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Family Day skate with the Terriers Monday was Family Day in Saskatchewan, so it was the perfect day for some family activities. One of those activities had everybody being welcome at the

Farrell Agencies Arena for some skating fun, and just to add to the activity they had some famous friends to join in the fun: the Yorkton Hyundai Terriers.

Fire hits Ram Industries Feb. 13 By Devin Wilger Staff Writer At around midnight on Feb. 13, there was a fire at Ram Industries, on York Road. Yorkton Fire Protective Services was on scene into the next morning to extinguish the fire, and determine the cause. While it’s difficult to tell for certain the cause

of the fire, Fire Chief Trevor Morrissey explained, the most probable cause is a paint-type vapor being ignited by a static spark. Ram Industries issued the following statement about the fire the next day: About midnight on February 13th, 2020, a fire broke out in the production area of Ram

Industries on York Road in Yorkton SK.

The Yorkton Fire Department was imme-

diately called by personnel working in the facility at the time. Fortunately, no one was injured in this incident. The Yorkton Fire Department remain on scene this morning to ensure the fire is fully extinguished before access is granted. The Company is cooperating with investigators as they determine the

cause. Ram Industries and Maki Services expect to return to full operations to ensure customer commitments are not impacted by this unfortunate situation. Our sincere thank you to all local emergency services for their quick response and tireless efforts overnight to contain the damage.

Watrych awarded major scholarship By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Yorkton Regional High School student Connor Watrych has been awarded a major scholarship.

Watrych was one of 88 students travelling to Toronto the weekend of Feb. 2, to interview in the final selection process for the Loran Scholarship Foundation. When he arrived home the

telephone rang Sunday, where he learned he was one of 36 to be awarded the multi-faceted scholarship valued at $100,000, to cover four years of undergraduate studies. “I was super, super excit-

ed. I was kind of at a loss for words,” said the Grade 12 student. Watrych said having spent time with the 88 nominees, he knew it would be a difficult decision for those making the

decision. “I think everybody there was deserving,” he said. The final interview process in Toronto mimicked the regional one Watrych had

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Former Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco . . .

Make sure you promote your city By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer A community needs to have a sense of pride in what it has to offer. That is the message those attending the regular Yorkton Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday heard from guest speaker Pat Fiacco, former Mayor of Regina.

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Fiacco related how he was on an airplane and overheard a conversation between someone from Regina and someone from Toronto talking. The Toronto man mentioned he was headed to Regina for a conference, to which the Regina man asked “why come to Regina ...?” “I couldn’t believe it ... I never forgot that,” said Fiacco. Later Fiacco would meet with students and found more news he was not expecting to hear. “What I was hearing was like a punch in the stomach,” he said, noting 75 per cent of students were not looking at the University of Regina, and most were not looking to stay in Regina, or Saskatchewan. The reason, their parents had instilled in the students there were no opportunities locally. Fiacco said it made him think of his own parents arriv-

Pat Fiacco says promoting your city to the world is a good thing to do. ing in Regina in 1957 with no money, but an expectation of the opportunities the city offered.

Fiacco would become Regina Mayor in 2000, and when visiting Rochester, NY, said I love New York signs

were all over, adding he came to realize “it’s not about those three words, it’s about a feeling.” So Fiacco said he came back to Regina with a rather simple plan. “We needed to copy what New York was doing, but design it for Regina,” he said. Over the ensuing years an I Love Regina campaign was created through consultation, culminating in an inaugural I Love Regina Day. “The stage was full of positivity and it was contagious,” said Fiacco, adding it needs to go beyond the slogan. “Words are good but feelings are better,” he said, adding the effort created “a change in the psyche of our city. “You can’t just have a slogan without backing it up.” The back-up included Fiacco establishing a Mayor’s

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Care of fishing stock at Fort Qu’Appelle It might be the dead of winter, but staff at Saskatchewan’s provincial fish hatchery in Fort Qu’Appelle are busy taking care of their newly hatched trout fry to prepare for the stocking season ahead. This year, the hatchery will be releasing a

few hundred thousand rainbow, brown and brook trout into waters across the province (tiger, splake and lake trout are produced and stocked in alternate years). All of the eggs collected from the facility’s brood stock in the fall of 2019 have hatched.

The priority of the fish culture technicians now is to keep the young fish healthy and disease-free until it is time for their release into the wild, beginning in April. This is done by cleaning their troughs and giving the trout fry regular treatment baths to prevent

bacterial infections and parasites.

This summer the recipients will also gather at Algonquin Park in Ontario for some team building. “We’ll be living out of backpacks and canoeing through the park,” said Watrych.

others were; Kaiden Thompson from Indian Head, Kylie Flynn from Saskatoon, and Sabah Sharif from Regina. Those interviewed, but not among the 36 recipients were still eligible for a $5,000 finalist award. Watrych was most recently given the youth Citizen Recognition Award by the city of Yorkton and was the quarterback of the Provincial Championship winning YRHS Raider Gridders.

As the fry grow to fingerling size, the technicians will split and move groups of fish to larger tanks to provide them with more space to grow. February is also the

time of year when the fish techs take inventory of the trout breeding stock while inoculating the 1000+ fish living at the brood stock facility. All of the brood stock at the Fort Qu’Appelle Fish Culture Station are inoculated twice a year against common infec-

tions to ensure the general population remains in good health and free of disease. For more information, feel free to follow the Fort Qu’Appelle Fish Culture Station on Facebook for regular updates: https:// w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / FishCultureStation

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already undergone, adding much of the focus was on how the nominees felt they were a good fit for the award. In that regard, the award is about more than providing the 36 recipients with an education, said Watrych. “The goal is to build leaders for the future. They see it as an investment,” he said. To build the foundation for those leaders the award offers more than post-secondary education. Recipients are expected to spend three summer internships, one in a province dif-

ferent from their home province, or where they attend school, and one summer abroad, explained Watrych. The internships must be diverse as well, covering policy development one year, and working with a non-profit another. As part of the award Watrych said recipients are also matched with mentors at whatever university they attend. “I think the coolest part is mentor,” he said, adding their role incudes helping the recipients get involved in the school and community, in addition to helping in general with adapting to university.

At present Watrych is not sure where he will attend university although McMaster and the University of British Columbia are topping his list at present. “I want to study biochemistry with hopes of getting into medicine after that,” he said. Watrych was one of four recipients from Saskatchewan. The

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Task Force on the Future of Regina, in order to bring various stakeholders to the table to get them moving forward together. The same general approach can work in Yorkton, suggested Fiacco. “Yorkton here, you’re a sleeping giant,” he offered, noting the Gallagher Centre is the envy of many communities, the Western Development Museum is a draw, there are local golf courses, the city is close to lakes, there is the annual film festival, all positives. Fiacco then noted the city slogan

“where good things happen,” which he said can be an attitude if people buy into it. But, asked Fiacco, do we in Yorkton do a good job of telling the world about what this city offers? “I don’t have to tell you this but Yorkton has huge potential,” he said, adding “it’s time you start blowing your own horn. “You need to tell the world about the good things that happen ... You’ve got to tell your story. It’s not bragging. It’s just the truth.” 20023PP1

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Invasion You might have thought you had stepped through a time portal had you visited the former Ebenezer School this weekend. You would have walked into the gymnasium to the sound of battle, sword ringing off sword, axe rattling off shield, polearm fending off sword. The combatants were members of the Lokiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brood Viking Group dedicated to the re-enactment of all things Viking. The group, with members just not from Yorkton, but points across Saskatchewan and Manitoba met to hone the fighting skills as well as work on other Viking skills from putting the feathers on their arrows, to making clothes from the era. Staff Photos by Calvin Daniels

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Perspective Let’s be smart with our pipeline investments

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Politics Approximately 1.2 million litres of oil leaked from that train derailment near Guernsey earlier this month. That’s only slightly less than the 1.5 million litres lost in in a nearby rail oil tanker car spill a month earlier. However, it is no less dangerous. That we still don’t know the cause of either spill is problematic. But such unknown dangers of shipping oil by rail tanker are just the beginning of the issues in play. Every oil tanker moving on rail — and those living in rural Saskatchewan need not be reminded how many of those there out there — means that there is one less car moving potash or grain. We are still in the middle of winter and, at any given time, that could mean weatherrelated slow downs. Now, add to the mix the potential for blockades set up by anti-pipeline protests. Further add to that the actual slowdown of trains requested by federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau for precautionary/safety reasons as a result of the Guernsey derailments. Such issues are bound to slow our economy. This adds to the arguments for more pipelines, so you might be wondering exactly what it is that’s standing in the way. Well, there are a few things. The first is that pipelines have their own inherent problems, as people in this province learned in 2016 with the spill of the oil into the North Saskatchewan River because of a breach in the Husky pipeline. That said, we do have systems in place to inspect pipelines and such spills are a relatively rare occurrence. Certainly, a pipeline spill is less inclined than a train derailment to have explosive results. But the biggest reason why we don’t have more pipelines is they are rather expensive to built — both in dollar and environmental approval terms. We certainly learned this with the Energy East pipeline that ran into economic viability issues and opposition in Quebec — even though there was a very good argument that such a pipeline made sense for reasons of Canadian energy self-sufficiency and national unity. (If ever there was a pipeline worthy of federal government support/subsidization, one might think it would be this one.) We have re-learned this lesson in the furore over the Trans-Mountain pipeline that’s almost doubled in costs since the federal Liberal government bought it two years ago — the result of a combination of delays and rules to ensure that it complied with environment regulations. One hopes that the Saskatchewan Party government has learned these lessons. Recently, it struck a cabinet committee to examine pipeline development and maybe even consider taxpayer investment. It’s the latter aspect in which one hopes cabinet’s new Pipeline Projects Assessment Committee (PPAC) moves cautiously. Yes, there’s an argument that the 1,150-kilometre TransMountain pipeline that opens up oil markets to the Far East (while tripling capacity from 300,000 barrels a day) makes economic sense. But does every pipeline make economic sense? What is the logic in Trade Minister Jeremy Harrison’s suggest that government might consider building a pipeline over the muskeg to Churchill when it doesn’t have oil shipping facilities and is a seasonal port? Shouldn’t a provincial government that’s doubled our debt to nearly $22 billion since in came to office in 2007 be a little more cautious? That said, one gets the frustration of the Sask. Party and others to the impediments being put along the way. There is no doubt that some hardcore environmentalist see the recent derailments as grounds to stop oil production altogether. This makes no more sense that ignoring the reality of man-made climate change or simple common sense of burning less fossil fuel. But we still need smart responses to our problems. Let’s build pipelines, but let’s invest wisely. Murray Mandryk has been covering provincial politics for over 22 years.

