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‘We’ve got some pain on the horizon’

By John Cairns Staff Reporter

City council in North Battleford got the latest news last Thursday about the fiscal impact of COVID-19 on City Hall.

“We’ve got some pain on the horizon yet,” was the reaction of Director of Finance Steve Brown about the situation. He described it as being on the “outer band” of the fiscal storm.

On the one hand, revenues were down, but ex-

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penses were reduced even more due largely to temporary layoffs of staff, for savings of over $653,000.

“I believe we might be one of the few municipalities in Saskatchewan coming out of the first phase with some financial flexibility to go into the second phase,” said Brown. There would be some wiggle room, he said, so they don’t have to go into reserves or go for large tax increases.

On the flip side, there are challenges coming down the road for the city due to an anticipated reduction in municipal revenue sharing as well as labour and RCMP increases.

Brown walked councillors through each area of city operations and where the impacts were being felt.

For utilities, they were looking at revenues being down $220,000, due to consumption falling below previous years.

The budget for 2020 had forecast revenues of $7,401,023; the new revenue forecast is for $7,181,023.

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way down at the hotels, which had been closed for much of the early part of the pandemic. The one piece of good news was that property tax penalties revenue was going to be up, from $274,000 to $540,570.

For waste management revenue, that is also down. The landfill fees forecast is down almost $75,000 to $1,124,013.

An area taking a big hit was recreation revenues. The budget had forecast revenues of $2,259,000, but now the projection is $1,767,460, due to the closure of city facilities from March until August.

Parking ticket revenues are down, from $203,981 to $151,181, which Brown said was “100 per cent related to the pandemic.” Interest income was also down as well, and there is no anticipated change to transit.

On the other hand, the city was able to more than offset those losses by saving $1,251,863 in corporate wages due to the temporary reductions in staff. The city is also Continued on Page 3

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Northern leaders urge caution as COVID-19 numbers again taper off after spike

By Becky Zimmer

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COVID-19 cases are beginning to taper off in Saskatchewan’s far north, but community leaders continue to urge members of the public to continue following public health guidelines.

This is just a month after the peak of the far north

outbreak, with 174 combined cases confirmed in La Loche and Clearwater River Dene Nation, according to the La Loche Emergency Operations Centre Facebook page, NVLL & CRND Covid-19 Updates.

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Final public accounts report shows deficit Staff

quarter, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Revenue dropped $490 million in the fourth quarter, due mainly to a $431 million decline in net income from investment losses in the Government Business Enterprises (GBEs).

Total revenue was $14.89

Saskatchewan’s final Public Accounts report is out for 2019-20 and the province has posted a $319 million deficit for that year.

The province attributed the deficit to a steep revenue decline in the fourth

billion in 2019-20, which was actually up by $386 million compared to the previous year, still short of budget projections by $138 million, or 0.9 per cent.

There was also an increase in total expenses to $15.21 billion in 2019-20, up $437 million or three

per cent, or an overall $216 million over budget. This was attributed to larger than expected education expenses and was partly offset by lower-than-budgeted agricultural insurance claims.

In June, the province announced its 2020-21

budget, which posted a $2.4 billion deficit for the next year.

“Prior to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Saskatchewan was on track for balanced budgets in 201920 and in the current fiscal year,” Finance Minister Donna Harpauer said in

a news release. “Our government released a budget on June 15 that meets the challenges presented by the pandemic. I am confident that as Saskatchewan’s economy recovers, our revenues will also recover and we will get back to balance in the coming years.”

Opposition roasts government on SHNB report

By John Cairns

opposition’s fire came on June 24 last week, from a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives titled “A Partnership in Name Only: How the public sector subsidized the P3 model.”

The report was heavily critical of the

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use of private-public partnerships, including in the designing and building of Sask. Hospital. Workers at the hospital were interviewed for that report, and they outlined a host of problems at the facility.

According to the report’s contents, “workers told us that due to a flaw in the water system, extremely hot water was entering the toilets, and that people were ‘burning their butts’ when they flushed. We also heard a lot about the flooding and water damage that has recently received so much media attention. While our interviewees made mention of the problems with the roof, they also informed us that the building was experiencing water damage from other sources. “There’s all sorts of water problems, busted pipes,” one informant told us. Another worker

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reported that every single shower unit in the building has to be replaced due to faulty valves that continually leak. The result of all this water damage and flooding is that patients in the hospital have to be constantly moved as wards are repaired and cleaned.”

The NDP promptly issued a news release citing the report, in turn blasting the government for using out of province companies in the design.

“Saskatchewan people spent good money on this badly needed hospital, but unfortunately, most of that money went to out-ofprovince companies that clearly cut corners,” said opposition leader Ryan Meili in a statement. “The Sask. Party stuck us with a non-functional facility where you could steep tea in the toilets, but you can’t drink the water.”

The news release also noted the hospital “continues to sit half empty because of a series of building issues, from the replacement of the walls and roof due to faulty materials, to lead and copper in the water rendering it undrinkable for more than a year, to ongoing problems with the plumbing.”

The NDP noted that in committee it was revealed that of 188 health beds it was only two thirds full. On the corrections side half the units were shuttered.

In Question Period June 24, Meili asked deputy

premier Gord Wyant about the audit of the facility.

“We were promised last session an audit of this albatross. Where’s that audit?”

According to the record in Hansard, Wyant responded the deficiencies were covered in the P3.

“Well, Mr. Speaker, this is precisely the benefit of having a P3 [publicprivate partnership] project,” Wyant said.

He added that an “RFP [request for proposal] was issued for a third party audit to the entire facility, Mr. Speaker, to identify those deficiencies. Phase 1 of that work has been done, Mr. Speaker. Phase 2 is currently in process of getting that evaluation under way, Mr. Speaker, and we’re anticipating the results of that evaluation this summer.”

Meili then turned his focus on the CCPA report.

“You know, in a report released today, along with patients being unable to drink the water, hospital employees told researchers that due to flaws in the water system, extremely hot water was entering the toilets and patients were, I quote, ‘burning their butts,’ Mr. Speaker. You can’t drink the water but you can steep tea in the toilets in this brand new hospital.

Mr. Speaker, you can’t make this stuff up. “... My question for the Premier is this: is this the result of the government’s complete mismanagement of this build, complete

catastrophe when it comes to building this project? Or is it just their inability to properly staff the facility?

Or does it seem to be the obvious, which is both?”

Deputy premier Wyant responded as follows: “Mr. Speaker, the audit’s under way, Mr. Speaker.

We’ll have the results of that evaluation within this summer, Mr. Speaker.

And I want to remind the Leader of the Opposition of the conversation that they had with the director of SHNB [Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford] on their most recent tour, Mr. Speaker. The director said, and I quote: “‘We were honest and said that the remediation has not impacted our day-to-day functioning.

We spoke about the good relationship, communication we’ve had with all the partners, and how the schedules for any remediation work is done with patients and staff needs being at the forefront.’

“Mr. Speaker, the patients at SHNB are well taken care of, Mr. Speaker.

The work that’s being done in there is not impacting the delivery of service at that hospital, Mr. Speaker.

Certainly some challenges, Mr. Speaker. They’re going to be redressed as soon as the remediation report is completed, Mr. Speaker, and that remediation will be done at the cost of the consortium, not at the cost of the taxpayer of Saskatchewan.”

Northern leaders urge caution as COVID-19 numbers again taper off after spike Continued from Page 1 that you want to show support and love at wakes, but we need to do things in a different way,” said Dr. Rim Zayed, Medical Health Officer in a June 11 broadcast on CHPN and later posted on NVLL & CRND Covid-19 Updates.

Localized checkpoints are monitoring people going in and out of certain communities, said Northwest Communities Incident Command Centre Incident Commander Rick Laliberte.

“The lesson learned is

La Loche could outbreak at any time, so in the gatherings now with grads and parties, we’re just hanging tight in order to make sure that we can respond appropriately,” he said.

The far north has been through this before, Laliberte said, and everyone has to play their part to keep numbers down.

“It’s hard to deal with things like a family gathering, like a funeral or parties. You have to educate and you have to get the community to buy in. The residents have the responsibility, the role that

each individual plays.

Through all of this, northern leaders have continued to tackle issues and deal with community concerns, Laliberte said, adding a hats off to them.

As of June 28, La Loche and Clearwater River alone made up a total 275 of the 323 cases in the far North.

According to data cited by the Public Health Agency of Canada June 29, the far north region has seen more per capita cases of COVID-19 during the pandemic than any other Canadian health region.

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City feeling fiscal impact of COVID-19 Continued from Page 1 saving about $177,722 in recreation supplies and $56,256 in fuel, and is also looking at a small increase in business licences revenues.

When those savings were combined with the other revenue reductions, the city ended up on the plus side of the ledger with savings of $653,884. That gives the city a bit of cash flow, said Brown, going into the next phase.

There are some potential impacts in the next 18 months to two years, however. One is a hit coming to future revenue sharing from the province, with an estimated $346,420 reduction coming between 2020 and 2022.

Another impact identified is ongoing labour negotiations for the RCMP contract. Brown estimates this as coming to around $645,950. They are also estimating labour costs to

go up $421,548 in the next two years as well.

In total, those cost impacts come to $1,413,918 in the next two years. “We have time to plan for it and look for ways to improve it,” said Brown.

Brown concluded by saying the city should keep on with defining levels of service, making the necessary investments in efficiencies, and looking to maintain their cash reserves.

Director of Finance Steve Brown presents the City of North Battleford COVID-19 estimates to date at a special meeting last week. Screenshot by John Cairns

Re-opening subject of city special meeting

By John Cairns Staff Reporter

The city’s COVID-19 re-opening plan was the subject of a special meeting of city council Thursday evening.

The meeting covered a lot of ground on the issue of re-opening of facilities, with the goal of meeting the Re-Open Saskatchewan guidelines and restrictions.

The province is currently in the middle of Phase Four of re-opening, with such leisure facilities such as indoor pools and rinks still to be opened.

But there are challenges.

Among the ones identified

by City Manager Randy Patrick at the meeting is the loss of revenue by operating facilities due to less capacity than previously. A desire was expressed to lessen the hit to the taxpayers as much as possible.

Discussion around leisure services made up the bulk of the meeting. Director of Leisure Services Cheryl DeNeire walked the councillors through a list of recommendations that were ultimately approved by council at the meeting.

As outlined in the report prepared for council, these are as follows: Recommendation 1: Increase to rental rates To make sure patrons are protected from the COVID-19 virus, and to ensure the provincial guidelines on contact tracing, cleaning/disinfecting, and distancing requirements are met, council has opted for an eight per cent increase to rental rates not already locked in by contract. This will not apply to outdoor sports activity and associations, memberships or day-use rates. The term is until COVID-19 restrictions for cleaning and sanitation are relaxed or greatly reduced.

Recommendation 2: Galleries Council has decided that Chapel Gallery will be closed for at least the remainder of 2020. The plan is for local artist exhibits in the Chapel Gallery to be housed in the lower area of the Allen Sapp Gallery and for Chapel Gallery to still be available for rentals and special events.

