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And They’re Off Runners who participated in the Estevan Police Service’s inaugural half-marathon on Sunday bolt down the new Chamney Running Track at Panteluk Athletic Field.

Proceeds from the event will be used to purchase tickets so local youth can attend the 2016 Saskatchewan Summer Games in Estevan. For more on the half-marathon, see page 4. David Willberg photo.

College moving forward with housing project

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

The Southeast College continues to forge ahead with its affordable housing initiative, although they haven’t been proceeding with the same sense of urgency as they were previously.

An expression of interest was issued by the college in June. Companies were encouraged to submit bids for the project, which would be located on land located near the college’s Saskatchewan Energy Training Institute (SETI) in Estevan.

The land has been provided by the City of Estevan, with the proviso that work has to begin by 2017.

Many of the units in the affordable housing project would be reserved for the college’s students. The college has repeatedly cited a lack of affordable housing as a hindrance to enrolments at SETI. College president and CEO Dion McGrath said they received three bids for the housing project, and have had detailed discussions with all three firms. The college wanted to know if the project terms they had in mind were acceptable, or if there were any red flags with the contractors.

“In the course of that conversa-

tion with each of the bidders, we concluded that they all could do the work. However, as part of our due diligence, we continued to look at the Estevan housing market,” McGrath told the Mercury.

McGrath says the project has not been shelved and it is not on hold.

They continue to do the necessary work, but they aren’t moving at the same pace as they were a year ago.

“The work is still going to take place,” said McGrath.

The firms haven’t indicated if they would still be on board once the college is ready to move forward with the affordable housing project, but McGrath expects that when the college issues a tender on the project again, the companies will show interest.

With the current state of the economy, most notably the lack of activity in the energy sector, the vacancy rate in Estevan has jumped to around 20 per cent. When the college first started to study the feasibility of an affordable housing project, there were few vacancies to be found in the city.

The cost of rental housing in Estevan has remained high, but it has softened somewhat from a couple of years ago when Estevan was home to the highest average rent in the country.

“So we have stopped the current

expression of interest process,” said McGrath. “We need to be cognizant of the current environment, but we want to be ready for what we anticipate will be the rebound of activity in the energy sector, when that happens.”

The college is continuing to develop the project and refine its terms, so that when the price of oil starts to climb again, they will be in a position to move the project forward.

McGrath doesn’t want to see the college in a position like it was previously, when learners who came in for courses couldn’t find a place to live.

All of the out-of-town students who have registered for a course at the college this fall have found suitable accommodations.

“From what I can gather, the market is a little more inviting for students,” said McGrath. “I know some of the hotels have created some specials to attract students to their premises as well.”

In previous years, students were living in trailers or tents on the SETI campus’ parking lot because they couldn’t find accommodations in Estevan.

“Those are examples of why we felt we had to do something to provide more affordable accommodations in the first place,” said McGrath.

New CT Scan to begin running in November

By Sam Macdonald smacdonald@estevanmercury.ca

St. Joseph’s Hospital will soon be home to the first computerized tomography (CT) scan in Estevan. The machine itself has yet to be installed, since the room to contain it still is being prepared.

According to executive director Greg Hoffort, the necessary steps to install the unit, and all the necessary infrastructure to accompany it, are proceeding at a good pace.

“We’re expecting the room to be complete next week, and then they’ll start the installation of the equipment, itself,” said Hoffort. “We’ll be going live in November, if everything goes according to plan, and it’s going to bring a whole new dynamic to the health care process in Estevan.

We’re quite excited about it.”

Once the CT scan unit is in place, Hoffort said the machine will be run through a series of tests, while staff receive training to operate it, since everything else required to commission the room and the machine are done.

“It’s something the community has needed for a while.

We’ve sought after one for a long time. Within the last few years, the hospital, along with the support of the Southeast Health committee and our member municipalities, put in a very strong proposal to the province, and to the Ministry of Health,” said Hoffort. “After a great deal of deliberation, the proposal was approved. It’s exciting stuff.”

According to a news release from Sun Country Health Region, the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation committed $2 million to the project, an amount that covers the cost of the equipment, renovations to the hospital and some of the startup costs of the project as a whole. The amount was raised from donors and included contributions Pad ⇢ A2

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Sun Country board has three new members The Sun Country Regional Health Authority (SCRHA) has three new members.

The appointments of Marilynn Garnier of Redvers, Brian Romaniuk of Carlyle and Leigh Rosengren of Midale were announced on Monday. Garnier will be the SCHRA’s vice-chair. Marilyn Charlton of Weyburn will remain the chairperson.

“The RHA has operated with only six members for quite some time,” said Sun Country Health Region president and CEO Marga Cugnet. “It will be helpful to have a larger complement of members, as well as the different perspectives that come from different areas of the region.”

The SCHRA serves as the governing body for the health region.

Rosengren is a self-employed veterinary epidemiologist and cattle producer who believes serving on the SCRHA is an opportunity to understand how health care decisions are made. She looks forward to gaining the experience of working on a large governing authority.

“I was approached with the opportunity, and I think it’s important to be involved in our community and give

Leigh Rosengren is a new member of the Sun Country Regional Health Authority. Submitted photo. back wherever we can,” Rosengren told the Mercury. “My opinion is that education and health care are the two most important things that our government

gives us, so the opportunity to give back in health care was huge.”

She believes her medical background is one reason she will be a good fit with the authority. But it will be her first foray into a health board.

Rosengren wants to attend meetings and learn more about the health region before she tries to make any changes.

“My most important job will be to get on board and understand what their issues are, rather than to go in there with an agenda,” said Rosengren.

She looks forward to building a relationship with the board members, and learning from their experiences.

Rosengren spoke with Sun Country board chair Marilyn Charlton of Weyburn before the appointment was announced.

Charlton stressed the value of having people from across the region at the board table, and her desire to have members with varied backgrounds.

“They want people who come from a background in accounting, some with legal experience and some with a medical background,” said Rosengren. “I hope to bring a different perspective to the board.

I live in a rural community, and I think it’s important to make sure we can retain services across the region.”

Romaniuk is a general contractor, carpenter and councillor with Carlyle Town Council. He is particularly interested in facility use and the governing of health care.

Garnier recently retired as CEO of the Redvers Activity Centre, a program for adults with developmental disabilities.

She has always been interested in health care governance and wants to learn how health decisions are made while contributing to the region’s governance.

SCRHA members who have been reappointed are Charlton, Robert Brickley of Kennedy, Derrell Rodine of Tribune, Karen Stephenson of Weyburn and Gary St. Onge of Estevan.

Health authority members are appointed by the lieutenant governor-incouncil. Each member holds office for a term of three years, and then the member is reappointed or the appointment is cancelled. The lieutenant governor-incouncil designates the chair and the vice-chair.

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The Ministry of Health will contribute over $1 million for the annual operating cost of the machine, taking over once the startup phase is complete.

The CT scan performs X-ray tests that show cross sections of the body, and is a powerful diagnostic tool for physicians. Hoffort noted that bringing one to St. Joseph’s Hospital will help doctors in Estevavn more effectively and quickly diagnose particular medical conditions. Hoffort said the expansion of services a CT scan entails will allow medical staff to meet patient needs more efficiently, particularly in emergencies, since it allows for more accurate diagnoses.

“It’s extensively used in the determination of stroke and for the stroke protocol. It can be used to

scan a person who has been in a severe accident, for head or body trauma,” said Hoffort. “It’s got a multiple array of uses.”

Hoffort noted that right now, anyone in need of the service a CT scan provides must travel to Regina, where the closest CT scan to Estevan is located.

“The logistics of that one aren’t that great, in terms of inconvenience and from a health care perspective,” said Hoffort.

“It makes it that much more needed in Estevan, and we’re very pleased we’ve been able to make it happen.”

The Ministry of Health stated in a media release, that the demand for CT scan services in Saskatchewan has increased, with 22 per cent more CT scans taking place in the province since 2008-09.

The machine coming to St. Joseph’s Hospital is part of a broader effort on the part of the ministry to increase service capacity in southern Saskatchewan,

and to reduce diagnostic wait times by half in the province by 2019.

Construction for the new CT scan began several weeks ago, with a series of renovations. Rather than build a new wing onto the hospital, an already existing area in the diagnostic imaging department of the

building is being outfitted to accommodate the new machine and equipment.

“A few weeks ago, we started with the demolition process, removing some unnecessary walls, mechanical and electrical structures, and the like,” said Hoffort. “That was step one. We started build-

ing the appropriate walls where they were required to house the unit after that.”

After the new walls went up, the room was outfitted with lead lining, to insulate the rest of the hospital from the radiation that the machine produces when in use. As of early this week, a pad upon

which the CT scan will sit was in place, and painting was completed. Work on a nearby separate operation booth, and the necessary electrical equipment are also nearing completion.

On the progress as a whole, Hoffort concluded, “It’s rounding into shape really nicely.”

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By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

Southeast College and Saskatchewan Polytechnic have reached an agreement that creates new and enhanced skills training opportunities for students in southeastern Saskatchewan – an arrangement that is the first of its kind in the province.

The two sides announced the pact on Sept. 30 at the college’s Saskatchewan Energy Training Institute (SETI) in Estevan. Southeast College president and CEO Dion McGrath, and Dr. Larry Rosia, who holds the same duties with Sask. Polytechnic, participated in the signing of the memorandum of understanding.

As part of the arrangement, the two institutions will share their knowledge and resources to train additional skilled workers, so they can fill labour shortages in industries such as energy and mining.

“Meeting the needs of students and meeting the needs of employers are two of Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s top priorities,” said Rosia. “We want to make sure our students succeed, and we want to provide skilled graduates for the labour market.”

Rosia said the arrangement allows Sask. Polytechnic to do a better job of getting their name out across the province. They are also able to deliver the full breadth of its programming and opportunities to industry and the region.

“We will be able to help them put programs and solutions together to satisfy those needs, whether it be certified programs, short courses, refresher courses, upgrader courses – whatever industry needs and whatever the students out here need in the way of education and training, we’ll be able to respond,” Rosia told the Mercury.

The agreement with Southeast College serves both students and employers, and provides opportunities that didn’t exist previously.

“We have a long-standing partnership with Sask. Polytech,” said McGrath. “We broker 12 of their programs. We bring them to the southeast part of the province.

“It’s their program and the brokerage model, which is what the government has created. It emphasizes that it’s the college’s responsibility to identify labour market needs, and get the training in place from the Sask. Polytech, for example, to meet those labour market demands.”

The college will continue with the brokerage model, McGrath said. But the new agreement sets a path for delivering programs beyond the model.

“It’s going to be more efficient, it’s going to be more effective, and it should reduce a lot of the transaction costs that the brokerage model has in it,” said McGrath. “It’s about combining our expertise and Sask. Polytechnic’s expertise so that we can both deliver that program in the most efficient and economical way possible.”

As part of the brokerage agreement, the college identified regional training needs through employers, and hired local instructors to provide Sask. Polytechnic curriculum.

“Increasingly, Saskatchewan Polytechnic and Southeast College will be pooling our resources,” said Rosia.

“We’ll be pooling our expertise, and we’ll be working more effectively and more collaboratively to provide industryresponsive training and programming in this region.”

Discussions of the new approach started with an idea, McGrath said, on how the college can do things differently and more efficiently, while benefitting learners and employers. The two sides met for the first time about a year ago to share their ideas.

Rosia said he spoke several times with McGrath about

Saskatchewan Polytechnic president and CEO Dr. Larry Rosia, left, and his cohort from Southeast College, Dion McGrath, sign the memorandum of understanding for the new partnership between the two institutions. doing things differently, not only for students who want to for the southeast.

Eventually, Sask. Polytechnic might be able to offer train close to home, but to provide more skilled workers for the southeast. McGrath added the two institutions work well the full breadth of its programming at Southeast College.

According to Rosia, Sask. Polytechnic has hundreds together and they already have an excellent partnership.

“For our college, I hope this is the first of a number of brokerage agreements with colleges across the province. of these types of agreements,” said McGrath. “Our objec- He believes the partnership with the Southeast College tive as a college is to bring educational opportunities to has the potential to be a model for their partnerships with the learners of southeast Saskatchewan. We’re pursuing a other colleges in the province, since this partnership will allow Sask. Polytechnic number of these types of to do things differently, arrangements, and hopeand be more responsive fully, in the months ahead to industry. … we’re going to see “We have some more of these opportunipretty interesting ideas ties announced.” that we’re just fleshA power engineering out right now,” said ing second class course Rosia. will be offered locally If they can deliver this fall, so students althe services they believe ready working within Southeast College president and they can offer in souththe industry can take a east Saskatchewan, then refresher course and upCEO Dion McGrath it’s something that can grade their skills. The two institutions are currently involved in the quality assurance be emulated elsewhere, so the entire post-secondary system measures for that program to deliver certification exams can work together to bring the full extent of their expertise to the learners of Saskatchewan. later this year.

The arrangement should also allow the college to make “We’re exploring the option of offering Year 1 of the environmental engineering technology program at the better use of its space at the Saskatchewan Energy Training Estevan campus,” said Rosia. “Right now we offer that Institute (SETI). Since the SETI opened in 2012, there have program at our Moose Jaw campus, and we’re looking at been some concerns about whether the building is being expanding our civil engineering technician program at the used to its full potential.

The college’s classes offered at SETI have been operatEstevan campus.”

McGrath said the two sides are still in the midst of ing at about 40 per cent capacity.

“From our perspective, that was one of the motivating identifying the programs that will be offered locally. Sask.

Polytechnic has the curriculum, while the college brings factors,” said McGrath. “We wanted to get better utilization together the learner demand and labour market demand out of this wonderful facility.”

“For our college, I hope this is the first of a number of these types of agreements.”

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Innaugural police half-marathon attracts runners and walkers

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Police Service (EPS) expects their 21-kilometre halfmarathon will become an annual event, thanks to the support shown for this year’s first event.

Twenty-four runners, seven three-person relay teams and eight walkers registered for Sunday’s inaugural event. The runners and walkers each went the full distance, while the relay teams divided the 21 kilometres among three participants.

The walkers departed Estevan’s new track and field facility south of the Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) at 7:30 a.m.

Runners and relay participants began an hour later.

Police Chief Paul Ladouceur said they were pleased with the turnout and the community support.

“Throughout the route, we saw some residents out on the lawns and on the side of the street, out cheering the runners on,”

Ladouceur told the Mercury.

The half-marathon was billed as a fun event for participants, and results were not released by police. Results were not immediately posted to the website of the Running Room, which has results and other information from running events.

The track served as the start-finish point. Participants opened by walking or running around the 400-metre track.

The bulk of halfmarathon, though, came through two laps of a circuit that covered much of north Estevan. Participants went west on Albert Street, north on Souris Avenue North, west on Wellock Road, south on Sister Roddy Road, east and north on Nicholson Road, and then back to the Comp. by using Wellock, Souris and Albert.

The final few kilometres took them west on Albert Street to Victoria Avenue, south on Victoria to Henry Street, and east on Henry until they returned to ECS. They

finished the half-marathon by completing one final lap around the track.

It was the first official athletic event to incorporate the new track, and Ladouceur was pleased they could use the track in the half-marathon.

“People have already asked if there’s going to be one next year, and we’ve had a lot of comments from people saying ‘It’s so nice to have something like this in our own community,’” said Ladouceur. “It definitely exceeded our expectations for the first one, and it’s definitely something we can see returning on an annual basis.”

A barbecue lunch was served after the half-marathon was finished.

Ladouceur doesn’t think the weather hindered the event. Temperatures were around 7 C, and there was sporadic light rain throughout the morning.

