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ASSISTANCE SOUGHT – Kamsack RCMP have issued a warrant for the arrest of Adam Cote on a number of offences including aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm, breach of undertaking and failing to attend Court. Police say these charges are the result of two separate incidents. The first occurred in November 2013 whereby Cote assaulted a 19 year old female. He was taken into custody and charged with assault causing bodily harm, breach of undertaking and possession of a controlled substance. He was subsequently released from custody and failed to attend Court on June 10, 2104. The latest incident took place on July 12 at a residence on the Cote First Nation. Cote is charged with aggravated assault as well as breach of undertaking the result of an incident which took place at a residence on the First Nation. Cote is believed to be in the Kamsack or Yorkton areas. The accused, who is 28 years of age, is described as approximately 5’11” weighing 175 pounds. He has several tattoos. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Cote is asked to contact the Kamsack Detachment of the RCMP or Crime Stoppers.
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THE ACCESSIBLE PLAY STRUCTURE in Weinmaster Park officially opened recently, giving kids of all range of abilities a place to play. The new structure cost a total of $300,000.
Play structure officially opens By DEVIN WILGER N-R Writer Kids in Yorkton have a new place to play. The new accessible play structure in Weinmaster Park has opened, giving kids of all ability a new place to play. Lisa Washington with Community Development, Parks and Recreation says that
the project has been in the works since 2011, and was one of the first major projects she was involved with since joining the department. She says people quickly got on board with the project, with parents and service groups coming on board to raise money and get the community involved. Continued on Page 9.
If you haven’t okayed the work officially, then you are cautioned not to proceed unless you seek prior approval. As the recovery and clean up continues in the aftermath of the flood, representatives of the Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP) are cautioning residents that they may not cover air quality testing or any other environmental testing. Some agents or representatives of companies are reportedly approaching residents claiming their services are cov-
ered by PDAP. PDAP reports it does not have a relationship with any contractors, environmental testing companies or any other private service companies of this type, nor can PDAP recommend particular companies. If you engage any services of this type, you will likely be out of pocket for any expenses incurred and PDAP will not reimburse you. For further information about what PDAP covers you asked to visit http://gr.gov.sk.ca/PDAP or call 1-866-632-4033.
Page 2A - THE NEWS REVIEW - Thursday, July 17, 2014 GIVING BACK – The Yorkton Elks Lodge recently provided a very helpful donation to The Health Foundation in the form of $25,000 which will go towards a new Resident Bus for the Yorkton & District Nursing Home. At the present time there is no resident bus as the vehicle failed its safety inspection in May of 2013, and has been off the road since that time. The nursing home and the Wellness Centre have tried to make do with city transit since that time, but that is not working well. “With this donation from the Yorkton Elks Lodge The Health Foundation was able to order the bus,” says Ross Fisher Executive Director of The Health Foundation. “On behalf of the Yorkton Elks and Royal Purple lodges in Yorkton we are only too happy to make this donation to assist in buying this bus which is badly needed by the residents of the nursing home and the Day Wellness program,” comments Earl Greiner, President of the Yorkton Elks Lodge. “Our membership is down in the last few years, but we still do fundraising and we like to be able to help out with good community projects. We are hoping to see a turnaround in people’s thoughts about joining service clubs, organizations like ours need more youth. We continue to raise funds in a variety of ways, including the annual charity appeal which has been going on for over 50 years, and is the raffling of a car, as well as several secondary cash prizes. In addition, we have an annual provincial walkathon every fall, and an annual Peace 100 rally which consists of a snowmobile derby and a raffle in the winter months.” These, along with a few other projects assist the Elks in supporting the community and of the Elk’s own philanthropy which is the Purple Cross Fund for Children. “We were more than pleased to make this donation because our members believe that donating to improve healthcare is one of the best ways to be of assistance to the community,” concludes Greiner. Pictured (l-r) are: Jim Wold, Earl Greiner, George Kerr, Lawrence Thompson and Ross Fisher.
Samaritan’s Purse on the scene to help Representatives from Samaritan’s Purse Canada say one of its speciallyequipped Disaster Relief Units has been sent to Melville and is recruiting volunteers to clean up homes in the town and also in Yorkton in response to flooding that
damaged more than 500 homes in the region. The Christian relief and development organization is meeting with homeowners in Melville, Yorkton, Crooked Lake, Neudorf, Round Lake, and the Regional Municipality of Cana, while recruiting
and training volunteers. “People in these communities are struggling,” says Darren Tosh, Samaritan’s Purse Canada’s projects director. “We’ve been monitoring the situation to gather information about the damage, and we are in contact
with churches and other non-government partners in the area to provide a coordinated response.” The Disaster Relief Unit is a tractor trailer outfitted with essential disaster recovery equipment including generators, pumps, hand tools, and safety gear for volunteers. It also serves as a volunteer coordination center, and is equipped with a self-contained office, communications system, and other supplies. Anyone in the MelvilleYorkton region needing assistance or wanting to volunteer can call 1-866628-6565. Premier Wall says he is thankful for Samaritan’s Purse
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Holiday Inn opens There is another new hotel option available in Yorkton. InterContinental Hotels Group has officially announced the opening of the 103-room Holiday Inn Express Yorkton hotel located at 63 7th Avenue North. The hotel features 21 suites, including four family suites. “We are excited to join the Holiday Inn Express brand and the Downtown Yorkton community,” says Maebelline Pascua, general manager. “We look forward to offering travelers a wide range of amenities suitable for both business and leisure needs.” Situated close to Highway 16, the hotel is within walking distance to Yorkton City Hall and several corporate and government offices. Located one kilometer from downtown, the four-floor hotel is also nearby popular restaurants, the Deer Park golf course and Gallagher Center; which holds two indoor arenas, a curling rink, sports hall and meeting rooms. “Holiday Inn Express hotels are designed to be the smart choice for value-conscious business and leisure travelers,” says Heather Balsley, senior vice president, Americas, Holiday Inn® Brand Family, IHG. “With more than 2,200 properties worldwide and 450 more in the pipeline, the Holiday Inn Express portfolio continues to provide our guests with an enhanced-stay experience at a great value. We are proud to welcome this hotel into the Holiday Inn portfolio of brands with the brandnew sign and everything it represents.”