The intention is for Allen Sapp Gallery to open during the week of July 13

as part of Phase 4.2 part 1 of Re-Open Saskatchewan, though it is possible there could be a soft-opening before then. Hours will be consistent with previous summers, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Those renting the facility must maintain proper contact tracing information on all patrons visiting; those unwilling to provide contact tracing information will not be allowed in.

Recommendation 3: Co-op Aquatic Centre Council has agreed with administration that the Coop Aquatic Centre re-open with a minimum gathering level of 75 patrons, not before Aug. 1. There will be reduced operational hours to five days a week, Wednesday – Sunday, with a review of operational hours coming in the fall.

The plan is to limit activity to public and lane swims with a review in the fall, and to prohibit the use of the showers and lockers until an effective method is found to appropriately clean the lockers. Other aspects of the re-opening including providing patrons with memberships with a booking privilege, to have

no user rate discount due to COVID-19 restrictions, and that renters maintain proper contact tracing information on all patrons visiting the facility. Once again, those not willing to provide contact tracing information will not be allowed to enter.

Recommendation 4: NATIONSWest Field House The plan is to re-open as restrictions allow with a minimum gathering level of 75 patrons, and not prior to mid-September. Operational hours are again reduced to Wednesday to Sunday with a review of operational hours to happen in late fall. The middle lane of the track will be closed to adhere to twometre distancing requirements. Again, the plan is to close the showers and lockers to meet COVID-19 cleaning/disinfecting restrictions. There will be no user discount, and renters must maintain proper contact tracing information on all patrons. Those not willing to provide contact tracing information will not be allowed in.

Recommendation 5: Summer Playground

Program The free Summer Playground Program is suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions and overall program costs.

Recommendation 6: Don Ross Arena The Don Ross Arena is open, with a minimum booking level of 50 per cent of 2019 booking levels and not prior to October.

Regular operational hours are Monday to Friday, 4 pm to midnight, Saturday/ Sunday 8 am-midnight.

Again, the showers are being closed, there will be no user rate discount and contact tracing must be maintained for all renters.

Recommendation 7: The Civic Centre The Civic Centre is to be re-opened as provincial restrictions allow with a minimum booking level of 50 per cent of 2019 booking levels, with the opening and not prior to August 15.

Regular operational hours are daily from 8 a.m. to midnight; showers are again closed, there is no user rate discount, and proper contact tracing information must be maintained. These rules are being required for all the

users of the facility including the SJHL Battlefords North Stars.

Council agreed to these above items at the meeting Thursday.

In addition, council agreed to provide a $27,000 grant to Boys and Girls Clubs of the Battlefords for two additional summer camps in the city for kids 5-14 years of age.

Council also heard details Brown on an interest assistance program for 2020 property tax for commercial properties.

According to a city memo from Brown, this would provide commercial properties within city limits some financial assistance regarding 2020 property taxes.

According to Brown’s memo: “By creating a program that subsidizes the interest on a loan to pay their property taxes, it allows for the payment risk to be transferred to the bank, gives the business more time to pay the property taxes and the City retains its penalty charges for the remaining properties.” The anticipated launch for this program will be the start of August, 2020.

Realignment coming at site of Red Pheasant urban development

By John Cairns Staff Reporter

North Battleford city council has approved a resolution authorizing a

realignment of the 15th Avenue path crossing Territorial Drive.

This is in connection to the Red Pheasant development at Territorial Drive

and 15th Avenue.

The city identified an opportunity to realign the existing pathway that currently crosses 15th Avenue about 10 metres west of the

stop bar.

What council has approved is a move of the crossing to the west of the eastbound stop bar.

This will also mean

additional culvert extensions, grading and pathway paving for a cost of $32,300.

Council has agreed to go ahead with the re-

alignment for $32,300, with the unbudgeted money to be reallocated from reserves to be repaid internally with interest in the 2021 budget.

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Why Canada’s gun ban won’t stop shootings

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Addressing the more complex problems of narcotics, smuggling, and terrorism will yield more effective and durable results

By Paz Gómez, Research associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy

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A prohibition is the easiest way out of a policy problem. In enacting one to target gun violence, the federal government has admitted failure to find a solution that preserves both rights and lives.

The deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history took place in Nova Scotia on April 19. The shooter didn’t have a gun licence; he obtained the arms illegally.

Nevertheless, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has banned 1,500 models of what he describes as assault-style weapons, unfairly targeting lawful citizens and hurting gun businesses.

The prohibitions include two of the guns used by the Nova Scotia shooter and other weapons involved in mass shootings in the United States. Always going the extra mile, the federal government has extended the ban to countless other firearms with a 20-mm bore or greater and with projectile-discharging energy of more than 10,000 joules.

By announcing a two-year amnesty for owners of the banned guns and a buyback program, Trudeau believed he had taken into account the concerns of those affected.

The reality is the policy will affect not just gun owners, but also local stores and entire industries.

Cary Baker, a retired army major, set up a firearms business with his pension savings in January 2018.

With the ban, he won’t be able to sell $350,000 worth of recently restricted guns and accessories, he told CBC News.

Baker said he has always abided by the law and that his clients are good Canadians. “I’m certainly going to have a harder time each month now paying the bills [and] my employees,” he told reporters, saying he has little hope of recovering his investment.

The shooting-sports industry adds $8.9 billion to the national economy, according to a recent study conducted by the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association. The report also reported that hunting and sports shooting account for 6,100 full-time jobs in British Columbia alone.

In total, the hunting, fishing, trapping and shootingsports industries supports 107,000 jobs and generates $6.4 billion in labor income during 2018.

Tighter gun control has been a hot-button issue since 2018, in the wake of a mass shooting in downtown Toronto. Back then, the federal government was exploring a full ban on handguns and assault weapons, but public opinion wasn’t on side.

To gain time and lobby for support, the government launched a lengthy consultation process. In total, 77 stakeholders participated in these sessions, including

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provincial governments, municipalities, law-enforcement agencies, non-profits, retailers, researchers and the shooting-sports community.

Their views on limiting access to guns were diverse.

Shooting-sports clubs, wildlife associations, and retailers opposed a ban and argued such a policy would neither curb illicit-gun markets nor reduce crime. They said there’s not enough data to support a ban, or to identify the source of the weapons used for crimes and who is committing them.

Instead, the focus should lie on enforcing existing laws, increasing penalties on arms-trafficking and gun-related crimes and tailoring local policies to target gangs, they argued.

Other stakeholders, especially victim-focused organizations, supported a ban to reduce the overall availability of guns.

All stakeholders agreed, however, on the need to address the underlying causes of firearm violence, such as the lack of education, job opportunities and adequate mental-health care.

The engagement process included an online questionnaire, available to all Canadians in the fall of 2018.

Almost 135,000 people responded. Tellingly, 81 per cent of respondents rejected more stringent regulations on handguns and 77 per cent rejected increased rules for assault-style weapons. Around 75 per cent said they believed officials should increase efforts on limiting already illicit firearms, which come from smuggling and theft.

This time, the government ban succeeded. Another mass shooting in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic was enough for citizens to surrender their liberties in exchange for security.

Adam Palmer, director of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, told Chatelaine magazine that most weapons used in violent crimes are illegal. He said further bans would boost the black market and “straw pur-

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chasing,” a work-around that involves reselling legally purchased guns to those without a licence.

Moreover, individuals and businesses report around 3,000 firearm thefts a year in Canada. According to Statistics Canada, most incidents occur during break-ins, while others result from unsafe storage. Most of these weapons remain in the hands of criminals.

Every law, no matter how well designed, has loopholes and this is especially true for gun control.

Criminals don’t hesitate to commit illegal acts, such as bootlegging, to get firearms. In the process, the ban will create a lucrative underground market for banned guns.

No reduction in gun-related crimes looms on the horizon. Addressing the more complex problems of narcotics, smuggling, and terrorism will yield more effective and durable results.

The federal government should take mass shootings seriously and get to the bottom of Canada’s increasing violent crime.

The ban will hurt job creation at the worst possible time, as Canadians struggle to get back on their feet after economically challenging lockdowns.

As many times before, the cure fails to address the root causes and just compounds the disease with new, intractable problems.

Paz Gomez is a research associate with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. www.troymedia.com

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Meeting the folks

By Helen Row Toews

A while back, our 18-year-old daughter, Aliyah, summoned her courage and announced she had a boyfriend. Naturally, we were expecting this to happen – one day – maybe somewhere in the distant future when she turned 35.

Sigh.

In any case, Aliyah was a little nervous to broach this news, then nervous all over again when the day came to introduce him to us in person. However, we like Arron and all is well.

It’s a difficult business to introduce a boyfriend or girlfriend to family members, and I’m sure Aliyah also felt a bit awkward the first time she met Arron’s parents. I know I was embarrassed when I met the people who would become my future in-laws.

However, I was a bit of

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a nut.

I mean, yes, I was, and still am, a simple country girl from the sticks, but there was a period of time in my life when my nickname was “Wheels,” I rode a motorbike, wore a black leather jacket and had purple hair.

Let’s face it: none of these qualities makes a good first impression on

parents.

Maybe if I’d driven sedately up the driveway in a non-descript sedan, or caught the Greyhound into town and walked primly to their door, or even had my father drop me off in a grain truck loaded with seed oats, I’d have had a chance. But no, I had to rumble into their driveway slouched low over the

handlebars of a street bike with muffler issues.

Even after that, if I’d have worn a heavy woolen toque to cover my outrageously coloured hair, or knotted an old scarf of my mother’s tightly around my throat and complained of laryngitis, or pulled one of Dad’s, “Charolais Beef is Best,” caps low over my ears, I could have eased into their midst a little better. But no, I dragged a helmet from my head, revealing straggly, grape coloured locks. It was the “punk” era, what can I say?

If I’d have thought for two minutes, I could’ve slipped into some sensible footwear and a cashmere cardigan with lace trim, or popped on a brightly patterned muumuu worn by moms in the 70s; or even donned some filthy calving overalls Dad kept in the barn, anything would’ve been better. But no, I pranced in wear-

ing enormous boots and leather jacket, with a scrape up one arm where I’d skidded my bike down a gravel road.

Thankfully, the whole “Wheels” nickname wasn’t acknowledged. It wasn’t like I had it emblazoned across my back in flames or anything, so I was safe there, for now.

Foolishly, none of this concerned me until I strode into the kitchen where my boyfriend’s parents were visiting his sister and her children. They’d heard me arrive (the whole neighbourhood had) and were now waiting, with trepidation.

There was a stunned silence as I entered the room, and the innocent youngsters who had been playing happily near the door took one horrified look, and flung themselves under the dinner table, cowering in fear. Despite entreaties to “Come out and meet the nice biker

lady,” and offers of warm cookies and milk, they would not emerge. Nothing could persuade them to stand in the presence of so dreadful an apparition, and they clung to the table legs with tiny ashen faces.

That was my first clue that things were gonna be awkward.

Fortunately, they were wonderful people who accepted me despite their first impressions. But yeah, meeting the folks can be a tough gig.

I should know.

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The moon begins this month four days from full phase. And, that is also a lunar eclipse, since it’s 14 days after the solar eclipse last month. Jupiter and Saturn snuggle up close on the following days, both giant planets within two degrees of the moon July 5 and 6, respectively. By July 11, Mars is also in the picture, also two degrees from Luna, and an early morning apparition. Neptune is in the frame, too, a little to the west of Mars.