Th er e w er e a f ew people who signed up but didn’t make it to the event, but they also had some people show up who didn’t pre-register.

The half-marathon

Several walkers were part of the half-marathon hosted by the Estevan Police Service. raised an estimated $2,900.

Proceeds from the event and the EPS open house in mid-August, will be used to purchase tickets for young people to attend the 2016 Saskatchewan Summer Games in Estevan.

“It’s going to be a great way to get some of these kids out who normally wouldn’t make it to the Games, or who don’t necessarily have the funds to buy tickets,” said Ladouceur. “It’s a great sup-

porting venture for the Games, and I think it’s important for the community to support the Games.”

Ladouceur expects they will be able to present all the proceeds later this month.

Sun Country board convenes following summer Members of the Sun Country Regional Health Authority (SCRHA) gathered in Weyburn on Sept. 30 for their first meeting following the summer.

Among the topics they discussed was the 2015 influenza vaccination campaign, which will begin on Oct. 19. Dates and locations for the clinics will be posted on the health region’s website and on local posters. Anyone at least six months of age can receive the vaccine and is encouraged to be vaccinated early in the season.

The Sun Country Health Region (SCHR) says the flu vaccine is a safe,

effective way for people to protect themselves and those close to them during the flu season.

Vaccination is especially important for people who are at a high risk of serious complications from influenza, like pregnant women, young children, the elderly, persons with underlying health conditions, immune-compromised people and their caregivers.

The SCHR has also announced the dates and locations for the two meetings of their community network to discuss local health care issues with the public. The first

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meeting will be Nov. 18 at Kenosee Lake and the other will be the next night in Weyburn. Both meetings will begin at 7 p.m.

Invitations will be sent to the regional partners in the urban and rural municipalities.

The health region reported there has been a 50 per cent improvement in the number of patients visiting primary health care teams in the region, reducing the need for them to attend local emergency departments. The result has been a 10 per cent reduction in the number of patients visiting emergency departments with conditions that could be seen in a doctor or nurse practitioner’s office.

SCRHA members found out the region had a $1.4 million surplus in their operations at the end of July. John Knoch, the health region’s vice-president of corporate and finance, noted the amount represents about three days’ worth of operating funds for the region.

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Purposeful rounding, a revised process that requires staff to make hourly contact with long-term care residents, is being implemented in long-term care facilities in the region. Cugnet said interaction with residents has increased, and the desired outcomes are being achieved in the facilities, which have started the new process.

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“A lot of factors go into the identification of a location, including making room for a helipad to allow STARS (the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society Air Ambulance) to operate,” said Cugnet. “We don’t have approval to proceed to construction, but we will keep the public informed as we move along. The process is similar to that used for the three long-term care projects built in the region over the past four years.”

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Fall legislature sitting opens Oct. 13, will lack a throne speech

By Sam Macdonald smacdonald@estevanmercury.ca

The fall sitting of the Saskatchewan Legislature is coming up, where a number of critical provincial legal matters will be discussed and debated at great length.

The Government of Saskatchewan’s website states that this sitting will be the last before the 2016 provincial election.

The sitting will begin Oct. 13, but will not open with a throne speech — a fact that hasn’t been overlooked by the participating parties. Press documentation from the Saskatchewan Green party argues that the lack of a throne speech entails a lack of vision or planning for Saskatchewan people and the future of the province.

“The Speech from the Throne is supposed to reveal the overall direction of the government,” said party leader Victor Lau, in the statement. “It’s a mistake to have a fall sitting and not lay out an ambitious agenda for the people.”

Trent Wotherspoon, deputy leader of the Saskatchewan NDP and MLA for Regina Rosemont, called the lack of a throne speech a disappointing departure from past sittings, noting that it indicates a government that’s “running out of steam and ideas,” and lacking accountability, when it comes to laying out a plan where resources should be allocated.

Estevan Saskatchewan Party MLA Doreen Eagles described the lack of a throne speech for the upcoming sitting as unusual. She noted that the fall sitting will be operating on the premises and goals of the previous sitting’s speech.

In a media release on the Government of Saskatchewan’s website, Premier Brad Wall stated this session will lack a throne speech, because it’s a continuation of the 2014-15 session of legislature, and not having one for this session will give MLAs more time to debate new legislation introduced by the government, something he believes is necessary.

“The normal process is to introduce bills in the fall sitting and pass them in the spring sitting,” said Wall. “However, there will be no spring sitting until after the election. There are a few pieces of legislation we want to pass before the election, so we are deviating from the normal calendar just a bit, to provide

more time to debate those bills.”

Eagles noted that the upcoming session will be a 25-day sitting, dealing with a few new things that have come up in the past season. A prominent topic of discussion will be an announcement of intentions regarding the recent farmland ownership consultations. Eagles has a number of goals going into the upcoming session, particularly in the case of laws relating to farmland ownership.

The sitting will entail decisions on how to regulate the sale of farmland, and questions of eligibility to purchase land, rules relating to government farmland transactions and the appropriate level of government funding and enforcement

response to recommendations that come from an inquiry into a conflict of interest in the RM of Sherwood, relating to the province’s essential services law.

Essential services legislation, in fact, is another topic Eagles plans on discussing at the upcoming sitting, since it continues to be an ongoing political conversation.

“Our government remains committed to protecting essential public services like health care and highway safety in the event of a strike. I think it’s imperative that people can expect that these essential services are available every day,” said Eagles. “We’re working on requirements as set out by the Supreme Court, and

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for such transactions. All of the laws and discussion surrounding them stem from a series of landowner consultations that took place over the past spring and summer, from mid-May to the end of August.

“It affects all of rural Saskatchewan, and therefore cities too. We have to see what the results are, and go from there,” said Eagles. “I know what my people have told me locally, (and) I’m going to fight for that.”

Priorities for the Saskatchewan Party in the upcoming session, according to the party website, include a bill introduced last spring to reduce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) wait times, by allowing private MRIs in the province, and an assortment of amendments to various municipal acts. These amendments are in

there’ll be debates on that in the house.

It’ll be a continuation of last year.”

Wotherspoon said the NDP will be focusing on issues that matter to the people of Saskatchewan, putting forward an agenda that was done thorough doorto-door consultation with Saskatchewan families.

In a call with the Mercury, Wotherspoon was particularly critical of the government’s handling of cost-of-living pressures for Saskatchewan families.

“These take directly out of the quality of life of Saskatchewan people. So many are working hard just to keep up,” said Wotherspoon. “There are all sorts of hikes to the cost of living where wages have been really flat, (and) we want to make life a little more affordable, making smart investments addressing the high

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The main topics the NDP will focus on include emergency room wait times across the province, seniors’ care, and education.

“When you look at education, this government has failed students and the next generation by not supporting proper education,” said Wotherspoon. “We see classrooms with more then 30 kids in them, cuts to educational assistants. Education needs to become a priority and our students need to be supported.”

Another area of focus for the NDP will be government spending accountability, criticizing what he calls the government’s “pet projects.” The NDP has a long-term fiscal accountability and management bill that they will continue to push for, in the upcoming session.

“It’s related to P3 accountability and transparency, requiring the government to be upfront, reporting full costs and comparisons,” said Wotherspoon.

The deputy NDP leader noted that another objective for the the party in next week’s sitting is to improve economic procurement in Saskatchewan, to keep big contracts and the economic opportunity they entail in Saskatchewan, and to strengthen economic conditions in the province.

Eagles noted that she’s not sure what sorts of questions will be coming up in the legislature because “legislature is a day-by day-thing. You never know where they’re going to come from.”

“Last year, it was predominantly seniors’ care in long-term care homes, and healthcare. It’s hard to say where the discussion will go this fall,” she added.

Eagles described the upcoming sitting as bittersweet, since it will the last one she attends as MLA. She is retireing from the position, with no intention to seek reelection, at the drop of the writ of the next provincial election.

“I’ve been so honoured and humbled to represent the people of this constituency for the last 16 plus years. I’m proud of the people of this constituency,” said Eagles. “They fight for what they want, and they do it in a very respectful and honourable manner. It doesn’t get any better than that. I thank them for the privilege of allowing me to serve for them.”

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EDITORIAL

Boundary Dam one year later It’s been a little more than a year since delegates from around the world gathered at the Boundary Dam Power Station for the grand opening of the integrated carbon capture and storage project – the first of its kind in the world.

The project has endured a roller coaster ever since.

There have been many highs.

Global leaders, including a U.S. Republican presidential candidate, have extolled the virtues of the project and its cutting edge technology.

Unit 3 at Boundary Dam, which was retrofitted with carbon capture technology, has generated more power than expected.

There have also been numerous awards, including the Edison Electrical Institute’s Edison Award, which is one of the most prestigious honours in power generation. Even National Geographic took notice

by naming Boundary Dam’s CCS initiative one of 10 energy breakthroughs that could change the world.

But there have also been the obstacles and challenges, including the replacement of a key component in the carbon capture island. There have been multiple shutdowns in the past year, as SaskPower and its crews try to rectify the glitches.

You should expect some hiccups when dealing with state-of-the-art technology, and they will hopefully be corrected, but it could be more problems than SaskPower would have liked.

SaskPower also has to decide their next step.

Sometime in 2016, the Crown utility will have to determine the future of Units 4 and 5 at Boundary Dam. Will they retrofit the two units with clean coal technology, like they did Unit 3, or will they mothball

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

Sitting sets stage for spring vote The house business that needs to be cleaned up before the next provincial election hardly merits the 25-day fall sitting that begins next week.

By all measure, the handful of bills Premier Brad Wall’s government will bring forward in the fall sitting can be categorized as house cleaning, or worse yet, politicking.

That said, a couple of bills we will see this fall will be important to rural Saskatchewan voters in particular.

One such bill will be the much-anticipated changes to the Farmland Security Act. You have already heard lots about this issue. Some of the opinions are based on legitimate concerns and others are on some less legitimate concerns.

Saskatchewan’s Progressive Conservative (PC) leader Rick Swenson raised concerns this spring about appointments to the Saskatchewan Farm Land Security Board.

He suggested the board regulating foreign land ownership should consist of representatives from the Agricultural Pro-

them, like they did with Units 1 and 2?

When SaskPower closed Units 1 and 2, it was an inevitable measure, as it wasn’t cost-effective to retrofit them.

Staff were shuffled to other areas of the plant. But if Units 4 and 5 close down, the local repercussions could be significant.

It’s expected the scope of the retrofit at Units 4 and 5 would not be the same as Unit 3. Each would not generate as much power as Unit 3, and the project cost would not be as high.

Coal remains the most cost-efficient and reliable method to generate electricity. It’s more affordable than nuclear, most predictable than natural gas, and more reliable than renewables. We need to find a way to keep coal in the power generation equation, since the days are numbered

ducers Association of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association, the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association, the Saskatchewan Realtors’ Association and the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation.

It’s a solid enough recommendation that one hopes the Saskatchewan Party would follow.

More pertinent, however, is how the new law might address large institutional purchases of swaths of farmland like we saw in 2013, with the sale of 115,000 acres owned by Assiniboia Farmland Partnership to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) for $128 million.

Whether such sales should be allowed because it leaves farmers competing against their own tax dollars to buy land is an issue in need of clarity.

Notwithstanding, whatever motivation he might have had for raising this issue that happens to involve political rivals in the Sask. Party and close associates who are either involved in the deal or now working for the government, Swenson has forced the government to address this important question.

Of similar importance to rural people in particular will be changes to the Municipal Act – changes emerging from the inquiry into conflict of interest with the Rural Municipality of Sherwood council.

Fortunately, not all rural, town or small-city councils have run into the mess we have seen in the rural municipality surrounding Regina that sure seemed to have grand ambitions when it came to its own development.

for conventional and compliant coal technologies in North America.

Carbon capture and storage allows coal to remain relevant. While other jurisdictions that rely on coal haven’t jumped on board with CCS, many of them are still investigating the technology to see if it suits them.

Unit 3 has been a success in a lot of ways. It hasn’t changed the world just yet, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen one day. And it has been far more effective than its critics say, but that’s because many of them want nothing to do with coal.

We can only hope that the other units at Boundary Dam, along with the Shand Power Station, have a similar future to Unit 3. It would be a shame, and a financial boondoggle, if Unit 3 becomes a one-off project.

But these changes may be important to rural people because they may offer clarity to the rules and responsibilities of smaller governments that have found their world increasingly complex in the growing Saskatchewan of past decade.

There are a couple other things of less direct interest for rural voters, but of huge political interest when it comes to the provincial vote that lies ahead.

One such bill to be tabled by Premier Brad Wall’s government will allow private MRIs. While one might expect most of these to be located in the cities, the issue may help define the difference between the NDP and the Sask. Party when the province goes to the polls next April 4.

In that vein, the most interesting development may be what Wall won’t do – proceed with changes to the publicly owned liquor stores in Saskatchewan.

At last week’s caucus retreat at Moose Jaw’s Mosaic Place, Wall vowed that he would not make any such move until he gets a new mandate from the voters in the spring.

However, the premier said his party will offer a clear, concise position on liquor store ownership in the spring.

We also know we will soon see the results of the government’s public input study into the liquor ownership question that took place this spring.

Again, this discussion is designed to underline the difference between the Sask.

Party and the NDP. It will be light housekeeping in the legislative assembly this fall, but it may tell us something about the expected messy election six months from now.

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Counting down the days It’s day No. 66 David Willberg of the federal election campaign. I’ve seen the “Justin – He’s just not ready” television attack ad against Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau only 714 times since the campaign began. (Admittedly, I don’t watch much TV).

There were times when I was tempted to throw my remote through the television when I saw the ad twice during the same commercial break.

I’ve also watched Trudeau’s bland rebuttal ad, Tom Mulcair’s effort to counter the “angry Tom” reputation he has earned over the years, and a truly putrid effort by a union to target Prime Minister Stephen Harper with a “he’s just not ready” ad. (Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery).

There have been English language debates that proved to be interesting, but lacked the knockout punch. There were a couple French language debates, but I skipped those because I didn’t have my French-English dictionary from my French immersion years handy.

Sixty-six days down. Twelve to go.

While the campaign has been long, it has had its captivating and unpredictable moments. For the first time in history, there are three parties that have a legitimate shot of forming government.

At the start of the campaign, it appeared Mulcair’s New Democratic Party (NDP) might break through the electoral glass ceiling and form government. There was even an expectation they might ride an “Orange Wave” to a majority government.

Then it became a dead heat among the three parties, as they were hovering around 30 per cent support. Currently the Liberals and the Tories are taking turns assuming the role of front-runner, but nobody is ruling out the NDP. For those who believe in voting for the party and not for the candidate, it reinforces the need to vote on Oct. 19.

There could also be strategic voting, as people could vote against a party. There’s the “Stop Harper” crowd who will cringe in the Tories win, the “Justin’s Not Ready” crowd who fear the potential diplomatic black eyes caused by Prime Minister Trudeau Jr., and the people who are worried about the fiscal policies of Mulcair and the NDP. Hopefully, the tight race will yield the highest voter turnout since 1997, when 67 per cent of eligible voters exercised their democratic right.

Regardless of what happens, Canadians can look forward to a minority government.

For those who share my belief in voting for the candidate who will do the best job of representing the constituency, we’ll have a different focus. One of the factors can be voting for the candidate who will be part of government, but since three parties still have a legitimate shot, that strategy might not be the best idea.

Two candidates in Souris-Moose Mountain have established themselves as strong choices. Dr. Robert Kitchen is trying to keep the constituency in Tory hands.

