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Staff Leading Manufacturing Group Inc. hosted a grand opening for their new manufacturing plant in Battleford Friday.

Once the plant is in production.

LMG will employ 65 workers.

The plant will manufacture storage tanks used in the energy

sector. Produced at the plant will be heavy-oil steel storage tanks with capacities ranging from 50 barrels to 3,000 barrels.

In his remarks at the event, LMG president Lee Gottschlich had high praise for the welcome the project received the Town of Battleford ofďƒžcials.

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The holiday season will affect garbage and recycling collection.

Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 at 8 p.m.

Council meetings are open to the public.

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Council approves budget

Proposed capital levy scaled back to special tax tion portion of the taxes is finalized, and that won’t likely be received until April.

The main purpose of passing the budget now was in order to give administration the go-ahead to proceed with the planning on the capital projects that need to be done,

By John Cairns Staff Reporter The 2015 budget for the City of North Battleford has been officially adopted by council.

The resolution to adopt the budget passed unanimously at the special meeting held Dec. 15.

The final approved budget includes a 4.5 per cent increase in property tax revenue, a five per cent increase in base water rates and a three per cent increase on the base sanitary sewer rates.

It also includes a new underground pipe and asphalt replacement special tax, calculated at $3 per foot of foot frontage and added to the property tax.

The special tax is being held in a separate account to go strictly towards pipe and asphalt infrastructure projects.

While “underground pipe” is included in the name of the special tax, it will be used in 2015 for asphalt work to complete 100th Street from 14th Avenue to 20th Avenue.

A much larger capital initiative levy had earlier been proposed that would have also included raising over a million dollars in additional revenue from a levy on utility

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City council votes unanimously to adopt the 2015 budget for the City of North Battleford at their special meeting Dec. 15 at City Hall. rates. But that proposal was removed as councillors made known their concerns that the tax burden for 2015 would be simply too much for property taxpayers to handle.

The special meeting was held after four nights of deliberations that took place over a span of two weeks.

While deliberations on the budget, and its proposed special tax to fund infrastructure, were lengthy in scope over the two weeks,

the special meeting itself was a short one, lasting only a half hour.

A good amount of the meeting included discussion of correspondence from the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce. City Manager Jim Puffalt said he had met with the Chamber’s executive director Linda Machniak and president Ryan Moe the previous Thursday.

Their correspondence to the City, dated Dec. 12, in-

Coyotes observed prowling city streets

By John Cairns Staff Reporter A new scourge has hit residents of the City of North Battleford.

Coyotes have been spotted on the loose terrorizing pets outside in the back and front yards of properties in the city.

Councillor Don Buglas raised the issue at the City’s Planning Committee meeting Monday.

Buglas owns a small dog and a neighbour told him about a coyote that was spotted trying to get into a neighbour’s yard recently.

The issue is known to bylaw enforcement, which has dealt with coyote complaints over the past number of years.

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He noted there are challenges for bylaw enforcement in responding to coyote calls.

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they get into the city because by the time you get there they’re usually gone,” he said.

It is a regular occurrence around this time of year for coyotes to find their way into the city, Headrick confirmed.

He said pets are a prime target, “especially if they’re small.” Headrick urged local residents to watch out for coyotes and to watch their pets.

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cluded comments critical of some aspects of the budget.

“We raise a cautionary note about the overall increases, in their totality,” stated Moe in that correspondence that was circulated at the special meeting, noting “we still see many ‘nice to haves’ and ‘wants’ as opposed to needs in the departmental budgets that if removed, may impact the total ask in property tax increases.”

Councillors wanted to know specific details about what it was they were referring to, with Councillor Ryan Bater observing that the comment was “an easy thing to throw out there.”

Mayor Ian Hamilton said he would be asking for clarification in their response to the Chamber.

On a related note, the Chamber has invited city officials to a luncheon Jan. 7 at Balych Mural Meeting Room, at which time officials will present the 2015 budget and the special tax and go into detail on it.

The next steps following adoption include passage of the mill rate bylaws and sending tax bills in the mail, but that will not happen for some time. Mayor Hamilton told reporters that they will need to wait until the educa-

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Drearier things than winter Dear Editor “To every thing there is a season.”

A mayor of a certain town wants the residents to keep their electric decorative lights on past the Christmas season until spring to combat what he calls the dreariness of winter.

When I went out to do chores on the morning of Dec. 9, the sky was pink to the east and the west and as the day went on it became rosier, setting off the hoar frosted trees.

I went into town for the mail, picking up some interesting parcels. A Bobcat operator came to clear snow and move some bales. I (finally) made Christmas cakes and someone dropped in and we had tea and conversation.

I went for a short walk through spruce woods on a path the horses had made through the snow. After supper I put on a new-to-me Red Skelton video while I wrote Christmas cards.

An exciting day? Perhaps not, but certainly not dreary.

As I was getting up the next morning, I heard a CBC radio journalist interviewing a man who had seen thousands of Syrian people plodding silently across the borders of their own country to escape devastation and death. All they had they carried on their backs, sometimes a newborn babe.

“Let there be light” does not mean the glittering coloured lights on the homes of a fat spoiled nation. But losing everything and having to flee one’s own country, now there’s dreary and more than dreary.

I know there are many mayors in Canada who don’t think winter is dreary. I certainly hope so.

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A debt we would be proud to pay

their lives. Wounded veterans say government is trying to Christine Pike Dear Editor balance the budget on their backs.

Waseca Harper’s strategy to head off the impending public relations Prime Minister Robert Borden made a social covenant in

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By Becky Doig Editor As I write this we strive to put the Dec. 18 edition to bed. Over the next two days we will turn around and compose an edition of the Regional Optimist dated Dec. 25.

In light of the ensuing pressure cooker, I doubt I will find the time to wish our readers and contributors a merry Christmas and happy New Year, so I’ll do so a week early.

We thank you for your continued support of your community newspaper. We will strive to bring you the most comprehensive local coverage again in 2015.

Please stay safe, everyone, and enjoy time with your loved ones.

1917 that if you were injured fighting for Canada, you and your family would be cared for. That promise was repeated and reflected in veteran legislation until recently, but has been broken by the way Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government administers the New Veterans Charter it put into force in 2006.

A pending disabled veterans’ class action lawsuit argues the NVC, with its infamous one time lump sum payments instead of pensions, is unconstitutional, but the Harper government coldly responded it has no social contract with veterans. Government lawyer Travis Henderson conceded the new system is “less generous” than the old one, but argued current and future governments cannot be bound by past political promises.

Government policy has left Veterans Affairs Canada in turmoil, with offices closed, and 897 jobs cut (33 per cent) in the disability awards branch – the area singled out for criticism in the recent Auditor General’s report for being too slow to approve treatment. The health and rehabilitation branch also had 372 staff cut. Retired Captain Medric Cousineau says, “This institutional betrayal is a national disgrace.”

There is a direct connection between staff cuts, application wait times, and the $1.13 billion in allocations for veteran’s services that went unspent, and returned to the federal treasury, since 2006. Chaos in Veterans Affairs meant veterans missed out on $133 million unused in 2013-14. Twenty per cent of veterans with mental health issues, and their families, go without treatment for eight months – literally fighting for

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crisis caused by the Auditor General’s report was a misleading announcement of $200 million for veterans. A Globe and Mail article since revealed it could take up to 50 years for the money to be used.

From the recent past and extending back to Robert Borden’s straightforward promise during the First World War, Canada established a historic precedent for caring for injured soldiers.

Our present prime minister should honour that obligation, a debt Canadians would be proud to pay.

Doug Bone Elrose

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Carrying on the family tradition This fall, just before going to bed, our 10-year-old daughter Katrina came into my office.

“Dad, there’s something important I have to tell you,” she said, a serious tone in her voice.

Settling into my chair, I wonder, is this about conflicts in school? The war in Ukraine?

“What?” I ask.

“Dad, when I’m 12, I want to join air cadets. I want to quit Girl Guides and join air cadets.”

She was very serious and determined about this.

“Okay,” I said. “But I’m not going to make you join cadets. You have to want to be there.”

She had heard one of the recruitment ads on the radio, and was familiar with my and my wife’s history with cadets. She has seen the picture of her, in an infant carrier, a week old, being carried to cadets with mom and dad both in our snappy blue officer uniforms.

I had been a cadet for six years from 1987 to 1993 with 17 Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron Yorkton, graduating as the top cadet and squadron commander with a cadet rank of warrant officer 1st class. Starting in 2001, I became the training officer, and my wife the administration officer, for 43 RCACS the Battlefords.

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Association 2012 Columnist of the Year we might have another six years; eight if Spencer joins up.

I have to admit there was a little part of me that felt like Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back, except this time Luke (Katrina) is going to join me in ruling the galaxy as father and son (daughter). Bwa ha ha ha haaaa!

When Michelle and I mustered out we were put on what is known as the Supplemental Holding Reserve, which is a paperwork way of bringing people back into the service if they choose to at a later date, or if something like a world war might require it.

However, the government found the paperwork wasn’t worth the effort, and last spring I got a letter saying that if I didn’t re-enroll, I was done by this fall. So it looks like I am done, at least as an officer.

This time around, I think I’ll be the parent on the parent committee that knows everything, BECAUSE I AM THE PARENT THAT

KNOWS EVERYTHING. Oh, how the officers will just LOVE me. Besides, I’m a little too fat these days to fit in my old uniform.

If you haven’t guessed, cadets have been a huge part of my life. It fostered leadership skills I didn’t know I had. As a cadet, I took to heart, for life, the sign that hung above the non-commissioned officers lounge: “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.”

Last night we attended yet another city registration night. And yet again I left feeling awful, because there is so much to offer, so much for our kids to do, but we either don’t have the time or money to do them.

With my wife doing shift work, and me working for both the newspaper and my own photography business, things like hockey or roller derby simply haven’t happened.

In retrospect, there was so much more I could have done with the cadet program – summer camps, weekend survival exercises, vol-

leyball and curling, range, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, if only I had the time. As a teenager, I was also active in debate, student council, newspaper and youth parliament.

The nice thing about cadets is you get out of it what you put into it. If you get involved in all the activities, you can be busy four or more days a week. Or you can just parade on Tuesdays.

Either way, it’s not going to bankrupt you, since cadets are free to join and the government supports much of the program costs.

Yes, there is some fundraising, but nothing like other organizations.

Katrina often asks about my trip to Newfoundland.

I was in Grade 8, and our squadron did an exchange with the Springdale, N.L., squadron. We went there for a week, and they came to Saskatchewan for a week. It was one of the most amazing trips I have gone on in my life, and made my life much richer as a result. I would love to do a similar exchange, this time for our daughter. I would love to see her eyes opened as much as mine were.

This is the time of year when kids join up, so if your kid is interested, take them.

It changed my life in more ways than I can count.

I’m looking forward to

these upcoming years with one, and possible two, kids in cadets. After being out since 2008, it looks like the family tradition will

continue.

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✓ There should have been less money for that stadium in Regina.

Last week’s News-Optimist online poll: Last week, it was announced that the Community Safety Officer pilot program established in North Battleford will be expanded across the province. What is your reaction? ✓ It’s great to see North Battleford recognized for innovative ways to police the community. 29% ✓ It’s good to see them take over some RCMP enforcement duties so RCMP can fight more serious crimes. 22% ✓ Why the heck isn’t Battleford in on this, too? 3% ✓ I’m worried these officers won’t be able to handle any serious situations that might suddenly happen. 8% ✓ These guys are basically traffic cops, why isn’t the province getting us more “real” cops? 32% ✓ I got a ticket from them so I’m not happy for that reason. 3%

This week’s News-Optimist online poll:

Now that the final budget for North Battleford includes a special tax for infrastructure that is lower than the original Capital Levy proposed, what is your reaction? ✓ The work needs to be done. I’m okay with it. ✓ The Capital Levy would have been a far worse tax hit than this. ✓ I’m fine with paying for infrastructure, it’s these other increases I have a problem with. ✓ This is a tax grab! ✓ It doesn’t affect me, I live in Battleford.

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Foam roof still on the table for Hafford School Tender specifications revised after disappointing response

By Jayne Foster Staff Reporter To foam or not to foam?

That’s the ongoing question when it comes to Hafford School’s roof.

One way or another, says Brian Bossaer, facilities manager for Living Sky School Division, the roof is going to get done in 2015 – even if it turns out to be by conventional methods.

It’s not just the Living Sky School Division Board of Education waiting on the results of a tender that will probably close early in the new year. Contractors, other school divisions and even the provincial education ministry are waiting and watching.

The results of the tender could mean more cost-effective ways of addressing roof replacement for Saskatchewan school divisions whose needs are outpacing money coming in from the government.

It’s been a watched pot that hasn’t yet boiled, set on the burner by Bossaer this past May when he brought the board of education a sample of a spray foam product with high hopes of saving significant dollars.

After a meeting with contractors, manufacturers and Living Sky’s roof consultant firm about setting appropriate standards of application, the first tender in September for Hafford’s roof was a bust.

Disappointingly, only one bid came in and it was for $1.7 million, almost three times the cost Bossaer had hoped.

The present call to tender, however, is not limited to spray foam application, which is why Bossaer is hopeful the results will be

much close to the estimated range of $690,000.

Another reason he is hopeful is the interest the call to tender generated.

He said Dec. 4 was the day of a site view by contractors and attendance was extraordinary.

Their roof consultants say they need to spend $1.6 million annually just on roofs, but the government gave them only $870,000 this year to cover all preventative maintenance and renewal (PMR) costs, not just roofing projects.

Roofing, in comparison to general construction prices, is dramatically increased ... so if we can get roofing in line, or keep it at bay even, it’s only going to help us.

– Brian Bossaer

“Because we did a lot of shoulder tapping and the story’s getting out there more about this whole trial of spray foam, 12 contractors showed up on site to do a review,” Bossaer told the Living Sky School Division Board of Education recently.

“I’ve never seen that in my life, including back when I was a contractor out to look for a job, back in the eighties when we were starving.”

The current call to tender is open to spray foam applicators and suppliers, general contractors and roofers or any combination thereof to replace the roof in whatever way works for them, including conventional construction.

“It will be interesting to see what combinations and mixes they want to create and come up with themselves,” said Bossaer. “Given such a wide variety, I would hope to see a good price.”

The “good price” is imperative to Living Sky keeping its roof inventory up to snuff.

“That certainly says we have to do something, or change how we do business,” said Bossaer, “and that was part of our approach to Hafford.”

Living Sky isn’t the only school division facing a funding issue when it comes to roofing. In fact, according to Bossaer, most other school divisions are in worse straits.

He credited the board with looking ahead.

“That’s dedication over the years,” he said. “The board put money into the facilities, but there will come a time when it’s not enough because it’s not in your control anymore.”

Bossaer was referring to the fact that school divisions can no longer set their own local taxes according to local needs, and are now working within the parameters of a funding model administered by the provincial government “We’ve always maintained that we’re in pretty good shape,” he said.

“We’ve been saying we have to prepare for what’s coming down the pipe, and I think that’s what you can see from the summarization, that our funding is going to fall behind and we won’t be able to keep up the roofing.”

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“At least we can pick one,” he said. “We know we’re going to spend the money and it will get done.”

Bossaer said the timing of the division looking for new roofing concepts may also be in their favour; with oil prices falling, contractors will be looking for work more competitively.

Looking for ways to innovate the division’s roofing projects has been a lot of work, says Bossaer, but it’s also proved to be fun. He’s had inquiries from many people interested in the progress of the foam spray trail, including the Ministry of Education.

He sits on the ministry’s infrastructure capital planning committee, which meets regularly.

“They are certainly waiting for updates every time,” he said, “because they want to see the end result.”