July14, Uranus meets up with the crescent moon, a little to the west of the Pleiades, while looking straight east. July 17, Venus, now the Morning Star,

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The eclipse mentioned above is of the penumbral kind, so not much to see.

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Uranus is visible in the night sky among the stars of Aries, the Ram. July 14, the crescent moon is four degrees south of the gas planet.

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Historic dance halls of the Battlefords When one brings up the subject of the old Battlefords dance halls, the name of the hall that first comes to mind is Uncle Tom’s Cabin. And rightly so because Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the most famous and storied dance hall in Battlefords’ history.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was located at Railway Avenue East and 110th Street on the north side. The hall was a 40-foot by 20-foot log structure. A gentleman by the name of Tom Coburn was in charge of the restaurant and dance hall, which was particularly active during the war years. Anybody who was anybody in the Battlefords was sure to have the dance hall on their Saturday night schedule.

Dances were held twice a week. Royal Air Force pilots in training and army personel made up a large contingent of partygoers.

There were almost always fights between the two.

The best bands (like the Melatones and Melody Ranch Boys) in the area felt it a privilege to play Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Superstar Wilf Carter once entertained at Uncle Tom’s.

On occasion, some remarkable situations developed at Uncle Tom’s. Pilot Vic Pearsall once landed his plane on 110th Street and taxied up to the dance hall. He then taxied his plane to Coburn’s Service Station to fuel up. When the police questioned him, he said that he gassed up at the Purity 99 Service Station which was some distance away. Vic was a real character (he continued flying into his nineties).

What happened to Uncle Tom’s Cabin? It was sold to make space for a new Royalite Garage and Bulk Station. The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation took the building apart log by log and reassembled it in Cochin for a club house. Later the federation raffled the building off. It was won by Gordon Racicot who subsequently disassembled it and moved it to a lot at Aquadeo Beach.

That’s where it is today.

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have been the most famous of the mid-century dance halls. But the Armoury was a close second. During World War I, The Armoury was used for target practice and drill practice.

It was a high quality structure with joists made of thick fir. During the years, and after, dances were held on a regular basis at the Armoury. And, of course, the best bands in the area kept the dance floor full.

Recently a group of history-minded businessmen bought the building and turned it into a stateof-the-art micro-brewery.

They did a wonderful job of saving a 108-year-old historic structure that almost certainly would have come under the wrecking ball. Check with the management for a guided tour.

The Opera House is located on the top floor of the Battleford Town Hall and was constructed in 1912. The Opera House is without doubt the most ornate and prestigious of all the dance halls in the Battlefords. The building was a symbol of community pride. The Opera House was constructed of red brick with decorative Tyndall stone detailing and a prominent entablature with projected cornice. The Opera House accommodated school plays, high school graduations, live theatre, talent nights, Christmas concerts, the annual Firemans’ Ball, and dances.

Many of the dances were formal affairs. Women dressed in expensive gowns and their husbands in suits and ties. The dance floor is large with a cushion of horse hair (a rarity to be sure).

Unfortunately a fire ravaged the Opera House

in 1965. From that time forward, the Opera House has not been in use. There were plans to restore the dance hall but thus far they have not materialized.

Sloan’s Auditorium (located bottom level of the North Battleford Legion).

It’s not a large dance floor but it’s held in high regard by the public. Sloan’s has a bar and a kitchen so it’s ideal for small to medium crowds.

The Battleford Legion on 22nd Street in Battleford is a rather old building (likely seven to eight decades) but it is a remarkably good dance hall. The dance floor is spacious.

The stage is large and only about two feet high, so it’s easy to set up equipment.

A large kitchen and a bar make the Legion an ideal venue for weddings and community dances.

The Red Barn was built in 1948 by the Charabin brothers. It was originally a cattle barn with a large hay loft. Leon Charabin and the Melody Ranch Boys partnered to handle the business end of the Red Barn. From 1952 to 1959, square dances were held on a regular basis. The Melody Ranch Boys played at the Barn on Saturday nights. People came from far and wide to dance and party at one of the community’s great dance halls.

So what happened to the Red Barn? It was sold and moved 16 miles west to the Robdale Ranch, which was owned by Dale Hoganson and Bob Ashauer.

The Co-op Hall was located on 11th Avenue and 102nd Street above the Coop Store. The Co-op Hall was a popular dance hall for dancers, revelers and partiers. And, as was the

Round hall circa built in 1938 by Frank Deery. Photo submitted

case with the other wellattended venues, the best dance orchestras played the Co-op Hall There’s a story. During the middle of a particularly rousing set, a band member had to urgently go. The washrooms were too far so he slipped out of the back door onto the fire escape. Nature called but little did he know that three partiers were enjoying a beverage below. The revelers were not amused and immediately went to find this gentleman who quickly resumed his place in the band.

What happened to the Co-op Hall? It was demolished along with the Sallows and Boyd (Pigeon Hotel) a few years ago.

The Battlefords Ukrainian Senior Society (Branch 184) was built a number of decades ago (1950s I believe), and it has a very interesting history.

The building was originally the city Kinsmen Band Hall. In January of 1980, the building was moved to its present location at 792-108th Street. The Ukrainian folks in the Battlefords are proud of their hall, and rightfully so. The purpose was to get citizens of Ukrainian descent to gather for readings, Ukrainian New Years, Ukrainian Heritage Day, cards, dancing and good

food and drink. The activities were varied to be sure.

The BUCCC used the halls for meetings and cultural events like Cvoboda dance lessons, readings and films

by Ukrainian writers on Ukrainian topics. Other groups rented the hall for Christmas parties. It was a popular venue, designed to accommodate smaller crowds.

The official opening of the Ukrainian Senior Citizens Centre was held at 2 p.m., Nov. 19, 1980. Dignitaries included Mayor James Maher, Senator H. Sparrow, Doug Anguish, MP, E. Kramer, Saskatchewan Minister of Highways, Jean Sternig, President, BUCC, M. Holota, Canon.

The main floor will accommodate 85 people.

The bottom level can seat 50 comfortably. It’s got a kitchen that doubles as a bar. The dance hall also has a wood floor, which is of some advantage.

Recently, the building was sold and converted into a café/entertainment venue. The plan is to donate the proceeds from the sale to the Battlefords Union Hospital.

The Trocadero Hall is right up there as one of the great Battlefords dance halls. It was located on 11th Street and 102nd Street straight across from

the Co-op Store and the Co-op Dance Hall. Dances were held on the main floor. Suites were located upstairs. As was the case with popular dance halls, the best bands played the Trocadero. Many weddings were held at the Trocadero.

A friend of mine (who has since passed on), told me about her wedding and how the Trocadero staff took care of all the details.

“It was wonderful,” she said. The Trocadero wasn’t always a dance hall. Variously, the hall was Morrison’s Garage, Green’s Hardware, and William’s Allied Hardware. At the present time, the space is occupied by H&R Block, an accounting firm, and Klassy Kutts hair salon.

The Bucket of Blood (the Orange Hall) was built in 1907 and is located at 1151-100th Street. The dance hall is on the top floor. The building housed many different businesses over the years. The unique oriel windows facing main street are still visible. During the war years, dances were held every Saturday night. Pilots in training with the British Commonwealth Training Program came to party every Saturday night. So did the locals. The girls were absolutely smitten with the handsome, daring young Continued on Page 7

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cent of the people were inside dancing while 60 per cent were outside in the bush drinking. A few years later, Frank cut the hall into sections and moved it across the Battle River ice to the Battleford Flats and then reassembled it. What happened to the Round Hall? It was sold, dismantled again, and moved three miles east of Regina.

Now it’s used for storage.

It’s in pretty bad shape but it’s still there.

Let’s not forget the young people – the teenagers. They had their own dances over the years like all teenagers. Big dances were held in the gymnasiums under the watchful eye of the administration and teachers. Wouldn’t want anyone to get too romantic, or drink at all. Of course not. There were no smaller dances because everyone went to the big dances. But there were house parties, some of which got out of

hand. During the fifties and early sixties, bands like the Talkabouts (the first rock band in the Battlefords) and Serenaders kept the kids hopping. The house bands were vinyl – the Beatles, the Stones, the Hollies (the British Invasion) in the late sixties.

Every era had its teenage music – 70s, 80s, 90s. Now it’s hip hop and rap. All teenagers love their music and love to dance. Teens were different in every era.

Yet they were all the same.

(Sources: full credit must be given to Julian J. Sadlowski who did the majority research on the dance halls and published it in his book, Pictorial Story of North Battleford; Gordon Parkinson, City of North Battleford Historic Archives; City of North Battleford Historic Archives; Canada’s Historic Places; John Sendecki; personal experiences)

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An update on cinema re-openings as more releases are delayed Staff Reporter

Welcome to a packed edition of Cairns on Cinema where we give you the latest news — good and bad — about where we stand with COVID-19 and the cinema re-openings.

We will begin with the good news. As you may have heard, the province of Saskatchewan has officially given the go to Phase Four, Part Two of Re-Open Saskatchewan, where indoor cinemas have been given the green light to open as of June 29. Cinemas will be at 30 per cent capacity or 150 people, whichever is lower, and distancing protocols will be in place, but the cinemas are now able to open again! Woo hoo!

Unfortunately, that’s about it for the good news.

It turns out that while cinemas are allowed to open for movies, this doesn’t mean they will

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The word from Cineplex and Landmark is that their cinemas in the province will not open until a few days later on in the week, on July 3.

As for the Magic Lantern-owned Capitol Theatre North Battleford, they remain closed for the time being. Here is the statement posted Friday on their Facebook feed: “While the Saskatchewan Government has said that theatres can reopen as of Monday June 29, we will not be opening at this current time.

“There are many factors that have lead up to this decision with the most important issue being that the movie studios are not releasing most new movies until this August. With no new product (movies) to show, we will lack an audience.

Although we have had many requests to play older movies, this will not be successful for a full

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Rest assured that we are working towards our relaunch and that we miss you all and look forward to seeing you again, soon.”

Here’s the situation in a nutshell: there is a serious lack of new product for all the cinemas to show until August, and it’s all because COVID-19 is still wreaking havoc.

The big blockbusters that were supposed to be released this summer are being delayed, and everyone is affected. The major cinema chains that are opening this week are having to show a glut of second-run product from earlier in the year or even from several years ago (ie. Jaws, Ghostbusters).

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Until recently cinema chains had been announcing re-openings throughout the USA, and major studios had plans to roll out some big releases starting in July.

Sadly, the latest spike in cases in the past week has dashed hopes for a speedy comeback. We are seeing record highs for COVID-19 cases in places like Florida, Texas and Arizona, as well as big spikes in Nevada and increases in California.

Re-openings have been suspended and a new round of COVID-19 restrictions have been brought in in a number

of places. This has killed the momentum for a quick reopening of the movie business in the USA. In response, we have seen a wave of new announcements by the major studios of movies being rescheduled from their opening dates: We will start with Tenet, the Christopher Nolan-directed spy thriller. It was supposed to be released on July 17 with the idea of it being the first major blockbuster to mark the re-opening of the cinema industry.

