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At least members of the Loki’s Brood Viking Group, dedicated to the re-enactment of all things Viking, were in a city park Wednesday evening honing their skills with axe, sword and shield. The group, with members just not from Yorkton, but
points across Saskatchewan and Manitoba meet regularly to test their mettle as fighters as well as work on other Viking skills from putting the feathers on their arrows, to making clothes from the era.
Women offer much to business By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer A province-wide study estimates Saskatchewan could see an economic boost of $17.6 billion per year if more women were encouraged to start, run and grow their own businesses. Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan (WESK) received funding from the Government of Saskatchewan’s Status of Women Office to explore avenues of scaling up women-owned businesses. With the funding, WESK assembled an Advisory Committee to identify recommendations that support the growth of
women-owned businesses in Saskatchewan. The Advisory Committee created a report titled Enabling Scale in Saskatchewan. Recommendations include new financial and mentoring supports for women entrepreneurs and developing scaleenabling policy. The report also identifies that the success of women entrepreneurs in Saskatchewan has a direct and positive impact on our economy, including job creation. “I am pleased to hear this news and I am interested in following WESK and what comes out of this as I am a member,” said Alicia Simoneau owner/
Yorkton is fortunate to have a number of women entrepreneurs running highly successful businesses. While individually they employ only a few people, collectively, they employ a high proportion of the workforce. — Juanita Polegi, Yorkton Chamber of Commerce operator, the Pumphouse Athletic Club. “As a woman entrepreneur
for many years, it hasn’t been anything short of frustrating when it comes to securing
capital to grow my business. Traditional funding is not easy to get, even after years of proven business track record you can’t just walk into the bank and they’ll help you. “When it comes to growth and scaling - the banks aren’t on your side. Not even a little. “I have personally had experience with feeling as though because I am a woman I am treated a little differently in some situations, not just with funding but other aspects of business as well, especially in an industry like mine that is typically male territory. “I am happy to learn that
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WOMEN Continued from Page A1 access to needed capital and even focusing on female investors is something WESK is working on. This is great news for all the business women in Saskatchewan.” According to the report, women entrepreneurs contributed $23.1 billion to the Saskatchewan economy in 2019 and were responsible for 191,836 jobs. However, more than 80 per cent of the province’s women-owned businesses have fewer than 10 employees. “Saskatchewan has one of the highest rates of female entrepreneurship among all provinces, with one in every eight women employed running her own business,” Minister Responsible for the Status of Women Office Tina Beaudry-Mellor said. “We can build on this and be one of the best places in Canada for
female entrepreneurs.” Locally, women are an important part of business, offered Juanita Polegi, Executive Director of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce. “Yorkton is fortunate to have a number of women entrepreneurs running highly successful businesses,” she said. “While individually they employ only a few people, collectively, they employ a high proportion of the workforce. And they generously contribute to the community.” The Enabling Scale in Saskatchewan report makes a number of recommendations to build on including: • Enhancing access to capital; • Developing scaleenabling policies; • Streamlining access to data, programs and networks; and • Enhancing awareness and support.
“Supporting women entrepreneurs is important to the success of Saskatchewan’s Growth Plan and our province’s future,” BeaudryMellor said. “I applaud Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan and its Advisory Committee for their work and look forward to continuing to collaborate, adding jobs and opportunities in the process.” Sarah Kowalchuk, Chair of Marketing with the local Chamber said the report is a positive step. “Seeing reports like this makes me proud to be a business woman in Saskatchewan,” she told Yorkton This Week. “Saskatchewan business woman are innovative, motivated and hardworking. But as business people we can also be stubborn and not always seek out or ask of advice or support. The initiative
of WESK at enhancing access to capital will go a long way in insuring woman business owners grow. “I can personally attest to how being a part of the local women’s entrepreneur group, Everyday Heroes, has helped me expand my business skills with likeminded peers.” Jessica Richards at The Scrub Hub in Yorkton noted that being a woman in business ultimately should not define her involvement in the sector. “I have never thought because I am a woman I need any special treatment when it comes to business,” she said. “If there is a will there is a way.... but that was before I started to see the business world.” Richards has come to appreciate being connected to others facing similar challenges that
the new report may also help address. “I decided to join Women Entrepreneurs as a member because I recalled my Mother being quite involved with the organization when I was young,” she said. “My eyes were opened at my first meeting with them where I learned the shocking differences between being a business person and being a woman in business. There is a shocking and drastic drop in women who have access to capital compared to men. “I’ve heard in the short two-years that I have been in business, companies’ mention they don’t want to make things more beneficial for women compared to men but they strive to make it equal. If several businesses are saying this, it tells me people are seeing that discrepancy and we know we still have a
long ways to go to make it equal. “I see women entrepreneurs all around me and that tells me the ball is rolling but we have only touched the tip of the ice berg. I can easily get on board with this movement.” As well as supporting the efforts made by WESK and the Advisory Committee, the Status of Women Office is focused on increasing Saskatchewan women’s participation and prosperity. Currently, the Office is conducting a study to identity educational and entrepreneurial pathways for women in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. Read the full report Enabling Scale in Saskatchewan online at https://wesk.ca/sk-advisory-committee/in-thenews/
Temporary Wage Supplement Program expanded More workers at integrated healthcare facilities who are helping some of Saskatchewan’s most vulnerable citizens through the pandemic are now eligible for the Saskatchewan Temporary Wage Supplement Program. Through a re-assessment of eligibility, the program has been further expanded to include all workers, regardless of income level, at integrated healthcare facilities which provide both short-term and long-term health care. A new application form is currently being
developed for this expansion, and will be available in the coming days. Applications will be accepted until September 1, 2020. “Our government wants to ensure that through this program we are helping workers who are caring for some of our most vulnerable,” Finance Minister Donna Harpauer said. “Often family members help support their loved ones in long-term care in these facilities, but visitation restrictions due to public health orders have made that more difficult, putting more pressure on
the workers in these integrated healthcare facilities.” Previously, workers at integrated facilities were eligible if they had a gross salary from all sources of less than $2,500 per month and earned less than $24.00 per hour. That income threshold has been lifted, as it was when the program was modified in June for workers at licensed personal care homes and special care homes. For each eligible worker, the temporary wage supplement is $400 for each four-week per-
iod, up to 16 weeks, for the period from March 15, 2020 to July 4, 2020. The wage supplement will be provided to fulltime, part-time and casual workers, and includes anyone employed by an eligible facility, but does not include third-party contract service providers working at those facilities. In addition to integrated healthcare facilities, eligible facilities include: • Personal care homes licensed pursuant to The Personal Care Home Act • Special care homes
designated pursuant to The Provincial Health Authority Act • Approved private service homes defined in The Residential Services Act • Licensed or unlicensed family child care homes as defined in The Child Care Act • Unlicensed private assisted living facilities, where residents are provided with direct assistance or supervision of daily living activities • Community-based group homes • Licensed childcare
facilities • Emergency shelters • Transition shelters - short stay/emergency, transition housing • Integrated healthcare facilities; and • Home care workers providing care to seniors in their own homes. For more information about the wage supplement, visit www.saskatchewan.ca/wage-supplement-program. People with questions about the supplement may also email stwsp@gov.sk.ca or call 1-800-667-6102 or 306787-6645 in Regina. — Submitted
Local Sports Hall of Fame needs help Personnel interested in continuing the reorganizational process of the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame recently held a meeting whereby the official appointment of an Interim Board of Directors took place. A permanent Board of Officials will be elected at the upcoming AGM that will be scheduled within the next few months. Interim Board members include Don Pfeifer (Temporary Chair), Dave Spelay (Vice Chair), Ryan Kitchen (Sec./Treas.), Ron Balacko, Randy Goulden, Dick DeRyk, Jennifer
Ingham, Becky Dutchak, Taylor Morrison (ex-officio member). The appointment of an Advisory sub-committee consisting of eight volunteer members also took place. Members of this committee include: Gene Krepakevich, Barry Sharpe, Dave Baron, Don Szabo, Vern Pachal, Ed Magis, and Lynda Ziglo. Although there is a display area available for artifacts at the Gallagher Center most of the inventory of the YSHF is presently stored in a room that must soon be vacated. The organization
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believes it may no longer be feasible to continue with a permanent physical environment involving a museum. With this in mind a working space is needed to pursue the initiative of developing a website for the YSHF. This space is also required to conduct meetings, and to review and re-organize all of the Hall’s inventory which includes artifacts, sport memorabilia, historical records, portraits and pictures. If anyone is willing to provide such a ‘working space’ or knows of other options that might allow the YSHF to pursue their mandate it would be greatly appreciated if they would talk to one of the board members. As a community based non-profit organization it would be great to find a
The Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame moved from the old Land Titles Building to the Gallagher Centre but now is in limbo regarding a home for its displays. secure space to use free of charge. However if that is not possible we would look for a space with a minimum rental fee.