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Promoting city just common sense N

ot surprisingly the best advice one can share ends up being rather common sense once you pause to consider it. A good example of that was the advice former Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco offered at the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce luncheon in the city last week. Fiacco is the man behind a rather successful ‘I love Regina’ campaign, which was simply focused on getting everyone in that city looking at the positives about Regina, and sharing those positives with those beyond the city’s boundaries. Like cattle on a farm, residents of a community can often look over the proverbial fence and see greener grass that they long for. In letting our eyes wander we can too easily lose track of just how good we have it at home. We do that as a country, lamenting how this leader or that one are ruining Canada, forgetting that when measured against other countries, our country as it is, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is in fact an amazing place to live and far from imploding as a few squeaky gates clanging in the wind of social media might suggest. Similarly, we can often get hung up on what other cities have to offer. The paved highways leading into Yorkton often traveled to get to someplace we think of as better for entertainment or shopping. But, as Fiacco pointed out, when

you take a few minutes to assess your home community you are going to find it offers a great place to live. “Yorkton here, you’re a sleeping giant,” he offered, noting the Gallagher Centre an envy of many communities, the Western Development Museum is a draw, there are local golf courses, the city is close to lakes, there is the annual film festival, all positives. Fiacco then noted the city slogan ‘where good things happen,” which he said can be an attitude if people buy into it. But, Fiacco was also correct in asking if we in Yorkton do a good job of telling the world about what this city offers? That is how we make our community more vibrant, how we make it grow toward the future, by extolling the virtues Yorkton offers, whether its businesses to access products, recreational facilities to enjoy, or events held to enjoy. “I don’t have to tell you this but Yorkton has huge potential,” said Fiacco, adding “it’s time you start blowing your own horn. “You need to tell the world about the good things that happen ... You’ve got to tell your story. It’s not bragging. It’s just the truth.” That is a rather common sense approach when you think about how Yorkton is a diverse community we should be proud of.

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Taste of high school

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It was a day to learn a bit more about what high school will be like. Grade 8 students from the Christ the Teacher School Division in Yorkton visited Sacred Heart High School last Wednesday. Students were given various presentations, had some fun in the gym, visited classrooms, and generally got a first-hand look at the school they will advance to in the fall.

Firefighter occupational disease coverage expanded Recent amendments to The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013 (the Act) have expanded the list of occupational diseases covered by the rebuttable presumption for firefighters. The expanded list now includes six additional cancers that were not previously covered by the WCB. “The added cancers recognize the changing demographics among firefighters, with half of the additional cancers impacting females,” said

Phillip Germain, CEO of the Workers’ Compensation Board. The expanded list of occupational diseases covered by the rebuttable presumption for firefighters came into effect Nov. 15, 2019 and include: • primary-site prostate cancer • primary-site skin cancer • multiple myeloma • primary-site breast cancer • primary-site cervical cancer • primary-site ovarian cancer

Amendments to the firefighters’ presumptive coverage include coverage for volunteer and part-time firefighters who are or have been exposed to the hazards of a fire scene, other than a forest fire. The WCB is reviewing old claims that were not previously covered under the Act to determine if they would be an acceptable work injury under the new legislation. The new presumptions will apply to previously submitted WCB

injury claims and to any new claims with injury dates prior to the legislative amendment. Firefighters with WCB claims can request a re-evaluation of an old decision. The request will be considered by the WCB team responsible for the most recent decision. For more information about changes to the rebuttable presumption for firefighters, visit the WCB website at www. wcbsask.com.

Pastryworld now offering fresh bread Yorkton has been without an independently owned bakery for quite a number of years now. That has recently changed with the opening of pastryworld’s retail bakery store. Located just north of the SGI building on Highway #9, pastryworld has been part of Yorkton’s business community since 2001. With a focus on the wholesale production of baked goods for the Canadian grocery market, retail sales were never a staple of pastryworld’s business. However, owners Ingrid and Johannes Prost felt that the time was right to utilize their almost four-decades of experience producing fine European pastries, cakes and pies, cookies, breads, and buns to provide Yorkton foodies with a new local bread and bun option. Using authentic European and German bread recipes to craft their artisanal products, customers are provided with a variety of fresh bread and bun options Mondays to Fridays. “Varieties include light and dark rye breads, home-style white, whole wheat and raisin bread, several whole grain breads e.g. Multigrain, Ancient grain, Rustic rye and Canadian grain,” explains Ingrid. “Our bun selection offers also a wide variety of crusty, white and seed buns e.g. Pumpkin Seed Rye buns, Viking buns, Country buns and more.” A schedule of the daily fresh baked products available is posted on their website www. pastryworld.ca as well as on their Facebook page. “Every bread and bun variety sold is handcrafted every morning from scratch recipes,” said Ingrid. “As soon as the breads leave the oven these are available for the public to purchase.” Breads destined for the freezer section are bagged and frozen as soon as they have cooled down. “This means that even our frozen offerings are as fresh as possible to delight consumers’ taste buds,” said Ingrid. If you want to tickle your taste buds even more you want to check out the cakes, pies and cupcakes that are available in their store as well. Ingrid and Johannes

don’t just pride themselves on providing their customers with freshly baked products, they also believe in the value of giving back to

the community. They have partnered with the Yorkton Soup Haven to ensure that breads that go unsold on any given day are not wasted.

Ingrid and Johannes are extremely excited about the positive feedback that they have

received from customers so far and they believe that it validates their belief that people in

Yorkton are craving the freshness and quality that a small local bakery can provide.

History Corner Medical staff at Queen Victoria Cottage Hospital Medical staff taking time out from work to pose on the front porch of the Queen Victoria Cottage Hospital. Circa 1916. From left to right: Dr. Lindsay, Miss Walker, Matron, Dr. T.A. Patrick, and Miss Harrison. Front row: Miss Heron, Dr. D. Hyslop, Miss F.M. Myles and Dr. D. Boughton. For history of Yorkton Hospitals see the book Eighty Years of Caring 1902-1982 at the City of Yorkton Archives or at the Yorkton Public Library.

This History Corner originally ran in the Feb. 24, 2010 edition of Yorkton This Week. Terri Lefebvre-Prince

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No invasive mussels found in Sask

The results are in, and the news is good: the Government of Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monitoring program detected no invasive mussels in 123 waterbodies sampled throughout the province last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pleased that our focus on public awareness and education, along with roadside watercraft inspections, decontamination and regular monitoring, continues to achieve positive results,â&#x20AC;? Environment Minister Dustin Duncan said. In 2019, the ministry checked more than 3,100 watercraft for signs of aquatic invasive species (AIS), identifying 1,147 as high-risk

and requiring further inspection. In all, 217 watercraft were decontaminated and no AIS were found. Anyone transporting watercraft in Saskatchewan must remove the boat plug, stop at watercraft inspection stations and submit to inspection, or risk a $500 fine. It is also illegal to bring prohibited aquatic invasive species into Saskatchewan. The ministry works co-operatively with the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AIS Task Force, which includes other government agencies, conservation and other non-government organizations and universities on additional education

and monitoring activities. Saskatchewan also partners with Canada Border Services Agency and other provincial and territorial governments to co-ordinate prevention efforts across western Canada. AIS, such as zebra and quagga mussels, threaten lakes and rivers in western Canada. They can severely affect aquatic habitat, fisheries, valuable recreational resources and important infrastructure for irrigation, power generation and municipal water supplies. Invasive mussels are now found in Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec and in 34 states.

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Request for Proposals Beverage Cart Proposal must be received before 4:00 p.m. on March 6, 2020 Please send sealed Proposal clearly marked with the above proposal name 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 proposals for the supply of one beverage cart for Deer Park Golf Course. SpeciďŹ cations are available at: www.yorkton.ca/tenders Proposal shall remain open for acceptance by the City and irrevocable for thirty (30) calendar days following the date specified for closing. Proposal 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: Allan Sauser, Director of Golf Community Development, Parks & Recreation City of Yorkton Phone: 306-786-1750 Email: cdpr@yorkton.ca The City reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. Lowest or any proposal not necessarily accepted.

Bedding Plants Proposal must be received before 4:00 p.m. on February 21, 2020 Please send sealed Proposal clearly marked with the above proposal name 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 proposals for the supply of bedding plants for the 2020 season. SpeciďŹ cations are available at: www.yorkton.ca/tenders Proposal shall remain open for acceptance by the City and irrevocable for thirty (30) calendar days following the date specified for closing. Proposal 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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Parks Manager Community Development, Parks & Recreation City of Yorkton Phone: 306-786-1780 Email: cdpr@yorkton.ca The City reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. Lowest or any proposal not necessarily accepted.

