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Council approves funding to help business By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Yorkton businesses, at least those meeting certain criteria, may be eligible for new rebates and tax breaks from the city. At the first meeting of the latest edition of Yorkton Council Monday a new Business Improvement Incentive Program Policy received unanimous support. In outlining the new policy City Manager Lonnie Kaal explained, the City of Yorkton initiated an Enterprise Zone Incentive Program in 2005 to encourage property development in a specific area of the City. The program expired years ago, and recently there has been discussion about initiating a new program, she continued. With that in mind, consultations with members of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, Yorkton Business Improvement District and other key individuals in the community have taken place, said Kaal. From the discussions City Administration created a draft policy, said Kaal, adding the document was reviewed by the Economic Development Committee, who after making some minor edits, has recommended that Council approve the incentive programs. Kaal said the uniqueness of the program put forward is two-fold. • The Yorkton Business Improvement District is willing to share in funding the Façade and Site Improvements Incentive Program for those properties that are located within the District. • The targeted market for those able to qualify for Business Creation and Expansion Incentives are those that are “locally owned businesses.” If the business is incorporated, the majority of shares must be held by individuals who reside within the City of Yorkton. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide documentation to support 51 per cent local ownership. Generally, the purpose is to encourage all commercial property owners in the City of Yorkton to enhance the appearance of their buildings/properties and to provide incentives for the creation and expansion of locally-owned businesses, detailed Kaal. Applications would be available January 2021 for the upcoming tax year. The objectives are to: • Encourage the enhancement of façade and site improvements for all businesses in the City. The City
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Kettle campaign begins
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The Salvation Army Kettle Campaign began over the weekend, with kettles located at Superstore, the Parkland Mall, Save-On-Foods, Wal Mart and the downtown Liquor Board store. Volunteers will now
take extra precautions because of COVID-19, including being masked through their shift and regularly wiping down kettles. Pictured, Dan Calef mans the kettle on the first day of the campaign.
Habitat looks for next family as latest moves in By Devin Wilger Staff Writer Maranda Belcourt is on the threshold of life as a homeowner. Describing herself as “half moved-in” she’s the latest recipient of a Habitat for Humanity home. She’s excited to finally have a place to call her own, and finally have enough space for her four daughters to have friends over and be able to entertain once the COVID-19 pandemic is over. “It’s been absolutely amazing, it’s wonderful.” She said that it’s freeing to have the stability of her own home, and not have to worry about when renovations will happen or whether the rent will increase. She also notes that with four kids, having a place with two bathrooms is “a lifesaver.” She was very surprised to be the next homeowner, as she didn’t believe she qualified. Belcourt is the latest home-
“It’s been absolutely amazing, it’s wonderful.” — Habitat home owner, Maranda Belcourt owner, but she won’t be the last. Habitat for Humanity, Yorkton Branch, is on the search for the next one has begun. Habitat for Humanity has the following requirements for applications for the next homeowner. They must demonstrate a clear need for safe, decent housing; they must be working, with a reliable and consistent gross annual household income between $32,000 and $66,500; they must be willing to complete 500 volunteer hours and participate in all home-
ownership preparation workshops, they must have lived in Canada for at least three years and in the Yorkton District for at least two years; and have not declared bankruptcy in the last two years. Belcourt recommends anyone in the position to apply do so, because she knows how it can change a life. “Try, just do it, don’t second guess it. The best thing that can happen is you’re told yes. The worst thing is you try again another time.” Belcourt said that the 500
volunteer hours were great, and she had a lot of people pitch in to help. Her three younger daughters did a great deal of volunteer work, and she said the chance to participate has been a huge positive for their development. “They grew a lot, with social skills and just being able to talk to people on the fly.” Belcourt said that she’s going to continue to be involved in Habitat for Humanity. “Any opportunity to help out, for sure I will.” Habitat for Humanity Yorkton Branch would also like to thank the businesses in the community who helped make the build possible. “We are grateful for the support from the numerous businesses, tradespeople, organizations and individuals who have contributed to this project. Thanks to their support the Belcourt family will be able to build strength, stability, and self-reliance in a
home they can call their own.” said Yorkton Co-Chair Tom Seeley in a release. “Businesses are facing challenges of their own during these uncertain times, so now more than ever their support is incredibly meaningful.” Building this home was made possible through in-kind and monetary donations from RH Electric, Carpet One, Altus Geomatics, Deneschuk Homes, TWH Backhoe Service, Gordon’s Sanitation, RANT Plumbing & Heating, Don Blahey , Steamatic, Everlast Eaves & Exteriors, Gerein Appraisal Inc., Logan Stevens, Lynns Point of View, Barr Kosedy Stucco, Enviromatics Group, The Tree Guy, , Whitestone Enterprises, Knights of Columbus, R. Houle Construction, RCMP, Brian Weber, SveinCo Developments, Bradford Construction and Concrete Inc., , High Angle Roofing, D&M Trucking, A-1 Furnace Cleaning, and Wagner’s Flooring.
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COUNCIL Continued from Page A1 will rebate one-third of eligible costs up to a maximum of $10,000 (ie: total costs of up to $30,000); and for those that are within the Yorkton Business Improvement District a further onethird of eligible costs up to a maximum of $10,000 will be provided by YBID. • Encourage the expansion of locally-owned businesses such that those that improve the value of their property by more than $50,000 will be eligible to receive tax abatements for five years on the improved portion/assessment of the property. • Encourage the re-investment into vacant commercial buildings such that those that occupy and upgrade vacant properties may be eligible for a complete tax holiday on the entire property in year one and modified tax rebates
in year two & three. This would also apply to vacant units within a larger building (ex: Linden Square Mall). The programs are targeted so they are deemed affordable while still providing the desired results: • Both the City and YBID have agreed to fund the Façade and Site Improvement program by providing $50,000 each annually. • Phasing in taxes on increased assessment does not technically cost money (it does not need to be funded from the budget), but growth in tax revenue will be deferred as it will be five years before these increased values are fully taxed. • The Vacant Building Tax Incentive Program is an actual cost as properties that have been levied taxes in the past could receive 100 per cent abatement
in year one. While it is difficult to determine the impact, the estimated cost of these incentives is $50,000. Incentives are a cost against tax revenue and $100,000 expenditure for incentives with regards to these programs have been included in the 2021 operating budget, said Kaal. Councillor Darcy Zaharia said “kudos” were due to City Administration to working with YBID to create the policy. But, Zaharia did want to know what happens if the money is used up and someone else applied. Applications will be “on a first come, first serve basis,” said Kaal, adding if someone applied after the money is allocated they would simply be put at the top of the list for the following year if the program is continued after
2021. Along similar lines Coun. Goulden wanted to know if unused funds would roll forward. “That would be up to Council,” said Kaal. Coun. Ken Chyz said from being involved with YBID he could input YBID was not planning to roll unused dollars forward in terms of their portion of the funding. Other Councillors were simply in favour of the policy in general terms. Coun. Chris Wyatt said he liked the idea, in particular the aspect focused on filling vacant properties, calling that “an excellent idea.” “I think this is a fantastic program,” said Coun. Dustin Brears. “I am absolutely thrilled with this,” added Mayor Mitch Hippsley.
SUN and SAHO reach tentative bargaining agreement The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) and the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO Inc.) are pleased to announce they have successfully reached a new tentative collective agreement. This agreement marks another milestone for collective agreements achieved by unions which are all now operating within a single provincial health authority, as well as affiliate organizations. Details of the new collective bargaining agreement will be shared pending ratification by SUN members and SAHO Inc.
I am genuinely pleased to see a successful negotiated settlement with our largest health union providing further stability as our health system faces this pandemic. — Health Minister Paul Merriman “I am genuinely pleased to see a successful negotiated settlement with our largest health union providing further stability as our health system faces this pan-
demic,” Health Minister Paul Merriman said. “Thank you to both SUN and SAHO Inc. for their collaborative efforts and dedication to achieving this tentative agreement.”
“I am certain registered nurses will welcome this good news – especially during these unprecedented times,” SUN President Tracy Zambory said. “This tentative agreement will
no doubt be a huge weight off the shoulders of registered nurses, providing them with much-needed stability and security in the face of a global pandemic.” SUN represents more than 10,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Registered Nurse (Nurse Practitioners). SUN’s primary role is protecting the individual and collective rights of registered nurses in Saskatchewan, ensuring its members can practice in a safe environment and provide patients with high-quality, safe care.
Local Chambers see manufacturing value The Government of Saskatchewan has proclaimed November 23-27, 2020 Saskatchewan Manufacturing Week, celebrating the innovative, entrepreneurial and competitive manufacturers that call the province home. In 2019, Saskatchewan’s manufacturing industry had $16.3 billion in sales and provided $5.5 billion in total exports. The overall sector represented 5.6 per cent of the provincial gross domestic product. For every dollar invested in manufacturing, an economic spin off of three times is generated in the provincial economy. Locally, manufacturing is an important part of the local economy said Yorkton Chamber of
Commerce Executive Director Juanita Polegi. “The manufacturing sector is a large player in the Yorkton economy,” she stated. “Our manufacturers provide a number of jobs with many of these for highly skilled employees. Our manufacturers contribute significantly to the diversity of the city’s economy.” Provincially it is the same story. “As a major wealthgenerator and significant driver of the provincial economy, we’re proud of our manufacturing sector here in Saskatchewan,” Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison said in a release Monday. “Manufacturing Week is a great opportunity to pro-
The manufacturing sector is a large player in the Yorkton economy . . . Our manufacturers contribute significantly to the diversity of the city’s economy. — Yorkton Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Juanita Polegi file the technologies, innovations and management tools for the ongoing success and growth of the industry.” Saskatchewan’s manufacturing sector employed 30,700 people in 2019, an increase of 9.3 per cent from 2018 and the highest increase
among the provinces. In the same year, Saskatchewan ranked second for capital investment growth and secondhighest in manufacturing productivity. Saskatchewan’s manufacturing revenue continues to grow steadily, with the secondhighest increase in 2018
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from 2017. From 2009 to 2019, Saskatchewan’s manufacturing sector had an average annual growth rate of 0.8 per cent, with real GDP rising from $4.3 billion in 2009 to approximately $4.6 billion in 2019. Saskatchewan’s Growth Plan includes a
goal to increase the value of Saskatchewan manufacturing exports by 50 per cent by 2030. That will be achieved by ensuring Saskatchewan has a competitive tax and regulatory environment, expanding access to Canadian and international markets, providing incentives that improve efficiency and accelerate capital investment and reducing unnecessary red tape. During the COVID-19 pandemic, over 25 companies in Saskatchewan’s manufacturing sector pivoted to produce medical supplies or personal protection equipment for local businesses, the provincial school system and the health care industry in North America.
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Ski club rebuilds after spring fire By Devin Wilger Staff Writer When the area around Good Spirit Lake caught fire on the Victoria Day weekend this year, the work of the Canora Fire Department and other surrounding departments helped save lives, but not all of the structures could be saved. The warm up shack for the Good Spirit Lake Cross Country Ski Club was a casualty of the blaze, being completely destroyed by the flames. The club did what they had to do, and that’s rebuild. Opening just in time for the ski season, the new warm up ski shelter is now built and ready. Club chair Daryl Stevenson
said that the shelter is used year-round, for skiers in the winter and hikers in the summer. It’s located on the TransCanada Trail, and the TransCanada Trail itself provided some of the funding for the replacement, as well as the Crossroads Credit Union in Canora which provided $3,000. One of the challenges was a tight deadline. Work couldn’t begin until September, as the park was too busy to allow construction traffic into the area. “It is in an isolated area, but those trails are used by park users through the summer, so there’s lots of foot traffic and bicycle traffic on those trails,” explained Stevenson.
Work began after the Labor Day long weekend, and Stevenson describes the shelter as building a “fancy garage.” He said it was a big rush to get the project finished, with volunteers from the ski club itself doing the construction of the building. Working on a tight deadline was one thing, but another was COVID-19 restrictions. Work on the interior of the shelter needed to follow safety guidelines, with a maximum number of people in the shelter at any given time. “A lot of work had to be done inside, because it’s insulated and has a pine interior. That took quite a bit of work.” It was vital to get it done
before the ski season began, with Brian Dudar, Park Manager at Good Spirit Lake Provincial Park committing it to be ready for the season to begin. They were lucky to avoid an early snowfall, said Stevenson, with the last full work day on the 14th of November. “The exterior was completed just before the first snowfall, it worked out really good.” The trails are only partially open right now, as part of the trail was damaged due to truck traffic required to get construction materials to the site. The push to get the shelter complete was also partially because this promises to be a big year for cross-country ski-
ing, Stevenson said. It’s a sport that can be done while socially distanced, and is a great way to stay active when many of the options to stay active are not feasible. They have had a great deal of interest in the club, beyond previous years. He said they have had a big increase in registrations this year over previous years, and believes it’s important to have a sport that can be done even through a pandemic, given that it’s easy to ski while remaining distant. “A lot of the other sports, you might not be able to participate. Especially seniors, you don’t want to take the chance. There are a lot of seniors in our club.”
Council sets Deputy Mayor stints By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer At the first full regular meeting of the new Yorkton Council the position of deputy mayor was defined for the next four years. In accordance with Procedures Bylaw, Council shall at the first Regular Meeting of Council, following the Inaugural meeting, by resolution, appoint each Member of Council, other than the Mayor as a Deputy Mayor, each to serve a term of two, four month periods within their four year Council office term, explained Jessica Matsalla City
Clerk with the City at the meeting Monday. If the Mayor, for any reason, is unable to perform the duties of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor shall have all the powers of the Mayor during the inability. If for any reason, neither the Mayor nor the Deputy Mayor are able to perform their duties, in their absence, the Member of Council previously designated to be Deputy Mayor shall be the Acting Deputy Mayor. The Acting Deputy Mayor shall have all the powers of the Mayor or Deputy Mayor during the inability, explained Matsalla. When it is resolved that Council go
into Committee of the Whole Council Meetings, the Deputy Mayor, or in his absence the Acting Deputy Mayor, shall be the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole Council Meeting, who shall maintain order in the Committee. Council approved a schedule as follows; • November, 2020 - February, 2021 – Councillor Randy Goulden; • March – June, 2021 – Councillor Dustin Brears, • July – October, 2021 Councillor Quinn Haider; • November, 2021 – February, 2022 Councillor Ken Chyz;
• March – June, 2022 Councillor Chris Wyatt; • July – October, 2022 Councillor Darcy Zaharia; • November, 2022 - February, 2023 – Councillor Randy Goulden; • March – June, 2023 – Councillor Dustin Brears; • July – October, 2023 – Councillor Quinn Haider; • November, 2023– February, 2024 – Councillor; • March – June, 2024 – Councillor Chris Wyatt; • July – October, 2024 – Councillor Darcy Zaharia
Doukhobor film earns award for excellence in museums The Western Development Museum in partnership with Spirit Wrestlers Productions and the University of Saskatchewan is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Museums: History Alive! for The Saskatchewan Doukhobor Living Book Project. The Saskatchewan Doukhobor Living Book Project was on display at the WDM Saskatoon in 2019. The exhibit helped preserve the oral history and spiritual traditions
of the Saskatchewan Doukhobors through the creation of an immersive audio/visual soundscape. The soundscape documented a typical Doukhobor ‘moleniye’ (prayer service) as practiced by Saskatchewan’s I n d e p e n d e n t Doukhobors. It captured the oral history of Doukhobor elders, and explored how the community has evolved since first immigrating to Saskatchewan 120 years ago. Along with the soundscape the exhibit featured artifacts from the WDM collection and
the local Doukhobor community. The Independent Doukhobors’ unique approach to ‘cultural harmonization,’ which allowed them to integrate socially, economically, and politically while retaining key features of their religious beliefs and cultural practices, may help us to better understand and support other ethnoreligious minority communities in our province and beyond. “We are honoured to have been chosen as this year’s winners of the Governor General’s History Award for
Excellence in Museums which recognizes our work in preserving and making accessible intangible cultural heritage in Canada through a unique partnership between members of the Doukhobor community, the University of Saskatchewan, and the Western Development Museum,” says WDM Curator Dr. Elizabeth Scott, Founder and Manager of Spirit Wrestler Productions Ryan Androsoff, and University of Saskatchewan Assistant Professor of History Dr.
