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Just Watch MeColter Harden of Big Valley, Alta., does all he can to

stay on his bucking horse, Hair Trigger, on the fi rst

night of the Estevan Rodeo on Friday. Harden tied

for third in the event. For more on the rodeo see B2.

Estevan will have a race for mayor in 2012.

Two-term Councillor Lynn Chipley announced Monday that her desire to make Estevan a better city has prompted her to launch a run for mayor in the Oct. 24 municipal election. Chi-pley joins fellow Councillor Roy Ludwig as the only two candidates to announce their intentions to replace outgo-ing Mayor Gary St. Onge thus far. The deadline to fi le nomiation papers is Sept. 19.

The owner of Century 21 Border Real Estate, Chi-pley said she truly believes in Estevan but feels the city is continuing to sell itself short.

“We have absolutely everything going for us,” she said. “We are the envy of every other jurisdiction of this country, we have the best economic climate we

Chipley running for mayor

Councillor Lynn Chipley has announced she will run

for mayor in the Oct. 24 municipal election.

have ever had and we are still selling ourselves short, we are still not getting as

much done as we should to improve our city.”

As a realtor, Chipley

said she speaks with a lot of families and admitted that she still has a diffi cult time convincing them to move to Estevan. She feels there are steps that can be taken to change that attitude but they must happen soon.

“What we do now and what we do over the next fi ve years is absolutely go-ing to decide where we are in fi ve to 10 years because if all of those people, once this little boom is over, pack up their bags and go back to the Maritimes, back to Ontario and back to B.C. because we didn’t get to create the kind of environment that made them feel at home and want to call this home, then we have not done our job,” Chipley said.

“All we have done is put some money in a lot of people’s pockets, but we haven’t built our community

and enriched our community and that is why I am run-ning for mayor, because I really believe we need to do some serious planning with all of the stakeholders, the chamber, the arts people, the sports people.”

Chipley said much of the focus in Estevan has been on the city’s infra-structure and although she believes that is a major issue, she feels the overall issues are much broader in scope.

“Yes, the roads are criti-cal, green spaces are critical, I hear that all the time,” Chi-pley said. “What (Councillor Chris Istace) had said about really feeling a positive at-titude and saying ‘we love this city’, that’s why we’re here and yet we are a little bit embarrassed. We’re a little embarrassed by the roads, we’re

⇢ Another A2

by Chad Saxon

of The Mercury

A plan to reclaim Woodlawn Regional Park from the ravages of the fl oods of 2011 has been set.

Woodlawn’s board has created a tentative and comprehensive plan that includes rebuilding the main camping area and creating 70 new sites on the land that once housed the local chuckwagon track. Work on the massive reclamation project is scheduled to begin in the fall, with

an eye towards being ready for the 2013 season.

Woodlawn manager Nathan Puffalt said the plan has been in the works for the past few months and he feels they have come up with a solution that makes the best of a bad situation.

“Since the season started, we have been in and out of the main area looking at the best possible solution to fi xing up the sites and creating sites that campers nowa-days can get into,” he said.

“It’s been a long working pro-cess, but we wanted to make sure we got it right before we went in there and started getting the work done.”

Puffalt said when creating the plan, specifi cally the design for the main campground area, they had to work around the landscape changes created by last year’s fl ood. Roughly 40 sites were lost when the raging river swallowed up a section of the park. As well, when the water fi nally receded, a massive pile of silt was left behind which created additional

challenges.“There was 10 feet of silt in

some areas that had to levelled off, but it ended up being almost a bless-ing because we were able to reclaim some areas you normally wouldn’t be able to camp in.”

Although they lost a large piece of land, Puffalt said their plan still calls for 90 sites in that area.

“They will have water and elec-tricity in 2013 and as we go ahead we will slowly

⇢ Campground A2

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⇠ A1 embarrassed by the gravel and the dust. We can do something about that if we really have the will to do something about that. It’s just going to take a lot of work and it can’t just be work by city hall, it has to be work by all of the con-stituents in this area, by the residents, by the business community.”

Chipley said she had considered walking away after serving six years on council, but her goal since entering municipal politics was to leave Estevan a better place than when she started and feels that job isn’t quite complete.

“I want to see a bigger palette,” she said. “One of my other friends, he’s not from here and he’s leaving here, said ‘it’s sort of like you took a paintbrush and went whoosh.’ So you’ve got a splash here and a splash there, but no one can really tell what the whole picture is supposed to look like because nobody has

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⇠ A1 bring sewer in,” he said. “There will be 20 to 40 tent sites which will have water and electricity as well, kind of every fi ve or so tent sites, there will be a pedestal where people can plug into it.”

When designing the layout of the campground Puffalt said they went with bigger sites to accommo-date large campers and leave people with enough room to still enjoy their area.

“The new sites, we have designed them at 30 feet by 80 feet. Plenty of room to get their awning out, have a picnic table, a fi repit area and they’ll be able to get some cars parked in there too. We also wanted to have a large tenting area and use the corners as group site areas.”

In addition to the sites in the original campground area, the plan calls for the creation of 70 new sites on the old chuckwagon track, a move that has been bandied about for years but became a necessity due to the fl ood-ing. Puffalt said they will also be larger sites to allow for larger, fi fth-wheel style campers.

Other new features in-clude the addition of up to 10 lots for cabins; walking trails and a bird sanctuary in the area behind Cossette Park, the soccer field, a group use area and picnic

Campground to open in 2013

POLL RESULTS

This poll was posted on www.estevanmercury.ca from September 4 - 11

Given that the Estevan area is a key economic driver for Saskatchewan, do you think the provincial

government should do more financially to help the city catch up on its infrastructure projects?

This week’s poll question:With the municipal election just around the corner,

which of the two declared mayoral candidates would you vote for?

area (see map for exact locations).

Obviously tackling a project of this magni-tude requires a signifi cant amount of work and money.

Puffalt said they have been helped along by the fact that most of the build-ings in the campground are salvageable. The only one currently in question is the concession.

“But all the electrical was completely destroyed,” he added. “We are going to be putting in new water-lines. The pedestals in case, god forbid, a flood hap-pens again, they are quite

This map shows the tentative plan to restore Woodlawn Regional Park.

a bit higher and any new buildings that we put in are going to be on skids. All of the area is now levelled off. We are going to have our contractor in on Monday to start trenching in water

and electricity. The sites are marked out and there will be a few dead trees that we have to move and trees to plant. With something like this, when you want to do the big sites, there is

going to be some tree loss. But with the plan we have come up with, it’s going to be minimal. Woodlawn is known for its trees.”

As for a cost, Puffalt said Woodlawn received

a $2.4 million settlement from the Provincial Disaster Assistance Plan. He said that is well below what they were hoping to get and will be stretched thin as the work is carried out.

“We could have used a lot more, but I guess that is the story everywhere,” he said.

The sites in the main camping area will be ready for 2013, Puffalt said, and work on the sites on the chuckwagon track will be-gin next year and as they are ready, they will be rented out to campers.

Puffalt said work is also continuing on reclaim-ing both Rotary Hall and Doug Third Hall and he expects them to be ready for 2013 as well.

“Both buildings were completely salvageable, we just have to completely strip them and sanitize them. A new kitchen facility will be added to Doug Third Hall and a kitchen will be put back into Rotary Hall.

drawn up that plan. I may not see the plan all the way through to the end but I want to make sure that plan is in place and going forward.”

Chipley said the theme of her campaign is to make Estevan a vibrant, safe and connected community. She feels the city is already rather vibrant and has a lot of positive things going for it which will be enhanced if people continue on the same path.

“Safe … we have to just convince people to drive responsibly, espe-

cially in light of our non-connectedness. We still have too many places where people are walking and it’s just not safe for them to walk.

“We have to get our city connected. We have so many new people and to me that doesn’t say welcome to our city, to have a city with so many people on foot and not to be providing safe passage.”

Chipley admitted that accomplishing the goals she has in mind will require a massive commitment from the community and said if

they are not willing to take that step, they should not vote for her.

“It will be a lot of work, it will be a lot of money spent and it will be pound-ing on doors of businesses and asking them to get on board and help us. There has to be a will in the com-munity to make that happen. I think this is a turning point for the community. Do you really want to grow up, to really to be a city that at-tracts people? We want to attract them and keep them and we’ve got some work to do on the keeping side.”

With just one week left to file nomination papers, the race for Este-van city council is slowly beginning to heat up.

As of Monday eve-ning, fi ve people had fi led their papers with city clerk Judy Pilloud. The latest to announce his candidacy is incumbent Councillor Brian Johnson who in-formed the public during the inquiries portion of Monday’s council meeting that he would be running

Johnson running for re-electionfor a fourth term.

“I have worked as a city councillor for a num-ber of years, I like what I am involved in growing the community,” Johnson said when asked why he decided to seek another term on council. “Look-ing back, it is also very rewarding having played a part in the many projects that we have done and completed and seen hap-pen here in the city of Es-tevan has been fulfi lling.”

J o h n s o n s a i d t h e theme of his campaign is roads and that will remain at the top of his agenda if he’s re-elected. He also said ROADS is an acro-nym for the issues he is concerned about with re-spect to the city as whole.

“We talked about it enough here tonight with contracts going out for pavement and the price of infrastructure towards roads and repairing roads,” he said. “An orderly and organized city is another brand, if you want to call it that, to put your fo-cus on the city. Account-ability, working with the administration is the A in ROADS, development is the D and last is the safety of community and also the services that the city can afford, keeping that paramount.”

Johnson is the third member of the current council to fi le his papers for re-election, joining Dennis Moore and Chris Istace. Councillor Rodney Beatty has also announced he plans to run again but as of Monday had yet to fi le his papers.

Joining the current members in the race are former councillor Lori Carr who served one term but was not re-elected in the last municipal vote and Cameron Robock who has run unsuccessfully in the past.

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It will be the king of the fi refi ghting and rescue fl eet for sure and although the price tag is $1.3 million, its versatility will make it a cost-effective piece of equipment.

That’s the word com-ing down from the recent first-day training session that Estevan Fire Rescue Service personnel partici-pated in at the parking lot in front of the Souris Valley Aquatic and Leisure Centre last Wednesday.

The T-rex aerial fire truck, built on a Rosenbauer chassis in Minnesota, will be dispatched quite regu-larly while one of the older pumper trucks will be semi-retired, said deputy Chief Dale Feser.

Better protection ser-vices is what it’s all about since the new truck has aerial capacity to take fi re and res-cue personnel up as high as nine storeys if necessary. Gaining good heights in rapid fashion as opposed to the time-consuming and physically exhausting tasks of climbing ladders is the fi rst and most obvious ad-vantage. Being able to at-tack a fi re at a better angle is also an obvious attraction for those fi ghting fi res, said Chief Ron Tocker. The same goes for water rescues.

The highly computer-ized unit can be stabilized quickly under nearly any condition including steep grades, and will cover nearly

all contingencies including deployment for underground or over water rescues.

The aerial hooks have the strength to allow the lift of two cars at the same time, right up and out of a tight area, or removal of a wall, in one fell swoop.

While the operating costs go up, the savings on insurance and increased effi ciencies will more than make up for any perceived losses, say those who are intimately involved in the truck’s deployment.

“It will take about a month to train everyone on this,” said Tocker, noting that the Fire Rescue Service currently has 31 volunteers available to answer the calls for assistance in either fi ght-ing fi res or performing res-cues.

The articulating aerial bucket is launched using up to six people at a time, including the personnel in the bucket itself.

“The articulating boom allows us to deploy it well above or below grade,” said Feser.

“I t registers wind speeds and weather condi-tions and has manual over-ride if needed. It has ground and bucket sensors to detect obstructions and because the ladder doesn’t have to swing wide before it moves up, it can be used in congested areas,” Feser added.

The truck’s automatic storage and bed section means the truck will fit nicely into the Estevan Fire Rescue station.

“We can use it close to buildings. We can respond accordingly if the fi re we’re fighting gets too intense; there is a hose connection right at the top of the bucket. We can work it out over water or 18 to 30 feet below grade if need be,” Feser said. At its highest elevation the aerial bucket can be raised to 115 feet.

“It’s important to get everyone trained and up-to-speed on this unit. It will be the second pumper unit out on a fi rst response call,” said Tocker, explaining how the deployment of trucks and personnel is handled for each emergency call.

While a core unit of eight fire and rescue vol-unteers took turns learning how to stabilize and deploy various key elements on the new unit, Estevan Councillor Dennis Moore was prepped for a big lift into the skies along with training offi cer Carey Feduniw of Rocky Mountain Phoenix, the con-tractors for the job of training the local personnel.

After he was outfi tted with a big safety belt, Moore was lifted into the skies by local fi re rescue volunteer Travis Oliver.

On the second day of training, T-rex was taken to Trinity Tower, one of the highest buildings in the city at eight storeys where more aerial training was com-pleted including a trip to the nether, regions by Mercury co-editor Chad Saxon who enjoyed the view of Estevan from a new vantage point.

Fire and rescue truck’s versatility put to the test

Estevan Fire Rescue Services Chief Ron Tocker explains the versatility of the new

T-rex aerial pumper unit to Councillor Dennis Moore who attended the fi rst day

of training sessions to observe.

Deputy Chief Dale Feser of Estevan Fire Rescue Services in front of the new T-rex

aerial fi re truck that was being tested while crews were being instructed on its

use and versatility. The truck is able to hoist itself to various angles to accom-

modate grade changes.

Estevan Councilllor Dennis Moore took a high ride with aerial truck trainer Carey

Feduniw.

“The articulating boom allows us to

deploy it well above or below grade.”

– Dale Feser, Deputy Chief

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Hillcrest School’s break-fast program has become a point of pride for the school in the past year. With another big donation coming in last week, the school has even bigger ambitions for the project that has grown from humble roots.

On Sept. 7, the students gathered in the gymnasium before hitting the streets, as they walked for their break-fast to mark the beginning of the year’s morning meal program. It was in the gym-nasium that the announce-ment was made of a $5,000 donation for the program by the Mosaic Extreme School Makeover through Breakfast for Learning. Hillcrest was one of two schools to re-ceive the funding, the second one being W.J. Berezowsky School in Prince Albert.

Joining the students on the walk were members of city council, the Minister of Education Russ Marchuk, Breakfast for Learning mem-ber Donna Ziegler and mem-bers of both the Southeast Cornerstone School Division and United Way Estevan.

The money will go towards the school’s daily breakfast program that is ac-cessed by about 70 per cent of their students. Principal Kathy Fowler said they will also be looking at implement-ing some further initiatives to go hand-in-hand with the breakfast program.

“We have a vision to try to add in some new pro-grams,” she said. “One of the things we’re seriously look-ing at is a gardening program in our school that will engage our students in growing those healthy foods and then of course, hopefully consuming

those healthy foods.”Implementing the actual

garden on school grounds will be a lengthy process, Fowler said, adding that it will likely be more than a year before the vegetables begin to grow.

“It will require making adaptations to our schoolyard. We currently don’t have a place that would grow veg-etables,” Fowler said. “We’ve got a bigger picture planned to map out a new vision for how we’re going to use our schoolyard in a way that is environmentally healthy and promotes students’ under-standing of the need to eat healthfully everyday.”

Sara Pippus is the school community co-ordinator, and with that post, she has a big role in what is happening with the breakfast program. She touts the improvements teachers have seen in stu-dents’ behaviour and atten-tion levels since the breakfast program was implemented.

“When we fi rst started, we had a lot of people say, ‘you’re going to lose time at the start of class time because the kids are allowed to come back to class and fi nish (their food),’” said Pippus. “We had people ask us about the loss of time, but what we found is the time we are gaining right around 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock, when breakfast makes the biggest difference in a child’s body, is gained back. We gain back about two hours of time every day.”

A typical breakfast in-cludes whole-wheat toast, fresh fruit, cereals, some kind of protein and beverage, either milk or fruit juice.

“We make sure they get

a well-rounded breakfast,” Pippus said.

There are also a number of hot breakfasts throughout the year, and they also pro-vide some hot lunches for students who require them.

“It means that our kids are benefi ting throughout the day. The loss of time during the day when they don’t eat breakfast is incredible.”

Pippus wasn’t always a

believer of the benefi ts of a good breakfast. She told her children to make sure they had something to eat, but didn’t really appreciate the importance of the meal.

“When I came here, I realized just what a difference it made during the day in class time. It really, really makes a big difference. Breakfast is incredible the way it changes the way kids feel about them-

selves. Everybody is on an equal playing fi eld. Every-body gets the same thing in the morning. Everybody starts the same when they come here.”

