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Splish, Splash . . . Water crashes upon shore at Springwater Lake, Friday. Winds and cool temps didn’t make the water all that inviting, but warmer temperatures this week may make the beach the place to be. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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Singer-songwriter, Kinnie Starr brought her unique blend of hip hop aggro to St. Gabriel School, Tuesday. Kids were brought up to help her build a beat and subsequently, a song.

Starr, who has wrote tunes for various shows - Cirque du Soleil among many, had kids were buzzing afterwards, all wanting to begin penning their own tunes!

(Independent Photos by Kevin Brautigam)

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

Halycon days remembered for Perdue Class of ‘66

The class of 1966 from Perdue High School met in Saskatoon for their 50th High School Reunion on May 6 exactly 50 years to the day.

Visiting continued on the 7th at breakfast at the Saskatoon Inn. Nineteen students out of the original 26 were able to attend the reunion dinner. Teachers Alex Postnikoff and Gaye and Nestor Michasiw were also able to attend.

Students who attended: Robert Elian, Terry Johnstone, Marion (Button) Anderson, Joanne McGowan (Egroff), Barrie Ward, Inez Gibbons (Horton), Beth Polovick (Mason), Ron Cathcart, Faye Brownbridge (Eaton), Frank Kelly, Fern Browkowsky (Boucher), Jean Itterman (Cotterill), Tom Davies, Willa Miller (Cowley), Dennis Miller, Beryle Downie (Featherstone), Sterling Bunn, Daryle Rabuka, Don Miller.

Throne Speech outlines government’s agenda The first session of the new Legislative Assembly opened Tuesday with a Throne Speech that closely resembled the government’s platform in the recent election campaign.

“We didn’t make a lot of election promises but we made one significant commitment – to keep Saskatchewan strong,” Premier Brad Wall said.

“We will do that in three key areas. We will work to keep the economy strong, to keep the province’s finances strong, and to keep Saskatchewan’s place in Canada strong by always standing up for Saskatchewan’s interests.”

Wall said Bill 1 of the new legislative session will be an amendment to remove the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority from The Crown Corporations Public Ownership Act. “This will allow our government to move forward on our campaign commitment to convert 40 government-owned liquor stores to private stores, create 12 new private stores and offer consumers more choice, more convenience and more competitive prices,” Wall said.

Wall said during the session, the government will also keep its other election promises, including: • Fixing more highways through an increase in highways maintenance funding; • Continuing to make major investments in

much-needed infrastructure projects, like hospitals, schools, long-term care facilities and the Regina Bypass; • Introducing a new “patent box” tax incentive – the first of its kind in North America – to create jobs and investment through the commercialization of patents and intellectual property in Saskatchewan; • Changing regulations to allow home-based food businesses to sell products produced in the home directly to consumers and retailers; • Expanding the “twofor-one” model recently introduced for MRI scans to also include CT scans; • Expanding an innovative remote technology health care pilot project

in Pelican Narrows to other northern communities; • Amending The Saskatchewan Employment Act to ensure that those caring for a family member in the final stages of life will be eligible for 28 weeks of leave per year; • Reducing heath region administration costs by $7.5 million per year and redirecting that savings toward front-line seniors’ care; and • Extending SaskPower’s net metering program for solar power for another two years.

As well, an all-party legislative committee will be asked to look at ways to increase the rate of organ donations in Saskatchewan.

“Organ donations save lives,” Wall said. “Unfortunately, the rates of organ donation in Saskatchewan and Canada are much lower than the rates in the United States and many countries in Europe.

“This is certainly not a partisan issue, so it makes sense to have the Human Services Committee, made up of both government and opposition members, look at best practices in other jurisdictions and report back with their findings and recommendations.”

The Throne Speech debate will last about two weeks and will be followed by the introduction of the 2016-17 provincial budget on June 1.

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Grade 10 Sun West students participate in PARTY Program Biggar Central School will once again hold a mock accident, all to show the consequences of drinking and driving.

Grade 10 students across the Sun West School Division will also participate in the PARTY (Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth) program, where EMS, RCMP, Biggar Hospital, Heartland Health Region, Sun West Division and other volunteers and professionals host the program.

Biggar’s mock accident will be May 27.

The greatest incidence of serious injury and death is the 15 to 24 year old age group. Dangerous behaviour such as speeding, drinking and driving, not wearing a seatbelt or other protective equipment, reckless skiing or diving into shallow water can have tragic consequences.