Inquiries regarding arrangements for corporate sponsorships, and service club or individual financial donations to assist with such things as rental space fees or fees
related to the development of a YSHF website are welcome (donpfeifer@sasktel.net) or any Board member listed. — Submitted
Up Front
A look back at the Threshermen’s Show In a normal year it would have been the Threshermen’s Show and Senior’s Festival this past weekend, but with the COVID19 pandemic still ongoing, the event was cancelled for 2020. Let’s take a look back at what you could have seen in a normal year, with pictures from past events, a showcase of how the event continues to keep farm traditions alive each year. Staff Photo by Devin Wilger
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Politics Our provincial motto may be from “many people, strength”, but Saskatchewan has always had its share of tension between various groups. Perhaps this is no different than anywhere else in the world. Many have had far worse histories. But it is to say a worldwide pandemic like this one can inflame long-dormant feelings of animosity. Certainly this is something that Saskatchewan’s Hutterite community says it's now feeling as a result of some of its colonies being hit by COVID-19. Patience, tolerance and understanding are now needed from both outsiders and those living on colonies. It is simply a fact that cases of COVID-19 on an estimated 17 colonies mostly in southwest have caused an explosion of active case numbers in this province. There were 43 active cases on a colony in the rural municipality of Lawtonia added in one day. There were only three cases in all of Regina. Suddenly, Saskatchewan has vaulted to the second-highest per capita active case COVID-19 case in the country, surpassing Quebec and trailing only Alberta. But what we should most learn from all this is that COVID-19 does not discriminate. Regardless of race, creed or colour, it seeks out vulnerable populations and hammers them. We saw this in north where a few workers returning from jobs in the Alberta oil sands infected the entire community of La Loche and area that have long-suffered from a housing shortage, overcrowding and poverty. This led to the shutting down of the entire Saskatchewan “far north”… even though the cases were largely limited to La Loche and the Clearwater River Dene First Nation. By no small coincidence, many Metis and First Nations residents not from the La Loche area say they were treated with suspicion when they went south for either business, shopping or medical appointments. Right now, Saskatchewan’s Hutterite community faces similar stigmatization. It has gotten so bad that the Hutterian Safety Council (HSC) requested in a letter to the Saskatchewan Party government that it stop identifying colonies in its daily reporting of COVID-19 cases. “Our primary concern is that the Ministry of Health is attaching cultural and religious attributes to COVID-19 cases. This occurs when reporting includes a reference to Hutterite communities or the more recent thinly veiled euphemism, ‘communal living setting’,” the HSC wrote in the letter. It should be noted that Premier Scott Moe and Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) have been adamant that the public should neither be blamed nor stigmatized the Hutterite community for COVID-19. It bears repeating that the novel coronavirus is everywhere and we need to be vigilant everywhere at all times to stop its spread. We all truly need to understand what’s happening and keep it in its proper context. There are close to 100 Hutterite colonies in this province and only 17 have reported cases – some with just a case or two. Notwithstanding the recent numbers, it’s a very small percentage of this community that has been infected. Moreover, both Moe and Rural and Remote Health Minister Warren Kaeding say infected colonies have been exceedingly co-operative in the fight, agreeing to abandon their communal eating traditions, implementing social distance requirements and being exceedingly careful to ensure those with business contacts to the colonies are kept at a safe distance. “We can’t stigmatize an entire culture because of the actions of a few,” Mary-Ann Kirkby, author of ‘I Am Hutterite’, recently told CTV news. But this requires a delicate balance – patience and understanding from both sides. This is a public health crisis in which people must know where outbreaks occur – especially in situations where officials need to trace contacts. The Hutterite community needs to appreciate this, but the rest of us need to appreciate how difficult it must be for these communities right now. We are truly all in this together. Murray Mandryk has been covering provincial politics since 1983.
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Not too late to build community art profile A
new City brochure invites residents and visitors to explore the public art spotted across our community. It’s a great idea, and it is likely most, even life-long residents, will believe the list encompasses 26 sites, and a rather varied array of art from a painted church ceiling to various murals, sculptures and galleries. The idea of the walk isn’t quite new, a map long ago existed says Lisa Washington, Community Development Manager Community Development, Parks & Recreation with the City, but like most things was in need of an update. In a year when finding safe activities to do for summer fun in the face of COVID-19, a new guide to our city’s art is a timely release. The brochure should also be the impetus for some reflection on the idea of community art, and how it is some way an opportunity we let slip through our fingers. If we think back as a community to around the year 2000 a new century was burgeoning, and the city was looking for ways we might make ourselves stand out among the many trying to attract visitors and investment. The idea of creating community art was soon at the top of the list of ideas, and speakers were brought in to tell the stories of how community art had been at the heart of redevelopment efforts in other communities. We bought into the idea, and ‘Grassroots’ by Linda Kielback and the City Centre Park mural by Grant McLaughlin would soon be developed. They were a fine start to a vision that
at the time had art on walls across the downtown. But, drive around the downtown today, and major murals never followed the initial pair, which remain somewhat lonely, and a testament to a community art vision unfulfilled. Walls remain of course that would be prime for murals, the north facing wall of the Plum Tree is a great example. Then in 2005, to mark the province’s centennial a sculpture was gifted to the city. That gift is the ‘Doorways to Opportunity’ by Lionel Peyachew at Shaw Park. The installation briefly fostered the idea of turning the park into a sculpture park, with a vision of additional works on the four corners of the park. Again, the idea never quite took flight. But, that is the great thing about good ideas, they don’t go out of style. The aforementioned art pieces still exist as do numerous places which could be home to new sculptures or murals. What is required though is a push to create the art. That is where the City can step in. Since it is public art, the public should be invested in its creation. That does not mean paying the bill, at least not with direct cash outlay. But, like many improvements in the city, the municipality could offer a multi-year tax abatement of a percentage of the art cost – as an example 50 per cent rebated over four years. The impact to the taxes collected would be limited, but the resulting art would be a community asset for years.