The Holiday Inn Express brand is one of the largest and fastest growing hotel brands in the industry, adds Balsley. “In order to meet the ever-changing needs of its guest, IHG invested in the $1 billion Holiday Inn global brand relaunch, the largest in hospitality history. The relaunch continues to drive increased quality and consistency across the global portfolio, and new hotels feature a contemporary image with emphasis on arrival and welcome services, guestroom and guest bath comfort and a redesigned logo and signage. “The new hotel offers guests a comfortable, yet affordable stay with innovative, preferred-guest upgrades to ensure a pleasurable experience with amenities that include a 24hour fitness center, complimentary high-speed Internet access and a business center. Business travelers will find large desks with ergonomic chairs, free local phone and toll free phones with private voicemail, and complimentary newspapers in addition to over 1,100 square feet of meeting space and a spacious board room. Guests will also enjoy an indoor heated pool and a hot tub as well as a complimentary Express Start® breakfast bar. For more information about Holiday Inn Express hotels or to book reservations, visit www.hiexpress. com. Check it out on Twitter http:// www.twitter.com/hiexpress or Facebook www.Facebook.com/holidayinnexpress
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Celebrating Saskatchewan parks We’ve had our fair share of problems this summer with flooding and extreme weather taking a toll in the province in many areas including provincial parks, but as we work to rebuild and mend, there are still plenty of reasons to celebrate. From hiking and fishing to campfire cookouts and relaxing, this week we are celebrating Saskatchewan Parks Week. “Our provincial parks capture the beauty and spirit of Saskatchewan, through the gorgeous scenery and exciting activities they have available,” Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Mark Docherty comments. “Saskatchewan offers an exceptional quality of life, and our parks are an important part of that.” Saturday, July 19 has also been proclaimed as Canada’s Parks Day. Saskatchewan is proud to join other provinces, territories and the Canadian Parks Council in making this designation. This event, in its 25th year, focuses on connecting Canadians to nature. Saskatchewan Provincial Parks work closely with many partners to bring exciting programs to its visitors. Visit www.saskparks.net for a full listing of activities. There’s plenty to get out and enjoy! And according to the numbers, people are doing just that. Saskatchewan’s provincial parks are more popular than ever. In 2013, the provincial park system set a record 3.7 million visits. The 2014-15 budget has increased funding to provincial parks by 4.6 per cent this year. Capital investments, including campground electrical expansion, service and visitor centre replacements and water system upgrades will total a record $14.9 million in 2014-15. Flood damage will be repaired, the sun will shine and our parks will continue to be a place to relax and unwind so this weekend if you can find the time, there is an abundance of destinations waiting to be explored!
He gave up his rights years ago
No one likes it, but there’s nothing the government can do to stop it. That’s the message Canadians are receiving. My question is WHY? Why does a convicted killer get any special privileges at all? He’s been locked away from society for a very good reason. Why can’t we keep it that way? Notorious killer Paul Bernardo may be behind bars but by the looks of things he’s hardly suffering for what he has done. Along with his then wife Karla Homolka, a number of years ago Bernardo raped and murdered two young girls – one 14, the other 15. If that isn’t bad enough, he was also reportedly convicted of 32 other sex-related crimes dating back to 1987. In 1995 he was declared a dangerous offender (you think?) and sentenced to life in prison. Apparently that still allows you the right to carry on relationships with people in the outside world. We are now hearing that Bernardo is making wedding plans with a young woman who has been communicating with him via letters and in person visits since last fall. This isn’t the first time things like this have happened. There are women out there who seem to fall prey to this trap for whatever reason... maybe it’s because we enable it. “These are women from all across America. Women who have given up their families, careers and even their freedom to be with the men they love who all happen to
be convicts,” says Stephen Williams, an author who has written a number of books on Bernardo. He also notes that in the years before he was executed in the US in 1989, serial killer Ted Bundy married and even fathered a child. Wow. Williams says he’s not Shannon Deveau shocked there are women with a love interest in Bernardo. But WHY? I’m thinking there must be something seriously wrong with this woman. “I was aware that there were women visiting (Bernardo) in prison early on when he was first incarcerated,” Williams says. “This sort of thing happens, but from what I’m reading about this, she (the current love interest) appears to be a bit fragile and obviously her parents are very concerned.” I would say so. Can you imagine if this was YOUR daughter? “What I’m saying is, in all relationships it takes two to tango. (Bernardo) hasn’t got much room in that 8×10 cell to do any tangoing and I think that you have to ascribe a lot of the motivation in this to the young woman and of course were I her parent, I’d be very concerned as well.” Paul Bernardo took away the rights for at least two young girls to ever experience any kind of a real relationship – and now we cater to HIS so called rights? Please...
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There is nothing private about Canada’s roads Dash cams are becoming more popular in Canada. A small camera mounted to the dash of a car, they exist because people are concerned about insurance fraud and want to have a bit of ammunition if they are in an accident and believe they are not to blame. It’s already extremely popular in Russia, where videos of crazy drivers have become the country’s most common export. The technology is catching on elsewhere because bad drivers are hardly a Russian exclusive, and people are concerned about their insurance. I find the trend interesting because, elsewhere, I have read about privacy advocates wanting rules around license plate scanners, which function in a much more mundane manner – parking enforcement and finding cars connected to crimes, especially stolen cars – but people are concerned about how long the data is kept and how it can be used. Much like the dash cam, the scanner can be useful in an investigation because it gives data on a driver, albeit less specific data, but the scanners draw suspicion while the dash cams are willingly purchased by drivers across the county. What’s the difference then? It comes down to who is using them, in the long run. With a cam, the user is the driver, they have control over the camera, the
Things I do with words... Column Devin Wilger data, and so on. With the scanner, the user is either police or parking agencies, who have the same control. The difference comes down to people trusting themselves, but not trusting law enforcement or anyone else. They might be installing a surveillance system in their car, but it’s their surveillance system, and one which is controlled by them alone. If I was worried about privacy, I would be much more concerned with the dash cam for the same reason. A license plate is something anyone can see when walking down the street, it’s not something that can be hidden, and without access to a database of what the plate means and who it belongs to, it’s meaning-
less information. In Saskatchewan, at least, information on cars that are not suspicious is discarded anyway, though this is not the same in other jurisdictions police are still limited by various rules. With a dash cam, it’s more specific information, and it’s owned by someone I don’t know but also does not actually have much legal oversight. It’s a mobile surveillance device which people outside of that car have no control over, but it’s also something that there is not actually a close legal eye on how the information is handled. Neither option is a choice. Your plate is going to be scanned, you’re going to be on tape if another driver has one of the cameras. While it might seem like the cameras are an option, it still affects the privacy of everyone else. But does one method of surveillance bother you more? Which is not to say that I am inherently suspicious of such cameras or think they should not be allowed. Most people who use them have innocent goals and are just trying to reduce their insurance premiums. It is just a contrast between people in this country, as some want to have as little data on their movements as possible stored and collected, while others will tape their every move just in case something bad happens. The second group is controlling the game, and make it difficult to be too private.
