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Nothing says Christmas like traditional sleigh rides. Twylla Newton and a few of her hooved friends came by to make it happen at SIGN on Broadway Friday night for the FRC.

Bringing some annual Christmas magic

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer The Family Resource Centre at SIGN on Broadway held its annual Christmas event, where a horse drawn carriage took you on classic holiday wagon ride, food, fun and all kinds of other events could be had. There was something

for everyone, and numerous community partners banded together to help make it happen.

“This is our annual Christmas party,” said Kim Gelowitz, Early Years Facilitator for the FRC. “We have partnered with a few partners, and it’s basically an event to kind of show our families that we appreciate

them coming and using our services.

“We have over 350 people coming tonight, so we’ve partnered with SIGN, of course -- they’ve donated the building [and] rooms downstairs, helping out. Mr. Mike’s donated potatoes, corn and salad. Two of the cooks came and donated their time to come and cook the turkeys for us and prepare stuff in

the kitchen.

“Then, we got the turkeys from Superstore, and Save-On Foods helped us with some stuff. They donated the buns and ingredients to help make a dessert. So really, it’s about community investing in community.”

For more information on the Yorkton FRC, visit http://www.yorktonfrc.ca/

Throne speech disappoints Wagantall

By Devin Wilger Staff Writer The environment-focused throne speech delivered by Governor General Julie Payette sets the agenda for parliament and the recently-elected government. YorktonMelville MP Cathay Wagantall was disappointed with the speech, and felt that much of Canada was left out of the speech overall.

Wagantall said that she started the process with some hope. She felt that post-election, she thought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had been more humble and more willing to reach out, and had met with party leaders, premiers and a number of mayors in the west. Wagantall thought there was an opportunity to have more of a focus on western concerns.

“Then, the throne speech was actually very disappoint-

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ing compared to what we had thought, or hoped, might come out. I know it’s not a detailed speech, but just the lack of focus on the west, on the issues of job loss, again recognizing that it has been a different time, even still they don’t take any responsibility for that.

There’s no movement at all on legislation that came from C-69 on pipelines. There’s no sense that he’s going to reach out in that way and get our pipelines built. Not just pipelines, but reconfirm confidence in investors in Canada.”

She said that there needs to be government support for the west, especially as the oil and gas sector is currently under pressure, as evidenced by the job cuts at Husky.

There were promises to make life more affordable for families and seniors, though Wagantall remains skeptical about what that will look like.

“We’ll see what their tax

“ ... The throne speech was actually very disappointing compared to what we had thought, or hoped, might come out. I know it’s not a detailed speech, but just the lack of focus on the west, on the issues of job loss, again recognizing that it has been a different time, even still they don’t take any responsibility for that.”

— Yorkton-Melville MP Cathay Wagantall breaks look like.”

The other issue is the environment, specifically the pledge to go zero emissions by 2050. Wagantall is concerned that this means more increases to the carbon tax, which she said is affecting people in the areas, especially farmers.

“I’ve had individual farmers contacting me saying ‘this was

my grain drying bill for one month,’ because of course we had a very wet fall, so we ended up having to do a lot of drying.

For $4,000 of propane, the carbon tax was over $800 on one bill. One individual from Foam Lake said our RM sent $25,000 to the federal government in carbon taxes. They say you get it back, but when you’re a farmer no, you don’t get that money back, and you can’t recoup it.”

While she notes that there is recognition of initiatives out of the west, such as Alberta’s plan to focus on large carbon emitters, she said the carbon tax is evidence that they’re still ignoring the west’s concerns, and the west’s solutions to the problem, such as sharing carbon sequestration technology.

“There isn’t a sense of working together.”

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WDM helped Yorkton Antique Auto Association president Ron Blommaert presented a cheque in the amount of $600.00 to Carla Madsen from the Western Development Museum.

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Scholarship support

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Yorkton Antique Auto Association president Ron Blommaert presented a cheque in the amount of $500.00 to Brendan Wagner of the Parkland College for their scholarship program.

Kinsmen present Soup Haven with cheque

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Nobody should ever have to go without food, especially kids. For some families, however, the harrowing decision of whether to spend the last few dollars on rent and not have enough to eat is very real.

It can happen to anyone. The mom or dad who loses their job due to downsizing. ‘They’ll find something else,’ people might say, but as anyone who has faced an extended job search knows, it isn’t always that easy to find a new job quickly.

Even with a stellar history and impeccable references, sometimes the money runs out before another job comes in.

Few things could be more heartbreaking than having to look at your

hungry child and not be able to feed them. It’s not something anyone would want to picture, but for many people, that nightmare is their reality.

More often than not, this is through absolutely no fault of their own.

Enter The Soup Haven: Often, this the only way kids will get any food that day at all. The hardworking folks who run the program devote their lives to making sure no kid ever has to go hungry.

That takes money. Not only money, but donations and time. The program relies on the community to stay afloat.

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and today, the community stepped up for an act of generosity in what can only be described as the Yorkton way.

At St. Paul’s School,

the Kinsmen announced a generous donation of $5,000 to the Soup Kitchen. These funds will go toward purchasing and preparing food.

Students will, of course, be the main beneficiary.

“You know, I was thinking, the Kinsmen and the Soup Haven have

a lot in common,” said Marilyn Dyck, Program Director for the Haven.

“We do provide lunches for students daily. We feed about 300 kids a day in the City of Yorkton, but we also provide milk.

Milk is very expensive.

We can do two milk a week, at 60 cents each,

and we also do bulk milk which we send to schools and it costs us $77.35.

Now, that doesn’t sound like much, but that’s every week what we do for our bulk, and then we do $139.20 for our little milk that comes.

“It costs us about $216 a week. For some

students, that’s the only milk they get. They are not fortunate enough to open their fridge door and grab some milk, or to grab some food. So, that’s what we’re doing and we’re providing at the Soup Haven, and we appreciate all that you do with the Kinsmen.”

If you would like to donate either funds or food (both are very welcome), the Soup Kitchen would be very grateful — and you’re making sure no kid will have to go to bed hungry.

To get in touch with the Soup Kitchen, you can donate online from the comfort of your living room by going to http:// w w w. t h e s o u p h a v e n . ca/donations.html . A receipt will be provided for all donations over $20.

You can also call them at (306) 782-5666.

Can you imagine what this is doing to the mental health and wellbeing of these families? And this is something they did identify in the throne speech. Veterans are going ‘you say one thing, and at the same time you’re doing another.’

Surely there’s a more humane way of doing those transitions without

having to shut the program down cold turkey and make these people wait for support.”

When asked if she sees any positives in the throne speech, Wagantall struggled to think of anything. She said that while she didn’t want to be negative, but she felt that they missed opportunities to help Canadians

and how investors look at Canada as a place to do business.

When pressed, she said a tax break is a positive, provided it’s handled correctly.

“If there is a tax break, for all Canadians... I’m not sure if the way they’re doing it is the best thing.

What we have to wait and see is, will they imple-

ment it, how long will it take to implement it, and when they do, how is it offset by other increased taxes? Of course the carbon tax is one of the largest ones. We’re concerned.”

Wagantall is proud that she has been voted to represent YorktonMelville again in this term.

A cheque of $5,000 was presented to Soup Haven by the Yorkton Kinsmen Club.

The money was presented at St. Paul’s School in the city.

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Wagantall is also concerned about how veterans are being treated.

While there was a general comment about doing better by veterans, she is concerned about how programs are being handled. She uses the example of mental health care, which is provided to families of veterans with

PTSD. She has heard that the program has been cancelled in response to a controversy, and people will have to re-apply.

While she said she’s going to have to dig deeper, she is concerned that people are going to be left behind.

“They are already 40,000 case files behind.

