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Estevan chamber calling for provincial government to provide funding for the city

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Chamber of Commerce is calling for the provincial government to take action to aid with transitioning Estevan and area from conventional coal power electricity generation.

And they’re asking the public to help out with send-

ing a message.

During the May coffee talk gathering hosted by the chamber, there was a strong, united voice from approximately 40 members who attended. They said Estevan needs provincial representation and support regarding the transition from coal-fired power generation.

The consensus at the

meeting was that the Estevan Chamber of Commerce should draft letters for concerned Estevan residents to sign and send to various cabinet ministers.

Jackie Wall, the executive director for the chamber, said they were going to discuss the letter-writing campaign at the chamber’s next strategic planning meeting, but the re-

sponse at the coffee talk session caused them to push forward as quickly as possible.

“Hearing the concerns reiterated at the coffee talk, the board decided that we needed to just initiate this quicker than what we originally anticipated,” said Wall.

The chamber publicly announced the letter writing campaign Tuesday, a few days

Controlled burn in the Pleasantdale valley Estevan Fire Rescue Service completed the controlled burn in the Pleasantdale valley. The operation started last Friday and about 75 per cent of the dense vegetation in the Chinook Bay area was burnt that day. The rest of overgrowth around 13th Avenue and Seventh Street was swept by the fire on Tuesday evening. The controlled burn was needed to make sure that if there is an accidental fire it won’t spread and turn into a serious emergency. Photo by Anastasiia Bykhovskaia

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after Mayor Roy Ludwig and economic development co-ordinator Dwight “Fitz” Bramble met with Estevan MLA Lori Carr, Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison, and one of Harrison’s staffers Kevin Westgard.

The timing was coincidental, Wall said.

“The decision to do this came before that meeting,” Wall said.

Information that she has read previously on transitioning communities from industries has called for all levels of government to be involved.

So Wall would like to see the Saskatchewan government provide support.

“They can say, yes, that it was federal legislation that brought this about, but we also realize that Units 4 and 5 were at the end of their life cycle, and were likely to be decommissioned. And I don’t think federal legislation sped up that.”

The chamber pointed out the City of Estevan has coordinated a coal transition committee that is working in conjunction with an economic development committee to diversify the economy and develop a plan to transition from coal.

Federally, the final report from the Task Force on Just Transition for Canadian Coal Power Workers and Communities has been released, and there have been various announcements of federal funding to transition communities

such as Estevan.

There has also been support and co-operation from SaskPower as they consistently attend local coal transition meetings.

“They have been coming down and meeting with us and working with the community to see how they can play a role in transitioning,” said Wall.

The chamber says the provincial government has repeatedly stated that this transition from coal and the transitioning of communities is solely a federal responsibility.

“The feedback that the Estevan Chamber of Commerce is receiving is that our membership disagrees,” said Wall.

When she attended a Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce meeting earlier this year, Wall asked Premier Scott Moe what their plan was for communities transitioning out of coal, and he said they didn’t have a plan, other than to take a look at the option of retrofitting the Shand Power Station so that it can have a carbon capture and storage unit.

The letters can currently be accessed on the chamber’s Facebook page, or by contacting the chamber’s office.

“We can send them the (Microsoft) Word document, and that way they can edit it if they would like,” said Wall.

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Estevan EMO is ready for serious emergencies

By Ana Bykhovskaia abykhovskaia@estevanmercury.ca

All Estevan and area emergency measures organizations (EMO) came together to train for a province-wide severe emergency on May 14.

The federal/provincial exercise that was put on by Public Safety Canada was called Nexus Vitalus. It was the first time this training happened in Estevan and Canada-wide.

“It is a series of discussionbased exercises across Canada.

The focus is on the integration of critical infrastructure stakeholders in event response.

Specifically to engage with the province territory, strengthened our resilience, the support in identification of gaps in our current information mechanisms and improve the delivery time rates … for information, and to conduct cross-sector exercises to strengthen our preparedness and a response in our communities,” explained Estevan’s emergency measures co-ordinator Helen Fornwald, who participated in the exercise along with other EMO members.

Emergency measures organizations came together to participate in a large-scale tabletop exercise at the Estevan Fire Hall. Photo by Anastasiia Bykhovskaia

Altogether there were about 35 people training during the full-day exercise at the Fire Hall. They were representatives of different agencies of the EMO team, who together tried to resolve a suggested emergency situation.

“It was a winter storm and its accompanied severe weather impacts in the province of Saskatchewan. And power, interrupted throughout

the province of Saskatchewan, kept getting impact some critical infrastructure. Plus we had other disasters, shortage of fuel, shortage of food and water and things like that, and emergencies, and we had to deal with it as a team,” said Fornwald.

In the morning of the exercise day, the group was working with the scenario based on the first 36 hours of the emergency. And in the afternoon it

was fast-tracked to three to five days into the disaster. So the group got to deal with the case on two separate levels.

Agencies involved in the local EMO team and participating in the exercise were the Estevan Police Service, the Estevan Fire Rescue Service, the RCMP, the EMS, city council, public works, water treatment plant, engineering, the public information officer, St. Joseph’s

Hospital, Mental Health, amateur radio, SaskPower, SaskEnergy, SaskTel, Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure, the RM, the airport, reception centre, Salvation Army, Emergency Management and Fire Safety, Estevan Ministerial Association, Water Security Agency, Red Cross and the Estevan Comprehensive School.

“We get together as a group once a month. And that

is the group. We have a representative of all these agencies that sit on our EMO team,” said Fornwald.

She noted that the experience with the exercise was wonderful.

“Any time that you have a tabletop, we are that much more prepared for the next time, because we get recommendations, and move forward, and make revisions to our plans. It’s all about being prepared.”

After any exercise of this type, the EMO gets recommendations including from the province line. The results from the Estevan Nexus Vitalus practice are supposed to be in some time next week.

“Our next EMO meeting I will present those recommendations,” said Fornwald.

She believes that now when they are working more closely with Public Safety Canada, they will be doing similar major exercises every year.

Estevan EMO also runs its own annual tabletop training that involves all emergency services.

Police receive funding for uncontrolled intersections The Estevan Police Service (EPS) has received funding to reduce the number of uncontrolled intersections in the city.

In a news release Monday, the provincial government announced that communities throughout Saskatchewan would benefit from 27 traffic safety projects approved for funding from the proceeds of photo speed enforcement (PSE).

The Estevan Police Service received $36,000 for intersection safety improvements and signage to reduce the number of uncontrolled intersections in the city.

Police Chief Paul Ladouceur said the EPS looked at the traffic safety fund program, and the ability to apply for funding.

“We started to look at what areas would benefit the most from an injection of funding into our community, and as we’ve said when it comes to traffic safety, we’ve always taken an evidence-based approach,” said Ladouceur.

In the case of uncontrolled intersections, there were 291 collisions at those intersections between 2013 and 2017.

“As a result of those 291 accidents, 53 injuries were sus-

tained. If we wanted to have a significant impact on reducing injuries and reducing accidents in our community, we looked at what we can do to make those uncontrolled intersections safer,” said Ladouceur.

There are approximately 80 uncontrolled intersections in Estevan, which Ladouceur said is a high number for a community of this size. He expects stop signs will be installed at half of them this year, with the focus being on intersections with high collision rates.

“We applied for funding to do the 80 intersections. We were granted in this round of funding to do 40 of the 80, so half of the intersections. The anticipation obviously is that we will apply for funding when the next round of requests comes

out, looking to complete the next 40.”

The traffic safety committee will discuss where stop signs will be installed at a future meeting.

The police chief pointed out that a lot of people come to Estevan from other communities where uncontrolled intersections aren’t as common.

