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Cheers to the new road down to Woodlawn Regional Park and a new walking path.

Cheers to the supporters of the Scouts Popcorn Fundraiser year after year. You make a lot of great programming possible for our youth in

the city. Thank you Estevan!

Cheers to everyone who voted on Wednesday. There’s nothing quite like democracy in action!

Cheers to the band who played at Eddie Web-ster’s last weekend. Those guys were great.

Cheers to pharmacists being able to refi ll prescriptions. It was a real help when I needed

those meds.

Cheers to customers that hang up their cell phones when they’ve reached the checkout!

Jeers to the speeders and racers on King Street. Speed limit is 50 km not 60 or higher.

Jeers to the person who dissed the hockey coaches. Maybe it’s not the kid but the parent.

Give kids a chance to have fun and play for themselves and the team. They only get one

chance at playing as a kid, and if they do it well, they will grow to be great givers. You could try helping out by being a good example for your

kids and other parents.

Jeers to the Department of Highways who has yet to cut the weeds from the roadside on High-

way 47 and Highway 39.

Jeers to all the parents that let their 15- and 16-year-old children run around on the week-

ends until 4:30 a.m. (especially their daughters) and then wonder why they get in trouble.

Jeers to the fellow in the white GMC 4X4 who on Sunday took a pee in front of his truck in

broad daylight while parked in the No Frills lot. My kids don’t need to see that. You are dirty

and disgusting.

Jeers to a local sports association for having a system that allows personal picks from coach-

es over selections based on talent.

Jeers for the advance polls being held in a tiny entryway at city hall. It was a zoo in there with about 20 people waiting to vote. It’s pretty sad when we have Spectra Place with lots of open

space that could have been used.

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The life at sea is the life for Ken Friess.

For seven days in early August, the Estevan resident had free-reign to explore one of the Royal Canadian Navy’s destroy-ers. Seeing all the sailors in their element was an experience he won’t soon forget.

Friess’s brother-in-law, Lorne Hartell, re-cently took command of the HMCS Algonquin as the ship’s captain, a post he will keep for two years. His term began this past summer with RIMPAC exercises in the Pacific, which involved close to 20 countries.

Following the exer-cises, there was a planned, formal command change over, with family invited to attend. The previous commander got sick, so it was cancelled. Friess was interested in going to see it, so Hartell suggested he come out for a Tiger Cruise. Sailors take fam-ily or friends on board for a cruise if there are beds available.

In Friess’s case, the journey was from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii to Esqui-malt on Vancouver Island. Hartell picked up the cost, as Friess’s sponsor.

Algonquin is a 460-foot destroyer, which Friess travelled on, but also making the trip was the frigate, HMCS Ottawa.

Friess enjoyed some of the nicer digs while staying on the ship. Be-cause he was a guest of the ship’s commander, the admiral suite was where he bunked.

“I had the best accom-modations,” he said, of the 14 tigers or civilians. “It’s not a lot of space, but way more than the other guys had.”

He shared the sitting room with Hartell, which he said was nice for an old ship.

Fr iess sa id when something was off limits, it was very clear he couldn’t take in that part of the ship. For the most part, however, he could roam freely, ob-serving the crew as they went about their daily training and exercises. Much of his time was spent on the bridge, sitting in the captain’s chair.

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Ken Friess hangs out the door of a Sea King helicopter during his August trip aboard the HMCS Algonquin from Pearl Harbor to Victoria. Friess’s brother-in-law recently took command of the vessel, and Friess spent time on the ship as part of a Tiger Cruise.

doesn’t spend a whole bunch of time on the bridge,” said Friess. “If they’re doing some im-portant exercise where he has to be there, he’s there, but otherwise he can run the ship from just about anywhere. Whenever he would normally be in his quarters or his sitting room or his bedroom, there are radios and phones and they are constantly calling him and updating him on what’s going on.”

Friess did get to take part in some of the exer-cises and use some of the equipment as well. A pilot was being certified during the journey, and he was able to climb into the Sea King helicopter, not just going along for the ride but also flying it for close to 20 minutes.

“They let us do quite a few things. They let us jog the helicopter around from the door.”

Friess explained that during a water rescue, the pilot hovers the aircraft while the movement of the helicopter is controlled by the people at the door. They are overlooking their target in the water, so they have the best idea as to where they should be posi-tioned. Afterward, he took control of the Sea King.

“They showed the basic controls, and I was able to fly it for 15 or 20

minutes. It seemed like about five minutes,” he added. “It’s not really natural right away. I’ve run draglines, and it’s harder than that. It’s not quite as natural as something like that. It takes a little more co-ordination.”

Friess also stepped behind one of the 50-cali-bre machine guns and was able to fire a few bursts from the high-powered weapon at a smoke flare fire in the ocean. Firing a few hundred rounds took only a few seconds.

“You only hold the trigger for a few seconds at a time, because we were shooting 2,000 rounds. If you held the trigger, the barrel gets so hot it over-heats the barrel.”

Friess earned an even greater respect for the country’s navy after seeing them in action. During ex-ercises, he said everybody does everything at 100 per cent and takes their train-ing very seriously.

“It’s an experience to see the way that they do things. There’s a lot of people who maybe don’t take Canada’s military se-riously, but they do. They are well trained, and they are well-respected.”

He said during RIM-PAC, there is lots of communication with the other countries involved. The South Koreans have

newer, state-of-the-art vessels, but there is cer-tainly a mutual respect among them all.

Reflecting on his time at sea, Friess added, “I don’t know if, when I was that age, I was in the mindset to get into it, but for somebody who is the adventurous type, there you go.”

He noted the sailors were itching to get home after being away for about two months. The crew did spend time in Hawaii, a notorious vacation hot spot for many on the mainland, but as Friess noted, for them, it’s not home.

PerspectiveOCTOBER 26, 2012


Calvin DanielsTrader Agriculture

Columnist

Jordan BakerThoughts From

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Over the past two years I’ve spent more time in a courtroom than time with my family, by a long shot.

It’s not because I just can’t get on the right side of the law, and I don’t see judges as often as the lawyers in town, but as the court reporter, plenty of working time is spent sitting in a chilly courtroom straining to hear what exactly is going on.

This past Monday was much more of the same, with its rare but inevitable interesting moments hidden amongst several hours of dry proceedings. The most refreshing thing was to hear the sit-ting judge vent many of the frustrations I have watching the local court beat.

That is that things in the court system are happening, but not even at a snail’s pace. The justice system moves forward at an evolutionary pace.

For the majority of items on a court docket, nothing happens. Most matters are simply adjourned to a later date, at which time they are adjourned again, ad infi nitum. I’m not here to blame any of the lawyers for clogging up the system.

But it was refreshing to hear Judge Kenn Bellerose inquire as to why it has

Time gets no justice in the courtroom

How will we feed the growing world population

taken an impaired driving charge from May 2011 to October 2012 to go without any sort of resolution. There were no pleas entered, it was simply adjourned to a date in November.

He was assured by the Crown that the matter would be moving forward on that day with a plea. A guilty plea could end the matter, while a not-guilty plea would require a trial in four or fi ve months. There may not be anybody who actually enforces a plea on that day, so it’s quite possible another adjournment is in order when the time comes.

I’m not familiar with the specifi c case, but in that year and a half, it’s possible that the matter has been called in court and adjourned a dozen or more times. The judge suggested with a fl air of hyperbole that there were two trees worth of paper for the fi le.

Maybe there is no way that particular matter can be dealt with quicker than it is, but it will probably require more than one more appearance in the courtroom

This isn’t strictly a problem in Este-van’s provincial court system. It’s hap-pening across the country. I don’t think the lawyers in Estevan are unorganized or lazy. Part of the problem is more likely because there are far too few lawyers to deal with the elevating crime levels in the Energy City.

