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One of the apartment complexes on the city’s south side saw a front boulevard fir tree get uprooted, with the tree falling on a car that was parked along the avenue that faced the front of the apartment unit.

This downed tree on Souris Avenue South was one of the first attended to by city staff on June 25 due to its location along a busy thoroughfare in the city. Photos by Norm Park

Storm brings heavy rains and winds to Estevan

By Norm Park and David Willberg Estevan has been hit by several powerful thunderstorms this month, and the strongest one yet swept through the Energy City on June 24, bringing heavy rains, strong winds and spectacular lightning.

The Estevan meteorological station reported that winds registered at a fairly steady speed of 78 kilometres per hour (km/h), with a peak period around midnight, and some early Saturday gusts exceeding 83 km/h.

“But, you have to wonder about such things as down drafts from the storm and the possibility of plow winds,” said meteorologist

Mike Porter, who checked the prevailing Friday and Saturday conditions.

The rainfall that accompanied the high winds was recorded at 44.2 millimetres, or about one and three-quarter inches.

“Just in the last week alone, we’ve recorded between four and five inches of rain around here,” said Porter.

“So for the rest of this week, I suppose we can expect some muggy conditions and probably with a few mosquitoes,” he said.

The storm uprooted numerous trees in Estevan.

City parks manager Rod March said about 10 trees on city-owned land were blown over, with most of the damage occurring on Valley

Street. Some trees were also toppled in the Hillcrest area.

March didn’t have a figure for the number of trees on privately-owned land that were damaged.

Many branches were snapped off during the storm.

City of Estevan crews started working on the cleanup on June 25 by removing some of the downed trees.

March expects city staff will continue with cleanup activities until the end of the month.

The storm also knocked out power to the southeast corner of Estevan for several hours.

One of the hardest-hit areas was the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club, which recorded about three inches

of rain. The 5th and 7th holes, which are at the lowest points of the course, were under water, as were the 15th, 17th and 18th holes.

The course was closed on June 25 while superintendent Bob Currie and his crew worked to remove the water. It reopened the following day at noon, but carts were forced to remain on the designated paths.

“There wasn’t a whole lot of water that was in what I would consider to be in play,” said Kyle Mulligan, general manager of TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club. Woodlawn resumed normal operations on June 27.

Mulligan praised the work of Currie, assistant superintendent Danita

Bjorndalen and others who helped the course open so quickly.

“As soon as the rain quit… Bob and his team were already starting the planning on how we were going to get water moved, and what we were going to start doing at about five o’clock in the morning (on June 25) when they got to work,” said Mulligan.

The storm also resulted in a busy night for members of the Estevan Fire Rescue Service and the Estevan Police Service (EPS).

In their report for the June 24 night shift, the EPS said they received reports of many trees that were knocked down, and four SaskPower transformers that were on fire due to the

fallen trees. Police, fire and SaskPower crews attended to the fires.

Metal roofing was also found to be hanging from power lines on Perkins Street near Second Avenue.

SaskPower removed the roofing.

Police also received several reports of high water levels, sewage backups, structural damage, flying debris alarms and more.

Two accidents were reported during the downpour. Both were caused by low visibility. Nobody was injured in either accident.

And police were notified of a possible impaired driver, but they determined the individual was having a hard time seeing due to the heavy rains.

Estevan shows its support for diversity

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

Estevan is celebrating Pride Week for the first time this week, and if Monday’s kickoff is any indication, there is healthy public support for the celebrations.

About 50 people gathered next to the Estevan Courthouse on Monday for

the kickoff. Several speakers discussed the importance to celebrate gender diversity and to end discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Some people in attendance carried the rainbow flag and other flags associated with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning and intersexual (LGBTQI) commu-

nities. Others carried signs with such slogans as “Love is Love.”

Many others were there to show their support for Pride Week.

Across the street, the rainbow flag had already been raised in front of Estevan City Hall – the first time the flag has flown at the building. Mayor Roy Ludwig

said last week that he was proclaiming June 26 to July 2 as LGBTQ Week in Estevan.

For Luca Kuchinka, a non-binary and pansexual from Estevan who organized the kickoff event, seeing the flag waving at city hall was a “momentous” occasion, and Kuchinka was thrilled to see so many people turn out for the launch.

“I feel an incredible rush of excitement, and I feel like I really belong in this community, which is really nice,” said Kuchinka, a 22-year-old who was born and raised in Estevan.

Kuchinka believes Estevan can be hard to define at times, because there are people who will discriminate.

But those people are not the

ones who define the community.

“You guys are the face of the community, and seeing you guys here means a lot to me personally, because it means that I’m not alone, and everybody else who is LGBT-plus is not alone,” said Kuchinka.

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Metochos Bible Camp future in jeopardy

By Norm Park normpark@estevanmercury.ca

The Metochos Luthern Bible Camp could be on life support soon with the governing board having to make some difficult decisions within the next few months.

Bible camp activities for this summer have been cancelled but the board of directors is assuring those who booked the facilities for private functions, such as weddings and anniversaries, will have access to the facility and all its functions and services this summer.

Pastor Stewart Miller, who serves on the multicongregational board as the ministerial adviser, said the reality of the situation is debt servicing with a weakening donation base for the camp programs.

“We just can’t hold a viable program for young campers in 2016. There are other issues too, such as staffing. It was becoming more difficult to get summer staff, too,” he said, referring to the camp that is located about 18 kilometres northwest of Estevan.

“Unless a creative fi-

nancial plan is found with an ongoing, reliable funding source, we have some tough decisions to make for the future,” said Miller.

When the main building was first opened five years ago, right in the midst of a difficult flood-ravaged summer in southeast Saskatchewan, Metochos was to be supported by various church congregations located south and east of Regina. But, in reality, the ongoing support has been reduced to just a few of the more local and dedicated church organizations.

Metochos usually featured week-long youth camps over an eight-week schedule with various age groupings taking over the facilities and the 40-bed dormitories one week at a time.

That meant between 200 and 300 children and teenagers got to enjoy the summer programs that included water-based activities since the camp is located along the Rafferty Reservoir basin.

“We had seen a decrease in attendance in the past few years. The day camps for the youngest campers, who weren’t overnighters, was still popular,”

said Miller.

The Lutheran Bible Camp has enjoyed a rich history in southeast Saskatchewan over several decades with very few interruptions.

One of those intervals was necessary with the building of the Rafferty and Alameda Dams in the late 1990s that displaced the former, aging Bible camp and replaced it with a new site and fresh mitigation funding from SaskWater, which Miller said was probably inadequate considering all the functions the camps served at the time and were trying to replace in the new location with new construction.

“We own the land and the dormitory cabins, but the debt load is on the main building that was opened in 2011. Of course having that happen in the middle of a flood year didn’t help, (there was no Bible Camp that year) and the costs escalated, due to the flood and some unplanned requirements that had to be met for the operation of a commercial building. These were mostly structural items that had to be added,” he said.

The tough decisions that are facing the board,

The Metochos Bible Camp’s main facility that opened in 2011 features state-ofthe-art geothermal HVAC systems and a grand view of the Rafferty Reservoir from the front windows. chaired by Jesse Elmore of Lampman, are regrettable, said Miller. “Because the people who have served on this board have done so faithfully and energetically for many years.”

Renting the camp and its facilities out for weekends and special events only adds a few additional dollars that are generally gobbled up by operational costs, which means only a few extras could be added to the programs.

A group of family suites

planned for the lower level, have not been completed.

Overall use has not been discouraging, said Miller. The main building has been full quite often with various functions.

“We’re not alone. St. Michael’s retreat in Lumsden reached a similar state and it eventually had to be sold to private interests, probably for similar reasons and issues we’re experiencing,” said Miller. “Expenses are substantial for buildings like this.”

The dormitories, which are about 18 years old, are in good condition and the main building features a commercial-sized kitchen, conference room, office space and the aforementioned space for families that is currently being used for storage.

“Perhaps the marketing or promotion end of this requires a broader spectrum, I’m not sure, but we do know there are some decisions to make before the end of September,” Miller said.

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Autumn Bourque, who is involved with numerous organizations, including TransSask Support Services, Queen City Pride, Fierte Canada Interpride and Gender News, congratulated Estevan on their first Pride Week celebration.

“Pride represents a long struggle for the LGBTQI community,” said Bourque.

“It brings awareness that we are people from all walks of

life. This is how we show our support and care for all of our brothers and sisters.”

June has already been declared as Gender and Sexual Diversity Pride Month in Saskatchewan. Bourque believes this month has been a celebration of life as well as a time of sorrow, due to the massacre of 49 people at a gay bar in Orlando earlier in the month.

Bourque believes incidents like the one in Orlando

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“As I have always said, education comes with understanding, respect and most importantly love,” said Bourque.

And events like a flag raising or a Pride Week launch are important for a community.