St. Vital School gets to keep Grade 7 students

By Jayne Foster Staff Reporter When all the other Battlefords Grade 7 public school students begin attending North Battleford Comprehensive High School next year, St. Vital Catholic School’s Grade 7s will stay put.

The Living Sky School Division board has approved a request by the school’s advisory committee to retain Grade 7 in the interest of their students’ Catholic education.

In making a decision, board members deferred to the school’s unique position.

St. Vital Catholic School holds the distinction of being the only Catholic school in the province, perhaps even the country, to be part of a public school division.

To discontinue Grade 7 at St. Vital, along with the rest of the local public elementary schools, would be disruptive to the continuum of a Catholic education, as students who planned to take their high school grades at John Paul II would first have to attend Grade 7 at either NBCHS or one of the community’s Light of Christ Catholic School Division’s elementary schools.

Trustee Glenn Wouters remarks reflected the feelings of the other board members at the Dec. 11 meeting.

“I do not like seeing students having to move to three different schools in three years,” he said.

“The other thing is, we respect that community’s right to offer a Catholic education and to make it difficult to do so I don’t think would be the right attitude to take. They’ve worked well with us and they are very supportive.”

But, while board members agreed to the request, they were clear in their intentions to monitor the student numbers at St. Vital to ensure offering Grade 7 continued to be viable.

They also agreed the present admission policy must stay in place. St. Vital has historically been for students who are of or about to become of the Roman Catholic faith. During a presentation to the board on behalf of the Catholic advisory committee last month, Fr. Greg Elder said there had been compassionate exceptions to that policy, but they were very few.

What the board does not want to see is parents applying to send their children to St. Vital because they see it as an alternative to sending them to NBCHS.

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“If we do see a combination, if we get some improvements, better pricing, partnerships and new forms of doing business, it could really could change the scope,” said Bossaer.

“Roofing, in comparison to general construction prices, is dramatically increased ... so if we can get roofing in line, or keep it at bay even, it’s only going to help us.”

Bossaer said the tender was designed carefully and is open for either conventional or spray foam methods so, no matter the result, they shouldn’t have to go back to yet another tender.

The tender specs also include alternatives, as in doing some or all of the roof, depending on price.

“The reason why we did a dual tender is because of timing,” he said.

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vision’s chief financial officer, Lonny Darroch, Bossaer indicated they will have to put a priority on roofing; five of the division’s 31 Schools have sections of roof rated as having zero years of remaining, while 19 have sections rated at one to four years of life remaining. Throughout the division there are 300 sections of roof, or approximately one million square feet.

“With the pot of money through PMR and given where we sit with roofs and everything else, we’ve agreed we have to take $500,000 of that pot, regardless, and put it into roofs every year.”

From the remainder they will have to work on whatever else needs to be done across the division, he said.

“There’s a balance line there somewhere.”

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Among those attending were students from the Sakewew Gay-Straight Alliance — Shay Chief, Grade 10, Naya Chief, Grade 11, and Cheyanna Night, Grade 12. Teacher Jenn Nicotine accompanied them.

The idea of attending the conference came up at a GayStraight Alliance meeting and was suggested by staff advisor Reid Stewart.

STBBIs involve a wide range of sexually-transmitted diseases ranging from herpes, gonorrhea and syphilis to hepatitis and HIV/AIDS. The conference was funded by the federal government, but their trip was funded by money raised by the GSA. The group expected the conference would focus on blood-borne diseases, but it turned out to be far more than that.

“I went there expecting to just learn about STIs and HIV and stuff like that, but I ended up learning a lot more than I intended to,” said Naya. “I think it was … a lifechanging experience because it was my first time in Ottawa and my first plane ride … it was kind of a special event for me to go to.”

For Nicotine, what stood out was a focus on how STBBIs had impacted the aboriginal community.

“First Nations people are one of the high groups of people to obtain HIV and Hepatitis C,” said Nicotine.

“So they explained some of the reasons why.”

She noted one of the speakers talked about pre-contact, after-contact with Europeans and the way of life before.

They talked about the abuses at the residential schools with the results being more alcohol

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Seen at the Youth Forum and Conversation on STBBIs in Ottawa was the delegation from Sakewew High School in North Battleford. They were: Shay Chief, Cheyanna Night, teacher Jenn Nicotine and Naya Chief. and drug abuse.

“It was a very emotional conference,” said Nicotine.

“The students were able to relate to a lot of the speakers, not necessarily in having those types of diseases, but being able to relate to suicides.”

One speaker who made a particular impact had contracted Hepatitis C and told how one of his friends had hung himself. Some students ended up running out of the room on hearing that story “because they were able to identify with knowing someone who had committed suicide,” said Nicotine.

The students from Sakewew were involved in conference activities almost as soon as they got off the plane. They arrived at 11 a.m.

Ottawa time Dec. 2 and their very first sessions were later that day.

From then on it was a heavy schedule of workshops and speakers. Those included team-building exercises, a variety show and a number of keynote addresses.

For the students, a number of things stood out.

“The highlights were all this information that I had no idea about,” said Naya, who said she is now able to “bring that education back and educate my fellow peers, because it’s a great way to prevent a lot of diseases.”

Also standing out for the group was a smudging ceremony, which Naya appreciated “because we were the only First Nations people there. It made us feel kind of

at home.”

“I went to this one workshop, Sexual Rights and Responsibilities,” said Shay.

“That was my favorite one.

We learned what do we as a society owe sexually, and what do they owe us.”

“I learned things that I didn’t know before about (the diseases),” Cheyanna Night said.

But also standing out for them was the trip to Ottawa were the sights and sounds.

Shay had been to Ottawa before, but for Naya and Cheyanna it was their first visit.

They visited Parliament Hill where they went to the Library and Archives Building for a panel discussion there and toured the Hill afterwards. They also found time to do some shopping.

Not lost on them was the security in Ottawa in the wake of the shooting incidents of Oct. 22 on Parliament Hill. Tight security was everywhere, and the mood was somber from all of them, they noticed.

“Every doorway,” said Nicotine, “there was a guard, and they didn’t look happy.”

Each of the students now plans to make presentations to their own communities about what they took away from the conference.

“Each one of them has to come back to their communities to present a workshop or some sort of information that they gained,” said Nicotine.

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By John Cairns Staff Reporter (With files from Jayne Foster) The arrival of Leading Manufacturing Group Inc. at their new location at 60118th St. in Battleford is another example of growth in the Battlefords, according to town officials.

The new fabrication plant held its grand opening Friday at an event attended by civic officials including Mayor Derek Mahon. A tour of the facility took place, along with a ribbon cutting, and up to 125 people were on hand.

For Battleford, construction of the new facility is seen as good news in a year in which building permits have topped $26 million.

According to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, LMG specializes in providing shop-fabricated heavy-oil steel storage tanks to the energy sector, ranging from 50-barrel to 3,000-barrel capacity.

The company was founded in 2010 and its operations include an administrative office in Nisku, Alta., a sales office in Calgary, Alta., and a large manufacturing facility located in Vermilion, Alta.

The new Battleford facility will add to their manufacturing capacity in building storage tanks.

The company has been busy filling jobs at the new facility. In October, LMG held a job fair in Battleford and had advertised for welders, labourers, shippers/receivers, painters, blasters, insulators, a QT inspector, a crane operator and maintenance personnel for the new facility.

According to Debbie Hudson, the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administration manager, about 25 workers are hired at this point and they hope to have about 65 when the plant is in production.

She notes the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president Lee Gottschlich credited the town for being able to quickly clear the way for their arrival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the things he said in his speech was that Battleford was so wonderful to deal with,â&#x20AC;? said Hudson, in terms of â&#x20AC;&#x153;buying the land, getting the approval to build, they were so good to work with and really quick. If it was Edmonton or Nisku we would still be jumping through hoops to get the approvals.â&#x20AC;?

At town council Monday, mayor Mahon confirmed those sentiments.

He said the â&#x20AC;&#x153;folks at LMG spoke very highly of the relationship they had with the Town over the past number of months during construction of this facility, and one of the comments was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;if this was in a larger municipality it probably would have taken two years longer.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

He noted Gottschlich had said he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do a lot of public speaking, but he definitely had a lot to say about the relationship and how things are going. Gottschlich mentioned that oil prices had dropped, but they did have contracts into 2015.

Councillor David George said he also had a good conversation with Gottschlich at the grand opening.

He noted his own company had actually built GLM Equipment Services Ltd., a predecessor company Gottschlich established in 1977, which has been in Battleford since 1980.

George noted Gottschlich had that company, now known as GLM Industries, about a decade ago and was really excited to be back in the Battlefords.

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Hockey Day in Sask. brings North Star home

By Craig Beauchemin Sports Reporter Jake McMillen plays 28 home games every year for the Battlefords North Stars.

On Jan. 17, he’ll play a real home game when the North Stars take on the Notre Dame Hounds at the Carnduff Centennial Arena as part of Cameco’s Hockey Day in Saskatchewan.

Cameco signed an agreement to support Hockey Day in the province through 2018, with the hopes of raising money for the various communities for any upgrades the local arenas may need.

McMillen, a native of just outside Carnduff, attended school at the Carnduff Education Complex, and was able to return to the school with three of his North Stars teammates, alongside Head Coach Kevin Hasselberg to promote the event, as well as the importance of school.

He was joined by North Stars captain Ryne Keller and defencemen Michael Statchuk and Kendall Fransoo, as they played floor hockey against multiple age groups at the school.

The day-long trip started with a 9:30 a.m. flight out of Cameron McIntosh Airport to Saskatoon, before another flight to Estevan and a bus ride to Carnduff.

The first flight, originally scheduled for 8:30 a.m., was delayed because of mechani-

North Stars Michael Statchuk, Jake McMillen, Kendall Fransoo and Ryne Kelly players line up before giving their speeches to the Carnduff students.

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Students gathered to listen to the players and coach talk about the importance of balancing school and sport.

North Stars players pose for pictures after their final game against the teachers. cal issues with the plane.

“They probably could have left that part out,” Hasselberg said with a smile, yet a twinge of concern.

When the plane arrived, the players joked, perhaps to ease themselves.

“Check for any duct tape

on the wings guys!” they all said, maybe only halfjoking.

“It’s a little bit shaky up there, but once we get past 2000 feet or so, the turbulence should die down,” said the co-pilot.

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“Sixteen minutes to Saskatoon,” Hasselberg said with a smile on his face as he looked back at his players.

That smile quickly disappeared, as extreme turbulence after takeoff brought on white knuckles and nervous laughs.

Evidently, “a little bit shaky” is quite different in the eyes of a pilot and a passenger.

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“So who’s the best team in the league?” the players were asked in casual conversation while awaiting the arrival of their second plane to Estevan.

“Us,” they quickly responded, much to the delight of their coach.

An hour and 40 minutes to The Energy City instead of a six-and-a-half-hour bus ride was a luxury for the players.

After a much smoother flight, everyone piled onto the bus with the players, perhaps predictably, heading for the back.

“Soo’s (Fransoo) has never seen the back of a bus before,” joked Keller, in reference to veteran players on junior hockey teams sitting in the back, while rookies and younger players sit up front.

After a quick stop at a local restaurant in Estevan to pick up some pizza for lunch, the road trip continued.

The players were told about 15 minutes prior to arriving in Carnduff that they were to give a short speech to all the students, which unsettled them.

“Five minutes!” exclaimed McMillen, when he was told how long they would each have to speak for. “How about two?”

Despite being valedictorian at the Carnduff Education Complex in 2013, McMillen was still nervous.

“I had a week to prepare that speech!” he yelled, as his teammates laughed.

After arriving at the school,

the students from every grade were ushered into the gym, and the players were paraded in, greeted by a raucous ovation.

Hasselberg took to the mic to introduce the players, and give some opening thoughts.

“We’re pretty fortunate to talk about some pretty important things,” he began.

“Everything we’ve accomplished, we’ve accomplished as a hockey team. We centre around some key values of how we want to represent ourselves; it’s much bigger than just being hockey players. We have to be good people, and in order to be good people, we have to make good choices.”

The players were then handed the microphone, as they laughed amongst themselves.

“We just want to take pride in anything we do,” said Keller.

“When things aren’t going your way, your attitude is what’s going to bring you back up and make you successful,” Fransoo added.

“School was always first for me and my family,” said Statchuk. “Hockey was second, and if I wasn’t committed to school I wouldn’t be able to play, or I’d have to miss a practice because school is more important.”

Statchuk’s brother Travis just finished a four-year career at Ohio State University with the Buckeyes, a career that saw him suit up for 92 NCAA games.

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Unity curling rink offers opportunities for every age and skill level

By Sherri Solomko Correspondent UNITY — Curlers are familiar with players yelling out “I’m shot” and no one appearing alarmed.

For those not familiar with the game, this terminology refers to having a rock closest to the button thus scoring in an end.

Curling is one game that offers a “raise,” “a double,” “takeout” and “sweeping the house clean” without costing your payroll, your bar tab, your bank card or cleaning fees!

Curlers who take part in curling season at the Unity Curling Club can count on superb ice conditions, thanks to icemaker Gerry Guggemos. Guggemos has a reputation province wide for pristine ice conditions.

Curling fans love the far end cameras that give a bird’s eye view of those “close to the button” calls, as well as generous windows on each sheet to enjoy an excellent view of the game.

Anyone can come down to the curling club and watch free of charge.

Although some planned events earlier this season had to be rerouted into the new year due to lack of entries,

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the curling club has set their sights on months ahead.

The club is offering a great alternative to a day of movies and eating leftovers.

The Boxing Day funspiel provides some fresh air and exercise following Christmas Indulgences. Entries are being accepted and can include curlers of all ages.

In January the curling club will host a senior men’s and women’s cash spiel as well as the senior women’s qualifier Jan. 29 to Feb. 1.

The annual men’s bonspiel runs Feb. 10-15. The oilman’s bonspiel is from Feb. 26 to March 1st. The ladies’

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League curling offers opportunities for every age and curling skill level. Monday nights the sheets are busy with the junior curling program, hosting 21 kids from Grades 3 to 7. The club also has 14 youth curlers in the Thursday night league, with an additional team of four in Tuesday night’s league.

UCHS holds their practices with junior high teams on Tuesdays and senior high teams on Thursdays.

The Tuesday and Thursday afternoon league has 13 curlers registered to date and curlers enjoy games, stick curling and coffee and camaraderie afterwards. Sixteen teams take part in the Tuesday night league. Wednesday night’s super league action hosts 10 competitive teams.

Thursday night hosts 10 teams, some playing for the first time and some playing

7:30 pm at the Civic Centre

Saturday: Wing Night sponsored by Brendon Boothman of RBC Dominion Securities.

Puck Toss, Pass a Skate, recyclables collected and Player Community Auction after game. Proceeds go to BTEC Building and My Community Cares Campaign.

Game-Day sponsor is North Battleford Hyundai

just for the love of the sport.

Curling Club president, Glen Heitt, will be skipping a competitive team in this year’s circuit with hopes of earning a provincial spot.

Heitt has been on the competition circuit winning top

prize in the Midas event at the CN Curling Club in November, defeating familiar foe, Euguene Hritzik out of Saskatoon.

Over the summer the club was able to renovate the bathrooms and are another

improvement to the facility.

The curling club lounge and the curling ice are open to bookings for private events at reasonable rates. Interested parties need just call the Unity Curling Club at 306-228-2212.

Edam 3 Stars win again

By Craig Beauchemin Sports Reporter The Edam 3 Stars (5-2-0) picked up another win last week to move into second place in the North River Saskatchewan Hockey League standings.

The 3 Stars beat the lowly Maidstone Jets (1-5-0) 5-2 last Wednesday, on the strength of a three-point game

by Joel Jullion, and two goals from Brennan Weitzel.

Damon Schaffer and Adam Gray each had two assists for

Edam.