I’m not privy to all, or any, of the conversations between them as they work to some kind of agreement on how to move a case forward, but certainly at some point feet have to be held to the fi re in order to get things moving along. I wish a cranky court reporter had that kind of clout, but I’m going to have to defer those powers to our judges.

It’s nice to see Bellerose ask ques-tions about the pace of the judicial pro-cess, but ultimately, his bewilderment at the speed of the court system isn’t going to move things along any faster.

There is one suggestion I can make to everyone in order to help unclog the courts: please just stop breaking the law.

One of the overriding issues of agri-culture moving forward is simply feeding a growing world population.

At times we seem to lose sight of that fact in view of more immediate issues, whether it is the increasing cost of fuel, problems attracting workers, or the new world of grain marketing post Canadian Wheat Board.

But as we move forward, the world’s population is going to climb. There are not even hints of any real effort being made to start a public dialogue on how the world might address that growth in a reasonable way.

We therefore have to work on making sure farm production stays ahead of the increasing population.

At times, we think of farmers in North America as being at the forefront of that effort. Farmers here look at production techniques as the answer. Genetically modifi ed (GM) crop varieties hold out hope for greater yields, as do better appli-cation of nutrients through variable rates tailored to specifi c needs within a fi eld.

North American farmers are only part of the equation in terms of long-term production.

More important, at least in the shorter term, is that GM will be helping farmers in other countries increase their production capabilities.

We are seeing some of that as farmers in South America are now a major pro-ducer of soybeans.

There was a time when countries such as Ukraine were major producers of wheat. Eastern Europe was a major grain producer. A couple of world wars and be-ing under control of Moscow for decades left the region years behind in terms of technology.

I can recall a group of farmers from Eastern Europe who were in Yorkton a decade or so ago, where it wasn’t the large-scale combine which most interested them because it was too far ahead of them. Rather it was the grain auger that they felt was something that would be immediately helpful on the farm.

As far behind on a technological level as farmers in Eastern Europe may be, farm-ers in Africa are decades behind that. If Af-rica had the technological advancements farmers have here in Canada, imagine the farm production that could be achieved.

But, there is more to it than production.In a recent Western Producer article,

a startlingly sad statistic was at the heart of a story.

In the article, Colin Osborne, president of Vicwest which also owns Westeel grain bins, noted, “The minister of agriculture of India claims they lose 22 per cent of every-thing they crop. So they grow 400 million tonnes of crop every year and they lose 88 million tonnes through rot, contamination and animals.

“To put that in perspective, Canada only grows about 72 million (tonnes per year).”

Food loss is not a problem isolated to India.

Food storage, vermin issues and trans-portation problems account for substantial losses of food.

That will become unacceptable in the future when every bushel of food will be critical. And on a world level, how we protect the food supply will be as impor-tant in the future as increasing actual farm production.

In many respects the answers exist in things such as better granaries and better management systems.

Like production, getting systems to go from farming with hoes to half-million dollar tractors is a technological step that will not easily be achieved, but to feed our future generations, it is a step that must be taken.

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It came down to a battle of experience versus change and Roy Ludwig’s 18 years on council carried him to a convincing victory in the 2012 Estevan civic election.

The veteran councillor captured the mayor’s job with an impressive 60 per cent of the vote in Wednes-day’s election.

Ludwig will now re-place Gary St. Onge who announced earlier this year that he would not run for another term as mayor after seven years on the job.

“I’d like to thank our community very much for their support and I look forward to fulfilling the mandate with our new council,” Ludwig said after it became clear he would be declared the winner over

fellow candidates Lynn Chipley and Jim Halladay. “I think we’ve got a great council, and I am just very excited with moving the city forward.”

Entering election day it was largely believed that the battle for mayor would be a two-horse race between Ludwig and Chipley, who had served two terms on council.

However, Ludwig quickly outdistanced him-self from the pack, taking a sizable lead early on that he would never relinquish.

When the smoke cleared. Ludwig fi nished with 1,807 votes while Chipley had 912. Halladay received 299 votes.

Ludwig said entering the election he had a posi-

tive feeling from voters but was uncertain until the votes began rolling in.

“You never really know what to expect come elec-tion time, and I have learned that over the years. From my work on the ground, it was very positive and I thought unless people were telling me what I wanted to hear, it sounded pretty favourable.”

Although she was dis-

appointed in the result, Chipley said she was tak-ing solace in the fact she garnered a third of the vote.

“I appreciate all the support I received. Am I a little disappointed I won’t be here for the next four years? Of course, but seven good people have been elected and they will take good care of the city and keep the things that we started going.”

When Ludwig offi-cially takes over as mayor he will have three new councillors to work with.

Greg Hoffort, Lori Carr and Kevin Smith will join incumbents Brian Johnson, Dennis Moore and Chris Istace around the council table.

Hoffort received the

most votes while Dennis Moore had the highest num-ber of opponents among the incumbents. Hoffort said he was pleased with the support from the elector-ate and is looking forward to working with the new council team.

“I had a lot of encour-agement and support from many people, but as far as where I would fi nish in the list I had no notion of that,” he said. “Just about all of the councillors who were elected tonight I have worked with in the past on other boards and com-mittees. I think it’s got the makings of a great team, and I look forward to get-ting at it.”

Rodney Beatty was the lone incumbent not

re-elected as he placed seventh overall. Moham-mad Waseem was eighth and Cameron Robock was ninth.

The plebiscite asking voters whether or not they would like to see the speed limit lowered to 40 km/hr in the residential areas was very close with 1,468 people voting yes and 1,442 people voting no. However, the fi nal decision will have to be made by the members of council as the results of the vote are not binding.

Overall, 3,018 people cast a vote in the election, well ahead of 2009 when roughly 1,850 people voted.

For a complete story on the election please see next Wednesday’s edition of The Estevan Mercury.

Ludwig cruises to convincing win

Roy Ludwig

Tonaya Marr

Maybe It’s Just Me

When visiting home over Thanksgiving week-end, I was treated to a story of me as a child. Obviously I was a strange and awe-some kid, so most stories about my childhood result in equal parts laughter and head-hanging shame. This story is no different.

For my first “big kid” Halloween, when I was three years old, my mom dressed me up a pump-kin. She dressed me in an adorable orange costume (looks like an orange body suit), handed me a pump-kin basket and painted my face like a jack-o’-lantern before leading me around the block and to my rela-tives’ homes.

This probably in-spires an adorable mental image of a blond, blue-eyed joy of a child skip-ping from door to door, politely asking for Twix bars. Not the case. For one, I hadn’t quite figured out how smiling worked yet. So rather than grinning innocently, I would tilt my head back and grin evilly, exposing only my bottom teeth. I’ve been told the effect was frightening, but all attempts to recreate it now seem to fail.

Plus my black and orange face, which I admit was admirably attempted, was a bit of a disaster, especially when combined with my sneer.

And the best part: I learned over Thanksgiv-ing that rather than knock-ing on doors like a regular child, or shouting naughty rhymes in order to earn my goodies, I knocked on doors so hard my knuckles were literally bleeding when I got home.

I recently heard on an

Halloween remembered ...Tonaya Marr, a friendly baby pumpkin, is proof that babies are doing Halloween right. The scary pumpkin version could not be published due to Tonaya’s embar-rassment.

Estevan radio station that nothing is more frighten-ing than a scary child. Let it be known that I was that child, standing on door-steps with my knuckles bleeding creepily on the ground, my candy pump-kin full of treats and my mom standing behind me looking apologetic for presenting such a satanic toddler.