“Pride is not about the glitter, the fun or the parties. It’s about respect,” said Bourque. “It’s about not hid-

People who attended the Pride Week kickoff Monday in Estevan gather for a group photo at the end of the ceremony. ing in fear of being humiliated because of who we love or our gender expression. It’s about freedom.”

Other speakers included city Councillor Brian Johnson, Estevan police Chief Paul Ladouceur, Melissa Fiest and Kay Hemus from St. Paul’s United Church, and Mike Merriman, who is the superintendent of schools for the south area for the South East Cornerstone Public School Division. Each spoke

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Merriman referred to the LGBTQI community as an ally for the division to ensure safety for students within schools.

“We’re in the process of educating our staff, students and school community counsellors to ensure that every school is a safe place in setting up alliances,” said Merriman.

Estevan MLA Lori Carr was unable to attend the event, but she sent a letter, which was read by her executive assistant, Susan Colbow. The letter echoed the statements from many of

the other speakers.

Joe Wickenhauser, the executive director for Moose Jaw Pride, told the audience he was thrilled to see such a strong turnout in Estevan.

Moose Jaw Pride helped organize the Pride Week activities for both Estevan and Weyburn.

He also stressed the need for continued education in Estevan.

The kickoff was the main activity in Estevan for Pride week. Kuchinka said Estevan will have more Pride-themed events in the future, and didn’t rule out the possibility of eventually having a Pride parade in Estevan.

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By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

After seven years of waiting, the Radio Controlled (RC) Club of Estevan, which includes the Sun City Prop Busters, wasn’t going to allow some strong winds to prevent them from hosting the grand opening of their facility southeast of Estevan.

The club, which boasts of avid RC plane operators along with RC cars and truck owners, celebrated the grand opening of their new facility on June 25.

People came from across the province to help the club celebrate.

Some of the more experienced RC airplane owners navigated their planes through the heavy winds.

There was also a barbecue lunch, a celebratory cake, a ribbon cutting and a flight simulator.

The club’s land is located on more than 50 acres southeast of Estevan, to the east of the Shand Access Road and to the north of the Trackside Motocross Association and the Estevan Motor Speedway. There is a large field that measures 600 feet long by 350 feet wide, which gives the RC planes room to take off and land.

“It’s not completely square, but it’s workable, and it will allow for (model) jets and bigger aircraft to

take off,” said club president Art Dougherty.

Members who owned RC cars and trucks can race them on a circle track, or test them out on bumps and jumps. The club’s facility also boasts a kitchen, a clubhouse, washrooms and RV parking. The entire facility is solar-powered.

The club will also hold their meetings at the facility during the first Wednesday of each month during the warmer months.

“It’s fantastic,” said Dougherty. “I think we’re probably one of the best clubs in Western Canada right now, for the facility that we have. Not everybody has flush toilets, and we have a water system, and we have solar cells.”

Their old home was to the west of their current facility for many years, but coal mining displaced them in 2008. Sherritt Coal then gave them a 20-year lease for the area that serves as their new home.

“We developed the site as you see it today,” said Dougherty.

After mining started on their old land, they held meetings at the Estevan Fire Hall. And they were able to fly their planes at an area south of their new home.

Dougherty’s late father, Elroy, spearheaded the construction of the current facility and put a lot of money into it.

Sun City Prop Busters vice-president Trevor Gessner, president Art Dougherty, Estevan Mayor Roy Ludwig and member Darwin Mayer cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the new facility.

“He set forth to bring assets, manpower and equipment to assist members to bring the new land to flight-and track-worthy status,” said Art Dougherty.

The new clubhouse is named after Elroy Dougherty. The names of the sponsors are also displayed.

“Many of our members spent countless hours picking rocks, acquiring equipment for levelling and construction, as well

A plane takes off from the Sun City Prop Busters new field.

as helping move buildings and finishing areas that members and guests use,” said Dougherty.

They moved into their new area last year, and it has proven to be a great change.

They wanted to make sure the facility was ready before hosting the grand opening.

Club members are always looking for ways to enhance their venue, especially the bumps and jumps track for the RC cars and

trucks. They also need to improve the areas for parking and campers, so that those are suitable when they host get-togethers for flying.

The club was established in 1988 and has about 23 members. The lack of a permanent facility has hurt their membership numbers the last few years, but they are hopeful the new area will help them enjoy a resurgence.

“There’s a lot of interest in it in both sides of the sport,” said Dougherty. “It’s more challenging with the airplanes, of course. With windy conditions like today, it’s tough to fly. But as far as cars and trucks and everything else, as long as it’s not raining, they should be okay.”

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Kensington project nears completion Frequent rains in June slowed progress on the rebuild of Kensington Avenue North, but the project is nearing completion.

Two components remain before the road can be open to traffic again, according to Kiflom Weldeab, who is the engineer for the City of Estevan.

The approaches have to be completed, and traffic lines have to be painted.

“Until that is completed, the road will not be open to the public,” said Weldeab.

The approaches were slated to be completed earlier this year. They are trying to locate a contractor to paint the traffic lines.

A date for the traffic painting has not been established.

While the rains this month have created some delays, Weldeab noted the contract for the project specified it would be fin-

ished in early July. The city wants it to be completed well before the start of the 2016 Saskatchewan Summer Games on July 24.

“I think we are way ahead of the Games, and if it weren’t for the weather, it would have been done way before that,” said Weldeab.

The work began in early April.

“That was the saving grace. With all the moisture we had, this would have been very challenging if that was not started so early,” said Weldeab.

The first component was to upgrade the grid road from the north entry of the Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) to Estevan’s northern city limits. The sub-base, base and the approaches on the grid road were improved.

The Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP) funded that part of the project, since it

stemmed from damage that portion of the road sustained during the flood of 2011.

PDAP set a deadline for the end of June for that portion of the project to be completed, and the city met that demand.

The second part of the project saw asphalt applied to Kensington Avenue from an area north of King Street to the north city limits.

Weldeab said motorists have done a good job of coping with the road closure. There were challenges initially, especially after the Kensington Avenue access for ECS was closed in late May. All traffic for ECS had to use the Spruce Drive access for the final few weeks of the school year.

He is also impressed with how businesses along Kensington Avenue North have handled the road closure.

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Community Garden welcomes guests

By Sam Macdonald smacdonald@estevanmercury.ca

It was a fine time to be at the Estevan Community Garden, on Thursday evening. With the sun low in the sky, the birds singing and the trees providing shade, guests enjoyed the flourishing beds of assorted plants. Guests and members socialized over the growing plants, learning about the gardens.

This was all part of the Estevan Community Garden’s open house on

June 23, where fellow members spoke about what they’re growing this year, and guests showed up to appreciate the gardens and the many edibles being grown.

“Everyone has their own plot that they rent for $35, for the season.

Seeds are shared, and we have monthly meetings from October to June,” said Barb Wright, a member of the Community Garden committee and public health nutritionist with Sun Country Health

Region. “The Community Garden provides an opportunity for people who without space to garden at home, to plant and grow one.”

The gardens themselves bore a variety of fruits and vegetables, including chard, broccoli and strawberries, to name a few. All the gardens are arranged in raised beds, in a carefully tended lot that is kept mowed and tidy by members, near the Pleasantdale neighbourhood and Rusty Duce Park. The

gardens, in many cases are planted to fit the most varieties of plants into the square footage of the allotted beds, as efficiently as possible, and each is done in the owner’s signature style, in terms of arrangement.

Wr i g h t n o t e d t h a t gardeners show up about twice a week for regular maintenance of their gardens, which includes pulling weeds and watering their plants. She added the open house was a great way for fellow gardeners

to get to know one another, and to introduce guests to what they’ve been working on this season.

“It gives us a sense of connection, and creates a social network, to bring members together with guests,” said Wright.

“This is an introduction to the community, to let them know we’d love to have them here. A lot of people will look around and say they’ve never seen this before.”

Wright said the location of the Community

Garden is ideal because it’s off the beaten path of thoroughfare roads and traffic in the city, and serves as a quiet green space in which gardening and the Community Garden’s yoga program can take place in a peaceful, comfortable setting.

She added, “Obviously, the veggies are a big factor, but the gardens are also an opportunity to be outdoors, enjoying the physical activity and community connectedness they create.”

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Owners of garden beds at the Estevan Community Garden met, along with some guests, to discuss what they’re growing this season, on June 23. Photo by Sam Macdonald

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The Souris Valley Theatre is pleased with the support shown for its inaugural Ladies Night fundraiser on June 25 at the Doug Third Hall.

“People were really excited to get behind it and learn more about what is happening this season at the theatre,” said Breanne Van De Woestyne, the theatre’s marketing manager.

More than 100 people attended the fundraiser. Ticket sales were halted the day before the benefit because the theatre felt they had reached maximum capacity for Ladies Night.

