HRHS athletes celebrate signings

Four Holy Rosary High School studentathletes are ending their high school sports careers on a high note with commitments to post-secondary athletics and the Canadian Junior Football League.

Costco site work slated in 2024

March 31, 2025.

The proposed Lloydminster Costco warehouse is now slated to be completed by Aug. 31, 2025, with site grading and other activities to start in late May 2024, according to an evolving online schedule.

Site drawings show an approximately 160,000 sq. ft. warehouse project with a liquor pod and a fuel facility officially located at 75 Ave and 20 Street, north of the ACTO substation on 12 Street.

Briza Zacharias has committed to the University of Minnesota Crookston to obtain a science degree in Sport Management and will be playing for the school’s Golden Eagles Softball team.

Connor Daschuk will be going to Brock University for the Forensic Psychology and Criminal Justice program and hopes to get into a career in law. Daschuk will also be on the Brock University Swim Team.

Liam Gilby will be attending the University of Victoria in the fall for Engineering and will be rowing for the UVic

Row Team, and Raiders’ safety, Tyler Gerwing, will further his football career with the Edmonton Wildcats football team while apprenticing in auto body with dreams of becoming a custom fabricator to build trucks.

Gilby, 18, explained he is super excited about the opportunities ahead, especially considering he’s only been rowing for just over a year.

“I started about a year and a couple of months ago. I really loved it; I trained all winter and it just clicked from there,” he said.

“At Victoria, they prioritize the double and the four for the lightweight team. I’m going to be on the light-weight team out there, so hopefully, by the middle of my first year and the start of my second year, I should be on the lightweight four and having a good time out there.”

Gilby gives credit to local coaches Shelby Lane and Michelle Lopez for helping him see his potential and can’t wait to see what the future holds.

Daschuk, also 18, started swimming with the Lloydminster Rebels at age 10 and most recently has been training with the Lloydminster Riptides winter club.

“My specialty in the pool is sprinting, specifically 50 metres of free. That’s my favourite event, it always has been, ever since I started I got pretty good at it right away,” he said, adding he also competes in 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke.

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In 2019, plans called for the developer to be responsible for mass grading the site; however, we understand Costco will now be responsible for mass grading the site, including placing fills up to about 4 metres thick.

Aside from mass grading, the preliminary schedule includes utilities and site concrete completion in 2024 along with some initial asphalt paving and landscaping in advance of warehouse construction to start on

The Costco project site is zoned C4 as a commercial shopping centre district and covers a 19.57-acre site at Musgrave Agencies’ 140-acre Lakeview subdivision to be developed over a multi-year period.

A lot of site fill will be required for grading according to a new report sent last month from the environmental services company, Kleinfelder to the director of real estate development at Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd.

“In 2019, plans called for the developer to be responsible for mass grading the site; however, we understand Costco will now be responsible for mass grading the site, including placing fills up to about 4 metres thick,” stated the report.

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