Legacy Co-operative Association Limited Senior’s Day

Yorkton Legacy Co-operative Association Limited in conjunction with The Bentley by Revera will be holding a “Senior’s Day” every month throughout 2019.

Seniors Day will be the third Tuesday of every month in 2019.

During the hours of 10:00am until 3:00pm, seniors over the age of 65 will be given a scratch card that they can utilize to receive a discount on their purchase that day.

Legacy Co-op and The Bentley by Revera─Yorkton staff will be treating seniors to coffee and donuts from 11:30am until 1:30pm (while supplies last).

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YRHS students get into business

By Devin Wilger Staff Writer The Yorkton Regional High School’s Entrepreneurship 30 class is in business. The class was split into two groups for the Junior Achievement program, each putting together a business.

Those businesses were Sprouts! in a Jar and ReCreate.

Karlee Sidoryk is president of Sprouts! in a Jar, and explains that their business sells people everything they need to grow sprouts on their own. That means seeds, drainage mesh, and the jar itself, for a take-home sprout growing kit. The sprouts grow in 3-5 days.

“They’re really healthy, and they can have them on sandwiches, salads, smoothies, any kind of food that they want.”

ReCreate takes old wood, like barnboard and pallets, and turns them into decorative and practical wooden creations, like birdhouses and dog beds, explained ReCreate president Jaden Collins.

“It has a rustic vibe to it.”

The businesses have each student taking on a different roles in the business. The businesses were incorporated in October, with each business starting with a pitch for their idea in a ‘Dragon’s Den” format.

Then, students campaign for different roles, create business plans, and produce and sell products.

“We’ve been working on marketing our product, producing our product, and getting people aware of what trade shows we are going to do and where we’re selling,” said Sidoryk.

“We definitely focus a lot on our production since we have to be in the shop. Everybody works hard in production,” said Collins.

Each business had their own challenges.

Sprouts! had a rush for production early on, as many of their supplies didn’t arrive until a week before their first trade show, explained Sidoryk.

ReCreate has struggled with communication, Collins said, and they have worked to get everyone on the same page and better organized, so they don’t have problems like someone forgetting something important before a trade show.

“That way, no more mistakes are made.”

Each business has ten

per cent of their profits go to charity. Sprouts! will see their profits go to The Health Foundation, because they wanted a health food to support health care, explained Sidoryk. ReCreate will see a portion of their profits go to Brayden Ottenbreit’s Close Cuts for Cancer, and Collins said their goal was to pick a local charity to support.

Sidoryk and Collins say they have both learned the challenges and rewards of being a leader, and how they can’t do these projects on their own.

Sidoryk hopes to own her own business in the future, so she believes that the class is going to be very important to her future. Collins agrees, having been accepted into business school, he wants to run his own business in the future.

“Since Grade 9 I’ve wanted to take this class and see what business really wants. It has really helped me out in seeing what I want to do in business in the future.”

Teacher Kristine Tether said she’s proud of how the teams came together over the course of the year. Since she is supposed to be a mentor she admits that it can be difficult to stay hands off sometimes, but that’s part of the learning experience.

“It’s on them, it’s their companies, it’s what they choose to put into it.”

Sales are ongoing, which sales going until Christmas. After the Christmas break, the companies will be liquidated and students will prepare their final shareholders report.

Last Minute Gifts All manner of gifts, food and goodies could be had on Saturday as local vendors and artisans displayed

ReCreate, which makes original decorative furniture such as birdhouses out of reclaimed wood.

Sprouts! In A Jar, which makes kits to allow people to grow their own sprouts at home.

Tether would like to thank Yorkton’s business community for their support of the project.

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their wares at the Prairie Harvest Christian Life Centre.

Chamber of Commerce executive director Juanita Polegi, Leanne Woodhouse and Jasmine Drager from SaskTel and the people from LR Futures.

“It’s really nice to get the business community on board, because education and business doesn’t always go hand in hand, so it’s nice.”

ReCreate was sponsored by Cornerstone Fabricating, Sprouts! was sponsored by Double D Fencing, D & W Plumbing, and D’s Signs and Designs . Tether said the sponsors are important because they only have $20 per person. “$160 doesn’t get you very far,” said Tether.

Sprouts! will be at

local trade shows like the ReFresh Spa’s annual shopping party on Dec. 7, a wreath-making fundraiser on Dec. 8 at YRHS. ReCreate is busy getting their orders filled for the next week, and working on perfecting their assembly process. They are also looking for trade shows to attend in December.

Perspective Small nuclear may address electrical needs

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Murray Mandryk is a political columnist with the Leader Post

Politics Maybe it is time to go nuclear … or at least, go a little nuclear.

It wouldn’t be an easy decision for anyone.

Any foray into nuclear development will likely come at the expense of good coal-generated jobs in rural Saskatchewan’s southeast.

Moreover. it wasn’t so long ago that we’ve been down this road.

That said, the government isn’t looking at those massive nuclear power plants that better serve gigantic world cities in heavily populated countries.

The memorandum of understanding that Premier Scott Moe signed with Ontario Premier Doug Ford and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is for technical examination on the viability of small modular reactors (SMR) that would be a far better fit for this province.

The problem, however, is the technology for a functional, operating SMR is a decade away — perhaps even much longer. And there are those who make a pretty good argument that they will never work.

But if we are serious about the need to get out of the business of burning coal to generate electricity, it is only reasonable that all options be put on the table.

And the options of SMRs should at least part of that conversation.

Maybe it’s not even the best option. Maybe the smartest thing SaskPower could do is buy 1,000 megawatts of power from Manitoba Hydro — an option that the Crown electrical utility is currently exploring, according to a report between the two province that’s gotten little attention.

But we should have the discussion without the usual philosophical blinders or political considerations that prohibit meaningful explorations.

It can be argued that we didn’t really have that meaningful discussion on nuclear energy the last time we discussed nuclear options 10 years ago.

It was 2009 and the then-young Brad Wallled Saskatchewan Party administration commissioned former deputy minister Dan Perrins to oversee the Uranium Development Partnership (UDP) public consultations on the potential of nuclear power.

His work immediately ran into massive opposition, with some 86 per cent of all submissions opposing nuclear power compared with only 14 per cent supporting it.

In actual fact, an April 2009 survey revealed 47.8 per cent of Saskatchewan people favouring nuclear power plant compared with 33.5 per cent opposed.

That said, it wasn’t just the environmental left that seemed to have problems with largescale reactors … and their massive costs.

The last one built in this country three decades ago cost $14 billion. Even smaller 1,000 megawatt reactors were priced at between $8- to $10 billion at the time.

And then there is the added problem of finding a suitable location. Many were not keen on seeing a big nuclear reactor — regardless of how many jobs in created — built in their backyards.

The benefit of SMR — as outlined by Environment Minister Dustin Duncan last week — is that they are smaller, cheaper, mobile and less intrusive.

In fact, they could be so beneficial they could end Saskatchewan’s burning of coal to generate electricity by 2050, Duncan said. That would far exceed SaskPower’s current goal of reducing GHGs by 40 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030.

Of course, that all depends on whether this industry gets off the ground.

According to A 2014 report by Nuclear Energy Insider, interviews with more than 50 leading specialists and decision makers were expressing “pessimism” that SMR programs were already being abandoned and scaled-back.

Report author Kerr Jefferies, said it’s ”missing the point” to base the future of SMRs on startup difficulties.

“We believe a more accurate picture is that 2014 has been a teething year, and that the SMR story hasn’t even really begun,” Jefferies said.

That underscores it’s not an option yet, but let’s at least keep an open mind.

We need to explore all the options.

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

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Public Works needs new home, get it done T

he proposed City Operations Centre needs to happen.

