The Independent

Vol. 111 No. 40

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020

Every leaf, a flower . . . With the fall season upon us, the trees are putting on a show, turning every leaf into a spectacular red, yellow and orange.

The crisp air is a portent of things to come.

(Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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With the Fall season upon us, it is these times that we see wildlife fill the landscape - deer, eagles, moose, geese . . . it really is a special time of the year. We hope you are getting outside enjoying these days before the snow and cold of winter!

(Independent Photos by Fallon Neugebauer)

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High-speed chase near Perdue During the afternoon of September 29, a member of the Rosetown combined Traffic Services attempted to pull over a vehicle that was speeding on Highway 14 near Perdue.

Upon traffic services attempt to pull the vehicle over it fled and was doing speeds in excess of 143 kph. No pursuit was initiated at this time as speeding is not a pursuable offence. The Warman RCMP detachment became involved as the vehicle was last seen headed East bound on Highway 14 going towards Saskatoon.

Even though the suspect vehicle was not being pursued their speed reached over 170 kph.

Saskatoon Police Service became involved as Air services was monitoring the attempted stop and located the suspect vehicle. Air services continued to provide the RCMP with updates and direction of travel. The suspect

The regular meeting of Biggar Town Council was held September 1, at 7:15 p.m. in the Council Chambers. Attending the meeting were Mayor Ray Sadler, Aldermen Alan Boyle, Penny McCallum, Kevin McNicholls, Kirk Sherbino, Edward Young, and Ivan Young.

Council resolved that Recreation Director Erin Poitras be authorized to hire Bath Fitter to redo the showers at the Biggar Jubilee Stadium in the amount of $28,993.20.

Council resolved that the quote from Impact Ener-

vehicle was located North of Langham when RCMP utilized a spike belt which was successful in deflating the tires of the car.

The three occupants of the car eventually fled on foot and Saskatoon City Police K9 unit was on route to Langham to assist in the track.

RCMP with the help of Corman Park Police service located the three suspects and took them into custody shortly after, without incident.

The three people involved are known to Police and are facing several charges. Two people are being held in custody for court, September 30.

Charges are pending for another male.

Theron Fox, 25, is facing the following charges: Flight from Police; Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle; Possession of Property obtained by crime; Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose; Resist arrest.

Tanisha Taniskishay-

inew, 19, is facing the following charges: Posses-

sion of property obtained by crime; Possession of a

weapon for a dangerous purpose; Fail to comply

Police surround a vehicle after a chase ensued, starting on Highway 14 near Perdue, September 29.

(Submitted Photo)

Town Council Minutes

gy Services to replace the main disconnect at the Biggar Jubilee Stadium in the amount of $10,500 plus taxes, be approved.

Council resolved that the following financial reports for July 2020 be accepted as presented: Bank Reconciliation; Statement of Financial Activities.

Council resolved that the General Accounts Paid in the amount of $93,744.52, and the General Accounts Payable in the amount of $70,289.27, be approved.

Council resolved that the following correspondence

with release order; Resist arrest.

be accepted as presented for Council’s information and filed: Kelly Block, MP - Gas Tax Fund; Biggar Fire Department - Payroll; SAMA - 2020 Annual Meeting; PIWIK - August 2020 Web Site Report.

Council resolved that the invoice in the amount of $166.50 for the nuisance order to remedy charges on Lot 20 Block 13 Plan D4770 to be applied to the tax roll. Also resolved

by Council was the invoice in the amount of $333 for the nuisance order to remedy charges on Lot 9 Block 23 Plan D4770, be

approved to be applied on the tax roll, and invoice in the amount of $333 for the nuisance order to remedy charges on Lot 13 Block 20 Plan D4770, be approved to be applied on the tax roll.

Council resolved that

the quote from Chase 14 Welding Ltd. in the amount of $8,565.37 to replace the entire pipe spool section at the Water Treatment Plant, be approved.

Council resolved that Policy F(3) being a Policy

Respecting Culture Flag Project be approved and attached hereto and forming part of these minutes, be approved effective September 1, 2020.

• Meeting adjourned at 9:55 p.m.

Independent Publisher in accident Independent Publisher, Dale Buxton, was in a serious accident, west of Biggar, Monday evening.

Buxton, along with his wife, Trudy, hit errant wildlife while on their motorcyle. Both were injured and immediately rushed to a Saskatoon hospital where they were stabilized.

While the prognosis was still guarded as of

the Independent’s publishing deadline, we are all hopeful and confident of a good outcome.

Due to the accident, we have had to make some adjustments, and we ask our advertisers and readers for some patience as we adjust. An upcoming Fire Prevention Week campaign, featuring our Biggar Volunteer Fire Department along with

advertisements from area businesses, has had to be put on hold for the present. We will be running your advertisements, hopefully in an upcoming issue.

We once again ask for your patience and understanding. We also ask you to say a prayer and lend your support to the family as they go through this trying time.

Together We Care!

Red Apple to support Biggar Food Bank Town recognizes safe employees . . . The Town of Biggar recognized three of their employees, awarding them the 2020 Town of Biggar Safety Awards. From left to right: Wayne Schmidtke, Brandon Klassen and Josip Knezevic, all with Town of Biggar Chief Administrative Officer, Marty Baroni. Congratulations! (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

It is time for Red Apple Stores across Canada to do our yearly Thanksgiving Food Drive. Your local Red Apple store will be supporting the Biggar Food Bank.

This year our food bank

is finding their cupboards are in serious need of nonperishable foods especially canned vegetables and fruit, cereal, pasta, canned meat, soups to name a few items.

You can drop donations

off at Biggar Red Apple’s Main Street location, purchase while in the store or give a monetary donation. Any and all donations will be gratefully appreciated.

Together we can.

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Letter to The Editor Dear Editor, I recently received some advice from one of my sons that I would like to share with others. It is concerning COVID-19.

He said that the first sign of the virus is a drop in blood oxygen levels, even before an increased temperature.

Being diagnosed with a disease early, and having treatment started, he recomends that anyone who is concerned about their health should get a “clip on your finger” oxygen tester, about $35, learn what your normal percentage is and then keep track of it, especially if you are showing any symptoms. This would allow you to start treatment early which is important to a happy outcome.

This should be brought to the attention of everyone in the fight against the disease.

Bob Wiseman Biggar

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In search of an American tax daddy for Canadian media

by Peter Menzies, senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a former CRTC vice chair The federal government is apparently preparing massive regulation of the Internet, pandering to the views of niche lobby groups The nation’s cultural policies may soon switch from protecting Canada from foreign influences to depending on them.

That’s because Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault seems determined to shift the burden of funding the nation’s cultural industries to foreign companies.

The details of the new communications legislation Guilbeault’s been promising remain under wraps. But he’s strongly signalling he’s preparing massive regulation of the Internet, pandering to the views of niche lobby groups such as the Friends of Canadian

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Broadcasting.

“Why does our government allow Internet broadcasters like Netflix, Disney, Amazon and Apple to play by their own rules, saving them hundreds of millions per year at the expense of Canadian culture,” Friends asked in a letter to Guilbeault.

“Why allow them to dictate their own rules? If Netflix were playing by the same rules as Canadian broadcasters, it would need to invest as much as $1.5 billion over five years in Canadian storytellers, protecting the stories that make us who we are.”

As it turns out, Netflix was on track to spend at that pace without being forced to by licensing and other rules laid down by the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

Those regulations have for decades been used to dictate Canadian con-

tent quotas. And, in the case of television, that as much as 30 per cent of corporate revenues go to pay for film and television programming in English and French.

Never mind that the Canadian film and television production industry has flourished over the past decade of non-regulation and Netflix et al. are a huge part of that success. Guilbeault is apparently determined to bring the greatest period of free market prosperity in industry history to an end and push streaming services into a regulatory system that insists 50 per cent of content available between 6 p.m. and midnight be Canadian.

