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Some of the people we’ve showcased include 2014’s Citizen of the Year, the man who runs the Dekker

Centre, the guy you see twisting balloons at events throughout the community, a visually impaired young man and his guide dog ... the list goes on.

To see who appeared in Everybody Has a Story throughout the year 2014, please turn to Pages 11, 12, 13 and 14.

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The Snow Angel Program encourages healthy, willing residents to help others when clearing snow from sidewalks - especially elderly residents or anyone with health or mobility restrictions.

HOW IT WORKS: Lend a helping hand to a resident who needs it and then tell us about it, and if you receive help from someone, nominate them as a “Snow Angel.” Write or e-mail your Snow Angel story to us (include the name and address of the Snow Angel.)

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When you recycle your real Christmas tree, you are being ecoconscious and the remains have a variety of uses, including mulch.

Once again, the City of North Battleford will be recycling trees into chips for mulch.

The mulch is used in tree and shrub beds, improving growth by retaining moisture and suppressing weed growth. Due to a decrease in the number of residents using real Christmas trees, the City of North Battleford no longer conducts back alley Christmas tree pickup. Instead, there is one “FREE” drop off location available only: 1) City of North Battleford Parks and Recreation Shop at 11202 8th Avenue (during regular business hours 8am-5pm) Materials left on trees can damage City equipment and become mixed in the mulch, which degrades its usefulness.

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A year of change at North Battleford City Hall on low-risk policing efforts.

The pilot project was later expanded province-wide.

Finally, budget deliberations in late 2014 focused on what to do about aging roads and underground pipes throughout the city, an issue that has been on city council’s radar for some time.

Administration sounded the alarm during budget

By John Cairns Staff Reporter

Jim Puffalt came on board as city manager in January.

David Gillan took on the role of finance manager.

Stewart Schafer is now director of operations.

rearrangements of functions and responsibilities. The biggest change has been the proposal to combine the Parks and Recreation function with Public Works to create the new Operations and Maintenance department.

Later in the year came major changes in the committee structure, as the Municipal Services, Finance Committee and part of the Parks and Recreation Culture and Heritage Committee were combined into a single Planning Committee. As well, a new and expanded Leisure Services Committee will take over many of the functions of the old Parks and Recreation Culture and Heritage Committee, particularly when it comes to SaskLotteries grant applications.

One of the more unex-

pected changes of 2014 was the resignation of Trent Houk from council in January, followed by the byelection win of political newcomer Kelli Hawtin (nee Saemann).

She defeated former councillor Ron Crush and Tom Schwab in that race. But the byelection generated little interest from the public. Only 698 people even bothered to vote in a city of 14,000, a depressing statement in itself about how engaged citizens were in municipal level government.

Of the issues that dominated city council in 2014, four stand out in particular.

The early part of 2014 saw the implementation of the decision by council to change from the old system of weekly garbage pickup from communal bins, to

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The difference in 2014 is not only that we have seen new personnel — with Jim Puffalt arriving as city manager, David Gillan hired as new director of finance and James Risdon as communications manager — but we also are seeing a major change in the management structure and in committees at City Hall.

Stewart Schafer is no longer the director of Public Works. Instead he is director of Operations and Maintenance. As well, Tim LaFreniere is no longer city planner but director of Planning and Development.

The last personnel change of note came late in the year when the city added a civil engineer, Robert Anthony, to its staff so project management, tender and design could be brought in-house.

That potentially means savings down the road.

The changes were instituted on the heels of a customer review completed in the spring, and has seen some

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Commentary

A compendium of complaints to begin the new year

By William Wardill

History & Commentary from a

Here we are, five days into the year in which I hope to reach the venerable age of 88. I shall have to hurry if I am to make anything of myself. What I am now is a complainer. I call myself The Cranky Columnist. The well-deserved title has been earned during years of railing against absurd authorities, bumptious bureaucrats, legalized thievery and numbskulls of every description. In sorting through my memories, I have become cranky again.

I was born in a frontier village on a treeless plain only eight years after the first huddle of buildings sprouted beside a Canadian Northern branch line. In those early years, as winter closed in, the railway was the lifeline that sustained the small settlement. The inhabitants were isolated.

They made their own entertainments. They played cards; they formed literary societies and drama clubs and they gathered around the parlor piano. Some of them who were less hidebound found opportunities to dance. (I remember

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www.speargrassspecialties.com one righteous old homesteader who opined that dancing was just lust set to music.)

We were well into the age of “canned ” music then.

When father bought a second-hand gramophone, I was amazed at the quality of the vocalists and musicians who had left their imprints on the lacquer disks. When he bought a second-hand, battery-operated radio, I was even more amazed. Batteries were expensive. The radio was used sparingly, but often enough for me to marvel at performers who could present their art forms in sound only.

Then came black and white television sets. I was old enough then to buy one; it was second hand. The first program I saw was the story of the writing of the hymn Silent

Night. I was deeply moved. From that night on and into the age of the coloured television set, I learned to winnow out the trash. I found superb variety shows, dramas, documentaries and singers.

I am cranky because the same menu is not available now. Most sitcoms appear to be written by idiots and most musicians and vocalists sound like constipated cats with St. Vitus dance howling on the back fence. Most people in the current crop of stand-up comedians seem able to move their listeners to gales of laughter. I don’t know why. If there is anything humorous in what they are saying, I don’t understand it. Having been brought up on the gentle humour of Stephen Leacock, I have no appreciation for lewd and rude.

I am cranky about over-organized children. When they rebel against the regimes that their elders deem to be good for them, the cure is always to organize them some more. It was different when I was a boy. We had chores at home and recognized obligations to school and church, but in our free time, we played what we wanted for as long as we wanted without any adult supervision. We weren’t in a desperate competition with anybody.

I am also cranky about the cyber world and the way it destroys privacy and threatens financial security.

I guess my real complaint is that I don’t understand society anymore.

Dear Editor

Let’s take a light-hearted review of The Gift of the Magi (Regional Optimist, Dec. 25).

It starts “One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all.

And sixty cents of it was in pennies.” How is this possible?

Further into the story Della receives $20 for her hair, giving her a total of $21.87. But then $21 dollars they took from her for (the fob chain), and she hurried home with the 78 cents. That’s another currency mystery; to realize that nine cents has disappeared.

Of course I’m nitpicking. It’s all in fun. But still, it would be interesting to compare the author’s original words. I would find it hard to believe the discrepancies would have been overlooked by the author. So how, when or where did they creep in?

I remember first reading The Gift of the Magi in the 1960s. The theme I found very gripping and memorable. I enjoyed this opportunity to again reflect on it.

Orval Beland Denholm

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Not everyone thinks hockey is the be all and end all I don’t often listen to the sports shows on talk radio, but something caught my attention Jan. 6. The commentators on CJME were going on at length about trading in junior hockey.

Specifically, they didn’t like the idea of trading high school kids during the season, which would force them to move and change schools. Apparently the Regina Pats had made a number of trades in recent days, sending four boys elsewhere.

What was this blasphemy I was hearing? Someone was actually questioning the logic behind the hockey developmental system? The podcast for the segment was entitled “Should trades be banned in junior hockey because of age and lack of wage?” I had to listen to it to be sure I was hearing right.

“These are kids after all,” was one of the comments. Some people thought transfers should only happen in the off season.

“I’m in the camp that they should at least be allowed to finish high school before they’re traded,” said Warren Woods, one of the CJME commentators.

“It’s bad enough that some of these kids are traded away, half a country away.

A Regina kid that ends up being drafted by Portland, and ends up having to play out there, unless he’s traded back, he never sees his family.”

I nearly fell out of my truck seat when I first heard that. Someone who is paid to live and breathe sports actually thinks the same way I do about the player meat market. Apparently I’m not the only apostate.

Say no to snowmobiles in town Staff

In the summer, it’s the sound of ATVs. In winter, it’s snowmobiles.

These sounds should not be heard within the limits of the Town of Battleford, but heard they are.

Monday night, at the regular meeting of Battleford Town Council, Councillor Ames Leslie pointed out snowmobiles are not supposed to be on town streets or on the town’s recreational trails.

He noted a little girl was almost run over by a youth on a snowmobile just last weekend.

“We don’t need somebody to get hurt and we don’t need our trails all dug up,” he said.

Sheryl Ballendine, town administrator, said snowmobilers are supposed to load their machines up and take them out of town. The current bylaw reads no snowmobile use or ATV use within the town.

This reminded me of the novel my daughter is studying in Grade 5. It’s called Underground to Canada, and follows two 13-yearold girls, both slaves, as they escape to Canada.

It’s amazing, when you think of it, how similar the two are – trades in hockey and slave trades pre-abolition. Young people get told where to go, when to go and have little say in the matter. (“They want to play!

Didn’t you know? No one forces them!” I can hear some people saying already).

Before you fly off the handle, consider this: On one occasion several years ago when covering sports while the NewsOptimist sports reporter was on holidays, I asked the North Stars coach at the time just what “traded for future considerations” meant. I always thought it meant at some point in the future, they could pluck a player from the other roster to make up for the one they gave up. No sir. It means money. It means the player’s rights were sold for cash on the barrelhead.

I see the SJHL has just introduced an entry draft.

They remind me of a slave auction, like the ones my daughter is currently studying. You get drafted (sold), you go where you are told, live with who they choose for you and don’t get paid a wage. The difference is you do get to play hockey, and if you give up that privilege, you get to go home.

I’ve been to only a handful of SJHL games, including just two in Estevan.

One was a few weeks ago, when we were given free tickets to attend.

When I turned over my ticket at the box office, I asked where do I sit?

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I was astonished, truly astonished at the low attendance. I counted every head on the opposite side of the rink, and then estimated my side of the rink. I would have been shocked if the total attendance was much over 300. There was an entire section of 128 seats with a total two people sitting in them. It was beyond barren. The reported attendance? 925. How could that be? I asked around and was told that season tickets count. It’s also common practice. Funny, I always thought attendance meant bums in seats. Nine hundred and twenty-five is more than a farce, it’s an outright lie.

Didn’t the citizens of Estevan, Saskatchewan and Canada (through grants) recently pay $22 million to build this beautiful rink?

All of that for 300 people to show up? I thought we were a hockey-mad country! That’s what we’re brainwashed to believe, yet here was evidence not many people really gave a damn.

Everyone knows so very few go on to make a career in professional hockey, yet that’s the dream. Kids are pushed and pushed and pushed from a young age, only to find that most give up the sport at age 14 or 15.

Those who do go further end up on the aforementioned auction, cough, I mean, draft block. They

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

give up years of family time to live with billets, to play in empty rinks that we pay absurd amounts for.

In fleshing out my argu-

ments, a friend asked what else that $22 million (and more in other places, I’m sure) could have gone for.

Hospital improvements?

Perhaps a new elementary school? Road repairs? Infrastructure upgrades?

If Canada is truly a hockey-mad nation, rinks should be full. There would be no need to puff up their attendance numbers. Then maybe the sacrifice kids are making might have some purpose; something, anything beyond playing to nearly-empty rinks.

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Oil company executives jumping the gun Welcome to winter in Saskatchewan in January.

It is - 25 to - 30 C with a little cut-right-throughthe-clothes, wind. Sorry, I don’t like it anymore. Well, I don’t think I ever liked it, but just accepted it as a fact of life and tried to carry on with what I was doing. As I am writing this column it is -34 C and with a wind the weatherman is saying it is – 45 C. Global warming, huh?

Bah Humbug.

This cold weather brings back memories of dealing with winter. In earlier days when I was feeding cattle my morning started out with harnessing the team and getting hooked on the rack.

Horses were good, they didn’t need boosting to get started but when the horses got old we switched to using the John Deere 4020.

There was much boosting, use of heat housings, a good circulating heater, stiff hydraulics and frozen feet.

It took less time to feed the cattle with the tractor but more troubles.

We slowly learned how to run a tractor in winter with less troubles. Keep the tractor inside even if it is in an unheated Quonset. A heated shop is better but we never seemed to have one.

Use the hottest circulating heater you can buy. Block heaters will not get the motor warm enough. We started out with long narrow batteries. They never were any good and I built a new battery box on the side of the tractor beside the starter.

Shorter battery cables less cranking power lost. We bought the squarer, highcranking amp batteries.

Much better.

The old 4020 fed cattle

every day in the winter for 23 years. It retired one summer day going down the road to the other place, when the motor slowed down and then stopped.

It would not crank and it didn’t take a CSI person to figure that one out. I have no idea how many hours were on the motor as the tach had broken on one of those thirty below mornings at least 10 years before.

I should tell you a funny story about the 4020. After the motor seized, I phoned up a friend, Earl Jones, who ran a wrecking yard south of Battleford. I had bought numerous parts from him in the past. I told him my dilemma, was asking about fixing it and was asking about a 4020 motor. I asked him if he would buy it. Earl said he might, but wanted to know what was on it. I told him it had an aftermarket cab and a frontend loader.

Earl said, “Is it a 46A loader?” I said, “Yes”. Earl said, “Does it have more than 10 pounds of welding rod on it?” I said, “Yes.” Earl said, “I will pay you $2,500.” I said, “The tractor is yours.” He said, “I will send out a truck for it” and he did. Knowing him like I do, I am sure he had half of it sold before the truck even got there.

In the time I have been on this Earth I have seen the cattle feeding industry move from everything loose to square bales and now round bales. The loose stuff was handballed with a pitch fork onto racks pulled by a team of horses and then hauled to the cattle. It was an everyday job no matter what the weather. When we quit threshing and began

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Regular contributor to newsoptimist.ca combining, we needed a system of handling the straw so father bought a square baler. I rode many a mile on the stooker and stacked and handled countless hundreds of square bales. I do not miss those little square bales. Going to a round baler was a step forward. You can’t move them by hand.

To water the cattle when I was young my father and grandfather had a big rim off an old steam engine. It was six or seven feet across.

It was laid down flat with the bottom cemented off. It had a wooden lid on the top and a cast iron tank heater sat inside. We put wood, coal and even had a system of dribbling diesel fuel into it to heat the water. We used to hand pump the water from the well into this rim.

It was a long thankless job and unbelievable how much those old cows could drink.

Later my father got a pump system from his cousin Ernie that hooked right on the pump shaft where the handle would go. It had a case iron frame and an eccentric that would go up and down, all run with an

electric motor. If you let the ice build up too much at the base of the pump, it would break the case iron housing.

That, with coaching from Ernie, is how I learned to weld case iron. When we put a watering bowl and a pressure system in, that was a lot better. I was beginning to have to weld on top of the welds I had already made on the old case iron pump jack so the move to the watering bowl was good for me.