Ladouceur, who previously lived in Ontario, said he encountered uncontrolled intersections before coming to Estevan, but they were rare.

People who aren’t familiar with uncontrolled intersections might see an intersection without a stop sign, and think that they’ll have the right of way, and that can lead to an accident.

The EPS has also had a lot of feedback from the public,

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asking why there are so many uncontrolled intersections.

Ladouceur views this as a fantastic way to improve safety in the community without putting a tax burden on citizens.

“These funds obviously flow from photo radar. A lot of people see photo radar simply as a cash grab. This is a good example that the money is going back into the communities to

increase traffic safety.”

Two other projects in the southeast received funding.

The Town of Oxbow received $4,175 for a speed display sign, while the Town of Stoughton received $4,301 for a digital speed sign.

Provincial Traffic Safety Fund grants will be awarded twice annually. Applications for the next round will open July 1.

Letters can be sent to government « A1 having the letters available for download on their website.

“We are hoping to have a strong response,” said Wall. “There was a very vocal response at our Coffee Talk meeting, and we did get several emails yesterday (May 14) saying that their letters were on the way.”

People can send letters to Moe; Harrison; Carr, who is also the minister of Highways and Infrastructure; Bronwyn Eyre, the minister of Energy and Resources; Donna Harpauer, the minister of Finance; and Dustin Duncan, the minister of Environment and

minister Responsible for SaskPower.

“The provincial government needs to be proactive in this transition,” the letters state. “The effects on the provincial coffers will be significant with the depletion of the mineral and tax revenues coming from Estevan and area residents, and many will look for opportunities elsewhere, The impact to our community will be staggering and we need support and leadership.”

The letters go on to say that Estevan needs a win, and that the province should be an ally in this transition.

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Southeast students learned about genocide, tolerance and human rights

By Ana Bykhovskaia abykhovskaia@estevanmercury.ca

Students from St. Mary’s and Sacred Heart School/ École Sacré Coeur as well as students from the Estevan Comprehensive School, Carnduff Education Complex and Oxbow Praire Horizon School had a chance to join the Tour for Humanity and learn about genocide and human rights.

The mobile human rights education centre called Tour for Humanity could be spotted in Estevan on May 13 and 14.

Daniella Lurion, the education associate with Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, talked to students about the history of genocide, along with topics of

diversity, democracy, and Canadian civic rights and responsibilities.

“We have three different presentations for different age groups,” said Lurion.

The senior program, called the Global Experience, is designed for Grades 9-12. It starts with the documentary on a global history of genocides and then discusses the stages of genocide, explained through the example of the Holocaust.

The Canadian Experience is an intermediate presentation for Grades 6-10. It begins with the overview of the Holocaust as well, and then talks about Canada, including Residential Schools, Japanese internment camps, anti-Semitism in Canada and hate crimes today and

The white Tour for Humanity Ontario bus could be spotted in Estevan and Weyburn this week.

how it all comes together.

The junior program is designed for Grades 3-6 and is called Simon’s Story. It tells participants the story of Simon Wiesenthal, who was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and later a Nazi hunter, as well as the Holocaust in an ageappropriate way.

“We are essentially grounded on lessons of Holocaust, but how … essentially discrimination exists everywhere. We are taking one event to talk about global issues,” said Lurion.

She noticed that often students know bits and pieces or some myths and misinformation, and the programs help them to see a bigger picture.

“Typically, they know a little bit, but they don’t know enough to make the connections to the real world. And that’s what the goal is… It comes down to stage one, it comes down to not targeting someone because of what they look like or where they come from. These are the lessons that we can pull out of the Holocaust and that’s the goal,” said Lurion.

The purpose of the tour is to start the conversation, inspire and empower students to raise their voices and take action against hate, intolerance and bullying and to promote justice and human rights.

Daniella Lurion, education associate with Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, talked to Estevan Comprehensive School Grade 12 students about genocide.

“It’s important (to talk about genocide) because it didn’t end with the Holocaust… Kids will have some background information, so you just build on that to let them understand how this is not in the past, this is in the present and future if we are not careful,” said Lurion.

The Tour for Humanity was launched in November 2013.

“We have a centre in Toronto, so classes from the area can come to us, but he (Avi

Benlolo, president, CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies) wanted to find the way to reach more students even in Ontario, let alone beyond. So Tour for Humanity was created to do exactly that, to travel outside the GTA … to places that can’t come to us so we can spread the message and everyone can be inspired,” said Lurion.

Since 2013, the mobile education centre has visited almost 700 schools across Ontario and Quebec, delivering

presentations to more than 100,000 students.

The contemporary trip for the first time took the Ontario bus further west to Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

“We’ve been on the road for three weeks straight, going through northern Ontario-Manitoba-Saskatchewan route, so after this week it heads home,” said Lurion.

Before heading back to Ontario the bus also stopped in Weyburn to deliver presentations to students there.

New impaired driving signs up around Estevan The Estevan chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving has installed signs around the city that mark where impaired drivers have been apprehended.

The signs were installed Saturday. Connie Hagel, who is the volunteer coordinator for the MADD chapter in Estevan, said 10 signs were installed, but one sign, located at the intersection of Fourth Street and 12th Avenue, was stolen.

Hagel said it was disappointing to find out that someone took the sign, but she can order more.

Signs are in the spots where impaired drivers were arrested most recently.

While most of the signs are located in high-traffic areas, such as along Highway 47 in the north city limits, and on Fourth Street, 13th Avenue and King Street, there are also signs in residential areas, including the eastern half of Fifth Street, a block of Second Street, and the intersection of Souris Avenue South and Valley Street.

“I have heard a lot of positive feedback from all of these,” said Hagel. “It’s a

unique thing that we’re doing. No other MADD chapters are doing that sort of thing, and I just wanted to do something different for awareness. It sounds like it has exploded.”

These signs serve as a good reminder that impaired drivers are being caught, she said. If people have a few drinks and then decide to go out and grab a snack, and they see that impaired driver sign in a neighbouring yard or boulevard, it might cause them to think twice.

Those signs will stay up

for a month, and then Police Chief Paul Ladouceur will give her 10 new locations to post the signs.

“My ultimate goal is that I don’t have to put any signs anywhere, so that means there would not be any impaired drivers caught that month,” said Hagel.

And if there aren’t any impaired drivers caught, those signs would remain in the same place for the next month.

“I still want people to know that impaired drivers are being caught, and where they’re being caught.”

This sign indicates where an impaired driver has been apprehended in Estevan.

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Government needs to step forward It appears people in Estevan are ramping up the pressure on the provincial government to get some financial support for the community in this time of uncertainty.

The City of Estevan met with the provincial government last week. Mayor Roy Ludwig and economic development co-ordinator Dwight Bramble spoke MLA Lori Carr and a couple of members of Trade and Export Development, including Minister Jeremy Harrison.

Both sides will tell you the meeting went well. The provincial government has indicated previously that it won’t be providing money to the city, claiming it’s incumbent on the federal government to supply relief for Estevan as this city ventures into the murky waters of moving away from coal.

The Estevan Chamber of Commerce has taken an aggressive approach by encouraging people in the community to send in letters to several different provincial representatives, including Premier Scott Moe, Harrison and Carr, who is the minister of Highways and Infrastructure.

The chamber’s message is clear: they want more from the province, not just in terms of support but in terms of representation. Whether it’s successful or not has yet to be seen, but there’s never anything wrong with delivering a strong, unified and articulate message to the government.

The provincial government should be bringing money to the table. This was the region that was driving so much of the government’s economic prosperity in the boom years.

Hospitals, schools, roads and other amenities were built on the strength of the southeast energy sector. We saw lots of investment down here in the boom, but many will tell you we did not get our fair share.

