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Local headed to Telemiracle By Devin Wilger Staff Writer Every year, Telemiracle showcases Saskatchewan talent on stage. The talent list for the 45th Telemiracle has been released, and Yorkton student Breanna Rodgers is one of the people set to take the stage for the event. Rodgers said she was shocked to find out that she was one of the people set to perform at the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I was screaming at the top of my lungs telling my mom and dad and jumping up and down, I was so excited!â&#x20AC;?

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Apprentices win awards with SATCC By Devin Wilger Staff Writer Each year, the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission (SATCC) hands out the Apprenticeship Awards. These awards recognize the men and women who scored highest on their tests and are the top new face in their field each year. Yorkton saw two men awarded with Outstanding New Journeyperson Awards. Ryan Matte, powerline

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Guy releases seasonal favourite By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Yorkton performer Jackie Guy is giving fans of her music an early Christmas present with the release of a seasonal recording. This holiday season

she has released her first Christmas cover; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What Child is This /Child of the Poorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, produced by Rich McFarlane (Mosaic Music), and features vocals by Kristen Jonassen and The Guy Girls.

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TELEMIRACLE Continued from Page A1 Rodgers began performing at Yorkdale Central School’s talent show when she was in Grade 4. Rodgers said that it has been her family support that has made her want to continue singing. “All of my family is there supporting me, and they pushed me to become a singer. It’s just to share my talent.” That family was thrilled to hear that she will be singing at

Telemiracle, but she wasn’t the one to tell them because she had to go to work right after finding out. “I got phone calls and texts, and they were all really excited and proud of me.” The process of getting to Telemiracle began well before the audition, with Rodgers working with Kelsey Kuz, former choir director at YRHS, working on songs. They picked the song “More Hearts than Mine” by

Ingrid Andress. “It just talks about bringing people home to meet your family, and I guess I’ll be doing that eventually.” Once the song was picked, she submitted a video audition to Telemiracle, and was selected as one of next year’s performers. She said it’s nerve racking as she prepares to take the stage. “I’m still wicked excited, I just have to prepare for the worst and the

best!” But for Rodgers, it’s not just about being able to sing to a big audience, but instead about why she’s singing. “To me, it means that I get to help give back to other people who need it, and make a difference in somebody else’s life.” She said that while getting on stage in front of the province makes her nervous, she’s happy to share her talent and show how she can help others across Saskatchewan.

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APPRENTICES Continued from Page A1 technician, and Bryden Dubiel both have been awarded with the Outstanding New Journeyperson Award. Matte also took home other awards. He took the George Pellerin Memorial Scholarship and the SaskPower Outstanding New Journeyperson Award. This year’s awards didn’t happen in person due to COVID-19, but the awards were presented to the recipients virtually. “On behalf of the SATCC, I’m proud to congratulate this year’s Apprenticeship Award winners,”

SATCC Board Chair Drew Tiefenbach said in a release. “While I’d love to shake hands and meet this year’s winners face-toface, I’m glad we’re still able to celebrate their accomplishments virtually. These winners are integral to the success of Saskatchewan’s apprenticeship system and they deserve to be recognized.” Dubiel, one of the two Yorkton men recognized said it was exciting to find out that he was one of the award winners this year. “It was pretty exciting, I really didn’t think I was going to get that

high.” While he said the award is good to have on his resume, he has been at the shop where he works for a long time and isn’t looking for a new job. He said the rest of the shop was happy to see him get the award. “Made one guy nervous because he was waiting for his results while I got this.” Dubiel admits he found out relatively late that he had received the award, because he was having issues with his email and didn’t receive the announcement right away.

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SEASONAL Continued from Page A1 “I’ve wanted to do a Christmas album for a long time and this winter I finally got the chance to record my first carol,” Guy told Yorkton This Week. “I initially heard this rendition of ‘What Child is This (Traditional)/Child of the Poor (Scott Soper)’ years ago at St. Gerard’s in Yorkton. “Pam Yaremko was the pianist at the time and when I heard it, I just knew someday I would record it with Kristen Jonassen and my two daughters Alexis and Savannah (The Guy Girls).” Guy noted the current pandemic did change recording procedures, but added it was still worth the effort. “With COVID-19 on

I’ve wanted to do a Christmas album for a long time and this winter I finally got the chance to record my first carol. — Jackie Guy the rise, we had to ensure recording at the studio was efficient and, most importantly, safe,” she said. “Although this did delay the release of the song, I’m happy to say we completed it just in time for the holidays and it feels even more special because of the challenges involved.” ‘What Child is This/

Child of the Poor’ is available now through Bandcamp only (https:// jackieguy.bandcamp. com/track/what-childis-this-child-of-thepoor). Bandcamp has been waiving its fees on Fridays throughout the pandemic to put more money in the pockets of artists, said Guy. Later this month, the single will be available

on all music platforms: CDBaby, iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify. “Although not formally released to radio, stations will be able to access the single on request,” said Guy. “Reach out to your local radio stations to hear it and download and listen on Bandcamp.” And, more will be forthcoming – someday.

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“The Guy Girls and I will record an album of holiday music at some point and we all hope you enjoy our first release,” she said, adding “Merry

Christmas to everyone.” Readers can follow Guy’s musical journey on social media @jackieguymusic and at her website: http://www.jackieguy.com

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Nurse texts dad, asking for ventilators, and a prototype is together in six days By Brian Zinchuk Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Estevan Mercury Saskatoon – A few days after the global pandemic was declared, Jim Boire got a text from his daughter. Rebecca Erker, a Royal University Hospital intensive care unit nurse. She is working on her PhD with the respiratory research centre in Saskatoon. As a result, she had a good understanding of what was at stake with COVID19, and reason to be concerned. Thankfully, Boire is president of RMD Engineering, a Saskatoon firm whose expertise ranges from beamlines for the Canada Light Source Synchrotron to industrial processes in potash mining, and a whole lot in between. They’ve worked in uranium, agriculture, and a lot of research and development. His company (which Boire owns with four other partners, all employees) had the expertise and capacity to do something about it. And so they did. “I got my text from my daughter on March 18. March 24, we had our first prototype built,” Boire said by phone on Dec. 3. Now the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) announced on that December day it would be taking delivery of 100 new ventilators, known as the EUV-SK1, in short order. The first 20 are ready to go out the door, and the company has most of the parts in place to build as many as 1,000 units. RMD Engineering Inc.’s subsidiary, One Health Medical Technologies, recently received COVID19 Medical Device Authorization from Health Canada for an in-house designed, developed and manufactured ventilator. Collaborating with the University of Saskatchewan and SHA subject matter experts, RMD Engineering was able to successfully prototype an emergency use ventilator for Health Canada certification. According to a Ministry of Health press release on Dec. 3, there are currently approximately 650 ventilators available in Saskatchewan’s health system, enough to meet the need. They range from high-end critical care type ventilators to more basic sub-acute ventilators. The SHA’s purchase from RMD will increase that number to about 750. But getting from a text to a prototype for an approved ventilator wasn’t easy, nor was it quick process. Very early on, the deans of both the University of Saskatchewan College of Engineering and College of Medicine got involved. Top respiratory technologies, respirologists, and ICU nurses were brought in within short order to develop this totally new product. Boire said, “As soon as we asked for them to help, they helped with open arms. And you have a team like that

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This Saskatchewan conceived, designed, and built ventilator is now going into production after just 8.5 months. The province is buying 100, and RMD Engineering has the capacity to build 900 more. that knows exactly what something is supposed to do. And the capability to build something that can do that, then all you need are the codes and standards and validation equipment to make sure it meets the required level of quality.” Asked if it was like converting to war production in 1940, Boire said, “I’ll tell you, that’s exactly the way it started. “It felt like a military operation, if I was ever involved in a military operation, but I wasn’t. However, as soon as we got through the point where this is going to work, this design is going to work, here’s what we have to do now, a group of people said, ‘You know what? We get it. This is like a military operation, everybody’s doing this, let’s just go go go.’ “They stopped and said, “You know what, it’s probably time now that everybody starts looking at this as the biggest humanitarian effort this company has ever done.” And it was just an awesome way to get out of that firefighting mode. And then one of our instrumentation leads said, ‘This is not a sprint. You guys can’t keep working 18 hours a day. This is going to be a marathon.’ “And it really helped pull the whole team back down to the ground, and get them out of that adrenaline mode, and really start focusing on the work breakdown, structure in the tasks at hand, and who’s responsible for what and what’s this timing going look like and when is this going in.” His references to firefighting are authentic, as the company has built support equipment for water bombers. Worldwide shortages They soon realized that the whole world was looking for critical parts, which almost immediately went into short supply and were being hoarded. Some items, like wire, saw huge price spikes. So RMD quickly realized it had to work on this project quietly, and develop a product that avoided critical path component shortages. Boire said, “Instead of using the newer, more conventional turbine method, we knew those would be a hot commodity, when the world proclaimed they needed over a million of these. As you can imagine, that turbine is a complicated piece of

equipment. We went the other way. We went back to being simple,” Boire said. “We have very, very few moving parts in our machine. There’s four moving parts.” He explained, “This is an emergency use ventilator, so it needs to be used in the hospital or in an emergency hospital situation where they have line medical air and line oxygen so that’ll be running at 50 PSI. And then we control everything with proportional solenoids.” There are two tubes coming into the device, which is in a large Pelican case, and two tubes coming out. They had them on hand because of another government project they’re working on. The lid includes an IBM screen. “They’re all high reliability components,” he said. It runs off 110 volt AC power. You set it up beside the bed, hook up the lines, hook up the power and put in the appropriate prescription. High standards They had previously made the biomedical imaging line for the Canadian Light Source, but they weren’t a medical device manufacturer. The list of specifications, protocols and standards was extensive. And those standards, in some ways, simplify things. Boire said, “We don’t have any proprietary stuff on there, so all of the circuits, all the nebulizers everything fits on there. All that is covered off in standards. And I think that’s one of the biggest things to understand is when you go down this path, it is very prescriptive on everything. The machine has to do all of the standards it has to meet, including operational standards.” He added, “It’s probably a foot tall, the stack of standards, when you put them together. You have to meet the electrical requirements, the operational requirements, the safety requirements. You don’t get to just build something in your backyard, and then tell everybody you have it. When you go and look at the requirements, when you submit to Health Canada, it is an armful. And I think we’ve spent just about $30,000 on standards. There is a lot of standards that you have to meet.” It is very unique, he said. “We looked at the

critical components like flow meters, how you measure flow and pressure, because we’re talking very low pressures that have to be measured very accurately.” This is where the consultation with respiratory technicians, anesthesiology repair technicians from the health region made a difference. Because there was such high demand for ventilator components, he said, “You have to figure out how to do that with readily available things that are very safe.” “So when we started doing our production testing, we had to do accelerated testing on components that, in the period of two or three weeks, we could get an effective 25 million cycles on a component that we designed.” By the end of December, they’ll likely have the remaining 80 units ready. They’ve also built a training version to be used in remote areas or to train people on a simulation patient or a “test lung.” They submitted their application to Health Canada on May 5. “In that period of time is when we refined our design, did our testing, had to send it out to third party,” Boire said.

