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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
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Brad Jacobs beats Kevin Koe for Canada Cup By Corey Atkinson sports@estevanmercury.ca
It wasn’t the most wideopen game of curling ever seen but Brad Jacobs will take the Home Hardware Canada Cup win over Kevin Koe any day of the week. “I think (third) Marc (Kennedy) said it best: nice, boring final,” said Jacobs in a media scrum moments after the final rock at Affinity Place. “We got a nice early deuce and really controlled that game. I’m just really proud of the way the three guys in front of me played all week.” Kennedy stepped in for Ryan Fry, who took some time off curling after an incident a couple of weeks ago in Red Deer where he was filling in and got disqualified for being drunk at that event. But at this game, the tempo was measured and controlled – and the game was fully controlled by Jacobs for most of it. “I think we controlled our emotions very well,” said
Jacobs, clutching the Canada Cup during the media scrum. “I think that’s the most relaxed I’ve ever seen our team in a long time. Everything went well. I think that’s the thing we’ve been working on most, is controlling our emotions and not letting our emotions controlling us.” Getting two early points also helped the team grab the game early. “I think we outplayed them up and down the lineup,” Jacobs said. “We didn’t give them too many chances or opportunities to score a deuce back. They stole the one there and stopped the time clock and kind of ruined that deuce for them. “But that’s the rules for this event. You’ve got to be careful of that stuff. It happened a few times this week and to see that happen in the final is unfortunate, but what can I say? You’re going to take every break you can in the final.” There was a discussion and strategy session before Koe’s first shot of the fifth
The Brad Jacobs rink and the Canada Cup. From left is Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden and Ryan Harnden. Photo courtesy Curling Canada. wound down as Koe went to the hack and played his draw for two – and took too long as it turned out, as an official walked out from near the scoreclock, appearing to affect the potential sweeping instructions of Koe’s third B.J. Neufeld. “I think the officials did their best but they did a really poor job,” Koe said. “We took a timeout earlier and he said we had 11 seconds and they didn’t correct the clock. We thought he was going to do it and the guy at the other
end, even including two time outs by Koe. There were two seconds on the clock but he maintains an official told him there were 11 seconds. Time
SaskPower president discusses company’s future in Estevan
SaskPower CEO Mike Marsh spoke at an Estevan Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday.
By Brian Zinchuk brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net
There is no equivalency agreement yet when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions from SaskPower’s coal fleet, and time is running out to achieve one. As a result, SaskPower would have to retire Boundary Dam Power Station Units 4 and 5 at the end of 2019 if one is not achieved. Mike Marsh, president and CEO of SaskPower, came to Estevan on Dec. 6 to speak just a week after the release of a report about the cost of implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) at the Shand Power Station. But those who may have expected some sort of announcement about a CCS
project in the near future were disappointed. That report by the International CCS Knowledge Centre on Nov. 28 said the cost to implement carbon capture and storage at the Shand Power Stations would be two-thirds less, per tonne, compared to the Boundary Dam Unit 3 (BD3) carbon capture facility. However, a decision to go ahead with a project at Shand would not be made until 2024-2025. And if the decision is to go ahead, it wouldn’t be competed until 2029. Those were some of the key points in a wide-ranging speech and question and answer session Marsh made to the Estevan Chamber of Commerce at the Estevan cam-
pus of Southeast College. The chamber reported it was their largest luncheon yet, and the those in attendance were rapt with attention with regards to the future of the Energy City, which is so closely tied to the two power plants and the coal mines that support them. The discussion ranged from solar power to the recent massive power outage which tripped off all three of SaskPower’s coal-fired power plants due to heavy frost taking down transmission lines. In the question and answer period, several people encouraged SaskPower to keep the coal plants going, and to build solar power near Estevan. Marsh spoke of SaskPower’s Strategic Direction Towards 2030, a plan timed to coincide with the federal government’s plans to end coal-fired power generation across the country. Four areas of this plan include improving customer value, developing SaskPower’s workforce, ensuring financial health and modernizing the grid. “We spent a lot of money in the last several years on infrastructure spending, both in the generation stations, and on the grid, so that we have a healthy grid,” he said. This includes balancing those decisions with the ability to keep rate increases A2 » DECISION GET OVER
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end didn’t know. “I know I missed my shot in five, but we probably could have communicated better and… the official’s out there telling B.J. to stop right away,” Koe said. “I know they’re trying their best but it’s an important part of their job and if they’re going to come do it, they’ve got to do it right.” The other thing that bothered Koe about the 30 second timeouts that all teams can take is that curlers don’t know how much time they have left.
“You have a guy saying something, and you can’t hear anything,” Koe said. “We should have had lots of time, we had a quick chat, we had 11 seconds and it’s poor communication and a poor job on their part.” The women’s final didn’t have the clock issues that the men’s final had, as Jennifer Jones took the final over Kerri Einarson. Jones also went up early. Jones counted three in the ninth end on a nice angle A2 » NOT
Two people arrested after high-speed pursuits in southeast Saskatchewan Two people are facing multiple charges after pursuits in the Bienfait and Roche Percee areas. The Estevan RCMP received a report Dec. 4 of an abandoned truck north of Bienfait that turned out to be stolen. Members attended and were in the process of towing the vehicle from the scene when another truck, which was also later proven to be stolen, came down the same road. Members attempted to stop the second vehicle, but the vehicle fled the area at a high rate of speed. The vehicle that fled was then located in Bienfait and two police officers in separate vehicles attempted another traffic stop, but the vehicle fled at a dangerously high rate of speed and headed towards Estevan. The suspect vehicle was
later located on a back road near Roche Percee. This time the fleeing vehicle lost control on the gravel road as it approached another RCMP vehicle and collided with it, causing significant damage to the RCMP vehicle. A pursuit occurred and the RCMP vehicle that had been in the collision pursued the suspect vehicle east towards Roche Percee. A second police vehicle through the Estevan Police Service, the Combined Traffic Services of Saskatchewan unit, joined the pursuit as a back-up vehicle. The pursuit lasted approximately 17 kilometers from Roche Percee towards the Highway 39 area. The pursuit ended when the fleeing vehicle was struck and forced to stop by the RCMP vehicle in a farmer’s field on the east side of
Highway 39 between Highway 703 and North Portal. Two men were then quickly arrested. All persons involved in the pursuit were examined by Emergency Medical Services and no injuries were noted. A traffic reconstructionist was brought in at the scene to process the scene of the first collision, and where the pursuit ended. David William Arsenault, 32, of Edmonton, has been charged with operating a motor vehicle while being pursued, operating a vehicle while being pursued in order to evade without lawful excuse, two counts of operating a vehicle in a dangerous manner, failing to comply with release conditions, failing to remain at the scene of an accident, A2 » SUSPECTS
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