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MP Kitchen responds to discovery of unmarked graves at former residential school site Souris-Moose Mountain MP Robert Kitchen has responded to the unmarked graves found at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School at Cowessess First Nation.

"Earlier today, Chief Cadmus Delorme of Cowessess First Nation confirmed that 751 unmarked graves were discovered at the former location of the Marieval Indian Residential School,” Kitchen said in a news release on June 24. "What has been uncovered here in Saskatchewan is unthinkable, and I cannot begin to imagine the devastation that is being felt by the community at this time.

"The legacy of residential schools has had a profoundly lasting and damaging impact on Indigenous culture, heritage, and language, and much more work needs to be done to address the harmful effects that residential schools had, and still have, on many survivors today.”

Cowessess is located near Broadview at the far north end of Kitchen’s constituency.

Kitchen listened to Delorme’s press conference Thursday morning.

“I thought it was very compelling,” said Kitchen. “Just to hear what was uncovered, it’s unthinkable here Saskatchewan, and I cannot imagine the dev-

astation that’s being felt by that community. And not only that community, but how it affects all of the First Nations in close proximity and throughout the riding.”

He has reached out to Delorme and the other First Nations within the riding, and is looking forward to the chance to speak with them and hear their concerns.

As far back as a few months ago, Kitchen had heard that Delorme was looking at working with Saskatchewan Polytechnic Institute regarding this issue. But the number of graves discovered was far more than expected.

Kitchen urged Canadians to learn from what has happened.

“It’s being taught to our kids in school, and they’re hopefully learning more and more about it. But it’s not just our youth that need to know this.

It’s everybody in this whole country that needs to know about this.”

Kitchen noted the federal Conservative Party is calling on the Government of Canada to follow through with the implementation of Calls to Action 71-76 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, and to provide the community with the needed resources to

The site at the former Marieval Indian Residential School where 751 unmarked graves were found.

Photo courtesy of the Canadian Press identify, protect, and honour the children buried at the Marieval Indian Residential School.

A candlelight vigil was held at the site of the unmarked graves on Saturday night.

Estevan man launches a petition to lower speed limits An Estevan man has launched a petition on the change.org website in an effort to have lower speed limits on three narrow streets in the Pleasantdale area.

James Schilling, who has resided on Thorn Crescent since 2019, created the petition last week.

He would like to see the speed limit on Thorn Crescent, McCormick Crescent and Grundeen Crescent lowered from 50 to 30 kilometres per hour (km/h), as he says too many motorists are

treating the three roads like they’re race tracks. He notes the streets are near a couple of schools, and people are speeding during peak hours while children are walking to and from schools.

“With cars parked on both sides (of the street), it is not safe to travel 50 km/h,” Schilling wrote.

Other options would be widening the streets or installing speed humps.

“People will be more conscious,” said Schilling.

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see a 30 (km/h) sign, I think I’m going to get a ticket if I don’t slow down, because there’s probably police nearby and those are usually peak places where police are located, are at reduced speed areas.”

If he’s in a school or playground zone, then it’s an automatic trigger to slow down.

The speeding issue is particularly troublesome during peak traffic times: just before and after school, and during the noon hour.

“I’ve talked to my neighbours about it, and they know it’s a problem as well. It’s been an ongoing issue for quite some time to a few of the people that I’ve talked to,” said Schilling.

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His fiancée Erin Burke has lived on Thorn Crescent for seven years. At the time, it was a nice, quiet road where she could teach her girls to ride their bicycle.

She recalled one recent incident in which she saw a vehicle travelling so quickly that it was “leaning,” and dirt was flying out from behind it.

Right after the curve on Thorn, there is a crosswalk, and had there been pedestrians crossing the street, she doesn’t believe the car would have been able to stop in time.

When she confronted an occupant, he said they were going the speed limit.

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I drive that road, if I hit 30 (km/h) I feel I’m going too fast at times, especially when we have vehicles parked on both sides, you can get one vehicle down. That’s it. A lot of times you have to go and pull off to the side to allow one person by so you can continue on.”

She’s pretty sure there are other narrow roads in town that would benefit from reduced speeds, especially since many people will still drive 10 kilometres above the speed limit.

When Schilling reached out to Mayor Roy Ludwig, the mayor forwarded Schilling’s call to the Combined Traffic Services of Saskatchewan unit. That individual visited Schilling personally to say they would be paying close attention.

Schilling also called the Estevan Police Service a few times about the issue, and he has seen more patrols of the area.

Burke echoed Schilling’s statements about the recent response from the police.

“The police have been amazing at going and driving down our road and in our area at the time we’ve told them we’ve seen the speeding vehicles,” said Burke. “I don’t know if they’ve caught them yet, but even today ( June 27), I was sitting by the window and I saw the police slowly driving down the road.”

If the police are slowly driving on Thorn, then Burke believes that’s an indication that 50 km/h is too fast.

Schilling is also hoping to create more awareness of the speeding issue within the community, and for people to remember to drive slowly on these streets.

“I have kids myself. I have a five-year-old, a sixyear-old and an infant, and as it is, I’m insistent that my kids play in the backyard, because I’m scared of the cars,” said Schilling.

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By David Willberg For the first time in decades, the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum (EAGM) will have an artist in residence for a full year.

Ruth Langwieser, an Estevan woman who has been involved with the local arts community since arriving in the Energy City three years ago, has been chosen to fill the artist in residence role. Her tenure started on June 21.

Over the next year, she will spend time working with the community while furthering her own practice.

A grant from the Saskatchewan Arts Board made her residency possible.

“I’m happy to be here and to be the artist in residence for the full year,” said Langwieser, a Swiss-Canadian ceramic artist.

Langwieser had a previous stint as an artist in residence with the EAGM in 2019, alongside Sarah Timewell, but that was only for a couple of weeks. She set up a small studio to work on her ceramics, showed her works and interacted with the community.

“I like the space, I like the place and I like the people (at the EAGM).

It’s just a good combination. With art and with education, I love this,” said Langwieser.

Those two weeks went so fast, she wanted to come back.

Amber Andersen, who is the director-curator at the EAGM, said they were fortunate to receive the Arts Board grant to have someone at the EAGM. While it’s been years since the EAGM had a one-year residency, Andersen remembers how great it was when the Estevan Arts Council had Diana Chisholm as their resident artist in 2015-16.

“This is going to be such an excit-

Ruth Langwieser is the new artist in residence for the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum. Photo submitted ing year full of events, and something for the community,” said Andersen, who described the support from the arts board as “a major grant.”

Even within the grant application, it’s a bit of a process in terms of previous dealings with the artist.

So it helped that Langwieser had the two-week residency in 2019 and she

was a local artist.

“It was something that we could proceed with, especially while we’re working with things like Inside-Out and different programming with Woodlawn Regional Park, because we could do social distancing,” said Andersen. “So these are things we’re able to continue do-

ing and into greater capacity.

“I think it was an idea of also being able to have some shiftability in regards to what your programming was going to look like.”

For the EAGM, it’s great to have an artist in residence who is already living here.

Langwieser’s community work, which will consume half of her working time, will include workshops and other events.

“We are planning things, but I like that there is a combination with a structure, and I like work on seasonal things, and also how do people respond for what they would like to do,” said Langwieser. “It’s a dialogue. It’s not the way that I decide everything, and then we do it, and that’s it.”

An art tent will be set up at the Woodlawn Regional Park this summer. Langwieser will be there working on projects every Friday from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Langwieser hopes that newcomers and participants from Estevan Diversified Services can be involved in the arts over the next year.

The other half of her residency will include personal projects.

Langwieser is going to be part of this summer’s Inside-Out exhibit through the EAGM, starting July 6. The previous editions of InsideOut have been held at the Woodlawn Regional Park’s Souris River campground, but this year it will be throughout the community.

Andersen compared it to a scavenger hunt, and said the work will be inspired by seashell forms. The number of items for Inside-Out has yet to be decided.

Langwieser has had outdoor works before, but never anything like this.

Two basic themes influence her work. One is her affinity for water.

That love of water will be reflected through Inside-Out. “I want to develop some different works with this theme,” said Langwieser.

The other artistic interest at the moment can be tied to a piece of Estevan’s history. When Langwieser came to the community, she looked at the brick houses, and she found them to be wonderful.

“I love this colour and I love this brick. When you have it in this blue sky and in this sun, I love this brick. I love Estevan brick.”

Her husband is originally from Estevan, and when Langwieser expressed her admiration for the houses, he told her about the Estevan Brick Plant that played such an important role in the community.

“I’m on the track of this old brick plant, and this will be a second theme of my research. I don’t know where exactly it will lead me, but this will be another track where I am going.”

At the end of her residency, Langwieser will have the opportunity to showcase her work at the EAGM. “These are the basic themes and plans for what we are going to do, so if anybody wants to have some more detailed information about what’s going on, I invite them to browse on Facebook (or Instagram), or just drop in or contact the art gallery.”

Langwieser and Andersen are looking forward to the upcoming year, and meeting and interacting with the community through this valuable program.

“We’re just so very excited to have Ruth have this opportunity, not only for her to have the opportunity as a professional artist, not only to focus on her work, but also to get to know more about Ruth as a newcomer to Canada and a newcomer to the community as well.”

Food drive helps restock food bank’s shelves; Estevan beats Weyburn in friendly competition The Estevan Salvation Army’s effort to have a food drive of its own proved to be a success, and it helped replenish the shelves of the food bank.

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By Food Drive on Saturday brought in approximately 795 pounds locally, said Ronza Reynard, who is the director

of ministry for the Salvation Army in Estevan and Weyburn. Coupled with other initiatives that happened during the week, the Salvation Army received approximately 1,000 pounds, or about half a tonne, of food. The ministry also received about $100 in cash donations.

Yvonie Pineda sorted the food collected at the food drive.

“We had no idea what to expect,” Reynard told the Mercury. “It was one of the first times that we’ve done it this way where we weren’t working with another group or an event happening in town.”

Four or five volunteers helped to weigh the food, sort it and restock the shelves.

Supporters were encouraged to purchase items for the food bank at a grocery store and then deliver it to the food bank. Thirty-five vehicles stopped by the food bank Saturday during the four hours of the initiative.

“A lot of people are really paying attention to the (expiration) dates of products.

We had very little stuff that we had to dispose of because it was outdated. So, we just love it that people are paying attention to that, and realizing that the food bank can only use things that are not expired yet.”