Ashleigh Androsoff. About the Western Development Museum With four exhibit locations in Saskatchewan, the WDM is the province’s largest human history museum. The WDM’s mandate is to collect, preserve, and exhibit objects of historical value and importance connected with the economic and cultural development of Western Canada and to stimulate interest in western Canadian history. The Museums’ vision is a Saskatchewan where everyone belongs
and histories matter. The WDM is a registered charity. About the Governor General’s History Awards Created in 1996, the Governor General’s History Awards honour excellence in educational and public programming about our history and heritage. They celebrate the very best in Canadian achievements to ensure our national past has a vibrant presence in our society today. These awards are administered by Canada’s National History Society.
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Politics The COVID-19 news has not been good and is likely soon to get worse. While it once took nearly two months to run up 500 cases in Saskatchewan, we are now hitting those numbers in a couple days. And what’s quickly becoming even more problematic is contact tracing the source of outbreaks is becoming nearly impossible. It’s no longer a case of COVID-19 coming in from out-ofprovince, of confining outbreaks in remote First Nations communities or in Hutterite communities. The coronavirus is in all corners and all communities Premier Scott Moe acknowledged last week. What to do about it is a matter of varying opinion — opinion that now fluctuates even within communities and within interest and interest groups that maybe once held more consistent views on the coronavirus issue. Consider last week’s order making public mask wearing in this province mandatory everywhere — an order that came just four days after the province ordered mandatory mask-wearing in communities of 5,000 people and more (and many of the their surrounding communities) that came less than a week after mandatory public mask wearing was ordered for just the three largest cities. Initially, opposing the wearing of masks — what many medical professions believe is the absolute least any government should do to stop the coronavirus spread — seemed to have much wider support. Certainly, the notion some still hold that it infringes on one’s personal freedom — a rallying cry seemingly borrowed from the U.S. and Donald Trump supporters — contained political overtones. And some anti-maskers seem to be still clinging on this notion as a political symbol. But as daily COVID-19 case counts climbed into the triple digits in Saskatchewan, anti-mask sentiment have quickly fallen out of favour among the vast majority. If this issue was ever a rural-versus-urban thing, that changed when COVID-19 case numbers per 100,000 in the three Prairie provinces surpassed that of Quebec and Ontario. Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) President Ray Orb stepped up and made it clear that the slight inconvenience of wearing masks everywhere was no big deal for rural people. Certainly, if masks mean the difference between shutting down the economy and not shutting down the economy, many people see them as well worth it. However, mask wearing seems to be a relatively easy choice for Moe compared with other measures recommended by the province’s doctors and health professionals. A rather sombre Moe appeared before reporters last week along with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab to announce not only that provincewide mask order but also to announce that gatherings in private home would be restricted to five people instead of 10. It was also announced visits to long-term care facilities and personal care homes — 20 of which have COVID-19 cases — would be suspended except for extreme compassionate reasons. However, what might have been most surprising is what wasn’t announced —further restrictions on gatherings in churches, casinos, bingo halls, sporting events, bars and restaurants (although their service hours for alcohol was cut a few days earlier). All such venues have been involved in “super spreader” events that Moe and Shabab acknowledges are one big reason why COVID-19 everywhere in the province. For Moe and his Sask. Party government, the line in the sand is to avoid a complete lockdown like we are seeing in neighbouring Manitoba. “This is not a lockdown,” Moe said. “This is a slowdown, a significant one-month slowdown.” Moe then mentioned something he avoided talking about during last month’s election when he campaigned on a strong economy — that 15,000 of the 70,000 shed in the initial March lockdown had not comeback. For now, Moe is opting to save jobs in Saskatchewan and hoping his incremental measures to fight COVID-19 will get us through the second wave. It is clearly a gamble. Murray Mandryk has been covering provincial politics since 1983.
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hen stores are empty there are generally calls for some sort of incentive to get businesses back into them. Incentives are not new locally, as was noted at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday. At the meeting City Manager Lonnie Kaal explained, the City of Yorkton initiated an Enterprise Zone Incentive Program in 2005 to encourage property development in a specific area of the City. So slow economic times are not new, although the reason, a worldwide pandemic is definitely different than other recent downturns. The problem COVID-19 has caused is actually threefold, although two of them are certainly inter-related. The first problem is simply people are not shopping like they once did. When governments closed businesses earlier this year in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19 it hit some businesses hard. Some adapted and have weathered the storm better than might have been anticipated, sales of some things have been very good. Others have seen sales stymied and for a business that may have been working close to the red line in terms of profit pre-COVID, the pandemic may be the tipping point toward closure. Business closures of course are not new, they happen with some regularity. But, generally when Bill’s Shop has closed, Burt’s Place has been waiting to try their hand at business. There are always entrepreneurs with ideas willing to take the risk of starting a business, and when an economy is humming along under more normal circumstances that means empty storefronts have a chance to be filled. In a pandemic world, where numbers in Canada and Saskatchewan are skyrocketing, the entrepreneur is naturally more reluctant to take the risk of opening a new store, which is problem two. The natural reluctance of the entrepreneur is fed too by our political leader’s at all three levels of government citing how bad it is, which in-part becomes somewhat of a self-fulfilling
vision. If you say the sky is falling enough, it becomes accepted it must be falling. So, the question is how to entice business to invest during COVID, or take the bigger step to open something new. In Moose Jaw administrators helped launch a new online marketplace for local sellers Friday, kicking in $10,000 from the city’s economic development fund to help start the online platform, according to a Leader-Post story by Evan Radford. Dubbed Virtual Moose Jaw Marketplace, it allows shops to market and sell their wares online while offering COVID-safe methods for buyers to get them, like curbside pick-up or dropoff. It’s an idea that takes on the idea of online shopping head-on creating a buy local online option, which may well be a lingering reality of COVID. Monday, in Yorkton Council took steps of its own to offer some help. After consultations with members of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, Yorkton Business Improvement District and other key individuals in the community City Administration created a draft policy which was reviewed by the Economic Development Committee, who after making some minor edits, has recommended that Council approve the incentive programs. The objectives are to: • Encourage the enhancement of façade and site improvements for all businesses in the City. • Encourage the expansion of locally-owned businesses such that those that improve the value of their property by more than $50,000 • Encourage the re-investment into vacant commercial buildings such that those that occupy and upgrade vacant properties may be eligible for a complete tax holiday The incentives are well-targeted and might just be the added encouragement for some to take the plunge, while not being a huge drain on City resources, which makes it a good effort to address the current situation.
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Legacy Co-op aids grandstand renewal Legacy Co-op Board of Directors has announced the donation of $50,000 towards the Yorkton Exhibition Association’s “Save the Grandstand” project. Legacy Co-op was formed in 1940, 57 years after what is now called the Yorkton Exhibition Association was organized. “We are very proud to partner with the Yorkton Exhibition
Association (YEA) as they move forward with the Grandstand project,” stated Clark Anderson, Legacy Co-op’s Board Chair. “We understand the importance of “tradition” and “sustainability” in our communities and we know that YEA shares many of the values we have,” continued Anderson. The $50,000 commitment will allow Legacy Co-op the
naming rights for the grandstands for a period of 5 years starting in 2021 when the work to complete the renovations should be completed. Lori Walsh, project chair stated that “it’s great to have a business like Legacy Co-op partner with us, as they have been a supporter of the Yorkton Exhibition Association for decades, and are always will-
ing to step up when asked for help.” Sales for Legacy Co-op topped $102 Million dollars in 2019. As a regular business in the Top 100 Businesses in Saskatchewan, Legacy Co-op came in at # 52 in 2019. “We are experiencing growth in a time when many retails are suffering”, said Anderson, adding that the
retail is currently expanding with the construction of a Wine, Beer and Spirits Store in Yorkton and improving its offering with the upgrading of the Churchbridge Food Store. Legacy Co-op had a Net Savings of $5,863,000 in 2019. Of that total, $3,850,000 was allocated and paid back to the members of Legacy Co-op. — Submitted
How to tackle food waste? Marc Fawcett-Atkinson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (National Observer) Each year, about half of Canada’s food supply goes to waste. Fields of produce are plowed under due to cancelled orders; tomatoes destined for pasta sauce fall off conveyor belts and never make it to store shelves. That might be about to change. On Thursday, MarieClaude Bibeau, federal minister of agriculture and agri-food, announced a national competition for projects to reduce the country’s food waste. The program, a first step of a national food waste reduction plan, will fund novel projects to reduce waste throughout the supply chain. It’s a problem that
extends well beyond household compost bins. Roughly 35.5 million tonnes of food is wasted in Canada each year, generating about 56.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, according to a 2019 report by Second Harvest, a nonprofit that redistributes food that would otherwise be wasted to food banks and charities. More than half this waste is created before food hits grocery store shelves. “Reducing food waste is necessary for so many reasons: It can help save consumers money, improve food security, support efficiency in the agriculture and food sector and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” said Bibeau in a written statement. “We actually do have a pretty solid understanding of where that food loss
and waste is across the supply chain,” said Lori Nikkel, CEO of Second Harvest. Nikkel hopes the $10.8-million competition announced Thursday will act as a spark for action on the issue. “Having the knowledge and then actually doing something about it …are two different things,” she said. The contest is open to everyone, from businesses to governments to individuals. Proposals to the contest will go through several rounds of evalua-
Victims and Survivors of Crime Week declared in Saskatchewan November 22 to 28 has been declared Victims and Survivors of Crime Week in Saskatchewan. Victims and Survivors of Crime Week raises awareness about the issues victims and survivors of crime face, and the services and laws that are in place to protect them. The week is also an opportunity to recognize the efforts of the province’s volunteer victim support workers and volunteer board members. This year, the week’s theme is “Recognizing Courage, Renewing Commitment.” It acknowledges the courage demonstrated by survivors of crime, and honours the professionals and volunteers whose ongoing efforts empower those who have been victimized. “Victim services volunteers and staff extend their time and energy to help people going
tion, with two finalists awarded $1.5 million each to implement their plan. Efforts to reduce, divert and repurpose wasted food so it remains on the market would be well-suited, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada explained in a statement. That approach — focused on reducing waste throughout the supply chain instead of redistributing it to charities — has some observers cautiously optimistic that critiques of previous food waste reduction efforts are being heard. “The problem with (many programs) is that (they) just reinforce the idea that food waste and food banks and charity are an effective response to food insecurity,” said Graham Riches, professor of social work at the University of British Columbia. He pointed to the federal government’s recent $50-million Surplus Food Rescue
Fund as an example. The program, which was announced in August, redistributes food that was stranded by the pandemic-related food service and hospitality shutdown to food banks across Canada. The approach dealt in part with the immediate crisis: About 5.8 million kilograms of food was stranded when the pandemic hit, and in May, Statistics Canada reported that over 1.5 million more people had become food insecure since 2018, and one in seven Canadians hadn’t had enough food during the previous month. Yet while it dealt with the immediate crisis, Riches said the program didn’t challenge longstanding and more problematic patterns in government policies focused on redistributing excess food produced by the industrial food system to food banks and charities. It’s a problematic approach, he explained “Food waste is a product, is a symptom of a dysfunctional industrial food system … but it’s being presented as an answer to poverty and food insecurity, which is a function of the capitalist market, but also broken social safety
nets.” That’s because food insecurity arises out of social and economic inequality, he explained. Fully addressing it means overhauling income support systems to ensure that people have enough money to buy their own food and don’t need to rely on food banks at all. “People need money in their pockets to get by,” he said. “They don’t actually need handouts, food handouts, which do nothing for the economy other than subsidizing low wages and subsidizing low welfare benefits.” Meanwhile, food waste is a separate issue that requires changing how food is grown, processed, transported and sold, an approach that could be reflected in the contest announced this week. “I think it’s a very good thing that the federal government is developing this national food waste reduction challenge,” he said. “You’ve got to reframe what you’re doing about … the industrial food system and how it produces food from the farm to the table and the various stages that food goes through on its transfer to people’s mouths.”
CLARENCE CAMPEAU DEVELOPMENT FUND through trauma,” Justice Minister and Attorney General Gordon Wyant said. “This year, they have shown an unprecedented level of commitment as they successfully transitioned to remote service delivery. We are grateful for their enduring support.” The Ministry of Justice supports programs and services throughout Saskatchewan that help victims of crime. This includes $4.6 million in
funding to police-based victim services across the province. For information about the National Victims and Survivors of Crime Week, services available for victims and survivors or volunteer opportunities, please contact your local victim services program. You can also call the Victim Services Branch at 306-787-3500, or visit the website at www. saskatchewan.ca/victimsservices.