The event raised more than $2,000 through ticket sales, raffles and live and silent auctions. Proceeds will be directed towards the theatre’s summer youth camps.

Actor Munish Sharma opened the show with his burlesque performance.

“The audience got really excited, and had a lot of fun with it,” said Van De Woestyne. “It was an entertaining number, for sure, and I know the audience really enjoyed it.”

The next act was performed by the Lady Bits, a four-woman team from Saskatoon. “ T h e y w e r e v e r y,

very good,” said Van De Woestyne. “There were lots of great reviews with them.

They were very funny and entertaining.”

The Me’ira Belly Dance Troupe from Estevan provided some locally-based entertainment.

The other highlight of the evening was a live auction featuring the cast and crew of Chickens, which is the theatre’s first main stage production this summer.

Each person did an act or a talent, and whoever bid the most had the performer as a server for the evening.

Rebecca Lascue, who will appear in Chickens, and has been a fixture at previous shows at the theatre, was the emcee for the evening.

Van De Woestyne expects the Ladies Night will become an annual event that could serve as an effective kickoff to their season.

“Because of all the great reviews, and the people who really wish they came now, I’m sure it will be a really successful event in the next years,” said Van De Woestyne.

Thanks to the high levels of interest, she expects they might also have to consider expanding it in the future.

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Compared with others, we’re doing OK It appears, at least on the surface, that Saskatchewan’s premier is gaining a little traction in terms of ironing out agreements, or at least making some well-considered points with his counterparts in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.

Following recent visits to those provinces, Brad Wall could return home to at least a quiet approving chorus of those believing he had done a pretty good job of putting his province back into the mix on economic and environmental fronts.

While making his annual plea at an Alberta fundraiser, Wall made the points about Saskatchewan’s place in the new resource-world order since the oil price crash. Making a plea for understanding in Calgary is not out of place, contrary to what some critics would suggest, since a good number of the companies drilling for oil or servicing the oil industry in Saskatchewan, are headquartered there. We would prefer to see more oilpatch head offices in this province, but that ship sailed long ago and we must accept reality.

Wall is probably watching very carefully as Alberta’s new Climate Leadership Plan, that calls for the early closure of their coal-fired electrical power generating

Prairie Perspective MURRAY MANDRYK Murray Mandryk is a political columnist with the Leader Post

Southey residents fighting mine Rural Saskatchewan people always seem to be facing an uphill battle, even if they don’t spend much time thinking about it.

Most rural folks are just too damn busy trying to eke out a living, whether they are farming or operating a small rural business, trying to keep their customer base during a time of shrinking rural populations.

But when their very way of life is threatened, they fight tooth and nail.

This is now the case for Southey area residents battling Yancoal over a proposed $3.6 billion solution potash mine that has the support of Premier Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party government.

The pitched battle made its way to the legislature earlier this month, when some 70 Southey area residents came to tell their story.

plants, rolls out over the next few years.

That province has a convoluted, deregulated energy market with a pooling system that was re-jigged so that the once very efficient approved coal-fired plants were suddenly found to be wanting under two sets of changed regulatory requirements. This race to make change by Premier Rachel Notley and her team could easily backfire and Alberta doesn’t have that much wiggle room.

In Ontario, Premier Kathleen Wynne has no wiggle room at all on the electrical production file. In fact, it’s choking her government but they are intent on being the field leaders on energy conservation, no matter what the cost. The fact that the conservation tactics that have been rolled out, are costing Ontario ratepayers two dollars for every conservation dollar saved, are being ignored. But it can’t be ignored much longer since their unpaid bill, to date, surpasses $1.7 billion, just on that singular file.

In Quebec, Wall found a surprising ally in the form of Premier Philippe Couillard, who shook hands on a carbon capture and storage program that includes a $20 million participation role for BHP Billiton in Saskatchewan, and a $15 million investment in Quebec.

It’s also well documented that Quebec is currently swimming in debt and was making little progress on the environmental front, until now.

Wall has a balancing act to perform there, since he is advocating very hard, for the Energy East pipeline that must travel through Quebec and, so far, it hasn’t received a blessing from Couillard’s team.

We’re not sure as to why Wall has taken up the task of leading the charge for Energy East acceptance, but we’re sure that Notley, et al., are thanking him for saying what needs to be said to those who need to be spoken to and negotiated with over the next few months.

So having gone on the road trip and having seen what is being done, and what isn’t being accomplished in other jurisdictions, our premier returned to home base and maybe breathed a sigh of relief that, while things may not be exactly wonderful in this province, we are certainly much better off on these matters, than those other provinces. When it comes to oil, power, debt and environmental issues it seems taking the lighter, more careful steps, seems to have been the correct course, at least for now.

“Ten years ago, the province was begging to have a community like ours, now they are set to destroy it,” Southey businessman Neil Wagner told reporters. “Our concern is about the environmental impact this is going to have and that’s our issue with it.”

According to farmers and businesses in the Southey area who will be directly impacted by the mine’s location, their battle with the state-owned Chinese mining company is a classic David and Goliath story.

Yancoal has already secured a license to use Buffalo Pound Lake (Regina’s water source, so city residents have a dog in this fight as well) in the neighbourhood of 11 to 12 million cubic metres of water annually.

But fear of their water being contaminated is only the beginning of it for local residents, who also fear their property being split, the loss of wildlife and even their children’s safety being put at risk.

“If this could happen to us, every farmer in the province should notice,” said Karla Hegglin, another area farmer. “It could happen to them, as well.”

Many of these residents are taken aback by the approach of the Sask. Party government, normally, ever mindful of its rural support.

The group expressed its disappointment with Last Mountain-Touchwood Sask. Party MLA Glen Hart, who, they said, confirmed the government is willing to sacrifice their rural way of life in the name of economic development.

“This community may need to look at possibly sacrificing themselves because the government needs the resource money right

now,” Wagner said, paraphrasing what Hart said at a meeting. “He mentioned it at the beginning of the meeting and he repeated it at the end of the meeting.”

Hart denied saying “anything like that,” but snippets of a recording of the meeting have leaked out, suggesting the Southey residents aren’t far off base.

Moreover, Economy Minister Bill Boyd has since acknowledged he met with Yancoal as far back as 2012 and has pushed for the proposal.

Of equal frustration is the bureaucratic process, in which the residents say the local rural municipal councils don’t have the capacity to contribute to the local environmental process. Meanwhile, the residents feel Yancoal has done the absolute minimum in what the people describe as a “broken” process.

Finally, but maybe most significant, is the battle within the community as well, making this fight even tougher.

The local area is clearly split between those farmers directly affected and those less directly impacted and seeing a huge financial benefit of having jobs and economic activity next door.

All this makes for an uphill battle, causing one to wonder why these people think they have a chance at winning.

But in the spirit of rural people, the Southey farmers seem to have an answer.

“If you feel you’re too small to be effective, have you ever been in a room with a mosquito, in the dark?” asked business owner and resident Thera Nordal. “We will continue to make noise until our voices are heard.”

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Our football teams need new names

Thoughts on the Canada Pension Plan

Norm Park All Things Considered Now that we can scramble outside for a few hours, before the torrential rains arrive, it kind of makes television and computer screen viewing boring.

Instead of watching animals and birds on screen, we get to see them in reality… not virtual reality, but reality reality.

But, soon enough, we’ll be back at our screens, watching others who are bent on entertaining us for millions of dollars per episode or per game.

I’m a true CFL fan, so the start of this season is rather exhilarating and it started last weekend, although the prized ‘Riders didn’t see action. They needed extra time to find a second quarterback. And by the looks of their pre-season antics, coach Jones needed to find a whole lot more than a backup QB. The NHL second season is over, the Jays keep hinting they’ll get on a run, any day now, while the Raptors … well, they play that handball game.

So we have the CFL to rely on for a few months, while the NFL gathers up their teams of millionaires and multimillionaires who play for billionaires in sucker-funded stadiums at prices real fans can’t afford.

I like the lunch-bucket CFL, where players appreciate the fans and the job and the decent, but not unholy, paycheques. You can almost believe they play for the love of the game.

I hear the Countess of Wessex was presented a Roughrider pendant for her troubles, while visiting Regina last week. That was kind of a blackmail way to conscript a new Roughrider fan. What if she preferred the Argonauts?

Or, heaven forbid, the Lions?

One CFL flaw is the selection of team names. There is really, only one original name in the whole bunch, and that includes, the aforementioned Argonauts. Some guy named Jason beat them to that title. Argos need another handle. Any suggestions?

Same for the Eskimos. That team name is no longer appropriate according to today’s sensitivities. I doubt if Edmonton Inuit would go down any better. New name please!