Many years later, I’m still a fan of Halloween. Though my knuckles are a little less bloody, I still love eating chocolately treats (not a diet-friendly practice) and I enjoy getting dressed up. I’m concerned that this might be my final year donning a costume, since next Halloween I hope to be a fully-employed contrib-uting member of society

and something seems a lot less fun about getting sloppy and going out when I might run into my employers or co-workers. Obviously I have a job right now, but they seem to expect this sort of childish behaviour since I’m a student.

One final note on Halloween: my parents are moving Halloween weekend to their new home. As much as I regret being unable to come help (slight exag-geration), I wish them the best of luck. This is also the first year my dad won’t be buying 16 bags of candy to hand to earnest youngsters, thus ending an era of Mom complaining about the leftover candy and Dad keeping careful count of

the number of kids who come by in hopes of beat-ing last year’s total. Don’t worry, Dad, I will come home and take the mini Areo bars from you. It’s going to be OK.

Tonaya Marr is a 21-year-old Estevanite living in Regina. Her interests include sleeping in, over-spending and writing hilarious weekly

columns. You can reach Tonaya at [email protected] or on Twitter @TonayaMarr.

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Several of Estevan’s church groups are coming together to bring some of the Energy City’s less fortunate people in from the cold.

Starting on Dec. 1 and running until the end of February, St. Paul’s United Church auditorium will host the Warm Welcome project. The goal is to have a safe and warm place for people who would other-wise be sleeping in their cars or on the street.

Brenna Nickel, the minister at St. Paul’s, said the shelter will run from Thursday to Sunday in the beginning because they aren’t entirely sure what their resources will allow them to do.

“We know that most people who arrive in Es-tevan are coming on the weekends, hoping to start work on Monday, so that’s why we picked that time,” said Nickel.

She has been in Este-van for more than a year and noted that when people don’t have a place to stay, one of the fi rst places they go is the church. Churches in the past would have a system where one church was on call every weekend

to put people up in hotels.“Now there just isn’t

space in the hotels for people, and even if there is, it’s so expensive for the churches and the people,” Nickel said. “I think all the ministers in town have faced a very diffi cult time where you have to tell somebody, ‘no, we don’t have anything we can do for you.’ We just felt a need to address that.”

She noted initiatives by the City to introduce affordable housing will certainly help, but it’s still going to take time to get those units up and running.

She said they are teamed up with the Salva-tion Army, who she noted are tracking 10 to 12 people who are sleeping in their vehicles right now. Nickel estimated there are about another 10 people whom she called the “invisible homeless.” With winter on its way, she added that people don’t want others to have to sleep outside.

Nickel said that while they offer the beds, not everyone would feel com-fortable accepting the help. She is guessing that fi ve to 10 will come in.

Nickel noted they are

getting mattresses and bed-ding lined up right now and are meeting with the health inspector next week. They aren’t sure if they will be required to have brand new material or if they can ac-cept things like used sheets.

The Salvation Army will be providing breakfast each morning thanks to donations made to the food bank. They will also be used as the intake point for people who wish to spend the night inside.

Nickel said St. Paul’s

was looking to get more involved in the community, and their leadership team brought the Warm Wel-come idea forward.

“We know we have the space, and other churches are saying they have people who would volunteer, and then the Salvation Army knows it’s capable of giving us breakfast, so everybody’s kind of doing their little piece of it,” said Nickel.

Volunteers will be required at the shelter to stay overnight, and their job will be to put out food and drinks for the guests and help clean up the fol-lowing morning.

“Mostly, for us to have people who can be good listeners and just kind of be there for conversation, and just be a warm, hospitable presence,” Nickel said is what they are looking for from their volunteers.

An informational ses-sion will be held on Nov. 4 at St. Paul’s United

Church beginning at 2 p.m. Anybody with questions or ideas is welcome to bring those with them.

Simply put, Nickel said their goal is to have fewer people sleeping out-side, noting that it’s good for those people as well as the community.

“It limits the use of resources. If somebody sleeps outside and they get sick from that, then they are in the ER taking up time and resources that way,” she noted. “The police aren’t having to check on those people to make sure they are OK.”

She said many people are coming to Estevan from other provinces to fi nd jobs, which is much easier than finding accommodation. They will be able to take advantage of the Warm Welcome.

Groups will be offering a Warm Welcome

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Spending money is always a touchy subject. Some people have a lot of cash to drop on a costume, while others don’t. So reading this, consider that I’m basing this on having money to spend on being Cat Woman for a night. And remember that there’s no shame in creating, borrowing or bargain-shopping a costume. After all, it’s one night of your life – probably not worth a couple hundred dollars for a couple of scraps of material held together with fi shnets.

Anyway, for toddlers, I advocate spending as much as is necessary to create adorable babies. There is no price limit here. If your Cabbage Patch Doll costume needs a $500 investment, I support that. Babies need sweet costumes. This same rules applies to pets as well. Total cost: as much as it takes.

As a toddler or elementary school student, spend as little as possible. And buy it big, because this is Saskatchewan and you’ll need to wear ski pants under your Sailor Moon skirt when you hunt for candy. I loved shopping for a Halloween costume at Walmart, which I’m sure was the bane of my mom’s life. With three daughters demanding six costumes each, unable to make up their minds, I imagine Halloween costume shopping kind of sucked. So spend as little as possible and get out of the store. Total cost: $15.

High school kids: you’re too old to trick or treat and too young to be risqué. Stay home and hand out candy with your parents. Total cost: $0, and you’re saving your dignity.

Post-high school into adult years: this really comes down to what you can afford, what you can get away with spending before your dad notices and how high your credit card can go. Shopping locally can save you some cash, and so can borrowing a previously warm outfi t from a friend, assuming it been washed. Based on my own experience, I know that costumes run you at least $50 before shipping and acces-sories. And realistically, there are better things you can be spending your money on Halloween night when you’re out. Total cost: $100, optimistically. — Tonaya Marr

Halloween has lost its lustre for me in the past few years. It’s great as a kid, it’s an excuse to party when you’re a student, but when you have to get up and go to work the next day, it’s just another night.

When it comes to costumes, is anybody ever too old to dress up? Costumes come in varying sizes, shapes and levels of imagination. The size and shape change as we get older, but the imagination can remain at the same level

of wonder. We wear costumes for different reasons as adults than we did as trick-or-treaters.

For kids, dressing up is all about becoming a new person or at times a monster. As an adult, it’s about looking wacky and heading to a club.

The costume I remember is a Ninja Turtle one that my mom made. I don’t just remember the costume, but I also remember watching her slave away, sewing that whole thing together. That image is probably ingrained in my brain because she would never let me forget all the work that went into that thing as I nagged her to fi nish it quick so I could do some karate kicks.

I don’t know how much that cost in materials, but it took hours and hours. A quick text from Mom reveals about 20.

“I did nothing in the week before Halloween except basic child care like meals and diapers,” she said. “And sewed and sewed and sewed.”

I think I stirred up some bad memories. There appears to be no limit to cost when getting the costume for a six-year-old.

When we start buying our own costumes, however, we immediately become more frugal. Pulling off a Mario and Luigi duo with a buddy is a trip to the Sally Ann for some

overalls and a red or green hat. A $20 limit now seems much too high. What can be found in the closet and turned into something else? This is how, as

we get older, our imagination is less about pretending to be a different person and more about imaginative ways to save money. — Jordan Baker

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People have been shot for lessBrian ZinchukFrom the Top

of the Pile

The phrase “People have been shot for less” may sound glib, but in the case of navy Sub-Lt. Jef-frey Delisle, that is most certainly the case.

The man may just be the worst traitor Canada has ever seen. In wartime, the scope of his betrayal to his country would have drawn a fi ring squad in most countries.