Commitment Quality assurance and traceability were very important, he said. “Since March, we’ve got 40,000 to 45,000 hours in already, in the development and testing and verification side.” This happened just as the company was in the middle of expanding their facility, much of which was accomplished with their own staff. “We’re probably going have to hire another 12 to 15 people, and train them,” he said, noting training is a big part when dealing with healthcare devices, especially when it comes to things like quality control. “We’ve currently got 15 people now on the manufacturing side of it and the programing side, and the testing side.” They are working on getting their Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP) certification, which he calls a “quality control program on steroids.” Asked if they were going to stick with it, he said, “We’re going to stay as a medical manufacturer.” Boire added, “The medical device manufacturing will just be another part of our company. We’re going to stay with theses rugged use ventilators, like this emergency type ventilator. We do not intend to compete with Panasonic or anybody at Philips, anybody that’s making mainstream, high-volume ventilators. We’ll stay with a rugged use ventilator, because unfortunately, when you look at the numbers and look at this type of virus, the feeling is this could be around for a long time. And the government is coming out with a program that those of us that produced a medical device will have the opportunity over the next couple of years to convert that to a full medical device licence. And we’ll take advantage of that just so we can make

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sure we keep this, here in Saskatchewan. We’ve already spent the money. Whatever happens now, happens. “So we want to make sure that we leverage that into good technology and good expertise for the years to come, not just, ‘Oh well, there’s no more ventilators to make, we’ll just do something else.’ Boire said they found that Saskatchewan really needs to focus more on trades and “getting trades educated with higher-end things.” “We have to bring manufacturing back to Saskatchewan,” he said. They were going to do it. Why did they choose 1,000 units? Boire explained, “Saskatchewan said, ‘Our numbers show we need 1,000 ventilators in Saskatchewan.’ “We’re from Saskatchewan. We said we’re going to pick to do this, based on what we can do in this province. And what we did instead is while we were building this, we’ve built a whole project management system and basically a tool kit that if need be, if this type of ventilator is required in other places, we now have a system that we can go and work with another company very similar to ours, that has similar manufacturing capabilities and get them up and running to produce locally to them.” Boire said, “If we sold, half of what we had expected to make, we will break even. But again, it’s not why we did it.” “This initiative exemplifies the spirit of collaboration and entrepreneurship we’re so proud of in our province,” Health Minister Paul Merriman said in a release. “Our government fully supports this work, and we are pleased that residents in Saskatchewan and across the country will have access to this equipment, if they need it.”

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Politics It’s likely time to set aside any notion that this COVID-19 fight will be over soon. We are still in it for the long haul. And rather than send out some out false signals than this will all be over soon because vaccines are on the way, it might be better if our politicians were straight with us. Right now for Premier Scott Moe and his Saskatchewan Party government, that likely means an honest admission that lifting current restrictions on gatherings and events at Christmas would be highly unwise. Of course, that’s not what anyone wants to hear and politicians are disinclined to tell people what they don’t want to hear. But this COVID-19 fight tells us that we need to re-assess our priorities. By all measures, it’s getting worse. Consider the numbers: In the last Sunday-to-Sunday week (Nov. 22 to 29), Saskatchewan saw a record 1,766 new cases — an average of 252 new cases a day. During the previous week of Nov. 15 to 22, the province saw 1,472 new cases — an average of 210 new cases a day. The previous week (Nov. 8-15) it was 1,104 cases or 158 a day. The week before that (Nov. 1-8), Saskatchewan had 697 new cases or an average of 97 a day. The gloomy rise in cases is even more troubling when you compare November with October: During the week Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, the provincial saw 498 new cases or 71 a day. The week of Oct. 18-25 saw 390 cases or 56 a day, Oct. 11-18 saw 238 cases or an average of 34 a day, Oct. 4-11 saw 133 new cases or 19 a day and September 27-Oct. 4 saw 97 new cases or 12 a day. Accompanying the rising case numbers was a doubling of Saskatchewan deaths in November from the total accumulated in seven months. And with record hospitalizations, more It’s not has if the government wasn’t warned. During a press conference on Nov. 20, it released “modelling numbers”, the government unveiled a series of possible scenarios. The worst case showed a nightmare scenario of 469,000 COVID-19 cases (8,390 a day) in the next six months producing 4,800 deaths — numbers most agreed to be unrealistically high because they represent an infection rate unseen anywhere in the world. However, the best case scenario suggested we would seen only 4,800 more cases in the next six months if we adhered to stricter mask-wearing everywhere in the province and strict limits on household contacts. After Nov. 20, we added about 2,400 cases — half the best case scenario — in just 10 days. This should have served as a call to action for Moe’s government. Yet while the government did call the COVID19 fight its priority in its throne speech last week included a call for SaskPower to “reduce electricity charges by 10 per cent for one year”. Also, it’s first bill was to make good on its election promise to implement a Saskatchewan Home Renovation Tax Credit — a 10.5-per-cent tax credit on up to $20,000 of eligible home renovation expenses incurred between Oct. 1, 2020 and Dec. 21, 2022.” One can understand and somewhat respect the determination of Moe to make good on the popular promises that got the Sask. Party reelected. One also gets Moe’s determination not to lockdown the province, as has pretty much happened in neighbouring Manitoba. Moe insists that the incremental measures already taken can stop the spread of the virus. As stated in the throne speech: “We can, and will, do both.” But the simply reality is that what we’re doing right now hasn’t been working. Right now trying to do both isn’t stopping rising number. Quite likely, we are going to have to do a lot more of what we don’t like. We have to be realistic. Murray Mandryk has been covering provincial politics since 1983.

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he recently re-elected Saskatchewan Party is certainly focused right now in lending a governmental hand to small business in the face of ongoing pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week the Government of Saskatchewan announced the Saskatchewan Small Business Emergency Payment (SSBEP) program is being renewed for the period of December 1 to December 31. Through this program, small businesses closed or significantly curtailed due to a public health order will be eligible for provincial support. Eligible applicants will receive a payment of 15 per cent of their monthly sales revenue, to a maximum of $5,000, based on the greater of November 2019, December 2019, or February 2020 sales revenue. The move by the province was seen as a positive one by Yorkton Chamber of Commerce. “The Yorkton Chamber is pleased by the renewal of the SSBEP program,” offered Executive Director Juanita Polegi. “Many of our small businesses have struggled and the funds will be welcome.” Then Monday the Government of Saskatchewan announced the new Strong Recovery Adaptation Rebate (SRAR), which will assist businesses as they adapt their business models to address the challenges caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The rebate will assist businesses

who have adapted to different business models, such as changing the use of square footage, installing physical infrastructure to comply with COVID-19 mitigation guidelines, and upgrading technology, such as websites, to enhance their business. The program is for Saskatchewan businesses that employ less than 100 people, have or will incur expenses to adapt their business model between April 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021, plan to continue operating, and have experienced at least a 30 per cent revenue decline compared to 2019. Eligible applicants will receive a rebate of 50 per cent up to a maximum of $5,000 for a $10,000 expenditure, with amounts being determined based on business expenditures for changing business models to adapt to the current environment brought about due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Again it was a move well-received by the local Chamber. “Businesses have had to incur a great deal of unexpected expense as they adapt to the changes brought about by the pandemic,” offered Polegi. “Small businesses especially have been hard hit. Funding to cover at least some of those expenses will be put to good use.” Also Monday legislation to reduce the tax rate for Saskatchewan small businesses over the next three years was introduced, fulfilling another major commitment made by the government in the recent election campaign. Continued on page A5

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A Lasting Gift Imagine buying a gift for someone, or for yourself that does good in your community every year, forever. That is exactly how a gift donation to Yorkton & District Community Foundation works. Since launching in October 2019, the Yorkton and District Community Foundation has accepted donations for the annual grants program to support the work of local charities. The donations are invested and continue to work for the community by generating grant dollars year after year. Gifts of a donation of any size are possible,” says Ray Bailey, president of the Yorkton & District Community Foundation. “All donations receive a thank you

card which can be sent either to the donor or to the person being honoured by the donor.” The donor receives a charitable tax receipt from the community foundation for any donation of $25 or more. The “First 100 Caring People” is a special campaign to recognize the first 100 individuals, groups or business partners making a donation of $1,000 or more to the Yorkton & District Community Foundation. Members of the “First 100 Caring People” are permanently recognized as founders for their role in establishing the first endowment fund. “There is still time to give the gift of a donation this Christmas or be recognized as one of the first one hundred people,

groups or businesses to leave a lasting legacy to the community,” adds Bailey. Gene and Gladys Krepakevich, Delores and Clarke Anderson, Raymond and Elsie Malinowski, Allan Bailey, George and Dolena Plews, Gerry Ann and Earl Fraser, Sharon and John Tropin, Larry and Sonia Pearen, Vic and Evelyn Surjik, Les and Jenice Arnelien, Rob McDill, Laurie Renton, Dick and Faye Deryk are all founding members contributing to the “First

100 Caring People” campaign. “Everyone has their personal reason for giving”, says Sharon Tropin. “My husband, John, and I like the fact that our donation to the Community Foundation will generate grants to help people in our community, even beyond our own lifetime.” Tropin says that for others it may be that the Yorkton & District Community Foundation is an easy way to give to causes that matter to the donor; or that, donations

given now and in the future can build towards having a fund named for themselves, their business or for someone who they want to honour. Local business community members contributing to the “First 100 Caring People” founders campaign include Bailey’s Funeral Home, Grain Millers Canada Corp., Legacy CO-OP, Michael Riecken of C.A. Reed Consulting Engineers, Sensus Chartered Professional Accountants Ltd., and Westland Insurance Group Ltd o/a Farrell Agencies. Three community organizations have donated to the campaign including the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. “The largest dona-

tion from a group to date comes from people in the community who had raised funds to support mental health,” says Bailey. “The Yorkton Mental Health Association disbanded a few years ago and were looking for a way to support mental health in the community with the money that they had raised.” Donors wishes for the types of causes they support are documented at the time of the donation. This information will guide annual grants decisions. The first grants will be awarded in 2021. The complete list of donors and more information about donating can be found on the Yorkton and District Community Foundation website www.ydcf.ca

Ten per cent economic recovery rebate now in effect for all SaskPower customers The Government of Saskatchewan is fulfilling a commitment made in the 2020 Speech from the Throne by providing all SaskPower customers a 10 per cent rebate on their power bills. This rebate, known

as the Saskatchewan Economic Recovery Rebate, will run from December 1, 2020 to the end of November 2021. “We have a strong mandate to help make life more affordable for Saskatchewan fam-

ilies and businesses,” Premier Scott Moe said. “As promised by our government, this measure will provide relief to everyone in the province to help drive Saskatchewan’s recovery in 2021.”

BUSINESS Continued from page 4 Under the initiative, Saskatchewan’s small business corporate income tax rate drops from two per cent to zero effective October 1, 2020. Beginning July 1, 2022, the small business tax rate will move to one per cent. And on July 1, 2023, the small business tax rate will return to two per cent. The programming has to be seen as a positive for business as the government clearly wants the doors to remain open even as COVID-19 case numbers soar in the province. In the earlier response to the pandemic many small businesses were forced to close, even as

big box stores stayed open selling the same products. It was a government response that created inequity due to regulation. Today numbers are much higher than they were in March and April when doors initially closed. There were 274 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan Monday, with the sevenday average of daily new cases at 264. The provincial total to-date of cases is 10,412, including 60 deaths. In spite of the stark numbers there is little appetite to lock down businesses to protect the public from itself as people continue to shop

and travel even as the risk grows too. So the province is left to formulate programs to bolster business while hoping common sense will win out and people naturally begin to change habits to flatten the COVID-19 curve.

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SaskPower Don Morgan said. “By implementing this rebate today, our government is keeping its commitments to the people of Saskatchewan.” The one-year program is estimated to cost $262 million, which will be fully funded through the General Revenue Fund. Saskatchewan’s two municipal utilities, Swift Current Light and Power and Saskatoon Light and Power, will offer their customers the same rebate and will receive credit to offset the cost.