Now we’re in one of the most challenging times in our community’s history. It’s time for the province to step to the plate.

The province will say it’s a federal issue. And we’re finding ourselves in this situation because the federal government fast-tracked the phase out of conventional coal power from 2042 to 2030.

(We’ll see if those dates changes should the Conservative Party win the 2019 federal election).

But we’re also finding ourselves in this situation because the provincial government decided to retire Units 4 and 5 at the Boundary Dam Power Station, ensuring that they will be taken offline by the end of 2024, regardless of who is running the country.

If Units 4 and 5 were to have been retrofitted, they wouldn’t have been affected by the 2030 deadline.

And if the province steps forward with money for Estevan, then hopefully it will give the feds more incentive to give us more support.

The $5 million the city is looking for is likely just a fraction of what we will need. It might seem like a lot, but our needs moving forward will dwarf $5 million.

The good news is that people are taking action now. They’re not waiting for 2021, when Unit 4 is scheduled to come offline, or 2024,, when Unit 5 is slated to come offline. (Those dates are, of course, contingent on getting an equivalency agreement between the provincial and federal governments).

We can’t afford to wait for 2021, or 2024, or even 2020 to take action. The more areas we move on now, the better off we’ll be.

And it’s important for people to join this fight. Sign these letters that the chamber has created for the provincial government. Tell the Saskatchewan Party that we believe we should be getting money to help us through this transition.

Let them know we’re not happy.

Take time to send a message.

A lack of control isn’t good at intersections The uncontrolled intersection appears to be going the way of the dodo bird in Estevan.

Earlier this week, it was announced that the Estevan Police Service would be receiving nearly $36,000 through the proceeds of photo speed enforcement (PSE) to start the process of phasing out the uncontrolled intersections in the city.

The money is generated through photo radar tickets in the province, proving that yes, something positive can come out of photo radar.

The demise of the uncontrolled intersection in Estevan and other Saskatchewan cities is long overdue. If you’re from this area, and if you grow up with uncontrolled intersections, and are trained to drive with them in mind, then they likely make perfect sense to you.

You know how to handle the intersection of Arthur Avenue and Eva Street.

So you can probably think of other areas where we can spend traffic safety money in Estevan, such as a way to improve traffic and pedestrian flow in that horrible junction of 13th Avenue, Souris Avenue North and King Street.

Uncontrolled intersections are also fine for rural roads that only have a few vehicles per day, or in small towns where there isn’t a lot of traffic.

Those statements don’t describe Estevan.

But for those who are from out of town, and who didn’t grow up with the uncontrolled intersection, it’s an accident waiting to happen.

If you’re driving in one of the areas in which they’re prevalent, such as Hillside, and you aren’t from here, and you’re not familiar with the uncontrolled intersection, you might be driving on Eva Street, not see a stop or yield sign, and expect that you have right of way, while those on Arthur Avenue have to stop.

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I’m from B.C. originally. We don’t have uncontrolled intersections. I didn’t encounter one until I moved out here. The good news for me was that my mom is from southeast Saskatchewan originally, so I received a quick lesson on procedure when I moved here.

There were a few in the Westview subdivision, where I lived upon moving to Estevan, so I had a few chances to practice right away.

The numbers from the Estevan Police Service show there were 291 accidents at uncontrolled intersections from 201317. Now, you have to wonder how many of those accidents were caused by people who didn’t know an uncontrolled intersection was coming or didn’t know how to handle one because they haven’t seen them before.

And you have to wonder how many of them were caused by a lack of driver attention, stupidity or over-aggressiveness.

You can be sure that there were accidents that would have been prevented if there had been a stop sign in place.

Estevan has a lot of uncontrolled intersections. Eighty of them, to be exact. They’re all over the community, too. It’s not like they’re just clustered into one subdivision.

There’s so many of them that the money the city received from the photo radar fund only remedies about half of the 80 problems. The remaining uncontrolled intersections will have to wait for another time.

The police chief says they’re

going to install stop signs at the most troublesome intersections, where the highest volume of accidents has occurred.

You have to wonder who thought uncontrolled intersections were a good idea for cities to begin with. Did they come along before stop signs were created?

Were they created as a costcutting measure to reduce money spent on stop signs?

Did someone actually think that they would one day replace the stop sign and the traffic light as the preferred means of controlling traffic at intersections?

Even traffic circles make more sense than them.

You can just imagine the conversation when the first uncontrolled intersection was introduced. Someone suggests that no stop signs are better than two or four such signs. Everyone at the table agrees. After all, motorists will adapt. And those who haven’t encountered these intersections before will know exactly how to handle them when they approach them.

Maybe they thought it would be the wave of the future.

Now when you venture into a new subdivision, you see stop signs and yield signs. Someone clearly received the message that it’s a better idea than no signs.

The bonus for local residents is this won’t cost us a dime, unless you’re one of those who has been nabbed by photo radar. The stop signs are going to be added at troublesome locations around the community. The city is going to be a little bit safer to travel in.

We’re moving away from an archaic mode of traffic control.

Our budget won’t take a hit from installing signs at 40 intersections this year.

It’s a winning situation on all fronts.

Just don’t claim that you didn’t know what a stop sign means if you get involved in an accident after driving through one of those signs.

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Cheers Cheers to the City of Estevan for bringing the Hit After Hit tour to Estevan.

It was a fun night out and a great concert.

Cheers to everybody who is standing up for our community and region, and calling for action from the provincial and federal governments as we get ready to transition away from traditional coal power.

Cheers to the accessible playground that is being constructed in the Royal Heights Veterans’ Memorial Park. It’s nice to see another option out there for children with disabilities.

Cheers to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving chapter in Estevan for putting up signs that indicate where impaired drivers have been arrested in our community.

Cheers to seeing two local hockey players, Cole Fonstad and Brayden Pachal, competing for the Memorial Cup. The rest of the country will get to see how good these players are.

Jeers Jeers to those who turn right when the light is red, and there is already a vehicle driving through the intersection that has a green light. What would cause someone to drive like that?

Jeers to getting rid of uncontrolled intersections in Estevan. It’s not a hard concept for people to grasp, and you can tell well in advance whether it’s an uncontrolled.

Bienfait Hotel – mute witness to troubled times Bienfait, a coal-mining town east of Estevan, has seen more than its share of trouble and the Bienfait hotel stood in mute witness to it all.

In 1904, the Canadian Pacific Railway opened Bienfait Mines Ltd. ten miles north of the U.S. border near Estevan. The railway station, miners’ cottages, stores and other buildings were built in 1905. The King Edward Hotel was built on the corner of Railway and Main in 1907.

Gordon and Bertha White owned the two-storey wood frame building for so long, it became unofficially known as White’s Hotel.

White advertised the King Edward Hotel as “the best equipped village hotel in Saskatchewan.” The hotel featured hot soft-water baths, four billiard tables, three bowling alleys, a two-chair barber-shop and electrical refrigeration.

In 1915, when the province went dry, liquor became Bienfait’s main industry.

Yorkton-based Harry Bronfman and his brothers set up a boozorium in the town called the Bienfait Export Liquor Company. By 1920, the boozorium stocked hundreds of cases of expensive Canadian and imported liquors, all of which was sold to American buyers from across the border.

There are stories about gangsters from Chicago staying at the White’s Hotel in Bienfait. Bertha White told the Leader-Post on July 19, 1980 that she never felt threatened by the rumrun-

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Railway and Main ners. “They never shot their guns in the hotel,” she said.

“They were very nice in the dining room. Gordon … told the staff to serve them and not make a fuss over them and treat them like everybody else.”

On Oct. 4, 1922, Paul

sawed-off shotgun smashed through the station window, firing point-blank into Matoff ’s back. The Americans stole $6,000 and Matoff ’s diamond tiepin.