Shelves at the food bank are now at about 80 per cent capacity, which will help the Salvation Army at the start of

the summer, when the donations typically slow down but the need from the community does not.

The Salvation Army could always use more coffee and condiments. The latter are in particular need in the summer months because people are barbecuing. Other foods that are quick and easy to prepare, such as canned goods, Mr. Noodle and Kraft Dinner, are important to have at the food bank in the summer as well.

There was also a friendly competitive element for the food drive between Estevan and Weyburn, who also had a food drive that day. Estevan collected more food on Saturday, so now the Weyburn staff will have to wear Estevan Salvation Army apparel during a work day.

Weyburn likely collected more food during the week than Estevan, said Reynard, but the wager was to see who could collect the most food the day of the drive.

“At the end of the day,

Amber Rosso and Salvation Army mascot Sally Anne greeted people who dropped by for the food drive. the food banks win. We’ve got some extra stuff in the food bank. Shelves are a little fuller, and this will definitely help us going into the summer months.”

If the Salvation Army continues to have a food drive on its own, that will be great,

she said, but they love to partner with different organizations that have done big food drives in the past. As the restrictions for COVID-19 continue to be lifted, the Salvation Army hopes to partner with people and businesses once again.

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This hits really close to home When the remains of 215 children were found in unmarked graves at a former Indian residential school site last month in Kamloops, B.C., it brought the issue of residential schools back into the forefront of discussion in a way that they haven’t been in years.

We had confirmation that a school in Canada had a graveyard in it.

And when this discovery happened, we knew that it was a matter of time until the next one was discovered. The only questions were when, where and how big.

We have our answers. It came last week. It was in southern Saskatchewan. And it was much bigger than what was found in Kamloops.

The unmarked graves of as many as 751 children were found at the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation. That would be more than triple the number of children found at the reserve in Kamloops last month.

For even the most jaded of observers, it had to come as a shock. One of the most shocking elements, when you consider it, is that the residential school in Kamloops was, at one point, the largest in the country. If you were to have such a tragically large find, it would be in Kamloops.

The discovery at Marieval hits close to home for us. It might have seem like a long ways away, nearly two hours from Estevan, but the Cowessess First Nation falls within the boundary of SourisMoose Mountain MP Robert Kitchen.

In his book Call Me Indian, Saskatchewanborn NHL player Fred Sasakamoose, a residential school survivor and the first NHL player with Treaty rights, recounts the horrors of being taken to St. Michael’s residential school in Duck Lake.

The stories that he shares are not easy to stomach, particularly when he mentions the grave site that was located at the school.

Keep in mind this book was published months before the discovery of the mass grave in Kamloops.

(Sasakamoose died late last year after being diagnosed with COVID-19).

You can be certain Cowessess won’t be the last large burial site to be discovered, either in Saskatchewan or in Canada.

Perhaps one of the most shocking things about the residential school system is how long these schools were allowed to remain open. This isn’t just something that belonged to generations long ago, a draconian concept from the late 19th and early 20th century.

The last residential school in Canada didn’t close until 1996.

Twenty-five years ago.

People blame our first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, for the role he played in the residential school system occurring. And he deserves lots of blame. But government after government allowed these schools to remain until late in the 20th century.

Now we need to ask what’s next.

One of the biggest things that we need is patience. We have to understand that the things that have happened in our country throughout its history can’t be erased, and long-standing issues generated by the residential schools can’t be resolved overnight. It’s going to take a long time.

We need to be there to listen to survivors and to Indigenous peoples.

We must persevere. This issue is going to be in the spotlight for months, maybe even years, because there are more graves that are going to be unearthed. Eventually public interest in this story will fade, as other issues emerge. But this issue can’t be shuffled to the backburner.

We can’t pretend this isn’t our issue, simply because it happened in the past. It is our issue.

We’re living with the consequences of the residential schools to this day, and we’ll continue to live with them for a long time to come. There are still a lot of residential school survivors in this country who are dealing with the trauma; there are many more descendants of those survivors.

Yes, our attitude towards Indigenous people is better than it was a century ago. But we still have a lot of strides that need to be made We need to accept the realities of how terrible these schools really were. We need to listen to survivors and communities. We need to reflect on the role our systems played in allowing these schools to exist.

And we can never stop in our efforts to advance reconciliation.

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Last week I partook in the national Inner Wheel (IW) Zoom meeting.

For those of you who don't know, Inner Wheel is a social club that was formed as a counterpart to Rotary International. Back in a day, when Rotary was a men-only thing, Rotarian wives and daughters decided that they also wanted to have something to look forward to and organized a friendship club, which would allow them to get together and learn something new, be it crafts or information, and just have fun in a safe and peaceful environment.

Husbands weren't allowed to come in during the meetings, and women just enjoyed their time with each other on a regular basis, being a part of this club.

The first Inner Wheel meeting was held in 1924 in Manchester, England. Since then many things have changed. For example, no connection to Rotary is required anymore to join the club, the club branches have also spread all over the world, engaging thousands of women speaking different languages and living on different continents.

I joined our local Weyburn-Estevan Inner Wheel club a few years ago, thanks to my neighbour and good friend, and it turned out to be one of the best decisions. We've done many cool crafts, played a bunch of games and are always having a great time together. Being a newcomer here, I've built new relations, thanks to IW, and started feeling like I have a support system here, where I didn't even hope to find it.

All it takes is one meeting a month, where we usually have a meal together and then host some kind of activity. Our club is really lucky to have a talented and crafty leader, who ensured that through the years all of our activities are top-notch. I don't know how things are in other

Ana Bykhovskaia Twenty Lines About… clubs, but if judge by the national meeting, they all enjoy being a part of it, no matter what they get to do.

On top of the regular crafts or games, we also do a bit of fundraising. It's just a simple raffle, but it allows us to forward a few hundred dollars every year to a charity that we see as the most actual or needing at that point.

Unlike other big clubs, IW doesn't focus on serving the community and rather cares more about its members. It's not a big time commitment, but in my case, it turned to be a real social release – something in my life that was just for me, for fun, for a good time. A monthly meeting, after which I felt 10 times better. It's almost like a simple meeting with friends, but also enhanced by some useful activity, which makes it more satisfying. And unlike a simple meeting with friends, the club meetings are not that easy to reschedule, so unlike friendly get-togethers, which we tend to skip due to busy lives, these ones I attend way more regularly.

For me the fun and friendships I gained through the club, the personal satisfaction I felt from being a part of this group and the break I was getting every month were the best motivations to remain a member throughout the years.

And a relatively low commitment was what made it possible, to begin with.

But at the national meeting, it turned out that we all have different reasons to be part of our clubs, and I was curious to see other sides.

It turned out that for some members fundraising was the main part of it. While we were pretty laid back on that in our local club, several other clubs took on some bigger projects and actually were making a real difference for others.

Their clubs had some regular fundraising events in their communities, and they put a lot of time and effort into engaging people and helping others. And that's something that was the most important for them.

Other members of the national team also voiced that for them, it was important to be a service club. They said they do some fundraising, but they don’t pay less attention to some projects in their communities, where they would help out dedicating their time to things that need to be done regularly.

All that was discussed because the clubs are growing. Not only are new members always welcome to the existing clubs, but the hope is to also have new clubs opening in the communities that currently don't have a club. And we, existing club members, were trying to understand what could drive people to Inner Wheel.

Friendship, fundraising activities, social release, community services – all of it to different levels are a part of the Inner Wheel Club, but it's up to each club to focus on what matters the most to them or just to maintain the balance.

We agreed that all of it is important, and while our motivation to be a part of the Inner Wheel may differ, we all value that small part of our life, which, unlike most of the rest, is for us only.

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The Sign Wars bottom feeder I have to hand it to the people of Estevan: Sign Wars have been really, really entertaining.

I’ve enjoyed seeing how the businesses have been chirping at others through their signs. The messages are funny, entertaining and usually involve a pun of some sort. And the bonus is that they’re family-friendly. Kids don’t have to look at the sign and ask “What does (insert word[s] here) mean?”

Over the past 16 months, we’ve needed as many laughs and distractions as we could get. Sign Wars has definitely fit the bill.

I’ve also realized something else: I suck at Sign Wars.

This might come as a surprise to a lot of people. Now, let me start by saying it might not be a good idea for a newspaper editor to admit to struggles with words. Kind of like a hockey coach admitting to struggles with finding the right defensive system for players.

I like to think I have a quick wit, that I can think on my feet and that I can make people laugh. I hope most of you who have interacted with me over the years would agree. I rarely find myself at a loss for words.

But when we’ve had discussions in the office about a great idea for our contributions to Sign Wars, my contributions are about the same as my contributions to a book on how to drive safely at night.

Deanna’s great at it. Anastasiia’s great at it.

My idea was “We’re Estevan’s oldest business. We’ve been so great since 1903, we don’t need a sign.”

Yeah, I don’t think that would merit a response from Encompass Fitness, the Days Inn, the Southern Plains Co-op and the others who have proven to be so good at bringing humour to their business sign.

So I get no credit when it comes to the Sign Wars you’ll find in this week’s Mercury.

And when I do sit down and try to come up with something that fits, my mind turns to other things.

In my fantasy hockey pool, I’m great at trash talk. At the annual Estevan Jubilee Baseball Pool auction (now in its 35th season and still going strong), I’m a hoot, even before I start breaking into the craft beer on a Sunday afternoon.

But ask me to come up with a sign to go after a business in the community, and I draw a blank.

If I could play Sign Wars like I yap during the ball pool draft, I’d be the king.

But then Sign Wars wouldn’t be family friendly. In fact, the businesses would likely get a battery of complaints for the language used on their signs, and parents would not be happy when they hear the question of “What does (insert bad word) mean?” from their kids.

And in Sign Wars, I lose that over the top delivery that plays such an important role in my humour.

I guess pun-based humour isn’t my thing.

Despite my failings, I think the Sign Wars have been great. You can tell that the businesses have spent time thinking about their witty banter. We’ve seen that it’s not just rival companies lobbing barbs at each other off; it all started when Encompass Fitness tossed a salvo in the direction of Black Beard’s Restaurant.

(Thankfully Black Beard’s Restaurant played along; this concept would have tanked in a hurry if they didn’t).

But it is fun to see how competing businesses get involved.

Businesses that don’t have a sign have still found a way to get involved by hanging something in their window to respond to a chirp or to issue one of their own.