Consequences that often could have been prevented.

Promoting injury prevention through reality education can decrease the number of teens killed or disabled in our community. Early education about consequences of risk-taking behaviours can change behaviour.

Rather than discouraging kids from participating in fun activities, PARTY encourages the consideration of consequences.

The Grade 10 students follow the path of an injury survivor and meet the professionals who would be involved with them in a trauma situation. Emergency Services, RCMP, therapists, emergency room nurses, the funeral home and addictions counsellors assist the students to experience the difficult journey of a trauma patient.

Facts are presented about brain and spinal cord injury and the students have hands on experience with the equipment used in trauma care and rehabilitation.

The students are challenged at lunchtime as the volunteers in the program assist the students to simulate a “disability’” This is intended to provide some difficulty to the students as they eat their lunch and to remind them that we often take simple tasks for granted.

The students will also have a chance to listen to an injury survivor talk about their personal experience.

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This Week . . .

Finding a little height . . . St. Gabriel School student, Lara Suter lifts off, Friday, as students complete their fund raising for the Canadian Heart and Stroke’s Jump Rope for Heart. Kids raised money for the worthy cause, and St. Gabriel has raised near $40,000 over the years of their involvement. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

Long weekend an anticipated break This weekend is known as a “long weekend” meaning we get to add an extra day to the weekend. It is also known as Victoria Day -- a day where we officially celebrate the Queen’s birthday.

It started as a holiday to honour the birthday of Queen Victoria, the later by way of a proclamation by the Governor General, with Her Majesty’s approval, it became the day to celebrate the sovereign’s birthday. Oddly enough in a recent survey many Canadians did not know the history of the day.

Queen Victoria was the reigning sovereign at the time of Confederation. The country could not be created without her royal assent. Ten years after the creation of Canada, she also declared Ottawa to be the nation’s capital.

For others it is the unofficial start of summer (although it has been known to snow on that weekend). Some will go to their favourite lake spot, others may travel to visit but everyone looks forward to the day.

For gardeners it is the weekend for planting. Generally, the danger of frost has passed and temperatures have warmed up so this is prime time for getting out bedding plants, seeding the garden and general yard clean up.

Lately, this weekend has also been the time when gas prices go up.

According to oil companies this is in response to increase in demand over the summer months. Or, so they tell us.

Enjoy the weekend and keep safe.

P.H.

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Earls beef debacle shows impact of private industry standards While it often isn’t recognized, much of world business and international trade is increasingly based on private industry rule-making.

Lawrence Herman is a principal at Toronto-based Herman & Associates. He practises international trade law and is a senior fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute.

Earls Restaurants got itself into a colossal public-relations jam with its decision to stop buying Alberta beef and instead to source “humane” beef from Kansas.

The chain was looking for suppliers that could provide it with beef free of antibiotics and steroids and slaughtered according to humane animalwelfare criteria. It ended up buying beef certified by Humane Farm Animal Care, but supplied from the United States.

A storm of protest erupted from Alberta beef farmers and consumers in Western Canada. Faced with commercial disaster, Earls shamefacedly admitted its mistake and returned to purchasing Alberta-slaughtered beef that, as it turned out, equally met humane best practices.

What drove this was a pure business decision to follow a given standard. It had nothing to do with government

regulation or treaties. Yet that decision had an impact on the flow of crossborder beef trade possibly as profound as any trade agreement might have.

The case illustrates the impact of private-industry standards, developed and applied outside the orbit and often beyond the reach of governments. This so-called private regulation is a growing phenomenon in international trade.

Halfway across the world, the 2013 collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh killed 1,133 people and injured more than 2,500 others. The result was public outrage over use by North American apparel designers of substandard and exploitative Third World garment factories. Clothing manufacturers and retailers rushed to put into effect tough labour and other standards in their offshore outsourcing policies.

This was an industry-driven response, not a government one.

These two quite different cases show the spread of private rule-making at the non-state level, led by business groups, financial institutions and civil organizations. These are not legally binding in any formal sense but have emerged as a phenomenon of increasing significance in international commerce.

Take the globally applied rules gov-

These are the new modes of internationalism, complementing and in some cases supplementing state action.

While less dramatic than governmentled trade negotiations, these are helping to bind a globalized world into generally accepted norms of conduct.