Shelton Payton and Ben Schwarz responded for the Jets, while Quinn Flegal had two helpers of his own.

Friday it was the Meadow Lake Stampeders improving to 5-1-0 as they defeated the Paradise Hill Hawks in a 6-5 barn burner.

Riley Macnab had a hat trick for the Hawks in the losing effort, while Jamie Jeanotte added a goal and two assists.

Ashton McIntyre and Jarret Aschenbrenner each had three-point efforts in the

win.

League scoring leader DJ King was held off the stat sheet for the Stampeders.

The Jets were once again the losing side Friday, as they dropped an 8-1 decision to the St. Walburg Eagles (4-1-0).

Five players had four-point nights for the Eagles, Trevor Bailey with four assists, Brad Gehl and Kevin Nasby with a goal and three assists each, Sheldon Williamson with two goals and two assists, and Brady Zerr lead the way with a four-goal performance.

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Continued from Page 12 The students then formed a large square around the perimeter of the gym, acting as “boards” while the grades were mixed together to play with, and against, the North Stars.

Statchuk and McMillen were paired together, while Keller and Fransoo played on the other teams.

Keller seemed to enjoy himself the most out of the players, as he flew up and down the gym, celebrating jubilantly with every goal

he scored.

“Where has that effort been all season?” laughed Hasselberg, as he was forced to do push ups after making bets with younger students on which team was going to win each game.

The final game was a matchup of the four players against the teachers, which ended in a 2-2 draw after a late tying goal by McMillen.

The boys then signed autographs and posed for pictures with students, much to

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the delight of both parties.

“It was a ton of fun,” McMillen said. “Coming back here, it makes me wish I could have experienced something like this when I was younger.”

Before heading back to the Estevan Airport on Highway 18, the bus stopped at the rink that will see the North Stars play the Hounds on Hockey Day. McMillen was asked about any special memories he had from that arena growing up.

“Probably when my brother broke my nose,” he laughed. “He obviously didn’t mean to hit me, but he shot a puck at me. I still bring it up sometimes.”

Exhausted from their seven or eight games of floor hockey, the players slept on both flights back to North Battleford.

There was minimal turbulence on both flights.

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Scuba community looks to attract regional interest The Battlefords Scuba Community looks upon the DSD program as an opportunity to develop interest in the sport and to recruit new members and trainees. Over the six-year history of the club, a number of people who completed the Discover Scuba went on to take their Open Water Scuba Diver training course and to become members.

The executive of the Battlefords Scuba Community acknowledges the program has benefitted greatly from the co-operation and assistance of the staff of the City of North Battleford Leisure Services Department, particularly the staff of the Battlefords Co-op Aquatic Centre.

The project began in 2013 when funding was received

Submitted The Battlefords Scuba community has had a busy few months introducing high school students from northwestern and west-central Saskatchewan to the sport of scuba diving.

The program has spanned the time frame beginning back in March of this year and will wrap up by the end of December.

Bringing groups no larger than 20 students, physical education teachers have used the program to extend the schools’ regular physical education offering.

Club president Dennis McCullough says scuba is an excellent example of a multi-faceted approach to education.

“Students are engaged in a physical education activity that they may decide to pursue for the rest of their lives, but at the same time they are in a laboratory that demonstrates to them the laws of physics, the principles of health education and several facets of the biological sciences,” said McCullough.

The PADI Discover Scuba Diving program is designed to introduce people to scuba diving in a safe and inexpensive manner. It encompasses a two-hour classroom session followed by a two-hour pool session.

The classroom portion deals with the physics behind

for 60 spaces for local high schools, and the reception by the local teachers was so positive it was decided to try to expand the program if the funding could be expanded.

Volunteers from the club come out to each session to help set up the gear, get the gear onto the students, make the necessary adjustments and then to help take the gear off, dismantle and rinse it before storing it.

The plans for 2015, should approval of the grant be received, include expanding the offering to community youth groups such as army and air cadets, Scouts and some of the church groups for older teens.

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In the pool, scuba students learn to breathe underwater and to handle the equipment safely, basic signals for communication and some basic skills. diving, the environment in which people dive, the health aspects of diving and the equipment used in diving.

In the pool the students learn to breathe underwater and to handle the equipment safely, basic signals for communication and some basic skills that will enable them

to cope with the unexpected should it occur.

The Discover Scuba Diving program is not a certification program, but it does recognize the achievements of the participants.

Successful completion results in the students getting a certificate and logging a dive

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A dramatic reading of the Charles Dickens masterpiece, A Christmas Carol, featuring music by With One Voice is being presented as a special family treat by the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts Sunday, Dec. 21.

The reading, which it is hoped will become an annual event, is being produced by the Dekker Centre and Jim Walls, a member of the local acting community.

“We hadn’t done it for a long time,” says Walls. “I always thought it was a great family event … suitable for everyone.”

It’s about community celebration of Christmas, he explains, but it doesn’t have a religious theme.

He says, “It has a very traditional theme and yet it’s not exclusive.”

When he suggested it to the Dekker Centre, Walls said, they were receptive to the idea. Being relatively easy to produce means they

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could keep the costs down, so tickets are only $15 for adults and $6 for children.

The host for the afternoon performance is Roy Challis, local actor, director and playwright. The readings will be performed by Clint Barrett, Judy Bishop, Lloyd Deshaye and Tracy Knowles of the Battlefords Community Players. Joining them will be two friends of the Dekker Centre and the Battlefords, David Dekker and John Gormley.

“I think people are really comfortable with the story,” says Walls. “They are familiar with it, but at the same time the language of the actual text is so great, it’s so rich, it’s funny and it can be a little bit scary.”

Of course, there’s a message there, too, says Walls, “but just to sit and listen to the language is going to be a real treat.”

Most people are familiar with lm adaptations of the story, he says, so “there are familiar lines people will be saying in their own heads.”

Accompanying the readings will be the local vocal group With One Voice.

“I’m really excited about the music, too,” says Walls.

“With One Voice has been working on traditional Christmas songs and carols so they are interlaced with the narra-

tive, the story itself.”

The cast will also use representative costumes.

“We’re not really going for the full Victorian look, but we’ll use hats and scarves and whatnot to represent the time,” says Walls, “but I didn’t want to get bogged down in costumes. It really is about the spoken word.”

The script of the reading will closely follow the original story, but it is not the whole book, even though the book is not a long one.

“If you read the novella, which is really quite short, most of the script comes directly from it, but it’s been added to so it’s a little bit more dramatic and not quite as descriptive.”

There are various scripts people use for dramatic readings, often based on those Dickens himself used when he did his own public readings.

A Christmas Carol was published on Dec. 19, 1843.

The rst edition, all 6,000 copies, sold out in four days.

Its popularity soon spread from Britain to North America.

Dickens began performing dramatic readings of A Christmas Carol, 10 years after it was rst published, the rst great author to do such readings of his own work. At the time, most authors would have thought it beneath them, but it is said he captivated his audiences so completely during his one-man representations of his own characters that they “fell into a kind of trance, as a universal feeling of joy seemed to invade the whole assembly.”

He continued his performances until just three months before his death in 1870.

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St. Vital Parish Catholic Women’s League has made a $2,000 donation to BTEC’s My Community Cares Campaign, an effort to raise funds for a new BTEC building. The Presentation is made to Mabel Ouellette and Rozalie Lacoursiere, members of the BTEC board of directors, by Rita Kuntz, treasurer of the St. Vital Parish CWL. The group celebrated its 50-year anniversary in November 2013.

Information Services Corporation has made a $2,000 donation to BTEC’s My Community Cares Campaign, an effort to raise funds for a new BTEC building. The Taking part in the presentation are Barb Wright, Lyla Johnson, Ina Katcheech (BTEC participant) Jessica Bigknife (program co-ordinator), Noreen Sehn and Pam Knowles. Missing is Leanne Bartko

Job creation one highlight of session for Cox

By John Cairns Staff Reporter Battlefords MLA Herb Cox touted what he considered another productive fall sitting of the legislature.

It was a session that Cox and the rest of the government said was focused on keeping Saskatchewan strong.

“I think it was a very positive session again this fall,” said Cox “I think we’ve introduced 35 bills that are now on the table.”

Among the highlights for Cox was job creation at three times the national average, low unemployment at 3.4 per cent, development of a 10year Mental Health and Addictions Plan, the opening of 79 new housing units in various communities across the province, proceeding with the RFP for nine joint-use schools across the province as well as the new K-to-12 school in Langenberg, and other items.

These were included in a news release issued by the Sask. Party caucus Dec. 8, one in which Cox was quoted heavily.

“Thanks to growing economic strength our government is able to make the investments that the NDP would not do,” he stated.

“We’re building new schools, we’re building new hospitals, we’re hiring doctors, nurses and health-care workers, we’re building highways and physical infrastructure across the province.”

Among the highlights for Cox was in health care, where he pointed to additional doctors and nurses across the province.

“Four hundred more doctors, 2,600 more nurses in seven years, that’s pretty phenomenal growth,” said Cox. “Cutting down our wait times from the longest in the country to the second shortest. We know we’ve got more to do, and you’ve heard the premier say that, but we’re on the right track and making progress.”

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cast at a $70 million surplus was a particular highlight for Cox in speaking to the Regional Optimist Monday.

“Even though that’s not huge, it still leaves us in surplus,” said Cox. This good news comes despite the bad news on oil prices, which are likely to impact resource revenues to the province.

“I know the finance minister is tearing his hair out some days watching the oil price as it declines, and so does our oil and resource revenue,” said Cox. “We’re going to have to do some belt tightening and pencil sharpening, and our plan is to keep a balanced budget for the 2014-15 year.”

The good news, he believes, is that potash is coming back and the mining sector is strong. And agriculture and exports have been great, he said.

“It’s not all doom and gloom, there’s additional revenues coming in,” said

Cox, who believes this will allow them to “weather the storm.”

It has not all been good news for the government this fall. The NDP opposition has continued to hammer the government on health care and particularly seniors’ long-term care homes.

“We know that our seniors are a big part of the care we need to provide in this province. That’s why we’ve got 750 more people working in long-term care in this province,” said Cox. “I think our long-term care professionals give our seniors excellent, excellent care. That’s not to say that there may be incidences where that doesn’t happen, and we are investigating that and corrections will be made if they need to be made, but for the most part seniors receive good care in this province.”

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“We’re expecting the RFPs to be back on that project probably in early spring, like March-April, sometime in there. Hopefully once that’s done we can be in the ground this summer.”

A big highlight of the fall sitting was the recent announcement of the expansion of the Community Safety Officer program across the province. The pilot project began in North Battleford and civic representatives including Mayor Ian Hamilton and Fire Chief Albert Headrick joined provincial officials in Regina for that announcement Dec. 1.

“That was absolutely a great day for North Battleford in our legislature,” said Cox. “That’s a pilot project that’s proved its working.”

He pointed to the immediate impact that program has

had locally in terms of improving traffic safety. “We’re already seeing changes in driving habits throughout the city. They’re being very effective. The rest of the province is excited at looking at what can be done with

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Cox is confident it will expand to other municipalities in the province quickly and adds “it’s great to see North Battleford the focus of something positive.”

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Accepting change is difficult but so necessary Sometimes we see it coming. Other times we don’t. There are times we think we know what to expect but life throws us a curve we weren’t expecting.

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Change.

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It pays to shop around for best wheat price The weather last week was just like a magician at work “Poof,” away went the cold weather. “Poof,” there was the warm weather.

Then another “poof” and up came the wind. I woke up to 7 C and a brisk wind Thursday morning. Sure

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got that hoar frost off the trees. This weather is nice, but anybody that knows anything knows we are in for more cold weather. This is Saskatchewan.

For those who believe in the hoar frost, there is none to report. I can tell you that when I grew Polish canola, I used to write down whenever there was a wind, especially in the fall.

Polish canola swaths were bad for blowing away. I can tell you with a good deal of certainty that on June 11, 2015 there will be a wind.

Spraying will have to stop for June 11. Write it down, see if I am wrong. I know I won’t be.

Sitting in a doctor’s office in Lloydminster the other day I started talking to a fellow about my age and he was telling me his favourite day of the year was coming up. I thought maybe he was starting his second childhood and he was look-

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By Victor Hult

Regular contributor to newsoptimist.ca ing forward to Christmas.

He knew he had me, so with a smirk on his face he said Dec. 21 was his favorite day of the year. It is the shortest day of the year and every day after that, the days got longer and more sun will be shining. I had to agree with him. I think I will claim I like Dec. 21 best, too. I like sunshine.

In farm news, son Ron has been checking on prices of wheat. The elevator companies are at it again.

The price of wheat varies by over a dollar a bushel from the bottom to the top between elevators. If you think the prices are all the same, you are wrong. The price varies between elevators. Delivery opportunities also vary. Some will take the wheat right now and others are playing that “book it in now game” and “maybe we will call you in a month or two.” The same ones who will not let you deliver until later also have the poorest price. Would you shop your samples around to gain a dollar a bushel more? I know I would.

Check on the protein in your wheat at the same time. That varies up to a point between companies.

There is a lot of money lost to farmers because compa-

nies are not paying for the protein. Some testers are set below what the wheat actually is. The protein is regulated by the Canadian Grain Commission and every company has test samples provided by the Grain Commission to check on the accuracy of their testers. Try and get them to take the test samples out of the drawer to test their tester. Good luck with that.

At a big ag conference in Saskatoon an expert was expanding on how there was this big surplus of soybeans in the world and how the Americans were going to plant a whole bunch more soybeans. This would lead to an oversupply of soybeans and force the price of oilseeds lower. He thought planting canola was a poor choice. This, my friends, is the best news I have heard about planting canola this year. Every time you see an “expert” not recommending seeding a particular crop before the crop is even in the ground, seed’er wall to wall. Nothing is better than going against the crowd. It’s a long time until harvest, many a thing can change.

We filled up the car with gas yesterday in Lloydminster. It was $53. Normally there is just enough change to get a pop and choco-

late bar out of $100 if you don’t let it get too low.

Where was this price when I was filling up my gas pot swathers? We can enjoy this price while we can because just as sure as God made little green apples, this sucker is going up again.

Oil company executives in Calgary are wringing their hands as the price of oil drops below $60 a barrel.

They are nervously looking at cutbacks and hope it is not their jobs that are on the cut-back list. Government finance ministers are holding their breaths hoping this drop in oil price ends soon.

A great deal of government spending is revenue coming from the taxes on oil to provide money to run the government. The rest of us are not wasting our time worrying about the oil executive’s job or government finances. We are just blissfully going along, enjoying finally getting a small break, our tank is full of gas, we have a little money left in our jeans and we’re a driving. Thank you Big Guy. I know, I know. We are not worthy, we are not worthy.

Thanks anyway, but just let us keep on driving.

I would like to send condolences to Joyce Jeffrey and family on the passing of her husband Alex. He was 88. They were our neighbours only a mile away cross country for many years. Alex was a self-taught, gifted accordion player. He could play any song anybody would ask for and you could tell by the smile on his face and twinkle in his eye that he had a love for music like no other. Alex had many talents — music, welding, help-

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ing Joyce for many years at farmers’ markets and just plain gardening. After he retired from farming he truly enjoyed watching the plants grow in the huge garden that the two of them planted, weeded, watered and reaped. The garden was always filled from end to end and side to side so therefore every year they grew tons more produce than one family could ever use. Many, many families in the area were recipients of the bountiful harvest of veggies. There was nothing wasted. Alex will be sadly missed by all who knew him.

My condolences go to the family of Eleanor Donald.

Her funeral was Dec. 8. She will be sadly missed by her husband Gordon and sons Calvin, Randy and Ross and families .

My condolences also to the many friends and family of Barb Gravelle from Maidstone. Barb was one of those people who never had a harsh word to say about anyone and was a friend to many. My wife Bev says that this Earth has lost a wonderful lady and heaven has gained a fantastic angel.