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Time to fight fire with facts Internal trade To the Editor: In its first major action in 1972, the United States Environmental Protection Agency made history by banning dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT). It led to a worldwide ban, all based on the public outcry elicited by marine biologist Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring. This marks the beginning of the organic movement in America, and remains a badge of honor for organic activists, in spite of the fact that this ban resulted in the deaths of over 41 million people – roughly the same number of people Chairman Mao murdered in his Great Leap Forward – as public-health authorities lost their only effective means of controlling mosquitoes that act as a vector for tropical diseases like malaria and dengue fever. But Carson never called for a ban on DDT, a substance viewed by activists as a product of modern science but which was first synthesized in 1874 and first used as an insecticide in 1939. Nor did she call for a ban on ANY pesticide in her bestselling book, or anywhere else. Contrary to popular belief, Carson only called for the more judicial use of pesticides. But she failed to appreciate that there are no harmless chemicals, only the harmless USE of chemicals. Or, as the medieval father of toxicology, Philippus Aureo-
lus Paracelsus, puts it, “All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.” With a “prosecuting attorney’s” style of writing, hand-inhand with repetitive use of phrases like “elixirs of death,” the unfounded claim that there is “no safe dose” for such pesticides, and anecdotal tales
it, reason is a tool, but it can never motivate the crowd. Throngs of angry, often violent demonstrators, feed off inspiration, not boring ol’ facts and figures. Fast forward to the present and the crowd of organic activists have found a new enemy. This time it’s not something toxic. It’s not even a substance. It’s a process; the
“Fast forward to the present and the crowd of organic activists have found a new enemy. This time it’s not something toxic. It’s not even a substance. It’s a process...” of people dying from cancer within a year of using DDT, Carson and only Carson must be found guilty of perpetuating environmentalists’ interpretation of her book as an “impassioned plea for action against the use of these new materials.” Alas, Carson was not available to comment by the time the EPA took its fateful action, having died six years before Republican President Richard Nixon even formed the EPA, eight years before activists undemocratically twisted her words into this regulatory fiat. And so the way was paved for the default notion in organic circles that anything synthetic is bad and everything natural is good. As Mussolini so infamously put
field of science known as genetic engineering which creates novel traits in plants that are then referred to as genetically-modified organisms, or GMOs. But never mind the facts. GMOs are viewed by organic activists in the same terms as DDT once was, and thus, they say, must be banned. At a recent forum titled “Modifying the Future of Food: What If GMOs Are the Only Option?” a group of esteemed academics explain the many positive aspects of GMOs. There’s just one problem, one which all the experts in the world are proving incapable of solving. No one’s listening. The GMO sector will never make headway simply by talking about
the science-based agronomical facts surrounding GMOs. We have to come to grips with the fact that we’re under attack from the taxsubsidized anti-GMO organic movement, the exact-same baseless, hyperbolic, emotional attack in fact that was used with such ruthless efficacy against DDT. Do you know any scientists working on DDT? Neither do I. A handful of publichealth officials in the Third World are onceagain using with DDT having grown bold enough to stand up to anti-DDT organic activists. But beyond that, DDT is like toxic waste. Find me a graduate student somewhere planning to study DDT for her dissertation and I’ll show you someone destined for a career in obscurity who likely won’t pay off her student loans until she retires… assuming she’s even able to find employment. And, unless we start fighting back, GMOs are headed for the same fate. Dr. Gonsalves alludes to this at the forum (around the 23:30 mark) when he points out that the development of the GMO papaya was a fantastic scientific achievement, but then asks (and I’m paraphrasing) What have we done since? The answer, sadly, is nothing… nada… zip… rien! He goes on to say (24:30) “It’s not about science, it’s about people skills.” Continued on Page 6.
Prairie water/weather strategy needed
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With so many people across a broad swath of Saskatchewan and Manitoba grappling with the consequences of heavy rains and sudden summer flooding, everyone’s attention right now is riveted on helping those at risk, mitigating damages, cleaning up the mess, proper compensation arrangements, and then the long task of rebuilding. In typical prairie fashion, all hands are willingly on deck to do whatever is necessary to alleviate the emergency and deal with its aftermath. Not including the negative economic impact of having thousands of hectares of farmland out-ofproduction and a large portion of the oil patch inaccessible, Premier Wall is estimating out-of-pocket costs in Saskatchewan far exceeding $360-million. He has asked the federal government for a $100-million “cash advance”, to help speed compensation payments to victims. The Feds need to get that cash flowing quickly, just as Canadian military personnel were put into action quickly in Manitoba when Premier Selinger asked for help in strengthening dikes along the Assiniboine River. Much more will be required in both provinces, but assistance efforts are underway. For the longer term, many people are wondering whether we have to be as vulnerable to such water and weather-related damages as we seem to be. Saskatchewan faced a similar
situation with storms and floods in 2011. Last year there was massive devastation caused by rampaging waters in Calgary and across southern Alberta. And it wasn’t that long ago that the problem was the opposite -- i.e., extreme drought conditions causing hardship. Whether it’s too much or too little, nothing stirs more prairie agitation than water. It’s increasingly difficult for the skeptics to dismiss the recurring reality of far more frequent and extreme weather events. Some provinces, many municipalities, a number of important players in the private sector and a large percentage of Canadians agree that some form of “climate change” is real and must be treated seriously. Only the federal government remains in denial. But without wading too deeply into that issue right now, as important as it is, what should governments have on their agendas immediately to reduce future risks and mitigate losses? The Saskatchewan government is talking about some better way of handling unauthorized on-farm drainage that ultimately flows cross-country. We’ll see what comes of that. What else? At the federal level, the Doppler weather radar system is now old technology. It’s prone to failure, like the Doppler station at Bethune which has had chronic problems for the last four years. Also, the network of stations is too sparse. And there is no comprehensive way to push out vital warnings to the gen-
eral public. This could be much improved. And what about emergency planning, training and overall preparedness? Federal budget cuts ended a long-standing program which local governments had relied upon for years to help get themselves ready to cope with natural disasters and other emergencies. This could be re-examined. The loss of PFRA should also be reconsidered. Over the past five years, the federal government dismantled the historic Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration which, since the Dirty Thirties, provided the best western expertise in water and soil conservation and management. PFRA also ran community pastures, operated a prairie tree farm and provided world-class flood prevention and control measures. And on another front, federal infrastructure programming has been reduced, delayed and made more difficult to access. This year’s funding for the flagship “Building Canada Fund” has been cut by 87 per cent and won’t get back to last year’s level until after 2019. There could be much more priority given to urgent transformative infrastructure investments that will help anticipate and withstand recurring severe weather and water disruptions. Where do things like this rank on YOUR list of public policy priorities? Ralph Goodale, MP, Wascana, SK.