In doing so, he has apparently embraced the view of people such as David Sparrow, president of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), that “ACTRA also sees the Internet as

just another pipeline.”

People who understand the Internet know, of course, that it’s much more than that.

Perhaps it’s understandable that people who work in cultural industries that constitute roughly three per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product would see the online world in that way.

It’s even possible to contemplate that a minister of Heritage – a culturally-focused department – might view the world through such a lens.

What’s impossible to contemplate is that people such as Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains, who is responsible for the communications framework serving the other 97 per cent of the economy, would appear to have been excluded from this discussion.

While Bains stands muzzled, Guilbeault is looking to force Facebook

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and Google to surrender to newspaper publishers’ demands that they get paid every time someone posts their work on their social media sites.

When this happened in Australia, Facebook pointed out that the free delivery of news to its audiences has a value of $200 million annually and that news is only four per cent of its content. It then announced it would just not allow news articles to be posted on Australian Facebook sites, leaving it for its core purpose only.

Guilbeault referred to this as bullying and to Mark Zuckerberg’s company’s behaviour as immoral. He remains determined to ensure newspapers incapable of adapting to technological change get subsidized by a company based in the United States.

This not only leaves less room in the market for innovative operators such

as Blacklock’s Reporter, The Atlantic and The Line, it means that industries that once survived on support from within Canada could find their business models firmly dependent on one based in California.

The big winners in all this?

Quite possibly Canadian companies including Bell Media, Rogers, Videotron and Shaw Media. All will be well positioned – once the film and television producers, and news programs they have always been forced to support find new money from south of the border – to ask that their burden be lessened.

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters, warning of the widespread closures of local TV and radio stations, has already filed for relief from the CRTC. Perhaps Guilbeault can find them an American tax daddy.

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If there is anything that a writer appreciates most, it is when they are presented with some familiar, ready-made subject to write about instead of waiting for their proverbial “muse� to come along and “fire up� this pen!

Mebbe Your’s Truly shouldn’t use that expression “fire-upâ€?, eh? After all, the age of “steamâ€? is almost passĂŠ!

So, when the folks gave me that big Saskatchewan Encyclopedia book, and on reading through it, I found a few familiar faces and phrases. Y.T. just sat back, thought about them for a while, smiled and rolled up his sleeves! Hey, wait a minute! Mebbe I’d better not use that “Rolled up his sleeves� metaphor either, lest the Reader get the idea that scribbling this stuff is some kind of work!

They tell me that in some circles, “W.O.R.K.� is some kind of a swearword. But that big book is on the table here in front of me, and swear-word or not, here goes!

Irwin McIntosh: When we were young (and that sure wasn’t yesterday!) our Mother often told us of a far-out relation of her’s named Cameron McIntosh, who lived in North Battleford.

Apparently two branches of the family didn’t get along too well, and consequently we rarely saw them, but that is besides the point! They went their way (which was publishing, I think!) and we went ours!

I don’t think we ever met the McIntosh family very much until 1968 or so when Dad introduced me to an older Cameron McIntosh on the streets of Battleford!

Some years later, Your Truly was sitting at a table in the Biggar Legion, tasting the octane content of their rum, when suddenly a voice boomed: “Attention . . . The Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. The Honourable Mr. Irwin McIntosh!� and into the room came a group led by Cameron McIntosh’s son, Irwin!

Irwin strode right over

along that river, and in the 1930’s some of their plans died with the dust and wind that were left.

But we always go back . . . even if only in our memories!

Times and plans have changed so much. Good times come and go, but the permanence of it will always be with us!

The book tells about “psyche� and a whole lot of big words many of us don’t understand, but regardless of them, it is the unchanging sameness of things that we older folks value the most!

The “future� that young people plan for doesn’t seem right to us, so let’s go and sit on the slopes of that river again and look back!

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cern to Y.T. When Mr. Palliser crossed the North Saskatchewan River at what is now called Great Bend, how did he do it?

As young “explorers� we often ranged up and down that river ourselves! and that expedition must have passed right by where we used to live!

Someday, after he gets older and grows up a bit, Y.T. is going to take a boat down that river and find out!

Gold in Saskatchewan: Quoting the Saskatchewan Encyclopedia, again, the first gold found in Saskatchewan was on the river near Prince Albert.

For years Y.T. lived by that river and always wondered if the millions of tons of water rushing down it over the centuries had deposited a load of gold somewhere!

Dad often told us of men panning gold on the sand bars of the river at Battleford in the early days.

When Yours Truly was a boy he read a book about the northern half of the province not being a place where minerals could be found because of the ice age scraping 300 feet of it off. But one of the men Y.T. worked with at Camico Potash (now Agrium) worked for years at the Seebee Gold-Mine north of La Ronge. Hello Jim! There might even be gold in “them thar hills�, eh?

The North Saskatchewan River: Aha! There are quite a few entries in that big volume that don’t touch the life of Y.T. very much (pretty good verse there, eh?) but this one is different. The Hoang Ho, The Nile, Danube, Mississippi and Amazon have their place, I guess, but the North Saskatchewan River is the only river in the world where Yours Truly grew up!

The history books tell us that Alexander McKenzie, John Rowan, Father Lacombe and hundreds of Hudson Bay traders went up and down it, but they never mention the small, blue-eyed kid (Y.T.) who looked on it as the only river in the world!

Over and over, in this column, Yours Truly has mentioned The Great Bend Lumber Yard. The sternwheeler that supplied it. The (ahem!) important people who lived along it, and that whole wonderful world that meant so much to the young people who grew up there!

Some of our folks’ dreams were cast there

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to the table where Y.T. was standing. “Hello Bob Mason,� he greeted.

Y.T. felt like he was eight-feet high because the great man knew his name!

In kind of a low voice I said to him as we shook hands, “Our families never got along that much. You are not even supposed to know me!�

McIntosh smiled. “I didn’t know who you were ‘til I saw your name tag,� he said as he whizzed by. I almost crawled under my chair!

The Saskatchewan Psyche: On page 71 of that big book it sez, quote: “This geographical feature, with it’s implications of openess and solitude has left a distinct impression on the Saskatchewan psyche. The second feature, no doubt related to the flatness is the extreme climate that ranges through the seasons in crescendoes of natural violence that include blizzards, droughts, tornadoes, floods, dust storms, frost, heat and cataclysmic thunder storms . . .�

Personally, Yours Truly only remembers that older, displaced Dutchman (at Heusden, Holland) who was raised in Montana, just south of the border, and recognized Jack Glavin from Lakenheath and Y.T. from Tessier as Saskatchewan boys right away!

This contrast of level land and huge distances sure showed up for the Prairie boys in wartime England where, to us, everything seemed so cramped together. All the road signs had been removed because of the expected enemy invasion, and local instructions went like this: “You cawn’t miss the plyce . . . first you go to the ‘Roundabout.’ There you see a turn to the right. Deny yourself that turn. Then further on is a turn to the left. Ignore that turn also. Then go to the top of the main road and see another turn to the right and go straight ahead for a half kilometre - you cawn’t miss it!�

We usually got lost anyway! Talk about confusion!

Exploration Trails: On page 310 and 698, that big book tells about Saskatchewan Exploration Trails, including those of Palliser in the 1960’s, and much as they are historically interesting, only a small bit is of any con-

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NOTICE OF CALL FOR NOMINATIONS PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of:

Mayor:

Town of Biggar

Councillor:

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will be received by the undersigned on the 7th day of October, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 202-3rd Avenue West, Biggar, Saskatchewan.

Nomination forms may be obtained at the following location: Biggar Town Office - 202-3rd Avenue West, Biggar, Saskatchewan Dated this 17th day of September, 2020

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TOWN OF BIGGAR, SASKATCHEWAN PUBLIC NOTICE ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Town of Biggar intends to adopt a bylaw under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 15-763 known as The Zoning Bylaw.