She will be sadly missed.

We have just heard news that another long time friend, Wally Lambert, passed away. He was the local backhoe operator for the surrounding area for as many years as I can remember. He lived just two miles down the road until he moved into the Pine Island Suites in Maidstone.

I don’t have a joke of the week this week since there is just too much sadness in our little area of Waseca and Maidstone with so many of our friends and neighbours passing away. Maybe next week things will be looking up and we will get back on track. In the mean time, take care everyone.

Vehicle hits light standard Staff North Battleford Fire Department personnel assisted at the scene of a crash Monday at about 11:30 p.m. when a vehicle collided with a light standard on 101st Street and 12th Avenue.

According to NBFD, one person was treated and released by EMS. The vehicle received extensive damage.

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Parks and Rec. Culture and Heritage Committee ends

By John Cairns Staff Reporter The City of North Battleford’s Parks and Recreation Culture and Heritage Committee held its final meeting Monday, Dec. 15 at the Don

Ross Centre, sort of.

It was truly a case of the committee going out with a whimper instead of a bang.

Three committee members were not able to make it and the committee failed to meet quorum.

As a result, no votes were

taken on the various SaskLotteries funding applications that had been up for approval at the meeting.

Even though the meeting did not reach quorum, the remaining members and administration did stick around to present and hear reports on

what was happening at the various facilities and galleries this year, in what turned out to be an “unofficial” final meeting. The plan now is for the funding applications to be approved later by committee members electronically, but no further meeting is needed.

The Parks and Recreation Culture and Heritage Com-

mittee is dissolving as part of the restructuring of standing committees at North Battleford City Hall.

In its place will be a Leisure Services Committee that will have similar responsibilities but whose focus will concentrate on leisure services. The new committee will also continue to make decisions on SaskLotteries

grant applications.

The new committee will include two appointed councillors and four at-large members, but will also include designated youth representatives from Sakewew, John Paul II and North Battleford Comprehensive high schools. The date for their first meeting is set for Jan. 19.

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Weather often effects peoples moods. Sunshine breaking through clouds can lift our spirits, while a dull rainy or gloomy cold day may make us feel a little down. These mood shifts do not generally affect our ability to cope with daily life. Some people are vulnerable to a type of depression that follows a seasonal pattern. For some the shortening of days in late autumn are the beginning of a type of clinical depression that can last until spring.

This condition is called ‘Seasonal Affective Disorder’ or SAD. A mild form of SAD often referred to as ‘Winter Blues’ causes discomfort but is not incapacitating. However, the term ‘winter blues’ can be missleading, some people have a rare form of SAD which starts in late spring early summer.

Awareness of this condition has existed for more than 150 years but was only recognized as a disorder in the early 1980’s.

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of words.

My neighbour’s greatest concern was that I had some contagious thing on my nose that looked worse than ringworm. He told me these days a person cannot be too careful, maybe I have some new thing like ebola only on my skin. He also offered that since I have spent a lifetime with my nose in books, maybe it’s a kind of mold from reading limitless, musty books.

I knew Ed would question what I was doing to my nose, even under the direction of a dermatologist.

I have had to apply prescribed cream on my nose for the last two weeks. Sun and weather damage had left my nose in need of a renovation. The cream was mean stuff that does a demolition on the old skin so healthier skin can replace it in time.

It was a treatment that felt awful, and chewed up the area treated, but I needed to do it. I assured Ed that there was nothing contagious about my nose and that he wasn’t likely, to become my kissing cousin.

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Ed, my neighbour next door, had trouble dealing with me last week after he saw my red nose. Of course, he wanted to know if I was competing with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He asked, “What is wrong with the end of your nose? It looks like you have a flesh eating disease. You’ll scare the kids and make adults cross the street.” If his cellphone hadn’t interrupted him who knows how much more he would have said.

Once Ed gets worked up on some topic it can seem like a week before he runs dry

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Continued from Page 23 The thought of us being related sent Ed home to settle his nerves with a drink of whiskey he keeps for times of troubled thoughts.

Everyone has some troubling thoughts, for example, something that could be contagious concerns us.

We try to avoid picking up a virus that could cause us suffering in the future. We live in a world that does not have a cure for everything.

It doesn’t make sense to invite trouble into our lives.

Health alerts and quarantines try to prevent folks from needlessly getting sick. God’s word shows us teachings that we can prove so we will hold fast to what is spiritually healthy, joyful, worthy of prayer and thanksgiving. Today many forget they are not just a

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revraymaher@accesscomm.ca body, but both a body and a soul. We each have a soul that is the spiritual part of each of us or our connecting part to God. Many seem to feel the tug of their soul at Christmas. The baby Jesus laid in a manger seems non-threatened and the humbleness of the nativity story soothes souls. The baby Jesus is contagious in that He offers in himself hope in God

towards all sinful people.

Jesus came into the world to save sinners. When people read God’s word and test it by their personal lives, they will see they are sinful. This sinfulness recognized is not, so they despise themselves but that they may meet the fullness of God’s mercy and goodness in Christ. He is the sinner’s cure who keeps us sinners blameless in body and soul before God.

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.

Notre Dame (RC) Parish Corner of 104th Street & 12th Avenue Rev. Father Cuong Luong MASSES: Saturdays - 7:00 p.m.

Sundays - 11:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.

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10801 Winder Cres. - 15th Ave. & 108th St., North Battleford FELLOWSHIP HOUR - 9:30 A.M. WORSHIP SERVICE 10:30 A.M. www.battlefordslutheran.sk.ca Pastor Sheldon Gattinger Everyone Welcome

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Meeting at 1122 - 101st Street Pastors: Peter & Lydia Litchfield Members of Christian Ministers Association

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Third Avenue United Church

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PASTOR: Fr. Anthony Afangide M.S.P.

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St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 1401 - 98th Street North Battleford, SK

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Pastor: Rev. Allen Huckabay

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St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle Roman Catholic Church - DELMAS

Rev. Father Greg Elder

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Box 10, Delmas, SK S0M 0P0

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Battlefords Seventh-Day A Adventist Church Pastor Dave Miller Corner 16th Ave. & 93rd Street, C North Battleford

Phone 306-445-9096

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

Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.

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A dozen ice shacks on Jackfish at Meota

By Lorna Pearson Correspondent What a busy time of the year, with gatherings of every kind taking place all around us. No one should be feeling lonely or sad. However we know there are some with health or family problems that even the jolly time of holidays will not fix. All we can do is offer our help or company and prayers, to them.

SaskPower has been in the village and put up the Christmas decorations on the power poles, which helps to brighten the scenery. Many homes also are being lit up nicely, so take a drive around some evening to see the displays and appreciate the time and effort that goes into these arrangements.

Did you all enjoy the curl-

ing over the weekend? I found the dark red colored rings a little odd, the red rocks would show up better on the old blue rings. Yorkton put on quite a show and had good crowds for every game.

Having a nearby home team no doubt helped the turnout of crowds.

There are at least a dozen fish shacks, some pretty fancy ones, out on the lake these days. No doubt there will be others at other beaches and I guess they are getting some catches as I saw a sign “fish for sale” on the post office bulletin board.

Norwegian Whist was played at the Do Drop In Dec. 12. Top score was by Arlene Walker, followed by Albert Huys and Bev McCrimmon. It was a nice friendly afternoon, with visiting and lunch.

The seniors held their

eota News December meeting Dec. 12 at the Do Drop In. A letter of thanks was read from one family who used the hall twice for family gatherings this summer and appreciated the facility. A letter was read from the Meota Credit Union that they had chosen the seniors’ club to make their donation of $500.00 as a “random act of charity.” The Meota Community Complex has offered some tablecloths they no longer need for our use, and we will gratefully accept them. The next shuffleboard tournament has been set for Jan. 14. Phone Yvette at 306-892-2167 or Linda at 306-892-2179. A

report from the Meota Chorus informed us that they have changed their practice time to Wednesday afternoons. They are needing more members and a spare accompanist.

An invitation will be sent to Mary Shury and her husband to attend the Christmas supper Dec. 14, as well as the mayor. This is a gesture to show that we appreciate all they do for seniors and the community. A bonus to the caretaker was approved in recognition of the good job she does. The course ‘Driving over 55” is available again at no cost, but there has to be at least 20 to sign up for it. It was suggested that maybe the Lions Club would partner to make up the needed number.

Christmas Eve will offer evening programs at both churches again this year.

Christmas Eve mass will be at the Catholic Church at 7 p.m. and the Christmas Eve program at the United/ Anglican Church will be at 7:30 p.m. This is the time to review the meaning of Christmas, in all denominations, and the reason we celebrate the Christmas holidays.

Duplicate bridge was played Dec. 9 with top score going to Eric Callbeck and his partner Beatrice Novlan.

Second and third high were tied. Maureen Campbell and Jane Groves were tied with Margaret Dyck and Ross Morton.

The seniors’ potluck supper was held Dec. 14, with a small appreciative crowd and a wide variety of dishes.

It was a meal to remember as everyone brought their best dish and what a treat it all was. After supper a Christmas game was played and Christmas carols were sung.

And of course the dishes were done amid visiting.

Mayor John MacDonald said a few encouraging words as to the direction the village is going and future development. He thanked the group for their part in contributing to the success of the village socially. It was a chance to meet a newcomer to our village, living in one of the seniors’ duplexes is Verna Wisner from the Robinhood area. We welcome her and hope she’ll join in the activities that interest her.

A brief visit was enjoyed

by Linda and I when cousin Lynn Shepherd from Saskatoon stopped by Sunday. He had been to Lanz Point to see their cabin being moved off the lot, in preparation for building a new house on site next summer. It will reocate on a lot not far away, once the ground work is done there.

Shirley and Lawrie Ward drove to Elk Point, Alta. to meet their new great-granddaughter, Braxtyn Florence Birkett. Braxtyn’s parents are Jess and Derek Birkett, Derek being the son of Ward’s oldest daughter Lawrene Birkett.

The new baby arrived Dec. 7. It was an exciting time for everyone.

Thirty-one residents of Metinota held their Christmas supper in the Do Drop In Dec. 12 and had the Meota Hotel cater to it. It was a lovely

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Mayor Glen Wouters gave a report of interest and they all enjoyed socializing and visiting among themselves, catching up on news of snowbirds that are away.

Rob and Sharlene Rederburg of Meota enjoyed a week’s holiday in Varadero, Cuba. They travelled to Calgary and Edmonton on their way, visiting folks at both places. This was their fourth trip to Cuba, but before they stayed in Holguin. They found the accommodation this time to be too large, it was a 20 minute walk to the buffet. It rained half the time, but the people were great. Varadero is toward the north end of the island while Holguin is near the south end, but their preference would be Holguin.

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OBITUARIES OSTAPIW: Mr. Mike Ostapiw of the Denholm, Saskatchewan district passed away suddenly at his residence at the age of 65 years. A Memorial Service for Mike will be held on Saturday, December 13, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. from the Denholm Recreation Centre with Mrs. Joyce Salie officiating. Left to cherish his memory are his loving family; his loving wife of 41 years Deborah (nee Mathews); sons Steven (Karen) and their children Cody, Colton, Dillon, Kassidy, and Karder; Russel (Bernadette) and their children Mikaela and Courtney; David (Carrie) and their children Dayden and Meira; and daughter Heather (Jerry) Shulte and their children Nathan, Magdelena, Jeromy, and Andrew; brother Walter and sister Antonia (Bob) Sikorsky; Miro (Bud) & Diane Ostapiw; mother-in-law Eleanor Mathews; in-laws Harriette (Philip) Beaudoin; Darlene (Murray) Jensen, Eileen (Darrell) Schmidt, Spike (Rebecca) Mathews, Lucy (Steve) Varey, and numerous nieces and nephews. Mike was predeceased by his first wife Roberta (nee Meiers), parents Petro & Marie; his father-in-law Harry Mathews, brother Bill Ostapin and sister-in-law Rose Ostapin. Memorial donations in memory of Mike may be directed to the Canadian Diabetes Association or to the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

EULOGY FOR MIKE OSTAPIW Mike was born December 11, 1948 on the family farm in the original farm house. After the second house was built, the first house was torn down and the lumber was used to build the current shop. He started farming at age 5, hauling rocks (stones) in a one gallon honey pail to a stone boat. At age 14 he started farming full-time while his dad was in the hospital. Frank Shumlich came across the field and said to Mike, “you might want to raise the seeder out of the ground a bit”; and from that point on Mike farmed the same land and the same way. Between the wise instruction and the good lord he proceeded for the next 51 years until he semi-retired 4 1/2 years ago. He had a rough start in school life. He started kindergarten in Denholm at the one-room school house and he only spoke Ukrainian. The teachers back then had little patience and ruled by the rod, therefore he hated school from that point on BUT he learned his own way. Mike being the only person with fluent English in the household he did most of the business dealings for his mom and dad from an early age. So between that quick education and the hard work on the farm, Mike always had grain in the bins. When the work was done, Mike enjoyed hunting and fishing with John Trach as a young guy for many years. Mike’s mom and dad moved off the farm permanently in 1964 to a house in North Battleford. They left the house and farm in Mike’s capable hands to carry on their legacy and dreams as Ukrainian immigrants and he did them proud. That is until his group of teenage buddies started coming around - Oh my god! Mike’s farm house was the party house but Mike always made sure the work was done first. The boys would want to go to town for smokes and beers and Mike would always say “as soon as the chores are done”. This bachelor “work hard, play hard” life style carried on until 1970 when Mike met and married Roberta Meier. They had two bouncy baby boys in quick succession. Mike really wanted to continue his family lineage in a hurry. Ha-ha A wonderful farm and a new family was struck with tragedy in November 1972 when Roberta passed away suddenly, leaving Mike and his infant boys alone and motherless. But Saint Nick also known as Nancy Meier delivered the three Ostapiw boys a wonderful Christmas present that year, young Debbie Matthews. She came to live at the farm as nanny and housekeeper for a little while. Those of you who know Mike and Debbie, know they celebrated 41 years of marriage this past year, some little while. In true pioneer farming spirit, Mike and Deb fell in love, got hitched, farmed the land, planted the garden, calved the cows, gave Steven and Russel another brother and sister (David and Heather) and did it all together side-by-side. I think Mike was happy to be a farmer because it allowed him the flexibility to spend time with his family. Camping and fishing were great favorites with Debbie and the kids. Mike introduced the boys to hunting and all 3 are still loving it. Snowmobiling, ATV’s, boating and water skiing were also a huge part of the family fun. With Heather keeping up right along with her 3 older brothers. Sometimes Mike seemed to spend more time fixing breakdowns, crashed up machines and hollering at the kids to be careful and don’t break your damn neck. Mike was also an active member of both the farming and social community in an around Denholm. He may have grumbled and grouched but when it came time to flip pancakes, Mike was always ready to put on an apron. He also said he would be an RM counsellor for just one year; well that was 31 years ago. Mike enjoys doing his part and everyone who knows him new his bark was worse than his bite. Mike and Deb were very proud of their kids they raised on the farm. They raised them to be tough with strong work ethics, brutal honesty and a ready kick-in-the-ass. Mike lived life his own way and no one else’s and he made sure that the kids would live their lives that way as well.