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Movember campaign supports SIGN walk-in counselling Thanks to the generosity of four Yorkton businesses, the walkin counselling clinic of the Society for the Involvement of Good Neighbours (SIGN) received a $2,000 donation raised through the Movember campaign of Doug Jonassen, the marketing manager at RE/MAX Blue Chip Realty in Yorkton. Through the annual

Movember campaign, participants raise funds for men’s mental and physical health by growing a moustache and collecting pledges. “This year I decided to step it up and raise money that will stay in Yorkton as well,” Doug says. Four Yorkton businesses agreed to match his Movember fundraising, and as a result the SIGN Walk-in

Counselling Clinic will receive $2,000 to assist with its mental health work. The donation will go towards the purchase of software to assist Yorkton people to access virtual services locally, and in other communities in Saskatchewan when the Yorkton clinic staff is not available, greatly expanding the hours that the service will be avail-

able. The businesses and owners who matched Doug’s fundraising in support of mental health were Ron Kaban at Yorkton Hyundai, Robert and Glen Kozak at RE/MAX Blue Chip Realty, Drew Hunt and Jordan Schenher at Modern Mattress and Kirk and Sheri Weinmaster at Source Embroidery.

$400,000 provided for mental health first aid training for K-12 school staff The Government of Saskatchewan announced a $400,000 commitment to provide Mental Health First Aid training to at least one staff member in each Saskatchewan school. This would make Mental Health First Aid available to students when needed, similar to physical first aid. “Our goal is to have at least one staff member in each school receive Mental Health First Aid training by the end of 2021,” Education Minister Dustin Duncan said. “We are excited

to support schools in ensuring students have access to mental health resources, and I encourage all provincial school divisions to take part to help remove the stigma around mental health.” Since 2017-18, the government has offered up to $9,000 in grants to school divisions for training to build capacity in their schools related to mental health and student safety, this new funding builds on that commitment. Mental Health First Aid is a training program developed by the Mental Health Commission of

Canada (MHCC). The inperson training is currently being transitioned to be available online in 2021. The Ministry of Education will work with Saskatchewan school divisions to coordinate the training sessions, with little disruptions to the school day. Online delivery will help keep the sessions safe for staff in these uncertain times. “We commend the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education for its timely investment and commitment to providing Mental Health First Aid training for each of the

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province’s Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools,” MHCC President and CEO Louise Bradley said. “We are delighted to hear that the ministry intends to create an online option for school division staff to take Mental Health First Aid training.” The Mental Health First Aid Training was a recommendation from the Minister’s 2019-20 Youth Council. “The mental wellbeing of students is a crucial part of positive and effective learning environments,” 201920 Youth Council member Sandra LeBlanc said. “The new Mental Health First Aid initiative will be a good first step in ensuring that all Saskatchewan students have access to the support they need, one of the priorities of the 2019-20 Youth Council.” Mental Health First Aid can be provided to a person who is developing a mental health concern or who is in a mental health crisis. The training teaches individuals to recognize the symptoms of mental health problems, how to provide initial help and guide a person toward appropriate professional help. Studies show that Mental Health First Aid training results in improved mental health literacy and decreased stigmatization toward mental health concerns.

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YFF flims suited to the holidays For 74 years the Yorkton Film Festival has been providing Canadian short films, year-round, to audiences. And this December they want to spread a little holiday cheer! “We know people are spending more time indoors and at home,” Executive Director Randy Goulden said in a release. “With films from our library, free of charge, we can enjoy the holidays and Christmas short films.” The YFF went into its vast collection of films from over the years to

bring to you: A Stay at Home – Christmas Short Films on DVD Special. These films are suited for the entire family to enjoy with a nice cup of hot chocolate: A Christmas Carl; When It Was Christmas: A Collection of Stories; Jason McCoy Christmas at the Grand – Live from Calgary; Jingle Bell Rocks! And much more. Visit our website www. yorktonfilm.com for more details and listing of all our Holiday films. To request films email taynika@yorktonfilm.com or call 306-782-7077.

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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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Amended potash regulations seek to attract new innovation and investment The Government of Saskatchewan has amended The Potash Production Tax Regulations, 2020, which will improve opportunities in the potash sector, particularly for junior producers, around innovation and research and development (R&D). The regulations will offer incentive tax credits of 40 per cent of eligible expenditures for qualified R&D projects and approved market development programs. The amendments will allow companies to take full advantage of the credits by removing expiry dates and enhancing eligibility requirements. “These changes will promote the expansion of Saskatchewan’s potash

sector and ensure that our province remains the preferred jurisdiction in which to pilot innovative technologies,” Energy and Resources Minister Bronwyn Eyre said. “As we move into economic recovery, we want to attract and foster new, sustainable advancements in our province’s world-class resource sector.” Qualified R&D projects must demonstrate improved production efficiency, mitigate environmental impacts, reduce physical risks to employees and mine operations, or develop new and improved potash products. Companies must develop new markets or expand existing ones to be eligible for market

development credits. “We are very pleased to see clear leadership with respect to the amendments to the Saskatchewan Potash Production Tax Regulations,” Gensource Potash Corp President and CEO Mike Ferguson said. “The amended regulations dovetail with the leadership in innovation that Gensource is deploying at its Tugaske project. Gensource welcomes the amendments to the regulations and look forward to providing long-term economic benefit to the Saskatchewan community while demonstrating real-world ESG leadership.” “We welcome the amendments that

recognize innovation and believe such incentives can benefit the Saskatchewan potash industry as it strives to pioneer new developments that enhance worker safety and environmental protections as well as efficiency and productivity,” BHP Canada Inc. President Giles Hellyer said. The Saskatchewan potash sector accounts for approximately 30 per cent of world production and directly employs approximately 5,000 people. Full-year potash sales for 2019 reached 12.3 million tonnes–the second highest on record–with sales expected to reach a record of nearly 14 million tonnes in 2020.

Central, East Central, Southwest, and Southeast leaders gather virtually for regional meeting Municipal leaders from Saskatchewan’s Central, East Central, Southwest, and Southeast regions came together from the comfort and safety of their homes for Municipalities of Saskatchewan’s virtual regional meeting. The municipal representatives met via Zoom on Dec. 2. “Regional meetings are an excellent chance for municipal officials to come together to share successes and discuss challenges that are

unique to their particular area of the province. In spite of the irregularities brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, we recognize the importance of these meetings and wanted to find a safe way to ensure they could still happen,” said Municipalities of Saskatchewan President Gordon Barnhart. The meeting began with representatives from all regions gathering for remarks from the President,

updates from Municipalities of Saskatchewan, and an education session delivered by Municipalities of Saskatchewan’s legal advisor Bukola Afolabi. Officials and delegates then split into their respective regions for regionspecific discussions, where topics were as wide and varied as the regions themselves. Traditionally, elections for regional directors and alternate directors on Municipalities of Saskatchewan’s Board

of Directors take place at the regional meetings following municipal elections. In Municipalities of Saskatchewan’s Central Region, Lumsden Mayor Bryan Matheson was elected Central Region Director and Fort Qu’Appelle Councillor Brian Strong was acclaimed Regional Alternate. In the East Central Region, incumbent Randy Goulden, councillor for the City of Yorkton, was acclaimed East Central

Regional Director, and Preeceville Councillor Welma Bartel was acclaimed Regional Alternate. Maple Creek Mayor Michelle McKenzie was acclaimed Southwest Regional Director, and Shaunavon Mayor Kyle Bennett will serve as Regional Alternate. In the Southeast Region, incumbent Pat Jackson, Mayor of Kipling, was acclaimed Southeast Regional Director. The position of regional alternate is vacant in the region.

Government keeps promise to make ambulance fees more affordable for Saskatchewan seniors million for the remainder of the 2020-21 fiscal year, and $6.6 million annually. To be eligible for SCAAP coverage, patients must be age 65 or over, hold a valid Saskatchewan health card and not have insured coverage by any other government service such as Health Canada, Workers Compensation (WCB) or Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI). “Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism welcomes the changes to how ambulance

The Government of Saskatchewan is delivering on its commitment to Saskatchewan seniors by significantly reducing ambulance fees from $275 per trip to $135 per trip. As well, there will be no cost to seniors for transfers between health care facilities such as hospitals, various health centres, mental health and addiction centres

and special care homes. Seniors will receive full coverage for these transfers under the Senior Citizens’ Ambulance Assistance Program (SCAAP). These benefits will come into effect December 14, 2020. “Our government is living up to its promise to provide Saskatchewan’s seniors with quality, affordable healthcare,” Mental Health and

Addictions, Seniors and Rural and Remote Health Minister Everett Hindley said. “The investments we make now will help to address the future needs of our province’s growing senior population, while demonstrating our commitment to those who helped build our great province.” The increased subsidy provided through SCAAP is estimated to cost $2.2

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charges will be applied in Saskatchewan,” Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism President Randy Dove said. “Our member organizations have been asking for this change as older adults’ usage of ambulance ser-

vices tends to be higher than other segments of the population. The elimination of interfacility transfer costs will be financially helpful to older adults in both urban and rural locations.”

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First oil shale leases sold in Crown petroleum rights land sale By Brian Zinchuk Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Estevan Mercury Regina, Strugis, Hudson Bay – For many years, it has been known that Saskatchewan has oil shale resources, but they have never been developed. In the Dec. 1 Crown petroleum and natural gas public offering, six oil shale leases were sold for a total of $150,000, which the Ministry of Energy and Resources noted was the “first oil shale leases to be issued through a public offering.” These oil shale leases are a relatively new concept which was launched in 2016. Instead of the three years to develop a lease, or five years to develop an exploratory permit, which is more typical in developing new wildcat areas, these oil shale leases have a 15-year term, according to the Ministry. A total of 6,086.5 hectares were posted and sold as leases. The bonus bid came in at $24.64 per hectare. The area is 12 to 30 kilometres southwest of Hudson Bay. These leases were acquired

by Burgess Canadian Resources Inc. for $25,000 each or $150,000 in total. The new area is adjacent to, but not the same land that had been permitted by Saturn Oil and Gas. Saturn had drilled a few wells in the area several years ago, but nothing came of them, and those permits have since expired. The sale was also highlighted by renewed interest in the PreecevilleSturgis area, with one petroleum and natural gas special exploratory permit included in this offering and awarded to Nordic Minerals Ltd., with a work commitment bid of $43,239. This permit is situated near the towns of Preeceville and Sturgis. Notably, it is the first “special exploratory permit” issued since 2016. As a special exploratory permit, that money does not actually go to the province. Rather, the company has committed to spend that $43,239 on exploration within the next two years. They will have to pay 25 cents per hectare per year rent, however. If that name sounds familiar, it is because Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd.

spent several years in the first half of the last decade trying to develop oil properties near Preeceville and Sturgis. In2012, Nordic Oil and Gas said it has discovered oil at 4-11-35-W2, about eight kilometres northeast of Sturgis, but nothing came of it. Nordic Minerals has the same CEO, Donald P. Benson, as Nordic Oil and Gas. Nordic Minerals had also leased two sections northeast of Sturgis in June 2020. Wildcat wells have been drilled in the Preeceville area off and on since the 1950s without any further development. The most recent series were drilled around 2009 to 2012. PanTerra Resources drilled a well on the outskirts of Preeceville in 2009, looking for shale gas at the time. Other areas With regards to the bulk of the land sale held the December, the total sale generated $912,899 in revenue for the province. This is the fifth of six oil and gas public offerings for the 2020-21 fiscal year and brings cumulative earnings to $6,230,542.