In the summer of 1920, P. M. Christopher, organizer for the One Big Union, came

returned, he’d be tarred and feathered. A decade later, in the fall of 1931, poverty led to a coal miners’ strike in and around Bienfait. On Sept. 29, three Bienfait miners were shot and killed by the RCMP during a miners’ parade in the streets of Estevan.

Forty years later, in August 1971, Wilf Gardiner, former Liberal MLA for Melville, bought the Coalfields Hotel (the former King George Hotel) in Bienfait from Ann Sichello. “I bought the hotel because I love Saskatchewan’s

The Bienfait Hotel as it used to be on Main Street in Bienfait.

Matoff, brother-in-law of Sam and Harry Bronfman, was shot and killed in the office of the CPR station – directly across the street from White’s Hotel. Frank Earle, a hotel employee, witnessed the murder. While his men were loading bottles into the back of a rum runner’s truck, Matoff was inside counting the money.

Suddenly, the barrel of a

to Bienfait to address a mass meeting of miners in the district. On June 30, a vigilante group representing the coal mine operators broke into Christopher’s room at the King Edward Hotel in the middle of the night and kidnapped him.

According to the Regina Morning Leader, they drove him across the U.S. border and told him that if he ever

Jeers to those with unkempt properties.

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The Bienfait Hotel, with its saloon, as it appears today.

small towns,” Gardiner told the Regina Leader-Post, “I am told the Coalfields Hotel … is one of the best smalltown hotels in the province.”

In 1972, Heather Robertson interviewed Gardiner for her book, Grass Roots (1973).

“He’s out to promote Bienfait,” Robertson wrote. “Already he’s organized a shuffleboard tournament and an Indian pow-wow in the beer parlor.” Gardiner changed the hotel’s name to the Plainsman.

There was a big wooden cut-out of Davy Crockett over the hotel’s main entrance and an Indian’s head with feathers over the bar which was called the Eagle’s Nest.

Gardiner was the bartender, his wife did the cooking and cleaning, and his kids mopped up the pub on Sundays.

Today, the bar at the Bienfait hotel is called the Coal Dust Saloon.

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We Walk for Water Kolby Hirsch toted water jugs around the track.

Pleasantdale and Spruce Ridge Grade 6-8 students brought their leadership skills together to help communities lacking access to clean water. Their fundraising campaign came to an end on May 10 when they went on the We Day Walk carrying jugs of water around the Estevan Comprehensive School’s track, which symbolized the struggles a lot of people go through in developing countries. Money Estevan students raised will be enough to supply clean water for two villages.

Photos by Anastasiia Bykhovskaia

Alyssa Saccary and Amanda March were happy to support access for clean water in other countries.

From left, Abbi Duke, Camryn Reise, Tayla Gervais, Jordan McLenehan and Abby Mantei were walking around the track together.

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Drilling rig activity in Saskatchewan usually doesn’t pick up until June, and that’s definitely the case again this year, despite a relatively dry spring in the southeast.

Sister publication Rig Locator (riglocator.ca) listed just 10 rigs working on May 15, an uptick of just one from the day before.

That’s in keeping with recent years, when there were 12 rigs on May 17, 2017, and nine rigs on May 17, 2018.

However, while Saskatchewan tends to be pretty slow at this time of year, North Dakota’s rig count on May 15 was 65, according to the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources.

Last year on the same date it was 59, and in 2017 it was 51. The North Dakota concentration is just a two to three-hour drive south of the two rigs drilling for oil in southeast Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan’s count of 10 out of 105 rigs makes for a 9.5 per cent utilization rate. However, that number is predicated on the recent reduction of rigs in Saskatchewan’s fleet. Up until a few months ago, Saskatch-

ewan had been showing around 120 rigs for several years.

This is in keeping with the dramatic reduction of rigs listed by the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC). In 2014, there were 800 rigs listed in Canada, now there are only 550, a reduction of 31.25 per cent.

Rig Locator reported 79 active rigs in Canada – 53 in Alberta, 10 in Saskatchewan, 16 in British Columbia and one in Ontario. Based on the 550 number, that equates to a utilization rate nation-wide of 14 per cent.

Baker Hughes’ rig count, as of May 10, showed 988 active rigs in the U.S., including 19 offshore rigs.

In southern Saskatchewan, the smaller operators are first out of the gate. Astra Oil Corp. had one rig going at Steelman, while Fire Sky Energy Inc. fired up at Gainsborough. As usual, Mosaic Potash had one rig reported at Esterhazy.

In the southwest, Jarrod Oils Ltd. started drilling at Consul.

Over in west central Saskatchewan, Teine Energy Ltd. had two rigs going, one at Dodsland, and a second at Coleville. To the

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Carlyle couple wins top prize in lotto A couple from Carlyle has won the top prize in the Hospitals of Regina Foundation’s spring home lottery.

Murray and Donna Brown won the $1.4 million grand prize show home and $30,000 cash. The announcement was made Friday afternoon.

The home is a 4,200-square foot bungalow in the Creeks neighbourhood.

Murray Brown, who purchased the winning ticket, said he was in disbelief when he found out they had won.

“I was out fencing, and the guy phoned me and asked me who I was, and if I bought foundation tickets, and then he wanted my postal code,” Murray Brown said in an interview with Lifestyles.

When Brown asked why, the caller said he needed to verify Brown’s name. At that point, he confirmed Brown had won the grand prize in the lottery.

“I didn’t believe him. Then he gave me the director, and I still didn’t believe him, either. I was expecting him to ask me for a credit card number or something, because sometimes some of those things, they want you to pay money to collect your prize.”

Then his phone started going crazy with congratulatory text messages. At that point, Brown knew he was a winner.

Even that night, when he watched footage of the announcement, he was still in a state of shock.

The Browns have been to the home, but there were several reporters and cameras in there at the same time, so they didn’t get a good look at it. But they were impressed with what they saw.

“It’s a very nice home,” he said.

He expects they will sell the house, but they might use it a few weekends when in Regina.

“It’s all furnished and everything, so we thought we might as

well enjoy it when we can, until it sells,” said Brown.

He expects they will take the money and invest it, as it will be nice to have a nest egg in case something happens.

Brown said he has been purchasing hospital foundation tickets for years.

“I’ve had family and friends that have used the hospitals, and all of my grandchildren have been born in Regina. We pretty well need the (Regina) hospitals now.”

People can’t win if they don’t buy a ticket, so if it’s something they want to support, then he urges people to purchase tickets.

“We’ve never won anything even small. We’ve bought Rider (fundraiser tickets) and these foundation tickets and STARS (Air Ambulance) tickets.”

And he expects they will continue to purchase tickets for these lotteries, because lightning can strike twice.

Murray and Donna Brown of Carlyle stand inside the home that they won through the Hospitals of Regina Foundation’s spring home lottery. Photo submitted

Drewitz students receive ballet exam results Students from the Drewitz School of Dance in Estevan, under the direction of Lorie-Gay Drewitz-Gallaway, recently received their ballet exam results from London.

The Royal Academy of Dance curriculum has been implemented in professional dance studios worldwide. The marking system and medals are awarded for each grade in bronze (pass), silver (merit) and gold (distinction).

With ballet being the fun-

damental discipline in dance, children are encouraged to participate in examinations, which are an individual goal for them.

Students are strategically marked in all specified areas: technique, posture, musicality, presentation and character, and their dances are now graded.

The standard required to pass is worldwide throughout all countries.

Examinations for this session were for students in the

primary grade to Grade 8 levels, and for fall and vocational exams.