To the extent that this private regulation enables governments to solve or ameliorate problems that no government can solve unilaterally or collectively, the rise of private regulators need not diminish state power at all. It may be more fruitful to think in terms of complementarity between public and private authority. Of course, governments and private-sector standard-setting bodies have a mutuality of interest and shared concerns. While keeping out of industries’ standard-formulating activities, governments can still aid in promoting high-quality, fair and transparent industry standards.

Earls learned its lesson about the impact of private standards on its business. What that shows is that markets don’t open and trade doesn’t flow because governments conclude treaties.

While it often isn’t recognized, much of world business and international trade is increasingly based on private industry rule-making.

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erning letters of credit formulated by the International Chamber of Commerce. Or the industry engineering standards in the international steel trade. Or consumer product certifications and standards formulated and applied outside of government mandates.

Most Internet and electronic commerce is based on international rules totally outside of governmental involvement. Add to this the example of industry-developed standards in the field of corporate social responsibility, a phenomenon that’s profoundly changed corporate attitudes and behaviour in extractive industries worldwide.

On another level, a Wal-Mart decision to source products certified according to a given industry standard can have as much impact on international trade as the tariff reductions under a trade agreement.

The point about all this is that forces of economic self-interest produce understandings, standards and “rules” often as effective in opening markets as actions of governments concluding international trade agreements.

This is happening even though not all countries participate, and even though enforcement is through consumer choice or engineering best practices.

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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

The headlines in recent weeks have focused on the wildfires in northern Alberta, and in particular, the devastation of Fort McMurray.

This town of 1,200 boomed into a small city almost overnight during the height of the oil boom. But in the past year it has seen its share of downturns, first with

falling oil prices and layoffs and now a fire.

There was good news this week when Premier Notley and media toured the area and found that 85 per cent of the city is still standing. It will still be some time before residents can return to the community.

As the fires burned it is safe to say that every corner of the country was affected in some way.

The jobs drew people from every province as workers, mostly young people, flocked to the area. Almost everyone knew someone who lived there -- either friends or family or friends or family of friends.

Then there was the economic spinoff with

oil companies shutting down production for the moment -- a large number of jobs were, or will be, affected due to that decision. It will probably take months before the full effect is realized.

Yet, in times such as this, when disaster strikes, the compassionate nature of human kindness shines through.

As Charles de Lint makes says he doesn’t want to live in a world where people don’t watch out for each other. One only has to hear the stories of the evacuees to realize that many, many people reached out to help.

One example is the funds raised by the Canadian Red Cross. As of this writing the total

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Fewer and older farmers minding the farm, who will fill their boots?

by News Canada According to Statistics Canada, between 1991 and 2011, the number of farm operators in Canada under the age of 55 decreased from 265,000 to 141,000.

Moreover, the group of farmers under the age of 35 poised to fill their boots is shrinking rapidly, representing only 8.2 percent of all farmers.

The trends of fewer operators and fewer farms show no signs of

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The event was a fund raiser for our building renovation. If the weather cooperates this week we should see our building with a new outside that will keep us nice and warm and dry inside. The new colours give new life to our building. Thanks to Eric and Eric from Wilkie for the great job!

Speaking of new life... our annual meeting will be Wednesday June 1 at

munity back on its feet.

Working with partners to rebuild.

And, rebuild they will, not only due to the wealth of support, but because that’s what Prairie people do. They draw upon inner strength and come back even stronger.

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by Janice Foley, Office Coordinator Thank you to Constable Parmar from the Biggar RCMP, for providing our community with some great tips on Fraud Awareness and how to keep themselves safe from telephone, internet and door-to-door scam artists.

Bingo was held on May 12 with 14 attending.

Ninety-eight members and guests enjoyed a wonderful turkey dinner with all the trimmings,

return home to pack a suitcase but some were not able to do that. Imagine just jumping in your car and not even having a tootbrush or hairbrush the next morning.

It is at times like this when people do step forward and give of themselves. de Lint makes a good point about everyone doing their bit. That will add up quickly.

When the immediate needs are met, there will be long term needs. Support for getting the com-

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I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can’t change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

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raised was $54 million in disaster relief funds. It is not only individuals who donate but companies as well. And, also the federal and provincial governments will be adding their portion.

The immediate concern of the organization is to provide essential relief and assistance. We saw many news reports of evacuees being supplied with essentials such as clothing, towels, food, even diapers.

Some residents could

reversing and could indicate significant turnover in farm assets in the future.

In fact, our entire connection to the land is decreasing.