In order to apply for the Mosaic grant, the school had to make a formal application, which included outlining not just that they were in need, but also that they were pre-pared to put in the hard work.

“What we needed to put into the grant applica-tion was a demonstration of need,” said Fowler, “but more importantly, we needed to let them know some of the things we’re doing with the money and how we would use it in our school to support students in their learning. It was visionary in a lot of ways, but also built on a lot of the programs that we have.”

Breakfast program still has room to grow

There is help on the way, but not immediately.

That’s the word re-ceived by Estevan’s lone conservation offi cer, Ryan Krienke, regarding the con-servation offi cer status in the local region.

Krienke fi nds himself as the lone offi cer on call these days following the departure of senior offi cer Mick Bakke who accepted a transfer to the Assiniboia region.

Krienke, who is now the senior and lone conser-vation offi cer, said he’ll be relying on the general pub-

lic, and the hunters and fi sh-ers in particular, to help him maintain a steady profi le of law enforcement as it relates to wildlife, environment and conservation matters.

“I have been told that a newly certifi ed conservation offi cer, Kyle Hanson, will be coming here, but he’s not expected until January of next year,” said Krienke who has been on the job in the Estevan region for the past six years.

“He’s in Hinton, Alber-ta right now completing his additional necessary courses and that will take him up

to the end of December,” Krienke said.

Hanson will be required to pass all the certifi cation requirements prior to his posting.

“It could be a tough fall. The hunting season is on us now, so I’m on call and I’ll maintain the local profi le the best I can. In the meantime, those who can help turn in poachers or help in any other way, just by being compliant with the rules and regula-tions, it will be appreciated,” he said.

For certain matters that require enforcement, Krien-

ke or others can call on other law enforcement agencies or offi cers to assist.

The provincial TIP line (turn in poachers) is 1-800-667-7561.

“I believe Kyle is origi-nally from the Strasbourg area, his wife Kayla is a teacher and she’s fi nishing up a teaching contract in Humboldt right now so they won’t be able to begin their move to Estevan right away. I expect they’ll be moving to Estevan in January. They’ll be seeking accommodations and all that goes with that process,” said Krienke.

Conservation offi cer is temporarily a lone wolf in local region

Hillcrest School students marched through the neighbourhood on Sept. 7, for their Walk to Breakfast cam-

paign. The walk featured teachers, parents, city council members and others and marked the start of the

school’s daily breakfast program.

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Rodeo Parade Highlights

Horses are an integral part of the annual Estevan

Rodeo and the kick-off parade that was held Friday

afternoon just prior to the fi rst night of rodeo action

on the exhibition grounds.

The fi rst of several impressive fl oats in this year’s Estevan Rodeo Parade on Friday afternoon was produced by Weatherford who dressed up a pumpjack to pay

tribute to rodeo action.

Southern Plains Co-op entered a colourful and active fl oat for Estevan Rodeo Parade viewers.

There were new convertibles as well as old-time rides

provided by horses, ponies and buggies that were

depicted colourfully in this year’s Estevan Rodeo

parade last Friday afternoon.

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Norm Park

All Things Considered

If it were simply a matter of where a political party leader was from, election results would be a lot different, wouldn’t they?

Take the 2011 Saskatchewan provincial election in which the NDP were wiped off the map in rural Saskatchewan.

Then NDP leader Dwain Lingenfelter (a Shaunavon area farm boy who worked extensively in the oil sector after his fi rst 20-year stint in politics) should have been able to relate to rural Saskatchewan as well or better than Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall.

Having grown up in Swift Current and as the son of a small businessman, Wall certainly had his own rural pedigree. But shouldn’t Dwain Lingenfelter have been able to relate to rural Saskatchewan at least as well as Brad Wall?

Of course, it doesn’t work that way and anyone with even

Next NDP leader will face rural struggles

the most rudimentary understanding of Saskatchewan politics knows why.

It has to do with the 30-plus year history of NDP govern-ment policies that were unpopular in rural Saskatchewan. In fact, not since the late the 1970s under Allan Blakeney have the NDP consistently won rural seats.

Yes, there was that brief period in the early 1990s when ru-ral voters, frustrated with the incompetence and later-discovered corruption of the Grant Devine Progressive Conservatives, turned to Roy Romanow’s NDP like everyone else in the province. But the success of Romanow - who was as urban in nature as any political leader Saskatchewan ever had - was fl eeting at best.

In fact, it was the policies and choices of both the Blakeney and Romanow governments (Crown-owned resource compa-nies, rural hospital closures, etc.) that drove rural voters away from the NDP. More free market oriented by nature, the rural Saskatchewan’s philosophical departure with the NDP has been decades in making.

And while Lorne Calvert (a Moose Jaw boy only slightly more rooted to the rural mindset than Blakeney and Romanow) did somehow manage to win an election relying only on the city vote, Lingenfelter had no such chance.

Even if Lingenfelter hadn’t abandoned his rural seat for the safety of inner city Regina two decades earlier, it would still have been impossible for him to make inroads back into rural Saskatchewan. (And talking about hammering potash and oil companies with higher royalties was not helpful.)

Yet here we are in another NDP leadership race and we

again see the NDP desperately trying to revive its rural roots that have long ago died.

Upon unveiling the 14 regional forum debates between next month and the March 9 NDP leadership vote, party organizers proudly announced nine of those forums would be outside Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and Prince Albert. (Those NDP forums include: Humboldt, Nov. 22; Swift Cur-rent, Nov. 29; Melfort, Dec. 1; Rosetown, Jan. 12; Weyburn, Jan. 19; North Battleford, Jan. 24; and Yorkton, Jan. 31.)

It is a nice gesture, but it will surely take more than a few lip-service leadership debates in rural Saskatchewan - debates, aimed at the dwindling numbers of already committed NDP members, anyway - to win back the hearts and votes of rural voters.

For starters, the rumoured candidates in the NDP leader-ship like Cam Broten and Ryan Meili (Saskatoon)and Erin Weir and Trent Wotherspoon (Regina) all are based in the larger urban centres. (Although some of these candidates, like most everyone else from this province, do have some rural roots.)

Again, where you are from isn’t always the most critical issue in relating to rural voters. But not much of what we are hearing from today’s NDP is piquing the interests of rural voters.

And the cold, hard reality of this is whoever assumes the NDP leadership will inherit this 30-plus-year legacy of Saskatchewan New Democrats not being in tune with the rural vote.

So far, there is little indication that this will change any time soon.

There have been discussions held recently among business organiza-tions such as the chambers of commerce, mayors, councillors and provincial administrators regarding the pros and cons of providing communities the opportunity to establish a small additional tax to enable them to complete more infrastructure work in a timely manner.

The city-invoked taxes, of one per cent for instance, could be applied to all retail sales right at the counter. In some communities south of the border, where they are allowed to add these local taxes, the additional money often comes from the hospitality industry, meaning a one per cent tax on all hotel, motel and bed and breakfast rooms. This kind of tax usually gets a green light from local residents since it is usually applied to visitors to their city or town ... not the local population, much like a toll or user fee is paid for the use of a highway or bridge.

With cities such as Estevan crying out for more funds to address grow-ing needs for roads, sewers, waterlines, sidewalks, drainage systems, parks and street lights ... the local tax idea is perhaps one whose time has come.

If such a tax were allowed, there would have to be restrictions in place to make certain there would be no abuses of the privilege.

Estevan and the RM of Estevan have already added a fraction of a mill to property taxes to accommodate our growing health-care professional needs, which leads us to the negative aspect of such a concept.

By implementing a local tax, would we simply be letting our provincial and federal governments off the hook? Why give them more leeway to spend our money recklessly? They can’t do the job with the money we’ve given them so far without going deeper in debt, so why give them another out?

We have a diffi cult enough time getting them to return our money now to help us build nursing homes, arenas, highways and lagoon systems. What would they do if they knew Estevan and other cities had the ability to re-tax the taxpayers?

On the positive side, a local taxation system on retail or hospitality industries would provide communities with more fl exibility and allow us to move necessary projects along at a faster clip.

With the history we have of taxpayers watching over city halls like vultures, we wouldn’t expect a whole lot of abuse of the additional income, but we could expect a whole lot of debate over what to spend it on. But then, that is why we elect city councillors and a mayor.

As it stands now, a rapidly growing Saskatchewan is also rapidly fall-ing behind in necessary portfolios such as health, highways and education. Something needs to be done.

Any business person can tell the politicians that rapid growth can be just as deadly to a business as lack of growth and right about now, Saskatchewan is heading down that path. Our growth is outpacing our provincial government’s ability to accommodate it. Look at our highways as exhibit No. 1

We’ve seen a sad situation already unfold on the local scene with our feckless response to the need for affordable housing. We’re four years be-hind on the housing front and by the time we catch up, there will be a new need that will be lacking in attention because we’ve spent our resources trying to house a population that may, or may not, still be here.

If we can’t sustain and stabilize while growing ... then we’re in trouble. Those who arrive in our city and can’t fi nd housing at a reasonable price will simply quit coming, then what?

A local tax might provide the opportunity for Estevan to be pro-active rather than continually fi nding ourselves in a reactive mode.

Fresh income sources

Saskatchewan is evolving and I have a sneaking suspicion the rest of Canada ... nay, the rest of the world really doesn’t know what to do about it. They don’t know what to think about Saskatchewan once they fi nd it on the map. They know we’re humming. but really don’t know how we’re doing it.

To begin with, there is no real head offi ce mentality in Saskatch-ewan. Oh sure, Bradley made the potash companies set some up in Saskatoon, but that’s about it. They didn’t like it, but if you’re gonna make billions of dollars in Saskatch-ewan, you might want to be here once in awhile.

Viterra moved out and the rest of the supposed head offi ces are actually Crown corporations or provincial co-operatives. For that reason alone, those top dawgs have to settle here.

Having no head offi ce mental-ity can be a good thing though.

Major oil companies pretty well ignore us from a head offi ce perspective. Heck, even the non-major oil companies like to give us short shrift until we remind them where they make all their millions. So they all appear on occasion to dribble a few million back at us, and we smile and say thank you and ask them to go away again until we call.

Grain companies also like to ignore us. They know better, but can’t help it. They must follow the pack. We have this farming thing pretty well down pat now. But no head offices. We only grow the stuff here.

Airlines prefer not to have to deal with Saskatchewan. We just

Not reaching out to the rest of the world

awkward up their tidy schedules. And besides that, we don’t change our time zones every six months. What’s with that? Just another goofy Saskatchewan thing. Send the junk planes in and get out as quick as you can.

The train people have been ignoring Saskatchewan since 1890. Once they got the track laid through here in four days, they pretty well disappeared from the radar except when they stop long enough to pick up some wheat ... and now some oil to ship somewhere else. Pick up people? Forgedaboudit.

Bus lines don’t think much of us either, that’s why we have our own Crown bus business.

Financial institutions like us, but not enough to invest much ef-fort in terms of bright lights, bright minds or big buildings. We’re the farm system for them.

When it comes to manufactur-ing, well, the big dawgs are trying to fi gure us out too. You see, the aforementioned farmers know how to build things. We have all kinds of inventive, clever manufacturing going on here for short-line equip-ment. But no major players on the roster. The big stuff has to be built somewhere else. A steel mill? Ya godda be kiddin’. You mean they have one?

But it’s not just business and in-dustry that doesn’t quite understand

Saskatchewan, neither does the rest of Canada. They are bemused by our recent ascent to the top of the Con-federation heap. They keep telling us that we can’t be serious and we keep telling them to keep dreaming.

Alberta and Manitoba are jealous. Alberta hit the overcooked line a few years ago and Manitoba hasn’t fi gured out what to do outside of Winnipeg for the last 80 years. Then there is B.C. Anyone want B.C? Bids are being accepted for Canada’s wackiest province. Where does that province fi nd its premiers?

Quebec doesn’t care what hap-pens in Saskatchewan or anywhere else. Ontario wishes it didn’t care. The Atlantic provinces get us, but they’re too far away to do anything about it and those airlines, buses and trains we talked about make it too diffi cult for us to really connect regularly.

So here we sit in our geographi-cal glory ... basking in the sunshine of success, wondering what we should do next, after we’ve built that stadium in Regina.

Somehow I kinda wish the rest of them don’t catch on to what’s happening. It’s sorta neat that we’re doing this on our own agenda. A little recognition from Ottawa would be nice ... but we don’t want too much because then they’d be unleashing their crazies on us, and we might not take too kindly to their intervention style.

So hey, what say we just sorta keep muddling along here with our 1.1 million people, creating waves on all fronts but not making a lot of noise. And if you don’t get it, then we’ll Corner Gas ya until ya do.

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Editor’s note: Follow-ing the publication of a let-ter of apology to the public from a young offender who had been involved in a spray-painting vandalism event at St. Mary’s and Spruce Ridge Schools, two other young offenders have stepped up with letters of their own which they re-quested be added for public consumption since they, too, wanted to express their regrets in their own words.

Since the young of-fenders cannot be identi-fied, The Mercury has once again had their letters of apology authenticated by alternative measures co-cordinator Calista Spencer who assured us that these letters were written and submitted by two others who had been involved in the graffiti incident. We reprint them as presented with only minor editing.

Two more vandals step up

to issue public apologies

Apology: I’m very sorry for what

my friends and I did on the night of April 1. What we did was spray paint on St. Mary’s and Spruce Ridge Schools.

I am sorry and I still regret it to this day. It was a foolish act of stupid-ity. This affects the whole community. I regret this because I had to pay a fi ne and do a lot of chores at home.

This was stupid be-cause it made the commu-nity look bad. This affects the community because the school had to pay to get the paint off so kids couldn’t learn the bad slang.

I hope the community accepts my apology.

Apology: On the night of April

1, I was spray painting two

schools along with five other friends. We were ap-prehended at Spruce Ridge School and charged with mischief.

I feel bad for what I have done. My actions have not only affected myself but my family, the schools and the students by putting stress on my family and having the schools have to clean the walls and pay to have it cleaned, also showing kids inappropriate words and slang.

I am truly sorry for my actions and I apologize to my community for making it look bad.

I had to pay a fi ne of $740 for the schools. My parents gave me a bunch of chores to do as well.

I have learnt that doing things such as this puts a lot of stress on my parents and causes a lot of problems to the schools with cleaning.

The Editor:Member of Parliament

Ed Komarnicki and the Conservative Party are put-ting our children’s health at risk through their irrespon-sible attitude to trans fats in our foods.

Trans fats increase the risk of heart disease and are estimated to be responsible for thousands of cardiac deaths annually in Canada. Unlike salt or sugars used in appropriate amounts, there are absolutely no health benefi ts to processed trans fats, but they cause consid-erable harm.

The Conservative gov-ernment used to recognize these risks: back in 2007 it called for the food industry to voluntarily limit the trans

Gov’t putting children’s

health at greater riskfat content of vegetable oils and soft spreadable marga-rines to two per cent of the total fat content and to fi ve per cent for all other foods. They promised to regulate the industry if these limits were not met in two years.

That two-year limit expired in 2009. Not only have the Conservatives reneged on their plan to im-pose regulations to protect Canadians and their chil-dren from trans fats, they are also cancelling the trans fat monitoring program!

This is completely wrong-headed. As Sir Mi-chael Marmot, former pres-ident of the British Medical Association, puts it, “you don’t tell people to drink clean water - you provide clean water ... you don’t tell people to avoid trans fats - you get it out of the food supply.”

Trans fats must be re-moved from the food sys-tem. Canadians should be able to trust that the foods they and their children eat will be healthy and not cause harm. This will not only improve health, it will also relieve the strain on our medicare system, saving taxpayers as much as $9 billion on health care over the next two decades.

The Liberal Party is committed to ensuring tough new regulations to re-strict trans fats in our foods-a position Mr. Komarnicki and the Conservatives once held. It is time to call them on that broken promise.

Yours sincerely, Dr. Hedy Fry, MP - Health Critic, Liberal Party of Canada

The Editor:(The following is an

open letter to Canada Post and Prime Minster Stephen Harper.)

I have written to this newspaper, along with a few others, in order to make my plea public, and perhaps convince you (Canada Post) to reconsider your decision to say no to our veterans and it may move our prime minister to help.

I am unoffi cially writ-ing on behalf of all Korean War veterans and for those 516 brave Canadian men that died during the war. Those buried on the Korean peninsula remain silent but they are not forgotten by me, their comrades, fami-lies and many others.