Perhaps it is precisely because we do not have fi ring squads or hangmen for such offences in Canada anymore that he broke after just an hour of questioning. And though I generally don’t believe in the death penalty, my gut tells me in this case, perhaps an excep-tion can be made.

What strikes me here is some parallels to my own service. Delisle was a navy sub-lieutenant, the equiva-lent rank of an air force lieutenant, my rank when I mustered out. Delisle told police, “I can’t deploy be-cause I’m diabetic. I never sailed.” Ditto. That’s the reason I couldn’t become a career air force offi cer right out of high school.

In my case, it meant the only way I ended up in uniform was as an air cadet instructor in a component of the reserves known as the Cadet Instructor Cadre, a position with very little actual training and zero security clearance that I am aware of. Delisle, on the other hand, had one of the highest security clearances possible. He worked in intelligence, at a military establishment so secret I never even heard of it until the news broke of his betrayal.

An offi cer for 16 years, at his lowly rank of sub-lieutenant, it’s clear he was going nowhere in his career. His wage at that rank wasn’t going to make him rich by any means. Appar-ently his wife cheating on him was enough for him to sell out his country, to which he had sworn an oath, for a measly $3,000 a month or so.

For that $3,000, he gave away the keys to the castle.

The man, a naval of-fi cer, mind you, actually walked into the Russian

Embassy and offered his services. They must have thought manna from heav-en had just landed on their desk.

He didn’t use dead drops or microfi lm like spy novels. He cut and pasted fi les, then carried them out on fl oppy disks, transferred them to USB sticks, and sent them as e-mails.

It’s one thing for a civilian to become a spy; it’s quite another for an intelligence offi cer to do so. There is no higher level of betrayal. When courts pass sentencing, they always temper those sentences by considering “Is this the worst offender doing the absolute worst thing?” In this case, clearly the answer is “yes.” About the only thing that could be worse is if this happened during

a shooting war.Oh, wait, it did. Can-

ada has been in a shooting war in Afghanistan since the fall of 2001, and we most defi nitely had troops in the fi eld in 2007. Indeed,

our deployment was still ramping up at that time. And he wasn’t just feeding Canadian secrets, but that of our allies as well.

The Globe and Mail reported, “The informa-tion was mostly military but also contained reports on organized crime, on political players, on se-nior defence offi cials. It included e-mails, phone numbers and contact list for members of the intelligence community.”

The long and short of

it is Delisle deserves to be dragged into the street and shot. Since we’re Canadi-ans, he’s probably eligible for parole in a few years. If there is any justice in this land, he should never see the light of day as long as he lives. Delisle should be thankful the rifl es aren’t being loaded - fi ve with live rounds, and one blank.

Brian Zinchuk is editor

of Pipeline News. He can be reached at [email protected]

• In this season of bitter partisan rivalries, it would be well to remember the following sage observa-tion: “Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would cheer just as much if you and I were going to be hanged.” The man who fi rst made that observa-tion was Lord Protector of England Oliver Cromwell, considered by some to be a hero of liberty, by others to be a regicidal dictator. He died in 1658, probably from septicemia. He was so reviled that, three years later, he body was exhumed so that he could be posthu-mously executed, his body

thrown into a pit and his head displayed on a pole outside Westminster Hall.

• Those who study such things say that if all the gold in the world were combined in one lump, it would result in a cube that measures 20 yards on each side.

• If you’re planning a trip to Lima, Peru, you might want to add Puente de Piedra to your sightseeing list. Though the Spanish name means “Bridge of Stone,” the span is popu-larly known as the Bridge of Eggs. Legend has it that in 1608, the builders the used the whites of 10,000 seabird eggs in the mor-tar that holds the stones together.

• Pumpkins are na-tive to the Americas, not Europe. This is why the

original jack-o’-lantern was a turnip.

• What do the words “obscene,” “tranquil,” “mediate,” “catastrophe,” “dire,” “critical,” “vast” and “apostrophe” have in common? All of them appeared in print for the fi rst time in the works of William Shakespeare.

• If you’re contem-plating a move to Corpus Christi, Texas, be sure to keep in mind that in that town, it’s illegal to raise alligators in your home.

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ProvincialSASKATOON - A deal

has been reached to boost employment for aboriginal people in the Saskatoon Health Region by six per cent over the next two years.

The goal is contained in a memorandum of un-derstanding announced Wednesday by the health region and the Saskatoon Tribal Council.

About four per cent of the region’s 13,000-mem-ber workforce comes from a First Nations, Metis or Inuit background.

Bonnie Blakley, a health region spokeswom-an, says employment of aboriginal people is as much about the health of the community as health care itself.

Council Chief Felix Thomas says another goal is to create work for more council companies by pos-sibly outsourcing some services currently handled by the health region.

The council and re-gion are also committing $10,000 each for 20 schol-arships to First Nations and Metis people pursuing a career in health care.

NationalOTTAWA - New Dem-

ocrat MP Romeo Saganash is taking sick leave to deal with alcohol dependence after being deemed too drunk to fl y on an Air Can-ada Jazz fl ight last week.

Saganash says he needs medical help to over-come his drinking problem and has therefore asked his leader, Tom Mulcair, to grant him sick leave.

Saganash was re-moved Friday from an Air

Canada Jazz fl ight from Montreal to Val-d’Or, Que., after the fl ight crew determined he was too intoxicated to fl y.

Saganash, a longtime leader in the Cree commu-nity of northern Quebec, says there’s no excuse for the incident but suggests in a statement that his alcohol problem stems back to his time in residential school.

He also says he was “greatly affected” by the death of NDP leader Jack Layton and was worn out by his subsequent, short-lived campaign to succeed Layton.

***OTTAWA - A debate

about whether to repeal the centuries-old Indian Act is back before the House of Commons.

Last week, the Con-servatives moved forward with a private members’ bill that would delete several sections of the act as a start towards fully dismantling it.

Now, the Liberals have introduced their own mo-tion calling for talks with First Nations to replace the old legislation with something better suited to current realities.

The Indian Act came into effect in 1876 and sets out the terms of the relationship between the federal Crown and First Nations.

The motion introduced by interim Liberal leader Bob Rae calls the existing legislation an embodiment of failed colonial and pa-ternalistic policies.

Rae says it creates a barrier to economic and social development for First Nations and needs to

be dismantled.He says the Conser-

vative bill was drafted without consultation with First Nations communities, while his own motion is the product of extensive talks.

Conservative MP Rob Clarke, who sponsored the bill, says it’s based on his discussions with aboriginal leaders.

InternationalSEOUL, South Korea

- South Korean activists fl oated balloons carrying tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea on Monday, eluding police who had disrupted an earlier launch attempt due to threats from North Korea.

North Korea’s military warned last week that it would strike if the South Korean activists carried through with their plan to fl y balloons carrying the propaganda leafl ets across the border. South Korea pledged to retaliate if it was attacked.

South Korean police, citing security concerns, had sent hundreds of of-fi cers Monday to seal off roads and prevent the activ-ists and other people from gathering at an announced launch site near the border. Residents in the area were also asked to evacuate to underground facilities, according to local offi cial Kim Jin-a.

Later in the day, some of the activists, mostly North Korean defectors, moved to another site near the border that was not guarded by police and

carried out the launch of the balloons. South Korea’s Defence Ministry said it was closely monitoring North Korea’s military movements but there were no suspicious activities.

Before taking action Monday, the South Ko-rean government had im-plored activists to stop their campaign, but had cited freedom of speech in not making further attempts to intervene.

***HAGERSTOWN, Md.

- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it’s investigating reports of fi ve deaths and a non-fatal heart attack linked to highly caf-feinated Monster Energy Drinks.