He’s a well-respected individual in the Estevan area who has had a presence in other parts of the region through his chiropractor practice.

This riding is a Tory stronghold, and the common belief was that Kitchen would face a stiffer challenge from the Tory nomination meeting than the election itself.

But Vicky O’Dell of the NDP has been very impressive throughout the campaign. She has shown a strong work ethic and a desire to be the next MP. For the first time in over a decade, an NDP or Liberal candidate isn’t taking defeat for granted.

As for the other candidates, the Green Party’s Bob Deptuck is providing his typical game effort, while the Liberals’ Steve Bebbington has had little presence during the campaign.

Regardless of how you intend to vote, we all have 12 more days until election day Oct. 19. It can’t come soon enough.

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Letters to the Editor

Reader concerned with Trans-Pacific Partnership The Editor: Here we are in the middle of an official election period. This is a period in which all important decisions are supposed to be delayed until after the election.

And yet, Prime Minister Stephen Harper again flouts rules and traditions, and is proceeding full speed ahead with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade negotiations.

Why? Canadians have several reasons to be concerned. For example, all negotiations are taking place behind closed doors.

Another concern is 80 per cent of Canadian exports to these countries are raw or semi-processed goods, while 80 per cent of imports are high value-added goods. A good way to export good paying Canadian jobs, wouldn’t you say?

As well, leaked information confirms that the TPP includes an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism similar to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 11, which allows

rich countries to sue governments when policy decisions interfere with their investments. TPP will significantly increase the number of foreign investors eligible to sue Canada.

Seniors (and others) are going to suffer, too. The intellectual property chapter of the TPP could prove a disaster for efforts to control drug costs in Canada.

Farmers are next. Supply management is squarely in the TPP’s crosshairs. In July, again behind closed doors, negotiators gave the European Union an additional five per cent of our high-end cheese market, and Harper weakened Canada’s bargaining position by indicating willingness to reduce dairy tariffs and increase the tariff-free imports of milk.

Since the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Uruguay Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Canadian farmers’ share of our own dairy market has been nibbled away bit by bit through various trade deals. Isn’t the loss of 17,000 tonnes of cheese production to Europe with Comprehensive Eco-

nomic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the potential loss of 10 per cent of our market to the U.S. under TPP enough for Harper?

Unlike the U.S., Canada does not allow the growth hormone rBGH, which is used in the U.S. to increase dairy cows’ milk production, and our dairy farmers are not subsidized by the taxpayer. Supply management provides a fair return to farmers and a reasonably priced supply of fresh milk, eggs and poultry of food to consumers.

Unionized auto workers aren’t going to escape either. U.S. negotiators have reportedly agreed to lower the domestic content requirement to 30 per cent for auto parts and 45 per cent for vehicles. Presently, NAFTA says domestic content for auto parts and vehicles must be more than 60 per cent.

It appears that under the Harper government everything Canadian is up for sale at fire sale prices.

Joyce Neufeld Waldeck, SK

Your voter card is not ID The editor: Have you received your voter’s information card? Can you spot the statement, “Please note that this card is not a piece of ID?” Harry Neufeld is an Elections Canada expert who recommended that cards be recognized as ID. When he found out the Fair Elections Act does not recognize them, he wrote, “It can be anticipated that many tens of thousands of

otherwise fully qualified voters will simply be unable to meet the new attestationof-residence requirements.”

These will include fully qualified voters like people without fixed addresses, students on campus, First Nations on reserves and seniors in retirement homes.

As a rural resident, I’ve heard conflicting information about whether or not I need ID with my land location on it. After checking online to confirm that I’m

registered with my land location, I’m playing it safe.

I’m taking my power bill with my name and land location because my driver’s license just has my mailing address.

So I’m safe but what about my two adult children who sadly aren’t named on the power bill? New rules say I can vouch for only one person in the polling station, so I can vouch for only one child.

Shouldn’t Elections

Canada be telling us about these changes? Sadly, another change is the Fair Elections Act eliminated Elections Canada’s mandate to engage the electorate.

I encourage you to play it safe. Visit the Elections Canada website or phone them to learn your three ID options and make sure when you go vote, that you can vote.

Nancy Carswell Shellbrook, SK

Election represents an opportunity The editor, Who is served by suppressing information?

Discontinuing the long form census means there won’t be any reliable data collection regarding living conditions of Canadians. How then can government create good long-term policy?

Libraries at federal agriculture research facilities (like the stations at Swift Current and Lethbridge, Alberta,) have been closed. Librarians have been fired. Thousands of books, manuals, journals and research papers have been destroyed. Valuable archival papers dating back over 100 years are moved to neglected basement corners.

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This dumbing down of Canadians is happening as we enter a period of climate variability which has already caused political instability. This is precisely the wrong time to fire librarians, send research papers and books to the dumpsters, muzzle scientists and decrease the knowledge base.

Who is served? Not Canada or the Canadian public.

The 2015 general election is a chance to change direction – both an opportunity and a responsibility for everyone.

Stewart Wells Swift Current, SK

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Southeast leads province in harvest progress Warm and relatively dry weather has allowed many producers to return to the field and make harvest progress, according to the weekly crop report released by Saskatchewan Agriculture on Oct. 1.

Seventy-four per cent of the crop is now in the bin, while 19 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut. The five-year average (2010 to 2014) average for this time of year is 71 per cent combined and 20 per cent swathed or ready to straight-cut.

Regionally, producers in the southeast are furthest along, with 88 per cent of the crop combined. The five-year average for this time of year in the region is 68 per cent combined.

Farmers in the southeast were among those in Saskatchewan able to make big gains thanks to the favourable weather.

“Many producers have wrapped up harvest while others need more time to take off the remainder of the crop,” the crop report stated.

The largest amount of rain for the region in late September came in the Moosomin area, which received six millimetres. The Tantallon area holds the regional mark for the most rain since April 1 at 414 millimetres.

Cropland topsoil moisture is currently rated as two per cent surplus, 78 per cent adequate, 19 per cent short and one per cent very short. Meanwhile, hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as 67 per cent adequate, 32 per cent short and one per cent very short.

“The majority of crop damage this week was caused by strong winds and frost; however, damage is minimal in most cases as crops were mature. There are reports that swaths are slow to dry down in some areas and that some tough grain is being placed into aeration.”

Quality issues remain a concern due to the wet conditions this fall.

In addition to wrapping up harvest, southeast farmers are busy completing fall work such as spraying weeds and working fields.

As for the rest of the province, producers in the southwest have 85 per cent of the crop combined. Seventy per cent of

Producers in southeast Saskatchewan have made the most harvest progress in the province. File photo. the crop is combined in the west-central region, 66 per cent in the east-central region, 57 per cent in the northwest and 59 per cent in the northeast.

Eighty-seven per cent of the mustard, 79 per cent of the durum, 77 per cent of the barley, 72 per cent of the spring wheat, 70 per cent of the canola, 46 per cent of the soybeans and 33 per cent of the flax have been combined.

The majority of the province did not receive any rainfall in the final days of September. Topsoil moisture conditions on cropland across the province are rated as five per cent

surplus, 86 per cent adequate, eight per cent short and one per cent very short.

Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture conditions are rated as three per cent surplus, 76 per cent adequate, 18 per cent short and three per cent very short.

Many areas received frost this past week, although damage is minimal in most cases, as crops were mature. Weatherrelated quality issues continue to cause concern in most areas.

While overall yields are reported to be about average, they vary from region to region.

Saskatchewan’s minimum wage has increased Saskatchewan’s minimum wage has increased 30 cents to $10.50 an hour, effective Oct. 1.

The minimum wage has increased by 32 per cent since 2007. It was $7.95 an hour eight years ago.

“This increase reflects the growing economy and will benefit our province’s minimum wage earners,” said Don Morgan, the provincial Minister of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety.

The Government of

Saskatchewan previously announced the increase to the minimum wage in June, helping businesses prepare for the change.

Each year, minimum wage is reviewed using an indexation formula, which is based on equal weighting of the change in the Consumer Price Index and the average hourly wage for the previous year.

Changes are subject to cabinet approval and are to be announced by June 30 each year.

Any changes to the

minimum wage will take effect Oct. 1 every year.

There are approximately 23,800 minimum wage earners in Saskatchewan’s workforce.

The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party believes the province’s minimum wage shouldn’t be lower than Alberta and Manitoba’s, yet Saskatchewan’s 30-cent minimum wage jump will keep Saskatchewan behind those two provinces, along with Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec and the territories.

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“Housing, school fees, power bills, tuition and all the things we pay extra for these days have made the cost of living in Saskatchewan harder for everyone,” said NDP Labour critic David Forbes. “Someone who works two jobs shouldn’t have to use a food bank to put food on the table. Too many parents are forced to choose between food, school supplies or the power bill, and that’s not good for their families or for building healthy communities as a whole.”

Forbes said the NDP supports the current system of indexing the minimum wage, so automatic increases match the change in the Consumer Price

Index. But he said the governing Saskatchewan Party used a minimum wage lagging behind the rest of the country as the starting point, so indexation is keeping Saskatchewan behind rather than helping it get ahead.

Forbes said a one-time adjustment would catch Saskatchewan up to its neighbouring provinces.

The Saskatchewan Green Party also said the minimum wage didn’t go far enough. They want to see a guaranteed livable income (GLI) for all citizens to end poverty.

Green Party Leader Victor Lau says raising the minimum wage puts a strain on small busi-

ness owners, and not all Saskatchewan people will directly benefit from an increase in the minimum wage.

“The increase in the minimum wage only goes to those who are already minimum wage earners, whereas the GLI would go to each citizen of the province,” says Lau. “Increasing the minimum wage also increases the expenses of small businesses and makes it harder for them to hire more employees.”

Lau says the GLI will lift the poor in Saskatchewan out of poverty and give all citizens more disposable income to be spent in the local economy, including small businesses.

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Sun Country has healthy number of doctors

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In the last five years, Sun Country Health Region has come a long way, in terms of how many practicing physicians it now offers within its territory. The region has implemented a successful recruitment strategy, pushing the number of physicians from a 50 per cent overall vacancy with intermittent critical shortages in parts of the region, to ideal numbers of physicians practising in every part of the region.

“There was a critical shortage in Estevan, where there actually was one summer where we had to look to other doctors, helping with on-call coverage in Estevan,” said Marga Cugnet, CEO of Sun Country Health Region.

“We were down a few years, but there were five or six physicians that were only available for on-call duty. There were patients going to Weyburn, because they couldn’t access a family physician in Estevan in a timely fashion.”

A year later, in Weyburn, things got even more dire, when there were so few doctors that Sun Country almost needed to close the emergency room.

Cugnet stated Sun Country has officially recruited physicians into all the necessary positions, but also noted that doctors come and go, and positions inevitably open up again with time.

That being said, Sun Country has a process in place by which open positions left by departing physicians are filled more easily and efficiently.

The number of physicians practising in Estevan is now officially at a preferred number, with the addition of Doctor Mona Ali, who started in September.

“We’re replacing physicians in a more timely fashion. It used to be every one to two years if we were lucky enough to get a doctor,” said Cugnet, “Now, with various processes in place, it’s much easier to bring physicians, particularly in some of those vacant areas that are coming up.”

The success of Sun Country’s recruitment strategy was due to the work of the Physician Recruitment Agency of Saskatchewan (Saskdocs), in tandem with a strategy implemented by Sun Country: an enhanced recruitment department effort. While Saskdocs took measures of its own, provincewide, to increase the number of trained physicians staying in and moving to Saskatchewan, Sun Country hired on an employee specifically tasked with physician recruitment into the region.

Sun Country also implemented a physician bursary program offering

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Marga Cugnet, CEO of Sun Country Health Region. up to $100,000 to students who enter into a returnfor-service agreement requiring them to stay up to four years in a specific part of the region.

Another method the region used to recruit was

the Saskatchewan International Physician Assessment program (SIPA), a program that allows for assessment of the eligibility of internationally educated physicians. This offered the region a wider pool of talent from which to draw, and helped the region fill positions more easily. To date, Sun Country has one international physician who has returned to the region and two that plan on returning next spring.

“It does come and go.

Right now, I would say we have one vacancy in Radville,” said Cugnet.

“We had three doctors out there before, and now are down to two.”

While things are looking good, Cugnet noted that Sun Country is always on the lookout for physi-

physicians who have additional skills,” Cugnet said. “A general physician with anesthesia skill,

cians who have specialized skills in a particular area of medicine.

“We’re looking to see if we can find family

or a physician who is an obstetrician-gynecologist.

We ask ourselves ‘Do we have someone who can do cesarean sections and

obstetrical work?’”

Cugnet noted that major changes are in store for Weyburn, which also has an ideal number of physicians. Three of the four internationally educated physicians working in the city’s primary health clinic plan to relocate back to their home communities.

Sun Country’s successful recruitment continues, with three physicians already hired to replace the ones who plan to leave —one of whom will be arriving in January, and another in May. Cugnet said, “We’re sort of ahead of the game now, rather than behind it.”

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SaskPower’s CCS project marks its one-year anniversary

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

It’s been a little more than a year since the attention of the global energy community was turned to Estevan for the opening of a project that is the first of its kind in the world.

SaskPower celebrated the official launch of its integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant on Oct. 2, 2014, with about 250 people in attendance, including delegates from around the world. They were able to tour the capture island that was constructed as part of the project, and Unit 3 at Boundary Dam, which was retrofitted with clean coal technologies.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, who was among those at the launch, said the project should be a source of hope for other countries that rely on coal for power.

“Maybe coal, affordable coal, can continue to be part of a more sustainable energy mix here, and around the world,” said Wall.

Since that time, SaskPower has been busy promoting the plant and the technology. They have received visits from global leaders, and has been recognized by numerous publications and organizations.

The first group of visitors came just a couple weeks after the grand opening, when a group of diplomats visiting the province travelled to Estevan. Veselko Grubišić, the Croatian ambassador to Canada, called the CCS project “the Mount Everest of technology.”

But the most high-profile tour came in late August, when Boundary Dam received a U.S. congressional visit.

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is vying for the Republican presidential ticket, and Rhode Island Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse were joined

by South Carolina Republican Congressman Tom Rice.

They were impressed with the project.

“I would argue we need to rid our system of coal if we’re going to have the kind of life that human-kind has had for hundreds of generations … unless … technology like this can make coal clean. If it can, then we have a whole new set of opportunities and a much easier political solution,” Whitehouse said at the time.

The first award came late last year, when Boundary Dam was named Project of the Year in the coal category by two magazines, Power Engineering and Renewable Energy

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Then in June, it was revealed Boundary Dam and a project in Australia would share the Edison Electric Institute’s 2015 Edison Award. The award is the international electrical industry’s top honour.

“SaskPower’s Boundary Dam CCS Project is a great example of the electric power industry’s commitment to using cutting-edge technologies to provide affordable, reliable and increasingly clean energy to customers,” Edison Energy Institute president Tom Kuhn said at the time.

“The talented team at SaskPower is deserving of the Edison Award for its groundbreaking work on this innovative project that will benefit customers

and reduce emissions.”

SaskPower also released figures in February that showed Unit 3 at Boundary Dam was exceeding their expectations. It is generating 120 megawatts of power, compared to their hope of 110 megawatts. And the carbon dioxide purity was 99.9 per cent, compared to the projection of 95.5 per cent.

There have been challenges. The capture island has been shut down multiple times while SaskPower continues to work out the bugs associated with the technology. And a large cylinder inside the capture island was recently replaced, although it was under warranty with an outside supplier.

The CCS project is expected to capture one million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, greatly reducing the emissions that enter the atmosphere.