The examiner was Terry Gratner from Nanaimo, B.C. In the primary grade, Julie Berg, Aubree Drabek, Alivia Waldegger, Ava Mann and Aliza Pulvermacher received distinction honours. Allie Lainton, Taylor Ellis, Brooklyn Penney, Elizabeth Harmsworth, Coco Mercer, Morgan Hase, Sophia Deitz, Gabrielle Deitz, Aspen Mayuk, Summer

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Petersen, Lyric Beaulieu, Kennady Poole, Avery Talsma and Sophia Heidinger-Fornwald earned merit awards.

Marin Burnett earned distinction in Grade 1. Sierra Mantei, Summer Gardiner, Sierra Burback, Rylee Johnston, Kelsie Wilson, Kynnadi Smith, Naveah Lang, Kathryn Orlowski-Lever, Rayne Duff and Kadence Grimes were merit recipients.

In Grade 2, merit awards went to Charlotte Waldegger, Layla Kitz, Makenzie Onrait, Paige Petersen, Sydney Ross, Josie Hurren, Peyton Irwin, Lindy Trobert, Kaitlyn Skuce,

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Lindsay Mack and Sophia Fleck earned a distinction in Grade 3. Merit results went to Tyann Babyak, Kerison Burnett, Samantha Carritt, Sadie Smith, Ekko Sanguin, Hailey Taylor, Annelise Renauld and Rowyn Siever.

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Grade 8 distinction recognitions went to Bryn Lamontagne and Kailey Kowalchuk, while merit went to Brielle Wakely and Colesey Goetz.

In Royal Academy of Dance vocational exam results, Elsie Alexander earned a distinction in intermediate, and Shayla Gill and Brielle Wakely were merit. Reese Handley was a merit in Advanced 2.

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• Vegetables. Some veggies that thrive in acidic soil are radishes, potatoes, rhubarb and peppers. And many tolerate acidic soil, including broccoli, carrots and tomatoes.

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berries, cranberries, currants, elderberries and gooseberries. Some that tolerate acidic soil are grapes, raspberries and strawberries.

• Flowers. The types of flowering plants that love acidic soil are numerous and varied. Some of the most popular ones are azaleas, daffodils, rhododendrons, hydrangeas, camellias, heather and bleeding hearts.

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The importance of soil pH Every plant has a particular soil pH range within which it grows best. For most plants, a pH level between 5.5 and 7.0, or slightly acidic to neutral, is optimal. But you can have a diverse and thriving garden even if your soil is overly acidic or alkaline.

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Raised beds are garden plots raised several inches or more off the ground and enclosed on all sides by a frame made of wood or rock. You simply fill your box with rich soil then start planting the desired fruits, veggies, herbs, flowers and plants.

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Three weeds to cultivate Tips for preventing on your property white grub infestations Weeds get a bad rap. People have a tendency to lump these plants together and look upon the entire lot as undesirable. It’s true that there are a number of positively destructive weeds, invasive species that can overtake your yard within a growing season. But there are also many plants typically identified as weeds that are highly beneficial to lawns and gardens. Here are three common ones that you should welcome.

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Dandelion. This ubiquitous weed with a yellow flower has deep roots that draw up minerals and water from the soil, thereby helping to nourish neighbouring plants. Additionally, dandelions attract beneficial insects such as ladybugs, lacewings and other pollinators. This plant also has edible roots, leaves and flowers that contain essential nutrients.

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White clover. White clover collects nitrogen from the air and transfers it to the

soil. Nitrogen is essential to plant growth and one of the three main ingredients in fertilizer.

Plus, this weed has a large root system that breaks up hardpan (a hard, underground layer of soil impervious to water). Like the dandelion, white clover attracts ladybugs, lacewings and other beneficial insects.

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Plantain. Not to be confused with the banana variety, the plantain, or broadleafed plantain, often pops up in spots where soil is compacted. It collects a ton of great nutrients for the soil, including calcium, sulphur, magnesium and iron. If left to die, this weed will enrich the soil and attract beneficial organisms.

So think twice before digging up all the weeds on your property. These three, and a number of others, can improve your soil and enrich the small ecosystem that is your yard and garden.

White grubs, the larvae of scarab beetles, have the nasty habit of nibbling away at grass roots. If enough of them set up shop in your lawn, they’ll cause large sections of your grass to die. Here are three things you can do to get rid of white grubs, or at least reduce their numbers.

1. Don’t cut your grass too short Scarab beetles prefer to lay their eggs in short grass. If you have a white grub problem, adjust your lawn mower so that it cuts no shorter than eight centimetres. This will help guard against white grub infestations as well as prevent weeds from spreading and your lawn from yellowing.

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The reasons to hire a professional landscaper Do you want to turn your yard into a personal oasis? How about boost the curb appeal and market value of your home?

Landscaping can do all this, but unless you have ample time, stamina and expertise, it’s probably best to hire a professional landscaper to do the job. Here’s what you can expect.

1. Great ideas A beautifully designed yard begins with a well thought out plan. Landscapers, also called landscape designers, can help you create a great design from scratch or embellish on ideas you already have. They’ll evaluate your property and use their in-depth knowledge of terrain and design principles to make recommendations specific to your yard. They’ll work with you to form a plan that suits your vision and budget.

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3. Superior execution An experienced landscaper will have successfully completed a large number of projects and you can be confident that they’ll achieve good results with your yard too. They’ll bring industry expertise to the job and know where to find the best talent and resources. Plus, they’re familiar with the different problems that can occur and the pitfalls that should be avoided.

If you’d like to hire a landscaper, look for one who’s experienced, certified and has liability insurance. Get ready to love your yard like never before!

Landscaping with willow branches Willow branches are an ideal material for DIY garden projects because they’re slender, flexible, long and durable. As a result, they can easily be interwoven and formed into all types of garden structures. Here are some of the things you can make with them.

Fences and hurdles If you’re ambitious, you can build a unique fence for your property with woven willow branches. A little too large-scale? You can also make woven hurdles and use them to make a wall around a garden bed or to conceal less attractive elements in your yard such as a compost or water heater for a pool.

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years. They age gracefully, retaining their strength and appearance, even through rain, snow and high winds.

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Cleaning up Woodlawn Estevan’s Girl Guides groups held their annual spring cleanup in Woodlawn Regional Park’s Souris River site on May 10. Members of all of the Girl Guides units in Estevan, as well as their families, participated in the cleanup. They gathered up litter that has accumulated in the park in recent months.

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Holy Family board approves strategic plan

By Greg Nikkel of the Weyburn Review The trustees for the Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division approved their strategic plan for the 2019-20 school year at their monthly board meeting May 10.

The strategic plan includes academic target goals, continuation of Deep Learning and maintenance of their Catholic identity. They will continue with a similar theme as the current school year, which was A Community of Story. Next year, the theme will be Sharing Our Learning Story.

Holy Family wants to maintain a high profile of Catholic distinctiveness, with

a focus on supporting students to demonstrate Catholic values in their lives.

The board also wants the school division to show evidence of permeating instruction with Deep Learning, as shown with teachers sharing with others an example from their global competencies of focus.

The concept of Deep Learning is that the role of teachers is that of activators who are able to design learning experiences for students that will focus on global competencies, which include collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, character and communication.

In regard to the academic targets, Holy Family wants to

see 90 per cent of kindergarten students ready to learn, according to the early years assessment. In the areas of reading, writing and math, 80 per cent of students in Grades 1-9 will achieve their grade level as set by provincial standards.

The trustees also want to see students in Grades 4-9 engaged with their school, with an increased level of global competency performance, according to the OurSchool survey.

“What do relationships look like, what does the learning environment look like? That’s the imagery we’re looking at for next year,” said Gwen Keith, director of education regarding of the plan’s general outlook for the com-

ing school year.