Today, the only cattle I have are six Speckled Park purebred cows and son-in-law Roland looks after them. If it is cold I just don’t go outside. I miss having a purpose in life, like getting out there in the morning to feed cows. I miss the calves when they come in the spring, full of life and holding drag races across the field. I like to watch the calves grow throughout the summer. I don’t miss calving in bad weather. I don’t miss riding a horse and getting off so cold and stiff you can hardly walk or the other part of the season where every horsefly in the country has

to have a bite of human flesh before you get done.

No, I don’t miss those things.

On the home front, Jaco is working in the shop tying things together to get the 3208 Cat motor into the tandem truck. It has meant many trips to Keranda for bits and pieces. If fittings are different you need pieces to tie them together.

The exhaust manifold is different so he had to make a modification to the exhaust to get it around the starter.

The temperature sender has to be switched from the dead motor to the new one.

The new motor has a return line from the injector, the old motor did not. He had to make fittings in the tank for the return line. This all takes time to sort out. I am hoping to hear the rumble of a Cat engine soon.

In the oil patch almost every day you hear of new lay offs. I find that somewhat sickening. The oil goes down and right away the oil companies start laying off the working people who are trying to make a living. The posturing of the oil companies and governments is nothing short of dishonest. The downturn in this oil price has gone on for only he last quarter of this year. Anybody who knows anything about budgets and taxes will know the big downturn may be coming in 2015, not now.

They are still riding on the income from the first three quarters of 2014. Are the oil companies going to

lose money at this $54 a barrel price? I don’t know.

I don’t know what their costs are but in the past they have had to operate with that kind of a price.

To have across-the-board cutbacks like they are doing makes no sense whatsoever.

There are projects that may warrant doing, only the oil companies knows. People are still driving, oil is still being used. This low price may not last, it may go up, who knows. I would like to throw a brick at every oil company executive and government official who stands up on their hind legs and mouths the song and dance of big losses in the oil patch. Sing me the song after it has actually has happened.

To those in the oil patch, do not let the recent events get you down. As my Uncle Bill used to say, “and this too shall come to pass,” and it will. When the smoke clears you will find the only thing that really counts is family and friends. The rest is just stuff. Try and have a happy new year.

Joke of the week: At a few minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a lady in the bar, stood up and said, “We have to be ready.

I want all the husbands at the stroke of midnight to go and stand beside the one who made life worth living.” It turned out to be somewhat embarrassing as the bartender was almost crushed to death by the crowd.

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Building on the rise - Battleford enjoys $25-million year

By Jayne Foster Staff Reporter “2014 is so far the year to beat.”

That’s what Battleford’s town administrator, Sheryl Ballendine, said Monday as town council members viewed the 2014 building permits report plus a report on the last 10 years worth of building permits.

The year 2014 achieved the highest-ever building permit level for Battleford, with 64 permits totalling $25,796,290.

While more than $14 million of this year’s total can be attributed to 56 residential permits, the town has also seen commercial building worth $4.3 million and industrial construction worth $7 million.

A hefty chunk of this year’s construction values are attributed to permits issued for Battleford West Place, a 24-unit apartment

The Town of Battleford has issued almost $70 million worth of permits for new residential construction, representing 218 new homes, over the last 11 years. Construction in the Battle Springs subdivision of Battleford, above left, began in 2007. Residential construction in the Battleford West subdivision, above right, began in 2009. Photos by Jayne Foster Battleford West Place, a 24-unit apartment complex, left, began construction in August of 2014. Photo

by John Cairns A 24-unit condominium project in Battleford, River Valley Estates, right), was developed by Do-All Holdings Ltd. at the corner of 18th Street and Central Avenue began construction in 2010, contributing to a total of $10 million in residential permits that year. Photo by Jayne Foster complex worth $5.6 million, two industrial truck storage buildings worth $90,000 and

$120,000, the Leading Manufacturing Group metal tank fabrication plant worth $6.7

million and a Battlefords and District Co-op convenience store, gas bar and car wash worth $3.4 million.

The 2014 amount surpassed the previous 2010 high value by $10,410,000.

Council also reviewed a summary of building permits dating back to 2004. Including 2014’s permit values, the Town of Battleford issued

almost $70 million worth of permits for new residential construction, representing 218 new homes over the last 11 years.

During the same time period, the town issued permits for new commercial construction or renovations worth $14 million.

Industrial permits totalled $8.5 million, however 2014’s

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value of $7 million is the only year permits were worth more than $300,000.

Looking back 11 years, in 2004 there were 30 permits in total, issued for a value of $2.6 million. Twenty-five of those were for residential projects, including nine new houses worth $1.6 million.

The following year, 2005, there were 36 permits issued for $3.5 million. A permit for the Fort Battleford visitor centre valued at $1.5 million helped bolster the total. The main bulk of the remainder was attributed to residential construction, including eight new homes.

New home construction continued to increase in 2006, with 19 new homes accounting for $3.8 million of the total of almost $4.6 million in permit values.

Building permits more than doubled in 2007, with 63 permits representing a value of $9.3 million.

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Building on the rise - Battleford enjoys $25-million year Continued from Page 8 Twenty-eight new homes worth $8.1 million made up most of the value. It was this year that Battle Springs properties, the town’s municipally developed subdivision south of 15th Street, became available. In June of 2007, a lottery of 40 lots came close to selling out in the first two days as a shortage of residential lots saw people looking for opportunities to build.

The year 2008 saw another 28 home building permits issued for a value of $7.6 million. A million each for residential renovations and mobile homes brought the total residential construction value to $9.8. With commercial, industrial and institutional permits, the year’s total was $10.7 million.

House starts were slightly lower in 2009, with 18 new

Leading Manufacturing Group, top left, held a grand opening in December of its $6.7 million tank fabrication plant in Battleford.

Battleford considers itself as having “arrived” now that it has its own Tim Hortons, top right, an addition representative of $14 million in commercial construction and $70 million in residential construction in the town over the last 11 years.

Kramer Ltd. (bottom left) has now been open for more than a year, leading the way for more highway commercial development in Battleford.

A Battlefords and District Co-op convenience store, gas bar and car wash worth $3.4 million, bottom right, is currently under construction in Battleford, next door to Tim Hortons. Photos by Jayne Foster home permits, however the value topped the previous year’s at $8 million. It was

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Feb. 4: Allie Raycraft ‘I tend to get elected’ iliar name to Allie Raycraft is a fam eer in municipal many, having a long car g list of commuadministration and a lon nity involvement.

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March 25: Kurtis Kopp and Darren Curson Adding fuel to the fire nding musiIf you want to be an outsta nome and make cian, get yourself a metro ividuals. This ind friends with like-minded rtis J. Kopp Ku s ian is advice from music n. rso and Darren Cu

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April 22: Brian Quinn you know ‘Golf is only fun when ing else’ eth som ing do you should be school and r After 21 years as a teache as a ade dec r the administrator, and a fur ol ho Sc y Sk ing Liv superintendent in the has inn Brian Qu Division central office, to rest long. e on t no s he’ t retired. Bu

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Reed Delainey commits to NCAA RIT for 2016-17

By Craig Beauchemin Sports Reporter Reed Delainey’s trajectory in the game of hockey continues to trend upwards.

After being named to the Canada West training camp roster for the World Junior A challenge in Kindersley, and on pace to more than double his offensive output from last season, Delainey has committed to play for the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers beginning in 2016.

“I’d been talking to them since the SJHL showcase and every week since then until now,” Delainey said.

North Stars head coach Kevin Hasselberg says it’s a long process to gain a scholarship and Delainey deserves a lot of credit.

“He’s worked hard the last couple years since joining us,” he said. “I think his skills and his determination is what got him where he wants to get to.”

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tion for the Edam native, however.

“I talked to, I think, nine schools in total, with the main ones being Colgate and RIT,” he said. “Some were more interested than others, a couple I just talked to once and that was it. Colgate and RIT I talked to every week.”

Hasselberg says having a good support system in place helps players make decisions on what path to take.

“You lean on everybody.

It starts with the showcase event, that’s the first part, you have to get noticed,” he said.

“You have to do the job in the classroom and you have to do the job on the ice, and he was able to bring both of those key components together and that’s why he’s going to a very good school.”

Top-tier Junior A players like Delainey are lucky in the sense that they have the option of going the NCAA route, or making the jump to major junior. Once a player signs with a major junior team, they are ineligible to

receive an NCAA scholarship, because the NCAA deems major junior to be professional hockey.

While Delainey eventually decided to take the scholarship, it wasn’t as though the Western Hockey League didn’t try to change his mind.

“This summer I had Portland and Medicine Hat talk to me about going to their camps,” he revealed. “I decided to turn it down because I’m a real education first kind of guy. WHL would be great, but that was my first priority.”

Hasselberg says he believes players can choose the path they believe will better suit them.

“That’s the good thing about any sport, is that the player has the choice to choose the direction and the path that they want,” he explained. “I have no doubts that if Reed chose to go to Portland then he would have poured his heart into that process and tried to become the

best player he could become, but at the end of the day it’s the family and the player’s choice as to what direction they want to go.”

While the Canadian Hockey League does offer to pay one year of schooling for every year a player plays in the league at a Canadian university, getting an education from an NCAA school is more lucrative. Total tuition and room and board fees for a full-time undergraduate at RIT for 2014-15 were over $47,000.

Delainey already knows what he’ll be studying as well.

“I’m thinking of taking business and then moving into accounting and becoming a chartered accountant,” he said.

Before he begins his life south of the border, he’ll spend one more year with the Battlefords North Stars, at the suggestions of RIT. “I think we both agreed that I need another year to develop and get a little big-

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“I’m only 160 pounds right now, so it worked for me and it worked for them and we decided on that.”

Delainey’s commitment to a Division 1 school might be even more impressive given the fact he went straight from Midget AA to Junior A, skipping Midget AAA. He gives credit to his coach and teammates.

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Hasselberg says things like this are the reason someone becomes a coach.

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Continued from Page 15 “ Yo u ’ r e p r o u d , ” h e laughed. “That’s why we’re in the business. We develop players to get to the next level. It doesn’t really matter what it is, whether it’s NCAA or Canadian Interuniversity Sport, any time you see one of your guys have success that way, you feel very good about it. I can’t stress enough the players are the ones who have to make the choice to be the player they are. When they do that, good things happen.”

Delainey says his opportunity to attend the World Junior A camp didn’t hurt his development either.

“It was a great experience, it’s a different caliber of game,” he explained. “When you go to that kind of thing it really makes you see where you have to be and how big it is because that’s the level you have to play at.”

With the Jan. 10 SJHL trade deadline fast approaching, Delainey says he and his teammates can’t worry about what might happen.

“It’s always a scary and exciting time of the year,” he admitted. “There’s always thoughts about if you get traded or if one of your better friends gets traded. It’s something that we can’t really worry about because it’s not our decision. We just keep playing hockey and hopefully winning games, and that always helps when the trade deadline rolls around.”

The North Stars struggled over the nal weeks of 2014, losing seven of nine games before their nearly threeweek break, and Delainey thinks time away from the game will help them in the second half.

“I think going into the break everyone was a little tight in the dressing room,”

North Stars centre Reed Delainey will play one more year with the Battlefords North Stars before heading off to the NCAA. Photo by Byron Hildebrand he said. “Things kind of hit a little rough patch. The trip to Minnesota got us a little team bonding, even though we didn’t win the game.

We’re coming closer together as teammates so I think the break will help.”

The North Stars took a trip to Minnesota to catch some NCAA games, and also play an exhibition game against the North American Hockey League’s Minnesota Magicians, a Junior A team.

The average age of an SJHL player during the 201415 season is 18.66 years old, whereas the average age of an NCAA player is 21.58 years old. Delainey knows the age difference is going to be a big adjustment.

“My main thing is just getting bigger. I’m not quite strong enough,” he admitted.

“I’m going to be working out for the next couple years and try and put on a couple pounds. That’s the main thing I’ve been told to work on, and the thing I notice I need to work on the most.”

Now that Delainey is a

future NCAA player, does that mean he’ll get special treatment?

“No, not at all,” Hasselberg said with a hearty laugh.

“Part of the process of getting better is being accountable, and there’s always room for improvement. There’s aspects of his game that he has to improve to be a more complete player, he knows that and we have no doubt that he’s going to work on that stuff any chance he gets.”

Just as he has been leading up to his commitment, Delainey says he’ll remain in contact with RIT over the next year.

“Once a week they’ll call me, they’re coming to watch twice this month,” he said.

“They’ll keep me in the loop with what I have to do and what they want me to do and what I want from them. Just general conversation.”

Delainey joins an exclusive list of North Stars players to receive scholarships to Division 1 NCAA schools.

Blake Young spent two seasons with the North Stars

before attending the University of Minnesota-Duluth beginning this year. One-time North Stars forward Luke McColgan, now with the Chilliwack Chiefs of the BCHL, recently committed to the University of AlaskaAnchorage for next season.

North Battleford’s own Blake Tatchell has been playing at Alaska-Anchorage for the past three seasons, leading the team in scoring as a freshman and a sophomore.

While RIT might not be a hotbed for NHL futures like Boston University or Boston College, their two most notable alumni are Edmonton Oilers/Oklahoma City Barons forward Steve Pinizzotto and Vancouver Canucks defenceman Chris Tanev.

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Nature Conservancy conserves land in perpetuity Continued from Page 17 “As a not-for-profit, private land conservation organization, the Nature Conservancy of Canada in Saskatchewan welcomes rating announcements that demonstrate our work and the value of conserving natural lands for our future generations,” says Mark Wartman, NCC Saskatchewan region vice-president.

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By Thelma Kendall Correspondent Hi there. Happy New Year, everyone. Hope you had a nice Christmas. I think most of our tenants here had a great one.

Gerald Hilliard travelled to Choiceland to visit with his family.

Stella Rendle was happy to see her family in Edam. Hope you had a great visit, Stella.

It’s just so nice to be together during the festive season.

Bep Wyatt always enjoys being together with all her family here in North Battleford.

Edith Lockhart went to Paradise Hill to visit her grandson and family. Later on some more of her relatives spent time with Edith. They all enjoyed swimming at our big pool and also celebrating some birthdays.

Anne Loades was glad to have her son Ron from Edmonton here and also some family from British Columbia dropped in to see her.

Nancy and George Milnthorp travelled to Mead-

alley View II ow Lake to be with their son Marvin and wife Donna.

Alpha Schmiler went to the farm to spend Christmas with her daughter and son-inlaw and also saw some of her family from Edmonton.