In 1931, when Canada first began tracking farm populations, 3.3 million people or 31.7 per cent of the population, were living on a farm. By 2011, the farm population accounted for only two percent of all Canadians. In less

than a lifetime, Canada has moved from one in three Canadians living on a farm to one in fifty. At the same time, our total population tripled from 10 million in 1931 to 33 million in 2011.

Twice every decade, Statistics Canada asks Canadian farmers and farm operators to complete the Census of Agriculture questionnaire.

The data collected is used to give local, provincial and national snapshots of our farming industry and identify trends that need watching.

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by Bob Mason

Dirty Old Man No. 2 “Oh, the days go by and the years unfold And I never thought that I would ever get old, But here I am, I’m a dirty old man!�

When “yours truly� was on road construction up north, many times when he bumped the big cement step of the Mont

Nebo Hotel with his car and went in, there was always an empty table with two cold beers on it and the Wurlitzer playing “Dirty Old Man�, and many of the patrons laughing!

That was many years ago, but what a wonderful memory it is! Y.T. was almost proud to be

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what the record said and he will never forget the place!

Yours Truly (Y.T.) often wonders about that “Dirty Old Man!� reputation though. As a child taking a bath in that little round bathtub, washing behind his ears, (guess who has been wearing hearing aids for a long time!), going to Sunday School in a clean shirt every week and brushing what used to be his teeth every week, you’d think he would be clean as any whistle, but no! Just because he tripped on a tree root and fell into the mud-hole Dad had made for our hogs and stumbled into the pasture slough in his Sunday clothes, people have called him names.

In those windy, dry, fields works days of the “Dirty� 1930’s we often came in from the field entirely covered with black drift soil. As a matter of fact there is a photo of Walt around here someplace. Taken when he had just come in from a dusty field.

Anyone who has ever seen the photo says “Who is that?�

Even though being clean has never been one of Y.T.’s greatest abilities, our heritage has always catered a little more to the people who are spotless. Over and over (when we were kids) Mother would say, “make sure and wash your neck before you go to school!�

I’m not sure who wrote it or where it came from,

but in the 1930’s. along with “The Big Rock Candy Mountain�, there was another ditty that went like this: “It ain’t gonna rain no more, no more, No it ain’t gonna rain no more!

How in the heck will I wash my neck If it ain’t gonna rain no more!�

No, we will never forget that little round tub in front of the oven door!

How clean we must have been! How proud our parents must have been when they sent us off to Sunday School! Whatever happened?

Dear Reader: Don’t read on unless you really want to find out what happened!

It wasn’t nice, never was and never will be, but it happened! And sometimes I wonder what those people saw when he strode into the Mont Nebo Hotel!

There were quite a few times during WWII when we slept in all our clothes (sometimes for days) but as far as I remember none of our comrades complained about us having (ahem!) B.O! As a matter of fact (again), some of those guys never did take their uniforms off!

And I sure remember the time that Y.T. was possibly the dirtiest he ever was in his life!

C.S.M. “Sandy� McLarent and Y.T. were sitting on a beam over a slit trench, when a plane swooped down out of the sky and

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by Bruce Penton There’s going to a Stanley Cup stranger hanging around the league final this year.

Introductions may be required: San Jose, if you qualify, this is the Stanley Cup final. St. Louis, if you’re the West rep, welcome back after 46 years. We’ll show you both around. This is the pressure. Deal with it. Over there is the hype. Ignore it, if you can. And here’s the Intensity. With a capital ‘I’.

You’ve both dealt with that, but on lesser levels.

This year’s Cup final will include either a) a total newcomer in the Sharks, who have never been this far before; or b) the Blues, who

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016 was about to strike us! Of “On closer inspection course we dived into the we found that some trench to get away from other outfit (I’ve no the bullets we knew were idea who!) was having coming, only to find that a dance party there! it was half full of guess (Darn it all I can’t what! remember what they Actually, although we were using for lights!).� were both nice guys, “Tired or not, in true our comrades avoided Galvin fashion, Jack us for a few days until said “Let’s go in!� and the M.Land.B.U (Mobile the crowd parted and let Laundry and Bath Unit) us through, after all we came up and issued us were still carrying our with new uniforms! weapons!�

There were quite a few “The music stopped times in action when Y.T. and boy was it ever was sure dirty. Mebbe quiet! Pretty girls and it wasn’t our job, but neatly turned-out solwhen Captain Donaldson diers starred at us like and Lieutenant Cleaton we were from another were hit right beside us, planet! And we were!� the kid from Moose Jaw “We’d spent the last (Ken Amos) and I tried few days and nights to help and got blood all hugging the cold, wet over our arms, which in slopes of the dikes along the next few days turned the Maas River and black... were covered with mud After a few rough days from head to foot! We in the Hochwald Forrest, were both wearing balawe moved back and the clavas and they were M.Land.B.U. came up. muddy. Even the skin As Y.T. was washing his around our eyes was arms, one of the attendirty!� dants exclaimed: “Hey “We only stood there Mason, your wounded!� dripping for a few All that blood had turned moments, but muddier red again and washed than Y.T. had ever been off. Boy were we dirty! before!�

And we mustn’t forget “Then we staggered about the night that Jack down the street to our Glavin and Y.T. came out billets. from Kapelsche Veer and The above few parabelow is a quote from a graphs tell about the piece Y.T. sent in to The WWII mud and dirt that Independent years ago. eventually covered the Quote: innocent boy in the little “We were mighty round tub... and eventutired, but as we were ally washed off! making our way down But they don’t tell of the main street of the muddy, dirty feelings Waslwijk, we could hear that war leaves inside... music coming from one and never goes away. of the buildings.� haven’t been in a Stanley Cup final since 1970, when the league’s postexpansion playoff set-up ensured one of the six new teams would make it to the championship series.

Maybe this is the year of the Loveable Loser in sports. The Cubs, mired in a 108-year World Series drought, are making championship noises in baseball and when this year’s Stanley Cup final begins, the Western Conference rep will go into the best-of-seven series with a grand total of zero Cups in their histories.

It may still be zero when the Cup is presented in mid-June, but at the very least, the survivor of the Sharks/Blues series will have made history.

The Sharks, since they were born in 1991, have won six division titles, but have never made the Stanley Cup final.

The Blues had the misfortune all these years of being conference rivals of Detroit and Chicago, two

NHL powers.

Perennial underachievers, the Sharks have become a poster child for playoff failure. Since 2005-06, they have suffered first-round elimination three times; secondround elimination four times; and lost twice in the Western Conference finals. Last year, in the final year of a 10-year stretch, the Sharks missed the playoffs, and it cost coach Todd McLellan his job. McLellan took his playoff-missing talents to Edmonton, while Peter Deboer replaced him in San Jose and through two rounds of the playoffs, things are looking . . . well, not to jinx them, but this could be the year.

For Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau, who both broke into the NHL in 1997-98, winning a Cup would be sweet and would give their careers some completion. They always seem to be playing in the world championships in Europe instead ‌see Penton, pg 7

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

Lord Asquith School

- Principalʼs Message by Leanne Gruending Wow! Here we are mid-May with only 30 student days left of school!

May and April have been a busy two months and May and June are only going to get busier!

In April, Health Promoting Schools was in full swing supporting activities like BOKS and Book and Bagel before school. Our ladies in the booth and Work Ed Students have also been making delicious, healthy lunch options for students at lunch; my favourite is perogie Wednesday!

In sports, intramurals had wrapped with The Orioles as our winning team. A huge thank you needs to go out to Mr. Munday for organizing. the staff for supervising and the SCC and HPS for providing prizes for

the winning team! Our badminton teams did extremely well this year!

Fantastic job! Track is in full swing and they are getting ready for the big track meet at Griffiths Stadium after the May long weekend. Best of luck to all 45 athletes!

A huge thank you needs to go out to Mr. Munday, Ms. Braun, Ms. Bachmeier, Ms. Mason, Mrs. Mel Summach and Mr. Walker for working so hard with this huge group of students!

In April, we had the Saskatoon-based author, Arthur Slade, in to talk with our students about what life is like as an author and how to make a million dollars. The middle years and high school students viewed a presentation by MADD on driving under the influence and the impact it can have on so many.

Our Book Fair was towards the end of April and we almost made enough to get me to dye my hair pink; maybe next year! None the less, we were able to buy quite a few new books for our library! Thank you to everyone who purchased for our book fair!

In May our elementary students were able to see Vanscoy’s production of the Lion King! I heard it was fantastic!

The middle years and high school students will be viewing OSAC’s The Shape of a Girl based on the 1997 extreme bullying incident of Reena Virk. Grade 4/5 swimming is gearing up and classes are having a host of fundraisers for yearend class trips.