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Sweet long weekend The long weekend is a great time to have some fun and have a sweet treat. BeaverTails was in Yorkton in the SuperStore parking lot to give people the chance to try one of their many pastry creations. Staff Photo by Devin Wilger
Bridge work near Duck Mountain Bridge work on Highway 5 near Duck Mountain Provincial Park is part of more than $50 million worth of highway construction underway near provincial parks heading into this August long weekend. “Saskatchewan has so much natural beauty at our parks and lakes, it is important that we maintain the infrastructure near these provincial gems,” Highways and Infrastructure Minister Greg Ottenbreit said in a release. “With this investment, as part of our Saskatchewan 2020 growth plan, we will maintain the quality and experience of going to our parks for years to come.” Other highway construction projects near Saskatchewan’s parks include: • Bridge work on
Highway 1 north of the Cypress Hills InterProvincial Park; • Culvert installations on Highway 2 near Prince Albert National Park; • Intersection improvements on Highway 4 near the Battlefords Provincial Park; • Construction on Highway 219 near Danielson Provincial Park; • Paving on Highway 255 near Tobin Lake; • Paving on Highway 265 near Candle Lake; and • Resurfacing on Highway 355 near Sturgeon Lake. “This is great news for all of the people who love to visit our incredible provincial parks,” Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Gene Makowsky said. “Making these
improvements a priority will go a long way to enhancing safety and the experience for our visitors year-round.” With many residents visiting Saskatchewan’s lakes, rivers and parks the August long weekend, travellers were reminded to plan ahead by checking the Highway Hotline at www.saskatchewan.ca/highwayhotline. Travellers need to stay alert, obey signs and slow to 60 km/hr through the work zone in order to keep our highway workers safe. This summer there may still be times when you are required to slow down when workers are not present in the work zone. A sharp pavement drop-off or loose stones during a seal coat are examples of hazards that warrant a slower posted speed. Report a high-
way work zone signing problem by calling 306244-5535. A weekly highway construction update is also published on www.saskatchewan.ca/residents/ transportation/highwayconstruction-projects/ weekly-highway-construction-update to pro-
vide the travelling public with the latest details on projects underway to help plan safe and efficient travel. You can also report a highway work zone signing problem by calling 306-244-5535. The Government of Saskatchewan has invested more than
$9.8 billion in highways infrastructure since 2008, improving more than 15,800 km of Saskatchewan highways. Another $300 million in highways stimulus funds will be invested over the next two years to stimulate Saskatchewan’s economic recovery.
History Corner Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
RCMP resume limited counter service Saskatchewan RCMP has advised the public that detachments across the province resumed limited front counter services Tuesday, Aug. 4. Members of the public are asked to only attend the detachment in person when it is absolutely necessary and only if you are not showing any signs or symptoms of illness. Signage at detachment entrances will be posted to inform all visitors of the limited hours of operation, limits on the number of people permitted to wait in the lobby, sanitation and physical distancing and directing the flow of foot traffic. Three priorities have been identified for Saskatchewan
RCMP detachment front counter services, all of which will be offered in compliance with public health guidelines and protocols. The priority services are as follows: • Taking complaints • Criminal Record Checks •Collision reports If you require urgent fingerprinting (eg., for persons who require VS/CRC as part of their employment), you will be asked several screening questions to identify any signs or symptoms of sickness. If your urgent request proceeds after the screening, you will be required to wear a surgical mask throughout the process.
Our service delivery and commitment to keeping the people of Saskatchewan safe remains unchanged. We are continually assessing our processes and procedures and are working with Saskatchewan Public Health to ensure the safety of the public and our front-line employees. Please phone your local detachment in advance to confirm the priority services available, new limited hours of operation or detachment-specific protocols. Detachment contact information is available on our public website: https://www.rcmp-grc. gc.ca/detach/en/find/SK — Submitted
The only operating grain elevator that remains within the city limits is the former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool terminal off York Road on Hill Street, which has been VITERRA since 2007. The facility was erected in 1972, with a crib annex in 1980, and steel annexes in 1994. It was one of the former company’s last few remaining wooden structures still
in operation in the province. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was taken over by the Winnipeg based Agricore United in 2007 and the name was changed to VITERRA. This edition of History Corner originally was published in the Sept. 8, 2010 issue of Yorkton This Week. — Terri Lefebvre-Prince
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Next Council Meeting Monday, August 10, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Other Job Opportunities Aquatic Coordinator Gallagher Centre For additional information regarding this employment opportunity, visit the City of Yorkton’s website at www.yorkton.ca/employment or you can pick up a copy of the job posting at the Human Resources Department - City Hall. The City of Yorkton thanks all applicants; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
POTHOLE HOTLINE! Did you know the City has a Pothole Hotline to report pothole issues to the Public Works Department? You have two options: call the hotline at 306-782-7669, or go to the home page of www.yorkton.ca and click on the Pothole Repair image (shown here) on the right hand side of the home page, for an online reporting form.
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Next Council Meeting Monday, August 10, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Mayhew Avenue/Darlington Street Reconstruction Project The Mayhew Avenue/Darlington Street Reconstruction project got underway June 1, and is being done in three phases. Phase 1 is now complete (Mayhew from the south intersection with Morrison Drive to Fietz Street) and work on Phase 2 got underway July 13th. Phase 2 includes Mayhew Avenue from Fietz to Darlington, the new roundabout at the Darlington and Mayhew intersection, and west on Darlington to Franco Drive. Detours will follow Morrison from Mayhew North to McBurney, then south to Darlington, or from Darlington southwards along Franko Drive to Fietz, then east to Mayhew.
York Road Watermain Replacement Single Lane Alternating Traffic The watermain under York Road between 3rd and 2nd Avenues is being replaced. The work area will extend from Betts Avenue to 4th Avenue. Water and sewer is also being installed for the new City Operations Centre across York Road between 4th Avenue and 6th Avenue. The detour has changed to one lane alternating traffic with stop lights for approximately one week while work is done on this part of the project.
The project also includes a new pathway from the roundabout at Dracup Avenue and Darlington Street to the new roundabout at Mayhew Avenue and Darlington Street. For more information and detour/site maps see Yorkton.ca/construction. You may also call the Public Works Department at 306-786-1760.
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Don’t let politics control diseases There was something actually frightening about the death of former US Presidential candidate Herman Cain last week. Not about his death itself, from COVID19 complications, or even the lead up to it, with people suggesting he caught the virus at a rally for Donald Trump in Tulsa, Alabama. What’s frightening was actually his social media accounts in the days leading to his death. As he lay dying of complications from COVID19, his staff was busy maintaining his social media, and in doing so they also happened to post plenty of articles that were dismissive of the disease, dismissing
the efficacy of masks, and generally trying to downplay it as a threat to anyone’s health. The man was dying, and yet his staff was so committed to pushing the idea that the threat was overblown and nothing to worry about. The clearest evidence of the world that they were wrong was right in front of them, and they persisted. It had become a political issue, and the party line was that the virus is no big deal, even as evidence clearly showed it definitely was. Just remaining stubborn through a crisis is a frightening way to go, and that’s how Cain went out. The message through all of this was simple,
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Thinking I do with words... take it seriously and hopefully it goes away fairly soon. The reason it hasn’t gone away is that people haven’t taken it seriously, and the result is it still has plenty of people to get infected and spread it amongst themselves. The scary thing now is that people who know exactly how scary it is -
the staff members of someone dying from the disease - are not only not taking it seriously, but encouraging others to not take it seriously as well. This was happening the day before the man died, they were still trying to downplay the seriousness of the virus. Why? To what gain? A dead man can’t gain anything.
It’s scary to think that this pandemic will continue to stretch on because people are not only not taking it seriously, but not changing their mind long after they not only get it, but have serious complications. They could be going out and spreading it, they could be encouraging others to avoid taking precautions, and they will be the cause of the pandemic stretching out, and harming the sensible among us. There’s nothing wrong with changing your mind. In this case, when he got sick, this man should have realized the seriousness of it, changed tactics, and directed his
staff to go in the other direction. There’s nothing weak or shameful about realizing you made a mistake, and using new information to help people take care of themselves, and help the world finally get over a serious disease. The people who chose to politicize the disease, they’re killing people, full stop. It’s not a political statement to not want to catch a virus, it’s basic self preservation. In the case of Herman Cain, he managed to kill himself, and who knows how many supporters, by following the party line and insisting that the disease was no big deal. Take the politics out, they have no place in disease control.