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Code’s first year has been eventful

By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca

Shane Code’s first year as the chief of the Estevan Fire and Rescue Service has been a busy one.

Not only has he had to handle the usual assortment of tasks associated with being the chief, but he has also implemented a number of changes.

One of the biggest has come in their recruitment process. While the fire department is always looking for applicants, the timing of the screening process has changed.

When Code first arrived, the fire department would hire applicants at any time.

Prospective firefighters could learn through reading textbooks, and by teaching and instruction on Monday nights.

Code said they now have application intakes in the spring and the fall. They do interviews, with questions around specific firefighter competencies.

“We are looking for the right candidate and the right fit,” said Code. “We understand there isn’t a huge lineup at our door, and volunteerism is way down. Even though the firefighters are paid on-call, we consider it essentially a volunteer position.

“But we’re looking for people who genuinely want to do the work and do the time commitment.”

Interviews were expected to begin in early October and continue until the middle of the month.

Successful applicants will undergo a 40-hour course on evenings and weekends

to ensure they’re trained, safe, capable and ask around competency, teamwork and competent. Code and Deputy fire Chief leadership.”

Dale Feser have designed the program.

Code said they currently have about Code said a paid on-call firefighter can 22 active firefighters. He would like to face a significant time and resource com- see more people join, and eventually he mitment. Families would like to have a need to be prepared to roster of more than 30 support the firefighter, firefighters. and the firefighters “I’d like to inneed to understand crease our volume so they will be called that when we have a out on evenings and large fire, a large diweekends. saster or we need the “With the oil help, there are more downturn, people are resources to draw nervous with their on,” said Code. employers,” said The firefighters Code. “They don’t are a good group of want to skip away people. They receive from work.” really good training Family and work and equipment, but come first, he said. also life skills they Code said they can use at home and Fire Chief Shane Code tried the system for on the job. the first time in the spring. They had eight “I like to refer to the fire department applicants and accepted three to join the as a community that serves itself,” he said. department. One of them dropped out The department has also modified about two weeks later. The other two, Wes its aerial truck to be better equipped. The Beacom and Mike Hannan, have been aerial truck, which arrived in 2012, is the exemplary.

No. 2 truck in the fire department’s fleet, Hannan had a previous stint with the but it was not fully equipped for firefightdepartment, while Beacom is a rookie. ing purposes.

“It’s nice to have a selection of folks If there’s a large fire, then Code said to choose from, and basically top-ranked engine 1-8 and other trucks would be called candidates get taken first,” said Code. out. But that would leave Estevan without “That depends on a lot of things, like another fully-equipped truck if another fire their training, their background and those broke out. competency-based questions where we “We’ve made sure we have two trucks

with equipment to be appropriately ready to respond as the front line truck, which has a very specific series of jobs when it shows up at a fire,” said Code.

Cutting tools, a chainsaw, a ventilation fan, parts, and still components and adaptors have been purchased. The ventilation fan is a key component of firefighting, and it was tough to find something that fit the aerial truck.

When Code first arrived a year ago, he asked the firefighters what they needed.

They identified concerns with equipment that needed to be adjusted and modified so it was ready in case of an emergency. Code said it’s a work in progress.

“Every fire department has pieces or components that need to be adjusted, tweaked, fixed or modified as it continues to meet a changing community’s demands,” said Code. “This is no different. We’ve made an adjustment, and it wasn’t so much of an oversight as much as creating improved value in service.”

The other change has been implementing a designated phone line, answered by a duty officer, to reduce the number of call volumes. The line is for their allied partners, such as police agencies and EMS, and is designed for situations that require a fire department response, but not necessarily the full department.

Code said they have noticed a difference already. He believes it has resulted in a reduction in call volumes for the firefighters, particularly for the alarms, which account for the majority of the department’s call.

Arrests made for theft and breaching conditions Estevan Police Service members dealt with driving violations, an individual breaching their conditions and other incidents during the past week.

Police received a call about a gas drive-off from a service station during the Sept. 29 night shift. Officers located the vehicle later in the evening when it was operating with inadequate tail lights. The driver refused to supply a breath sample for a roadside screening device and was arrested. He faces charges for refusing the breath sample, for theft under $5,000 and for having

inadequate tail lights. He was also held in custody until he was sober.

A 38-year-old male was arrested later in the evening for breaching the conditions of his release. He had been released from custody only eight hours earlier in the day when he was found to be breaching his conditions. He was arrested, held in custody until he was sober and taken before a justice of the peace.

Officers executed two arrest warrants during the night shift. The first was for a warrant from the Yorkton area. The man was released with a new court date. The

second individual was from the Estevan area. He was also released with a new court date.

Police received a call during the Oct. 2 night shift about a woman who was intoxicated and lost in a residential area. A search of the area was handled by police and the intoxicated woman was located unharmed. She was then taken home and no further police action was required.

Members were called to several fight complaints at a local business during the Oct. 3 night shift. Upon police arrival, the altercation

had broken up and the parties in question had left the scene.

The complaints remain under investigation.

Several tickets were issued to individuals who had open alcohol outside a licensed premise. The fine under the Alcohol and Gaming regulations is $250.

Police were alerted to a suspicious person who was looking into vehicles in the city’s north end during the Oct. 4 night shift. Police checked the area and located a 17-year-old Estevan male.

The matter is under investigation.

Members were later

called to the city’s east side on a report of a single vehicle accident. Police attended and found an 18-year-old Estevan male had lost control of the vehicle and hit a street light. The motorist

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New splash park at Royal Heights to open Spring 2016

By Sam Macdonald smacdonald@estevanmercury.ca

The new Royal Heights splash park is nearing completion, with an anticipated opening date of spring, 2016. The new splash park project, one of many updates to the Royal Heights Veterans Memorial Park, was given $140,000 in funding by the City of Estevan.

Parks manager Rod March stated the splash pad will be completed this week, after a delay caused by a burst of heavy rainfall Estevan received in early September.

He noted the old splash pad was removed in early August, and public works considered repairing it, until it was determined that the cost of repairs would exceed the cost of replacing it. After receiving five proposals, city council awarded tender to Western Recreation, a company that specializes in municipal water parks.

“Construction was at a critical stage, and the rain washed away some of the base material. We had to wait for the rainwater to subside, and rebuild minor sections of the base materials,” said March last week, in correspondence with the Mercury.

“Cement was poured on Thursday, the spray toys have arrived, and they will be installed in the next four or five days.

“We made one change to the original design, which was to construct a six-foot concrete perimeter around the original design,” said March. “This was to allow for potential overspray control, and to allow for a walkway around the

splash pad.”

In addition to a new pad for the splash park, there are a number of new splash pad toys to be installed.

Since the Estevan branch of the Royal Canadian Legion is also funding the park, there will a poppy motif to some of the toys.

“It was a fitting theme for the area,” said March. “It will fit nicely into the landscape of the park.”

March noted that there are some minor tasks left to complete on the perimeter of the park, including new picnic tables, pathways, light posts, signage and trees; all of which will be completed in spring, 2016.

“We’re also completing moving of the gazebo to its new foundation.

We’re cleaning up the area now, constructing the wheelchair ramp, and removing old foundation concrete materials,” said March. “The area of the old foundation will see a new paving stone design inside the vegetative hedging. It is anticipated this area will house a military type of artifact in the near future, consistent with the Legion’s vision for the park.”

After sitting idle and inoperable for several years, the city gave a directive to move forward with the construction of a new splash park.

Originally scheduled for 2016, the plan was prioritized by council and work began in 2015.

“Citizens and visitors will surely enjoy this addition to the park,” said March. “We look forward to completing the revitalization of the pathways and complimenting vegetation to finish it off.”

Saskatchewan continues to grow Saskatchewan’s population continues to grow at a steady pace despite lower oil prices, according to the latest population figures released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday.

The province had 1,133,637 residents as of July 1, an increase of 3,100 since April 1. The new population number is slightly lower than the number initially reported last quarter, but that’s because Statistics Canada recently revised all of its population estimates back to 2011.

Even with the revised

numbers, Saskatchewan’s population has grown in every quarter for the past nine years.

Saskatchewan’s rate of population growth was the third-strongest among the provinces over the past year and fourth-strongest in the past quarter.

Premier Brad Wall said the continued steady growth shows the strength and resilience of Saskatchewan’s economy.

“Even with the challenges facing the oil industry this year, people continue to see Saskatchewan as a great place to

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“This is a big change from a few years ago when a slower resource sector would invariably lead to a declining population.”

Saskatchewan’s population gain in the second quarter of 2015 was made up of a natural increase (births minus deaths) of 1,641, and net international migration of 2,903 offset. The growth in those two categories was somewhat offset by net interprovincial outmigration of 1,444.

Statistics Canada releases updated population totals four times a year.

The pad for the new splash park at Royal Heights Veterans Memorial Park is nearing completion. The park in its entirety is expected to open in spring 2016.

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Sask. Games needs your votes

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

It’s now up to the family, friends and supporters of the Estevan 2016 Saskatchewan Summer Games committee to ensure the event is as great as it can be.

The committee is vying for a $50,000 to $100,000 grant through the Aviva Insurance Community Fund. In order to access this grant, the committee first needst all their supporters to vote for their bid at avivacommunityfund.org over the next 17 days.

Everyone is allowed one vote for the ‘Energizing the Games and Estevan’ bid each day until Oct. 23. If the Summer Games committee gets enough votes their bid will move on to the month and a half long judging stage, which decides if and how much money they

should be awarded.

Nicole Clow, manager of the 2016 Summer Games, said, if they win, the prize would be put towards finishing touches for the track such as new sheds, landscaping work and fencing, as well as resurfacing the tennis courts. She said depending on how much money they receive they could also apply funding to a lot of other needs including upgrades to Cactus Park.

“Everything that we do we have to raise money for,” said Clow. “We’re still looking for sponsorship and other fund-

raising within the community and within the province. We have a big scheme of what we’d love to offer and it all is dependent on the amount of funding we get. Something like this, an additional $50,000 or $100,000, could really increase some of the upgrades that we’re looking at doing.”

To receive the grant the Summer Games bid will have to receive enough votes to place them in the top 15 of the Aviva Insurance Community Fund’s Community Health category, which includes bids from projects spread

throughout Canada. If the Estevan bid gets enough votes, a judging panel will determine if it deserves a grant and then how much it should be rewarded.

Clow said they entered the contest with the hope of making the Estevan 2016 Saskatchewan Summer Games the best experience possible for the participating athletes. She said the prize will improve many things such as the opening ceremony or an upgraded venue, which ultimately makes the athlete’s impression of the Games more positive.

“Everything that we raise, it basically raises the level of the legacy that we could leave in the community and the event itself of the games and how it’s left in these kids’ minds, as to how awesome those games were,” she said. “Anything like this would really help us put something to the next level.”

Check out what the these “Sharks” from the local Water Polo Team are thankful for!

Thank you to all our local businesses for their sponsorship and continued support!

Logan Marshall I am thankful that my family lets me play sports.

Emily Marshall I am thankful for the people who supported me in going to Montreal.

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Emily Sauder I am thankful for that I get to play water polo.

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The Estevan Antique Auto Club hosted its annual fall swap meet on Saturday at the Wylie-Mitchell building. Many of the exhibitors brought automotive supplies and materials, but there were other items available, too, ensuring the public had a variety of products to purchase or trade. Among those who attended were, from left, Kalen Stang, Carolyn Murphy, Laura Murphy and Kyla Stang.

Thank you to all our local businesses for their sponsorship and continued support!

Check out what the these “Sharks” from the local Water Polo Team are thankful for!

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I am thankful for family and friends.

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Hillcrest Supports Terry Fox Foundation Students at Hillcrest School participated in a Terry Fox Walk on Sept.

30, raising money for the Terry Fox Foundation. As part of the fundraising, Hillcrest principal David Gillingham – a long-time Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan – challenged the students to raise at least $300. They did, so he wore green and dyed his hair green for the day. Students also learned about Fox and his Marathon of Hope.

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Thank you to all our local businesses for their sponsorship and continued support!

Check out what the these “Sharks” from the local Water Polo Team are thankful for!

Cameron Gillingham

Kristian Baniulis

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Dierks Milford I am thankful that I have a family that loves me and my friends.

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1102 4TH STREET, ESTEVAN, SK 306 • 634 • 1800

Join Our Public Works Team Mechanic The City of Estevan is looking for an independent and self-motivated individual to join our Public Works team. The ideal candidate would possess significant mechanical aptitude and attention to detail.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Services, Maintains, and repairs City of Estevan equipment, machinery, and vehicles.

• Schedules and performs required preventative maintenance • Identifies malfunctions in equipment and systems operations and performs repairs.

• Cleans and maintains the equipment, shop, and tools.

• Provides technical assistance for budgetary or project decisions.

This position requires: • Grade 12 or GED equivalent Experience and additional assets: • Journeyman Mechanic’s Certificate • 1 year of related mechanical experience • Valid Class 3A Driver’s License • Valid Class 1A driver’s License is considered an asset • Basic computer and Microsoft Office proficiency

Children’s Clay Classes Ages 6 and under OR ages 7 - 13 October 17th and 18th, Afternoon Call to see availability or register

306-634-3942

Building Official The City of Estevan is searching for an energetic and motivated individual to join our Land Development team as a Building Official. The ideal candidate would possess an excellent eye for detail and show a thorough nature.

Duties include: Administers and enforce Federal and Provincial building codes and regulations, municipal bylaws [building and zoning], and regulations pertaining to buildings and property.

Reviews and processes applications for Building, Moving, Demolition and Sign Permits.

Schedules and performs a variety of on-site inspections.

Researches and assists in preparation of bylaws, policies, plans, and processes relating to building regulation, property maintenance, and inspections.

Investigates bylaw infractions and complaints and issues orders for corrective action.

Maintains proper records and responds to requests for information.

Assists the public, contractors, and associate staff members with Business Division records, bylaws, policies, and procedures.

NOTE: The duties listed are not set forth for the purpose of limiting the assignment of work. They are not to be construed as a complete list of the many duties normally performed outside of the listed duties above (other duties as assigned).

EDUCATION Minimum - 2 year Diploma in relevant field such as Architectural and Building Technologies.

Must possess a Class 1 Provincial Building Official License, or attain said license within the 1st year of employment. Those individuals who possess a Class 2 or 3 Building Official License and relevant working experience will be given preference.

Must have attended the Saskatchewan Building Code Training for Canadians – Series 1 or attend the course within the 1st year of employment.

Valid Class 5 Drivers License The position shall be filled in accordance with the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City of Estevan and CUPE Local 726. Candidates not possessing the qualifications listed above are urged to apply and will be considered on the basis of their combined education and experience.

Payroll Benefits Coordinator Make a difference everyday with the City of Estevan, a vibrant and growing community in Southeast Saskatchewan, with excellent educational, medical, and recreational facilities. The City is searching for an energetic and motivated individual to join our Finance team as the Payroll and Benefits Coordinator. The ideal candidate would possess an excellent eye for detail and show a thorough nature.

Position Title: Length of Position: Summary: Duties Include:

Out of Scope – Payroll & Benefits Coordinator Temporary Full-Time Maternity Term, Up to One Year Operating within the Finance Division and reporting to the City Treasurer, the Payroll and Benefits Coordinator collects, verifies, and processes the bi-weekly payroll and administrates benefits for our employees.

Perform administrative payroll duties including data entry, filing, and processing.

Receives and verifies data, processes, prepares, and distributes bi-weekly payroll.

Recognizes and identifies data, procedural, and system issues.

