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For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again
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Battlefords Community Players staged For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again last week. The play was about a narrator detailing his childhood growing up with his overdramatic, loving mother. The 1955 play was written by well-known Quebec writer Michel Tremblay and translated by Linda Gaboriau. Jim Walls (left) starred as the Narrator, and Lynda Lyon Walls (right) as Nana. Donna Challis directed the play. The final show of the Battlefords Community Players’ season, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, will take place in early May. Photos by Josh Greschner
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The search is on for a new city manager in North Battleford on word that Jim Puffalt has been recruited to become city manager in Moose Jaw. The announcement was made in a news release from City Hall Tuesday morning. Puffalt had been at Monday night’s city council meeting and there was no hint during the open portion of the meeting that Puffalt was about
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to leave for a new job. His departure, which will take effect in May, brings to a close a little over four years for Puffalt as North Battleford’s city manager after taking over from Jim Toye, who left to become city manager in Prince Albert. In Moose Jaw, Puffalt takes over a position that has been vacant since Matt Noble departed in January. Initiatives at North Battleford City Hall under Puffalt’s direction
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A release from the federal government states that, on March 22, Environment and Climate Change Canada laid a number of charges against Husky Energy Inc. and Husky Oil Operations Limited relating to the blended heavy crude-oil spill, in July 2016, which impacted the North Saskatchewan River near Maidstone. The Government of Saskatchewan also filed a charge under the Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2010. These charges result from a 19-month joint federalprovincial investigation. The release also states there are a total of 10 charges which include one charge under subsection 36(3) of the federal Fisheries Act, one charge under subsection 38(5) of the federal Fisheries Act, six charges under subsection 38(6) of the federal Fisheries Act, one charge under the federal Migratory Birds Convention
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have included the 2014 Customer Service Organizational Review and launch of the Community Safety Strategy, the 2015 Regional Opportunities Plan, the 2017 Strategic Plan, the Downtown Master Plan and its implementation, UPAR, and the First-Nations/Municipal Community Economic Development (CEDI) Initiative. According to the city a nationwide search will commence quickly to find a new city manager.
Husky Energy was scheduled to appear in Lloydminster provincial court Thursday, March 29, to face a charge under the provincial Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2010 (EMPA, 2010), as well as several other charges under federal legislation, according to a March 26 statement from Premier Scott Moe’s office. At press time, results of this first appearance were unavailable. (Check our website for updated information.)
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Act, 1994, and one charge under Saskatchewan’s Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2010. All charges stem from the 225,000-litre spill that saw some of the heavy oil and diluent find its way into the North Saskatchewan River, spawning a substantial cleanup effort. Contamination was reported several hundred kilometres downstream, past Prince Albert. Several communities, including North Battleford and Prince Albert, had to take emergency measures to find alternate safe drinking water supplies until the river water was considered once again safe to drink from, several months later. The EMPA charge alleges that Husky did “unlawfully permit the discharge of a substance to the environment that caused an adverse effect.” The maximum fine for the EMPA charge is $1,000,000. Continued on Page 6
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