, frankly, others like Conservative Opposition leader Andrew Scheer need to speak out against. His voice on this issue would be even more effective than Trudeau’s voice.

NO prime minister — no politician — should be subjected to images of themselves being hanged. We have seen these on social media platforms associated with the yellow vest movement, which is maybe why this movement is quickly losing credibility.

One can be tough on politicians. One can be critical.

But there are still lines that should not be crossed.

Murray Mandryk has been covering provincial politics for over 22 years.

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Storms changed priorities and system still adjusting

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eavy rains July 1, 2010, and then again in June 2014, changed priorities in Yorkton.

Both rain events were considered the rarest of events, the second termed a one-in-100-year event, but it didn’t matter that such storm events might not be seen again for decades, the prospect that it might happen again anytime rain cloud forms in the sky, had residents uneasy.

That is not surprising when you cast your mind back to the two rain events, which had business and residential buildings across the city dealing with flooded basements and damaged property.

The dual flood events cost residents hundreds of thousands, if not millions, as property was replaced and repaired, a process taking months after each event.

Suddenly, how the City could best deal with future flood events became a paramount concern for many local taxpayers, and in turn Yorkton Council listened and reacted.

Since the two events the City has invested substantial dollars in creating a long term vision of how to deal with run-off water in the years ahead.

It was at the August 22, 2016 regular council meeting, approval was granted to begin a study to identify possible solutions along with preliminary cost estimates to address localized flooding in 11 areas identified by the City’s Public Works Department.

Representatives of Integrated Engineering, the firm contracted to do the work, reviewed the initial report with Council at the Committee of the Whole meeting in February 2017.

The report included 12 projects rec-

ommended to relieve flooding in the 11 identified problem areas.

The total estimated cost to complete the projects was approximately $40 million (depending on the options ultimately selected) in 2017.

Since 2010 through to February 2017, the City of Yorkton has spent over $9,500,000 on overland drainage. This includes mostly the Brodie Pond and the channel and ponds on Dracup Avenue. Also, piping was upgraded along Dracup Avenue at a cost $6,400,000.

The Whitesand Drive Stormwater project currently under construction with a total project budget of $1,200,000, is part of the overall plan.

While there is a recognition the work is needed, residents along the north side of Pheasant Grove were at Council Monday concerned over the aesthetics of a water ditch basically out their back door.

But that is part of the reality which can occur when situations arise which push certain agendas to the forefront in such a way that may be pushing the planning process. There was a perceived need brought into tighter focus by the dual rain events and the City moved quickly to begin dealing with it, hitting on the highest risk areas where solutions were deemed affordable.

Not everyone is going to be completely satisfied when new pipes are laid and ditches dug, but there remains a need we can remember from the floods of 2010 and 2014. The key though is to make sure the public is kept in the loop in terms of what is going on from the start to the finish of projects needed to deal with potential floods in the future.

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Want to join the RCMP?

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Have you ever considered a career as a police officer? Well, if you are between the ages of 18 and 29, of First Nation, Métis, or Inuit descent, and in good physical shape, then the RCMP wants to show you what it’s like to join them.

The Aboriginal PreCadet Training Program (APTP) is a three week program held at the RCMP Training Academy in Regina from May 13 to May 31, 2019.

Focusing on teaching law enforcement, collaborative problem skills, cultural diversity, public speaking and facilitating Safe Community Workshops in communities, the program also has elements of physical fitness and drills which promote team work, as well as providing students with long-term

strategies to meet their own personal fitness goals.

The RCMP will provide transportation, meals, accomodation, uniform, and training wages for the duration of the program.

Candidates will also require a valid Candian driver’s license, have their high school diploma or equivalent, in addition to being able to pass an enhanced reliability. check. The enhanced reliability check entails verification of addresses for the last five years, digital fingerprinting so the RCMP can run a criminal records check through CPIC, and standard employment reference checks.

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Drones: New regulations effective June 1

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer New regulations will come into effect June 1, 2019 for drone flyers.

These regulations are more strict with harsher penalties than the current legislation.

All drones, for example, must now be registered. All pilots must have a valid drone pilot certificate, and may not operate the aircraft under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Pilots must also wait 12 hours between consumption of alcohol or drugs before engaging on any drone flight crew.

Violations will now fall more directly under the Criminal Code of Canada.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau addressed the new changes to the regulations in a conference on Wednesday.

“The government is resolved to improve the security of aviation and of the public,” Garneau

said.

Drone operators must be at least 14 years of age, and in cases where the drone is not in the pilot’s direct line of sight, a special operations certificate is now required.

Additionally, drone pilots are now prohibited from flying over any area where law enforcement or any other government regulatory agencies have set up a security perimeter.

If frost or ice is on the drone, it may not fly, even if functional.

The penalties are also stiff. For individuals, expect a fine of $1,000 for flying without a drone pilot certificate, if your drone is not registered or marked, or flying in restricted airspace. The fines jump to $3,000 if you put aircraft or people at risk. Corporations face stiffer penalties, with a $15,000 fine for putting aircraft or people at risk, and $5 000 for the other offenses instead of $1,000.

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History Corner Yorkton High School students - 1909-1910 The High School Students in this photo will be of interest to readers who seek information on ancestors whose parents were pioneers or early residents of Yorkton. Too many old photos don’t identify people, place or time, but this group photo has numbers to id the student.

The surnames also reveal what nationalities were living in this community and immediate rural area which was included in the Yorkton School District. One can see that the population at the time was in great majority of Anglo-Saxon origins — the parents being originally from Ontario and the British Isles — founders of Yorkton beginning in 1882. 1. Neil Cowan. 2.

Frank Ferguson. 3. Frank Colvin. 4. Fred Lawton.

5. Roy Hukins. 6. Frank Christie. 7. Milford Switzer. 8. Hope Gowland. 9. Beatrice Coulter.

10. Marjory Turner. 11. Lily Reid. 12. Lily Speers.

13. Sylvia Trueman. 14. Jennie Young. 15. Esther Aldryn. 16. Lucy Kirkham. 17. Edith Patrick. 18.

Elizabeth Spencer. 19. Margaret Foster. 20. Blythe Pierpoint. 21. Lila Smithette. 22. Maude Burke. 23.

Bessie Lukkin. 24. Meta Carey. 25. Elva Switzer.

26. Florence Gleason. 27. Alberta Badgely. 28. Lily Kilborn. 29. Freda Neuhouser. 30. Ethel McLeod.

31. Mona Clements. 32. Agnes Love. 33. Margaret

Callender. 34. Maude Neuhouser. 35. Roona Anderson. 36. Miss Norsworthy (Mrs. Cram). 37.

Clara Ferguson. 38. Joe Hendreckson. 39. Winnie Moynes. 40. Lawrence Homer. 41. Wilfred Tripp.

42. Hilbert Eby. 43. Magnus Breidfjord. 44. Dan Young. 45. Vern Ferguson. 46. Percy Pearce. 47.

Mr. W.S. Cram, Principal. 48. Frank Clark, 49. Will Magrath. 50. Ernest Clark. 51. Charley McFarline.

52. Albert Tonlinson. 53. Loy Matheson. 54. Proctor Foster.

Source of photo and information — the Howard Jackson Collection.

Contact Terri Lefebvre Prince, Heritage Researcher, City of Yorkton Archives, Box 400, 37 Third Avenue North Yorkton, Sask. S3N 2W3 306-786-1722 heritage@yorkton.ca

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Old Mill preservation ongoing

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Work is ongoing to save Yorkton’s old brick flour mill, and the group behind that effort was at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday providing information on their efforts.

Larry Pearen and Gene Krepakevich with the Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society told Council the building remains ne important to save.

The mill was built in 1900 by JJ Smith, and sold to Levi Beck in 1902, last operating as a flour mill in the mid-1990s, which makes it historically significant.

That fact was recognized in 1987 when the site was designated a municipal heritage building.

In 2009 the City took ownership of the property for back taxes, and still holds title.

The mill committee launched in 2012, and has been working on maintaining, upgrading and beautifying the property since.

Work has included removal of graffiti on exterior walls, old plaster and paint removal, and work on the building’s foundation and roof.

In addition, landscap-

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The committee to preserve the brick mill in city continues to develop a vision for its future. ing including planting of trees has taken place.

Of course much of the committee’s effort has been in fundraising for the work, having raised $191,971 from 2012-’18, 35 per cent from grants, 31 per cent from donations and 26 per cent from fundraising efforts.

But more work lies ahead.

“We’re excited about what it is, but more excited about what it could be,” said Pearen.

The vision includes storyboards in the greenspace which would tell Yorkton’s history through large photographs, and the addition of a build-

ing which could house anything from a farmer’s market to a city museum, he said.

The timing of the work predicated on when funds are available, said Pearen.

The presentation did come with a request to Council, that the City continue to cover the cost of electricity to the site, approx. $28/monthly, and water to the site, last operated in 1995, be reestablished.

The two requests were referred to City administration for a report to be prepared and presented at a future meeting of Council.

Bylaw appeals get update

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Yorkton Council was unanimous in amending a City Bylaw Providing for Establishment of a Development Appeals Board and Zoning Bylaw.

In March, 2010, as a requirement under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 (PDA), City Council implemented a Bylaw providing for the Establishment of a Development Appeals Board (DAB). Since its inception, the DAB has heard over thirty appeals and has proven to be a trusted and equitable tool to re-examine decisions, Raelyn Knudson, Assistant City Clerk, with the City told Council.

“Members of the DAB are appointed to the Board by resolution of City Council for one year terms. They are responsible for applying the policies of The City of Yorkton’s Official Community Plan, the rules of Zoning Bylaw No. 14/2003 and other building standards under The Cities/Planning and Development Act to make a decision of the appeal. There are strict timelines in place for hearing appeals. A small committee membership

takes less time to organize, enables them to act quickly and follow a high code of conduct. They are expected to donate a considerable amount of time inspecting properties, reviewing past decisions, and hearing appeals. As such, it is important to allow flexibility in the scheduling of meetings and hearings to ensure a quorum is met,” she explained.

“Currently the DAB Bylaw does not have a limit on how many terms a member can serve as Chairperson.

Setting term limits is an opportunity to strengthen the committee by keeping the chairperson focused on their role, knowing the office has an expiration date therefore preventing board-chair burnout. It also aids in the recruitment of new members as term limits allow all members an opportunity to lead and have their voices heard, allowing new ideas and viewpoints to be considered. Employing every member’s strengths will contribute to a higher functioning board.”

The PDA sets out the grounds for an appeal of a decision made by Council or municipal staff.

“Appellants must com-

plete an application form stating the reasons for the appeal, facts to support the reasons and specify the outcome they are seeking. The DAB must then follow requirements to set down the appeal.

It is very expensive to administer an appeal hearing, with the average cost being approximately $500. Consultation with City Clerks and Planners from Swift Current, Weyburn, Warman and North Battleford, all identified concerns with the high costs of holding appeals. Recent changes to the PDA allows DAB to charge an appeal fee not exceeding $300.

This amount allows for the recovery of more of the associated disbursements such as postage for registered mail, required to distribute decision,” said Knudson.

In summary, the Bylaw is expected to improve the DAB by enforcing the following: • Allows the Board to choose alternate dates for meetings; • Sets term limits for the Chairperson office; • Identifies different reasons for appeal; and • Enables the recovery of more expenses by increasing the application fee.

Second CSO sworn in

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Yorkton Council swore in the second Community Safety Officer at its regular meeting Monday.

“The Community Safety Officer (CSO) program was approved

by Council for development at the August 8, 2017 Regular Meeting of Council and Administration has been steadily moving forward with planning for implementation since that time. The objective of the program is to develop a strong program that keeps this City safe, beautiful, and a great place to live,” Terrence Schneider – Bylaw & Safety Supervisor with the City told Council “In support of this initiative, in August of 2018 Council was briefed

on updates to the CSO vehicle, CSO equipment requirements along with plans for enforcement of City Bylaws, Traffic Safety Act and other pertinent acts. In August of 2018 Council appointed Kevin Galbraith to serve as a CSO and understood that a second officer would be trained to work in the same capacity.”

At the same August 7, 2018 Regular Council meeting, Jaime Campbell was appointed as a Bylaw Enforcement Officer, effective August 13, 2018.

“It was noted that Administration planned to enroll Jaime in the mandatory six week Sask.

Polytechnic CSO course at the earliest available course offering, in order to upgrade his status to a CSO. Jaime was enrolled in this CSO course in November/December

2018 and completed the course requirements on December 14, 2018,” said Schneider.

On January 9, 2019, the City received Jaime Campbell’s appointment to serve as a Special Constable – Community Safety Officer from the Ministry of Corrections and Policing.

Campbell was sworn in after Council approval of his appointment.