Develops, evaluates, recommends, and implements improvements to the payroll system. Designs tests for software installations and prepares training materials.

Oversees payroll records system. Processes and interprets data as requested and performs complex calculations as required.

Ensures service agreements are maintained, while ensuring a consistently high level of service to both internal and external clients.

Registers new employees and ensures that required forms are completed.

Reconciles payroll accounts to the General Ledger.

Processes machine hour summaries bi-weekly.

Provide consultation and advice on a wide range of pay and benefit issues to City employees.

Maintains records and files.

Administers Employee Benefits Plans and personnel records.

Develop an in-depth understanding of the Payroll Database to be able to create Misc. reports on demand .

Assists HR Coordinator with special reports and various projects as needed.

NOTE: The duties listed are not set forth for the purpose of limiting the assignment of work. They are not to be construed as a complete list of the many duties normally performed outside of the listed duties above. (Other duties as assigned).

Education Grade 12 Formalized Accounting Diploma Formal Payroll courses such as Canadian Payroll Association – Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) Proficiency in Computer Software including MS Word, Excel and Outlook Experience and Additional Requirements 3 years of experience in payroll and benefits administration. Experience in a municipal environment is considered an asset Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality

Adult Art Programs The Pinterest Challenge Stop pinning the crafts you see on Pinterest and start doing them! In September we will be DIYing canvas wall art.

WHEN: October 29, November 26 TIME: 7-9pm COST: $25/person/session The South Sask Photo Club Love photography? This monthly club is for beginners and advanced photographers alike. Instructor Jon Gillies guides each sessions with new tips, tricks and hands-on activities.

WHEN: October 27, November 24 TIME: 7-9pm COST: $25/person for an annual membership

Homemade for the Holidays Finish up your Christmas shopping at the most unique craft sale in town!

Featuring all handmade goods by local artists and craftspeople, this sale will be your best chance to find that truly unique gift. Not sure what to do with the kids while you shop? Drop them off in our craft room for some hot chocolate and holiday crafts while your browse.

We are currently seeking artists, bakers and craftspeople to participate in this event. Vendor tables are free!

WHEN: December 5th TIME: 1 – 4pm COST: Free Children’s Art Programs

Drink & Draw Sketch, doodle and indulge in a glass of wine! This casual drawing class fosters creativity while providing a fun night out. Instructed by Amber Andersen.

WHEN: October 20 TIME: 7-9pm COST: $20/person Christmas Card Making with Mandi Join instructor Mandi Perry-Zohner and create your own original Christmas greeting cards!

WHEN: November 17th TIME: 7-9pm COST: $20/person Sociables Looking for something to do in Estevan?

This new program is for you! This casual evening out includes a fun activity, the chance to browse the artwork in the gallery and have drinks and snacks.

From date night to girls night or if you’re looking to get out and meet new

Family Art Come create, explore and learn with your ones through art! This program is for toddlers aged 18 months and up. Parent/guardian participation is required.

WHEN: October 8, 15, 22, 29 November 5, 12, 19, 26 December 3, 10, 17 TIME: 10-10:30am COST: $5/family/month The Halloween Haunt Fun for the whole family waits at our 2nd Annual Halloween Haunt! This action packed evening features a pumpkin carving contest, costume contest, photo booth, snack vendors and arts and crafts for kids. Contact Karly at 634-7644 for more information regarding the pumpkin carving and costume contests.

WHEN: October 24 TIME: 6:30 – 9:00pm COST: Free for all ages to attend.

FREE WEEKEND AT THE LANDFILL WILL BE OCTOBER 17-18, 2015 We appreciate the support and we thank all those who have helped throughout the year in keeping community clean.

Guidelines for free disposal (proof of residency) • •

The City of Estevan offers competitive wages, a comprehensive benefits package, and emphasis on work/life balance. If you’re looking for a career that contributes directly to a growing, thriving community, then apply to:

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Aubrey Agarand, Human Resources, City of Estevan 1102 4th Street, Estevan, Sk S4A 0W7 Fax: (306) 634-9790 Email: apply@estevan.ca

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The city of Estevan would like to inform the residents of Estevan, effective Monday, September 21, 2015, 6th Street between 13th Avenue and Souris Avenue and Souris Avenue from 4th Street to 6th Street will be CLOSED due to construction work. We recommend during this time to use an alternate route. Remember to reduce your speed in the construction zone. We thank you for your cooperation.The City of Estevan is requesting the public’s assistance during the 6th Street truck route project. Please do not enter the construction zone for any reason. The barricades are there for your safety, please obey all traffic signs. Thank you.

people, Sociables could be for you! This month we will be offering tarot card readings in the gallery to go along with our haunted theme exhibitions.

WHEN: October 22 TIME: 7pm COST: TBA

Community Art Programs Fall 2015

Interested candidates are invited to apply in writing with a cover letter, resume, and at least three professional references

Street Closure Notice

Contact us for more information on our programs

estevanartscouncil.com

Items allowed to be dropped off for free include furniture, tree branches and regular and regular household garbage and does not include appliances that contain Freon.

Items “not” allowed anytime: all hazardous materials, tires, paint, computer components, televisions, propane tanks, oil and petroleum by products.

All loads must be completely covered or secured to prevent littering while in transport Any waste from rural customers will not be accepted free

You will be required to show Proof of Residency at the landfill, Photo ID is helpful and you must be a resident of the City of Estevan.

Landfill Hours: 10am - 4pm

Property Maintenance

We’ll Be there, Will you?

As per Bylaw 2005 - 1711, residents must keep yards clean, including garbage/ junk, junked vehicles. In summer months, please be sure to trim excessive weeds and cut grass including boulevards and behind fences.

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

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Bruins forward Owen LaClare attempts to move the puck past Humboldt’s Tristan Hermanson last Friday in Estevan’s 5-1 loss to the Broncos at Elgar Peterson Arena.

Humboldt Journal photo.

Four games in 65 hours tough test for CanElson Bruins

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

Special teams may have played the difference in the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins junior A hockey team’s 1-2-1 road trip, but it was poor play that started things off on the wrong foot.

The Bruins (5-3-0-1) began the four games in 65 hours schedule with a 5-1 loss to the Humboldt

Broncos (3-2-1) at Elgar Peterson Arena Friday night and followed that up with a 4-3 loss to the Kindersley Klippers (32) at the West Central Events Centre a day later.

The next afternoon, Estevan pulled out a 4-1 win against the La Ronge Ice Wolves (2-5-1) at the Warman Legends Arena in the first game of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) Showcase

before falling 5-4 to the Battlefords North Stars (7-2) in the ninth round of a shootout the next morning, which was also played at Warman.

Against the Broncos, Estevan lost the special teams advantage by potting one power play goal compared to Humboldt’s one on the power play and one on special teams.

In Kindersley, the Klippers scored two with the

man advantage, while the Bruins failed to find the back of the net on their four chances. Against La Ronge, Estevan went two for five on the PP, while the Ice Wolves failed to score on special teams.

Both Battlefords and Estevan knocked in one with the man advantage in their match.

Chris Lewgood, head coach and general manager of the Estevan Bruins, said

it is no coincidence the results on special teams mask the final outcomes of each game. He said if they would have eliminated the undisciplined penalties in the four games they would have enjoyed a better result.

Lewgood added that obviously they want to win each game and get the two points, but it was their play that caused him the greatest concern against Hum-

boldt. He said the effort his team showed versus the Broncos was weak.

“I thought the guys skated around really hard, but as far as following the game plan and playing together as a unit we weren’t very good,” said Lewgood, noting they played much better the next night against Kindersley even though they suffered the same fate. ⇢B5 Bruins

Bruins future on display at Showcase sports@estevanmercury.ca

The future of the Estevan Bruins junior A hockey team was on full display Sunday at the SJHL/ SMAAAHL Showcase at Warman Legends Arena.

The Saskatchewan Junior A Hockey League and Saskatchewan Minor AAA Hockey League competition featured 14 future Bruins in the 1998 born and 1999 born midget AAA showcase games that kicked off the three-day event. The 14 future Bruins are all of the team’s list players in these age categories who are playing midget AAA this season.

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“The depth of our list is starting to pay off,” said Bruins head scout Todd Ripplinger. “I’m happy for all the boys that got the opportunity to play. I know there are a lot of good players out there who didn’t get a chance. They’re selected

by SJHL and midget AAA teams, so it just shows you that guys are noticing our list players and they’re doing quite well.”

Suiting up for the 1998 AAA Showcase game were future Bruins goaltender Curtis Meger (Regina Pat Canadians), defencemen Mark Edmands (Pat Canadians) and Jake Heerspink (Pat Canadians) and forwards

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Ty Barnstable (Pat Canadians), Turner Ripplinger (Pat Canadians) and Bryce Platt (Pat Canadians). In the 1999 AAA Showcase game, defenceman Tyler Ludwar (Pat Canadians) and forwards Matthew Chekay (Pat Canadians), Jayden Davis (Moose Jaw Generals), Logan Foster (Tisdale Trojans), Matthew Kesslering (Swift Current Legionnaires), Tyson Manz (Generals), Tristyn DeRoose (Yorkton Rawtec Maulers) and Tanner Manz (Generals) took the ice.

“Long term we’re really excited about the guys we have,” said Bruins head coach and general manager

Chris Lewgood. “Some of them will move on to play elsewhere whether it is the Western League (WHL) or the USHL (United States Hockey League), but for the most this is really the core, the future of the Estevan Bruins. We’re excited to have that many of them recognized as elite players in their AAA league.”

Ripplinger said he isn’t aware of any other SJHL team that has this level of representation in the AAA Showcase and that has a lot to do with the elite players picking Estevan as their destination of choice. He said guys want to play for Lewgood and the program he’s build-

ing, plus the opportunity to play at a state-of-the-art arena like Affinity Place is too good for them to pass up.

A few of the players participating at the AAA Showcase have already dressed for the Bruins in Turner Ripplinger, Heerspink and Meger.

Edmonds, Platt and Barnstable are all expected to suit up for Estevan at some point this season as well.

“I would say all the graduating 17-year-olds will have a chance to crack the Bruins roster next year,” said Ripplinger.

“Some of these 16-yearolds, don’t count them out either. They’re going to

have a good opportunity as well.”

Ripplinger said this group of players includes some guys with good speed and some with size, but all have great character. He said each kid is coachable, are from good families and are good people on and off the ice.

“The cupboards are full,” said Lewgood.

“We’re pretty excited about the longterm. A lot of people understand we built this team for this year, but we’ve done it without sacrificing the future. We believe that we have an above-average quality core for several years to come.”

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Estevan Mercury

Steelers fight Ravens use strong first quarter to down Chargers tooth and nail

against Raiders

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Estevan Century 21 peewee Chargers football team came up just short in a 20-14 loss to the Weyburn Ravens last Wednesday at Dana Quewezance Memorial Field.

Down by six with 50 seconds left on the clock, the Chargers orchestrated a long 34-yard drive from their own 36-yard line on the strength of quarterback Kaleb Bechtold’s arm, but an interception with 5 seconds left on the clock by Weyburn Ravens safety Zander Muxlow stopped them in their tracks. After being burned by the Estevan passing attack for most of the night, Ravens head coach Rob Umbach admitted they were playing the pass on that play.

“We dropped three guys back actually that time,” said Umbach, whose team moved up to 2-3 with the win. The Chargers fell to 3-2 with the loss.

Chargers head coach Jason Bresciani said they needed a quick score, so a passing attack was the best way to move the ball downfield. He said the Ravens were playing for the run all game making the Chargers’ offensive plan one that goes through the air.

Bechtold excelled with the pass and showed off his strong arm throughout the game, but it was replacement quarterback Alex Waldegger who scored the

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

Estevan Chargers quarterback Kaleb Bechtold prepares to deliver a pass last Wednesday against the Weyburn Ravens while fullback Kyle Mack sizes up a block. lone passing touchdown of the game while subbing in for the starter with just under eight minutes left in the fourth quarter. Waldegger delivered a strike to Curtis Phillipchuk from the Weyburn 23-yard line on the play and then kicked the convert to move the Chargers to within six.

Bechtold first got Estevan on the board with 57 seconds left in the third quarter when he kept the ball and ran sideways across the field at Weyburn’s two yard line before sweeping into the end zone. Weyburn got all their points in the first 16 minutes of the game on a six yard run and convert

by Ben Manning followed by a 28 yard touchdown run by Kaleb Briston-Berg, which Manning converted, and finally a one yard punch

in by Ravens quarterback Ryan Hicks.

“We just caught them off guard,” said Umbach.

“We ran up the middle pretty much and we broke a couple big ones and they seemed to make adjustments after that. Just ran hard up the middle with good blocking and hard running by the running backs.”

Bresciani said the Ravens focused on preventing their stronger defenders from getting into the backfield to stop the run during the opening quarter and first few minutes of the second.

He said they countered the attack by filling up the box and not giving them any gaps, which led to their strong showing in the final 32 minutes.

“It’s momentum,” said Bresciani about what the

Chargers can gain from the strong second half. “It’s some positives we can take into next week’s game.”

Umbach said holding onto the 20-14 win is great for his club because it further knocks down the rough start they had at the beginning of the season. He said after pilling up a 0-2 record the club squeezed out a win against the Moose Jaw Bombers by one touchdown, then lost by one touchdown to the Moose Jaw Lions and now they have their second victory by a single score.

“It’s good,” he said.

“They’re showing they can compete with these teams and I think it makes them feel real good they won here today and scored more than one touchdown for the first time in a game.”

The Estevan Lions Club bantam Steelers football team fought tooth and nail against the Moose Jaw Raiders on a stormy Friday night at Dana Quewezance Memorial Field, but a few bad breaks and early defensive miscues left them on the wrong side of a 4320 score.

Paul Duncan, head coach of the 0-4 Steelers, said the offense had a good start against the Raiders (3-1) and were able to control the ball, but the defence came out a bit flat. He said they made some substitutions during the first half, during which the Raiders jumped out to a 28-0 lead, to wake the kids up and they came out firing on all cylinders in the second half.

“The kids fought really hard,” said Duncan.

“When we made a couple adjustments on defence it seemed to get their butts in gear a little bit more.

They pushed harder and it definitely kept us in it.

It was a great learning experience for the team to come away with being able to put points up on the board and be able to see what it truly takes to hold yourself in a game for a full four quarters.”

Steelers running back Trevor Shaw led the way

on offence through a dominant running game up the middle. Helped by great blocking from the offensive line, Shaw put together runs of 35 yards, 45 yards and one at 70 yards while scoring all three of Estevan’s touchdowns.

Duncan said unlike their first game against the Raiders, a 29-0 road loss Sept. 23, both teams came ready to play on Friday. He said the tempo was probably two times greater than the first game due to both clubs playing for better playoff positioning and the hope is that drive shows itself again in the Penta Completions Estevan Minor Football team’s next game Oct. 14 at home against the Moose Jaw Razorbacks (0-4).

“This week because we don’t have a game we have the luxury of being able to have higher up tempo practices with more contact in them, so that way hopefully with this week off we’re not slowing down,” said Duncan, noting their next game will also feature an auction of two tickets to next Roughriders’ game.

“The kids are still getting contact that they need to understand game speed.

Then going into next week we’ll have a walk through on Tuesday and then right into the game on Wednesday.”

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Apex Bruins start season with two wins

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

A veteran laden lineup helped the Estevan Apex Bruins midget AA hockey team jump out to a quick start in the 2015-16 season.