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Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd. had drilled a well northeast of Sturgis nearly a decade ago. While the company said it had discovered oil, nothing of further significance was developed from it. Now Nordic Minerals Ltd. has purchased a “special exploratory permit” in the area. The Estevan area saw the most interest, raising $889,374 from 15 parcels totalling 6,669 hectares. The highest bonus bid received in this offering was $304,103 for a lease, in the Estevan area, totalling 64.75 hectares. This was also the highest bid on a dollar per hectare basis at $4,696 per hectare. This lease was awarded to Midale Petroleums Ltd. and is prospective for oil in the Midale Beds and

Frobisher Beds of the Madison Group. In the Lloydminster area, just one lease sold. Caltex Resources Ltd. was successful in picking up the g 129.5-hectare parcel for $3,181, or $24.56 per hectare. This lease is located within the Westhazel Mannville oil pool, 14 kilometres west of Turtleford, and is prospective for heavy oil in the Mannville Group. In the KindersleyKerrobert area, one

16.2-hectare parcel was leased for $20,344, or $1,257 per hectare. The lease is located 11 kilometres north of Smiley and adjacent to the Prairiedale Viking oil pool and the Prairiedale East Viking oil pool. There were no dispositions posted in the Swift Current area in this land sale. The next Crown petroleum and natural gas public offering is scheduled for Feb. 2, 2021.

Small business program renewed By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer The Government of Saskatchewan announced the Saskatchewan Small Business Emergency Payment (SSBEP) program is being renewed for the period of Dec. 1 to Dec. 31. Through this program, small businesses closed or significantly curtailed due to a public health order will be eligible for provincial support. The move by the province is seen as a positive one by Yorkton Chamber of Commerce. “The Yorkton Chamber is pleased by the renewal of the SSBEP program,” offered Executive Director Juanita Polegi. “Many of our small businesses have struggled and the funds will be welcome.” However, Polegi said

the extension may be too late for some. “Unfortunately, it may be too little too late for some of the businesses,” she said. “For those businesses, we are mindful of the impact the closure has had on plans and dreams; families and jobs.” Premier Scott Moe was of course proud of the decision. “Our government recognizes that small businesses are the heartbeat of Saskatchewan’s economy,” said Moe in a prepared release sent to media Thursday. “By renewing the Small Business Emergency Payment, we are ensuring small businesses remain strong and continue to provide thousands of jobs across Saskatchewan, even when they are impacted by public health orders necessary to reduce the spread of COVID-19.”

“Our small business community continues to be impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic,” Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison said in the same release. “As we focus on our economic recovery plan during this challenging period, renewing this program will help provide critical assistance to our small businesses who have had to fully or partially close their doors to protect public health and reduce the spread of COVID-19.” The SSBEP program initially launched April 13, 2020, to provide support to small businesses that had to temporarily close or substantially curtail their operations as a result of COVID19. The program was extended for May 2020 and provided 6,485 businesses more than $32 million in support. The eligibility per-

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iod for this phase of the SSBEP will be from Dec. 1, to Dec. 31, 2020, and is estimated to cost $8 million. Applications for the SSBEP will open on Dec. 7, and the application deadline for this eligibility period is Jan. 31, 2021. Eligible applicants will receive a payment of 15 per cent of their monthly sales revenue, to a maximum of $5,000, based on the greater of November 2019, December 2019, or February 2020 sales revenue. For seasonal busi-

nesses, the funding support will be 15 per cent of the average monthly sales revenue for full months that the business operated in 2019. Eligible applicants must attest that they: are a small or medium business (0-499 employees); maintain a permanent establishment in Saskatchewan and allocate a portion of their income to Saskatchewan; were operating October 31, 2020, or eligible to operate, in the case of seasonal business; are subject to a public health

order that requires them to temporarily suspend or substantially curtail their operations during the eligibility period December 1 to December 31, 2020; have experienced a loss of sales revenue; and plan to reopen when the public health restrictions are lifted. Further details and applications will be available at noon on Dec. 7. For more information, businesses can visit www. saskatchewan.ca/covid19businesses, call 1-800-6676102, or email ssbep@gov. sk.ca.

Lower taxes for small businesses Legislation to reduce the tax rate for Saskatchewan small businesses over the next three years was introduced today, fulfilling another major commitment made by the government in the recent election campaign. “Saskatchewan’s small businesses and their

employees have been hard hit by the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic,” Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Donna Harpauer said. “Lowering taxes for every small business in our province over the next three years will help them to recover from the pandemic and enable

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instead going to be about pure money. If the theatres don’t reopen, expect the current crop of superhero-driven multi-million dollar blockbusters to die. The shift to streaming this year is largely because these movies have already been made and they have to get them out because the next crop of superhero-driven blockbusters has already been planned. These movies are expensive, they’re planned years in advance, and there’s a strict schedule to keep. Delaying one means the delay of maybe 10 or 20 movies, all still in production, all part of this elaborate web of extended universes that studios have constructed to

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million on a movie if you stand to make over $2.7 billion when the movie is finally released. It doesn’t make that much sense if the movie goes direct to streaming. Even the streaming giants like Netflix and Disney+ aren’t going to stand to make multiple billions of dollars because of one movie on their service. Think of it like this, the most recent Star Wars

film cost $275 million, but that made sense for a movie. Each person excited to see a new Star Wars movie is going to go at least once, some will go multiple times, and each individual viewer is going to pay for the privilege each time they see it for the first couple of months. It’s one product that can keep making money for a sustained length of time. But for streaming, that doesn’t work. Even if you watch a film multiple times, you’re not making the studio any more money - for the first month, a film makes the majority of its box office take, while for the first month of a streaming service they get the same fee no matter how many

times you watch it. It’s not possible for that movie to pay for itself Instead, the successful streaming Star Wars, the Mandalorian, is actually cheaper to produce - it’s rumored that the budget for the entire first season was about $100 million - and it’s spread out over multiple episodes. That spread means that avid fans are paying at least two months of subscription, and are maintaining that subscription in anticipation of future seasons. It’s a much more profitable endeavor. Superheroes won’t go away entirely, but it doesn’t make sense to make the current blockbusters without theatres to play them in.

NDP ask how many new ICU beds are there, health minister speaks of staffing them By Brian Zinchuk Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Estevan Mercury Regina – “No answer on the number of ICU beds,” New Democratic Party Leader Ryan Meili stated, after asking three times how many new intensive care unit (ICU) beds have been built in Saskatchewan. Three times he did not get a number from Minister of Health Paul Merriman. But he did get an explanation of the broader context – the need to pull staff from other areas to support ICU beds. “How many additional ICU beds have been built, and have staff to run them?” Meili asked initially. Merriman replied, “We do have ICU beds across our province that are ready to go in major centres, but it’s not just the physical bed that we need. We need to be able to have the resources around that bed, to be able to help that patient while they’re in that bed. “That’s why we’re continuously adjusting what we are doing within our healthcare system, to be able to manage what our health care providers are doing; whether we need them in surgeries, or whether we need them to be working in the COVID ward. A physical bed is one part of that, and we have looked at that. We do have capacity within our field hospitals, but it’s also the people that are in and around that bed to help out that patient that are important as well.” But when it came to providing an actual number, Merriman did not do that. Meili referenced modelling released two weeks ago showing potentially hundreds of people needing beds. New modelling was released an hour later by chief medical

health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab and Merriman which reflected lower numbers than what had been released on Nov. 19. Meili warned insufficient hospital beds could mean “hundreds of patients being turned away from life-saving care, right here in Saskatchewan.” Merriman said the Ministry of Health and Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) have been working together to be able to draw on resources for those beds properly. He added that 24 intensive care unit beds are being used for COVID-19 across the province. “We do have capacity to be able to move past that. We have to pull up the resources from other areas, that the member has properly identified. There are people that are out there that are waiting on medical care, but we have to continuously find that balance. And we’re finding it, not just on a weekly basis, on a daily basis, on an hourly basis; what do we need to do within our system to be able to continuously adjust to the surge of patients that we are seeing that are impacting our hospitals and our health centres across the province.” In another round, Meili asked, “How, and when, did they start recruiting doctors and nurses needed for our field hospitals?” Merriman said, “Everybody across our country, and across North America, is recruiting health care people, whether it be doctors, nurses, LPNs, carry aids; all of these people are in high demand.” “We have worked with the SHA and recalling nurses and other health care professionals that have retired back into our system. We’ve also made sure that we’re ele-

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Health Minister Paul Merriman took questions on ICU beds and field hospitals on Dec. 2. vating the scope of every person within the healthcare system, to be able to maximize their scope and their abilities to be able to help out. “This is all hands on deck,” Merriman said. Speaking to reporters afterward, Meili pointed out, “The premier wouldn’t answer them, and then the Minister of Health didn’t get up either – basic, simple questions on staffing, on ICU numbers. They just simply refuse to tell us. This is information they should have.” Meili continued, “The field hospitals actually aren’t ICU. Those are very different things. ICUs are where you’re going to have the ventilator capacity, where you can take care of the sickest people. Right now, we have 26 patients in our ICUs. That’s over a quarter of the ICU beds in the entire province, already taken up by COVID-19 patients. The minister, the previous minister promised 400 new ICU beds last sum-

mer, and they won’t even tell us the numbers. Well, we know the numbers. There’s less than 100 ICU beds ready to go and staffed in the province, right now. Not 400, like the minister promised, because they didn’t do the work. They thought this was over. They took the summer off. And now we’re all facing a situation where we’re scrambling to get ready without the resources available.” Merriman told reporters, “within our hospitals, we have a very staggered system, as far as what we were looking at, where we can pull services back. And that could create an ICU bed. But we need to be able to that. Is there a specific number we have, within our field hospitals, a specific number of how many ICU beds are in there? But again, the field hospitals are a last resort, we feel that we can manage things, right now, within our healthcare system. But we built the field hospitals, just in case things got that bad.

And I hope we don’t have to use them. But they’re there in case you do need them.” He said minor reduc-

tions of services have been done across the province, and that will be continued, depending on the numbers.

RCMP holding upcoming virtual recruiting events On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, at 7 p.m., the Saskatchewan RCMP Proactive Recruiting Team will be hosting an interactive Zoom presentation open to anyone from the general public interested in a career with the RCMP. The RCMP offers over 150 specializations and is full of opportunities for continued learning and growth. If you are looking for a career that makes a difference in your community and your country, a uniform with your name on it is waiting for you.

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How can you register? Please email FDivProActive-Recruiting@ rcmp-grc.gc.ca to express your interest in attending the virtual event. Details about how to join the event will be provided to you in a reply. There’s no age limit to apply to become a member of the RCMP. You must be 18-years-old to apply (and must be 19 years of age at the time of your anticipated graduation from training). Registration is mandatory and space is limited.

What will you learn? You will have a chance to hear first-hand from our recruiters about the exciting career opportunities available. You will also get details about the requirements of becoming an RCMP officer, the application process, what to expect at Depot and during training, and what to expect as a mem-

Can’t make it to this presentation? We’ll be scheduling more presentations in the coming weeks – stay tuned! Visit http://www. rcmpcareers.ca to learn more general information about a career as an RCMP officer and virtual recruiting events in your area.

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Battledrill great new mini skirmish offering Regular readers will recall a new skirmish miniature game covered earlier this year: Battledrill. Star Scrappers: Battledrill actually, is a space western skirmish wargame and I was immediately intrigued. At the time, the miniatures looked incredible and the idea of space western skirmish conjures images of Firefly and Oblivion which are both fun settings. The miniatures actually arrived as printable 3D files, which meant some effort printing, and then painting the minis before they hit the table. So it was interesting to print a few of the models to see just how well they turned out. That was in the hands of Jordan Craib-Petkau the master 3D printer in our gaming group. “I found the detail on these models to really come out quite nicely, even under the support

THE MEEPLE GUILD (YORKTON) meeple.guild@gmail.com material,” noted CraibPetkau. “The poses are dynamic but still printable, and having the files broken into keyed parts makes arranging them on a smaller print bed easier.” And now Star Scrappers has hit the table. The game is one that is overall a winner. “Battledrill was quick to pick up and play, it would be a good gateway into miniature skirmish games,” offered CraibPetkau. “The (initial) scenario played had a cache of Hexis minerals in the center of the table which could be picked up

by a model and granted it bonus action next round, and could be deposited in the player’s deployment zone for points.” Of course there were quirks which created questions. “I find it odd there was no penalty applied while carrying the Hexis such as slower movement or a less accurate attack,” said Craib-Petkau. But there were positives too. “The mechanic for damage was interesting, each weapon has different effects and damage outputs depending on if you score one, two or three hits,” said Craib-

Battledrill Petkau. “Defiance cards give a nice little bonus to the player who lost initiative for the round. “I enjoyed playing Battledrill and look forward to playing it again.” Adam Daniels, CraibPetkau’s opponent in game one, agreed.