And it’s been fun to see the schools get involved, too. (More proof that these messages have been good for the entire family).

Other Saskatchewan communities have been getting involved, too. Not sure if they were first, but I do think Estevan’s have been the best.

I say we enjoy Sign Wars as much as we can, and keep it going for as long as possible. Laugh at the signs you see around town. If you’re a business owner, think of a way you can get involved. If someone lobs a short your way, respond.

Just remember that if you see one from the Mercury, and it’s good, that I had nothing to do with it.

The editor: Canada’s Conservatives are calling out this Liberal government, along with the Bloc Quebecois and the New Democratic Party, for their collective action to muzzle debate on Bill C-10, which ironically limits your freedom of speech online.

In a time where Canadians are stuck at home and using social media as a pri-

mary source of information, the Liberal government is discretely ramming through legislation which changes how Canadians will view online content.

Social media has developed into a platform to call out abuses of authority with prominent examples being the Me Too movement and human rights abuses in Hong Kong. Bill

C-10, however, allows room for massive abuses of power that would compromise the fundamental rights of the people of Canada.

My conservative colleagues and I support equality between larger foreign s t re a m i n g s e r v i c e s a n d Canadian broadcasters to champion Canadian arts and culture in a way that does not compromise freedom of

speech or expression.

While the NDP and Bloc may be turning a blind eye to freedom of expression, Canada’s Conservatives are prepared to stand up and repeal this flawed legislation if the Trudeau government does not withdraw Bill C-10.

Robert Kitchen, Souris-Moose Mountain MP

Carlyle and White Bear take step towards reconciliation

By Emily Klatt

The Town of Carlyle and White Bear First Nations have announced the installation of a permanent memorial in Carlyle’s Centennial Park, dedicated to children lost to residential schools, residential school survivors and their families.

The announcement was made Monday afternoon during a ceremony held in honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day, a day which recognizes and celebrates the history, culture and contributions of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in Canada.

“Today, we recognize the injustices as we gather on these traditional lands and pledge to begin reconciliation with the guidance of our neighbors at White Bear First Nations,” said Carlyle Mayor Jennifer Sedor in a speech during the ceremony.

The memorial will be placed at the archway at the entrance to Centennial Park “as a reminder to all those that pass under, to never forget those that have been forever impacted by the residential school system in Canada,” Sedor said.

A temporary memorial was erected last month in front of the Carlyle town office following news of the discovery of 215 unmarked graves at the former site of an Indian residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Sedor was joined at Monday’s gathering by Councillors Nicole Currie and Jared Riddell from Carlyle Town Council, along with White Bear First Nations Chief Nathan Pasap, White Bear Councillors Tanya Littlechief, Debbie Maxie, Dez Standingready and Diette Kinistino, and Elders Michael Lonechild and Nora Kikakaway. Mem-

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The White Bear First Nations is home to four Indigenous nations: Cree, Anishinabe, Nakota and Dakota.

Lonechild and Kakakaway offered traditional prayers in honour of all those impacted by Canada’s residential school system.

“We're here for (a) purpose, because of the things that happened in the past.

The things that shouldn't have happened in the past and the things that we don't like to talk about,” Lonechild said.

“I'm going to say a prayer for our children and for you, and that we can move forward with a clear mind, a good mind, (and) that we (can) all recognize each other as good people. I think if we look at it like that, we're going to be alright.”

Chief Nathan Pasap joined Sedor at the podium

and accepted an offering of tobacco made on behalf of the Town of Carlyle to White Bear First Nations.

Pasap reflected on the difficult reality of Canada’s past actions and the long-term impacts of residential schools.

“L ots of our people didn't come back from residential school. Lots of them didn't make it. Lots of them came out of there so severely damaged by the atrocities that occurred within these residential schools that they never came back.

They're still here, but they're suffering because they had too much done to them,” Pasap said.

Alongside these difficult realities, Pasap also acknowledged those residential school survivors who have risen to help their communities grow, and the need for healing, reconciliation and action amongst all communities.

“Reconciliation isn't just a word. Reconciliation is about

action and by doing this, this is action ... a permanent memorial is very respectful,” Pasap said. “It's healing for our communities. You know, our communities have been intertwined for over 100 years and I just want to acknowledge that.”

As a gift to the Town of Carlyle and as an acknowledgement of the commitment to reconciliation between the two communities, Chief Pasap presented Sedor with a black and orange star quilt sewn by Flora Littlchief.

A pair of handmade moccasins with orange beads were also given in memory of the children lost to residential schools. The moccasins were crafted by Elder Sarah McArthur.

“Thank you to all who have attended today. It was wonderful to have you out on these first steps together as two communities to hopefully open a wonderful partnership in our future,” Sedor said.

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Council passes numerous bylaws for taxation Estevan city council has approved a number of bylaws that deal with taxation, including one for property taxes in 2021.

The bylaws, approved at the June 14 meeting, dealt with levies for health, the library, the business improvement district and fees for services, in addition to property taxes.

A report from the city’s tax assessor in May showed that the provincial reassessment had an impact on the city’s assessable value.

The Saskatchewan Assessment Management Agency (SAMA) conducts re-eval-

uations based on a four-year cycle, with the most recent assessment happening in 2019 and the figures being released this year. “ The assessed values of most all properties have changed,” treasurer Trudy Firth and tax assessor Trina Sieben wrote in a report to council. “Property taxes are calculated using these changed values.”

If mill rate factors were not adjusted to be revenue neutral, the city would have seen a drop of nearly $5.3 million in its taxable levy.

City manager Jeff Ward noted that for 2019, 2020

and 2021, the City has budgeted a zero per cent tax increase, with revenues of $15.9 million.

Ever y property class saw var y ing percentage changes, with both increases and decreases.

For example, 56 per cent of residential properties saw an increase, varying from two cents to $2,348.08.

Forty-four of residential properties saw a decrease, varying from seven cents to $628.72.

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Ward said.

The city has had a lot of inquiries about their reassessed property tax values, but the majority are resolved through discussion with Sieben.

If there are deficiencies or errors discovered, an appeal is filed with the board of revision and usually settled by an agreement to adjust.

The appeal process is not for people who are just upset with their reassessed values, Ward said; there has to be

grounds for an appeal.

Examples would be inaccurate building square footage or land acreage, inaccurate building features listed and variations in comparison with similar properties.

As for the other bylaws, the health care levy raises about $296,169, for the nursing home commitment and other regional health care needs.

Councillor Kirsten Walliser noted that 2021 is

the final year for the city to pay down its $1.3 million commitment to the new Estevan Regional Nursing Home. The future of the health levy will be decided each year by council during budget deliberations.

The library levy this year generates approximately $398,752 for the South East Regional Library and local library operations, while the Business Improvement District levy is about $27,500 for the downtown core.

Four charged in Regina in death of Carnduff man Members of the Regina Police Service (RPS) have charged four people with murder in the death of a man originally from Carnduff.

The homicide, which occurred in Regina, was the sixth in the Queen City this year.

The victim has been identified as 52-year-old Robert Henry Fuchs. His family has been notified of his death.

At approximately 12:17 a.m. on June 18, members of the Regina Police Service were dispatched to hospital for a report of an injured man. The victim was later pronounced deceased. An

investigation led police to a residence in the 1300-block of Garnet Street.

Continued investigation into this death, in conjunction with the Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service, resulted in the arrest of four individuals.

The first three people to be charged were 35-year-old Marley Dawn McArthur, 36-year-old Richard William Snyder and 24-year-old Anthony Allan Rus, all of Regina.

McArthur and Snyder are each individually charged with breach of an undertaking. Rus is charged with breach of a recognizance.

They made their first

court appearances on these charges in Regina Provincial Court on June 21.

Twenty-two-year-old Travis Grimoldby, also of Regina, was later arrested and charged with seconddegree murder, as well as possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to a prohibition. He made his first court appearance on June 23.

This investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information to assist this investigation is asked to contact the Regina Police Service at 306-777-6500 or Regina Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477.

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Co-op reflects on what was a unique year The Southern Plains Coop spent much of the 2020-21 fiscal year navigating its way through the challenges created

by COVID-19, and now they’re getting ready to emerge from those difficulties.

The co-op hosted its annual general meeting (AGM) on June 21 at the Prairie Dog Drive-In north of Carlyle. For the second consecutive year, the co-op’s AGM saw people pull into the drive-in’s parking stalls and listen to reports in their vehicles through the drive-in’s speaker system.

Approximately 45 people were present.

Financial statements for the year ending Jan. 31, 2021, showed the co-op had sales of $72.8 million in 2020-21, compared with $79.4 million in 2019-20. Cost of goods sold were nearly $59.9 million, down from $67.9 million the previous year.

Expenses were nearly $13.5 million, compared with $13.2 million the previous year.

The co-op had a loss from operations of $345,883, compared with $1.49 million in 2019-20.

But after a loyalty program payment of $1.6 million and member patronage dividend of $873,997 from Federated Co-operatives Ltd., the co-op had savings of $2.1 million, versus $3.8 million the previous year.

After income taxes, net savings were at more than $1.8 million for 2020-21.

The member patronage allocation was about $1,399,846.

The co-op also invested $95,481 into the communities it serves through donations and member engagement activities.

Brian Enns, the general manager for the co-op, said sales decrease stemmed from the petroleum division, both cardlock and service station sales, as well as the agro department.

“Our petroleum sales were impacted two ways. The first

one was deflation, as we seen the price of fuel go from $1.25 a litre to 80 cents a litre at various points in time,” said Enns.

And the other was because people were travelling less during the pandemic.

On the bulk delivery side, they had a good year with the farmers.

All three food stores and the liquor stores saw their sales increase in the past fiscal year, he said.

The strike at the Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina affected their member patronage dividend from FCL, which meant the local co-op had less money to turn over to its members.

And while it was a COVID year, Enns said there were some positives, including retail sales.

“We still made money at the end of the year, so there was an allocation, and there were cheques sent out in the mail here over the last couple of weeks, so they should be in the hands of the members by now,” he said.

Enns was pleased with how the co-op was able to shift during the past 16 months. “ O v e r a l l , I ’m v e r y pleased with how we went through that, and adapted to all the changes that were required and implemented.

Definitely a big thanks to all the team members that went through and remained clam.”