Saskatchewan Lotteries Community Grant Does your group have a program, project or special event coming up this year? Funding up to $5,000.00 may be available through the Saskatchewan Lotteries Community Grant Program For more details please visit www.yorkton.ca/dept/leisure/grants.asp or call 306-786-1750 or email cdpr@yorkton.ca Deadline to apply is March 1, 2020

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February 19, 2020 - February 25, 2020

Council Meeting Monday, March 9, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Public Notice

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PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE “Remuneration – Members of Council” Policy No. 10.170 Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Yorkton intends to consider an amendment to the “Remuneration – Members of Council” Policy No. 10.170, at the March 9, 2020 Regular Council Meeting. The proposed amendment to the Policy is to remove Deputy Mayor pay, and set timelines for any pay adjustments resulting from MLA salary changes. If approved, the policy would be effective November 10, 2020. Questions regarding the proposed amendment may be directed to: Jessica Matsalla, Director of Legislation and Procedures (City Clerk) Phone: (306) 786-1717 Email: jmatsalla@yorkton.ca

PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED AMENDMENT You may visit our website at www.yorkton.ca to TO viewTHE the proposed policy “Remuneration – Members of Council” Policy No. amendment. 10.170 PUBLIC NOTICE

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Deputy Mayor no longer getting extra pay

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Yorkton Council unanimously adjusted what they will receive in pay in the years ahead at its regular meeting Monday. The Remuneration of Council Policy sets the salaries of Council Members, explained Jessica Matsalla Director of Legislation & Procedures, with the City. “It was last amended

in October of 2018, when the Federal government removed the tax exemption on one-third of Council remuneration. The subsequent change in remuneration was made to offset the income tax changes in an effort to ensure that the Mayor and Councillors would receive the same amount of net pay prior to the federal income tax changes,” said Matsalla. Their research resulted in a recommen-

dation to base council salaries as a percentage of a Saskatchewan MLA. The end of the fiscal year for the provincial government is March 31st and changes to MLA salaries typically take effect April 1st. These changes impact Council such that when the MLA’s reduced their salaries by 3.5 per cent, Yorkton City Councillors also has a reduction of 3.5 per cent, explained Matsalla. The mismatch

between municipal and provincial fiscal years proves difficult when it comes to budgeting for Councillors’ salaries. For that reason, it was proposed to amend the policy to include a timeline for salary changes. The other recommendation was to remove Deputy Mayor pay. “When polled, the cities of Melfort, Martensville, Swift Current, Humboldt, Weyburn, Estevan,

North Battleford, and Saskatoon all responded that those appointed to Deputy Mayor are not given extra compensation. Melville provides $75/month served and Meadow Lake provides $200/month served,” explained Matsalla. It was also part of the motion passed to clarify the requirement for the terms served for Deputy Mayor to be cumulative of at least eight months, and not consecutive.

February 19, 2020 - February 25, 2020

Council Meeting Monday, March 9, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.

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Connection to food includes preparing it The obvious disconnect between consumers and farmers, is much discussed in agriculture media, and that includes mentioned here on numerous occasions. This past week I had something of an epiphany in regards to the aforementioned disconnect. It had always been a case of simplifying the situation down to the reality more and more consumers, even those in small Canadian Prairie cities, no longer have a direct connection to the farm. There is no grandfather, uncle, brother, still operating a nearby farm where urban relatives visit to

see calves being born and grain harvested. Without that direct look at a farm operation a level of distrust has arisen as people often fear that which they do not know. Yet, in the back of my mind that never quite jived with how consumers happily head to grocery store and buy ‘fresh’ fruit imported from half a world away, or opt for something processed by a big corporation in a plant in another country with a long list of unpronounceable ingredients, with a seemingly greater trust than how the farm just outside the local community go about their business. It dawned on me

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Calvin Daniels that the issue revolves around a disconnect people have from actually making their own food. We live in an era where we increasingly rely on a cellphone app to order our meals, or we opt for some ‘boilin-the-bag’ meal that in my youth would have been little more than a

strange idea offered in a sci-fi novel. When I think back to my youth, there are numerous memories about food that are not directly about sitting down to eat. I well remember carrying bags of potatoes from the garden into the cellar on a frosty October evening.

Then there was helping to wrap carrots to store, shell peas, cut beans, or weed the garden patch. You were connected to your food in a very personal way. Similarly, there is nothing that quite connects you to your food like the aromas that come with filling the larder. I have read that scents often fire very strong memories, and in the case of food I fully understand that. The smell of making pickles have stuck with me for decades, although it has been at least 25-years since anyone made homemade pickles in my home. And then there is

the smell of mom making homemade buns and bread. The range of smells goes from the yeasty scent of the dough rising, to the smells of baking, to that special scent of butter being basted over the crust of hot bread fresh from the oven. The memories are fresh, the connection to our food better understood because of it. But for most, they are as far from home preparation of food as they are from milking cows, or driving a combine, and that is part of the disconnect often not considered. Calvin Daniels is Editor with Yorkton This Week.

Local seminar to look at grain prospects As farmers prepare to plant the 2020 crop information on potential returns this fall is important. That is where ‘The Wild Oats Grain Marketing Seminar’ to be held in Yorkton Feb. 27, can be an asset, for farmers looking to improve their marketing.

John Duvenaud, publisher of Wild Oats, will give outlooks on flax, oats, canary and peas. Jerry Klassen, who buys most of the imported wheat milled in Europe, will give outlooks on canola, wheat and feed grains. Ray Garnett, of the Ray Garnett

Climate and Crops Letter will talk about what’s really happening to our climate. The headline speaker is Harold Davis of Prairie Crop Charts. He’ll talk about the benefits of incremental marketing, about seasonalities in crop prices and give short and long term

crop outlooks based on chart action. The seminar ruins from 9am to 4pm on Thursday, Feb 27, and includes lunch. Only room for 80 people, first come, first served. Call 1-800-567-5671 or Canadagrain.com

Melville’s Payton Molnar knows champion bison By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Payton Molnar, of Melville, knows a champion bison when she sees one. She runs her own farm and has taken top prizes for her stock. Molnar says she fell in love with bison as a child, and as a third generation farmer, she is continuing the tradition in her own

way. “I’ve grown up in the bison industry,” says Molnar. “In 2015 I became a proud third generation bison producer by purchasing twelve heifers. Then, in 2019, I decided to expand my herd and purchase another 50 choice cows. I grew up with being more in the

meat market of things, but [I] decided to test my luck and see if I could do anything at agribition this year. I ended up doing pretty good.” Payton wound up with Rookie of the Year, Grand Champion Female, Gold Senior and Junior Judging, Gold Yearling Heifer, Silver Yearling Bull, Bronze Bred-Two Year Old, and placed 4th

with her yearling bull. “I placed with all my animals, so I was very excited about that. It was a very cool experience for me, that’s for sure. It starts at the farm. You choose which animals you think are the best, and then they get placed in certain categories. Then, you take them and you drop them off.

They each get put in seperate pens, and a judge will walk around and decipher which animal looks the best based on their masculinity, their height, their weight, length of them and depth. That’s pretty much it, and then they do the measuring from then on. They usually look for what everybody would like in their herd. So you want

a nice, healthy strong cow. You want a nice, big hefty bull that’s going to look good in your herd and produce beautiful offspring to what those animals are.” When asked what produces the best specimens, Molnar says it is pretty simple. “Just green grass and good hay.”

Five year research program set for beef sector With $2.35 million in funding from the federal government and the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC), University of Saskatchewan (USask) veterinary researcher Dr. Cheryl Waldner will undertake a major fiveyear research program to advance beef cattle health and productivity, helping to sustain the profitability and competitiveness of Canada’s $17-billion-a-year beef industry. “This timely and cutting-edge research builds on our university’s strengths in agriculture and One Health to help advance the livestock industry’s economic contributions to the country and ensure continued consumer confidence in the safety and quality of Canadian beef,” said USask President Peter Stoicheff in announcing the new chair Jan. 30. The $750,000 award from the federal Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is matched by $750,000 in producer check-off funding from the BCRC. USask is contributing $850,000. As NSERC/BCRC Industrial Research Chair in One Health and Production-Limiting Diseases, Waldner will work with the industry to address priorities of Canada’s beef producers

across the beef value chain—from improved herd health, to expanded surveillance of antibiotic use and resistance, to increased uptake of best practices for herd management. “This chair will use a systems approach to build on existing research and examine complex health challenges,” said Waldner, a professor of large animal clinical sciences in the USask Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM). “We will identify existing gaps and fill them using innovative data collection and decision-making tools and technologies to enable the Canadian beef industry to better manage production-limiting diseases and develop evidencebased policies for animal health and antimicrobial stewardship.” Management of diseases such as Johne’s disease in cow-calf herds and bovine respiratory disease in feedlots, as well as antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance, are key industry priorities. “Disease-causing bacteria in animals are increasingly able to resist the antibiotics used to treat them, and the agriculture industry is being challenged to improve antibiotic stewardship in livestock production,” she said. The tools and tech-