INTENT: 1. Rezone Proposed Parcel V from FUD – Future Urban Development District to IND2 – Heavy Industrial.

AFFECTED LAND: The affected land to be rezoned above is described as Proposed Parcel V as shown dashed in bold on the map forming part of this notice.

REASON: The reason for the amendment is to provide heavy industrial land for development.

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Copies of the bylaw are available to persons at a cost of $2.00.

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to be unharnessed and released into the wonderful world of culinary arts. Home kitchens were transformed into culinary battlegrounds as people dusted off cookbooks and viewed YouTube and TV cooking Chef Dez shows like never before.

I needed to go virtual.

These are definitely With four cookbooks on trying times for everymy resume and almost one.

18 years of culinary The start of this paninstructing, I knew I demic produced epic could offer a solution to shortages of toilet paper people that was more and hand sanitizer. Then interactive than what with the onslaught of they were watching. people staying at home, Ever since I was a Attention: Amanda the shortages expanded young boy, I have always to include staples origiloved cooking. I was that Price gst for publication nally$269.00 destined+for ourper week nerdy kid that always onkitchen Sept.24 and Oct 1 editions pantries, like had his eyes glued to the flour, yeast, baking powall the cooking shows der, and sugar. on TV, long before the No one could have seen internet was even a this coming, and no one thing. I am proud that knows what’s on the I have fined tuned that horizon as autumn, and passion into something the threat of a second I can share with anyone wave, falls upon us. that has taste buds, and Like many people, I thus my Zoom Cooking was initially out of work.

Classes were born this With retail businesses past spring. shutting down and all Adapting all my culimy cooking classes cannary teachings to a vircelled, I was left wontual experience through dering what the future the Zoom platform, I held for me, and where was able to start coachto take my next step. My ing people that were not Mom’s past childhood within my geographical teachings echoed in my reach. With Zoom you mind: “look for the silver can choose to either cook lining.” along live with me or “Look for the silver lin- take notes and cook at a ing?” I practically argued later time. Regardless of with my conscience, your intention for tun“what silver lining?” ing in, you consistently And then it dawned have to ability to ask on me. People, more questions as the cooking than ever, were cooking process unfolds on your at home. They finally screen. This switch also had the time to tap into made my offerings more their budding inner affordable and provide chefs that were yearning greater value for my cli-

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ents because every lesson can be a hands-on lesson if they choose. With video going both-ways, I am also able to provide constructive advice on their progress as well.

I have always believed that the kitchen is not only the heart of the home, but also a learning ground to produce and perfect the very sustenance that keeps us alive. For as long as I can remember, I have always chanted “chances are you have a kitchen at home; and chances are you are going to eat food the rest of your life.

Unless you win the lotto, you are going to be cooking that food for the rest of your life – so you may as well get comfortable with it and get better at it.” Food and cooking are not going away anytime soon, pandemic or no pandemic.

Typically, my Zoom Cooking Classes are Tuesdays at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. pacific time (Vancouver, B.C., Canada).

To learn more, please visit chefdez.com/cookingclasses or follow my Facebook page: facebook. com/chefdezcooking.

Let’s face it, we eat food for two reasons only: 1.) To stay alive, and 2.)

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Chef Dez is a Chef, Writer, and Host. Visit him at chefdez.com. Write to him at dez@chefdez. com or P.O. Box 2674, Abbotsford, B.C., V2T 6R4.

Biggar New Horizons report

by Chasity Kreutzer We’ve been slowly getting back to business here at New Horizons.

We’ve successfully started up exercises as of the 21st of September with a great turnout. We’ve been getting between eight and 12 in attendance each day. Pearl Silvernagle has taken over leading exercises and has been doing such a wonderful job.

We had our second bingo on September 23 with a much better attendance than the first – 11

in total versus the five players we had at the first bingo. The winner of the half-and-half game was Joanne Kral and the blackout winner was Evelyn Poletz.

After working on filling in the volunteer driver and office dispatch schedules for October, it has been confirmed that we will be open five days a week starting in October. That being said, we have lost a number of dedicated volunteers for in the office recently due

to health concerns. We would be very appreciative to have new workers sign up to dispatch the Courtesy Car. Office volunteers can be expected to work One or two shifts per month as per their choosing. Each office shift is for three hours in the morning or afternoon.

If you are interested in signing up to volunteer at New Horizons please call me (Chasity) at 306948-5115 on Monday, Wednesday or Friday.

Have a great week!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020

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Agriculture Calvin Daniels

by Calvin Daniels Buried in the usual rhetoric of a federal Throne Speech, amid the multifaceted response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, was an interesting kernel of an idea put forward by the Liberal government.

In the Speech the Liberal government pledged further support for the food value chain, which is a rather clear response to COVID. But, the direction Agriculture Minister MarieClaude Bibeau has suggested is of greater interest; exploring how to

make Canada’s food more autonomous.

Heading down such a path is interesting in that its impact could extend beyond being a response to the pandemic.

The world has changed in recent years in terms of trade.

It was not so long ago there was a rather general belief that freer trade was a positive.

From a Canadian agriculture perspective the idea of freer access to markets is obviously a positive generally as producers here can over produce domestic needs rather easily, making export sales essential.

In more general terms it makes sense that you allow the lowest cost produce to produce and sell into other markets if all other things are constant, such as worker safety.

But that view has dimmed recently.

Countries are increasingly protectionist of late, with the United States perhaps being the poster

country for the change.

However, the U.S. is not alone with global trade battered by the pandemic with several countries abandoning rules-based trade.

So, increased self-sufficiency as Bibeau has suggested is not a bad idea.

Of course changing where Canada’s food comes from will not be easy.

We are tied into trade deals, including with the increasingly protectionist US, a situation which is likely to increase should Donald Trump be returned for a second term as president in November.

There is also a concern from many over supplymanaged sectors; dairy and poultry, in Canada, and certainly with trade partners, even though it ensures Canadian producers see a return on cost-of-production.

Of course the counter to that is, at least among a segment of consumers, increased interest

in locally sourcing food.

The 100-Mile Diet, eating food grown within 100 miles of their residence, is a prime example.

There are also those who feel it is important to support Canadian producers by buying food produced and/or processed here.

This too is not a new idea.

Stateside there has been a push for ‘Country of Origin Labelling’, which has never been good from the perspective of Canadian producers, so the sentiment certainly has two sides.

As for the federal gov-

ernment’s apparent initiative regarding self-sufficiency it will come down to looking at the rules, the regulations, the red tape of food production, to simplify where safe to do so to promote Canadian food for Canadian tables.

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We head east on Highway 14 towards Saskatoon, and we turn right on Highway 673 at Asquith and head for Delisle.

This is a pretty nice road to travel not overly bumpy, nice little ride through the farming countryside.

Delisle is a nice community of a little over 1,000 people. Mostly noted in the community is farming and potash. Agrium Potash is only five kilometres away and is one of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major employers. One fun fact about Delisle is that one of their major employers in the town is a little company called Keybrand Foods which is a salad processing plant and produces all kinds of salad for the grocery industry.

Next we jump across Highway 7 and take another little travelled road, Highway 766, this road offers us lots of farming scenery, nice little road and good to travel. This road leads up to the intersection with Highway 60, which will take you to Provincial Park Pike Lake.

Pike Lake is situated on the South Saskatchewan River and offers various recreational activities including lots of water activities, playgrounds, golf, and a popular outdoor pool with a waterside. The park has 1.5 kilometre nature trail and an interpretative centre to learn of the areas diverse wildlife and ecosystems. Pike Lake is a favourite destination to a lot of people in Saskatoon being only 20 minutes away.

Turning left on Highway 60 we venture north and we come across a beautiful Ukrainian Church structure, which offers a overnight camping/

swimming experience for Ukrainian Catholics.

Next we turn right on Highway 762 and travel a short distance to The Berry Barn.