But with COVID-19 still wreaking havoc, the release was pushed back by Warner Bros. to July 31. Now, it has been pushed back again, to Aug. 12, for a midweek release. The planned release for the 10th anniversary of Nolan’s sci-fi flick Inception is also pushed back, to July 31.

Another summer release, Unhinged starring

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Russell Crowe, has also been pushed to July 31.

This had initially been moved to July 1 in a move to beat Tenet to be the first major release to cinemas after the shutdown. But then came word it was being pushed back to July 10. Now, with COVID-19 still out of control in the States, it is being moved back again to July 31.

Also confirmed, the release date for Wonder Woman 1984 has been delayed by Warner Bros. once again. The release had already been pushed back to Aug. 14, but we now have word it has been pushed back again to Oct. 2. There had been much speculation that if Tenet was moved to mid-August that Wonder Woman 1984 would be pushed back to the fall. That is now indeed the case.

Finally, Disney has pushed back the release date for Mulan yet again, to Aug. 21. This was supposed to have been a spring release.

Just looking at these four movies, you get a good sense of what the situation is like.

Hollywood is getting cold feet about releasing new movies into this dismal economic and pandemic environment, and that means there is simply not going to be a lot of new product for the cinemas for at least a few weeks.

That is about all I have to say for now about the entire movie situation.

Obviously, it is still a difficult situation for everyone involved, but I guess the message is simply to hang in there.

The new movies will be back — eventually.

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Harris Sutherland, Chair of the Board, Linda Machniak, Chief Operating Officer, Battlefords Chamber of Commerce So What’s Next?..... What are the business ramifications of being closed for more than 3 months? What will the economy look like? What about jobs for residents?

What’s the impact of lost payroll in the community?

COVID-19-Related Facts • Saskatchewan’s per capita case counts are nearly 80% below the national average • Saskatchewan’s fatality rates are over 90% below the national average • Saskatchewan has seen fewer business closures than other provinces during lockdown

Chair of the Board Harris Sutherland had these and many other questions in our recent sit down over lunch.

In his workplace, talk of a 3 year window to get back to pre-pandemic numbers and profitability may be an unsettling timeframe for many. Thinking about what that means for each individual business and entrepreneur can be many different things. It could mean a business closure. It could mean pivoting of the business and adding new or different offerings to stay afloat. It could mean just survival. What do your next 3 years look like? It’s hard to think about that and come up with a solid answer, with so many things yet unknown.

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Business Needs are Great May 25 the Canadian Chamber of Commerce together with supporting partners launched two key initiatives to support businesses recovering from the pandemic of 2020. The business community supporting business! th

The Business Resilience Service allows business to connect with experienced business advisors from across Canada for guidance on which government relief programs will be most appropriate to support the small-to-medium-sized businesses, not-for-profit or charity on how to respond and reshape amid this uncertain time.

Along with guidance on COVID-19 financial support program options and eligibility, the supports can provide direction on accessing the most appropriate support organizations, help to make decisions to support recovery plans, and provide real time insights and feedback to policymakers.

Chair Harris has been very pleased with the response to COVID-19 in the Battlefords. From businesses to health services to individual residents, the Battlefords region has seen strength, resilience and resolve to stay safe and healthy.

From the time of service launch (May 25th) to Thursday, June 11th, 2020, at noon, the Service had supported more than 2,000 unique business entities. That would be over 800 calls per week in those first 2 ½ weeks.

The business community has shown great fortitude, following new measures for cleaning, staff training on COVID-19 related protocols, and introducing new physical distancing processes for their operations. All this, while still trying to maintain or re-hire staff, open their doors and be sure to keep guests, customers, staff and themselves safe in and through the pandemic.

The second program was a grant opportunity for 62 - $10,000 grants for business under the Business Resilience Network Small Business Relief Fund.

We know many stores did not have to close entirely, or continued to do business over the phone or on-line, but the biggest challenge by far, is, as Harris puts it “losing my staff, seeing what this is doing to them, their families and their lives.”

Meant for small businesses at the heart of Canadian communities, this support was to cover such things as paying salaries, acquiring safety equipment and PPE for staff, replenishing materials or paying for the measures required to adapt business models to economic impacts of COVID-19, among other priorities. Applications were to start June 1st and run through the 12th of June. Again, by noon on June 11th, 2020, there were already 765 applications from across Canada. No doubt by application deadline June 12, well over 1,000 businesses sought out the generous

Disposable income dollars in the community will likely drop as jobs are not opened up or staff are not rehired in the same numbers as pre-COVID-19. This no doubt will impact the Battlefords for many years.

On the Chamber front, Chair Harris notes that he is disappointed not to be able to be visiting our members during this early part of his term or hearing their interests or concerns first hand. The lack of events the Chamber can host is impacting the face of the chamber and its entire board at the networking and educational events in the business community. “There are many factors limiting what we (as a Chamber) can do, but for our members we have been working harder than ever on the advocacy and communication of information fronts”, says the Board Chair.

Canadian Chamber Statement on Racism

Perrin Beatty, President & CEO, Canadian Chamber of Commerce

In recent days, we have all witnessed the ugly toll taken by racism and bigotry.

Sadly, we Canadians are reminded all too frequently that our country is not immune. The virus of hatred, which divides Canadians based on the colour of their skin or their families’ places of origin, denies the very humanity of many of our fellow citizens. We must fight racism with the same sense of unity and determination as we are demonstrating in our battle against the pandemic.

Like all other Canadians, our businesses benefit from the rich diversity of our citizens. It is a source of strength that adds to the social, cultural and economic well-being of every one of us. We celebrate that diversity and we call upon Canadians to reject racism in all of its forms. We must work together to build a society that is based on respect and equality for all of its members.

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“I am really proud of the Chamber team and how we have continued to support members and businesses through this oncein-a-lifetime challenge,” Sutherland notes, adding “businesses have been well served with our local Chamber’s efforts, but also by the support and leadership of the provincial and national Chamber networks.”

One key theme in the discussion with Board Chair Harris was his insistence that “we are all in this together”, and the Chamber will be there for business throughout. He looks forward to the opportunity to meet and greet members and business people in their place of operations, and support them through their rebuilding cycle.

• Congratulations to Bralin Technology Solutions for being awarded a 50 Best Managed IT Companies in Canada for a 4th year in a row. Hats Off! to Brad, Linda and the whole team at Bralin for another great year.

• Congratulations to Stacey and Terry Caldwell and the entire team at Porta Bella Restaurant & Bar on the recent celebration of their 20th Anniversary in business.

• Celebrating 25 years in business is SIGA, the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority.

Member – Gold Eagle Casino is part of the SIGA family. Congratulations! on 25 great years.

• Bill & Don’s Menswear is celebrating 65 years in business in the Battlefords. Having opened in 1955, this store is a cornerstone business in the downtown core. Congratulations to everyone at Bill & Don’s Menswear.

offering of SalesForce, the Canadian Chamber’s partner in this Fund.

The point in sharing these stories with you is to show the immense need of business supports required for entities to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic and thrive on the other side. These services highlight the needs most pronounced for the smallest of businesses who may not have access to the breadth of professional supports provided by the Chamber partners in these ventures. It also tells me that business is seeking help and doing their research from and with a number of sources to find the best path forward for them. In all cases, we can make a difference, and support our local businesses and services to ensure that they are some of the shining examples of resilience on the other side of the pandemic 2020.

Business Resilience Service supported by: Canadian Chamber of Commerce, CPA Canada, Imagine Canada and EY Business Resilience Network Small Business Relief Fund generously supported by: SalesForce

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Chris McLeod coaching Cheer Legacy athletes in North Battleford. “Cheerleading is a sport that builds strong athletes and good people,” says Chris McLeod. Photo submitted by Rhea Good

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This is my ninth article in a series profiling of prominent personalities in Canadian Cheerleading. Chris McLeod is known across Canada as the founder, owner and head coach of Cheer Factory.

Chris’s cheerleading career started at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont. “A friend begged me to join Cheer since they were looking for male athletes,” Chris recalls.

He resisted for three months before attending a practice, then his life turned a corner.

He stayed with the Lakehead Cheer Team for his undergraduate degree 2001-2005, and also joined an adult allstar team. In 2005-2007 he joined the Queen’s University Cheerleading team while doing his graduate degree.

In 2009, Chris returned to Thunder Bay and started coaching around his day job in education. During 2010-2015 he was an athlete again with CheerForce Wolf Pack in Toronto.

Cheer Factory was founded in 2010. Chris created a business model different from most gyms that are based in and around the local community. Since 2010, Cheer Factory has provided traveling services to Cheerleading gyms, particularly to high level teams preparing to compete at Cheerleading Worlds.

In 2014, Chris moved to Toronto and Cheer Factory boomed. Cheer Factory traveling services were in demand beyond Ontario. In 2017, Chris left his work with Indigenous community development to do Cheer full-time. Since 2010, Cheer Factory has provided traveling services to Cheerleading teams across North America, Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific. Cheer Factory coaches do hands-on instruction, music, choreography, and rule clarification.

Training and support for coaches and athletes is provided through skills clinics, camps, events, conferences, program development and an online presence. Since the Cheer Factory schedule was entirely cancelled due to COVID, they ramped up the online services, newly christened The Cheer Forge. Chris explains, “A forge is where you make stuff.”

The Cheer Forge was launched on May 1 as a resource for athletes, coaches, judges and coaches-intraining and has clients in 30 countries. It features skills and drills for everyone, and has a search tool to search by rule, by name of skill, by level, etc. compared to other online services that post random thumbnail videos. The Cheer Forge has new content added weekly. www.thecheerforge.com.

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A schedule is set for the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League season.

According to their website, the season will begin July 5 with a game between the Standard Hill Lakers and Meadow Lake Sox in Meadow Lake.

Four more games are scheduled for July 7 and one of those is between the Battleford Trappers and North Battleford Beavers, in North Battleford.

The COVID-19 pandemic has meant changes and disruptions for the NSRBL in 2020, with pandemic restrictions

forcing the start of the season to be delayed by a couple of months.

The league is now down to 10 teams for the 2020 campaign, as several teams have pulled out. those include Wilkie, St. Walburg, Macklin and the North Battleford Midget Beavers.

The NSRBL East division consists of the Trappers, Beavers, Meadow Lake, Mervin and Standard Hill.

The West division includes the Lloydminster Twins, Border City Blue Jays, Unity Cardinals, Unity Junior Cardinals, and Mervin Flyers.

Rick Johnston: A passion for baseball Submitted Rick Johnston has been selected to be inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame at the 36th Annual Induction Aug. 15 in Battleford.

Johnston was born to a farming family with a passion for baseball. His grandfather, mother, father and siblings all played the game.

He played minor baseball in Maidstone, playing third base and outfield, then at the age of 15 years he began playing for the North Battleford Midget Beavers, then the Junior Beavers for five years followed by two years with the Senior Beavers. He continued with them in the Saskatchewan Major Baseball League until it folded.

While in North Battleford Beavers Club, he helped the Midgets win provincials, competed in two Nationals with the Juniors and one with the Senior Beaver team.