B.C. or Vancouver Lions? Sorry, that name was taken decades ago by some team in Detroit, some big cats and a well known international service club. Try again B.C. And, while you’re at it, why not get your current billionaires into a room and dig up another franchise, preferably in the Okanogan where there’s lot’s of money and good Canadian football talent, so why not use it?

Roughriders? Sorry Saskatchewan, Teddy Roosevelt beat us to it, and besides, we also stole the fight song from Wisconsin. Time to be original. Let’s get a new name for the new stadium. Just think of all the additional memorabilia sales. There would be the new and the retro.

Alouettes? The birds beat ya to the punch. Sorry.

Stampeders? That too is old school cowboy reflections.

How about Rustlers? They steal most of their players from other teams anyway.

Tiger Cats? Tigers are cats aren’t they? Make up your mind Hamilton. What are you? You can’t use two names.

Or can you?

The Ottawa Twocolours have done that. This is the silliest moniker of all. Did someone ask the owner what his favourite colour was and he couldn’t make up his mind?

Red or black, you can’t have it both ways. It isn’t soccer guys, but, it is Ottawa.

So that leaves the lovable Blue Bombers as the sole survivor with a somewhat original name. I have no idea why they are blue or why they think they’re bombers.

But at least the name is original in its concept. They still won’t win the Labour Day Classic or Banjo Bowl. That’s all we’ll give ‘em.

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The Editor: In 1981 my father (Clarence) retired and as it so often happens when people retire, they schedule a bunch of medical checkups. So, my father had a hearing specialist appointment in Saskatoon and as I had spent a little time in Saskatoon years ago, I drove him there, and on the way, he gave me a little bit of a history lesson.

When the government

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brought in the so-called old age pension plan in 1927, they (federal government), didn’t know how much it would cost or how they would pay it out, so they increased income tax by one per cent and placed it in a separate fund to keep track of it.

At the end of the first year, it was found there was a huge surplus. The government therefore decided to roll this surplus into

general funds and then pay the “old age pension” out of general funds and ever since then they haven’t been keeping up with the cost of living expenses and have been trying to reduce the old age pension (Old Age Security) payout. But, they keep collecting that additional one per cent.

The financial ministers realized back in the 1960s the old age pension (OAS) wasn’t enough to

survive on, so they brought in the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Now we are paying twice for the same service.

So now, is the proposed increase another tax?

Maybe the one per cent tax we’ve been paying for decades, should be removed from general funds and distributed to seniors as it was originally intended.

Reginald Jahn Roche Percee, Sask.

Debt for all, but profits flow to only a few The Editor: With the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation Debt Clock making its national tour, the taxpayers of Saskatchewan must ask themselves, are we okay with taking on massive amounts of debt for the profit of only a few giant multinational corporations?

The Regina Bypass stands to add $2 billion to

our total debt load, whether it be federally, provincially or municipally, while only a select few land speculators are profiting quite heavily.

Meanwhile, other longterm landowners, some who have the same lands their great grandparents owned when they came to Canada in the early 1900s, are getting shafted by being forced to accept pennies on

the dollar of their actual worth.

Why is the total population of the province being held responsible for the long-term debt of the Regina Bypass project while it is heavily suspected that inside traders, land speculators and a chosen few have already reaped huge financial gains?

An independent ju-

dicial inquiry and a full RCMP investigation, similar to the Charbonneau Inquiry in Quebec, should be demanded by the taxpaying public of Saskatchewan.

After all, it is they who are being held responsible for this massive indebtedness, for the benefit of a chosen few insiders.

Donald Neuls Coppersands, Sask.

Past criticisms turn into praise this year The Editor: Last year we wrote a letter to the editor com-

plaining about city staff.

Well, this year the crew fixing pavement cracks and

pot holes is doing a great job. They do not miss a single crack or hole.

Great job.

Joan and Ray Wock Estevan

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Avon and Revlon just won’t do.

I need a can of putty.

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The ladies of the club outdid themselves with the Father’s Day supper earlier this month. This may become an annual event.

Susie Lee done fell in

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Pappy told her, “Susie gal, you’ll have to find another. I’d just as soon yo’ Ma don’t know, but Joe is yo’ half brother.”

So Susie put aside her Joe, and planned to marry Will. But after telling Pappy this, he said,

“There’s trouble still. You can’t marry Will, my gal, and please don’t tell yo’ mother, but Will and Joe and several mo’, I know, is yo’ half brother.”

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Visitors boost Estevan’s Habitat for Humanity plan

By Norm Park normpark@estevanmercury.ca

It wasn’t difficult to discern a true spirit that lies within a Habitat for Humanity project.

Ben Sipple has seen it time after time in various forms, the most recent occasions being at sod turning and key turn over events in Regina when low income families first prepare for and then later take possession of their own home. The home is built with a lot of sweat equity from the potential owners and volunteers who love their community and are willing to give the selected low-income family group a hand up, not a hand out.

Sipple drove from Regina to Estevan on June 23 to speak to about 35 people who had gathered at the Days Inn to learn more about getting involved in a local HFH project that is currently being spearheaded by a small, but efficient, committee headed by chairman Doug Barnstable.

Winston Bailey, chairman of the Weyburn HFH committee which has already built their first home, also made his way to the Energy City to provide additional information and impart some additional spirit into the prospects that face the local group as they start out on their fundraising ef-

fort, property selection and acquisition, family selection and volunteer contributors.

“Please make it clear,” said Sipple while talking with the Mercury, “that this is not a free house that a local committee is building and giving to some family. So many times that is the misinterpretation the general public gets, and that’s not the case at all. The selected homeowners put in 500 hours of sweat equity, they assume mortgage payments, insurance payments, maintenance costs, pay property taxes just like everyone else.”

What the program does, is give the family a well-built basic home valued at between $200,000 to $275,000 without having to come up with the initial down payment. They do make the interest-free mortgage payments, to HFH. Sipple, who hails from Kentucky, said he got caught up in the spirit of the Habitat for Humanity program when he volunteered for rebuilding projects in New Orleans following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Bailey noted how Weyburn’s first project met with such rapid fire responses from the community that the first home was built and ready for occupancy within 23 weeks, while the normal pace indicates a fundraising and construction

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“Fundraising is the biggest challenge, but obviously Weyburn got over that hurdle quickly and I’m sure you will too, here in Estevan,” Sipple said.

A sense of pride in community and the sense of accomplishment achieved by volunteers is a huge factor in any HFH project, the two agreed. The smiles coming from selected homeowning family members as they work away on the project and then receive the keys to their home, make it all worthwhile. Bailey said that for the Weyburn key ceremony, over 350 people gathered to make the event a pretty special one for everyone connected to the project, right down to the seniors in a nearby condominium who provided freshly baked goods for the volunteers on a regular basis, Bailey added.

Barnstable, who is leading the local committee that also consists of Calven Johnson, Dan Jenish, Jody Copeland and Roberta DeRosier, so far, said the fundraising efforts have begun, the family selection process has also started as of that evening, with a short list of potential home recipients being handed over to the Regina committee by the end of summer. It is necessary to have the family identified soon to determine what specifica-

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Roberta DeRosier, HFH family services manager and Doug Barnstable, chairman of the Estevan HFH committee flank Winston Bailey (second from left), chairman of the Weyburn HFH committee and Ben Sipple, family services manager for Regina’s HFH who spoke to potential volunteers about an Energy City project. tions will be required in the building of the new home. It was also noted the provincial government generally commits between $30,000 to $50,000 for such projects.

Barnstable said he hoped to have the local fundraising drive completed or at least to the qualifying 80 per cent mark by next spring so construction could begin early and be completed by October or November.

The homeowners have a series of obligations that must be met, beyond the 500 hours of sweat equity, and those were also spelled out to the potential candidates.

Once the mortgage payments are completed, the home belongs to the family outright, and they can do what they wish. They can sell it and move to another home, continue to live in it, lease it, or do what any other homeowner would have the privilege of doing with their home. Payments that gen-

erally range from $650 to $1,100 per month, and paid by the family, are directed to HFH, who back the project and provide insurance for it.

The money gained is used as feedstock for future homebuilding projects, meaning that one successful project feeds another. The payments are adjusted so as not to place unnecessary strain on the new homeowner’s already modest income. Potential homeowners must have been residents in the community for at least two years and have a steady employment income of under $52,000 per year.

Barnstable said the Estevan applicant list will be completed by July 25, with the short list sent into Regina for their assessment and final decision.

Sipple said those applicants will be notified of their status on a regular basis until the final decision is made.

The shortlisted families are subjected to necessary credit checks and financial reports.

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ily selection committee is also comprised of unpaid volunteers.

A quick look at a typical HFH home indicated simple, but well designed and wellbuilt homes. Barnstable said the local committee has at least one property in mind in Estevan, but will be checking with the City of Estevan for other possible locations.