The co-op is working on a new liquor store in Carlyle, adjacent to their convenience store and gas bar at the junction of Highways 9 and 13. They hope to begin construction within the next three weeks and have it open for the fall.

And they’re looking at a new food store in Carlyle for 2023-24, and for other opportunities to diversify.

Also during the meeting, Frances Boutin, Scott Kienlen

From left, Southern Plains Co-op board members Richard Ruetz, David Murray and Linda Thauberger-Smith were among those who attended the Co-op’s annual general meeting at the Prairie Dog Drive-In on June 21. and David Murray, whose respective three-year terms on the board expired, were acclaimed to another term.

They will join Rhonda Huish, James Lainton, Darcy Calder, Lynn Hewitt, Richard Ruetz and Linda Thauberger-Smith on the board.

Kienlen will be the board chairperson and ThaubergerSmith will be the vice-chair.

In his report, Keinlen noted the Estevan food branch began offering the Co-op Click and Collect online food ordering and pickup service, which is proving to be popular with customers.

“We are in preliminary planning stages to expand the services offered under the agro umbrella, namely bulk fertilizer commodities,” Keinlen said.

The board chair noted the safety of staff and customers is and remains their top priority. Procedures were put in place, with new protocols, policies, equipment and sanitation measures.

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While the co-op has

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A Canadian first, the facility’s nominal output is expected to be 32 megawatts (MW ) and will produce up to 33.4 MW of net power during the winter and a minimum of 20 MW net power during summer, due to seasonal variability in the output of the air-cooled binary power plant. Lower ambient air temperatures result in higher geothermal power production.

Future constr uction phases have the capacity to increase power outputs to 160 MW during the winter.

Engineering services were provided by Enerpro Engineering Inc. GeothermEx (a Schlumberger Company) is completing a full review of the FEED and Feasibility study.

Total capital costs for the first facility came within the target range and are estimated at approximately C$8 million per MW. The report details the capital costs and project schedule, highlighting a start-up date of Jan. 1, 2024. Costs are expected to be driven down further based on operational learnings and economies of scale

in drilling, manufacturing and construction. Compared to wind or solar, geothermal capital costs are higher, but the non-intermittent (24/7 baseload) characteristic of geothermal creates attractive revenues, offsetting the higher up-front costs.

This facility will eliminate approximately 155,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (tCO2) from the atmosphere each year, the equivalent to removing 34,000 cars off the road annually. For every one MW of clean geothermal energy produced, approximately 1,200 homes can be removed from non-renewable power generation sources.

Geothermal projects are not exposed to rising nonrenewable fuel costs and carbon pricing. Using a carbon tax rate of C$65 per tonne of CO2 for 2023 and beyond for the DEEP geothermal project, DEEP says the taxpayers of Saskatchewan will be paying C$10 million less in carbon tax per year (155,000 tCO2/year x C$65/tCO2).

The DEEP geothermal power facility will generate power from hot (120-125 C) water produced from open hole “barefoot” horizontal wells drilled into the Deadwood Formation (the deepest sedimentary unit in the Williston Basin). The ORC technology converts heat from these fluids by passing the geothermal fluid through a heat exchanger to transfer

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After passing through the heat exchanger, the geothermal fluids are reinjected back into the reservoir in locations that are suitably distant from the production wells to sweep more heat from the reservoir over time.

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Oxbow Prairie Horizons School to celebrate the graduates of 2021 Another year came to an end, and Oxbow Prairie Horizons School has celebrated the 2021 graduating class.

It was definitely a different year, but principal Jason Petlak said the grads adapted to the challenges and made it through.

“It’s been a challenging year in terms of COVID. They ’ve had to make a lot of changes and adapt to a lot of changes on very short notice. But they’ve worked through it. Class-wise, it’s been a successful year for them, but they’ve had obviously many obstacles due to COVID,” Petlak said.

Thirty-four students have graduated from Oxbow Prairie Horizons School this year. While the traditional indoor ceremony still wasn’t an option, the school and parents tried to organize everything as close to normal as possible within the existing health measures.

“The school, along with the par-

ents, have put together an outdoor graduation ceremony, which will not be open to the public this year with the restrictions of 150 people. It will be held down at the Bow Valley Park and will be an outside ceremony,” Petlak said last week.

“For the most part, it’ll be a similar type of ceremony that we would normally have. Obviously, it’s not open to the public, so the number of people being able to attend the event is a little bit different. And then we usually invite guests to do the presentations that won’t be taking place this year either.”

The ceremony took place on June 29. Parents planned to decorate the stage at the park. And on the day the grads received their diplomas, which was followed by several speeches by staff and parents.

The 2021 valedictorian was Olivia Grandy, who has worked for the Mercury as a freelancer this year and is now

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Students’ achievements was recognized that day as well, as the school read out the awards in terms of the scholarship presentations.

“We usually have a presentation where we invite the different groups to come in to present their scholarships. This year, the scholarships will be mailed to the students and we’ll have just verbal recognition that night,” Petlak explained.

For Petlak it will be the 31st and also the last class that he is graduating, as he is retiring this year. While it will be special for him, he said the main focus will be on the graduates, as the school and the parents put a lot of effort into making the best day possible for the students.

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U18 AA Brewers sweep four games The Estevan U18 AA Brewers continued their great play to start the season, as they went 4-0 on the weekend.

Up first was a sweep of the host Moose Jaw Canucks on Saturday.

Estevan scored five in the first and eight in the second in a 13-0 victory.

The game was called after five innings.

Kaleb Bechtold had four hits, and Tayce Miller added three and four runs batted in (RBIs).

Hunter Stewart pitched all five innings, giving up three hits and striking out 12.

In the second game, the Brewers put up 12 in the sixth to blow open a 4-3 game and rolled to a 16-5, six-inning victory. Tallan Howie and Daylen Babyak each had three hits and scored three times.

Tanyan Strudwick didn’t allow a run and struck out five in 2 2/3 innings of relief.

Their third mercy win of the weekend came Sunday at home against the Parkland Expos. They had a 10-0, five-inning triumph in the first game, thanks in large part to six runs in the fourth. Tyler Saigeon led the offence with three hits and two RBIs. Miller didn’t give up a run in five innings on the mound.

Their final game, an 8-7 victory over the Expos, looked like it would require the mercy rule at one point, as the Brewers led the Expos 8-1 after two, but the Expos scored six in the fifth to make it interesting. Kaleb Poole had two hits and two RBIs for the Brewers.

The Brewers (10-2) will host the White Butte Broncos on June 30 at 6:45 and 8:45 p.m. at Lynn Prime Park. Then they visit the Lumsden Giants on July 4.

• • • The Southeast Performance Pump U18 AAA Twins split games at the Swift Current 57s on Sunday, winning 4-3 but losing 3-0.

In the first game, the Twins fell behind 3-0 in the second, but rallied with two runs in each of the third and seventh innings. Carter Beck had two runs and two RBIs for the Twins.

Kieran Stewart came on in relief for the Twins, and gave up just one hit in 2 1/3 innings of work.

Mason Fichter had two of the Twins six hits in the second game.

Kaiden Lyons pitched all six innings, giving up three runs on four hits.

The Twins (4-8) will host the Regina White Sox on July 3 at 1

p.m. and 4 p.m. at Lynn Prime Park, and then they will visit the Regina Wolfpack on July 4.

• • • The Southeast U15 AAA A’s split their four games on the weekend.

Up first was a 3-2 win over the host Moose Jaw Canucks. Jayden Kuchinka went 5 1/3 innings for the A’s and struck out 10. Draven Naviaux and Nathan Yunick each had two hits.

The second game versus Moose Jaw was a 10-9 defeat – the A’s first loss of the season. Tayson Dietze had four hits for the A’s, while Yunick knocked in four runs.

Two games were played Sunday in Alameda, a 7-6 win and an 11-4 loss to the Regina White Sox. Axton Martin had three hits and four RBIs to lead the offence, while Yunick went 4 2/3 innings and struck out 12.

In the second game, Mathias Fornwald had three RBIs to lead the A’s offensively.

The A’s (8-2) were scheduled to visit the Weyburn Beavers on June 29.

(Results were not available at press time). Then they will host the Beavers on July 4 in Alameda. Game times are at 1 and 4 p.m.

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Tanyan Strudwick of the U18 AA Brewers connects for a hit versus the Parkland Expos on Sunday.

Brewers continued to roll in league play, winning twice over the Regina Buffalos on Saturday and getting a win and a tie Sunday against Weyburn.

Estevan defeated the Buffalos 15-1 and 12-3. Kris Phillips led the offensive attack with two hits, including a home run, and three RBIs, while Caden Dorrence pitched four innings.

In the second game, Kieran Farden had three RBIs for the Brewers, and Grady Sutter went three

innings on the mound.

Both games against Weyburn were slugfests, with a 17-10 Twins win and a 9-9 tie. Jaxon Kuchinka pitched four innings and helped his own cause by hitting a home run.

Reese Copeland had three hits and two RBIs for the Twins in the second game, and Henry pitched 4 2/3 innings in the draw.

The Brewers record is now 8-1-2. They will host the White Butte Broncos on July 9 at 6 p.m. at Cactus Park.

More than 250 anglers enter annual Alameda Fishing Derby The annual Alameda Fishing Derby proved to be a big hit, with more than 250 participants, and it was a particularly memorable day for members of one family.

The annual event was held Saturday at Grant Devine Lake. There were 203 adult entrants and 51 youth competitors. Participants were looking for the largest northern pike in the catch and release event.

The Alameda Recreation Board organized the derby.

Dean Kirby was the winner of the adult division with a fish that weighed 19.01 pounds. Devon Carriere was second at 17.13 pounds, and Aaron Lenius was third at 11.62 pounds. Steven Valentine (10.52 pounds), Jared

Valentine (9.74 pounds) and Mike Lenius (8.84 pounds) were fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.

Carriere had a 43-inch northern pike, which was the longest caught on the day. It was the second straight time Carriere had the longest fish.

Kirby’s daughter Landry was first in the junior division with a catch of 4.7 pounds, and his son Hunter Kirby was second at 3.08 pounds. Rounding out the top six were Talia Perrot in third (1.85 pounds), Gleason Hildebrand in fourth (1.29 pounds), Sayde Laurence in fifth (1.28 pounds) and Ethen Brooks in sixth (1.19 pounds).

Competitors could bring in up to three fish to be weighed, but only the heaviest

one counted.