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USask veterinary researcher Dr. Cheryl Waldner is the new NSERC/BCRC Industrial Research Chair in One Health and Production-Limiting Diseases. nologies to guide herd management and policy and enable targeted precision medicine will include genomics, big data and system science tools, network analysis, computer modelling, and smart phone sensors and apps. USask’s computer science researchers will play a key role in adapting these new tools and technologies to industry challenges and providing experts to help researchers manage the volumes of data to support complex decision making, Waldner said. “The challenges faced by the beef industry require new and more specialized diagnostic

and data management tools that can generate results in real time, and trained expertise to help producers make complex animal disease prevention, treatment and management decisions,” said BCRC Chair Ryan Beierbach. “We look forward to working with Dr. Waldner and her team on research aimed at supporting continued advancements in industry productivity and sustainability and helping to inform industry and government policy and standards.” The IRC award enables the hiring of a junior faculty member, expanding the regional veterinary college’s beef

cattle health research capacity. The IRC also includes training for at least three master’s students, two PhD students, one post-doctoral fellow and five undergraduate students, providing skills in great demand by industry and government such as data management and analysis, bioinformatics and systems science. Among the reasons USask was chosen for the chair—in addition to Waldner’s research record and previous collaborations with BCRC— are the critical mass of beef researchers at WCVM and the College of Agriculture and

Bioresources, along with access to the new USask Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence. “NSERC is proud to support the University of Saskatchewan, which has a long history of supporting research in the livestock area,” said Marc Fortin, NSERC’s vice-president of research partnerships. “Dr. Waldner and her team will develop innovative tools to support policy setting and management decisions in Canada’s beef industry, a significant contributor to the Canadian economy.” As well, the new chair builds on a recent $5.6-million Genome Canada award to Waldner and her colleagues at USask and the University of Alberta, including $750,000 announced Jan. 29 by the Saskatchewan A g r i c u l t u r e Development Fund. This project, administered by Genome Prairie, involves developing genomic diagnostics tools that can be used to quickly and accurately identify an antimicrobial treatment for a disease, something that now takes five to seven days using traditional laboratory tests. Canada is one of the largest exporters of red meat in the world, with 38 per cent of domestic beef exported. More than 80 per cent of the cattle are raised in Western Canada.

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Spreading some cheer

Staff Photos by Calvin Daniels

Grade 1 students from St. Paul’s School in the city distributed some special Valentine’s Friday. The students walked to the offices of the General Alexander Ross branch of the Royal Canadian Legion to deliver Valentine

cards to veterans, and to do some singing as well. The activity was a first for the school said teacher Shari Bernauer. “We wanted to spread some cheer around and give something back to the community,” she said.

New program focuses on nature By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Interested students at Saltcoats School are getting some additional hands-on education regarding nature. “It’s really just an off-shoot of our birding group (Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association),” explained Rob Wilson. Wilson, a long-time educator and member of the birding group, said he came to recognize young people no longer connect with nature as they once did. “Kids are getting really disconnected from the natural world,” he said, adding they seem far more connected to the Internet and social media than being outside listening to birds or chasing frogs. So Wilson approached the school about offering an after school program for students who are interested in learning

more about nature. After the proper vetting, the program was approved and has started modestly at the school. Wilson said he has a rather simple goal. “I hope to get them engaged with paying attention to nature,” he said, adding he’s taking a very hands-on approach. Wilson said it starts with getting youth outside so they can observe nature. He then wants them to record what they see, write it down so they have a record from which they can then share with others. But it starts through observation. “Go out and see what you’ve got,” he said. The group; the Citizens Science Group, has two projects already on the go. “I’ve got a few kids that are pretty keen,” said Wilson. Thanks to some help from Kenn Wood who built a bird feeder for the group, they are observ-

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A pileated woodpecker has visited Saltcoats School. ing birds on the school grounds. The students, anyone from Kindergarten to Grade 8 can participate in the group which meets over lunch hours, or after school, have helped install the feeder. Wilson said they are now doing a small experiment. Initially the feeder was filled with fat, with students recording which

birds show up to eat. Next they will fill the feeder with canola seed and observe whether that attracts a different group of birds. While admitting it’s a rather simplistic experiment Wilson added, “the whole point is to try and get kids a little bit more interest in nature.” It also gets the youth outside “away from the

computer,” he noted. The feeder provides an opportunity to learn about specific bird species, such as going to a book to show how visiting cedar waxwings differ from Bohemian waxwings. The feeder also attracted a rather rare to the area pileated woodpecker which is a very large woodpecker with a

long neck and a triangular crest that sweeps off the back of the head. The bill is long and chisellike, about the length of the head. “Those are teachable moments,” offered Wilson. The second project focuses on the often maligned garter snake. Wilson said he has the students working on ideas which “show how the schoolyard can be shared with snakes.” There appear to be snakes wintering in the school foundation, and that makes some uneasy. Wilson said he hopes to change that attitude. “Snakes are part of nature. They’re OK. They’re cool,” he said. So the students will study about snakes, and then the plan is, in conjunction with the school debate club, will present formal arguments on why snakes should be allowed to share the schoolyard, said Wilson.

Solange Massicotte of the WDM (left) and Jennifer Fedun, historian for the City of Yorkton (right)

Heritage Day celebrates cultures at WDM Canada is a diverse country, and the Western Development Museum held Heritage Day in Yorkton with keynote speakers talking about the importance of cultural learning and adjustment. “Heritage Day is an

annual event we do through the national trust,” explains Solange Massicotte, Education and Public Programming Coordinator. “This year is 20/20 Vision: Bringing the Past Into the Future.

We have a few people talking today. We have Jennifer Fedun, from the City of Yorkton. She’s the new historian, and she’s talking about an image scanner and how she’s going to put photos online [with] her process of doing that.

She’s going to do a demo today of how to do that, which is actually interesting especially for archives and how she works [so] deeply with them [in terms of] putting them online. “We also have Edith Montesclaros from the

East Central Newcomer Welcome Centre, and she’s going to talk about her experience coming here, as well as her role as an executive director at the company welcoming newcomers and their stories [as well as] experiences being here,

which ties in wel with 20/20 in the future. She ties in Yorkton community that way, especially when it comes to the culture and heritage.” For more information, visit http://www. wdm.ca/

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Community Spotlight Yorkton and area Parkinson’s Canada Support Group meeting, Wed., Feb. 19 at 2 p.m. at Yorkton Crossing, 348 Morrison Drive. All Parkinson’s patients and interested persons welcome. For further info contact Marj at 306-783-7519 or Joanne at 306-783-8615.

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Yoga Classes for Seniors - New Horizons Senior Centre, 78 First Ave. N., Yorkton. Come out and get fit every Tuesday and Friday. 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 pm 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 306-6206605.

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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, o t h el lo , c h e c k e r s , back gammon, go, Camelot etc., join the Yorkton Boardgamers Guild, a new group forming to promote gat her in gs to 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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“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. 1-800-668-6868 kidshelp. sympatico.ca

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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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Are you ready for ‘Seedy Saturday’? The longer and brighter days are now encouraging us to “think spring”! We can get our feet wet for gardening with ‘Seedy Saturday’on Saturday, February 22, from 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. at Dreambuilders School at SIGN on Broadway. There will be seed vendors and exchange, kid’s area, and more. You can get your local organic garden seeds here. Then, mark the date on your calendar: the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, March 18, 7 p.m. at SIGN on North Street. It will be nice to get together and “talk gardening” again! When I was at the library, browsing through the gardening books, I also found some interesting books on hygge. Okay, first: pronunciation. Hygge is pronounced “hue-guh”. It is a Scandinavian word for a feeling of contentment, coziness and well-being. The concept talks about caring for ourselves and the ones we love, being comfortable and enjoying simple pleasures. While hygge is often applied to getting over the long, cold winter months, it is more than that; it’s a way of thinking and living that can apply to any season. The books that I was reading on hygge talk about enjoyment of nature and being outdoors, and I found this especially interesting for us, as gardeners. With spring just around the corner (one month away, on March 19), we are all thinking just a little bit (!) about our upcoming gardens. While we enjoy thinking about what we will plant and how we organize our containers, we are probably also thinking about the enjoyment of being in our gardens and connecting with nature. That’s our hygge as gardeners. You know that I take a garden tour every day, even in the winter. At first you might think, what’s there to see out there in the winter? You’d be surprised! There is a lot of beauty in the winter garden. The colors and textures of the bark on the trees and shrubs. The

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Gardener’s Notebook gnarled branches, surviving through all kinds of weather, are a thing of beauty. The various perennials with seed heads when they are sparkling with a dusting of snow or hoarfrost. The lemon stems of the dogwood are bright and cheery in the snowdrifts. The patterns that the wind makes in the snow can be breathtaking, and are especially lovely when there are tiny little bird tracks trailing across a delicate sweep of snow. In the other seasons, before I start my day, I sit on our patio for a few minutes and take it all in: the colors, the smells, the melody of the birds darting around the feeder. For just a few minutes, before I start doing anything, I just sit there and “be”. When hygge talks about “contentment” and “peace of mind”, I think that we, as gardeners, must be enjoying a very special aspect of hygge. It is something to

consider as we start to plan for our gardening year: what plants will bring us the most enjoyment in our yards or on our decks? Do we want bright pops of color with annuals, the satisfaction of growing edibles (even in containers), or the restful delights of perennials and greenery? Maybe a mixture of all of these. If we are ordering any seeds from those exciting new seed catalogues, let’s make a pact to try one new thing! I can picture Sweet Pea sitting at her kitchen table, browsing through the seed catalogues, pen in hand, order forms ready. The look of pure enjoyment on her face was something I will never forget! By the way, I noticed on the City events calendar that there will be a hygge session at the WDM on Saturday, March 7 at 2:00 p.m. Sounds very interesting! Have a contented and hygge week!