He was so happy to see each of his four children get their high school diplomas and drove them to go further in their lives and to do better than him. He raised a carpenter in Steven who now runs his own contracting company with his wife. He raised a welder in Russel who now operates the cranes and is second-in-command in his job. He raised a correctional officer in David who in his spare time is a technical junky, who created the company “Ostacruiser” from quads, video and YouTube. He raised a chef in Heather and supported the start-up of her dream of owning her own catering company Chef de Partie Catering. And he also passed down all his creativity and artistic talents. All the years of hard work, ups and downs in marriage raising four kids from diapers through teenagers to adults and out-the-door, Mike and Deb breathed a sigh of relief and thought they might finally relax with an empty nest. Their last daughter graduated and out the door and figured it was time to party. It was the summer of 1994 and they saw their first son happily married. Well it was good thing that Mike and Deb did a lot of travelling and took a lot of holidays throughout the years because that first wedding was just a crack in the damn because their kids had a different plan for them. For the next 6 years they drove all over the country side to celebrate 3 more weddings and 9 grandchildren in no particular order. Mike and Deb became Baba and Gido. Gido realized the pleasure of being a grandparent. He was definitely able to express his love and happiness more freely with his grandkids. Being a Gido transformed Mike. The hugs were longer and more often and the “I love you’s” were frequent. Hardly an event passed without Gido and his big grin there. He then paid the ultimate sacrifice and left his big old world behind. It’s a good thing he didn’t raise this family alone because Debbie is still here to mind the farm and now the kids and grandkids can keep her company. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Trevor Watts of Eternal Memories Funeral Service & Crematorium. For those wishing to leave a condolence you may do so at www.eternalmemoriesfuneral.ca.

Card of Thanks Debbie Ostapiw and family would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude and love to all family, friends and neighbors for their support since Mike’s passing. All of the food, cards, flowers, phone calls, hugs, shoulders to cry on and comforting words have been amazing and overwhelming. Your outpouring of kindness and love has showed us just how many lives Dad has touched over his lifetime. Your compassion and sympathy will continue to be a wonderful comfort. Mike will be always remembered, deeply loved and sadly missed by many.

Sincerely, Debbie, Steven, Russel, David and Heather Close the Gate by Nancy Kraayenhof For this one farmer the worries are over, lie down and rest your head, Your time has been and struggles enough, put the tractor in the shed.

Years were not easy, many downright hard, but your faith in God transcended, Put away your tools and sleep in peace. The fences have all been mended.

You raised a fine family, worked the land well and always followed the Son, Hang up your shovel inside of the barn; your work here on earth is done.

A faith few possess led your journey through life, often a jagged and stony way, The sun is setting, the cattle are all bedded, and here now is the end of your day.

Your love of God’s soil has passed on to your kin; the stories flow like fine wine, Wash off your work boots in the puddle left by the blessed rain one final time.

You always believed that the good Lord would provide and He always had somehow, Take off your gloves and put them down, no more sweat and worry for you now.

Your labor is done, your home now is Heaven; no more must you wait, Your legacy lives on, your love of the land, And we will close the gate . . .

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NYKIFORUK: Elizabeth, late of Hafford passed away on Saturday, December 6, 2014 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at the age of 93 years. Left to cherish her memory are her loving family; son George of Hafford, Sask, son Don (Pat) of Saskatoon, Sask, daughter Anne (Zenon) Dragan of Saskatoon, Sask, and Kathy of Calgary, Alberta; grandchildren Zenan Jr. (Christine), Inez (Ken) Wilson, and Julie; great grandchildren Seth and Reese Dragan, and Jesse, Kody, and Jayde; her brother Mark (Marie) Torchuk of Gatineau, Quebec. Elizabeth was predeceased by her husband Nykola; her parents Mark and Ewfimia; sisters Vera and Nadia; and her brothers Bill & Nick. Funeral Service will take place on Thursday, December 11, 2014 @ 10:00 a.m. from the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Orthodox Church with Reverend Father Taras Udod officiating. Interment will follow the service in the Hafford Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery. Expressions of condolence may be sent to Hafford Special Care Home, Box 130, Hafford, Sask, S0J-1A0 or to the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Orthodox Church, General Delivery, Hafford, Sask, S0J-1A0. For those wishing to leave a condolence you may do so at www.hawrylukfuneralhome.com. Arrangements entrusted to Hawryluk Funeral. ____________________________________________________ REBEYKA: It is with sadness the family of Walter Rebeyka, resident of Hafford, SK, announce his passing Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at Battlefords Union Hospital, North Battleford, SK with family at his side. Prayer Service was held Monday, December 8, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. followed by the Funeral Divine Liturgy on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. – both Services from Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church at Hafford, SK with Fr. Vladimir Simunovic Celebrant. The Cross Bearer was Joel Nesseth, Cantor was Diane Woytiuk and the Altar Server was Mike Wintonyk; Pallbearers: Robyn Dishko, Brennan Dishko, Kayla Nesseth, Michael Rebeyka, Christopher Rebeyka and Brooklyn Rebeyka. Walter is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Natalie; his children and their families: Phyllis Rebeyka (Gene Motruk), Holly (John) Dishko – grandchildren: Robyn (fiancé Bob) and Brennan (Tegan), Michael (Jerrilyn) Rebeyka – grandchildren: Brooklyn, Jasmyn and Robert, Joanne (Nigel) Nesseth – grandchildren: Kayla, Joel, Dacey; daughter-inlaw, Joni McNeely – grandchildren: Michael Rebeyka, Christopher Rebeyka, Jody Suggitt – great-grandchildren: Brayden and Payton; sisters-in-law, Anne & Annie; nieces, nephews and their families.

Walter was predeceased by his son Robert Rebeyka; parents, Mike and Mary Rebeyka; brothers and sisters: Tom, Frank, Peter, John, Bill, Harry, Pauline (+Mike). Walter grew up in a rural community North of Hafford attending elementary school at Langley School, and high school at Bedford Road in Saskatoon. He was the youngest of eight children, and in his 85 years accomplished many things. Walter was a farmer up until age 80, and a grain buyer for 23 years in that time in the hamlet of Keatley. One of the elevators he managed is now at the museum in North Battleford. He spent many hours with hockey, and took great pride in watching and coaching his sons Robert and Michael. Aside from farming and grain buying dad had many other interests that he excelled at. He perfected the art of sausage making and loved to have friends and family, sample each new batch. When he wasn’t busy in the field he liked helping mom with the vegetable garden. At family gatherings it was always a treat to have him pick up the accordion, tap on the piano keys, and he also played the violin. He loved music and had a beautiful voice that added to many gatherings and church services. Dad mastered the art of story-telling so well that you never knew till the end if it was a true story or if there was a punch line.

As he retired from farming at the age of 80 dad excelled at the computer, internet, and enjoyed hours on the laptop and in the last year, the ipad. He loved talking on the phone and stayed connected that way to many family and friends. Dad served on the Hafford Rec Board for many years. He was also a member of the Hafford Housing Committee, and at present he was secretary of the Church Council. He will be greatly missed. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are requested to Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church, P.O. Box 475, Hafford, SK S0J 1A0 or to Hafford Special Care Centre and Primary Care Facility, P.O. Box 130, Hafford, SK S0J 1A0. Interment took place at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Hafford, SK. Condolences can be forwarded to mail@battlefordsfuneralservice.com. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Battlefords Funeral Service, North Battleford, SK (306)446-4200 ____________________________________________________

Page 29 - The Battlefords,Thursday, December 18, 2014 OBITUARIES LUDWIG: Josephine Patricia – died peacefully at the age of 84 on December 8, 2014 at St. Michael’s Hospice, Burnaby, BC after having celebrated 60 years of religious life. She is survived by her religious family, the Sisters of the Child Jesus, her siblings Rose, William, Hubert (Marie), Sr. Julia, sej, Stanislaus (Lila) and numerous nieces and nephews. Prayers will be held on Sunday, December 14, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 828 Laval Square, Maillardville, B.C., where the Funeral Mass will be celebrated Monday, December 15, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Interment at St. Peter’s Cemetery, New Westminster. Condolences can be made online at: www.kearneyfs.com. Columbia-Bowell Funeral Chapel – 604-5214881. ____________________________________________________ MARCHEWKA: In loving memory of Nick Marchewka, age 64, recently of Rockhaven, SK (formerly of North Battleford, Prince, and Battleford, SK.). Nick passed away suddenly on December 3, 2014. Left to cherish many precious memories of him, are Nick’s family. They include his loving wife, Darlene Marchewka, Nick and Darlene’s daughter Karri (Boyd) Risling, and grandughter Kiahna of Rockhaven,Sk. Nick and Darlene’s son Troy (Janelle) Marchewka, grandson Carson and granddaughter, Makayla of Meota, SK. Nick’s Brothers: Dale (Mary) Marchewka and their children Michael (Lisa) and Steven, and Donald Marchewka. His sisters: Eileen Marchewka, and Eleanor (Floyd) Pellack and their children Tara (Graham) Campbell and children Ella, Payton, and Beckett, Tyler (Lindsay) Pellack and children Jakob, and Kobe. Brother-in-law: Hector (Julie) Miller, and children Marcia and Shelley. Sister-in-laws: Linda (Dean) Wenman, Iris (Bryant) Miller-Dennis and their children Regan, Grant, Jordi, Alex, Bernie, Peter, Denise (Ron) Amundson and their children Quinton, Kaylie, and Kenzie, Connie (Lloyd) Gerbrandt and their children Marshall (Julianne)and children Esther and Madeleine, Brandon (Meghan) and children Alyssa and Ariana.

Nick was pre-deceased by his parents Stella and John Marchewka, his Mother and Father-in-law Alfred and Lillian Miller, Nick’s brother Orest, and Brother-in-law Dwight. The family of the late Nick Marchewka would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming outpouring of love, thoughts, prayers. The support of dear family and friends has meant so much to us. Thank you for the beautiful cards, flowers, and gifts in Nick’s memory. Thank you to Father Greg Elder, Dave McQuaid, and ST. Vital Parish, and to Bob MacKay and staff of Battlefords Funeral Services for your support. Special thanks to all the staff at BUH Palliative Care. God bless all of you.

Memorials to BUH Palliative Care Box 1358 North Battleford, SK. S9A 3L8. Funeral Arrangements entrusted to Battlefords Funeral Service 306 446-4200. ____________________________________________________ NYHOLT: Katie (Kate) in Loving Memory of Katie (Kate) Nyholt who was born Feb. 14, 1933 at Whitkow District, Sk. and passed away Dec. 5, 2014 at North Battleford, Sk. Katie was survived by her loving family: children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren: Cecilia (Francis) Dumontier, Winnipeg, MB and family: Darrel, Maria (Justin) Anderson – Derek and Caitlyn; Kevin (Melissa), Jason, Stephen – Carter; Gloria (John) Hunt, Saskatoon, Sk and family: Sarah and Kelly – Kayden; Karen (Bill) Pack, North Battleford, Sk and family: Heather Koroluk, Amanda and Jerry; Greg (Birdena) Nyholt, North Battleford, Sk and family: Meghan – Madeleine; Morgan; brothers and sisters: Albert (Jean) Kryzanowski, John Kryzanowski, Pete (Georgina) Kryzanowski, Olga (Nick) Swerid, Hazel (Adolph) Ernst, Joe (Marge) Kryzanowski; sisters-in-law: Annie and Marie Kryzanowski; nieces, nephews and their families. Predeceased by her parents, Rudolf and Eva Kryzanowski; daughter Maryanne(in infancy); husband, Cecil W. Nyholt; granddaughter, Traci Nyholt; sister and brothers: Rose, Bill (+May), Harry and Tom; brothers-in-law: Bernard, Donald, Allan (+Margaret); sister-in-law, Marie Noble; inlaws: Weird and Ida Nyholt; numerous cousins. Vigil of Prayer was held Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 – 7:00 p.m. with Jean Pawlus, Presider, Mass Of Christian Burial was held Friday, December 12th, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. with Father Cuong Luong as Celebrant – both services from Notre Dame De Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, North Battleford, Sk. Cross Bearer was Arlene Heidt and Eulogy was given by Meghan Nyholt. Music Ministry was provided by Organist Mrs. Joan Harrison and Notre Dame Choir. The Duet, “Amazing Grace” – sung by Meghan Nyholt and Joan Harrison. Liturgy Of The Word was shared by 1St Reading – Amanda Pack, Lamentations 3:17-26; Responsorial Psalm – Choir; 2nd Reading – Heather Koroluk, Revelations 21:1-5a, 6b-7; Gospel – Father Cuong Luong, John 12:23-25; Prayer of the Faithful – Maria Anderson and Sarah Hunt; Liturgy Of The Eucharist; Gift Bearers – Sharon Swerid and Rose Radwinski. Honourary Pallbearers were “All who shared Mom’s Life”. Pallbearers were Darrel Dumontier, Stephen Dumontier, Jason Dumontier, Jerry Pack, Kevin Dumontier and Jordan Swerid. Memorials are requested to The Canadian Cancer Society, Box 112, North Battleford, Sk. S9A 2X6, or to River Heights Lodge Auxillary, 2001 – 99th St., North Battleford, Sk S9A 0S3. Interment followed at The Catholic Extension – City Cemetery – North Battleford, Sk. Funeral Arrangements were entrusted to Battlefords Funeral Service. ____________________________________________________

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SCHMIDT: In Loving Memory of Rick Wesley Schmidt who was born August 8, 1956 North Battleford, SK. and passed away Nov. 28, 2014 Battleford, SK. Left to cherish Rick’s memory are his loving family: step-daughters: Shawna (Lonny) Jardine – grandsons: Logan & Chase; Amanda (Eric) Kunetka; his father, Wesley Vernon Schmidt; sister, Shelley (Murray) Robinson – niece, Chalsey (Michael) Klassen - greatniece, Elizabeth, nephews, Tyson (Sara) Robinson, Cody (Paige) Robinson; aunts, uncles and cousins. Rick was predeceased by his wife Barbara, his mother Doreen Schmidt, grandparents, aunts and uncles. A Celebration of Life was held Sat., Dec. 6, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at “The Garden Chapel” - Battlefords Funeral Service, North Battleford, SK with Mrs. Joyce Salie officiating. Gifts of Music provided by Organist - Glenn Goodman; Soloist - Robert MacKay “In The Garden”; Recorded Selections: Turn The Page Bob Seger; Woverton Mountain - Claude King, Blue Wing - Tom Russell and Gimme all your lovin’ - ZZ Top. The Honourary Pallbearers were Dwight Schmidt, Greg Ferris, Perry Prescesky, Kelly Gray, Danny Prescesky, Murray Clark, Kent Roberts, Tim Dwinnell, John Senn, Murray Nelson, Michael Kozak and All Family and Friends and Urn Bearers were Perry Prescesky and Tim Dwinnell.

Memorial Donations are requested to Battlefords District Care Centre, Box 69, Battleford, SK. S0M 0E0 and Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Saskatchewan, P.O. Box 24004 - Midtown Postal Outlet, Saskatoon, SK S7K 8B4. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Battlefords Funeral Service (306)446-4200 ____________________________________________________ MORRISON: In Loving Memory Of Angus Alexander Morrison who was born July 5, 1930 at Mearns, Alberta and passed away December 5, 2014 at North Battleford, Sk. Angus was born in Mearns, Alberta on a farm; the family moved to St. Walburg in his teenage years. Angus and Madeline were married November 28, 1954. Angus worked as a grain buyer in the Battleford’s area most of his adult life, retiring in North Battleford. Angus lived the last 10 years of his life at Ruth White Manor. Survived by his loving family: sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren and great-grandchildren: Alex (Cindy), Sherwood Park, AB: Amanda (Brooke) - May; Gary (Carol), North Battleford, SK: Derrick (Janelle) - Eva, Kaeli (Jay) Trew - Madeline, Bryson, Travis & Leanna; Tanner (Nancy) and Craig; Glen (Mary), North Battleford, SK: Mitchell & Marshall; nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his loving wife, Madeline May Morrison, April 7, 2005; his parents, Alex & Anna Morrison; brother Robert; sister Kathleen Kendel-Taylor. Service of Celebration & Thanksgiving was held Friday, December 12, 2014 – 2:00 p.m. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, North Battleford, Sk. with Mrs. Joyce Salie officiating. Eulogist was Bev Bailey; Music Ministry was Glenn Goodman – Organist; Robert MacKay – “In the Garden”; Hymn Selections were “Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace” & “How Great Thou Art”. Honourary Pallbearers were Mary Morrison, Alsinah Backus, Butch & Lois Kendel, Bev & Chic Bailey, Bud & Claudette Kendel. Urn Bearers were Amanda & Kaeli. Interment will take place at a later date at St. Walburg, Sk. Memorials are requested to The Canadian Cancer Society. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Battlefords Funeral Service 306 446-4200. ____________________________________________________ SAWCHUK: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Sawchuk, late of North Battleford, Saskatchewan on December 3, 2014 at the age of 94 years. Tina was born on December 19, 1919 at Square Hill Sasatchewan. She is survived by one daughter; Karen (Marcel) Bernier and their children; Kayla Bernier, Jennifer Bernier, Amanda (Luke) St. Onge and their daughter; Tesa Tipton.