“The list of mini games I have played over the years is a long one,” he said, adding “Battledrill is the latest addition to that list and it’s a solid game. “It is very simple to play, with rules that are not too complicated. “It would be a great

game to show someone who wants to try mini gaming. The rules are simple, the number of minis on the board isn’t overwhelming and it plays quick. “Battledrill is an overall fun experience.” For more details check out www.hexy.studio

Chamber likes rebate program By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer The Government of Saskatchewan announced the new Strong Recovery Adaptation Rebate (SRAR), which will assist businesses as they adapt their business models to address the challenges caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. “Our government continues to stand with our small business community as we work toward economic recovery, and this program is one more tool to help small businesses navigate the challenging situation we currently face,” Trade

and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison said in a release Monday. “Small businesses are continuing to do their part by not only protecting public health, but also helping to ensure a strong economic recovery in both the weeks and months ahead, and in the longer term as well.” The rebate will assist businesses who have adapted to different business models, such as changing the use of square footage, installing physical infrastructure to comply with COVID-19 mitigation guidelines, and upgrading technology, such as websites, to enhance their business.

Juanita Polegi, Executive Director with the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce said helping with change is a positive for business. “Businesses have had to incur a great deal of unexpected expense as they adapt to the changes brought about by the pandemic,” she offered. “Small businesses especially have been hard hit. Funding to cover at least some of those expenses will be put to good use.” The program is for Saskatchewan businesses that employ less than 100 people, have or will incur expenses to adapt their business model

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Photo shoots will aid food bank By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer In March Jackie Herman, the photographer behind Simple Shots by Jackie, did a series of front step photo shoots of Yorkton families to help deal with the initial isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. An online search had come upon a photographer in the United States who was offering sessions for family portraits on front steps because with social distancing you couldn’t get too close she explained. With time on her hands, and finding her photography a way to cope with the stresses society is facing at present, Herman borrowed the idea. The quick five-minute session sessions were popular, so Herman is back offering a similar session for the holiday

A local photographer is aiding the food bank with some seasonal photo shoots. season. Simple Shots with Santa to Fill the Food Bank is Herman’s latest effort. The new initiative

proved so popular once word hit social media Herman was doing it that the logistics of going home-to-home were recognized as unworkable.

“It was just going to be too many for me to do it the way I did it before,” said Herman, noting it gets dark so early at this time of year.

So Herman made arrangements and will be setting up the shoots, already booked solid, at the Agri-pavilion, which allows her to set up her

lighting and extend the shooting day. As it stands she expects to be shooting from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the 13th, noting “you can’t say no to kids at Christmas” so the booking list just kept getting longer. So long in fact Herman added a second day, Dec. 20 to her plan. As for a fee, that is where the food bank benefits as those booked for photos are asked to “go online and donate to the food bank,” said Herman. The move indoors will mean some added rules for Herman to follow, including staying in her own zone as photographer, with Santa confined to his spot too. People will need to sign in in case contact tracing is required, and Herman has people on both the entrance and exit doors and a disinfecting crew in place. “We’ll be following all the government protocols,” she said.

Cookbook collects Canora woman’s best By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Nothing says the holidays like a good meal. So December is an ideal time for the release of a new cookbook. While there are literally thousands of cookbooks out there, this one; ‘Baba Josie’s Kitchen’ will be of special interest locally, as it highlights recipes collected by the late Josie Matsalla of Canora. Over Josie’s 95 years, she amassed a lifetime of recipes from more than 90 friends and family, and now some 550 have been collected in the new cookbook. Josie’s recipe collection stems from the communities surrounding Canora, as this is where Josie raised her family and made her home. Josie was born in Hamilton, ON. She was the second of 11 children born to Joseph and Pauline (Belitsky) Zarazun. “Joe Zarazun worked in a factory, and following an accident at the plant he moved his family back to Saskatchewan within the Tiny and Rama area,” reported her family. “Mom grew up in this area and then met my dad

(Joe Matsalla) and in 1943 they were married and moved to the Matsalla farmland north of Tiny, (SK.). This is where mom and dad raised their family of five children. Mom and Dad continued to farm until 1972 and when Dad passed away, mom continued to farm with her oldest son, James until she retired in 1985 and moved into a home in Canora” In addition to farming Josie worked for homecare in the district well into her 70s. She died in February 2020 at the age of 95. Along the way, like many, Josie collected recipes. But, why a book? “I visited mom three years ago, and I told mom that I would like to take her treasured binder of recipes one day and type them into a digitalized version,” said son Brent Matsalla. “I explained that it would be online and a cookbook. Mom asked if future generations will be able to use the recipes and she smiled when she heard that it would be there forever.” It was also a sort of

tribute to their mother. “Mom loved cooking and she cooked with love and we thought it was important to preserve the memories as well as the food with the world,” wrote her family. “Sharing of the memories with our immediate

family and extended families cherished our unity. Being together to share a meal and visit was always the most important. “Mom and dad worked hard on the farm to provide for our immediate family but they would always take the time to

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share whatever was in abundance to provide to others.” So how did the family select the recipes? “Mom passed away in February and Brent flying back to Nanaimo didn’t have room for the cookbooks to be packed with him, so I was going to take the books to him,” said Theresa. “During the pandemic, I needed therapeutic fulfilment. I began typing the recipes from the binder and sending them to Brent. We collaborated our efforts and after many on-line hours (at least 1000 hours) we ended up with over 550 recipes. “We used all the recipes within mom’s collection as well as adding some that weren’t written down, and our family sent us their family favourites that mom loved.” Some are of course Josie originals. “Many we had to document because she had the recipe memorized,” said the family. “We were fortunate that she was with us for 95-years. We were able to call her up and ask her advice to assist when we were cooking those recipes. “Mom put her own spin on almost all the recipes creating a new taste that was more suited to who was attending the meal.” One example was her Russian borscht where she boiled the whole potato in the soup and then mashed it within the broth. “You wouldn’t think this is a big deal but it really enhanced the taste,” they said. The book also pays homage to all the people Josie collected from through the years. A thank you area at the back of the book lists all 90 names of each contributor. “Most of the recipes mom knew by the name of the person that shared

the recipe with her,” the family noted. “These recipes are noted in the cookbook at the bottom of the actual recipe with the person’s name that contributed the recipe.” There are 17 categories in the cookbook and over 550 recipes, including hints and tips. The cookbook also includes conversion charts, substitutes, some pictures of the dishes, and recipes for a crowd. They also added a fun section in the back that is called ‘how to speak Saskatchewanian Farm Kid’ and the translation (such as: bunny hug and vico). The collection is one the family is proud of. “Yes we are, our intro to the book has 15 pages which covers our history and memories of our wonderful mother, farm life and Saskatchewan homesteading near Canora from the mid 1900’s,” they noted. “Food, family and friends were very important to mom and sincerely hope you enjoy as much as we have, and will continue to enjoy for the rest of our lives and for generations to come.” Baba Josie’s Kitchen is more than just a simple cookbook – it is a large format (8 ½”x 11”) 263-page archive which includes many cherished memories and pictures of the farm life of the Saskatchewan homesteaders during the early and mid-1900’s. The book was released just prior to Nov. 18, on what would have been Josie’s 96th birthday. Over Black Friday and Cyber Monday, sales catapulted the book into the top row of Amazon Best Seller’s in the Food History category. The book Baba Josie’s Kitchen is available now for purchase online at Amazon.ca One-hundred per cent of the profits will be disbursed to nonprofit organizations that Josie supported most; for example: Canora Keen Centre, Canora Gateway Lodge Auxiliary and Canora Catholic Woman’s League CWL) depending on cookbook sales.

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Dr. Seuss’s Grinch, portrayed in the book, “The Grinch that Stole Christmas,” seems to have backslidden, his newly enlarged heart returned to its original measly size. Once again, he may be slipping into madness, as indicated by his previous schedule: “4:00, wallow in selfpity. 4:30, stare into the abyss. 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one. 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me. I can’t cancel that again. 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing. I’m booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness.” — The Grinch Enraged, perhaps

at his foiled attempt to steal Christmas from the tiny town of Whoville, it feels that very bored, unrepentant Grinch has leapt from between the covers of that children’s book. Determined to do dirt to each and all, he has grabbed COVID-19 and attacked our entire globe. The COVID-19 Grinch has some mightily worried. We in the West are not too different from fictional Whoville, it seems. Christmas means comfort. Family gathered round. Gifts heaped under the tree. Programs and banquets and parties. Feeling threatened by pandemic restrictions handed down by government and medical

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Sunny Side Up leaders, some people choose defiance over compliance, protesting the removal of what they feel are their rights. To gather. To do business. To attend church. Contrast that with entire populations in poverty-stricken third world countries, where people already live with the grave reality of scant

medical aid, no government hand-outs or supplies of basic needs. For them, COVID restrictions mean government shutdowns of their tiny businesses. Numerous people who beg coins to buy daily bread have been stopped. For them, COVID means starvation and almost certain death.

“Grinch” is a poor descriptor of the evil the pandemic has brought to the world’s poor. Nevertheless, Christmas cannot be stolen. Even in life’s darkest times, such as what many face today (even in Canada), God’s gift of Jesus Christ demonstrates that God has not abandoned us. He is more present than ever. The Preacher and I have an Advent wreath on our coffee table. We haven’t always done this, but this year it seems essential to carve out a few moments each week to light each candle— hope, peace, love and joy—and sit near the flickering licks of bright warmth. To hold hands and pray that, amidst the

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chaos of the Christmas season, particularly this COVID-19 one, rife with concern and unrest, people will pay attention to God’s voice speaking through global pandemic panic. One word, especially: Jesus. Emmanuel. God with us. Light in the darkness. Love. The big white candle in the middle. How about setting aside your rights for now? Concentrate on the privilege of carrying that Christ-light to those worse off than yourself. Donate to the Salvation Army, Canada Helps.org, or any other reputable charitable agency. And don’t be surprised if you feel your heart grow a size or two.