The Bruins defeated the Melville Millionaires 5-3 at Affinity Place Friday before beating the Notre Dame Hounds 3-1 in Notre Dame Sunday. Returning Bruins’ netminder Cam Lavoie earned both wins, while veteran forwards Erik McKersie, Josh Skjonsby (two goals), Preston Brodziak (who suited up for nine games with Estevan last season and notched a hat trick against Melville Friday) and defenceman Cole Skjonsby (played 10 games last year) scored the goals.

Blake Jamieson, head coach of the Bruins, said they got the wins against Melville and Notre Dame by burying their chances in the third period. After heading into the final frame tied in both games, the Bruins went on to play their best hockey during the last 20 minutes.

“As the games went on we started to play better and better and just carried that into the third period,” said Jamieson. “We were fortunate to come out on top.”

The Bruins have last

season’s second leading scorer in Bill and third leading point getter in Peyton Stevenson returning to the forward ranks this year, but Jamieson said the hope is to have all four lines contributing on offence. He said they also have a majority of their defence coming back, with last season’s leading scorer from the blue line Josh Giblett leading the charge, and should be strong on the back end. Add in their starting goaltender last season in Cam Lavoie returning to the team and the Apex Bruins should be a force to reckon with this year.

“We have a lot of returning guys and a returning goalie, so there is a lot of veteran presence,” said Jamieson.

“We expect to be quite competitive every night.”

Josh Skjonsby skates the puck down the ice during the first period of the Estevan Bruins 5-3 win over the Melville Millionaires Friday at Affinity Place.

Apex Bruins forward Erik McKersie unleashes a wrist shot against the Melville Millionaires Friday at Affinity Place.

TS&M Bruins tie twice on northern road trip

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The TS&M Estevan Bruins bantam AA hockey team are taking their two points from two tie games on a tough northern road trip over the weekend and moving on.

The Bruins began the trip with 4-4 tie on Saturday night at Battleford Arena against the Barons (1-0-1) before heading to Kindersley the next afternoon where the club ground out a 2-2 tie with the West Central Wheat Kings (1-2-1) at the West Central Events Centre.

Estevan outshot both teams, but Bruins head coach Tom Copeland said they didn’t

control the majority of the play in either test.

The Bruins went up early on the Barons thanks to three quick strikes by Mason Strutt, but Battlefords battled back to bring the score within one. A little over a minute into the third period, Barons forward Skylar Olson scored his second of the game to tie the match at threes. Estevan’s Dalton Schrader potted his first four minutes later, but the Battlefords Landon Buziak replied with just over seven minutes remaining to tie the game again.

“Battleford, they were a big team and there were times they were taking it to us,” said Copeland. “We’re

not the biggest club in the world and they were taking it to us physically and they scored a couple clutch goals.”

In Kindersley, the Bruins came out strong against the Wheat Kings and were up 2-0 after 40 minutes on the strength of Strutt’s seventh goal of the season and Cody Davis’ first. However, the score doesn’t reflect the play on the ice as Estevan found it’s way to the penalty box regularly in the second frame and were subsequently outshot 13-5. The Wheat Kings finally found the back of the net in the third when Casey McDonald and Tye Scherger beat Bruins goaltender Bryson Garton

in the final ten minutes of the game.

“The North Division is tough this year and especially when you’re travelling there,” he said. “We were in the bus for probably 15, 16 hours this weekend, so that is a lot for the kids.

I think they did okay. For most of them they’ve never been on a road trip like that, so it was a learning experience all on it’s own.”

Copeland said the coaching staff is pleased with their 1-0-2 record this season, mainly because they were able to upset a strong Yorkton Terriers team Sept.

27 in their first game of the year. He said they probably deserved a better fate

in their two games this weekend, but at the end of the day wins come down to who scores the most and they didn’t do that on the road trip.

“Early on we’re getting fantastic goaltending, which is bailing us out at times,” said Copeland about Garton and Morgan Wanner. “We’re a younger team...and we only brought back four guys, so they’re still learning to play at this level of hockey. So overall we’re happy with their attitude and where they’re at.

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Copeland said they’ll be using the game as another opportunity to get the kids to play the systems they are being taught regardless of what their opponent brings to the ice.

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Elecs junior golf team shoots their way to district win The Estevan Comprehensive School Elecs junior boys’ golf team is the 2015 Southeast District champions and team member Jace Carlisle has claimed the individual title.

The Elecs won the championship Sept. 25 at the Carlyle Golf Club, when two members of the four-person Grade 9 team scored one-two in the rankings. Carlisle took home the individual championship with a score of 39 on the nine-hole course, while teammate Jean Luc Dupuis tied Estevan’s Westview School’s Jayden Dudas for second spot with a score of 40.

ECS Elecs golfer Mason Strutt shot 47 on the

day and fourth team member Morgan Wanner hit a 62. Elecs’ head coach Wes Kreklewich said the great showing by all five kids shows the future of Elecs’ golf is bright.

“The boys that we have right now in Grade 9 and Grade 10 and coming up is fantastic,” said Kreklewich.

On the senior side, Grade 12 athlete Erik McKersie finished second at districts held at Golf Kenosee on Sept. 15. He shot an 83 over 18 holes on the day.

Kreklewich said the Elecs’ golfing season runs from April till the end of September. He said they have school tournaments in May and June before

Elecs golfer Jace Carlisle won the junior boys’ individual championship at districts Sept. 25 when he shot a 40 over nine holes at the Carlyle Golf Club.

Estevan Comprehensive School athlete Erik McKersie finished second at districts by shooting a 83 over 18 holes at Golf Kenosee.

the kids compete in the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Saskatchewan Order of Merit tour over the summer before the kids come back

well. I watched Jace on the first hole and he narrowly missed a hole-in-one by a couple feet. He almost drove the next par four,

to tournament play for the Elecs in September.

“We’re proud of them obviously at districts,” he said. “They competed

chipped on tight and could have went birdie birdie for his first two holes. We have so many fantastic golfers in this community.”

Colts use ground attack against Elecs

By Jamie Harkins sports@estevanmercury.ca

The Swift Current Colts football team ran the ball 47 times for 470 yards in their 49-0 win over the Estevan Comprehensive School Elecs Saturday at Colts Field, while only connecting on one passing play for 15 yards.

“They had a big offensive line and a couple of big running backs and it was clear right away on what their offensive game plan was,” said Elecs head coach Mark Schott. “It was just to use their size and their big bodies to pound the ball on our defence, which isn’t overly big.”

Tristan Lockman is one of those big running backs and he ran in his first of five touchdowns on the afternoon with 8:34 remaining in the first quarter. Lockman carried the ball 22 times in the game and amassed 281 yards including a 67-yard touchdown run in the second quarter and a 62-yard score in the third. “We were going into the game with

the mentality that this was a game that we definitely had a shot of winning,” said Schott about the winless Elecs (0-4) facing the thenwinless Colts (1-4). “I think weather played a factor more so on our end because we have more success moving the ball through the air than on the ground, so that really limited our passing game and our offence struggled.”

Schott said they probably had their best running game of the season against the Colts. The Elecs amassed 120 yards on the ground with running back Levi Pick racking up 97 of those on 24 carries. Quarterback Andrew Kehler helped provide the Elecs’ 90 more yards on offence through the air by completing nine of 18 pass attempts.

“The rain was a constant factor throughout the game,” said Schott. “Swift Current, they didn’t really have to adjust their offence all that much because they run the ball quite a bit, so it wasn’t a big shift in the game plan for them. We were able to complete some short passes and

move the ball through the air a little bit, but we have a lot of speed with our receiving core. The field conditions and the rain didn’t really add up to us having success getting the ball out to them.”

The Elecs are back on the field Thursday with a home date against the Moose Jaw Central Cyclones (3-1).

Five days later they complete their regular season schedule in Moose Jaw against the top-ranked Peacock Tornadoes (4-0). Four days after that the Elecs are locked in to play the Central Cyclones again at Moose Jaw in the playoff quarter-finals.

Schott said coupled with the Saturday tilt against the Colts that will be four games in 15 days for his guys, which is a lot of football for a team that only brought 26 players to Swift Current. However, he said they’re going to get right back at it in practice to work on basic offensive and defensive systems and position fundamentals to prepare for the next two weeks.

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Bruins lose special teams battle on road trip ⇠B1 “The La Ronge game was sort of similar to the Kindersley (one) expect we eliminated some of the first period mistakes that we made in the Kindersley game and we played just a shade more consistently. Then in the Battlefords game (Monday) we were very excited, very happy for the effort we had considering it was the fifth game in six days.”

In addition to the five games, those six days brought a number of changes to the Bruins roster. After picking up defencemen Bret Schwengler and Ross Hnidy and forward

Zach Goberis late last week as well as releasing rearguard Kobe Eagletail, the Bruins moved 1996-born defenceman Taylor Armbruster to the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Cochrane Crunch Thursday for future considerations.

Lewgood said Hnidy and Armbruster play the same type of game, making the less-polished Armbruster expendable. He said they have also added 1997-born forward Jake Fletcher, who was reassigned from the Western Hockey League’s Swift Current Broncos on Monday.

On the injury front, backup goaltender Tyler Gutenberg (pulled groin) and forward Darcy DeRoose (suspected concussion) are out of the lineup for an undetermined amount of time.

In a matter somewhat related to the Bruins, a former defenceman with the team, Jake Tesarowski, has found his way back into the SJHL after electing to suit up for the British Columbia Hockey League’s West Kelowna Warriors this season. Tesarowski played four games with the Bruins over the past two years before signing with the

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“We knew there was a very good chance that the team that he went to in B.C. was going to trade him back to the SJHL and we saw it coming basically,” said Lewgood. “There is a tendency for these guys to think the grass is greener on the other side. They are given some of the statistics in the BCHL with scholarships (and told) that they have to go out there to get those opportunities and ultimately are taken advantage of. Not every team certainly, but some teams

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Jeanne Corrigal, an Innuit filmmaker and storyteller, made an appearance at Hillcrest School to share a series of life lessons from an old friend. Corrigal showed students clips of her film, Jim Settee: the Way Home, featuring themes relating to indigenous life lessons, world views and the similarities in the values among different cultures of Canada.

Corrigal’s presentation used a series of stories delivered through the medium of film clips, about Jim Settee, a Cree elder from north of Prince Albert, Sask. Settee’s teachings about life were illustrated through the presentation.

“I began the tour six years ago up north in La Loche. Jim’s teachings are on respecting each other, how we’re all unique and Filmmaker and storyteller Jeanne Corrigal, pictured with students Kali Sorenson and and Logan Nagel, visited Hillcrest School to impart some that we can respect each life lessons to students, through the medium of her film, Jim Settee: the Way Home. Photo by Sam Macdonald. other, all being one community,” said Corrigal. “He ing as a warden in Prince Albert the search team that was there, got Corrigal also taught an impor- to the curriculum, helping deciknew the history of people all National Park, that one of the most quiet, and everyone else got quiet. tant lesson about values and respect sions, and determining everything around the central Saskatchewan memorable stories about Settee He stood there for two or three min- through a segment of the presenta- from behaviour to health. She area and the Treaty Six area. Any- took place. Corrigal notes that occa- utes and took off, walking really tion known as the matchbox lesson. encouraged students to participate, one could go to him and he’d sionally, when Settee and her father fast into the bush,” said Corrigal. She told students about how her by asking anonymous questions know their history. He and my dad worked in the park, people would “He walked for two hours straight, grandfather would fill match boxes she would answer later in the worked together in Prince Albert get lost in the heavily forested area. covered six miles of muskeg and with small items that represented day, drawing scenes depicting National Park.”

“The story I grew up on when bush. Dad said he walked straight teachings. When he worked in a fire Settee’s teachings. The response Settee led a busy, meaningful I was a child from my dad was to that boy and found him alive.” tower, he’d take boxes full of items to Corrigal’s presentation was life as a well-known oral historian, that one day a boy got lost. He was Corrigal said she grew up on and toss them to the ground, calling positive among teachers and stuan Anglican minister, social activ- 10 years old, and on that day Jim the story, and that much later in out for the grandchildren for whom dents, alike. ist and tracker, who worked in the wasn’t there,” said Corrigal. “They her life, when she spoke to Settee they were intended.

“It’s always good to have Prince Albert area, serving as a called my dad and the other track- himself about it, the story and his “It would be a game for students learn about different warden in Prince Albert National ers, and they started to look for the explanation of how he found the them to find those boxes in the cultures, since they don’t frePark. Settee worked in close cor- boy. Usually they can find someone boy became a life teaching to her, grass, open them and find these quently interact with other culrespondence with the Catholic quickly, but they couldn’t find him and a central premise of her film treasures. Each one had different tures. They look at things slightChurch, and indigenous spiritual that day.” and tour. things in for each grandchild. He ly differently and try to look leaders, to help peoplewho had Corrigal said the search went “I share it with all the students gave me a matchbox and objects at things from the leanings of a attended residential schools in the on for two and a half days before and teachers, and everyone hears that represent teachings to me,” different culture,” said Hillcrest healing process.

Settee was called upon to help something a little different in what said Corrigal. “On my tour, I ask School principal David Gillingham.

Corrigal noted Settee’s story with what was turning out to be an he said,” said Corrigal. “They tell students ‘What would you put “They were attentive and engaged. is one of healing and reconcilia- increasingly hopeless search for the me all kinds of different things. inside the matchbox?’ It becomes She showed what was significant tion through kindness, respect and lost boy, who by then, had spent It’s not just about the boy — it’s their own. Everyone has their own to her, and the (students) showed love — all messages she strives to two nights in the bush alone. a metaphor, because he brought values.” what was significant to them. deliver on her tour.

“Jim stood in the middle of people home to their own history Corrigal noted that the values They all saw some similarities — it It was during his time work- the area, completely trampled by and was a mentor.” students have connect integrally was great.”

Arts council offering classes

The Estevan Arts Council is promoting classes they will be offering this fall.

Two pottery courses for young people will be offered on Oct. 17 and 18.

The first is a parent and child pottery course for children six and under that begins at 1 p.m. each day.

Instructors Nancy Samoluk and Cathy Wyseman will guide participants to make a clay project and underglaze it, so it is ready for firing. Once it is finished, it will be picked up by the children.

Samoluk and Wyseman will also guide a children’s clay class for those

aged seven to 13 at 3 p.m. both days. Children will build their own creation, and get it ready to be fired in the kiln.

Also, Linda Gudmundson will guide an encaustic art class for people 14 years old and up on Oct. 17 and 18, starting at 3 p.m. Gudmundson

will teach people to paint using encaustics, hot wax and various tools, to create works of art.

A Christmas quilting class will be offered for those 14 years and up on Thursdays from Oct. 22 to Nov. 12, starting at 7 p.m. each week. Participants will bring their own sew-

ing machine and work on a project. Eileen McKersie will be the instructor.

Another clay course will be offered on Oct. 24 with the Make a Clay project. Instructor Darlene Martin will help people 14 years old and up to experience the joy of making a piece of clay art. The class

starts at 10:30 a.m.

In another course for people 14 years of age and older, a watercolour workshop will be offered on Nov. 8, starting at 10 a.m. Jan Layh, who is the adjudicator for the Estevan Arts Council’s adjudicated art show, will guide the workshop.

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Lorelei Burnett, left, and Judy Moroz discussed Moroz’s business, My Journey Jewelry, during the Shop to Save a Life trade show the Royal Canadian Legion’s Estevan branch on Saturday.

The inaugural Shop to Save a Life trade show at the Royal Canadian Legion’s Estevan branch on Saturday was not only a chance for local residents to view the merchandise offered by local vendors, it was also an opportunity to support a worthy cause.