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Since taking office in 2006, the Harper government has negotiated over 40 separate international trade agreements and has championed the idea of free trade around the world as a means of economic and political liberalization and progress. While Canada’s approach to free trade internationally is well known, its internal trade policies are anything but free. During his recent six-city tour, Industry Minister James Moore focused on trying to unite various economic stakeholders in an effort to reform the current internal trade mechanisms between provinces within Canada. Under the current regime, Moore argues that many of those living outside Canada have “more access to the Canadian economy than Canadians. It’s just patently ludicrous for us to continue and to not make sure that we are taking full advantage of all of Canada’s economic opportunities for Canadians.” The inception of the World Trade Organization and the gradual lowering of tariffs have allowed protectionists to find new, creative methods of discouraging trade. This is true not only of countries around the globe, but also for the Canadian provinces. As explicit duties were outlawed, provinces enacted non-tariff barriers with the intent of shielding their domestic industries from provincial competition. This is exactly the line of thinking Ontario’s provincial government has taken on wine imports – it doesn’t want Ontario’s wine industry to lose market share to BC’s wine industry, and is unwilling to alter its trade policies to bring them in line with the rest of the country. When international firms are looking at countries to invest in, they engage in detailed analysis meant to unearth everything from political risk to regulatory hindrances. A key aspect they also look at is a country’s trade barriers. It is enough that a firm will have to navigate through obstacles to trade at the national level, but when those barriers are abundant at the provincial level as well, it creates a major disincentive for foreign investment. The Canadian government, the Premiers of the New West Partnership (NWP) and the four Atlantic premiers understand this, which is precisely why they want a Canadian Free Trade Zone. Economically, the numbers speak for themselves: it is estimated that internal trade barriers cost the country approximately $50 billion a year, and in 2013 Industry Canada estimated that these barriers amount to a seven per cent tax on all goods going through provincial borders. At a consumer level, it is easy to see the effects, particularly when an Ontarian is unable to order wine from British Columbia without going through Ontario’s Liquor Control Board. The other major areas affected by the lack of trade freedom are significant to the provincial and national economies - energy, labour and procurement. In light of Canada’s recent surge in bilateral trade agreements with the European Union and South Korea, and the historical legacy of NAFTA, and the primarily positive response towards them from consumers and businesses, it is tempting to believe that the country as a whole has embraced free trade like never before. Unfortunately, this simply isn’t the case. Continued on Page 8.
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Melons and summer go hand-in-mouth One of the favourite foods to help combat the heat of the summer sun is chilled slices of melon. Seeing kids with watermelon juices running down their chins as they submerge their appetites into the cold juicy flesh, is a sure sight at almost any outdoor activity. Although watermelons are the most popular suppressor of the scorching temperatures, many also choose cantaloupe, honeydew, or casaba melons to fulfill this activity. Casaba melons are similar in size and shape of cantaloupes and honeydews, but are recognizable by their wrinkled yellow skin. They are not smooth like honeydews nor do they have a netted shell like cantaloupes. The sweet flesh of the casaba can be white, yellow or orange, but it is not as sweet as honeydew, and
not as aromatic as cantaloupe. Melons make a great summertime snack as they have a high water content to replenish our overheated bodies along with a low calorie count. One diced cup of any of these four varieties will account for approximately 45 to 65 calories. Honeydew being the highest in calories because of higher sugar content, and watermelon only ranking 45 due to, you guessed it: the highest water content. Even though each of these four melons have their own attributing nutritional factors, cantaloupes seem to be the most nutritious of the group. Let’s investigate vitamin A for example. Cantaloupes have an extremely high amount of vitamin A (approx. 5411 IU per cup), while watermelon offers 865
Chef Dez on Cooking by Gordon Desormeaux www.chefdez.com IU, honeydew only 85 IU, and casabas usually don’t have any. Vitamin A is typically found in abundance in darker coloured fruits and vegetables, and helps to promote the maintenance and growth of healthy skin and hair. It is also necessary for proper development of teeth and bones. Cantaloupes also have the highest vitamin C (with twice the amount of honeydews), and the highest in minerals potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium. No matter what mel-
ons you decide upon, a melon baller will assist in creating a great presentation in your next fruit salad or as frozen balls of fruit in a summer drink. Garnish your creations with some chilled local fresh berries and you will have a delicious low fat snack to help combat the summer heat. Dear Chef Dez: Someone told me that the outsides of cantaloupes should be washed before we eat them due to bacteria and salmo-
nella poisoning? Is this true? If so, why, since we just eat the insides and not the skin? Norma B. Langley, BC Dear Norma: This is true. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), cantaloupes are grown at the ground level and their outer skin can become contaminated in the field by soil, contaminated water, wildlife, poor handling, or improperly composted manure. When we cut into melons, any bacteria on the outer skin can easily be transferred not only to your knife, cutting board, and serving plate, but also to the inner flesh. The CFIA recommends as one precaution that before cutting fresh cantaloupes to
thoroughly wash and scrub them with hot water using a clean produce brush. As further safety measures, it would be wise to wash your hands thoroughly before and after handling cantaloupes as well as the equipment used to prepare them. It is always better to be safe than sorry, and if they recommend this for cantaloupes, then I would assume these safety measures with all melons. Chef Dez is a Food Columnist, Culinary Instructor & Cookbook Author. Visit him at www.chefdez.com Write to him at dez@ chefdez.com or P.O. Box 2674, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6R4 The next “Chef Dez on Cooking” column will appear approximately August 1/14.
The farmer is trained – the coyote dilemma Submitted by Kaare Askildt, former Preeceville area farmer in training. This one of a series on getting settled in Hazel Dell. The chickens and turkeys have been ordered from the hatchery and will be mailed to us when they are one day old. The birds will be at the Preeceville post office in early July. I wonder if we get a discount if they flap their wings. It should make for cheaper air mail, wouldn’t you think? We just have to prepare the chicken coop and the turkey yard. They will enjoy their quarters after we get rid of the mice family that overwintered in there. I’m looking forward to doing the feeding and watering for those cute little critters! There are two coyotes hanging around our yard. They seem to have befriended the horses as well as our dog Lady. I will have to do something before we can let the chickens and turkeys out in their little yards, or they might become coyote dinners. Perhaps I’ll try to completely fence in the yards, including an over-
head chicken wire. That ought to keep the coyotes out. I thought about shooting them, but we are too close to the village, and stray bullets can wreak havoc, and also I don’t want to hit one of our animals by accident. I only have a live trap for a skunk, which I can’t use on them because I believe that the coyotes are too smart for that. In fact, last time I saw one of them, I grabbed a broom handle and pointed it at him. He obviously knew that it was not a gun, as he just sat there cocking his head as to say: “What’re you gonna do with that? Throw it at me?” Coyotes are a problem all across North America, and for those of you who watch the funny cartoons on Saturday mornings with your kids or grandkids, you know the situation in Arizona where Wiley E. Coyote has been trying to capture an ostrich named Road Runner, without success. We all know that the ostrich is not a very smart bird; in fact it sticks its head in the sand when faced with danger. So it is very puzzling then that a smart animal like a coyote is
Time to fight fire with facts Con’t from Page 5.