She noted the goal for Deep Learning came from the teachers, and said there is a desire among teachers to learn from each other.

“If you can teach it, you understand it. We have teachers teaching teachers, and learning from teachers,” said Keith.

“I think if we can achieve these goals, we’re doing what we want to do,” said board chair Bruno Tuchscherer.

“We’re doing most of these now.”

“This is the essence of what we’re doing as a school division,” added Keith.

In other school board business, the trustees were given an update on the unified student information sys-

tem that will be implemented across the province for the next school year.

“We had the opportunity to meet with the ministry along with Cornerstone.

We’re still very much in the game with implementation to be in the fall,” said Keith, adding that for Holy Family, this will not mean a change in how they do report cards.

“We think teachers have enough to do without changing that,” she added, noting there are a number of school divisions that are considering making a change in report cards.

In her director’s report, Keith noted she is the attendance officer for Holy Family, and as such, there are times they get “a rash of at-

tendance cases.”

“We try to help the parents so we can move forward,” she said.

Asked what she does with the students involved, Keith said the first thing is to start at the school level, and try to problem-solve with the principal and the parents.

At times the hub has to be brought in, as this involves other agencies such as the police and the Ministry of Social Services, she said, adding that it comes down to parental responsibility to ensure their child is attending school when they should be.

“With today’s technology, we can provide support online. There’s a way of staying connected now that wasn’t there before,” said Keith.

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May 17, 2019

A Supplement to Southeast Lifestyles

Macoun’s Mack family is getting close to being done seeding for another year

By Ana Bykhovskaia abykhovskaia@estevanmercury.ca

As the weather keeps playing its tricks, farmers in the southeast use every opportunity to put the seed in the ground. Dustin and Amanda Mack, enthusiastic family, farming north of Macoun, already can see the light at the end of their work tunnel with about 32 out of 40 quarters of land already left behind the seeders.

“The weather has been pretty co-operative and we seem to have fairly decent moisture in our area,” said Amanda Mack.

The young Mack family, who didn’t inherit the farming lifestyle, but chose it as their life path not that long ago, has just a few quarters of their own. Most land that they work on belongs to their neighbour and a good friend Terry Eagles and his family.

With around 5,000 acres to be seeded the Eagles and Macks were about 80 per cent done by May 15 with only flax and lentils left to go.

“We just have calibrated our air-drills and switched over to flax. But we have finished up peas, we have finished up durum, canola,” said Amanda.

With two air-drills going since the beginning of May and 18-hour days often starting at 2-3 a.m.

Macks are ready to be done.

And if the weather keeps

During a busy seeding day, Ava Mack had a quick visit with her dad, Dustin, in the tandem. Photo submitted

co-operating they hope that will happen before the rain forecasted on the long weekend The Saskatchewan crop report suggests that by May 6 seeding was furthest advanced in the southeastern region, where 23 per cent of the crop was in the ground.

It means that a week and a half after the last report a lot of farmers in this part of the province were finding themselves in a similar situation with the Macks being well over half done.

When planning for this seeding season both the Macks and Eagles had to consider the risks associated with Chinese bans of Canadian canola, however, after all, they decided to proceed with their regular operation.

“Obviously there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the canola right now, but we are just going to get down on our knees and pray that everything turns around. We stuck with our original plan with the canola for this year, so let’s hope for the best,” said Amanda.

She noted that during seeding season she usually does a lot of “running around” for her husband and the neighbour who are running air-drills.

“I try to be more involved during harvest. It’s a little easier for me to hop into a truck with the kids and be able to help out then, than it is at seeding,” she said.

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“They do love riding in the tractors for sure. Give it a few years and then they will be helping out a little bit more,” said Amanda laughing.

Besides farming both Amanda and Dustin already had a lot on their plates, with her being a realtor, them both running a hotshot service business and him also being an owner of an oilfield service company. The family had experience with farming in the past, but the start of the new farm still wasn’t a piece of cake for them.

“It’s been very tough the last two years. The downturn in oil, myself going back to school, and starting over at the farm has been very trying. Especially with our two beautiful little girls, but we want to show them the simpler life,” said Amanda.

It is never easy to get started as a young farmer, and unless you inherit the farm there are very few options. However, this family had the courage to try, and so far they’ve never regretted this choice.

“I love it. I didn’t actually think that I would as much as I do. I was born and raised in Estevan, so it was definitely a change for me to come out to the farm, but it’s been wonderful. It’s peaceful and we like to stay busy … It’s just been really great raising the kids out here and hopefully make a name for ourselves on the

farm,” said Amanda.

She also noted that a lot of what they do and enjoy would be impossible without the Eagles family that helped them to join the farming community.

“I would like to extend our huge amount of gratitude to the Eagles family. Including Doreen, Terry, Trisha and Tristan. They have taken us under their wings and given a young farming couple a chance for

a new beginning. The Eagles family came from a humble farming operation with the late Vic Eagles showing them the love for the farm life. They have shown us hard work, love, kindness will pay off. They have given us the chance of a new legacy for the Mack farm. We also want to thank Emanuel and Doreen Mack for setting all things aside and giving us a chance to start a new chapter,” said Amanda.

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Air Cadets hold annual ceremonial review

By Brian Zinchuk brian.zinchuk@sasktel.net

Air cadets of 30 Squadron Wylie-Mitchell held their annual ceremonial review on Saturday at the Wylie-Mitchell Hall.

Estevan Police Chief Paul Ladouceur acted as the reviewing officer. He suggested that some of the cadets might want to join the police force some day, and joked that his members could use their assistance in marching.

“I am very proud of all

of the cadets and how hard they worked to make this annual ceremonial review an amazing one,” said commanding officer Capt. Danielle Fleury.

Warrant Officer First Class (WO1) Janna Cinnamon, Flight Sergeant (F/ Sgt.) Gemma Sylvestre and Flight Corporal (F/Cpl.) Devangi Rabari presented their speeches which they had entered in the effective speaking contest earlier in the year.

Ten cadets performed a drill demonstration, first

under command, and then without commands, showing their split-second timing.

Awards recipients included Cinnamon, top female cadet, drill & deportment, best dressed cadet, esprit de corps; WO2 Cole McCaskill, power scholarship; Sylvestre, gliding scholarship; Sgt. Trinity Niebergall, Royal Canadian Legion medal of excellence, top overall cadet; Sgt. Zachary Schmidt, top male shot, Lord Strathcona medal; F/ Cpl. Garrett Schwab, top cadet in flight training, top

This year’s award winners were, back row, from left, Sgt. Zachary Schmidt, F/Cpl. Devangi Rabari, WO1 Janna Cinnamon, Sgt. Trinity Niebergall and LAC Keleiah Cinnamon. Front row, from left, Cpl. Jesuyanmife Adebiyi, F/Cpl. Garrett Schwab, F/Sgt. Gemma Sylvestre, and WO2 Cole McCaskill. Missing is Cpl. Kohl Marklinger.

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det (LAC) Keleiah Cinnamon, best dressed in ranks, top first year cadet.

The squadron will be taking part in the upcoming Lampman parade on June 8

and Bienfait parade on Canada Day. They are also scheduled to go gliding on June 1.

A number of cadets will be attending summer camps this year as well.

The drill demonstration team showed off their fancy footwork. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

Walk to end cystic fibrosis on May 25 Estevan area residents are once again being encouraged to take up the fight against cystic fibrosis (CF).

The Estevan Kinettes Club is organizing the 2019 edition of the Walk to End Cystic Fibrosis, which will take place on May 25. The Kin Hillside Play Park will be the start-finish line for the two-kilometre walk.