The Public Works department needs, well, a place to work for the public. That’s plain, there’s no way they can provide services spread across the city.

It’s also plain that the current Public Works facility doesn’t work. You can’t have a facility where nobody can work, that’s pointless. Right now, nobody can work there, the contamination in the ground has made it a safety risk. The city has been putting off the problem for a decade and now we have the council that has to deal with the problem.

There are a lot of valid arguments for keeping an older facility active, but they fall apart when that facility is completely unusable.

So why is it so difficult for council to sign off on the project?

It’s the same reason every council has put off okaying the project. It’s a multi-million dollar facility, and it’s not really one that the public will have a ton of interaction with. Even something like the Gallagher Centre was a contentious project, but at least it’s something that, in the wake of its construction, the city can point to and say is a draw for people. It’s something that voters interact with on a regular basis. The City Operations Centre is not a facility that most of Yorkton will actually visit regularly. It’s entirely possible someone could live their entire life in the city without going into the Public Works building, the Parks department, or any of the other, more background city facilities. Council would rather get out of having to build it.

That was clear in the discussion at City Council on Dec. 9, as council members tried to see a way to avoid spending the money that is required for the facility. They sought every avenue to try to find a way out of the massive infrastructure spend this represents.

Director of Public Works Trent Mandzuk had to justify every part of the facility, to his increasing frustration, as council members searched in vain for a way, any way, that they could get around the crisis that Public Works is in without such a massive project. It became clear that, like it or not, this has to happen.

Everyone uses city streets and uses city services, and the people who provide those services need a place to work. The current solution is temporary at best - it involves temporary construction trailers, which will barely be good enough for the duration of construction, let alone any longer if the project gets delayed.

It’s also good to give credit to administration to find a way to pay for the facility without increasing taxes. This isn’t a cheap building – $14 million has to be borrowed in order to build it – but they’re also prepared for the inevitable, and money has been saved to put the plan into practice. An increased tax bill would probably make it less palatable to a lot of people, but to have a build of this magnitude built into the plans of the city is a rare thing. The homework has been done.

The project has been sent to tender, but it could easily be killed after tender comes back. It’s time for council to bite the bullet and get this facility built.

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Royal Ford vehicle launch, funds raised for Ukraine 2020

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Royal Ford launched the new 2020 Explorer and Ford Escape Saturday as well as helping the a local Ukranian

dance troup raise funds for a 2020 tour to the Ukraine.

The sleek lines of the new vehicles drew a significant crowd, but the wafts of traditional pierogies and other amaz-

ing foods available were equally hard to resist.

(Few did.)

Young Steven Stadnyk captured the floor with his top-drawer presentation skills, and on Sunday Royal Ford is pre-

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Council Meeting Monday, December 16, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.

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Mayor’s Office .............. 306-786-1701 After Hours Emergency ................... 306-786-1760 Building Services .......... 306-786-1710 Bylaw Control ............... 306-786-1725 City Clerk ...................... 306-786-1717 City Manager ................ 306-786-1703 City Parks & Green Spaces ........... 306-786-1780 City RCMP.................... 306-786-2400 Communications .......... 306-828-2424 Community Development, Parks & Recreation.............. 306-786-1750 Economic Development 306-786-1747 Engineering Department 306-786-1710 Farrell Agencies Arena Booking .............. 306-786-1740 Fire Hall ........................ 306-786-1795

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Call for Applications - City of Yorkton Council Commissions, Committees and Boards Would you like to contribute to advising City Council on various matters of interest to you? If so, the City of Yorkton is looking for volunteers to sit on the following Council Commissions, Committees and Boards in 2020: • Civic Recognition Awards Committee • Community Development, Parks & Recreation Committee • Municipal Heritage Advisory Sub-Committee • Development Appeals Board • Economic Development Committee • Environmental Committee • Planning & Infrastructure Commission • Protective Services Committee • Yorkton Public Library Board Information on the purpose of the Committee and Member duties are available on the City’s website at www.yorkton.ca/dept/admin/bylaws by choosing the specific committee bylaw. Further questions may be directed to the Mayor’s Office at (306) 786-1717. If you are interested in volunteering for one of these committees, please submit a brief letter (500 words or less) indicating why you are interested, and what you believe you can contribute to the Committee. Please include your full contact information (name, address, phone number, email, and the committee you are interested in sitting on), and submit by one of the following: 1. Email to cityclerk@yorkton.ca 2. Mail or Hand Deliver a submission to:City of Yorkton c/o City Clerk’s Office 2nd Floor – 37 Third Avenue N. P.O. Box 400, Yorkton, SK S3N 2W3 Forms available for download at www.yorkton.ca 3. Complete an online submission form Deadline for applications is December 30, 2019, 4:00 p.m. Those selected for appointment will be contacted by the Office of the City Clerk, and announced at the January 6, 2020 Council Meeting. **Committee member applicants should be residents of Yorkton, however those residing outside of City limits may be given special consideration.**

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A guide for buying gifts for me

In previous years, I’ve written columns with gift suggestions for me for Christmas. It has always been in jest, and that’s not something I’m just saying because nobody has ever bought my very silly gift suggestions, not even once.

They’re grounded in a real idea, however. The perfect gift is something someone wants but, for whatever reason, would never actually buy for themselves. It’s a great guideline for anybody

who needs a gift.

Sometimes it’s a problem when everyone follows that same guidelines, like the year my parents received multiple sets of slippers, but in general it’s a good guideline for any gift giving situation.

The first gift is not even for me, but for my household in general. It would be great to have a rice cooker, something that we have almost bought multiple times, to the point of having the box in hand, before going

DEVIN WILGER

Thinking I do with words... ‘do we really need a rice cooker?’ Then visions of the juicer that has sat alone in the bottom of the cupboard would fill our

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heads and we would decide that perhaps we don’t need a rice cooker.

The great thing about a gift is it wouldn’t matter, for now we would have a rice cooker, and we would soon see if we truly need it.

Don’t buy us a juicer though! It doesn’t need a friend.

I would very much enjoy a new winter jacket, though purchase of one is complicated by the twin realities that I have many jackets, and they’re all basically fine - though one has a surprising amount of wear on the right front lapel, which inspires this thought.

Knowing me any jacket is going to be suspiciously similar to the old one, probably in black or grey – or possibly brown if I’m feeling saucy – just in slightly better shape with a bit less wear on the buttons. If anything I don’t need a new jacket for at least a year or two. But a gift means I can’t turn it down! Plus I might potentially relive the period of high school when my jacket was bright yellow, wouldn’t that be fun?

Another fun gift would be a small bookshelf stereo, which could live upstairs and play all my favorite songs. This is, again, not a sensible purchase, because I have plenty of ways to listen to music, and in theory could just take the small stereo that lives in the kitchen and carry it upstairs. But that would be work! And that one doesn’t play CDs, and for some reason I still own CDs even though I don’t actually have a dedicated CD player in my home.

While I could reduce

clutter and get rid of the CDs, it’d be much more fun to play them upstairs.

Shelves themselves would be another great gift. I have a big collection of cameras to display, as is probably well known by now. Because of a lack of display space, they instead live in fun places like ‘the corner of the bedroom’ and ‘under some clothes on a chair’ and ‘near, but not in, a closet, because the closet doesn’t have a light in it.’

None of these are ideal locations, and the cameras are pretty! I really do need to find a place to show them off. And that would be the perfect gift!

And that’s the list of perfect gifts for 2019, all things I’ve almost bought before realizing I could spend money on sensible things like ‘food’ and ‘bills’ and ‘several shiny cameras that I also don’t need.’ But gifts don’t need to be rational, and are a great way to give me, and probably other people, the things they don’t quite want to buy.