Fae Derkach and her granddaughter Erin Letrud left Dec. 14 for France. They flew from Saskatoon to Toronto and then to Paris where they were met by Fae’s son.

Then they travelled by train to Dijon. They enjoyed a week there then went by train to Strasbourgh to visit her granddaughter, Astryd, Cedric and her new greatgranddaughter Nathalie. Erin and Fae returned to Paris Dec. 26 and flew home.

Shirley Tebay went with son Gary and Roberta to Bob and Betty Colliar’s for a lovely Christmas dinner.

Several family members joined them. Dec. 28, Shirley went to Lashburn to visit a

grandson, Brodie and Jayme Tebay and great-granddaughter, Sadie. Sadie kept them entertained with her new toy tea set. Shirley said she didn’t know when she drank so much tea.

I had a lovely Christmas, too. I went to Saskatoon to be with my son and family.

I saw many of my greatgrandchildren I was pleased to see after a long while. I loved watching the children open their stockings of gifts.

Great-grandma had a stocking, too. There was much fun and food and great visits with all my family. That’s what made Christmas for me.

We have some sadness here at the Tower. Clyde Dewar passed away. He was a resident here for some time.

Sincere sympathy goes out to wife Laura and family.

Ada Passuto’s son-inlaw passed away just before Christmas. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to Ada, daughter Carol and family.

I want to thank all those who give me news for my report every month. I’ll keep writing for the paper as long as we have the news.

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New Year’s resolutions for the gardener bers, Swiss chard (Bright Lights) and don’t forget two beet varieties – one from fresh eating, the other for pickling. With all the seed I typically purchase, you’d think I had an acre to fill and a family of 10 to feed; I have neither. I know how many rows I have room for and I’ll need to limit myself this year.

2. Use all the produce or give away excess. See above for planning. But that doesn’t always solve the problem. Some vegetables, like corn, come ripe all at once. This year, I’ll drop some of the excess off at the neighbours’ (as a thank you for all they do for us).

3. Keep on top of weeding and other maintenance.

This one sounds reasonable but too easily put off in lieu of something more fun. This year, I’ll try to schedule it for the same day each week, weather permitting.

4. Don’t leave everything to the weekend. See 3 above. The weekend is usually the time for family, travelling, camping and barbecues. Spread the gar-

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I have just as much trouble as the next person when it comes to making resolutions. Resolutions are usually an attempt at self improvement: lose weight, get fit, quit a bad habit, get a new job, write the great Canadian novel, etc.

I’ve discovered that most times, my failed resolutions have been too ambitious or too out of character – success was just not in the cards. So my new approach is to make a few modest, achievable personal goals.

They can be new or they can be upwardly incremental adjustments to successes you’ve already achieved.

The following are my New Year’s resolutions for 2015.

1. Plan the vegetable garden before buying seeds.

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6. Start a garden blog.

You’d think with all the writing I do, this would be no problem. But between my paid work and this column, I have little energy, time and creativity left.

My plan this year is to start small and just write about my gardening activities as they happen. It’ll just be for me and if others find it and find it useful, that’ll be a bonus.

7. Take more pictures. I now have a decent camera.

I just have to take it with me everywhere and keep snapping. It should help with this column and my theoretical blog.

8. Try new plants.

There’s bound to be a few winter casualties that need replacement, new cultivars for the vegetable garden, new annuals to try in your containers. Last year, I planted Quick Fire hydrangea in my yard; this year, I plan on growing a yellow or a purple carrot variety (probably both).

9. Get a green cart from the city for yard waste.

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OBITUARIES HOFFART: It is with great sadness the family of Cecile Mary Elsie Hoffart announces her passing on December 28th, 2014 at the age of 76 years. Cecile is survived by her loving daughters Terry (Brian) Wicks and Jackie (Larry) Felker, grandchildren Charles Wicks and Janet (Colter) Bischler, brothers Ed (Marg), Joe (Carol) and Ron (Norma), as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Cecile was predeceased by her daughter Susan Hoffart; husband Andy; sister Doris Rivard; brother Ernest Rivard and her parents Emile and Elsie Rivard.

If friends so desire, donations in Cecile’s memory may be made to The Battleford Union Hospital Foundation. Condolences for the family may be left at www.sallowsandmcdonald.com. A Mass of Christian Burial was held Friday, January 2nd, 2015 from Notre Dame Church. The family placed their trust with Megan Donlevy of Sallows and McDonald - Wilson and Zehner Funeral Home, North Battleford. (306) 445-2418.

IRVINE: In Loving Memory of Thelma Alphena Irvine who was born Sept.15, 1933 at Mayfair District, Sk. and passed away Dec. 29, 2014 at Saskatoon, Sk. Left to cherish Thelma’s memory: her loving son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and great grandchildren: Lowell (Nicole) Irvine and their family: Chanel(Bret) Thompson: Asher and Eva Olaya; Kael (Jayla) Irvine: Maddox and Hadley; Jaice Irvine (fiance, Lorelei), all of Saskatoon, Sk; godson Dennis Nesseth; brother, Arnold Nesseth, Mayfair, Sk.; sister, Karren Pederson, Moose Jaw, Sk.; nieces and nephews who were very close to Thelma. Thelma was predeceased by her husband, Stanley Edward Irvine; her parents Ole and Anna Olea Nesseth; siblings: brothers: Kermit, Phil, Ker, Harley, Art, Helmer, Dennis, Cliff; sisters: Elsie Bernier, Ragna Csontos, Olive Clark and Irene Wyntonyk. A Celebration of Life Service was held Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 – 2:00 p.m. from Third Avenue United Church, North Battleford, Sk. with Rev. Frances Patterson officiating. Family memories were shared

by Lowell and Nicole Irvine. Gifts of Music were presented by Glenn Goodman – Organist/Pianist, Third Avenue Sanctuary Choir, Duet: Lowell and Chanel – “Amazing Grace”, Soloist: Robert MacKay – “Be not Afraid”. The Hymn Selection was “On Eagle’s Wings”.

Special Selection – John McDermott – “One Small Star”. The Honourary Pallbearers were “All who shared Thelma’s Life”. Active Pallbearers were Kael Irvine, Jaice Irvine, Bret Thompson, Jim Irvine, Nigel Nesseth, and Stacey Nesseth. Thelma was the 13th child born to Anna and Ole Nesseth. She grew up in a small house with many brothers and sisters knowing the value of hard work and laughter. She and her siblings attended Wanganui School near Mayfair. After working briefly in Eston and BC she returned home where, in 1958, she married Stan Irvine, the love of her life. Together, they began their life on the farm. A year later they were blessed with a son, Lowell. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother (GG). She enjoyed curling, playing in her younger years and later watching on tv, helping out in the Mayfair community, playing cards, dancing, picking berries, tending her garden and of course creating fantastic meals. She loved to spend endless hours creating unforgettable pies, lefse, potato balls, flat bread and cookies at Christmas for her family and nieces and nephews. Her talents in the kitchen were only matched by her desire to care for other’s needs making them feel special in so many ways. Thelma and Stan loved the farm, continuing to travel back and forth from North Battleford where they moved to in 1978. They continued to farm as well as maintained a huge garden. She kept an immaculate clean home, enjoyed camping with her family and later with Stan in their motorhome where they both enjoyed berry picking and fishing. They also enjoyed a few trips to Hawaii, Mexico and Arizona. Following a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, Thelma moved into Saskatoon in 2013 to be closer to her family. She handled all of her medical challenges with incredible grace and dignity. On Dec. 29th, she joined her soulmate and husband to dance in heaven, on the 14th anniversary of his passing, a true love story. Memorial Donations are requested to the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan 301-2550-12th Ave., Regina, Sk. S4P 3X1. Interment took place at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, North Battleford, Sk. Arrangements were entrusted to Battlefords Funeral Service, North Battleford, Sk. ____________________________________________________

BOUCHARD, Christian: 1980 2014. It is with broken hearts that the family of Christian Thomas Bouchard announces his tragic passing on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at the age of 34 years.

Chris will always be loved and remembered by his soulmate Carrielynn; son Kohlter; parents, Brian and Lynda; siblings, Nicholas (Kristina and children, Raelyn, Dallas, Evan and Kenedi) and Dallas (Kathy and children, Jasmine and Karlee); grandmothers, Mabel Bouchard and Clara Addy; mother-in-law (Nana) Dee; sister-in-law Donna (children, Wyatt and Rhett), as well as numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and “the brothers”. He was predeceased by his grandfathers, Emil Bouchard and Thomas Addy; uncle Lawrence Bouchard and father-inlaw Gordon Walker. A Prayer Service was held on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan, with Mr. Doug Third officiating. A celebration of Chris’ life was held on Friday, December 12, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at the Wylie Mitchell Hall, Estevan. Interment will take place at Souris Valley Memorial Gardens, Estevan, at a later date. Those wishing to make donations in Chris’ memory may do so directly to the Deep South Wildlife Federation, PO Box 129, Ogema, SK, S0C 1Y0. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan. Messages of condolence may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.hallfuneralservices.ca ____________________________________________________ HRYNUIK, Anne: of River Heights Lodge, North Battleford, and previously of Loon Lake, Sask., beloved mother of Sherry (Harold) Jimmy, Corrine Helmeczi, and Marlene (Curtis) Kotchorek, and loving partner of Raymond Corbeil passed peacefully at River Heights Lodge on December 17, 2014 at the age of 74. Her life as a wife, mother, grandmother, partner and friend was celebrated on Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at the Chapel Gallery, North Battleford with Eternal Memories Funeral Service and Joyce Salie in charge of arrangements. Anne Hrynuik was born on Dec. 21, 1939 in Loon Lake to Anton and Tekla Trociuk of the Big Bush area. She married Fred Hrynuik on Dec. 28, 1961 and the couple lived on the Hrynuik family farm for 40 years where they worked side by side in the farming operation. Anne was also an exceptional gardener and provided cucumbers and other fresh produce for years to people in the area. Anne was predeceased by her husband Fred in 2002 after 40 years of marriage. She retired from the farm shortly thereafter and moved into the Villa in Loon Lake, followed by a move to Valley View Towers II in North Battleford. It is here that Anne met Ray Corbeil and the two of them enjoyed several wonderful years together travelling, visiting friends and family, going for coffee daily at Walmart and frequenting the casino. In 2013, Anne and Ray bought a condo in North Battleford where they resided until April 30, 2014 when she was admitted to Battlefords Union Hospital and later moved to River Heights Lodge. Despite having had lung cancer several years ago, Anne was a fighter and overcame that health challenge, but was forced to be on oxygen when chronic lung and heart problems became too debilitating. In addition to having three daughters: Sherry, Corrine and Marlene, Fred and Anne were proud grandparents to Regan (Justyne) Crush, Courtney Crush (Ashton Igini), Eric Helmeczi and Evan Helmeczi, and son-in-law Ron Crush. Anne is also survived by sister-in-law, Olga (Edgar) Rosenke and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brothers Bill and John Trociuk, and sisters Kathy Smith, Lee Cummings, Sonja Jones and Mary MacDonald. A graveside memorial and Internment of cremains will take place in the spring of 2015 at Tomlinson’s Cemetery, Loon Lake. The family wish to thank the staff of BUH and River Heights Lodge for their tremendous care and support during Mom’s stay, and to everyone who sent messages of condolence during our time of loss. Memorial donations can be made to River Heights Lodge, North Battleford or the Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation in memory of Anne Hrynuik. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Eternal Memories Funeral Service and Crematorium, North Battleford, Sask. For those wishing to leave a condolence you may do so at www.eternalmemoriesfuneral.ca.

FREHLICH: Mrs. Eva Frehlich passed away peacefully on December 31, 2014 at the River Heights Lodge at the age of 83 years. A Celebration of Eva’s life will be held in the spring of 2015.

Times and dates will be announced when made available.

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MARTIN: Bruce, Oct. 30, 1958 Dec. 23, 2014. Bruce passed away peacefully after a noble battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Laura Martin, two sons, Trevor (Cerys) and Tyler (Charmaine). Parents Walter and Ida Martin, Siblings Karen (Brian) Colbourne, Blake (Karen) Martin, Bonita (Claudio) Martins, and Brad Martin. As well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Arrangements provided by Evergreen Memorial Gardens.

Two Memorial services are planned, Saturday, Jan. 17, 11:00 a.m. Fort Sask, United Church, 10409-100 ave., Fort Sask, AB. Internment at Evergreen Memorial Gardens to follow Jan. 24, 2:00 p.m. Vawn, SK Community Hall. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Lady Minto Trust Fund (Long Term Care - Edam, Sask.) ____________________________________________________ PARENT, Kate: February 5th 1931 - Angelsey, N. Wales. December 24th, 2014 - Saskatoon, Sask. It is with great sadness that Louise (Toronto) and Michele (Saskatoon) Parent announce the passing of their mother Kate Parent.

Kate passed away peacefully at the Royal University Hospital after suffering a stroke. Kate was born in 1931 in Wales to Hugh and Hannah Williams (Both deceased 1970 and 1983). In 1953 Kate qualified as a senior Registered Nurse after training at the Broadgreen Hospital and the Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, England. She also trained at Hawknoor Chest Hospital in Devon England. Upon completion of her training Kate journeyed to Australia, where she nursed in Melbourne and Sydney, for 3 years before returning to Wales. In 1960 Kate ventured to Canada. She took a position at the North Battleford Union Hospital, before also, working in North Battleford Indian Health Services, Prince Rupert, B.C. and Oshawa General Hospital in Ontario. Kate met her husband Marcel Parent in 1960 and they were married in North Battleford in 1963. Kate continued to be a respected nurse until her retirement in the late 1990s. Kate and her husband Marcel moved to Saskatoon in 1991. Marcel passed away in October of 2004. Kate is survived by her daughters; Louise and Michele, her sister Mary Jones (Angelsey, Wales), Humphrey Williams (Knutsford, England), her nieces Mair Jones, Janet Radford and Diane Williams as well as numerous nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her husband Marcel and her niece Menna Jones. She is and honorary grandmother to her great nephew Fynn (Liverpool, England). The family would like to thank the team at Royal University Hospital for their compassionate treatment towards Kate during her final days.

Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated on Tuesday December 30th, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. from Saskatoon Funeral Home Chapel (338-4th Ave. N., Saskatoon, SK.). Rite Of Committal will be held at St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Cemetery in Delmas, SK. at 3:00 p.m. Kate will be dearly missed. Memorial donations in Kate’s honour may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Arrangements entrusted to Saskatoon Funeral Home (306)244-5577. ____________________________________________________

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ROSARIO: Sister Ann Rosario (Dolore Desmarais) passed away peacefully on December 27, 2014 at the Battlefords Union Hospital at the age of 78 years.