Kasey McIntyre, who is the walk co-ordinator, said the activities will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a pancake breakfast provided by Beatz Eatz. The cost is $5, and McIntyre said the proceeds will be donated to CF. Registration will begin at 10:15, and then opening ceremonies are at 10:45. Guest speaker Jocelyn Loustel, who is the aunt of someone with CF, will talk about the role of a caregiver.

“It’s a good idea to see that side of cystic fibrosis, how it affects us, too, by taking care of those people and being involved in their lives,” said McIntyre.

The walk will start at 11 a.m.

At 12:15 p.m., Beatz Eatz

will provide a free barbecue lunch for participants.

Closing ceremonies are at 1 p.m.

Kids in strollers are allowed for the walk. Dogs are welcome but they have to stay on a leash.

This year’s goal is $8,000, which would be lower than last year, but the state of the economy is a factor in the lower goal. They would also like to have 50 participants, including some new people.

Supporters can sign up as an individual or a team.

A steak fundraiser will be held on May 21 at Mr. Mikes Steakhouse Casual through their GratiTuesday promotion. Proceeds will be directed to CF Canada.

“Every dollar is critical, not just for a cure, but for patient care as well, because these funds also to go so that when adults go to a clinic, they don’t have to pay to attend. It’s free.”

Her son Liam has CF, and she wanted to join the Kinettes because of their commitment to the fight against the disease.

Cystic fibrosis affects the

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lungs and digestive system by building up thick mucus, and making it hard for people with CF to breathe. It also affects other organs, such as the pancreas and the reproductive system. Adults with CF can develop Type 2 diabetes.

“Once bacteria gets in their lungs, it’s very hard to get out and it’s very devastating,” said McIntyre. “Once there’s enough damage there, the lungs deteriorate.”

It can be so bad for some that they need a lung transplant.

Kinsmen and Kinettes host a number of fundraising activities throughout the year to help with the battle against CF. Since 1964, Kin members have raised more than $40 million for research and patient care.

“We like to rally behind this fundraiser because it is a national event that Cystic Fibrosis Canada looks for clubs and people all across Canada,” said McIntyre.

McIntyre noted the national walk day is May 26, but the Kinettes organize their walk the previous day each year.

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Thank you to everyone who participated in our first and very successful live auction.

We had a silent auction table that was very well supported by all who attended our event. There was a draw for three prizes. The first prize was getaway for the Temple Gardens Hotel and Spa in Moose Jaw, which was won by one of our very dedicated volunteers, Joan Wock. Melodye Pierson, who is another of our dedicated volunteers, won our second prize, a $500 Estevan Staycation package, which was filled with wonderful gift cards from our Estevan business community.

Third prize was a fit bit and that was won by William Chamney. Congratulations to all our winners, we are very happy for you.

A huge thank you to the individuals and the business community who supported our fundraiser, and to the ladies who volunteered at the fundraiser to ensure we all were taken care of.

Together we raised $27,500.00 and the money will go towards our roof project in the 300 hallway.

Creighton Lodge was the recipient of a generous donation from the estate of Mylan Chase. The funds will be used for our capital projects at the lodge and we are beyond delighted that Mr. Chase decided to bestow such a generous gift upon the lodge.

The other big event that happened in April was the retirement of my partner, co-

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Judy and I came to the lodge together on May 15, 2010, and for nine great years we co-managed the lodge. It was Judyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea to leave healthcare and apply to become the new managers of Creighton Lodge when the RMs took ownership. I was the nervous one, but fortunately I had faith in my friend who was confident it was the right move to make. She was 100 per cent right.

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The passing of time

Flashback â&#x20AC;&#x201C; May 17, 1989 Estevan Comprehensive Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Swing Choir brought home a ďŹ rst place trophy when competing in the All American Music Festival in Orlando, Florida. Members of the award-winning group were, front row, from left, Brenda Rae, Teri Warner, Shannon Brandon, Melanie Boyle and Theresa Marcotte. Back row, from left, Susan Biberdorf, Deanna Lalonde, Chris Barton, Rick Robins, Errol Elumir, Carol Cook, Lennie Davis and Derek Gibson (music director). Missing from the photo is Tanya Zimmerman.

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When?

The list goes on but here are a few quotes from folks with more profound thoughts on the subject. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you love life, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.â&#x20AC;? Bruce Lee Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one that really struck me: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.â&#x20AC;? Jim Bishop.

Quotes are nearly as abundant as the time itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken me to

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Words of Worth decide what to write about this week, but my thoughts on the topic came about as I draw close to heading to Saskatchewan to attend the wedding of our secondoldest granddaughter.

Can that really be? Seems like it was just a winter ago when a picture of her being pulled in a sled by her mother (both bundled up against the snow) was published in a local

newspaper. Like the speed of light, or so it seems, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grown up, graduated from high school, university and now nurses in a Saskatchewan hospital.

Even harder to believe is that her sister is older than herâ&#x20AC;Ś.and our firstborn, their fatherâ&#x20AC;Ś weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave it at that.

Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; disciples certainly struggled with the predictions of His death and resurrection and the

only reason we can comprehend what we do, is that we view them in a rearview mirror. They tried to imagine something that was to them in the future; we read about it as a well-documented past event.

With the passing of each day, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re closer to home and the celebration of being in His presence where time no longer matters. In the meantime, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re exhorted to wisdom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.â&#x20AC;? Psalm 90:12

Estevanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airport receives funding The provincial government has announced support for the Estevan Regional Airport and other airports in the province through the Community Airport Partnership (CAP) program.

Estevanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airport will receive $86,750 for runway drainage improvements. The City of Estevan will match

the amount, for a total contribution of $173,550.

Airport manager Richard Reetz said that should cover the cost of the project.

When the runways were resurfaced in 2015, Reetz said the airport looked at the drainage surrounding the runways, but drainage in other parts of the airport was

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He expects this move will also reduce the number of birds at the airport that gather around the airport due to the standing water.

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Auriel Bill continues her mastery of water polo

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

Auriel Bill continues to add to her list of accolades while playing collegiate water polo in California.

The Estevan native won two prestigious awards this year. She was named the Female Athlete of the Year for the Hayward-based California State University East Bay Pioneers, thanks to her accomplishments in the pool. And she was named the co-player of the year for the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA).

Bill won the latter award for the second straight year, although she shared it with Chanel Schilling of the University of California San Diego.

The award is picked by the coaches in the conference.

While Bill and Schilling play for rival schools, Bill noted that Schilling was a very deserving recipient.

Bill plays driver, which is an offensive position,

for the Pioneers, and led the team in points with 90, thanks to 44 goals and 46 assists. Her point and assist totals ranked in the top three in the association. In addition, she was named to the first all-star team for the third straight year.

She credits her teammates for the success she has enjoyed in university.

“I have a phenomenal coaching staff,” said Bill.

“The athletics staff in general are just great people.”

Her teammates have been fantastic, and a big part of her success.

And she said she couldn’t have been here without the support of her parents, Brian and Gloria.

“They’re out here supporting me as much as they can, but whenever they can’t be here, they’re watching on the livestream or whatever the case.”

Bill credits her time in Estevan and the Sharks program for the success she has been able to enjoy. Her father helped her find her love of the sport.

Estevan’s Auriel Bill holds the award for the Female Athlete of the Year for the Cal State East Bay Pioneers. She was also named the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) co-player of the year. Photo submitted

“He was there on deck every Tuesday and Thursday … and he always kept it cool. He just loved the sport, and was looking to learn, even though he never

played it. My time with the Estevan Sharks was such a good starting point, and the developmental skills are far better now than they were when I was little.

“Just that team community was always really great, and there were the exciting trips when you get to travel to Regina with all your best friends. It was definitely

the foundation for where I am now.”

If she wasn’t part of the Sharks, she wouldn’t have been able to move on to Team Saskatchewan. And without Team Saskatchewan, she wouldn’t be playing water polo in California.