Plants help ‘deck the halls’ for season Does it seem to you that these weeks before Christmas are flying by? It seems so to me. On my daily tour the other day, it occurred to me that if we gardeners want to “deck the halls”, we can incorporate a lot of plant material from our own gardens! So bundle up, get a pair of secateurs, and let’s go outside! Our first and obvious choice is to cut some spruce or cedar branches. First of all, let’s look for branches that perhaps needed to be trimmed a bit. We shouldn’t snip will-nilly, but carefully so that we aren’t destroying the lovely shape of the tree. Cuts should be made, if possible, at the junction of a branch. If you are lucky enough to have a really big spruce tree in your yard, you don’t have to be quite as cautious

about where you trim, since the few branches we need for an arrangement won’t make a really noticeable difference. But otherwise, trim from the back so that our cuttings just blend in. Remember that the spruce needles are sharp, and feel even sharper when they are cold! So be careful of your hands! Cedars and junipers are softer. Once we have cut our branches, we should bring them in and put them in a pail of water in a cool place, so that they can slowly unthaw and get a really good drink of water. Okay, let’s head back outside again. Did you leave any perennial seed heads in the garden for winter interest? One of the most interesting that we left behind was a big clump of veronica. Veronica, also called speedwell,

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Gardener’s Notebook is a beautiful perennial plant, gracing the garden with spikes of deep blue flowers all summer. When the flowers are done and the seed heads are left in the fall, the stems are covered with tightly packed seeds the length of the stem where the flowers were. They are beautiful all by themselves. If you still have some sunflowers standing guard in your garden, a seed head would look beautiful as part of our

arrangement. Don’t overlook twigs! At this time of year, we can really see the shape of the branches and the colors and textures of the bark. A few twigs would look great for height. Don‘t worry if they’re not colorful branches like dogwood; other branches may have beautiful texture or interesting bends and twists. Pinecones are always a beautiful addition to an arrangement, or we can place them in a mound in

a pretty bowl, they don’t need anything else! If you are feeling very crafty, you might want to spray some of the branches silver of gold, but I think they look lovely just as they are. We can stand everything we collected in a vase with water, or make a ”spray” design that will lay flat on a tray so that it can be easily moved. If we do this, though, the branches won’t last as long because they won’t have water. Best to keep this idea to make right before Christmas! Of course, we can always add a few touches like artificial berries, Christmas balls, or silk poinsettias or silk amaryllis to our arrangement for color. But you know, the muted tones of our cuttings, au naturel, in a beautiful vase, will be very striking.

For the fragrance of the holidays, make a few pomanders to place in a bowl beside our arrangement. Find out how to make pomanders by visiting our website at www. yorktonhort.ca At this time, there are no Yorkton and District Horticultural Society meetings scheduled yet, but visit us to keep up with what’s happening! Thank you to our friends at Yorkton This Week for their wonderful work. Let’s pray for health and safety for all, and a joyful holiday season. Have a great week!

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Protect yourself to ensure safety on ice this winter With the arrival of colder temperatures, the Government of Saskatchewan reminds everyone to make sure that ice is safe and thick enough before walking or driving on it. Ice thickness depends on the particular waterbody and the local conditions. To be sure, check the ice thickness before you travel on it. As a guideline, you need at least 10 cm (four inches) of ice to walk on, 20 cm (eight inches) to drive a snowmobile or ATV on, 30 cm (12 inches) to drive a car or light truck on, and more than 30 cm (12 inches) to support a heavy truck. Be aware that any activity on ice has risks. Guidelines are provided to help individuals make a decision about whether to venture on to the ice. Thickness is just

one consideration when evaluating ice safety. Clear, hard ice is the only ice recommended for travel. Ice does not freeze at a uniform thickness and ice strength can vary considerably from one area to another. Ice should be re-evaluated on every date visited, even if was safe on a previous date. The date ice becomes safe at a site varies from year to year requiring the verification of the thickness each year as opposed to relying on past experiences. Also avoid ice that: • looks slushy; • has thawed, then frozen again; • is near moving water; • is layered, caused by sudden temperature changes; or • has structures on it,

such as pressure ridges. For more information about ice fishing, visit www.saskatchewan.ca/ fishing to view the 2020 Saskatchewan Anglers’ Guide.

In comparison to lake ice, river ice is often more hazardous and inconsistent, particularly downstream of dams when winter releases are being made. The Water

Security Agency is currently releasing water from Reid Lake on Swift Current Creek and there is also flow throughout the Qu’Appelle and Saskatchewan river sys-

tems. These flows would impact the formation of the ice covers and these areas should be avoided as conditions can change significantly over short distances.

Vancouver most often mentioned, but Calgary too. Buydens is in Calgary now and he thinks the Alberta city could be a better fit than Vancouver for a couple of reasons. To start with a lot of B.C. talent is already playing in MLR with nearby Seattle, so Calgary becomes a new centralized site to draw players to, he said. “And there’s probably less to do here than in Vancouver,” said Buydens, adding that is a factor in attracting a fan base. Interestingly it is not the professional games in North America, or his national team efforts that Buydens settled on when asked about his most memorable experience. “I think my time in New Zealand. I really enjoyed the people there, and the culture there,” he said. In March 2013 Buydens went to New Zealand and played for the New Plymouth Old Boys, who played in the Taranaki RFU’s Senior A competition. Buydens showed well with New Plymouth and was signed by the Manawatu Turbos of the ITM Cup. “Buydens

played 16 games for the Turbos over the 2013 and 2014 ITM Cup competitions. So why does Buydens love rugby as much as he has? “It’s a faster pace than football. You don’t have all the stoppages,” he said. “And you get to do everything.” Buydens knows the comparison to football well. He was a standout guard at the University of Saskatchewan, and attended the BC Lions training camp after they selected him in the sixth round of the 2008 CFL Draft. In football he said he loved hitting people “but I never really got to touch the ball.” In rugby “everybody gets to do everything.” So what’s next for Buydens? He said he’d like to coach the sport he loves, adding to be around rugby “every day, that would be good.” Certainly with 14 years across multiple teams Buydens said he’s learned a lot, and he would enjoy passing that knowledge to another generation of players. He has started down that road as Assistant Coach with the Trinity Western Spartans university program.

Sask.-born rugby star retires With little fanfare the rugby career of Hubert Buydens came to an end recently. Buydens was born in Saskatoon, and while Saskatchewan isn’t exactly a hotbed of rugby, he carved out a rather stellar career, including appearing in just shy of 60 international matches for the Canadian national team. Buydens said when he started playing rugby there was no expectation of it taking him anywhere. “I didn’t even know Canada had a national team when I started to play,” he said in a recent telephone interview. He said he went into a rugby shop that existed back then in Saskatoon and saw a national team jersey and thinking how crazy that seemed. But Buydens would earn his first international test cap versus England A (Saxons) match in Toronto in June 2006. He would ultimately appear in an eleven World Cup matches for Canada 2011, 2015 and 2019. It was the World Cup in Japan last year that led Buydens to the decision to retire, adding the game basically told him

it was time. “It (the decision) kind of makes itself – when people stop paying you to play,” he said, adding in Japan “I was the oldest guy on our team, and probably our slowest.” Buydens was also playing Major League Rugby with NOLA Gold through that team’s first years in New Orleans. He said the league which saw its third season cut short by COVID-19 earlier this year is quickly getting better in terms of play. “The league is definitely getting better,” he said, pointing to NOLA as an example. In year one it was predominantly local area players, and while those are needed for depth, the team has brought in players in subsequent season to bolster the overall quality. Ultimately, Buydens said MLR could become a major pro sports league along the lines of Major League Soccer. “I think that’s definitely the goal of ownership,” he said, adding COVID was a bump in the road that may slow momentum but that it can overcome as those involved knew it was “not a money making endeavour right off the start.” Of course nothing is

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Drought concern clouds the year ahead There is no doubt 2020 has been the most difficult year we have faced in Canada since at least the years this country sent troops to the Korean War with the uncertainty that would have caused for families and the threat of that conflict igniting a larger worldwide battle. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a battle of a different kind of course, one where the world is allied in their efforts to deal with a disease that has killed thousands, 55 to-date in Saskatchewan. Fifty-five may not sound like a huge number, but with more than 100 in our hospitals, the

health care system is being stretched rather tight, and were numbers to spike even higher, perhaps after people risk gatherings for the holidays, a health system wreck could be in the offing. As bad as COVID19 has been, nearing 300,000 dead in the United States, and more than 12,000 in Canada, it could be worse. The disease is hardest on the aged, if the death toll were among children the effect of our public psyche would be much greater. So everyone, the farm community included, is looking forward to the end of 2020, forever to

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Calvin Daniels be known as the ‘Year of COVID’ with hopes 2021 will be better. Certainly on the COVID front there is an expectation of a vaccine in 2021 so that is a positive. But, farmers might be facing another serious issue arising in the next year. In a recent Western

Producer story Drew Lerner, president of World Weather Inc. was quoted as stating “We are overdue for a multiyear drought. I am totally convinced of that.” Now weather prognosticators aren’t always on target. Some might suggest the only reliable indication of the weather is to stick your head

out the window, with any other forecast at best being a guess, albeit an educated guess, but anytime the word drought comes up farmers naturally shudder. Farmers face a lot of challenges in a normal year in terms of getting a crop to market. The annual production cycle is largely a minefield of obstacles to be avoided, or if they go off then they are dealt with. There is spring frost, and weeds, and bugs and plant disease, and too much heat, or not enough, and rain issues, followed by early fall frost, or early snows, machinery breakdowns

and of course marketing challenges. Most can at least be dealt with, chemicals to kill bugs and disease and weeds, careful planning of planting to best avoid early frosts etc., but if the rains don’t come, the crop can easily be reduced, and in extreme drought conditions, a crop can be lost. Few things are thus scarier than the possibility of a multi-year drought, and if it arrives in 2021, it will impact Prairie farmers harder than the pandemic that has the world in its grip right now. Calvin Daniels is Editor with Yorkton This Week.

Stepping up to help prairie farmers Farmers face many risks these days – the impacts of a global pandemic on the supply chain, the trend towards protectionism in trade, and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, to name a few. Solutions on how to deal with those risks vary considerably, depending on who you ask. As the Prime Minister’s special representative to the Prairies, I know there is one solution that farmers overwhelmingly agree on: improving the Business Risk Management programs. These BRM programs are a farmer’s financial safety net and, overall, they currently support Canadian farmers to the tune of about $1.6 billion in an average year. Agriculture is a shared jurisdiction in Canada. For the last 20 years, federal governments of all stripes have shared the cost of the BRM programs with provinces and territories, with the feds paying 60% and provinces paying 40%. Foremost among these programs is the

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Opinion insurance-style program, AgriStability, which essentially gives payments to a farmer if their incomes drop significantly. Since the program was cut by the Conservative government in 2013, it no longer pays out enough, or with enough predictability, for farmers to see it as worthwhile. The fact that less than 30% of eligible farmers enroll for the program, clearly shows that immediate improvements are needed. Last Friday, my colleague Marie-Claude Bibeau, the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, shared our Government’s proposal to make immediate improvements to the AgriStability program, so that it pays out 50% more to farmers.

This will be achieved by removing something called the “reference margin limit”, which, as its name implies, limits the amount a farmer could be paid from AgriStability if they experience a significant decline. Bill Campbell, president of the Manitoba farmer group Keystone Agricultural Producers, calls the reference margin limit the “sticking point” that hampers farmers when they do their annual paperwork and need the help of the program to stabilize their farms. On top of removing the reference margin limit, our Government wants to increase the amount the programs pay out to farmers through its “compensation rate”, raising it from 70% to 80%. This

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Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and Hon. Jim Carr at a meeting with Prairie grain farmers in Saskatoon, SK, March 2019 increase, which has been a key request from producer groups, will mean the support will go to the farmers who need it most. Taken together, these changes should help reverse the trend of low farmer enrollment, and mean farmers might start to see the benefit of participating in this vital program once again.

I won’t beat around the bush. These changes simply can’t happen unless we can get the elected officials at the provincial level onboard with their fair 40% share. Throughout COVID19, farmers and everyone in the supply chain has stepped up to feed Canadians. It has been Team Canada effort. In order to make these

changes that farmers have been calling for, let’s bring that same spirit of cooperation and action to help our farmers better manage the risks they face. —Hon. Jim Carr, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Center, and Prime Minister Trudeau’s special representative to the Prairies

Turning straw into gold? A more profitable and eco-friendly method for turning biomass into biochemicals and green hydrogen SASKATOON – Many have dreamed of being able to turn straw into gold like the fabled Rumpelstiltskin. While this may not be possible in the literal sense, scientists are using sunlight to turn straw into something more valuable. With the aid of technology from the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, Canadian researchers have made important advances to use the power of the sun to convert biomass like wheat straw into hydrogen fuel and value-added biochemicals. This method is more efficient, ecofriendly and lucrative. Producing energy from biomass, or plant material, has been studied for more than four decades, said Dr. Jinguang Hu, assistant professor at the University of Calgary

(UCalgary). The two most common processes are thermo-chemical and biological, but these are still carbon intensive and are not economically feasible. Dr. Hu and Dr. Md Golam Kibria, an assistant professor at UCalgary, have been focusing their recent research on an alternative approach to commonly used petrorefinery. Their novel and environmentally friendly approach called photobiorefinery uses solar energy to break down biomass, in this case wheat straw, to make green hydrogen and a high value biochemical. Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) has been supporting this research and their recent findings were published by the American Chemical Society. Continued on page A20

Credit: Prof. Hu and Kibria group.