Canada Post repre-sents all of Canada and the stamps produced each year play an important part in portraying Canadian life and history. Since the end of the War in 1953, only a single, Canadian Korean War themed postage stamp has been made and you re-fuse to make another.

The war lasted three long years, and tragically saw the death of several million soldiers and civil-ians from both sides of the front line. This world his-torical event involved many allied countries who fought for the fi rst time under the United Nations banner and with a just cause, to stop a war. I ask you both now, the corporation and prime min-ister, why will Canada Post not honour our veterans who succeeded in winning the greatest prize - peace.

Next year is the 60th anniversary of the Korean War ceasefi re, and before it is too late when our vet-erans have all passed on, please reconsider your de-cision NOT to recognize this important historical event with a lasting national honour, a commemorative postage stamp.

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An Estevan woman is moving half way around the world to help impoverished children fi nd a better future.

Tareina Hunt will be spending six months in the Philippines where she will join up with Young Focus, an organization that works with children from poverty stricken families in the south-east Asian country.

Hunt said she came to the idea of volunteering in the Philippines through her friends, former Estevan resi-dents Tracey and Jonathan Heppner. The son of mis-sionaries who operate an orphanage just outside of the capital city Manila, Jonathan spent a number of years in the Philippines as a youth and the family moved back to the country over a year ago.

“I was talking to Tracey and Jonathan; I love to travel and I wanted to sort of give back and this seemed like the perfect opportunity given what I do for a living,” said Hunt who is the owner/oper-ator of Nut-Nae Art Websites and Graphics.

“I wasn’t sure where I wanted to go and I was looking into a few different options, but because Jona-than and Tracey are there, it

gives me a head start to know someone where I am going.”

Although she admits the whole adventure is a bit overwhelming, Hunt said she is looking forward to the trip, noting that the need for volunteers in the Philippines is huge.

“I won’t be one of those people who says ‘I’ll be 100 per cent prepared,’” she said. “I’ve been to Asia before and I have been to Third World countries before, but I haven’t lived there. I’ve tried to educate myself through reading about the country and watching as many videos as I can as far as seeing what exactly is going on and where I’ll be needed to help.”

Founded in 1992 in Hol-land, Young Focus takes a somewhat different approach to assisting children as they work with them directly in their own environment such as the Manila slum area Smoky Mountain which is a massive garbage dump. Hunt said thousands of families live on or around the dump and make a living from scav-enging recyclable items from the garbage or from mak-ing charcoal from collected pieces of wood.

“They build little huts

there and they rummage through the garbage to fi nd things to eat or plastic to recycle. So what (Young Fo-cus) does is, they try to fi nd kids from that area and give them sponsorship to be able to go to school and they also teach programs and classes at their facility in order to help bring children up to speed if they haven’t been to school when they are younger.

“They help young adults learn skills to start a business and they help malnourished babies.”

Aside from the pro-grams Young Focus offers, the group also has a student centre which has comput-ers for students to do their schoolwork and for private use as well as staff to as-sist the children. There are also educational programs and rooms for English and math tutorials; workshops on relevant subjects; career planning, a library and rec-reational areas.

“Some families in the Philippines, they just don’t see education as important a lot of times because their parents aren’t educated. Sometimes kids will go to

school for a couple of years and then they’ll have to work at as young as six or seven-years-old and drop out of school, so Young Focus will take them and get them back up to speed and then try to get them back into education programs and in school.”

In speaking with the di-rector of Young Focus, Hunt has learned she’ll be able to help out in whatever area she chooses. However she hopes

to see all of what Young Fo-cus has to offer.

“A lot of it is going to be fi gured out when I get there,” she said. “I’ve been in touch with Paul, the director, quite a few times and between fi guring out exactly what my day-to-day schedule is going to be and where I am going to live, all those things will be decided once I get there.”

Prior to her departure, Hunt set a goal of fi nding 10

sponsors to support Young Focus’ education program and accomplished that goal in a short period of time. Anyone interested in assist-ing the organization can do so by going to http://www.youngfocus.org/whatcanu-do-sponsor.html.

Hunt also has a blog that she will be updating while she is in the Philippines. It can be found at tareinahunt.blogspot.ca.

Friday, Sept. 14 has been declared Canadian Federation of University Women’s Day in Saskatch-ewan by the provincial government.

The federation, with close to 9,000 members in 110 clubs across Canada, is one of 62 national affi liate members of the Internation-al Federation of University Women.

To acknowledge the day, the Souris Valley Mu-seum is granting free ad-mission to all visitors on Friday.

The CFUW’s mission is to improve the status of women and girls; work for human rights and peace.

The organization also supports educational pro-grams and the local chapter does so by raising funds for an annual scholarship awarded to a deserving female graduate of the Estevan Comprehensive School.

Since its founding in 1919, the CFUW mem-bers have helped Canadian women pursue graduate studies through their Na-

tional Fellowships and Awards Program.

C o l l e c t i v e l y, t h e CFUW clubs award more than $1 million each year in the form of scholarships and bursaries to help wom-en in their local communi-ties pursue post-secondary studies.

T h e o rg a n i z a t i o n pointed out that since wom-en still earn only 71 per cent of what men do in the tra-ditional workforce, the cost of education is higher for females since it takes them longer to pay student loans.

In the past year CFUW members have attended the United Nations Commis-sion on the Status of Wom-en in New York, met with Canadian MPs and partici-pated in the Food Dialogue Project on Women’s Rights and Food Security hosted by Oxfam Canada. They also participated in the round table debate hosted by the Canadian Network to abolish nuclear weapons as well as other sessions in-volving issues pertaining to women and girls nationally and internationally.

University Women Clubs mark

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Hunt to focus on youth in Philippines

Tareina Hunt

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The numbers aren’t firm yet, but early indi-cations are that official enrolment numbers in Es-tevan and area schools should be up slightly this year, continuing a trend that began a couple of years ago that broke a decades-long string of decreasing registration numbers in southeast Sas-katchewan elementary and high schools.

“The numbers will be up across the entire system, by about 1.5 per cent,” said Marc Casa-vant, director of educa-tion for the South East Cornerstone Public School Division.

But those were just the early numbers and Casavant said he was re-luctant to reveal all the registration figures un-til nearer the end of the month when the official school attendance fi gures are registered with the provincial government.

“We’ll be over 8,200

students,” said Casavant. In the Holy Family

Roman Catholic Separate School Division, the story is pretty well identical.

“We’re up by about 26 students with the early registration fi gures,” said their education director Shelley Rowein.

“Our total attendance is over 1,000, it’s at 1,068 right now,” she added. “And if we add in the pre-kindergarten programs, it’s at 1,107.”

The two sepa ra te schools in Estevan have recorded a shift in de-mographics, leaving St. Mary’s School on the city’s east side with 219 students and Sacred Heart/Sacre Coeur on the west side with 284. Sacred Heart offers the city’s only French immersion program at the elementary school level.

“We had a doubled up pre-kindergarten program at St. Mary’s last year and we needed to move one

of them to Sacred Heart this year, which means that St. Mary’s enrolment numbers will be showing them down a bit while Sacred Heart will be up,” Rowein said.

“We have more stu-dents entering school at the kindergarten levels now than we have students who are graduating from Grade 8,” Rowein added.

The change has left Sacred Heart with a temporary overcrowd-ing situation that sees the Grade 7 and 8 French immersion class taking up residence in a corner of the s c h o o l l i -brary until

Christmas. At that point, it is hoped that construction of a new portable class-room will be completed.

“We had problems with the first contractor and had to get another

company to do the work, so the project was de-layed,” Rowein explained.

Hahn Construction of Estevan has now taken over the project.

Overcrowding is not yet an issue in most of the 38 facilities operated by Cornerstone, although Spruce Ridge School is pretty well near capacity. said Casavant. There are only a few schools across their system that will be showing decreases while many report pretty stable registration situations.

“Hillcrest is stable, Pleasantdale is up a bit as is Spruce Ridge, but there is room for more at Pleas-antdale. Westview will be about the same and ECS is up nicely right now, but could change by the end of the month. That’s all pretty positive,” said Casavant.

Around other com-munities in the southeast, the situation is similar with Carievale showing a signifi cant increase in kin-

dergarten numbers this fall while Alameda, Carnduff, Lampman, Macoun and Oxbow are all showing stable numbers compared with last year’s early reg-istration computations.

Besides Spruce Ridge and Pleasantdale, there will be increases at Lyn-dale School in Oungre, the division’s only offi-cial “school of necessity,” meaning that it cannot be closed due to geographical location and accessibility for students residing in that area of the province.

Stability in numbers is also being indicated at Fillmore’s 33 Central School and Bienfait’s Wel-don School while small de-creases are being recorded in Stoughton and Midale.

S p e c i f i c w o r k i n g numbers that are used by the Ministry of Educa-tion to provide funding for each of the schools across the province aren’t recorded until the end of September.

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Plans for a residential program for young female victims of abuse and other issues are in the works through the Choose Life Ministry.

The local ministry was founded earlier this year by Glen Ewen resi-dent Shelley Boyes. It will offer a home for women between 18 and 29, who are suffering from drug addiction, eating disorders or abuse to seek freedom from those life-controlling issues.

Boyes dec ided to found the ministry fol-

New program asks young women to choose lifelowing some experiences with her daughters.

“I’ve had some trag-edy in my life,” she said, noting she lost a daugh-ter who was killed in an alcohol-related car ac-cident. “I’ve also had two younger daughters who have struggled with drugs and alcohol. There’s lots of bad things that happen to people. Everybody has a story.”

Boyes said she ap-proaches these issues through her faith, particu-larly referring to a line of scripture that reads, “Do

not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

The Choose Life Min-istry is now holding its inaugural red carpet gala on Sept. 21 at the Living Hope Community Church in Estevan.

Boyes said it was after the turmoil in her family’s lives that she decided to find what positives could come of it.

“As I was working through all of this, I tried to establish the good that could come out of this kind of tragedy,” said Boyes.

She was introduced to a home in Nashville called Mercy Ministries, which has chapters across North America and is the basis for Boyes’ program.

She said the success rate for women leading productive lives coming out of that program is above 90 per cent. Boyes became a partner with the ministry, and as she got more involved, she thought it was something that could be implemented in southeast Saskatch-ewan.

“I put it on the shelf for awhile, then I said, ‘OK, if this is the direc-tion I’m supposed to be going, I need some open doors.’ Then everything really just kind of fell into place.”

In January, Choose Life Ministry registered as a non-profit corporation, establishing a five-person board of directors. Since that time, they have part-nered with a number of people and have had 30 to 40 acres of land donated just west of the Manitoba border and north of the North Dakota borderline.

That is where the home will be built, with plans to construct a build-ing that can house 20 women. The plans have been drawn, and they are now looking to secure funding to build the home.

Boyes noted that they will run their program entirely in-house, and the women who seek help

from Choose Life Ministry will be residents of the program for a minimum of six months.

“It’s going to be mod-elled a lot after Mercy Ministries, but we do have some really good pro-gramming in our church for helping people work through addiction issues,” said Boyes. “It’s an ex-tremely structured pro-gram.”

The women are in-cluded in house duties, and will do a little bit of clean-ing and their own laundry. They are responsible for all the things they would do if they lived in a regular home, said Boyce.

As a faith-based or-ganization, there will be Bible study and worship sessions included in the program. There will be both individual and group counselling offered at the residence, delivered by certified counsellors, as well as a fitness compo-nent, with volleyball and soccer offered outside and a fitness room available for the winter months.

“Some of the girls that come to the home prob-ably won’t have finished their Grade 12, so they’ll have an opportunity to do that, and that will be instructed by certified teachers as well. The girls who have completed their Grade 12 will have the opportunity to learn other skills.”

Boyes noted that after being there for a certain

length of time, visitors would be allowed to come see the residents.

Staff will be on-hand at the home around the clock, and Boyes said they will likely be employing interns from Bible col-leges to run the day-to-day operation of the building.

Boyes said women find themselves in need of a program like this for a number of reasons, but of-ten there are similarities in the source of the problem.

“A lot of times the root causes are the same. It’s maybe a hurt or a wound that they’ve expe-rienced, or maybe a loss in their lives that’s caus-ing them (leading to the trouble).”

She said they will likely be about two years raising funds before they will be able to build the res idence, and in the meantime are looking to partner with individuals who can provide small monthly donations.

The Sept. 21 fund-raiser is going to be an “elegant and exquisite” evening, said Boyes. With a red carpet leading to the main doors, valet parking will be available for all.

The evening will in-clude a dinner emceed by former Estevanite Wil-liam Sinclair and feature comedian Matt Jernigan. There will be a presenta-tion on the ministry and a live auction to cap off the evening. Doors open for the Sept. 21 event at 6 p.m.

The provincial govern-ment says it is keeping one of its election promises and arenas throughout the province will be the ones to benefi t.

During the 2011 pro-vincial election, the Sask. Party said it would pro-vide support for community rinks, many of which are vital hubs of year-round activity in their towns and cities.

From now until No-vember 30, communities, non-profits, schools and rink boards can register their rinks for the $2,500 per ice surface grant which can be used to help fund operating costs and minor capital upgrades.

“The government un-derstands that rinks are the centre of activity in many communities during the winter months,” Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Kevin Doherty said. “This grant will help ensure that our province’s rinks contin-ue to be well-operated and well-maintained. It is one of the ways our government is ensuring Saskatchewan people benefi t from the op-portunities generated by our growing province.”

The government is committing $1.9 million to the grant program. The Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association will administer and deliver the grant.

“The Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation As-sociation is excited to be part of this grant program,” Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association board president Darrell Lessmeister said. “Our organization is confident that these funds will help improve community rinks across the province. It will support opportunities for people in urban, rural and remote locations, to par-ticipate in winter sports and recreational activities.”

To register, please complete the online form on Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association’s website at http://www.spra.sk.ca/Grant.

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The third, and maybe fi nal book in the female hockey trilogy penned by Lampman/Estevan author Maureen Ulrich, was re-vealed to the public last Wednesday evening at the Estevan Public Library.

Breakaway is the lat-est young adult novel that traces the trials, tribula-tions and adventures of a young hockey player Jess and her teammates, fami-lies and friends.

The three-novel writ-ing adventure began be-fore 2007 which was the publishing date for the fi rst book in the series. That fi rst novel, Faceoff, was followed by Power Plays published in 2010.

“This book is Jessie’s coming of age,” said Ul-rich prior to reading a few excerpts from Breakaway.

“Power Plays dealt with team confl ict and now she’s coping with con-fl ict within herself in this book,” Ulrich explained.

“Jess also has to deal with her moral compass

Ulrich launches third novel in female hockey trilogy

Maureen Ulrich displaying her three young adult novels, the latest being Break-

away which was given an offi cial launching party at the Estevan Public Library

last Wednesday. The book is available at Henders Drugs and publisher Coteau

has also made it available for online purchase.

and she learns that her parents are smarter than she thought they were. It deals with girls’ hockey ... Estevan ... relationships, including her relationship with Mark.”

In writing a series such as this, Ulrich enter-tained her audience by list-ing 10 things she’s learned while writing a female hockey trilogy.

Some of those les-sons included the fact that it was much harder than originally anticipated when it came to keeping track of all the characters in the stories as they un-folded and “I came to hate the word puck.”

She sa id she a lso learned that a few well-placed swear words can belong in a young adult novel and there can be too many sub-plots in a novel.

“One o f t he be s t things about writing is

hearing from a person who is not a reader, that they actually read one of my books. That’s a compli-ment,” she said.

A retired teacher, Ul-rich said she can deliver messages and do things through her books that she could never do as a classroom educator.

Ulrich paid tribute to her family (Randy and daughters Robin and Blaire) for their support and to Coteau Books, her publisher who have also placed Breakaway online as an eBook.

“I learned from fail-ures and didn’t let that beat me down,” she said with a smile just before she ended the formal part of the evening’s event to socialize with those in at-tendance and to sign cop-ies of the book purchased by interested fans and readers.

since she’s been named team captain. So now she has to lead by example

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A two vehicle accident north of the Estevan Compre-hensive School that resulted in one vehicle rolling into a ditch fortunately did not result in any major injuries to any of the three people who were involved.

Estevan Police Service (EPS) members reported that a vehicle travelling east on a grid road during daylight hours on Thursday, Sept. 6, collided with a southbound vehicle. The impact forced the southbound vehicle to-ward the southeast ditch where it struck a roadside ridge and rolled.