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In the face of bullying, do not be indifferent

I’m pounding the keyboard of my old Dell into the table right now. I spoke to a young friend earlier today. Yesterday was unseasonably warm for mid-winter. It seems that someone, taking advantage of the thaw, trespassed onto their family’s property and turned on an outside tap. All night long, water flowed through the foundation of the house they’d just purchased, causing considerable damage in the finished basement. His discouragement seeped through the phone. This is the family who have adopted the Preacher and me. Their baby calls me Nana. The sweet immigrant family who, along with our sonin-law and grandson, recently sacrificed an entire day to help out at our newly purchased

house. Who, on our youngest grandson’s third birthday, transported an entire birthday party – food, cake, dishes, gifts, and all – to our campsite at the lake, because they realized that, not being home, he’d miss out on a party. We’ve laughed and cried with, played, prayed and dined with our Indian family. But not everyone they’ve met in our country feels the same. Their skin is darker than that of most people around them. They’re not the same religion and some of their clothing is unfamiliar. They don’t complain, but I know. In the few years since their arrival in Canada, our friends have encountered more racial discrimination than most of us middleclass white folk will ever experience. Business

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Sunny Side Up professionals who don’t keep promises. Cheaters, crooks and abusers, some wearing badges, carrying licences, and sporting degree plaques on their office walls. And plenty of others who look the other way. Welcome to the First World, friends. Am I mad? Read between the lines. This. Must. Stop. Kathie’s angry too. In the midst of the Corona Virus crisis, living and ministering in Richmond, B.C., Kathie, a Salvation Army cap-

tain, witnessed a white customer verbally bullying two Asian clerks at the pharmacy. He started by loudly claiming that Chinese people were “buying up all the alcohol swabs and sending them back to China, and

there will be none left for us Canadians!” Then he escalated into a long rant. The young Asians reflected total shock. Kathie, of Irish heritage and red-haired, told the man to pay and stop ranting. Immediately he turned on her; started calling her names. She stood firm until, “like every bully ever, he stomped off.” Remaining with the clearly shaken young people until they regained their composure, she reassured them that many people appreciate what the Chinese contribute to our country. At the recent 75th

Anniversary Holocaust memorial at Auschwitz, an elderly Jewish survivor, passion infusing his voice, spoke of the Ten Commandments as the foundation of Judeo Christian values. “But there’s an eleventh,” he said, quoting someone else, “Though shalt not be indifferent.” As history repeatedly demonstrates, indifference and silence kill. In the name of Jesus, and in the face of bullying, stand up. Speak up. Pray up. Preach up. Do anything but shut up. And if you must, write mad.

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Author reading It was cold outside, but that did not stop an author presentation at the Yorkton Public Library last Wednesday. Kendra Weenie a Cree woman from Sweetgrass First Nation. She grew up single-

parented, on welfare, with minimal opportunity for success. From her experiences she wrote the book ‘Surviving Domestic Violence’ from which she shared readings and material.

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Helping teachers teach math By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Math is, without a shadow a doubt, a crucial skill. For many, it is a subject that is hard for many people to really get into. In fact, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult for many people, period. Many of us have grim memories of math class in school â&#x20AC;&#x201C; endless times tables; algebra. What does all this mean? On the flip side, too, mathematics teachers also face an uphill battle, to be sure. How do you make numbers exciting? Context is key â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it is how many of us learn, but how do you make the numbers mean something in a real world scenario? When one thinks of math class, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to picture the vast majority of students wilfully and excitedly learning complex mathematical concepts involving probability. One might even say the concept might seem improbable. One man, however, has quite literally found a way to beat the odds. Enter Nat Banting. Banting is a mathematics teacher on the faculty of the University of Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Curriculum Studies. In laymanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terms, he is literally a teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teacher. He develops effective methods of teaching children, and then teaches educators how to implement these techniques in the classroom. Now, the bright lights of New York have taken notice. Bantingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lesson, and its addicting effective-

ness was quickly recognized as world class. It won the Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching, from the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Banting is the first Canadian math teacher ever to win this prestigious prize. The problem was deceptively simple: how do you engage kids in the classroom with a subject many people struggle with, and have them learn and actually retain the material? Especially when dealing with theoreticals like variables and probability? The solution: predicting the outcome of rolling dice. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, you heard correctly. Figuring out how to beat the house. In fact, the name of the lesson is just that: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dice Auction: Putting outcomes of the dice up for sale.â&#x20AC;? The lesson also includes an element of risk. That element involves students not just making decisions on the possible outcomes themselves, but adds bidding on the outcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had kind of adapted an earlier lesson I had done with my Grade 9 class,â&#x20AC;? said Banting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[In involved] probabilities and quantification of risk, which is one of my favourite areas of mathematics. When you teach in school, often times you get to boil down to predicting what familiar objects will do

Analyze this: Nat Banting, the first Canadian winner of the prestigious Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration, pictured here at the award ceremonies in New York City. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like dice, and coins. Then, all that I wanted to do was create an environment were calculating the probability is very straightforward. You can do that with a simple process for a middle school to lower high school level student as a starting point. So what I did, is I actually set it up as an auction [of] many of the results of rolling two dice together. I set them up as auction lots, as you would see in an auction house. Then, the kids had all of them and decided which one they wanted to bid on.â&#x20AC;? Step 1 achievement unlocked: get the kids to

literally annex the outcome they want to predict, so they have an emotional investment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had 100 units of currency, and then they had to bid on it.â&#x20AC;? Of these lots, then they had to predict what their classmates would do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The calculation of probability is a starting point, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the end of the mathematical reasoning. These calculations of risk change with new information. If the second group to your left, say, overbid for that one lot, that can have one of two effects. It might indicate inflation of the mar-

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The Elias Giannoulis 3-on-3 hockey tournament in support of mental health was on this weekend, successfully raising funds.

Speed skating: It is just as cool as it looks in the Olympics!

Speed skating a high octane sport By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Saskatchewan definitely punches above its weight in the Olympic sport of speed skating. In 2018, two of Team Canada’s racers were from Saskatchewan, and at Sochi, there were four. In much of Canada, it’s hard to find a speed skating track, but if you ever wanted to try your hand at the sport, Melville has its own short track facil-

ity. Just a short hop away, the Melville Speed Skating Club has its own program, and is administerd by Sask Speed Skating, the provincial regulatory body for the sport. Kim Engel, who runs the Melville club, says it is a sport that can be learned by all sorts of individuals at different skill levels. “We have a learn to skate program for any kid six years or under – or

people that have never skated before. That’s our group 1-2. Then we have our competitive group, which is our group 3-4. So it’s different varying levels of competitiveness that they’re in, and different skill levels. My twins are six, and they’re in group one – the learn to skate. My oldest son is almost 12 and he’s in our group 4, the competitive stream. We have any kind of kid,” Engel explains. “We have kids that

are brand new that are trying to skate, we have kids from other sports, like hockey that have switched to speed skating. It really just depends on their interest. Our biggest thing, first and foremost, is that our kids have fun. That’s really what we focus on. Then we focus on the different skills, [because] we want them to get better. We want them to get faster. We want kids to want to do speed skating [and]

have fun while they’re there.” It is also known for being a particularly inclusive sport. “The biggest thing we find with speed skating is that everybody cheers for everybody,” Engel says. “If you go to a meet or a competition, there’s no club against club, or parent against parent, or skater against skater. Everybody is cheering everybody else on. As

they get older, it’s really neat to see how they’ve kind of grown up in the sport with each other. They get to look forward to hanging out with the kids from the other clubs, and it’s neat to see how they all kind of gravitate towards each other.” If you’d like to check it out or try it yourself, everybody is welcome. Contact Kimberly Engel at Kim_35@hotmail.com or Jamie Simpson at thomasjamies@yahoo.ca .

Senior’s Curling Bonspiel hosted By Cory Carlick Staff Writer Curling is well represented in Yorkton, and the Senior’s curling bonspiel was held this weekend at the Yorkton Curling Club. Spearheaded by master curler Karen Theis and her husband, Ray Theis organizes the teams in such a way that all skill

levels learn a little from each other to the overall benefit of the game. Yorkton This Week spoke to Karen Theis about the bonspiel. “For this week, we have a curling social,” said Theis. “It’s a senior one, so it’s for people fifty and older. We have seven rinks from out of town,

and eleven of our local rinks. We just throw all of our names in a hat, and pull out; what you get, you get – because it is a social. We end on Friday with a banquet and dance. The Crossing has sponsored the Hot Shots, which is the draw to the button; hit and stick, hit and roll, and stuff like that which is nice.”

Hurry Hard! All skill levels were on-hand for the Senior’s Curling Bonspiel

“We have two draws. We have one at 11 and one at 1. We’ve always had a senior’s ‘Spiel. Ray and I took over in 2009. We did it by putting people’s names in a hat so our curlers would get in.” This ensures everyone can play, and sometimes a surprise star is born this way.

“Someone who thinks they may not be that great on a team [can] get on a team.” Theis is quick to admit that people are often better than they think they are – and the sport benefits as a result. “This is kind of fun. You get to know more people and go, ‘Hey,

would you curl with me out of town?’ It’s kind of a circuit. Churchbridge has theirs, first -- in January; [in] the first week. Then, the second week at is Langenberg, and the third week was ours. The fourth week is Saltcoats, so that’s how we make January go by,” Theis said with a smile.