Prayer Vigil took place on Friday, January 2, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. with Betty Stone presiding. Mass of Christian Burial took place on Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. with Reverend Father Anthony Afanagide officiating. Interment will follow at a later date in St. Solange Cemetery in Hafford, Sask. Left behind to cherish her memory are: her sisters: Doreine Kulpa and Dorothy Guy; her nieces and nephews: Eva (Mark) Sabir, Brenda Krawetz; Carol MacDonald, Delbert (Sheila) Miller ,Allan (Gwen) Miller, Alden (Lorna) Miller, Susan (Reynold) Striga, Michelle and Coleen Desmarais, Calvin and Larry Guy and all their families and the Sisters of the Child Jesus. She was predeceased by: her parents: Rosario and Ann Desmarais: her brothers: Donald, Dorio and Dorell: her nephews: Douglas MacDonald and Peter Krawetz. Memorial Donations in memory of Sister Ann Rosario may be directed to the Oasis Care Home, General Delivery, Speers, Sask, S0M-2V0. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Trevor Watts of Eternal Memories Funeral Service and Crematorium. For those wishing to leave a condolence you may do so at www.eternalmemoriesfuneral.ca.

JACKSON, John Benjamin: October 1, 1913 - December 27, 2014. Our precious father passed away peacefully in Hanna, Alberta on December 27, 2014 in his 102nd year. He was the beloved husband of Jane, who predeceased him in 2007, and the loving father of Beverley (Art) and Donna (Ron), beloved grandfather to four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Dad was born in the Speers district, farmed at Langham and Keatley before moving to Edam, where he farmed until his retirement from farming in 1972. He finished his working life working at Case in Saskatoon. A Celebration of John’s Life will be held Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at Hillcrest Funeral Home (east on 8th St, first right past Briargate Rd). Arrangements entrusted to Paula Olson, Hillcrest Funeral Home, Saskatoon, SK 306-4774400. ____________________________________________________ FURNISS (NEE PARRY), Gwen: November 3, 1927 - December 20, 2014. It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our beloved mother, sister, grandmother, and great grandmother Gwen. Predeceased by husband Fred, brothers Keith Parry and Bert Parry, grandson Paul Smith and son-in-law Kurt Day. Gwen was born in North Battleford Saskatchewan where she she met and married Fred. They moved to Chilliwack in 1950 where they raised their three daughters.

Gwen worked for F.W. Woolworths for 25 years. Fred and Gwen retired back to their hometown of Mervin Saskatchewan in 1980 but returned to Grand Forks in 1996. After Fred’s passing Gwen returned to Mervin until this past summer when she returned to Grand Forks to spend her final days with her family. Gwen was always active with many favourite pastimes. She was a seamstress making clothes for her three daughters and many friends. Her green thumb was admired by many. Her flowers not only filled her yard, but also the entire hometown of Mervin. Gwen was an avid golfer for many years as well as a bowler. Fred and Gwen were instrumental in having a Bowling Alley built and operated all by volunteers in their hometown of Mervin. She is survived by brother Lloyd Parry, daughters Lynne (Leverne) Lee and Wendy (Don) as well as many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Celebration of life to be held in Mervin Saskatchewan in late spring 2015. ____________________________________________________

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BRYAN: Margaret “Adrienne” (nee Dustan), May 29, 1947 Regina, SK, December 30, 2014 - Calgary, AB. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Adrienne Bryan, beloved wife of forty-four years to George “Pat” Bryan, devoted mother to George Alexander (Ellen) Bryan, and loving grandma to Felix and Flora. Adrienne is survived by her cherished mother Alice “Eileen” Dustan. She also leaves her dear siblings, Gary (Bev) Dustan, Kirk (Pat) Dustan, Kathleen (Peter) Keller, Alex (Christine) Dustan; as well as much loved nieces and nephews, Shawn Dustan, Tamara Dustan, Corey Boskill, Leanne Dustan, Lori Dustan-Lafond, Lisa Dustan, Michelle Tuck, Randy Keller, Joel Dustan and Jay Dustan. She was predeceased by her father Alexander. Adrienne was raised in North Battleford, SK when she met and married Pat. After numerous moves with Pat’s employment during the early years, they eventually settled in St. Albert, AB. Adrienne worked with St. Albert Transit where she was proud to call her coworkers her friends. Upon retirement, she and Pat moved to Calgary, AB where they settled to be close to son George and his family. Adrienne was an enthusiastic world traveller with boundless curiosity and interest in all she encountered. Family was at the centre of Adrienne’s life, and she leaves a legacy of hearts forever touched by her love and kindness.

Funeral Services were held at McINNIS & HOLLOWAY (Deerfoot South, 12281 - 40th Street S.E. Calgary, AB) on Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Graveside Service followed at Mountain View Memorial Gardens. Forward condolences through www.mcinnisandholloway.com. If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, 345, 10909 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, AB, Telephone: (780)452-1166 or to a charity of the donor’s choice. In living memory of Adrienne Bryan, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, Fish Creek, 14441 BANNISTER ROAD S.E. CALGARY, AB Telephone: 1-800-661-1599. ____________________________________________________

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BEAUDOIN: Mr. Daniel Beaudoin passed away suddenly at his residence on December 26, 2014 at the age of 59 years.

Prayer Vigil took place on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial took place on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. with Reverend Father Anthony Afanagide officiating, both services were held from St. Joseph Calasanctius Roman Catholic Parish. Left behind to cherish Daniels memory are: his wife Gaetanne ,his children Charles (Jyllel) Beaudoin ,Denee Beaudoin ,Dustin Barthel ,Christoph (Vanessa) Zahner ,Samantha Shaw ,his grandsons Parker Barthel and Caleb Shaw, special niece Jordynn Corbeil. Daniel was predeceased by his parents: Wilfred and Julia Beaudoin, his brother Marcel Beaudoin. Memorial donations in memory of Daniel may be directed to Heart and Stroke Foundation (279 - 3rd Ave N. Saskatoon, Sask. S7K 2H8) or the Villa Pascal Nursing Home (1301 113th St, North Battleford, SK S9A 3K1) Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Trevor Watts of Eternal Memories Funeral Service and Crematorium. For those wishing to leave a condolence you may do so at www.eternalmemoriesfuneral.ca

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I hear the many Christmas songs that people hold so dear, But the sounds of music can’t compare with the Christmas choir up here.

For I have no words to tell you, The joy their voices bring.

For it’s beyond description to hear an angel sing.

I know how much you miss me, I see the pain inside your heart.

But I am not so far away, We really aren’t apart.

So be happy for me dear ones, You know I hold you dear, And be glad I’m spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year.

I send you each a special gift, From my Heavenly home above, I send you each a memory of my undying love.

After all “LOVE” is the gift, More precious than pure gold.

It was always most important in the stories Jesus told.

Please love and keep each other As my Father said to do, For I can’t count the blessings or the love He has for each of you.

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The glorious hope of being reunited with him in Heaven is our joy and comfort.

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February 24

Parents: Janelle & Dallin Cox Grandparents:

Arlene Nikiforuk, Myron Nikiforuk Herb & Linda Cox

Emery Ann Chapman October 5

Eve Marie Seery June 12

Parents: Brienne & Jeremy Seery Siblings: Liam & Rhett Grandparents:

Shauna & Randy Blackmer, Cindy Davis, Edwin Radchenko, Bruce & Audrey Wilson Great-Grandparents: Bill Wilson, Morris Mathison

Cody Douglas Lascelle October 17

Parents: Brian & Michelle Lascelle Sibling: Brody Grandparents: Bob & Gloria Hart Jim & Kathy Lascelle

Lincoln Ron Ray

September 12

October 22

Parents: Emma Sutton & Tony Roberts Sibling: Kylie Grandparents: Dawn & Charles Sutton Lois & Tony Roberts

Francis Robert Blanchard July 19

Parents: Luc & Kathryn Blanchard Sibling: Alfred Grandparents: Bryan & Becky Doig, Alison Blanchard

Great-Grandparents:

Bob & Betty Ann Doig, Amy Dollansky

Parents: George & Dallas Whitt Sibling: Walker Grandparents:

Sheila Clarkeâ&#x20AC;&#x192; Daryl LaRose Blair Whittâ&#x20AC;&#x192; Dawn Collins

Graeme Murray Burgess June 28

Parents: Matt & Kari Burgess Sibling: Sean Grandparents: Doreen & Bill Wells Fran Burgess

Parents: Derek & Blaire Chapman Grandparents:

Dale & Huguette Johnson Kelly & Carol Chapman

Cooper David Sevick August 11

Parents: Kinley & Amanda Sevick Siblings: Parker & Keri Grandparents: Dave & Elaine Woloshyn Doug & Diane Sevick

Parents: Crystal & Lance Ray Sibling: Memphis Grandparents:

Vicky Ray Ron & Jennifer Klassen

Sydney Allison Draganuk November 14

Parents: Shane Draganuk & Kelly Wouters Siblings: Ashley, Taylor & Brady Grandparents: Garry & Helen Wouters Elsie Draganuk

Parents: Orval & Abbey Walsh Siblings: Dante, Adrianna, Cera & Owen Grandparents:

Aria Sara Marie Weatherall

April 11

Parents: Kent & Abbie McLeod Siblings: Evan & Konnor Grandparents:

Moe and Joy Larose Rickie McLeod, Dewaine McLeod

Cliff & Janice Jamieson Larry & Claudia Potter

Thomas & Shelley Hudson, Joe & Late Joyce Walsh

Thomas & Shelley Hudson, Joe & Late Joyce Walsh

Aliyah James McLeod

Parents: Jeff & Heidi Jamieson Grandparents:

Ava June Rose Stewart

March 29

July 2

Parents: Nicole Corfield & Paul Weatherall

Parents: Tyler & Kim

Grandparents:

Grandparents:

Kim & Vicki Corfield Robert & Marcelle Weatherall

Alaric Eliweise Urlacher

Greg & Cheryl Rahm Melvin Rose

Cruz Robert Steven Martell

May 29

Laken Daniel Boyer

March 26

June 20

Parents: Kattlin & Neil Urlacher Sibling: Amina Grandparents:

Parents: Nicole Hutchings & Marcel Martell Grandparents:

Steve & Marje Hutchings June Forgue

Anton & Adeline Urlacher Judy Atcheynum Andrew Pete

Hailey Judith Craig

Brian & Pat Squire Gerald & Judy Larsen

Great-Grandparents:

John & Marlene Squire Peter & Annie Polischuk

Mark & Diane Szyda Dan Frank Kathy Brown & Jack Bootsman

Chase Timothy Thompson

March 26

Parents: Scott & Jessica Craig Siblings: Madisyn, Taylor & Hudson Grandparents:

Parents: Alyssa Szyda & Mike Boyer Sibling: Riddick Grandparents:

Parker James Simmonds

October 28

Parents: Tim & Corrinne Grandparents:

Neil & Judy Kjargaard Giselle Wohlberg Bruce Thompson Great-Grandma: Margaret Johnson

December 24

Parents: Dallas & Mallory Simmonds Sibling: Warner (brother) Grandparents: Jim & Lynn Cole Rick & Harlene Simmonds

Matteo John Austin QuijadaSawitsky

Jack Frederick Gansauge

Parents: Kanndece & Victor Quijada-Sawitsky Sibling: Samuel Grandparents:

Parents: Logan & Eva Gansauge Siblings: David, Drew & Madilyn Grandparents: Sharen & Ken Gansauge

Zoey Emerson Neufeldt March 13

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Richard & Julie Bartko, Clark Rafuse, Donna Nikiforuk & Carmen Proznick, Yaris & Stella Nikiforuk (great-grandparents)

August 7

June 21

June 21

Rex Ryan Rafuse Kip Nate Rafuse

Logan Donald Jamieson

Zoë Ava-Marie Walsh

Owen Joseph Walsh January 13 Parents: Jolene Bartko & Nathan Rafuse Siblings: Austin & Ashley Grandparents:

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July 24

March 18

Parents: Amber Neufeldt Kim Neufeldt Siblings: Jarred, Noah, Sam Grandparents: Kelly & Cheryl Neufeldt Debbie Morash Wayne Morash

Jackson Raymond Day February 20

Parents: Stacy & Richard Day Siblings: Karlie & Kody Grandparents: Gordon & Georgette Day Terry & Gloria Dymtryshyn

Laurie & Orest Sawitsky Rosibel & Victor Quijada

Emmercyn Marie Greer April 1

Parents: Cheyanne Kemps & Tyson Greer Grandparents: Ella & Darryl Kemps Cindy Gallie and Darren Greer

Charmaine & Harry Delesoy

Great-Grandparents: Jean (late John) Pollard Fred (late Jean) Gansauge

Nora Shelby Pederson June 25

Parents: Molly & Steven Pederson Sibling: Vida Grandparents:

Margaret McDonald & Peter Wiesner Ruth & Forrest Pederson

Jaina Elayne Hemmerling August 17

Parents: Mason & Renee Hemmerling Grandparents: Dwight & Ida Hemmerling Barry & Kathy Morris

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Parker David Regnier

November 23

March 20

Parents: Kris & Ashley Dushire Grandparents:

Parents: Matt & Ivy Regnier Grandparents:

Robert & Sharon Dushire Denis & Natalie Holloway

2014 Beautiful Babies

Mila Gabrielle Daigneau

Dave & Joy Regnier Lynn & Corrine Opperman Gail & Phil Tattersall

Morning Sun Kendall Joseph Taylor TootoosisStarchief

Dec. 2 Parents: Hannah-Laine Tootoosis & Taylor Starchief Grandparents: (Late) Kendall Tootoosis

Giselle & Larry Martell Roland Swiftwolfe SaraLee Starchief & Steve Walking Bear

Herman & Marie Bugler Kelly & Glenda Bird

Parents: Aaron Nowosad & Danielle Daigneau Grandparents: Gabe & Kathy Daigneau

Great-Grandparents:

Great-Grandparents:

Gabe & Kathy Daigneau Slavko & Linda Negulic

Andy & Elva Borsa

Stan & Sheila Dietrich

Stan & Sheila Dietrich Jean Borsa

Lauren Christine Rumpf August 4

Parents: Vernon & Tina Amyotte Sibling: Ethan Grandparents: Vern & Louise Amyotte

Parents: Mark & Britt Rumpf Grandparents:

Tish Boychuk John & Brenda Pollard Great-Grandparents: Jean Pollard Bill & Noreen Williamson

