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Thursday, September 3, 2015 - Volume 18, Number 29
Whitespruce gives training to low-risk inmates By DEVIN WILGER N-R Writer
WHITESPRUCE Provincial Training Centre has officially opened, giving low-risk offenders the opportunity to get education in preparation for the end of their sentence. Corrections and Policing Minister Christine Tell officially opened the facility, which is located at the former Orcadia Youth Centre.
The Whitespruce Provincial Training Centre has officially opened. Formerly the Orcadia Youth Centre, the facility can now house up to 39 male offenders in a minimum security environment. Corrections and Policing Minister Christine Tell says that the facility is an example of a focus on rehabilitation and education for the province’s inmates. “We will always have to look after people who are incarcerated, so while they are incarcerated lets do something so they don’t come back into our system. The difference is that we are now using evidence and outcomes for what we are doing within our correctional facilities, because we don’t want them to come back.” The main programs on offer at Whitespruce at the moment are a 12 week Saskatchewan Polytechnic food services certificate program, a 12 week Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology Construction Worker Preparation Program and a community work crew where offenders provide community service in the area. The two programs were selected as two areas with high demand for workers. “Let’s really give them an opportunity where there are lots of jobs out there, where these inmates can access.” The facility is for men with a low risk to reoffend, and staff is trained to help in areas such as addictions and education in order to lower the risk factors and help inmates prepare to transition back to society. “It is very much an environment where people at a low risk to reoffend can come back here, be secure, be safe and be comfortable, and they’ll go out the next day. It’s conducive to what we want to have happen, which is that they go out in the world and become taxpayers,” Tell says. The reason for the switch to an adult facility is a steady, consistent decline in youth incarceration in the province, which has lead to an overcapacity in young offender focused facilities. Tell says this is part of an overall amalgamation and readjustment of youth facilities, because many of them were operating at under fifty per cent capacity. “We do have some vacant facilities, and hopefully we’ll have more, because that’s a good thing when we don’t have people in our institutions and they’re better served in our communities.”
Two Yorkton businesses up for ABEX awards By DEVIN WILGER N-R Writer The ABEX Awards recognize the best in Saskatchewan business, and this year two Yorkton businesses have been nominated. TA Foods and NL Construction are nominated for a combined total of four awards. TA Foods is up for three awards, Innovation, Growth and Expansion and Export.
Co-owner Mike Popowich says that the three awards are connected. The innovation has been in work to make flax oil more versatile, raising the smoke point and allowing it to be used in more cooking and frying applications. This has opened up more export markets for the product, allowing the company to export more and expand substantially. It has gone from seven employees to 22 in the past two
years. “There’s nobody else that really does this stuff with flax right now, we’re one of two companies listed on the Flax Council of Canada’s website.” It will also be a chance to learn a bit more about what TA Foods does, because the majority of their business is in exports so people might be unfamiliar with their product. “People always kind
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of wonder what that brick building on Myrtle is doing there, but we export a fair amount of product and we hope to continue growing.” NL Construction is nominated in the service category. Dustin Nehring, co-owner, says that it’s an honour to be recognized for what they are doing, and it’s the kind of award that goes to everyone in the company. “Without our full
team none of this happens. Front office we take care of customers and take care of their needs, but the guys in the back are doing the service as well, and completing the project.” NL won the Growth and Expansion award in 2014, and Nehring says that the expansion is also part of what made the nomination possible this year, as the larger business can serve more clients and meet their
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needs more effectively. Having businesses nominated for an ABEX award is a good thing for the city, Popowich adds. “It goes to show how Yorkton has been growing itself in the past little while... It really shows the commitment to business that the community has and it shows the quality of businesses that are coming out of this area,” Popowich says.
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