“The number of fish was about average and there was some really nice fish caught,” said Darin McNabb with the Alameda Recreation Board.

There was also an online silent auction as part of the derby that featured approximately 45 items. This year marked the first time they have opted for online bidding.

“A lot of people were competitively bidding against each other, and all of them have picked up their prize and paid their bill,” said McNabb.

McNabb noted a lot of clubs have been very successful with the online auction during the past year, and the recreation board was pleased with the end result for their group.

Proceeds from the fishing derby will be directed to the Alameda Recreation Board, which is the umbrella organization for all of the community’s sports programs and facilities, such as the hockey and curling rinks and the ball diamonds, and any associated facilities in the community.

It was important to have the derby this year, since it was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The fishing derby takes a couple of months of planning work from the organizing committee, and also requires the support of volunteers.

“Every year we seem to find the people in the right places to make it work,” said McNabb.

Hunter, Dean and Landry Kirby were among the entrants at this year’s Alameda Fishing Derby. Photo submitted

Swing for Scholarships sees record participation The fifth annual Wil-Tech Swing for Scholarships golf tournament at the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Course on Thursday saw a record number of participants.

The annual event, which helps the Southeast College to raise money towards the scholarship fund and thus support students in the region, was as close to normal as possible with the remaining health measures in place.

"It was a wonderful day. Everyone's very excited to get out and get on a golf course and be a part of the Wil-Tech Swing for Scholarships tournament. We had our largest turnout for the Swing for Scholarships event in the past five years.

We had 17 teams and 62 golfers registered. So we're very excited. It was a great day," said Sheena Onrait, marketing and communications manager with the college.

The tournament was open to the public, and many people took an opportunity to enjoy an 18hole event, which ended with a steak supper at the clubhouse. Some college staff and board members, as well as Wil-Tech Industries employees, also joined the tournament.

Onrait said that after a few years, Swing for Scholarships is better known in the community and its popularity keeps growing.

"This was our fifth year anniversary with

Wil-Tech. It was a big deal to celebrate five years of partnering with the Wilson family and WilTech Industries. Generally, over time tournaments gain momentum, and they get bigger and bigger.

And that’s what we see and hope for with this event," Onrait said.

The City of Estevan team, consisting of Jeff Ward, Jeff Pierson, Russ Mantei and Pete Sereggela, had the lowest score and won the tournament. They will receive the awards at a later date.

The tournament was still slightly modified from what it looked like before, as they had teetimes instead of a shotgun start, but other than that it was just a great day of golfing raising an estimated $15,000 for the students in the southeast.

"All of the money raised at the Swing for Scholarships event goes directly into the student scholarship fund. And that gets distributed to Southeast College students throughout the region," Onrait said.

She also thanked their partners and supporters for everything being done from year to year to make this event happen.

"We'd love to thank Wil-Tech Industries for their support. Over the past five years, it's been an amazing, community-oriented, local company, and we sure appreciate everything that they have done to help us build this event. And we look for-

From left, Heather Murray, Verdynne Gilchrist and Dan Kjersem partook in the Wil-Tech Swing for Scholarships golf tournament Thursday. ward to the partnerships for many years to come.

And we also appreciate hole sponsors, drive for education sponsors, prize sponsors and everyone who entered teams. Without all that, it's hard to host an event and all those things have to happen

together. And we sure appreciate all of that.

"It's the second-best event of the year. Giving the money away to the students is the best event.

And our fundraisers are the second-best events," Onrait said.

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First province-wide search and rescue canine training takes place by Carnduff

By Ana Bykhovskaia The South East Saskatchewan Search and Rescue (SESKSAR) volunteer group made a major move and organized the first-ever province-wide canine training program.

Tw e l v e h a n d l e r - K 9 teams gathered in the Carnduff area recently at the property of Katia Bigney, the president of the local chapter and the K9 director for the Search and Rescue Saskatchewan Association of Volunteers (SARSAV), to start their two-year journey, which will end up with the certification and will see the creation of the first civilian SAR K9 unit.

It means that when handlers learn how to work with their canines, and the dogs get fully trained, they will go through the RCMP ’s examination and will become a resource in any potential search and rescue operations.

The invitation to partake in the training was sent out to all 20 SAR chapters in Saskatchewan, and volunteer groups from the southeast, along with Regina, Prince Albert and Saskatoon, used the unique opportunity to learn a lot of new information and skills, and also build stronger bonds with their animals.

“We had an excellent group. Everyone was just super supportive of one another.

Dan Vas from Search Dog Association, from Medicine Hat, was our instructor. He came on Friday evening, and we did some group training, just socialization with the dogs,” Bigney said.

The training saw all kinds of dogs, including German and Australian shepherds, hunting dogs and mix breeds participating. All of them had to have a basic level of obedience, but Bigney said they will have a separate obedience and agility training workshop organized later this year to strengthen and develop this set of skills, as those are also two RCMP testing criteria.

“My goal is to bring all the tools to the canine

teams to succeed. Dan Vas is our instructor for search and rescue. And I do have an obedience and agility trainer, she'll be coming down in the fall, and she will get us going on obedience and agility, that's what she specializes in.

So we are going to provide all the tools to our members to allow them to succeed, and then they have to decide, how far they want to take it,” Bigney said.

The first day saw teams focused on starting the training for the beginner-level search K9-handler teams.

The group focused on basic searching skills such as beginner ground tracking, including track in and track end.

“The track in is getting your dog's nose down right at the beginning, get them focused, and then do the track itself, and then finding the article at the end.

And that would be the track end. And then having them properly move out away from the article and back to the original start position,”

Bigney explained.

On the second day, the group headed out to the Oxbow gravel pit to learn how the terrain changes affect how the scent moves in the air.

“It was a different terrain and we focused on scent theory, which is how a scent moves based on humidity, temperature and the topography around you, whether you have hills, whether you have long grass, whatever's around you, it can be fences, it can be bleachers, it can be buildings.

The wind moves differently based on temperature, and humidity, and what's around you, and obviously wind speed, which teaches us a lot about where the scent goes and how we should perform a search based on those factors, so that we give our dog every advantage,” explained Bigney.

“There was lots to learn there. We used the gravel pit as a sort of a playground to use talcum powder to see where the wind moves the scent that the dog is trying to locate.”

Norm and Donna Klatt, along with Mack Auctions, gave a generous donation to the first-ever provincewide search and rescue K9 training. Photo submitted

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Handler-canine search and rescue teams from different parts of Saskatchewan gathered in the Carnduff area for their first training session. Photo submitted Ever yone went back with homework on what was necessary to do to practise the newly learned skills and also what can be done individually to improve their dog’s skills. Bigney said it was a lot to take in not only for the dogs but also for the handlers.

“If that dog is cut out for it, the handler has to learn to read their dog, to train their

dog and to harmonize to get to the article. So we're going to do our best to give all those tools to every team, and they're going to go home and work hard at it, and hopefully, we all succeed. But we'll know in two years, I guess.”

The next session will take place in Regina on July 17 and 18. There will be two more SAR training sessions and one obedience and agil-

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The K9 SAR team training received generous support from southeast Saskatchewan residents. Norm and Donna Klatt, and Mack Auctions donated $1,500 towards the SAR K9 unit, and Becky Bayliss also donated $100 to help cover the groups’ expanses.

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The City of Estevan will be flushing watermains 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. During this process you may notice a substantial drop in pressure, this will be brief. As well, discoloured water is possible during the days your area is scheduled for this work (see schedule below), please run a faucet, (bathtub is best), for a few minutes until the water is clear again. Please contact City Hall at 634-1800 if issues persist. Thank you for your understanding during this important maintenance!

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(4) Monday –Friday June 28-July 2 Area Bounded by City Cemetery on the North, King Street on the South, Sister Roddy Road on the West (formerly Woodlawn Avenue), and Souris Road (Hwy 47N) on the East (includes Dominion Heights, Pleasantdale, and Royal Heights regions, as well as Cundall Drive, Woodend Place, Chinook Bay and Hwy 47N Service Road)

2021 Program Area will encompass all streets North of 6th Street, and East of Souris Ave within City limits including: Hwy 47 Service Road Drader Street Princess Street Edward Street Albert Street Isabelle Street Eva Street Henry Street George Street King Street Smith Street Souris Avenue Victoria Avenue Alexandra Avenue Arthur Avenue Dufferin Avenue

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Local youths hit records while fundraising for the Estevan Humane Society Local youths found a pot of gold during the hot days in Estevan.

Hunter Istace, Rowan and Kadence Grimes and Ella Smyth set up a stand selling cold drinks and tasty treats and raised an unbelievable sum.

Once they were done with sales, they reached out to the Estevan Humane Society and offered to support the local shelter with what they've made.

"These kids just put on a lemonade stand on their own.

I think it was just a weekend. And they happen to raise $490," said Estevan Humane Society manager Michaela Pho. "It was just incredible. They had called here, and they're like, 'Can we stop by to drop off some money we raised selling lemonade?' And in my head I thought, you have your own lemonade stands as a kid and you think maybe they raised about 20 bucks. But no, they showed up with a lot of cash."

It was a very exciting moment for both the kids and the shelter.

Pho added that the kids did everything on their own and reached out to the shelter afterwards. And while other

kids came up with some fundraising initiatives for the shelter before, this donation was very impressive.

Lisa Grimes explained that Kadence had a school project and was asked to do

something in the community to make a difference.

"She came up with a plan, made a list of things she wanted there, with a list of supplies, and made a poster.

She decided to do a lemonade/ iced tea stand with treats over a two-day span and away she went with some little helpers along the way," Lisa Grimes said. "I'm so proud of the thought and work she put into this. Thank you to everyone who supported her stand, she successfully raised $490 for the Estevan Humane Society

thanks to all of your support."

Pho added that the money the girls raised will help the shelter with medical bills.

"The money goes straight towards the animals and care.

Usually, we're good on donations for food and stuff. So the medical bills, that is what the fundraising tends to go towards," Pho said.

The humane society was very grateful for the young individuals' thoughts and efforts.

They also said that if anyone else would like to do something to help the non-kill that

is once again filled to capacity with cats and dogs, they can let them know and they will help promote any kind of event people want to run.

"If they wanted to let us know beforehand, we can definitely advertise for them and let people know. It's just a fun little thing, kids get to help and raise some money for some animals that don't have a home," Pho said. "We're really grateful to all the little citizens that are trying to help out and help the animals. It will make a big difference for them."