Yorkton Community Safety Officers (CSO’s) are heavily enforcing this for the protection of the students getting on and off school buses. Students and/or parents/guardians may have to cross the street to get to the bus doors or when being dropped off. They may assume that the drivers will obey the lights and signs. You are not permitted to proceed until the stop arm and lights have been de-activated.

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Tea for Christmas

Staff Photos by Cory Carlick

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church held an Advent Tea Saturday in Yorkton where wonderful baked goods and beverages were served.

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Farm income should not rely on governments There is nothing quite as discouraging in agriculture as a headline suggesting farm incomes have risen, but not because of prices.

That was the situation recently at www. producer.com where a headline read; ‘U.S. farm income expected to rise in 2019, but only because of government aid’.

Most farmers have generally maintained they would be happiest if governments would just get out of the way so that supply and demand could determine farm commodity prices, allowing farmers to then respond to the signals of the marketplace.

Of course govern-

ments are never completely out of the picture. We have seen markets dominated through the years by subsidies from the United States and the European Union.

We have seen beef markets blocked by questionable government decisions surrounding the safety of meat following the first confirmed case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

We have seen trade disrupted when China used market access as a hammer in a purely political dispute over the December 2018 arrest in Vancouver of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the United

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Calvin Daniels States.

None of the above has anything to do with supply or demand economics.

Of course agriculture, like a lot of industries, would like less government intervention in trade up until the point markets short incomes too much, and then government support is often quickly sought.

The headline noted above has the United States Department of Agriculture increasing its net farm income forecast for 2019 by more than 10 per cent, to $92.5 billion, driven largely by the Trump administration’s trade aid payments to farmers and federal insurance indemnities from extreme weather events,

states the article.

It has become largely the norm that governments backfill shortfalls of farm income in various ways.

In Canada crop insurance is a first line of defence to issues with production that can cause income loss.

While farmers pay for the insurance, the cost is shared by the coffers of the federal and provincial governments as well.

Crop insurance is of course only one of a number of income stabilizing programs government has cost-shared with farmers through the years.

It might seem such programs run counter to

the idea of government getting out of the way of strictly market-driven farm commodity pricing but it shows that there is an appreciation still that farming is a unique business in as much as it ultimately does feed the people.

It would be folly to let the sector flounder too greatly because of weather conditions or the meddling of other governments.

It is a sector that might work best left to market signals and demand but is all too important not to have some safety nets in place for those times incomes need bolstered.

Calvin Daniels is Editor with Yorkton This Week.

USask water expert joins global call to action A group of international scientists and practitioners including University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher Jay Famiglietti say we are not doing enough to protect and manage global groundwater resources, which will have longterm effects on the planet’s drinking water, food production, and adaptation to a rapidly changing climate.

The Global Groundwater Statement — A Call to Action cites recent scientific breakthroughs that have highlighted the regional and international importance of the issue as well as global connections and threats to groundwater, which makes up 99 per cent of the Earth’s liquid freshwater.

The call goes on to say how groundwater is the drinking water source for more than two billion people worldwide and provides more than 40 per cent of the water for irrigated agriculture, with nearly 1.7 billion people living above aquifers (geological formations that provide groundwater) that are stressed by overuse.

“We are seeing a picture that is incredibly worrisome,” said Famiglietti, executive director of the Global Institute for Water Security and Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing at USask. “Over half of the world’s major

aquifers are past sustainability tipping points and are being rapidly depleted to provide water for irrigated agriculture. Not only is our water security at great risk, but our food security as well.”

The call comes on the eve of United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid (COP 25) and the beginning of the Decade of Action on the UN Agenda 2030, as well as the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the world’s largest gathering of Earth scientists.

More than 700 scientists, practitioners and experts from more than 80 countries around the world have signed the Global Groundwater Statement – A Call to Action already, and many scientists are hoping that number will grow as the situation becomes more urgent.

“Groundwater is the forgotten secret that we have under our feet, yet it is critical to our lives,” said Dr. Tom Gleeson, associate professor at the University of Victoria, who helped lead the push to draft the global statement. “Protecting and managing groundwater is critical for the future of food production, adapting to a changing climate, and for sustainable development of communities and building better societies world-wide. We need to encourage and support international dialogue and strategies on groundwater

Groundwater Statement – A Call to Action outlines three key items to address the situation: 1. Put the spotlight on global groundwater sustainability by completing a UN World Water Development Report on the state, trends, and prospects of global groundwater sustainability for the 2022 UN World Water Day dedicated to groundwater and recognizing the global importance of groundwater to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

The Global Groundwater Statement — A Call to Action cites recent scientific breakthroughs that have highlighted the regional and international importance of the issue as well as global connections and threats to groundwater, solutions.”Famiglietti, who led a 15-year satellite-based groundwater study as the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s senior water scientist, and whose research has impacted groundwater management and policy from California to India, stressed the urgency of the situation that is echoed in the call.

“Groundwater does not know political boundaries as many of the world’s largest aquifers are transboundary.

Groundwater issues are global in nature and require global attention,” said Famiglietti.

“It is time for scientists like myself to take action. Society needs our research more than

Dec. oil and gas offering S a s k a t c h e w a n ’s December oil and gas public offering held on Tuesday generated $3.4 million in revenue for the province. This brings the 2019-20 fiscal year total to $15.2 million with one sale remaining, and brings the final 2019 calendar year total to $25.4 million.

The Estevan area accounted for $1,462,673.69 for 24 leases totalling 3,014.559 hectares, while the Kindersley area received $1,346,468.25 for 21 leases and one exploration licence totalling 5,037.032 hectares. One lease in the Estevan area consisting of 72.549 hectares received the highest dol-

lars per hectare offer in this offering at $3,889.19/ hectare.

Cougar Creek Land Ltd. was the successful bidder on this parcel, which is situated east of Carnduff and is prospective for oil in the Frobisher Beds of the Madison Group.

The highest bonus bid received in this offering was $485,900.03 for a 1,558.121 hectare exploration licence west of Kerrobert. This parcel was purchased by Novus Energy Inc. and is prospective for oil in the Viking Formation and the Mannville Group.

S a s k a t c h e w a n ’s Growth Plan: The Next Decade of Growth 2020-

2030 includes the goal of increasing oil production to 600,000 barrels per day by 2030. The province has already worked diligently to create what is one of the most competitive business environments in North America.

A recent report on profitability in the oil sector, the 2019 Scotiabank Playbook, ranked Saskatchewan as having two of the top 10 oil or gas plays in North America and a total of seven plays ranked among those in the top 35.

The scheduled date for the next public offering is February 4, 2020, which will be the final sale of the 2019-20 fiscal year.

ever, and that includes far more engagement and co-developed projects with stakeholders, water managers, decision makers and elected officials.

Business as usual in the ivory towers of academia is not going to help sustain the world’s groundwater resources.”

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2. Manage and govern groundwater sustainably from local to global scales by applying sustainability guiding principles by 2030.

3. Invest in groundwater governance and management by implementing groundwater sustainability plans for stressed aquifers by 2030.

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ART • ENTERTAINMENT • COMMUNITY

CP Holiday Train rocks Yorkton, helps Salvation Army

By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Not only did the famous Canadian Pacific Holiday Train show up to rock out with a standingroom only sized crowd, the Salvation Army, who has been performing Christmas miracles to those that need it for over 150 years, got a huge boost for their amazing humanitarian work to the tune of $4,000.

That money will go directly to helping those that need an extra helping hand for the Christmas spirit.

“Today, the city [of Yorkton has] come around to present us with a cheque and food rations that all go to the food bank to help those in need,” said Lieutenant Samuel Tim of the Salvation Army.

“At Christmas time, we feed the hungry. We don’t want them feeling bad. They [should] all have food to eat at Christmastime and year round.”