Artventures about discovering art By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer If you’re looking for something to do this summer, how about discovering Yorkton’s public art? That experience is now more easily accessible thanks to a new brochure, explained Lisa Washington, Community Development Manager Community Development, Parks & Recreation with the City. “It’s an update of an old map that was made years, and years ago,” she said, adding the long out-of-print map dated back to before the development of the City’s
Mural at Dr. Brass School by Brain Marion and school students. Cultural Plan in 2009. The update was undertaken by local artist Angelina Kardynal, and
provides people with a guide to get out an see the public art which exists in the city, said Washington from the sculpture at the Painted Hand Casino to the mural at the Access Communications Water Park to the art at the Godfrey Dean Gallery, a total of 26 spots are documented. “We want people to find these places and to learn about the pieces of art themselves, to celebrate what we have in the city,” said Washington. The brochure will be available online at www. yorkton.ca or you can email cdpr@yorkton.ca for curbside pick-up of a copy.
‘The Caregiver’ by Floyd Wanner
‘Doorways to Opportunity’ by Lionel Peyachew
The City Centre Park clock
City Centre Park Mural by Grant McLaughlin
‘Grassroots’ by Linda Keilback
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Using information takes computing capacity Regular readers will know that technology advancement in agriculture is a favoured topic of mine. It is the area which holds out the greatest potential for advancements in crop production, at least in the short to mid-term. Varietal development, whether through traditional means or through more advanced techniques that may be controversial for some, will ultimately impact production on a grander scale perhaps, but those steps in breeding take time. Technology, as we know from almost every facet of our lives, is leaping ever-forward at a rapid pace. The
computing power of the cellphone, and the vast array of apps which are specific tools to almost anything we can imagine these days being a microcosm of that tech progress. It stands to reason that farming too will change as new technology comes on stream. Sit in the cab of a new high clearance sprayer or combine and the array of technology in its monitors is something that frankly reminds of the bridge of some sci-fi spaceship bridge. The key in all the monitors is that a massive amount of data is being collected as the machine traverses a field.
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Calvin Daniels But, data only becomes truly useful once it is fully analyzed, and in that process compared and gauged against established norms created from a vast cross section of material gathered over time and over a number of fields. The process of analyzing data takes massive amounts of comput-
ing power, and immediate access to varied databases, which has been something of a sticking point for onthe-fly analysis of field gathered data. Accessing the Internet, the highway to information, and uploading data to the computing power needed is not easy, if possible at all, when the
combine, sprayer, or airdrill is in the middle of a farm field which can be a long way from hotspots. Many in rural Saskatchewan are still struggling to find a way to have ‘Net access that allows easy downloads of YouTube videos, let alone analyzing realtime spray applications as their machine floats across a field. Ultimately, agriculture on the move requires access to the Ethernet as a way of connecting computers together. Multiple computers have access to the ethernet and can send data at any time. Today’s ethernet supports speeds up to 1,000 Mbps, and businesses
on the cutting edge of the tech will soon access speeds up to 10,000 Mbps. That massive flow of data means it can be used to allow a machine in a field to make decisions as it goes. Like the potential to only spray a weed identified by a camera on the unit, leaving surrounding crop plants not sprayed. Imagine the cost-savings and the in-field benefits of such tech. Technology is growing, farming can benefit, but it will need connectivity to work, and that is just now starting to really come on stream for the sector. Calvin Daniels is Editor with Yorkton This Week.
Haying continued on area farms Haying continued throughout the province, with fewer delays caused by rainfall this past week. Specifically in EastCentral Saskatchewan: Crop District 5 – Melville, Yorkton, Cupar, Kamsack, Foam Lake, Preeceville and Kelvington areas Crop District 6A – Lumsden, Craik, Watrous and Clavet areas Livestock producers currently have 48 per cent of the hay baled or put into silage. An additional 23 per cent is cut and ready for baling. Hay quality is currently rated as 13 per cent excellent, 46 per cent good, 33 per cent fair and eight per cent poor. Rainfall in the region ranged from zero to 30 mm in the Kelvington area. The Kenaston area received two mm, the Elfros area three mm, the Kuroki area 10 mm, the Saltcoats area 12 mm and the Raymore area 24 mm. The Kuroki area has received the most precipitation in the region since April 1 (258 mm).
Topsoil moisture conditions have continued to deplete in the region. Cropland topsoil moisture is rated as 55 per cent adequate, 39 per cent short and six per cent very short. Hay and pasture land topsoil moisture is rated as 51 per cent adequate, 32 per cent short and 17 per cent very short. District 6A reported that 58 per cent of the cropland and 33 per cent of the hay and pasture land is short topsoil moisture at this time and that seven per cent of cropland and 36 per cent of hay and pasture land is very short. Crop development progressed quickly this past week due to warm temperatures. Farmers reported that most crops look good, but in some areas where they received less rainfall there are concerns that lack of moisture will affect crop fill. Most crops in the east-central region are in fair-to-good condition. Most of the crop damage this past week was due to dry conditions and
wind. There have also been reports of localized damage from heavy rain, which resulted in lodged crops. Farmers are still spraying for disease and insect pests as conditions warrant it. Farmers are busy haying, hauling grain, scouting for insects and disease and spraying. Provincially, livestock producers now have 26 per cent of the hay crop cut and 49 per cent baled or put into silage. Hay quality is currently rated as seven per cent excellent, 68 per cent good, 20 per cent fair and five per
cent poor. Many farmers have indicated that hay yields are below normal this year, particularly in areas that received less rainfall in early summer. Rainfall this past week varied throughout the province, with many areas not receiving any rain and areas around Indian Head and Neilburg receiving up to 50 mm. The St. Walburg area has received the most rain since April 1 with 416 mm. With the lack of rainfall in many areas and warm temperatures this past week, moisture con-
ditions have reduced slightly in the province. Cropland topsoil moisture is rated as two per cent surplus, 71 per cent adequate, 22 per cent short and five per cent very short. Hay and pasture land topsoil moisture is rated as one per cent surplus, 63 per cent adequate, 25 per cent short and 11 per cent very short. Crop development progressed rapidly this past week due to warm weather. Winter cereals are starting to ripen and earlier seeded crops have started to mature.