From left, Hunter Istace, Kadence and Rowan Grimes and Ella Smyth raised almost $500 selling lemonade and donated the money to the Estevan Humane Society. Photo submitted

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Flashback – Wednesday, July 3, 2002

Cheers Cheers to all the Estevan Mercury carriers venturing out in the recent extreme heat to deliver our papers. Needless to say they are doing a great job.

Cheers to the organizers of the Alameda Fishing Derby this past weekend for offering people a great day out on the water that raises money for a great cause.

Cheers to the businesses that have been involved with Sign Wars. The messages on the signs have been funny and witty, and they’re appropriate for all ages.

Cheers for the way in which people rallied around the Godfrey family after their Pride flag was stolen. It was nice to see a new Pride flag flying in front of the Godfrey’s house.

Cheers to the end of the COVID-19 restrictions in Saskatchewan next month. Hopefully we can finally move on from this pandemic, and we never have to worry about such restrictions ever again.

Cheers to the organizations that will be offering activities, day camps and overnight camps in the southeast this summer for our children.

Estevan playpark leaders had a meeting with Constable Marshall Armstrong to create a line of communication between police and play leaders. Pictured here 2002 playpark leaders were, from left, Becky Wock, Stacy Barnstable, Jennifer James, Kendra Melle and Leah Skjonsby.

They all were responsible for different playparks in the area.

Learning to avoid anxiety

Jeers Jeers to people who don’t use their signal light, or who wait for the last second before using their light. It’s so frustrating for the motorists around you.

Jeers to those who continue to speed in school zones, even though the school year is finished. The speed limit applies in school zones throughout the year. And please keep the speed down in playground zones and on narrow residential streets.

Jeers to the condition of some of the parking lots around town. You shouldn’t have to worry about sustaining damage to your vehicle when you visit your favourite vendor and shop locally.

This marks the final edition of Cheers and Jeers. We would like to thank all those who have submitted for Cheers and Jeers over the years.

One of the most exciting times in my life was when I started taking driver’s education classes. I loved being in the driver’s seat.

One of the most uncomfortable times in my life was when my girls started taking driver’s education classes. It was not that they were bad drivers, I just did not like being in the passenger’s seat.

That is true in most areas of my life. I like to be in control. I like to know what is happening and what is coming next.

However, scripture reminds me that I am not supposed to be the one in charge. Lived properly, my life should be seen from the passenger’s seat. God is in

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control of all things, including my circumstances, and I need to learn to trust and allow him to lead; but that is difficult.

Many times, I want to reach over and grab the steering wheel. I want to avoid what, to me, looks like certain disaster ahead. For some reason, I believe that I can see the potholes and the dangers better than God can. I want

to go where I want to go, not where He is taking me.

Yet, me being in control often leads to trouble because I do not know what I think I know. I do not go where God wants to take me. Therefore, I miss out on experiences, blessings and chances to grow.

On his last night with his followers, Jesus gently reminded them that he was

the source of life and goodness, not them: “I am the vine; you are the branches … apart from me, you can do nothing!” ( John 15:5).

When I act as if I am in charge of everything, I become worried and anxious.

When I learn to listen to Jesus’ instructions and abide in him, the result is better.

As Jesus said, “I have told you this [to abide and trust] so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete” ( John 15:11).

Trusting God is not all that is needed to avoid being anxious, but it is a great starting place.

Let God be in control.

He is a much better driver than you are.

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On June 21, local firefighters responded to the report of a fire occurring at the Woodlawn Regional Park’s Souris River campground, where one of the camper trailers caught on fire. The call came in at about 5:30 p.m.

“Crews arrived on scene to find that there was a ground fire and electrical fire that was occurring on the inner side of a camper trailer,” said Estevan Fire Chief Dale Feser. “Thanks to quick-thinking actions of neighbouring camper who were able to get a fire extinguisher on it and keep it at bay.”

Feser praised the neighbour for quickly calling 911 and acting to prevent the fire from spreading. There were no injuries as a result of the fire, and damage was kept

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On June 23 at about 11:30 p.m., fire crews responded to a vehicle rollover outside the city limits.

“We were called to the report of a single-vehicle rollover, which was a semi … tractor trailer.

This happened at Highway 47 north a couple of miles south of the Highway 361 junction to Lampman,” Feser said.

The driver, who was the lone occupant of the vehicle, was able to self extricate. He had minor injuries, and EMS treated and released him on scene.

Fire crews remained at the site for a while due to the amount of debris that was on the highway. Firefighters also assisted with the tow truck operator doing traffic control alongside the RCMP services.

They were able to clear the scene a few hours later when it was turned over to the RCMP for further in-

vestigation.

In the morning of June 24, firefighters were called to a fire alarm that went off in a commercial occupancy south of Estevan.

“Just as we’re getting ready to leave the fire station.

The manager of the facility had called and indicated that they were painting in the area, there’s no actual emergency that was occurring. So officers stood down and returned to the station,” Feser said.

Another commercial fire alarm went off at about 3:30 p.m. that same day in the south-central part of the city.

“When crews did arrive on scene, they didn’t find any smoke or flame from the exterior of the building. They made entry, talked to the managers and it was found that they actually had opened up the dishwasher with the high humidity conditions. It actually mimics smoke and sets off the fire alarm system.

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The next call for service came in at 11:30 p.m. the same day. A CO alarm went off on the southwest side of Estevan. The family safely exited the building prior to firefighters’ arrival. Crews entered the building to find that the level of CO was higher than normal, upwards of 90 plus parts per million.

“Quick thinking actions – calling 911 and evacuating your family out of the home safely when that carbon monoxide alarm went off,” Feser said.

SaskEnergy was called to the scene as well, and secondary assessment confirmed initial readings.

It turned out to be an issue with the family’s furnace.

“There were three young children that were sleeping downstairs in this particular area. So had they continued to sleep through the night there, they would obviously

occupants of the vehicle, an adult male, was arrested by Const. Dani Zaya during the course of the investigation.

During interactions with the adult male, Zaya allegedly utilized OC spray, also known as pepper spray.

A complaint was made to Carlyle RCMP in relation to this incident on Nov. 18, 2020.

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Regional nursing home has had no COVID-19 cases While the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, the restrictions associated with the virus are being loosened, and will soon be virtually gone.

The Estevan Regional Nursing Home (ERNH) has not had a single case among its staff members or its 56 residents since the pandemic started in March 2020.

Kelsey Hagel, the nursing supervisor at the ERNH, said like with all long-term care facilities, the past 15 months have been very difficult for the (ERNH) residents.

“Our staff is very exceptional at providing care and support, but nothing replaces the loving embrace of a family member, a close friend.

I’ll say the increase in family presence in long-term care homes across the province is very much welcomed and needed, with residents having the ability to go for drives with loved ones and having supper in the family home, that’s also been welcomed,” she said.

Physical interaction with loved ones is vital to overall well-being, she said. This is especially crucial for long-term residents, as nursing home living can be difficult under normal circumstances.

There is a sense of pride in getting to this stage of the pandemic without having a single case of the virus, she said.

Throughout the pandemic, work standards and policies have been developed by the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), which include directives focused on screening staff and visitors, testing and visiting, which can all be found online.

Current public health orders continue to be followed, including proper social distancing, masking and proper hand hygiene, Hagel said.

The Estevan Regional Nursing Home has not had a single case of COVID-19 among staff and residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. File photo Point of care testing has been an important tool for preventing potential spread of infection.

“SHA homes are all networks,” said Hagel. “So we all communicate regularly, and we’ve learned very much from each other’s challenges and successes during the pandemic.”

Staff members have taken note of the risk of exposure.

“We do monitor closely our residents, if there’s any respiratory symptoms that we note going on with certain residents in the home, we pay

close attention to that, and we act accordingly, making sure that we isolate and that everybody else in the building is kept safe,” said Hagel.

Residents received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in late February, when the vaccine was first administered in the Estevan area, and they received their second dose on April 7. Hagel said the process was very well-organized and smooth, and it was facilitated by public health nurses, who were a lot of help.

The nursing home has been

able to have some social activities in the past 15 months. Those activities look very different in terms of size and social distancing, but they have been important to continue in some fashion.

“There’s incredible value to socialization as it relates to overall wellbeing, especially during the period where physical family presence was lacking. Our staff really stepped up in getting creative and coming up with different activities to do.”

The dining room has had to look

different for social distancing when it comes to meals. Since the nursing home is a fairly old building, spacing is limited. Some of their extra rooms have become dining areas in the past few months.

Each resident may have up to four visitors at one time indoors and nine outdoors. Visiting isn’t limited based on vaccination status for residents or visitors, and anyone can visit a loved one, as long as they test positive at the door, and following existing health orders.

Cornerstone honours superannuating teachers The South East Cornerstone Public School Division is saluting the teachers who are superannuating at the end of the 2020-21 school year.

Several of those teachers are from Estevan schools, including Shawn Love (Estevan Comprehensive School), Darrell Meyer (Spruce Ridge S c hool), R andy Renkas (Estevan Comprehensive School), Colleen Schindel (Spruce Ridge School) and Doug Sully (Estevan Com-

prehensive School).

Among the other superannuates are: Jason Petlak (principal for the Oxbow Prairie Horizons School); Eugene Brown (vice-principal for Arcola School); Carmen Berry (Redvers School); Jody Jeannot (Oxbow Prairie Horizons School); David McFadden (Oxbow Prairie Horizons School); Kym Lamontagne (Lampman S chool); Robert (Dean) Zacharias (Gordon F. Kells

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Comprehensive School); Ardelle Person (Weyburn Comprehensive School); Mark Pitman (Cyber Stone Virtual School); Kim Ryan (Rocanville School); and Della Stanhope (McNaughton School).

Also retiring are Jackie Marr, a library technician with the Estevan Comprehensive School, educational assistant Lynda Blackstock (Gladmar Regional School) and office assistant Lynn

Johnston (Weyburn Comprehensive School).

Retiring bus drivers include Tom Botterill (Mossomin), Bob Burns (Oxbow), Kathy Doane (Moosomin), Jac k (Ar thur) Forsberg (Weyburn), Lynn Hildahl (Estevan), Lorette Keller (Fillmore), Irene McLean (Moosomin), Russell Moe (Weyburn), Larrie Murray (Carievale), Doug Probe (Weyburn) and Dale Percy (Moosomin).