Competition 2019-03 Reporting to the Fire Chief and Deputy, a Temporary Probationary Fire Fighter is used to augment Platoons on an as needed basis for vacation, sick leave, disability leave, training leave or any other approved absences.

Applicants must be able to: - carry out a wide variety of duties under the supervision of senior fire fighting staff - maintain an extensive knowledge of fire operations, apparatus, equipment and methods used in combating, extinguishing and preventing fires - comply with all City policies, procedures, OH & S safety regulations and work cooperatively in a team environment - be able to perform shift work and be available for call back duties DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Working as a member of a team, the Temporary Probationary Fire Fighter mitigates emergencies involving fires, dangerous goods incidents, and emergency rescue work; performs fire prevention and inspection duties as assigned, maintains fire department apparatus and facility; participates in required training and performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS: • Grade 12 • Level I and II – NFPA 1001 I.F.S.A.C. Fire Fighter certification, with preference given to those who have graduated from a recognized Fire College or have equivalent IFSAC/NFPA certification.

• NFPA 472 Operations • ICS 100 • First Responder • AED, CPR and First Aid Certificates; • Must possess and maintain valid Class 3 driver’s license, with Air Brakes Endorsement; • Must be in good physical fitness, pass a physical fitness evaluation and maintain a high standard of physical conditioning being able to perform physical fire fighting duties under adverse conditions; • Must possess and maintain RCMP Security Clearance; • As per IAFF Collective Agreement, must be able to provide a medical certificate • Must meet the Canadian Vision Standard for Fire Fighters; • Successfully complete Fire Department job related skill testing; • Reside within the Yorkton Fire Department 5 mile boundary; SALARY: In accordance with the current IAFF Collective Agreement.

Interested applicants are invited to apply online at www.yorkton.ca.

This competition closes on February 1, 2019 The City of Yorkton thanks all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Water & Sewer Division- Public Works Department Competition Number: 2019-04 Reporting to the Water and Sewer Systems Manager, this position would be responsible for a member of a team that performs maintenance and repair work on water and sewer systems to ensure public safety.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Distribution System Repair and Maintenance: repair leaks on services and mains, gate valve exercising, hydrant repairs and flushing, installing new services.

• Sewer and Storm System Repair and Maintenance: repair leaks on services and mains, camera services and mains, flushing mains, catch basin repair, • Capital Water and Sewer Systems: installing new sewer and water infrastructure in new subdivision developments • Must possess working knowledge of the Sanitary Sewer System and ability to identify and maintain accurate video inventory of problem areas • Completes work orders, time sheets and required reports promptly and accurately • Ability to competently operate Motor Grader, loader, Excavator, and other heavy equipment, with high level of proficiency to effectively assist work crews within project requirements and specifications.

• Performs daily equipment checks and minor maintenance as required • Augments Labourers with performance of their duties during periods of equipment inactivity • Follows all O.H.S. Regulations, Company Safety Policies and S.O.P.’s.

• Ability to perform manual labour and other duties as assigned.

• Competently operate required equipment under a minimum of supervision and at irregular shifts.

• Displays mechanical aptitude and general understanding of how equipment functions.

• Competently operate the flusher/vac truck and the sewer video surveillance equipment in a safe and efficient manner.

• Must maintain effective working conditions and relationships with fellow employees and must maintain open lines of communication with Supervisors.

QUALIFICATIONS: • Must have Grade 12 or GED equivalency.

• Must maintain RCMP security clearance.

• Class 3A Driver’s License is preferred.

• Minimum one year experience • Fireman’s Boiler License is preferred • Must be willing to obtain Saskatchewan Environmental Water and Wastewater Certification.

• Ability to work independently and with minimum Supervision.

• Ability to work in extreme and changing climate conditions • Current C.P.R. and First Aid Certificates SALARY: In accordance with Local 342 CUPE Collective Agreement.

Interested applicants are invited to apply online at www.yorkton.ca.

This competition closes February 1, 2019 The City of Yorkton wishes to thank all prospective applicants; however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Request for Tenders Bedding Plant Tender Tender must be received before 4:00 p.m. on February 1st, 2019 Please send sealed Tender clearly marked “BEDDING PLANT TENDER” to: Department of Community Development, Parks & Recreation City of Yorkton Box 400 Yorkton, Saskatchewan S3N 2W3 Details of Proposal: The City of Yorkton is requesting tenders for the supply of bedding plants for the 2019 season.

Specifications are available at: www.yorkton.ca/tenders Tender shall remain open for acceptance by the City and irrevocable for thirty (30) calendar days following the date specified for closing.

Tender received after the date and time specified for closing will be marked late and returned unopened.

Contact Person Enquiries regarding the proposal procedure and particulars can be directed to: Matt Charney – Parks Manager Community Development, Parks & Recreation City of Yorkton Phone: 306-786-1780 Email: mcharney@yorkton.ca The City reserves the right to reject any or all tender. Lowest or any proposal not necessarily accepted.

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Council Meeting Monday, February 11, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.

Upcoming Commission/Committee/ Board Meetings Planning and Infrastructure Commission Meeting Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Time: 7:00 a.m.

Location: Meeting Room A — City Hall Please see the City of Yorkton’s website at: www.yorkton.ca/dept/admin/publicnotices.asp for meeting cancellations

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Robotic sprayer is intriguing tech It was only a few issues back I wrote about the anticipated emergence of increased robotic farming.

And then thanks to one of my social media connections I came across www.ecorobotix. com If you are not familiar with the company as a farmer you will likely become aware of it, or at least its technology soon enough.

The company is developing a 100 per cent autonomous robot which will apply herbicide for in-field weed control.

There are several aspects of the machine

that they are working on which make it both innovative, and very intriguing from the perspective of farmers.

To begin with the field unit would be solar powered. To be able to take the operating cost of fuel out of the equation has to interest producers, and in a world headed toward a carbon tax the prospect of alternative energy sources makes sense.

Of course on a broader scale the move to a solar powered unit follows a growing worldwide trend to evolve away from the use of non-renewable energy sources. That may not

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Calvin Daniels be good news for a highcost oil producer such as Alberta, but the world is making huge steps toward alternate energy.

The autonomous robot here is shown in a video crossing the field on legs not so unlike a mechanical spider. The interest here of course is reduced footprint and

plant disturbance when applying herbicides.

And then most intriguing is that the robot uses sensors to identify weed plants and then apply the herbicide directly to that weed, and only to the identified weed. The impact here is twofold, starting with reduced applica-

tion of product, which is not only a major costreducer, but is environmentally sound.

While such cutting edge technology will come with a large upfront cost, at least initially, the prospect of no operator to pay, the safety element of not having someone onboard a bonus, coupled with fuel and herbicide savings, the machine, or at least one with similar attributes has to have farmers very interested.

In the case of crop protection products, and nutrient applications as well, the opportunity of highly targeted application opens up

huge opportunities as the cost is reduced from that of broadly applying across an entire field.

However, what may be most interesting with this is to wonder what is next?

This unit is being shown online in a video, go check it out, but that only happens when a company has achieved a certain level of developmental success. What is being worked on behind closed doors that still have a few kinks to work out, but are close to a public debut? The potential is exhilarating to imagine.

Calvin Daniels is Editor with Yorkton This Week.

Western Lily windfarm now generating power The Western Lily windfarm near Grenfell has achieved commercial operations and is supplying energy to the SaskPower grid. The project consists of 10 Enercon turbines, which will supply up to 20 MW of electricity – enough to power 8,000 homes.

“This is yet another example of our Government’s climate change mitigation efforts,” said SaskPower Minister Dustin Duncan. “SaskPower has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 40 per cent by 2030, and the Western Lily windfarm coming

“Expanding wind power capacity is an important part of our effort to meet increasing demands for energy while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

— Howard Matthews, SaskPower Vice-President of Power Production online represents a positive step in that direction.”

Increasing Saskatchewan’s renewable power capacity is a key aspect of the province’s climate change strategy, Prairie Resilience, which was released in December 2017.

“Expanding wind power capacity is an important part of our effort to meet increasing demands for energy while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” said Howard Matthews, SaskPower Vice-President of Power Production.

“Our agreement with Gaia is a sign of things to come as we continue to purchase more renewable power from independent power producers.”

The Power Purchase Agreement with Gaia Power,

Inc., was signed Feb. 1, 2016 and construction began in June 2018.

“We are excited and proud to see the Western Lily facility come online and begin contributing to the provincial power grid,” Gaia President Samit Sharma said. “This is a project that is good for Saskatchewan, good for the communities of Grenfell, Wolseley and area, and good for the environment.

We look forward to working with SaskPower for years to come.”

WGRF commits $2.4 million to projects Through a continuing co-funding partnership with the Agriculture Development Fund (ADF) and other producer commodity groups, Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) is pleased to announce over $2.4 Million of new funding for 13 crop-related research projects.

“Our organization is driven by the mission of producers directing investment in crop research to benefit western Canadian grain farmers,” says WGRF Board Chair, Terry Young. “ADF provides a great forum for producer groups to collaborate and co-fund agricultural research that improves agricultural systems, varietal development and agronomic practices.

WGRF is committed to investing in agricultural research, and partnerships like this one with ADF leverages our research investments.”

The approved projects include research into: improving weed and disease management, intercropping of pulses and oilseeds, improved management of aphids for pulse crops, improved agronomic quality and disease traits for oat varieties, and improved nitrogen management for canola and soybeans.

A full listing of projects will be posted on the WGRF website once research contracts are in place.

More than 420 past and present WGRF funded research projects are currently listed on westerngrains.com.

“WGRF is currently funding 146 research projects in over 25 crops,” said Garth Patterson, WGRF Executive Director. “WGRF’s funding is directed at research into variety development and agronomy, emphasizing whole-farm sustainability, resiliency and efficiency of crop production systems.”

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Why is everyone mad at the tidy lady?

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Years ago, a tiny Japanese lady wrote a book about folding your shirts properly and getting rid of things you don’t need anymore, and became a minor sensation. It was a big enough sensation that she eventually got a TV series, where she went to people’s houses in America and told them to fold their shirts properly and get rid of some stuff they don’t need. This somehow became controversial.

To be fair, while some people in my house are big fans of the tiny Japanese lady in question, Marie Kondo, I’m not as enamored with her. Then again, I’m someone who reacted to a freshly cleaned living

room by throwing some textbooks on a table to make it feel normal again. I don’t embrace de-cluttering because I like clutter, and anyone who has ever looked at my desk knows I’m not a tidy person.

Still, the people angry at her are focusing on the wrong things. They’re annoyed that she says people don’t need to own a giant library of books.

But, in all honesty, you don’t need a giant library of books, especially since you can easily get a card and get access to a giant library of books, called the library. Every avid reader probably has at least one book they’ll never read again, making it useless, so why not donate it somewhere?

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Then at least someone’s getting something out of it. Keep the ones you’re going to read again, but get rid of the ones you won’t.

Even for someone who is a big fan of clutter, there’s definitely merit in looking at your stuff and questioning why you own it. Everyone has things that they have that they don’t really have an ade-

quate explanation for why they own them, so it makes sense to discard them.

Her other big issue is people folding their clothes better, and even as someone who doesn’t

do that, I also have clothing I love that I rarely wear because I forgot where I put it. So having a nicely folded closet where everything is easy to find would at least solve that problem.

Then again, it’s not really about her, is it?

People are angry because they’re being told that they might be living the wrong way, and they are livid at the idea that someone would look at their life and decide there are aspects to it that they would not recommend.

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consider that they might they be angry at her because they know they have too much stuff, that they have books they’ll never read again, that just sit and gather dust.

They are taking it personally because even if they don’t like Kondo, they know that she’s not wrong, and they too much stuff.

In my case, I admit she’s not wrong, and I don’t care, I like my mess.

It sparks joy, and if I’ve learned anything from the lady, keep stuff that sparks joy.

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Canadian Tire Jumpstart gives $20k to feed kids

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Every child, regardless of their background, deserves to have access to healthy meals. The Soup Haven Lunch Program, which provides a free, nutritious lunch to over 300 Yorkton children every day, received a well deserved boost today.

The Yorkton-Melville Canadian Tire Jumpstart presented a cheque to the Soup Haven Lunch Program on Monday for $20,000 to assist in its operations to the com-

munity.

“Thank you to the Canadian Tire Jumpstart Chapter in Yorkton and Melville for beliving in our program. We know this money will continue to help nourish the children of Yorkton and surrounding area,” said Marilyn Dyck, program director.

The Soup Haven Lunch Program works closely with schools in the community, and has been feeding children since 1998. It was formed to ensure that no child in need of assistance would go without food.