The eastbound vehicle also spun off the road, ending up in the same ditch.

A nine-year-old passen-ger in the southbound vehicle was not seriously hurt, nor were the two drivers of the ve-hicles. All walked away from the event with only minor cuts and scrapes. They were taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital for further examination before being released.

The incident remains un-der investigation and charges against the driver of the east-bound vehicle are pending.

During that same day shift, EPS members were called to a local business in re-sponse to a report of a distur-bance that involved a person who had been dismissed from the premises the previous day. The man had returned and

Collision victims escape serious injuries

started to cause problems again, refusing to leave the property. Police spoke with the man and he was sent on his way so no further action was required.

On the night of Sept. 7, EPS members were called to the local skate park in response to a report of young people drinking beer on the site. Police did not fi nd any alcohol in the area.

A strong odour of pro-pane that was noted at a local convenience store resulted in the attendance of EPS mem-bers plus members of Estevan Fire Rescue Services who dis-covered a propane tank on the premises that was faulty and leaking. Fire Rescue Services personnel removed and then disposed of the tank.

An alleged sexual assault that occurred at a residence on the north side of the city resulted in a young woman being taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital for examination while police established an investigation into the incident.

Police were next in-formed that two young people had been observed harassing an animal in the 1800 block of Dieppe Crescent on the night of Sept. 7. When police arrived, they discovered the animal in question was a dead rat. The young people were spoken to and sent on their way.

A domestic disturbance in the Royal Heights area of the city resulted in police attendance and the departure of one of the quarrelling par-

ties which restored the peace with no further police action required.

A fi ght that had broken out in the parking lot of a lo-cal convenience store resulted in police attending the scene. When they arrived, police found a 21-year-old male on the ground. The subject was conscious, but he was trans-ported to St. Joseph’s Hospital for medical treatment and an investigation into the incident is underway.

A male driver was then stopped by police due to his erratic driving actions. The 55-year-old was arrested and charged with impaired driv-ing. He now has an Oct. 22 court date.

The next call to police involved the sighting of a man lying on the ground near a local service station. When police arrived, they found a 49-year-old man in an extremely intoxicated condi-tion. He was lodged in cells until sober.

The next call to police was a 911 response call to a local hotel where a nude woman was reported run-ning down the hall frantically screaming for help. When EPS members arrived and spoke to the woman, she

stated she did not require police assistance, adding that she had been in an argument with her boyfriend but did not wish to fi le a complaint or submit a report.

Police next attended to the 1500 block of Wahlmeier Drive in response to a noise complaint. When they ar-rived, they discovered a large party in progress so the young person who was a resident in the home was advised to have the guests leave. If they did not, a charge under the city’s noise bylaw could be levied against her.

The next call to police involved a case of mistaken identity.

The caller reported that while he was parked at a local fast food restaurant, a younger man got into his vehicle and started to give him directions to a nearby mobile home court. The younger man soon realized that he was talking to the wrong person, so he got out of the vehicle and fl ed the scene. The caller felt that perhaps the intention of the action was supposed to lead to an illegal exchange so he wanted to alert police about the activity. Police made a search for the young man but were not successful.

On Sept. 8, EPS mem-bers were informed that a ve-hicle had been taken without the owner’s consent. Police were able to locate the person who had the vehicle and it was returned to the owner.

A report of suspicious behaviour was reported to police on Sept. 8. A group of young people had been spotted hurriedly leaving the playground area of Pleasant-dale School. When police arrived they discovered some cardboard had been lit on fi re in the school’s gazebo. Fire Rescue Services personnel were called to the scene to en-sure the fi re was extinguished

properly and the matter was placed under investigation. Anyone with further informa-tion regarding this incident is asked to contact EPS at 634-4767.

A call from a local res-taurant regarding a fi ght in progress resulted in police attending the scene. Two men were involved in the fracas and one was taken to hospital for examination. After he was cleared medically he was held in cells until sober.

The next stop for police was to the 300 block of Per-kins Street in response to an assault. When they arrived police discovered the victim did not wish to proceed with charges against the assailant, so the matter required no further policing action.

Police next responded to a call regarding a fi ght at a local hotel. EPS members spoke to one of the men in-volved and he told them that some people in the lounge area of the hotel had been bothering his girlfriend and when he had stepped up to defend her, four men had jumped him, thus leading to the fi ght. The matter remains under investigation.

Three young men were stopped by police on the night of Sept. 8. The men, who were walking at the time, were found to be in possession of alcohol and so a 20-year-old was issued a ticket for having open alcohol in a public place.

On the night of Sept. 9, a young person was spotted throwing matches into a gar-bage bin behind the Estevan Shoppers Mall. The young person was spoken to by police who then inspected the garbage bins to ensure that no damage had been caused and no fi re had been started. The youth was further warned of the potential consequences of his actions.

Three people were injured in a two vehicle accident just north of Estevan last

week. (Photo courtesy of the Estevan Police Service)

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Another 115 trees of varying descriptions were planted in strategic areas of the city on Saturday morn-ing and afternoon thanks to the TD Bank Group and their Tree Day promotion.

Susan Colbow, who helped co-ordinate the event in Estevan, said almost two dozen volunteers, including seven TD Canada Trust em-ployees, family and friends did the planting work while

City of Estevan personnel including Gloria Johnson, had earlier mapped out and dug the holes in which the trees would be placed.

Shel ley Heidinger of Tree Canada said that Friends of the Environment program is now in its third year and this project by TD attracted 87 communities across the country with a target of planting 40,000 trees.

Colbow said she was impressed with the turnout since the event had to be planned quickly, but even with the short timeline, the local response was encour-aging.

Seventy of the trees in Estevan were planted around the perimeter and near a lane at the City Cem-etery while others found homes at Torgeson, Cen-tennial and Heritage Parks.

The area around the Estevan Collegiate Institute Memo-rial Park also welcomed a few new seedlings.

Johnson said that Colo-rado blue spruce, Black Hill spruce, some willows and lilacs were planted since they showed good growth potential for late in the sea-son and would grow even in the current dry conditions as long as they got off to a good start this fall.

TD Tree Day in the Energy City

This was the fi rst wave of volunteers who showed up for the TD Tree Day tree planting activities. By the time all had arrived there were more than 24 planters,

including seven employees of the Estevan branch of TD Canada Trust, putting 115 trees into the ground at fi ve diff erent locations.

Susan Colbow of TD Canada Trust Estevan and her

daughter Chelsey did their part in planting over 70

new trees at the Estevan City Cemetery as part of the

TD Tree Day activities.

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A case of hit and run in Lampman has resulted in damages being infl icted on a truck that was parked in the 200 block of Main Street according to infor-mation released by the Estevan detachment of the RCMP.

The damage occurred during the late hours of Saturday, Sept. 8 or early morning hours of Sept. 9. The red truck was hit by

another vehicle causing damage to the rear quarter panel and tail light on the driver’s side of the truck.

RCMP also reported that on that same evening a white Chevrolet quadcab truck that had been parked at the Lampman Legion was reported stolen. The vehicle was located at the Lampman landfi ll site west of Highway No. 605 on Sunday. The vehicle had

extensive damage to the front and police now be-lieve it could have been the vehicle used to damage the other truck that had been parked on Main Street.

Anyone with informa-tion regarding these two in-cidents that may be related, is asked to contact the Es-tevan detachment at 637-4400 or report anonymous-ly through Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

One truck stolen, another damaged in Lampman

A province wide blitz that focused on school zones was a big success.

Operat ion Student Safety saw 293 tickets is-sued to motorists speeding in school zones over Sept. 4 and 5, the fi rst two days of back-to-school for stu-dents across the province.

As of Sept. 7, law enforcement across the province have reported is-suing a total of 345 tickets to motorists throughout the blitz, including 293 for speeding in school zones, 16 for improper or

non-seatbelt use, six for using handheld cellphones behind the wheel and 30 tickets for other various offences.

The purpose of the monthly traffic safety blitzes, co-ordinated by SGI and law enforcement partners, is to raise aware-ness of various traffic safety issues and promote safe driving habits for all Saskatchewan motorists.

Last month’s Opera-tion Crossroads 2.0 re-sulted in 516 tickets being issued to Saskatchewan

motorists, including 216 for improper or non-seat-belt use, 51 for cellphone use while driving, 38 for disobeying red lights or stop signs and nearly 90 for speeding.

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The media release stated the federal govern-ment was moving forward with tough rules regarding greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired electrical power generating plants, but the announcement also bore information regarding a relaxing of the timeline re-quirements. That will come as a relief for SaskPower and others who are engaged in a $1.24 billion clean coal project at Estevan’s Boundary Dam, the results of which will have global implications.

Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent made the announcement on Sept. 5 regarding fi nal regulations aimed at reducing green-house gas emission (GHG) from coal-fi red plants.

The regulations ap-

ply stringent performance standards for new electric-ity generating units and old units such as those at Boundary Dam that have reached the end of their economic life. In the fi rst 21 years, the regulations are expected to result in a cu-mulative reduction in GHG emissions of about 214 megatonnes, the equivalent to removing 2.6 million personal vehicles per year from the road.

Reducing emissions from coal-fired plants, which are responsible for 11 per cent of Canada’s total GHG emissions — is an important step toward meet-ing Canada’s 2020 target of reducing greenhouse gas to 17 per cent below 2005 levels, the government said.

The new performance

standard for coal-fi red units will come into force July 1, 2015, a date that was announced in a statement made by Kent during a visit to Estevan last summer.

Ed Komarnicki, MP for Souris-Moose Moun-tain, applauded the decision since it took into account the concerns of the provincial government and SaskPower in relation to the clean-coal project that will see carbon dioxide captured and stored underground. The project is geared toward meeting and even exceeding the new standards, but won’t be able to be tested and monitored until the second half of 2014.

Some of the signifi cant changes, said Komarnicki, include changing the per-formance standard from 375 tonnes per gigawatt hour

to 420 tonnes per gigawatt hour, extending the end of life defi nition from 45 years to 50 years and allow-ing for due diligence to be completed with respect to the Boundary Dam Unit 3 referred to as BD3.

All of this, including the two levels of govern-ment working on a Sas-katchewan equivalency agreement with Environ-ment Canada, bodes well for the coal-fi red electricity sec-tor in southeast Saskatch-ewan, Komarnicki said.

“As an MP for this constituency with three coal-fired plants, I obvi-ously had a particular inter-est in this fi le. Establishing a satisfactory emissions standard we can live with is very important to this part of Saskatchewan in terms of jobs, growth and long-term

prosperity. In fact, all of Saskatchewan will benefi t from it.”

Komarnicki had noted earlier the federal govern-ment remains committed to carbon capture and stor-age projects, having in-vested $240 million into the Boundary Dam project at the outset.

“It’s a win-win situa-tion for everyone,” he said.

Kent denied that the regulations had been weak-ened, but rather it was more of a desire to fi nd the right timeline and balance to meet the 2020 targets while not harming the recovering economy.

The additional time-line (45 to 50 years for old power plants) will allow SaskPower ample time to determine how feasible carbon capture is with coal -fi red plants as well as time to roll out plans to refurbish

other older units at Bound-ary Dam in succeeding years.

The federal govern-ment is taking a sector-by-sector approach to reducing greenhouse gases. Instead of imposing a carbon tax or developing a cap and trade market that would reward clean energy alternatives over high emissions, it is gradually imposing restric-tions on emissions in each sector that emits pollutants.

Those regulations have been administered to the auto sector and renewable fuels, and now coal, which was labelled as being one of the more diffi cult sectors to approach.

Other sectors that still will require regulating in terms of emissions will be the oil and natural gas regimes. Those draft regula-tions are expected to be is-sued by spring of next year.

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“Establishing a satisfactory emissions standard

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benefi t from it.”– Ed Komarnicki

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A major workshop that focuses on helping music students, their parents and music teachers overcome the Practice Monster, will be staged in Estevan on Sunday, Sept. 23 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Music teacher Anita Kuntz, who is co-ordinator for the local event, said that Estevan was able to schedule this work-shop as an “add-on” to an earlier major workshop in Regina.

“The fact we’re able to get it here is pretty fortunate for us,” said Kuntz.

The workshop presented by Regal

Monster Productions will be staged at Trinity Lutheran Church, 738 Second Street in Estevan.

Paul Coates and The Monster will facilitate the musical interactive event that is all about reconnecting the musical team: the student, the parent and the teacher.

So if you are a music teacher who is frustrated with under-prepared students, a parent frustrated with your child’s prac-tice time and attention span, or a student who is bored with repeated practice and lessons, Coates probably has an answer.

The trained music motivator will provide inventive ways to make peace and suggest ways to make the practice experiences fun and that, in turn, will lead to more posi-tive results.

Coates brings a wealth of experience to this musical adventure, and offers a vari-ety of methods to explore with enthusiasm and well-balanced humour.

The event is about taking time to honour musical relationships by being physically, emotionally and mindfully present and by empowering one another

to acknowledge that we are all worthy to explore the language of music.

An accompanying release added that if you believe in the importance of music and the role you play in it and want to fi nd ways of making the journey more fun and creative, then register for the Practice Monster workshop.

More information regarding the workshop costs and other details may be obtained by contacting Kuntz at 634-7980.

Registration may also be conducted online at www.monsterworkshops.com

Monster musical workshop aimed at

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Sometime between Sunday, Sept. 2 and Tues-day, Sept. 4, diesel fuel was stolen from two dif-ferent locations outside the village of Hitchcock.

The Estevan detach-ment of the RCMP said that approximately 500 gallons were taken from one location and about 300

gallons removed during the second theft. In both cases, the fuel was being stored in 1,000 gallon tanks.

While police continue their investigation into the thefts, they also issue an advisory to farm and industrial producers to ensure that their fuel tanks and pumps are secured on

their property to discour-age any similar activities.

Anyone with infor-mation regarding either or both of these thefts is asked to contact the local detachment at 637-4400 or report what they know anonymously through Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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Sheldon Spilchuk, the incumbent trustee representing the Spruce Ridge district for the Holy Family Separate School Division, said last week he would not be seeking re-election in the Oct. 24 general election.

Citing ongoing work commitments as the main reason for his withdrawing from the race, Spilchuk, an independent businessman who owns and operates a custom meat cutting and processing business as well as a catering com-pany, said he needed to focus on the business.

Spilchuk was added to the Holy Family trustee roster late in the process following the 2009 general election since the fi rst and

One Holy Family trustee

not seeking re-electionsecond call for candidates went unanswered. It wasn’t until later on, in 2010, that he was persuaded to step into the role.

Spilchuk said the re-gion he represents is rather broad and there was a time and travel commitment to consider for any trustee since most of the Holy Family board and commit-tee meetings were held in Weyburn in the evenings.

Last week it was re-ported that Estevan rep-resentatives to the Holy Family board, Karen Melle and Bev Hickie were will-ing to run again, however Hickie said he was willing to step aside in the event there was some other seri-ous candidate seeking the position.

On the public school board side, Estevan rep-resentatives Janet Foord and Pam Currie announced a few months ago that they would be seeking re-election as trustees on the South East Cornerstone Public School Division board.

Rosemaling classes are being offered to local artists starting in October.

The Es tevan Ar t s Council and its visual arts committee announced that on two Saturdays next month, artist Cheryl Andrist will present the classes with all supplies provided through the reg-istration fees.

R o s e m a l i n g i s a Scandinavian art style of carved or painted decora-tions consisting of fl oral motifs painted or carved on furniture, dinnerware or walls.

The arts council in-vites local art ists and craftspeople to join in the fun while being able to take home a painted decoration.

For two weekends in November, Doris Sheldon, a well known and talented wood carver will present wood carving classes. Her work is displayed online at www.cottagecountrycarv-ing.com

For three Saturdays in November and into December, Darlene Martin will present her popular pottery classes to local participants. These classes will be geared toward children and teens as well as adults.

Further information regarding any or all of these classes, their start-ing dates, locations and registration fees may be obtained by contacting

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A new Statistics Can-ada report says Saskatch-ewan is leading the country in job creation.

According to a gov-ernment release, employ-ment in Saskatchewan rose by 20,100 between August 2011 and August 2012, an increase of 3.8 per cent - the highest percentage increase in employment among the provinces and almost four times the na-tional rate of 1 per cent.

In August 2012, there were 549,100 people em-ployed in the province - an all-time high for employ-ment in Saskatchewan, beating the previous record set this past June.

