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PIPELINE NEWS March 2012
Provost in the spot light
Kevin McGillivray, Įeld operaƟons manager for Crescent Point, is one of several residents in Provost who invested in a community producƟon company to help fund the making of the family movie Barlowe Mann to be released this spring.
ɺ Page A23 The film project dates back to Roach’s time in 2006 when he was the economic development officer in Kipling, Saskatchewan. Roach was tuned in to the quest of blogger Kyle MacDonald to trade up his red paper clip for a house. Roach convinced Kipling town council to purchase an old house on Main St. in exchange for MacDonald’s second last trade – a role in a Corbin Bernsen movie. “I found out about this in the middle of June, and we made the trade July 12, 2006, one year to the date when Kyle started his trades,” said Roach. Bernsen came to Kipling, liked what he saw, and inspired the community to raise money to help produce the movie Rust released in the fall of 2009. “With me moving to Provost, Bernsen tracked me down and asked me what’s special about Provost? In 2010, we started to put together a project to make a movie here.” The creative marketing of Provost doesn’t stop there, however. “Dreams create the future” is the slogan of the economic development office that brought Kyle MacDonald and others to Provost last fall to support and inspire local innovators and entrepreneurs. A similar event will be held in the fall of 2012 to put the spotlight on
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the opportunities that exist in Provost. Mayor Ken Knox hopes the publicity might help ease a tight labour crunch in oil and gas industry in the region. “Finding workers with some knowledge in the industry is very tough,” said Knox who works as a HR/safety manager for Maverick Oilfield Services Ltd. “We have having a hard time to recruit people. I think that’s due to the fact a lot of people used to come to our area from Saskatchewan and now they are busy. “We have a fair amount of residential and commercial property and we have to get out there and entice some people to choose Provost as a place they want to locate to or construct something.” The town has 58 serviced house lots in the Paulgaard Estates with room for an addition 80 lots. Buyers can get up to a 20 per cent discount on the lot price if all permit and construction timelines and conditions are met. The town also a number of prime serviced highway commercial and industry lots for sale with three lots sold to date fronting Highway 13. “We have a few people out there that are looking right now and are expressing some interest in Provost and hopefully that interest turns into a reality for us,” said Knox, who has been mayor for more than 25 years.
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