If you would like to help the cause, Canadian Tire Jumpstart Yorkton invites you to the Jumpstart Community Yard Sale with BBQ on April 25-26. Running from 8 am-4 pm. Refreshments will also be served.

Help along your spring cleaning by donating items you no longer use for a great cause.

Canadian Tire will even pick up your stuff.

Contact Violet at (306) 621-3884 or Eva at (306) 621-6671. They’ll help you arrange pickup. All monies raised stay in the community.

CEO seeks consistency

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Kami DePape, the current Vice President of Academics, has just been named interim president and CEO for Parkland College.

“I am honoured to be appointed interim CEO and am excited by this new challenge,” said DePape.

“I have enjoyed working at the college for 15 years and have strong connections with our staff, partners, and programs.”

DePape, who has worked at Parkland College in various leadership roles for nearly 17 years, feels her role is clear with the staff and students she serves at

the college.

“My goal is to provide them with consistency and stability during this transition period. I want to ensure we stay focused on our students and providing quality programming.”

In October 2018, Parkland College and Cumberland College formed a trial coalition. Both colleges will now share a president/CEO, and the Board of Governors for each organization will be unified.

A joint steering committee, along with Ministry of Advanced Education officials, are leading the transition. A permanent CEO is expected to be hired

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Yorkton Pride Drag Performance Workshops

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer For those looking to explore different facets of themselves through performance, Yorkton Pride has a new workshop that promises to open your mind. The Yorkton Drag Performance Workshop is an innovative new program allowing people who identify with any gender to embrace themselves through stage.

Mya Fantasy, who is conducting the workshops, explained the history.

“Drag, we we call it now, actually has its roots in medieval times,” she said.

“Historically, women were not allowed to play the parts of women. Even going to the 1500s, when Shakespeare’s plays were first being performed, the roles of women were actually played by boys. Acting was considered sinful and improper. Of course, now we know better – and we still get to have the fun of performance.”

Adora Diamond, who also conducts the workshops with Mya, agreed.

“The power of drag is finding and celebrating power in femininity in a world that, traditionally, in the past has seen the concept of ‘feminine’ as being ‘weak’.”

You’ll learn how to develop a performance, your character, how to pick your outfits, and, laughs Mya, “How to accessorize! We’ll teach you how to deal with make-up...pretty much everything you’ve ever wanted to know.”

Laura Budd, who runs Yorkton Pride, points out that drag has a long and storied history, with an endless amount of opportunities for styles and looks.

“There’s all different styles of drag,” said Budd.

“There are no rules, and there is no right or wrong. It is about strengthening feminine identity. That identity could take many forms; whatever means the most to you. You could develop yourself as an identity with your performance and look...or, it could be a character that allows you to more freely express yourself. We have an extremely culturally diverse community in Saskatchewan. We celebrate each other.”

Drag performances have also raised tens of thousands of dollars for charitable provinces through performances. “Over $25 000,” Laura beams.

If you’d like to try it yourself, contact Laura Budd at (306) 795-5044 or laura@moosejawpride.ca. The workshop is held at the Yorkton Boys and Girls Club, located at 54c Smith St. West.

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Post-Secondary Education 2019

Open house showcases many options at Parkland College Parkland College in Yorkton will welcome the public on Feb. 6 and 7 for an open house. It’s an opportunity for learners to find out about the dozens of programs they can start or complete close to home.

The open house takes place over two nights in Yorkton. On Wednesday, Feb. 6, you can visit the Trades & Technology Centre (273 Dracup Ave. N) from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

On Thursday, Feb. 7, the open house shifts to Parkland College’s “Whether you’re Main Campus (200 interested in a uniPrystai Way) from 3:30 versity degree, skills training certificates and to 7:30 p.m. The event diplomas, or the trades, includes information sessions, campus we have something for you,” said Anne Olafson, tours, expo booths, admission on the spot, Student Recruitment prizes and more.

Officer at Parkland College. “Our open Register today at http:// house is a chance for bit.ly/ParklandOpenyou to talk to current House2019 to confirm students, meet some your attendance. Once of our instructors, and you’re registered, you check out our classwill be sent a detailed rooms and training agenda with a complete event schedule areas.”

to get the most out of your experience.

Regardless of the program you choose, a major advantage of going to Parkland College is the small average class size. You can have more oneon-one time with your instructors and closer relationships with your peers – advantages which can help you excel in your studies and get a leg up in the job market or at competitive entry colleges, such as Pharmacy and Nutrition, Medicine, and Engineering.

a generous scholarship program. Students who will be taking a fulltime post-secondary program at Parkland College in the fall of 2019 may apply for Entrance Scholarships from March to May. More information will And to help you along the way, the College has be made available at of these partnerships are with companies who are looking to hire qualified, skilled graduates. They lead to great opportunities for students in terms of work placements, internships, and jobs.

scholarships.parklandcollege.sk.ca.

Parkland College – Your College, Your Future.

Visit parklandcollege. sk.ca, call toll-free 1-866-783-6766, or follow @CollegeofChoice on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Parkland College also has close connections with industry in the region and across the province. Many

Featured Programs for Fall 2019 Length

Location

Dates

Tuition (Approx)

Credit Granting Institute

Agricultural Equipment Technician

36 weeks

Yorkton

Aug - May

$7,000

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Automotive Service Technician

36 weeks

Yorkton

Aug - May

$6,800

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Bachelor of Indigenous Education

4 years

Yorkton

Sept - April

set by universities

First Nations University of Canada

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

4 years

Yorkton

Sept - April

set by universities

University of Saskatchewan

Bachelor of Social Work

4 years

Yorkton

Sept - April

set by universities

University of Regina

Business Certificate

32 weeks

Yorkton, Fort Qu’Appelle

Aug - April

$3,900

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Continuing Care Assistant

32 weeks

Yorkton (full-time) Canora (part-time)

Sept - May

$4,300

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Electrician

17 weeks

Yorkton

April - Aug

$5,000

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Firefighter

14 weeks

Melville

Aug - Oct

$9,725

Lakeland College

Heavy Equipment, Truck & Transport Technician

37 weeks

Yorkton

Aug - May

$7,000

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Office Administration

32 weeks

Yorkton, Fort Qu’Appelle

Aug - April

$4,300

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Power Engineering - Third Class

20 weeks

Yorkton

Aug - Jan

$3,200

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Power Engineering - Fourth Class

32 weeks

Yorkton

Sept - May

$5,500

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Primary Care Paramedic

41 weeks

Melville

Sept - June

$5,600

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Welding

35 weeks

Yorkton

Sept - May

$6,500

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

varies

Yorkton

varies

set by universities

University of Regina, University of Saskatchewan

Program

University - first year

By the time you apply, the information provided here may change. Please visit our website for the latest details and a full list of programs.

Apply online or download an application form at apply.parklandcollege.sk.ca.

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Post-Secondary Education 2019blueprint Wheat genome accelerates innovation Written by Sarath Peiris

Breakthrough research in creating a comprehensive blueprint of the wheat genome will bring disruptive innovation to wheat breeding, predicts University of Saskatchewan crop scientist Curtis Pozniak, whose team played a key role in the successful international wheat genomics project.

“The wheat blueprint will enable us to decipher the genetic basis of important traits in wheat, such as genes responsible for resistance to fungal diseases and pests.

That is the disruptive part.

What took years to do before can now be done in a matter of a few weeks,” said Pozniak, a wheat breeder at the Crop Development Centre (CDC) in USask’s College of Agriculture and Bioresources.

larger-scale international initiative to sequence more than 10 cultivated wheat varieties from the main growing areas across the globe.

“We are very excited about this project. The idea is not use just one genome sequence, but make a comparative analysis of many sequences simultaneously,” Pozniak said. “To understand what genes do in wheat plants, you need multiple sequences so you can start comparing to really appreciate all of the differences. You can then associate these differ-

ences with important traits we select in breeding programs.”

Andrew Sharpe, director of genomics and bioinformatics at USask’s Global Institute for Food Security and co-lead with Pozniak on the wheat genomics research, is also excited that the new project will yield a lot of data on genomic variation that will help the agriculture industry respond to environmental changes.

“We’re hoping to work out all the different gene variations that could have an impact on traits,” Sharpe said.

“Basically, we will end up with a catalogue of variation and how it impacts a crop in the field.”

Because the CDC has been involved from the beginning of the wheat genome project, researchers here have the benefit of a two- to three-year early access to the information, he said.

“You will see that reflected in the new varieties that ultimately come out of the breeding pipeline,” Sharpe said.

“By helping with selecting the most optimal plants in

a breeding cycle, you end up with better performing cultivars being generated quicker than they were. That’s important, particularly in a changing climate,” said Sharpe.

Kirby Nilsen, a recent USask PhD graduate and now an assistant plant breeder at CDC, is among the first researchers worldwide to use the blueprint to develop pestresistant wheat crops. He used the genome sequence to identify genes responsible for solid wheat stems, which act as a barrier to sawfly damage.

New knowledge generated by the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium over the past 13 years is expected to have a huge impact on global food security, with the planet’s population projected to reach 9.6 billion within three decades.

“From a breeding perspective, the blueprint will enable us to develop DNA markers for breeding. These markers will allow us to improve the efficiency of selecting important traits, which will ultimately help produce better wheat varieties over the long term,” Pozniak said.

The next step for the USask team will be to lead the 10+ Wheat Genome Project — a

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Post-Secondary Education 2019the north with Gearing up to power renewables Written by Sarath Peiris

Canada has committed to an electricity system by 2030 that will be 90 per cent carbon nonemitting, a move that requires transitioning to renewable energy such as wind, solar and biomass.

But the current impact assessment (IA) process used by public regulatory bodies for evaluating these projects can be expensive and time consuming because project proponents often have to address issues that repeatedly have been raised and answered in reviews elsewhere, says University of Saskatchewan researcher Bram Noble.

“We want to make the process more efficient without losing the effectiveness of the impact assessment process in moving projects forward,” he said.

Noble, a professor in the geography and

planning department of USask’s College of Arts and Science, has been awarded an Insight grant of $92,000 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to develop an efficient IA process for renewable energy projects.

By 2020, his team will analyze the environmental, social and economic impacts typically associated with wind energy projects across Canada, and identify mitigation strategies and solutions to reduce adverse impacts. For instance, bird strikes on windmills are regularly raised as a concern, even though existing mitigation measures are effective.

His goal is to develop an open-access online IA toolkit to help project proponents, consultants, governments and communities plan better for wind energy projects.

The process developed

for wind energy can be applied broadly to other renewable energy projects such as solar and biomass.

“We are interested in identifying impacts people can expect from a proposed renewable energy project — the most controversial areas and those that lack certainty in effectively managing impacts on physical and social environments,” said Noble.

This project lays the foundation for a more comprehensive project his team will be proposing to SSHRC on renewable energy transition for northern Indigenous communities.

Team members are: Greg Poelzer, a political scientist in USask’s School of Environment and Sustainability; Kevin Hanna, a resource management expert at the University of British Columbia; and industry participant Ranjith

Narayansamy, a senior business adviser for SaskPower.

The project is the second step of research that began with a SSHRC Connection initiative led

by Poelzer to build a network of energy research.

Noble and Poelzer plan to seek SSHRC Partnership funding to research how to transi-

tion northern communities to renewable energy in ways that add local social, cultural and economic value, while managing the environmental impacts. The project involves researchers from across Canada, Alaska, Norway and Sweden.

The research fit well with the USask priority of advancing reconcilia-

tion, Noble said.

“We are approaching this as one pathway toward energy security and self-sufficiency for northerners, and it opens the door to other opportunities,” he said. “We are trying to primarily add value to the North.

If we get scholarly output that’s great, but it’s secondary.”

Bram Noble, a professor in the georgraphy and planning department of USask’s College of Arts and Science

Key Services and Scholarship provide life-changing support From the time Caitlin Chometa began her journey with Saskatchewan Polytechnic it’s put her on a positive path.

“It’s changing my life,” she said.

Caitlin was taking a year off after high school with plans to begin her post-secondary education when the sudden loss of the father figure in her life altered her direction.

“I was very close to him and when he passed away it made me think of what I really wanted to do with my life.”

Caitlin began researching options and arrived at Sask Polytech where Student Services introduced her to a wide array of possibilities.

“Sask Polytech has amazing programs,”

she said. “They told me about programs that I didn’t even know existed.”

Student Services assisted her in making the decision to enroll in the two-year Library and Information Technology diploma program, making sure the program was the right fit for her.

Student Services also assisted Caitlin in filling out forms, accessing grants and getting settled into student life.

Caitlin is hearing impaired and contacted Accessibility Services for support. Accessibility Services is committed to ensuring that equal access for students with disabilities is provided at Sask Polytech.