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Next Council Meeting Monday, December 14, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. CITY OF YORKTON PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED LIBRARY BOUNDARY CHANGE The City of Yorkton hereby gives public notice pursuant to Section 4.1 of The Public Libraries Act, 1996 of its intention to change the library boundary. Details: On June 22, 2020, City Council approved a motion to establish a municipal library in Yorkton. The current Yorkton Public Library operates under the Parkland Regional Library system even though Yorkton residents pay for all of the operating costs. The objective of this change is to enable the City of Yorkton to directly manage and control the budget, set priorities and establish levels of service delivery for the Yorkton Public Library. In that regard, the City will be applying for a boundary change for the Yorkton Public Library by proposing the boundaries of the new municipal library be those of the existing City limits as outlined in the map below
Information: You can view this notice online at www.yorkton.ca Questions regarding the proposal can be directed to: Lonnie Kaal, City Manager Telephone: 306-786-1703 Email: citymanager@yorkton.ca Public hearing: Prior to applying for a boundary change and in accordance with Section 4 of The Public Libraries Act, 1996, City Council will hear all persons who are present and wish to speak to the proposal and all written submissions will be read verbatim unless the submitter is in attendance to speak on the submission on December 14, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. in City Hall Council Chambers, Yorkton, SK. If you wish to provide written comments for Council’s consideration, they must be submitted by 9:00 a.m. on November 18, 2020. Written submissions must be directed to: Jessica Matsalla, Director of Legislation and Procedures (City Clerk) In Person: 2nd Floor, 37 Third Avenue North, Yorkton, SK Via Mail: P.O. Box 400, Yorkton, SK S3N 2W3 Via Email: cityclerk@yorkton.ca
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Legacy Co-op donates $15,000 to The Health Foundation The Health Foundation received a generous donation of $15,000 from Legacy Co-op to assist the purchase of new surgical and lab equipment. Legacy Co-op Board Members Ken Chyz and Debbie Jones recently presented the cheque to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation. “Our Board thought this was a great project”, said Ken Chyz, “we know that right now the health system is under a lot of pressure and government funds are going to fight Covid-19. If we want
to maintain and enhance the services we have locally, we are all going to have to do our part to make sure that happens.” “Legacy Co-op invests money back into Yorkton and region every year, we truly see ourselves as community builders and look to support projects that will have an impact in all parts of community life,” said Debbie Jones. “Our Board felt this is exactly the type of project we should support,” said Chyz. “This new laparoscopic equipment will improve the services available in our region
and make it easier to keep our surgeons. That makes for better health care services locally, and that is important to making our community a better place to live, work and raise a family.” “Legacy Co-op consistently supports our work to improve healthcare in Yorkton and area, and we are grateful for their help and the work they do in the community,” said Ross Fisher. “We could not undertake the larger initiatives we do without knowing businesses like Legacy Co-op will financially support our work.”
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Legacy Co-op Board Members Ken Chyz and Debbie Jones recently presented the cheque to Ross Fisher, Executive Director of The Health Foundation.
Yorkton Chamber election results Recently at the regular Board meeting of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, the results of the recent Board election were approved. It was a most unusual election year as only six nominations were received for the eight positions available. Returning to the Board by acclamation are Alicia Simoneau, Geoff Propp and Marty Sveinbjornson. New to the Board, also by acclamation, are Annelle Bodnarik, Meghan Lindgren and CV Sastry. Two positions remained vacant. Juanita Polegi, Executive Director of the Chamber explained the process
for filling those vacancies. “According to the Chamber’s constitution, members may be appointed to the Board when a vacancy occurs,” she said. “In this case, the Board has appointed Sunil Shah and Shelly Dobrowolski to fill those two vacant positions”. Shah has served as a Chamber Director in the past and has volunteered for the Business Development and Events committees. Dobrowolski has volunteered on the Business Development committee for the past two years. The eight Directors will each serve a two year term beginning Jan. 1, 2021.
They will be joined by the Directors serving the second years of their twoyear term including Ajay Tadi, Bob Knox, Carol Yaholnitsky, Jessica Richards, Joseph Ortynsky, Mark Hoddenbagh, Mike Stackhouse and Sarah Kowalchuk. Polegi is excited about the Board for 2021. “With the mix of new and seasoned Directors, I believe the Board will bring strong leadership to the business community,” she said. “As the “voice of business in Yorkton”, the Chamber will continue to express the concerns of the business community to all orders of govern-
ment.” An election is held every November to fill half the Board positions. In order to run for a position on the Board, candidates must be members of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce or represent businesses which hold membership in the Chamber. The new members of the Board will take their seat at the Chamber Board table in January at which time the Executive is then elected by the Directors. The Yorkton Chamber of Commerce is “the voice of business in Yorkton” and represents over 445 members. 2021 marks the Chamber’s 123rd year.
New legislature to sit starting November 30 Premier Scott Moe today announced that the first session of the new Legislative Assembly will begin on Monday, November 30. The session will begin with the election of the Speaker in the mor-
ning followed by the Lieutenant Governor delivering the Throne Speech in the afternoon. “Our government has received a new mandate from the people of Saskatchewan and I know all MLAs on both sides
of the House are looking forward to getting into the Assembly and debating the important issues facing our province,” Moe said. “Of course, our immediate focus with be on managing through the ongoing pandemic keeping Saskatchewan people safe while keeping our economy open and working toward a strong recovery.” The Assembly has been reconfigured to create more space for safe physical distancing between the members and plexiglass shields are being installed on the desks. Members will all wear masks when in the Assembly. The number of members who will be present in the Assembly at one time remains
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under consideration. The fall sitting is expected to last two weeks, which will allow for debate and passage of the Throne Speech and introduction of several pieces of legislation,
including bills required to fulfill the government’s campaign commitments. “We are grateful that the people of this great province gave our government a strong renewed
mandate to keeping building a strong economy, strong communities, strong families and a strong Saskatchewan, and that’s exactly what we intend to do,” Moe said.
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CAODC forecasts 2021 to be a little better than 2020, but not a lot By Brian Zinchuk Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Estevan Mercury Calgary – This year has been the worst the Canadian oil industry has seen in modern times when it comes to drilling, and next year isn’t looking a whole lot better. In its annual forecast for the coming year, released on Nov. 18, the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC) expects next year won’t be the worst, but it’ll likely be the second worst. For 2021, they are projecting 3,771 wells drilled, a 14 per cent increase of 475 from 2020. But to put that in perspective, the forecast also notes in 2019, there were 5,545 wells drilled, and back in 2014, there were 13,089 wells drilled. The reduction from 2014, when oil was US$100 per barrel for West Texas Intermediate oil, is 9,318 wells, or a decline of 71 per cent. The numbers are not broken down by province, but CAODC president and CEO Mark Scholz said by phone from Calgary that historically Alberta accounts for 65 per cent, Saskatchewan
gets 25 per cent, and the remaining 10 per cent is split between British Columbia and Manitoba. However, with stronger natural gas prices propelling activity in gasrich British Columbia, that may change the balance. “We think there’s probably going to be a fairly big upside for B.C, parts of the Montney. And really driving that natural gas story is pricing, has come together quite nicely for natural gas.” He noted the price for natural gas has gone up from $1 per Mcf (thousand cubic feet) to $3 per Mcf. The CAODC expects a continuing trend in the reduction of drilling rigs. By the end of 2021, they are expected the fleet to shrink from the current 505 drilling rigs to 478. He noted that even if double their expected forecast of rigs went to work in the first quarter of 2021, that would still leave about half of the fleet sitting. “I think there’s still more room for thinning of the herd, when it comes to rigs,” he said. They are also expecting to see a substantial number of service rigs cut from the fleet as well.
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CAODC president and CEO Mark Scholz used to announce these annual forecasts in more posh settings. This year, the annual forecast was presented over Zoom. “We’ll also see the same story on the service rig side,” Scholz said. “I’m assuming about 100 rigs on the service rig side will come off our registry.” There are currently around 700 rigs in the service rig fleet. He expects most of the shedding of rigs will come in the fourth quarter this year and first quarter next year. One of the reasons for this includes rigs being no longer marketable. Scholz said, “The other the other reason, which
again, is more concerning, and I think it highlights the plight of the industry, is the fact that a lot of our companies don’t have the financial resources, and can’t raise capital sufficient capital to actually recertify this equipment.” He said some equipment is houred-out, and until there’s an indication of robust activity in the future, it’s hard to justify putting money into recertifying equipment. The higher natural gas price, as well as the Accelerated Site Closure
Program, are upsides. He noted Saskatchewan is receiving $400 million under the $1.7 wellsite abandonment and reclamation program. “We do have some guys that are working under that program,” he said. With the Trans Mountain Pipeline and Coastal GasLink Pipeline under construction in British Columbia and Alberta, that’s another positive sign. The Keystone XL pipeline, while under construction, is under threat as President-Elect Joe Biden has said he would cancel it. Scholz said he’s a little more optimistic than others regarding Keystone XL, as there are a lot of jobs involved and that will be important, noting that what’s said in an election may be different than how one governs. Scholz said it’s important to temper this forecast as there is still a “tone of market volatility and uncertainty out there.” A key one is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the possibility of two vaccines in short order that may help resolve the issue. Lockdowns due to the
pandemic are another factor, especially on oil demand. How closely OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and its allies create discipline in the market to get through this next period of market uncertainty is important, he said, noting, “We are very much dependent on them to keep pricing at that US$40 to US$45 benchmark.” Scholz said that US$50 per barrel for WTI is the next pricing level where oil companies are likely to deploy more capita. “Forecasts are like political polls, they last a very short time, and our assumptions may change,” he said, noting the industry could end up signing AC/DC or the blues. “The Canadian energy industry is at a crossroad unlike anything we have ever experienced,” Scholz said. Scholz also spoke of “creating something new and bold,” in reshaping the CAODC, noting it intends on broadening its mandate to create a more inclusive organization. “In 2021, we will be introducing a new directional drilling division,” he said.
GSSD elects Board Chair and Vice Chair The Board of Education of the Good Spirit School Division held their Organizational Meeting during their Regular Board Meeting via video conference on Thursday, Nov. 19. At the meeting, the Board elected the chair and vice-chair as well as various subcommittee members for the upcoming year. Bob Simpson was reelected as chairperson with Jaime Johnson reelected to the position of vice-chairperson. Simpson and Johnson are joined by eight
returning board members and one new board member. The Board of Education is comprised of: • Jaime Johnson (Subdivision #1 – Kamsack/Norquay and area); • Christopher Balyski (Subdivision #2 Preeceville/Sturgis and area); • Shannon Leson (Subdivision #3 - Canora/ Invermay and area); • Nicole Pohl (Subdivision #4 – Springside/Yorkdale Rural and area); • Lois Smandych
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Categorizing all of the Christmas movies When it’s Christmas, and your partner loves Christmas movies, you will happen to watch many Christmas movies. Because of this, I’m now able to categorize the different types of Christmas movies that exist out there, and in the process realize there’s a fairly surprising omission based on the seemingly hundreds of Christmas movies I’ve watched in the past several years. Christmas romance, examples include A Christmas Prince, Operation Christmas Drop, The Knight Before Christmas. A woman is alone on Christmas, but then an opportunity for love drops in the form of a handsome man who is somehow different from anyone she has ever known. Sometimes he’s a down to earth guy who builds things, sometimes he’s royalty. He’s always really into being nice to
people, often does charity work or helps orphans. Eventually they fall in love, and obstacles might include additional handsome men, government budgetary oversight committees, and time travel. Before you say “some of those feel like very strange obstacles for romance” let me assure you that they only occasionally make sense in context. Christmas romance sequel, examples include Princess Switch: Switched Again, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding. A category which is a relatively recent development, mostly because the majority of these movies used to be made for TV and are now made for streaming services (where they know people actually watched them), the romance sequel sets itself apart by generally having no stakes at all
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Thinking I do with words... and trading on the audience’s affection for the characters and whatever they’re doing now. Sometimes this works out for the better, as the second Princess Switch is substantially better than the first entirely because it let star Vanessa Hudgens cut loose as a vapid heiress - there are no less than three princesses in this one - and sometimes it doesn’t, because the less said about the Christmas Prince sequels the better. It’s a wonderful Christmas Carol, examples include It’s a
Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square. When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, he probably didn’t imagine he’d create an entire category of films where supernatural beings teach people about the value of kindness/Christmas/their wonderful life/etc. Some of these are classics, remembered fondly for decades - and locally, the Paper Bag Players are doing an audio version of It’s A Wonderful Life that everyone should defi-
nitely listen to, not just because I’m in it. Some of these are terrible, mostly the ones that involve Santa Claus. Sometimes they lead to questions such as “did these angels almost kill a small child in order to teach Christine Baranski a lesson about not being so greedy?” One might argue that because Dickens and Frank Capra (who directed It’s a Wonderful Life) got it right that we don’t need more of these stories, unless those stories are being presented by talented local theatre groups, but they don’t realize that they could have a scene where Santa Claus put someone in a coma because he made a bad Amazon knockoff. Santa Claus lore, examples include The Christmas Chronicles, Arthur Christmas, The Santa Clause. Who is Santa Claus, really? Is he
an old man who delivers toys to children? Does he have his own children, and do they want to be Santa next? Is he an advertisement for Coca Cola? Is he really just Kurt Russell? If you murder him, do you become Santa? These are all valuable questions that movies set out to answer. Often Santa isn’t what you expect! Movies set at Christmas that are actually about robbery, examples include Die Hard, Home Alone. Sure Christmas is the backdrop here, but it’s mostly about injuring people who want to plan a heist. Don’t plan a heist at Christmas, it’s a terrible idea, you won’t succeed. The story of the birth of Jesus Christ, from whom the name of the holiday is derived. There are no examples of this, sorry. There’s probably a book you can read about it.