Some farmers have indicated that harvesting of those crops will begin in the coming weeks. While the majority of crops overall are in fair-to-good condition, most of the spring cereals, canola, field peas and soybeans are in fair-to-excellent condition. Crop damage this past week was due to strong winds, lack of moisture, localized flooding, hail and wildlife. There have also been reports of diseases such as root rots, ascochyta, sclerotinia, fusarium head blight and other foliar diseases and insects such as grasshoppers. Farmers are busy haying, scouting for pests and getting equipment and bins ready for harvest. A complete, printable version of the Crop Report is available online at https://www. saskatchewan.ca/cropreport. Follow the 2020 Crop Report on Twitter at @ SKAgriculture.. — Submitted
NFU: Is a $4 Billion Irrigation Expansion a Good Investment for Saskatchewan Farms? By Darrin Qualman The greatest threat to Saskatchewan farms is climate change. The UN projects a global average temperature increase of 3.2 degrees this century (Emissions Gap Report 2019), which would mean 6.4 degrees for Saskatchewan (because warming is proceeding twice as fast at higher latitudes and in continental interiors). That much warming will be devastating, if we allow it to happen. A top priority for farmers must be to ensure that Canada and all nations rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid catastrophic temperature increases. Thus, we should ask: should the Saskatchewan and federal governments spend $4 billion on irrigation infrastructure? Can this investment really protect a significant number of farms or acres from climate change? Or
could the money be better spent on other projects or in other ways? How should we spend taxpayers’ limited dollars? A $4 billion investment could bring irrigation water to perhaps 500 farms over the next 50 years. It could help farmers irrigate perhaps 500,000 acres—just over one percent of the province’s cropland. But no matter how much we spend on irrigation, the vast majority of Saskatchewan farmland (more than 95 percent) will remain unirrigated—“dryland” acres, vulnerable to climate change and drought. Alternatively, that same $4 billion could pay for rooftop and groundmount solar-panel arrays for 100,000 farms and urban homes. Or it could be used to subsidize half the cost for 200,000 installations. Seen this way, the choice is between protecting one percent
of Saskatchewan cropland from drought or going a long way toward installing a low-emission, climate-compatible electricity system for the entire province. Given how vulnerable farmers are to climate change, and given the urgent need to electrify everything possible and rapidly move away from coal and other fossil fuels, it seems in farmers’ interests to support broadbased emission reduction rather than irrigation for a tiny fraction of cropland. Aside from the question of opportunity cost (“what other things could we do with $4 billion?”) there are questions of feasibility. Will a multibillion-dollar expenditure really trigger a rapid expansion in irrigated acreage? Saskatchewan has significant unused irrigation capacity now, especially around Lake Diefenbaker. This unused capacity
exists because farmers have been slow to invest in irrigation. According to data from Saskatchewan’s Department of Agriculture, in the halfcentury since the completion of Lake Diefenbaker and associated canals and reservoirs, farmers added about 300,000 acres to the province’s irrigated area—an average of just 6,000 acres per year. And rates have been even lower in the past 20 years—around 2,700 acres per year. At such rates it would take decades to fully utilize irrigation potential from Lake Diefenbaker and other existing infrastructure. Moreover, the recently announced $4 billion project would expand irrigation capacity by 500,000 acres. At the rates of recent decades, it would take more than a century to fully utilize that added capacity. “Build it and they will come” may not
be good policy. There are more questions: will the project go over budget, as megaprojects often do? What about interest payments on the $4 billion in government debt? How will low-emission hydroelectricity production in Saskatchewan and Manitoba be affected? What about environmental issues such as downstream flows, effects on the Saskatchewan River Delta, or farmland salination? How much of this project is focused on providing water for potash mines or oil and gas production? Have farmers, communities, and First Nations been appropriately consulted? Some farmers would like to expand irrigation. But all farmers are highly vulnerable if climate change is not rapidly brought under control and emissions slashed. The question is not whether irrigation expansion is good or
bad, but rather how best to responsibly expand irrigation and how best to spend billions of dollars so that farmers and all citizens receive maximum benefit. The best public policy may be to spend tens- or hundreds-of-millions of dollars to help farmers expand irrigation along existing reservoirs and canals and to spend the bulk of any available billions of dollars on rapid emissions reduction, climate stabilization, and the protection of all Saskatchewan farms and acres from the ravages of climate chaos. Darrin Qualman is Director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action with the NFU. In November 2019, the NFU published a detailed report on how to reduce agricultural emissions and increase net farm income. See “Tackling the Farm Crisis and the Climate Crisis” at www.nfu.ca .
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Pond Dipping in High-vis - so much to see
Skulls of different Saskatchewan animals that I bring to daycares
Summer student teaches about nature By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Summer student Talia Fawcett is back for a second season with the Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association. In her first summer, 2019, Fawcett was instrumental in doubling the number of people the program typically has contact with in a term. This summer she has brought to the program exceptional online content and now that it is again allowed to have face-to-face programming that is an option depending on what groups are comfortable with doing. “This summer I have been in the Yorkton area
for the month of July,” said Fawcett. “I have been visiting different daycares, the Boys and Girls Club of Yorkton, Yorkton Family Resource Centre, Yorkton Parks and Recreation, and a few different libraries delivering outdoor children’s programming about Saskatchewan plants and animals. “These events have been pre-recorded, through Zoom, or face-toface - depending on the need of each group.” Much of the programming has been youthoriented but Fawcett has had other responsibilities too. “Along with these children’s programs, I am also sending out a weekly activity through our blog
and Facebook page that focuses on one theme; a Saskatchewan plant or animal each time. “I have also been delivering videos each Monday in July to three different care homes in the area. These videos centre around Saskatchewan birds, plants, and animals.” While Fawcett is only with the group until Aug. 11, she will remain active in her educational role. From Aug. 4-to-7 Fawcett will be at the Yorkton Family Resource Center for Nature Exploration Camps at 3 p.m. daily. Also on Aug. 4 Fawcett did a Colour Scavenger Hunt at the Springside Public Library.
This is a wolf skull
Colouring Canadian Lynx and Wolf colouring sheets!
The pond was brought to their daycare - can you see a leech?
A nature scavenger hunt at the Ravine Ecological Preserve with the Yorkton Public Library.
Playing Predators vs. Prey!
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Head online for annual hort. show At this time in a normal year, I would have been asking you to join the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society at our Annual Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Show! Well, guess what! It is happening in a new and exciting way, online, at www.yorktonhort.ca Yes, it’s different! Yes, it’s new (for all of us!). But this is one way that hort members can still present the best of this year’s gardens. So make a cup of coffee, and sit down and browse through the show online. It opened today! Thank you so much to John, our amazing webmaster, for organizing all this; and thank you also to the progressive horticultural members who took part as we all try to do what we can to make the best of a dif-
ficult situation! You all helped the group make history! Have you checked out our new feature, “Mystery Plants”? Test your gardening knowledge and see if you can identify the plant. You can take part and send in a photo of an unusual plant. Include the name of the plant, if known, and tell us a little about it. Or, if you have a plant and don’t know what it is, maybe someone can identify it. We’ll all learn together! Please send in photos to yorktonhort@yahoo.com I think that one of the prettiest and easiest plants to grow in our gardens is the lacy, breezy cosmos. It sometimes has a bad rap because it seeds itself and requires so little care that we don’t think of it as a valuable addition to
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Gardener’s Notebook our gardens, but when you see the bees buzzing busily from bloom to bloom, as gardeners we should realize that we have a winner! First, some homework. The cosmos is actually a cousin of the sunflower, While it originally called Mexico home, it can be found almost all over the world. Once you seed them in your garden, you will usually continue to have them popping up here and there
in following years. This isn’t a bad thing! The cosmos looks beautiful in the wind, and the pink, fuchsia, white, yellow or orange flowers are like bright stars in a sea of green. Much beloved by bees and butterflies, they are also beloved by gardeners who are looking for a long-lasting cut flower. ( I know we sometimes get so caught up in our garden work that we forget to pick a flower or two to brighten our
kitchen tables, but please, make the effort! It will give your spirit a lift right from the time you sit down for your first sip of morning coffee!) Cosmos likes full sunshine, and well-drained soil. It will bloom right till fall and doesn’t seem to be bothered by many pests. There’s a cosmos for every garden, varying in heights up to about four feet high. And even if it comes up on its own and dwarfs the surrounding plants, because of its airy growth habit, it doesn’t seem to shadow or block out other plants. And if we keep deadheading the plants, we’ll be rewarded with more beautiful blooms. For the gardeners who say “ I can’t grow flowers”, this is the one for you! Plant it and
forget it. you don’t have to fuss with this plant, and even if you neglect it, it will forgive you and continue to bring forth those cheerful flowers! If you are looking for fresh, locally grown produce, remember that the Yorkton Gardeners’ Market is happening Saturdays from 8;00 AM till noon at the Prairie Harvest Christian Life Centre at the corner of Melrose and Simpson in Yorkton. You’ll find not only produce but flowers, baking, crafts, honey and more! For information on how to be a seller contact Glen at 783-7040. Thank you to our friends at Yorkton This Week for their wonderful work! Let’s pray for health for all and continued good weather. Have a great week and be sure to wear a hat!