Henry & Shawne Rumpf John & Barbara Lypka

Bethany Breelynn Baptiste

Karris Hayes Oborowsky

December 18

Parents: Ryan & Naomi Baptiste Siblings: Bryce, Hendrik, Seth & Ryan Jr. Grandparents:

Karen Gardipy, Mike Baptiste, Carolyn Kiskotagan, Langford Wuttunee, Glen Whitstone

Kash Graham Dean Nelson

April 27

Parents: Joshua & Adria Daigneau Grandparents:

November 25

December 7

Parents: KJ Bird & Shauna Bugler Siblings: Cody, Kassie & Kixton Grandparents:

March 2

Noah John Amyotte

Kallie Shae Bird

Evan Elizabeth Nowosad

June 11

Parents: Devan & Allison Oborowsky Sibling: Kaia Grandparents: Darrell & Alanna Oborowsky Doug & Marilyn Tarasoff

Kohen Carter Cadrain

Nevan Edward Keller

August 5

January 15

December 22

Parents: Mike & Breanna Nelson Grandparents: Dean & Shelly Nelson

Parents: Denis & Bethany Cadrain Siblings: Aiden & Mason Grandparents:

Graham & Sheryl Taylor

Great-Grandparents: Doreen Taylor

Leo & Claire Cadrain Madeleine Phaneuf Cliff & Janice Jamieson

Everley Rose Eischen

Anneliese Rachelle Schwab

Annette Donesky

November 15

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Parents: Derek & Jillian Keller Grandparents: Bill & Kim Kitson Bruno & Gina Keller

Ethan Murray Ralph Owen

January 8

September 18

Parents: Greg & Michelle Eischen Grandparents: Jim & Laurette Eischen Joe & Karen Dumontel

Parents: Chantal & Matthew Schwab Siblings: Rogan & Valerie Grandparents: Barb & Tony Schwab Faye & Prosper Desmarais

Great-Grandparent: Mrs. Dumontel

Maria Claire Blais April 6

Brielle Brynn Dust June 10

Parents: Murray Owen & Christine Nesseth Siblings: Dallin & Colby Grandparents: David & Dianne Owen (Late) Helmer & (Late) Cecile Nesseth

Daxin Marcus KippCouperthwaite

Zoey Mae Bernier July 22

May 20

Parents: Vivian & David Blais Sibling: Andrew Grandparents: Ely & Luis Becerril Leo & Claire † Blais

Parents: Ashley & Wes Dust Sibling: Grayson Grandparents: Gwen & Darcy Wood Sherry Dust

Parents: Kim Kipp-Couperthwaite & Mark Couperthwaite Grandparents:

Don & Fran Kipp Ian & Suzanne Couperthwaite

Parents: Luke & Krystal Bernier Grandparents: Ron & Claudette Bernier Ted & Donna Krane

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SUITES FOR RENT

SERVICES FOR HIRE

SERVICES FOR HIRE

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.

RITE-WAY SERVICES

The Disability Tax Credit

Large Furnished for 1 or 2 people.

Private entrance, driveway. 1 1/2 baths, gas fireplace, satellite TV, internet, $850/month. Also bachelor suite $300/month, includes utilities.

937-7187

HOME & COTTAGE RENOVATIONS All Insurance Claims Decks, Fencing and Painting

$15,000 Lump Sum Refund (on avg) Covers: Hip/Knee Replacements

ClassiÀed advertising 1-888-470-7997

Back conditions and Restrictions in walking and dressing

1-844-453-5372 FEED & SEED HEATED CANOLA WANTED!!

- GREEN CANOLA - SPRING THRASHED - DAMAGED CANOLA FEED OATS WANTED!!

- BARLEY, OATS, WHT - LIGHT OR TOUGH - SPRING THRASHED HEATED FLAX WANTED!!

HEATED PEAS HEATED LENTILS "ON FARM PICKUP" Westcan Feed & Grain 1-877-250-5252

is now accepting registrations for it’s next exciting session of

“CREATIVE DANCE” * 8 week session beginning Saturday, S t d JJanuary 10 10th h 9:30 - 10:00 am * Creative movement for both girls and boys age 3 years Please call Dance Connection: 306-446-6226 to register COMING EVENTS

NEW

DOUBLES LEAGUE Starts January 13

th

7:00 pm

Buying/Selling FEED GRAINS heated / damaged CANOLA/FLAX Top price paid FOB FARM

Western Commodities 877-695-6461 Visit our website @ www.westerncommodities.ca

NORTH

BATTLEFORD

BOWLARENA

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

Mondays, January 5 & March 2 Family Justice Services offers Parenting After Separation and Divorce Program for High Conflict Situations from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm in Regina.

Parents who have attended the regular parenting after separation and divorce program may benefit from attending this session. Call 1-888-218-2822 or (306) 787-9905 in Regina.

Tuesday, January 13 Seniors Fun Day at St. Joseph Hall, 1942 - 98th Street starting at 2:00 p.m.

Entertainment by Loewen’s. Lunch and Bingo. All seniors welcome.

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

STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca STEEL BUILDINGS... “REALLY BIG SALE!” All steel building models and sizes. Plus extra savings. Buy now and we will store until spring. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca

2014 Teen-Aid CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNERS Dec. 7

#129 $1000

Lorena Lafreniere ...........................Mayfair, SK

Dec. 7

#187

$50

Rod & Marcia Simons ............Lloydminster, SK

Dec. 7

#881

$50

Ted & Carmen Stremick ...............Goodsoil, SK

Dec. 7 #1443

$25

Brittany Gette ..................................Macklin,SK

Dec. 7

#894

$25

Evelyn Schneider ............................Barthel, SK

Dec. 7

#185

$25

Bertha Salzl ...........................Paradise Hill, SK

Dec. 7

#68

$25

Kristen McLean .................North Battleford, SK

Dec. 7 #1264

$25

Trenna Lukan .................................Debden, SK

Dec. 8 #2370

$25

Collette Lewin .................................... Unity, SK

Dec. 9 #1363

$25

Lena Schroh ...................................... Unity, SK

Dec. 10 #2068

$25

Lori Gruber........................................Wilkie, SK

Dec. 11 #2501

$25

Rita Stang ......................................Macklin, SK

Dec. 12 #2150

$25

Ken Dewald ..................................... Denzil, SK

Dec. 13 #811

$50

Lucille Martin................................Goodsoil, SK

Dec. 14 #1555

$50

Phil Sopracolle .............................Goodsoil, SK

Dec. 15 #326

$25

Randy Greenwald ..................... Saskatoon, SK

Dec. 16 #1209

$25

Louise Olan..................................Goodsoil, SK

Dec. 17 #2077

$25

Chelsea Gruber ................................Wilkie, SK

Dec. 18 #1888

$25

Tony & Denise Gutting ......................Wilkie, SK

Dec. 19 #2447

$25

Maureen Stang ..............................Macklin, SK

Dec. 20

#44

$50

Chris Bencharski..................Meadow Lake, SK

Dec. 21 #511

$50

Pauline Poulin .............................Battleford, SK

Svoboda Ukrainian Dance presents New Year’s Gala “Malanka” at the Don Ross Centre. Tickets still available for afternoon & evening events. Call Haley Dubrule for tickets 306-441-8768.

Dec. 22 #705

$25

Art Thomas .....................................Cochin, SK

Dec. 23 #508

$25

Pauline Poulin .............................Battleford, SK

Saturday, January 17

Dec. 24 #1212

$25

George & Mary Greschner...........Goodsoil, SK

Dec. 25 #640

$50

Donna Burko ............................. Saskatoon, SK

Dec. 26 #745

$25

Judy Sequin ............................ St. Walburg, SK

Dec. 27 #1875

$50

Dorothy Bojarski ....................... Saskatoon, SK

Dec. 28 #2104

$50

Sally Bayliss..................................... Denzil, SK

Saturdays - Jan. 17, Feb. 21 & Mar. 14 Family Justice Services offers Parenting After Separation and Divorce Program from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm in North Battleford. Registration is mandatory.

No fee for sessions. Call 1-877-964-5501 to register. Location will be advised when you register. Adults only, no child care is provided.

Thursdays, January 22 & March 26 Family Justice Services offers Parenting After Separation and Divorce Program for High Conflict Situations from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm in Saskatoon. Parents who have attended the regular parenting after separation and divorce program may benefit from attending this session. Call 1-877-964-5501 or (306) 964-4401 in Saskatoon.

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 306-445-3223. 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.

PUBLIC NOTICE RM of MEOTA NO. 468

Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the RM of Meota No. 468 intends to adopt two bylaws under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 02/2011, known as the Zoning Bylaw INTENT The proposed Zoning Bylaw amendment Bylaw No. 20 - 2014 will modify the Zoning Bylaw Map attached to and forming part of the Zoning Bylaw.

AFFECTED LAND The amendment to rezone, Bylaw No. 20 - 2014, will affect the lands legally described as SE ¼ Sec. 13-47-17 W3M outlined in bold on the map below.

STEEL BUILDINGS/GRANARIES

Saturday, January 17

Club 70 - Cherokee Rose 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.

NOTICES / NOMINATIONS

For all details please contact us at 306 477-4007 or info@gng.ag or visit our website at www.gng.ag

CONGRATULATIONS

For more information please call 306-445-2151 1102-99th Street, North Battleford

FARM SERVICES

$1,500 Yearly Tax Credit

Call 306-446-2059 or 306-386-2312

CLASSES & COURSES

Regional Optimist

Dec. 29 #184

$25

Lyla Salzl................................Paradise Hill, SK

Dec. 30 #497

$25

Cory Michaud....................North Battleford, SK

Dec. 31 #444

$25

Loyola Labrecque .............North Battleford, SK

Congratulations to all winners!

Thank you to all our Teen Aid Raffle supporters!

REASON The amendment to rezone, Bylaw No. 20 - 2014, is to accommodate a proposed subdivision by rezoning the proposed lands from A1 – Agricultural District to R – Residential.

PUBLIC INSPECTION Any person may inspect the bylaws at the RM of Meota No. 468 office located in the Village of Meota during regular office hours. Copies of the bylaw will be made available.

PUBLIC HEARING Council will hold a joint public hearing for the Zoning Bylaw amendment on January 28th, 2015 at 7 pm at The RM of Meota No. 468 office in the Village of Meota.

The purpose of the public hearing is to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaws.

Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing (or delivered to the undersigned at the municipal office before the hearing).

Issued at the RM of Meota No. 468 on December 29th, 2014 Nicolle Griffith Administrator

PUBLIC NOTICE RM of MEOTA NO. 468

Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the RM of Meota No. 468 intends to adopt two bylaws under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 02/2011, known as the Zoning Bylaw INTENT The proposed Zoning Bylaw amendment Bylaw No. 19 -2014 will modify the Zoning Bylaw Map attached to and forming part of the Zoning Bylaw.

AFFECTED LAND The amendment to rezone, Bylaw No. 19 -2014, will affect the lands legally described as SE ¼ Sec. 1847-17 W3M outlined in bold on the map below.

REASON The amendment to rezone, Bylaw No. 19 - 2014, is to accommodate a proposed subdivision by rezoning the proposed lands from A1 – Agricultural District to R – Residential.

PUBLIC INSPECTION Any person may inspect the bylaws at the RM of Meota No. 468 office located in the Village of Meota during regular office hours. Copies of the bylaw will be made available.

PUBLIC HEARING Council will hold a joint public hearing for the Zoning Bylaw amendment on January 28th, 2015 at 7 pm at The RM of Meota No. 468 office in the Village of Meota. The purpose of the public hearing is to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaws. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing (or delivered to the undersigned at the municipal office before the hearing).

Issued at the RM of Meota No. 468 on December 29th, 2014.

Nicolle Griffith Administrator

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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North Battleford 101026887 Saskatchewan Ltd. o/a Tim Hortons 9803 Territorial Drive, 11402 Railway Ave. North Battleford and 92 Battleford Crossing requires 6 Food Service Supervisors full-time/available all shifts. $13.02 per hour plus beneÀts.

Apply in store with resumé to Kim, Marion or Brett, or by email timhortons2846@yahoo.ca

For more information contact www.firstnations jobsonline.com

MOTOR LICENCE NEEDS” For Sale 2005 Ford Focus 136,000 Kms. Loaded, sun roof, heated seats, command start. Text or call 306-441-2662. In Perfect condition. $3,800 OBO

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First Nations Jobs nline phone 306 229 6774 email: danbsully@sasktel.net

Ironworkers, Pipefitters & Welders Now Hiring: Journeyperson Structural Ironworkers, Pipefitters & B Pressure Welders (+$44/hr) for an industrial project in Northern Alberta.

Camp provided; travel paid to those who qualify.

Benefits, pension plan and RRSPs offered.

Apply with resume to: pclenergyjobs@pcl.com or fax: 1-888-398-0725

Classifieds keep you on the right track.

Conacher Contracting Services Ltd two vacancies for General Farm Labourers. Duties will include working as part of a team during seeding, spraying and harvesting operations.

You will also be responsible for maintaining inventories, supervising part-time farm hands as well as performing general farm duties.

Specific Duties include: - Operating farm equipment (Air seeders, sprayers, swatters, combines) - Maintaining farm equipment - Cleaning farm equipment and - Perform general farm maintenance - Perform other farm duties, as directed Qualifications: The successful candidate(s) should have a minimum of 1-2 years related farming experience in addition to the essential skills below: Essential Skills and Abilities - Job task planning and organizing - Critical thinking - Problem solving - Working with others - Ability to coordinate numerous activities in an organized manner.

Wage Expectation $16-19 per hour, depending on experience.

Job Requirements - Experience with farm equipment - Class 1A driver’s license will be an asset Apply with resume to conser@sasktel.net or by mail to Box 84 Turtleford, Sask. S0M 2Y0

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Logging contractor with mechanical equipment needed to harvest app.

20,000m3 or more of softwood & possibly some hardwood. Stump to dump contract. 204-689-2261 (pokrant@mts.net) Wabowden. MB. MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1888-528-0809 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

Become part of an exciting culture with endless possibilities of career progression.

The Battlefords & District Co-op is dedicated to being a leader in the services we provide.

Through service, excellence and teamwork, our employees enjoy a real opportunity to make a difference.

Our Gas Bar/C-Store is expanding again and a new site will be opening in the Battlefords.

We are beginning our hiring process and are looking for candidates to Àll the positons of:

ATTENDANT 1’s & ATTENDANT 2’s For more information and a full job description, visit: www.battlefordscoop.com.