Returning home, he joined the Standard Hill Lakers Baseball Club, playing intermediate baseball at the Silver Lake Regional Park near Maidstone. He played, coached, organized and worked the annual tournaments for years.

He was picked up by the Wilkie Brewers in 1975, the team winning the provincials.

In 2004 Rick coached the Lakers, winning the Provincial Championship held in Davidson.

An injury sidelined him for awhile so he turned to umpiring Standard Hill and Maidstone minor

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ball as well as working games for the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League, the Saskatchewan Junior Baseball League, the Saskatchewan Summer Games and the Western Canadian Junior and Intermediate levels. While still playing, Rick raised and launched the ball careers of their family of four, on

the ball diamond, coaching his children. Kara started with the boys until the girl’s team was formed, then onto Bantam in Lloydminster, Junior A and Senior A in Saskatoon and Edmonton. Ryan played with the North Battleford Junior Beavers and Saskatoon Diggers. Tyler and Troy played for the Stan-

dard Hill Lakers. Kara also curled and the boys played hockey and had participated in all school sports.

Rick served as president of minor ball and assumed the duties that in a small town included organizing equipment, diamond maintenance and umpiring. Rick joined the North Battleford Oldtimers in the Maxi in Assiniboia, Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Strasbourg and North Battleford. In 1988, Rick coaxed his hometown buddies from past Lakers teams back onto the ball diamond and entered the Standard Hill Oldtimers in the 1988 Mini. The 1988 Mini was hosted by Standard Hill with Rick as chairman. He managed and played with the Oldtimers for 25 enjoyable years.

Rick was an active farmer, a purebred Polled Hereford breeder, serving on the Saskatchewan Hereford Association, the Canadian Hereford Association and the Western Agribition for several years, as well as several other community organizations. Rick also played and coached hockey for many years.

Rick and his wife recently retired to golf and to watch their grandchildren play baseball and hockey.

The Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame Scholarship Award is presented annually to a baseball player under 18 years of age, who plans to further pursue his/her baseball career. For information, email saskbaseballmuseum @sasktel.net for an application form.

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Former Sweetgrass resident wins prestigious award Staff A former resident of Sweetgrass First Nation recently earned a prestigious award as the University of Lethbridge celebrated its 2020 Spring Convocation.

Kylie Fineday (BFA - Art, with a major in Art Studio) won the Faculty of Fine Arts Gold Medal for her work over the course of her degree.

Her award was for consistently presenting a remarkable level of professionalism, compassion and creative engagement while maintaining top academic standing, Acording to the university’s website, throughout her time at uLethbridge, Fineday produced ambitious and creative research projects, curated art exhibitions,

participated in professional internships at renowned art galleries, volunteered in the community and developed a confident voice that speaks for her values. She has also received many awards including the prestigious Roloff Beny Foundation Photographic Award (2019), Abbondànza Fine Arts Award (2018), the Indigenous Art History and Museum Studies Award (2018), and Art History/Museum Studies Gallery Award (2018), to name a few.

“Kylie possesses the acumen, skill and passion to establish herself as a successful arts’ professional. She will undoubtedly strengthen Indigenous voices across Canada, amplify their cultural practices and advocate for social

justice for all,” states the website.

“I hope to maintain my art studio practice and to exhibit my work in different capacities, and to continue developing a curatorial practice as well.

Eventually I would like to pursue a master’s degree. I also hope to be a positive role model for Indigenous youth and encourage them to pursue their passions,” says Fineday in a Q an A on the website.

In her artist’s statement, she says, “I am a nehiyaw artist from Sweetgrass First Nation, Saskatchewan. My art practice involves a variety of media and addresses a range subject matter from the deeply personal to the political. I share personal thoughts, emotions, and anecdotes with honesty

and vulnerability. I share experiences from my family history to confront intergenerational trauma as a result of systemic colonial forces. I express the complications of having the desire to protect the environment while also being complicit in systems that contribute to its destruction. I also engage with current political discourse relating to issues that affect Indigenous peoples.

“My material practice includes drawing, beadwork, performance, installation, photography, and video. I am in my final year of the Art Studio program and recently completed an Undergraduate Thesis in which I focused on drawing, resulting in my solo exhibition, askîy iskwew, held last December.”

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USask researchers to develop saliva-based COVID-19 test University of Saskatchewan researchers are part of two COVID-19-related projects awarded major federal funding — one to develop a unique salivabased test for COVID-19 detection and the other to track COVID-19 incidence rates among Canadian dentists.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) will invest $1.2 million in the two projects, led by

University of Regina (U of R) and McGill University respectively, through the CIHR’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Program. More than $550,000 in funding will go to USask researchers at the USask College of Dentistry and the USask Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac).

Dr. Walter Siqueira of the USask College of Den-

tistry will lead development of the new diagnostic test which detects SARSCoV-2 peptides (proteins) in saliva, as part of a broader U of R-led project.

The test would be less invasive than current methods, more sensitive, and would take less than five minutes to produce results.

As well, the new test can be done by people at home and can be used in remote locations that don’t have

medical facilities.

Siqueira’s team, in collaboration with Dr. Jun Yang at Western University, will develop a prototype testing device that is about the size of cellphone. The device will be similar to devices used for pregnancy testing in that an indicator turns a certain color when the virus biomarker combines with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, indicating the presence of the virus in the

saliva.

“We expect that the accuracy of this test will be high because the peptide/proteins we are using is a marker for a specific SARS-CoV-2 antibody, whereas other tests often aren’t that specific,” said Siqueira. “As well, other saliva-based tests are based on RNA (which synthesizes proteins), but this test is based on proteins themselves, and since pro-

teins last longer in the saliva than RNA, the virus is more detectable.”

He also anticipates that the test will be able to detect mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, a shortfall of some existing tests.

He anticipates the new test will be a low-cost alternative to other tests so that it can be available to the general population.

The test could be available

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NWC awards more than $46,000 in scholarships Submitted

North West College has highlighted some of this year’s brightest and best students with the naming of North West College’s Completion Scholarship recipients.

Approximately $46,000 was awarded to 30 students enrolled in post-secondary programs at North West College.

Recipients demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, leadership and commitment to pursuing advancement in post-secondary education.

These scholarships are made possible by gifts from individual and corporate donors, as well as a grant from the Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarships (SIOS) program, adminis-

tered through the Ministry of Advanced Education.

Through this program, the Saskatchewan Government matches every dollar the College receives for scholarships from local industry partners and private donors, thus doubling the resources to support even more students in our region.

During the 2019-2020 academic year, North West College awarded over $115,000 in scholarships to its students.

“I am continually amazed by the accomplishments of our students. This year in particular our students showed unwavering perseverance and determination to navigate through these challenging times and came out on top,” said Jay Notay, president and CEO of North West Col-

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lege. “I am proud we are able to recognize their success. Their persistence, determination and resilience will take them far as they embark on their next stages of life.”

2020 Completion Scholarship winners: Battle River Treaty 6 Health Services Scholarship $500: Kendra Wuttunee, Continuing Care Assistant Program; BUH Health Care Foundation Scholarship $500: Whitney Allison, Continuing Care Assistant Program; HRO Leaders Of Tomorrow Scholarship $2,500: Shelbee MitchellMalinowski, Business Program; HRO Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship $2,500: Marla Degenstein, Office Administration Program; Innovation Credit Union Community Leaders Scholarship $2,000: Savanna Russel, Welding Program; Innovation Credit Union Community Leaders Scholarship $2,000: Mabel Angus, Continuing

Care Assistant Program; Innovation Credit Union Community Leaders Scholarship $2,000: Whitney Allison, Continuing Care Assistant Program; Innovation Credit Union Community Leaders Scholarship $2,000: Tiffany Kennedy, Continuing Care Assistant Program; Jason Vany Memorial Scholarship $1,000: Whitney Allison, Continuing Care Assistant Program; North Battleford Firefighters Local 1756 Scholarship $1,000: Serenity Weber-Bjerkness, Continuing Care Assistant Program; Pat Bacon Memorial Bursary $800: Cathleen Oftedal, Office Administration Program.

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Scholarship $1,500 each: Sheldon Fox, Business Program; Jackie Sarvas, Community Mental Health Program; Lori Ferguson, Continuing Care Assistant Program; Laura Thomas, Continuing Care Assistant Program; Reva Booker, Continuing Care Assistant Program; Addie Francis, Early Childhood Education Program; Marsha Cardinal, Early Childhood Education Program; Tristin Tarasoff, Electrician Program; Mary Jane Ananas, Food Service Cook Program; Sabrina Dreaver, Food Service Cook Program; James Kytwayhat, For-

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Thanks to the generosity of donors, businesses and the SIOS program, any student applying for a postsecondary program before the Aug. 1 deadline will be eligible to receive an entrance scholarship with North West College.

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Rural graduates honoured in creative style

By Elaine Woloshyn Correspondent

30 on the sports grounds.

What do all of these three rural schools have in common? Great outdoor backgrounds for snapping the special photos that will be memories for yeas to come. These students will definitely remember their Grade 12 graduation day.

Hopefully June 2021 will be back to what citizens have become accustomed to for decades, featuring more elaborate celebrations.

Lang, a small village located 70 kilometres southeast of Regina, hosted a family gathering for Faye and Keith Liebaert of Mayfair this past weekend.

Faye doesn’t get to visit her siblings often, so they were delighted to share this outing. Their son Ryan from Mayfair was also in attendance.

All Saints Paris in Mayfair has been offering mass to its local parishioners for the past month. The limit

What do the feathers on the ground indicate in my yard? A large predator shredded a harmless song bird! Magpies are destructive birds and we have too many around. Photo by Elaine Woloshyn

for attendance is up to 10 including the priest, and now that number can be increased. It is nice to see the happy faces of some of my friends, whom I haven’t seen for the last four months. We have to sign

in with our phone numbers, use hand sanitizer and stay six metres apart.

Father Frederick Akah announced he is not relocating to another parish. It is a common practise for the Prince Albert bishop to

BUH Foundation holds virtual AGM Staff

Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation held their annual general meeting June 17 in a virtual

format this year, at which time they announced the new executive committee for their upcoming fiscal year.

The new executive

committee consists of Chair Sue Pruden-McIvor; Vice-Chairperson Joelle Kuntz; Treasurer JoAnne Iverson; and Secretary Jerry Wintonyk. New to

the board of directors are David Fan and Cheryl Mitchell. Fan is former CEO of the former Prairie North Health Region and Mitchell was Regional Director of Medical Imaging for Prairie North Health Region.

Stepping down after completing their maximum three terms on the board are Treasurer Al White and Vice-Chair Tim Sletten.

“We are grateful for the support and advice Al and Tim provided to BUH Foundation during their years of service. We thank them for their commitment and know we will continue to see them in support of healthcare,” said PrudenMcIvor in a statement. “We look forward to working with David and Cheryl

and welcoming their knowledge and expertise of healthcare and our community. They will be wonderful additions to our board.”

The board also looked back at highlights from the past year, including the fourth annual On Air: for Healthcare radiothon with proceeds to the campaign to purchase a new mammography unit, and the “Ready. Set. Baby!” campaign to raise funds to purchase four new specialized birthing beds and three new fetal monitors.