The SCC, in col-

laboration with the staff, hosted Family Fun Night on April 12. It was a great success with fun activities for the whole family to enjoy! I would also like to welcome our new and continuing SCC executive members: Jayme Shaw (Chair), Suzanne Reichert (ViceChair), Sarah Kowalchuk (Treasurer). and Jennifer Gibson (Secretary), as well as our voting members Theresa Hubble, Lisa Rush, Dawn Feist, Gail Erhart, and Karle Domoshovitz. Thank you for all the work you do for and with our school and community.

As you are likely aware, PSSD is in a tough spot and at this point in the year we are working hard on school

THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK - 7 staffing. Unfortunately, SERT, and counselor the 2016/2017 school with input from stuyear will see us lose a few dents. The focus is on the more staff members. We social dynamics of the have been reduced 1.3 classrooms and we do FTE for teachers which not believe in “streammeans one teacher and ing” at Lord Asquith one third of another School. Many decisions teacher. Much of this has will need to be made in been absorbed through a the upcoming month and reduction in administraif you are interested in being a part of that contor time (Mike and I will versation, please come be teaching more, thus less time available during to the final SCC meeting of the year on June 21 or school hours). We will contact me at the school. also need to have a comI hope everyone has a bination of split classes safe and happy May long in the elementary end as weekend! well as the middle years.

I recognize that splitting grade groups can be a for difficult situation for stuDoreen’s dents and families, but Discount I can assure you, placeDay @ ment is based on conLeslie’s Drugstore sultation with teacher,

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St. Louis might have something to say about that. So might Pittsburgh

TAX ENFORCEMENT LIST Rural Municipality of Perdue No. 376 Province of Saskatchewan Notice is hereby given under The Tax Enforcement Act that unless the arrears and costs appearing opposite the land described in the following list are fully paid before the day of 18th day of July, 2016, an interest based on a tax lien will be registered against the land.

NOTE: A sum for costs in an amount as required by Subsection 4(3) of The Tax Enforcement Act is included in the amount shown against each parcel.

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY Pt of Sec. Twp Range Merdian Title No. Total Ad Total Arrears Sec. Arrears Costs & Costs NW 16 34 12 3 136366768 $ 381.87 $30.24 $ 412.11 SW 15 34 12 3 136366735 $ 688.80 $30.24 $ 719.04 Parcel A Plan 101635163 139853920 $4,966.37 $30.24 $4,996.61 Parcel D Plan 101997108 145532820 $ 298.20 $30.24 $ 328.44 A 1.0% penalty applies to these arrears monthly and will be added to form a part of the tax arrears.

Dated at Perdue, Saskatchewan this 19th day of May, 2016.

Allan Kirzinger, Administrator

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and Tampa Bay, the Eastern Conference finalists.

But if the Sharks are ever going to show their teeth, this year might be their best shot.

• Annie Apple, mother of New York Giants draft pick, cornerback Eli Apple, on a pre-draft event organized by the NFL. “There was a wonderful welcome reception for the family, though whomever planned the event forgot to include desserts. This is what happens when skinny women rule the world: they forget the chocolate.”

• Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun: “I get hungry covering basketball games in Miami. They keep chanting: ‘Let’s Go Eat.’ Or something like that.”

• Greg Cote of the Miami Herald, after 5,000-1 longshot Leicester City won the EPL title: “Coincidentally,

those were the same odds against the Dolphins’ No. 1 selection being pictured draft night wearing a bong gas mask.”

• Randy Turner of the Winnipeg Free Press, on Twitter: “If the entire Russian women’s hockey team was on steroids during Sochi Olympics then they’re going to need more steroids.”

• Brad Dickson of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, on a vote in McKinney, Texas, to build a $63 million football stadium: “If I know Texas football, this is for the JV team.”

• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “A town in Texas is building a $63 million high school football stadium. It will be called ‘Twisted Priorities Stadium.’”

• Brad Dickson again: *The Miami Marlins lost a

home run when the player who hit the homer passed another runner on the base paths. I believe this is something you’re taught not to do the second day of tee ball practice, although it may be the first day.”

• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Tigers ace Justin Verlander and supermodel Kate Upton got engaged. One is known for devastating curves, the other pitches for Detroit.”

• Another one from Cote, after Arizona Coyotes hired 26-year-old John Chayka as its general manager, the youngest GM in NHL history: “Chayka immediately traded a future first-round draft pick for four killer tickets to Pearl Jam.” Care to comment? E-mail brucepenton2003@ yahoo.ca.

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‘Minor’ may mean major financial plus for farmers a story because it is something we haven’t covered before, and it will be new to our readers as well.