Royal Helium puts together winter drilling program By Brian Zinchuk Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Estevan Mercury Saskatoon – Saskatoonbased Royal Helium Ltd. is in the final stages of putting together a winter drilling program, according to president and CEO Andrew Davidson on Nov. 10. The company is in the process of shortlisting its services providers and drilling rigs to go to work in the Climax area of southwest Saskatchewan in early December, or, if that doesn’t work out, early in the new year. Drilling traditionally shuts down in Saskatchewan for the Christmas holidays, so they’re not going to start drilling in the third week of December. The company is targeting a five-well program, and no less than three, according to Davidson. Helium development is a growing industry in southern Saskatchewan. The element is used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), quantum computer cooling, and rocketry, in addition to other uses. Helium is formed by the natural decay of uranium and thorium in the PreCambrian “basement” rock which underlies the sedimentary column in southern Saskatchewan. It is trapped by very tight cap rock right above that basement. That means drilling deep wells. Davidson said they are looking at 14-day wells, and depths in the range of 2,500 metres. “They’re in the Climax area, where we’re starting,” Davidson said. Climax is south of Shaunavon. S o u t h w e s t Saskatchewan has been a hotbed of helium development in recent years, with North American Helium drilling extensively in the Consul area. Davidson said, “Target area Number 2 for us is back in the Bengough area, and that would be later in 2021. We have some more exploration to do there. We have some aeromag to do there, over the Bengough region, which doesn’t take too long to do.” Davidson said they are thinking summer 2021 is probably the right time for drilling in the Bengough area, depending on the success of the first program. “If we have good results at Climax and
prove that our system works, as we think it will, we’ll be over there as soon as possible. I think there’s a lot of upside there on, the southeast side of the province. It’s virtually untested from a helium production scenario,” Davidson said. Bengough is southwest of Weyburn. Royal has acquired lands throughout southeast Saskatchewan, from Ocean Man First Nation to Coronach. At Bengough, they’ve identified five prospects through seismic survey which they intend on analyzing with aeromagnetic survey before finalizing their drilling targets. In September, Royal announced it has permitted an additional 32,166 hectare (321.7 square kilometres), including 173 square kilometres in the Bengough area and 148 square kilometres near Pangman, creating a contiguous land package near Ogema. Their permitted land now totals 4,320 square kilometres. Several years ago, Weil Group developed several helium wells in the Mankota area, between of Royal’s Climax and Bengough development areas. Polygen Royal is studying a “polygen” project, meaning a plant that produces many products. Davidson
said, “The polygeneration we’re studing now, in partnership with the SRC (Saskatchewan Research Council) is processing multiple gas streams. Multiple gases out of the same wellbore in our helium wells, purposing the helium, the nitrogen, CO2, and any other valuable gases that come out, and processing them into one centralized location and monetizing them at that same location.” In some ways, producing helium is similar to producing old, wateredout oil wells, where just a few percentage points of the volume is the product you want. For old oil wells, the rest is salt water. For these helium wells, the other product is nitrogen, carbon dioxide and possibly other gases. “In Saskatchewan, we have the ability to produce helium as a primary product, which is something that’s relatively unique to our province. Globally, average helium grades are significantly lower, principally because they’re produced with hydrocarbons or natural gas byproducts. In Saskatchewan, it’s co-produced with nitrogen, so you get levels ranging from trace all the way up to north of three per cent. Three per cent is a world-class helium well. Two per cent
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is a phenomenal helium well. Anything from 0.3 per cent and up is an economic unit. So, we’re expecting in the range of one to three per cent in our wells. “What we’ve been doing is planning on what we do with the rest of that gas stream. That’s where we get into the polygeneration,” Davidson said. “We’re looking at capturing it instead of venting.” Nitrogen, for instance, is one of the most significant industrial gasses. He said it is the largest segment of the industrial gas industry in North America. “We’re looking at capturing that, and using it as feedstock for fertilizer. Ideally, that would be in concert with a potash company, likely, to combine products from both for a high-value enduse product.” Notably, Royal Helium’s vice president of exploration, professional geologist Steve Halabura, is also president of Buffalo Potash. “We don’t have a final location yet. This is a down-the-road plan. For now, we need to get production online. But as we build to scale, we’re going to decide where we want our large scale facility, whether it’s in the Estevan area, or the
Climax/Swift Current area, is going to depend on the results of drilling. What we’re going to have, potentially, is two parts of the province competing against each other for the most appealing location for a large-scale plant.” He said southeast Saskatchewan is looking attractive right now because North American Helium is building a big facility in the Battle Creek area of southwest Saskatchewan. “Having two large facilities next door to each other doesn’t make a lot of sense,” Davidson said. While polygeneration is the road they’re going down, Davidson said, “It’s not taking away from the helium project. It’s helium that drives the bus with Royal. We are a helium-focused company, but we are pursuing this other track, because we think it’s a right and sensible thing to do. If it doesn’t work out, if the economics don’t stand up, that’s fine. At one to three per cent helium, the project stands up on its own two feet, quite well.” The Battle Creek area is more CO2-rich, he noted. “We’re expecting a largely 90 per cent nitrogen drive, with the potential of some CO2. In a lot of helium wells,
you see some argon, some neon as well coming out, but those would likely be trace amounts.” If a polygen plant were to be incorporated, it would likely be in the range of $50 to $100 million, but that depends on the results of the scoping study the SRC is doing. “The size of the apparent helium fields in Saskatchewan is quite significant. We easily see there being 100-plus wells online, here in Saskatchewan, and we’d like to own the majority of those, build the process, and control the marketing as well,” Davidson said. The raw gas would likely be trucked from wellhead to the central plant, which would support the entire area. Royal would initially bring in mobile separation units designed to separate out the helium at the wellsite. But if they develop a polygen plant, then raw gas would be trucked to the plant for processing. The choice of a location would be in the spot where it makes the most sense, including access to employees.
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Winter’s arrival and COIVID have made us slow down in different ways. Nature has always been a great healer for worries and woes, and now especially we need that rejuvenating constant that nature provides. As you know, I go out on my “tour” every day, regardless of the weather. I walk around the garden, breathing in the fresh air, and taking note of the beauty that is always there, even when the garden is dormant. There is always something lovely to behold, and even if your walk is just a few minutes, I encourage you to go out every day in your garden space and take a look around. Even the coldest, most blustery days are a cause for wonder when we think that in just a few short months, those fro-
zen plants will be growing again and beginning a new season of life. Gives us hope for the future! The slower pace of life now also gives us time to learn new things. I’d like to tell you about a famous Saskatchewan gardener so make a cup of tea and let’s sit down for a few minutes. If you have heard of or visited the Patterson arboretum at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, you might have wondered who the person was behind the name. Though the U of S horticulture department is now renowned for their development of new varieties of fruits, there was a time when the horticulture department was just getting started, and that was back in 1921. Mr. Cecil Frederick Patterson
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Gardener’s Notebook (1891 – 1961) was newly arrived to the University as a lecturer, and a year later was busy organizing the new department of horticulture. Mr. Patterson was head of the horticulture department for 39 years, and put his knowledge and passion for gardening to excellent use. Over those years, with great vision and determination, the gardening world received over 30 new varieties of hardy fruits,
including apples, cherries, and raspberries. Patterson’s work also extended to lilies, and he created over 18 varieties including “Apricot Glow”, “White Princess”, and the sadly sweet “Edith Cecilia” that was named after his little girl who died when she was only 13. Remember, it takes many years and much patience to cross varieties of lilies to get the desired results, so these lilies are projects
that may have taken up to twenty years to develop. They are not just beautiful but hardy for the prairies: a testament to the skill and knowledge of Mr. Patterson. Developing plants that would not just survive but thrive on the prairies was a very important goal to Mr. Patterson. Back in the day, he had a huge experimental nursery that was said to be the largest in the world. Not only that, the nursery did not have the luxury of irrigation, likely to reflect his thinking that the plants just had to be adaptable to the gardening conditions of regular home gardeners. Mr. Patterson wrote pamphlets on many topics that went beyond fruit trees, such as the best way to construct shelter belts, and the
best trees to use in such a project. Though he was born in Ontario, and studied for a time in the US, he made Saskatchewan his home for most of his life, and died too young in 1961 just a year after he retired. But what an amazing gardening legacy he left behind! Truly inspiring! There are many great gardening stories to learn about: let’s make that our winter project! There are no Yorkton and District Horticultural Society meetings scheduled yet, but visit us at www.yorktonhort.ca to keep up with what’s happening! Thank you to our friends at Yorkton This Week for their great work. Let’s continue to pray for health and safety for all and brighter times ahead. Have a great week!
New modelling shows significant growth scenarios of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan By Brian Zinchuk Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Estevan Mercury Regina – Saskatchewan’s Chief Medical Health Officer presented new modelling of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan. The Ministry of Health released modelling number in April, and while they have continued to work on them since February, this is the first public release of new modelling figures since April. Those models show several scenarios with significant spread of the virus in the short term and over six months. This modelling was presented as Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota have been experiencing exponential growth in new cases of COVID19 in recent months. Saskatchewan is roughly 17 to 18 days behind Manitoba’s 7-day average of new cases for the period of Oct. 1 to Nov. 15. In recent days, Manitoba has instituted a new lockdown and told stores they are only allowed to sell essential items. With the possibility of two different vaccines are on the horizon, Minister of Health Paul Merriman, speaking in the Legislature, said, “The federal government has secured an initial batch of six million doses, to be delivered in the first quarter of 2020. Four million are from Pfizer and two million from Moderna. Of those, Saskatchewan will receive approximately 180,000. “Sask Health and the SHA are developing a plan to deliver the vaccine as swiftly and effectively as possible. The vac-
cine would be administered on a priority basis. I expect we would be vaccinating seniors and front-line health workers first.” Merriman said it’s going to take some time to get the entire province vaccinated, “And until then, we need to follow all public health measures and guidelines that will help keep us safe, and those around us safe.” Shahab said the modelling is not a prediction, but showing some possible scenarios, stating. “What we do today starts changing the model, because the imputation is dependent on all our actions.” He also said, “This is really our first real wave. For many jurisdictions, it’s been the second wave, for us I would submit that this is our first true test and we have prepared well, but we are now being tested both as residents of Saskatchewan, obviously, the healthcare system.” There are four scenarios going forward. Looking out six months, the province laid out four possible scenarios as well as its spring 2020 planning scenario. The four new ones are termed “Optimistic, Estimate of Current State v1, Estimate of Current State v2, and Pessimistic.” All the models assume schools and businesses are open and there continues to be mixing occurring at home, work, schools, hospitals and long-term care homes. The spring planning scenario saw peaks of 2,175 new cases per day, 190 hospital admissions per day, 1,736 in hospital at one time, 60 people admitted to ICU per day, and 412 people in ICU
needing a ventilator at a one time. It also suggested up to 8,370 deaths over 18 months. The optimistic scenario shows much lower numbers than what is currently happening in Saskatchewan today, as nearly every item has already been exceeded. It suggested 76 new cases per day (Nov. 19’s 7-day average is 174.4), five hospital admissions per day, 29 in hospital at one time (Nov. 19 had 83 in hospital, up from 76 the day before), two people admitted to ICU per day (Nov. 19 had 21 people in ICU, up from 17 the day before), and nine people in ICU and on ventilators at a one time. It also suggested up to 34 deaths over six months (To date, Saskatchewan has had 32 deaths). The current states scenarios have significantly higher numbers. The estimate of the Current State, Version 2, is less harsh. It forecasts peaks of 3,970 new cases per day, cumulative 304,000 cases, 261 hospital admissions per day, 1,600 people in hospital at one time, 78 ICU admissions per day and 469 people in ICU and on ventilators at one time. The cumulative total of deaths over six months is modelled at 2,140. That last model is contingent on people over 60 years old partaking in “more cautious behavior.” The current state, version 1 model, has even higher numbers. It projects peaks of 5,020 new cases per day, cumulative 341,000 cases, 400 people per day admitted to hospital, 2,480 people in hospital at one time, 132 people admitted to ICU per day and 808 people in ICU and on ventilators at one time. This scenario
pegs total deaths at 3,190 over six months. ( S a s k a t c h e w a n ’s entire fleet of acute care hospital beds, not counting the two field hospitals on warm standby, is just over 2,900, as of 2018.) The pessimistic scenario forecasts peaks of 8,390 cases per day, with cumulative 469,000 cases, 677 hospital admissions per day, 4,190 people in hospital at one time, 222 ICU admissions per day requiring a ventilator, 1,330 people in ICU and on ventilator at once, and 4,800 deaths over six months. The optimistic scenario is based on many of the measures the province had been pushing. It’s based on 60 per cent mask adoption, 20 per cent of the population engaging in weekly gatherings of five people, 50 per cent of the population working from home, restaurant and bar use at 25 per cent historic usage, and people going for groceries just once per week. A graph showing the modelling compared to the actual situation puts Saskatchewan on the “current state v1 track
for new cases on Nov. 8, but close to v2 for the 7-day rolling averages on Nov. 11 and Nov. 14. The presentation included graphs of 14-day forecasts going to Nov. 29 of new lab-confirmed cases and new acute hospital admissions. Both show a hockey-stick shaped climbing sharply at an exponential rate. The “forecasted value (50 per cent)” of new cases shows over 1,320 new cases per day by Nov. 29, and 90 hospital admissions per day. However,
the new cases graph notes, “interpret with caution.” Put in perspective, from publicly available data, North Dakota’s 7-day average of new cases on Nov. 19 was 1,386, and Manitoba’s was 386. For the period of Oct. 1 to Nov. 15, Saskatchewan’s rate of growth was close to Manitoba’s, but was slightly higher than our neighbour to the east. North Dakota’s 7-day average of new cases was higher, but had a lower rate of growth.
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New RPG takes you into the sea of green In a real world where we face a worldwide pandemic, worsening world weather events, a widening divide in ideologies, and more stark headlines than we care to admit too, some escapism through a role playing game can be just the ticket to some relief for the mind. When it comes to RPGs there are dozens, and maybe hundreds, covering the broadest range of realities imaginable and yet there always seems to be writers out there coming up with new worlds to investigate in fun ways. That all brings me to The Wildsea RPG that had just funded via Kickstarter. They went looking for about 20K, and eclipsed 100K with a week to go in the campaign, so you know gamers were rather intrigued by the offering. Admittedly with a tag line that reads “a postfall fantasy tabletop roleplaying game set in a rampant ocean of verdant green” I was among those intrigued, so of course I contacted the designer for some insight into the offering. The first question for game designer/writer Felix Issacs was pretty straight forward; what was the idea which led to the game’s creation? “I spent five years working in Japan, from an office that had a view of the sea out of one set of windows and a forested mountainside out of the other,” he began in response via email. “I think those ideas, over time, became inextricably linked in my head. “During my last year there they cleared the mountainside, chopping down almost every tree to reinforce it in case of rockfalls and earthquakes, necessary perhaps, but no less sad for it. I think it was at that point that the core idea for the Wildsea finally took shape, that it was a world in which nature had won - these chainsaw
ships used to sail, as destructive as they feel, as real as the furrows and broken branches they leave behind in the canopy are, the endless growth of the world-forest would heal any damage they caused within a matter of hours. It’s a world in which the forest is genuinely eternal, sadly unlike our own.” OK so Isaacs has a poetic soul, and that bodes well for an RPG creator. But, what was he trying to achieve with the game? “The focus shifted over time,” said Issacs. “At first I was simply trying to make a game that had a strong narrative flow, where characters could contribute and move situations along effectively no matter their strengths and weaknesses. “Over time that goal evolved into incorporating in-universe worldbuilding and heavy narrative control elements without slowing the actual playing of the game down.” One has the feeling Wildsea will allow serious role playing, and perhaps less reliance of combat, which often dominates game systems. The game actually came together rather quickly for Isaacs once he focused on its development. “The first elements of the setting were put into play about four years ago, but it’s really only at the beginning of 2020 that the game went from a speculative project that was fun to play with friends to a legitimate, publishable product,” he said. “A lot of the rules were reworked during 2019 to better fit the setting and avoid some inherited crunch from an older, more traditional mindset, and it was only after I realized things were working with the new system that I plunged into something closer to fulltime development.”