Numerous nieces, nephews, relatives and their families. She is predeceased by her husband Stanley, parents Dmytro and Nellie Woloshyn, brothers; Joseph and Harry, sister; Annie Kozlowski, nephew; Gerald Woloshyn.

Prayers were held on December 7, 2014 from Sallows and McDonald Wilson and Zehner Funeral Home with the Very Reverend Father Taras Udod presiding. The funeral service was held on December 8, 2014 from St. John’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church with the Very Reverend Father Taras Udod officiating / as celebrant. Amanda St. Onge gave the eulogy.

Pallbearers were: David Woloshyn, Larry Woloshyn, John Woloshyn, Marcel Bernier, Luke St. Onge, Curtis Woloshyn. The family have requested that memorial donations be made the BUH Foundation directed to Palliative Care, PO Box 1358 North Battleford, S9A 3L8. Or to the Charity of the Donors Choice. Interment took place at the North Battleford City Cemetery. Condolences for the family may be left at www.sallowsandmcdonald.com. The family has placed their trust with Sallows and McDonald - Wilson and Zehner Funeral Home, North Battleford. (306) 445-2418

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A special person, A special face Someone we loved and can’t replace Never selfish, always kind These are memories our “Mother” left behind.

The Tady Families

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IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM

Stella Folan Born: June 22, 1937 Passed away: December 15, 2010

So dearly loved and sadly missed.

To hear your voice and see you smile, To sit with you and talk awhile, To be together in the same old way, Would be our greatest wish today.

There will always be sadness and often silent tears, But always precious memories of days that you were here.

We hold you close in our hearts and there you will always stay.

Remembering you is easy, we do it everyday But missing you is heartache that never goes away.

Angel in our Hearts “Trudy” A year has come and gone Doesn’t change the way we feel We cried the day you left us And still cry for you today A golden heart stopped beating Hard working hands at rest God broke our hearts to prove it As he only takes the best.

No-one knows our heartache that hides behind our smiles your memories are our keepsakes from which we’ll never part God has you in his arms We have you in our hearts.

Lovingly Missed Mom and sisters

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(306) 445-9770 Advertisements and statements contained herein are the sole responsibility of the persons or entities that post the advertisement, and the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association and membership do not make any warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or reliability of such advertisements. For greater information on advertising conditions, please consult the Association’ s Blanket Advertising Conditions on our website at www.swna.com.

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BOSCH Mixers 6.5Qt Mixer $449, VITAMIX Blenders, SPIRAL slicers, LEFSE Grills, BUNN Coffee makers, Grain mills, KITCHENAID 7qt Mixers $539 1.3hp. Call Hometech 1-888692-6724 Regina www.hometechcanada.ca “Prairie Echoes” hard cover history book of Nolin Hamlin McMillan Districts, $75.00. A great Christmas gift.

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who passed away December 22, 2012 I miss you so much and think of you every day.

Sending hugs to you in heaven.

THE LLOYDMINSTER Exhibition Association’s 96th Annual Pride of the Prairies Bull Show and Sale.

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Love Vickie

CARD OF THANKS

Thank You TWIN RIVERS Health Care Foundation

thanks everyone who has made donations to the

Foundation in 2014

ANNIVERSARIES

Martha & Leonard August 22, 1964

Congratulations Mom & Dad on your

50th Wedding Anniversary May God bless your future with love & happiness.

Love from all your family

Your contributions have enabled the Foundation to provide much needed support to the health services and facilities within our mandate: Cut Knife Health Complex, Maidstone Health Complex, Manitou Health Centre in Neilburg, Paradise Hill Health Centre, St. Walburg Health Centre, Riverside Health Complex in Turtleford, Home Care services and Wellness Centres.

Cut Knife • $10,000 to rejuvenate the Activity program for long-term care residents • New dining room tables & chairs • Sheepskin products for patient comfort

St. Walburg • Mattresses for long-term care • Roam alert tag reader • Bed sensors & alarm system • Fall mats

Maidstone • Pulse oximeter • 3 – integrated diagnostic systems • Ceiling lift motor • Repositioning slings • Furniture for resident/patient lounges • Hyfrecator 2000 – emergency department

Riverside Health Complex • Feeding table & chairs • Tub seat lift • Recumbent tub chair • Bariatric lift & scale • Mobile instrument trays for physicians ofÀce • Ice machine • Pressure relief air mattresses • Patient lift • OfÀce chairs for the nursing station

Neilburg • Stacking chairs Paradise Hill • Lifepak Plus deÀbrillator

All of these purchases made possible with your support.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

If you would like to support your local health services and receive a tax deductible receipt for 2014 please mail your contribution to Twin Rivers Health Care Foundation at Box 58 Paradise Hill, SK S0M 2G0 or simply drop it off at your local health facility on or before December 31st.

Thank you again for your generous support!

May the meaning of the season be deeper, its friendships stronger, and its hopes brighter as Christmas comes to you this year.

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CARD OF THANKS

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Card of Thanks River Heights Lodge Auxiliary would like to THANK all volunteers who sold Fall Raffle Tickets and to all the purchasers of those tickets.

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PRAYER CORNER St. Jude O Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsmen of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke Your special patronage in time of need.

To You I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance, help me in my present urgent petition. In return I promise to make Your name known and cause You to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. Publication must be promised. St. Jude pray for us and all who invoke Your aid. This Novena has never been known to fail. The Novena must be said for nine consecutive days.

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Macro Properties Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 12:00 ~ 12:30 - 4:30 pm 16 Buildings - Bachelor, 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Suites Adult & Family Buildings Phone: 306-445-6710 battleford@macroproperties.com 732B - 110th Street

1&2 Bedroom Suites • Fridge, stove, washer, dryer • Some are air conditioned Rental rate: $650 to $1,200 per month Complete application: 1441 - 100th Street Or Phone 306-445-8571 or 306-441-0950 One Bedroom apartment for rent comes with fridge and stove, references required. 445-4646

2 or 3 Bedroom Mobile Homes Starting at $600.00/month

Call (306) 445-8778 (306) 441-3418 Clean 3 bedroom furnished/unfurnished trailer. In Battleford. Available Jan 1st For Rent. N/S References Damage Deposit Serious Inquiries.

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SUITES FOR RENT 1 Bedroom Basement Suite for Rent includes heat/water, tenant pays own power. No smoking, no pets, no children. Looking for quiet working adult. Off street parking/newly renovated. Rent $750/monthly, damage required & references. Available October 1. Call 306-481-3288.

Large 2 Bedroom suite main floor of the house. All utilities and cable included. Coin operated laundry on site. No small children, smoking or pets. Quiet working adults. Available Dec 1. $1350/month plus damage deposit. Ref required. Call 306-4813288 Leave message.

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Board of Directors The Innovation Credit Union Nominating Committee of the Board is seeking eligible members who may be interested in running for vacant positions on our Board of Directors. The Board meets on a regular basis to set future direction, establish policy and review operations.

The Committee encourages those interested that would like more information on the roles and responsibilities of a Director, to please stop by any Innovation Credit Union Branch and pick up an Information and Nomination Kit. Nominations for the Board of Directors of Innovation Credit Union for District 1 defined as North Battleford, Battleford, Meadow Lake, Buffalo Narrows, Cut Knife, Glaslyn, Hafford, Leoville, Medstead, Meota, Shell Lake, Wilkie, and the business area and District 2 defined as Swift Current, Gravelbourg, Cabri, Eastend, Frontier, Gull Lake, Hodgeville, Lancer, Mankota, Ponteix and the business area will be accepted until noon on Friday, January 9, 2015.

Return completed nomination form to: Innovation Credit Union Box 638 North Battleford, Saskatchewan S9A 2Y7 Attention: Russ Siemens, Committee Chairperson

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SERVICES FOR HIRE A-1 Service, Will Shingle, build fences, decks, interior painting, metal fascia soffit, home renovations, snow removal, etc. Phone 306-4458439

FARM SERVICES

PETS

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Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were dumped in our doghouse in front of the shelter on a cold winter morning. They were so happy to see us when we got to work and were so happy to be brought in out of the cold!! They are the cutest little guys and love to cuddle and when they eat together, they curl their tails together and stay like that until they are done. Come and meet these little gentlemen and see if they win your hearts this Christmas...if they don’t win them, they will definitely warm them!!!

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Call GNG for massive year end herbicide sales: • Guaranteed best prices • All farmers welcome (no memberships) • Delivered to the yard • No deposit on containers • GNG dealers in most areas (new dealers welcome) Products: • Smoke – loaded glyphosate • Clever – one pass cleaver control • Foax – green foxtail and wild oats • Diquash – desiccant • Inject-N – full line of inoculants • Diesel fuel – 30,000+ litre min • 20+ new actives being developed For all details please contact us at 306 477-4007 or info@gng.ag or visit our website at www.gng.ag

Jake is a wonderful young dog surrendered over to us because he was playing too rough with the sheep. He is calm and gentle and is fantastic with kids. He is good with cats and other dogs and is extremely smart and willing to please. Come and meet this sweet guy and give him a family for Christmas!!

Please spay or neuter your pets!

Check out all our Shelter animals in need of homes at: www.battlefordsanimalshelter.com

CLASSES & COURSES

Battlefords Youth Soccer Inc. is offering a

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT CLINIC Starting Monday Jan 5, 2015 (10 weeks) For Everyone Born 2011(LK) to 2003(U12) $50 2014/15 BYSI member $75 non-member Call 306-441-0133 to Register or for more information REGISTRATIONS

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LEGAL / PUBLIC NOTICES

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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF PARKDALE No. 498 Public Notice – Basic Planning Statement and Zoning Bylaw Amendments

Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Rural Municipality of Parkdale No. 498 intends to adopt bylaws under the Planning and Development Act, 2007, to amend Bylaw No. 03-06, known as the Basic Planning Statement, and Bylaw No. 04-06, known as the Zoning Bylaw.

INTENT: The proposed Basic Planning Statement amendment will allow for greater flexibility for developers within subdivision applications by removing the maximum number of sites allowed per Plan of Proposed Subdivision, and removing the maximum number of sites permitted to be owned by the same developer at one time. The proposed Zoning Bylaw amendment will require the submission of Real Property Surveyor’s Reports within medium- to high-density residential development areas, clarify what is considered to be non-conforming buildings, uses and sites, specify setback regulations for principal and accessory structures for residential lots, provide regulations for the development of decks for residential lots, and provide definitions for lakefront lots and permanent foundation.

AFFECTED LANDS: The affected lands of this zoning bylaw amendment are all lands lying within the Rural Municipality of Parkdale No. 498 boundaries.

REASON: The reason for the Basic Planning Statement amendment is to: • Allow for greater flexibility for developers to subdivide land within the Rural Municipality by removing the maximum number of sites permitted within each Plan of Proposed Subdivision.

• Accommodate developers by removing the maximum number of inventory of lots allowed, which are owned by the same applicant, to provides greater flexibility for subdivision applications.

• The reason for the Zoning Bylaw amendment is to: • Enable the Municipality to review the location of future developments within medium- and high-density residential areas through the requirement of a Real Property Surveyors Report completed by a Saskatchewan Land Surveyor.

• Align the RM of Parkdale’s regulations regarding nonconforming uses, buildings, and sites with the Planning and Development Act, 2007.

• Clarify setback regulations for principal dwelling units, accessory buildings and structures, and decks within Residential Districts.

• Add definitions for the following words: lakefront lot, and permanent foundation.

PUBLIC INSPECTION: Any person may inspect the bylaw amendment at the RM of Parkdale No. 498 office between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. excluding statutory holidays. Copies are available at cost.

PUBLIC HEARING: Council will hold a public hearing on January 14th at 1:30 pm in the RM of Parkdale No. 498 office located in the Village of Glaslyn to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed Basic Planning Statement and Zoning Bylaw amendments. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing or delivered to the undersigned at the RM office prior to the hearing.

Issued at the Village of Glaslyn this 11th day of December, 2014.

Jennifer Ernst Acting Municipal Administrator

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leave an IMPRESSION

LEGAL / PUBLIC NOTICES Local Government Election FORM B [Subsection 160.15(1) of the Act]

Rural Municipality of Parkdale No. 498 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of:

Dated this 18th day of December, 2014.

Jennifer Ernst Returning Officer

Pyrenees akbash pups for sale.

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Nomination forms may be obtained from the municipal office.

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Notice of Call for Nominations

will be received by the undersigned at the municipal office during normal office hours until Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. local time.

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call-11 888 470 7997

phone 306 229 6774 email: danbsully@sasktel.net

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1672 - 97th Street, North Battleford Notice of Intention to Amend Designation of Municipal Heritage Property Section 17(2), The Heritage Property Act, R.R.S. 1979-80, c-H-2.2, as amended Notice is hereby given that not less than thirty (30) days from the date of service of this notice, the Council of the Town of Battleford intends to pass a bylaw pursuant to the provisions of The Heritage Property Act, to amend the Municipal Heritage Property designation bylaw of the following real property known as Gardiner Church formerly described Lots 13 & 14, South side of 20th Street West of Central Avenue, Plan B1125 described now as Lot 17 Block 50 Plan 02B07505. Civic address of this property is 121-20th Street West. The property was designated as Municipal Heritage Property by Bylaw No. 3/82, read a third time and passed on the 5th day of April, 1982.

The reason for the proposed amendment is as follows: 1. The Parcel that contained Gardiner Church at the time of the heritage designation will be subdivided as shown in the sketch below to accommodate the severing of land shown in the hatched area to be consolidated with the adjacent lots. As a consequence of the subdivision, the parcel that contains Gardiner Church will have a new Legal Description and Parcel Number. Therefore, as an administrative matter, the Town of Battleford intends to amend Bylaw No. 3/82 to provide the current and correct Legal Description for Gardiner Church as given in said bylaw.

$1200.00 per month (plus damage deposit)

References required.

Phone for more information 306.441.1620 COMING EVENTS

Community Events Calendar ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Please call our 24 hour helpline at 306-446-6166 for support or information.

Thursday, December 18 Any person wishing to object to the proposed amendment must serve Council with a written objection stating the reasons for the objection and all relevant facts not less than three (3) days prior to consideration of the amending bylaw. Bylaw considered date is February 17, 2015.

Dated this 18th day of December, 2014.

S. Ballendine, ADMINISTRATOR

Christmas Bake Sale at the Co-op Mall at 9:30 a.m. Sponsored by the Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League of Canada. Sale of Christmas baking, cabbage rolls, perogies, etc.

Friday, December 19 Carols by Candlelight will be at the Good Shepherd Church in Turtleford at 7:30 with lunch to follow, by the AUCW.

Saturday, December 20 Club 70 Dance - Leon Ochs at the Royal Canadian Legion, 1352 100th Street from 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. with lunch. Phone Les & Donna at 306-845-3772 for more info. Everyone welcome.