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Rugby worthy of more Canadian exposure Over the weeks of this column I have on occasion lamented that the two major cable sports networks in this country do a rather shoddy job of covering anything involving Canadian pro teams unless they are involved in one of the big four sports. Then along comes TSN which has picked up Toronto Arrow games for the 2020 Major League Rugby season. When I read that I was thrilled, and the season opener went off without a hitch. Then, week two, the Arrows are playing Houston in Las Vegas Sunday afternoon. I roll out of bed 10-minutes ahead of the 1:30 local time start, and find that while TSN has four channels on my cable package, the Arrows are not

scheduled. Two TSN channels are showing the same curling game, two others are offering the same coverage of Daytona, and one has a game on the allAmerican start-up football league – the XFL – scheduled. It turns out the Arrows were relegated to TSN Go. Now I appreciate access wherever I can find it when it comes to rugby, although launching an app and finding my way to the game was in no way as convenient as turning on my TV. But, the real question is why TSN wouldn’t promote a Canadian team in a growing new league on broadcast TV over the line-up they did offer Sunday afternoon, which is often the case in being repetitive from channel

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Sports to channel? Of course TSN Go is at least free if you have TSN as part of your cable, which is a step up on SportsNet’s offering of the Toronto Wolfpack now in SuperLeague. The Wolfpack games they are carrying are for the most-part relegated to SportsNet World which means adding $20/month to the cable bill. I’m not averse to the $20, but again growing the sport, a team is expected in the

lower league in Ottawa in 2021, would be better served with wider availability of coverage of a Canadian team. On a more positive note, the Toronto Raptors, a team with every game on broadcast in Canada, headed into the NBA all-star break on a high. They had won 15 in-a-row up until the Brooklyn Net edged them by 10-points just as the break kicked in. Depending on what

leagues you chose to consider, the 15 wins was a record for a Canadian pro franchise – the Wolfpack won 23 in a row in 2019, but not in the top SuperLeague. It did surprise me that 15 was the record, given the dominance of the Wayne Gretzky era Edmonton Oilers, and the Montreal Canadiens who ran through teams in the 1970s. That the Raptors did it in a season after Kawhi Leonard has left is also surprising. This is a team sans a top level superstar. Pascal Siakim is close and Kyle Lowry too, but I can’t call either NBA elite. Given basketball more than other sports, tends to be dominated by elite players, the Raptors are doing great things with hard work on

defence, and a surprisingly deep, and effective bench. This is a hardworking crew that is easy to cheer for. As a final note pitchers and catchers have reported to camp in baseball. With the Toronto Blue Jays still having a questionable starting staff past off season addition Hyun-Jin Ryu, and the swirl of controversy over Houston cheating by stealing signs, it’s hard to get excited in a normal way about the return of baseball. The Jays are in that maybe .500 if the cards fall right area, which isn’t exactly contending territory, and the rest of the game will be under the cloud of ‘are they cheating’, which could make for a summer of more field lacrosse and ultimate over the MLB.

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SJ Terriers roll up the wins By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer After a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey Leagueroad win Friday, the Yorkton Hyundai Terriers were in Kindersley Saturday. The host Klippers scored first with Tyler Traptow finding the twine 17:14 into the opening period. The Terriers responded in the second period with Alec Zawatsky knotting the score 1-1 on the powerplay 5:37 in. Kaeden Taphorn scored at 11:34 to give the Terriers a lead, which Ergan Robson added to at 18:00. The two-goal Terrier lead lasted until the 15-minute mark of the third period when Ethan King score for Kindersley to make it 3-2, a score that would hold the rest of the way to give Yorkton its second win in as many nights. Matthew Pesenti had the win in the Terrier net facing 34-shots, while Steven Bacovsky took the loss for the Klippers facing 21. Yorkton now has a record of 32-19-1-1 for 66 points, tops in the SJHL Viterra Division, 10 bet-

ter than second place Estevan with 56 points. Weyburn is third with 41, with Melville fourth with 36.

of regulation time, forcing the teams to a fiveminute, sudden-death overtime period, but again nothing was solved as neither team could find the winner. The game headed to a shoot-out, where the Terriers finally put away a 5-4 victory. Philippe Bond was in net for the Terriers facing 30-shots. Ross Hawryluk was in the Hawks net facing 31-shots.

Friday action The Terriers were in Humboldt for action Friday. The hometown Broncos started the scoring in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League contest early with Tristan Shewchuk hitting the twine 1:10 into the contest. A short-handed effort by Brett LeGrandeur tied the game at 7:15. Shewchuk gave the Broncos a lead again at 9:24, only to have Steven Norum tie the game at 2-2 with a goal at 13:58. In the second period the Terriers took the lead early on a goal by Jordan Guiney. It was a powerplay effort at 1:28. Gavin Ingram, with his first of the season, made it 4-2 with a goal at 8:41. Ingram scored his second of the night at 12:25 to make it a 5-2 lead. Cody Hough got the Broncos back into with a goal at 15:40, and Humboldt drew within one at 5-4 when Shewchuk completed his hat trick on the night. An unassisted effort

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The Yorkton Hyundai Terriers won on home ice over Nipawin last Tuesday, then added a pair of road wins on the weekend. by Keenan Taphorn rounded out the scoring giving Yorkton a 6-4 road win. Philippe Bond was in net for the Terriers facing 62-shots in the win. Michael Harroch was tagged for the loss in the Humboldt goal facing 23-shots.

Feb. 11 win Coming off a 3-1 win Monday, the Yorkton Hyundai Terriers were back in action last Tuesday. The Terriers were taking on the Nipawin Hawks in action at the Farrell Agencies Arena,

where the visitors hit the scoresheet first. Jordan Simoneau gave the Hawks a 1-0 lead at 5:26. Brett LeGrandeur would knot the score for the Terriers at 8:26 of the opening period. The Hawks went ahead with a quick goal from Burke Simpson only 25-seconds into the middle frame. But the Terriers responded with Alec Zawatsky getting the equalizer at 4:59. A powerplay goal by Keenan Taphorn at 17:43 gave the home side its first lead of the night at 3-2.

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It took 2:03 into the third for Brodie Girod to tie things up with Nipawin’s third goal of the contest. The powerplay came to the forefront for the Terriers again as Carson Henry used the manadvantage to reassert a Terrier lead at 11:47. The goal made it a 4-3 game. The Hawks were not finished however, as Girod was back to score his second of the nights at 19:47 of the third period to again tie the game, this time at 4-4. The tie would hold through the final seconds

Keenan Taphorn, a member of the Yorkton Hyundai Terriers has been named Canalta Hotels Saskatchewan Hockey League Player of the Week. Taphorn, who hails from Yorkton, helped the Terriers to win four straight games this past week by scoring twogoals and adding threeassists. Taphorn’s big game was Friday when he scored one and set up two others in a the Terriers win in Humboldt. He also scored a powerplay goal on Tuesday in a win versus Nipawin and set up a goal Monday as the Terriers downed Weyburn. Taphorn has sevengoals and 26-assists in 28-games this season.

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GILLARD - It is with great sadness that the family of Louise Lily Gillard (nee McInnes), announce her passing on Friday, January 31, 2020 at the Yorkton and District Nursing Home at the age of 93 years. Louise was born to Malcolm and Lily (nee Fenn) McInnes on March 18, 1926 on the family farm in the RM of Saltcoats. At first she attended the Burke School in Yorkton and then went to Peachview Country School. She would finish her high school at Yorkton Collegiate Institute in Yorkton. On August 14, 1943 she would marry the love of her life, John Gillard at Prairie Queen Farms. They moved to the family farm in the RM of Saltcoats and would start their family. Louise and John had two children: David and Gail and raised them on the farm. Louise was a hard working and dedicated farm wife. She always kept a large meticulous garden, raised chickens and even turkeys once. Her kitchen was always open, ready to serve anyone who was around and needed a meal: she loved to visit, entertain and feed anyone stopping by. Whether it was the Sask Power workers, or someone helping on the farm, or even a bill collector, everyone was invited in and welcome for a meal and a visit. Louise was never shy to share her opinion or what she thought. She was a proud and open supporter of the New Democratic Party. She would proudly display an election sign on her driveway and defend NDP principles with anyone, including long-time members and executive of the party. Louise was always connected to her faith. As a young woman she taught Sunday School at Peachview. In later years she became a member and frequently attended St. Andrew’s United Church in Yorkton. Over the years, Louise discovered and developed a talent for oil painting on canvas. She would paint many, many paintings for family and friends. Subjects included landscapes, seascapes with ships, and even abstract planetary paintings amongst other themes. Louise is survived by her son David (Eva) Gillard of Yorkton, daughter Gail Gillard of Yorkton, grandchildren Jennifer Gillard, Kelli Gillard and Thomas Cannon and great grandson Cameron Gillard and other family and friends. She was predeceased by her husband John in 2002, her parents, all her siblings and many other extended family members. If friends so desire, memorial donations may be made in Louise’s memory to St. Andrew’s United Church or to the activities department at the Yorkton and District Nursing Home. A funeral service will be held and announced for Louise this coming summer.