THE MEEPLE GUILD (YORKTON) meeple.guild@gmail.com But, there are always stumbling blocks when creating a world from scratch. For example Isaacs noted “creating a settingbased game that requires minimal setting information to play,” was a challenge. “In the end I approached it almost as if the world-forest was a genre rather than a location, building on large core details (sea of trees, chainsaw ships, unique fantasy species) and adding a lot of smaller worldbuilding flourishes that are ‘explained’ through the flavour and names of abilities, and through the art, but that aren’t necessary to actually understand the setting,” he detailed. “This allows people with even the roughest grasp of the core concepts of the world to confidently create and world-build within sessions without stepping on established setting elements.” Of course a new RPG should offer something fresh, and Isaacs points to some interesting concepts when asked what in his mind as designer is the best element of the game? “It’s a toss-up between the ‘Cut’ system and the use of ‘Whispers’,” he said. “The first, Cut, is a tool useful for both GMs and players to quickly represent difficulty, not by affecting the creation of the dice pool but by knocking results out after the pool is rolled. This helps with speed of play, and makes the difference between performing
actions in favourable circumstances versus under pressure a lot more tangible (as you end up physically removing those highest results, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory but knowing exactly how close you
came). “For the second, Whispers, it’s a purely narrative stand-in for what in crunchier games might be a complex magic system. “Whispers are living words that rattle around a character’s head, having unexpected effects on the world when spoken they offer huge flexibility and can turn the course of a narrative in unexpected directions, but perhaps the nicest thing about them is that due to their nature (being a short phrase, like ‘Eyes in the Dark’ or ‘A Welcoming Fleet’) they
can be easily handed out by the GM as a reward for actions and events that seem meaningful to the players. This allows those players to reincorporate past elements they enjoyed into the narrative again, as a game progresses.” Continuing on the theme of ‘new’ it was obvious to ask what does the RPG offer others don’t? “I think we do flowing, cinematic combat well without sacrificing on tactical choice and teamwork, and have some strong narrative elements Continued on page A13
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Passages a mix of clay, glass metal and light
Umbra by Paula Cooley (above) and Ember and Ash by Paula Cooley (right). By Devin Wilger Staff Writer The latest show at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is Passages. A collaboration between glass artist Louisa Ferguson and ceramic artist Paula Cooley, the new show mixes their two disciplines with a new one for both, metal. The collaboration started in 2015 after Ferguson and Cooley partnered together in a mentorship program offered by CARFAC Saskatchewan. Artists are matched together, and given 10 months to
work together. They started collaborating then, and decided to continue working together, and were getting interesting pieces and ideas, said Cooley. “We wanted to pursue it further. Because, in some ways, deadlines are a good thing and make you work, we decided to apply for a two-person show at the Saskatchewan Craft Council gallery that would feature our collaborative works. We were lucky enough to get that exhibition, and that is what you are seeing at the Godfrey Dean now,” said Cooley.
One of the defining feature of the show is the form of a boat, which Ferguson described as a vessel which could carry metaphors. One example is a piece, called Casten, which has a clay boat shape with spikes, carrying glass blocks with the impression of natural flora cast in them. “When I was building that ceramic metal base, I was thinking of Louisa’s beautiful, delicate glass shafts, with these gorgeous delicate imprints. I was thinking about the vessel protecting that. It was the idea that you
can’t get too close, because the boat is acting as a protector. To me, it was the idea of working with something that attracts you, makes you
Ice Bound Bone Cage and Fish by Paula Cooley and Louisa Ferguson.
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want to move in closer, but then you go ‘oh, this could make me bleed!’” said Cooley. “I collect natural flora from the area around where I live, and I actually put it in the kiln with the glass. So what you actually see is the ghosting of those images. The white part is actually the ash of those flowers and leaves which leave a residue on the glass. For me, that piece is very much about the things that we are losing in our natural environment,” Ferguson added. Clay and glass might be different in look, but they come from the same place. “They come from the same place, but they have very different characteristics. Ceramics, unless you’re dealing with very fine, very translucent porcelain, doesn’t really let light through, while glass does. However, glass is incredibly solid, but it doesn’t feel solid the way ceramic does because it lets through. There are these two materials that play with different things in different ways but come from the same place.” To add extra challenge, they also learned how to manipulate metal for the work. They worked with blacksmith M. Craig Campbell to learn how, who was their mentor. One connection between each material is metal, ceramic and glass all need fire to work “we’re pyromaniacs!” joked Ferguson. The mentorship really worked because of how much they wanted to see the other’s medium influence their own. “For me, I was really interested in how my ceramic forms could be mated with glass, but I don’t have any technical ability with glass, whereas Louisa did. So I really appreciated that opportunity to try some new things technically. I also appreciated working with another artist who
had a different aesthetic. I think, because we had worked together previously in the mentorship, we had an idea of where we were coming from. We didn’t want to be doing identical work, but work that made sense together,” said Cooley. “Paula was very interested in glass, so there was a lot of glass skill I could impart to her, and I was – and still am – very interested in ceramics, so there was information she could give to me. It was a very symbiotic educational thing.” There is a fourth material, with light playing a role in each piece. Cooley said one of the things she is interested in is taking a solid material like clay and making it as transparent as possible, and Ferguson added that in installing the show, they worked hard to make sure it was lit in order to add shadows to the work itself. Both artists would like to thank Godfrey Dean Gallery Manager Kelly Litzenberger for his help lighting the show. “He did a really great job of lighting the work, and the light really animates them,” said Cooley. “That’s actually quite rare when you go into a gallery. Number one, that they have proper lights, good lights, enough lights in the right spot. All of those things. And then, also, to have somebody on staff who knows how to manipulate lights and understands, that was amazing. When you think of a show like Passages, everything depends on that. We’re talking about passage, light through objects. We’re actually really pleased with the installation at the Godfrey Dean.” More than just a melding of forms, the show was also a true collaboration between different artists with different points of view. “The one thing that supersedes everything is that Paula and I approach the act of making in the same way. We really believe it is a dialog. Even if I’m working on my own, I’m really having a dialog with the material that I’m working with,” said Ferguson. “When we worked together, it was really easy for us to have a collaborative, creative dialog between each other, which actually made it very freeing. It allowed us to go, as individual artists, to places we normally wouldn’t have gone, because we had this influence of someone else.” “We would both bring ideas to the table and work through. I wouldn’t show up with a sketch and say ‘Louisa I need you to make this,’ it was more, ‘this is what I’m thinking, what do you think Louisa?’ For both of us, I think we made forms that surprised us, that we didn’t expect, that we developed because of that dialogue,” added Cooley.
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On the night before Christmas of 2019, I sat in a cozy corner by our slender lit tree. Minutes earlier I’d stood in the backyard, waiting for our shaggy sheepdog, Cash, to finish his business, and feeling particularly un-festive. After the hype leading to the 25th, the harried schedule, decorating, shopping and wrapping, baking, concerts and parties; after days fighting that sinking feeling that I would never finish, suddenly there it was. The end of the line. The glorious day of celebration we all suppose will make the stress of our Christmas preparations worthwhile; that will redeem the frenzy
with family, fun and feasting. Except it felt like someone moved the finish line. Our darlin’ granddaughter had become stricken with Scarlet Fever, a disease I thought had long been eradicated. Now her entire family was sick, and couldn’t celebrate with us. We could do nothing to help except stay away. A nefarious trick—or so it felt. Making matters worse, the dog had a bad case of the trots. (Ever tried to clean that off a dog with ten inch hair?) Concerned for our loved ones, feeling bereft, I thought of the gifts under the tree, the
salads in the fridge, the baking on the shelves. I’m not celebrating, I thought. Can’t. So there. One month from Christmas 2020, COVID19 has similarly stolen beloved traditions from countless families and individuals around the globe. A garden shed sits in
our backyard, one shaped like the huge Lost River barn my grandfather Neufeld built in 1919, and almost as weathered. As I sat grumping by our tree last Christmas Eve, God directed my thoughts to that shed. Poked me with a question that transported me from worry and fret to remembrance.
From weariness of soul to repentance, faith and wonder. What if I’d noticed that a young couple had taken shelter in our “barn�? A couple needing a quiet place in which to welcome their baby son? I knew the answer. All my Christmas busy-ness would fade to nothing as I sifted and shuffled my priority list to accommodate a mother and child. And then it struck me. How prepared OR unprepared I was, or how many plans succeed or fail for December 25th is irrelevant. The North Star of Christmas is none of that. Not even the shared time with friends and family circled around food and
successful so far than I could possibly have hoped for,� he said. “My life has changed dramatically over the past few months thanks to the community that’s built up around the Wildsea, and I’m thrilled. I’m full of ideas for future content, for other explorations into unusual set-
tings with the Wild Words engine. “But I’m also keenly aware that one of the biggest Kickstarter project killers is bloat. “That’s why we’re upfront about the amount of content we’re creating in terms of stretch goals, and that we’re using funds to increase the pay
of artists and contributors alongside commissioning more work. “We’ve set our deadlines and I’m focused on delivering the best game I can whilst meeting them. “Focusing on the future, especially given the times we live in and the state of the world, is
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fun and fellowship. The North Star of Christmas is Jesus. The Son of God; born in a barn, died on a cross, risen from a tomb and returning as Lord. Sooner than we know. No matter what else changes, Jesus doesn’t. He is as worthy of joyful celebration and devotion on the 364 days leading up to Christmas as in the 364 leading out again. In fact, he is not only worthy of celebration, He IS the celebration. COVID-19 is already disrupting 2020 Christmas plans. But no matter how broken our world, we can still celebrate that North Star. I’m already doing that. Join me?
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NEW RPG Continued from page A11 in the hands of the players, but the main draw for a lot of people is definitely the setting,� offered Isaacs. “The Wildsea’s treetop sea is a creative space that hasn’t been explored yet in tabletop roleplaying, at least not in a dedicated way. It’s a bright post-
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Tractors a passion for retired farmer Stan McKen has been involved with farming in one way, or another, all of his life, which is now coming up on 91 years as of next March. Stan farmed alongside his dad and took over farming following the death of his father in 1949. “As McKen’s, our roots are grounded in farming and the farm way of life. Harvest time is always the highlight of the year. It wasn’t until the death of my Dad in 1949 that we began to harvest with the combine,” he wrote in a bio in 2010. As family farms do, in time Stan’s son Brent began farming alongside his father, eventually taking over the farm operation in 1995. But just because his son took over the farm didn’t mean Stan really retired. Locally, he is still known as Mr. Fix-It, and that keeps him busy. Whenever something breaks down it is Stan to the rescue. He still spends his days in his workshop either doing repairs to machinery, inventing replacement parts which cannot be purchased or building. Over the years, he has done a lot of building, including renovations to his home. “I learned a lot of my building skills from Nick Fritz, who built the cupboards in our house in 1952-53. These are still the cupboards in the house today. The house we live
in today has undergone many transformations. The kitchen is still the original “lean-to” to the original one and a root cellar. In 1944 the one “lean-to” was torn off and replaced with a living room, parlour and two bedrooms. The following year Mom and Dad added a veranda. My Dad was quite the carpenter and I learned a lot of building skills from him too. He wanted a cottage style roof on the veranda and figured out (with some difficulty) how to do it. He was also a builder and built many bins. More recently the veranda has been removed and replaced with a double car garage and workshop, the house has been lifted and a basement has been built under about two-thirds of the house and several interior renovations have been made. The kitchen is still the original part of the house,” Stan explained in some detail in his bio. He still lives on the original homestead of Stan’s parents Charles and Ethel near Yorkton and in the home where he was raised as a child. Since he likes to tinker and repair, his children, grandchildren, friends and neighbours know that if they need something fixed, Stan is the man to take it to. A sign mounted in his workshop reads, ‘Welcome to Dad’s Garage: If he can’t fix it, it ain’t broke. Open 24 hours.’ Somewhere amid
years of farming and machinery repair Stan fell in love with tractors, not surprising with his background. His first tractor was his dad’s IHCW30 (International Harvester). As most long time farmers can attest through the years and decades many tractors have come and went since then. In recent years though, Stan has developed an interest in restoring old tractors and equipment - the repairman in him coming to the forefront. What initially might look like a piece of junk to most people gets transformed into a smooth running, functioning work of art under Stan’s caring hands. Not only is each tractor mechanically sound, but the body of the tractor is totally restored and painted and includes all the authentic decals from decades past. Stan recalls the first tractor he restored was his most challenging. It was a 1952 CASE DC4 with a long wheel base that had belonged to his brother in law, Norman Klingspon. It was not an easy fix. The engine was seized requiring many long hours to get it running. And then the work on restoring the body of the tractor began. But after the successful reclamation of the Case restoration was under Stan’s skin. After completing the
Stan McKen has restored several vintage tractors. first tractor, more old tractors started showing up for restoration. Stan’s nephew, Glenn Milbrandt, gave him a 1952 Super M IHC to restore. Other tractors he has restored include a 1949 Massey, a 1950 Case D, another 1952 CASE DC4 with a short wheel base, a 1949 Ford 8N, a 1952 Super W6 IHC. In summertime, the line-up of tractors on his front yard gets much attention from friends and neighbours. But for Stan it is just a fun effort that keeps him busy. He says this is something he really enjoys doing and he is looking forward to his next project. Of course hard work comes natural to Stan too. In 2010 he wrote several pages of memories for his family, and it started off by noting the work ethic of the farm.
“The funny thing about memories is that what is remembered seems as though it happened only yesterday. It is hard to believe how quickly time has passed. Looking back over the past 80 years, our way of life has seen many changes but there are some things that never change: The importance of family, our desire to help create a better future for our children and our belief that hard work, faith, perseverance and hospitality are the keys to success. When I think back to my early years these values describe my parents as well as the generations that have followed them and gone before them,” he wrote. The early work ethic was best shown when it came time to gather the ‘gang’ for harvest. Until 1949, they were still using a threshing machine on the McKen farm, and that meant needing a threshing crew, or gang. “The word ‘gang’ had quite a different connotation than it does today.
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Dad’s threshing gang was well known in the area as “The Syndicate.” Our gang was usually comprised of Oswald Tillman, Ewald Tillman, Christian Trost, Uncle John (known as Jack), Maurice and me. As a gang we would move from one farm to the next to do the thrashing,” wrote Stan. “. . . When we were thrashing at our farm we got to sleep in our own bed, but when we moved to another farm we took our caboose with us. Then we got to sleep on straw mattresses and horse blankets, but we slept well. It would have been nice to have had access to a shower in those days. Harvest has changed a lot form the “old days.” Two men now do what it took twelve of us to do back then. “When I was younger I helped the threshing gang by being a ‘bin man.” After school I would have to go into the bin and keep pushing the grain down to make more room. At age 15, I was put in charge of a team Continued on Page A15
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TRACTORS Continued from Page A14 of horses. One occasion I was put in charge of Uncle Jack’s team. I felt very fortunate because his horse “Birdie” was a very fast horse and Uncle Jack took great pride in her. At the end of the day we would unhook the horses, jump on one and ride it home while leading the other one. One evening while I was riding Birdie home she stepped into a badger hole, tripped and rolled over. Luckily, we both escaped injury but I had to face Uncle Jack with a broken harness and reins.” In his reflections Stan also hints where his love to tinker may have first set seed. “I had a lot of good teachers as I was growing up
and one of the best was my dad. He spent many long hours in his blacksmith’s shop where he manufactured whatever he needed. I was often Dad’s forge blower. I learned a lot from him about how to make things. I remember him making his own harrow bar from old binder wheels. It all had to be bolted together because, of course, there were no welding machines in those days. To make a hole for a bolt, Dad would heat the iron until it was red hot and then use a punch to pound a hole through it. Being resourceful is an important skill to have if you are a farmer and I credit Dad with helping me to have the ability to often improvise when what you needed isn’t at your fingertips,” he wrote.