Minor crops fit into

by Calvin that area perfectly.

Daniels Some new crops have come along and managed to maintain

by Calvin Daniels a foothold in terms of At times it is natural for farmer acres; hemp, coricolumnists on a particular topic to feed off one ander, camellia and quinoa come to mind. another at times.

Other crops came and In my case I’ve been disappeared in a matter writing a weekly opinion on agriculture for more of a few seasons, pinto than a quarter of a cen- beans and lupins come tury, much the same time to mind.

A few others never realperiod Kevin Hursh has done much the same ly got past the promotion stage, seabuckthorn and thing.

So when the most recent borage as examples.

The last number of years edition of ‘Farming For Tomorrow’ crossed my the eyes of farmers have desk, I quickly gravitated not had to fall upon new to a piece by Hursh on and minor crops so much.

Commodity prices have ‘Minor acreage crops’.

Anytime something new been generally positive comes along we journal- for mainstay crops such

as canola and wheat.

But we know that will not always be the case, so minor crops are an option, if Canada can maintain enough annual acres to stay in the game in terms of supplying specific crops.

But there of course finite acres to plant on the Canadian Prairies, and that means a somewhat competitive atmosphere in terms of what crops might sustain acres and what might fall by the wayside.

We know Canada will also plant wheat, or at least it probably should, because farmers here do an outstanding job of producing high quality wheat.

But we know too, as Hursh hit on, the Canola Council of Canada wants to see production increase.

New varieties have certainly broadened the area where canola can be grown through the last decade.

Of course it has been varietal development which has put soybeans and corn into the discussion for Canadian Prairie acres too.

Such developments mean pressure for all the minor crops.

Of course the future might change things rather dramatically.

Last week I wrote about canary seed gaining access to the human consumption market. That changes the dynamic for that crop in a major way.

What that situation should remind the ag sector is that market needs can change rather quickly, and as Hursh noted there are numerous things on the horizon

which can change production potential including climate change, new uses for existing crops (again think the canary seed situation), and of course plant breeding which may add new traits to old crops, as well as developing new varieties making crops viable in new areas.

The ladder is perhaps the most intriguing. If a crop were suddenly to become more drought tolerant, or able to grow in higher saline soils, there

would be much broader interest in terms of seeding the crop.

So while farmers will make decisions based on rotations, expectations of returns, and other factors, the influences on those decisions will change over time as well.

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Gone but not forgotten

Kammer becomes Civilian Member of RCMP

Thornton School, 1924 - 1972. The stone plaques that once adorned this majestic building have been found and are now at the museum. (Photo and information courtesy of biggarencylopaedia)

by Delta Fay Cruickshank of the Biggar Museum and Gallery

It was built in 1924 and stood proud on the north side of Sixth Avenue East.

The year was embossed on stone and hung high above the front doors. Above the entry, the name of the school was hung with pride.

For only 48 years, it was the place where the children of Biggar learned their 3 R’s.

Grades 1-11 sat at their desks and learned their lesson (or day dreamed).

It started out as a four room, two story structure, and in no time discovered it was just not big enough for all the scholars in the area. In 1927 another four room two storey structure was

added to the north side of the existing building.

Over 500 students filled the rooms!

To commemorate the largest employer of the area, Canadian National Railway, the school was named after its President; Sir Henry Thornton.

Fourteen teachers took charge of all the students in the eight classrooms.

The students themselves organized the Literacy Society and created the School Bank. The School Activities Association, which later became the Student Council, organized fund raisers and created other activities for the energetic minds and bodies. There was even a 16 piece orchestra.

In 1972 Thornton School no longer met

the needs of the education system and it was torn down to be replaced by the Woodrow Lloyd School which was built on the same site. All that was left were the stone plaques from the front of the building.

Jack Haffermehl reminded the museum that those plaques had been unseen for 44 years.

With the help of one of the board members, and cooperation of the Town of Biggar employees, those plaques are now at the museum. They are up against our new planter on the patio.

I wonder how many of those in our town walked under these stones. What school day memories are out there? School day pranks, memorable occasions cannot all be lost!

Amanda Kammer successfully completed the National Telecommunications Operator Core Training and was recently sworn into the RCMP as a Civilian Member in Red Deer on May 5. Amanda is currently employed by the RCMP and works in the Operations Communication Center in Red Deer. Amanda answers 911 calls and complaint lines that require police assistance and dispatches.