If you have never experienced The Berry Barn it is a must see destination for anyone.

The Berry Barn offers berry picking in the summer and fresh vegetables from their greenhouse.

There are places along the river for a stroll and enjoy the scenery and the beauty of the gardens that surrounds the signature barn.

There is a gift shop and bakery as well as a top notch restaurant where the wait in line is well worth it. They have a simple but pleasant menu featuring lots of their signature Saskatoon Berry deserts.

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We continued with our day long trip back into Saskatoon and back on Highway 14 back to Biggar.

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TOWN OF BIGGAR, SASKATCHEWAN PUBLIC NOTICE OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the Town of Biggar intends to adopt a bylaw under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 15-762 known as the Official Community Plan Bylaw.

INTENT The proposed bylaw will designate the following lands as Industrial.

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McNeil recognized for 60 years . . . Cheryl Rann, left, Worthy Grand Matron of Saskatchewan for Eastern Star, presented Vera McNeil with her 60 year membership pin and certificate at a socially distanced coffee party on September 25. Willa Nodwell was unable to attend the event to receive her 60 year membership pin and certificate. Congratulations to you both, and many more years! (Submitted Photo)

The affected lands are described as Proposed Parcel V as shown dashed in bold and coloured purple on the map forming part of this notice.

REASON The reason for the amendment is to provide industrial land for development.

PUBLIC INSPECTION

Men create literal man cave under Grand Central I’ve worked some unpleasant jobs before.

Boring, endless jobs where I’d think, I’d give anything to get out of here. Even for a few hours to escape the interminable boredom of hourly employment.

Three MTA workers actually did something with those feelings, converting a storeroom beneath Grand Central Station into a “man-cave.”

The room, which looks pretty nice in the Associated Press story, has a flat-screen tv, refrigerator, microwave, and futon couch.

Allegedly, a carpenter, an electrician (both foremen), and a wireman would hang out in the room, drinking, eating snacks, and partying. The Inspector General for the

MTA, Carolyn Pokorny, got a tip about the room’s existence, leading to an investigation.

Without the tip, it seems like the MTA would have never discovered them.

The room was through a locked door for the exclusive use of the MTA Locksmiths. Then, they put a sign on the interior door saying “Foreman’s Office” (clever). It seems only the three men had keys for the man cave.

The MTA suspended all three men without pay pending the investigation. These aren’t master criminals - they left receipts for things they ordered for the room with their names on it just lying around, including a pull-up bar and cot.

According to a Gothamist post, the TV linked to the

electrician’s phone.

The carpenter and electrician closed ranks fast, claiming someone stole their devices. The wireman admitted the guilt of all three. Thanks to the carpenter (I assume), there were wooden cabinets in the room, hiding most contraband. It sounds like the MTA at least has a sense of humor about the discovery.

“Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back with a cold beer in a prime piece of Manhattan Real Estate especially one this close to public transportation,” the IG said in a statement, “But few would have the chutzpah to commandeer a secret room beneath Grand Central Terminal and make it their very own man-cave.”

Any bylaw may be inspected by any person at the Town Office in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Monday through Friday, excluding statutory holidays, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Copies of the bylaw are available to persons at a cost of $2.00.

PUBLIC HEARING Council will hold a public hearing on the 20th day of October A.D., 2020 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at the Town Office in Biggar, Saskatchewan to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaw. Council will also consider written comments delivered to the undersigned at the Town Office before 12:00 noon on the 16th day of October A.D., 2020.

Issued at Biggar, Saskatchewan this 24th day of September, A.D., 2020.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020

Richard Nixon’s unfinished sandwich celebrates its 60th anniversary Not that there’s anything wrong with the practice.

When it comes to big anniversaries, 2020 has some good ones.

For instance, this August marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. In January, the World Trade Organization celebrated its 25th birthday.

Meanwhile 2500 years ago - in 480 B.C. - King Leonidas of Sparta led 300 warriors against the might of the Persian Empire in the Battle of Thermopylae. What, did you think it was just a movie?

But in addition to history-shaping wars, 2020 also marks the anniversary of a slightly less significant event. More precisely, 60 years ago today - on September 22, 1960 - then -presidential candidate and later US President Richard Nixon didn’t finish his sandwich.

We know this because an Illinois man has preserved the half-eaten bison barbecue sandwich.

It has sat in his freezer ever since Nixon walked

away from his lunch decades ago.

The man in question is Steve Jenne, 74, of Sullivan, Illinois. This is his story - his, and Nixon’s partially consumed sandwich.

But how come Jenne came to possess the lunch of Nixon, whose legacy would years later become forever tarnished in the Watergate scandal?

For answers, let’s accelerate to 88 mph and take a trip back in time.

We find ourselves in the city of Sullivan on that more or less fateful date: 9/22/1960.

On this date, Nixon was out on his presidential campaign. He was running against a Massachusetts senator, one John F. Kennedy.

As we know from history, a couple months later Kennedy would win the presidency. Nixon would have to wait until 1969 for his turn in the White House.

But on this September day, Nixon was in Sullivan on a campaign trip.

For lunch, he was served

the aforementioned bison barbecue sandwich.

Whether he wasn’t all that hungry or just straight-up didn’t like the sandwich has been lost to history. The facts are that he ate about half of it before proceeding to the park where he was supposed to debate Kennedy.

However, Kennedy failed to show up, so Nixon took the chance to give a speech of his own.

While he was speaking, Steve Jenne - then a 14-year-old Boy Scout - kept an eye on the Senator’s unfinished lunch.

“Being the good Boy Scout that I was, I stood there and guarded that sandwich,” Jenne recounted to the University of Illinois.

Eventually, though, it became clear to Jenne that Nixon wasn’t coming back to clean his plate.

“I looked around and thought, ‘If no one else was going to take it, I am going to take it,’” Jenne said.

And so he did. The sandwich ended up in a glass jar in the Jennes’ freezer.

Legacy for loved ones

by Delta Fay Cruickshank for the Biggar Museum and Gallery Nobody wants to say the last goodbye to a loved one.

What do we do? Why does life go on for the ones left behind? What

do we say to the family members?

One way to continue the memory of a loved one is to donate to a function in our community. The Biggar Museum and Gallery has a legacy policy, as well as the commemora-

All donations made in memory of a loved one are entered into our Memorial and Commemorative Donations Book in the Family Research Library. The Memorial Gift Plan is one way for loved ones to be commemorated on the Giving Tree within the museum. (Photos courtesy Biggar Museum and Gallery)

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tive program.

The Commemorative Program publishes the name of everyone who donated in the memory of someone. We have entries published from 1980 to this year.

The legacy policy is called the Memorial Gift Plan. When a loved one passes, and the family donates in their name to the museum, their name is attached to a leaf on our Giving Tree. Built

by Doug Potter, it is on the right wall just as you enter the museum. Do come and see all the families and people who have contributed to the museum over the decades.

It is with these contributions that the museum is so active in our community of Biggar. All donations to the museum go to continuing to protect and present the history of Biggar and area.

Events and programs will continue in the future with the safety of our community members in mind.

From Sullivan, the sandwich eventually relocated to Springfield when the Jennes moved house.

When Steve Jenne eventually left his parents’ home to start a life of his own, the sandwich went with him.

In 1988, a story about the sandwich, which at the time was of the ripe age of 28, went viral (or whatever the 1988 equivalent is), and Jenne ended up showcasing his artifact on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

The famous comedian Steve Martin was also a guest on the show that night. Always ready to crack a joke, Martin signed a paper plate he had eaten a chicken salad sandwich off of and handed it to Jenne.

Probably to everyone’s surprise, Jenne happily accepted the plate. He

still owns it.

Let’s zoom back to the present day. Nixon’s sandwich and Martin’s plate are today part of a collection that has expanded to include scrap food from musicians Tiny Tim and Henny Youngman.

Jenne said that he never wanted to become famous by preserving celebrities’ half-finished snacks.