In other words, we have to win the public-relations debate, once and for all, the same way General Electric did when the light bulb replaced the gas light over a century ago. The alternative is atrophy. We’re now in a holding pattern in modern agriculture. Public and private interests are no longer willing to lead this field of science, leaving farmers to rely on the handful of GMO crops that have already made it through the maze of regulatory and public-relations obstacles. Sure, there are a few academics pressing ahead with GMO research. But the crops they’re working on – GMO wheat and flax for instance – have ZERO chance of making it to the field unless a company like Monsanto, Bayer or Syngenta purchases the technology and invest a quarter-of-a-billion dollars into commercializing it. And why would a company make such a bold decision when the deck is stacked against them? There is simply no business case for taking such a high-risk gamble. Research and development into GMOs is rapid-
ly approaching the same position we’re witnessing in the field of antibiotic development; forget about developing new products; concentrate on existing ones, even as they gradually lose effectiveness. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria were observed by scientists almost immediately after Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. But the the medical community didn’t throw up its hands and use less penicillin. New antibiotics were developed! And thankfully so. No… not stronger antibiotics. New varieties were developed, to the point where doctors and veterinarians now have well in excess of 100 antibiotics to rely upon in fighting infection. But now, thanks to overregulation resulting from tax-funded lobbying by anti-antibiotic, naturopathic, homeopathic, sustainability and organic activists, pharmaceutical companies have abandoned the development of new antibiotics, focusing instead on treating phony ailments like attentiondeficit disorder, obesity and erectile dysfunction. And how far behind is the field of genetic engineering? Or is it already on par with antibiotic research?
Don’t get me wrong. I am not suggesting we stoop to the same level as the anti-GMO organic movement has. Never! Facts matter, to the exclusion of anything speculative that could be interpreted as a mean-spirited attack on the organic industry. But where is the line-up of speakers at any forum exposing the complete absence of facts emanating from the antiGMO, anti-antibiotic organic industry? Let’s face it, the impetus for change will not come from industry, nor from industry organizations, farm bureaus, commodity boards or academia. The people at the helm of these institutions have all consciously chosen to enter the holding pattern on GMOs, cognizant that just a single misstep could result in banishment. DDT anyone? And so, it befalls to farmers in the freest nation on the planet to fight fire with facts, and engage those who would take farming backwards in time as the rest of the American economy finally starts to move forward. Let me know when you’re ready. Misha Popoff, Osoyoos, BC.
unable to catch the silly bird! Wiley had a bad experience with an Acme rocket sled that he was unable to control, and as a result Wiley has filed a lawsuit against the Acme Company for supplying him with faulty merchandize and / or merchandize affixed with faulty safety labels. The rocket sled experience was just one of many incidents where Acme products purchased by Wiley, did not perform as expected and caused Wiley physical harm. The suit is currently being argued in front of the judge Yosemite Sam and a jury in an Arizona court, according to the cat Sylvester, a
spokesman for the Loony Toons organization. The Acme Company is represented by Bugs Bunny, who declined to comment as the case is before the court. Elmer Fudd is representing Wiley, and he believes that Wiley has a strong case, as Elmer himself has used some of the Acme products with bad results. In the state of Wyoming, the Sierra Club (tree-huggers) and the U.S. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to Wyoming ranchers for controlling the coyote population. Continued on Page 7.
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our problem. Those coyotes ain’t socializing with our sheep – they’re eatin’ ‘em!” Ole was a farmer from way back in the hills and he had to walk twenty kilometers one way, to the general store. He arrived at the store one cool afternoon in the early winter. “Hello Ole,” said Sven, the store owner. “Tell me, are you and Lena still making fires up there by rubbing two sticks of wood together, or striking stones and flint together?” “Yah shure ya betcha, Sven. Ain’t no other way. Why do you ask?” Wondered Ole. “Got something to show you Ole, something to make fire.
It seems that after years of the ranchers using the tried and true methods of shooting and / or trapping the predators, the tree-huggers had a “more humane” solution. What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive; the males would then be castrated and let loose again. Therefore the population would be controlled. All of the ranchers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes. Finally, an old boy in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said, “Son, I don’t think you understand
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It’s called a match,” Sven answered. “A match did you say? Ain’t never heard of a match Sven,” said Ole. “Well watch this Ole. If you want a fire you just do like this,” Sven said, taking a match and lighting it by striking it on his pants leg. “Huh. Well, I’ll be! Ain’t that something, but that ain’t for me, Sven,” Ole mused. “Well, why not Ole?” Sven wondered. “I can’t be walking twenty kilometers every time I want a fire, just to borrow your pants leg to light a match, and with such a short thin piece of wood, the flame will burn out before I even get home!”
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Come & Go Garden Tour Saltcoats July 26, 1-4 p.m. – self-guided garden tour complete with goodies and refreshments Call Gerri at 306-744-2969 for complete details. Creatures From Sky to Sea A new exhibit just right for summer fun and fantasy, is waiting for YOU at community pARTners gallery in Yorkton Public Library. In Creatures from Sky to Sea, Joseph Anderson & Lissa Robinson have developed a thematic contrast between air and water to develop their unusual menagerie of avian-like and underwater creatures. Using the texture of various fabrics, formal constructions and decorative ornamentation, the soft sculptures will allude to feathers, pointy beaks, tentacles and shimmering gills. This OSAC touring exhibition, brought to you by Yorkton Arts Council and Yorkton Public Library, will delight kids of all ages until the end of August.
Dog Park Fundraising Fun Dog Show, Agility Demonstration, Bake Sale and BBQ July 20 2-5 p.m. at the City Center Park located on Broadway West in Yorkton! Bring your dog and enter the contests for a chance to win a prize! All dogs must be on a leash. All proceeds to be donated to Yorkton’s Off Leash Dog Park. Come join in the fun and show your support! For any questions call Karen at Fins, Feathers and Fur Pets and Supplies 306-782-7387. Corner-Copia Trade Show Now is the time to reserve your table at the 2nd Annual Corner-Copia Trade Show SIGN on Broadway Friday, September 5, 4-10 p.m. Saturday, September 6, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. To book your table phone 306-782-2994 or 306-641-5910. Parkland Right to Life Meetings Meets every third Wednesday of the month @ St. Gerard’s Hall basement @ 7.30 p.m. For info. call 306-783-6240.
Hatha Flow Yoga Dr. Brass School For all levels of experience Monday & Wednesday evenings, 7-8 p.m. Until Aug. 25 (no class Aug. 4) Call Melissa at (204)573-7578 or email learntounwind@gmail. com for details. Children’s Summer Programs Yorkton Public Library • Storycrafts – for ages 3-7, Mon. or Thur. 10:3011:15 a.m. • Activity Days, Mon. ages 10-12, Tues. ages 6-9, 2-2:30 p.m., must register • Movie Day, Wednesdays, 2 p.m., free popcorn and juice, all are welcome • Game Day, Fridays, 2 p.m., board games, all are welcome! 2014/15 Stars For Saskatchewan Concert Series Line Up • Globe Theatre: A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline; Connie Kaldor; Angele Dubeau & La Pieta; Prairie Debut: Fung-Chui Piano Duo; Eclipse; Prairie Debut: Ensemble Caprice Baroque Quintet; Royal Wood; Ballet Jorgen presenting Cinderella; The Barra MacNeils; and Lone Tree Road with JJ Guy and Scott Cornelius. New pricing! For details call the Yorkton Arts Council at (306)783-8722. Tickets are also available online at Ticketpro.