The UCalgary team is observing a photo-reactor that is being used for photoreforming reaction with wheat straw. Left to right: Prof. Md Golam Kibria, Dr. Adnan Khan (Research Associate), Dr. Heng Zhao (Post doctoral fellow), Prof. Jinguang Hu.

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STENKO - Irene Marilyn. September 7, 1927 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; November 29, 2020. Our dear Mom passed away at Regina Grace Hospice with both of us, her daughters, by her side. Mom was born to the late Nick and Polly Veregin on the farm in Buchanan District. She attended Buchanan school until graduating Grade 12. From there she attended Teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College in Saskatoon. Since there was a need for teachers at that time, after only six weeks she went to teach in a rural one-room school. She soon got a job teaching in Bredenbury School where she completed her teaching certificate and taught for 31 years. It was in Bredenbury that she met Bill, the love of her life. They were married in 1950 and enjoyed 60 wonderful years together. When Mom retired from teaching and Dad sold the farm, they moved to Kelowna, BC in 1985. They immensely enjoyed living there for 20 years. Due to Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s declining health, they moved back to Regina to be with family. Eventually Dad moved to a care home and Mom moved to Queen Victoria Estates where she resided until just before her passing. Mom was predeceased by her husband Bill; sister Verna Jolly; and sons in law Keith Bellamy and Eric Ingham. She is survived by her daughters Dianna Ingham and Debbie Bellamy; grandchildren Julia Ingham (Curtis), Douglas Ingham, Sarah Bellamy-Gibson (Kyle), David Bellamy (Amber); great grandchildren Lucas Ingham, Maya and Lindsay Petersen; and sister Pauline Riddy of Nanaimo, BC. Mom was a teacher that everyone loved and has special memories of. She was passionate about her career and dedicated many hours to it. We especially remember her love of entertaining and socializing. Many dinners and parties were held where her great cooking and baking were in abundance. Her special passion was gardeningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both vegetables and flowers. Her flower gardens were stunning wherever she lived. Roses were always her favourite. Mom enjoyed life to the fullest which included many friend and family functions along with camping and travelling the world. This is evident in the thousands of photos she has collected. She enjoyed curling, golfing, dancing, and playing cards. Later on she never missed a curling game on TV. She had a deep love and pride for her family. In return she was deeply loved and utterly respected by all of us. We would like to thank the Life Force team of nurses at Victoria Estates for their excellent care of Mom, especially during COVID restrictions. A Private Celebration of Life was held on Friday, December 4, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Those wishing to view a live stream of the service, please log onto www.livememorialservices.com/Home/ServiceDetail/8335. A recording of the service will be available at the same website after the service. In lieu of flowers, we would appreciate a charitable donation be made to the Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Society of Saskatchewan, 2550 12th Avenue, Regina, SK S4P 3X1. Family and friends are invited to view the online obituary and tributes page at www.reginafuneralhome.ca. Arrangements entrusted to Regina Funeral Home and Cemetery (306) 789-8850. DRESSLER - Irene Dressler of Yorkton, formerly of Churchbridge, passed away Dec. 1, 2020, at Yorkton & District Nursing Home at the age of 87 years. Irene was born on June 22, 1933, to Mary (Lesser) and Phillip Fatteicher in the MacNutt district. She was baptized at Grace Lutheran Church, Zora. She was confirmed at Christ Lutheran Church, MacNutt. Irene met Andy at a dance when she broke the heel of her shoe and Andy stepped in to fix it for her. When Andy proposed, Irene initially said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to think about it.â&#x20AC;? She said farming was a hard life and she was happy to have a steady income working at the Langenburg hotel. Well, she said yes. They were married Nov. 30, 1954 and danced through life for the next 66 years. Their marriage was blessed with three daughters: Debbie, Donna, and Shannon. Andy and Irene were partners in the house and in the field. Irene even had her own combine. Ireneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cure-all medicine was her homemade chicken noodle soup and camphor ointment for your chest. She loved reading, especially with warming her feet in the oven. Andy & Irene loved travelling which took them to Hawaii, Nashville, Mexico, and Las Vegas and on several Caribbean cruises. Irene worked hard and valued play time. She always said â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything nice when you have kidsâ&#x20AC;? so, although she loved nice things in her home, she always had toys out and was happy to let children play hairdresser tugging at her hair. Irene and Andy moved to Yorkton in 1998. This allowed them to easily attend activities that their grandchildren were in. They had wonderful neighbors and friends that they shared good memories with. Irene was predeceased by her daughter Shannon, parents Mary and Phillip Fatteicher and sister Elrose Schmidt. Irene leaves to mourn and cherish her life: her husband Andy, daughters Debbie (Russ) Hanchuk and Donna (Graeme) Mund. Grandchildren: Kristen Seipp (Quinn), Ryan Hanchuk (Morgan), Michael Mund, and Braden Mund (Clio). Great grandchildren: Camdyn and Parker Seipp. A private funeral service was held on Sunday, December 6, 2020 from the Zion Lutheran Church, Yorkton, SK with Rev. Andrew Cottrill officiating. Interment followed at Churchbridge cemetery. If friends so desire, donations may be made to the Lutheran Hour or Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Make A Wish Foundation. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.braendlebrucefs.ca. Braendle-Bruce Funeral Service of Russell, MB was in care of arrangements. SKILLMAN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of Martha "Betty" Skillman. Betty was born in Yorkton, SK on June 17th, 1946 and passed away at the Assiniboine Centre, Brandon Regional Health Centre on November 30th, 2020 after weeks of battling multiple health complications. Betty worked as a Light Duty Cleaner for many years in Portage la Prairie, Brandon, and Minnedosa all of Manitoba. She loved the simple things in life; spending time with family and friends, bargain shopping, animals (cats), socializing, and made friends easily with anyone she came across. She enjoyed listening to music and watching old Western movies. Her most favorite activity was to walk with her walker downtown and meet her friends at Double Happiness. She retired in Brandon and spent her days sewing, coloring, word searches, cleaning, and assisting friends with the 12 step program. She was very proud of her 33 years of sobriety and most recently celebrated 14 years smoke free. Her A.A. family meant so much to her and her most recent group was "Unity". She was caring, generous, loving, and very affectionate. She had a kind nature and a unique laugh that everyone loved. She would light up any room with her smile. Betty is survived by her three children: Michelle Gladue (Darryl), Louie Gladue (Bev), and Lori Valley (Mark). Grandchildren: Matthew Wahoski (Kim), Anthony Campbell, Myles Wahoski, Scott Fehr (Emily), Michael Fehr, and Ashley Campbell. Great-Grandchildren: Rylan and Jadyn Wahoski, and many nieces and nephews across Canada. Special extended family: Elmer Campbell, Tammy Fehr and Miss Kitty. Betty was predeceased by the love of her life, Lou Gerard in 1998, her father William Robert Skillman, and her mother Nellie Bass (Korytko). Very special thanks to Dr. Gupta, Dr. Ahweng, Aimee, Frances, and all staff at A2 & A3 at the Assiniboine Centre. 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WINTONYK - The family of Frances Wintonyk of Yorkton, formerly of the Stornoway district sadly announce her passing on November 30, 2020. Frances Sharon Wintonyk (nee Remezoff) was born on the Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday, April 21, 1931 at Whitebeech, SK to Nicolai and Helen Remezoff. She shared her birthday with Queen Elizabeth but without the white horses and fanfare. She walked 4 miles to Prairie Valley School and attended Norquay School in the winter. Because her father lost a leg to gangrene, she quit school at 16 and commenced working at the Pel Hotel in Pelly, SK. It was there she met her husband Metro James Wintonyk, known as Jimmy, to all his friends. On February 28, 1949, on a very cold stormy day they were married in Yorkton barely getting back to the reception in Stornoway because of the blizzard. At first, they lived with Jimmyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents on their farm. In 1952, they bought a small house in Stornoway for $300. Frances worked alongside Jimmy on the mixed family farm. Mom grew ginormous gardens sharing with family and friends. Her flower gardens were beautiful and she had the most beautiful poppies. Frances loved entertaining and cooking for family and friends. There seldom was enough room on the table for all the food she prepared. In 1967, they purchased a new ready to move house and had it moved it to Stornoway. They sold the cattle and rented out their land in the 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Their son Larry decided to start farming in the late 1970â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, so Dad was just too happy to help haul grain and do field work. During their semi-retirement years, Mom and Dad regularly enjoyed day trips to Yorkton, Roblin, Kamsack, and Canora trying the local restaurants. They enjoyed Expo in Vancouver and went to B.C. a few times. Mom had to fill the van with peaches, pears, and cherries for canning. Twice they went to Florida and loved the attractions at Disney World, Epcot Centre, Busch Gardens and MGM studios. Mom was a people person, volunteered and served for many committees and organizations. She spent countless hours at the Stornoway curling rink lunch counter and was active in the Stornoway recreation board. She served on the Homecare and hospital boards. She even became the Mayor of Stornoway for a short time. After Dad passed away, Mom continued with her big garden and cooking for Larryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harvest crews. She let everyone know it was hard work, but admitted she missed it after Larry retired her. Larry also made her give up her garden which she chirped about all summer. Mom discovered a new pass time after Dad was gone. She and her neighbor friend Sindy Mehling partnered together and went to Yorkton for coffee, shopping and more often to the Casino. Mom always enjoyed her home in Stornoway and insisted on living there for as long as she could. After she fell which resulted in a lengthy hospital stay in July 2017, she moved to Aspen Bluff Villa Care Home in Yorkton. There she made new friends and a new lifestyle being confined to a wheelchair. She especially enjoyed the musical entertainment and spent the day in the lounge watching tv and catching up on resident news. Frances leaves to mourn her daughter Linda, son in law Peter, grandsons Michael and Myron, her son Larry, daughter in law Debbie and grandson Zachary and many special nieces and nephews and friends. She was predeceased by her husband Jimmy in 1997, parents Nicholai & Helen Remezoff, 2 brothers Nick and James Remezoff and her in-laws Mike and Julia Wintonyk. She was the last of her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wintonyk generation. Mom was admitted to hospital with cellulitis 2 weeks ago. She rapidly deteriorated and kidney failure and congestive heart disease ravaged her final days. We are thankful she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suffer longer. We will miss her but are thankful for all the wonderful eternal memories. The Funeral Service was held on Friday, December 4, 2020 at Yorkton Memorial Gardens Family Centre with Crystal Bailey, Certified Celebrant officiating. Reflections of Francesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; life were share by Linda, Peter, Michael and Myron Kindrachuk. The interment took place in the Garden of Crucifixion at Yorkton Memorial Gardens with Zachary Wintonyk, Michael Kindrachuk, Gerald Gromnisky, Myron Kindrachuk, Sheldon Kozie and Peter Kindrachuk serving as the casket bearers. Memorials in memory of Frances may be made to a charity of choice as gifts of remembrance. Condolences can be shared with the family at baileysfuneralhome.com.