The agency acknowl-edged the adverse reports Monday, but FDA spokes-woman Shelly Burgess says they don’t prove that the drinks caused the

deaths.The news follows last

week’s fi ling in California of a wrongful death suit by the parents of a 14-year-old, Hagerstown, Md., girl who died after drinking two, 24-ounce Monster Beverage Corp. drinks in 24 hours.

An autopsy concluded she died of cardiac arrhyth-mia due to caffeine toxic-ity. She had an inherited disorder that can weaken blood vessels.

Monster says it doesn’t believe its products caused any deaths.

Shares of the Coro-na, Calif.-based company plunged $7.20, or 13.5 per cent, to $46.12 in trading Monday.

***L’AQUILA, Italy - An

Italian court convicted sev-en scientists and experts of manslaughter on Monday for failing to adequately

warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people.

The court in L’Aquila also sentenced the defen-dants to six years in prison. Each one is a member of the national Great Risks Commission.

In Italy, convictions aren’t defi nitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately.

Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no reliable way of predicting earthquakes.

Among those con-victed were some of Italy’s most prominent and inter-nationally respected seis-mologists and geological experts, including Enzo Boschi, former head of the national Institute of Geo-physics and Volcanology.

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Manning’s plan looking “super” so farStep 1: Peyton Man-

ning becomes a free agent.Step 2: He signs with

an AFC team, Denver Broncos

Step 3: His Broncos win the AFC champion-ship

Step 4: His brother Eli’s New York Giants win the NFC championship

Step 5: The Manning brothers meet in the Super Bowl at New Orleans Feb. 3, 2013.

Don’t you just love it

when a plan works out?When Peyton was

freed from his Indianapo-lis Colts obligations last March after a spectacular 13-year career in the Mid-west, every NFL general manager without a Hall of Fame quarterback un-der contract drooled like a starving man at a Keg Restaurant just thinking about signing the cerebral QB with the rifle arm who will go down in history as one of the best ever at

his position. But general managers running NFC teams didn’t have a chance because Peyton was simi-larly drooling about the possibility of a Manning vs. Manning Super Bowl. And that meant AFC teams only.

And as the plan un-folds, it could happen this year. Eli’s Giants, who won the Super Bowl last February, are back among the NFL’s elite. And Pey-ton’s Broncos, after a middling start, are playing like the powerhouse most people expected them to be. Peyton’s 35-point sec-ond half explosion against San Diego on a Monday Night Football game Oct. 15 turned a 24-0 halftime deficit into a comfortable victory and solidified his stature as one of the game’s best.

Jim Trotter on si.com said Peyton’s performance that night was “a personal highlight reel, outrageous even by his standards.”

“You never can count that guy out,” said Bran-don Stokley of the Wash-ington Post. “I’ve seen it too many times. Every-body in this locker room knows, and we all believe that when you have him behind the centre, we

can come back from any deficit.”

P e y t o n M a n n i n g hasn’t failed at much during his career. Why would his Manning-ver-sus-Manning Super Bowl dream be any different?

• Comedy writer Jim Barach: “NBA rookie Royce White of the Hous-ton Rockets is battling severe anxiety. His biggest fear is that he will spend his whole career with the Houston Rockets.”

• Greg Cote of The Miami Herald, on the proposed Bikini Bas-ketball Association: “If teams in that league have a merchandise sale and the signs read, “All our cloth-ing 75 per cent off” - they mean it.”

• Comedy writer Alan Ray, on the NHL lockout: “Hockey fans are facing a grim reality. They may have to spend the entire season sober.”

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Pa-triots tight end Michael Hoomanawanui returned to practice after sitting out a day because of concus-sion symptoms. Talk about cruel and unusual: Doctors wouldn’t clear him until he could spell his last name.”

• Vancouver blogger

Steve Burgess: “Lance Armstrong said to be in negotiations to swap seven Tour de France titles for one Nobel Prize in Chem-istry.”

• Steve Harvey, in his weekly Bottom Ten: “Coach Andy Reid of Philadelphia, saddled with the most turnover-prone quarterback in the NFL (Michael Vick), took the logical step and fired his defensive co-ordinator.”

• Barach again: “Alex Rodriguez was benched for Game 1 of the series between the Yankees and Tigers and was seen flirt-ing with women in the crowd from the bench. Coaches weren’t worried. They know A-Rod always has trouble scoring in the playoffs.”

• R.J. Currie of sports-deke.com: Five signs Win-nipeg pivot Buck Pierce isn’t over his concussion: 5. Loves the play-by-play of Rod Black; 4. Is study-ing Tim Tebow’s throw-ing motion; 3. Thinks an option play is asking out Buzz instead of Boomer; 2. Practises in a water-melon helmet; 1. Says the NHL lockout is a shame because it’s the Leafs’ year.

• Another one from Perry: “Location, loca-tion, location can be a bad thing, too, as evidenced by the sponsor logo on the seat of UK diver Tom Daley’s swim briefs: Brit-ish Gas.”

• Auburn alum Charles Barkley, to Birmingham’s WJOX Radio, on the 1-5

Tigers’ football game against Vanderbilt: “Trust me, we’re playing the smart kids this week. If you can’t beat the smart kids, you’re in for a long year.”

• Twin Cities sports-writer Larry Fitzgerald Sr., to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, on son Larry Jr.’s $128.5 million contract with the Arizona Cardi-nals: “He’s doing pretty well - I keep trying to get him to bump my allow-ance.”

• Comedian Argus Hamilton, on reports that Judge Judy makes $45 million a year: “Only Alex Rodriguez is paid more to sit on the bench.”

• Another one from Cote, on the Jets’ choice of Mark Sanchez or Tim Tebow at quarterback: “(It’s) like you wanting a safer neighbourhood and having to decide between Beirut or Fallujah.”

• Ian Hamilton of the Regina Leader-Post, after noting that convicted dog-fighter Michael Vick was once again a dog-owner: “The way Vick has been fumbling the ball this sea-son, the animal had better be a retriever.”

• Brad Dickson of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, after a dog stole Paul Casey’s ball as he was lining up a putt: “If you think this a problem in golf, you should see the world Frisbee champion-ships.”

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A smile fl ashed across Brendan Taman’s face at the mention of the term “playoffs.” There’s another word the Saskatchewan Roughriders general man-ager actually despises, but we’ll get to that later.

The Roughriders en-tered this past weekend teetering on the edge of a playoff berth, needing ei-ther a home win over Mon-treal Saturday afternoon, or a Hamilton Tiger-Cats loss at Calgary Saturday night.

Well, one of those two things happened. The Riders dropped a 34-28 decision to the Alouettes at Mosaic Stadium as a fourth quarter rally fell short. However, the Ticats muffed their game to the Stampeders later that eve-ning and the Riders were able to clinch without even breaking a sweat.

Backing into the play-offs? Absolutely. Apologiz-ing for it? Not on your life.

“I hate doing this be-cause I never want to look back to last year, but go-ing from where we were a year ago to where we are now, it’s a big credit for us,” Taman said about heading back to the CFL post-season after a one-

year absence in 2011, the club’s 5-13 season. “We’ve improved this team. I think there’s no doubt about that, but we need to play better. We’re happy to be where we’re at, but we need to be better.”

No guff. The Riders have lost back-to-back games to Edmonton and Montreal in the stretch drive and their record stands at 8-8 with two games left. The chance at a home playoff game has been blown and now the only question which remains is: are they going on the road in the West Division in the playoffs or crossing over into the East Division?

Really, if you ask these Riders, it doesn’t matter. They’re in the playoffs with a rookie head coach and a roster which was com-pletely overhauled in the off-season by Taman, his

fi rst season truly in charge of the Green & White. They rebuilt, with using the term “rebuild.” Why?