Community Connections Summer Programs • hosted by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Yorkton Area for children ages six to twelve 1) Physical Literacy July 7 to August 1 Registration is $175 for the four weeks. 2) Developing Skills and Abilities, August 5-22 Registration is $150 for the three weeks. Both programs are held at Columbia School Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The goal is to create community connections developing sports and recreation opportunities while providing a caring, positive space for your child. For further information or to register, please call Big Brothers Big Sister at 306-7823471 or visit www.bigbrothersbigsisters.ca/ yorkton. There is funding available to help with registration for children from low income families. New Horizons Friday Night Dances 78 First Ave. North Yorkton, Sk. Great Night of Dancing Every one is welcome $8/person, lunch is included Time: 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Music by: • Ed Hicki, July 18 • Old Country Lads, July 25 Music is subject to change. For info. call Peter: 306-782-1846. Call 306-783-7355 to place your free Community Event.
Internal Canadian trade Con’t from Page 5. Yet these same governments, when posed with questions about free trade with other nations, appear more than willing to engage in negotiations, as if they only understood free trade as an international concept. What provincial leaders should do is follow the lead of the NWP Premiers, and overhaul the entire internal trade system. The beauty of the NWP proposal is that it is the start of a new conversation in the hopes of reforming the current system, rather than putting forward a defined framework. According to Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, the NWP Premiers are working from one central assumption: “We start
from the premise that everything is open.” The same benefits that Canada would gain from free trade with another country should apply domestically as well. Premiers Wall, Hancock and Clark deserve credit for initiating a dialogue whose time has come, but any hope for progress will require support from all of the provinces as well as significant involvement of the federal government. If history is any indication, the outlook for internal free trade is bleak but hope springs eternal that Canadians get the national economic benefits and opportunities they deserve.
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Accessible play structure officially opens Con’t from Page 1.
The structure itself cost $300,000, with the added expense due to the unique requirements involved in building an accessible play structure, Washington says. One of the major expenses for the project was the soft ground cover, which allows mobility while also providing a safe place to land, which Washington says was one of the biggest costs in the project. The project was funded by
the Community Initiatives Fund, groups like the Yorkton Kinsmen, events like the Yorkton Kids Expo, as well as saving money through the capital budget over three years. David Johnson, President of the Yorkton Kinsmen, says that they helped fund the project because it’s something Yorkton didn’t have before as well as something that the city needed given its size. “When it comes to accessible stuff we were really falling
behind, even if you just look at Yorkton’s population it was bad, and when you look at people from surrounding areas that
come here it was even worse, so it was a no-brainer.” The structure was needed in Yorkton, Washington says, and the benefits of it are clear, especially as families interact with it and each other now that it is in place. “Everybody needs the opportunity to interact with others and play. Not just people in wheelchairs, not just children, everybody. There was a kid who was able to stand on the exterior with his grandpa on the
ramp, and his grandson was able to play with the same things he was. It’s a great opportunity for everyone to play together.” Caitlyn Hasper was one of the kids at the official opening of the structure. In a wheelchair herself, she was able to explore the structure on her own, something she would not be able to do on other structures. She has one word to describe the new addition to the city. “It’s awesome!”
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NEWS REVIEW SPORTS Sport notes Sports Bank Drop-in The Yorkton Sports Bank is collecting used sports equipment at the Kinsmen. Come out and check out the assortment of sports equipment, including hockey gear, or donate your old equipment. Appointments are required. Contact for more information by phone at 306828-2401. Help give back to the community by donating your used equipment to those who are in need.
Monster Trucks Monster truck action is coming to Yorkton as “Monsters and Mayhem” head to the Exhibition Grounds for two nights of extreme sports action for the Parkland area. Monster truck freestyle and monster truck racing, tuff truck competition, demolition derby and quad wars are all on display on Friday and Saturday at the Exhibition Grounds. Event goes rain or shine. Advanced adult tickets are $21 and gate tickets are $24 while children get in for $16 advance or $19 at the gate. For more contact information call Cindy at 306-782-6541. People interested in entering the tuff truck or demolition derby can call 306-782-6541 for more information.
Cards Baseball The 2014 Yorkton Cardinals Western Major Baseball League home dates continue next week when the Cardinals host two games as the chase for the 2014 WMBL Playoffs heats up with the Cards chasing a East Division playoff spot. First Yorkton will play host to the Moose Jaw Miller Express on Sunday, July 20 at 2:05 p.m. before hosting the Regina Red Sox on Monday, July 20 in what will be two of the final three home games in the 2014 Yorkton Cardinals regular season. The Cardinals will then be on the road until the final day of the season when they face Melville on Wednesday, July 30 at Jubilee Park in the home finale. Have a story for Sport Notes/The News Review? Send your local sports tip to sports@yorktonnews. com and your local event could be in Sport Notes. Feedback and letters are also appreciated.
CARDINALS CHASING PLAYOFFS - Despite losing three straight games at home over the weekend, the Yorkton Cardinals kept their playoff hopes alive with a big come from behind win over Melville on Monday night.
Cards keep playoff dreams alive with win By CHASE RUTTIG N-R Writer Facing a tight three way race in the East Division for the remaining playoff spots in the Western Major Baseball League with the Melville Millionaires and Weyburn Beavers, the Yorkton Cardinals faced a must win game on Monday night at Jubilee Park when three straight losses put them in danger of falling to last place in the division. Yorkton’s week started with a crucial home doubleheader against the Weyburn Beavers at Jubilee Park as they geared up for back to back doubleheaders with the Beavers,
playing the first two games at home before having to travel to Weyburn on Friday night. Hoping to distance themselves from the last placed Beavers with some big home wins, the Cardinals found no such luck during their midweek affairs with Weyburn and were swept at home during the two night games losing by identical 6-3 scores to drop two games. Yorkton would lose the first game in extra innings, allowing three runs in the top of the tenth cost them the game and momentum heading into the second game in which the Cardinals relievers would cost them as arms went tired and
the Beavers lineup capitalized by scoring crucial late runs in the eighth inning to win the second game as well. On Friday night in Weyburn it would be the Cardinals returning the favour as Yorkton would bounce back from a four run Beavers first inning to score five runs in the top of the third before adding insurance on the way in a big bounce back victory by the way of a 8-4 final score. 10 hits would lift the Cardinals in the win as Austin Drummonds and Stetson McColin both scored two RBI’s apiece in the win in the first half of the Friday night doubleheader in Weyburn.