“Strong job numbers show the solid perfor-mance of our economy and refl ect the job opportuni-ties available in Saskatch-ewan today,” Economy Minister Bill Boyd said. “Today’s record numbers are exceptional and rein-force the confi dence that investors, businesses and working people have in our economy.

“Most importantly, this means there are plenty

of career opportunities for Saskatchewan people and those who want to move to Saskatchewan.”

Saskatchewan’s unem-ployment rate fell by 0.6 per cent in August to 4.4 per cent - tied with Alberta for the lowest unemploy-ment rate in the nation and well below the national average of 7.3 per cent.

Other highlights in-clude:

• Full-time employ-ment increased by 14,100 (3.1 per cent) and part-time increased by 6,100 (8.2 per

cent).• Regina’s employ-

ment was up by 1,300 (1 per cent) for 28 months of year-over-year increases, and Saskatoon’s employ-ment was up by 9,000 (6.1 per cent) for 10 months of year-over-year increases.

• In August, Regina’s unemployment rate was 4.2 per cent, and Saskatoon’s unemployment rate was 5.3 per cent. Saskatoon’s unemployment rate was the seventh lowest and Regina’s unemployment rate was the second lowest

among all cities.• The sector with the

largest employment growth was construction, up 7,100 in the past year.

“ J o b g r o w t h j u s t doesn’t happen, it is a prod-uct of increased activity in key areas of our economy,” Boyd said. “Our challenge and our opportunity will be to make sure that growth

will continue into the long term and we will do that through good management and a new growth plan you will hear about in the com-ing months.”

The opposition NDP expressed concern that First Nations and Métis people are not benefi ting from the job growth in Saskatchewan.

Cam Broten, NDP advanced education and employment critic, pointed to the cancellation of the successful Aboriginal Em-ployment Development Program as a turning point in First Nations and Métis employment, and called on the Sask. Party government to bring back the program it scrapped.

The Southeast Commu-nity College has a new CEO.

The college’s board of governors announced last week that Dion McGrath has been named president and chief executive offi cer. McGrath is expected to be-gin work on Oct. 1.

McGrath is currently employed by the Saskatch-ewan Ministry of Advanced Education and has been an

executive director since 2009. In a press release, it was noted that McGrath brings 15 years of experi-ence in the provincial gov-ernment in multiple roles and combines a strong knowledge of the post-sec-ondary school system with experience in economic development.

“Southeast Regional College continues to experi-

ence enrolment growth as it evolves to meet the chang-ing needs of learners and the labour market,” said Judi Jones, acting chairwoman of the SCC board.

“Mr. McGrath’s knowl-edge, experience and collab-orative style are well suited to building momentum and new partnerships, while ensuring learners have ac-cess to high quality post-

secondary education, and employers have access to skilled workers.”

McGrath said he is honoured to have this op-portunity and looks forward to joining the staff at the college.

“I look forward to making a contribution to the important work the col-lege does serving learners, employers and communi-

ties. It is clear to me that the college has both the capacity and the drive to contribute to the province’s post secondary system in a time when the signifi cance of education and training has never been greater,” McGrath said.

McGrath replaces Jody Holzmiller who had been serving as interim CEO since November 2011.

Southeast Regional College names new CEO

Saskatchewan leads country in job creation

Dion McGrath

“I look forward to making a contribution to the important work the

college does serving learners, employers and communities.– Dion McGrath

Southeast Community College CEO

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All CreaturesEstevan Area Home Care would like to thank the volunteers of Estevan Alliance Church and spare drivers: Ken & Rose Harder, Bev Hickie, Cathy Tocher & Peggy Kawecki, and Sharon Rae for their help with Meals on Wheels deliveries throughout the month of August. Thank you for your commitment to the Meals on Wheels program.

The stage may not be set yet, but the planning is certainly well underway for the annual United Way Tele-thon scheduled for October 12 and 13 in the Energy City.

Various committees have been meeting week-ly lately to ensure things move along smoothly. Lo-cal UW president, Roberta DeRosier noted that this year’s theme is: Be the Difference, and the fund-raising target has been set at $335,000. Last year’s goal was $300,000.35 to commemorate the 35th an-niversary. The total raised last year was in excess of $370,000.

“Each year since 1977, United Way board mem-bers, volunteers and com-munity-minded residents come together to success-fully reach the goal thanks to the generosity of the people and businesses in the community,” the local committee said in a release issued this past week.

The telethon will kick-off at 8 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 12 and will end at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 with all activities being broadcast live on Access Channel 7.

All the action will once again be centred at the Este-van Royal Canadian Legion Memorial Hall on Fourth Street and the telethon will feature local talent and messages from community groups that benefit from the program. These groups include school children, seniors and church organi-zations as well as dancers, choirs, bands, solo singers and instrumentalists.

UW Estevan noted they still have room to slot in some entertainers, so any-one with a musical or any other talent is invited to contact them at 634-7375 or e-mail at: executivedirec tor@unitedwayestevan.com

While the UW board is extensive, it needs to be since there are a number of committees needed to help arrange all the events

and keep things moving smoothly during the tele-thons and then clean up and put everything away after the fact.

The committee list includes such things as banking, public relations, entertainment, facilities, food, history, phones and cameras, production, hosts, security and the annual raffl e.

“United Way Estevan is grateful to all who have stepped forward to partici-pate and perform these vari-ous duties and encourage community groups to con-tact us at the above phone number or e-mail address if they want to assist,” they said in the release.

There are 20 member agencies that benefi t from the UW and they conduct a number of projects and

provide various services to the community in return. Community projects such as the Hillcrest School Break-fast Club, Day of Caring and the ECS Challenge Day see direct involvement by UW Estevan committee members.

A complete list of member agencies is found on the website: united-wayestevan.com

The local organizers said they can still use more items for the auction bid table. Anyone with home-made items is asked to contact Wendy at 421-7124 or Christa at 461-9465.

“United Way Estevan thanks you for your past support and looks forward to working together with you for another great Tele-thon,” they said in conclu-sion.

UW Telethon creeps closer, committee work intensifi es

Wednesday, September 12:*Estevan Arts Council - Annual General Meeting -

Library Room “A”, Souris Valley Aquatic & Leisure Centre - 7 p.m.*Estevan Minor Hockey - Bantam “AA” Tryouts -

Civic Auditorium - 7:15 to 8:30 p.m.*Estevan Minor Hockey - Midget “AA” Tryouts -

Civic Auditorium - 8:45 to 10 p.m.*Estevan Bruins vs. Weyburn Red Wings - Spectra

Place - 7:30 p.m. (Exhibition Game.)Friday, September 14:*Hard Knocks 28 - Spectra Place. Doors Open - 6

p.m.; Fights start - 7 p.m. Sponsored by Estevan Bruins.Monday, September 17:* Auditions for the Koncerts for Kids’ (Estevan Arts

Council) Missoula Children’s Theatre presentation of The Wizard of Oz (Students K-12) - Westview School - 4 p.m. Performances will be on Saturday, Sept. 22.

*Estevan Bruins vs. Notre Dame Hounds - Spectra Place - 7:30 p.m. (Exhibition Game.)

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Approval: City of Estevan Road Construction & Drainage Improvements; Watermain Replacement & Road Restoration Estimated. Cost - $3,854,684

Application was received from council of the City of Estevan for approval to undertake local improvement(s); road construction & drainage improvements; watermain replacement & road restoration on the following location(s) at an estimated cost of $3,854,684 pursuant to section 5 (1) (b) of The Local Improvements Act, 1993:

It was decided to grant approval to undertake work(s) on the above mentioned location(s).Furthermore, in accordance with the subsections in 8(2)(a) and (b) of The Local Improvements Act, 1993, the Local Government Committee confi rms that the work benefi ts the land to be specially assessed and approves the proposed fi nancial arrangements as set out in council’s report adopted by the resolution on July 10, 2012.

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SOUNDING OFF

“If we could have the same team we had (Saturday) three or

four weeks ago, it’d be amazing where we’d be today.” — Chargers head coach Steve McLellan after his team’s 12-0 win over Grenfell.

“I know it’s always better to watch it the second time. The

first time people watch roller derby, it’s kind of like ‘What is

going on?’” — Renee Buskow, head coach of the Hillbilly Hurt roller derby team, which

hosted its second game on Saturday.

The fi rst half of Satur-day’s football season opener between the ECS Elecs and Weyburn Eagles was full of entertainment, and the Elecs were very much in the game.

That all changed in the second half, and the Estevan Comprehensive School side went down to defeat, 36-8.

The Elecs trailed by only four points at the half, 12-8, but constant penalties and an inability to get any-thing going offensively bur-ied them in the second half.

“We started the game really well,” said Elecs head coach Mark Schott. “Our offence was moving the ball well, defence was getting some key stops for us. Our special teams was also get-ting some good returns and good tackles downfi eld. We really started well and then things just didn’t really go our way in the second half.”

Quarterback Kolby Fleury distributed the ball with authority in the first half, completing several long passes and making good use of his receivers.

“They moved the ball through the air really well. The receivers were catching and doing a really good job getting up the fi eld. Kolby Fleury was doing a great job getting the ball to the open receivers,” said Schott.

However, he struggled in the second half and com-pleted 7-of-20 for 132 yards on the day, with two inter-ceptions.

Elecs unravel in second half

Aaron Wakely of the ECS Elecs runs downfi eld after an interception late in the fi rst half of Saturday’s 36-8

loss to the Weyburn Eagles.

Defensive jack-of-all-trades Jeremy Godfrey had a strong start to the game, with a fumble recovery and several key tackles.

“He was great for us all game. He battled through some bumps and bruises there and fought through it,” said Schott. “He was great with fumble recoveries and knockdowns, sacks, he was all over the fi eld. It was great to see.”

The Eagles got on the board fi rst in the inaugural meeting between the two teams, kicking a 25-yard fi eld goal with six minutes left in the fi rst quarter.

About three minutes later, an Elecs penalty spot-ted the ball at the one-yard line and Eagles quarterback Kirk Winter punched it for a 10-0 lead.

On the last play of the fi rst quarter, Fleury hooked up with receiver Ian Fergu-son on a 33-yard passing play to the Weyburn 8.

Early in the second, Fleury rolled right and hit Evan Tarnes with an eight-yard pass for a touchdown. Tarnes was the go-to guy again on the two-point con-vert to make it 10-8.

Late in the fi rst half, a botched punt return and a

penalty had the Elecs backed up deep in their own terri-tory, and Fleury was brought down in the end zone for a safety.

Aaron Wakely saved a possible touchdown on the last play of the half, picking off Winter deep in ECS ter-ritory and running it all the way to the Eagles’ 35. There was a penalty on the play, but it was declined. Wakely had another interception later on, but it was wiped out by a penalty.

It was all Weyburn in the second half, and the Elecs got very familiar with orange fl ags. They took 11

penalties for 82 yards in the game, more than doubling the Eagles on both counts.

“We were definitely undisciplined and it’s some-thing that we’ll need to ad-dress,” said Schott. “It was huge. We’d stop them and then get a penalty and it advanced them for a first down. Any time you give up penalties like that that result in a fi rst down, that’s defi nitely going to cost you.”

Winter started the Wey-burn barrage early in the third quarter on a 32-yard rushing major. The Eagles later went ahead 26-8 on a five-yard rush with under

two minutes to play in the quarter.

A 66-yard rushing ma-jor widened the gap with 9:42 left in the game, and the Eagles kicked a 22-yard fi eld goal with 3:38 left to close out the scoring.

Winter did it all for Weyburn, rushing for 76 yards on 13 carries and also completing 5-of-10 for 68 yards.

The Eagles racked up 259 rushing yards and 327 total. ECS had 169 total yards, the vast majority of them through the air.

Schott said everything seemed to go wrong in the second half.

“All phases of the game, we just took a step back in the second half. Offence was struggling to move the ball. Their team stepped up too. They made some adjustments at halftime, and they’re an excellent team. We just weren’t able to adapt to what they were doing in the second half.”

He added that some players still weren’t sure where they were supposed to be at times.

“All those sorts of things are things that we should know and that we need to know in a game. We can’t be not knowing where we’re supposed to be in a game. That’s too late.”

The Elecs’ second game of the season is tomorrow in Moose Jaw as they take on the A.E. Peacock Tornados.

About 75 players took part in the Estevan Bruins’ training camp on the week-end. With the preseason now underway, the tough deci-sions begin.

The tally included 44 forwards, 27 defencemen and fi ve goalies.

Scrimmages were held on Friday and Saturday, with the four teams (black, gold, white, red) each playing three games.

That was followed by the annual Black and Gold Game on Sunday, which Team Black won for the second straight year.

1995-born forward Keegan Allison scored a hat trick to lead the Black side to a 6-3 victory.

“I wasn’t playing that good in the fi rst couple of games, and then I came to this game and I just felt a lot better,” said Allison, who is from Saskatoon.

Other goal scorers for Black were Adam Osczevski (‘95), Hudson Morrison (‘94) and Brett Dumaine (‘94). Es-tevan product Dylan Johner (‘94) had three assists.

Every goal in the game was scored by a prospect.

For Gold, the scorers were Wyatt Trumbley (‘94), Ben Williams (‘94) and Wy-att Garagan (‘94).

Morrison, who played part of last season with the Waywayseecappo Wolver-ines, was perhaps the most high-profile youngster in camp and didn’t disappoint.

“I had a blast getting

Players show their stuff at Bruins’ campback on the ice and playing physical hockey and good, competitive hockey. I think I had a very good camp and showed my skill very well,” he said.

“I think I’ve made a very good impression. I’m happy and hopefully the coaches are too.”

Aside from Morrison, Bruins head coach Keith Cassidy added that Wil-liams, recent acquisition Nick Weiss and goalies Brett Lewchuk (‘95) and Ryland Pashovitz (‘95) were among the players who impressed, along with a litany of de-fencemen.

“On the back end, where it’s going to be a real dog-fi ght, there are as many as 12 guys in the conversation for what we think is going to be eight spots to start the year,” said Cassidy.

“I think most of the guys looked around and realized there are some tough deci-sions to be made here. I think their performance refl ected that.”

One of those rearguards in the mix is 17-year-old Zach Douglas, one of the team’s top defence prospects.

“I think Zach Douglas has made a very, very good case for himself. On defence, there’s a logjam there right now and as a ‘95, he’s still in the conversation. We’ll see how he handles the intensity as it gets going, but right now it’s looking good for him,” Cassidy said.

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Bruins defenceman Tyler Kauk (2) throws a pass in front of the net while being dogged by Tyler Poskus and

watched by goalie Cody Murray during the team’s Black and Gold Game on Sunday.

spectrum on the back end is veteran Connor Milligan, who was widely considered a standout on the weekend. He said there was some motiva-tion to have a good summer in the gym.

“Coming back for your 20-year-old season, you want to put everything into your last year and try to make the most of it and make some memories with the boys,” Milligan said.

“I’ve added a bit of of-fensive style to my game and it’s working out for me out there. I’m jumping into the play and not sitting back on my heels as much as I was last year.”

Cassidy felt Milligan and Froese stood out as re-turnees who looked to be in improved form.

“I think Tanner Froese had a monster off-season. His speed and strength are things that guys are going to have to be worried about this year.”

Matt Brykaliuk is anoth-er second-year forward who showed well at camp, and the Bruins are moving him back to his natural position of centre, where he is expected to anchor the second line.

“The guy has talent to burn. He’s done a lot of good work in the off-season, for him, trying to bulk up. It’s funny, as slight as he might

be right now, he’s probably gained 10-12 pounds over the summer,” said Cassidy.

One of the more intrigu-ing cases in camp was that of 16-year-old Bienfait product Lynnden Pastachak, who has done nothing but impress at spring camp and now train-ing camp. He will head back to Yorkton for his second year of midget AAA, as the Bruins have a logjam up front as it is.

“In any other year, he might be in the conversation to play in the SJ as a 16-year-old,” said Cassidy. “He’s shown real well and I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do in the future,”

said Cassidy.The Bruins had 30 play-

ers left in camp as of Monday and were expecting to pare that down to 27 or 28 by mid-week.

“Obviously you want to be down to reasonable num-bers sooner rather than later, but I think there are guys here who deserve a look, and if we don’t provide that to them then we’re doing them a disservice, and we’re doing us a disservice as well,” said Cassidy.

The team played Notre Dame in the annual rookie game on Monday and will host Weyburn in preseason action tonight at 7:30 p.m.

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Fans waited for a big score all weekend, and on one of the fi nal rides Saturday night, it fi nally happened.