Twenty-five exhibitors brought their wares to the event. Revenues from the table rentals, a 50-50 draw, silent auction and raffle will be directed to the Canadian Cancer Society.

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everybody’s lives, and I want to get rid of it,” said event organizer Christine Jones.

Jones said the re sponse was very good.

The day before the event, she was receiving phone calls from people who wanted to know if tables were available.

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Club hosts first meeting following summer break The Estevan Christian Women’s After 5 Club gathered at Living Hope Community Church on Sept. 16 for their first meeting following the summer break.

Thirty-nine women attended, and they enjoyed a roast beef supper catered

by Estevan Bowl.

Music was provided

by Emily Gillies of North Portal. Before singing two well-known hymns and playing her keyboard, Gillies shared with the crowd how she considered bringing both her guitar and accordion for her performance.

Offering to take requests, she joked, “I’ve got the whole hymnal here.”

Local crafter Erin Kraushaar from Infinite Crafting was the featured speaker. She described her passion for quality homemade products. Kraushaar decided to give crafting a shot this past April, when she attempted her first memory bear, using her daughter’s old sleeper and a teddy bear pattern.

Her first paying customer ordered an autism awareness bear. This led to Kraushaar’s five-year-old wanting to learn to sew as well, providing a valuable bonding experience for a single mother of two daughters.

She brought washable rice bags to soothe aches and pains, knitted dishcloths, aprons for both men and women, headbands for

children and her custommade memory bears.

Kraushaar, an oilfield electrician by day, devotes much of her free time to creating with her girls and attending the Farmer ’s Market every Saturday.

She has a Facebook page for her work.

“If you put your mind to something, you can get it done,” she told the audience.

Guest speaker Janet Delaney from Sidney, Montana, spoke about how making wise decisions has had a ripple effect on her life, similar to tossing a stone into a pond of water.

What a person says or does can unknowingly have a positive or negative effect on a simple passerby.

She was recently encouraged after speaking in Regina. A caterer thanked her for sharing her story.

While speaking to the group, he had listened intently behind the scenes to her testimony.

Delaney jokes about being born on a Sunday in Duluth, Minnesota, and being taken to church the following Sunday. Despite growing up attending church faithfully, she ended up in a 10-year marriage with a man who claimed he was a Christian.

But he dragged her into another lifestyle, one of poker games and parties. After much conflict, a divorce followed which led to her having a nervous breakdown.

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“If he doesn’t want you, I do,” he told her.

He was a new Christian. She joined her husband in Sidney where she began attending Christian women’s club events there.

At one point the couple was told they couldn’t have children, but they are now grandparents to three.

When her son was a two-month-old infant, unbeknownst to her, he

swallowed a twist tie. For months, her baby cried all the time and never slept.

Delaney was told she was a nervous mother. Five months later, they went to the Mayo Clinic, where a doctor did a barium X-ray and detected the twist tie.

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The club’s next meeting will be the annual Fall Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at Living Hope.

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HealtH ServiceS

Houses For rent

Financial ServiceS

Wrecking over 250 units... cars a n d t r u ck s. L o t s o f t r u ck s. . .

Dodge... GMC... Ford... Imports...

1/2 ton to 3 tons... We ship anywhere... Call or text 306-821-0260.

Lloydminster

Hip or Knee Replacement?

For Rent: 2 bedroom house in the east end.

Fridge and stove included. Call 306-634-2432

Need A Loan? Own Proper t y?

Have Bad Credit? We can help!

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Restrictions in Walking/Dressing?

For Rent: Just Refreshed , One bedroom house, full basement, fridge, stove, washer, dryer, central air. Close to Credit Union, Coop store. References. $750 plus utilities per month . 306 634-5585.

Ask for Trudy

Feed & Seed

In MeMorIaM

$2,000 Yearly Tax Credit $40,000 in Tax Rebates

Mobile/Pads

Disability Tax Credit For Rent: 2 and 3 bedroom mobile. Available October 1st. All appliances, A/C, energy effecient furnace, fenced yard, pet friendly.

Call Jeff after 10am. 306-4619702

For Expert Help: 1-844-453-5372 ApArtments / Condos-For sAle

In Loving Memory of Peter Shykitka April 18, 1939October 11, 2011 A thought of sweet remembrance, A memory sad and true, The love and sweet devotion, Of the ones who think of you.

- Lovingly remembered by your family.

In Memory Lane Naka who passed away October 13, 2007 Words are few Thoughts are deep Memories of you I will always keep.

Remembering you Paula

For Rent or Sale: 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo on 3rd floor of a 55 plus building. Just painted and all new windows, Laminate floors and 5 appliances . Very well kept, underground heated parking and just steps from the mall. Call Glenn, 306-380-6778

Out Of tOwn FOR SALE: In Stoughton: New modular home on own lot. 3 Bedrooms, 2 baths. Vacant. $8,000 d ow n ; Pay m e n t s $ 8 0 0 / m o n t h .

Must have good credit and be able to bank qualify. Phone 1-587-4348525.

ApArtments/Condos for rent Beautiful 2 bedroom condo for rent $ 800 per month , no utilities.

Contact 780-266-0048

In Memory of Tony Ackrill February 13, 1969 October 11, 2002 Always loved and sadly missed.

Love Mom, Dad, and families

Condo For Rent: Available November 1st. 2 bedroom, includes, washer, dr yer, fridge, stove and water. Get one month free with 6 month lease. $1000 per month. Phone 306-7812163

Coming EvEnts ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES SHOW & SALE, October 19 to 25 (inclusive) at Market Mall, Preston & Louise, Saskatoon, during mall hours.

For Rent: 2 bedroom, 2 bath furnished condo. 4th floor Petterson Point. Underground parking, no pets, no smoking. Immediate possession. Phone 306-634-9310 Cell 306-421-6166

Rooms Rooms For Rent: Available immediately 3 rooms in an extended stay newly renovated 3 bedroom fully furnished house. All utilities paid. Contact Dallas @ (306) 4710605 , Edgar (306) 485-8486 Or By email hallawayhouse@sasktel.net

Mobile/ Manufactured

CANADIAN MANUFACTURED MODULAR HOMES -multi section, single section, motel style, and duplex family units LARGE INVENTORY TO CHOOSE FROM OR FACTORY ORDER TO YOUR SPECIFICATIONS Selling and Servicing Across Western Canada for Over 40 Years!

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ProPerty For Sale For Rent: Ground floor 3 bedroom condo in Hillside area. Newly renovated, new appliances, air, laundry. Two blocks from shoppers Mall. #110-521 Dufferin Ave. $1000 per month. References required. Call 306-222-7966 Harvest Heights Apartments Freshly renovated 1 bedroom apartments available now, all utilities included. Email-harvestheighsteam@gmail.com or call 306 -421 -0581 for details.

Business OppOrtunities

PARK PLACE 402 PERKINS STREET FOR RENT: 1, 2 BR Apartments.

Air conditioning, 5 Appliances.

Fireplace in suites; Security doors.

No Pets!! For more information, Phone 306-634-4010 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. only, or see our Web site @ www.apartmentsestevan.ca

Come and celebrate Gordon Loustel’s 90th Birthday on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, 2:00 4:00 pm at Hillview Manor, 1401 - 1st Street, Estevan.

Let your presence be your gift.

Corning Community Players dinner theatre tickets for “Aunt Tillie Goes to Town” by Wilbur Braun, on sale October 16 @ the Corning Hall @ 5:00pm. Phone orders begin at 7:00pm. by calling 306-224-4363. Tickets are $30 each limit 10 per purchase. Meal available at ticket sales. Dinner Theatre dates November 6,7,12,13 and 14. Any remaining tickets available after October 16 by calling 306-224-4666.

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NOTICE

For Sale: St. Luke’s Lutheran Church proper ty in Midale. Includes three lots, one which can b e s o l d s e p a r a te ly, p l u s t h e church building on two lots.

Contact Billesberger Law Firm in Estevan 306-637-3710 for more details. Highest offer not necessarily accepted.

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North American Food Ingredients are looking for Oats, and Brown Flax. Contact Mark DePauw @ 1 3 0 6 4 5 7 15 0 0 L o c a t e d i n Stoughton along highway 33.

LAND FOR SALE FARMLAND WANTED NO FEES OR COMMISSIONS! SUMMARY OF SOLD PROPERTIES Central - 215 1/4’s South - 88 1/4’s South East - 40 1/4’s South West - 65 1/4’s North - 10 1/4’s North East - 8 1/4’s North West - 12 1/4’s East - 54 1/4’s West - 49 1/4’s

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Auctions LAND AUCTION FOR Stuart and Peggy Boxrud R.M. Of Estevan #5 3-quarter sections of farmland.

Sale Thursday December 10th , 7pm.

Days Inn Phone 306-634-9512 www.mackauctioncompany.com PL 311962

FARM AND PASTURE LAND AVAILABLE TO RENT

PURCHASING: SINGLE TO LARGE BLOCKS OF LAND. PREMIUM PRICES PAID WITH QUICK PAYMENT.

SHALLOW WELL ENT. LTD. Erskine, Alberta. Thursday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m. Gas well testing & production equipment, flare stack, office & equipment trailers, vehicles, pipe & fittings, pumps, specialty tools & more. See www.montgomeryauctions.com. 1-800-371-6963.

RENT BACK AVAILABLE Call DOUG 306-955-2266 saskfarms@shaw.ca Land For Sale: S W 2 3 - 2 - 9 - W 2 Phone 306-421-1753 Or 306-4211987

Wanted WANTED: International Tractors 1206, 1256, 1456, 1026, 1468.

John Deere 3010, 3020, series.

Cockshutts, Oliver ’s 99, 1900, 1950s, 2255. Older F.W.A. AllisD-21, 210. Old Service Station & Dealership Signs, Gas pumps, etc.

306-369-2810 home, 306-2215908 cell.

WANTED: SHED ANTLERS, OLD TRAPS, beaver castors, all wild f u r- c oyo te s, fox , e t c . c o n ta c t Bryon-306-278-7756 Phil -306278-2299

U N R E S E RV E D AU C T I O N fo r Rene Williams Farm. Provost, Alb e r t a . Sa t u rd ay, O c to b e r 10 .

Tools, trucks, 27 antique tractors, boat, car antiques! Starts 10 a.m.

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Career OppOrtunities

Heavy equipment GRADER & PUSH CAT operators for late model CAT equip.

Camp job (southern Sask).

Competitive wages plus R & B. Valid drivers license req’d.

Send resume and work references to: Bryden Construction and Transport Co. Inc., Box 100, Arborfield, Sk. S0E 0A0; Fax: 306-769-8844 Email: brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www.brydenconstruction andtransport.ca

Heavy Duty Mechanic

required for preventative maintenance, repair and service of heavy equipment fleet. Journeyman with min.

5 yrs exp with CAT, JD, and heavy trucks. Both camp and shop locations. Service truck and accommodations provided. Wage negotiable.

Send work references and resume to: Bryden Construction, Box 100, Arborfield, Sk. S0E 0A0; Fax: 306-769-8844 Email: brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www.brydenconstruction andtransport.ca

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or e-mail: classieds@estevanmercury.ca Business Ofce Located at 68 Souris Avenue North in Estevan (Across from the Water Tower) Phone 634-2654 for further information Ofce Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Oil & Gas Sales Summit Search Group is a leading national recruitment firm that focuses on sales and management roles.

Our client is a leader in the Oil & Gas surface equipment industry.

They are an established, aggressive, technological leader, with operations both domestically and internationally. Due to their continual growth and rapid expanding opportunities in the energy industry, we are currently searching for the position of Field Sales Representative working out of their Estevan, Saskatchewan or surrounding area.

As Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for creating and implementing strategies to ensure the continued aggressive growth of their clients’ business. You will have direct accountability to consistently exceed their client’s expectations.

We are looking for a sales person familiar with a consultative and solution oriented sales approach to fill this position. They will have experience or familiarity in the oil and gas industry however must have a minimum of five years sales experience within the souther n Saskatchewan oil and gas sector.

Remuneration will consist of a base salary of $90-95K in addition to an aggressive commission structure, full benefit program, vehicle and expense program.

If you meet the qualifications, please forward your resume today in confidence to Bruce Proctor at Bruce@summitsearchgroup.com.

Although we appreciate all inquiries only qualified individuals will be contacted.

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Send resume and two work references to: Bryden Construction and Transport Co. Inc., Box 100, Arborfield, Sk. S0E 0A0; Fax: 306-769-8844 Email: brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www.brydenconstruction andtransport.ca Looking for an online business?

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Obituaries

Obituaries

Obituaries

Donald Palmer 1926 - 2015 Donald Hiram Palmer passed away at St. Joseph’s Special Care Home in Estevan, SK on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at the age of 89 years.

Donald’s memory will forever be cherished by his loving wife of 28 years, Marilyn Palmer; son John (Karen) and their family, Megan (Stephen) and Whitney; daughter Susan; son Tim (Jacquie) and their family, Jennifer, Arlene (Daniel) and their children, Esther, James and Elisabeth; Jonathan (Melissa), Deanna, and David; son Thomas (Michiyo); stepdaughter Lenora (Blaine) and their family, Tanya (Steve), Jordan (Amber), Jessica (Brad), and Hudson; stepdaughter, Jo; stepson Grant and his daughter Chantelle; stepdaughter Barbara (Randy) and their children, Callum and Mellisa; sister-in-law Bella Palmer, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, friends and extended family.

He was predeceased by his parents, Peter and Alice and siblings Gordon (Pearl), Marguerite (Neil) and Robert.

A Memorial Service was held on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, Estevan, with Sandy Dalziel officiating. Interment followed at Souris Valley Memorial Gardens and a lunch reception was held in the St. Paul’s United Church Auditorium.

Those wishing to make donations in Donald’s memory may do so to the New Estevan Regional Nursing Home, 1201 2nd Street, Estevan, SK S4A 0M1 or a charity of choice.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

David Thompson 1928 – 2015 David Arnold Thompson, late of Estevan, SK and formerly of Roche Percee, SK, passed away at Hill View Manor, Estevan, on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at the age of 87 years.

David is survived by his daughter Sheila (Tony) - Chris and great grandchildren, Tylea and Chris Jr.; son James (Susan) - Braden and Tairyn; daughter Laura (Jim) - Travis and David.

He was predeceased by his wife Katherine Thompson in 2008, as well as his parents and siblings.

A Memorial Service was held on Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan, with Sandy Dalziel officiating. Interment followed at the Bienfait Cemetery, and a luncheon was held at the Bienfait Legion.

If friends so desire, donations in David’s memory may be made to the Hill View Manor Activities Fund, 1401 - 1st Street, Estevan, SK, S4A 2W7.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan.

Romuald (Richard) Kawecki 1926 - 2015 With great sadness, the family of Romuald Arthur (Richard) Kawecki, late of Estevan, Saskatchewan, announces his passing on September 26, 2015. Born December 1, 1926 at home to Frances and Alphonse Kawecki at Ladywood, MB, he is survived by daughter Joan (Camille), granddaughters Serina (Paul) and Michelle (Colin) great grandsons, Gabriel and Eli; son Gregg (Peggy), grandchildren Jordan (Katherine), Chelsea (Mitchell); son Keith (Wendy) and children Jared, Landon (Dan) and Carver; daughter Gail.

He was predeceased by his parents, wife Edna (Belluk) and sister, Florence (Ambrose) Modrzejewski.

He served with the RCAF (1949-1952) and Worked within the Cooperative Retailing System in Management until retirement.