Knock on wood: Dismantling old barns boon for new business By Evan Radford, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Regina Leader-Post) Now in his third year of business, Tyler Slowski has permanent proof he made it through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic almost unscathed. A rough, long, maroon scar runs between his right thumb and index finger, ending near his wrist in a snake’s headtype mark. “That was a miter saw, right before COVID-19 hit,” he says while on site at his current barndeconstruction project, at the northwest tip of Regina. “I was rushing an order ... I thought, ‘OK, the whole country is going to shut down, I gotta get these guys their wood,’ right?” He cut a piece, started lifting the still-spinning circular blade and reached under to clear the extra pieces. “The saw didn’t fully come up yet. Not thinking, I put my hand in there and I almost lost my whole hand. “It’s a good safety toolbox talk,” he says, serious with a touch of humour. Neither the injury nor the pandemic has slowed Slowski’s business, Prairie Barn Brothers, based in the Yorkton area. Originally started in January 2018 by Tyler and his brother Nathan, the company sees western Canada’s rustic, abandoned barns as still holding value; a value that’s better realized when the barns aren’t dotting the landscape while getting battered by wind and rain. Slowski and his crew deconstruct the barns, refurbish any salvageable wood, then sell it to buyers. Demand, he says, has been constant since the company’s early days, and especially halfway through 2020, pandemic be damned.
“The months of March and April were our busiest months of the year,” he says. “Last year I was offered 100 barns; I had to turn down 90 per cent of them because I just don’t have the capacity.” He and his crew regularly scout areas; they’ve worked from Manitoba all the way to Vancouver. Along with 13 barns, they’ve reclaimed old wood from 15 smaller outbuildings, plus two house demolitions. In 2020 they’ve finished five jobs so far. A large chunk of the work comes from referrals — word of mouth or online through social media. That’s how Slowski came across the current project, his biggest one yet, the Harle family barn at the corner of Pinkie Road and Armour Road. It was a 110-year-old behemoth with a second storey and a loft on top; it measured 126 feet by 68 feet (about the length of two bowling lanes by the width of one). A timber-frame barn, it was built in 1910 using 300-year-old wood from British Columbia’s old growth forests — Douglas fir. Slowski had just bought some lumber from Ken Harle, a son in the family whose own property is about a mile away, when Ken mentioned his family barn. “He says, ‘I’ve got to show you this,’” recalls Slowski. “When I saw it, my jaw dropped. I didn’t even know there were timber-frame barns in Saskatchewan.” He says the family was well past using it for farming. “They were going to burn it, because it was already becoming a hazard. Kids were coming and partying in there, and they could light the
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Tyler Slowski, owner of Prairie Barn Brothers, sits on a stack of reclaimed lumber from an old barn dismantled by the company on a worksite at the edge of Regina, Sask. on July 29 barn on fire.” He drew up a contract with the family, got insurance, filed the necessary paperwork with the Workers’ Compensation Board, filled his staff to eight people and went to work in June. No longer a building, it’s now thousands upon thousands of pieces sorted, stacked and piled on the Harle property, resembling something akin to a lumber yard. Such a scene explains Slowski’s busy schedule and the scale of his work. Pieces include timbers, dimensional lumber, wall board, shiplap, joints, braces, splinters, nails, 12-by-12s, 10-by-10s, eight-by-eights and other sizes. All of it needs to be measured and quantified in a variety of units: Linear feet, inches, quarter inches, half inches, square feet, board feet, dollars and cents.
“It’s going to take me a week just to get all of the numbers,” he says, functioning as the de facto inventory and sales guy. “When I first started in the business, I didn’t come from a carpentry background. I was like, ‘what are you talking about man? Can we just use linear feet and come up with a price?’ Once you get at it and keep going more and more, it becomes a little easier.” One board foot, for example, is a measurement of volume, equal to 12 inches by 12 inches by one inch; 12 board feet equal one cubic foot. Slowski says the price per unit for a board foot depends on market demand. He’s now selling his wood at wholesale costs, putting away money for equipment purchases later; the lowest he’ll go is $2.50 per board foot. That means
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a 10-foot long, eight-inch by eight-inch piece of wood is 53.33 board feet, selling for $133.33. He’s seen prices go as high as $15 per board foot, depending on demand and the wood’s value, which is based on structural strength and its longevity; Douglas fir holds more weight with less wood and staves off rot longer than spruce or pine, Slowski cites as an example. The Douglas fir beams from the Harle barn fetched the highest value. Companies in Oregon and Montana were quick to buy them. They’ll be used to build homes and as accent pieces in busi-
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nesses’ interiors. Quantity-wise, wall board (what was siding on the outside of the barn) sees the highest demand in Western Canada, according to Slowski. “We’ve got about 7,000 square feet just off this building.” Homeowners, contractors and home builders buy it to design walls, cabinets and decorative pieces. As the summer months roll into the fall and winter, Slowski and his crew will move back to Yorkton and start up the other side of the business, building and selling customized home products out of the leftover lumber that doesn’t sell straight out of the current Regina project. Such pieces can be something as small as a chopping board, or bigger items like an entire cabinet set for a kitchen or a bathroom. For his part, Slowski is glad to be turning a profit while extending the life of some very old wood, some which has origins hundreds of kilometres away. “(B.C.) sold us all these timbers and all this wood from B.C. on the railway in the 1930s and 40s … There’s a lot of barns built in the 30s and 40s in Saskatchewan and even the 50s … And now we’re selling it back to B.C. “They sold us the wood for a fairly decent price, we’re selling it back for a little bit more,” he says.
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A different way to look at your closed doors In 2007 West Nile Neurological Disease removed the Preacher from full-time ministry as a member of the clergy. But following a period of rehabilitation, Sunday mornings often still found him preaching in various pulpits temporarily or permanently without pastors. Until COVID-19 closed the church doors, that is. He misses delivering sermons (and I miss my favourite preacher.) However, like many other regular church attendees, we’ve enjoyed “couch church� and the messages of other pastors whose services allow online viewing.
A few weeks ago, we tuned in to a favourite author and pastor, Charles Swindoll, as, via YouTube, he delivered a message titled “The Magnificence of a Closed Door.� The title seemed appropriate. Around the globe, COVID-19 has slammed door after door; not just church doors, but life doors for individuals, businesses and organizations. Almost daily I speak with someone on the verge of despair. Even as our part of the world creeps back toward a more open way of doing life alongside the pandemic, many know they’ll never get back
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Sunny Side Up what they had a few short months ago. For those people, gone are countless wide vistas of opportunity and success. Hard-earned dollars, in the form of investments or earnings or potential earnings, have vanished too. Most heartbreaking of all, many have lost
loved ones to the disease. This coronavirus has left no one, it seems, unscathed. We all need regular reminders that God has not abandoned us. That he is still present. Still caring. And still in charge, even when it seems otherwise. We need to remember those
truths even more now. I took notes during Pastor Swindoll’s sermon. I thought I’d share them here. If you find yourself, as a Christ-follower, mourning losses from which you fear you’ll never recover, opportunities that have blown away like so many dandelion seeds in the wind, these notes from Pastor Chuck Swindoll are for you: 1. Since God is sovereign, he is in full control of all the doors in our lives – and we are not. 2. Being in full control, he takes full responsibility for all the doors he opens and all the doors he closes. (Stop crying, manipulat-
ing, being creative in trying to outsmart him. Stop lamenting. You are not responsible.) 3. When a door of something good in our plan closes, it often leads us to an open door of something better in his plan. 4. Not until we walk through the doors God opens, will we realize the necessity of the ones he closed. God is FULL of surprises. Wherever you are today, whatever fills your spirit, remember these things. In Jesus’ name, I pray you strength for today, and bright hope for tomorrow.