Like the Beavers did midweek in Yorkton, the Cardinals would carry the momentum of a win during the first half of the doubleheader into the second game to success when the late game went underway. All square in the top of the eighth inning, the Cardinals would get two runs over Beavers reliever Toby Eigner to win 5-3 and finish their four game series with the Beavers with both teams settling for a split of two victories apiece in a strange series where no home team won a single game out of the four battles between Yorkton and Weyburn. Cont. on Page 11.
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By CHASE RUTTIG N-R Writer
A growing track program in the city, the Yorkton Legion Track Club has been steadily increasing the quality of track and field athletes in the area over the past few years and recently reached a benchmark for the club in sending 14 athletes to represent Team Saskatchewan at the Western Canada Championships. After a successful high school track season, the club track athletes of the YLTC built on a hard year of training and success at various meets around Western Canada leading up to the Saskatchewan Athletics Provincial Championships in which 14 of their 34 athletes qualified for spots on Team Saskatchewan. YLTC manager Marcel Porte mentions that the growing program’s success has been tied into making it more aware that there are options for track athletes year round in the province like in any sport, something he says he finds some athletes are unaware of. “The awareness around Saskatchewan Athletics is low,” says Porte. “Many parents and young athletes don’t realize that there are track meets from November all the way to June with Sask Athletics (which is not
part of the school system). “We had ten 2001/2002 born athletes attend this meet this year. It was great to see more interest in track and field from that young age group and they did very well to represent our area.” The 14 athletes qualifying for Westerns is a new high for the YLTC, who sent just one athlete for the 2012 Westerns in Medicine Hat. Last year they sent five athletes to 2013 Westerns in Calgary. With the meet being in Saskatoon for 2014, the YLTC hit their new high at the perfect time and even surpassed Porte’s dream goal of having double digit representatives in Saskatoon this summer. “My goal was to have 10 athletes represent this area,” says Porte. “The Western Canadian Championship with be held in Saskatoon this year on July 18 – 20th. We are very excited that we will have a good presence at this meet.” Yorkton even saw one of their athletes qualify for the 2014 Midget National Track and Field Championships as Derek Campbell ran the qualification time in the 2,000 meter distance event in stunning time to qualify to represent the city against some of the best young distance runners in Canada.
“We are all very proud of Derek,” says Porte. “The national standard for the 2,000m is 6:22.00 and Derek did it in 6:16.6, that is over a 6 second difference, says Porte who also mentions that Campbell is very close to qualifying for the 1,200 meter and 800 meter events. “He is also three seconds off the 1,200m and four seconds off the 800m, which he will still have an opportunity to qualify at Westerns for the National Competition.” The full list of qualified athletes is as follows: Midget Team (Under 16) Jarod Stachowich Derek Campbell Kelsey Haczkewicz Nicki Nagy Brooke Hausermann Karlee Duczek Youth Team (Under 18) Cole Burkholder Mikaila Ortynsky Jonah Sutter Kellie Onda-Inglis Jared Yeadon Evan Lajambe Justine Zarowny Jaden Porte
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Saskatchewan Roughriders season lacks the magic Ruttig’s rants
Saturday night’s Week Three clash in the 2014 CFL regular season between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and B.C. Lions was a matchup that fans have seen more than a few times before, and not just because in the CFL division rivals see each other more than long distance couples do in a given year. With the Lions starting the season 0-2 and the Riders trying to shake off an embarrassing defeat to the Toronto Argonauts and keep pace with the Calgary Stampeders early in July and an excited group of Riders fans congregating at Taylor Field following the rain soaked home opener that wasn’t, Saturday was a scenario that the Roughriders usually thrive in. A big game at home on Saturday night, a chance to make a statement. The type of game that truly shows if you are an early contender or if you have adjustments to make, a measuring stick game, a statement game, or simply just a big game in the long CFL season with a little bit more on the line than usual. In a win both teams needed, fans came out hoping that the Riders would show that those who saw warning signs in their blowout in Toronto were too quick to panic. Before a bye week, the Roughriders found out that they will have a lot of early adjustments to make should they want to contend for a second straight Grey Cup without several key offensive and defensive players from the 2013 roster in another game where the Riders offence continued to struggle with the lack of run threat in Kory Sheets and the lack of receiving threats in Weston Dressler and the injured Chris Getzlaf. For a third straight week, Darian Durant continued to struggle to move the ball down the field
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for the Riders, getting only 188 yards passing with a touchdown to Taj Smith and an interception in the loss where the Riders couldn’t score a single point in the second half. Perhaps the lone positive on offence was the play of Smith, who has done more than enough to step up and try to fill the void the absences of some of the best players in the CFL last season have left. Smith caught nearly half of Durant’s passing yardage on Saturday, eventually hauling in eight catches for 90 yards in addition to the touchdown reception. Still, his presence alone wasn’t enough to give Durant enough open receivers to prevent a 15/34 passing performance in what has to be considered the quarterback’s third straight disappointing performance to begin the season. In fairness, the Roughriders struggles early on should have been expected as the loss of so many
players due to free agency and the expansion draft was bound to cause some growing pains for a franchise that is looking to rebuild as quickly as possible in a market where fans don’t want to see any sort of rebuilding after winning the Grey Cup. That presents a problem when it becomes clear that the Roughriders are going to need to do some roster building if they want to get back to the level they were at just a few short months ago. Chris Getzlaf being out of the lineup is probably the most pressing concern and is the last reason for the Riders failure to compete in the last two games that doesn’t boil down to the team simply not being good enough as a whole. When Getzlaf returns to the lineup, hopefully after a much needed bye week things could be different on a Riders offence that still has two of the best wideouts in the league when Smith and Getzlaf are playing at their highest level at the same time. Other than that, there really isn’t much the Roughriders can rely on right now except for getting better as a unit. The phrase “Next man up” holds true for the 2014 Riders more than any team as if the magic is going to return to Taylor Field, the entire team is going to have to improve. Blocking will have to be better, route running will need to improve, turnovers will need to be limited, tackling will need to get better. Missing star players that gave the team that extra difference in close games, the Roughriders are going to have to win by playing fundamentally sound until they can get some momentum going. That should start in the bye week as the team continues to attempt to make the key adjustments, just don’t expect any fireworks for the time being while they do.