EDLIN - Wes. 1953 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2020. We the Edlin girls- DL, Amy, Michelle, Kristen and Clover sadly announce the passing of our beloved husband and dad. Wes passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 28, 2020 at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. He lives on in the hearts of his wife, DL of Airdrie; daughters: Amy of Jasper, Michelle (Justin) of Nova Scotia and Kristen (Nick) of Jasper as well as his greatest love and joy, his granddaughter Clover of Jasper. Wes will also be missed by his brothers, Rob of Melville, SK, Scott (Tracy) of Hilltop, SK, his sister, Carmen (Gerald) of Hilltop, SK, as well as many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Robert and Mary Edlin of Hilltop, SK. Wes was retired from the Canadian National Railroad where he worked for 42 years as a conductor and engineer. He loved to play golf and hockey and enjoyed staying active. Wes lived his life for his girls and loved to spoil and play with his granddaughter, Clover. To so many people Wes was a great friend, mentor and co-worker. We would like to thank all the Doctors, Nurses and Medical Staff in the ICU c-pod at the Foothills Medical Centre for the great care and compassion that you showed to our Wes and to us, his wife and girls. Wes will be greatly missed by many and never forgotten by all that knew him. Wes/Dad you are in our hearts always and forever. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.edenbrookcemetery.ca.

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MARTIN - Roland (Ron). It is with deep sadness and cherished memories that Cheryl Martin joins her family in announcing the passing of the love of her life, Roland (Ron) Martin: beloved husband, father, grandfather (Papa), brother, uncle, cousin and friend. Ron passed away peacefully on Sunday, November 29, 2020 in the comfort of his own home, surrounded by his loving family. Ron was born April 21, 1953 - the youngest of four children. Ron was best known for his distinctive moustache, his hearty laugh and his caring heart. Everyone who met him remembered him fondly. He had a strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit: from building and running hotels and small businesses, to directing property management of government buildings across the province. He was wellrespected and forged lifelong friendships with many coworkers. Ron had a zest for life, and nurtured his wild side by racing stockcars. He was a NASCAR fan and played Fantasy Football with “his boys.” Along with Cheryl, he was an avid Pats fan, and they spent many years billeting young men who hoped of making it to the big leagues. He recently took up golf, and looked forward to a round at the lake before joining everyone for a hotdog at the campfire. Ron was a wonderful husband and best friend to Cheryl. They started dating in their teens and their marriage of 48 years was blessed with three children, eight grandchildren, and many shared adventures including: coaching hockey and ringette, boating at the lake, walks on the beach, swimming with the sharks, many campfires and margaritas in Mexico. He was a loving and devoted father, grandfather and Godfather to Colin, Tamara, and Skylar. He was predeceased by his parents, Côme and Kathleen Martin; and his parents-in-law Stan and Rose Eberle. Ron is survived by his loving wife Cheryl; his adoring children Shawn (Brittany), Shannon, Chris (Candi); his grandchildren Dré, Alyssa, Skylar, Bronwyn, Emily, Katie, Hailey and Charley; his siblings Robert (Angie), Rita (Brian) and Richard; his siblings-in-law Karen (Peter), Curtis, Kevin (Kenda) and Dwayne (Elaine) and his beloved dog Faith. He is also survived by many loving nieces, nephews (and their children); and the many family-friends he shared his life with, like the Mackenzies, the School Bus Gang, Lake Friends, friends from many Pats games, neighbors, and others. The family would like to thank the medical staff who provided professional and compassionate care during Ron’s battle with cancer, especially Sister April and everyone on the palliative team. The family would also like to thank Ron and Cheryl’s amazing neighbours who have been like family on the block, tending to so many needs we lost count; and to the many others who sent food, flowers and other acts of care and compassion. Your kindness lifted our spirits and brought comfort in a time of need, and Ron knew he was loved by many in his final days. At the end of the night, Ron was known to say, “Well Cheryl, the street-lights are on. Time to go home.” You are home now, Ron. Rest well, until we see you again. Given the Covid-19 protocols, the celebration of life and interment will be a private family function on Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Central Time. Details for live or recorded video will be provided through family and friends via social media or texts. Family and friends are invited to view the online obituary and tributes page at www.reginafuneralhome.ca. Arrangements entrusted to Regina Funeral Home and Cemetery (306) 789-8850.

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Under the provisions of The Alcohol and Gaming Regulations Act, 1997, Notice is hereby given that Spencer Fuches & Kim Klein have applied to the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA) for a Tavern permit to sell alcohol in the premises known as 309 Bar & Grill at 4 Main St Rhein SK. Written objections to the granting of the permit may be filed with SLGA not more than two weeks from the date of publication of this notice. Every person filing a written objection with SLGA shall state their name, address, and telephone number in printed form, as well as the grounds for the objection(s). Petitions must name a contact person, state grounds, and be legible. Each signatory to the petition and the contact person must provide an address and telephone number. Frivolous, vexatious or competition based objections within the beverage alcohol industry may not be considered and may be rejected by the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Licensing Commission, who may refuse to hold a hearing. Write to: Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority Box 5054 REGINA SK S4P 3M3

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Apartments/Condos for Rent 1 BEDROOM Apartment with balcony Available December. No Pets. Call Garry 306-621-6793. 2 BEDROOM Apartment For Rent. Recently renovated. Phone Garry 306-621-6793. 2 BEDROOM Apartment with balcony. Pets Allowed. Available Immediately. Phone Garry 306-6216793.

Livestock FOR SALE: Char X bred heifers. Tan, white and red. Bred for late March and April calving. 306-5484340. Stenen, SK.

ADULT 45+. Renovated, furnished one bedroom suites for rent in Canora. Must have references. Phone 306-641-2489. RENOVATED 2 Bedroom Apartment on Dalebrooke Drive. Available December. Call Garry 306-621-6793.

FOR SALE OR RENT. A 3 bedroom house, new shingles & furnace, washer, dryer and water softener, stove, fridge and a one car garage at back. Call 306-7836742.

WANT TO Purchase land in the Yorkton, SK area. Top prices paid. Please call Rod 250-433-1085.

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General Employment Labourers Wanted: Duties inc, in part: pressure washing heavy equipment, trucks and trailers. Cleaning shops. Assisting where required. Heavy lifting involved. Mechanical aptitude an asset; must be safety conscious and able to work around heavy equipment. Must have a clean driver’s abstract. Position located in (YIVYÄLSK :R *HTW HJJVTTVKH[PVU WYV]PKLK PM ULJLZZHY` :LUK YLZ\TL HUK ^VYR YLMLYLUJLZ [V! Bryden Construction )V_ (YIVYÄLSK :R : , ( " Fax: 306-769-8844 ,THPS! brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www. brydenconstruction andtransport.ca PRAIRIE DOME POTATOES is hiring for positions beginning Sept 1, 2020 for full time seasonal work. Experience and education will be provided on site. Job duties include: -grading, sorting, packaging seed potatoes -pruning, picking, weeding and planting fruit trees -trimming and chipping of trees -general maintenance and upkeep Must be reliant and must have own transportation. Located 6 miles South of Yorkton on Highway 9. Bring own lunch. Wage: Beginning at $11.45/hr. Applicants may apply for the positions by phone (306-782-7297), fax (306-783-7853), email (prairiedome@gmail.com) or mail resume to the following address: Prairie Dome Potatoes, Attention: Kirk, Box 36, Yorkton, Sask. S3N 2V6.

Heavy Duty Mechanics required: Late model, clean CAT, JD equip; winch, dump, gravel trucks, and trailers. Both camp and shop locations; R & B provided Wage negotiable. Clean drivers abstract a must. Send resume and work references to: Bryden Construction )V_ (YIVYÄLSK :R : , ( " Fax: 306-769-8844 ,THPS! brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www. brydenconstruction andtransport.ca Trucking & Transport

C & G SHUTTLE 1-306-647-3333 1-306-620-3521 (Cell) Airports, medical or shopping trips, up to 5 people. Bargains, bargains, bargains! Classified, classified, classified. Check it out today.

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120 BASS Accordion, Sonola Special. Mint condition. Asking $700. For further information phone 306896-2721. LIKE NEW Mandolin with case $525. Also older Violin with case and new strings. Different prices. Phone 306-786-4446. WILLIAMS NEW Scale Piano with bench. 23” W x 56” L x 38” H. $200. Phone 306-783-9640.

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2 Bedroom apartment for rent @ 101 Franko Drive, Cedar Ridge Apartments. No Pets, No Smoking Very clean Price $950.00 for more information Call

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PEROGIE & CABBAGE ROLLS FOR SALE. Proceeds to Willowbrook Community Centre. Potato & Onion $3.50/dozen, Potato, Onion & Cheese $4/dozen, Cabbage Rolls $5/dozen. Order by Dec. 10. Call Bev 306-621-3841, Evelyn 306-641-6970, or Sandy 306-621-6121.

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TURNING STRAW Continued from page A17 One of the key aspects of an effective biomass photorefinery approach is pre-treatment of

the wheat straw. Hu explained plant cell walls are made of complex and highly organized cellulose structures,

a major building block of biomass. Pre-treatment of the biomass destroys those structures and exposes more of the material to the sun-driven process. Kibria added the goal was to identify a pre-treatment that does not require non-renewable resources, thereby “saving a lot of carbon and cost.” Using the CLS’s Hard X-ray Micro-analysis beamline, the researchers compared how raw wheat straw and straw pre-treated in a number of ways reacted in the photorefinery. Their find-

ings showed a phosphoric acid pre-treatment resulted in the highest production of green hydrogen and lactic acid, which is typically used for bioplastics and in food, chemical, and medical industries. “The CLS facility allowed us to see how stable the material was at the start, during and after photorefining of wheat straw. And, we could see that in real time, which is a big advantage,” said Kibria. Another critical factor was to find an inexpen-

sive, readily available catalyst to drive the photorefinery. The study found the best results using a low-cost photocatalyst, made from carbon and nitrogen, that is designed for visible light driven cellulose photoreforming. “Because all biomass has a similar chemical composition, what we’ve shown is that you can tailor the pre-treatment and the catalyst to valorize any renewable organic material,” said Hu. This finding opens up opportunities for turning straw and other plant

materials into value-added green hydrogen and biochemicals. Kibria said the next steps in the research will be to “tune the catalyst to capture more of the visible light spectrum,” and then to scale up the photorefinery with an eye to eventual commercialization. “Because biomass captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we can use this process to take care of the environment and produce green hydrogen and chemicals that are economically viable,” he said.

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Caring for others... We are raising funds to upgrade equipment in the Operating Rooms and the Lab of the Regional Hospital in Yorkton. There are three pieces of equipment we need for the operating room plus a blood gas & carboxyhemoglobin analyzer for the Lab.

“The new laparoscopic stack provides state of the art and reliable equipment that will enable us to continue performing these minimally invasive surgeries. In addition, the new system provides advanced features that allows safer and The main item for the OR is a new laparoscopic more streamlined operations. Same goes stack – the core equipment for all laparoscopic for the OR table. It is much needed to surgeries – this will improve the clarity of video and replace older equipment.” improve control of the hand tools. It is used for all kinds of surgeries, including: hernia, gallbladder, Dr. Sharon Koubi, MD FRCSC, Lead appendectomy, colon and some stomach surgeries. for General Surgery

The new laparoscopic stack is the main priority, but we also need new surgical lights, an operating table and a glidescope. That may seem like pretty basic equipment, but it’s essential, and our current equipment needs replacing. There are approximately 2,500 surgeries performed at the Yorkton Regional Hospital and half are laparoscopic. Outside of the Operating Room we need to purchase a blood gas analyzer, for the Lab, it will allow us to expand the tests and services they can do locally.

We need to upgrade equipment to keep doctors and staff and to ensure we can maintain the services we have. We need your help to do that. The equipment costs $288,000 and we are almost there ...we only have $62,000 left to raise.

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