Teagan Hodgson of Manor rode Raftor Anchor Rodeo bull Push’n It to a score of 83 to win the bull riding event at the Estevan Rodeo.

Hodgson was the only rider to crack 80 on a weekend where high scores were tough to fi nd.

Lane Lap lan te o f North Battleford had set the mark of 79 a few min-utes earlier, but Hodgson — the closest thing to a local in the fi eld — held on long enough to take the title.

Three other riders stayed on their bulls: Cody Coverchuk of Meadow Lake (76), Tim Lipsett of Lumsden (72) and Tom Willoughby of Beechy (63).

The event featured a new-look arena, with the grounds having been re-done and the corral fencing being replaced.

“We found out we’ve got a few little things we have to change, but it worked good. The contes-tants really liked it,” said Estevan Rodeo committee member Laura Mantei.

About 1,000 people packed the grandstands over the course of two days.

“It was good, there’s no doubt about it. I don’t know if I’ve seen a crowd like that,” said Mantei.

There were 227 entries

and slack performances had to be held Saturday morning for steer wres-tling, tie down roping, team roping and barrel racing.

Among the event win-ners were Keifer Watt of Hardisty, Alta. (saddle bronc); Dustan McPhee of Hanley (bareback); Scott Sigfusson of Davidson (tie down roping); Tra-vis McColl of Elkhorn, Man. (steer wrestling); Erin Hagan of Virden, Man. (ladies barrel racing); Neil Miller and Murray Moran of Brandon (team roping); Nicole Pana of Wood Mountain and Mardi Yarshenko of Maple Creek (junior barrels); Lane Link of Maple Creek (novice bareback); and Luke Chap-lain of Kennedy, originally from Australia (novice saddle bronc).

There were nine local competitors in this year’s rodeo, seven of them in barrel racing.

Cindy Brock, Melissa Harding, Torie Marie Fro-ese and Danette Holbrook all took part in ladies’ bar-rel racing, with Kathleen Schiml, Brooke Kruger and Justiss Daoust compet-ing in the junior barrels.

Jeremy Ross entered team roping with Wey-burn’s Brett Gaube, and Austin Ameel competed in tie down roping.

Mantei said there has been no decision yet on whether next year’s rodeo will be held in September or moved back to early summer.

Manor cowboy wins bull riding crown

Saddle Bronc1. Keifer Watt, 78; T2. Ross Kreutzer, 76; T2. Clinton Cox, 76; T2. Rhett Fitzpatrick, 76.

Bareback1. Dustan McPhee, 78; 2. Brady Bertram, 76; T3. Jonathan Kmita, 74; T3. Colter Harden, 74.

Bull Riding1. Teagan Hodgson, 83; 2. Lane Laplante, 79; 3. Cody Coverchuk, 76.

Tie Down Roping1. Scott Sigfusson, 8.5; 2. Bruce Dunham, 9.1; 3. Tyler Popescul, 10.4.

Steer Wrestling1. Travis McColl, 4.1; T2. Scott King, 4.4; T2. Charlie King, 4.4; T2. J.D. Hays, 4.4.

Ladies’ Barrel Racing1. Erin Hagan, 17.66; 2. Jodi Doenz, 17.80; 3. Dan-nielle Dinius, 17.86.

Team Roping1. Neil Miller/Murray Moran, 7.3; 2. Riley Roy/Kurt Fletcher, 7.9; 3. Lonnie Brown/Shane Brown, 10.6.

Junior Barrel RacingT1. Nicole Pana, 17.91; T1. Mardi Yarshenko, 17.91; 3. Cassandra Peters, 18.11.

Novice Bareback1. Lane Link, 59.

Novice Saddle Bronc1. Luke Chaplain, 62; 2. Jack Bredhauer, 57; 3. Jace Doenz, 54.

Here are the top three competitors in each event at the Estevan Rodeo, along with score/time:Rodeo Results

Clayton Bunney of Cessfold, Alta., holds onto Icey Creek during the bareback portion of Friday’s rodeo per-

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the fall and winter seasons at city-wide registration on Sept. 5.

The second annual Eve of Destruction event will take over Estevan Motor Speedway on Saturday, with a new format.

The popular event will see vehicles hauling trailers in a fi gure-eight race.

Last year, well over 2,000 fans came out to watch a combine demoli-tion derby.

They should see lots of contact this year as well.

Any vehicle that is one ton or smaller can enter.

Each vehicle will pull a trailer at least six feet long.

“The object is to knock the other guys’ trailers off,” said organizer Davin Em-mel. “Once the action slows down, we’ll stop the race and whatever we’ve got left, do a 10-15 lap dash to fi gure out the winner.”

He said he was expect-ing more than 20 entries for the event which will start at 7:00 pm.

The rollover contest is back from last year’s event,

and it will also include freestyle motocross riders coming in from B.C. Two of them are former X-Games fi nalists.

With the overflow crowd that showed up last year, extra seating is being brought in for the evening.

“If we have good weather, I think we’ll see a pretty good crowd again. I think everyone enjoyed the combine deal, and this should be just as exciting or more,” said Emmel.

Eve of Destruction

on tap again at EMS

After three straight losses, the Estevan Cen-tury 21 Chargers broke through Saturday with their first victory of the season.

Not only that, the pee-wee football squad shut down the Grenfell Argos in a 12-0 win.

It was the fi rst win for any Penta Completions Estevan Minor Football team this year.

“ We w e r e r e a l l y pumped up and I’m so happy for them. I’m really proud of how they played,” said Chargers head coach

Chargers break goose egg with fi rst winSteve McLellan.

The Chargers (1-3) were also the only EMF team to win a game last year.

All of the game’s scor-ing took place in the fi rst half.

The Chargers domi-nated on the ground during their first drive, picking up a couple of big gains. Quarterback Cameron Rioux called his own num-ber and ran into the end zone for a major.

Their other touch-down came in the second quarter when Rioux ran

an 11-yard sweep. The convert failed, leaving the Chargers at 12 points.

“We p layed them last year in another close game. It was a hell of a game last year when we played against them, so we were kind of expecting the same,” said McLellan.

“Any time you get a shutout, you’ll take it.”

The Chargers’ defence was dominant at times, and running back Colein Poole had a strong game.

“We were able to start the pitches and our defence was impenetrable,” said

McLellan.“If we could have the

same team we had (Satur-day), three or four weeks ago, it’d be amazing where we’d be today.”

He added that the win was big for team morale after a trio of losses to start the year.

“I felt the mood this week was pretty good, but

I don’t know how much longer it would have been really great without this.

“Even just having a successful game is huge. I’m glad to see it.”

Andrew Kehler tries to evade a would-be tackler from the Grenfell Argos during

the Estevan Chargers’ 12-0 win on Saturday.

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The Hillbilly Hurt roller derby team played its second game on Saturday and the evening was successful on the track and otherwise.

The Hurt defeated the NorSask DiefenBreak-Hers of Prince Albert 143-133 in a tightly contested game.

“I think they did really

well,” said Hurt coach Renee Buskow, who added that it was nice to play a team of a similar skill level. “Even for the audience, I think it makes for a better game.”

It was the fi rst match for the Prince Albert team.

Buskow said roughly 150-200 people watched the

game, which is slightly lower than the turnout for the last game in April, but that was to be expected.

“It wasn’t the same as last time, but we kinda knew that going in because of the rodeo going on and every-thing.”

Still, she said she hopes some of the people who returned to watch for a sec-ond time now have a better understanding of the sport.

“I know it’s always bet-ter to watch it the second

time. The fi rst time people watch roller derby, it’s kind of like ‘What is going on?’”

The Hurt borrowed three players from Moose Jaw to make up for some injuries.

Buskow said the team is looking to play in a differ-ent venue for its next game, which will come sometime next year.

“With the (Icon Centre), it’s OK size-wise. Really, the only thing that affects it is the width.

“Hopefully next season we can get into the curling rink and play on that wider surface, so people can watch all around the track instead of just at the end.”

The team has been in-vited by a club in Brandon to play a game there in Novem-ber, but hasn’t decided yet if it will be able to go.

Meanwhile, the South East Saskatchewan Roller Derby Association is hold-ing a recruiting session on Sunday from 1-4 p.m. at the

Icon Centre.Women aged 18 and

older are needed for all po-sitions. Equipment will be available and experienced skaters will be on hand to help. Previous skating or roller derby experience is not necessary.

Anyone interested in refereeing is welcome.

To learn more about the SESRDA, find them on Facebook or e-mail s.e.saskrollerderby@hot-mail.com.

The Estevan Lions Club Steelers were involved in probably the most entertain-ing game of Football Day in Estevan on Saturday, but several missed opportunities were the difference between winning and losing.

The Steelers (0-4) had their chances to win but would lose 30-22 to the Balgonie Griffi ns.

“We had a fumble in the red zone and we got stopped in the red zone twice, which is just jitters, you know, young football players,” said Steelers head coach Phil Zajac.

“Our defence picked one off for a touchdown, that was (Riley) Meshke. They caused turnovers, quarterback sacks, all the things that we need to do, we did it all, but unfortu-nately someone’s gotta lose. We just came up a little bit short.”

The Steelers trailed 16-14 at the half after blowing a chance to take the lead at the end of the second quarter.

After a strong punt re-

turn by Evan Stabenow, the Steelers drove the ball inside the 10-yard line. On the last play of the half, a third-down pass to Kolby Dyck was completed but fell about a yard short of the goal line.

Zajac said it may have been a turning point.

“I t might’ve been enough to cause them to tank. We physically beat them up and down the fi eld (in the fi rst half) and they were tired. Their defence was tired in the fourth quar-ter and so was their offence. We just didn’t get the ball back.”

In the third quarter, the Steelers hurt themselves more than anything with three turnovers, two of them coming immediately after getting the ball. Two of them led to Balgonie majors.

“Our defence got out on the fi eld for a lot of time at that point. You get a big victory on defence and you fumble it or (commit) a quick turnover on offence, and it makes it tough for the defence to go back out on

the fi eld,” said Zajac.One last chance for the

Steelers came with about three minutes left, when Balgonie was about to punt. However, the Steelers were tagged with a 15-yard pen-alty, giving the visitors a fi rst down.

The Griffi ns ate up the rest of the clock and never did give the ball back.

“That’s football,” Zajac said. “We took a penalty, gave them a fi rst down and then they marched the ball. They ran the clock out on us and we had one timeout left, we called it, they got another fi rst down and game over.”

One of the most en-couraging aspects of the game for Estevan was that they drove the ball extreme-ly well, putting together meticulous drives that often ended up in the red zone.

The Steelers scored fi rst after blocking a punt deep in Balgonie territory. Wyatt Haux ran for five yards and fumbled at the goal line but managed to fall on the ball to give Estevan

an 8-0 lead after one quarter.Balgonie responded

quickly with a 60-yard run for a touchdown. They then recovered an onside kick and struck again, complet-ing a 55-yard touchdown pass.

The Steelers replied with another major. Stabe-now returned a punt to the Balgonie 29, and the home side marched to the 1 after a pair of passes to Dyck and a rushing gain by Haux. Run-ning back Levi Pick then punched it in for six.

Early in the third quar-ter, the Steelers turned it over on downs and Balgonie made them pay immedi-ately, ripping off a 70-yard catch-and-run play on fi rst down. That put them ahead 22-14.

On the Steelers’ first play after the ensuing kick, quarterback Justin Taillon threw an interception, lead-ing to a Griffi ns drive that ended with a short plunge into the end zone.

The Steelers’ defence made a big third down stop

in the red zone on the last play of the third quarter to keep the score 30-14.

In the fourth quarter, the Steelers manufactured an impressive drive, only to lose it to a fumble on the four-yard line.

But on the very next play, Meshke picked off a short passing attempt and took it to the house to pull

Estevan within eight.Zajac said the team

worked a lot on putting together drives in practice last week.

“Each week we need to get a little bit better, so when it comes playoff time, we’re ready. Everybody gets a shot at the playoffs and I think we improved greatly this week compared to last week.”

Missed chances haunt Steelers in narrow loss

Local roller derby club defeats Prince Albert

Estevan Steelers running back Wyatt Haux evades a

tackler from the Balgonie Griffi ns during the team’s

30-22 loss on Saturday.

The Hillbilly Hurt hosted their second roller derby

game on Saturday against a team from Prince Albert.

The Hurt won the entertaining game 143-133.

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Of the 42 players who suited up in the Black and Gold Game at Estevan Bru-ins training camp on Sun-day, 34 of them were still in the picture to make the team on Monday.

Once the Bruins make another round of cuts around mid-week, the de-cisions will really get tough.

And this isn’t including a handful of younger play-ers who, normally, would get a shot to make it.

The best example of that is 16-year-old Lynnden Pastachak, who for the most part had a strong camp. And I do think he could play this year. The problem is he wouldn’t get enough ice time to justify him playing at this level as a ‘96. It’s better for his development to go back to midget and AP a few times with the Bruins.

A pair of 17-year-old forwards, Adam Osczevski and Keegan Allison, had good camps as well, and they should both fi ght for a spot next year. The Bruins are very high on Osczevski in particular.

The team brought in 19-year-old defenceman

Bruins’ roster picture far from clear

Nick Sova on a tryout. He split last year between Mi-not (NAHL) and a Tier III league in Montana. Sova has earned a longer look with the team. He appar-ently enjoys dropping the gloves.

Another player who came in to try out was 18-year-old forward Bryce Maggrah, who’s already played two seasons in the SIJHL in Ontario. He has been cut, although Bruins head coach and GM Keith Cassidy said he didn’t do anything wrong in camp.

But back to the dilem-mas at hand.

There are still 18 for-wards sticking around, in-cluding seven prospects and a couple of new ‘93-borns trying to catch on.

Hudson Morrison (‘94) and Wyatt Garagan (‘94) are virtual locks to make it, while ‘94s Ben Williams and Brandon Halbgewachs are good bets as well. Day-

ton Picard (‘94), Dylan Joh-ner (‘94), Daniel Wanner (‘95), Justin Nychuk (‘93) and Tyson Valette (‘93) are also in the mix.

Valette spent half of last season with the La Ronge Ice Wolves in an energy role.

Morrison, who played 36 games in the MJHL last year and is expected to make an immediate impact, spent some time on a line with Calder Neufeld and Cole Olson on the weekend. If that line carries over into the season, Morrison could put up big numbers.

On the back end, it’s just as crowded with 12 defencemen still being con-sidered for eight spots.

Aside from Sova, the newcomers battling for a spot are ‘94s Brett Du-maine, David Robertson and Wyatt Trumbley, and ‘95s Zach Douglas and Edwin Hookenson.

It’s almost a slam dunk that Douglas and Hooken-son will both be Bruins next year, and Douglas has a good chance to make it now, having shown off an impressive two-way game

in camp.In goal, three tenders

are still in the mix to back up Steven Glass. They in-clude Travis Pelletier (‘94), the presumptive favourite going into camp, as well as ‘95s Ryland Pashovitz and Brett Lewchuk, both of whom had some terrifi c outings during camp.

The smart money is probably still on Pelletier, mainly due to age. If he doesn’t crack the Bruins this year, he probably won’t get another chance.

The Bruins will have three preseason games to make their decisions, al-though, as always, the per-manent roster likely won’t assert itself until a couple of months into the season, once the team gets down to 22 or 23 cards.

***Estevan’s minor foot-

ball program finally had some on-fi eld success Sat-urday, with one win and a near-miss.

The peewee Chargers got an enormous perfor-mance from its defence in

defeating Grenfell 12-0 for EMF’s fi rst win of the year from any team.

Quarterback Cameron Rioux and running back Colein Poole led the offen-sive effort.

Rioux was down on the fi eld for a while in the fourth quarter after an in-jury, but is OK.

Meanwhile, the ban-tam Steelers were involved in a highly entertaining game with Balgonie.

They lost 30-22, but a lot of confi dence-building things happened for the Steelers on Saturday.

They marched the ball downfi eld better than any EMF game I’ve seen in two years. And they had several moments where they were on the verge of tying the game or taking the lead, only for an untimely turn-over or third-down failure

to hold them back.The Steelers need to

work on fi nishing off drives and being calm in pressure situations, but their offence looks good from here.

They also made some big defensive plays on Saturday, including Riley Meshke’s pick-six imme-diately after a fumble inside the 5, several sacks and a blocked punt.

I’ll be shocked if the Steelers don’t win at least one game out of their re-maining four.