It’s just a fun quirk, and undoubtedly a great conversation opener.

He has enjoyed the opportunities Nixon’s unfinished lunch has opened for him, though.

In addition to The Tonight Show, the sandwich has brought Jenne into contact with other famous people and even an appearance on the I’ve Got a Secret game show in the 2000s.

With the sandwich’s 60th anniversary, he

hopes that it will draw attention to the Nixon visit plaque in Sullivan’s Wyman Park. Maybe the city could use some extra tourist income.

When it comes to the sandwich itself, Jenne has no plans on getting rid of it.

“As long as I am living, that sandwich will be stored in my freezer in a container that is labeled, ‘Save, don’t throw away,’ ” Jenne said.

And really, why would Jenne throw the thing away? It’s come in handy enough in these past 60 years, so who knows what tomorrow might bring.

Actually, it’s election season right now. Wonder what Trump’s or Biden’s lunch would be worth in a few decades . . .

Good progress on 2020 harvest Relatively warm, dry conditions this week allowed farmers to make good harvest progress, according to the weekly crop report for September 15 to 21.

Rainfall on the weekend caused some delays but many farmers have since returned to the field. Several farmers are hoping for warm, dry conditions to favour dry down of crops, though producers near harvest completion are hoping for rain to rejuvenate topsoil and subsoil moisture before winter.

Seventy-seven per cent of the 2020 crop is currently in the bin, which is up from 62 per cent last week, and remains well ahead of the fiveyear (2015-2019) average of 59 per cent for this time of year. An additional 18 per cent of the crop is swathed or ready to straight-cut. Much of the crop coming off in the central and northern regions is tough and requires aeration or drying.

Harvest is most advanced in the southwest region, where 96 per cent of the crop is now combined. The southeast region has 89 per cent combined and the west-

central 78 per cent. The east-central region has 69 per cent combined, the northeast 51 per cent and the northwest 43 per cent.

Ninety-nine per cent of lentils, 98 per cent of field peas, 95 per cent of durum, 86 per cent of barley, 77 per cent of chickpeas, 74 per cent of spring wheat, 71 per cent of oats, 61 per cent of canola and 52 per cent of flax has been combined.

An additional 35 per cent of canola is swathed or ready to straight-cut.

Many areas of the province received rainfall this past weekend, particularly in parts of the western and northern regions. The Tyner area in the southwest region received the highest amount of rain this week with 99 millimetres.

Provincial cropland topsoil moisture is rated as 37 per cent adequate, 39 per cent short and 24 per cent very short. Hay and pasture land topsoil moisture is rated as 27 per cent adequate, 38 per cent short and 35 per cent very short. These conditions have slightly improved this week in areas thanks to the recent rain.

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damage this week was due to wind, frost, waterfowl, wildlife and lack of moisture. Heavy rain in some areas has resulted in lodging of crops.

The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation provides compensation for damage caused by wildlife through the Wildlife Damage Compensation Program. You do not need to be an existing Crop Insurance customer to file a claim.

If you do experience wildlife damage, please report it immediately.

Pasture conditions are rated as two per cent excellent, 16 per cent good, 32 per cent fair, 33 per cent poor and 17 per cent very poor. Conditions vary across the province, with the northern regions rating most of the pastures as in fair-togood condition and the southern regions having more pastures rated as very poor-to-fair condition.

Farmers are busy combining, hauling bales and moving cattle.

With harvest underway in Saskatchewan, we want to remind producers to exercise caution and remain safe.

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Jays celebrate return to playoffs

Penton on sports Bruce Penton

Toronto (Buffalo) Blue Jays are back in the Major League Baseball playoffs for the first time since 2016, but they’re partly obscured because of the gigantic asterisk.

The Blue Jays compiled the eighth best record in the American League but they started on equal footing with 15 other teams in the two leagues.

Baseball traditionalists may cringe, but tradition has taken a vacation in 2020. Tradition is forced to go out the window when trying to create a playoff system in the midst of a pandemic.

Baseball was the last

sport to go the wildcard route, giving in to the popular new playoff tradition in 1995. This year, after a truncated 60-game season that didn’t start until late July, eight teams per league started a post-season run that will eventually yield a World Series champion.

In Los Angeles, meanwhile, Dodgers fans are already planning the World Series parade. Sixteen teams may be qualifying for the playoffs, but the Dodgers have been the dominant team all year - No. 1 in pitching stats and No. 2 in hitting (behind Atlanta Braves) and there’s no reason to think that dominance won’t carry on through the playoffs.

Still, stranger things have happened. There are no byes, and all 16 teams will be involved in bestof-three ‘wildcard’ series.

Even the Dodgers could be vulnerable in a bestof-three.

An upset is what the Blue Jays, the American

League’s No. 8 seed, were visualizing when they took on No. 1 Tampa Bay Rays.

Hyun Jin Ryu, the Jays’ off-season free-agent acquisition, should be good for one victory in Tampa Bay, but Toronto’s pitching gets iffy after that. Offensively, the Jays aren’t a pushover. Bo Bichette is back in the lineup after missing about 25 games, and Teoscar Hernandez has enjoyed a breakout season with 16 homers. Other youngsters such as Cavan Biggio, Lourdes Gurriel, Jr., and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., are also offensive threats. The Jays could surprise.

Actually, however, the Blue Jays are likely a year or two away from being legitimate contenders for the World Series.

But hey, this is 2020, the weirdest year any of us can remember, so expect the unexpected.

• Comedy writer Brad Dickson of Omaha, to area football fans: “If you are

5 awesome lady pirates to model your life after I think I can safely say the best Keira Knightley film was Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The character arc of Elizabeth Swan is the point of the Pirates trilogy. But it’s not the farfetched Hollywood-fable as you might think. A life of piracy gave women a chance to live freer lives than in society. Women took to the seas for the same reasons Elizabeth Swan did - they hated corsets, the freedom to love who they wanted, and the way the salt air makes your skin look amazing.

Here are 5 awesome lady pirates to inspire your self-actualization Rachel Wall She was the last woman executed by Massachusetts for robbery at 29.

So maybe not a superb role model, but before that, she really lived.

Despite being born to a proper family, she ran away from home to marry the pirate George Wall. They left Pennsylvania to take to the high seas together. Rachel would lure ships close by screaming for help from the ship’s deck, then George and his men would ambush the would-be rescuers. She tried to “retire” and work

as a maid in Boston, but couldn’t give up the life of crime. She earned her third robbery conviction after stealing a bonnet from a girl. Her sentence was death by hanging.

Cheng I Sao Identified as the most successful pirate of all time, Cheng I Sao had a fleet of 1,500 ships and employed 80,000 sailors. Cheng I Sao means “Cheng I’s wife,” she married Cheng under the strict condition she would work alongside him to expand his power and wealth. Cheng I Sao was a prostitute before becoming the greatest pirate of all time. She excelled at bringing together small bands of pirates into her fleet.

After her husband’s death, Cheng I Sao continued to rule with an iron fist, forbidding her pirates from stealing from villagers or assaulting women. She worked out a deal with the Chinese Empire for her pirates, allowing them to renounce their life of crime and receive a position within the empire.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read These two best friends, and possibly lovers, both started their lives with their parents dressing

them as boys because it was, in a word, easier.

Anne Bonny abandoned a comfortable life to take to the seas, still dressing as a man when she laid siege to other ships.

Mary Read, disguised as a man, worked as a sailor. Bonny laid siege to Read’s boat, taking her captive. The two fought side by side until the law captured their ship.

Both were sentenced to hang, but were pregnant and had their executions stayed.