Accessibility Services assisted Caitlin with

accessing grant funding for technology that aids in her learning. She has also been impressed by the mental health supports provided to students. The passion and enthusiasm of her instructors also impresses Caitlin.

“Everyone I’ve encountered is so happy and positive about their jobs,” she commented.

“It makes me excited to be here and it makes me want to work harder.”

Caitlin was this year’s recipient of the Viterra scholarship. This award is for a registered Sask Polytech student with a permanent disability. She shared her Sask Polytech experiences at the Saskatoon Business & Industry Dinner.

Photo courtesy of Saskatchewan Polytechnic

“I didn’t know how I was going to be able to pay for school. This scholarship has made the world of difference to me,” she said. In addition to the funding as-

pect, the award has been a big boost to Caitlin in intangible ways.

“It has given me more confidence and reassures me that I’m going in the right direction.”

Caitlin can’t say enough about Student Services and the support she has been given.

“They really have gone above and beyond to help me.”

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Community Spotlight The Yorkton Public Library is open at 9 a.m. Monday-Friday.

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New Horizons Friday Night Dance New Horizons Senior Centre, 78 First Ave. N., Yorkton. Great night of dancing. Everyone is welcome. 8:00 p.m. 12:00 a.m. Admission: $10.00. Music by: Feb. 1, Old Country Lads; Feb. 8, Len Gadica; Feb. 15, The Zayshleys, Valentine Dance, admission $12.00; Feb. 22, Old Country Lads.

Contact Peter H. 306782-1846. Hall rental 306-783-6109.

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Federation does Trap Shooting on Tuesday evenings at 5 p.m. till dark. Weather permitting at York Lake Trap Club. Everyone welcome. 306-516-7521.

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TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Tues., SIGN East Entrance, 83 North St., weigh in 6:15 p.m., meeting to follow; Wed., SIGN 345 Broadway St. W., York B Salon, Lower Level, weigh in 12:00 noon, meeting 12:15 - 12:45 p.m. Call 306-783-3765 or visit www.tops.org for more information.

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Fibre Arts and Poetry at Godfrey Dean - Jan. 7 to Feb. 23, 2019. Our first exhibition for 2019 features quilted and sewn fabric works created by 40 members of FAN, Western Canada’s Fibre Art Network.

They titled the exhibition Ekphrastic, which refers to the act of responding to art work in literary form. In this case, the quilters are using their fabric art skills to respond to literary work: twelve Canadian poets were invited to submit a poem and FAN members created quilts for each, inspired by or interpreting the written word. It’s a spectacular display of sewing, quilting and innovative fabric ideas. Admission is always free! Godfrey Dean Art, Gallery 49 Smith St. E, Yorkton, SK www.deangallery.ca

Citizens on Patrol Program Yorkton COPP the eyes and ears of your community is recruiting new members. For an application or more info please contact COPP at 306783-5022 or 306-7837042 or The Yorkton City Detachment of the RCMP at 306-786-2400 or Box 153, Yorkton, SK S3N 2V7.

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Attention all crib players - come join us at the Yorkton Public Library on Friday at 1 p.m. All are welcome.

Please use the back door.

Experience a wee bit of Scotland in Saskatchewan. Yorkton & District Scottish Society proudly presents the 41st Annual Burns Supper. Join us for an evening of pipes and drums, Highland & Scottish Country Dancing, and a delicious buffet dinner featuring neeps, tatties and hearty roast beef prepared by Parkland Catering, along with the best Haggis in town! Sat., Jan. 26 at the Convention Place, Gallagher Center, Yorkton. Advance tickets only. For info and tickets, please call 306782-5000, 306-783-6741 or 306-782-1312.

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Story Time - Winter Session. Join us for stories, finger plays, songs and a simple craft.

Open to ages 3 & up.

Mondays or Thursdays Feb. 4 - March 28, 10:30 - 11:15 a.m., Yorkton Public Library. Call 783-3523 or find us on Facebook.

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Come see our new Royal Canadian Legion branch located at 387B Parkview Rd. next to the Loaf N’Jug. Office hours are Mon., Wed. and Fri., 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Our lounge is open Sat. at 3:00 p.m. with meat draws at 5:00 p.m.

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Bridge Players The Yorkton Duplicate Bridge Club invites you to join us at the Yorkton Public Library every Wed. at 1:00 p.m. for an afternoon of fun.

All bridge players are welcome and encouraged to come and join us. If you would like some brushing up on your bidding skills, require a partner, or for more info please call 306-782-1689 or 306-890-0417.

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Al-Anon meets Monday nights, 8 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 73 Smith St. and Wednesday nights, 8 p.m. at Westview United Church (355 Bradbrooke Dr.).

Alateen also meets on Wednesday night, 8 p.m. at Westview United Church. Adult children of Alcoholics Al-Anon meeting every Friday at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 73 Smith St.

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Club 55+ Golden Age Bowlers are looking for new members. Leagues are Mondays and/or Wednesdays at 1 p.m.

First time Bowlers are welcome! Drop in at 12:30 p.m. on those days or call Brad at the Yorkton Bowl Arena 306-783-5183.

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The York Colony Quilter’s Guild meets every Wed. at 9:30 a.m. at the Western Development Museum.

Experienced and novice sewers are welcome. There are group activities and classes to learn new techniques, as well as work on charity projects. Come and check us out to enjoy some stitching time with a welcoming group.

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Parkland region’s public writing group meet 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Yorkton Public Library, 7 p.m.

- 9 p.m. Everyone interested in writing is welcome. Annual membership fee is $10.

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Attention all lovers of boardgames; chess, o t h el lo , c h e ck e r s , back gammon, go, Camelot etc., join the Yorkton Boardgamers Guild, a new group forming to promote gather in gs to play boardgames and have fun. For further information call 3067 8 2 -17 8 3 or e m a i l yorkton_boardgamers_ guild@hotmail.com.

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Donate at the following Canadian Diabetes Association Clothesline® drop boxes and help the more than 9 million Canadians living with diabetes and prediabetes: SIGN Family Support, 345 Broadway St. W. Clothesline® drop boxes happily accept all cloth based items, shoes, hats, belts and more.

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Yorkton 4-H Light Horse Club is a projectbased youth organization (ages 6 - 21) focusing on the growth and development of our members, leaders and volunteers. If interested in more info please contact Mr. DePape at 306-783-7769.

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We need you to share your talent! Play guitar, piano, dance or sing? We would like to invite you to perform in our facility! Please call Suzanne Beck at 306-786-0815, I’d be happy to have you join us. Yorkton & District Nursing Home, 200 Bradbrooke Dr.

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Volunteers Needed!

The Canadian Red Cross is seeking volunteers for the Friendly Visiting Program for Seniors. Volunteers will be trained to provide weekly visits or phone calls to socially or geographically isolated seniors in Yorkton and surrounding area. One hour every other week is all that is required to provide social interaction with a senior and peace of mind for family and caregivers.

For more information contact 306-261-6602 or email friendlyvisitingsask@redcross.ca

University site a great gardener resource We’ve chatted about this great online gardening resource before: the University of Saskatchewan College of Agriculture and Bioresources- Gardening site at https://gardening. usask.ca. From here, we can navigate to different pages that include public workshops and events; information about the various campus gardens (such as the AgBio Rooftop Garden that actually supplies Culinary Services at the university; the community gardens; and the Patterson Garden Arboretum); and access to the Gardenline Online that offers a wide variety of information on topics like healthy soils, annuals and perennials, houseplants, and common plant diseases.

Closer to spring, we can also click on the “Public Workshops and Events” tab and find out details about workshops and plant sales at the university. Bookmark this site and be sure to visit for new and innovative information about horticulture!

Closer to home, meet and greet with other gardeners at the 9th Annual Seedy Saturday is coming up on Saturday February 23, 2019, 11 am to 4:30 pm at SIGN on Broadway (345 Broadway Street West). There is something for everyone including local seed vendors and info booths. If you would like to be a vendor at the event, call Stacey at (306) 641-4239.

And if you are going to the library to get some gardening books to whet your gardening appetite, stop at the front desk and ask about the Seed Library at the Yorkton Public Library.

There will be a variety of seeds available for eager gardeners! This is a wonderful free program and a great way to try new seeds.

Many gardeners have been starting plants from seeds for years. Why? The question has several answers. A gardener can get a head-start with

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Gardener’s Notebook their favorite plants, or we might want to start some unusual varieties of plants not usually available in stores as bedding plants. Cost may be a factor, because a package of seeds can potentially yield dozens of plants.

Plus, growing our own plants brings great gardening satisfaction!

What to plant? For many gardeners, window space is limited, so we will want to choose our most-wanted plants to fill that space. When it is time to plant, we have to rein in our excitement and not do it too early, unless we are lucky enough to have a solarium, heated greenhouse or grow lights. If we hope to plant out our seedlings on the May long weekend, the longtime traditional planting weekend, we have to count backwards about six to eight weeks for our planting time. That takes us to the end of March.

Planting too much before this, without extra-light growing conditions, and our plants may get too spindly and not be the

robust plants we want.

We should use a soilless mix in a container with good drainage. It is a good idea to have the soil damp before we start planting (damp, not wet!).

Check the seed package to see how deep the plant the seeds. Do not crowd them. Once they are planted, cover the containers with plastic to retain the moisture, and keep them in a warm location to aid germination. But in a few days, as soon as we see the first sprouts peeking out, uncover them and place them in a sunny location.

From here on, they are our plant babies, and need continual attention to keep them moist, warm, and turned so that they get equal amounts of sun.

If you’ve never tried starting your own plants, make this the year! It’s interesting and inspiring to get us “in training” for the gardening season!

Visit the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society at www.yorktonhort.ca and have a great week!

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Yorkton Retired Senior Citizens Cribbage and Pool Players Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., lower level at St. Gerard’s Church east entrance off 4th Ave. N. Light lunch w/coffee/tea.

Nondenominational club.

Contact Joan at 306-7836042.

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Gloria Hayden Community Centre Hours of Operation Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to noon, 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Closed over the lunch hour.

Saturdays & Sundays noon to 5:00 p.m. Stat Holidays closed.

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Facing an Everest-sized diagnosis?

Faith anticipates a party at the peak I once interviewed a Canadian who had twice summited Mount Everest.

“I wasn’t trying to get to the top,” Dave Rodney said, remembering the most perilous portions of the climb — crossing ladders placed as bridges over almost bottomless crevasses. “…Just to the next rung on the ladder.”

Everest climbers surround us. Friends and beloveds facing devastating diagnoses: pancreatic

cancer, lymphatic cancer, bowel cancer. MS. ALS, or its nearest kin. People just like you and me, who imagined they had years left under the sun. Time to love their family. A bit of travel. A new home or a project they intended to complete. A long career and retirement.

Those people aren’t springing up the mountainside. They pray for healing, but meanwhile peer through clammy

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mists, searching for the next ladder, then the next unstable, frail rung

that will support them across treacherous gaps in the mountain. A chemo

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St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League of Canada has donated $1,500 for new laboratory equipment. President Elsie Stechyshyn, Treasurer Elizabeth Zahayko and St. Mary’s Parish Asst. Pastor Father Ray Lukie presented a cheque to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation, at the ladies meeting Jan. 14. “Lab equipment is vitally important to

a regional hospital, and this equipment we are buying will upgrade a number of the services the lab provides,” said Fisher. “We are very grateful for this donation as it helps us bring the fundraising for this equipment to a close.” Here from left are: treasurer, Elizabeth Zahayko, President Elsie Stechyshyn, Ross Fisher, and Father Ray Lukie.

treatment, a stormy drive to a specialist’s office, radiation, a necessary move. Events uninvited.

Unexpected. Undesired.

Unpleasant. The seeming deconstruction of an unfinished life.

“We’re trying not to fear what’s ahead or regret what’s behind,” said a pair of dear friends facing the husband’s grave diagnosis. “We’re just taking one day at a time.”

One day. One rung, one crevasse. On the physical Mount Everest, eight to ten thousand foot drops plunge below each side of the ladder.

Traversing the processes that accompany disease feels like that sometimes.

At least it did for the Preacher (and me) during his battles with colon cancer and West Nile Disease.

Unexpected fissures still lurk below frequent mountain fog. Unrelenting pain.

Encephalitis. Insomnia.

Two evenings ago I talked long on the phone with a sweet writing colleague diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “Two to six months,” the doctors told her, no doubt shocked themselves at the alarming rise of the brutal peak in an otherwise reasonably healthy woman. “My friend,” I asked, “what’s next for you?”

She mentioned a few things. Chemo to slow the disease, give her time to wrap up her affairs, say her good-byes. (She has fewer loved ones to fare-

well these days. In the last several months, she has lost her husband, her father and her beloved cat.) But, her voice clear as a mountain stream, she added, “Heaven is looking better all the time.”