Josh Lewis can be reached by phone at 634-2654, by e-mail at sports@estevanmercury.ca, on Twitter at twitter.com/josh-lewis306 or on his Bruins blog at estevanmercury.ca/bruinsbanter. Who didn’t love seeing Peyton Man-ning back under centre?

The TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club held its 29th annual Parent-Child Golf Tournament on Saturday.

The alternate shot event attracted 42 teams. The children ranged from three years old to 17.

The flight winners were Taryn Stovin (father-daughter senior), Tatiana Dutka (mother-daughter senior), Erik Gusikoski (fa-ther-son senior), Sage Day-man (mother-son senior), Tanisey Sernick (father-daughter junior), Hunter Siever (father-son junior) and Jack Renkas (mother-son junior).

The tournament was followed by hot dogs, pop and ice cream as well as the award presentations.

Woodlawn holds parent-child event

Brenda Karpa of Es-tevan shot a hole in one at the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club on Sept. 4 during ladies’ night.

Karpa hit the ace on the eighth hole at Wood-lawn, playing from the red tees for a distance of 120 yards.

She used a driver.“It hit the pin so hard,

two of us thought it went into the bushes, that’s how hard I hit it,” she said.

It’s the first ace for Karpa, who also has an eight-ender in curling on her sports resume.

Her playing partners were Jackie Malaryk, Wan-da Styre and Mona Dukart.

Hole

in one

Dalton Morrissey knocks a chip onto the green dur-

ing the 29th annual Parent-Child tournament at the

TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club on Sept. 9. Looking on is

Brian Morrissey.

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Hard Knocks Fighting Championship’s fourth card in Estevan will take place on Friday at Spectra Place.

Seven Estevan fi ghters are on the card, which had 17 fi ghts on it as of Monday.

Among the local con-tingent is Mike Geib, who is looking for his fi rst win.

Geib made his Hard Knocks debut at HK24 in Estevan in June, where he lost to fellow local Craig Gaudry by unanimous de-cision.

His second fi ght came a month later at HK26 in Prince Albert, where he lost to Jordan O’Connor late in the fi rst round by tapout via guillotine.

“My fi rst fi ght, I wasn’t really ready to go the full

nine minutes and that kinda hurt me. My second fi ght, same thing, my stand-up I think was way better than him, I just got myself caught in a bad position. I’ve been trying to do a little more wrestling and submission defence this time,” said Geib.

He said it’s taken a while to get used to being in the cage, especially at home.

“It’s been more of a learning curve than any-thing. Staying calm in front of all those people, it’s pret-ty intense actually.”

Geib described himself as a stand-up fi ghter but said he’s trying to improve other aspects of his repertoire.

“I like to stay standing up. I think my skills boxing-

wise are fairly good,” he said.

“You try to train so that you’re well-rounded, but it’s so wide, mixed martial arts, there’s so much you could try to train for, you could

never be totally prepared for anyone.”

He added that he’s still looking for sparring part-ners and people to train with.

Geib is scheduled to

fi ght Kevin Taylor of Bran-don in a 205-pound bout. Taylor does not have a record.

Another local on the card is Kurt Bailey. He owns a 9-6 career record and is fi ghting Corey Atkin-son, who is 4-4-1 lifetime.

He’s been fighting since 2008, mostly in Sas-katchewan.

Bailey said he’s been lined up to fight Atkin-son before, but an injury stopped it from happening.

“He’s going to be a tough guy, so I can’t take him lightly. I’m expecting a war, three rounds. I’m ready for three rounds with him. We’ll see what happens. Anything can happen in there,” Bailey said.

“It’s going to be a war. I’m just going to go in there, let ‘em fl y and hopefully he hits the mat hard.”

Other Estevan fight-ers include Derek Daku (2-1), whose opponent has changed. He is now taking on Allan Bogle (0-0) of Toronto.

Matthew McCormick’s first career fight will be against former Estevan Bruin Lee Ruff of Brandon.

Craig Gaudry (2-1) will square off against Meelad Hashtee (0-1) of Toronto.

The main event will see locals Wade Baldwin and Felix Jimenez, both with 1-2 records, go head-to-head in a heavyweight fi ght.

The Estevan Sherritt Coal Miners kicked off Saturday’s Football Day in Estevan on a high note, but it was all downhill from there for the atom club.

Kade Bachorcik’s early touchdown was the high water mark for the Miners (0-4) in a 60-6 loss to the Regina Cardinals.

On the team’s second possession of the game, Bachorcik scored on a 65-yard sweep, the same way he had reached the end zone a week earlier.

“Same play, same way, he did the same thing. He took it to the house, outran the angles on everybody and took it right to the end zone,” said Evan Helfrick, who has been promoted from associate coach to head coach.

The Miners trailed 36-6 at the half.

Helfrick said a lack of focus was the biggest thing working against his team following a week of practice where not much got done due to school starting.

“Even from the start of the game, even though we scored a touchdown, the

kids’ focus wasn’t there. They weren’t really block-ing. Just a lapse altogether,” he said.

“Blocking is the big thing. On our offensive plays, we’re not blocking well enough and our running back can’t break four or fi ve tackles. He’s gotta get some blocking help from his guys. We’ll have to work on that this week,” said Helfrick.

He added that fi nishing plays off defensively is also a priority.

“The pursuit angles are really (good), they’re getting out there, now they just gotta learn to make the tackle, make the play or wait for someone to come help them make the play together.”

Consistency is an issue for the Miners and Helfrick said it’s tough to maintain at the atom level, with most of the players being new to football.

“Last week our team played phenomenal, one of the best games I’ve seen from that age group,” he said. “Then you come into this week thinking you’re all fi red up and ready to do

the same kind of thing, and you’ve got a totally different team out there.”

Following the game, former Saskatchewan

Roughriders Don Narcisse and Scott Schultz spoke, and Penta Completions Estevan Minor Football announced that it will be moving back

to the Dana Quewezance Memorial Field for next season.

Narcisse and Schultz were on hand throughout

the day’s four games for autographs and pictures.

The Miners ’ next game is Saturday in Regina against the Alouettes.

Geib looking for fi rst win at Hard Knocks 28

Lack of focus hurts atom Miners

Cyrus Rooks of the Estevan Miners looks to shake a Regina Cardinals tackler during the Miners’ 60-6 loss on

Saturday.

Mike Geib (top) tries to lock Craig Gaudry in a choke

during their fi ght at Hard Knocks 24 in June. Both will

be fi ghting at HK 28 on Friday.

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Born to Kenneth Marshall and Chassity Somerville, Estevan, on August 30, 2012, a daughter, Bentley Lynn Marshall. Proud grandparents are Dean Marshall, Yvonda Marshall; Tracy Kallis and Kyle Somerville.

By Betty BaniulisNorth Portal

Correspondent

The annual Border Classic golf tournament was held on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 with 132 partici-pants. There were 155 in attendance for the supper. First place winners were Ron McDonald of Far-go, N.D., Ken McDonald of Ladysmith, B.C., Bill Kapiczowski of Estevan, and Kyle Kapiczowski of Estevan. Second went to the Charlie Altringer fam-ily - Charlie and Rob of

Portal, Glen of Fargo, and Terry of Minot, N.D. The charity benefiting from tournament was Special Olympics. There were 50 prize sponsors for the tourney.

Weekend guests with Tom and Lynn MacDonald were Ron and Vicki Olson and daughters, Avory and Madison of Fortuna, N.D.; Jane Koltz and Ev Bugler, both of Edmonton, Alta.

Born to Jena and Kris Kurtenbach of Calgary, a daughter, Cadence Eliza-beth, weighing 7 lb. 2 oz. The proud grandparents

are Alan and Val Fair of Deer Valley, and proud great grandparents are Warren and Verla Fair.

Bet te MacDonald, Dorothy Fuchs, Elsie Earl and Doreen Maxwell visit-ed with Jane Dunbar at the nursing home in Carlyle on Sunday, Sept. 2.

Warren and Ver la Fair, and Greg and Bren-da Skoczylas of Estevan attended the Rory Allen show at Casino Regna on Sept. 1. The next day, they drove to Deer Valley to visit with Alan and Val Fair.

North Portal news

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By Judy Pratt& Shelly VerobaCreighton LodgeCorrespondents

August was a lovely month for the residents at Creighton Lodge. The ex-ceptional weather allowed us to sit out in the sun and enjoy all our fl owers and gardening efforts. Resi-dents were certainly able to get their exercise and took every opportunity to walk around the grounds of the building.

It was a bit slower in the entertainment de-

partment as many of the “regulars” take the sum-mer off. We would like to especially thank Fred-die and the Freebies, the Happy Wanderers, and Jim Pratt for our musical Thursday nights, as well as Elly Foster for our mu-sical Friday afternoons. A special thank you to Audrey Andrist and James Stern for the piano/violin concert we were privi-leged to attend here at the lodge. We are so glad they think of us when they visit Estevan.

One of the highlights

of last month was resident talent night held on Aug. 30. We had many folks entertain us that evening with their piano playing, accordion playing, danc-ing, singing and reading. It’s amazing how we can make our own fun when we have to! It was a con-cert worth attending and the big plus was all the door prizes were gave out. It was certainly a fun night for all.

A big thank you to all of the good folks who volunteer their time for us one way or another at the

lodge. One of the residents,

Olive Murphy, had a lit-tle free time and penned a beautiful poem about Creighton Lodge. We would like to use her poem to fi nish off our column this month.

ODE TOCREIGHTON LODGE

She walks down the hall with a smile on her face

The reason for the smile, she lives in this place

The name is Creigh-ton Lodge.

The clergy arrives in the afternoon on Sunday,

Providing spiritual

peace for the week, come Monday

There are super cooks who serve a banquet fare

With a var ie ty of menus that show that they care.

A whirlpool bath and a beauty salon

With an operator hard to beat

Takes care of the hair keeping all cut, curled and neat.

The Creighton Lodge Choir known as the Song Birds

Warb le the i r way through melodies and words.

The Therapy dogs come once a week

To provide loving

therapy for all who seek.Top notch entertain-

ment, jazzy and peppy,And toe tapping mu-

sic keeps Creighton Lodge happy.

Nail care, exercise and chair yoga performed by volunteers, all,

Several pianists and KFC kitchen help have also answered the call.

Every two weeks the Church of Christ singers come along,

And lead all in prayer and in song.

Management, R.M. and Home Care staff have so much to give

There is a waiting list of folks to want to live,

At Creighton Lodge.

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Monique Martin’s fi shy exhibit explores how we all strive for fl ow in our world.

Now showing in Gallery II at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Flow is a series of prints using linocuts, a particularly labour-intensive way of producing the fi nal piece.

Martin is a Saskatoon artist and attended the exhibi-tion’s opening at the EAGM on Sept. 6.

“It’s about that moment in time when you don’t think about anything else. You’re totally captured by whatever you’re doing,” Martin said about the exhibit, which fea-tures schools of fi sh.

She decided to explore the idea of fi nding fl ow after reading a book that deals with the concept. The book talks a lot about how as a

society, people can enter into fl ow and make things hap-pen. People try to fi nd fl ow in all aspects of their lives, Martin said.

“I do in my school, and you even do in a family. You have to get that moment of fl ow to make the week hap-pen. Sometimes it fl ows easy, sometimes it doesn’t.

“(Flow) is usually sparked by a challenge in the brain. It’s not where you’re doing something that’s re-petitive. It’s where you’re actually challenged but you enter that moment of, I’m not thinking about anything else, I’m right here.”

She said the series was inspired by a moment when she was 12 years old, fi shing with her brother. Not a very good fi sher herself, Martin was instead drawn to the mo-

tion of the fi sh in the water. “On this particular mo-

ment, a school of fi sh kept swimming in that flowing movement, and I was totally enraptured by that. I entered that moment of not hearing anything else and going, ‘wow, look what’s happen-ing.’”

Martin often deals in a series when she completes her work. She rarely produc-es only one piece for a proj-ect, and this exhibit features a number of arrangements.

With linocut printing, Martin started with a solid block carving of the fi sh she was working with. The block was then painted and pressed onto the vellum paper. The block was repainted and pressed again until there were many layers of colour.

Because each piece

of paper is printed with a block numerous times, it was a long process. If the block wasn’t aligned prop-erly when pressed it would spoil that sheet of paper. She estimates if one piece has 10 layers of paper, she would have printed at least 20.

“I entered into a whole state of fl ow doing this. You become so engrossed in such a challenging project,” said Martin. “It’s not like paint-ing. If you make a mistake in painting, you can fi x it. If you carve something off of the block, you can’t put it back on.”

She said she enjoys the linocut process, despite the time-consuming and all-or-nothing approach that must be taken.

“I love the graphic na-ture of printmaking. Print-

making is a lot of prepara-tion before the moment of creation. The actual printing time is very minimal. I also love the repetition — I’m a person that loves repetition — the challenge of making them the same, the same, the same. I fi nd that mentally, a really great challenge.”

With the layers of fi sh on the pages, some are bold and eye-catching, while oth-ers are slight shadows. As someone approaches a piece, they see more and more lay-ers the closer they get.

“(Flow is) about how we’re interconnected. The transparency is on purpose,” Martin said, explaining the faded subjects. “I think trans-parency in the world changes with each situation, and even each person. You think you know someone, and they’re

very transparent to you, but then you see them in a differ-ent situation and the transpar-ency changes.”

Her pieces are layered to show that transparency. Some works have 10 pieces of paper, while others have only a few.

“Some people have more layers that you need to get through. Other people are very much here I am and they let it all kind of hang out,” said Martin. “Even in enter-ing into fl ow, if you aren’t true to yourself and true to your motivations, find-ing those moments of fl ow where everything happens and you’re in that moment are rare, if you’re faking life.”

The exhibit is on display until Oct. 13.

Go with the Flow at the art gallery

Monique Martin attended the opening of her exhibit Flow, at the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum on Sept. 6. Her exhibit features a series of multi-layered prints

that feature fi sh as a stand in for how humans fi nd a fl ow in their lives.

There is a colourful blast out of Estevan’s past taking up space as the Este-van Art Gallery and Museum welcomes folks back to the circus.

The gallery is once again showing the works of local printmaker An-drew King in an exhibit that opened Sept. 6 entitled Andrew King: Welcome to the Circus. Amber Andersen, EAGM curator, noted King’s work is the most comprehen-sive collection they have in their inventory.

“This is work from our collection, donated to us by the King family. This is our most prominent collective body in our collection,” said Andersen. “What’s really exciting about this is that I knew of Andrew King in terms of his imagery, but I knew very little about the man, so being able to do a ret-rospective like this allows us to pull out really impressive pieces from our collection.

It also allows us the ability to research and look into the collection.”

This isn’t the fi rst show-ing of the King collection, with previous exhibitions in 1981 and from 2002 to 2004.

“What we’re trying to do this time is to pull out a little bit more of the wood blocks, so there’s more of an understanding of how printmaking works, specifi -cally wood-block printing,” Andersen added.

King was a local print-maker who pioneered poster printing in Canada in 1912, the fi rst in the country to do so. That was before he came to Estevan in the 1940s with his company, King Show Print.

The EAGM is host-ing a soirée on Oct. 20 that will feature an auction of duplicate prints of King’s works. Funds generated will go towards the maintenance, promotion and preservation of the collection.

“Andrew King is re-nowned in Canadian his-tory and also printmaking history,” said Andersen. “In this case it does (take a lot of effort to preserve the work). You have Andrew King who is a businessman doing poster printing. He often had it accompanied by a newspaper, so he’s us-ing cheap newsprint. The less quality of the paper, the more conscientious you have to be about its preservation because it’s going to easily break down in terms of the colours going to change if it’s shown in light.”

Paper works are gener-ally a very tricky medium to keep in excellent shape she added.

“(You have) to get them framed and put in acid-free framing and mattes, and put-ting them in something that’s more climate controlled. Our collection room is our next focus to get that up and running.”

Because of the impres-sive collection under the EAGM’s care, the collection room is becoming more of a priority.

There will be a carnival theme for the soirée to mirror many of King’s prints that are on display during the exhibit.

The letters forming An-drew King rest on the gallery wall, carved in blocks. The letter “N” is missing in the last name. Andersen said there is a reason for that.

“With this show, we’re playing with it a little bit,” she said. “It’s going to be kind of a living thing. We’re going to actually print the N, so people can understand how the N will fl ip, so you can understand how print is always kind of backwards and then it prints forwards. Those are little things we’re going to be doing as we move on with this exhibi-tion.”