Grace O’Malley Legend has it that an eagle attack left her face badly scarred. What kind of incredible life are you leading if you carry the scars of an eagle attack? She was an Irish pirate, obviously from a good family who married Donal O’Flaherty, a chieftain with a fleet of ships. She proved to be a better leader and businessperson and took over their clan’s daily operations. An enemy clan, the Joyces, murdered O’Flaherty, leaving Grace to take over the world. While the English apprehended her, she met with and charmed Queen Elizabeth I, who granted her permission to continue raiding Irish clans until her death.

tweeting that the worst thing that has happened in 2020 is that Nebraska must play at Ohio State in Week 1 you really need to pay more attention to the news.”

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler had to be scratched from a start after he tore the nail of his right middle finger while putting on his pants. As any good Philadelphian knows, what good is a guy if he can’t use his middle finger?”

• Patti Dawn Swansson, the River City Renegade: “The first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby, became the second leg, and the second leg, the Preakness Stakes, will be the third leg, and the third leg, the Belmont Stakes, became the first leg. I swear, there hasn’t been this much confusion about legs since Joe Namath did that pantyhose commercial in the 1970s.”

• Joel Beall of GolfWorld, on Matthew Wolff shoot-

ing a third-round 65 at Winged Foot during the third round of the U.S.Open. “He did so hitting from spots requiring a compass rather than a yardage book, needing a weedwacker instead of a wedge.”

• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “Danny Lee withdrew from the U.S. Open after taking six strokes to make a fourfoot putt. To give you an idea how bad it was, Lee was named an honorary New York Jet.” • Daniel Rapaport in GolfWorld, on the final pairing in the U.S. Open at Winged Foot: “It was a two-horse race. A twoanimal race, really. One man built like a bison, the other named Wolff.”

• Brad Dickson again: “In Nebraska high school football Franklin defeated Elba by a score of 60-6.

The Elba coach said his players could’ve come back from such a deficit if only they were playing the Atlanta Falcons.”

• Dwight Perry again: A

curling robot — named Curly, of course — went 3-1 in four matches against members of South Korea’s national teams.

Even more impressive, Curly can reportedly grunt ‘Hurry! Hard!’ in 68 languages.”

• Ann Killion of the San Francisco Chronicle, on starting up a football season amid a pandemic: “The Power 5 conferences like to use the phrase ‘student-athlete.’ Maybe ‘lab rat’ is more appropriate.”

• Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun: “Best way to make a Leaf fan cry?

Show them the figures on Brayden Point’s contract. He’s been the Doug Gilmour of this year’s playoffs, high energy and high production, pulling in $4 to $5 million-plus less than Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner.”

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SCORPIO Oct 24/Nov 22 What was moving along so smoothly just yesterday may hit a snag now, Scorpio. Don’t let this sidetrack you. You just may have to put forth a little extra effort.

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CAPRICORN Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, something keeps pulling your focus away from the task at hand. This may be the universe telling you that this project needs to be delayed for a bit.

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Independent Classifieds

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020

by Marjorie Fortney, Seventh-day Adventist Church I thought I would spend some time thinking about the life of Christ and how He lived His life here upon the earth. His ministry was a short span of three and one-half years.

I love the story of the widow of Nain. As He entered the town a funeral procession was winding its way through the streets. A dear mother had lost her only son; and as if that wasn’t bad enough, she now had no one to care for her. Jesus was moved with compassion and He stopped the procession. He went over to the bier. Weep not. Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. You can read the story in Luke 7:11-15.

This story is recorded for our benefit. There will be a great resurrection morning when we too will see our loved ones who have passed away. I am looking forward to seeing my dear father again. Gunner Weber, who served his country during WWII. Another story I enjoy is Jesus sleeping on the boat in the middle of the storm. It shows his humanity. His body experienced being tired, and probably at times He felt exhausted from the long hours of ministry. A terrible storm raged, but he remained sleeping. His disciples were terrified and so they woke Him up. Luke 8:25 And He said unto them, Where is your faith? He rebuked the storm, and the sea became calm.

There is a beautiful song that I love with the following words: I know the Master of the wind; I know the Maker of the rain.

He can calm the storm, make the sun shine again.

I know the Master of the wind.

We all go through storms in this life. He can calm any storm that comes our way.

The church leaders were always trying to catch Him saying something that they could twist and get Him in trouble. He was way too smart for them. They obviously didn’t believe in His divinity. This particular incident, certain Pharisees had a question about paying taxes. They were sure that whatever answer he gave he would either be in trouble with the law of Moses, or the laws of Rome. He asked for a penny. Whose is this image and superscription?

Caesar’s, they said. They marvelled at His response. Mark 12:17, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars, and to God the things that are God’s.

Jesus was very compassionate. He spoke with authority. He was very wise.

Oh, that we would live each day in harmony with His example and will.

Everyone Welcome!

St. Gabriel roman CatholiC ChurCh 109 - 7th Ave.W, Biggar

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Parish Phone: 306-948-3330 SATURDAY MASS TIME • 7:00 p.m.

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Presbyterians, anglicans and lutherans (Pals) OctOber ServiceS - St. Paul’S anglican church For more information/pastoral services, phone Cindy Hoppe 948-2947 or John Bennett 948-2852

Biggar associated gospel church 312 - 8th Ave.W. and corner of Quebec St., Biggar

Sunday Worship at 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Doug Motz, Church office phone, 306-948-3424

biggar united church 907 Quebec St./corner Turnbull Ave., Biggar

Re-Opening for Services October 4, 2020 Covid 19 Guidelines Apply Masks Required

If you are looking for spiritual help or guidance, you are welcome to call 306 948-3634.

INQUIRIES CALL CHURCH OFFICE 306-948-2280 LEAVE MESSAGE

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Miscellaneous

Coming EvEnts Biggar and District Donors Choice Campaign Blitz October 6th, 7th, and 8th New Format - No Door to Door Canvassers On October 1 all home owners and businesses will get a charity package left at the door, respecting Covid safe practises.

All instructions will be in the package.

For any questions Call jen 948-4460 or Shirley 948-5303.

Thank you for your support.

Biggar Museum and Gallery Co-creating with the Creator, an exhibit of sculpture, fabric and paintings by local artists, used to be local artists and artists from the city. Colour, texture and sound, a brand new type of exhibit in the museum!

Monday to Friday 1:00 – 5:00 or call 306-948-3451 to arrange a private viewing for yourself and your bubble.

October 1- November 10

Church Service…11 a.m. temporary Location at: 403 2nd ave. east in Biggar Contact: 306-948-2481

BUTCHER PIGS FOR SALE

We have free range pasture pigs available for purchase. These porkers are featuring a distillers grain, anti-biotic free diet.

We butcher for $2.50/pound.

We have teamed up with Mel at Biggar Sausage to handle the cutting and wrapping.

Cut and wrap $175.00 for the whole pig. Delivery to Mel’s for free.

We offer whole pig or 1/2’s

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AGRICULTURE

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Heavy Duty Mechanics, Heavy Equipment Operators and 1A Drivers required:

Charter/Sherwood Apartmednts in BIGGAR 1 or 2 bedroom, heat and water supplied, wired for cable TV and satellite systems, laundry facilities, app;liances, some suites with dishwahers, air conditioning, parking with plugins.

For more information call: Risa Management at 306-665-2300 or Andre at 306-831-4430

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Late model, clean CAT, JD equip: winch, dump, gravel trucks and trailers. Both camp and shop locations; R & B provided.

Wage negotiable.

Clean drivers abstract a must.

Send resume and work references to: Bryden Construction )V_ (YIVYÄLSK :R : , ( " Fax: 306-769-8844 ,THPS! brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www. brydenconstruction andtransport.ca

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LAND FOR SALE Land for Sale R.M. 10. 480 deeded acres in 2,22,W2nd.

3283 acres. Lease available to qualied persons. Fenced and cross fenced. Lots of water and grass. All in one block. Inquiries/Offers to Box 40, Big Beaver, SK S0H 0G0

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FOR SALE FOR SALE - Approximately 5000 costumes adults/ children.