The homes often don’t come painted on the interior, but some do. It’s the same with additional flooring … it will depend on the extent of the volunteer efforts. Otherwise, it will be built with an appropriate number of bedrooms, a kitchen with stove, fridge and dishwasher provided, but no carport or garage. It will have a deck or patio.

“It’s pretty exciting and I’m sure Estevan will respond,” said Barnstable as he thanked the visitors for adding to the information base and injecting a fresh sense of excitement for the local project that is now well underway.

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Members of the Coaler Rollers Level 1/2 and Level 3 black and pink squads face off against each other at the roller derby annual windup scrimmage at Bienfait Memorial Arena on Sunday. Photo by Jamie Harkins.

Coaler Rollers battle each other at year-end scrimmage

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Coaler Rollers junior roller derby team celebrated the strides they made on the track over the past 10 months with their annual windup scrimmage at Bienfait Memorial Arena on Sunday.

The fun scrimmage pitted various members of the Coaler Rollers Level 1/2 team, introductory roller derby, and Level 3 team, full contact women’s roller derby rules, split up into black and pink squads that faced off against each other over two 30-minute halves of derby.

Cheering them on from the track sidelines were members of the Coaler Rollers friends and family who had gathered to see the progress each of the kids have made over the past year.

“It was a phenomenal season for the amount of growth that each skater showed this year,” said Lorelei Lachambre, coach of the Coaler Rollers. “It was

from start to finish by far the most we’ve progressed and I think it has a lot to do with (the fact) we played more games, we did more travelling and the girls who have stayed and stuck with derby are girls that really take it seriously and want to grow the sport.”

The Coaler Rollers Level 1/2 team brought Estevan’s competitive season to a satisfying end on Saturday afternoon with a 344-282 win over the Pile O’Bones in Regina. One week earlier, both teams made a trip to Calgary to play in the Canadian Roller Derby information (CRDi) 2016 Junior Roller Derby Tournament at the Acadia Recreation Complex.

Lachambre said the Level 1/2 team began the tournament with a win over the Highway 14 Roller Derby Association before scoring a 282-281 victory in an extra jam over the South Alberta Junior Roller Derby team.

She said the girls lost their next two games, but still

came out with a bronze medal to show for their efforts.

“Our Level 3 team played two games and lost out, but the first game we had scored over 100 points against the Calgary team and that was our goal,” she said.

“The second game we played Edmonton, which was the top-ranked Level 3 team in Canada going into it, so we took a beating there. It was a really physical hard-hitting game and those girls were on average 16 to 18 years old and our girls on average are 12 to 14, so just size difference. We couldn’t really compete against (them) because we were such a young team, but they held in there, held their own, kept fighting and kept going for it.”

KillerElla, 11, said the 2015-16 season was her third with the Coaler Rollers and the fun she had travelling to tourneys like the CRDi as well as their many games in Regina against the Pile O’Bones ensures she’ll be back playing pivot and blocker for the Level 3 team

when the new season starts up in September.

“With blocker, you’re blocking the opposing team’s jammer, not letting them pass and not letting them get their points,” said KillerElla. “A pivot is leading everybody, like where they should be and where the jammer is. They’ll say ‘the black jammer is coming,’ things like that.

I’m not good at jamming, so I just stick to those and I’m big so I can block the small jammers.”

Hearing a key player like KillerElla is coming back for another year is music to the ears of Lachambre, who noted the more returnees they have next season the more the derby program will grow in Estevan. She said the Coaler Rollers will be having another big recruiting drive for new players at the beginning of September with the hope that everyone who played this past season keeps working on their skills during the summer months.

“I would love these girls (to be) outdoor skating in July

and August in Estevan on the good roads they can find…to keep their endurance up and

to work on strength in their legs and then in September we’ll be back for derby.”

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Sprint cars spin out speedway dirt

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The sprint cars made a glorious return to the Estevan Motor Speedway on Friday night after eight long years away from the track, but the final result didn’t sit well with one of its local drivers.

Kyle Fedyk, an Estevan native who regularly races in North Dakota, came into the 25-lap sprint car feature seated fourth, but jumped up to second behind leader Greg Nikitenko right after the green flag was waved. Fedyk and Nikitenko battled bumper-to-bumper through the first few laps with each spinning out dirt when they flew into the corners that seemed to slingshot them into the middle of the straightaway before hitting another corner seconds later.

Into the final 10 laps and the two drivers still racing neck-and-neck, Fedyk began heading low on the corners in an attempt

to pass Nikitenko who was riding the high line, but an extended push to go ahead caused him to spin out in the fourth corner on the 19th lap forcing the local driver to the back of the field with the caution. Fedyk pushed back up to sixth place by the end of the race with Nikitenko taking the checkered flag.

“The heat race was really good,” said Fedyk. “That was probably the best setup race car I’ve had in several years and overall the track was good. It was racy in the feature and unfortunately I just had an incorrect setup and made a driver error and it cost me racing for the win.”

Fedyk said it’s a whole different ballgame racing a sprint car compared to a modified or late model car because the latter drive hard off the right rear wheel whereas they don’t. He said they bury the left rear wheel so when they get to the corner, if the setup is right and their weight is to the left,

it will suck them around so fast they’re on the next straightaway before they know it.

“In the heat race when I got to lap traffic I tried to do the bottom, but my straightaway speed was so much it just wanted to carry me right to the outside of the track,” he said, noting he drives a 410-cubic-inch all aluminum motor with mechanical fuel injection that produces about 900 horsepower and weighs just over 1,400 pounds with him and the fuel in it. “If you can get it dialed in for a line and keep it there and then you break your momentum you end up off the track real fast. If you don’t stay in the throttle to get the thing rotated when you hit the corner the bigger tires will just stay hooked up and it will drive straight off.”

Before the sprint feature took place, Carl Hanson earned his first Weatherford Hobby Stock win of the season at the speedway, but faced a rough battle with Leevi Runge in the final lap to get it. Han-

son jumped from the third seed to first on the opening lap of the 20-lap race, with Runge quickly making his way through the traffic from the 11th seed up to fourth by the ninth lap.

Runge got himself into the second spot by passing Blair Hanson down low on the fourth corner with eight laps to go, but didn’t make a push for first until the end.

On the final lap, Runge finally caught Carl Hanson on the second corner with the two drivers bumping each other in an attempt to gain the lead before Hanson drove Runge into the wall on the fourth corner knocking him out of the race and taking the checkered flag for himself.

Gregg Mann and Jeremy Swanson then battled it out in the stock car main with contention from Jordan Durward and Chris Hortness throughout. In a clean and tightly

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A’s pitcher Justin VanAchte tags out Indians baserunner Nolan Klein as he dives onto home base. Photo by Jamie Harkins.

A’s sweep Indians in home doubleheader

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

Hits right through the order propelled the Southeast A’s bantam AAA baseball team to 11-2 and 11-7 wins over the Swift Current Indians in a doubleheader at Alameda Field on Saturday.

After a slow start to the second game of the doubleheader, the A’s (10-4-2 and first place in the Baseball Regina league) used a few unforced Indians’ errors to jump ahead 3-0 in the bottom of the second inning with Jose Reyes, Justin VanAchte and Jesse Schill crossing the plate on wild throws and a balk. Indians pitcher Carter Warkentin settled back down shortly

afterwards going three up and three down in the third before Dylan Hull scored in the fourth inning to make it 4-0.

Indians’ Reed Jacobson went home on a Brody Alexandre bunt in the top of the fifth to get the team to within three, but the floodgates opened shortly afterwards with VanAchte, Schill, Noah Perkins, Dawson Schaff, Liam Rutten, Tyren Dorrance and Burke Lyons all putting runs on the board in the bottom of the inning.

“All of our guys were hitting,” said VanAchte, who earned the win as the A’s starting pitcher. “Their pitcher, we just got in his head that we were hitting

the ball.”

“We made some errors in the first game and the second game we didn’t make the errors, so we set the tone for the game,” added A’s head coach Trent Dorrance. “That just gets everybody more positive right off the bat.”

The A’s started the twin-bill slowly as well, but in a more dramatic fashion by allowing seven Indians’ baserunners to cross the plate in the opening two innings leaving the club with a 7-1 deficit. Rutten and Dorrance got the comeback started in the fourth inning before Nick Singleton, Reyes and VanAchte scored in the fifth to close the score to 7-6 heading into the sixth

inning.

“We had a really good pitching performance from our starter, Nolan Klein,” said Indians head coach Ken Wall, whose team moved to 5-10-2 with the losses. “He ran out of pitches and then our guys just couldn’t throw strikes. So just not sharp, then the rest of the game just got away from us.”

Lyons evened up the score in the bottom of the sixth, which was quickly followed by a go-ahead run from Hull. Singleton, Reyes and VanAchte then added insurance runs, with Lyons and Alex Kerr shutting down the Indians in relief.