The exhibit will run until Nov. 3.

King’s circus is back in town at EAGM

Now showing in the Estevan Art Gallery and

Museum’s main exhibition room is a series of

Andrew King prints and blocks from the EAGM’s own

collection. The exhibit runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 3.

“I think transparency in the world

changes with each situation, and even

each person.”– Monique Martin

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By Catrina MoldenhauerMidale Correspondent

Artwork by Marga-ret Hauglum is now be-ing shown at the Weyburn Credit Union’s Art Gallery. Called Good Old Days, both oil and watercolour paint-ings are displayed. Good Old Days is a series of 11 paintings of farms from the past. There are some harvest scenes as well as some farms and animals. The show will run until the end of October.

Midale’s sixth annual Black Gold Bullnanza was held Saturday, Sept. 8 with bull riders, junior mull rid-ers, and mutton bustin’ as the featyred events. There will be more information in the next Midale news column.

The hockey rink is hop-ing to have ice in by mid-Oc-tober. Ice times have booked up quickly this year and there aren’t many spots open from Monday to Thursday.

The Mustangs won’t know their schedule until the end of the month. There will be an initiation team and most likely a novice teamthis year, and Midale also will have a rec team requiring ice a couple of times a week. More information will be available soon.

Midale 39ers Seniors’ Club held their monthly meeting on Sept 4. They will be hosting a perogie and sausage supper Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. Tickets are available from any member of the club. Vinold Carlson was presented with a gift for his many years of service doing the bookings for the club.

The Midale and area annual fowl supper will be held on Sunday, Oct. 14. If you are able to cook a turkey with dressing and gravy for the supper, please call Ca-trina Moldenhauer. The Rec Board supplies everything you will need to cook the turkey and make the dress-ing. Anyone donating veg-

etables this year is asked to please call Catrina at home or on the rink cellphone at 458-7555 and let her know.

School is back in full swing. Please remember to slow down in the school zone.

New teachers at Midale Central School this year are: Jordan Campbell, who is teaching all math in Grades 9 to 12 as well as Info Pro 20/30; Jessy Forrester-Tyt-landsvik, who is teaching the Grades 3/4 class; Erika Helfrick, who is teaching the kindergarten class.

The open house that was scheduled for Sept. 6 has been re-scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 13 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. There will be a chili supper provided. Cost is $5 for adults, $4 for high school students and $3 for elementary students. All proceeds from the supper will go towards the purchase of a new sports clock in the gym.

Picture day will be on

Monday, Sept. 17, so please return the pose choice form to the school prior to this date. If parents would like younger siblings to have their pictures taken, the time for those will be from 8:45 - 9:15 a.m. Due to pictures being taken on this date, the kindergarten students will attend school this day but not on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

Midale Central School is asking all families to please pay the $30 yearbook fee as soon as possible. The purchase of one book per family is necessary to guar-antee the continuation of the yearbook at the school. Grade 10 students in food studies need to pay $20 as well.

Midale Central School will be participating in the Terry Fox Walk/Jog on Thursday, Sept. 27. Pledge sheets will be sent home this week and should be returned on or by that date. Parents and guardians are more than welcome to come and walk/

jog with their children. Senior boys’ volleyball

will be running practices on Mondays from 5:15 to 7:15 p.m. and Wednesdays from 3:15 to 5:15 p.m. Their fi rst tournament is this weekend in Carnduff.

If you have any gently used or “garage sale” items that you would like to do-nate to Miss Jessy Forrester-Tytlandsvik’s Grade 3/4 class, please bring them to the school. They are having a rewards system in their classroom and the students will be able to purchase the donated items.

Bethlehem Lutheran Church will be holding a Sunday school rally day on Sunday, Sept. 16 at 9:45 a.m. for all children ages three to 12. They will sing songs, play games, crafts, listen to stories and learn about God and Jesus. Par-ents are welcome to attend. Regular Sunday School begins Sunday, Sept. 23 at 11 a.m. Youth group will be starting up in the fall.

Former Midale resident Evelyn (Lindbolm) Jones passed away on Sept. 6 at the age of 83. Evelyn was a resident of the Wadena Nursing Home.

Midale Museum Mem-bers greatly appreciate the help of the many people who came out to work the pancake breakfast, play music for the people, drive and take care of the tractors, trucks and equipment and those who hauled the bales. Without all the volunteers, the museum would not be able to provide the public with the threshing days! The members will be having a meeting near the end of the month and if any of you are interested in joining and helping out, please talk to a member and they will let you know when a date has been set. The museum is hoping to get their “Museum in a Suitcase” up and run-ning soon. This will feature items from the museum be-ing taken around to schools in the area. They will show them to the children and explain how they work, what they were used for and give the general history of the items. Please contact Bev Sobush if you have any questions or would like to help out.

Please remember to call Catrina at 458-2887 if you have any news for this column.

Midale community happenings

Submitted byShirley GrahamClub Secretary

Words of wisdom: Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

Here are a couple of highlights from our meet-ing on Thursday, Sept. 6:

The bridge tourna-ment wi l l be held on Wednesday, Sept. 19 be-ginning with registration at 9:30 a.m. Call Lorna Stubel or Al Fellner to put your name on the list.

The cribbage tourna-ment will be held on Oct. 11. More details on that event will be released later.

The square and round dancers start their season on Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the 60 and Over Club-room. Lessons for square dancers will also take

place here, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Potluck suppers will resume on the four th Thursday of the month (Sept. 27) with the meal at 5 p.m., and cribbage to follow at 6 p.m.

The c lub has ac -cepted an invitation from the library board to play bridge at their facility on Wednesday, Oct. 3. If you would like to join us, please contact Lorna or Al.

Winners of the bridge played on Weadnesday, Sept. 5 were as follows: Coming in first was Bernie Collins, taking second was Helen Marriott, and plac-ing third was Irma Lesiuk.

Cribbage was played on Thursday, Sept. 6 with Betty and Russell Daniels taking first, second went to Colin Renwick and Ed Schell, and taking third

place were Dot Bridges and June Engelke.

A lady went to the police station with a friend to report that her husband was missing. When asked for a description, she said, “Well, he’s 35-years-old, 6 feet 4, dark wavy hair, 185

pounds, and is good to the children.”

The friend, protest-ing, said, “Your husband is 5 foot 4, bald, chubby, and is mean to the kids.”

The wi fe rep l ied , “Well, I don’t want that one back!”

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Audrey Butler

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September 16, 1999

I woke up this morningand thought of you,

With the passing of time,this now doesn’t happen

every day.Then a memory pops up and

out of the blue,I’ll see your face, and hear

you laugh in thatfunny way.

Don’t worry Mom, we’llalways remember you,We will keep coming to

visit, to place our flowerson the peacefulplace you lay.

- Love, Your Family.

Emily

September 15, 2008

Ralph

June 1, 1999

In Loving Memories of Our

Parents

Ralph and Emily McGillicky

Our family circle has beenbroken,

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a whileWe know we’ll meet again.

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September 9, 1987

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Daniel Wayne McNabbSeptember 5, 1959 -

August 12, 2012Daniel McNabb, late

of Estevan, passed away in Estevan on Sunday, August 12, 2012 at the age of 52 years.

Daniel is survived by his wife Mary, Estevan; children, Michael McNabb, Michaela Smith and Cassandra Smith, Estevan, Jeremy (Brandi) Martin, McAllister, Okla., and Devan Bryant, Estevan; brother, Gordon (Lynn) McNabb, Estevan; nephew, Shaun

(Robin) McNabb and son Raydon, Estevan; uncles, Tom Dobbyn, Carberry, Man., and Tony Riley, Strathclair, Man.

He was predeceased by his parents, Alexander and Alice McNabb; sisters, Marilyn McNabb and Betty McNabb and nephew Christopher McNabb.

A Memorial Service for Daniel was held on Monday, August 20, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. from the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan, with Mr. Doug Third offi ciating.

Those so wishing may make donations to a charity of choice in Daniel’s memory.

Arrangements in care of the Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Patricia KurmeyFebruary 5, 1920 - August 31, 2012

Patricia Kurmey passed away peacefully at the age of 92.

She had four brothers and three sisters, one of whom was her twin. Growing up on the family farm near Verwood, Sask., she cherished the many great memories with her parents and siblings.

Pat spent numerous years in the Air Force where she met her husband William and married June 9, 1948. In

November 1949, they had their fi rst daughter Barbara. Their second daughter, Sandra was born in November of 1952. After living in various places they settled in Estevan, where Pat spent several years working at the doctor’s offi ce. She had a passion for baking, gardening and enjoyed family gatherings. Pat was very loving and you seldom heard her complain. Her life centered around her family. After losing her husband and both daughters, she continued on with great strength, caring for her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Pat is survived by her grandchildren, Stacey (Tyler) Peterson, Estevan; Stephanie (Aaron) Laub, Lampman; Ryan Braund, Brandon, Man., Jeremy Braund, Brandon, Man.; son-in-law, Ron (Linda) Highfi eld, Estevan; two sisters, Evelyn Garinger, Meadow Lake, Sask. and her twin sister, Vivian Good, Moose Jaw, Sask.; Great grandchildren, Kale, Adan, Amrah and Ashton Peterson, Kiana and Kennedi Laub, Tyson, Alexis and Rachel Braund, also numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband, William; her parents, Walter and Winnifred McNutt; daughters, Barbara Highfi eld and Sandra Braund, two sisters and four brothers.

Arrangements entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Thank YouA special thank you to the staff at the Regional Nursing Home. Thank you to all our friends for the fl owers, phone calls and words of encouragement. Thank you to Doug Third for the beautiful services and Allan at Hall Funeral Services for his compassion.- Stacey (Tyler) Peterson; Stephanie (Aaron) Laub; Ron Highfi eld.

Remember Your Loved Ones Remember Your Loved Ones with a Memorial Tributewith a Memorial Tribute

Deborah Potter has been appointed as adjudi-cator for the Estevan Arts Council’s annual adjudi-cated art show that will be staged in November this year.

Potter has taught vi-sual arts in the Regina public school system and has been involved in cur-riculum development and arts education course im-plementation from Grades 6 to senior high school. She received her achelor of Finfe arts (honours) and bachelor of education de-grees from the University of Regina.

The Es tevan Ar t s Council members said they anticipate a lot of posi-tive feedback from Potter thanks to her wide range of experience and knowledge.

After retiring from a teaching career, Potter worked with the Learning

Adjudicator named for

local art show in NovemberThrough the Arts program and co-wrote a curriculum support program for artists, taught summer school and art classes for the City of Regina and designed a dis-play for the Saskatchewan Science Centre.

Potter had a solo exhi-bition of her work in 2004, entitled Humouresque, at the Joe Moran Gallery. She serves on the board of the Art Gallery of Re-gina and for the past few years has worked with the Mackenzie Art Gallery developing 13 themes of study for ARTSask, an interactive educational Internet site: www.artsask.ca This contract involved research and writing about artists and their work, art-ist interviews, designing art activities and building topics for discussion.

Once again the Este-van Art Gallery and Mu-

seum will be playing host to the adjudicated art show during the month of No-vember. Brochures outlin-ing the qualifi cations for the artists are available at the arts council offi ce in the leisure centre or by going online at www.este-vanartscouncil.com

An entry form is in-cluded in the brochure.

The deadline for en-tries is Oct. 19.

The arts council added that Potter will be offering a jewelry making work-shop at the gallery on Sat-urday, Nov. 3 from 1 to 4 p.m. Each participant will be introduced to the tools and techniques to turn wire and beads into jewelry. Participants may bring their own tools and beads if they prefer, but supplies will also be provided to ensure each participant can fi nish their project.

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The Estevan Regional Nursing Home Auxiliary has provided the facility on Wellock Road a new look in the dining room through their donation of 14 new dining tables plus three more assisted feed-ing tables.

The auxiliary added to the package by includ-ing a new dishwasher and freezer for the Petterson Room, said Jan Dunbar, president of the auxiliary who was on hand for the presentation to ERNH manager Christine Steph-any.

Dunbar explained the auxiliary gathered the funds through a generous donation from the United Way of Estevan plus a series of bake sales and raffles.

Dining a pleasure at ERNH“The auxiliary also

made another donation earlier this year through its memorial fund, enough to provide for 24 new lawn chairs for the gazebo,” said Dunbar.

Stephany was joined

by ERNH resident Rachel Lavoie for the presenta-tion and photo. Stephany said the home’s resident population is once again at 70, indicating full capacity which is where they have been for most of this year.

The Estevan Regional Nursing Home has 14 new din-

ing tables, three new assistance feeding tables as well

as a new dishwasher and freezer for the Petterson

Room thanks to their auxiliary. Jan Dunbar (left)

president of the auxiliary, posed for a photo with

resident Rachel Lavoie (centre) and ERNH manager

Christine Stephany behind one of the new fold-out

dining tables in the main dining area.

Visit us on the Web: www.estevanmercury.ca

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A1 TANK TRUCK DRIVERREQUIRES

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101 Supreme St. (Shand access road)

Sun Country Well Servicing Inc. is currently seekingexperienced Service Rig Personnel. Preference will

be given to Class 1A and 3A applicants.

Interested individuals can submit a resume via email or fax to Shannon Leibel at:

Email: sleibel@suncountrywellservicing.caFax 306 634 1200 • Cell 306 421 3418

Playschool Teacherneeded in Lampman.

No teaching certificate required, but must be enthusiastic and well organized.

Program consist of 3 & 4 year olds & runs 2 days a week September to May.

Deadline for applications is September14.Mail resume to Meg Lischka

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or call 487-2290.

P l e a s e R e c y c l e T h i s P a p e r !

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Talented people keep Enbridge moving forward.

At Enbridge, we recognize that it is the talent and inspiration of our dedicated team that have positioned us as a leader in the safe and reliable delivery of energy in North America. Innovation and vision have secured our standing as one of the ‘Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World’. A company focused on growth, we value the contributions of every employee and support each of them in reaching their full potential. At Enbridge, we build, celebrate and grow together. Join our ESTEVAN, SK team in one of these rewarding roles:

SENIOR FINANCIAL ADVISOR – JOB ID # 19870 As the Senior Financial Advisor, you will work with the Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc. Accounting, Commercial and Business Services teams to enable the execution of project planning and financial activities for new and existing business initiatives.

SUPERVISOR, ACCOUNTING – JOB ID # 19745 As the Supervisor, Accounting, you will oversee the accounting functions for the Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc. group of companies. You will be responsible for analyzing and communicating earnings performance, oversight of cost allocation processes, ensuring accounting compliance with shipper agreements and the supervision and development of staff.

For further details and to apply prior to September 18th, please visit jobs.enbridge.com and search for the Job ID # above.

Enbridge was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and Alberta’s Top 55 Employers for 2012.

Enbridge is an equal opportunity employer.

WHERE ENERGY MEETS

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is currently accepting resumes for the following positions at their Estevan location:

Outside Shipper & ReceiverFull time outside shipper & receiver required. Forklift and lumber experience would be an asset. Salary based on experience.

Truck DriversFull and part time positions available. Must be licensed with air brake endorsement capable of driving a tandem truck or single axle for deliveries. Weekends off .

Company benefi ts available for both positions & salary based on experience and qualifi cations.

Interested applicants can fax resume to Brian at Wood Country at 634-8441 or email

resume to brianwoodcountry.estevan@sasktel.netNo phone calls please.

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Talented people keep Enbridge moving forward.

At Enbridge, we recognize that it is the talent and inspiration of our dedicated team that have po-sitioned us as a leader in the safe and reliable delivery of energy in North America. Innovation and vision have secured our standing as one of the ‘Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World’. A company focused on growth, we value the contributions of every employee and support each of them in reaching their full potential. At Enbridge, we build, celebrate and grow together. Come visit us in ESTEVAN, SK at our CAREER FAIR:

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH FROM 3PM – 7PMESTEVAN CAMPUS AND SASKATCHEWAN ENERGY TRAINING INSTITUTE (MAIN AUDITORIUM)522 BOURQUIN ROAD, ESTEVAN, SK

We are currently recruiting a number of positions in Estevan, SK, in the following areas:

FIELD OPERATIONSCONTROL CENTERENGINEERINGFINANCE & ACCOUNTINGADMINISTRATIONSAFETY

For further details on all available Enbridge opportunities, please visit jobs.enbridge.com

Enbridge was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and Alberta’s Top 55 Employers for 2012.

Enbridge is an equal opportunity employer.

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