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Will consider vehicle in trade for all inventory or will sell separately. Some pictures available. Visit aa costumes.ca - 306256-7081.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

OBITUARIES Dianna Meger It is with heavy hearts that the family of Dianna Meger announce her passing on September 17, 2020.

Dianna leaves to mourn; her daughter; Michelle (Bryan), and their family, Ashley (Logan) - Farrah, Spencer, Nate, Josie; Melissa (Jesse) - Axel, Laikan; Keane; Aron; son, Clint and his children, Kali (Brad) – Avery, Emmerick; Dalton - Zayden; Amber (Branden) – Oliver; Emma; brothers, Al (Gerri ) Renz; Mark (Wendy) Renz; special friend, Paul Leschinski.

Dianna was predeceased by her husband, Gerald (1998); granddaughter, Katlyne; parents, Ed & Francis Renz; inlaws, Adolph & Edith Meger

Jim Dwyer Jim (Harold James) Dwyer It is with heavy hearts that the family of Jim Dwyer announces his passing September 20, 2020. Jim leaves to mourn his wife, Kelly; daughter, Darlene (Mike); son, Johnny (Renate); grandchildren, Randy (Chelsey), Dylan (Kara), TJ, Brayden, Ryan & Tyson; great-grandchildren, Averie, Presley, Tylen, Chris & Luke; sister, Evelyn (Wayne); brother, Ron (Ev); numerous nieces and nephews.

At Dad's request a small family service will be held at a later date.

CAREER OPPORTUNITY MOTOR LICENCE ISSUER Biggar & Landis Insurance Services requires a permanent, .75 full-time Motor Vehicle Issuer/Customer Service Representative with potential to become an insurance broker for our Biggar and Landis offices. Applicants must: • Possess a minimum Grade 12 education, • have a positive attitude towards learning and change; • show initiative and be able to work independently, • be team-oriented, and • enjoy working with the public.

Why work here? We offer a competitive compensation structure, 8% matched retirement plan, comprehensive group benefits with a Health Care Spending Allowance, and reimbursement for moving expenses. You would work with a committed team in a challenging, rewarding and fun environment.

PART-TIME HAIRSTYLIST wanted If you are a journeyman hairstylist, you are invited to be a part of the search for work at the Biggar & District Health Centre.

The job will be on contract terms to provide hairstyling services to our Long Term Residents one or two part time days per week. Candidastes are required to adhere to the facility COVID safety guidelines and should be legally entitled to work in Canada.

If you have the essential requirments email your resume to Juliet Duttman, Biggar Care Team Manager. juliet,duttman2@saskhealthauthority.

Juliet Duttman, RN BSN Health Services Manager, Biggar, Saskatchewan Health Authority, 306-948-3323 2 col/8 1 col/8 ext 2724 1 col/6

HOUSES FOR SALE

Interested? Please submit your resume by Monday, October 12, 2020 to: Biggar & Landis Insurance Services Box 729 Biggar, SK S0K 0M0 Email: anita.silvernagle@biggarinsurance.ca We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however only those under consideration will be contacted.

HOUSE FOR SALE

135 Wright Crescent, Biggar

$345,000

Impressive 2940 square foot home with 4 bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms, expansive master suite, unfinished basement, and double attached garage.

Contact Amanda Carruthers for more information or a showing at 306-658-3500.

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

CREDIT MANAGER Have a background in agriculture, business or commerce?

Looking for a challenging career in a growing organization?

Biggar & District Credit Union requires a Credit Manager in our Lending Department; this position reports to the Chief Operations Officer.

Key responsibilities of the position include audit and adjudication of credit applications, managing delinquency and collections, mentoring and supervision of lending administrative staff, and monthly and quarterly reporting to various parties. Required qualifications may include a combination of lending experience and post-secondary education in the fields of agriculture, business or commerce. The successful candidate must possess strong teamwork/people skills, attention to detail, and able to deal with change.

Biggar & District Credit Union is a growing, autonomous, full-service financial institution with $236,000,000 in assets. Our organization has branches in Biggar, Landis and Perdue, as well as insurance agencies in Biggar and Landis.

We offer a very competitive compensation structure, 8% matched superannuation, and comprehensive group benefits, with a Health Care Spending Allowance. You would work with a committed team in a challenging, rewarding and fun environment. Our workplace offers opportunity for advancement, all-expense-paid continuing education, valuable networking in the credit union/cooperative system, and ongoing personal and professional development.

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

LENDING SPECIALIST Whether you are looking to start a new career in lending, or you are an experienced lender looking for growth opportunities, we would like to meet with you! Biggar & District Credit Union requires a Lending Specialist to assist our Regional Manager with all facets of loan documentation preparation and processing. This position reports to the Regional Manager and provides an opportunity to become a consumer lender. You will work with our members to answer questions and find solutions for their financing needs.

Required qualifications may include a combination of administrative experience and post-secondary education in the fields of agriculture, business or commerce.

The successful candidate must possess strong teamwork and people skills, attention to detail, and able to deal with change. Lending experience is not required but would be considered an asset.

Biggar & District Credit Union is a growing, autonomous, full-service financial institution with $236,000,000 in assets. Our organization has branches in Biggar, Landis and Perdue, as well as insurance agencies in Biggar and Landis.

We offer a very competitive compensation structure, 8% matched superannuation, and comprehensive group benefits, with a Health Care Spending Allowance. You would work with a committed team in a challenging, rewarding and fun environment. Our workplace offers opportunity for advancement, all-expensepaid continuing education, valuable networking in the credit union/cooperative system, and ongoing personal and professional development.

Biggar & District Credit Union proudly supports the communities we serve and it is our people that make this happen. If you would like to be part of our team, please submit your resume by October 1, 2020 to:

Biggar & District Credit Union proudly supports the communities we serve and it is our people that make this happen. If you would like to be part of our team, please submit your resume by October 5, 2020 to:

Biggar & District Credit Union P.O. Box 670 Biggar, SK S0K 0M0 Attention: Human Resources Email: cathy.hicks@biggarcu.ca

Biggar & District Credit Union P.O. Box 670 Biggar, SK S0K 0M0 Attention: Human Resources Email: cathy.hicks@biggarcu.ca

We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however only those under consideration will be contacted.

We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however only those under consideration will be contacted.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020

Bringing sexy back: Birdsong gets sultrier due to Coronavirus

Moose on the Loose . . . Fall time in the country and moose are out and about.

This calf was seen by an attentive reader, Mazie Hooper. Thanks, Mazie! (Photo for The Independent by Mazie Hooper)