Caretakers Susan Ferguson (McNaughton School), Dale Jensen (Redvers School), Garry Jensen (Redvers School), Marie Jerred (Wapella School) and Beverley Koszman (Radville School) are also retiring.

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Alida Community Library is closing and selling off many of its books but keeping the archives After over 30 years, the Alida Community Library is closing its doors.

Edel Cowan, who's been with the library since its inception in 1989, said that the decision was made due to low demand. With everything going digital, many readers turned to e-books and other electronic sources, and the library hardly had any traffic anymore.

"It just never was utilized. And we couldn't stand seeing it sitting there with all these books and nothing being done with them.

So we decided we might as well close that section of the

library," Cowan said. "And we are non-profit. It was just voluntary workers. And we're all getting older and can't look after it anymore."

Alida Community Library also has an archive section, which will remain open. The plan is to keep the books about the history of the area and also books by local authors, moving them to archives. The rest of the collection is up for sale, and Cowan said she was happy to see people buying their pieces.

"I am quite pleased with (the sales so far). I'm glad to see that people are respond-

ing to it and picking them up. I'm just happy that these books aren't going to hit the wastepaper basket and recycle bin, they are being utilized. And that's what the main cause for it was," Cowan said.

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That's how we got started.

And then a lot of books were donated to us," Cowan recalled.

While the library has been a big part of her life, Cowan said it's good to see that the books will have a new life.

"I'm just happy that some people are able to make use of this. And we are still going to try to keep active with the archives. If anybody needs to look up anything, they can contact us and we can do it that way," Cowan said.

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Bienfait announces further plans for Canada Day

The organizers of the Bienfait Canada Day festivities have announced further changes to some of their most high-profile activities.

With the confirmation that Saskatchewan has entered Step 2 of the Re-Opening Roadmap, the Bienfait Parks and Recreation Board says the Bienfait Canada Day celebrations are back this year and most everything will be back to normal.

With the pandemic threatening to have them cancel celebrations for the second year in a row, they had revised the way they normally do things, and revamped their celebrations to keep within regulations.

Canada Day celebrations will start with a take and go pancake and sausage breakfast for $5. This will be held from 7-9 a.m. at the rink. The Southern Plains Co-op has donated the food, and the Bienfait Fire Department has volunteered to serve the breakfast.

There will be tables set up in the rink for those who wish to dine in.

The parade, which is always a highlight, will look a little bit different.

The board has decided to have a regular parade, but changed the route in order to facilitate social distancing regulations. The parade will head north on Weldon Road, turn east on Railway Avenue to Carbon Street and end at Weldon School.

They do ask that there be no interaction between the floats and the spectators, so candy and flags will not be tossed out. They also

A parade will be part of Bienfait’s Canada Day celebrations this year. File photo ask that spectators please physically distance themselves between households around the parade route.

If you are interested in entering a float please contact Daniyale Lalonde through the Bienfait

Canada Day Celebrations Facebook page or to (306) 461-8609.

Due to the current restrictions in place, they require pre-registration.

“It will be nice to get out and see the familiar faces, and as always, there will be prizes for the best

designed floats,” the press release stated.

The Canada Day festivities will end with the fireworks at dusk, which will be launched from the Bienfait Weldon School yard.

Canada Day celebrations are

their major fundraiser for the Bienfait Parks and Recreation Board. The board supports minor baseball, minor hockey, the pool, the Bienfait Weldon School Community Council, the hockey rink and the curling club.

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SUMMER Always a good time with lots to do Regar dless of wheth er we’re facing restric tions related to a pandemic, or if we’re in norma l times like we’re about to return to, there’s no shortage of things to do in the Estevan area each summer.

Last year we had to worry about the pandemic regulations, and a lot of them put a crimp into what we could do. But we still found that there were many activit ies for people of all ages to enjoy, even if we had to worry about social distancing and a bunch of concepts we hadn’t heard of before.

The start of this summer will have some extra rules to follow, but come July 11, when the government says restrictions will be lifted and we can get as close to normal as we’ve been since early March 2020, it’s going to feel pretty good.

There ’s no shorta ge of great activities for people of all ages in the southeast during the summer months. Are

you into sports ? There’ s no shortage of great youth and adult sports to watch each summer, and we are blessed with nume rous great golf courses to play and challenge all skill levels.

Do you need to get out on the water? There are lakes are rivers for you to enjoy. Several large reservoirs provide great fishin g, boatin g and water sports. We’ve seen a surge in the popularity of kayaking and canoeing in the southeast in recent years.

If camping is your thing, then you’re in luck. There are numer ous campg round s for you to enjoy, regard less of wheth er your defini tion of camping is parking a big RV and having all of the luxuries of home (including a satellite dish), or staying in a more rustic setting while roughing it.

We’re also blessed with an abundance of cultural amenities. If you want to head indoors, you can check out some

of the museu ms, many of which are open on a seasonal basis during the summer and are free to access.

You can find art galleries, librari es and other servic es throug hout the summ er as well.

There is an ever-growing number of youth camps and programs available during the summ er month s. Now that restrictions have been eased (and are soon to be lifted) some of those camps will have overnight options.

If you’re in Estevan, you can take the Tourism Estevan Guide d Histor ical Walki ng Tour through our great downtown, embar k on the Backroads of Estevan Tour, go for a walk on one of our pathways, or visit one of our many parks.

If you have kids, then the city’s playparks program is perfect for you.

You can enjoy a nice meal at one of our many excellent restau rants or you can eat

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outdoors on a patio. If you’re not from Estevan, there are some great hotels ready to serve you.

And you can always shop at one of our great local merchants.

Farme r’s marke ts are a hit in many communities, and the downtown Estevan Night Marke ts on Thursd ays have been a hit.

If you’re outside of Estevan, you’ll find plenty of fun activities as well. Just because you’re in a small town doesn’t mean you won’t find great shops , qualit y restau rants, quality attractions or amenities to keep people of all ages entertained.

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Catch a sunset over Rafferty Dam

Watch a movie on the big screen at the Prairie Dog Drive-In in Carlyle

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By Josie Hlohovsky The Orpheum Theatre has been able to have more people in its two theatres, starting on June 20. They are now able to hold approximately 110 people in Cinema 1 and 50 people in Cinema 2.

Starting June 25, they have been open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays. They are excited and eager to reopen, along with the rest of the city as vaccinations increase.

“We’ve just added another date to being open, which is Mondays,” said Jocelyn Dougherty, co-owner of the Orpheum Theatre alongside her husband Alan.

Monday nights are now open for adults only over the age of 19.

The Orpheum Theatre will be offering alcoholic beverages for adult customers with the blockbuster showing on screen. They will, however, be closed Wednesdays and Thursdays now.

“We’re just hopeful to get bums in the seats again,” Dougherty continues, laughing. “We want people to feel safe and comfortable in the theatre again...we want to diversify and get more people out.”

They must still keep up with a few safety protocols, however.

“Everyone still has to wear a face mask and we still have to do social distancing … You don’t have to be vaccinated,” said Dougherty.

“We have always had pride in how we clean and disinfect the theatre, and it is cleaned and disinfected between each movie.”

Speaking of movies, Dougherty is eager to talk about the showings.

“Fast and furious 9 is the big one now,” she recalls. “And we’re looking forward to next Friday,

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which is Peter Rabbit 2; The Runaway. August is Suicide Squad,” she said.

“There’s something for everybody to come out and support us.”

Dougherty also hopes to host more events as the restrictions begin to lighten and lift throughout the province.

“Thursday nights, maybe once a month, having comedians come in,” she said. “And eventually, we want to have some gaming leagues on the big screen. New ideas for people to get involved in.”

The Orpheum Theatre has been falling on difficult times over the pandemic, as less and less people come to see their shows, and as pandemic restrictions forced them to shut down. Even with less restrictions over the winter, fewer people came in to watch movies.

Dougherty is looking forward to fully re-opening, but she is also nervous about the possible lack

of customers, especially over the summer.

“We’re sure hoping for support over the summer. We do have support from an area around Estevan, it’s not just Estevan, and we hope it continually improves as restrictions are lifted and people are vaccinated,” she said.

“The sad part is that Weyburn lost their theatre before the pandemic and Yorkton is shutting down, so we hope we’re not next.” Dougherty hopes for more customers as the summer goes on, and knows that the Orpheum Theatre is threatened by the pandemic. “(The Orpheum Theatre is for) all ages, absolutely. There’s going to be movies for all ages... to entice people to come back,” she said. The Orpheum Theatre’s Facebook page has information on their show times and their new Monday night shows.

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Take the kids to the play park Check out the Maker Station at the Estevan Public Library and make some cool stuff Go for a hike, find some fun spots on Tourism Estevans blog page Spend the afternoon at the outdoor paddling pool Eat lunch while enjoying the beautiful flowers in the Garden on 4th Take the family to the races at the Estevan Motor Speedway Rent a kayak and float on the River at Woodlawn Regional Park

Spend a day at the Boundary Dam Beach Spend the day at the splash park at Dennis Moore Centennial Park Find the Tourism Estevan selfie spots

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Get your steps on the Chamney outdoor walking track Play a game of tennis or pickle ball at the Estevan Leisure Centre Make a craft at the playparks program every weekday morning Work on some tricks at the skate park Find the gnomes hiding in the Preddy Trails at Woodlawn

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Enjoy a delicious lunch with a beautiful view at the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Course, everyone welcome

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NWMP Museum is open for the season The Northwest Mounted Police (NWMP) Museum is open for the first time in nearly two years, and it has a new exhibit.

Located next to the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum (EAGM), the NWMP building features a variety of exhibits that chronicle the police force’s history and how it was formed. The museum was closed in 2020 due to the pandemic.

The museum’s building was known as the Wood End Post, and was constructed in 1893, 19 years after the trek west of the NWMP. “It’s talking about the area and the region, the trek they would have actually went through,” said Amber Andersen, who is the curatormanager of the EAGM. The museum has a lot of artificats from John Pott, who is a retired RCMP officer, and Dawn Fehr. The upper floor has information related to Indigenous history in the area.

New for this year is an exhibit on Bud McArthur from the Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nations, his familial ties to the NWMP, and oral histories on sacred objects that belong to him.

“We don’t actually have the sacred objects, we just have pictures of them, and

then there’s QR codes that people can scan onto their phones, and hear him talk about the objects,” said Andersen.