How to handle the mental challenges of social distancing The concept of “social distancing” was no doubt a mystery to millions of people prior to 2020. But in the wake of the outbreak of COVID-19, a novel coronavirus that was first discovered in China in late 2019 but soon spread across the globe, social distancing became a household term. Social distancing refers to actions deliberately designed to increase the physical space between people to avoid spreading illness. Social distancing typically requires that people stay at least six feet apart from each other while also avoiding gathering spaces such as schools, churches, concert halls, and public transportation. In an effort to prevent community spread, many state and provincial governments mandated the closure of all businesses deemed “nonessential,” forcing many working professionals to
work from home full-time and temporarily putting millions of additional workers out of work. Social distancing measures are designed to serve the greater good, and these efforts can be effective at stopping the spread of harmful viruses like COVID-19. But social distancing also can produce unwanted side effects. Research has shown that people who are social distancing may be vulnerable to fear and anxiety; depression and
boredom; anger, frustration or irritability; and stigmatization. However, that research has uncovered successful ways to cope with social distancing. · Make time for fun activities. Psychologists recommend balancing time spent on news and social media with other activities unrelated to social distancing or quarantine. Make a conscious effort each day to read a book, listen to music or even learn a new lan-
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Stan would grow up, and in 1954 married Linda Tillman. Initially they rented an old cottage for $25 per month to live in. “In the winter it was so cold that the water in the kettle on the stove would be frozen in the morning. If it wouldn’t have been for each other and Mom Tillman’s feather blanket, I think we would have been frozen too. The following year I tore an old barn apart and used the lumber to build us a house. Winter came before it was finished and I still remember lying in bed at night and being able to see the stars between the roof boards. As I recall actually, it was kind of romantic,” Stan recalled. Stan and Linda would raise two sons, Brent who took over the farm, and Daryl, who is a school principal. While there were hardships, his passion to fix and repair old tractors comes from his farm background, and ultimately helped forge the man he is. “Much water has passed under the bridge since the “good old days.” We went through many hard times but also many good times. I relish the memories and would gladly relive those days if I had the chance,” he wrote.
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Enjoy whole grains, even on a gluten-free diet People adhere to gluten-free diets for various reasons. Individuals with Celiac disease have to avoid gluten because they have a form of gluten intolerance that results in severe gastrointestinal distress if they consume it. However, others avoid gluten, which is a protein found in all kinds of wheat, including barley, rye, triticale, rye, and wheat hybrids, because they’re simply allergic to wheat. Some have intolerances that are not exactly allergies or Celiac disease, but can make it difficult to digest gluten. Whole grains, which have all of the parts of the original kernel - bran, germ and endosperm - in the original proportions, help a person to feel full longer, can help keep digestion regular and also may help the body from absorbing “bad” cholesterol. They also may lower triglyceride levels, which are a major contributor to heart dis-
ease. Whole grains also can help people maintain healthy weights. Just because a person is following a gluten-free diet does not mean he or she needs to avoid all grains, particularly whole grains that are so essential for good health. Most grains are glutenfree and can be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet. · Amaranth: Amaranth is a tall plant and a few varieties are grown as a food source. It is considered a pseudocereal and is a complete protein, containing all nine essential amino acids, which is close to double the amount found in rice and corn. · Buckwheat: Buckwheat is a good source of protein, fiber, phosphorous, and the B vitamin riboflavin. It also contains all of the nine essential amino acids that humans do not produce naturally and must consume through food.
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may be especially good at making people feel full longer. · Oats: Oats are inherently gluten-free, but quite often they are contaminated with wheat
while growing or being processed. So it’s essential to find products that contain pure oats only. · Quinoa: This grain is native to the Andean region of South America. Another complete protein, quinoa has high amounts of other nutrients, such as potassium, that helps control blood pressure. It also is rich in antioxidants. · Rice: Rice provides about half the calories for nearly half of the world’s population, particularly in Asia and South America. Rice can be nutritious, particularly brown rice. Just one cup of cooked brown rice also provides 88 percent of daily need for manganese, a mineral that helps the body digest fats and get the most from proteins and carbohydrates. Going gluten-free is a choice or a necessity. People can continue to enjoy many whole grains even if they are on a gluten-free diet.
Seniors’ senses of smell and taste change with age Aging comes with several sensory changes, many of which people expect. Loss of hearing or diminishing vision are widely associated with aging. But one’s senses of smell and taste may diminish with aging as well. The senses of taste and smell work in concert. The
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treatments, medications, lack of saliva, colds, flu, and other factors may contribute to sensory loss. Changing medications or treatments may help. It’s important to bring up diminished flavors or smells with a doctor to rule out something more serious and to determine what might help restore pleasure from smells and flavors. An otolaryngologist, or a doctor who specializes in diseases of the ears, nose and throat, may be able to help fix the problem, though some people may be referred to a neurologist or another specialist. Continuing to use one’s sense of smell and taste by cooking, gardening, trying new flavors, and experimenting with different aromas may help slow down the decline these senses. Although age-related loss of taste and smell cannot be reversed, some such cases may be treatable.
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HODGSON - Gregg Watson Hodgson was born at home on June 25, 1931 in Humboldt, SK weighing eleven pounds. He was the youngest of four children having one sister and two brothers. Gregg attended school in Humboldt through to grade twelve. He then worked in the local pharmacy for one year following high school. Following that, Gregg join SaskPower construction for a year installing power poles around Humboldt, Watrous, North Battleford and Stockholm. He was then promoted to the power plant at the Al Cole generating station in Saskatoon and spent three years working there. In Saskatoon he met Ruby Gronsdahl and they were married on October 3, 1953. Sometimes their buses would pass each other as they went to work. They were married sixty-two years at the time of her passing. In 1956 their daughter Janet was born in Kindersley, followed by Kevin, Paulette and Rodney in Yorkton. In 1959 Gregg transferred to the natural gas side of SaskPower, working in Kindersley and eventually Yorkton where he retired in 1984. Gregg was a dedicated family man. He was a dad, proud grandpa and great grandpa. He was a member of the United Church and a Sunday School teacher for years. He enjoyed being a member of the Wildlife Federation Club, the Yorkton Lion’s Club and served as its President for two years. Gregg also coached one of the little league baseball teams when his son Kevin was playing. His favourite team was the Blue Jays and he watched them faithfully on TV, even travelled to watch several games with Ruby. Gregg loved to travel, and took the family on a trip to Expo in Montreal in 1967. During their marriage he and Ruby also travelled to England, California, Las Vegas and Hawaii. They both loved to be on the lake at their cabin at Crooked Lake where Gregg helped build a small cabin in 1963. They owned a canoe and a pontoon boat and made good use of both of them. He spent weeks at Madge Lake some summers and enjoyed taking people on cruises with the pontoon boat. As an avid reader, Gregg excelled in history. He also enjoyed visiting museums and had a keen interest in trains. He was also an avid hunter for many years, and enjoyed the friendships he made with his hunting pals. Gregg was predeceased by his wife Ruby, son Rodney, mother Ruth, father Watson, brothers Bill (Hilda) Howard, (Lou) and sister, Frances Ness. Left to cherish his memory and honour his life are his three children and their spouses: Janet (Jim) Gorman, Kevin (Terri) Hodgson and Paulette (Charles) McDonald as well as daughter-in-law, Ann Hodgson. His grandchildren: Tyler (Amber) Gorman and their children, Paige, Nash and Jade; Kelly (Cole) Bergquist and son Cade; Tannis (Arlen) Harrison; Matthew McDonald; Joel Gorman; Josh Hodgson. Many sisters-in-laws and brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews and friends. Our family will always love him and miss him. The funeral service will be held on Friday, November 27 at 1:00pm from the Yorkton Memorial Gardens Family Centre. Regretfully, the funeral service due to Covid will be for immediate family only, but those who wish to may view the service online. Please go to baileysfuneralhome.com and to Gregg’s tribute page, a link to the service is posted there, with the livestream beginning about 12:50. In memory of Gregg, memorials to the SPCA (79 7th Ave. S. Yorkton, SK S3N 3V1) may be made as tokens of remembrance. Condolences can be left at baileysfuneralhome.com
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HUDYE - Kendall Sherwin Hudye of Yorkton passed away suddenly on Tuesday, November 10, 2020. She was 46 years of age. Kendall Rae Louise Sherwin Hudye was born in Yorkton on a frosty April 28, 1974. She was always an “effervescent bubble�, aptly described by one of her favourite teachers, Mrs. Martel. Kendall’s distinctive voice caught everyone’s ear, leading many to remark, “You should have a career in broadcasting!� She spent many hours in the dance studio studying ballet and jazz, and many more hours in the swimming pool practicing with the synchro team to perfect their routines. In later years, she fell in love with curling and golf, spending many happy hours with friends in the curling rink and on the golf course. Kendall loved to travel. Family trips took her to every province in Canada except Newfoundland. An especially memorable trip was to Disney World with dear family friends. Band trips with Dale Milne, Larry Pearen and Joe Hary were highlights for Kendall. Scuba diving was a love developed later as trips to Cancun, Los Cabos, and Jamaica provided opportunities for her to obtain certification as an advanced open water diver. She proudly accompanied her son, Chase, as he gained the same certification. Kendall’s organizational skills put her in a position to take the lead in such organizations as the playschool for her children. An extra special project was the Chase Kraynick Memorial Water Park in Canora. She loved organizing festive events for family and friends, entertaining and welcoming them into her home. Kendall was aware of others, celebrating their successes and happiness and empathizing with their distresses. This also applied to her love and caring for animals, especially her cats, Henry, Jezebel, Bandit and Smokey. Kendall took her career as an administrative assistant seriously, offering her excellent organizational skills to Community Futures, Affinity and Crossroads Credit Unions, Yorkton Plumbing and Heating, as well as the family business, Royal Building Movers. Her involvement with people expanded and grew as she coped with the devastating diagnosis of her daughter, Payton, with leukemia. Her family of friends grew with the parents and workers who became part of her expanded family at Ronald McDonald House in Saskatoon. Kendall was also a private person keeping many thoughts and hurts to herself. When family and friends saw her struggling in recent years, it became harder to help her as she retreated into herself. In the end, she left us suddenly on November 10th, unable to overcome her illness. Her struggle was over. Kendall leaves to celebrate her life her children, Chase and Payton Hudye and their father, Jamieson; her parents, Ken and Merle Sherwin; her brother, Kyle (Amie) and niece and nephews Kailyn, Kedan and Kooper; her sister, Korin (Dion) and niece Calla; her uncles Vern Gelette and Russ Calnan; her aunt and uncle Bev and Bordie Adams and her cousins Kim, Kent and Kelly Adams; and a wealth of friends. The funeral service was held on Saturday, November 21, 2020 from the Yorkton Memorial Gardens Family Centre with Rev. Deborah Smith officiating. Songs played were ‘You Might Think’ (The Cars), ‘You Raise Me Up’ (Josh Groban), and ‘Maybe Tomorrow’ (Terry Bush). Son Chase was the urnbearer. The interment took place in the Garden of St. Mark. Memorials in Kendall’s name may be made to Ronald McDonald House (SK), 1011 University Dr. Saskatoon, SK S7N 0K4. Condolences can be left at baileysfuneralhome.com.
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PIDHORNEY, Evelyn Mae (Mulhern) 1936 - 2020 Evelyn passed away November 15, 2020 at the Yorkton Health Centre of East Central Saskatchewan one day before her 85th birthday. She was born on November 16, 1935 in Kincaid, SK. She was the eldest of four children. She spent her early years at the farm south of Meyronne, SK and attended Bellmuir School. In 1948 she was stricken with polio and was paralyzed from the waist down after which she spent many years in and out of hospitals. Evelyn married Nick Pidhorney on Oct 15, 1966 and lived in Yorkton thereafter. Evelyn was predeceased by her parents Harold and Hilda Mulhern, brothers Jim and Allan and her husband Nick. She is survived by brother John (Vanscoy), sister-in-law Cecilia (Swift Current) and niece Tara (Ross Davidson) and their four children (Ash, Cameron, Jaime and Flynn) of Pontiex, SK. While still living at the farm she worked at Erickson Motors, the GM dealership in Lafleche, SK. Later she moved to Regina where she was employed by General Photo for six years and later at the Salvation Army Seniors home. After marrying Nick, the couple moved to Yorkton where Evelyn worked for Morris Industries Ltd and later established an income tax, insurance and investment business, E & P Agencies. She retired and sold her business in 1989. Evelyn was very grateful for all the kind care provided by family and friends, her doctors and nurses and Home Care workers. She made many friends with Home Care workers throughout her working career and retirement years. Evelyn was extremely courageous, fiercely independent and was not deterred by her disability. She never complained about her lot in life and accepted all challenges head on. In fact, many of today’s “snowfakes� could learn a great deal from her tenacity, work ethic and attitude toward life. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Evelyn may be made to the East Central Health Foundation toward purchase of OR equipment. A graveside service (by invitation only) will be held at Yorkton City Cemetery at 2:00 pm on November 18. Arrangements in care of Christie’s Funeral home.
TATTON - Elizabeth (Betty) Tatton was born on November 9, 1930 on a farm in the Saltcoats area. Betty attended school at Meadowvale and worked on the farm and at various other homes and with threshing crews in her younger years. In November of 1948, she married Leonard (Len) Tatton and they had a farm where they raised their children, Terry and Gail. Betty farmed with her husband in the Perley district for 50 years and Betty drove every machine and implement on the farm. Betty was very active in her community, sitting on many committees, and kept the books for several clubs. Besides her devotion to her family and community, Betty loved three things: nature, baking, and music. Betty boasted a huge garden each year that she loved working in with her grandkids. It seemed like Betty was always baking something and the kitchen always smelled wonderful. Both Betty and her husband shared a love of music and Betty played many instruments but she was never more at home than on the fiddle. Betty, Len, and their friends loved to share their gift of music with others and would play at community events and for nursing homes. Once retired, Betty decided to volunteer at the hospital gift shop which she did for many years. She was also active in her church community and strong in her faith. Betty loved her family dearly and rarely missed sporting and special events that her grandchildren and great grandchildren participated in. Betty also loved to play cards and, if you were one of her grandkids, you learned how to play cribbage from ‘Bauba’. Betty will be dearly missed by her family, friends, and community. Betty is survived by her son Terry (Bonnie), son-in-law Tom McIntyre; grandchildren Jennifer, Daniel (Marie-Lise), Melanie, Michael (Krissa); great-grandchildren Brenna, Zachary, Avery and Elara; numerous nieces and nephews, and extended family. Betty is predeceased by her parents Nicholas and Dorothy Belloy; husband Leonard, daughter Gail McIntyre and grandson Jeffery; as well as her siblings, in-laws and other extended family.