Applicants can submit a resumé outlining how they meet the requirements of the position to: glen@battlefordscoop.com

North West Regional College Instructor, Practical Nursing Battlefords Campus Posting #65-BC-1415 Reporting to the Program Coordinator, South Region, this in-scope position is responsible for planning and delivery of the Saskatchewan Polytechnic Practical Nursing program. This position is 350 days running from January 26, 2015 – December 16, 2016.

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

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

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TOWN OF BATTLEFORD PUBLIC NOTICE Sale of Dedicated Lands Pursuant to The Planning and Development Act, 2007, Public Notice is hereby given, that the Council of the Town of Battleford intends to adopt a bylaw for the sale of dedicated lands.

INTENT The proposed bylaw will allow the sale of a portion of Municipal Buffer Strip MB6, containing the house and yard of an existing dwelling.

AFFECTED LAND The affected land is legally described as a portion of Buffer Strip MB6, Plan 102135035, in the NW 30-43-16-W3 all the shaded area as shown on the map below. The subject area is approximately 200 metres west of the intersection of Highways 4 and 40.

RESERVING TO THE CROWN ALL MINES AND MINERALS.

REASON Previous subdivision of this area mistakenly and incorrectly designated this dwelling and yard as Municipal Buffer. Subdivision and sale of a portion of the Municipal Buffer Strip MB6 are required to return title to the dwelling’s occupant.

PUBLIC INSPECTION Any person may inspect the bylaw at the Town Office, located at 92 - 23rd Street West, in the Town of Battleford between the hours of 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays.

Copies of the proposed bylaw are available at the Town Office at a cost of $5.00.

PUBLIC HEARING Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:00 pm at the Town Office to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaw. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing or delivered to the undersigned at the Town Office by 1:00 pm, Wednesday, February 11, 2015.

Issued at the Town of Battleford this 8th day of January, 2015.

Sheryl Ballendine, Town Administrator

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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Food Counter Attendants/ Kitchen Help Full & Part-Time

Is accepting applications for

Front Office Manager

$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

Pennydale Junction is currently looking for

COOK, WAITRESSES & DISHWASHERS

evenings & weekends m with resumé to To Apply in person

Pennydale Junction Restaurant 92 - 22nd St. West Battleford

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: 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

Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre Inc. is seeking a

Human Resources Manager Under the direct supervision of the Executive Director, this fulltime permanent position will: • Be responsible for all human resource functions including working closely with all staff, utilizing/developing/revising/ implementing appropriate policies and procedures to support the strategic vision of Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre Inc. • Be knowledgeable of and remain up-to-date on human resource laws, regulations and trends to ensure compliance with Federal Labour Board regulations.

• Update, review and revise Human Resources plan in consultation with management.

• Assist in developing and implementation of learning and development policies.

• Responsible for research, development and maintenance of policies and procedures which support the human resources planning activities with BRT6HC. Evaluate and develop recommendations for improvements to operations, procedures and/or policies.

• Research and prepare job classifications to ensure salary grid is kept current and in line with industry standards.

• Supporting supervisors and managers in effective and consistent performance management.

• Processing payroll.

• Maintaining accurate employee records.

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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.

Gold Eagle Lodge is looking for a dynamic person to fill the term position of Front Office Manager. Reporting to the General Manager, the successful candidate will be a highly focused service oriented individual, responsible for the successful operation of the Front Desk.

The ideal candidate will have hospitality experience, be energetic and self-motivated; demonstrating a passion for going above and beyond to provide guests with exceptional experiences.

This term position is for a maternity leave. The tentative start date for this position is mid-February 2015.

Key Functions • Lead, train, coach and manage all front office team members in all aspects of the Front Desk • Provide consistent service to all guests; from arrival to departure • Work closely with other departments to enhance the guest experience • Familiar with budgeting processes, scheduling and effective cost management Interested applicants apply with resumé, including a cover letter to: Laura Allan, Human Resources Phone 306-446-8877 ext. 510 LauraA@goldeaglelodge.com

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The successful candidate must be mature, very reliable & able to multi-task. You must have very strong communication skills and are able to deal with people from all backgrounds in a courteous, non-judgmental and friendly manner. You must have a good memory, be a quick learner and are energetic and physically able to be on your feet for long periods. You must be a strong team player who is able to take direction well. Successful candidates must have an education in MOA or comparable and have experience in a medical clinic.

This position would be responsible for preparing the patients for the doctor’s visit, including taking vitals, and assisting the doctor whenever needed. It will also include other general office duties as required.

If you meet these requirements and would like to join our team, please bring your resumé (including work references) down to the Clinic by January 16th or you may fax to (306)445-5145 or email to lorna.tessier@pnrha.ca. A police record check will be required by the successful candidate.

We thank all applicants; however only the candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Prairie North Health Region provides a coordinated network of health services to over 80,883 residents in Saskatchewan and 20,011 in Lloydminster, Alberta.

Prairie North Health Region has corporate offices in North Battleford with satellite offices in Lloydminster and Meadow Lake.

Autism Support Worker North Battleford, SK Posting GO-00141978-2 Prairie North Health Region is currently seeking a permanent full-time Autism Support Worker based out of North Battleford, SK. The Autism Support Worker provides support through therapeutic and individualized program plans to autism spectrum disorder children under the direction of a qualified consultant to extend programs into the home, daycare, pre-school, elementary school, high school or workplace.

The successful applicant must have a Certificate in the Human Services Field and twelve months previous experience working with autism spectrum disorders. Applicants must have the ability to maintain clear, comprehensive written records: ability to work independently and as a member of a team; and the ability to work with special needs clients/patients/residents. Applicants must also have basic keyboard and computer skills, and as well as excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. A valid driver’s license is required.

Remuneration is in accordance with the applicable CUPE/SAHO Collective Agreement.

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Entry deadline just a couple weeks away

By Kelly Waters

2015 may have just begun but the registration deadline for this year’s Battlefords Kiwanis Music Festival is quickly approaching. The deadline for entries this year is Saturday, Jan. 17.

Note that the location for in-person deliveries of entries on that day has changed this year. Entries may be delivered in person at Ecole Monseigneur Blaise Morand from 1 – 4 p.m. on that date or mailed to Box 1301, North Battleford, S9A 3L8, postmarked by Jan. 17.

The festival is allowing for late entries again this year. Late entries may be delivered to 362 - 37th St. no later than 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, with a $25 late entry fee per entrant.

Registration forms are available at Sobeys and the current syllabus can be found online (http://www. smfa.ca/Administration/ Syllabus/20132015_SMFA_

Syllabus.pdf). Fees for solos, duets and trios remain at $13 per entry and we continue to encourage multiple entries by offering the family rate of a 50 per cent discount after 10 solo entries by individual participants.

The Battlefords festival entry fees are still lower than those suggested in the provincial syllabus. It is our goal to encourage participation by keeping fees affordable.

The program cover drawing contest is once again being offered. Children and youth, from the Battlefords area, are invited to submit original ideas for considered use as the 2015 festival program cover.

Artwork should reflect musical themes and be presented on letter-size paper in a vertical or portrait orientation. Pictures may be drawn in ink, pencil, colored pencil, marker or crayon but should have a white background.

Artists must print their full name, phone number, school

estival Fanfare March 16-29, 2015 Battlefords Kiwanis Musical Festival and grade on the back of their entry. The deadline is Feb. 7. Entries may be submitted at EMBM on festival registration day, mailed to the address above or submitted to Kelly Waters at St. Vital School or Agi McQuaid at EMBM. Selected pieces of artwork that are not chosen for the cover may also be featured within the pages of the program. Also look for festival venues to feature and display other worthy entries. We are confident another amazing program cover contest entry will add unique musical fla-

vour resulting in a keepsake for performers and family members.

The festival committee encourages schools to consider ensemble choral speaking entries. Schools have the option to travel to a festival venue for adjudication or, with a minimum of five group entries, request that the adjudicator come to their school.

Choral speaking lends itself easily to language arts and arts education curriculum learning objectives. Speech arts are a fun way to creatively explore written text using

dynamics, tempo, rhythm and dramatic expression. Choral speaking activities are highly engaging for students and offer safety in numbers for those students less comfortable with public speaking. It is not difficult to find material that is both educationally valid and of interest to students.

In my experience, students usually have so many wonderful ideas from which to draw you don’t have to do much beyond picking strong material and organizing their creativity into a presentable form.

Thank you to Dianne Gryba for stepping up to sit as president for the music festival committee this year as well as several other new volunteers offering committee support and guidance.

The committee is always looking for more parents, grandparents, and community-minded people to step forward and say, “How can I help?” If you have any interest in offering support,

please do not hesitate to contact a Committee member or indicate your interest on your child’s registration form. If your time is not available but you or your business would like to support the festival monetarily, consider sponsoring an award to be presented at the final gala event, sponsoring a session for a music discipline of your choice or being recognized as a patron or friend of the festival. Don’t be shy. We have numerous options from small-sized to large-sized if you are supporter of local music education.

The current tentative schedule, pending actual entries, for the 2015 Battlefords Music Festival is: piano March 16 – 1; band March 19 – 20, strings March 20, musical theatre March 21 – 22, voice March 23 – 25, speech arts March 26-27 and gala March 29.

“If music be the food of love, play on.” — William Shakespeare

Saskatchewan’s highway system – a year in review Staff

Like many others at this time of year, the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure is reflecting on the challenges and successes of another year gone.

“Our government recognizes the importance of safe and efficient highways to the people of the province,” Highways and Infrastructure Minister Nancy Heppner said.

“A solid transportation system is the foundation of our plan to grow Saskatchewan’s economy and improve the quality of life for all our citizens.”

The Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure’s work in 2014 focused on improving the condition and sustainabil-

ity of Saskatchewan’s 26,000 kilometre highway system, according to a press release.

The ministry also started, completed and continued the planning for a number of major projects that support the province’s continued population growth, the release states.

And once again, ministry crews responded to extreme weather and natural disasters.

Projects in the Northwest included: Highway 16 – repaving between Maidstone and Lashburn and the Maidstone access, $6.3 million; Highway 26 – bridge replacement near Meota, $1.3 million and Turtleford, $1.3 million; Highway 40 – realignment west of North Battleford,

$4.2 million; Highway 51 – grading west of Kerrobert, $5.4 million, grading east of Major, $3 million and paving west of Major on the Major Access Road, $8 million; Highways 55 and 26 – grading and paving, $24.9 million.

According to the ministry, highlights of 2014 include: • More than 430 kilometres of major highway upgrades, 425 kilometres of repaving, 38 bridge projects and 323 culvert projects were completed or underway in 2014.

• Ministry crews were challenged to maintain Saskatchewan’s highways during one of the worst winters on record.

• Serious flooding hit large parts of central, east cen-

tral and southeastern Saskatchewan in early July. Roads and bridges were washed away and as many as 25 sections of highway were closed during the worst of the flooding.

• Over the next few years, federal funding announced in 2014 will see more than $225 million go toward projects

that reduce congestion and improve safety on some of our busiest highways including Highway 7, Highway 16 and the Regina Bypass.

• The new St. Louis Bridge opened to traffic in October, creating a 683 kilometre primary weight corridor from Assiniboia to La Ronge.

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Holiday gatherings enjoyed close to home

By Helena Pike Correspondent With the temperature reading -31 C Monday morning, it was a good day to stay indoors. Sounds like we can expect a few more days of low temperatures.

Happy New Year to all.

The holiday season is over for another year and January is, as all the months do now, going very quickly.

Christmas was celebrated in style as usual. Bill Pike hosted the Florence Pike family on Christmas Day. A potluck meal made for lots of food. Bill always entertains everyone with a display of fireworks in the evening.

Lois Pike and family spent Christmas Day with Morris and Melanie Freeston and family with all family members present.

Morris and Melanie also hosted a birthday celebration

orest Bank for Lois Dec. 31. Among the family members present for the birthday party were Dennis and Jeanette Pike of Indian Head. They were spending a few days in the area and had Christmas celebrations with their family in Lloydminster.

Happy birthday (belated), Lois.

Many other Christmas celebrations were held in the district. Helena Pike and Christine Pike were guests of Ellen and Maurice Oddan.

Helena also spent some time with Ellen and Maurice Oddan Jan. 3 when Mark and Tracy Oddan and Carter and Lincoln, their sons, were visiting with Ellen and Maurice.

Congratulations to Clint Wesson and Caitlin Miadza who were married Jan. 3.

They were married at 5 p.m. in the Prairie Room on Lloydminster Exhibition Grounds where a meal and festivities followed the wedding.

Clint and Caitlin will be making their home on the farm in Forest Bank.

Karen and Rick Johnston returned home for Christmas after spending a few weeks in Mesa, Ariz.

Terry and René Pike travelled to Edmonton where they were guests of their daughters over the holiday season.

Eileen and Keith Evans wer guests of John and Calynda Evans and family in Calgary for Christmas and for a few days before and following Christmas Day. Gully Gus says, “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace!”

tos of these highlights are available at www.highways. gov.sk.ca/2014PhotoGallery.

“I also want to thank the people of Saskatchewan for their patience and understanding through things like flood repairs and traffic delays associated with road work and construction,” Heppner said.

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Unity Miners action ramps up to playoff season

By Sherri Solomko Correspondent So to my Ukrainian family and friends, how was Christmas? The celebration

that includes all of the deep tradition of faith and family that includes plenty of food is an annual event that many still celebrate. I, for one, have appreciated the Babas on either side of our family includ-

ing some of this tradition and culture in our lives.

As we celebrated a daughter’s birthday last week, we will soon be wondering where that time went as your youngest will hit the teenage years

nity News Jan. 24.

Here is a test if he really does read this column like he says he does. I would be remiss to not wish my sister and brother-in-law a happy anniversary. It was a very cold day in 1982 that we attended their wedding in North Battleford.

And Christmas holidays are over for students and they are now back in classes, starting the second half of their school year.

The Unity Miners’ action will ramp up in the New Year as the team looks to secure a spot in the playoff picture, hoping to repeat as SWHL

champions in 2015. Check out their Facebook page for game schedules or the town of Unity website. Minor hockey is also a flurry of games both in and out of town. Check out the website www.unityminorhockey.com if you need more details. Or you can view the complete arena schedule at www.townofunity.com Team Laycock is coming to the Unity Curling Club. The hottest men’s Saskatchewan curling team has chosen Unity for their Decisive Farming Curlingville tour. Register your kids for their clinic coming up on Jan. 14, at no cost. Other interested community members are welcome to come and meet the team following the on-ice sessions with the kids.