Bud McArthur has collaborated with the EAGM to re-evaluate historic and current events by focusing on Indigenous peoples’ perspectives and how they were impacted. To accomplish this goal, an ethnohistorical approach is utilized.

In 1873, Bud’s greatgrandfather Arthur joined the NWMP in Barrie, Ont. Shortly after joining the force, he was transferred to a post in Wood Mountain – now a historic and archeological site in Saskatchewan – to monitor the whiskey trade in Saskatchewan and establish relations with First Nations people.

Arthur held the position of wagon master, delivering groceries and rations to the Indian bands as the buffalo, a significant resource for their livelihood had been eliminated by settlers.

In 1873, Pheasant Rump (She-ho-nee-tay Oyate), Bud’s great, great grandfather, was leading many Sioux people into Canada as a result of the betrayal of the Treaty of Fort Laramie and the impending violence of General Custer’s

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7th Cavalry. The first stop they made on their migratory trail from South Dakota was to Roche Percee due to the fresh spring water source nearby.

Their food supply had begun to run low and shortly after, the NWMP found them and provided them with food and other resources. It was here, at Roche Percee, that Arthur met Marie (Sitting Stone Woman), Pheasant Rump’s daughter.

Arthur and Marie married that same year in 1874, at Wood Mountain.

In 1885, Arthur and Marie moved their expanding family to Warmley, where Bud’s grandfather, John was born.

In 1906, John McArthur and Philomene Rosette, Bud’s grandparents, married and began their large family of 11 children. Three of their children, Edward, Stephen, and Danny, were enlisted in the military and fought in the Second World War. Stephen was the only son to “return to Canada on his feet.”

Bud McArthur was born in 1941 during Stephen’s first marriage. He was born with lactose intolerance and left by his parents to be cared for by his grandfather. Bud lived in the hospital for the first six months of his life with

the help of the Indian Agent’s wife to ensure he received treatment. She registered his birth on Oct. 15, 1941, but Bud had been born a number of months prior.

“John McArthur had a wealth of knowledge that he passed down to Bud. He taught him practical skills such as how to trap and sell pelts, train and breed horses, and work as a farm hand. He also taught him the value of a strong work ethic that Bud demonstrated throughout his many occupations.”

Bud began breeding quarter horses for the American Quarter Horse Association. His breed continues to earn a profit for Diamond King Ranch.

Rodeo was a place of refuge for Bud and other Indigenous people in the sport, who could maintain and express their connection to the animals through participation.

As a child, Bud started out riding thoroughbreds that his neighbour and his grandfather were raising, riding in small-town tracks and county fairs. At 14, Bud began riding saddle bronc, launching his career as a professional cowboy.

He worked for Gene Autry’s Wild West Show and rode

in several Western films.

Bud obtained a diploma in range management and a diploma in agriculture and first aid for animals. He began his 32-year position within the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in 1969 as the only First Nation descent to be employed by the PFRA and to graduate from their federal pasture program.

During this time he balanced raising a family, breeding horses, managing his riding stable Elk Hill Riding Stables, and organizing rodeos across Western Canada and parts of the U.S. At the end of his career, Bud’s hard work was recognized with a gold buckle and a gold lifetime membership card from the Canadian Cowboy’s Association. He was also the first Indigenous person to be awarded the Tiny Simpson Memorial Working Cowboy Award in 2014.

The NWMP Museum has undergone a lot of work since it was last open to create a better experience for viewers, Andersen said.

The NWMP Museum is open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. If somebody wants to see the NWMP Museum, they need to check in at the EAGM.

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Brenda Blackburn, left, and Gale Tytlandsvik are in process of painting bright “impressionistish,” as Tytlandsvik put it, murals at the Garden Park on Fourth Street.

Two local artists, Gale Tytlandsvik and Brenda Blackburn, have been putting in a lot of hours, working at the Garden Park on Fourth Street lately.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the garden, they are creating murals that are full of colour, happiness and beauty “impressionist-ish,” as Tytlansdvik put it. These murals are on the east wall framing the area between the Salvation Army and the SaskTel building.

Blackburn has been working on the reds and oranges middle mural, depicting a field of tulips, while Tytlandsvik is painting the purples and pinks sunset-style south piece.

Both artists are well-known in the community, have a lot of experience and created many beautiful pieces before, however, this project became a challenge

for each one of them. Blackburn, who usually works in the studio, said it will be her first mural. She added she was stressed in the beginning, but the project eventually turned into a confidence builder as she was successfully progressing with it.

Tytlandsvik painted murals before, but it was a long time ago. Besides, the paintings are created with house paints and brushes, which are very different from any other materials the artists have used before and take a lot of adjustments. Paints don’t mix properly and dry fast, as well as brushes, which also feel completely different from a traditional artist brush.

Nevertheless, it would be pretty obvious for any curios bypasser that Tytlandsvik and Blackburn have caught a wave and now are confidentially mov-

ing towards a stunning unique garden decoration.

Once the two murals that are currently in progress are completed, the artists plan on proceeding with the third one on the north end of the park. They hope to work on it together, creating a yellow and whites mural depicting a field of sunflowers.

After that, they will move on to painting elegant golden frames around the murals and then the birthday present to the park and the community will be completed.

Tytlandsvik said that while they were working at the Garden Park, some people stopped by and offered food and water to the artists, which was greatly appreciated. However, she also hopes to see someone stepping forward and helping her with painting the planters and boxes on the mural wall.

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By Ana Bykhovskaia The warm Saskatchewan sun made the area look bright, attractive and welcoming. Bird talks along with the smell of wildflowers made it impossible to even think about wasting such a day indoors.

Fortunately, Tourism Estevan and the Souris Valley Museum did think it through and reserved a great option for such occasions, which I haven’t had a chance to explore until last week.

I got into the vehicle and 10 minutes later parked in downtown Estevan, excited to experience the city through the Historic Walking Tour.

While the tour starts at the intersection of 11th Avenue and Third Street, I chose a broad parking lot behind RBC and walked back one block before I turned the free Tripvia app on.

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The Historic Walking Tour will bring you to this Tudor-style house that was built for Estevan Mercury editor D.C. Dunbar. station behind me became the original point of the tour.

The pleasant man’s voice turned out to be my companion for the next hour as I enjoyed a great time outdoors, learning a lot of new and interesting facts.

The tour, really easy to navigate, offered both a map, showing the entire route with stops marked on it, as well as the pictures of the attractions,

Ride the waterslide at the RM of Estevan Aquatic Centre Observe the soldiers tree Shop at one of the many stores in the Estevan Market Mall

Estevan's first school bell used to ring at the Central School over 100 years ago and by now outlived all of its students.

accompanied by written and oral stories. The initial tutorial had answers to all questions I had popping in my head and it took me under five minutes to figure everything out and get going.

“Welcome to Estevan’s Historic Walking Tour! We are happy to have you join us on a tour of our city! You will see heritage buildings, historical landmarks that still exist today, and hear about our city’s stories that will not be forgotten. Let’s get started!” said my guide, inviting me to start walking.

Once I did, the history of the downtown, the area and the people who built this community came alive.

Walking from one gorgeous building to another and listening to the stories of those citizens who inhabited them sometimes 100, sometimes 50 years ago, I immersed myself in the atmosphere of Saskatchewan’s early days.

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Go out for ice cream Cool off at Padwick Park splash pad

Listen to live music, shop and eat at the Night Markets on Thursdays

Fish for largemouth bass on Boundary Dam Reservoir

Take a break from social media

Make a tie dyed shirt

Go see Lignite Louie at the Souris Valley Museum

Save big on Shop Estevan Day July 17.

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Plan to go Glow Golfing at Mainprize Park Aug. 2

Finish that scrapbook you started with supplies from The House of Stationery

Go to the Estevan Market Mall

Go for a walk on our walking paths through the valley

Set up an outdoor movie

Have a water balloon fight

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Call Raymond Vacuum Truck Services Ltd. Visit the Estevan Art Gallery Museum NWMP Museum Do the The Backroads of Estevan Tour, go for a country drive and learn about the area

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Historic tour takes you around downtown « A1 The first stop of the tour was the P.C. Duncan house, a beautiful building put up in 1905 that belonged to one of the former Estevan mayors, who also was involved with many local businesses.

Listening to Mr. Duncan’s story, and looking at his elegant house, I could imagine teas hosted in his living room and dances happening in his general store.

The stops of the tour, nicely distanced, allowed me time to absorb the information and also to appreciate other houses and yards alongside the route. While walking down Third and other streets and avenues in downtown Estevan, I realized that I’ve hardly ever paid attention to this neighbourhood.

Driving through I always was more worried about keeping an eye out for kids or animals, rather than appreciating the architecture of these authentic buildings.

Unique and very different, houses downtown were filled with history, but also surrounded by beauty. Several times I stopped just to look at how nicely the yards were decorated, admiring the work people put into it.

The tour was filled with little fun facts, and also had some trivia questions along the way to make it a bit more fun. It braided the names of people who built Estevan into the city landscape, connected the history with real places and filled the neighbourhood with meaningful stories. The first local mayors, and entrepreneurs, craftsmen and

artists appear on the front steps of the houses as I was listening to the stories of D.C. Dunbar, the editor of the Estevan Mercury, and famous poet Eli Mandel attending services in a local synagogue, as I was learning which house was considered Estevan’s most stunning, how the house of the builder who built half of Estevan looked, and which building probably saw the most sales in the entire community.

Once I approached the courthouse, I decided to take a little break and enjoy the shade on the bench, while still listening about a few attractions nearby. When the guide started on the story of Black Tuesday, the 1931 riot, I closed my eyes and with the noise from construction, I could easily see the miners standing at that corner, fighting for their rights and for the rights of many generations to come.

When I was nearing the completion of the tour I received a bonus – my fitness tracker vibrated celebrating that I reached my daily step goal. The official length of the tour is 2.75 kilometres, but I made a few loops when walking around buildings trying to see some details or just visualizing Estevan pioneers living there.

After a beautiful afternoon out on the town, my inner historian instantly started demanding more.

And while one tour was enough for the day, the next plan was already in place, as Tourism Estevan has also developed the Backroads of Estevan Tour.

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The building hosting the Drewitz School of Dance was used by the Estevan Public Library before, but probably not too many people remember its original purpose.

Rooks’ house is one of the only four stone structures in Estevan and is also one of the oldest.

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