SAUSER - Norma “When you lose a loved one, you gain an angel whose name you know. â€?It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Norma “Maeâ€? Sauser on Sunday, November 15. Mae was the second of four children born to Joseph and Norma (nee MacDonald) Bruce on August 30, 1944. She spent her early years on the farm in the Liscard District and attended school there until 1954 when her family moved to the Perley District where she finished elementary school, and then completing high school in Saltcoats. On July 10, 1965 Mae married Francis “Tonyâ€? Sauser, son of Lawrence and Elizabeth Sauser. Mae loved to keep herself busy, which wasn’t difficult having raised five boys. With all of her children in every sport that you can imagine, her time was spent volunteering at the rink, the trap club or helping Tony out with the farm. She loved to be involved. Gatherings at the family farm were often and memorable. Whether it was a special occasion or quite simply someone dropping by for a coffee and dessert, her door was always open. She was incredibly skilled at being a “homemakerâ€?. Never one to be afraid to try a new recipe, you would most often find her in the kitchen whipping up a tasty meal, her famous buns, or a delicious dessert. When time allowed, she could be found crafting, gardening, or seated in front of the tv watching a favorite program while knitting, crocheting or doing a stitch repair on one of the boys’ clothes. Whether she was mending clothes or mending hearts, she made certain that everyone around her was being taken care of. Always one to stay in touch, Mae would often be found at home with a phone attached to her ear making the time to check in with her many friends, family and neighbours. With the phone cord stretching from her chair at the kitchen table to the coffee pot and back, she would spend hours visiting‌understanding that with time, it’s later than we think, and the importance of keeping in touch. Mae was predeceased by her husband, Tony, her parents, and was the last surviving member of her siblings. She leaves to celebrate her life her sons Allan (Kendra), Stuart (Leanne), Mike, Gary (Linda), Colin (Tracy) – grandchildren‌who meant the world to her, Tyler and Laken (Steven), Austin and Lauren, Rylan and Jayde, Tori, Taiya and Tessa, Alek and Connor – great grandchildren Adelaide and Maizie DeLong. Brother-in-law Jack (Kristin) Sauser, sisterin-law Lucille DeCorby, sister-in-law Angela (William) Mark, brother-in-law Andy Renaud, sister-in-law Marion Lumley as well as many nieces, nephews, neighbours and great friends. Your light will always remain Mom, and we will learn to live with the love you left behind.
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BODNAR - The family of Andy Bodnar, beloved husband of the late Shelly Lynn Bodnar, sadly announce his sudden passing on November 16, 2020. Andy was the young age of 53 years at his passing. He was predeceased by his mother Verna Bodnar in July, 1998, his father Matt Bodnar in May, 2004, and his wife Shelly in January, 2015. Andy was born on January 23, 1967 in Yorkton; the youngest and last child of Matt and Verna. His first 9 years were spent growing up on the family farm in the Sheho district. In 1976 the family sold all of the cattle and purchased a home in Yorkton while continuing to crop the land on the farm. Andy attended St. Alphonsus Elementary School, St. Joseph’s Junior High School, and finally Sacred Heart High School. He excelled in basketball in high school and also loved to play football. After his graduation he continued his love of sports with curling and slow pitch ball. He enjoyed these extra curricular sports and especially loved the friends and camaraderie that came with them. Andy’s first job after high school was in the maintenance department at the Yorkton Regional Hospital. After that he took a full-time position at Kent’s Flour Mill in Yorkton. He used this job as a stepping stone to support his farming habit. He also worked at the Esso bulk dealer in Yorkton delivering fuel and anhydrous ammonia. His next endeavour was with Case Power and Equipment in the parts department. During this time Andy continued to help operate the family farm, ultimately purchasing his own land which he farmed concurrently. Andy met the love of his life, Shelly Kohuch in 1994. They married in 1997 and shared their passion of fishing and spending time at the farm. Staying at the farm was like camping, no running water, outhouse, and a sky full of stars. These were memorable times for them! Andy and Shelly resided in Yorkton until their untimely passing. Andy’s last five years were spent at Royal Ford in parts where he met many new friends!! He will be dearly missed. Andy is survived by sisters Brenda Clark, Adeline Jeffries (Jim), Angeline Paul (Bernie); also his sister Darlene Dubas (Peter) and brother Mervin Boychuk (Lauren). He will also be missed by his many nieces and nephews. The funeral service was held on Saturday, November 21, 2020 from the Yorkton Memorial Gardens Family Center with Crystal Bailey officiating. Tributes to Andy were given by Lauren Boychuk and Brenda Clark. Songs played were ‘Too Old to Die Young’, ‘In the Garden’, and ‘Go Rest High on That Mountain’. The interment will take place in the Yorkton City Cemetery in the spring of 2021. Condolences can be left at baileysfuneralhome.com.
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Sonia Caroline Prychak, August 9, 1951 November 19, 2005 They say that life is a highway And the milestones are the years And now and then, there is a toll gate Where you pay your way with tears It is a rough road and a steep road And it is stretched broad and far But it leads at last to the Golden Town Where the golden houses are And where one lies in peaceful sleep Precious memories we shall always keep.. VICHNAYA PAMYAT - ETERNAL MEMORY Lovingly remembered and sadly missed by your sister Adeline
In Loving Memory
George Campbell November 27, 2019 You never said you were leaving, You never said goodbye. You were gone before we knew it, And only God knows why.
HANNOTTE - Clarence Hannotte, son of the late John and Mary Hannotte of Spiritwood, SK. He attended Elementary School in Forgan and graduated from Foam Lake High School. He was married to Joan McDuff in 1974. They settled into their first home in Moose Jaw where he worked for SaskTel. They moved to Sceptre later that year, where Clarence was employed by Pioneer Grain and they started their family. From there they moved to Canwood in 1976, to start a joint family farm. After that they moved their family to Buchanan where they farmed, and Clarence worked for the RM. In 1988, Clarence and Joan moved their family to Yorkton where they started their business Fas Gas on Broadway. They spent the next 12 years working hard and providing for their children, shaping them into adults with strong family values and unique senses of humour. In 1995, Clarence began his career as a long-haul truck driver which he continued for the rest of his life. Truck driving provided Clarence with his two favourite past times: visiting his friends and family or coming up with a new “dream of the week”. In his free time, you could find Clarence back in Yorkton having coffee at Grumpy’s with his close friends, at a Terrier game, or having supper with Natalie. If you did not find him in the city, he was out on his three quarters reconnecting with his love of the land. Clarence was a hardworking and proud man. He was known for his easy manner, infectious laugh, and love of a good joke or great story. He had the ability to talk about anything under the sun with anyone he came across. His life will be carried on and forever be cherished in the lives of his children; Naomi (Wade) Dreger, Jeff (Kristen) Hannotte, Melanie (Shea) Yaroszko, and Tyler Hannotte. He is lovingly remembered by his grandchildren: Tristyn, Jessica and Zoie Dreger, Brooklyn and Jake Hannotte, Lily and Emily Yaroszko. He is survived by his brothers and sister: Leon (Carol) Hannotte, Adele (Hugh) Jensen, Alan (Charlene) Hannotte and Laverne (Marianne) Hannotte, along with many cousins, nieces, nephews, friends, and honorary extended family. A visitation and funeral service was held November 22, 2020 from Yorkton Memorial Gardens Family Centre in Yorkton, with funeral celebrant Doreen Day officiating. Interment followed November 23, 2020 at the Forgan Community Cemetery, Forgan, SK, with Pierre Charpentier offering committal prayers. Those who so desire, may make memorial contributions to Sask. Abilities or Saskatchewan Heart and Stroke Foundation, as gifts of remembrance. To leave a note of condolence, please visit Wolkowski.ca.
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In life I loved you dearly, In death I love you still. In my heart I hold a place, that only you can fill. It broke my heart to lose you, But you didn’t go alone. A part of me went with you, The day God took you home. In loving memory of a very special husband, father and grandfather. Missing you more than words can say Your wife Carleen Campbell, your children Ryley Campbell, Kelsey, Colton Malinowski, and beautiful grandson Kash George Malinowski. In loving memory of our very special brother, brother-in-law, uncle and son-in-law. Missing you so very much. (Carol) & Barry Ritchie and Family (Colleen) & Clive Boomer (Gary) & Michelle Campbell and family Ron, Georgina and Dale Chupa (Glenda) & Brad Altwasser and Family
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AVERY PROCYSHEN June 1, 1940 November 25, 2005
Gone is the face I loved so dear Silent is the voice I loved to hear Too far away for sight or speech But not too far for thought to reach Nothing can ever take away The love a heart holds dear You left me beautiful memories Your love is still my guide And though I cannot see you You are always at my side.
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for the stacked washer and drier. An L-shaped staircase leads to the second floor. The master suite, with French doors to a balcony, includes an ensuite with a luxurious soaker tub, as well as double basins and a show stall. The walk-in closet will be roomy enough for a couple’s clothing and accessories. The den looks out to the back of the cottage and includes built-in shelving. A linen closet is located just outside the den doorway. All ceilings on the main floor reach nine feet. Exterior finishes include wood shingles on the upper part of the cottage facade, with vertical siding on the lower part and chimney, as well as on the sides of the upper story. Painted trim contrasts with the facade, comprising two pale shades. The doorway to the sundeck is trimmed in white. This recreation home measures 28 feet wide
and 37 feet deep, for a total of 1,503 square feet of living space. Plans for design 10-2232 are available for $835 (set of 5), $900 (set of 8) and $952 for a super set of 10. Also add $35.00 for Priority charges within B.C. or $60.00 outside of B.C. Please add H.S.T., PST, OR G.S.T (where applicable) to both the plan price and Priority charges. Our 52ND Edition of the Home Plan Catalogue containing over 300 plans is available for $16.50 (includes taxes, postage and handling). Make all cheque and money orders payable to “Jenish House Design Ltd.” and mail to: JENISH HOUSE DESIGN LTD. c/o...Yorkton This Week #201- 1658 Commerce Ave Kelowna, BC V1X 8A9 OR SEE OUR WEB PAGE ORDER FORM ON: www.jenish.com AND E-MAIL YOUR ORDER TO: homeplans@ jenish.com
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ANDRUSIAK - Michael November 26, 2001. A million times we’ve needed you, A million times we’ve cried. If love alone could have saved you, You never would have died. In life we loved you dearly, In death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a place, No one else can ever fill. It broke our hearts to lose you, But you didn’t go alone. Part of us went with you, The day God took you home. -We miss you Mike, and love you always. Mom and Dad & Family.
SMUD - In loving memory of my friend Iris Smud, who passed away Nov. 26, 2014. They say in time it gets easier I believe this isn’t true Because even after all this time I still don’t have a clue I was not ready to say goodbye Your disease just took over So on this day we remember you I take a second look Our friendship is forever Until death did we part Although you’re away physically You’re always in my heart. -Lovingly Remembered by Marilyn & Eugene
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On behalf of the Cmoc family on the passing of Donald, we would like to send a big special Thankyou to everyone that sent flowers, food, cards, gifts, prayers, phone calls and visits. Very appreciated. God Bless you all. Audrey Cmoc & family. The family of the late Dennis Wagner, wishes to thank all those who sent cards, flowers, food, and phone calls. Thanks to YRHC medical wards, and to Palliative services. Thanks to Theodore Health Center staff, especially for dad’s early morning coffee! Our thanks to Jowsey House staff at YDNH. To Christie’s Funeral Home and celebrant Doreen Day. Also thanks to those who made donations to the MacNutt Community Center Fund. To our family, friends and coworkers for your support! Thank You!
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Tax Enforcement
Notice is hereby given under The Tax Enforcement Act that unless the arrears and costs appearing opposite the land and title number described in the following list are fully paid before January 25, 2021, an interest based on a tax lien will be registered against the land. Note: A sum for costs in an amount required by subsection 4(3) of The Tax Enforcement Act is included in the amount shown against each parcel.
SE 04-25-02-2 EXT 0 LOT 20-BLK/PAR 1-PLAN AH2105 EXT 0 LOT 21-BLK/PAR 1-PLAN AH2105 EXT 0 BLK/PAR A-PLAN 102251506 EXT 0
Total Arrears* 1,231.30 1,147.29 1,307.50 651.80 1,847.45
Costs Total Arrears and Costs 302.00 1,533.30 302.00 1,449.29 302.00 1,609.50 302.00 953.80 354.00 2,201.45
1,789.55 1,079.89
354.00 354.00
2,143.55 1,433.89
1,812.43
354.00
2,166.43
* On January 1, 2021 the 2020 taxes will become arrears and be added to the amount required to remove the property from tax enforcement proceedings. Penalty is calculated to the date of the Notice and will continue to accrue as applicable. Dated this 23rd day of November, 2020 Valerie Stricker, Acting Administrator Notice to Creditors
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the estate of Alice Baumgartner, late of Yorkton Saskatchewan, deceased. All claims against the above HVWDWH GXO\ YHULĂ€HG E\ statutory declaration and with particulars and valuation of security held, if any, must be sent to the undersigned before the, 31 day of December, 2020. Executor James Baumgartner PO Box 2504 Humboldt, SK S0K 2A0
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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF SALTCOATS NO. 213 PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN
Notice is hereby given under The Tax Enforcement Act that unless the arrears and costs appearing opposite the land described in the following list are fully paid before the 25th of January, 2021, a tax lien will be registered against the land. Note: A sum for costs in an amount required by subsection 4(3) of The Tax Enforcement Act is included in the amount shown against each parcel. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY PART OF SECTION SEC. TWP NW 08 22 PT.SE 34 22 (ISC Title # 144913103) PT.SE 20 22 (ISC Title # 149570859) PT.SW 01 23 (ISC Title # 151054310) NW 25 22 NE 12 24 NW 12 24
RANGE 1 1
MER. 2 2
TOTAL ARREARS AND COSTS 891.92 2,746.35
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1,109.42
2
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347.85
3 3 3
2 2 2
865.65 346.53 304.27
Dated this 25th day of November, 2020 Ronald R. Risling Treasurer
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DORIS RUSNACK (RUSNAK), LATE FORMERLY OF YORKTON, SASKATCHEWAN, DECEASED. ALL CLAIMS AGAINST THE ABOVE ESTATE, DULY VERIFIED BY STATUTORY DECLARATION AND WITH PARTICULARS AND VALUATION OF SECURITY HELD, IF ANY, MUST BE SENT TO THE UNDERSIGNED BEFORE 10TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2020. STEVEN J. WILSON BARRISTER, SOLICITOR & NOTARY PUBLIC 2120 YORK AVENUE SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN S7J 1H8 SOLICITOR FOR THE ESTATE OF DORIS RUSNACK
NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE ESTATE OF RYAN MICHAEL GUENETTE, LATE OF YORKTON SASKATCHEWAN, DECEASED. ALL CLAIMS AGAINST THE ABOVE ESTATE, DULY VERIFIED BY STATUTORY DECLARATION AND WITH PARTICULARS AND VALUATION OF SECURITY HELD, IF ANY, MUST BE SENT TO THE UNDERSIGNED BEFORE THE 2ND DAY OF DECEMBER, 2020. SHAWN PATENAUDE LEGAL PROF. CORP. 9-259 HAMILTON ROAD YORKTON, SASKATCHEWAN S3N 4C6
NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM DICKER LATE OF YORKTON SASKATCHEWAN, DECEASED. ALL CLAIMS AGAINST THE ABOVE ESTATE, DULY VERIFIED BY STATUTORY DECLARATION AND WITH PARTICULARS AND VALUATION OF SECURITY HELD, IF ANY, MUST BE SENT TO THE UNDERSIGNED BEFORE THE 21st DAY OF OCTOBER, 2020. SHAWN PATENAUDE LEGAL PROF. CORP. 9-259 HAMILTON ROAD YORKTON, SASKATCHEWAN S3N 4C6
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Sports Brett Kemp and Aiden Robson battle for the puck.