Sidewalk concert series features Jackie Guy By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer The most recent edition of Yorkton’s Sidewalk Concert Series took place last Wednesday evening. Jackie Guy took to the sidewalk to headline the performance. Guy, from Yorkton, is a five-time Saskatchewan Country Music association award nominee, who grew up with music as part of her life. “Guy’s father was instrumental in encouraging her passion for music, purchasing a bass guitar for her in the fifth grade. Her humble beginnings with the family band led to stints with Young Country and Long Shot, and then to a solo career that continues to present her with song writing and
performing opportunities that have not only surprised her at times but also have developed and challenged her as an artist,� notes her website bio. The series, arranged by the Yorkton Arts Council (YAC), features 13 halfhour performances at private driveways around the city through July and August. The concerts have been organized in-part to replace the park parties which have usually been organized by the Community Development, Parks & Recreation Department City of Yorkton for summer entertainment. Previous concerts have included Saltcoat’s Katie Morgan and Yorkton’s Angus Vincent.
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Getting one over The U18 Yorkton Cardinals had a little extra time on the diamond Wednesday thanks to a visit from the Canora Supers. The Supers, like a few others is an area senior team which have come together this summer for exhibition
games against the Yorkton youth. While it might have been a senior crew from Canora the U18 Cardinals kept it close, dropping the contest at Jubilee Park in the city 9-6.
Football navigates through COVID-19 By Devin Wilger Staff Writer Yorkton Minor Football is gearing up for the 2020 season, and recently handed out equipment to students who are eager to hit the field and get back into the game. But what’s football going to look like this year? With the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing, the football season will look different from usual, as they attempt to prevent the spread of the disease while also giving kids the chance to play. Right now, the minor football teams have been cleared to practice, said coach Jason Boyda, with some age categories hit-
ting the field this week, with the youngest category, the Mighty Mites, starting next week. They are now waiting for clearance to play games from SHA, and the Pee Wee and Bantam games may go down to nine man football instead of twelve. “We can practice as close to normally as we’ve done in the past because we’re outdoors and the way football practice is scheduled, we have a natural social distancing taking place... You have individual periods where the quarterback is working on quarterback drills only, the running backs are working on their thing, the linemen are working on their thing, everyone is
spread out working in smaller groups.” Each team will have a COVID safety officer, which will ensure that rules are followed and all equipment is sanitized, Boyda said. Players will sanitize their hands before and after practice. All kids will be expected to have their own water bottles. Contact drills will also be very limited. All equipment will be sprayed down to sanitize after each practice. When games are cleared to take place, each team will have their own football, which will be sanitized between plays. Any parents watching will be asked to spread themselves out with two
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Yorkton Minor Football handed out equipment last week. The football season is happening in 2020, with measures in place to ensure the safety of players, coaches and their families.
The tale of a goaltender There is something refreshing in the title of a recent hockey book by Jerry Hack. Most hockey books focus on success, while Hack, who did wellenough in senior hockey, admits in the title he never quite achieved the heights he may have dreamed of. Welcome to a story of try, have fun, and you might not make it; Memoir of a Hockey Nobody: They said I couldn’t make the NHL, so I went out and proved them right! Hack is interesting in that he wasn’t playing hockey before he could walk like most hockey players who finally get to the point of writing a book about their ice exploits. So given that the title of the book hinting at Hack not making the big time, why did he decide to pen the book “It was kind of a lark,” he said. “I had been posting stories and pictures of my playing days on Facebook. They became quite popular and a few people said that I should write a book. “I wrote the first
couple of chapters and let my wife read them. She said that it didn’t suck and that I should continue. “ But in the end it was family that made tackling the book a project Hack wanted to take on. “What really got me convinced is realizing that I didn’t really know what my parents upbringing was like,” said Hack. “They had both passed on in the last few years and I was curious to ask them, but I couldn’t. I thought of my own daughter. She’s 12 and has no interest in hearing about my upbringing. But I didn’t want to leave this life without her knowing my story so I wrote the rest of the book. I figured if she was the only one to ever read it that I would be happy with that. “But selling a million copies would definitely not hurt my feelings.” So, was it easy to write once Hack took on the challenge? “This is where I feel a little guilty,” he said. “I know that a lot of authors put their heart and soul into writing their books. It can be a gut wrenching and years
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lenging thing, I would have to say basically reliving my life over again,” offered Hack. “All the happy and sad and painful memories came exploding into my brain all at once. It was very cathartic. I had to deal with all the bad stuff that happened to me growing up-my relationship with my Dad especially. As well as other things I share in the book.” In the end Hack is proudest of the truth he included. “In my humble opinion, it is the honesty,” he said. “I wrote it from the heart and I think that message is conveyed in the book. I was cognizant not to try to be the hero of my own story. I didn’t embellish or make anything up. It comes directly from my
memory. Even if some of the details are wrong, it’s the way I remembered it. I wanted the people who are mentioned in the book to say, “Yup, I was there and that is exactly what happened.” The story never got to talk of the pros, Hack never made it that far, yet his story of a roving goaltender, is Canadian to the core, from commercial leagues in B.C. to time with the senior Assiniboia Rebels in Saskatchewan. Hack played because he loved hockey. The book again showed just how interconnected the sport is too. Hack was netminder for the Rebels in a playoff series against my hometown Tisdale Ramblers a season after I moved to Yorkton. It made me smile as I read the chapter recognizing I missed covering the series by mere months. But back to Hack’s view of his book when asked if he was satisfied with the overall story he created? “Yes and no,” he said. “I couldn’t be more pleased with the reac-
tion the book is getting, I’m getting so many messages of congratulations and positive reviews but I’m sure that every author has second thoughts about what they have written. “I have read the book so many times now that it doesn’t have the same effect on me than someone who is reading it for the first time. I left a lot of stuff out of the book, simply because I didn’t want it to be ‘War and Peace’. I tried to keep it relatively short so that someone could read it in one sitting if they felt like doing so. I would like to have put more stories in and maybe if the book is popular enough I will, in the future, write an “expanded version” and put a lot more stories in.” The book might, at times lacks some detail, but since Hack’s is not a hall of fame career, brevity works for the most part. The result is a rather light and quick, yet relatable story of one player’s love of the game. The book can be found on various online platforms.
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Yeti Tae Kwon Do at the Yorkton Martial Arts Centre were finally able to do belt testing recently, after COVID-19 caused a postponement from a March testing date. Among those earning belt progression was Michaela Miller 9th Gup Yellow Stripe. Gup is a Korean word, meaning student or junior. So everyone is a student until they reach black belt, and then they are called Dan, meaning senior or teacher. A stripe indicates a certain level achieved within a belt level. Other students of the club, which holds classes at the Yorkton Martial Arts Centre are; Sam Pamplona 5th Gup blue stripe, Arjun Verma 7th Gup green stripe, Master Forster 6th Dan Black, Alicia Kozie 9th Gup Yellow stripe, Koen Zaparaniuk Jr Red stripe, Azzylan Vance J9 black stripe, Liam Hutchings Jr
Back row from left: Michaela Miller, Sam Pamplona, Arjun Verma, Master Forster, and Alicia Kozie. Front from Left: Koen Zaparaniuk, Azzylan Vance, Liam Hutchings, Sam Brown, Daxton Kozie, and Callie Hutchings. green stripe, Sam Brown 9th Gup, Daxton Kozie J9 black stripe, Callie Hutchings 9th Gup yellow stripe. Belts begin at white, yellow, green, blue, red, and black. When the belt system was first invented, they
had to dye the belts by hand, with the colours they had available. You can paint or dye a darker colour over a lighter one, with no hue loss to your darker colour. The same is not true for the reverse - you cannot paint/dye a light colour over a dark
colour. The result will be muddied and dark. This is why belts get progressively darker at each rank. Stripes break each colour into two segments. It’s easy to think of it like ‘semester one’ and ‘semester two’.