He always took an active part in the community he lived in. He served his church at parish, deanery and archdiocesan levels. Was an active member of the Knights of Columbus, a longtime member of the Royal Canadian Legion, as well as other organizations too numerous to mention. He enjoyed tennis, baseball and a good curling game for many years, as a participant and a viewer.

He enjoyed travelling in his car for holidays and to visit family and friends. He also enjoyed leaving a “calling card” if you were not at home. His camera was a constant companion to which his photo albums can attest. He took great delight in his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren as they grew up.

He will be missed dearly by all of them. He was a great Dad and a wonderful friend to everyone he met.

The Funeral Mass for Richard was celebrated at St. Mary’s R.C. Church, 516 Atlantic Avenue, Beausejour, MB, on Monday, October 5, 2015 at 11:00 a.m, by Rev. Owen Steeves. Interment followed at the Sts. Peter & Paul R.C. Cemetery, Ladywood, MB. Those wishing to make donations in Richard’s memory may do so directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, Canadian Cancer Society or the Canadian Diabetes Association.

Arrangements were entrusted to Hall Funeral Services, Estevan. Condolences can be forwarded to the family by visiting www.hallfuneralservices.ca

Remember Your Loved Ones with a Memorial Tribute in The Mercury

Obituaries

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Career Opportunities

O V E R 5 8 Y E A R S S T R O N G IN O IL F I E L D C O N S T R U C TI O N

Over 58 years strong, Arnett & Burgess Oilfield Construction Limited, (A&B) safely provides quality pipeline construction, facility installation, custom fabrication, pipeline integrity, maintenance and related contruction services to the energy industry.

Competitive Salary

3 Weeks’ Vacation

Health & Dental Benefits

Vision Care Plan

Construction Manager (Estevan, SK)

Fitness Benefit Plan

Full-­‐time (Mon-­‐Fri). 7am – 5pm, Weekends as needed.

SCOPE OF JOB Plan, coordinate, direct, control and implement pipeline construction projects from start to finish according to schedule, specifications and budget, while maintaining strict adherence to A&B’s Quality Control and Safety guidelines and procedures.

Experience with facility construction and pipeline integrity projects is considered an asset.

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Benefits for Medical/Dental & much more Tire Repair Technician

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Busy small town business in Shellbrook includes automotive and agriculture parts, tires and service. We have one mechanic bay, one tire bay and are looking for a self-motivated person to fill the Tire Repairman position.

This is a permanent full time position with medical benefits and a salary corresponding to your experience. Preference will be given to experienced applicants however we will also train suitable candidates. Previous automotive or farm experience an asset.

Respond with resume to sss94@sasktel.net.

Published weekly by the Prairie Newspaper Group L.P., a subsidiary of Glacier Media Inc. The Glacier group of companies collects personal information from our customers in the normal course of business transactions. We use that information to provide you with our products and services you request. On occasion we may contact you for purposes of research, surveys and other such matters. To provide you with better service we may share your personal information with our sister companies and also outside, selected third parties who perform work for us as suppliers, agents, service providers and information gatherers. Our subscription list may be provided to other organizations who have products and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to participate in such matters, please contact us at the following address: The Estevan Mercury, Box 730, Estevan, Saskatchewan, S4A 2A6; or phone (306) 634-2654. For a complete statement of our privacy policy, please go to our Web site at: www. estevanmercury.ca The Estevan Mercury is owned and operated by Prairie Newspaper Group L.P., a subsidiary of Glacier Media Inc.

RESPONSIBILITIES • Responsible for the efficient and profitable execution of divisional projects, including accountability for project, safety, quality control, costs, revenue, scope changes, personnel and administration.

• Provide leadership that results in enhancing A&B’s safe work culture, and takes on responsibility and accountability for the safety of the staff under his direction.

• Overall people leadership accountabilities for all staff reporting to the role with a strong desire to provide structured influential mentorship and ongoing personnel development.

• Assist with bids by providing input into bid strategy, planning and costing. This position will collaborate with the Estimating department to ensure complete, competitive and sustainable submissions.

• Assist with developing the future outlook of your division of responsibility and, in conjunction with applicable departments, pursuing all opportunities with securing new work.

• Develop, establish and maintain regional and local customer clientele and contacts.

• Identify and record construction nonconformities and participate in their resolution.

• Ensure construction milestones are met and monitor progress against established schedules.

• Identify scope of work based on bid specifications and drawings.

• Identify and manage project trends, issues and changes.

• Allocate and supervise the activities of subcontractors and subordinate employees.

• Prepare progress reports and issue progress schedules to clients.

• Possess a thorough understanding of A&B’s project specific pricing models, billing procedures and capabilities.

• Effectively report relevant project information to superiors in a consistent manner.

• Help ensure timely and accurate billing.

• Proactively resolve or escalate issues in a timely fashion.

• Participate and contribute to all project related meeting including pre-­‐bid meetings, as well as internal and external.

• Ensures the reputation of A&B is maintained at all times by promoting respectful and courteous communication and behavior toward all clients, employees, visitors, contractors and others that may come into contact with divisional staff.

QUALIFICATIONS • Extensive experience in a leadership/managerial role working on pipeline and facility construction projects is required • Minimum 5 years’ experience managing large construction projects within the oil and gas industry • Completion of Construction Management Certification or related courses an asset • Well versed in Quality Control requirements • Strong leadership and development skills • Ability to plan and manage to a project schedule • A team player with excellent attention to detail, a strong work ethic and excellent oral communication skills • Strong computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, scheduling software and Outlook • A valid driver’s license • All candidate are required to undergo and pass a Drug & Alcohol screening as a condition of employment

PLEASE APPLY TO: email: hr@abpipeliners.com | phone: 403.265.0900 | fax: 403.265.0922 | www.abpipeliners.com - A&B would like to thank those who apply, but only candidates selected for possible employment will be contacted -

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Estevan Mercury

Sixty and over club report A young reporter decided to interview an elderly couple who was celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.

He asked “What do you say is the secret to a happy marriage?”

The husband replied “We were driving home from our wedding reception when suddenly the horse stumbled and fell. I got out, helped the horse up and said ‘That’s once.’

“Shortly thereafter the horse stomped again. I got out, helped him up and said ‘That’s twice.’ When on the third time the

horse fell, I got out my gun and shot him. My wife was very upset and gave me a piece of her mind, to which I looked at her and said, ‘That’s once.’”

Shuffle Board Winners were: Colin Renwick in first and Marg Renwick in second.

Bridge winners were: Margaret Sawyer finished first, Dave Donachie was second and Dot Bridges came in third.

Cribbage winners were: Louise Belanger in first, Geraldine Gervais in second

and Eric Parker in third.

A keynote speaker said, “This is terrible! I am the speaker at this banquet, and I forgot my false teeth.”

A man replied, “I happen to have an extra pair. Try these.”

Speaker: “Too small.”

Man: “Well, try this pair.”

Speaker: “Too big.”

Man: “I have one pair left.”

Speaker: “These fit just fine. It sure is lucky to sit next to a dentist!”

Man: “I’m no dentist. I’m an undertaker.”

Career Opportunities

The Estevan Mercury is looking for a

class 5 steam engineer

Delivery Driver

to deliver The Mercury to newstands and carriers on Tuesdays. Takes approximately three hours.

Delivery van is supplied.

Part Time

with current ticket.

Duties: - Perform Daily Inspections - Perform Routine and Annual Maintenance - Experience with Gas Fired High Pressure Boilers

If interested please call Gayle

Send, fax, email or drop off resume to: Box 845 #200 Hwy. 18 West, Estevan, SK S4A 2A7 Fax: 306-634-7597 E-mail: jobs.shelter@gmail.com

306-634-2654

Your Guide to Area Faith Lutheran Church Sunday Service 10:30 am Nicholson Centre Pastor Dan Krauss Phone: 306-471-8130 All Are Welcome Faithlc.ca

ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH Sunday Worship 10:30am Nursery & Children’s Ministries Available Sunday School at 9:30am

Friday Night Youth 7:30 pm (gr 7-12) Children’s Clubs -Wednesdays- 7-8 pm 140 King Street (across from Staples)

306.634.2601

www.estevanalliancechurch.com /estevanalliance

PASTORS: REV. JIM KEDGE & WAYLON KLIX

Trinity Lutheran Church

Sunday Worship Service and Sunday School • 11:00 am

EMAIL: stpaulsuc@sasktel.net Website: stpaulsestevan.ca

306-634-2885 • 1418 3rd St. Estevan

CHURCH OF CHRIST

E.L.C.I.C.

Sunday Worship & Sunday School - 10am

1302 - 8th St., Estevan Office Phone: 306-634-3116 Email: estevan.cofc@sasktel.net

PASTOR STEWART MILLER

TIM PIPPUS

Coffee & Fellowship after Worship 738 - 2nd Street, Estevan Church Office: 306-634-5684 E: trinity.luth@sasktel.net Website: www.etlc.ca

SUNDAY SERVICES: Bible Study - 10:00 a.m.

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Bible studies on any subject can be arranged at your convenience. Please call us.

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1920 Wellock Road, Estevan • (306) 634-7955 Estevan Church of God • www.estevancog.com 10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship with Children’s Ministries & Nursery.

7:00 p.m. Sundays Young Adults 7:00 p.m. Tuesdays “First Contact” Youth Please call us or visit our website for more information about other ministres and events.

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Join us in Glorious Praise and Worship With: Pastors Dr. and Mrs. Jimi Akinsete Where: Westview School 1607 2nd Street, Estevan When: 10am on Sundays

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GOSPEL CHAPEL ESTEVAN

1202 - 2nd Street Phone: 306-634-3761

“Holding fast the faithful word”

Pastor: Josh Permann Sunday:Worship 11:00 a.m.

Tuesday: Prayer Meeting 7:00 p.m.

Youth Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday: Club DJ for kids 6:30 p.m.

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St. Joseph’s Prayer Centre Everyone welcome to join our daily prayers, inspirational Bible DVD viewings and lively discussions

2 - 4 pm Monday - Friday Series topics change monthly Call for more information 1033 3rd Street Estevan

306-634-9191

ESTEVAN COMMUNITY CHURCH

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Isabelle & Souris Reverend Randy Kleemola Phone: 306-634-2024 email: st.peters@sasktel.net

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Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. - Bible Study 10:30 a.m. - Divine Service with Holy Communion and Sunday School A Congregation of LUTHERAN CHURCH - CANADA

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church Corner 12th Avenue & 2nd Street

Phone: 306-634-2190

Fax: 306-634-6845

Pastor: Father Brian Meredith MASSES: Saturday: 7:00 p.m.

Sunday: 10:00 a.m.

St. Giles

Anglican Church

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317-12th Avenue

Sunday Worship: 8:00 & 10:00 am September - May Children’s Sunday School: 10:00 am The Rev. Mark Osborne ALL ARE WELCOME! Church Office: 306-634-4113 www.estevananglican.com

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Sask. welcomes partnership Premier Brad Wall is applauding Canada’s participation in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), one of the most ambitious free trade agreements in history.

Negotiations involving 12 nations concluded Monday on the TPP, which will represent a market of nearly 800 million consumers and a combined GDP of $28.5 trillion.

Member countries include Canada, the United States, Mexico, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Chile, Peru and Brunei.

“This is a huge deal for Canada as a trading nation and Saskatchewan as a trading province,” Wall said. “The agreement builds on the strengths of the other free trade deals Canada has struck and opens up new opportunities for our exporters in the fast-growing

and lucrative pacific markets.”

Saskatchewan exported more than $25 billion in goods to TPP countries in 2014, or 71 per cent of all international exports. The premier said the TPP increases access to those markets for exporters and keeps them on a level playing field with their competitors.

“International trade has always been vital to our province’s economy and our government’s Growth Plan calls for us to double our global exports by 2020,” Wall said. “Agreements like the TPP and Canada’s free trade deals with the European Union and Korea will help us reach that goal.”

From 2007 to 2014, Saskatchewan’s total exports to the world increased by 77 per cent to more than $35 billion a year. Saskatchewan’s agricultural exports more than

doubled in that same period.

Wall said the TPP agreement will open new markets and increase Saskatchewan exports even further.

“Our agricultural producers are looking forward to having an even stronger presence in pacific markets, in particular Japan,” Wall said. “The TPP will encourage major growth and investment in our value-added agriculture sector through better access to these markets for our processed products, such as canola oil and meal, malt barley, beef and pork.”

Wall called on all the federal party leaders to commit to honouring the agreement if they are elected on Oct. 19.

Next week’s edition of Southeast Agri News will have more on the Trans Pacific Partnership.

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The Estevan RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance with a recent vandalism incident in Lampman.

Some time between 11 a.m. on September 25 and 8 a.m. on September 29, a street sweeper was damaged behind baseball diamond No. 2 at the Lampman campground. The vehicle’s windows were smashed and its lights were destroyed. The damage to the equipment is extensive and will be costly to repair.

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Sun Country Hearing is “Hear” For You has an active role in the community. She is a member of the Estevan Kinettes, the Kinsmen Foundation Board of Directors, Estevan Sharks Water Polo Board of Directors, the Catholic School Community Council at Sacred Heart School, and the Kin Canada National Membership Board.

“I guess I’ve always been someone who believes in supporting the community you live in,” says Mvula. “I like to stay on my toes. You can’t really enjoy all the things this community offers unless people step up and volunteer, so it becomes part of your social life. Whether I can personally support groups with my time or my business can financially support groups, I’m always happy to do so, if I can.”

In addition to hearing tests, Sun Country Hearing offers custom hearing protection, hearing aid sales/ fittings, and in and out-ofoffice repairs. Mvula says Sun Country also does cerumen (earwax) removal, using a vacuum procedure —the safest means by which to remove excessive cerumen. All of the services are done us-

PROUD SUPPORTER OF • St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation (Donated FM Sound Field System for the chapel) • Estevan Kinette Club (All Kids Deserve PJ’s for Christmas program & upcoming Princess Ball for Cystic Fibrosis) • Telemiracle • Estevan Legion • Estevan Sharks Water Polo • Quota International Women of Today Awards • Estevan Bruins • Estevan Arts Council

ing state of the art, PC-based technology. Mvula notes that those who have hearing aids purchased elsewhere need not worry — she will still provide them help, even honouring their manufacturer’s warranty.

Sun Country Hearing offers services four days per week and Mvula says she’s looking into expanding the range of what her business offers, by offering services for younger children, and possibly adding an auditory processing disorder (APD) test protocol.

October is Audiology Awareness Month. Audiologists have a minimum education of a master’s degree and are considered hearing and balance specialists. To celebrate the month, and the upcoming anniversary of Sun Country Hearing on Oct. 26, Mvula is offering coupons which provide free hearing screenings for children, and coupons for free hearing aid cleaning checks.

She says, “It doesn’t cost anything to come check us out. We’re always free to answer any questions and try to help out.”

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Estevan had a need for a registered audiologist for many years. Jacquie Mvula (nee Sandquist) is here to fill that need. Sun Country Hearing Ltd., a business Mvula started after moving home to Estevan last year, offers a range of audiological services, for clients aged five and up.

“The biggest question we’ve been asked this first year is, ‘Are you going to stay?’ I have seen chain hearing aid businesses come and go in this community over past years,” said Mvula, who holds a Masters in audiology and an undergraduate degree in communication disorders. “With so many people having bought hearing aids, then finding the company has left, they have ended up driving to a bigger city for service; they’re justifiably hesitant to trust another company. With client service and professionalism as our main focus, we are here to stay. It’s different, being the sole owner of the business, instead of part of a chain.”

In addition to raising two sons, Karson and Noah, with her husband, Isaac, Mvula

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