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Jackson Berezowski holds off the Millionaires.
Terriers and Millionaires split over weekend By Devin Wilger Staff Writer If there’s one team that brings out the best in the Yorkton Terriers, it’s the Melville Millionaires, as the strong Highway 10 rivalry always brings out exciting hockey for everyone. Of course, the reverse is true as well, as the Millionaires also bring their A-game when confronted with their rivals down the road. The Terriers were first, in Melville on Nov. 20, and came out strong out of the gate. Kishaun Gervais was the first on the board, assisted by Gavin Ingram and Tanner Sklaruk. Then Brett Kemp decided to increase the lead, with two goals, the first assisted by Jackson Berezowski and Colby Vranai, the second by Berezowski and Vaughn Wilgosh. At the start of the second Melville started to get closer, opening the period with a goal from Jaydon Dureau, assisted by Reece Newkirk.
Yorkton brought their lead back to three with a power play goal from Steven Norum, assisted by Kaeden Taphorn and Carson Henry. Melville matched it with a power play goal of their own from Zach McIntyre, assisted by Luke Nkwama and Reece Newkirk. Dylan Wells ended the period with an unassisted goal, bringing Melville to within one. The third period saw Melville continuing to fight back, and Cole Stevenson tied it up with help from Christian Adlys and Jake Spak. Carson Miller ended the scoring for the Terriers with a power play goal, assisted by Keenan Taphorn and Brett Kemp. The final score was 5-4 for the Terriers. Philippe Bond was tagged with the win for the Terriers, and Kaleb McEachern was tagged with the loss. The following day saw the Millionaires travelling to Yorkton, with a bit
of revenge on their mind. They came out of the gate strong, with Jaydon Dureau assisted by Aiden Robson kicking off the scoring. Yorkton, however, wasn’t going to make it easy for them either. The Taphorn twins put the Terriers on the board first, with Keenan getting the goal and Kaeden getting the assist. Kishaun Gervais put the terriers in the lead with a power play goal, assisted by Brett Kemp and Eric Van Impe. The Millionaires tied up the game with a goal from Luke Nkwama assisted by Noah Wills and Landon Kosior. They ended the period by pulling into the lead, with Landon Kosior’s first goal of the season, assisted by Luke Nkwama. The second period saw Melville pull ahead further, with a power play goal from Jaydon Dureau assisted by Zach McIntyre and MacKenzie Walkington. Yorkton opened the
third period with a power play goal of their own, with Carson Henry’s first goal of the season, assisted by the Taphorns. But they couldn’t get closer, and Melville twist-
If you are something on a ‘sports honeybee’ happily flitting from one sport to another, while keeping your eye out for the next one to watch – that’s me in a honeycomb in keeping with the metaphor – you know there are always new sports popping up. No one knew what spike ball, or its bigger cousin 360 Ball was a decade ago, and so it goes for the sport highlighted here this week – drone racing. Perhaps a decade ago the sport was an idea for
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Maier got the loss for Yorkton. Next action for the Terriers will be in Yorkton on Nov. 27 when the Weyburn Red Wings come to town.
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ed the knife with a lateperiod goal from Reece Newkirk assisted by Zach Cain and Jaydon Dureau. Bryan Thomson was tagged with the win for Melville, and Nolan
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Sports somebody but the first U.S. National Drone Racing Championships was held in 2015, so the sport still has a ‘new car smell’ to it, as something quite fresh. That I am writing about the sport is something of a personal surprise as generally I do not watch race sports. When I list my favorite individual sports ice and ski cross make the top15, but racing is typically something I avoid. Now I’ll admit that I am also far from a diehard follower of drone racing, the little fliers buzz around their courses at speeds up to 90 miles per hour making following who leads who a bit of a visual chore, but the sport still rather fascinates me. The potential for the sport is practically limitless given that races can be held virtually, as is the case this year with COVID-19 making gathering for races a no-go. But even outside the virtual world, racing drones in our physical world can mean courses in old mines, biospheres, and across cityscapes. You can, well pro racers can at least, manoeuvre their drones through some simply fascinating locales. Races have been held in and around Miami’s Sun Life Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins, and Biosphere 2 an American Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. And, yes there are pro drone racers, Gabriel Kocher among them. Kocher, who was born in Switzerland, is the two-time Canadian drone national champion, and one of the top guns with the Drone Racing League which holds races around the world, albeit something of an unlikely eventuality for him.
In a recent telephone conversation Kocher said he moved to Canada eight years ago to pursue educational opportunities. He is pursuing a PhD candidacy at McGill University in material science and theoretical physics. “The first year I kind of kept doing the PhD with drone racing on the side, but now drone racing has kind of taken over,” he said, although he is working with the University of Zurich researching drone tech, so his education and his sport are dovetailing. But, as life sometimes goes Kocher ended up watching drone races one day, and thought he could fly them too. “Drone racing is really my hobby,” he said, although he admitted he is more focused at present in flying than in his PhD. So what captivated Kocher about the sport? “I think it’s really the first person view,” he said. With drone racing the pilots wear goggles that let them see the course they are flying virtually, basically as if they were in the cockpit of the roughly lunchboxsized drones. Unlike car racing, done on a flat track, drones taking racing to the third dimension, so it’s not just drifting around curves and speeding down straightaways, said Kocher, noting they must fly the drones up and down through gates on course too. It also happens drone racing is a blast according to Kocher. “The sport is meant to be something fun,” he said, adding it’s the entire experience, from the unique courses, to the world travel, to the piloting of the drones. “It is very fun travelling the world doing something that you love.”
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Federal Internet initiative a solid effort Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not be very popular on the Prairies but he and his party do seem to at least understand the importance of timely and speedy access to information these days. To better ensure rural Canadians have access to high speed Internet service on par with those in large urban centres the federal government announced recently a new injection of money focused on better connectivity. On Nov. 9, the feds added $750 million to its Universal Broadband Fund to speed up Canadians’ access to high-speed internet.
The 2019 federal budget had previously allocated $1 billion to the fund. “Our government is launching the $1.75 billion universal broadband fund to connect all Canadians to high speed internet,” said Trudeau at a press conference in Ottawa to announce the new money. “This fund will be used to build infrastructure across the country, almost entirely in rural and remote communities. And for places that are just too far to reach, including in remote areas in the north, we’ve reached a $600 million agreement with Telesat for satellite capacity to improve broadband,
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Calvin Daniels along with the $2 billion we’ve already put down for broadband through the Canada infrastructure bank’s growth plan. We’re making real investments in Canadians, their success, and in their future.” Trudeau continued, “Today’s investment puts us on track to get 98 per cent of Canadians
connected to high speed internet in the next few years, and everyone connected, a few years after that. These are ambitious targets, and we’re ready to meet them. In fact, to accelerate our progress, right now, these need to succeed.” You can argue politics if you want too, but it is rather difficult to
see this as anything but positive for rural Canada. Certainly the COVID19 pandemic has focused added attention on Internet access as many workers have been sent home to work in a place of greater isolation and safety, and education classes have gone online for the same reason, but the need to be connected with quick access had been growing long before we had heard of COVID. To be competitive today business needs to have at least one eye on global trends and that requires information, whether it’s a small town hairdresser looking for the latest styles
and hair products, a mechanic researching an engine light issue, or a farmer looking for signs to suggest the best time to sell their canola, you need information, you need it fast, and that means access to high speed Internet. As any federal government program, this one will not solve access issues for all, the country is simply too large and diverse for that, but the injection of funds to build a better rural high speed base is at least an investment that bodes well for a rural future in an information dominated future. Calvin Daniels is Editor with Yorkton This Week.
“Hop”ping into the express lane: AAFC scientists discover ultra-fast research method with potential applications in agriculture, nutri-science and pharmaceuticals For researchers, the complex and timeconsuming process of isolating pure chemical compounds from a natural origin, such as plant extracts, for scientific analysis may be a thing of the past. Agriculture and AgriFood Canada (AAFC) phytochemist Dr. Jason McCallum, and fellow AAFC scientist Dr. Chris Kirby, have developed a new, lightning-fast way to generate pure, plantbased compounds for analysis, aptly named Ultra-Micro-ScaleFractionation (UMSF). Traditional bioassay guided fractionation – a process to isolate a pure chemical agent from a natural origin, such as plant extracts – often takes many days to purify individual compounds and produces large volumes of waste. With a background in nutri-science, McCallum has spent hundreds of hours in his lab separating various plant extracts into pure chemical compounds (natural products) through a method called high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). This method has been used since the 1980s to discover natural products, like penicillin, that may be applicable for research in the creation of new agriculture products (bio-pesticides, disease-resistant plant varieties) or pharmaceutical drugs and antibiotics. McCallum and Kirby’s
For researchers, UMSF will enable more rapid discovery of new natural products that can be applicable to agriculture, nutri-science and pharmaceuticals. —Dr. Jason McCallum, Phytochemist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada new UPLC (ultra-performance liquid chromatography) method is much faster than older HPLC techniques. Their idea, to speed up the fractionation process by modernizing the equipment used, led to the development of this new method that has exciting implications for researchers everywhere. To achieve their high-speed results, they integrated new fraction-collector and plate-
dryer equipment to collect the pure chemical compounds. The UPLC method only takes six to 10 minutes and uses five millilitres of solvent. Using this approach, pure natural products can be obtained from plant extracts in a single step – often a single leaf, flower or fruit provides enough extract to conduct the analysis. Not only does this speed up the process,
it also reduces waste: “Older purification methods produced large volumes of compounds for analysis, and for our purposes, we required only a fraction of that output,” says Dr. McCallum. “Our theory was simple – by reducing the scale of the device and materials used, we could decrease the time to complete analysis and reduce waste.” “For researchers, UMSF will enable rapid discovery of new natural products that can be applicable to agriculture, nutri-science and pharmaceuticals,” explains Dr. McCallum. Dr. McCallum has been studying hops varieties since 2015, and in 2019 discovered some unique characteristics of Maritimes wild hops. These maritime-made flavours and aromas, like melon and cotton candy, make the future commercial release of these varieties highly anticipated among the hops-growing and brewing industries. With the ability to complete analysis in a fraction of the time, McCallum decided to test the new UMSF method on a variety of plants available in his lab including Rocky Mountain Juniper berries, St. John’s Wort flowers, Nannyberry fruits, Bunchberry Dogwood fruits, Western Snowberry fruits, and Cascade hops cones. He tested the effects of the above plant
Through UMSF, we’ve confirmed the anti-cancer activity of hops components in a multicellular organism (brine shrimp) for the first time. —Dr. Jason McCallum, Phytochemist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada extracts, separated into pure chemical compounds by using UMSF, on brine shrimp. Brine shrimp is an established model organism used in research to look for anticancer and anti-insect activities in natural products. Through this research, Dr. McCallum noted that the Cascade hops variety may have implications for another industry – cancer research. “I was excited to discover that the hops extracts possessed high bioactivity with multiple beta acids identified as having anti-cancer (cytotoxic) activity,” says Dr. McCallum. “Through UMSF, we’ve confirmed the anticancer activity of hops components in a multicellular organism (brine shrimp) for the first time.” So, what does this mean for cancer researchers? According to Dr. McCallum, it’s more confirmation that these biologically active
beta acids from hops can destroy cancer cells. “The mystery that cancer researchers will need to explore further is, how are these hops chemicals destroying cancer cells?” Dr. McCallum is eager to try UMSF on new plant extracts in the pursuit of discovering natural products that may unlock new capabilities, from finding anti-cancer properties to potentially creating new bio-pesticides. Simply put, UPLC fractionation has the potential to put research development into hyperspeed. Key Discoveries/ Benefits AAFC researchers have developed a new chemical separation method to create natural products that is faster and produces less waste than the current method used by most researchers. Through UMSF, AAFC has identified the anticancer activity of hops in a multicellular organism (brine shrimp) for the first time.
CMBTC Issues 2021-22 recommended malting barley varieties The Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC) has issued its list of recommended malting barley varieties for the 2021-22 marketing year. The list identifies varieties that hold the most promise for producers in terms of selection and marketability based on current acceptance in the market place. All of the varieties have been pilot tested at the CMBTC and each exhibit
very good malting and brewing characteristics. This year’s list contains not only established varieties such as CDC Copeland, AC Metcalfe and AAC Synergy, but promising newcomers as well, says Peter Watts, Managing Director of the CMBTC. “Canada has a suite of new varieties under market development with excellent malting and brewing proper-
ties as well as improved agronomics and disease resistance,” he says. “Up-and-coming varieties such as AAC Connect, CDC Bow and CDC Fraser are among the next generation of high-quality performers that malting barley producers should consider for seeding in 2021.” The domestic malting industry in Canada has been testing these new varieties over the past
several years with positive results, while the CMBTC has been working with international customers to undertake production trials on location to gain acceptance. “AC Metcalfe has been a remarkably successful variety worldwide for over 15 years that helped solidify Canada as a supplier of premium quality malting barley. However improved field perform-
ance of new varieties including significantly higher yields, better lodging resistance and improved disease packages, will help Canadian malting barley stay competitive in the global market, while offering excellent malting and brewing attributes for both mainstream and all malt brewers” says Watts. Producers should speak with their local
malting barley buyers to discuss which varieties are best suited for production and selection in their region. The CMBTC recommends farmers have a production contract, particularly when growing new malting barley varieties. For more information: Peter Watts, Managing Director, CMBTC, Phone: 204-983-1981 Email: pwatts@cmbtc.com
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