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/ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů ƌĞĚŝƚ hŶŝŽŶ ĂLJ ĨĂůůƐ ŽŶ KĐƚŽďĞƌ ϭϱƚŚ ƚŚŝƐ LJĞĂƌ͘ EŽƌŵĂůůLJ ǁĞ ŝŶǀŝƚĞ ĞǀĞƌLJŽŶĞ ƚŽ ũŽŝŶ ƵƐ Ăƚ ƚŚĞ ĐƌĞĚŝƚ ƵŶŝŽŶ ƚŽ ŚĞůƉ ƵƐ ĐĞůĞďƌĂƚĞ͕ ĂŶĚ ƚŽ ƚŚĂŶŬ ŽƵƌ ŵĞŵďĞƌƐ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞŝƌ ƐƵƉƉŽƌƚ͘ dŚŝƐ LJĞĂƌ ŝƐ ĚŝīĞƌĞŶƚ͕ ƐŽ ǁĞ͛ǀĞ ĚĞĐŝĚĞĚ ƚŽ ĚŽ ƐŽŵĞƚŚŝŶŐ ĚŝīĞƌĞŶƚ ƚŽŽ͘ We are having a contest and the prize is a $500 prepaid ŐŝŌ ĐĂƌĚ͊ dŽ ĞŶƚĞƌ ƐŝŵƉůLJ ƐŚĂƌĞ Ă ƉŚŽƚŽ ŽĨ LJŽƵƌƐĞůĨ ;Žƌ Ă ǁŝůůŝŶŐ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ŵĞŵďĞƌͿ ĂůŽŶŐ ǁŝƚŚ ŽƵƌ ůŽŐŽ Žƌ ƐŝŐŶ ĂŶĚ LJŽƵ͛ůů ďĞ ĞŶƚĞƌĞĚ ƚŽ ǁŝŶ͘ ŶƚƌŝĞƐ ĨƌŽŵ >ĂŶĚŝƐ͕ WĞƌĚƵĞ Θ ŝŐŐĂƌ ĂƌĞĂƐ ĂƌĞ ĞŶĐŽƵƌĂŐĞĚ͊ dŚŝŶŬ ŽƵƚƐŝĚĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ďŽdž Ͳ LJŽƵ͛ůů ĮŶĚ ŽƵƌ ůŽŐŽ ŝŶ ŵĂŶLJ ĂƌĞĂƐ ŝŶ ŽƵƌ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƟĞƐ ;ƌŝŶŬƐ͕ ƉĂƌŬƐ͕ ŽŶ ŽƵƌ ďƌĂŶĐŚĞƐͿ͘ dŚĞ ǁŝŶŶĞƌ ǁŝůů ďĞ ĚƌĂǁŶ Ăƚ ƌĂŶĚŽŵ͘ ůů ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĞŶƚƌŝĞƐ͕ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ǁŝŶŶŝŶŐ ƉŚŽƚŽ ǁŝůů ďĞ ƉŽƐƚĞĚ ŽŶ &ĂĐĞŬ͘ dŚĞƌĞ ĂƌĞ ƚǁŽ ǁĂLJƐ ƚŽ ĞŶƚĞƌ͗ ϭ͘ >ŽŐ ŝŶ ƚŽ LJŽƵƌ &ĂĐĞŬ ĂĐĐŽƵŶƚ͕ ǀŝƐŝƚ ƚŚĞ ŝŐŐĂƌ Θ ŝƐƚƌŝĐƚ ƌĞĚŝƚ hŶŝŽŶ &ĂĐĞŬ ƉĂŐĞ͕ ĂŶĚ ƉŽƐƚ ƚŚĞ ƉŝĐƚƵƌĞ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĐŽŵŵĞŶƚƐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ƉŽƐƚ ƌĞŐĂƌĚŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ĐŽŶƚĞƐƚ͘ Ϯ͘ ŵĂŝů LJŽƵƌ ĞŶƚƌLJ ƚŽ ŵĂƌŬĞƟŶŐΛďŝŐŐĂƌĐƵ͘ĐĂ

The COVID-19 pandemic is still going strong, with rates of new infections indicating that we might be heading towards a new spike.

And with very well thought out responses from authorities – such as Florida lifting all coronavirus restrictions – it seems that the virus will not be going anywhere any time soon.

But at least Corona has opened up a treasure trove of scientific opportunities. Some of the discoveries we’ve previously covered include the psychology of toilet paper hoarding and that refusing to wear a face mask might mean you’re a sociopath.

It’s not just humans that scientists have turned their curious eye on, though. Speaking of animals, have you noticed that the birds have sounded a lot sexier than usual lately? If you have, then first of all, that’s a bit weird. But second, you’re actually correct.

A brand-new study published in the journal Science has found out that male birds are singing to a different tune. It’s all thanks to lower noise levels as people have been isolating themselves from society.

White-crowned sparrows in the San Francisco Bay area are now able to sing more softly and still be heard, the researchers have found. This has allowed them to expand their vocal range and sing songs that are much more likely to get lady birds (not the bugs) in the mood.

In case you haven’t been to San Francisco, it’s usually pretty loud in the city.

There’s a lot of traffic and yelling and other kinds of sounds that we the people like to emit.

Imagine then being a little birdie boy in the city, trying to find a hot chick

to woo. You sing and sing until you’re hoarse, but no one listens.

“When the city was loud, [the sparrows] were singing really loudly,” the new study’s lead author Elizabeth Derryberry, a behavioral ecologist from the University of Tennesee, summarized to ScienceAlert.

Surely you’ve noticed a similar effect yourself when at a particularly loud bar or party. It’s hard to whisper sweet nothings into someone’s ear when the music’s so loud you have to scream bloody murder so they can hear you in the first place.

“Birds holding breeding territories in areas with higher noise levels sing higher amplitude songs, a common response to noise known as the Lombard effect,” the researchers state in the study.

“This improves signal efficacy by increasing communication distance, but it can come at a cost.

Males that sing at higher minimum frequency often have lower vocal performance, which here is the ability to produce rapid trills at wide frequency bandwidths.”

To put that in plain terms, the birds have to sing so loudly that they’re unable to perform the voice tricks that get girl birds all hot and bothered. Basically, they’re expecting Tom Jones but are getting George Fisher.

Think what you will about their respective styles of music, but it’s pretty clear why Tom is a sex symbol and George . . . Isn’t.

But now, with COVID19 forcing everybody to stay home, San Fran has quieted down. So much, in fact, that noise levels in the city are lower than what they’ve been in decades.

Traffic on the Golden

Gate Bridge has crashed to something we haven’t seen since 1954, the study states. Considering how many more cars there are around now than there were 70 years ago, that’s pretty astounding.

Even in the city, the ambient volume has fallen by 50 per cent ever since the stay-at-home orders came into effect.

The sparrows noticed that their surroundings had gotten quieter, too, and started singing differently.

Derryberry says that the male birds are now singing much more quietly, and are able to hit much lower notes than before.

And what girl bird could resist the deep crooning voice of an avian Barry White?

“Their songs also sounded better. They sounded sexier,” says Derryberry.

“They were better competitors, and they sounded like better mates to females.”

The study notes that the volume of the sparrows’ song fell by as much as a third. Despite this, their tweeting carried over twice the distance as before the coronavirus.

According to the researchers, these results are consistent with reports from people saying that birdsong has become more audible over the summer.

“A doubling [in the birds’ communication distance] would allow people to hear birds at twice the previous distance, or effectively four times more birds than usual,” the study reads.

So what’s the takeaway from all this? Derryberry says that the results show just how quickly birds adapt to environmental changes, and that curbing noise pollution could have positive effects on biodiversity.

Contest Period: September 18, 2020 to October 14, 2020. Winner to be ĂŶŶŽƵŶĐĞĚ ŽŶ &ĂĐĞŬ ŽŶ KĐƚŽďĞƌ ϭϱ͕ ϮϬϮϬ͘ EŽ ƉƵƌĐŚĂƐĞ ŶĞĐĞƐƐĂƌLJ͘ WĂƌƟĐŝƉĂƟŽŶ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ŝŐŐĂƌ Θ ŝƐƚƌŝĐƚ ƌĞĚŝƚ hŶŝŽŶ͛Ɛ ŝīĞƌĞŶƚ dĂŬĞ ŽŶ ƌĞĚŝƚ hŶŝŽŶ ĂLJ ŽŶƚĞƐƚ ĐŽŶƐƟƚƵƚĞƐ ĨƵůů ĂŶĚ ƵŶĐŽŶĚŝƟŽŶĂů ĂŐƌĞĞŵĞŶƚ ĂŶĚ ĂĐĐĞƉƚĂŶĐĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŽŶƚĞƐƚ ZƵůĞƐ͘ ůů ĞŶƚƌŝĞƐ ǁŝůů ďĞ ƉŽƐƚĞĚ ŽŶ &ĂĐĞŬ͘ ŽŵƉůĞƚĞ ĐŽŶƚĞƐƚ ƌƵůĞƐ ĂƌĞ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ŽŶ ŽƵƌ ǁĞďƐŝƚĞ Ăƚ ǁǁǁ͘ďŝŐŐĂƌĐƵ͘ĐŽŵ͘

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