This section, which will appear weekly in Tuesday's News-Optimist and Thursday’s Regional Optimist, is provided free-of-charge to non-profit organizations. To list the Community Calendar please call News-Optimist at 306-445-7261 or fax the information to 306445-3223. Please provide complete information including event, time, date and location.Although we will do our utmost to make sure your event appears in this section, News-Optimist does not guarantee all submissions will appear. Deadline for submissions is 12:00 noon Friday prior for Tuesday's & Thursday’s publication.

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

UNIVERSITY/ COLLEGE STUDENTS WANTED for summer management positions with Student Works.

Full Business training provided.

Challenging learning experience, huge resumé booster!

Average earnings in the summer of 2014 was $20,500.

Information at www.studentworks.ca or email megans@studentworks.ca Deadline January 5, 2015

Service Manager has a great opportunity for an individual to work with one of the most competitive vehicle lineups in the industry. If you have the following characteristics, there is a golden opportunity waiting for you.

Honesty and Integrity a must Positive attitude Ambitious, willing to succeed Willing to help others Team Player - desire to join a positive work environment Relocation allowance may be available to the successful candidate.

Complete benefits package Please apply with resumé & references in confidence to:

Dean Anderson, General Manager Highway 4 North, North Battleford, SK, S9A 3L8 Tel: 306-445-7799, Email: danderson@rainbowtoyota.com

Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre Inc. is an accredited organization serving the Health needs of the following First Nations: Little Pine, Mosquito, Poundmaker, Sweetgrass, Lucky Man, Moosomin and Red Pheasant.

Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre Inc. is seeking a

Permanent Day Care Coordinator Under the speciÀc guidance of the Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre Board, the Daycare Program Coordinator will report directly to the Executive Director of the Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre Inc. This program requires a broad range of skills in early childhood education, organizational development, accounting, program administration and personnel management. The Daycare Coordinator works with the Daycare Board or Committee appointed by each Chief and Council to develop and maintain high quality daycare services for parents who require the service.

Living Sky School Division No. 202 Growth Without Limits, Learning For All

Now accepting applications for the following positions: Educational Assistant • Luseland School Closes at noon, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014.

Educational Assistant • Cut Knife High School • Hafford Central School • Leoville Central School • Macklin School • Scott Colony School - Unity Closes at noon, Monday, January 5, 2015.

Educational Assistant • Cando Community School Apply ASAP, applications accepted until suitable candidate is found.

Details and link to online applications can be found on our website: www.lskysd.ca

QualiÀcations • Degree in Early Childhood Education, Family Studies, Social Work or equivalent.

• Minimum of 5 years experience in the early childhood Àeld.

• Minimum of 3 years experience in program administration.

• Must have a good working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles.

• Must be proÀcient with word processing and spreadsheet and have working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.

• Capable of developing good working relationships with First Nations at the community, Band, Tribal Council, and FSIN levels.

• Ability to travel within the district and region.

• Ability to speak Cree an asset.

• ConÀdentiality is essential.

• Must have a valid driver’s license.

• Must provide a criminal record check.

Submit updated resumé, cover letter and 3 professional references by 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2015 to: Patricia L. Whitecalf-Ironstand, Executive Director Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre Inc. P.O. Box 1658 North Battleford, Saskatchewan S9A 3W2 Fax: (306) 445-3612 Only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre Inc. fosters and promotes a safe work environment.

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$12.00 per hour

Must be available for various shifts.

Apply within: 1702 - 100th St. North Battleford, SK Ph: 306-445-4408 Fax: 306-445-1299 Email: BattlefordKFC@hotmail.com

We are seeking a

Junior CA for a joint venture to acquire an accounting firm in North Battleford. This candidate will have up to 50% ownership of the acquired firm, and must be able to work in the office approximately 3 days per week to meet with clientèle and manage the day to day office tasks.

Please submit your resumé to

careers@tursagroup.com CLEMENTS KWONG

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We require an individual to assist in providing taxation and accounting services for personal and corporate clients.

Zak Organics is an organic grain and cattle farm located in Fir Mountain, southwest Saskatchewan. We are looking for a full-time permanent farm machine operator with the following qualifications:

Chartered Professional Accountants Accounting Technician/ Professional Accountant

The successful individual will: • Have bookkeeping and accounting experience.

• Have experience with accounting software.

• Prepare bank reconciliations, financial statements, working paper files, personal and corporate tax returns.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

This position would be of interest to an ambitious individual who has been recently designated (CA, CMA, or CGA) or is currently working towards a designation. The position involves working primarily with small business and personal tax clientele.

Post secondary education in accounting with an accounting designation or currently working towards a designation.

Please email, mail or fax resumé to:

Clements Kwong

Chartered Professional Accountants 1682 - 100th Street North Battleford, SK S9A 0W6 Phone: 306-445-7448 Fax: 306-445-2472 Email: billc@ckcpa.ca

Duties: Plant, cultivate, and harvest crops Handling of cattle Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock Assist with maintenance, fixing and repairs of farm machinery Responsibilities and Commitment t Previous experience operating and maintaining large modern farm equipment t Valid Driver’s licence (Class 1A) an asset t Mechanical repair knowledge and/or experience t Positive outlook, pride in accomplishment and enjoy field of agriculture Wage: $17-19 per hour We offer a company vehicle and modern housing close to the farm.

To apply please send resumé to zakfarms@gmail.com or mail to Box 35, Fir Mountain, SK. S0H 1P0

Reporter Correspondents

SpeciÀc duties include licensing of day care centers, monitoring and support of day care centers, coordination of required training, maintaining reporting requirements, and maintaining accurate Ànancial records for the Day Care Program.

This position runs from September to June of each calendar year.

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All District First Nations Cando Cochin Cut Knife Glaslyn Hafford Lashburn Livelong

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Mervin North of the Gully (Maidstone) Maidstone Paradise Hill Medstead St. Walburg Turtleford

For more information contact:

Becky Doig (Editor) email: newsoptimist.news@sasktel.net or toll free 1-866-549-9979 NOTE: These are freelance opportunities, not salaried positions.

Ideally, reporter correspondents should reside within the communities listed

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Autobody Technician has a great opportunity for an individual to work with one of the most competitive vehicle lineups in the industry. If you have the following characteristics, there is a golden opportunity waiting for you.

Turtleford School Division Office is looking for full-time, permanent

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• Automotive knowledge an asset • Computer skills required • Wage is based on experience

Honesty and Integrity a must Positive attitude Ambitious, willing to succeed Willing to help others Team Player - desire to join a positive work environment Relocation allowance may be available to the successful candidate.

For more information please visit our website: www.nwsd.ca

Please apply with resumé to:

Kevin Oborowsky - Sales Manager Email: koborowsky@napacanada.com Fax: 306-445-0531

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Dean Anderson, General Manager Highway 4 North, North Battleford, SK, S9A 3L8 Tel: 306-445-7799, Email: danderson@rainbowtoyota.com

North West Regional College

Instructor, Practical Nursing - Sociology Meadow Lake Posting #76-ML-1415 This casual position is responsible for organizing and delivery of the Sociology curriculum and content to the Practical Nursing Students. Employment dates for this position are Fridays, running from January 30 – March 13, 2015 for 5.5 days.

KANAWEYIMIK CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC.

Salary Range: $274.89 – $435.40/day depending on education and experience.

Kanaweyimik is an independent, non-political child welfare agency providing child welfare and family services to Àve First Nations. Moosomin, Mosquito, Red Pheasant, Saulteaux & Sweetgrass First Nations contract for services with Kanaweyimik.

For a complete position profile, and application visit www.nwrc.sk.ca.

Applications will be received until noon, January 5, 2015.

The following is a general description of a Family Finder Worker (Social Worker) position. Salary will be commensurate with experience, training and education. This is an 8 month term position.

www.nwrc.sk.ca North West Regional College

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Meadow Lake Posting #72-ML-1415 Reporting to the Program Coordinator, North Region, this in-scope position is responsible for the planning and delivery of the Saskatchewan Polytechnic Plumbing & Pipefitting Applied Certificate program. This position is 100 days running from January 19 – June 16, 2015.

For a complete position profile, and application visit www.nwrc.sk.ca.

Applications will be received until noon, January 5, 2015.

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The Family Finder Worker is directly responsible to the Supervisor and/or Executive Director; • Manage a caseload in the area of child welfare and family support services; • The Family Finder Worker primary role is dedicated to locating, screening and assessing families who have been identiÀed as potential caregivers for children in care off-reserve who may have a membership with Moosomin, Red Pheasant, Saulteaux, Sweetgrass and Mosquito First Nations. This recruitment activity will be undertaken both off and on-reserve • Maintain computerized data, case recordings, individual and family Àles, etc; • Coordinate case planning sessions and monitor case plans to ensure families are receiving services; Will comply with the provisions of the Kanaweyimik Personnel Manual as it exists from time to time.

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QUALIFICATIONS Must have a University Degree from a recognized School of Social Work; Must have at least 5 years experience and proven ability to work in the counselling and social services area with families and children; Must demonstrate knowledge of The Child & Family Services Act; Must have completed all CORE training provided by the Ministry of Social Services; Must have work experience assessing families and children; Must have knowledge on child development and the impact of abuse and neglect, disability and other special needs, separation and attachment issues as it relates to matters in child welfare services; Must have the ability to understand family dynamics (i.e. strengths, deÀcits, ancestral clan trends, acceptance/support from the community, etc.) in order to conduct genogram/family clan research; Must possess good, culturally appropriate interviewing skills; Knowledge of the Cree language is an asset; Computer skills are a position requirement; Excellent verbal, written and time management skills are required; A clear criminal records check MUST BE PRESENTED AT INTERVIEW; Must have a valid drivers licence.

Application deadline is December 31, 2014 at 5:00 pm.

Start date to be determined.

Please forward resumés by fax, email or mail to: (306) 445-2533, marleneb@kanaweyimik.com.

Only successful applicants will be contacted for scheduled interviews. Recruitment process to continue until a successful candidate is selected.

Kanaweyimik Child & Family Services, Inc. P.O. Box 1270, Battleford, Saskatchewan, S0M 0E0 Attention: Marlene Bugler

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Elections and an office move in the RM of Glenside

By Dorothy M. Mills Correspondent For starters, I must apologize for not having regular news of the local area into the last few weeks’ newspapers as I have been in the Battlefords Union Hospital for about two weeks. Nice to be back home again. My deepest thank yous to all those who visited, made phone calls and sent get well wishes. Also a big thank you to nurses and attendants at the Battlefords Union Hospital and also to the care I got with members of the North Battleford Ambulance.

Recently there were elections, in November, for the RM of Glenside. Robert Greer returned as the councillor in the local division.

In division 4 Shawn Fouhy stepped down; only one person placed their name for the position. Andrea Owen went in by acclamation for council-

lor in division 4. In division 2, Brent Shokotko stepped down and Kim Custer put her name down and went in by acclamation for councillor.

The RM of Glenside has had a good number of important issues to work with over the past few months. Several meetings have been held, open to ratepayers. The RM of Glenside No. 377 former office has been closed and the RM has moved in with Biggar RM No. 347 to be a combined office, which has up-to date-equipment. The old Glenside No. 377 building will be kept for historical artifacts and records.

Sympathies go out to the Harold Close family of North Battleford, formerly from Sonningdale, on the recent passing of Harold. Burial was at the Sonningdale Cemetery.

Sympathies also go to Edith Armstrong’s family in North Battleford and the

aljennie family in the Lizard Lake area on the recent passing of Carl Armstrong. Carl was a member of the senior group who meet quite often at the Lizard Lake Community Centre before it closed. They will be missed by all. Burial will be at the Sonningdale Cemetery.

Winter did set in on the Prairies in a typical fashion – very cold temperatures, snow, wind, fog and freezing rainfall to leave the trees coated with frost. Road graders and other snow removal machines have all been out clearing the snow on the main streets and roads. By the long range almanac, there is more nasty weather in store and a cold Christmas season.

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Mother Nature can be really throw herself about to bring on the sudden change of much milder days combined with melting conditions. But it did leave a lot of ice and some roads and yards like a skating rink.

We are nearly at the end of another year and I would like to send out a big thank you to all those people who filled me in on local news items throughout the year. It does help a great deal. Remember Baljennie has got very small and not many of us are left so let’s keep Baljennie alive and on the map for as long as we can. It has a historic past to many people.

Christmas break is coming up for the school children, teachers and school bus drivers Dec. 20 and goes until Jan. 6, 2015. The next break will be in mid-February 2015.

Merry Christmas! We rejoice in the sound of the

words and the story of the message – on Earth, peace and goodwill to men. But we do not always feel the meaning in our hearts and put it to work in our lives. One who did was Henry Van Dyke, the late American clergyman, writer and poet whose famous Story of the Other Wise Man has brought joy and inspiration to thousands of people over the years.

Among his writings is a piece called The Spirit of Christmas and we think you’ll like it as much as we did.

“We are thinking of you today because it is Christmas and tomorrow because it will be the day after and so on through the year. We may not be able to tell you about it every day, but that makes no difference, the thought and the wish will be here just the same.

“Because it is Christmas the world stands still for a while in reverent memory of

the Christ child’s birth. Because it’s Christmas we hope anew for peace – we resolve that the Spirit of Christmas will stay with us throughout the year. Of course the Spirit of Christmas should not be confined to a single day nor is it.

“For all those who truly believe in goodwill to men, honour it in their heart and live it in their lives every day of the year. They cherish the continuing warmth of friendship, the ever new rebirth of the Babe who lived to teach us peace and love.

And though friends may be far away or seldom met, that too makes no difference – the steady flow of hope and good will continues to bind together those who put their trust in the power of loving kindness and in all those that we mean by humanity.”

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Be back again in 2015.

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World Junior A Challenge

Canadians take on Russians in pre-tourney game

By Sherri Solomko Correspondent

PHOTOS BY SHERRI SOLOMKO

Gerald Hauta, general manager of Unity Credit Union, flanked by Delta Co-op Home Centre manager Peter Keller and committee members drew the lucky winner of the 50/50 pot of just over $2,500 at the World Junior A Hockey Challenge event in Unity Dec. 12th. Both Delta Co-op and Unity Credit Union were the main sponsors for the 50/50 jackpot that night. In the top photo, game time rivalries were soon erased as Canada and Russia exchanged handshakes following the game.

UNITY — he evening of Dec. 12 capped off a flurry of rigorous organizing and planning by the committee, who came together in a short time to pull of an event off this magnitude.

“We’ve done this before so we had a bit of an advantage,” committee co-chair Rick Blanchette said.

Joined in the leadership role was co-chair Rick Hill, and they gathered up individuals who had played a role in other big hockey events in the past.

The committee co-operated fully with the Unity Composite High School journalism class who were providing first class coverage of the event in the manner everyone has grown accustomed to in the J20 class multi media events this class covers.

Excitement was evident as crowds arrived early, some as much as two hours before puck drop. The atmosphere edged on electric as fans poured into the arena.

The crowds were entertained by the younger hockey stars who took to the ice showcasing their skills prior to the game.

The UCHS journalism class lined up a multi-media event to hold interviews of fans, players and Hockey Canada personnel, while all the while running multiple cameras throughout the evening, including an overhead camera installed at centre ice.

Right from warm up through opening ceremonies to game play, it was easy to tell this was no ordinary hockey game. And it was easy to see that these were two fiercely competitive teams, making for entertaining hockey.

Despite being unable to

overcome Russia’s highpowered offense and superb goaltending, Canada West did outshoot the Russians, showing they have some skill of their own.

“It was a very long day but also very rewarding,” Town of Unity’s Parks and Recreation Director Nicole Goldsworthy said. “It was fun to see the excitement in everyone.”