“Bringing the CP Holiday Train to Yorkton, we have two main goals,” said City of Yorkton Councillor Randy Goulden.

“One is to bring residents and our visitors to downtown Yorkton to really start and kick off

the Christmas season.

The second is of course to fill the shelves of the Salvation Army Food Bank. We know at this time of year, as in many times, we need to help the people that are probably needing the help the most, so that is the goal.

Plus, we get to showcase some great entertainment to everyone that’s here.”

The great entertainment Goulden referred didn’t disappoint: Madeleine Merlo, a CCMA and two-time BCCMA winning artist originally from Maple Ridge, British Columbia.

Merlo, whose tastes provided echoes of Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Etta James and Billie Holiday in a modern package, thrilled the audiences with her energetic performance.

Scott Helman, a 2018 Juno-award nominee, also rocked the stage with a performances that showed clear influences to his self-proclaimed musical idols of Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, The Cure, Bon Iver and Paul Simon.

The train stopped in Yorkton fresh off its stop from Bredenbury.

For more information on the CP Holiday Train, visit https://www.cpr.ca/ holiday-train/canada.

With $4,000 going to the Salvation Army in Yorkton, a bevy of musical talent and a packed house made for another memorable event. The stop in Bredenbury saw the Salvation Army receive $5,500 from CP Rail.

Staff Photos by Cory Carlick and Devin Wilger

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Community Spotlight Get into the spirit of Christmas at Yorkton Public Library. Family Christmas Movie, Wed., Dec. 11 at 6:00 p.m.

Christmas Storytime, ages 3 & up, Thurs., Dec. 12 at 10:30 a.m.

Christmas Crafts, ages 5 & up, Mon., Dec. 16 at 3:45 p.m. Kids Christmas Movie, Wed., Dec. 18 at 3:45 p.m.

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Yoga Classes for Seniors - New Horizons Senior Centre, 78 First Ave. N., Yorkton. Come out and get fit every Tues. and Fri., Sept.

17 to Dec. 13. Resume Tues., Jan. 7, 2020. All ages are welcome.

Pre-registration not required. 11:00 a.m. 11:45 a.m. (45 min. session). $5.00 a person.

Please bring your own mat. Contact for more info 306-783-8891, 306782-5915.

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Library Social Worker available on Wed., 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.; Thurs., 9:00 a.m.

- 6:00 p.m.; Sat., 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Support, Connecting with community programs, Information about community services, Assistance with forms and referrals. Please check in with reference desk or leave your means of contact.

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Calling All Musicians!

Yorkton Community Band fall season on Tuesdays 7:00 p.m. at Yorkton Regional High Band Room.

Woodwind, brass and percussion performers needed. Previous experience required.

Everyone welcome! For more information call Larry 306.621-0523

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The Yorkton duplicate bridge club meets for an afternoon of FUN every Wednesday afternoon at the Yorkton Public Library at 1:00 p.m. Our season runs from Sept. 4 to the end of June 2020. We welcome new players and encourage all of those who play bridge to come and join us. Contact information Sharon at 306-782-1689 or Allona at 306-620-6605.

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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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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.

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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 306-6209889 or The Yorkton City Detachment of the RCMP at 306-786-2400 or Box 153, Yorkton, SK S3N 2V7.

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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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Al-Anon meets Monday nights, 8 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 73 Smith St. and Wed. nights, 8 p.m. at Westview United Church (355 Bradbrooke Dr.). Alateen also meets on Wed. night, 8 p.m. at Westview United Church. Adult children of Alcoholics Al-Anon meeting every Thursday night at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 73 Smith St.

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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 306-7833765 or visit www.tops. org for more information.

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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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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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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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Attention all lovers of boardgames; chess, ot hello, checker s, backgammon, go, Camelot etc., join the Yorkton Boardgamers Guild, a new group forming to promote gat her i n g s t o play boardgames and have fun. For further information call 3067 8 2 -17 8 3 o r e m a i l yorkton_boardgamers_ guild@hotmail.com.

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York Lake Trap Club.

Everyone welcome. 306516-7521.

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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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Tune in each Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. on Access Channel 7 to hear Pastor George Lewis. Sponsored by Yorkton Immanuel Baptist Church.

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The International Women of Yorkton and area is a social group for all women. They meet one evening a month, at 222 Smith St. E., Yorkton. For more information contact Cathy at 783-2777.

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Treasure Chest To a s t m a s t er s Club meets week ly on Wednesday evening f r o m 7: 0 0 p. m . t o 8:00 p.m. at SIGN on Broadway. Impact your world by enhancing your communication and leadership skills.

Guests and new memb er s welcome.

For more information contact: Mike Neilson 306-620-7252, Dwaine Senechal 306-620-2297.

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Parkland Writers Alliance: Contact Carol 306-782-5755, Marge 306-783-0174, writersyorkton@gmail.com, http://parklandwritersalliance.wordpress. com. 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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Volunteers Needed!

The Canadian Red Cross is seeking volunteers for the Friendly Phone Program for Seniors. Volunteers will be trained to provide weekly 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 friendly.visitingsaskatchewan@redcross.ca.

“Whoever said don’t run from your problems never had to face a bully.” Telephone and internet service for kids in Canada. No problem is too big or too small for our professional counselors. 1-800-6686868 kidshelp.sympatico.ca

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The Gen. Alexander Ross branch of the Royal Canadian Legion monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month, nine times a year. Your participation, as Legionaires, is critical to the future progress of our organization.

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Yorkton Wildlife Federation does Trap Shooting on Tues. evenings at 5 p.m. till dark.

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First seed catalogues for 2020 arrive Gardeners, we can now see 2020! I don’t mean our vision, but the gardening year 2020! We got our first seed catalogue from T&T a short while back, and it is quite interesting to see the year “2020” on the cover!

It’s not too soon to start planning — after all, in 10 days we will have the shortest day of the year.

That’s a turning point for optimistic gardeners!

So let’s make a cup of tea and browse the catalogue together; one of the first things I see is a hot pepper, “Ghost Hybrid”, considered the hottest chili pepper in the world.

It’s up to 417 times hotter than a jalapeno and 10 times hotter than a habanero! Yikes!

Or, there is a new ground cherry “Little Lantern” that they describe with as “sweettart pineapple taste” and the catalogue says it is well suited for containers! There’s an interesting cantaloupe called “Sweet Granite” that is early ripening and suitable for short summer or cool weather gardens.

The three pound cantaloupes have a sweet orange flesh. They sound yummy!

Turning to the squash pages, I see there is a scallop squash called “Sunburst”, and these look like the cheery little scallopini squash “pattypan” from years ago. The description says that these plants are “spacesaving bush type plants” so that sounds like a good fit for many smaller

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Gardener’s Notebook gardens. And they are such appealing squash, beautiful to look at and delicious, too!

Now to the tomatoes: there are always so many yummy types to try, but I see that there are several varieties that they call “saladette” and I guess the name says it all! They are substantial enough to enjoy, but small enough to slice into a salad. I think I told you about the beautiful oblong tomatoes that we had last year, the ones that turned bright orange when they were mature. They were delicious, held their shape, and were just a nice size for a salad or a toasted tomato sandwich.

I know many gardeners like the large tomatoes like Oxheart or Beefsteak, but sometimes they are too big, even for those of us who love tomatoes! After one slice there is still so much left, sometimes a smaller tomato works out better. Sweet Pea’s favorites were always Prairie Pride or Patio because the plants produced many flavorful, mediumsized fruits.

Let’s turn to the flowers: there’s a beauti-

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ful celosia “First Flame Purple”. Can you picture feathery grape-colored plumes in a container with Dusty Miller or white bacopa? Beautiful!