“I hate that word,” Ta-man said as he grimaced. “I don’t know if there’s another word to use. I’d use it if there were, but I hate that word because that’s sort of a built-in excuse to lose.

“We were never gonna do that, but we knew we were gonna change the team a lot. I think other teams in the past have done it, even Edmonton did very well using ‘that word’ last year.”

The Riders have two games left; at home this week to Toronto and then the last game of the regular season against the B.C. Lions in Vancouver. Who knows how things will play out? They’re looking at 10-8, 9-9 or 8-10, but they all constitute a huge leap from

last year under fi rst year coach Corey Chamblin.

The key is that they’ve clinched a playoff spot with still two games remaining, and they can now start mak-ing plans for the playoffs. As for the makeover - the “rebuild” - things went according to plan despite a lot of silent hand-wringing behind closed doors, espe-

cially during a fi ve-game losing streak mid-season.

“I think in this league with eight teams, you can do it pretty quick,” Taman explained. “It’s not easy, but it’s a credit to the coaches and the players to have won enough games.”

The current two-game slide is nothing to be over-looked, but by no means is

it an omen for the future. In 2010 the Riders lost four in row in October before winning game 18 and roll-ing into the Grey Cup in Edmonton.

Hold on tight. This is where it gets fun.

(Rod Pedersen is the voice of the Riders on CKRM Radio)

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NationalTORONTO - After a

disastrous season, Toronto FC is trying to win back fans by slashing season ticket prices.

The Major League Soccer team is rolling back prices for all past and cur-rent ticket holders to 2007 inaugural season levels.

At the top price level, a season ticket will cost $1,007 next year compared to $1,292 in 2012.

The lowest price ticket will be reduced from $361 this season to $190.

New season ticket purchasers will pay “a few dollars more.”

Season tickets for the more successful Vancouver Whitecaps, who are poised to make the playoffs for the fi rst time in team history, range from $349 to $1,950.

Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment presi-dent Tom Anselmi says

the fi nancial hit to the or-ganization will be “pretty healthy,” but declined to go into detail.

Toronto is currently last in the league with a 5-20-7 record. That is worse than its 2007 ex-pansion season record of 6-17-7.

***TORONTO, - Jockey

Chantal Sutherland has called it a career.

The 36-year-old Win-nipeg native announced her retirement Sunday after guiding Crushin Hard to a seventh-place fi nish in the $126,200 Bunty Law-less Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack.

“I love Woodbine, I love riding here,” said Sutherland. “It’s nice that I could end it here, where it all started for me.”

Sutherland left Wood-bine for Santa Anita in 2011 but wanted to return to

Canada for her fi nal mount aboard a horse owned, in part, by her father Hugh Sutherland.

Sutherland admitted it was diffi cult walking off the track as a jockey for the last time.

“It’s a very emotional experience,” said Suther-land. “It’s sad, but I feel good about the decision and the timing is right for me.

“I hope to be remem-bered as a very good jockey.”

Sutherland retires with a record of 931 wins, in-cluding 71 stakes scores from 7,350 mounts.

***CALGARY - Fast ice

at Calgary’s Olympic Oval produced a trio of world records in World Cup short track speedskating Sunday, while Canadian skaters claimed three silver and a bronze on the fi nal day of

competition.J.R. Celski of the

United States became the fi rst man to go under 40 seconds in the 500 metres in 39.973. The American posted that time in the fi nal and took gold ahead of Charles Hamelin of Sainte-Julie, Que., in second.

“I wasn’t really ex-pecting to go that fast today because it’s been a long weekend of racing,” Celski said. “Ice kind of tends to break down over time, but it held its ground and I’m really excited to come out with that world record today.”

South Korea’s Shim Suk Hee and Kwak Yoon-Gy set world records in the women’s and men’s 1,000 metres respectively in the semifinal rounds. Shim went on to win her fi nal, while Kwak took bronze in the men’s fi nal.

Michael Gilday of Yel-

lowknife and Marie-Eve Drolet of Laterriere, Que., earned silver in the men’s and women’s 1,000 metres respectively. The men’s relay team took bronze.

The Canadian team capped the opening World Cup of this season with four silver and a pair of bronze after three days of racing. Olivier Jean of Lachenaie, Que., won silver in the 1,000 metres and Hamelin was a bronze medallist in the 1,500 on Saturday.

InternationalGENEVA - Forget

the seven Tour de France victories. Forget the yellow jersey celebrations on the Champs Elysees. Forget the name that dominated the sport of cycling for so many years.

As far as cycling’s governing body is con-cerned, Lance Armstrong is out of the record books.

Once considered the greatest rider in Tour his-tory, the American was cast out Monday by his sport, formally stripped of his seven titles and banned for life for his involve-ment in what U.S. sports authorities describe as a massive doping program that tainted all of his great-est triumphs.

“Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling and he deserves to be forgot-ten in cycling,” said Pat McQuaid, the president said of the International Cycling Union. “This is a landmark day for cycling.”

McQuaid announced that his group, known as UCI, accepted sanctions imposed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and would not appeal them to the Court of Arbitration for

Sport. McQuaid said he was “sickened” by some of the evidence detailed by USADA in its 200-page re-port and hundreds of pages of supporting testimony and documents.

***M A N C H E S T E R ,

England - Manchester United manager Alex Fer-guson has settled his public dispute with Rio Ferdinand following the defender’s refusal to promote an anti-racism campaign, blaming a “communication prob-lem” for the rift.

Ferguson accused the experienced centre back of “embarrassing” him by declining to wear a T-shirt in support of the “Kick It Out” anti-discrimination campaign, having told the media his whole squad would don the tops before the Premier League match against Stoke on Saturday.

However, Ferguson backed down Monday, saying “I’ve spoken to Rio. I think there was a commu-nication problem. He felt I should have spoken to him on Friday and I obviously didn’t anticipate that he’d have a problem wearing the shirt.

“As the manager of a club, you lay down policy and you don’t want to see it ignored,” Ferguson added. “That’s where my anger came from on Saturday. But we’ve resolved the situation, there’s no lin-gering problems and we move on.”

Ferdinand was one of many Premier League players to boycott the Kick It Out action this weekend, as a protest against a per-ceived lack of strong action taken by organizations in recent high-profi le racism cases.

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Each week the Southeast Trader Express shares recent stories from the community but we’ll also give you a look into the past. If you have a photo you think readers of the Southeast Trader Express would fi nd interesting please submit it to Jordan Baker at [email protected].

Goaltender Terry Forsyth took it in the face on Saturday during Meet Goaltender Terry Forsyth took it in the face on Saturday during Meet the Bruins Day at the Estevan Shoppers Mall. Pie throwing was one the Bruins Day at the Estevan Shoppers Mall. Pie throwing was one of many activities held during the day to promote the hockey club. of many activities held during the day to promote the hockey club.

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According to the Na-tional Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, about 2 million people -- or 1 in 133 people -- in the United States have celiac disease. It is considered to be a genetic disorder, and can be diagnosed in infancy through adulthood. Both males and females can have the disease, but more women than men are diagnosed with it.

Celiac Sprue is a disease in which a person does not tolerate gluten, the protein in wheat, barley, rye and, to a lesser extent, oats. Celiac Sprue is not a food allergy, but a disease that damages the small intestine and prevents absorption of nutrients. My daughter struggles with celiac disease, which makes family dinners an interesting blend of gluten-free products trans-formed into family favorites.

The Celiac Sprue As-sociation lists three things that happen before the onset of the disease: a genetic pre-disposition, a diet containing wheat, barley, rye or oats, and a trigger. The trigger could be something like overexposure to wheat, extreme stress, surgery or a viral infection.

It is a complicated dis-ease because a person can have it and not have symp-toms. There have been in-stances where children have been diagnosed with Celiac Sprue, but then have symp-toms disappear. They later found that although there were no symptoms, damage to the small intestine was still occurring.