I’ve heard that theme often from friends facing devastating diseases. For those who love Jesus, the dying process — our climb up Mount Everest — feels far from a party, but our faith says we can be confident of a party at the peak. But we also cherish the certainty of the abiding power and constant presence of our Lord; the One who gave his life so we could have everything we most need in our darkest moments, plus the promise of eternity with Him. “The proper epitaph to write for the Christian believer, said author John Stott, “is not a dismal uncertain petition, ‘R.I.P.’… but a joyful and certain affirmation ‘C.A.D.’ (‘Christ abolished death’)” Alleluia and Amen.

Sensitive Egos “A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.”

— Proverbs 15:18 Church of God in Christ

MENNONITE, AT SALTCOATS Pastor Laurel Wiebe — 306-898-2099 Pastor Tim Warkentin — 306-744-8133 Sunday Morning Service 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:40 a.m. Worship Service EVERYONE WELCOME

Zion Lutheran Church (Church of the Lutheran Hour) (GX Radio 9:00 a.m. Sunday) 234 INDEPENDENT ST., YORKTON 306-783-5589 Pastor Andrew Cottrill

Sunday: 9:00 a.m. Bible Study 10:00 a.m. Worship and Sunday School Wednesday 9:00 a.m. Matins (Prayer), and Devotion

First Baptist Church SMITH STREET & THIRD AVENUE Pastor Steve Rosluk; Office 306-783-3119

Worship Service & Children’s Time at 10:30 a.m.

A CARING CHURCH… WELCOMES YOU

PRAIRIE HARVEST CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTRE

72 Melrose Avenue • PHONE 306-786-6840 Senior Pastors Des & Cheryl Klingspon Employment Program 306-786-1840

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

• Contemporary Worship • Children’s Ministry • Youth Ministry phclc.org “Changing our world with the love of God.”

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Free Pentecostal Church 20 BRADBROOKE AVE.

Pastor E. Richardson

306-783-5663

Services: • Sunday, 10:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.

• Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

Listen to CJGX Radio every Sunday at 8:45 a.m.

St. Andrew’s United Church St. Andrew’s United Church

SECOND AVENUE AND SMITH STREET OFFICE 306-783-4157 MINISTER REV. JEN DRESSER Second Avenue and Smith Street Office: 783-4157

Website: http://www.standrewsyorkton.ca

Minister: Rev. Cordelia Karpenko

Worship Time: Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

Website: http://www.standrewsyorkton.ca Facebook: St. Andrew’s United Church

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Sunday, January 27th Worship Service at 10:30 a.m.

—Everyone Welcome—

Holy Trinity Anglican Church 165, 2ND AVE. N & DARLINGTON Deacon: The Rev. Luanne Hrywkiw 306-782-0018 Church 306-786-7131

Sunday, January 27th Worship Service & Sunday School 10:30 a.m.

Destiny International Christian Assembly Establishing Ministries and Releasing Destinies

109 Maple Avenue, Yorkton Senior Pastors Dag & Bukky Lawale

Every Sunday - Worship Service at 10:30 a.m.

Every Wednesday - Bible Study at 7:00 p.m.

Last Friday of each month - Prayer Meeting at 7 p.m.

For more information please phone 306-782-2427

“A Place of New Beginnings”

St. Mark The Evangelist Orthodox Church

Meeting at SS. Anargyri Greek Orthodox Church 160 Betts Ave., Yorkton, Sask.

“Services in English”

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Pickleball: A game you have to try

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Don’t let the name fool you. Combining the action of tennis, ping pong and badminton, this game is fast paced and unique. Chances are, you can probably play it.

“What’s interesting about pickleball is you can get into the action a lot more quickly than you can learning, say, tennis,” said David Weiman, instructor at the Yorkton Community Centre.

“It’s fast paced enough to be exciting, but easy enough to hit the ground running. We set it up as doubles, so people can really bite into it as early as their first class. By the second class, often they’re already holding their own on the court in a major way.”

That certainly appeared to be the case here -- gameplay seemed remarkably fluid, with great energy. Motioning to his students, Weiman is visibly proud. “If you can believe it, this group is only in their second class.”

Taylor Morrison, Recreation Services Manager at the community centre, agrees.

“Instead of a tennis racquet, you have an oversize tennis paddle.

It’s a slower version of tennis, so it’s popular with the ‘snowbirds.’ It’s still fast paced though, so it is great for everybody, including kids.”

The Yorkton Community Centre holds sessions twice a week -Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am-12 pm.

“Pickleball is a great

Instructor David Weiman demonstrates the finer points of correct positioning for a serve. Right: One of the session attendees showing the position in action. addition to the programs we have here,” said Morrison. “It’s a great

The Yorkton Terriers dropped a pair of Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League games on the weekend, including a home ice loss to Flin Flon Saturday at the

program especially given January is Active Living month.”

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Farrell Agencies Arena. Friday the Terriers host LaRonge in a game which will be a fundraiser for the Brayden Ottenbreit Close Cuts for Cancer.

Goalies lead fight, Terriers fall to Bombers 5-3

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer The Yorkton Terriers have struggled since the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League Christmas break, and are only 3-7 in the last 10 games.

As a result the Terriers now have company atop the SJHL Viterra Division with Estevan now having the same 45 points as they do.

Melville sits third with 32 points, with Weyburn at 31 points.

The situation for the Terriers was not improved on the weekend, dropping a pair of games.

Friday the Terriers were in Wilcox to face Note Dame where the Hounds defended their building early with two unanswered goals in the first period. Curtis Wiebe and Cole Stevenson recorded goals for the Hounds.

The teams would trade second period mark-

ers, Quinten Hobbs for the Terriers, and Jarrett Penner on the powerplay for Notre Dame.

The third would be a carbon copy of the second as Kishaun Gervais scored for Yorkton, with Jared Hamm responding for the Hounds to round out a 4-2 win for the Hounds.

Former Hound netminder Andrew Henderson took the loss in the Terrier net facing 38-shots, with Riley Kohonick earning the win for Notre Dame facing 24.

Saturday the Terriers were on home ice hosting the Flin Flon Bombers at the Farrell Agencies Arena.

The Terriers battled valiantly against the Flin Flon Bombers Saturday night, but after nearly closing the gap in the second period, ultimately the home ice advantage was ceded to the Bombers by the end of the third period, culminating in a 5-3 loss.

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The Bombers struck early with three unanswered goals by the 13:12 mark of the first period.

Calvin Boots, Brandson Hein and Vincent Nardone notching the Bomber goals.

The Terrier’s fortunes seemed poised to change at the beginning of the second period, as Ouelette found his mettle. Yorkton came on strong, with Captain Brendan Mark executing some impressive defensive manouevres, scoring the second goal of the game on the power play. Ouelette pulled out all the stops. Things were looking good for the Terriers until a disappointing goal closed out the the period for Flin Flon, the Bombers holding a 4-2 Bombers lead.

In the end the teams had traded goals, Brendan Mark with a powerplay marker for Yorkton, and Chrystopher

Collin replying for the Bombers.

In the third period Yorkton remained dogged in an effort to wear down Flin Flon but a fifth Bombers goal solidified their lead.

The Terriers wouldn’t go down without a fight, drawing the heavy artillery on the powerplay but couldn’t break through [FF goalie]. Their tenacity earned them a third period goal in the last few minutes by right winger Colby Brandt, but ultimately ran out of time on the clock.

The third period would ultimately be the reverse of the second Daylan Marchi with a powerplay goal for the Bombers, with Colby Brandt replying for Yorkton to round out a 5-3 win for the visitors.

Ryan Ouellette took the loss in the Terrier net facing 38 shots, with Gabriel Waked earned the win for the Bombers

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Terriers Coach Matt Hehr acknowledged the strong plays, as well as where the team needs to go.

“I just have to keep telling the guys to trust the process and keep on going,” Hehr said. “We shot ourselves in the foot the first 20 minutes.

We’ve got a good two way defense and we’ll keep pushing defensively. We thought we had our chances [in the second period], but we’ve got to give their defense credit.”

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LaRonge at the Farrell Agencies Arena Friday.

At Friday’s game the Yorkton Terriers will partner with Brayden Ottenbreit Close Cuts for Cancer hosting a special fundraising night. Each player has purchased their jersey and will wear the special jerseys, but instead of their own name on the back, it will show the name of a person each player is playing for that night. One hundred per cent of the jersey proceeds as well as $3 from each walk up ticket sold that night will be donated to Close Cuts for Cancer.

Everyone is invited to a farewell event for Meagan, Chief Librarian Yorkton Public Library Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:30-5:00pm Yorkton Public Library Join us to wish her well as she embarks on a new chapter of her career.

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In tandem The Yorkton Curling Club hosted an Open Doubles Bonspiel sponsored by Zad Enterprises Friday and Saturday with 14 teams registered. The overall winners were; Team Nagy, Team Zuravloff, Team Farquhason, Team Lutz, and Team Zbeetnoff. Games that tied were; Team Dergousoff versus Team Kinaschuk, and Team Kuspira against Team Mehling. This week the Club is kicking off the Yorkton Senior Bonspiel. The first game starts 1:00 on Monday January 21 and will go until January 24. There are approximately 20 teams registered. The Sunday Juniors have continued to stay at 30-40 mark each week, with action wrapping up in the Junior curling in late February. The Mens and Ladies Yorkton Bonspiel will be held March 20 - 24th.

Jones leaves good and bad memories So I had expected this week’s column would be all about the efforts by the Canadian Football League to open the doors to international talent.

While I will circle around to that I am sure, the resignation of Chris Jones, general manager and coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders has definitely hijacked my thoughts.

So no one can fault a coach or player for heading south to the NFL to make more money.

Championships are a rare thing in sport, the Cleveland Browns where Jones is headed has never even been in a Super Bowl, so take the money and be happy.

As for Jones legacy in Saskatchewan, for me it is very much a Jekyll and Hyde scenario.

To the good, the Riders were a win away from a Grey Cup berth in 2017, then regressed by bowing out in the first round in 2018. To Jones’ credit the team won its share of

games.

Those wins in 2018 came largely from a strong defence, Jones’ forte. But the defence was one largely predicated on big plays resulting in points for the Roughriders. If those big plays did not transpire the defence was much more ordinary.

The offence was a mystery box because of huge question marks at quarterback, and those questions loom ever-larger headed to the 2019 season.

Zach Collaros was not particularly good when fully healthy, and health was an ongoing issue to boot. He certainly is not worth the money paid him in 2019, and if he is your best option in the new season, it’s not good news offensively.

Part of Jones’ legacy will be his inability to trade for, sign a free agent, or find a talent to develop at the key spot on a football team.

The ‘Riders also became largely unlike-

is the offensive coordinator and the offense was largely uninventive when it needed to be creative, so he is not on my list.

Marc Trestman gets a lot of mention, and is the best option unless you risk trusting an unknown.

Paul LaPolice is another name mentioned based on experience.

Whoever it is, they need to be hired quickly.

And now for a quick word on what has been termed CFL 2.0. I am a fan of anything that grows the CFL brand, and opening the door to additional talent pools makes sense.

CALVIN DANIELS

Sports able under Jones, wins notwithstanding.

Jones was not community-friendly, and it seemed to permeate the team. The defence was big play but the swagger they deserved to show often edged into arrogance which is less likeable.

The offence just never excelled to the point of having a star to cheer for.

Fans were left wondering whose name to put on a jersey they purchased.

But no coach is bigger than a team, so we move on, and Jones becomes a somewhat tarnished memory.

The issue for the ‘Riders now is naming

someone quickly as free agency and the season loom quickly ahead.

Assistants Stephen McAdoo and Craig Dickenson get mentioned as possible replacements. McAdoo

The National Football League with its gobs of money is talking expanding rosters because they like paying players to carry clip boards or watch from a skybox. As I said go for the money, so some talent that would look good on a CFL field will be paid well to never play a serious down of football if the NFL roster continues to grow.

Looking to Mexico, Germany and other countries playing football, is a logical one with a huge potential upside and very little downside.

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Meeting explores multi-use turf facility

By Devin Wilger Staff Writer Does Yorkton need a new indoor turf facility?

An information meeting was held at the Gallagher Centre on Jan. 16 to explore the possibility of a new turf facility in the city, and gather user groups to get together and work on what Yorkton could potentially support in the future.

The project started with Yorkton United FC, which had been hitting the limits of the FlexiHall in the Gallagher Centre, and want a turf facility to allow them to host tournaments as well as have a surface that is kinder on the legs and knees of their players than concrete. They quickly realized that having a facility strictly for soccer would be Dennis Nesseth with YUFC. “We need to make sure that we have a facility that is purposeful, that meets the needs of everyone now and mov-

ing forward.”