There’s also a dwarf sunflower called “Choco Sun” that is described as “possibly one of the smallest and quickest flowering sunflowers available.” These are also listed as ideal for containers! Wouldn’t they be a welcoming addition on our back step! And if you like asters, there is a variety called “Novo Mix”, a large spider type that looks like it will definitely get second looks, both while on the plant or in a vase on our kitchen tables!

As we look through seed catalogues, let’s always remember to choose some plants that will be good for the bees.

This past summer, our wild “bee corner” (which is a collection of all kinds of flowers that bloom early and consistently) was literally humming all summer.

We could look through the catalogue for hours!

Get your name on a mailing list and on a blustery winter day you’ll enjoy the delight of looking through those gardening pages and thinking ahead to spring!

Prairie Garden books are still available, as is the chance to trade heirloom bean seeds. Visit our website at www.yorktonhort.ca for details and have a great week!

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Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?

What would Jesus think?

I’m sorry. That’s all I can say to those who feel the joy has been sucked from their Christmas because they’ve encountered less-than-charitable Christians who stridently insist everyone use the phrase “Merry Christmas” rather than “Happy Holidays.” What disturbs me most about that is that from what I’ve observed, the attitude of some of us who claim to follow Jesus (Christian means Christ’s one) is so very… well, un-Christlike.

Embracing Jesus Christ means embracing his command to love one’s enemies, to turn the other cheek, to do good to those who hate them.

(Those things are far easier to quote than do —

which is what makes me a “practicing Christian” not a perfect one.) Jesus told his followers to expect opposition, and that when it comes, to be glad, because the same thing happened to him.

Ouch.

“Nana, what’s your favourite holiday?” one of the grandchildren asked me the other day.

“Cause mine’s sure not Christmas anymore.” An explanation followed.

Too much frantic preparation, not enough genuine celebration, no real centre… and for what?

I love it that my grandchildren are growing into thinking people — it distresses me to realize they’re picking up on the inconsistencies of the faith of their fathers and

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mothers.

The child is right. We Christians (including me) are prone to place far too much emphasis on the gifts, glam and glitter of this season, with a little Jesus on the side. Manger scenes in our homes, Santa and his excesses in our hearts.

In actions, and not only words, what I’d love to pass on to my grandchil-

dren, and to those who observe how Christians practice their faith at this time of year, is this: The only true celebration of God’s incredible Heavensent gift to the world - (a redeemer who, for love alone, paid on the cross the legal penalty for the sins of all who embrace him) is a peaceful and

joyful life that reflects Jesus to those around us, even those who think and believe differently than we do.

In that conversation with my grandchild I shared a quote I found, one that inspires and convicts me: “Want to keep Christ in Christmas?

Feed the hungry. Comfort the afflicted. Love the outcast. Forgive the wrongdoer. Inspire the hopeless.”

No. We Christfollowers don’t (and ought not) worship the name of the holiday, but the person of Jesus Christ himself, whose entire salvation mission to the world was wrapped in

God’s love — love that acts out in real practices of charity. Love that includes even those who don’t celebrate the meaning of Christmas.

That doesn’t mean agreement on all points; it does mean not getting our knickers in a knot when someone can’t or won’t give lip service to a custom they don’t wholeheartedly embrace. A few fellow Christians may disagree with my opinion on that. To them, I say, “happy holidays!”

We sit in the middle of the second week of Advent. This week we focus on faith. Would Jesus approve how we are practicing ours?

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Tickets $45.00 Sunday May 3, Dessert and Matinee

If you wanted to have your picture taken with Santa, the jolly old elf himself stopped in at the Parkland Mall, and not only that, the proceeds from the photos went to The Yorkton Springers Gymnastics club. “We have our annual Santa Claus pictures set up. It’s one of our biggest fundraisers for the Springers gymnastics club,” said Crystal Switzinski

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Pink the Rink On Sunday, Dec. 8, the Yorkton Secon Maulers held their ‘Pink the Rink’ game against the Moose Jaw Warriors with all proceeds going to Brayden Ottenbreit

Close Cuts for Cancer. The Moose Jaw Warriors would spoil the event in terms of things on the ice winning Sunday’s game 3-0.

Terriers win one on weekend

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer The Yorkton Hyundai Terriers were on the road for three games last week, managing only one win.

The lone victory against two losses leaves the Terriers with a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League record of 19-14-1 for 39 points, tops in the Viterra Division, 13 points up on Melville with 26 points, and 14 better than both Estevan and Weyburn with 25 points apiece.

In Melfort

The Terriers visited the Melfort Mustangs Saturday, blitzing the host side for three unanswered goals in the first period. The markers came from Chantz Petruic, Jordan Guiney and Alex Zawatsky.

Locking horns

A powerplay effort by Petruic in the second period made it 4-0 before the Mustangs got on the scoresheet with a powerplay marker of their own from Tyson Myers, sending the teams to the dressing rooms after 40-minutes with Yorkton up 4-1.

Myers cut into the Terrier lead with another powerplay goal, this one 1:01 into the third.

But a goal by Kaeden Taphorn 35-sconds later reestablished a three-goal lead for the Terriers.

Ryan MacLean would reply 1:12 later to make it 5-3 but that would be it as Yorkton secured the victory.

Ryan Ouellette was the winning netminder facing 41-shots, while Tanner Martin took the loss facing only 19-shots

according to the online scoresheet.

Versus the Hawks

Yorkton rolled into Nipawin Friday, where the host Hawks took the lead with the only goal of the opening period, an effort

by Zach Cox. Cox was back to score at 4:38 of the second period to give the home team a 2-0 lead.

Kaeden Taphorn cut the lead in half with a powerplay marker at 6:38.

However, that would be the only offence the Terriers could muster in the contest.

Jordan Simoneau however would score a powerplay goal for the Hawks in the second, and Carson Erhardt would add one in the third period to round out a 4-1 win for the Hawks.

Ryan Ouellette took the loss in the Terrier net facing 34-shots, while Dalton Diosch was the winning netminder facing 27-shots.

In LaRonge

It was a close one against the LaRonge Icewolves, but close doesn’t get you any points in the SJHL standings.

Yorkton started things well, with Kaeden Taphorn scoring 49-seconds into the game on the powerplay.

Petruic made it 2-0 for the Terriers at 14:22.

But an extra man goal by Aaron Greyeyes at 18:06 cut the Yorkton lead in half before the teams headed to the dressing rooms after 20-minutes of play.

Kaeden Taphorn was back for his second of the night with the lone goal of the middle

frame.

However, the Terriers’ 3-1 lead would disappear in the third.

Daylon Mannon scored in the powerplay 3:55 to make it a 3-2 game.

At 6:56 Chad Mcilwain tied the game 3-3.

Jake Gudjonson gave the home side its first lead of the contest at 8:29.

Mannon then scored his second of the night to make it 5-3 Icewolves.

Ethan Robson would add a fourth goal for Yorkton but that would be it as LaRonge took a 5-4 win.

Philippe Bond was tagged with the loss in the Yorkton net facing 51-shots, while Liam McGarva earned the win for LaRonge facing 35.