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FLAMAN - Eileen Flaman passed away peacefully on February 5, 2020 at Lakeside Manor Care Home, Saltcoats, SK. Eileen was born on June 14, 1931 to Alex and Christina Poechman on the family farm near Hanover, ON. She was one of 9 children. Growing up Eileen, along with her siblings were very close as they worked and played hard together. School was about a mile away and Eileen spoke of the horse and sleigh rides to school with the deep snow in the winter. They made maple syrup, had a large strawberry and cucumber patch as well as regular farming chores. Growing up, Saturday nights were the Poechman happiest times, playing cards and sitting around the radio listening to CKNX Barn Dance! Sunday mornings the family all piled into the car to go to church. As the children grew older, some left the farm to seek employment and Eileen was one of them. Eileen first moved to Walkerton to work in a furniture factory until her good friend convinced her to take the challenge and move all the way to Winnipeg, MB where she worked at a sewing job. Deciding to go back to school, Eileen applied for and was accepted into hairdressing. This eventually led Eileen to Regina where she worked at a salon and very much enjoyed it, as well as the good money she made! It was in Regina that Eileen met the love of her life Robert Flaman. They were married on October 8, 1960 back in Hanover, ON. Robert and Eileen eventually moved to Moose Jaw, SK where Robert was employed by the PFRA. Eileen became a very busy stay at home mom, raising 6 young children. Robert grew tired of being away from his clan, and in 1974, decided to pack up his family and move to Jedburgh, SK where they started a successful farming operation. Together they dairy, beef and grain farmed while raising the young family together. They often laughed when talking about how having 6 children sure helped with the chores! Besides farming, Eileen maintained many interests. She loved her garden, or any outdoor activity for that matter, cooking and baking (her famous scuffles!), The Jedburgh Good Deeds Club, bowling and curling. Eileen remained devoted to her faith at St. Gerard’s Parish in Yorkton, being an active member in the Catholic Women’s League. Eileen loved her family. Playing cards, and especially cribbage was a must if you wanted to be a Flaman family or friend. After evening chores, and a big Eileen supper, family and friends were always expected to stick around and have a game or two of crib. The love of this family game has since rubbed off on her grown grandchildren, as they too, have become very proficient in the game! One by one the 7 grandchildren came along and how “grandma Lene” loved to have them visit and spend time with her. Robert and Eileen remained on the farm until 2006 when they finally retired to Independent Manor, Yorkton, SK. Sadly Robert passed away only a few months after moving in. Eileen remained in Yorkton until declining health necessitated her move to Lakeside Manor, where she remained there until her passing. Also predeceased by her parents and numerous family members. She is survived by her son Mark (Janice), and their children Katherine (James) Bulmer, Christian and Stephanie; Brenda (Dennis) Enright; Sandra (Curt) England; Dan; Kirk (Tonia) and their children Alex and Zoe; and Judy (Stan) Purcell and their children Steven and Erin. Prayers were held on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020 from St. Gerard’s Roman Catholic Church in Yorkton with Mary Bybliw officiating. Lay-reader was Dan Flaman, eulogists were Mark Flaman & Brenda Enright. Granddaughter Katherine Bulmer led members of the Parish Choir and the congregation in the singing of the hymns ‘You Are Near’, wPsalm 25, and ‘Precious Lord, Take My Hand’. The Funeral Mass was celebrated on Tuesday, Feb. 11 from St. Gerard’s Church with Fr. Louis Kim Nguyen as Celebrant. Altar servers were Christian & Stephanie Flaman, crossbearer was Steven Purcell, lay-readers were Zoe Flaman & Curt England. Hymns were ‘Morning Has Broken’, Psalm 62, ‘Hail Mary, Gentle Woman’, ‘I Am the Bread of Life’, ‘Song of the Angels’, and ‘Though the Mountains May Fall’. Members of St. Gerard’s CWL formed an Honour Guard. The interment took place in the Yorkton Memorial Gardens with Mark, Dan & Kirk Flaman, Brenda Enright, Sandra England and Judy Purcell serving as the casket bearers. Condolences can be left at baileysfuneralhome.com

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ERHARDT - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather, Albert Erhardt of Yorkton, SK. who passed away on Friday, February 7, 2020 at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre at the age of 92. Albert was the son of George and Maria (nee Haberstock) Erhardt and was born on December 20, 1927. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Faith at Trinity Lutheran Church, Stornoway. Albert was raised on the family farm and received his education at the Stornoway School. After completing his education, he helped on the family farm, eventually taking over the farm in 1950. On October 31, 1948 he was united in marriage to Agnes Rosa Erhardt. This union was blessed with two children, Glen and Diane. While on the farm Albert drove school bus for 6 years. In the fall of 1975 Albert and Agnes retired from the farm and moved into Yorkton, but he continued to assist his son Glen on the farm for many more years. In 1976 Albert also began working as a funeral attendant with Bailey’s Funeral Home, assisting with many funerals over his 11 years of part time employment. In later years Albert and Agnes purchased a larger home on Biggs Crescent where Albert and Agnes enjoyed spending time tending their garden and flower beds. In the summer of 2012, they sold their home and became residents of the Morrison Point condominiums, where they have since resided. Predeceased by his Father George in 1980; Mother Maria in 1996; a brother David Erhardt; sister Alvina Guenther, and by grandson Steven Konkin. He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Agnes; son Glen (Veronica) of Yorkton; daughter Diane (Greg) Penner of Kola, MB. Grandchildren & great grandchildren: Sherry (Shaun) Popov & Nadia and Lucya of Annaheim, SK; Melissa (Tom) Threlfall & Jackson, Chace and Hayley of Saskatoon, SK; Ashly (Meghan) Erhardt & Brielle and Briar of Grand Coulee, SK; and Brett Konkin of Brandon, MB. He is also survived by sisters, Emily Mehling of Yorkton and Lynda Wotherspoon of Maple Ridge, BC. The funeral service was held on Thursday, February 13, 2020 from St. Paul Lutheran Church. Raymond Yost officiated. Organist Judy Berg led the congregation in the hymns ‘Just As I Am’, ‘Amazing Grace’, and ‘Lord, Take My Hand and Lead Me’. Ray also sang ‘In the Sweet By and By’. Eulogists were daughter Diane and grandson Ashly. The interment took place in the Garden of St. Matthew at the Yorkton Memorial Gardens with Brett Konkin, Shaun & Sherry Popov, Melissa & Tom Threlfel, Ashly Erhardt, and Reg and Orest Mehling serving as the casketbearers. Memorials were to St. Paul Lutheran Church Memorial Fund. Condolences can be left at baileysfuneralhome.com.

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Competitive pay Excellent Benefits for Qualified Individual Send resume to 26-230 Broadway St. E Yorkton Sk S3N 4C6 or email to jgbueckert@icloud.com REDLINE TAXI. Taxi Drivers needed in Yorkton. NOW, you only need class 5 license to drive taxi. Call 306-783-1010.

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Trades Help Livestock ANDERSON CATTLE CO. Bull & Female Sale - 60 Red & Black Angus Bulls and Commercial Females. March 31, 2020 at Swan River, MB - 204-734-2073, www.andersoncattle.ca. FOR SALE: 18 Cow-Calf Pairs. 3-4 month old calves. Phone Preeceville 306-547-2105. FOR SALE: Polled Purebred 2 year old and yearling Charolais bulls. Some red factor. Phone 306435-7116. King’s Polled Charolais. JP CATTLE CO. with guests Stewart Cattle Co. Annual Simmental & Angus Bull & Female Sale. Thursday, March 5, 2020. 1pm on the farm at McAuley, MB. Selling Simmental & Angus bulls, as well as commercial bred heifers. For more information or a catalogue contact Glenn 204-851-5669, Eric 306-434-8567, Brent 204-773-2356 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-50069. View the catalogue online at www.BuyAgro.com. Watch and bid online at www.DLMS.ca (PL#116061). Millions of people look to classifieds across Canada every week — it’s used news.

Heavy Duty Mechanics, Dozer Operators and 1A Drivers required: Late model, clean CAT, JD equip: winch, dump, gravel trucks and trailers. Both camp and shop locations; R & B provided. Wage negotiable. Clean drivers abstract a must. Send resume and work references to: Bryden Construction Box 100, Arborfield, Sk. S0E 0A0; Fax: 306-769-8844 Email: brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www. brydenconstruction andtransport.ca

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Wooden game of skill and luck

Fakir is a game that will remind many of the 1967 release Kerplunk, the stick and marble game most my age will recall from their childhood. There are no marbles in Fakir, but you are placing and pulling sticks with the hopes of eliminating those of opponents and not your own. This another quick game from designer Philippe Proux and Ludarden that quite

impressed. Like all efforts through Ludarden Fakir is an all wood game, this one supporting two to four players. Interestingly, it seems to work quite well with three, which is rarely the case with perfect information games that tend to skew toward having a kingmaker when playing with three. The game has a large block drilled with a number of horizontal and vertical holes.

THE MEEPLE GUILD (YORKTON) meeple.guild@gmail.com It is into the holes that players place their sticks. In a two-player game each player has 10, threeplayer they have seven and four-player only five.

You can only place sticks unless you have two in place vertically, at which time you can pull a vertical stick in hopes of dropping a vertical

stick until it disappears into the block, thus being eliminated from the game. If you pull your own stick out, it returns to your supply. Pull an opponent’s piece you then get to replace one of your vertical sticks with the one pulled, which is important if you have a piece threatened by elimination. This is not an overly complex game to be sure, and it wouldn’t hold inter-

est if you were playing it for a couple of hours at a sitting. However, a game is 15-20 minutes and two or three play throughs are certainly fun when you want to just wind down a night of gaming with a light, without luck game. Check it out at www. ludarden.com Thanks to fellow gamers Trevor Lyons and Adam Daniels for their help in running through this game for review.