The damage in the small intestine is to the villi, which are thin, hairlike projections on the lining of the small in-testine. They allow nutrients into the bloodstream. If the villi are damaged, malnutri-tion, anemia, weight loss and growth retardation can occur.

Celiac disease is often underdiagnosed because it can be confused with other diseases such as irritable bow-el syndrome, diverticulitis or Crohn’s disease. Symptoms of celiac disease vary from person to person. To diagnose celiac disease, a physician will fi rst do a blood test. If certain antibodies are present, they will do a small bowel

biopsy to check for damage to the villi.

The only way to treat the disease is the elimination of gluten in the diet. Usually people notice a difference within a short period of time. Maintaining a gluten-free diet allows the small intestine to heal.

This recipe for Swiss Chard Sushi is not only gluten-free, it’s all vegetarian and totally delicious!

SWISS CHARD SU-SHI

You can use zucchini, cucumbers, bell peppers or any other crisp veggies that have been sliced into thin strips in this recipe with deli-cious results.

8 large leaves Swiss chard

1 tablespoon plus 1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons coconut oil

1 tablespoon low-sodi-um soy sauce

1 cup cooked fried, brown or white rice

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper

2 medium carrots, cut into thin strips

2 green onions, roots removed, green and white parts cut into thin strips

1/3 cup Ume plum vin-egar

2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil

Prepare Swiss Chard: Rinse Swiss chard leaves under cool running water. Fill a large bowl with ice water and 1/2 tablespoon salt and set aside. Fill a large sauce-pan with water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add 1/2 tablespoon salt. Blanch chard leaves by submerging in the boiling water until the rib is softened and the leaves become limp -- about 1 min-ute. Transfer to the prepared ice bath, drain cooled leaves and stack between sheets of paper towel until dry. Cut out the rib on each leaf and set leaves aside.

Make the rolls: Stir the

coconut oil and soy sauce into the cooked rice. Lay the prepared Swiss chard, vein side up and stalk end point-ing toward you, on a cutting board. Sprinkle with vinegar and sesame oil. Sprinkle the

remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, pepper and crushed red pep-per over the carrots and green onions. Place a few pieces of the carrot and green onion and 2 heaping tablespoons of the rice at the end of the leaf.

Fold the bottom edges of the leaf over the fi lling. Roll into a cigar shape, until it forms a tight bundle. Repeat with rest of fi lling and leaves. Keep chilled until ready to serve. Serves 4.

Make the Dipping Sauce: Mix the Ume plum vinegar and the toasted ses-ame oil together in a small dish. Serve alongside rolls.

Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning chil-dren’s author, culinary his-torian and author of seven cookbooks. Her new cook-book is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook.” Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook and go to Hulu.com. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis.

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will be recieved on the 7th day of November, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Returning Officer at the Office of the Holy Family R.C.S.S.D. No. 140, 3rd Floor, 110 Souris Avenue, Weyburn, SK.AND during regular business hours on October 23rd to November 6th, 2012 at the office of Holy Family R.C.S.S.D. No. 140, 3rd Floor, 110 Souris Avenue, Weyburn, SK.

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Pottery ClubPleasantdale School held their pottery club again on Oct. 18, with students from many grades. The students worked on individual projects of textured bowls and monster boxes.

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• 8:30 am - Estevan Taekwon-do Tournament in the ECS gymnasium. Opening Ceremony - 10am• Jewellery Making Workshop - Estevan Art Gallery & Museum

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• 3:30 pm - Pumpkin Pie in a Jar at library• 4:00 pm - Energy City Film Circuit: The Untouchables - Orpheum Theatre

• 10:45 - ECS Rememberance Day Service

• 6:30 pm - Estevan Christian Women’s After 5 club 35th Anniversary - Wicklow Cafe• 7:30 pm - Stars For Saskatchewan: John McDermott in Concert - Estevan Comprehensive School

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As the economy begins to rebound, a good percentage of motorists have resolved to keep their vehicles on the road longer in an effort to stretch their automobile dollars. That’s a sound resolution, and one that is not necessarily dif-fi cult to accomplish. Contrary to popular belief, cars are built to last, and it’s often a driver’s poor habits that reduce a car’s

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Air FilterWhen examining the

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Belts and HosesIssues with belts or hoses

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Motor OilOil change guidelines

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ExhaustOnce a year, be it at a

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Phoenix Technology Services LP is a progressive and innovative Calgary based directional drilling company. Driven by our client’s needs, we are committed to providing more efficient and cost effective drilling operations.

We have an opening at our Estevan, Saskatchewan shop for a full time Shop Technician. Reporting to the Assistant Coordinator, the incumbent will preferably hold a class 1G or higher driver’s license.

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The Pure Energy Early Learning Centre & Estevan Daycare Co-operative is currently seeking energetic and enthusiastic educators to join our team. Interested applicants should possess ECE Level I or highter (or be willing to obtain). Transferable credits may include Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Licensed Practical Nurse, Homecare/Special Care Aide and Education Assistant. Applicants should also possess strong communication skills and an interest in ongoing learning and professional development. A Criminal Record Check, Child Abuse Check, TB Test, and First Aid /CPR Level ‘C’ are required. Wage scale is in place depending on education. A full benefits package is available for full time employees after a three (3) month probationary period. A full job description and duties will be available at time of interview. We thank all applicants; however, only short listed candidates

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The Pure Energy Early Learning Centre & Estevan Daycare Co-operative is currently seeking a hardworking individual to fill a position for a Kitchen Helper/Early Childhood Educator. This is a permanent, full time position. The successful candidate will split time working in the kitchen as well as with the children and will fill in as the Head Cook in her absence. They should also possess Food Safe and ECE Level I (or be willing to obtain). A Criminal Record Check, Child Abuse Check, TB Test, and First Aid /CPR Level ‘C’ are required. A full benefits package is available for full time employees after a three (3) month probationary period. A full job description and duties will be available at time of interview. We thank all applicants; however, only short

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CITY PAGE ESTEVAN THE ENERGY CITYLET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY! LET’S CLEAN UP OUR COMMUNITY!

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 9, 2012ESTEVAN, SK

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Tickets can be purchased through online at http://ticketmaster.ca or Charge by Phone at 1-800-970-7328Tickets Available at HENDERS DRUGS 1220 - 4th Street Estevan

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Position: BYLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER • Hours of Work: Full Time - Monday to Friday

Duties and Responsibilities: Enforcement of City of Estevan Bylaws, Property Maintenance, Parking Enforcement, and Animal Control. Respond to incoming complaints and general public inquiries regarding Bylaws. Issue tickets for Bylaw offences and maintain a daily report management system.

The Successful Candidate• Must possess a valid driver’s licence• Must have suitable computer skills• Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills. • Must be able to work independently and effi ciently. • Must be able to understand and work within the justice system. • Must pass a Police Security Clearance Process. Successful applicant will be placed on a one year probationary period. Applications are available at the Estevan Police Service. Return completed applications including a resume to: Chief of Police Estevan Police Service 301-11th Ave. Estevan, Sask. S4A 1C7Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Employment Opportunity

Like a challenge…a career with a difference. The City of Estevan is searching for a talented individual who wants to grow with the

organization and community while supporting a customer fi rst approach. We are currently searching for a;• Permanent Full-Time Building Offi cialTo thrive in this environment, you will have a desire to make a difference. Be part of our prospering community, and a challenging work environment while still

maintaining a strong work life balance.