Icemakers will be preparing for the Sifto Senior Cash Spiel, to be held Jan. 9 to 11

with a $7,000 payout. Following this will be the senior women’s qualifier No. 3 and then the bonspiel season begins starting with the JayDee Ag Tech men’s event Feb. 10-15, followed by the oilman’s bonspiel, the ladies, bonspiel and the year-end mixed funspiel.

Coffee row folks are back in routine. They are debating the weather that has been and what’s expected for the rest of winter. Some are talking of their hot holidays this winter.

Some are reviewing their favourite hockey teams or their favourite curling teams.

All are part of the community culture of coffee row that we all recognize as a mainstay in our community. So you see we keep busy in Unity with activities and wisdom from our friends on coffee row.

Until next week.

Be wary when charities solicit door to door Staff

Fun in the Sun Barry and Irene Verhoeven of North Battleford are the January winners in the Western Development Museum’s Great Escape Vacation Raffle. Barry and Irene have won a trip for two to Jamaica where they can spend seven nights at the four-star all-inclusive Sunset Beach Resort, Spa and Waterpark in an ocean-view room. The package includes round trip airfare from Saskatoon, round trip airport transfers and seven nights accommodations. The couple has chosen to take a vacation with their winnings where they’re sure to have some fun in the sun. Photo submitted

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J20 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;go toâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gang for multi media events

By Sherri Solomko Correspondent UNITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Journalism 20 at Unity Composite High School gives students the opportunity plan, organize and present events as well as learning skills useful in post-secondary classes and other walks of life.

In its inaugural year, the class covered the IIHF pretournament hockey game being held in Unity in 2010.

These students set the bar high not only for future classes and projects of the J20 program.

Teamwork is one of the most important concepts learned. Their projects have evolved from one camera, one laptop and one iPad to multi camera, director and state-of-the-art presentations that are the envy of many.

Their coverage of provincial boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; volleyball in Medstead in 2012 was even covered on CTV news.

The J20 class has had students go on to post-secondary education and careers in broadcasting. At their live coverage of the Canada vs Russia hockey game held in Unity Dec. 12, alumnus Wynona Hansen, now working in broadcasting, joined them briefly in the press box as she was there on the job herself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned a lot from Ms. (Ruth) Cey and this class as I feel it prepared me well for the broadcast field,â&#x20AC;? she

said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The journalism class certainly helped with my comfort level as I now work in broadcasting. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun to see these students in action doing what I once did.â&#x20AC;?

The class this year consists of 19 Grade 11 students, taught by Ruth Cey and with support from Living Sky School Division, particularly with the leadership of Ryan Kobelsky, assistant ICS manager for the division.

Cey and Koblesky have been involved with several such projects over the past five years, including provincial volleyball tournaments as well as a pre-competition game, Austria vs. Latvia in December 2010. Aside from live-streaming the game, the class hosted a companion blog containing â&#x20AC;&#x153;value-addedâ&#x20AC;? content â&#x20AC;&#x201D; polls, count downs, interviews and local interest stories. You can see their work at http://unityjragame.wordpress.com; as well as looking at their many Twitter posts that were posted that night @J20class.

The class started preparing as soon as they were advised they were on board with Decemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pre-tournament game. Their preliminary work including making a timeline of what needed to be done to achieve the outcome they wanted for the project.

It included such things as creating a blog with countdowns, polls and rosters; as well as launching a twitter feed. The class hoped to es-

tablish contact with at least two members of each team or coaches to gather content and create interest and this would include using mediums such as Skype interviews, audio interviews and email interviews. The students also hoped to have photos of the players and profiles posted on the blog. They also gathered local interviews, investigated the tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history and prepared relevant articles for the local paper.

Game day was hectic but include an experience like no other. The class performed pre-game interviews and the pre-game show included interviews amongst those in attendance. During the game they hosted live streaming via three cameras. Play by play and colour commentary added flavour to the boardcast.

J20 included public service announcements for the host community and programs to benefit from this game as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cornerâ&#x20AC;? coverage between periods.

Their work wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t over once the game was done.

They upgraded all of their media sites with game stats, live interviews of players, coaches and committee members as well as several highlight reels.

Students are not only learning, but studying as they go, adjusting to quick changes that come up as they work a live multi-media event.

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The Unity Arena press box was packed with activity as the UCHS Journalism 20 class worked to provide live coverage of the Canada vs Russia game hosted there in December. Photos by Sherri Solomko

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From almost overwhelmed to polished professionalism

Outside the press box students operated cameras and conducted on-camera interviews with players, coaches and committee members. Photos by Sherri Solomko

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WILKIE — Team Laycock and Decisive Farming have announced the launch of Decisive Farming’s CurlingVille presented by Crescent Point Energy.

Team Laycock will be in Wilkie Sunday, Jan. 18 to host a free curling clinic for novice, junior and senior school curlers from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Wilkie Curling Rink.

This is an opportunity for young curlers to learn from a professional curling team.

Lunch will be provided for all curlers after the clinic, free of charge.

The public is invited to come meet the team and have lunch with them from noon to 1:30 p.m

After lunch watch Team Laycock take on a local team from our Wilkie Curling Club at 1:30 p.m.

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I was to Group Home 1 for the annual Christmas supper and gift exchange.

It was a beautiful turkey supper and, of course, Santa Claus handed out gifts to everyone.

I was up to see Jean Stewart at the hospital. She seems to be doing okay.

Happy, healthy New Year everyone.

By Margaret MacEachern Correspondent MAIDSTONE — Colleen Koski and Chantal were Friday night shoppers in Lloydminster. Colleen said how quiet it was.

We wish Denise Newton well. She hasn’t been able to shake the flu bug.

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Kobelsky said this game was the biggest pull this J20 class had ever seen, as they experienced 499 hits mostly from Ontario. This means family and fans of players on Team Canada East had an excellent opportunity to watch their favourite players in action.

Many VIP visitors were brought up to the broadcast booth just to showcase the command centre that easily mimicked professional sports broadcast booths.

All students, working in their various roles, grew more and more comfortable as the night progressed. Not one of them appeared nervous, or worried about the duties they were undertaking.

Jumping into interviews as if they had been doing this all their lives and handling cameras as if they were paid professionals was fascinating to watch; Toby Prescott, handling play by play and post-game wrap up with local hockey “experts,” made it appear as if he does this for his day job.

It was apparent by dozens of comments heard back via Twitter, texting or in person that most folks were thrilled with the opportunity to have this group cover yet another big event in fine style. Whether the J20 team realized it or not, they capped off a successful evening with their talents, their dedication to professionalism and responsible journalism.

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The press box, high above the arena surface, that normally houses two or three people, was home base for anywhere from six to eight people accompanied by a large supply of equipment.

In the “director’s” chair, although he would vehemently deny the title, sat Kobelsky. For him this was a day full of excitement and emotion. He says he enjoys the adrenalin rush of a live broadcast and the excitement this project can bring, but he was also awaiting the birth of his first child, due the very

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Make a resolution, join the fitness group

By Lorna Pearson Correspondent The New Year came in milder, which was nice. Then the snow followed and the deep freeze set in, but we can cope with that. Meota workers do a fantastic job of cleaning the streets and alleys, especially compared to other villages I’ve visited.

I’m sure people appreciate it. Another item I noticed was that the garbage tags in Turtleford are $3, while ours are $1, a difference that does add up at year end.

One item you could add to your new year resolutions is to join the Meota Fitness Centre group who work out

eota News in the gym area between the big hall and the town office, in the Community Complex. For information contact Robert Iverson at 306-892-4626.

When Tyhee Lake froze over in December at Telkwa, B.C., it was like a sheet of glass and nearly 200 people turned out to enjoy the rare occasion before it was snowed over.

There are 18,000 more people in Saskatchewan now,

The Iverson Rock

By Dan Iverson Gordon threw a party in the Meota Bar The bar band was there and they began to wail.

The band was jumpin’ and the joint began to swing You should’ve heard those knocked out rednecks sing.

Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.

Everybody in the whole town block Was dancin’ to the Iverson Rock.

Jason Neville played the tenor saxophone Little Rose was blowin’ on the slide trombone.

The drummer man from Edam went crash, boom, bang, The whole rhythm section was the Tucker Gang.

Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.

Everybody in the whole town block Was dancin’ to the Iverson Rock.

Marion just turned 80 and she said to me, “You’re the cutest Elvis I ever did see.

I sure would be delighted with your company, Come on and do the Iverson Rock with me.”

Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.

Everybody in the whole town block Was dancin’ to the Iverson Rock.

Little Dracy was sittin’ on a case of Pil Way over in the corner being all alone.

Gordon said, “hey, Darcy, don’t you be no square If you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair.”

Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.

Everybody in the whole town block Was dancin’ to the Iverson Rock.

Teddy Brown said to Dale, “For heaven’s sake, No one’s looking, now’s our chance to make a break.”

Dale turned to Teddy and he said, “just chill I wanna stick around a while and drink more Pil.” Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.

Everybody in the whole town block Was dancin’ to the Iverson Rock.

Dancin’ to the Iverson Rock.

Drinkin’ to the Iverson Rock.

than there were a year ago. So the housing situation doesn’t get better, very quickly.

My friend in Calgary, Atla. has family in Kamloops, B.C. and they told her the kids in pre-school are learning how to arrange flowers. Parents are chosen at random to send flowers to school, twice a week, so they can practise making arrangements. Boy, in our day, we were lucky to have lunches to take to school, and wherever would we have found the flowers?

Likewise, many schools do not teach cursive writin’ any more. When this friend found out her granddaughter couldn’t write, hence would not be able to read the family treasures, including old letters, that she would someday inherit, Gramma had a fit. So guess what they do when they get together. On phoning her different family members she found that some schools teach it briefly, while others not at all.

A come and go tea honouring Marion Iverson on her 80th birthday was held in the Do Drop In Jan. 3. More than 80 people signed the guest book, as, in spite of the cold weather, folks turned out to wish her well. Her children and grandchildren made posters and cards to decorate the hall. The tables all had cloths and decorations. This was followed by a family supper, in the same setting, with around 30 family members.

Her grandson Dan Iverson impersonated Elvis Presley, even with his dress, and they had a jam session of music after supper. Dan wrote the accompanying poem for his grandmother.

Marion obviously was a great Elvis fan as she has his pictures everywhere in her home. Their five children were all home and most of their families, coming from as far away as Cold Lake, Slave Lake, Lloydminster and Morinville in Alberta, from Vernon, B.C. and Saskatoon and closer places in Saskatchewan.

Canasta was played at the Do Drop In Dec. 19, with top marks by Linda Ard and John Soloninko, and second high by Cora Christiansen and Bev McCrimmon. It was a nice Christmasy evening with the decorations done up nicely. The following date

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Marion Iverson was guest of honour at an 80th birthday celebration at Meota’s Do Drop In Jan. 3. Among the special guests was Elvis (aka Dan Iverson). Photo submitted by Lorna Pearson of Jan. 2 was cancelled due to the new snow and cold temperatures.

A dozen or more Christmas carolers toured the village on Monday evening, Dec. 22, to everyone’s delight. They travelled in a wagon with Marcel and Annette Duhaime’s team of Clydesdales, from Edam area. The carolers seemed to enjoy their outing, too, all helping folks get into the Christmas spirit.

The cold temperatures invaded the United States too, and at Mesquite, Nev. where the campers usually stop and put water into their rigs, it was -5. It’s supposed to be safe from freezing from there on. Las Vegas had a snowstorm on New Year’s

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Eve, that doesn’t happen often. Blair and Erna Corbeil were in Palm Springs, Calif. after Christmas, and they said, “It’s cold!”

The North Stars hockey team is hosting the Jackfish Lake Ice Fishing Derby Feb. 14, more info will be showing up I’m sure, before then.

The next monthly meeting of the seniors will be Friday a.m. at 10:30, at the Do Drop In. Come with new ideas and support this active group.

Gwen Lacerte drove out to Rocky Mountain House, Alta. to spend the holiday with her son Philip and Yvonne Lacerte and their family. She also visited her daughter Gail and Keith Hallett near Niton Junction, west of Edmonton.

Yvette Lessard and her family celebrated their family Christmas at the Do Drop In Dec. 20. Then Yvette spent a few days over Christmas with her son Andrew and Claire.

On Boxing Day her grandson Jason and Crystal came from Saskatoon to visit her at her son Dan and Charlene’s home in North Battleford. They brought their family of three girls and little twin boys, which made a very interesting day for all.

Then she visited her son Raymond and Sheila Lessard in Battleford Jan. 2.

Walter and Mary Tait hosted Christmas with their three children and their families all being present, which made for a gorgeous day for everyone.

Beulah Corbiel spent Christmas with her son Blair and Erna at Beaumont, Alta.

She always enjoys the young folks and their goings on, seeing how much the little folk have grown and what they are busy at.

Library hours this year are 5-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays and 1-5 p.m.

Thursdays and Saturdays. Try to make use of this free facility by borrowing newspapers, books for adults or children, movies or magazines.

The walking program continues at the Community Complex, from 9 a.m. to noon daily, with exercises at 10 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

The next Meota Lions meeting will be Thursday 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Ben and Nina Byl spent Christmas Day with their daughter and her family, in North Battleford.

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Dazzling light displays rewarded with prizes

By Helena Pike Correspondent School begins again Jan. 5.

We hope all students enjoyed their holiday. Due to the way the days fell, the holiday was

a little longer than the usual Christmas holiday.

There were dazzling Christmas lights in Waseca for the holiday season. They get better every year. I think this is the third year that the Village has given prizes for

what the judges consider the best light display. Congratulations to Rodney and Barb Weisner and Pat and Neil Morrison who were this year’s winners.

It is good to see that the rink is in use now. The ice

Wellness clinic Jan. 14 Continued from Page 35 The wellness clinic will be held Jan. 14, from 12:15 – 2:30 p.m. at the Do Drop In. Starting this year, the Meota Lions Chorus will practise on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. at the Do Drop In. They welcome new voices as many folks have moved from Meota this past couple years.

This is a fun-filled activity, slated to make people happy and smiling. This Wednesday the chorus will practise a bit later, following the clinic.

The seniors have slated the next shuffleboard tournament for Saturday, Jan. 24, at the Do Drop In. Please call Linda at 306-892-2179 or Yvette at 306-892-2167 so the roster can be made up ahead of time.

At times the weather channel shows the areas of the prairies where the flu cases are plentiful and there’s a lot of red showing. At first

it was northern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan, but it’s spreading. The flu shots covered several kinds of flu, but not the strain that’s been predominant this winter.

There’s been a few cases here in Meota.

There are visiting restrictions in some public places.