Income not keeping pace with costs I saw a story last week about first time home buyers in Toronto and how a price of $45,000 over 35 years ago has ballooned to $690,000 today. It’s over-simplifying, but that’s the problem with the Canadian economy in a nutshell. Expenses have exploded at a rate far beyond that of the average wage. Minimum wage 30 years ago in New Brunswick (where I grew up) was $5.50. Today, the minimum wage is in the neighborhood of $12 per hour so you can see the income hasn’t kept pace with expenses at all and then when you factor in the percentage of money

paid in taxes today compared to 35 years ago and it’s a wonder any of us can make ends meet at all. What are we doing about it? Nothing from what I can tell, but a tax revolt would be one of the healthier things we could do for Canada going forward. An internal federal memo says CBC’s annual revenue dropped by $175-million after they allowed the rights to Hockey Night In Canada, which had a weekly audience of a million people, to go bye bye. It was CBC’s highest rated program and their boss at the time said it was just the loss of

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Stackhouse Soapbox a few dollars and would be an insignificant hit to the bottom line. Uh huh, okay sure. Add to that loss, the fact that CBC is reporting a further 37% drop in revenue from last year and brought in only $112.5-million in revenue. Their biggest chunk of income is in the form of a $1.2-billion (yes, with a B) parliamentary grant courtesy of my tax dollars and yours and then we get to listen to them lie and promote the Liberal government and then they also use some of that money to sue the Conservatives for running an ad and using video footage that is funded by the general public. Ezra Levant always refers to them as Trudeau’s state broadcaster. He’s not wrong. Now, what was that about a tax revolt? I saw a bit of a social media experiment on Twitter last week that showed a video of a lady on an airplane. She

reclines her seat and the man sitting behind her (who’s seat doesn’t recline because he’s at the very back) punches the back of her seat repeatedly to express his annoyance at a supposed loss of personal space. It appeared as though he was trying to watch a movie on his phone with it laying flat on the tray from the seat back. I was quite shocked to see the replies in support of the man, who in my opinion, would not have done that at all if the person sitting in front of him was another man his size. Get a cell phone holder! My feeling is this - you pay enough money to fly and if you want to recline your seat, do it. If you are sitting behind someone and are upset by this act, then you recline your seat too and no personal space is lost at all. If you happen to be at the very back and can’t recline, well them’s the breaks. There’s something

incredibly wrong with our system when hospitals shut down their ERs. In New Brunswick, the provincial government is bleeding money and the citizens are taxed to the hilt so the Conservatives are closing some of them down to save money. One of them is in my birthplace, Sussex. When I was 4-years-old, I developed a bad case of Croup and my mom took me to the ER and I was, quickly, admitted and lived under an oxygen tent with tubes in my throat for days. A very kind man, Dr. Sullivan, took excellent care of me and upon eventually swallowing the tubes, I was able to speak again and I’ve been an overall nuisance to human beings ever since. I’m told I almost died and I now wonder if I would have for sure if there was no ER in Sussex. My family had

no vehicle. There would have been no transporting me to the nearest centre. I don’t have much to say about Omar Khadr giving a talk at Dalhousie University in Halifax last week other than to say I was appalled at the standing ovation he received from those in attendance and the love affair people from the east seem to have with this guy. I’m, frankly, embarrassed to have been born and raised in that part of the country when I see the mentality of folks from there now. I don’t get it at all. There should be nothing to applaud and there should be no reason to listen to anything he has to say outside of an apology and an announcement that he’s giving the tax dollars we gave him to the family of the soldier he killed.

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Social held A Valentine’s Social was held Friday in Yorkton. The event included a pork loin supper with all the fixings. Music was planned for after

the meal, including a singalong. The social was hosted by Westview United Church.

Winning a Chev Derek Kendel was the lucky winner of a 2019 Chevy Trax, courtesy of Key Chev. Kendel was away, so the vehicle was accepted by his mom,

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who dutifully waited her turn to try the ignition on her son’s behalf. Obviously, it was a success - and Derek has himself a new car.

Alberta’s “war room” is an attack on democracy Canada is respected globally for the freedoms we who live here enjoy. It’s not perfect, but it’s a geographically and culturally diverse land with spectacular environments and friendly people. I’ve always appreciated having the freedom to speak my mind. A diversity of ideas and perspectives, based on facts and evidence, contributes to a healthy, prosperous country. Society is better when people are informed and educated. Governments have fostered and should continue to foster education and healthy discourse, and should be open to criticism. That’s not what’s happening in Alberta. The government’s scandalplagued $2.5-million public inquiry and $30-million-a-year “war room,” called the Canadian Energy Centre, are founded on a conspiracy theory and are designed to silence or stigmatize those who raise legitimate questions about an expanding fossil fuel industry during a climate crisis. The war room is

also set up as a corporation so it’s not subject to freedom of information requests — not a transparent use of tax dollars. The conspiracy theory is that U.S. philanthropic foundations are funding Canadian environmental organizations to “unjustly” criticize the oilsands industry, in order to give U.S. counterparts a competitive advantage. Strange, because the same foundations also support critics of the U.S. fossil fuel industry. War room managing director Tom Olsen calls it “a direct response to the domestic and foreign-funded campaigns against Canada’s oil and gas industry that have divided Canadians and devastated the Alberta economy as energy production in the United States and elsewhere has ramped up.” Alberta’s premier has even singled out the David Suzuki Foundation, an organization I co-founded and where I’m now a volunteer. I’m extremely proud of its work, which from the beginning has been evidence-based, using

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Science Matters the best available scientific research and traditional Indigenous knowledge. Although most of the foundation’s money comes from Canadians, it accepts donations from any funder that meets its ethical gift acceptance policy. Like many environmental organizations, it’s transparent about financial resources. Others, such as Sandy Garossino in the National Observer, have done more thorough analyses than we could of the Alberta government’s disingenuous, secretive strategy — and the conspiracy theory on which it’s based — to attack and silence those who care about the future of humanity. That our efforts to research

and communicate the overwhelming science of climate disruption and its solutions could be considered a plot to help U.S. oil companies is nonsense. During a time of cutbacks, why are governments spending citizens’ money to defend the most profitable enterprise in human history? Yes, the fossil fuel industry has been an important contributor to Alberta and Canada’s economies, but to avoid climate catastrophe, we need to alter course, quickly. We should have started long ago, when a “gradual” transition was possible. Governments should support workers who are losing their jobs through automation, economic forces (such as the 2014

oil price collapse) and a necessary response to global heating. That support should extend to people in many sectors facing challenges in a changing world, including forestry. Energy conservation and efficiency, renewable energy and zeroemissions technologies are all growing fields that need support and workers. Unlike fossil fuels, clean tech and clean energy industries are growing, employing many more people. It’s not just environmental groups saying we need to wind down the fossil fuel industry and get to work on alternatives and ways to reduce waste. It’s Moody’s, which downgraded Alberta’s credit rating because of the economic risks of over-relying on oil and gas in the face of accelerating climate change. It’s Sweden’s central bank, Riksbank, selling its Alberta bonds because of the province’s climate footprint. It’s the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, moving away

from coal and fossil fuels and putting its investment strategy through a climate lens. It’s pretty much every scientist who studies the various aspects of climate. It’s religious and business leaders. It’s medical professionals. It’s young people marching in the streets for their future. Those who fail to accept the climate crisis and the opportunities resolving it will create should get out of the way of those who know we humans are an ingenious species, capable of progress and innovation. The longer we delay, the more difficult it will be for those displaced from the industry, and for those who must face the increasingly severe consequences of our fossil fuel addiction. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington. Learn more at davidsuzuki.org.

Governments make investment in livestock and forage research Federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food MaireClaude Bibeau and Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit announced nearly $8.1 million in funding under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership for 28 livestock and forage-related research projects through Saskatchewan’s A g r i c u l t u r e Development Fund (ADF). This includes $4.9 million in funding for 27 livestock and foragerelated research projects and $3.2 million in operational funding for the Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence. The ADF is supported through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a five-year, $388 million investment in strategic initiatives for Saskatchewan agriculture by the federal and provincial governments. “Big investments in science and research like this make a real difference in the lives of ranchers and producers,” Bibeau said. “It creates a pipeline of new tools and practices that give our producers a competitive edge in the market. We are very excited to be partnering with the Province and industry groups on these many

initiatives, which ultimately help grow our economy and support thriving rural communities.” “Research that impacts farm-level decisions, such as water quality, nutrition and animal care, can result in tangible benefits for the Saskatchewan herd as whole,” Marit said. “We’re making strategic investments in research that will help producers and agri-businesses reach the targets for 2030 that are laid out in Saskatchewan’s growth plan. The results of this year’s projects will support a sustainable, strong and growing livestock sector.” Support from the ADF is awarded on a competitive basis to projects that create future growth opportunities and enhance the competitiveness of the industry. “The partnership that this research funding represents is an important part of Saskatchewan agriculture,” Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association Chair Rick Toney said. “Having governments that will invest in research along with industry groups like the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association is a key part of growing

Nearly $8.1 million in funding under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership is marked for 28 livestock and forage-related research projects through Saskatchewan’s Agriculture Development Fund (ADF). our cattle receipts and staying competitive in this global business. We appreciate this partnership and the focus the government has on agriculture as a major part of the provincial economy and way of life.” The ADF projects supported this year will explore a variety of areas of interest to producers, including: strategies to address mineral nutrition in the face of poor water quality, developing new and improved for-

ages, and developing diagnostics supports. Projects will also examine cutting edge computing tools that will help the livestock industry manage genomic test data, assess risk, inform therapy decisions, and ultimately achieve more prudent antimicrobial use. In addition to funds committed by the federal and provincial governments, the ADF is also supported by industry groups and other organ-

izations. Livestock and forage projects are also receiving more than $650,000 from the following organizations: the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association, the Western Grains Research Foundation and Feedlot Health Management Services. “This major funding to the Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence ensures that we are providing the facilities, animals and land for scientists to conduct research

that is relevant to producers throughout the province,” Director of the Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence, Dr. Kris Ringwall (PhD) said. “We also appreciate that this is part of growing our relationships as we are all partners in this endeavor.” For more information, including a full list of funded projects, please visit www. saskatchewan.ca and search “Agriculture Development Fund.”

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