U18 Expos weekend road warriors By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Monday was not exactly a holiday for the Parkland U18 AAA Expos, as they travelled to Regina to face the Wolfpack. An early lead helped the Wolfpack roll up a 10-4 win thanks in large part to a six-run second inning by the host team. In the second Jed Fenwick singled on a 0-2 count, scoring one run, Chase Thomson then drew a walk, also scoring a run. Zach Fox repeated the process with a walk, scoring one run, before Brady Bye singled on a 1-2 count, scoring one run. Another walk by Kael Eckert scored yet another run. Bye got the win for Regina. He lasted three innings, allowing five hits and three runs while striking out four. Ryan Rathgeber took the loss for the Expos. He lasted three and a third innings, allowing five hits and eight runs while striking out six. The Expos totaled seven hits in the game. Ryland Maier and Owen Cook each had multi-hit games.
Moose Jaw doubleheader The Parkland U18 AAA Expos headed to Moose Jaw Saturday to play a doubleheader with the Canucks. The first game of the visit was not a good one for the Expos who failed to plate a run in a 10-0 loss. Dylan Reed threw
the shutout to lead the Canucks. Moose Jaw’s big inning was a seven spot in the fifth inning Kaedyn Koroluk was on the hill for the Expos. He surrendered seven runs on eight hits over four innings, striking out two. Landon Burkell threw two-thirds of an inning in relief out of the bullpen. Game two was a defensive affair with only three runs scored between the two teams, but the result was the same, a loss for the Expos, this time by a 2-1 score. The game was tied at one until the bottom of the fifth when Evan Callaghan singled on a 2-0 count, scoring the eventual winning run. The pitching was strong on both sides. Nathan Varjassy struck out six, while Evan McCubbing sat down nine. McCubbing lasted six innings, allowing six hits and two runs while striking out nine and walking one.
In Regina vs A’s Friday the Expos were in Regina to face the host Athletics in a doubleheader. In Game one it was reported both pitching staffs had their hands full in a high-scoring affair where the Expos came out on top of an 11-7 score. The Expos got on the scoresheet in the second inning, when a Spencer Phythian sac fly scored a run. The Parkland squad
The Parkland AAA U18 Expos were on the road last Wednesday to face the Wolfpack in Regina. The Wolfpack would prove pesky hitters coming away with 11 hits,
but the Expos overcame those to win the game 10-5. The Expos opened the scoring in the first inning when Kaedyn Koroluk walked to force in a run. Regina evened things up in the bottom of the first inning when Karl Eckerk singled on the first pitch of his at-bat, scoring one run. After the Expos scored two runs in the top of the fourth, Regina answered with two of their own. The Parkland squad scored when Evan McCubbing singled on a 1-1 count, scoring a run. The Wolfpack answered when Zach Fox singled on a 1-0 count, scoring one. The Expos finally pulled away for good with two runs in the second inning, and then added five runs in the fifth inning. McCubbing, Ryan Rathgeber and Carter Phythian all had RBIs. Koroluk got the win for the Expos. He surrendered five runs on 11 hits over four and a third innings, striking out five and walking zero. Phythian threw twothirds of an inning in relief out of the bullpen. Michael Hom took the loss for Regina. He went four innings, allowing five runs on five hits and striking out three. The Expos collected nine hits on the day. Ryland Maier and McCubbing each racked up multiple hits for the visitors. The Expos did not commit an error.
grateful they won’t have to miss a season. “Some of those kids who don’t fit the body type that other sports have, they’re going to be missing out. That’s not right.” Boyda said that while Saskatchewan isn’t per-
fect, we’ve been pretty good at flattening the curve, so as a province we’re lucky that sports are beginning again. “I’m staying optimistic, and faithful to the good lord, that we will be able to play the greatest sport on this earth!”
took the lead for good with three runs in the fourth inning. In the frame Phythian singled on a 0-1 count, scoring one run and while Regina’s Anthony Meyer induced Kaden Fedak to hit into a fielder’s choice, two runs scored. Regina did put up three runs in the fifth inning. However, the Expos scored five runs in the fifth inning. Contributing to the big inning were Fedak, Kayden Smith and Ryland Maier all driving in runs in the inning. Fedak was the winning pitcher for the Expos. He surrendered five runs on five hits over four and two-thirds innings, striking out three. Carter Phythian threw two and a third innings in relief out of the bullpen. The Expos racked up 11 hits in the game. In game two an early lead helped Regina redeem the earlier loss with a 10-5 victory. Owen Cook took the loss for the Expos. He allowed four hits and six runs over two innings, striking out four. The Parkland squad tallied seven hits. Ryan Rathgeber and Kayden Smith both had multiple hits for the Expos.
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FOOTBALL Continued from Page A13 meters in between each family if they choose to watch. There will also be new rules. Spitting, for example, will be an infraction on the same level as fighting, Boyda said, with players getting ejected from the game if they spit on the field. Players will also be required to keep mouth guards in at all times. Locker rooms are out, with all players having to show up at the field already changed. Bathrooms are allowed, but with a limit on the number of people using them simultaneously. Coaches have also been instructed in safe contact guidelines which players will need to follow, to ensure that if
there is contact it’s going to be safe for players and limit the risk of COVID. “There can be contact, you just have to limit it.” Players also need to stay home if they’re not feeling well, or if their family has been notified of possible exposure, and Boyda said they really want to emphasize this to players. “You don’t have to be a tough player, you don’t have to show your toughness. If you’re not feeling well, do not come.” While this season is going to be limited, Boyda is happy that they’re still able to play. One of the unique things about the game, he said, is that it’s a sport with room for every body type to be successful. He’s
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Masker not quite up to Proux’s other games
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This year we have delved into a lot of games from designer Philippe Proux and publisher Ludarden. When you play a range of games, one will always
emerge as your favourite, another will occupy the last spot on the list. For our little group Masker is the one that occupies the last spot. The game is another nice looking, all wood creation, with simple enough rules and quick play, but compared to others from the designer, such as Tasso and Totem, this one just doesn’t have the overall impact on the table. Masker is an abstract game consisting of 36 wooden crosses and five colour markers. All crosses are placed
THE MEEPLE GUILD (YORKTON) meeple.guild@gmail.com at random forming a 6 by 6 grid. Each player or team secretly gets a colour marker. On your turn, remove a cross touching the noncoloured cross (natural wood) and move the lat-
ter to that place. End your turn or repeat this up to two times. If the non-coloured cross is isolated, the next player is allowed to place it anywhere. If all crosses of your
colour are removed, you must declare it and you are out of the game. Last person standing wins. As noted this one sort of filters to the bottom of the pile in terms of games played from this publisher, which isn’t to say it’s terrible, but it does seem to lack some of the excitement/interest of other games from this designer. For me this comes from the set-up, which while not taking long, just detracts from the game. Also when you are left without a move,
being isolated from the other pieces in play, the rule of how you can go anywhere seems a tad pasted on to the game, a bit of an inelegant solution to the problem as it developed. This is a game that won’t see a lot of play in our group, there are just too many better options with the same core ‘feel’ from the same designer. 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.