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Lawrence Kitz 661 Logan Ross 681 Barry Gawryluik 746 Cam Louttit 690 Gerry Kastrukoff 572 Adam Becker 740

Connie Zazula 186 Cassidy Sobkow 175 Nicole Peddigrew 249 Merle Sherwin 205 Susanne Hack 222 Lisa Gibler 260

Marlene Just 467 Sophia Qu 451 Nicole Peddigrew 620 Lee Mcvey 499 Vickie Puchala 586 Judy Tataquason 658

Norman Gawryliuk +96 Dylan Haug +110 Dale Hooge +90 Larry Serdachny +58 Gerry Kastrukoff +92 Adam Becker +108

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Dick Mandzuk 272

Dick Mandzuk 646

Rosemary Mandzuk 235

Rosemary Mandzuk 582

Al Harper +98

Scott Wienheimer 473 Cam Louttit 805 Trent Aichele 758 Adam Becker 734

Colleen Haider 258 Stacey Pasloski 170 Janice Zwirsky 205 Theresa Mckenzie 329 Chloe Decker 258

Colleen Haider 643 Stacey Pasloski 422 Janice Zwirsky 556 Chloe Decker 697 Kayla Exner 604

Betty Zrudlo +71 Scott Wienheimer +52 Shane Lafontaine +118 Theresa Mckenzie +115 Jakob Dobson +89

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Growth of NLL exciting as a Rush fan

When it comes to sports box lacrosse is easily in my top-five to watch, and having the Saskatchewan Rush in the province now, my interest has actually grown in the last half decade.

So I am happy the National Lacrosse League season is under way for 2019-20.

The Rush won their opener on the road in Colorado, in a game that saw Robert Church have points on eight of the nine goals, which is a career for some guys.

As much as the Rush win on the opening weekend of the season was great, I was equally interested in watching the Halifax Thunderbirds play their first NLL game on the second weekend.

The Thunderbirds are sort of new, although not quite either. They are actually the former Rochester Knighthawks which moved in the offseason, and undertook a name change.

The Thunderbirds are something of an experiment for the NLL. The league has an ambitious plan for expansion, and officials have noted they have a preference for team owners to also be involved with the local National Hockey League or National Basketball Association team so the NLL team can utilize existing staff and offices etc, to keep costs low.

Halifax does not fit that model. They are more akin to our Rush, the only top-level pro team in the market,

foundational 16 teams is a shorter-term goal, one Sakiewicz has suggested will occur by 2023, with a strong hint team 14 will be announced soon.

The scuttlebutt on social media has the team likely being much-rumoured Dallas, which would open the Texas market to the NLL.

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Sports Rochester Knighthawks team taking to the floor this season as the 12th and 13th teams.

Nick Sakiewicz, the Commissioner of the NLL has stated recently that the league still has a goal of 30-32-36 teams one day, although at near 60 I wouldn’t bet on seeing the end goal reached as that is likely a 30-plus year process.

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which has to make it on their own. It has worked in Saskatoon with the Rush becoming if not the most-successful team in the NLL, certainly among the best. If it works in Halifax, then it shows an NLL team on its own can carve out success in the right city.

As noted the NLL is into full expansion mode, with the New York Riptide and a reborn

The league also has a regular season game scheduled for Las Vegas in the new-year, and a team for the Nevada city seems almost a sure thing among the next three added.

Of course I would like to see Edmonton back in the NLL, but there doesn’t seem to be much interest from NHL Oiler ownership, which might not be a big surprise

as they have struggled mightily for years to even run a successful hockey team, at least in terms of on ice wins.

In time it would be great for the Rush to see the Winnipeg Jets take on a team because they would become a natural rival, but again there is little to suggest that is anywhere near happening.

It would no doubt help spur interest in new Canadian ownership if one of the national sports networks could see past the hockey ice just a bit to pick up a game or two of lacrosse as a viewing alternative. With five NLL teams in Canada they certainly have the schedule to provide regular games.

Neat new package for old game It was just a tad more than a decade ago I wrote a review of the game Teeko.

From that review in posted in mid-2011, “a Teeko set is comprised of eight medallion-shaped pieces, four red and four black, and a board with 25 circles arranged in a 5-by-5 matrix.

“Yet, for all its simplicity is an amazing little game.

Created by John Scarne way back in 1945, Teeko is a game that in its era was highly popular, to the point Scarne actually published a book about the game and its strategies. Considering that books tend to only surface for the most popular of boardgames; chess, checkers, backgammon and the like, the book’s publication speaks to how well received the game was some six decades ago.

“While that popularity dissipated with the

decades, there remains something charming about this game when it is played even today.

And, as recently as 2001, Washington Post Magazine ran a story on the game, the book, and its founder.”

Flash forward to 2019 and the game has been reborn this time carrying the name Zenteeko from the publisher of the same name.

“Zenteeko is a sneaky, super simple abstract strategy game for two or more players. The rules are easy – learn to play in under two minutes – but pay attention! The game is played on a 5 x 5 leather-like board and each player has four markers,” explains the publisher.

“The object of the game is to get your four markers in one of four simple groupings: a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line, or in a square.

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The rules are essentially Teeko, although in correspondence with the publisher some twists are hinted at in the final rule set.

The game as is does provide markers for three players although

I fear a kingmaker element will emerge in most three-player contests.

So, why a new name, and launch?

Well, the game is still a lot of fun. My adult son still just tolerates most abstract strategy games.

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HOFFMAN - Frances LaVilla (Hoff) Hoffman, 97, died peacefully, December 4, 2019 in Apple Valley, MN. A celebration of life service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, December 13, 2019, at Bismarck Baptist Church, 2211 LaForest Avenue, Bismarck, ND. Visitation will be held one hour before the service. Interment will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Bismarck, after refreshments. Frances was born November 5, 1922, on a farm in McIntosh County, near the town of Venturia, ND, the daughter of Fred and Katherina (Herr) Hoff. She was raised on the farm and graduated from Wishek High School in 1941. She attended Northwestern Bible College in Minneapolis in 1945-46. Frances married Melvin Clarence Hoffman on October 24, 1947 in Venturia, ND. Together they farmed at Ebenezer, SK, Canada until 1957. After giving up farming, they moved to Wishek, ND, where she taught in rural schools for five years. Later, she worked as a part-time secretary at Wishek Public School for sixteen years and was a US Postal Clerk for 25 years. She was also Postmaster at Lehr, ND, for three years. She retired in 1988 and in 1990, they moved to Bismarck. Melvin went to be with the Lord in March of 1997. Frances accepted Jesus as her personal Lord and Saviour as a young girl and was baptized at the age of 12. She was active in the community and her church, Wishek Baptist and then Bismarck Baptist, where she taught Sunday School, was involved in Women’s Ministry, and held various offices of leadership throughout the years. She used her love of music by singing in many groups, singing duets with her husband, participating in a ladies’ sextet, and directing the church choir. Besides singing, she loved playing the piano and auto harp, doing embroidery, cooking, entertaining friends and family, especially her sons, their wives and her grandchildren. Being a people person, Frances was dedicated to keeping family ties and friendships strong and used letter writing extensively to pursue that goal.

Frances is survived by two sons, Dean (Suzanne) Hoffman, Richfield, MN; Douglas (Shelley) Hoffman, Sioux Falls, SD; five grandchildren, Kimberly (Scott) Fudali, Waukesha, WI; Joshua Hoffman, New Dehli, India; Tyler Hoffman, Bozeman, MT; Mollie (Lee) Hoover, Sioux Falls, SD; and Michael Hoffman, Sioux Falls, SD; one sister, Loretta Blank, Harrisonburg, VA; two brothers-in-law, Henry Swierenga, Mesa, AZ; and John Hoeldtke, Jackson, TN; and many nieces, nephews, and wonderful friends. Frances was preceded in death by her parents, Fred and Katherina Hoff; her husband of 49 years, Melvin C. Hoffman; sisters, Thelma (Harvey) Kemp, Gladys Hoff, Vivian (Henry) Swierenga, Marjorie (Jake) Gegelman, Delores (John) Hoeldtke, and Mary Ann Hoff. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Bismarck Baptist Church or Bismarck Baptist Home. Go to www.eastgatefuneral.com to share memories of Frances and to sign the online guestbook.