“We had a bit of a lull in early June, late May, and I think now we’re back feeling fresh, feeling good again,” said Dorrance,

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Swanson earns first checkered flag of season A9⇠ contested race, Swanson

took the lead by splitting Durward and Mann on the second corner in the final lap only to finish ahead of the duo by inches.

Swanson said this is his 17th year of racing and there is nothing more fun than competing against a buddy like Gregg Mann. He said the race was fair and clean, the track was great and coming out in first instead of the few second-place finishes he’s had so far this season made for a good night.

“With two to go I was right in Gregg’s hip pocket and I was like ‘well you got to try him’ and we did and it worked,” said Swanson. “We got the Dakota tour right around the corner here, that’s our next race, and it’s a great time to catch momentum.

We’ll try to ride it off in the tour and have a good showing there.”

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his first race of the season, but has suffered through constant breaking motors or wrecked cars by flipping off the track or into the infield since then. He said this year’s car has the best parts available and drives nice, so he’ll just put this loss in the notes and try to build off it moving forward.

“All the struggles I’ve had in the last five years I was kind of hoping for a Cinderella story, you know local guy returns home and defends home turf,” said Fedyk. “Greg (Nikitenko) is my mentor in this sport and I love his family and I’m more than happy to lose to him any day. Incredible competitor, incredible guy and he’s helped me immensely. If it wasn’t for him I would have been lost in my rookie year, so I’m never too sour when I lose to him. But I really want to beat him too.”

Kyle Fedyk races past Billy Matejcek on the first corner of the sprint car heat race. Photo by Jamie Harkins.

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Oil producers will need more pipelines, soon Major oil pipelines that should carry western Canadian oil to Eastern Canada and beyond, will be needed very soon if the Canadian oilpatch is going to serve its true purpose.

Rail cars can alleviate some of the oil delivery pressure, at least temporarily, but for a safe, secure and reliable delivery of energy to the domestic and world markets, Canada needs to build pipelines, said the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) in its latest Crude Oil Forecast,

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“Canada’s energy future relies on our ability to get Canadian oil and gas to the people who need it,” said Tim McMillan, CAPP’s president and CEO. “Connecting Canadian supply to new and growing markets abroad, safely and competitively, is a top priority.”

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The new pipelines would be used to carry oil to domestic markets, mostly in Eastern Canada and to emerging foreign markets.

Natural gas supplies and movement are also expected to increase at a nearly equal pace.

Current delays in the startup dates for pipeline projects mean the railways will continue to complement the basic transportation system.

CAPP said production of Canadian oil, before imported diluents are added, will increase by 28 per cent over the next 15 years, grow-

ing to 4.9 million bpd by 2030, about 400,000 bpd lower than CAPP’s earlier prediction made in 2015.

Add the diluents to the mix, and the production volume will be up by 37 per cent, to 5.5 million bpd by 2030.

That means transportation infrastructure, in all directions, will have to be increased soon just to get the Canadian oil to new and existing markets.

Oil sands will continue to be the primary source of oil in western Canada, with an expected output of about 3.7 million bpd by 2030.

That represents an expected growth of about 1.5 million bpd, as noted earlier.

Conventional oil production in western Canada, such as that found in the Bakken formations in and around Estevan and Weyburn, plus other medium and light sweet crude fields, will drop from 1.3 million bpd to 1.1 million bpd by 2018, and will then

remain stable to 2030.

The International Energy Agency forecasts global demand for energy, including oil, will grow by 32 per cent by 2040, and more than a quarter of that energy demand will be from oil. Demand will be driven mostly by emerging economies in Asia, with 171 million bpd being required.

The National Energy Board reported recently that less than one per cent of Canadian oil is currently shipped overseas .

“Canada has an important role to play as a global supplier of oil and we can do it at a standard that far exceeds other producing nations,” said McMillan.

“Through technological innovation, world-class regulatory systems and environmental standards that meet or exceed our closest competitors, Canadian oil can be the world’s fuel of the future.

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Demand is also expected to increase in China and India with the two countries requiring 10.8 million more bpd by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency.

These two markets represent almost 84 per cent of the total world oil demand increase up to 2040, the report suggested.

In the meantime, Canada has spent $17 billion (in 2015) importing oil from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Angola and Nigeria. For Quebec and Atlantic Canada this amounts to about 600,000 bpd that was imported just to meet their refinery needs.

“We need to get our oil to market so countries have the choice to source, reliable, safe and secure oil and gas from Canada — a global energy supplier of choice for the future,” said McMillan.

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A14 June 29, 2016 Obituaries

Estevan Mercury Obituaries

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Kenneth Raymond Phillips 1942 - 2016 Ken Phillips passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital, Estevan, SK on Saturday, June 25, 2016 at the age of 74 years.

Left to cherish precious memories are his wife Dianne Phillips and their six children, Connie (Adrian) Sakundiak and their daughters, Taylor and Morgan, Kelly Phillips and his son Kole, Kent (Juanita) Phillips and their children, Brendan, Jarrett and Kyler, Carleen (Rob) Koller and their children, Andrew, Madison, Sydney, Cassie and Shea, Kurtis (Kristy) Phillips and their children, Keira, Kade and Kristopher and Clarissa Phillips; brother Larry (Val) Phillips; sister Patricia Phillips; sister-in-law Sandra Phillips, mother-in-law Josephine Cossette, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and in-laws.

Ken was predeceased by his parents, Marcus and Agnes; brothers, Richard and Murray; sister Lynn and father-in-law

Francis Cossette.

The Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John the Baptist R.C. Church, Estevan, by Rev. Brian Meredith. A private family interment will follow at Souris Valley Memorial Gardens, after which a luncheon will be held in the church auditorium.

If friends so desire, donations to the New Estevan Regional Nursing Home, 1201 - 2nd Street, Estevan, SK, S4A 0M1 in Ken's name would be appreciated by his family.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Tina Stockford July 24, 1932 – June 21, 2016 Tina Stockford, late of Estevan, SK and formerly of Medicine Hat, AB, passed away peacefully at Hill View Manor in Estevan on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at the age of 83 years.

Tina was predeceased by her loving husband Ford King Stockford and her loving daughter Sandra Lynn Blair, as well as her brothers, Peter Funk, Jake Funk and Hank Funk.

Left to cherish precious memories are her children, Peggy Patricia Rohatyn, Kelly Willeane Best, Mark Wade Wellington Stockford and Roxanne Alison Stockford. Tina was a proud grandmother of five wonderful granddaughters and three amazing grandsons, and was also blessed with two great grandsons.

A family graveside service will take place at Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat. If friends so desire, donations in Tina’s memory may be made to St. Giles Anglican Church, PO Box 1626, Estevan, SK, S4A 2L7.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan and Saamis Memorial Funeral Chapel, Crematorium & Reception Centre, Medicine Hat. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.hallfuneralservices.ca Katherine “Katie” Giem 1926 – 2016 Katie Giem, late of Estevan, SK, formerly Bienfait, SK, passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at the age of 90 years.

A Celebration of Katie’s life will be held on Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan, with Doug Third officiating. Interment will follow in the Bienfait Cemetery, after which a luncheon will take place in the Taylorton Room at the Days Inn Estevan.

Those so wishing to make donations in Katie’s memory may do so to the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation, 1176 Nicholson Road, Estevan, SK, S4A 0H3.

Funeral Arrangements are entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Mary (Gertrude) Gould (nee Schuster) March 07, 1916 - November 04, 2015 Gerty will be remembered for her love of life and laugher. She was very involved in her community of Heward Saskatchewan.

Gerty enjoyed to teach, dance, sing, cook and sew. She also loved golfing curling and most especially bridge. Community gatherings at the town hall or rink were a favourite of hers, as well as sing-alongs around the piano in the family home.

She went to "Normal School" and began her teaching career in the 1930's. She married Earl Thomas Gould July 11, 1944. They farmed until 1980 and Gerty also retired from teaching at this time.

Mom and Dad spent the next part of their lives travelling the world.

After Dad died, Mom moved to British Columbia to be closer to her family. She loved living by the ocean in Parksville BC. Gerty is livingly remembered by her daughter Pat (Ed) Reimer, son Raymond Earl Gould. Grandson Casey (Junell) Reimer and great granddaughter Hannah Reimer. Granddaughter Riley Reimer and great grandson Tyler Adshead. As well as many neices and nephews.

Gerty is predeceased by her parents George and Mary Schuster (Beleski). Predeceased by her 8 older siblings, Elizabeth, Rosalie, Rodney, Edward, Frank, Wilhelmina, Henry and Helen. And her husband Earl who died January 14, 1993.

The family wishes to thank the staff of "Lifestyles Independent Living", "Heritage Village", both of Chilliwack BC for the wonderful care given to Gerty in her time of need.