The groups have looked at different options. Adding turf to the Flexihall was proposed five years ago, Nesseth said, but the cost of removal and storage for turf was prohibitively expensive.

“Honestly, if the city came to us and said ‘yep, that’s a soccer facility,’ it’s a 3/4 pitch, we would be more than happy and we would make that work. I don’t know if the city and the community could be without the Flexihall as it is now.”

The ideal setup for the club would be a $15 million, full-pitch facility, but while that’s the dream, the next step is to look at a feasibility study to see what the city can support, and whether their ideal facility would work or if the dream would have to be scaled back to something with a smaller budget. They are also willing to pair it with a second ice surface for the city, in cooperation

Dennis Nesseth talks to the crowd about why Yorkton can use a multi-use turf recreational facility. with Yorkton Minor Hockey, if the feasibility study suggests that is a viable direction.

According to Yorkton Minor Football’s Darcy Zaharia, a common need among user groups in the city is space, and that’s

one area where the proposed facility could fit in.

He noted that if they had a full-pitched sized building, that’s more than enough room for minor football, and it would work easily for archery classes or lacrosse teams,

for example.

“We don’t have specific needs, we just know that everybody needs space.”

Zaharia sees potential for a big economic impact for the city, because having an indoor facility opens them up to camps for sports, new tournaments and other events that the city can’t currently host. The spin-offs from that would have a major economic impact in Yorkton.

“More dollars in means more people in this community prosper.”

One of the struggles for the clubs involved is going to be convincing people who aren’t in the middle of sports in the city that such a facility is necessary, Nesseth admits, and there are people in the city who don’t see the need for a new multi-use recreation facility in town.

“The most important thing is to be informed about what the needs are.

When I listen to the folks

in this room, and these are folks who are involved in sports, in service clubs, in the community, I get the sense that they’re overwhelmingly in favour of a facility. I think the general public needs to be educated about what we are looking at, what it would cost, and what all of the benefits are.”

The plan would be to fund the project through corporate donations and government grants, and fundraising, said Nesseth. They recognize that the city has many things to pay for and their proposed facility will not be the top priority.

“The financial impact wouldn’t be huge on Yorkton. All of us here agree that it would have to be a purposeful facility but affordable as well.”

They hope to see something happening in 5-10 years, but Nesseth admits that a project this size take a long time and they are just starting.

Bad first period leads to shootout loss

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer The Yorkton RawTec Maulers saw action only once in the past week hosting the Notre Dame Argos.

The game played last Wednesday at the Farrell Agencies Arena in the city would be a close one that would need more than overtime before a winner was determined.

The visitors opened the scoring with the only two goals of the opening period as Jett Arminen and Jacob Robinson scored.

The second frame would see the teams trading markers.

Kyler Opp put the Maulers on the board, only to have Connor Keough get that one back for Notre Dame.

Carter Dereniwsky would score for Yorkton, only to have Christian Adlys responding for the Argos, leaving the contest 4-2 in favour of the visitors through two periods of play.

In the third the Maulers would come back with a pair of unanswered goals by Brandt Fiske and Massen Ziola to knot the contest 4-4 and force overtime.

The OT would not change things taking the teams to a shootout where it took 12 shooters before the Argos would go home with a 5-4 win.

Kael DePape was in the Yorkton net facing 38-shots in the loss.

Mauler head coach Dalane Lamb said the game was one they could have won had they got off to a better start.

season is lost, the remaining games are about showing character and the willingness to play a full 60-minutes every game. He said if players aren’t ready to do that “Triple A is probably not the place for you.”

Lamb added given the poor showing in terms of wins, players need to show they can contribute on a team next season.

“When a season goes like this … I don’t think anybody’s job is safe for next season,” he said.

Carter Dereniwsky holds off the Notre Dame Argos at the game on Wednesday.

The game was an overtime loss for the Maulers, with a final score of 5-4.

“We only played two out of three periods of hockey,” he said. “When you only play two out of

three it’s not really a recipe for success.”

Lamb said a good effort in the opening

frame “we could have come out of that one with a win.”

While Lamb said this

The loss leaves Yorkton with a record of 5-26-0-1 for 11 points last in the Saskatchewan AAA Midget Hockey League.

The Saskatoon Blazers and Tisdale Trojans sit atop the league, both with 56 points.

Pee Wee Tournament Yorkton Minor Hockey hosted a Pee Wee Tournament on the weekend.

Left, the Yorkton Mark’s Terriers faced off against the Prairie Storm Thunder Friday, with the final score 5-3 in favour of the Thunder.

Saturday, below, the Yorkton Weeks Investments Terriers took on the Redvers Rockets with a final score of 10-6 Redvers. The tournament was won by the Prince Albert Stars.

Staff Photos by Cory Carlick

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SEMCHUK - Peter Semchuk of Yorkton, beloved husband of Charlotte, passed away peacefully on January 12, 2019 at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre after a long battle with cancer, at the age of 77 years. Peter Stephen Semchuk was born on April 17, 1941 in Canora, SK as the 8th child of Dora (Nikolichuk) and Peter Semchuk. He grew up on the family homestead just west of Tadmore.

Peter attended school in Tadmore and later completed his secondary education at the Composite High School in Yorkton. Afterwards he farmed with his parents and his brother Frank. In the 1960’s he went to work on the CN Railroad at numerous places throughout Saskatchewan and Manitoba and whenever he had days off he continued to help his brother on the farm. While working in Saskatoon with the CN he met the love of his life, Charlotte Hilbert. They married on July 4, 1970. They lived in Saskatoon a few years before establishing a small farm outside of Melville. Here Peter continued to follow his love of farming with Charlotte by his side. In August 1975 they welcomed their first daughter RenÊ, then Laura in January 1977, Nora in June 1978 and their only son Charles in September 1979. In the 2000’s, after their children graduated, they relocated to Yorkton where Peter obtained employment with the Painted Hand Casino. He worked there and retired 10 years after. He worked at LDM foods as security during the construction phase as his last place of employment. Peter was a proud father and grandfather. He loved farming and anything to do with animals. He always loved to visit and share his knowledge and life experiences. He was always delighted to see his grandkids. Peter is survived by his wife Charlotte, daughter RenÊ St. Pierre and her children Caitlyn and Henry, Laura (Ryan) MacGregor and her children Emily, Ethan and Matthew, Nora (James) Holben and her children Rylee and Jesse and their son Charles (Lindsay) Semchuk and his children Aubrey and Hannah. Peter is also survived by his sisters Rose Yakichuk, Katherine Morhart and Elizabeth Flanagan; brothers-in-law Frank (Jean) Hilbert, Vincent (Shirley) Hilbert and sister-in-law Rita Hueser. Peter was predeceased by his parents Dora and Peter Semchuk, sisters Mary and Ann, brothers Frank, Mike and John and his brothers-in-law, Henry Yakichuk, Ken Flanagan and Isidor Hueser. Peter was a man of simple words and strength. His fight is over. May we honour him by embracing the simple and finding peace, like he finally has found in eternal rest. Prayers were held on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Yorkton. The Funeral Liturgy was held on Thursday, January 17, 2019 at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church with Very Rev. Father Bohdan Lukie, C.Ss.R. as the Celebrant. The responses were led by Lorne Stechyshyn and Choir Members. The cross bearers were Caitlyn Lyons and Emily MacGregor and the epistle reader was Caitlyn Lyons. The interment followed in the Yorkton Memorial Gardens with Terry Halushka, Terry Peepeetch, Leander Pratchler, Lonnie Hueser, Vincent Hilbert and Tom Reinhardt serving as the casket bearers. Memorials in memory of Peter may be made to The Health Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society or St. Mary’s Church.

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MCLEAN - On Friday, January 11, 2019 God lit another star in the sky.

He took Ivy McLean home to be with him. She suffered a brave and painful battle with cancer and is now at peace in a beautiful place, smiling down at us with her beautiful smile, dancing with the angels. She is survived by her husband of 34 years, Kelvin McLean, her mother Joyce Aichele, her sister, Connie (Roy) Martin, her mother-in-law, Elva Wolfe, her three sisters-in-law and brother-in-law and numerous nieces and nephews.

A celebration of Ivy’s life took place on January 16 at 11 a.m. from the Chapel of Christie’s Funeral Home with Pastor Steve Rosluk officiating.

Interment will take place at a later date. For more information or to share a condolence with the family, please visit www.christiesfuneralhome.com

ROBERTSON - Garry Dale Robertson passed away with family by his side on January 12, 2019 at the age of 79. As a child Garry attended school in the Rose Valley Area where his father taught at several different schools during his childhood. Shortly after graduating high school Garry began his thirty year career with Sask-Tel, working his way up from linesman to foreman. It was while working as an operator at Sask-Tel that Garry met the love of his life, Valerie.

Garry and Valerie were married on June 9, 1962. Their union would eventually produce four children Shannon, Melanie, Jared and Melinda. Garry and Valerie met in Yorkton and resided there for the duration of their marriage. They built a home on Bradbrooke where they have spent many happy years first raising their family, then just the two of them. Garry was an avid curler, fisherman and golfer. He built his cottage at Good Spirit Lake in the 70’s and the lake would go on to become a place of many family gatherings and cherished memories over the years. Garry was kind, loving and patient, easy to talk to and a great listener. Everyone loved him. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Valerie, his children Shannon Wolstenholme, Melanie (Grant) Wurts, Jared (Trina), Melinda (Grant) Ottenbreit; grandchildren Aric, Haley, Kristina (Matthew), Kyle, Kaylyn, Gabriel, Grace, Turner and Brodie; great-grandchildren Emylee and Anthony; brother Ken Robertson; sisters Caroline Robertson and Frances Lassen; sister-in-law Ethel Niessen.

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Together with his brother-in-law, Erwin Wiesinger, he operated Erwin & Elmer’s Service Ltd. from 1958 to 1994. During this time, Elmer married his sweetheart, Jeanette Threinen, on July 14, 1963.

Together they raised three children: Michelle, Joel and Twila.

Their acreage brought much enjoyment with nature walks, cross country skiing, skating, gardening, dogs, cats and a horse. Elmer also enjoyed coaching hockey and baseball; he was an avid fisherman and camper. Elmer lived out his Christian faith in practical ways. He was actively involved in the Lutheran Laymen’s League and attended a number of international conventions across the United States and Canada as Lutheran Hour Chairman for the Man-Sask District. Elmer also loved Zion Lutheran Church. Over the years he held various positions on the church council and was a long time choir member. In his retirement years he enjoyed coffee row with the guys at McDonald’s and A&W. These men solved many of the world’s problems on a daily basis. Elmer and Jeanette traveled to various countries in Europe, the Caribbean, Central and South America, as well as South East Asia. Elmer enjoyed watching his Blue Jays and Roughriders - especially in person, and especially during winning seasons. Papa loved each of his grandchildren in a special way. He took pride in their accomplishments and always looked forward to hearing of their adventures. In true “Papa� fashion, he bestowed his love on each one. In a similar way, Jodie, Randy and Angelo were welcomed in, not merely as his children’s spouses, but as his loved kids. The move from the acreage into Yorkton (2013) opened a new chapter in their lives. From their third storey view, Elmer enjoyed watching other people work for a change. In the last couple of years, with eyesight failing and various health issues, his independence was compromised and he was known to say, “Growing old is for the birds�. He celebrated his 90th birthday this past New Year’s Eve surrounded by his family. Two weeks later, on the evening of January 16th, he was released into heaven with sweet granddaughter hugs and a kiss. Elmer is predeceased by his father Fred (1983) and his mother Adele (1998); two brothers: Jerome (1947) and Wilfred (1956); three sisters: Luella (1995), Elfrieda (2013) and Selma (2011). To cherish his memory, Elmer leaves his sweet wife of 55 years, Jeanette; children Michelle (Randy) Dzuba, Joel (Jodie) and Twila (Angelo) Napoleoni; two grandsons: Darius and Caleb; five grand-daughters: Anica, Rebecca, Zoe, Alicia and Isabella; sisters: Jeanette, Gertrude (Roland) and Marjorie; brothers: Rodney (Doreen) and Harold (Mary), as well as inlaws, numerous nieces and nephews and friends far and near. A visitation for family and friends will be held on Friday, January 25, 2019 at 7 p.m. from the Chapel of Christie’s Funeral Home in Yorkton. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 11 a.m. at Zion Lutheran Church in Yorkton with Rev. Andrew Cottrill and Rev. Dan Moeller officiating.

Interment will follow at Yorkton Memorial Gardens. For more information or to share a condolence with Elmer’s family, please visit www.christiesfuneralhome.com.