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www.baileysfuneralhome.com STANICKI – George Stanicki of Yorkton, beloved husband of the late Phyllis Stanicki, passed away on November 30, 2019. Slawko (George) Stanicki was born Oct 19, 1937 in Yorkton, SK to Peter and Nellie Stanicki of Gorlitz, SK, but everyone knew him as George.

George grew up in Gorlitz and attended Annak School before moving to the Gorlitz School. He loved baseball at a young age and played for the Donwell Supers.

Many said he was as fast as the wind, including George himself.

George was one of the founding members in a local band called The Country Lads where he played bass fiddle. The band travelled many miles playing a different local halls and his future wife, Phyllis Chobotar, followed him wherever George and the band went. George’s first job was as a meat cutter at Midwest Packers, which is now Harvest Meats. In 1959, George began his apprenticeship with Logan and Black and obtained his Red Seal Journeyman’s status in March of 1963. In October of 1960, George married his beautiful wife Phyllis. They moved to Yorkton, to a house on Maple Avenue to start their new family in 1964. They later moved into a larger home on Fourth Avenue to accommodate their growing family and to raise their four children. During these years, George travelled all across Saskatchewan and even into the Northwest Territories. He was proud of his Superintendent position at Weber Construction and the many projects that he supervised that took him far away from home and travelling many, many miles on the road, building homes, schools, hospitals and nursing homes. George’s greatest accomplishments were his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. He instilled in his children a strong work ethic and the ability to bring humour into any situation, no matter how difficult things could be. George was an active member of the Holy Transfiguration Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Yorkton and held many titles within the parish. George was an integral part of the construction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Auditorium in 1977 and its success through the years, volunteering many long hours and most weekends to help pay off the mortgage to the hall in record time. In 1988, George and Phyllis won the Lotto 649 and George with much consultation with Phyllis built their dream home on Spice Drive for all their friends and family to gather in. In 1998, their beloved dog Goodzik was adopted into the family and soon became one of the Stanicki’s. In 1990, George left Weber’s Construction after close to 30 years and started Stanicki Construction, where he did small construction jobs, snow removal and landscaping. You could often see George driving his trusty Case 1845 Skidsteer down the road or his pride and joy blue 1977 Chevy Short Box which he rebuilt over and over just to keep it on the road and his signal light blinking. George will be missed by his daughters Sharon and Donna (Gordon), and sons Brian (Cindy) and Allen. His grandchildren included Erik Zawislak (Katelyn Hordichuk), Lesia Zawislak (Jackson Campbell), Devin and Stephanie Stanicki and Natasha Stanicki. He also leaves behind his great-grandchildren Kai Franks – Zawislak and Elaina Stanicki.

He will also be missed by his sister Sonia and Harold Sokyrka and their children. The Funeral Service was held on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at Holy Transfiguration Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Yorkton with Rev. Father Michael Faryna officiating. The responses were led by Yvonne Panchuk & Parish Choir Members. The cross bearer was Harold Sokyrka. Honourary Bearers were Lorne Procyshen, Ken Goodman, Mike Lys, Jim Flundra, Norm Werner, Peter Kobylka, Louie Zawislak, Herb Marchinko and Ernie Denysek. The interment followed in the Yorkton City Cemetery with Erik Zawislak, Devin Stanicki, Gordon Zawislak, Jack Campbell, Wade Richards and Dave Rohatynsky serving as the casket bearers.

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Heartland Livestock Services, 107 York Road East, Yorkton, SK, has been appointed to serve as Poundkeeper and to be the official place of pound for the R.M. of Orkney No. 244 in accordance with Sections 8 (1) and 10 (2) of the Stray Animals Act. Houses for Sale BEAUTIFUL 2 or 3 bedroom townhouse; 1200 sq.ft., close to schools & hospital. Pictures can be viewed on Kijiji under Houses For Rent Yorkton. Call George at 306-537-3228 or Ryan 306-6205489.

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The cook will appreciate the natural light from the window over the double sink, as well as the step-saving, L-shaped counter configuration. A roomy pantry will provide extra storage space.

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Butcher pigs $1.25/lb live, $2/lb dressed. 306795-7321.

1270 CASE 12’ blade, good tires, 18” x 38”, 36’ Bourgault cultivator, walking axle, 2” spoons and press, 2155 tank, 2 x 12 IH seed press drill with grass attachment, 8900 White combine, 354 Perkins motor, Vers 400 18’ swather complete for parts, Ford 300 6 cylinder gas motor, ‘80 Chev 3 ton, 8.2 Detroit diesel grain truck box and hoist, auto trans., ‘65 Ford 3 ton, 14’ box/roll tarp. Call 306-548-2160

BATHROOM SINK, Avon doll bottles, 48” bed frame, Ukrainian records, china, cups & saucers, lamps, a large picture, plants, new luggage, paper shredder, quilting fabric, Eaton’s catalogues. Phone 306-782-2127.

Taking orders for cabbage rolls and perogies. Call Shirley at 306782-8280.

TANNED HIDES for sale. Foxes, martens, skunks, racoon, wolverine, wolf and others. Really decorate your living room, rec room or cabin with these on the wall. Anybody can hang up a picture. 306675-4424.

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Call 306-745-3484.

FOR SALE: New Mack combination oil/wood/coal furnace, 2-door with shaker grates, twin blowers, 96,000 BTU’s. Also fuel tank 5 yrs. old. Asking $3,500 for pkg. Phone 306-594-2614.

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WINE MAKING Equipment: 3carboys, 2 primary’s, floor style corker: English Ironstone China: (rose pattern) 8 place settings. 306-7837014.

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FOR SALE: 26 yearling Char and Char cross heifers, bred red for end of March. Preg checked and all shots. Phone 306-548-4340, Stenen, Sask.

FOR SALE: Polled Purebred 2 year old and yearling Charolais bulls. Some red factor. Phone 306435-7116. King’s Polled Charolais.

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Saskatchewan marked national day of remembrance Dec. 6, was the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. It was also the 30th anniversary of the deaths of 14 female engineering students who were targeted and killed in 1989 at Montreal’s Ecolé Polytechnique because they were women.

“Combatting violence against women and girls is everyone’s responsibility,” Minister Responsible for the Status of Women Tina Beaudry-Mellor said.

“The National Day of Remembrance on December 6 provides us with a day to remember and honour those who have lost their lives through violence and to think of ways we can

each help.”

“Our government is committed to making our communities safer and reducing crime, specifically for those at risk of gender-based violence,” Justice Minister and Attorney General Don Morgan said. “We’re taking action to ensure Saskatchewan is a place where women can live, work and go to school without needing to worry about the threat of violence.”

The White Ribbon Campaign was launched in 1991 to raise awareness, promote gender equality and condemn gender-based violence.

The Government of Saskatchewan is committed to ending violence against women and girls.

Ministries within the Saskatchewan Public Service are wearing white ribbons to show their support of efforts to prevent and end violence targeted at women and girls.

In the last year, the Government of Saskatchewan has developed new programs and policies to assist those dealing with gender-based violence.

These include: • Passage of The Interpersonal Violence Disclosure Protocol Act (Clare’s Law); • Launch of the Legal Information and Advice for Survivors of Sexual Violence (the Listen Project); • Implemented a new policy with the

Saskatchewan Police Commission that improves how investigations into incidents of intimate partner violence are conducted; • Partnered with Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan and the Regina Police Service to support a pilot project of the Philadelphia Model at the Regina Police Service; • Interpersonal violence awareness training for Conservation Officers and Highway Patrol Officers; and • Released a paper that addresses the shared responsibility of solving the complex issue of interpersonal violence and abuse in Saskatchewan.

Skilled Help CANADIAN CORE FRONTIERSMEN is seeking a experienced person who has held a security license for 1-3 yrs to train persons as security guards. Call 306-7483089 for further information.

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