A graveside service will be held Thursday July 07, 2016 at 11:00 AM at the Heward Cemetery. With a lunch to follow at the Heward Hall, 12:30 PM. Donation may be made to the Charity of your Choice. Gerty was a huge supporter of many charities.

Earl Edwin Elliott 1929 - 2016 Earl Elliott of Estevan, SK passed away at the Estevan Regional Nursing Home with his family by his side on Thursday, June 23, 2016 at the age of 87 years.

Earl was born in Estevan on May 26, 1929 to Alice and Harry Elliott. He was one of seven children. In the early 1950s earl travelled to Germany with the South Saskatchewan Regiment, as a Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineer, he served for 3 years.

In 1953 he met Jane Brokenshire, they were married in 1954 and shared 62 years of marriage and countless happy memories. Earl and Jane had 4 children together.

Upon his return from the army he worked for M&S Mines, Kendall's Auto Electric, and later started his own successful motor repair business.

In his retirement, Earl's favourite hobbies involved airplanes - building them, flying them and fixing them. He was always busy and will be fondly remembered for his love of anything to do with boats, airplanes, and motorcycles.

A truly loved man, Earl is survived by his adoring wife Jane, sons, Thomas (Charlene) Elliott, Ken (Rhonda) Elliott, David (Caron) Elliott and only daughter Sandra (Glenn) Moody; grandchildren, Steven (Uliana) Elliott, Brady Elliott, Dustin (Allison) Elliott, Tyler (Stacey) Moody, Brendan Moody and Sarah (Bren) Hardy; great grandchildren, Hazel and Theodore Elliott; sisters, Evelyn Barbour and Fern Rapchinski, along with numerous nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, Alice and Harry Elliott; brothers, Leonard and Fenton Elliott and sisters, Hazel Schoff and Muriel Brokenshire.

The Funeral Service was held on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan, with Doug Third officiating. Interment followed at Souris Valley Memorial Gardens, after which a luncheon was held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Estevan.

If friends so desire, donations in Earl's memory may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Saskatchewan, 1738 Quebec Avenue, Unit 26, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 1V9 or the Canadian Diabetes Association, 917A Albert Street, Regina, SK, S4R 2P6.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION St. Joseph’s Hospital relies on donations to fund equipment purchases. Your Memorial Gift honours your loved one and makes it possible for our hospital to continue providing quality care for Estevan and area residents. A letter will be sent to the family acknowledging your gift; please include their name and address as well as your own. You will receive an income tax receipt.

Please send your donation to: St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation 1176 Nicholson Rd Estevan, SK S4A 0H3 Phone: (306) 637-2474

Brexit will not have big impact on Sask. exports In the wake of a United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union (EU), Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he doesn’t expect the UK exit from the 28-state union of European countries to have much of an impact on Saskatchewan’s economy. There has been significant speculation about the financial and trade consequences of the UK leaving the EU. “While (the) vote is obviously significant, we do not expect that much of an effect on Saskatchewan exports,” said Wall in a media release from the Government of Saskatchewan. “We are well-positioned to stay strong through the near-term Brexit

volatility.”

Wall said in the release that Saskatchewan’s top export markets are the United States, Asian-Pacific markets, including China, India, Japan, Indonesia and Bangladesh. In 2015, those countries made up over 77 per cent of Saskatchewan’s $32.6 billion in exports.

“The European Union, while important, accounted for slightly less than four per cent of Saskatchewan’s exports in 2015, and the UK specifically made up just 0.3 per cent,” Wall said. “Our ties to both the EU and the United Kingdom will continue.”

Thank You On behalf of the family of ‘Hilda Eagles’, we would like to extend our greatest appreciation to everyone for the phone calls, cards, letters, prayers, flowers, food and donations to Gideons International and the Trinity Lutheran Church Memorial Fund in her name.

Special thanks to Dr. Omosigho, nurses and staff of 2A for the exceptional and compassionate care she received during her stay at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

At her Time of Remembrance Service we would like to thank her seven grandsons for honouring her as her pallbearers, to Pastor Stewart Miller for leading the wonderful service (and for his visits at the hospital), organist Wilma Mantei and the choir led by Anita Kuntz.

Thanks to Yvonne Clark and all the staff at Hall’s Funeral Service for your patience and understanding during this difficult time.

Thank you to everyone who visited her while she was in the hospital, she enjoyed and appreciated the time you took to stop in.

A very special thank you to the residents of Trinity Towers that made her feel so at home for the past 16 years. She enjoyed very much living there and it was because of all of you!

“We are blessed to have had her love and presence in our lives for so many years.”

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June 29, 2016 A15

Prepping for Canada Day festivities

By Sam Macdonald smacdonald@estevanmercury.ca

With Canada Day approaching, Estevan and communities in the area are encouraging everyone to come out and join in on the fun, with a wide variety of activities planned to celebrate the birth of our nation.

The Estevan Kinsmen and Kinette Club have got plans for Hillside Kin Park, with something for the whole family.

“It’s basically a free day. It costs nothing to go and attend. It’s just our way of giving back to the community that supports us all year long, in our projects and fundraisers,” said Estevan Kinsmen president Troy Ruzicka.

Ruzicka said the activities will feature a barbecue, a number of children’s games and activities and music, all starting at 11:00

a.m.

“There’s free hotdogs, cotton candy, popcorn, and there’ll be some cake, water and juice,” said Ruzicka, in a call with the Mercury last week. “We’re hoping there’ll be a slip and slide, and the pool will be open. There’ll be some girls doing face painting.

There was some word of, maybe, some new activities going on. I haven’t heard what those are, yet” Ruzicka said poor weather conditions notwithstanding, the events at the Hillside Kin Park often bring out a robust crowd every year. “ We u s u a l l y g o through about five to 600 hotdogs, so we usually see about 300 people, give or take,” he said. “There’s something for everyone.”

Ruzicka said there won’t be fireworks as part the activities at Hillside Kin Park, since, “Bienfait

usually has that, and we want to do something that we can have here for ourselves, without stepping on other people’s toes.”

The Town of Bienfait will also be a happening place, as is the custom for the town when it celebrates Canada day.

“This year, it’s the same as most other years,” said Dena Bachorcik, assistant administrator with the Town of Bienfait. “We’ve got a pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., we’ve got the parade, of course, and judging starts at 9:30 a.m. The parade, itself starts at 10.”

Other attractions include a concession at the Bienfait Memorial Arena, opening at 11 a.m., a toonie swim at the Bienfait Swimming Pool, glitter tattoos, a cake walk and cake cutting and a house-decorating contest.

A farmers versus fire-

men slo-pitch tournament is scheduled for 3:30 p.m., and there will be a number of activities for children, including the Mini Firemen’s Rodeo from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Bienfait Coalfields Historical Society Museum will be open throughout the afternoon, from noon until 4:00 p.m.

Bachorcik noted there will also be a petting zoo, bouncy castles, and of course, fireworks at dusk.

She said that the Town of Bienfait “is always really, really busy. We get a lot of people out here, for all of that. There’s usually a good crowd.”

The event is put on every year by Bienfait Parks and Recreation, with proceeds going to support the recreation board, and local recreation facilities, such as the swimming pool, curling rink, skating rink, soccer field and ball diamond.

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A16 June 29, 2016

Estevan Mercury

Local fair has good attendance, despite some rain

By Sam Macdonald smacdonald@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Fair remains a popular event, even in the face of inclement weather that blew right into its midst on the second of the three days it took place, on June 20, 21 and 22. “We were lucky there. Monday was absolutely excellent, and it was our highest attendance on that day,� said Byron Stepp, president of the Estevan Exhibition Association. “Tuesday, the storm kind of held off until 7:36 or some goofy time like that. We still had a pretty good day on Tuesday.�

Stepp said that attendance numbers for the fair, in its entirety, were in line with those of the previous year’s event, with around 7,500 people showing up to enjoy the rides, carnival games, entertainment and food. He noted that attendance and ticket purchases for the rides did take a hit during Tuesday evening’s messy weather, but overall,

the association was pleased with the turnout this year. “We get a lot of people from Estevan and the surrounding area, and what really helped was the Calamity Cowgirls being there. They drew in people from Kennedy, Kipling and all over the place,� said Stepp in a call with the Mercury. “The Calamity Cowgirls were a drawing card for our fair, and the people who saw them, of course, stuck around, and enjoyed the live entertainment and beer gardens.�

Stepp sung high praises of the Calamity Cowgirls, noting that they were popular, punctual and got their horses put away just before the rain started on Tuesday evening.

Stepp said new additions to this year’s fair included new food booths, such as the ice cream truck, and concessions that had offerings like homemade fudge, hempseed cookies and other unique treats. “There were different dessert-type ideas this year, and that was a nice addition,� said Stepp.