LECHMAN - Donna Lechman of Yorkton, beloved wife of James, passed away suddenly on December 26 at the age of 55 years. Donna Marie Lechman (Strutynski) was born on June 22, 1963 at the Yorkton Hospital to the proud parents Emil and Delores (nee Stratulak) Strutynski and big brother Brent.

One year later she was blessed with her little brother Mark. Donna and her family lived in Saltcoats, SK for one year before moving to the farm near Stornoway in 1964.

Donna loved life on the farm where she was close to her cousins and friends. Her brothers were sure to torment her every chance they had, especially with her nickname “Beaver� (thank God for braces, Donna ended up with a beautiful smile).

Donna attended school in Stornoway for all of her elementary years before moving to the Yorkton Regional High School. After graduation, Donna had various different jobs including serving coffee at the Smitty’s Restaurant in Yorkton. It was there where she met a young trucker named James with a mullet and a mustache. He swept her off her feet and she knew that he was, with no doubt, the man that she wanted to share all of life’s ups and downs with. They were married on July 25, 1987. Nine months later they were blessed with their son Dallas. The small family resided in Yorkton and two years later their first daughter, Darnelle, was born. Three years later their family was completed with the arrival of another little girl named Brooklynn. Donna worked at the Yorkton Regional Hospital for 31 years. She worked in various departments and shined bright in every position she had. Her most recent position was at the registration desk in admitting. She was so proud of the work she did and loved sharing stories of the patients who touched her heart over the years. Donna enjoyed a lot of things, such as time spent in her beautiful yard and garden, her newly renovated kitchen, shopping and camping, but there was nothing in the world that she loved more than the time spent with her grandchildren. Donna shined so bright in her role of being a Baba to her five grandchildren. We honestly believed that she thought she had 50/50 custody of them. There truly wasn’t anything that she loved more. She was the Baba that would make a five course meal for her family, with a special side of plain macaroni or rice for her fussy grand babies.

Nothing made her glow like she did when she talked about each and every one of them. Besides her Grandparents, Donna is predeceased by her infant brother Christopher Emil. She leaves to mourn, her beloved husband, James; her children, Dallas (Mariah - JT), Darnelle (Reid), Brooklynn (Dustin); her Grandchildren Colt, Aleesia, Noah, Kaine and Theoren (TJ); her parents, Emil and Delores Strutynski; her brothers Brent and Mark (Lynn). Along with many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Donna was a beautiful and strong willed woman, on the inside and out. She will be missed forever by many. Prayers were held on Friday, January 4, 2019 and the Funeral Service on Saturday, January 5, 2019, both at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Yorkton with Very Rev. Father Bohdan Lukie, C.Ss.R. officiating. The responses were led by Laurie Fedorowich and parish choir members. The cross bearer was Jackie Rohatensky and the casket bearers were Mark Strutynski, Brent Strutynski, Tim Daneluk, Roger Bilokraly, Deyland Lechman and Charles Strutynski.

The interment will take place at a later date in the Garden of Crucifixion at Yorkton Memorial Gardens. Memorial donations may be made in memory of Donna to the Health Foundation for the Yorkton Regional Health Centre as gifts of remembrance. Condolences can be sent to the family at www.baileysfuneralhome.com

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DAVIDUK - Stella. 1919 - 2019.

Stella Daviduk passed away peacefully on January 3, 2019 at the age of 99 yrs at Hafford Nursing Home. Stella was born as Stefhenka to pioneers Julia (Zarubiak) and Nick Rybryna in Hafford district on November 8, 1919, where she resided until her passing. Stella is survived by her daughter Darlene (Morris) Stakiw, grandchildren Christine (Todd) Chaffey, and Ian (Susanne) Stakiw, and great grandchildren Stephanie and Matthew Marchinko and Moritz and Emily Stakiw; several nieces, nephews and cousins. Stella was predeceased by her parents; her husband, Walter (1998); her grand son-in-law, Grant Marchinko (1999); her great grandsons, Lucas Marchinko (1999) and Felix Stakiw (2014); her sister and brother-in-law, Anne and Dr. Steve Cholod; and all her brothers-in-law and sisters-in law. Stella lived in Hafford all of her life. She married Walter James Daviduk on July 20, 1939 and they became the proprietors of Rybryna Hardware. While Walter was teaching in various communities in Saskatchewan Stella managed the family business. The bright blue hardware store, on the corner of main and second street, was featured at the Canadian Pavilion at EXPO in Vancouver in 1986. The store served the Hafford and district community for about 80 years. Stella was actively involved in the Hafford community. She belonged to the Ukrainian Catholic Church, singing in the choir and having her family join her in the choir loft during services. She was a member of UCWL for over 70 years and held various executive positions. She was the chair of the school board for 25 years. Stella was godmother to many children in the district. Stella’s father owned one of the first cars in Hafford. She applied for her driver’s license when she was 16 by simply writing Regina, sending $1, and the license came in the mail. She loved curling in many bonspiel’s and when could no longer curl watched curling faithfully on tv. Stella had many hobbies including caroling, making Easter eggs, cross stitching and knitting/crocheting and passing down her Ukrainian cooking and traditions to her family. Stella travelled across the globe with Walter, her family & friends to Israel, Japan, Singapore, Portugal, Greece, Morocco, Russia, Poland, all of Europe, Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, the United States, and across Canada. One of the many highlights was meeting the Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. In her final years she still enjoyed cooking, especially making perogies and baking cinnamon buns for her favorite son-in-law, Morris, watching games shows and her beloved Riders and ANY Canadian hockey team. Stella’s family was of utmost importance to her. The trip between Hafford and Yorkton was travelled often, and family gatherings were plenty. Her grandchildren, Chrissy and Ian spent several summers in Hafford, often helping in the store, attending summer camps/catechisms, learning how to bake “Baba’s buns” and perogies and spending time at the cottage at Red Berry Lake. When Chrissy and Ian attended university in Saskatoon, weekly buying trips included bringing goodies and going out for dry ribs and Greek Salad. Donations in Stella’s name can be made to Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church. A Prayer Service will be held Friday, January 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm. The Funeral Mass will be Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 11:00 am. Both services will be held at the Hafford Ukrainian Catholic Church with interment to follow at Hafford. Condolences may be left at www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements entrusted to SASKATOON FUNERAL HOME (306-2445577).

DICKER - At the age of 92, William Frank Dicker passed away peacefully and quickly at his home in Yorkton. Predeceased by his wife Peggy (Jan. 30, 2018); son Doug; parents Frank and Ann; sisters Betty Short and Pat Wiley and by a brother Fred Dicker. Bill is survived by his son Jim of Yorkton; daughter-in-law Jann (Antler Lake, AB); grandson Dustin (Shantell) Elk Island, AB; great-grandchildren: McKenzie and Dylan; a sister-in-law, Shirley Dicker of Edmonton, as well as Peggy’s family and numerous nieces and nephews.

Born and raised in Yorkton, Bill was a typical young boy, swimming in the local ‘Bows’ river with friends, helping with the local harvest and excelling at school. His pranks at school were legendary and remembered fondly by his school chums over the years.

When World War II started Bill and his fellow schoolmates were the first to sign up and, of course, some were under age. Assigned to the Royal Canadian Navy, he spent three years on the HMCS Uganda.

His tour included the Pacific and Atlantic war theatres. As typical with a lot of war veterans, he did not speak of his experiences much, but when he did, he had an attentive audience. Upon returning from war, like most vets, he was offered land or schooling for a trade or profession. Bill chose schooling and travelled to Vancouver to pursue a trade in refrigeration.

During this time in Vancouver, he was offered a blind date with a young woman named Peggy Beattie. At the time money was very tight and transportation was needed! Bill and his friend and fellow vet Huey Betts purchased two used Ariel motorcycles. Bill’s future mother-in-law told him that she did not want to hear “that loud contraption” around her home in North Vancouver. He would be relegated to pushing his bike to and from their home! After a brief courtship and romance, Bill and Peggy were wed in North Vancouver on March 12, 1949. With schooling complete they decided to head east back to Yorkton. They made one stop in Edmonton to work for Bill’s father who was involved with the first oil strike in Leduc, AB. After six months in the oil patch they made their way to Yorkton. After a brief job with International Harvester, Bill and Peggy started North Eastern Refrigeration. Bill was very busy year round and they grew the business large enough to have a comfortable living. It was in this time when two little boys joined the family, Doug in 1953 and Jim in 1958. In the early seventies Bill and Peggy decided to sell the business and it was purchased by Wally Schmidt and his family. The business exists todays as Penguin Refrigeration. Retirement did not sit well with Bill and in 1973 he started another business in Yorkton with Ken Tate. The endeavour was called Sportsland and sold snowmobiles and boats and outboard motors.

The building was located at the present site of today’s McDonald’s in Yorkton. Feeling the need for another retirement, they sold the business so Bill could put more effort in to rebuilding their cottage at Madge Lake, and he did just that. Over the years they rebuilt the little cabin into a year round cottage that they and family and friends enjoyed winter and summer.

Many Christmases were spent at Madge Lake. The annual tree was cut fresh from the forest around the cabin and it was truly a winter wonderland. Bill and Peggy travelled very little, but when they did, it was very epic. A trip to Spain in 1977 with friends, the Carnduffs, Sharrocks and Korbs and a cruise to Alaska with Peggy’s sister and husband along with Irving and Carol Fraser was the extent of their globe-trotting. Fishing and hunting were a big part of Bill’s life. Both activities put lots of food in the freezer for many years and as some in attendance can attest, he was a very happy man when in the boat or on a hunt with his best friend. Snowmobiling was also a big part of family life for Bill. From the mid 60’s with the Carnduff’s. Winter weekends were spent with family and friends to wherever the little machines would take them. At the peak of this adventure was the racing. His competitive side came roaring to the forefront and he loved nothing more than to have the young people drop in to the garage at home for some of “The Mechanics Special Fine Tuning”. Bill had some very special traits. His integrity was second to none. If he said he was going to be somewhere, do something or help someone, it was written in stone. His handshake was his word. In the 1990’s, Bill and Peggy sold their timeshare condo at Fairmont Hot Springs. The buyer suggested they have a lawyer to handle the transaction. Bill stuck out his hand and claimed, “This is all we need”. Generosity was also a deep trait for Bill. If someone asked or needed help, he was there. His advice was highly regarded over the years. Bill was a very proud naval veteran and a very proud member of the Yorkton Branch of the Legion. He missed very few Remembrance Day ceremonies and attended almost all of the colour parties he was asked to attend. The loss of their son Doug in 1996 was heartbreaking, as well as the loss of Peggy in 2018, Bill’s beloved wife of 68 years. Bill’s health took a bit of a slide since Peggy died on January 30 of 2018, but he kept a brave face and struggled along. He was hospitalized briefly in November, but came out swinging. On January 8 at 8:00 pm he passed away suddenly and peacefully. After a nice supper of soup and sandwich, at home, at the dining room table, with his son sitting across from him, he was gone. God bless this one of a kind and wonderful man. The funeral service was held on Friday, January 18, 2019 from the Yorkton Memorial Gardens Family Centre with Rev. Steve Rosluk of First Baptist Church officiating. Hymns were ‘Greensleeves’, ‘The Old Rugged Cross’ and ‘Eternal Father, Strong to Save’, accompanied by pianist Karen DeLong. Members of the General Alexander Ross Branch #77, Yorkton conducted the Legion Tribute Service. A reception followed in the Family Centre Reception Room. Memorials can be made to the Royal Canadian Legion, 387B Parkview Road, Yorkton, SK S3N 2L4.

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MOSTOWAY - Anne Mostoway was born on November 25, 1933 to Tom and Marry (nee Lewton) on the family farm in the Calder District. She attended Jarema School.

In June 1956 Anne was united in marriage to Steve Mostoway and made their home on the family farm. Anne loved to knit and crochet, plant a big garden with flowers everywhere. Everyone enjoyed her canned chicken. Anne and Steve were blessed with two sons: Leonard (Karin) and Jim (Valerie).

Grandson Evan (Lacey) and greatgrandson London. She was predeceased by her loving husband, Steve, parents Tom and Mary Rurak, sisters Jenny Melynk, Helen Heshka, Victoria Klein, Doris Bratko, Rose Soloniko and Christine Stefanyshn. She will be sadly missed by her brother Matt from Kelowna, BC, nieces, nephews and friends. A funeral service for Anne was held on January 22, 2019 at 10 a.m. from the Chapel of Christie’s Funeral Home with Shelly Morris officiating. Anne was laid to her final rest in the Garden of Gethsemane at Yorkton Memorial Gardens. For more information or to send a condolence to the family of Anne Mostoway, please visit www.christiesfuneralhome.com

MARGETTS - Abby Lee Anne.