There were some challenges in 2020 due to COVID-19: the fifth annual “On Air: for Healthcare” Radio-thon was postponed, while the

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Rose Jensen (nee Dion) formerly from North Battleford and her husband Al visited me at my Chitek Lake cabin last week. She has resided in Vernon, B.C. for a few decades and owns a thriving bookkeeping business. She is slowly retiring from it as they want to travel throughout Canada and the United States in their retirement years.

Her son Shawn Drury, wife Melissa, four children and two large dogs from Prince Albert also accompanied them. What a fun time it was catching up on childhood memories. Most of her siblings are in Prince Albert, Saskatoon and North Battleford areas, so when they travel here they are kept busy. Evan, another son, and his family moved to North Battleford two years ago to be closer to their dad, Darcy Drury, who is the former owner of a masonry/stucco business.

Evan is employed with an accounting firm in North Battleford. Rose’s older sister has lived in Hawaii for the past 45years, so they holiday in that lovely setting when possible.

Wayne Pruden Memorial Golf Tournament was held in a virtual format in May/June. The $100,000 Cash Lottery is coming in August.

“This was my first year as chairperson of BUH Foundation Board of Directors,” said Pruden-McIvor. “As such, it was my pleasure to share the highlights of another successful and perhaps challenging year for the foundation, with the economic changes happening at this time.

Challenging times can bring us closer together and I believe we are a much stronger and cohesive organization for going through them.”

“It is an honour to be a part of BUH Foundation and work with many amazing, kind and giving individuals. I am looking forward to another successful year, both in terms of fundraising plus growing and expanding ongoing projects and programs,” said Claudette McGuire, BUH Foundation Executive Director in a statement.

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People seem to not read books as much during the warmer weather, but some book worms are welcoming the reopening of libraries.

Things are slowly getting back to what we’ve been used to before things crashed March 16. That was the day schools were closed. It is nice to see parents helped Grade 12 students celebrate graduating, with social distancing in mind. Way to go and with such imagination and creativity.

Medstead celebrated June 20. Graduates rode individual floats and paraded up and down Main Street with bystanders cheering the happy students. Maymont had a grad June 27 at 3 p.m. with the nine graduates on a large flat deck trailer. Weather did not totally co-operate, but guests sat outside the hall with umbrellas. There were light rain showers, but at one point the sun shone on the platform, making for some lovely photos. Hafford is having their special day for Grade 12 students June

keep relocating the priests within the diocese. Father Frederick used the analogy that is like being in a foster home to be moved from one home to another every so often. He and we parishioners are happy to have him stay in the parish.

He lives in Hafford and has a large territory including Muskeg Lake First Nation.

St. Joseph in Marcelin, St. Solange in Hafford and Mayfair church.

Mayfair mass is still at 8:30 a.m., as it has been for the past couple years.

Campers at Sandy lake east of Mayfair and Meeting Lake near Rabbit Lake have now and again joined us for the service and we are happy to have them.

Once things get back to “near normal” we will have coffee and squares once a month after mass, because we all love to socialize.

The water level in central and northern parts of the province is still extremely high. There has been sandbagging and other measures for the past month at Meet Lake Regional Park and other points on the lake. Some people cannot even get to their cabins, as backed up

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Unity enjoys two parades this year in spite of pandemic

By Sherri Solomko

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Thank you again to everyone who honoured the UCHS grad class of 2020 with your support for their parade and sharing genuine, safe, well wishes to them all. Also a big thanks to UCHS staff for all of the efforts in making this unique graduation a special and memorable one for all.

Unity, in spite of a pandemic, was able to enjoy not one but two parades this year. The June 10 se-

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niors’ centre parade included nearly 40 vehicles while the grad parade was just over 40 vehicles and both were welcome and appreciated by all who experienced them.

School is “out” for the summer, but playgrounds have been re-opened, so please be mindful when

Day celebrations as well as enjoying a day in their yards with family. Be thankful we live in Canada and Saskatchewan.

Here’s hoping this finds you all safe, healthy and socially distanced. Until next week ...

driving through school zones.

Because I had a graduate in our house and my work zone will be changing this month, I sent this column in a little early to ensure I didn’t miss the deadline. I may have missed a news update or two, but rest assured, I will get them into next week’s column.

Even though there were not the July 1 group celebrations and fireworks we were accustomed to, people took advantage of virtual and online Canada

At right, Amanda Whyte, Unity Kin Club member, was part of the work party that helped spruce up Kin Park with a fresh coat of paint June 11.

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Canada Day is being celebrated, so traffic will increase and folks will be doing more family gatherings and crossing borders, too, so we will all be watching and hoping the pandemic bugs stay away. Wearing of a mask seems to be proving to be a good safety measure for everyone.

The water is very high in all the northern lakes and rivers. Meeting Lake

has constructed berms along the shoreline to protect property in that area. and the Water Security Agency has withdrawn the personnel who assisted in the building of the berms and responsibility has been turned over to the regional park authority and RM of

year career at Spiritwood High School. He interned under the guidance of Glen Delisle in 1990. They wish him well in the next chapter of his life.

Likewise, Meadstead’s teacher Kelly Schneider has been on the job there for 35 years, 20 years as principal and at Medstead since 2001. This is the school he once attended as a student. These stories go to prove living in these northern areas must be good.

Spiritwood. The Green River is right up to the bridge platform with signs advising travellers to not stop on the bridge. This river, which now looks more like a lake, runs north into the Beaver River, on to Lac Isle a la Crosse and enters the Churchill River system, on it’s way to Hudson Bay. The Spiritwood High School staff and students congratulate retiring teacher Deon Nordstrom, who has spent all of his 30-

Many folks have had company, mostly family, recently. Being careful will tell how we survive the next step in this pandemic.

My great-granddaughter from Lethbridge, Alta. visited in the city on her way through Monday, I met her at the Co-op for coffee.

Our unwelcome summer bugs have come out in full force. The no-see-ums have joined the abundance of mosquitoes, making sitting outside much less desirable. Plans for sitting

around a campfire, doing social distancing while warding the bugs off, becomes rather unpleasant.

So it’s either an extra layer of clothes or lots of bug spray.

Swimming pools are supposed to open July 4, so hope the swim area here has been prepared and is ready for the young folks next week. One pool advertised it would open but due to social distancing there would be no water in lanes 1, 3 and 5. Good idea.

Helping our immune systems bypass antibiotic resistance Submitted

the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to address the problem from a different direction, by trying to weaken the ability of bacteria to develop resistance in the first place.

“The goal is to knock the bacterial cells down in terms of their resistance,” said Dr. Anthony Clarke, Professor and Dean of Sci-

More than 700,000 people die each year due to drug-resistant diseases and this figure could increase to 10 million per year by 2050, according to a 2019 report.

As the search continues for new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant infections, a group of researchers used

work is peptidoglycan, which gives bacterial cell walls their rigidity. “Think of it as building a brick wall around the bacteria’s cells,” said Clarke. Since peptidoglycan can be broken down by lysozyme, an enzyme that exists in human immune systems, bacteria have developed strategies that block these enzymes by modifying their peptidoglycan, thereby “cementing the bricks in place,” and resisting our defences.

In the search for compounds that will stop the enzyme from modifying peptidoglycan (and helping pathogenic bacteria survive), Clarke and his colleagues used the CMCF

ence at Wilfrid Laurier University and adjunct professor at the University of Guelph. “We haven’t been successful over the last 30 years in finding new classes of antibiotics so, in the short term, we’re trying to weaken the cells so our own immune system can take over to fight infection.”

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The research, recently published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, is foundational science that could guide the development of new antibacterial drugs, said Clarke, who has been studying enzyme systems for more than three decades. “It’s a lot of hard work and very few eureka moments, and it’s always a challenge to stay ahead of bacteria, but I’m optimistic.

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New bee species honours high flying Canadian hero Col. Chris Hadfield Submitted The Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) announced rcently that a newly recognized species of bee native to North America is named in honour of Canadian Astronaut Colonel Christopher Hadfield.

In an academic paper, authored by RSM Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Dr. Cory Sheffield and published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Sheffield makes the scientific case for the insect’s uniqueness as well as the story behind naming it after a true Canadian hero.

“The RSM provides a tremendous scientific and cultural centre of learning for students and visitors of all ages,” Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Gene Makowsky said.

“This fascinating new discovery reflects the high level of scientific research at the museum which, along with world class exhibits, amazing provincial collections, and educational programming, benefit and contribute to the quality of life for the people of our province.”

In the paper, Dr. Sheffield describes how, in his ongoing work reexamining, verifying and cataloguing the hundreds of thousands of specimens in the provincial entomology collection at the RSM, that he came across a unique female bee specimen and set it aside for further examination.

On the second examination, it was

A planned visit by Col. Chris Hadfield to the Battlefords will have to wait until after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. The Rotary Club of the Battlefords had arranged for Canadian astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield to be the keynote speaker for their Centennial “Out of this World” Celebration, which was supposed to take place this past April. To no one’s surprise, Rotary Club of the Battlefords pushed the event back from its scheduled April 24 date to be held instead on Oct. 9. All previous details about the event remain the same, with the only change being the new date. Original plans by Rotary had called for an afternoon event featuring Hadfield speaking to 1,000 high school students at the North Battleford Comprehensive High School with a gala event set for the Dekker Centre that night. In December Rotary reported the gala event has sold out. Photo by John Cairns

clear he was looking at a new species of bee.

“After I had finished my research on the specimen and confirmed that

it was indeed a new species, I thought of Colonel Hadfield, someone I have immense respect for, and asked him if he would

be agreeable to having it named in his honour,” Dr. Sheffield said.

“Today, it is a privilege to name this new species Andrena hadfieldi after Canadian astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield for his many achievements as a pilot, astronaut, author, lecturer, and science educator.”

Regular academic publishing contributes to the RSM’s status as an internationally recognized centre for research and teaching.

To learn more about entomological research and other exciting work at the RSM, visit https:// royalsaskmuseum.ca/rsm/ research. For more information about the RSM, programming, or to learn how you can support the RSM’s world class research and programming,

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Enns-Wind is taking on a new role as chief administrative officer in Grand Bay-Westfield, New Brunswick. His official departure of his position in Battleford took effect at the end of July.

“It’s been a pleasure

working with you, John, and we are definitely going to miss you,” said Councillor Susan McLean-Tady.

“You have accomplished a lot here in your short time here. We wish you all the best in the future.”

“Good luck, John, with your new adventure in the East,” said Councillor Judy Pruden.

“Thank you for your wisdom and your guidance with our whole admin team and management team,” said Councillor Doug Laing. “Thank you for every-

thing and good luck out East... now we have somewhere to visit out East to see the Maritimes.”

“I want to thank you for the last four years,” said Mayor Ames Leslie.

“You were green in your position, I was green in my position. I think we grew well as a team. I think New Brunswick is getting a strong asset.”

Mayor Leslie then presented Enns-Wind with a going-away present — a framed picture of Town Hall.