He noted the fair brought in a few new rides to keep

things interesting — something it does every year it comes to the Energy City. Going forward, he said the Estevan Exhibition Association’s board is looking to “take this thing to the next level,� and add more rides to the fair’s offerings, in coming years. “In the past, one of our big drawing cards was Estevan Idol. I don’t know whether that will or won’t be back, because that’s a big project,� said Stepp. “We’re throwing some ideas around about it.�

Some of those ideas include introducing more foodrelated events, such as a pie-eating competition or a barbecuing competition. “We always want to make sure we thank (our) volunteers, whether they are ticket takers at the gates, cleanup crews, the security crew, the beer gardens crews and, of course, West Coast Amusement. They’ve all been fantastic to work with,� said Stepp. “We’re looking forward to growing bigger and better, and are always willing to hear some suggestions and ideas.�

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Public Notice Pursuant to Section 43 of the Cities Act, public notice is hereby given that the City of Estevan intends to restructure by adding the following lands from the Rural Municipality of Estevan No. 5 to the City of Estevan (notably referred to as ‘Land annexation’ and/or ‘Municipal boundary alteration’) The land to be added to the City of Estevan is legally described as: Parcel B, Registered Plan No. 75R22816 and Parcel C, Registered Plan No. 83R42201 located within the NorthEast Quarter Section 21, Township 2, Range 8, West of the Second Meridian, RM of Estevan No. 5.

(Lands to be annexed shown on the map below) The reasons for the proposed annexation are: To facilitate the planned expansion and municipal servicing of a private modular home park development known as West Valley Village.

Public Notice AffiNity PlAce coNcessioN coNtrAct teNder The City of Estevan would like to notify public that our current concession contract will be expiring and we will be tendering this item in July.

If you have any questions or would like a complete copy of this tender please contact Nathan Jesse, Leisure Services Manager, at 306-634-1885 or n.jesse@estevan.ca

2016 Property Tax Notices 2016 Tax Notices were mailed out on Friday, June 17, 2016.

A public hearing to discuss the proposal will be held at City Council’s regular scheduled meeting of Monday, July 18, 2016, 7:00 pm, Council chambers, City Hall, 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan, at which time a decision will be made on proceeding with an application for the municipal boundary alteration.

Any person(s) who wishes to object the proposed restructuring may file a written objection, stating clearly the reason for their opposition, with the City Clerks office of the City of Estevan, at 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan, S4A 0W7 or by emailing cityclerk@estevan.ca.

A written notice of objection must be received by the City Clerks office no later than 12:00 noon the 13th of July, 2016 Further information respecting this proposal may be obtained by contacting the Land Development Services Manager, City Hall, 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan or by email at rdenys@estevan.ca Dated at the City of Estevan this 27th day of May, 2016 Judy Pilloud City Clerk

City of Estevan PUBLIC NOTICE The Council of the City of Estevan, pursuant to Section 207 of the Planning and Development Act, 2007, gives notice of its intention to amend Zoning Bylaw #2010-1834 & the corresponding Zoning Map as hereinafter provided: Consideration is being given to amend the Zoning Bylaw Map by rezoning Lot 1, Block 173, Plan 102100431, Estevan, Saskatchewan, from the existing ‘Residential Medium Density Zone (R3)’ to the ‘Commercial Arterial/Highway Zone (C3)’; Reason: Rezoning is being undertaken to support a proposed subdivision and future commercial development.

The boundaries of the new lot and rezoning are shown highlighted and crosshatched on the above noted plan.

The amending Bylaw (#2016-1970) may be inspected by any person at the Legislative Services Business Division, City Hall, 1102 4th Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan, between the hours of 8:00am4:30pm Monday to Friday.

City Council, at it’s meeting to be held on Monday, July 18, 2016, at 6:00pm in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan will hear any person(s) wishing to be heard with respect to the proposed rezoning bylaw and will further consider any written submissions respecting the proposed zoning amendment, provided such intentions and/or submissions are received by the City Clerk’s Office, Legislative Services, City Hall, 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan, S4A 0W7 no later than 12:00 pm on Wednesday, July 13, 2016.

Dated at the City of Estevan this 21st Day of June, 2016

PUBLIC NOTICE PERMANENT LANE RIGHT OF WAY CLOSURE The Council of the City of Estevan herein gives notice of its intent to pass a Bylaw in accordance with Section 13 of the Cities Act, 2002, authorizing the partial closure and cancellation of the lane located in the North East Quarter Section 23, Township 2, Range 8, West of the Second Meridian and further described as follows: “Part of Lane L1, Plan 102126563, Estevan, Saskatchewan�

(The portion of lane proposed for closure is shown cross-hatched on the plan below).

[Purpose of Closure & Cancellation: the lane closure will facilitate the resubdivision and consolidation of the lane property with abutting parcels] Any person(s) claiming to be affected prejudicially by the proposed bylaw/ closure may submit their written objections and/or advise of their intent to be heard by the Council, by contacting the City Clerk’s office, Legislative Services, City Hall, 1102 4th Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan on or before 12:00 noon, the 13th day of July, 2016.

Taxes are due July 31, 2016

Penalties are accumulative, applied the 1st of each month starting August 1, 2016 as follows: August 1 .5%, September 1 1%, October 1 1.5%, November 1 2.5%, December 1 3.5% Arrears Penalty of 10% will be added to all outstanding amounts on January 1, 2017 Payment Options: • In person at City Hall, Open Monday through Friday, 8:00am – 4:30pm ˃ Payments accepted by Cash, Cheque or Debit • Mail to: 1102 Fourth Street, Estevan, SK S4A 0W7 • City Hall Drop Box – located at main entrance at City Hall.

Cheques only please. • Payment can also be made on-line / or at your financial institution

Estevan Police Service Public Meeting “Coffee with the COPS�

Message From

The Mayor

TIPPS The City of Estevan now offers (TIPPS) tax installment payment plan service. TIPPS allows property owners to prepay their property tax bill in 12 monthly installments making budgeting easier with no added fees or penalties.

Monthly withdrawals are made on the first banking day of each month.

TIPPS applications forms are available at City Hall or by visiting our website at www.estevan.ca .

How do I apply for the TIPPS Program? ˃ Any outstanding property tax amounts must be paid in full, prior to the start of the TIPPS Program. ˃ Complete the application form and return it with a void cheque or pre-authorization form. Please submit form prior to July 31, 2016 for the 2017 tax year.

June 29th, 2016 | 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

AFFINITY PLACE (Multi-Purpose Room) Come and meet local Police Officers and Board Members Share Comments and Concerns.

Help Shape the Future of Policing in the Energy City.

Open to all Citizens of Estevan.

There will be a meeting to discuss Business Bylaw proposal on June 30, 2016

7:30pm in the Council Chambers

Property Maintenance Bylaw 2005-1711 Section 14 – All Yards shall be kept free from: ¡ Garbage and junk ¡ Junked vehicles ¡ Excessive growth of weeds and grass – including boulevards and behind fence in alleys ¡ Infestations of rodents or vermin ¡ Dead or hazardous trees ¡ Accumulation of pet wastes

CITY OF ESTEVAN – 2016 WATERMAIN FLUSHING SCHEDULE The City of Estevan will be doing maintenance work to ensure good water quality for all users of City water. This work includes the turning of main water valves around the City, and flushing large quantities of water from various hydrants in each area. If your water appears discoloured during the days your area is scheduled for this work (see schedule below), please run a faucet for a few minutes until the water is clear again. If the water remains dirty for a longer period, please contact City Hall at 634-1800 to let us know. Thank you for your understanding during this important maintenance!

(6) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – June 27,28,29&30, 2016

Area bounded by King Street on the North, CPR Railroad on the South, 14th Ave on the West, and Kensington on the East (includes 7th Street, 8th Street, 9th Street, Centennial, Trojan, and Soo Industrial regions)

(7) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday- July 4,5,6&7, 2016

Area bounded by Kensington on the West, Sawyer Road on the East, North and South City Limits (includes Glen Peterson Industrial Park, East Industrial, Southeast Industrial regions, and properties along Hwy 39E Service Road)

Join in the Estevan Chamber of Commerce Shop Local Estevan Promotion.

See Facebook for details.

IF YOU HAVE ANY CITY CONCERNS PLEASE CONTACT 306-634-1800

GETTING STARTED PROGRAMS AND EVENTS & " $!( %/ Â

THE PINTEREST CHALLENGE When: June 30 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM Cost: $25/ person/ session

FAMILY ART June 30 Time: 10:00 - 10:30am Cost: $10/ family/ month

VIP MEMBERS ONLY EVENTS If you are an EAGM member, these events are free for you, our valued cultural supporters. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Preregistration and a minimum of 5 registrants is required.

ARTIST IN THE MAKING: SUMMER ART CAMPS When: July 4-7, 14, 11-14, 18-21, 25-28 Time: 9:00am-noon or 1:00-4:00pm Cost: $60/ child/ camp