Abby Lee Anne Margetts (3 years old) of Stonewall, MB passed away in a tragic accident on Thursday, January 3, 2019. The funeral service took place on Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. at Mackenzie Funeral Chapel in Stonewall, MB with Rev. Deborah Murray of Stonewall United Church officiating. Abby was born on December 2, 2015, in Winnipeg, MB. Abby is survived by her parents, Amanda, Ryan and brother Andrew Margetts of Stonewall, MB. She is also survived by her grandparents, Bob and Deb Thompson of Yorkton, SK; grandparents, Brenda and Murray Margetts of Stonewall, MB; Uncle James (Caitlin) Thompson of Warman, SK; Uncle Daniel (Angela, cousin Jonny) Thompson of Saskatoon, SK; Uncle Derek (Jaime, cousins Kaycie and Maitilda) of Balmoral, MB. In lieu of flowers, donations may be given to Discovery Owls at Box 253, Balmoral, MB R0C 0H0 and/or Little Signing Stars at 230 Olive Street, Winnipeg, MB R3J 2X4 (204-996-9912). The family of Abby Lee Anne Margetts would like to thank Stonewall United Church, Mackenzie Funeral Home, Interlake School Division, family, friends, community of Stonewall, RCMP and all medical professionals and first responders who cared for Abby.

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Liked Bandersnatch? Try Zero Escape Yorkton This Week’s editorial staff takes readers on an explorative journey around the Internet, searching out the best in videos, podcasts, webcomics, music and anything else that catches their collective eyes which might interest our readers.

When Black Mirror’s interactive episode,

Bandersnatch, launched in Netflix, people were abuzz about how new and exciting it was. It was interactive fiction, with complex, twisting timelines, with even seemingly minor decisions launching the viewer on wildly divergent paths.

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Consisting of three games, all currently available on digital storefronts such as Steam for PC and PSN for PlayStation 4, the series is significantly more complicated than the Black Mirror episode, though it takes on the same themes, with the ideas of choice, free will, intricate interlocking timelines, player interaction and so on all playing into the over arching story.

Except beyond just telling a story, the Zero Escape series is also, at its heart, a puzzle game,

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December is a month unlike any other: holiday work parties, family gettogethers, and holiday cheer. While combining all these things makes for a cheerful month, it’s also a time police are especially focused on enforcement of impaired driving.

For the December Traffic Safety Spotlight, police across Saskatchewan reported 352 impaired driving offences, including 306 Criminal Code charges and 46 roadside suspensions (experienced driv-

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Police also reported the following: •375 distracted driving offences (including 282 cellphone tickets); •287 tickets related to seatbelts and car seats; and •4,771 tickets for speeding and aggressive driving.

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The mix of inventive storytelling and creative puzzle solving makes the Zero Escape series an unexpected delight, and while the game has been a fairly niche product, it’s interesting to see something like Black Mirror do the same thing, just not as well.

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Reminder: it’s never been harder to get away with driving impaired.

As of December 18, police across Canada can demand a breath sample of any driver they’ve pulled over. Law enforcement across Saskatchewan will also soon have access to roadside saliva tests that detect recent cannabis use, which is bad news for people trying to drive high. Police can also determine if drivers are impaired by

drugs through the use of Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and Drug Recognition Evaluations.

If you’re impaired by alcohol or any kind of drug, don’t drive. If you’re not sure if you’re good to drive or not, don’t risk it. There is always a better alternative.

We also want to thank everyone who chose to #DriveSober or planned a safe ride home this holiday season, doing their part to help keep Saskatchewan roads safe.

Western Canada Summer Games calls for volunteers In less than eight months (August 9-18), nearly 1,200 of Western Canada’s athletes and coaches will set their sights on Swift Current and surrounding communities as we host the 2019 Western Canada Summer Games (WCSG).

Thousands of visitors including officials, VIP’s, media and spectators will join us for the 10-day event. Featuring 16 sports and a major arts and cultural festival, the 2019 Games will be the largest event in Swift Current’s history.

In order to host an event of this magnitude, 2,000 enthusiastic, dedicated volunteers are required to “Get in the Game” and assist with the planning and execution of the 2019 WCSG. “From ticket takers to scorekeepers to stage hands—there are jobs for almost anyone and everyone!” exclaimed director of volunteers, Sheena Gatzke, “The investment of your time and talent will be worth it.”

The official launch of the volunteer recruitment period of the WCSG took place at the Credit

Union iPlex on January 21. The event showcased the “2,000 Metre Race” campaign to recruit volunteers, an overview of the work that has been done to date and recognition and celebration of current volunteers.

“Over the past year, many hours have been put into Games planning and preparation by volunteers and the Games office staff,” said Gatzke.

“Now we need to step it way up—the actual Games, including sport, transportation, food services, culture, IT, athlete’s village, facilities, marketing and promotion, volunteer services, need assistance. We are going to have an influx of about 12,000 people into our city and surrounding communities and we want to make sure we put our best foot forward. So, please, Get In the Game!”

Volunteers interested in registering for the Games may do so through the website at www.2019wcsg.ca/ volunteer. For more information, contact the Games Office at 306-778-1678 or email volunteer@2019wcsg.ca.

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Game takes you on dungeon crawl It was only a couple of weeks ago I was writing about a deck builder game with a strong Dungeons & Dragons flavour, and here we are again with a similarly themed effort; Village of Legends.

“Village of Legends is a two to four player (six-player with expansion pack) deck building/dueling game where players choose a unique hero and enhance them throughout the game by combining their individual skills with purchased items from the market including; weapons, spells, scrolls, treasures and more,” began the game’s recent successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the game.

So like the aforementioned Hand of Fate, reviewed Jan. 9, Village of Legends is much like a role playing game in the sense players ‘grow’, gaining better weapons and such as the game progresses. In an RPG it is done by accumulating experience points, earning gold and seeking out merchants to buy from.

In a deck builder you essentially use some cards in your deck as currency to acquire things,

in this case everything from magic spells and potions to weapons and minions.

Yes, there are minions to be hired in Village of Legends.

“Players can also hire creatures to do their bidding and distract their opponents preventing them from accessing the market. By killing opponents’ monsters heroes gain experience points and learn new abilities by reaching defined experience point levels becoming even more powerful,” explains the game over view.

Here again you can see how the game borrows heavily from the world of RPGs. At the beginning of each game player’s will have the choice of deciding on a hero or selecting one at random. With the expansions there are a varied array of options, from fighter to cleric, to a dwarf, or elf, so there is good replay built into the character options alone.

Each hero has a unique skill set including an intelligence value, weapon bonuses and/or other abilities and weaknesses written on their sheets, which of course is

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During the match the players will also have the possibility to strengthen their hero by reaching defined experience levels, again think D&D. When these levels are reached by killing wandering monsters the hero’s ability is automatically unlocked. This is a nice touch as characters get better as the game evolves.

Of course you need weapons to slay the monsters.

“When a weapon is played from a player’s hand the player rolls a die to see how much damage will be inflicted on the player to his left. The total amount of damage is the sum of the bonus indicated on the bottom left of each card plus the number which the die lands on. This dam-

age can be used to defeat any or all of the enemy’s defenses, depending on the amount of damage (the attacking player decides how to distribute this damage before rolling the die) however, any remaining damage will not affect the character’s life points. Once any damage is inflicted on a character the counter must be moved accordingly keeping track of the life points,” again notes the game over view.

The character cards are nice and large, so tracking things such as like points and experience is easy.

It should be noted as well the art on the character cards and the deck cards is all really nice.

It is highly stylized to be sure, so it might not please everyone, but it has our group as a fan.

Any number of weapons can be deployed during a player’s turn repeating this method and inflicting damage, with an odd exception.

It does seem strange to be able to use multiple weapons on a turn but against a growing number of monsters at times it is required to be competitive.

Players can also gain defence cards, which soak up damage until they are over come and go to your discard pile to hopefully be accessed again when most needed.

As for the minions “just like other items purchased, wandering monsters can be purchased and placed into the discarded pile. When drawn from the player’s deck, these monsters can be placed in front of any opponent. At the beginning of that player’s turn the player will be attacked by each monster they have in front of them. This monster will remain and attack at the beginning of each turn and block the player’s access to the market until it is killed forcing the player to discard any available money,” notes the overview.

Some heroes also have a level of intelligence which allows them to cast spells.

“Every spell has an intelligence cost in order to be played. Intelligence value of characters can be strengthened on each turn by using certain scrolls or magical items. The player must have enough intelligence points to play all of the spells they select from their hand in each turn,” notes the overview.

Like Hand of Fate, Village of Legends hits a sweet spot for me as a long time RPGer and lover of deck builders.

The two games fill a similar niche for me and while you might not want both, both are fun offerings, with Village certainly worth a close look.

Check it out at www. villageoflegends.com Thanks to fellow gamers Jeff Chasse, Trevor Lyons and Adam Daniels for their help in running through this game for review.

For a bonus game review head to yorktonthisweek.com where a review of the game Linear Pursuit has been posted this week.

Long-time voice of Riders will be missed Long time voice of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Rod Pedersen, resigned last week after serving in that capacity (and more) for the last 20 years. It will be a highly sought job by sports media types right across the country, but make no mistake about it. The ‘new Rod’ will be under a lot of scrutiny and will be micromanaged to the point that the individual will be nothing more than glorified public relations. Have you ever wondered why local Saskatchewan sports media never breaks a big story? Think of the Chris Jones hiring by the Cleveland Browns.

Dave Naylor, of TSN, had it first. There’s no way we should ever be scooped in our own backyard, but it happens constantly and I refuse to believe professionals like Rod were unaware of what was going on. I think they are handcuffed and have to wait for the information to become public or for the Riders to give their okay. But, such is life in the media now. There is no such thing as journalism anymore. Everything is geared around promotion and the Riders are no more or less protective of their brand than any other sports organization. This is the way it is. I just think the new person coming in is going to be immersed into a pressure cooker and I don’t envy him (or her).

I don’t know who’s responsible for fixing railway crossings, whether that lies with CN or the City of Yorkton; but what we have on our busiest downtown street (Broadway) is a serious problem. It doesn’t seem to matter how slow you go, heading west and crossing the CN line near McDonald’s results in a fairly violent bump. I’m trying to recollect when I started to notice this, but it’s been about a month I think. Let’s get it fixed.

Broadway is too busy and someone, unknowingly, is going to ruin the undercarriage of his/her vehicle.

I can get behind Premier Scott Moe opposing the carbon tax, because I oppose the carbon tax. I think it’s useless (actually harmful) and I agree with Moe that it is a cash grab.

However, I’m not a fan

of Moe screaming cash grab when his government is also guilty of cash grabbing against people who can least afford it themselves. I look at putting PST on children’s clothing, adding PST to certain used vehicle purchases that had been previously exempt, and now there is PST on your Netflix subscriptions. In the case of the tax being applied to the used vehicle purchase, the excuse was that it brought Saskatchewan in line with the rest of the country. Hmmm, I wonder what the Netflix excuse is seeing as how only Quebec charges this tax and no other province is guilty of this gouge. Heck, the federal Liberals aren’t even charging GST on Netflix... yet. It seems like Saskatchewan only opposes cash grabs that aren’t their own.

For the most part, I have come to tune out American politics because it’s impossible to discern what’s truth and what isn’t. Media that represents the left (CNN) as well as the right (Fox) are so full of it that almost none of it is factual.

However, I find this tidbit interesting. President Donald Trump wants $5.7-billion in funding to build a wall along the border with Mexico. The Democrats oppose this and the entire government is shutdown over it. There are countless numbers of federal workers thrown out of work and missing paycheques.

It’s not pretty. There are 360-million people in the United States, the majority of them are taxpayers that would foot the bill for this. Meanwhile, in Canada where the population is 36-million people, we have a government that didn’t even bat an eye purchasing a $4.5-billion pipeline that will never ever be built.

Read that again and let it sink in.

The Gillette ad released last week that attacks toxic masculinity has drawn widespread praise as well as criticism and those who are opposed to the social media campaign have been told that, at best, they don’t understand what the message is saying. Count me in as one of those folks who doesn’t get it. First of all, what is toxic masculinity any-

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perfect. Man or woman.

Painting an entire group of people as being guilty of a crime committed by a very select few is dangerous. To suggest all men need to be self-reflective on their behaviour is just wrong. Where’s the ad campaign against all religious groups who have radicals giving them bad reputations (whether it be sex offenses by priests, the nut jobs at

Westboro Baptist, or the terrorists who use Islam as a cover)? That’s just one example, but I could give many.

Someone pointed out to me that the ad wants me to be aware that it’s okay to cry. Sure, fine.

Nice person mentions this week: Jay Boyd, Chris Lewgood, Rob Hart, Kevin Saurette, and Vicki Schnurr.

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