There is no Hobby Band dance, as listed in the new calendar on Jan. 9. The next one will be on Valentine’s Day. Jo Carter, accompanied

by Leah, Shula and Micah, drove to Winnipeg, Man. during the Christmas holidays and were there at New Year’s when they welcomed a new grandson into the world. Born to their daughter Hannah and Joel Cormie was a son, Levi Ignatius, on New Years’ Day. The Christmas Eve program at the United/Anglican church in Meota was very nice, with nearly a full house

to enjoy. Readings and musical numbers were lovely.

Christmas songs were sung

by Shar Redenburg and Lawrie Ward; a trio of girls – Meg Scorgie, Kendra Policha and Sheila Carter; a saxophone duet by Micah Carter and Riley Campbell; readings were by David Carter, Gail Scorgie, Russel Ball and Shirley Ward. The program was well put together and a pleasure to hear. Some great visiting followed as guests were in attendance who were home for the holiday.

The January noon luncheon at the Community Complex will be on Jan. 16.

Let’s hope it’s some warmer by then and that the flu bug has run its course.

Contract bridge was played Monday evening at the Do Drop In with top scores going to Mary Greenwald and Warren Iverson.

Not many showed up so they just played for fun.

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Renee and Morris Donovan travelled to Estevan where they enjoyed Christmas with their son, Darryl and his wife, Megan. On the way there they picked up their

daughter, Lindsey, in Saskatoon who enjoyed Christmas celebrations with them.

Besides family celebrations in the village, others travelled to be with family.

Anne Clayton travelled to Alberta destinations to be with her family members.

Ruth Sutherland and Lyle Sutherland travelled to Calgary to spend Christmas with Ruth’s granddaughters, Chelsea and Kimberley.

Barb and Rodney Weisner and family drove to Kenas-

ton to spend Christmas with Barb’s mother and other relatives.

The next meeting of the Waseca Recreation Board will be held on the evening of Jan. 14. The main item of business will be the finalizing of coming activities.

Grants have been approved for some work to be done on the Waseca Community Centre and the gazebo that will be built in Snell Park. The work to be done on these will also be under discussion.

Maymont Central School News

Three new students welcomed

By MCS Staff

M AY M O N T — T h e Christmas decorations that filled the classrooms and hallways during December, have been taken down and packed away for another year. The elf costumes, reindeer costumes and Santa hats have been placed back in the shed until preparations begin for next year’s Christmas concert.

Classes resumed on Monday. It was a cold day, but everyone seemed excited to share their Christmas stories and see their friends. A few were even eager to get back to class.

Doug and Jean Brehon and family donated $200 to Shoes for Syria. This project provides shoes and socks for children so they are able to attend school. The donation was given in the name of Maymont Central School.

Three new students will be attending the school. Alyssa Issac will be in Grade 7, Christopher Issac will be in Grade 9 and their older brother, Jacob Issac, will be in Grade 11. They have recently moved to the area from Ontario.

The next school community council meeting will be held on Thursday. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Several of the SCC members have produced two school newsletters. They plan to have another movie night sometime in the future.

Several of the winter sports have begun. Rick Bailey is coaching junior and senior boys’ basketball teams. They have had several practices and played a few games.

They played Chief Poundmaker School Tuesday.

Kari Gray will be coaching the curling teams this year.

They will practice in Radisson on Thursday evenings and then attend the district playoffs.

The physical education classes are taking advantage of the connected rink. Classes have been playing broomball, shinny and skating It is wonderful to have use of the rink.

We have a set of snowshoes to use in gym classes for a week. Hopefully, it warms up so classes can get outside and try them out.

Grade 10,11 and 12 exams will be written during the week of Jan. 26 to 29. This means second semester begins Friday, Jan. 30.

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Busy Bees Preschool performing at the Borden School Christmas concert. Photos by Lorraine Olinyk

Churches join forces to host festive potluck

By Lorraine Olinyk Correspondent The Borden Friendship Club held their potluck supper on the Dec. 31with more than 35 out to enjoy the evening. The birthday cakes were brought by Anne Palmer and Eileen Petrun and blowing out the candles with December birthdays were Dianne Rawlyk and John Longmore.

After the dessert, the movie Brother, Where Art Thou was shown to those who stayed.

Riverbend Fellowship Church and Borden United Church held their joint potluck supper Dec. 21 with more than 100 out for the evening. Non-perishable

food was collected at the door and this was combined with Affinity Credit Union and Radisson Tops Chapter and distributed to five local families.

The children put on three plays with Kelly Wall as MC for A Christmas Addition, when members of a nativity clash with the more traditional decorations of Christmas.

As the nativity characters tell their story, the others begin to see why Baby Jesus is the real star of Christmas.

Daryl Wiebe introduced the second play, Rejoice in the Reason. Gayle Wensley led in carol singing with Pam Pidwerbesky playing piano.

The final was a Shadow

orden Radisson Drama depicting the nativity scene. The children all received candy bags and everyone enjoyed Christmas oranges as they left.

Borden School K to Grade 6 held their concert Dec. 19 with MCs Clayton Wiebe and Rachel Sutherland introducing the acts.

The Borden Busy Bees Preschool performed two songs. Kindergarten to Grade 6 put on a musical play, Elfis The Impersonator with Elvis, Santa and Mrs. Claus,

elves and reindeer. The rest of the students formed the choir. Santa arrived and gave out presents to all the preschool children and students exchanged gifts. The next morning the Grade 12 class held a pancake and sausage breakfast that was well at-

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Drowning? It’s too late for swimming lessons Ed, my neighbour next door, heard I’m trying to improve my brain health, and he is certain it’s too little, too late on my part.

My neighbor learned I had signed on to Luminosity. It is a website where you play games that are improving your brain health as you

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Ed said it this way, “You’re playing silly games on your computer to keep

yourself from becoming more and more brain dead.”

I said that is pretty much it. Growing older doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be smarter than you have ever been. It is pretty common for brains to slow down and backfire as we get older.

Of course, Ed had to ask if my wife has found I’m brighter since doing Luminosity games. I said neither

of us has noticed a big leap forward, so far. We do both believe in miracles, so we aren’t counting the Luminosity games out yet. Ed thought that I might have paid to try Luminosity to find out it makes me dumber instead of brighter. He wanted to know if that has occurred with others. I just couldn’t give him an answer because I don’t know. Ed’s final comment was, “This Luminosity thing is a waste of your money as it’s too late for swimming lessons when you’re drowning!”

When it comes to brain health, it seems Herod the Great lacked flexibility in his problem-solving skills.

Herod was ruler in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem.

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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.

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Ice fishing going strong at Meeting Lake

By Alan Laughlin Correspondent Christmas is come and gone and I haven’t heard anyone complaining about how Santa treated them apart, perhaps for those who had the flu! Here it is Jan. 4, and we woke up to -37 C without the wind. Guess that is what makes us tough.

It was good to see old friends and family who made it home for the holidays and for the most part the weather made it a fairly enjoyable festive season. We have an incredible amount of hoar frost after several consecutive days of fog. Trees tops are very bent and many have snapped. On Christmas Eve day the power went out at

5 a.m. and was restored at noon. On Dec. 30 it went out for a about an hour in the afternoon. The outages are a result of the frost and the heavy branches.

Fishing has started for earnest on Meeting Lake with shacks being hauled out here and there. Not many reports of any big fish but the season is early. Everyone is talking about the open water on the east end of the lake as a spring has decided to keep things interesting.

Dec. 23, mayor Dave Plummer, counted the peoples choice ballots for the Christmas lighting contest sponsored by the village council. Congratulations to Marvin and Linda Price as the rural winners and to Alan and Shelly Laughlin for the

abbit Lake News village. Thanks to all who participated and to those who took the time to vote. One night we toured the village and counted the lights and were surprised that almost 55 per cent of the occupied homes had some sort of lighting display. I think that is more than last year and I hope is an encouragement for next Christmas.

Lots of wishes of congratulations are due! Claus and Cyndy Spielmann became first-time grandparents Dec 21. Ryan and Cassie

Too late for swim lessons Continued from Page 38 Herod proved he had a powerful accuracy at killing anyone who could threaten him as the ruler. History indicates Herod spent his entire rule eliminating any person he considered a threat. He had three of his sons executed and a host of other folks. Herod sent soldiers to Bethlehem to kill all male children two years old and under, to snuff out the baby born King of the Jews there. Herod had been

alerted to a baby born king of the Jews, by Magi from the east who were searching for the baby to pay him honour. Herod asked them to come back and tell him where the child was in Bethlehem so he could also worship him. Herod intended to kill the baby, and when the Magi did not return to tell him where the baby was in Jerusalem, he had all the babies there killed. Thankfully, Joseph had already taken the baby and his mother to

Egypt. God alerted Joseph about the slaughter of babies that Herod was planning.

The slaughter of innocent children is part of the Christmas story. Herod used his power and position to murder without regret. God sent his Son born of Mary at Bethlehem to help people, by giving his life for them.

God showed flexibility with Jesus to solve the problem of our sinfulness, instead of our execution as guilty sinners.

Spielmann became parents of a baby boy, Jake Kevin Thomas. George and Melitta Hildebrand also became firsttime grandparents. Dave and Katherine Van Der Gucht became parents to Oliver Samuel Dec. 30.

Dave and Margaret Siegel again became grandparents Jan. 2 when a baby boy, Odin Vincent Wolfgang, was born to Adrien and Sonia Prince.

It is good to have Shirley Leigh and Albert Colbe back home after some time in the hospital.

Rabbit Lake Branch of the Lakeland Library was fortunate to be granted an additional hour and so has struck a new timetable for 2015. The library is now open on Tuesday from 9 a.m. until noon, . Wednesday from 2 to 5:30 p.m. and Friday from

2 to 5:30 p.m. The library will be hosting its annual Kaiser tournament Jan. 17 at the Rabbit Lake Community Hall. Rhonda Prescesky was the winner of the “end of the season” windfall of treats and baking. Thanks for sharing Rhonda.

Dec. 18th Wright Choice Seed Cleaning hosted an information afternoon at the Rabbit Lake Senior Sunrise Circle.

Uli Cartman presented information on molasses for cattle consumption. Wright Choice now sells molasses so that is an addition to the business community.

Memberships are due for 2015 for the Senior Sunrise Circle. This year they are $15 and payable to Don or Naomi Unger.

There are a couple of an-

nual general meetings coming up. The first one is the Senior Sunrise Circle AGM Jan. 14 and then the Rabbit Lake and District Agricultural Association AGM on Jan. 18. Come and find out what is happening in the local organizations and consider taking a turn as director.

Burger and bunnock nights are back on for another season. One change is that unlike other years when the burger night was Tuesdays, this year it is Wednesdays.

Come and support the Rec Center by buying a burger and stay for a game or two of bunnock.

I hope you have marked March 7 on the calendar.

Come and enjoy that annual Rabbit Lake and District Ag Association snowmobile rally.

PICTURESQUE

— Photo by Louise Lundberg

Thank You!...

The North Battleford Lions have hosted a very successful 6th year of Operation Red Nose during the holiday season.

We would like to thank the North Battleford detachment of the RCMP, SGI and Val Wasmuth at Western Financial Group for their assistance in the operation of the campaign. A large thank you to the following Corporate Sponsors for their generous donations both financially or by providing free services and products.

Thank you to the following volunteers who felt it was a worthy cause and called to volunteer their time with driving and other activities: Daisy Adams, Shane Adams, Deanna Bear, Andy Bonneau, Katherine Fenrich, Bruce Friesen, Siobhan Gormley, Mark Johannesen, Nicki Keys, Kerry Keys, Ronald Leitner, Chris Lonoway, Kelly Murdoch, Colleen Millman, David Schell, Paula Schmidt, Glen Schneider, Lacey Taylor, Melanie Trach, Murray Wickstrand, Jane Zielke de Montrun, Janis Stepko, Grace Bowman and Lions Ellen Mae Bishop, Harold Bishop, Merv Stepko, Gordon Mullett, Marc Bonneau, Doug Zunti, Brian Frijouf, Vladimir Cordas & Bill Bowman. As a result of the large data base of drivers we were able to schedule everyone for less evenings as well as provide shorter wait times to clients.

Your co-operation made our task of scheduling so much easier.

Last but far from least we would like to thank the numerous business clients who contacted us to provide safe rides home for their staff and all our clients who made the wise decision to “not drink & drive” and contacted us for a safe ride home for them and their vehicle. Battlefords KidSport are the recipients of your generous donations in 2014.

We look forward to everyones continued support in 2015.

Operation Red Nose Corporate Sponsors 2014 • Fedler Electric Inc. • Country Cuisine • Eternal Memories Funeral Service & Crematorium Inc. • Battleford Furniture Ltd. • Dwight’s Trenching • Super 8 Motel • Full Throttle Pump Repair Ltd. • Norsask Farm Equipment Ltd. • G & C Asphalt Ltd. • Home Hardware Building Centre - Battleford • Fountain Tire • Pennydale Junction • Pat Hutchison • Bee-J’s Office Plus • The Yellow Submarine • Canadian Tire Associate Store • RBC Wealth Management Dominion Securities • Crackmaster North Battleford • Anderson Pump House Ltd. • SIGA • Porta Bella Restaurant

• Parkland Farm Equipment (2004) Ltd. • B & D Meats (1995) Inc. • Sobeys • Carpet Superstore • Fishers Drug Store • Four K Auto Services Ltd. • Inspiration Boutique • Prestige Insurance Brokers • Paul’s Motorcycle Shop • Guy’s Furniture & Appliances Ltd. • The Battlefords Funeral Service • Nor West Distributors Inc. • Tropical Inn • Greg Lightfoot/Hein Financial Group • CJV The Carpet People Inc. • Ultra Print Services Ltd. • Security Company of Excellence • SaskTel • SaskEnergy • NoFrills • Gold Eagle Lodge • Battlefords & District Co-op • Lakeland Veterinary Services

• Battlefords Flooring Centre Ltd. • Battlefords Animal Hospital P.C. Ltd. • G.L.M. Industries L.P. • B & C Trenching Ltd. Wayne Cook • Taco Time • Subway • Kihiw Restaurant • Gold Eagle Gas Bar • Valley Ford • Bridges Chevrolet Buick GMC Ltd. • Rainbow Toyota • North Battleford Hyundai • Scott Campbell Dodge Ltd. • Swanson Gryba & Company • News-Optimist • CJNB, Q98FM • Super A Foods, Battleford • McDonald’s Restaurant Ltd. • Family Pizza • Pizza Hut • Tim Hortons • Boston Pizza • City of North Battleford

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