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OBITUARIES Lake: Kathleen “Kay” Miriam Lake passed away at Jubilee Home, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at the age of 94 years. Kay is survived by: her son, Harry (Jean) Lake and their family, Rhonda Harty, Brad (Danielle) Lake and Sydney Lake; son, Roy (Michelle) Lake and their family, Drew (Leanne) Lake and Angela Lake; great grandchildren, Dane, Emily, Tanner, Ada, Addisen, Juliet and Jack; sister, Gwen Brown; brother, Bill Brownridge; and numerous nieces and nephews. Kay was predeceased by: her loving husband, Keith Lake; parents, Roy and Vivian Brownridge; brothers, Don Brownridge and Bob Brownridge; and grandson-in-law, Ernie Harty. A public viewing for Kay was held on Friday, June 12, 2020. A family graveside service was held at the Mervin Cemetery, Mervin, Saskatchewan on Saturday, June 13, 2020 with Reverend Canon Don Skinner and Reverend Cathy Kinsman officiating. The music was performed by Reverend Canon Don Skinner and Catherine Skinner. The honorary pallbearers were Gladys Jack, Hazel Feist, Gwen Brown, Bill Brownridge, Cora McNinch and Anita Sheppard. The active pallbearers were Rhonda Harty, Brad Lake, Drew Lake, Angela Lake, Sydney Lake and Heidi Potter-Jamieson. Donations in memory of Kay may be made to Grace United Church. Card of Thanks Sincere thanks to the staff at the Lloydminster Hospital and Jubilee Home for making Kay’s final days comforting and peaceful. Thank you to all who took part in the graveside service celebrating Kay’s life - to Reverend Canon Don Skinner and Reverend Cathy Kinsman for leading the service and for their comforting messages, Reverend Don and Catherine Skinner for their beautiful duet, the pallbearers and to Sydney for preparing the eulogy and Brad for delivering it. To Rhonda, Brad, Drew, Angela, Sydney and Heidi for sharing a poem and a memory of Grandma during the service. It was truly touching. A special “Thank You” to all who visited, brought gifts of flowers, food, made memorial donations, and who supported our families in so many ways. Thank you to Brett, Dave and staff at McCaw Funeral Service for their compassionate care in handling the funeral arrangements.

Eulogy: A Grand Life of Grace and Glam We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of Kathleen Miriam Lake. Kathleen was well known by absolutely everyone, but to us she was affectionately known as Kay, Mom, Grandma, Great Grandma, Auntie and Friend. Kay was a lady of grace, kindness, positivity and had a great sense of style. She was loving, compassionate, and a truly incredible woman that we were lucky to call Grandma. Grandma Kay was born on October 3, 1925 in Kelliher, SK to Roy & Vivian Brownridge. Kay was the middle child. Donald and Bob her senior, Gwen and Bill her junior. Her early years were spent in Regina, Denholm, and Rosetown as her Dad was a CNR Telegrapher and Station Agent. In 1936, the family moved to Vawn, which would be their home until 1954. Grandma spoke fondly of her childhood in Vawn. She had an affinity for train whistles and love to tell us stories about the hustle and bustle of a prairie town railway station. She often told us how they used to hold church services in the station at Vawn; and, from an early age, church was always a very important part of her life. In her adult life, Grandma became very involved with Grace United Church in Lloydminster where she served on several committees, UCW groups, and participated in the choir and hand bell groups. In 1942, Kay left home to complete Grade 12 and her first year of university at Regina College. She then went to the University of Saskatchewan to finish her degree, and also took a summer teaching course. After graduation in 1944, she worked at the Saskatoon Public Library. Kay’s schooling then took her to the University of Toronto where she obtained her Degree in Library Science; and, upon returning to Saskatoon, Kay was in charge of the Public Library Reference department from 1948-1953. As a teacher librarian, she was passionate about reading and writing, and her love of books has been passed on to her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Grandma Kay married Keith Lake, of Mervin, on February 4, 1953 in Saskatoon. Their wedding was a joyous occasion and was featured in the wedding column in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. The column was titled, “Wedding at the Knox Chapel”. The article describes the event in great detail, including the attire of those in attendance. Grandma Kay was always on top of the latest fashion trends and wore a “street-length dress of teal blue corded silk with mauve accessories and a corsage of orchids”. She was definitely the original “Glam”-ma and was always coordinated from head to toe. Her ensembles were well planned with matching shoes and handbags, and were always perfectly accessorized with elegant earrings, hat with pearl hat pin, or sunglasses. Grandma and Grandpa were blessed with two sons, Harry and Roy. We would often ask Grandma to tell us stories about the adventures of Harry and Roy. There was never a dull moment with the boys around. In 1954, Keith and Kay moved to Mervin where they took over John Kirkpatrick’s store, later known as Keith & Kay’s Gift Shop. Grandma Kay taught at the Mervin School from 1965 until 1967 and Grandpa Keith drove a school bus. In 1967, Grandma Kay was given the opportunity to set up the library at the new Lloydminster Comprehensive High School, so the family packed up and made the big move to Lloydminster. Grandma always told us how much Harry and Roy hated moving to Lloydminster.

However, they both adjusted and enjoyed many different activities including ball, hockey and curling. They eventually found themselves wonderful wives (Jean and Michelle) who Grandma absolutely adored. Harry and Jean have three children; Rhonda, Brad (Danielle), and Sydney; and five grandchildren, Dane, Emily, Tanner, Ada and Juliet. Roy and Michelle have two children; Drew (Leanne) and Angela; and two grandchildren, Addisen and Jack. Grandma and Grandpa were very involved with the Grace United Church and various organizations within the community. They were avid sports fans who never missed a minute of the action whether it be at the rink or ball diamond. Grandma loved to share stories of her own athletic endeavours, including playing on the Edam Ladies Ball team and wearing an actual wool ball uniform. Growing up, we were always inquisitive about why Grandma’s right index finger was so crooked. She would light up and explain that she broke it playing first base and it never healed properly. Family meant the world to Grandma. She was blessed to spend every single Christmas with her boys and their families, which is a rare occurrence. A family gathering was not complete without her famous cheese ball and shortbread cookies. Grandma was great at keeping tabs on what each member of the family was doing at any given time. She loved talking on the phone and kept a notepad close by so she could record all the details. Every time she picked up the phone she would say, “Oh (insert 3-4 different names, before getting it right)”, and would be both surprised and delighted to hear who was on the other end of the line. Spending time at Grandma’s house was a highlight for the grandchildren, from the time we were small until the time we were not so small. Time spent at Grandma’s was always special, from letting us drink coffee out of mini sunflower cups (at age 2-3) to eating porridge at any time during the day, to perfectly cooked soft-boiled eggs and strips of toast, your wish was her command. We also spent hours playing store and dress up in her six closets. Coffee row at Arby’s, breakfast at McDonalds, going to the “big church” (AKA Grace United), and playing Scrabble are some of our fondest memories of spending time with Grandma Kay. Over the years, as we grew up, 3 out of the 5 grandchildren were lucky enough to call Grandma “roommate”, and were spoiled just the same as when they were small.

Grandma Kay enjoyed a very busy social calendar and we often joked how we had to book an appointment to see her. When at home, she loved to keep in touch with family and friends and kept busy with knitting and crocheting. She was famous for her crocheted baby blankets and baby booties. Grandma was known for ending each letter, card, and phone call with “All my love and God Bless”. Grandma, thank you for all the love you have shown us, the lessons you have taught us and the memories that we will keep in our hearts. “All our love and God Bless” _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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OBITUARIES Jones: E. Muriel 11 June 1922 – 2 June 2020 Muriel was born at Riceton, second of four daughters of Arthur Ponto and Clara Richardson. Muriel attended Connaught School in North Battleford until grade six where Art did carpentry renovating the Carnegie Library and building the new swimming pool. During the dry 1930’s, the family moved east of Dorintosh store, where Art built a squared-log house with whipsaw and broadaxe. After taking grades nine and ten by correspondence, Muriel attended the Sisters of Sion Convent in Saskatoon, where she completed grade 12 under tutelage of the teaching Sisters. Muriel worked at Adilman’s Department Store in Saskatoon, managing the income and sales tax records mornings and running the main till afternoons. Despite the war, she said it was the best job she ever had. In 1947, Muriel married Tommy Jones and they built a house on their farm east of Mervin. Son Lyle was born in 1948. Tommy’s wartime injury affected his farming, so in 1951 the family moved into the old pioneer post office in Mervin where Tommy was postmaster and Muriel his assistant. They kept cattle and poultry, Tommy providing with rifle and shotgun, and Muriel setting a good table.

Daughter Gwen was born in 1951. Foster children, Malcolm and Charmaine, stayed a year about 1956. The farmhouse was moved to town and enlarged. Vacations were few since Tommy was obliged to sign reports every ten days and Muriel ran the office while he was absent. Tommy kept a menagerie of pheasants, foxes, chickens, turkeys, wild turkeys, ducks, geese, rabbits and such in and around the village. Muriel was an accomplished seamstress. They kept a large garden and preserved wild fruit. Muriel also clerked at the Co-op Store and Tommy commissioned several muskrat coats when such were women’s fashion. Tommy retired from the post office in 1977, age 55. The couple was then able to vacation and travel, interrupted by Tommy’s love of cows and periods driving tractor for farmers and road construction. It was a good place for grandchildren with baby calves and wild turkeys, fishing, golfing and camping at the lake. Tommy passed away in 1993, age 72.

Muriel moved to Saskatoon, taking university classes, going visiting with her camper van, and travelling to Europe, Israel and the States. Her health failing, Muriel moved to the Good Shepherd retirement home in Prince Albert where Gwen carried the work she could not manage. Muriel began palliative care in 2020, her family excluded by the flu epidemic. She rallied on June 1, visiting and saying goodbye to her friends at the Good Shepherd. Gwen was permitted to visit June 2 and Muriel passed away peacefully, nine days short of her 98th birthday, looking forward to meeting her parents and husband. Muriel leaves son Lyle (partner Diane, children Jennifer, David and Sarah) daughter Gwen (children Christine and Curtis), greatgrandchildren Callum and Eloïse, sister Lois Andersen, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. At Muriel’s request there will be no funeral. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.grays.ca. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Gray’s Funeral Chapel, (306) 922-4729

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OBITUARIES HAEGEBAERT: Camille Theophiel – The family of Camille are heartbroken to announce his sudden passing on Friday, June 5th, 2020 at the age of 81 years in the R.M. of North Battleford. His memory will be forever cherished by his loving daughter, Sarah Haegebaert; his best friend and brother, Gaston Haegebaert; his sisters, Denise Liebaert and Godelieve “Goldie” Lacoursière; his nieces & nephews: Eileen (Eugene) Oborowsky, Joyce (Eugene) Polard, Victor (Elaine) Liebaert, Christine (Scott) Printz, Shirley (Kevin) Peters, and Gordie (Barb) Liebaert; André (Jacquie) Lacoursière, Bernard (Raeanne) Lacoursière, Michele (Mike) Barter, Paul (Karen) Lacoursière, Susanne (Randy) White, and Mark (Shanna) Lacoursière; Lutgart (Paul) Matthˇs-de Maertelaere, Greta de Maertelaere, and Hugo (Birgit) de Maertelaere (from Belgium). Camille will meet in Heaven his darling wife of 25 years, Rita; parents, Leon & Irene Haegebaert (nee Schouteeten); one sister in infancy; brothers in-law, Firmin Liebaert, Guy Lacoursière, and Aimé de Maertelaere; sister inlaw, Godelieve de Maertelaere; father and mother in-law, George & Alice Lamote (nee Schouteeten); as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins, and other family from both Canada and Belgium. The Vigil of Prayer for Camille was held on Thursday, June 11th, 2020, with Pat Smith as presider, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial on Friday, June 12th, 2020 with Father Phinh Do as Celebrant. Both services were held from St. Joseph Calasanctius Roman Catholic Church in North Battleford. Rite of Committal was held after the service from Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. The active pallbearers were Gary Heidel, Mark Lacoursière, Victor Liebaert, George Pipp, Joe Pyra, and Gary Tebay; honorary pallbearers were Bob Gillen, Wally Gordey, Victor “Vic” Gillen, Pat Smith, and all who shared in Camille’s life. Memorial donations in Camille’s memory may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 26-1738 Quebec Avenue, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1V9, Masses said in Camille’s honor, or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences for the family may be left at SallowsandMcDonald.com. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Sallows&McDonald-Wilson&Zehner Funeral Home.