For more information, please contact Human Resources at (306) 461-5905 or email [email protected]

The City of Estevan is currently recruiting Casual Clerk Stenos.The successful candidates will be reliable self-starters who are independent, have intuitive and take pride in their work. This position will appeal to candidates currently looking for a few days’ work and wish to move into a Full-time role in the future.What we’re looking for;• Monday to Friday availability• Experience & Education in an offi ce environment• Advanced Computer Skills.We offer;• Flexible scheduling• Great work environment• Great people to work with.Apply to;Kelvin Pillipow, Human Resources Co-ordinator1102-4th StreetEstevan, SK S4A 0W7Ph: (306) 461-5905F: (306) [email protected]

Are you looking for something to do? Tired of TV as an activity? Want to make a Are you looking for something to do? Tired of TV as an activity? Want to make a difference and be part of something bigger!difference and be part of something bigger!Estevan Fire Rescue Services is accepting applications for PAID ON CALL FIREFIGHTERS Estevan Fire Rescue Services is accepting applications for PAID ON CALL FIREFIGHTERS (these are not full time positions)(these are not full time positions)Can you answer yes to the following questions? Can you answer yes to the following questions?

• Are you looking to help your community stay safe? • Are you looking to help your community stay safe? • Do you like to help people that are in need?• Do you like to help people that are in need?• Are you a team player?• Are you a team player?• Do you want to be part of a noble profession? • Do you want to be part of a noble profession?

Looking to get rid of an old derelict vehicle? The fi re department is willing to pick up any junked motor vehicles that

could be used for Fire Training purposes.

Please contactPlease contactRon Tocker, Fire Chief • 634-1850Ron Tocker, Fire Chief • 634-1850

Fall Fun at the Estevan Art Gallery and MuseumHalloween Haunt: October 30th from 4:00 - 7:00 pmJoin us on October 30th and explore the Haunted Gallery while making a fun Halloween Join us on October 30th and explore the Haunted Gallery while making a fun Halloween craft! All are welcome to attend; a parent must accompany children. $2/person. Call craft! All are welcome to attend; a parent must accompany children. $2/person. Call Karly for more information at 634-7644Karly for more information at 634-7644Getting StARTed: Adult Art ClassesBeginner Jewelry MakingBeginner Jewelry MakingWHEN: November 7, 14, 21, 28 @ 7-9 pmWHEN: November 7, 14, 21, 28 @ 7-9 pmWHERE: The EAGM, 118-4th StreetWHERE: The EAGM, 118-4th StreetCOST: Contact the Gallery for more infoCOST: Contact the Gallery for more infoINSTRUCTOR: Ramona TimarINSTRUCTOR: Ramona TimarCall Karly for more information or to register at 634-7644Call Karly for more information or to register at 634-7644Garage Sale in NovemberNovember 15 12:00 - 8:00 pmNovember 15 12:00 - 8:00 pmNovember 16 1:00 - 3:00 pmNovember 16 1:00 - 3:00 pmThe EAGM is pleased to announce out Garage Sale in November Fundraiser to be held The EAGM is pleased to announce out Garage Sale in November Fundraiser to be held November 15th and 16th, 2012! Don’t miss our two-day garage sale event, featuring November 15th and 16th, 2012! Don’t miss our two-day garage sale event, featuring everything Christmas. Tired of your Christmas decorations? Get new tree ornaments, everything Christmas. Tired of your Christmas decorations? Get new tree ornaments, décor and gifts at our sale!décor and gifts at our sale!Not a garage sale junkie? Come on down for lunch, where we will be selling hamburgers Not a garage sale junkie? Come on down for lunch, where we will be selling hamburgers and pop throughout the sale! Contact Karly for more information and pop throughout the sale! Contact Karly for more information at 634-7644at 634-7644

CONSTRUCTION BULLETINCONSTRUCTION BULLETINThe City of Estevan is undertaking concrete work and road works at:4th Avenue is closed from Murray Ave. South and will be until the work is complete.6th Street between 7th Avenue and 10th Avenue. This work will commence during the week of September 24, 2012 and will take approximately Eight (8) to Ten (10) Weeks to complete (subject to weather). Glen Peterson Construction Ltd. will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations. Woodlawn ReservoirThe City of Estevan is undertaking construction of a Treated Drinking Water Reservoir. The affected area includes The Woodlawn Avenue Right of Way North of the St. Joseph’s Hospital.This Right of Way is not a though road and no traffi c will be allowed in the area that is not involved with the reservoir construction.This work will commence March 5, 2012 and will take approximately ten (10) months to complete. Ledcor Construction Ltd. and JV&M Constructors Inc will perform this work within the current Bylaw regulations and specifi cations. Estevan Municipal Airport Rehabilitation WorksThe City of Estevan is undertaking construction works to rehabilitate existing Apron at Estevan Municipal AirportConstruction on: Estevan Municipal Airport Apron This work would require closure of immediate areas of excavation and may necessitate parking restriction in adjacent areas. This work will commence during the week of November 21, 2012 and will approximately complete in June 30, 2013 (subject to weather).SafetyConstruction site could be dangerous. If you have children, please ask them to keep a safe distance from the site. We will take every precaution to ensure public safety, but we need your assistance to constrain the natural curiosity of younger children. Please DO NOT attempt to go close to areas affected.Theft or VandalismIf you see any act of vandalism, theft or anyone suspiciously tampering with equipment, signage or barricades please contact call Police.Questions and ConcernsThe City of Estevan, Engineering Services apologize for any inconveniences that this work may cause and thank you in advance for your cooperation and patience. If you have any question or concerns, please call at 634-1818 or approach the supervisor or foreman on site.“During asphalt and paving of roads could all citizens please be respectful of construction sites and observe barricades and signage for their own safety. Fines will be issued to all people not obeying the rules.”

At The Library.....Monday & Wednesday @ 3:00, 3:30 & 4:00 pm – Hello Computer! – Come and get answers to your computer questions in one-on-one sessions. Bring your laptop or use a public computer. When registering please indit you would like to learn. Saturday, October 27 @ 3:30-5:00 – Pumpkin Pie in a Jar – For ages 8+. If you love pumpkin pie then you will love creating your own in a jar! A wonderful treat to enjoy yourself or give as a gift! Pre-register @ 636-1621. 16 spots available, space fi ll up fast!Monday, October 29 @ 5:00-7:45 pm – Halloween Movie Madness: Witches of Oz – Dorothy and her friends must stop the Wicked Witch of the West from causing evil havoc in New York City! No registration necessary, just drop in! Refreshments provided.Tuesday, October 30 @ 6:30 pm – Halloween Coffee House – Get into the Halloween spirit with the Estevan Writer’s Group, who will be reading some of their original, spooky pieces. Everyone is welcome to drop by and recite a Halloween themed piece or perform a spooky song. Costumes are encouraged! All ages welcome.

To register call 636-1621. All programs are FREE!** New Sunday hours: 1:00 – 5:00 pm

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE ESTEVAN ARTS COUNCILAdjudicated Art Show Reception& People’s Choice AwardNovember 8, 2012 – 7:00 pmVote for your Favorite Work at the EAGM ~ Participating Artists: Cheryl Andrist, Linda Gudmundson, Melanie Hiske, Diana Hume, Evelyn Johnson, Janne Kruger, Doreen Lee, Corinne Trebick-Gibson, Julie-Anne Wallewein, Katsina Whitechurch, Marleen Vicary

KONCERTS FOR KIDS:Speed Control (Nov 6th)STARS FOR SASKATCHEWAN:John McDermott in concert (Nov 21st)ENERGY CITY FILM CIRCUIT:The Intouchables (Oct 27th)Take This Waltz (Nov 24th)VISUAL ARTS: Classes/Workshops in Woodcarving (Nov 17 & 18)& Pottery (Nov & Dec dates)

COMPLETE details online at www.estevanartscouncil.com

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