While no one walked away with the new car in the Scoro event, all four shooters drew many “Oohs and aahs.”

Nigel Jellison was the lucky winner of just over $2,500 in the 50/50 jackpot.

The crowd didn’t hurry out of the rink following the game, choosing instead to linger and savor the moments of such a big event held in Unity. Some headed home while others headed upstairs to meet and greet the players following their post-game meal.

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Peace and serenity amidst the hustle and bustle

By Sherri Solomko Correspondent

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All the planning and preparation is over, Christmas is here. Have a blessed, healthy and very Merry Christmas, folks! If you are travelling, drive safely and be prepared for changing conditions.

In the busy hustle and bustle of the holidays, take time to visit a shut-in or help an elderly neighbour with some shovelling. Demonstrate the good will gestures of what Christmas is all about. Don’t forget our churches that will all host a Christmas Eve service and can give you the peace and serenity we all seek at this time of year. The music alone will be sure to soothe the soul.

The biggest news out of Unity this past week was the Russia vs Team Canada East game held Dec. 12. More than 750 people packed the rink to watch these teams face off in a pre-tournament game of world junior A hockey prior to the tournament in Kindersley Dec. 14-20. Fans were not disappointed as, even though Russia outscored the Canadians, it was a quick game

News showcasing the best in these players. See complete story in another section of this paper.

The Unity Composite High School drama production was fantastic. The drama club does a fabulous job of set design, costumes and lighting as well as fine-tuning the talent of actors, actresses, singers and dancers who all perform in the production. What a terrific addition to have the St. Peter’s School band performing live music to accompany the productions.

The UCHS annual fruit sale was all distributed this week as well, thanks to the many, many volunteers and student sellers who helped make this massive task much more manageable by all pitching in to help unload the truck, sort, distribute and deliver the orders.

St. Peter’s School had some great excitement before school was out as Principal Volk and his wife welcomed

their first family members with twin boys who were born Dec. 11. The staff and students are anxious to meet the next generation of St. Peter’s students and are very excited this Christmas package arrived safe and healthy for Mr. Volk and his wife, Patti.

Unity Public School wrapped up this week with a Family Fun Night Dec. 18, full of festive fun, food and games for all students, parents and grandparents.

School is officially over until 2015. Kids can now enjoy alarm-free mornings until the new year. Parents can enjoy a little less hectic of an activity schedule while attempting to get some extra chore help around the house.

University and college students are heading home for Christmas break, sure to look for the familiar cooking and spaces of home and a welcome reconnecting with former classmates.

Hockey talk is prevalent following the exciting big game featuring Team Canada East vs Russia at the arena Dec. 12. Fans were in for some of the highest calibre hockey right in their own

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Unity Public School Grade 5 teacher, Mrs. May, presents a “mini” festival of trees with her class project that this year created 26 perfect, shiny trees for display in the school’s hallways, adorned by each classrooms’ own decorated tree in the background. arena. The action didn’t stop there as the Peewees Lazers hosted their home tournament right after this game on Dec. 13 and 14.

The Unity Miners will continue their league action with a game in Wilkie Dec. 19.

For all divisions of hockey, it is best to check the schedule hanging at the rink or log on to either of these websites: www.unitymiorhockey.com or www.townofunity.com.

Attention curlers, near and far – here is what is upcoming at the Unity Curling Club. First, the annual Boxing Day Funspiel for those who choose to be active rather than shopping or sitting on their couch eating leftovers!

Register now at the curling club at 306-228-2212.

Next on the agenda is the Sifto/Compass Minerals sponsored Cash Spiel for senior men and women, running Jan. 9 to 11 featuring a $7,000 prize payout. At the end of January, the club will host the senior women’s qualifier and February opens with our two big spiels, the JayDee AgTech Men’s Open from Feb. 10 – 15 and then the Oilmen’s Bonspiel from Feb. 26 to March 1.

Both the Bramiche Farms Ladies’ Open and Year End Funspiel are slated for March.

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has a Facebook page so check it out for all the latest updates, photos of our spacious lounge, far-end camera viewing, long spacious windows at each sheet and some curling action. Come play in or visit the curling club everyone is talking about.

Don’t forget the annual Secret Santa campaign is looking for volunteers to help assemble and wrap for deliveries the night of Dec. 22. The committee does a fantastic job of continuously seeking donations, picking up those donations, then shopping to fill in the gaps to fulfill those names that have been submitted this year. Volunteers then select from these donations for their “Secret Santa” names, as well as wrapping and assembling their hampers ready to deliver that night.

The work party is at 7 p.m. at St. Peter’s Hall, so feel free to join in as many hands make light work.

You will notice a number of businesses in Unity holding some great specials for Christmas. In addition, some locations are offering extended hours for the last week before Christmas.

Remember all the benefits of taking advantage of the “shopportUNITY in Unity” and visit local businesses first when completing your Christmas lists. These retailers have set up shop here in Unity for

our benefit so let’s reciprocate by supporting them back. It’s a win/win situation for both shopper and storekeeper.

In fact, the local sports store, Wildeman’s Sport Excellence is getting ready to move to their expanded location – how exciting is this? A new store in its first year of operation expanding. They are holding a one day only moving sale on Dec. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you’re around, check it out!

If you are looking for a New Year’s Eve event, Bluez on 2nd is holding a New Year’s Eve formal with a surf and turf meal. Advance tickets are on sale now. Also, Danny and the Dusters are playing a New Year’s Eve gala in Macklin.

Coffee row folks are enjoying all the festive fun in our community. Christmas always brings brighter smiles, happy conversations and the sharing of plans for the upcoming holidays as rowers look forward to either their travels or the company they will be receiving. The coffee row table is welcoming, non-judgmental, theoretical and lively. Something that we would all miss were it not part of our daily community culture. So you see we keep busy in Unity with activities and wisdom from our friends on coffee row. Until next week.

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New administrator in the Village of Borden office

By Lorraine Olinyk Correspondent The Borden Friendship Club held their Christmas banquet Dec. 9 in their club room with 58 members and guests enjoying a turkey dinner served by the Borden Lions. Providing the entertainment for the evening were Glenn and Joan Julseth of Borden, and Doug Martin of Radisson playing drums. Glenn plays guitar and sings while Joan plays keyboard and sings.

They performed numerous Christmas songs along with Heartaches, Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re My Best Friend, Navajo Rug, etc., a total of 18 songs, and closing with Silent Night and Away in a Manger.

The Village of Borden has hired a new administrator â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Myron Belej, who has come from Edmonton, Alta., to work here, and joins Valerie Fendelet in the office, who is the RM of Great Bend administrator. Myron and his wife have three children and the family will be looking for somewhere to live once their house sells in Edmonton.

New staff at the Borden Co-op are Ashley Elliot and Craig Ginther.

Santa Claus dropped in to Radisson Dec. 13, arriving on the Radisson fire truck and handing out candy bags to all the children, compliments of the Radisson volunteer firefighters.

In Radisson Hall the Royal Purple held a tea and bake sale, serving strawberry shortcake to close to 100 adults and children.

Also having tables and selling their products were the playground committee with boxed candy and other items, Mary Werezak with Tupperware, Fern Stevens with sewing and quilts and the chamber of commerce with their 2015 calendars.

Winning the adult door prizes donated by Tina and John Hessell were Chyanne Werezak and Dave Summers. The childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prizes donated by L. Olinyk and Roberta Harris went to Braxzen Borowski, Arin Amson, Hannah Hamp and Liam Sylvester.

Three raffle prizes donated by L. Olinyk went to Grace Schensney, Laura Loeppky and Michelle Nelson. The main raffle draw of a grocery hamper, from the Royal Purple ladies and the Lodge, including a turkey, went to Jim Olinyk, the ham to Doris Lerch, oranges to Jean Hryniuk and chocolates donated by Kay Shipowich went to Mark Armistead.

Borden High School mixed curling teams entered St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High School Christmas bonspiel in Prince Albert Dec. 12 and 13, with the team of Emma Prescesky, Emma Pidwerbesky and Duncan and Cullen Sutherland losing out in the A final, placing second. The team of Graham Sargent, Wyatt Piprell, Sara Prescesky and Brooklyn Gader won the B side. Dallas Burnettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team of Eric Westad, Andrew

orden Radisson Derksen and Tyler Camm were in Regina over the

weekend playing in a qualifier playoff to see who goes to the Canada Games in B.C. in February. Dallas and his team lost out in the final game Sunday morning.

Radisson St. Paul Lutheran Church held their annual carols, candles and cookies

program Dec. 14, with Pastor Bornhuse presiding. The candle lighter was George Hamp, organist was Jackie Meister and pianist was Twyla Stott. After each congregational carol, a candle was lit and a Bible reading read by the pastor.

Special music included Erin Bornhuse singing Sweet Little Jesus and Just Believe, Glenn and Joan Julseth of Borden singing, and Dave and Laurie Summers singing Silent Night with Dave singing one verse in German. They were accompanied by Don Wenner on keyboard. The Borden Lions sang Christmas at the Ale House and Have You Heard? Cathy Flath, Russ and Eileen Fountain and Erwin Hamp sang Christmas Morning in Bethlehem and Russ sang Christmas Memories of Long Ago. Everyone

joined in on a number of other carols.

The congregational carol was Twas in the Moon of Wintertime and First Saskatchewan Lutheran Church from Langham sang Calypso Lullaby and The Light of Christmas. Everyone went to the lower hall for coffee, tea and cookies or assorted dainties. Non-perishable food items were brought by those attending and the church ladies have been busily quilting and knitting mitts and toques which are all going in to the Salvation Army.

Borden Lions singing at Radisson Lutheran Church Dec. 14. In the group are Don Dyck, John Buswell, Wendell Dyck, Anne Palmer, Gabriel Lajoie, Archie Wainwright and Bob Wardhaugh.

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Maymont Central School

Soccer team earns provincial sportsmanship banner

By MCS Staff MAYMONT — The Maymont School Community Council, known as the SCC, has been very active in the school in the past few weeks.

They sponsored a very successful movie night in the gym. There was an excellent turnout and the children left full of popcorn. They watched the movie Elf and had tons of fun.

SCC members and several staff members arrived early to make pancakes for the pancake and sausage breakfast, Dec. 10. The breakfast was a recognition breakfast for the 1A boys’ soccer team.

Following the breakfast, a representative from the Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association presented the sportsmanship banner to the boys. They were voted for this honour by the other three teams at the 1A provincial playoffs. The boys hosted this event in North Battleford in October.

The Grade 6/7 class has been collecting donations for the food bank. They also

received the food bank donations from the movie night so they have several boxes to deliver to a local association.

This week the staff and students had to say farewell to the two interns, Chase Fouhy and Laura Weber.

They will be returning to classes at the University of Saskatchewan after Christmas. Everyone wishes them all the best.

Brooke Ferris, a Grade 6 student, was entered into the Regina AA hockey tournament.

There were four teams entered into this AA peewee tournament — from Calgary, Regina and two Saskatoon teams. Brooke plays with the Comet Hurricanes.

They won three games and lost two. In the semifinal game they played Regina.

During the entire game, the audience was on the edge of their seats. Luckily, the Comet Hurricanes won by a score of 2-1.

The next day they played Calgary in the gold medal match. They all had their

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with a gold medal around their necks.

If you are in the school on certain days, you can stop

by Mrs. Jackson’s room and meet Pawsitive Annie of Dunrovin. She is a little girl with a big future.

Annie is a service dog in training with Pawsitive Autism Service Dogs of Saskatchewan Inc. She is only nine months old right now, but over the next two years Annie will be trained to be a special companion for a child with autism. Annie’s training will be individualized to the needs of her child, with an overall goal of promoting independence, safety and companionship for her child and family.

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She would love to meet you.

The annual Christmas concert was held Dec. 17.

The choir sang two songs, A Starry Night and The Christmas Tree Feud. A video presentation followed about the fun, chaos and hours of preparation that go into the Christmas concert.

The main play was Toyland. The toys come alive on Christmas Eve. They dance, sing and have fun while they are out of their packages. A Jack-in-the-box toy pops out all the time but keeps cheering for the wrong holiday.

Finally, she gets in right and the toys return to their gift boxes.

The evening concluded with the arrival of Santa Claus. Several businesses and people donated money to buy treats for the children.

The school would like to thank them for their generous donations.

From the staff and students of Maymont Central School, we wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and the best in 2015.

St. Walburg Royal Purple

Christmas party shared meals on wheels in January.

Thel Romphf, Lynn Clarke and Kim Gardner’s birthdays were acknowledged this month.

The new lunch committee members for January, February and March, 2015, are Dorothea Hocher, Kim Gardner and Joan Karst.

The last seniors’ dinner in 2014, the Christmas dinner, will be Dec. 18. In the new year, the first dinner will be Jan. 15 and continue every two weeks after that.

Wishing our readers a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy 2015.

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Under the direction of kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Robertson, Unity Public School is showcasing, 23 goody-covered gingerbread houses all created by the little hands of kindergarten students. Each year, Mrs. Robertson has kept with this tradition, creating a gingerbread house for each student in the class, and several to raffle off in the school for others to enjoy.

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The St. Walburg Royal Purple December meeting brought out 31 members.

The evening began at 6:30 p.m. with a potluck feast, followed by the regular monthly meeting and Christmas party.

Santa’s elves were present to hand out gifts.

We drew names for new secret friends for the next year. District deputy Dorothea Hocher made her official visit this evening. She said her theme for the year is “We Shall Overcome.”

As is required, bylaw com-

mittee Judy Helperl and Donna Hall have gone through the bylaws and revised where necessary. The Lodge as a whole voted to pass the bylaws as presented.

Past district deputy Donna Hall, assisted by PDD Betty Malanchuk, installed two officers. Martha WernerJohnson was presented with her 10-year pin.

It was time to form a committee for the annual ladies’ night out. HRL Judy Helperl, Kim Rendle and Lois Hawryluk have put their names in for the committee. Royal Purple is obligated to deliver

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Retirement a time of change Correspondent As some of my readers will know at the end of 2014, Dec. 31, I will be retiring from Migneault Greenwood where I have worked for the last five years. Over the years I have worked with many great businesses and have made many good friends.

It’s time for a change.

Scared? Yes I am. I have worked since I was 15 years old and had children which, in our days we only had a week off and it was back to work again. It’s sad some of our children had to be raised by babysitters.

As of today’s date I have given up other things I love to do but have added some new ones. I am sad to say

I won’t be doing any more news items so if anyone has anything they’d like to put in the paper, they can contact Becky at newsoptimist. news@sasktel.net. She’d be happy to assist you.

Thank you to everyone who stopped me and said how much they enjoyed my news articles. I enjoyed writing them and, without some of the friends and family I had to write about, there would have been no news.

Some articles were happy and some articles sad.

Mel and I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year.

This poem was sent to me by a friend. As you go to pastures new Remember those who worked with you.

Think of us office bound,

aymont News longing for sun. And we’ll think of you out there having great fun. As you are wise you will no doubt wonder.

How will they get by without a blunder. But we’ll learn and laugh and then we’ll say How you would never have done it that way. And even at times if we’ve driven you mad We thank you most sincerely for the great times we’ve had.

Whatever aspirations you now hold in your heart We wish you the best retirement right from the start. Keep in touch, let us know how you

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Condolences to the Schmidt Family on the passing of Rick Schmidt our thoughts and prayers are with the family.

The Maymont Seniors’ fundraiser draw was made Dec. 15 at the Maymont Hotel. The winner of the $100 co-op gift card was Charlotte Gillatt. Congratulations, Charlotte and thanks to all who purchased tickets.

The Maymont Library fundraiser draw was made Dec. 10th at the Maymont Library. Congratulations to Payton Gray who won the $50 co-op gift certificate and to Charlotte Gillatt, Terry Skopyk and Bill Sherlock who won door prizes.

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