Bill also doubts she would have had this much success, or this much fun, in an indi-

vidual sport.

“Just being involved in a team sports, it’s made all of the difference.”

New for this year is her work as a coach for a California high school’s boys and girls teams.

“I think having the coaching perspective really changed the way I played this year, changed the way I talked to my teammates and supported them, and helped them learn the new plays and everything,” said Bill.

She wants everyone to have fun and love playing the sport.

The Pioneers finished third in the conference final this year, which wasn’t what they wanted, but they still ended on a good note, knowing that they did play well and they played together.

Expectations will be high for next season, thanks to the talent they have returning.

Adrien Van Dyke of Regina is among the players expected to return to the Pioneers next season.

“Next year we’re going to want to go for the finals.

We’re going to want to win the WWPA championship more than ever. And next year will be the year to do it, for sure. We’re going to have a phenomenal team next year.”

Lacrosse teams have been busy

That’s a hit Jayden Kuchinka connects for a hit during the Estevan TS&M U13 Brewers game against the Regina Buffaloes on Saturday afternoon at Cactus Park. The Brewers had a productive weekend on the ball diamond, as they went 2-1-1, splitting games against the Buffaloes, and then picking up a win and a tie against the Weyburn Beavers on Sunday.

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Estevan Minor Box Lacrosse’s teams in the South Saskatchewan Lacrosse League had a busy weekend.

The Estevan MNP midget Voltz opened their season with a pair of dominating victories, defeating Standing Buffalo 10-1 and 18-1.

Both games were played at the Power Dodge Ice Centre on Sunday.

Their next game is Thursday night at Affinity Place at 7:15 p.m. against the Weyburn Thrashers.

The Power Dodge bantam Voltz continued their strong start to the season, as they won twice and tied one to improve their record to 3-0-1.

The bantams defeated the Prince Albert Outlaws 16-3 on Saturday, and then picked up three of a possible

four points against Standing Buffalo on Sunday, winning 11-6 and tying them 9-9.

They don’t have another league game until early June.

The peewee Regens Metals Voltz had just one game on the weekend, losing 8-3 to the Swift Current Rampage on the road on Sunday.

They’ll return to the court on May 25 when they host the Swift Current Wolverines.

The novice McDonalds Voltz were shut out in their two games on the weekend, losing 4-0 MW and 4-0 to the Rampage TT. Both games were played May 12 in Swift Current.

Their next game will be May 22 at home against the Weyburn Threshers at 7 p.m. at Affinity Place.

The two teams in the

Prairie Gold Lacrosse League also had a busy weekend. The senior Impact dropped both of the games they played, losing 15-8 to the Saskatoon Steelers on Saturday and 13-6 to the Prince Albert Outlaws.

The Impact’s record stands at 1-4. They will host the Saskatoon Brewers on May 25 at 1 p.m., and the Saskatoon Sr. Swat on May 26 at 1 p.m. Both games will be played at Affinity Place.

The junior Big Dogs, meanwhile, won their lone game of the weekend, as they defeated the Saskatoon Jr. Swat 10-6 at the Power Dodge Ice Centre to improve their record to 1-3.

Their next game is May 26 at Affinity Place against the Standing Buffalo Fighting Sioux.

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Sharks compete at Westerns event in Calgary After months of interprovincial competition, the 2019 14-and-under Western National Championship League (NCL) tournament was contested from May 10-12 in Calgary, with eight boys and eight girls teams competing for their respective titles.

Teams from all four Western Canadian provinces were entered. They qualified through their performance in the three western provincial 14U leagues that

take place annually in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan-Manitoba.

In 2019, the top three girls and boys teams from B.C. and Alberta, and the top two teams from SaskatchewanManitoba qualified for the tournament.

Many of these teams have never faced each other before and had to adapt on the fly.

The tournament began with a round robin. Both the girls and boys divisions fea-

tured two pools of four teams each. The top two teams from each pool then advanced to the semifinals.

The Estevan Sharks 14U boys competed at to the western NCL tournament.

During round robin play the boys team played hard but found themselves coming up short, as they had to fight their way out of the 7/8 position. On May 12 they regrouped and with some strong defensive and offensive play from all players, the

Sharks battled against the Edmonton Thunderbirds.

The game started out strong for both teams as they went goal for goal and had a 7-7 tie at half time. In the third period the boys had a small 11-10 lead, and then in the fourth quarter the Sharks played for the win, and they found the back of the net five more times to end with a 1611 victory.

This was a great win for the boys and ended their season on a high. The coaches were very impressed with the improvement of this team and how well they played against the big city squads. Many of the competing teams had never heard

of the Estevan Sharks and were shocked to learn they came from a community of only 11,000 people, yet had such a competitive group of athletes.

Three girls from the Estevan Sharks water polo club joined the Regina Armada 2 team for the girls tournament. This was the first national final competition for 14U player Sadie Smith and 12U players Lily Knoll and Emily Sauder, who all played well for the Regina team in a highly competitive tournament.

The team started with a hard loss to the top-ranked B.C. team from the Fraser Valley. They followed with

a win over the Calgary Seawolves and a loss against the top-ranked Alberta team, Calgary Mako, to finish third in their pool and fifth overall in the girls’ division after the round robin was completed.

In the first playoff game they met the other Regina Armada team and suffered another loss. In their final game of the weekend, the Armada 2 team came away with a hard-fought victory, to finish with a tournament record of 2-3, good for seventh overall. Knoll was the goalie for all five games for the Armada team, while Smith and Sauder played both offensive and defensive roles throughout the tournament.

The Estevan Sharks boys team competed at the 14-and-under Western National Championship in Calgary. Photo submitted

Hearing loss taken to heart With May dedicated as Better Hearing Month by Speech-Language & Audiology Canada (SAC), Dunlop Hearing, which serves Estevan and Weyburn, is reminding the public about the importance of early detection and treatment of hearing loss.

Living proof of those benefits is Landon Woodruff, the clinic’s hearing aid practitioner, who suffered hearing loss at an early age and received assistance. “I’ve dealt with hearing loss and had hearing aids since I was two and a half,” he says.

Lily Knoll (back row, second from left), Sadie Smith (middle row left) and Emily Sauder (front row left) from the Estevan Sharks joined the Regina Armada at westerns.

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Woodruff had genetic hearing loss but also contracted childhood mumps which further affected his condition. Fortunately, he was able to get help by using hearing aids early, a factor that helped him develop proper speech.

“Once I had the hearing aids I was able to hear and develop my speech much better,” he says, adding he also learned sign language as a youngster and underwent speech pathology.

Today, Woodruff serves clients who have confidence he understands their situation, firsthand. “I know the struggles and challenges with hearing aids,” Woodruff says. “I understand what my clients hear and how they hear. That helps a lot with their appointments moving forward, making sure they get the best adjustments for their hearing loss.”

Unfortunately, it can be a long road for some clients to come to the realization they can function better if they used hearing aids. “Many people, especially those who lose hearing later in life, it tends to take them on average seven years from the time they get tested to accepting help,” Woodruff says.

“There’s a lot of pride involved,” he explains, adding, “People, in general, don’t want to wear a bulky device behind their ear and have others know they have a handicap.”

And that can be an odd comparison when most people don’t think twice about wearing glasses, Woodruff says. But once they are shown how unobtrusive today’s high-tech hearing aids can be, they are far more willing to accept the assistance they provide.

“If there is a client who is really hesitant, I will get them in for a hearing test, give them the information and then let them have ample time to decide,” he says. “The worst thing you can do is try and force hearing aids on someone, because they won’t wear them.”

“It really has to be an acceptance thing, by the individual.”

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