“If Tears Could Build a Stairway” If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, We would walk right up to Heaven And bring you back again. No farewell words were spoken, No time to say “Goodbye”. You were gone before we knew it, And only God knows why. Our hearts still ache with sadness, And secret tears still flow. What it meant to love you, No one can ever know. But now we know you want us To mourn for you no more. To remember all the happy times Life still has much in store. Since you’ll never be forgotten, We pledge to you today A hollowed place within our hearts Is where you’ll always stay.

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Card of Thanks The family of the late Camille T. Haegebaert would like to extend their deepest gratitude to the following people & businesses for their incredible kindness & support during this very difficult & unexpected time:

Charlotte Lahti, ........................................... Battleford Dr. Iain Weston, ................................ North Battleford Dean Williams, .................................. North Battleford Dr. William Lipsett, ............................ North Battleford Wendy Lee Gansauge, ..................... North Battleford Norman Ross Green,.................................. Battleford

A heartfelt thank you to the paramedics, RCMP, & other first responders and emergency personnel that attended to Camille.

Jacquelyne Byers ............................. North Battleford

Thank you to Dr. J. Hesselson for all of your care & guidance throughout the years; thank you to Dr. J. Shavadia for all of your help & support over the past few months, and for your expression of sympathy in the days following Camille’s passing.

Colleen Cote, .................................... North Battleford

Thank you to the entire staff at Walmart Pharmacy #3058, North Battleford, for your continuous care, help, & dedication towards Camille & family throughout the years; thank you to Sarah Woytowich, BSP & all the staff at Discovery Coop Pharmacy, North Battleford/Battleford, for all of your support, understanding, & generosity during this unexpected and difficult time.

A sincere thank you to St. Joseph Calasanctius Parish & mass celebrant, Reverend Father Phinh Do, for the beautiful memorial mass; to presider, Pat Smith, for the touching prayer vigil; to parish secretary, Karen Caldwell, for the help in preparing both services; to the active pallbearers – Gary Heidel, Mark Lacoursière, Victor Liebaert, George Pipp, Joe Pyra, & Gary Tebay – for their participation; to Elaine Liebaert & Joyce Polard for the mass readings; to Jeff Kitzan & Cheryl Kitzan for assisting with the music; and to all the family members & friends from near and far who were able to attend the memorial service(s).

A huge thank you to all the people & businesses who gave cards, flowers, & food; to all the people who made phone calls & sent text messages of support; and to all the people who made donations and/or requested masses in Camille’s memory. Your thoughtfulness & kindness were greatly appreciated & will never be forgotten.

Thank you so much to all the family members, friends, co-workers, & the local farming community for your many offers of help going forward and for your continuous support & prayers during this very difficult time.

Finally, a heartfelt thank you to Martine de Bussac, Wally Markewich, & the entire staff at Sallows & McDonald-Wilson & Zehner Funeral Home for all of your kindness, patience, support, and attention to detail. You & your team helped to make this heartbreaking & trying time just that bit easier.

Again, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

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Sincerely, Sarah Haegebaert & Family

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Be advised that on June 22/2020 the members of Scentgrass Lake Feeder Co-operative passed a special resolution authorizing the voluntary dissolution of the co-operative under the provisions of Saskatchewan Co-operative The resolution was approved by the Registrar of Co-operatives on June 22/2020.

Be further advised that: Annette Smith of RR#3 North Battleford SK was appointed liquidator.

Be further advised that: a. any person who is indebted to the co-operative is to render an account and pay to the liquidator any amount owing at North Battleford July 31/2020

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Some stories help us see hidden meanings Yesterday, I told Ed that I was thinking of “Aesop’s Fables” for children.

These stories by Aesop, a Greek slave of around 620 BC, convey messages hidden in the story. After each fable, Aesop would reveal a meaning that the story taught by its events.

Aesop’s Fables are called timeless stories with a moral.

Ed and I were talking about books and stories that we hope our grandchildren will still read today and enjoy as we did when we were kids. Ed made sure to give “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” to his grandchildren in the hopes they would read it. It seems hard for books to compete with

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In the Bible, Jesus taught by parables. His parables were simple, timeless stories of human characters in various life situations. Simply put, Jesus used earthly stories about

people to teach heavenly truths. Everyone might not understand the spiritual truth that Jesus wanted his listeners to grasp. Some listening to Jesus were skeptical or unbelieving, and they would miss the deeper meaning of Jesus’s parable. Jesus said that some though seeing, do not see, and though they hear,

they do not understand.

Jesus referred to the words of Isaiah, which speak of peoples hearts becoming calloused, which results in them hardly hearing, and their eyes are closed.

One of the most famous of the parables of Jesus is often called the Parable of the Sower, which is found in Matthew Chapter 13.

Jesus tells this parable: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose, they were scorched. And since

they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some 60, some 30. He who has ears, let him hear.”

The best explanation of this parable is by Jesus himself found in the same chapter Mathew 13:1823. Among the countless explanations of the parable that are not by Jesus, I offer this one.

God is the sower, and the seed is His word cast on the soil in the hearts of people.

Some folks have hard hearts. Birds quickly eat seeds on a hard path. God’s word is quickly snatched

away by the devil when it lands on hard hearts.

Some folks have rocky hearts meaning little depth of soil. God’s word sprouts in shallow hearts but cannot develop good deep roots and quickly dies when under extreme heat or stress.

Some folks have divided hearts with both the right plants and thorns growing there. At any time, the thorns may choke out the right plants. God’s word cannot endure in a divided heart.

Some folks are wholehearted in good soil. They hear the word of God and understand it. God’s word grows in them, producing excellent yields of faith in their lives.

Worship Together Spend some quality family time together. Worship at the church of your choice.

Our community has a number of churches and a variety of denominations for you & your family.

(RC) St. Joseph Calasanctius Parish 1942 - 98th Street, North Battleford, SK S9A 0N4

TerriTorial Drive alliance church

306-446-1695

PASTOR: Rev. Phinh Do

DAILY: Tues., Wed., Thurs. & Fri. - 9 a.m. unless otherwise noted WEEKEND MASS TIMES: Saturdays - 7:30 p.m. Sundays - 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

ANGLICAN PARISH Rev. Trevor Malyon

1401 - 98th Street, North Battleford, SK

SUNDAY SERVICES CAN BE SEEN ONLINE AT

306-445-5901

St. Georges Anglican Church Battleford Facebook St Paul’s Anglican Church North Battleford Facebook Battle River Parish YouTube channel CJNB Radio 1050AM Sunday mornings 7:45-8:30am Contact: 306 445 4155 stpaulnb@sasktel.net

Reverend George Yando Sunday Services 10:30 AM Everyone Welcome

Hope Mennonite Fellowship 1291 - 109th Street, North Battleford

Battlefords Grace Community Church

Pastor Gerhard Luitjens & Abel & Sonya Zabaleta (Mission Partners)

191 - 24th Street W., Battleford, Sk. 306-937-7575

SUNDAY - 11:00 a.m. - Worship Service

Pastor: Bill Hall

WORSHIP SERVICES - 11 a.m. Sunday

Church Phone 306-445-4181

Everyone Welcome

Living Water Ministry

Sr. Pastor Brian Arcand Pastor Anand George Phone: 306-445-3803 Cell: 306-441-9385 Fax: 306-445-4385

All Saints Ukrainian Catholic Parish 902 - 108th Street, North Battleford ALL LITURGICAL SERVICES ARE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED. CALL MARUSIA AT 306-445-8369 RE ONLINE SERVICES

Battleford United Church 52 - 4th Avenue West Battleford, SK

306-937-3177 Rev. Gayle Wensley

SUNDAY SERVICES 11:00 a.m.

Third Avenue United Church Rev. Dexter van Dyke Sunday Worship, Youth Groups and Bible Study Groups are cancelled until further notice.

Everyone Welcome www.thirdavenueunitedchurchnb.ca Email: thirdaveunited@sasktel.net

Battlefords Cowboy Church Services 1st & 3rd Thursday of each Month

Battleford Legion Hall 7:00 p.m.

PASTOR - Rick Martin

1371 - 103rd Street (Use East Door)

LIVING FAITH CHAPEL

1372 102nd St 306-445-3009

ROMAN CATHOLIC ST. VITAL’S Phone 306-937-7340 PASTOR - Fr. Sebastian Kunnath

Maidstone/Paynton United Church of Canada Phone: 306-285-3823 Contact: Don Retzlaff

Services: First & Third Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Church & CE Wing: 306-893-2611 For booking the Wing: 306-893-4729

Sunday Services 10:30 am Various Weekly Programs www.livingfaithchapel.ca

Battlefords Seventh-Day Adventist Church

11 - 18th Street, Battleford, SK

Saturday Evening Mass - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Mass - 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study Wednesday 7:30 p.m.

1702 - 106th Street, North Battleford

Come Join Us Sundays at 11:00 am Loving God Growing Together Serving Others Phone Church: 306-445-4818 Fax: 306-445-8895 Email: tbcnb@sasktel.net www.trinitybaptistchurch.ca

Pastor James Kwon

Corner 16th Ave. & 93rd Street, North Battleford

Phone 306-445-9096

Saturday Services Bible Study - 10:00 a.m.

Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.

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Western Development Museum to remain closed Submitted

Western Development Museum, it has made the decision to remain closed at its locations in Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Saskatoon and Yorkton.

Joan Kanigan, WDM CEO said, “The safety of our visitors, volunteers and staff is our primary

The Government of Saskatchewan announced that museums, which are part of the Re-Open Saskatchewan Plan Phase 4.2, can begin to open on June 29, however, after careful consideration, says the

standard.”

More information about when the WDM will reopen will be on the website at wdm.ca as it available.

The WDM looks forward to welcoming everyone back into its Museum locations when all safety protocols are in place.

concern. As difficult as this is, the WDM must remain closed until we are confident that all the requirements outlined in the Libraries, Museums, Art Galleries Guidelines along with all other applicable provincial regulations are being met to the highest

With four exhibit locations in Saskatchewan, the WDM is the province’s largest human history museum. The WDM’s mandate is to collect, preserve, and exhibit objects of historical value and importance connected with the economic and

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