Yorkton Cardinals will need road wins to make playoffs Cont. from Page 10. The back to back victories against the Beavers would send Yorkton back home with some forward momentum as they were set to host the Swift Current Indians on Saturday and Sunday in a series with the first place team in the Central Division. Jamie Whitehead would get the start on Saturday night for the first game of the series, but couldn’t find much initial success as Swift Current scored three runs in the top of the first inning on the Cardinals starter to make things interesting in the early stages at Jubilee Park. Things got even more interesting in the bottom of the first inning as Swift Current starter MarcAndre Habeck gave the lead right back to Yorkton as the Cardinals generated three runs in the bottom of the first thanks to veterans Kameron Mizzell and Ben Grillo to erase the deficit and take the lead after what was a wild start to the game. Both pitchers would settle down after the first
inning, but once again the Cardinals pitching staff would fall apart in the late innings as Swift Current scored runs in their trips to the plate in the eighth and ninth innings on their way to a 9-4 win on Saturday to take the first game of the series. On Sunday the Cardinals would be forced to start reliever Vin Whitenight as the amount of doubleheaders wore out their pitching staff, something that worked to varied success as after the strong reliever pitched two shutout innings it became clear that arm fatigue would become a factor when Swift Current finally got to Whitenight with three runs in the top of the third before eventually scoring five runs with the usual relief pitcher on the mound. Easton Etter didn’t fare much better, allowing four runs in the top of the seventh that sprung former Yorkton Minor Baseball pitcher and Cardinals utility infielder Derek Marshall to the mound to finish off the game as the bullpen options for Yorkton
required to throw the former minor baseball pitcher into the fire in front of the hometown fans at Jubilee Park. Marshall would pitch well for the first two innings of his mound performance, but eventually he would wear down in the top of the ninth where Swift Current ruined what was a nice moment by scoring five runs to extend their lead in what was a 14-8 final score. Afterwards Cardinals coach John McVey said he was impressed with Marshall. “It is hard to ask our position players to come into the bullpen because they aren’t pitching every day and preparing to be thrown in last minute and I thought Marshall pitched really well and just couldn’t get to the end of his inning which happens in baseball but overall he really impressed me by going out there and doing well for the majority of his outing,” says McVey on the Cardinals local product’s performance going from the infield to the mound. After playing Swift Current on Sunday after-
noon, the Cardinals would also have to play a night game against the Weyburn Beavers thanks to the scheduling quirks the rain during the first half of the WMBL season has caused. Needing to get a quality start out of ace Jeff Pool to give the bullpen a rest, the Cardinals let Pool go nearly the distance before the top of the eighth gave him troubles in what was the deciding factor in a 4-3 loss after a fatigued Pool gave up a tied 1-1 score in the top of the inning as Weyburn scored three runs. Yorkton would fight back with two runs of their own, but would again fall short for their third straight loss in a close game where once again worn down arms in the pitching staff from the compressed WMBL schedule was a deciding factor. The loss would set up a “must win” game on Monday as the Cardinals would be facing their rival Millionaires looking to prevent falling into the East Division basement before a much deserved day off for their pitching staff, handing Clay
Rideout the ball as the starting pitcher with Rideout in search of his second win of the WMBL season. Getting a quality start from Rideout despite one run in the top of the first inning, it would be the Cardinals who would make a late push for a change as the bats woke up as the Melville pitching started to wear down on Monday. The Cardinals would score a run apiece in the fifth and sixth innings before exploding for four runs in the bottom of the seventh to take a commanding 6-2 lead after the Mils tied things up in the top of the inning. Reliever Cole Roark would close the door on the Millionaires chances, allowing just one more run in the ballgame to get
Yorkton a win that they really needed to make up for their 2-5 spell leading up to the big East Division win. A stretch that included three losses to the Weyburn Beavers. Yorkton now face a daunting task to make the WMBL Playoffs with just three home games out of their final 14 contests, making their Alberta road swing at the end of the season. Looking to end a five year playoff drought in a three way race, Yorkton will have to find a way to go on a streak in Alberta on the road should they make the postseason. After a big win against Melville, the dream is still very well alive for the 2014 Cards. The next two weeks will determine if it becomes reality.
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YORKTON CARDINALS RELIEVER Cole Roark shut the door on the Melville Millionaires in a big 6-3 win over their East Division rivals on Monday night in what was one of the final home games of the 2014 season at Jubilee Park. Yorkton plays just three of their final 14 at their home diamond, needing road success to make the playoffs.
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The last several days have been one that has been trying for many of us. Be you a business person, an employee or public employee or official, or a resident, it’s been a time that has tested all of us. On behalf of the YBID Board of Directors we wish to pass along our full expression of thanks to all!
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306-782-2647 Loreen Poier & Douglas A. Poier
WE'RE YOUR MUFFLER SPECIALISTS 39 Smith St. W. Yorkton, Sask.
We can name people such as Mayor Maloney, who did not waste time in making the right decisions, City Council who supported his options and worked with him. Our MLA who worked quickly to pass along valuable information to our Premier. Premier Wall who acted swiftly both with our provinces finances as well as seeking support from the Federal Government for those who needed it most.
Thanks to our community media who worked hard to keep us informed with the most up to date information as possible. Last but certainly not least, our YBID Member Businesses, and other businesses in Yorkton and area. They are the ones who quietly contributed cash, goods and services and time to those who were in need. This past weekend not one but two fund raising Country Shows at the Painted Hand Casino, supported by many with thousands of dollars going towards many needs through the Salvation Army. Thank you to all performers from the Saskatchewan Country Music Association lead by Murray Yung. We have a slogan in Yorkton, “A Place Where Good Things Happen”. Even after a bad situation Yorkton people step forward and correct the wrong making it right! To those unknown friends and neighbours, strangers and visitors, the Yorkton Business Improvement District Board of Directors
306-782-6677
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306-782-0211
210 Ball Rd. Yorkton, SK
306-783-6995
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Yorkton Welding & Machine - (1983) Ltd. 140 York Road, Yorkton, SK Specializing in All Types of Welding & Machining
306-783-8773 Supplier of park benches & picnic tables etc.
Thank you Yorkton
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But there are a those directly involved, not elected, usually not in the forefront, but they are there working for us. Our public service employees. Far too many to name, but include protective services, RCMP, Fire and Ambulance and Bylaw Enforcement, The many men and women of the city departments from Public Works to Environment, to Finance and Administration, who not only worked to reduce the flood waters in our city but assist those who needed paperwork done and questions answered and worked hours of overtime. You know who you are.
306-782-6050
Audio Visual Entertainment Experts
2 Broadway St E
306-782-2275
To YBID Members, Residents of Yorkton and Public Officials
306-782-5355
YORK-SASK DRYCLEANERS LTD.
Yorkton, SK
A look at what is happening in the Yorkton Business Improvement District
34 - 2nd Ave. N. Yorkton, SK
Corner of Laurier & Broadway and WalMart
Western Canada’s Largest Insurance Broker
107 Broadway St. W. Yorkton, SK Phone
306-783-4212 or
306-641-5224 email: s.chupa@remco-memorials.ca www.remco-memorials.ca
Unbeatable Taste! Lunch Special 11:00 a.m. ~ 2:00 p.m. (Everyday)
$3 + GST Delivery or Pick-up 306-783-1080
BG Denture Clinic Creating Beautiful Smiles For Over 35 Years 46 Broadway St. E.
65 Broadway St. E. Yorkton
306-783-3181
(Next to Cornerstone Credit Union)
Yorkton, Sask.
306-783-6350 www.thecaringteam.com