Amanda is pictured in the photo with RCMP Inspector Terry Wild. She is the daughter of Gail and Albert Kammer of Landis. Congratulations, Amanda!

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Perdue Community Bowl Awards 2015-2016

Marilyn Miller, Adam Munro, Trudi McBeth, Tyler Lemon, Emily Lemon YBC Bowlassurus H.S. 93 Tyler Lemon YBC Juniors H.S. 243 Emmett Hamilton YBC Bantams H.S. 121 Braxton Scharf YBC Juniors H.T. 566 Adam Munro YBC Most Improved +23 Tyler Lemon

Hi-Low Double Winners Jim Nicholls, Joyce Broeckel, Al Levitt Club 55+: Joyce Broeckel, Peter Hofmeister Ladies: Pam Winterhalt, Kory Anderson Mens: Al Levitt, Jim Nicholls

Club 55+ League Winners Gerald Nicholls, Dennis Notschke, Jean Taylor, Carol Lemon, Esther Nicholls. Missing: John Latta Mens High Single: 299 Al Levitt Ladies High Single: 292 Joey Levitt Mens High Triple: 556 Gerald Nicholls Ladies High Triple: 654 Kay Munro Mens High Average: 144 Peter Hofmeister Ladies High Average: 163 Carol Lemon Most Improved Ladies: Kay Munro +10 Fern Sawchuck +10

BIGGAR ASSOCIATED GOSPEL CHURCH corner of 8th Ave.W. and Quebec St., Biggar

Sunday Worship • 10:50 a.m.

Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.

Ladies Bible Study, Wednesdays, 9:45 a.m.

Church office number, 306-948-3424

Bowlers of the Month Back Row: Deb Broeckel, Gerald Nicholls, Dennis Notschke, Jim Nicholls, Al Levitt Front Row: Esther Nicholls, Sandra Pavloff, Joyce Broeckel, Joey Levitt.

Bowler of the Year: Sandra Pavloff

BIGGAR UNITED CHURCH 907 Quebec St. and corner Turnbull Ave., Biggar

90yr plus Bowlers recognized Jean Taylor. Missing: Bob Mason

Sunday Worship Service • 11 a.m.

Coffee and fellowship to follow service.

Perfect attendance Joyce Broeckel Also recognized Bob Mason

Potluck after service on first Sunday of the month.

SUNDAY SCHOOL‌ first two Sundays of each month.

Church office number, 306-948-2280, Rev. Jane Gallagher.

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Potluck on LAST Sunday of the month.

For more information/pastoral services, phone Pastor Mark Kleiner @ 306-948-3731, 306-951-7122.

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Ladies League Deb Broeckel, Marilyn Miller, Elizabeth McMahon, Lorrie Reichert, Valerie Kydd, Joey Levitt, Dorrie Labersweiller Ladies League High Single: 277 Kori Anderson High Triple: 668 Deb Broeckel High Average: 181 Dorrie Labersweiller Most Improved: +7 Valerie Kydd

League Winner - Other Frame Marilyn Miller, Elizabeth McMahon, Lorrie Reichert, Joey Levitt. Missing: Pam Winterhalt, Visa Srithongsook

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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EXCITING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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INVITATIONS

Do you have an interest in agriculture? Do you enjoy working with livestock? Do you thrive in a teamwork atmosphere? Does a flexible work schedule suit you?

If this is you, and you’re interested in working with a growing company, then Polar Pork Farms is looking for you to join our team.

Are you mechanically inclined?

Do you enjoy the challenge of figuring out and fixing a maintenance issue?

Do you thrive in a teamwork atmosphere?

If this is you, and you’re interested in working with a growing company, then Polar Pork Farms is looking for you to join our team.

Presently, Polar Pork Farms is accepting résumes at our Bear Hills 2650 head farrow to wean farm.

Presently, Polar Pork Farms is accepting resumes at our Bear Hills 2600 head farrow to wean farm.

NUMBER OF AVAILABLE POSITIONS: 4 We are now accepting résumes for the following positions: - Breeding Technician - Farrowing Technician - General Herdsperson EMPLOYMENT TERMS: full time, part time, casual, internship, summer.

JOB LOCATION: Bear Hills Sow Barn, located approximately five kilometres west of Perdue, Sask.

SKILLS: Applicants must be skilled in most aspects of hog operation, or be eager to learn.

NUMBER OF AVAILABLE POSITIONS: 1

Dependent on position, we offer benefits, a monthly bonus, above average industry wages, and much more.

We’d like the opportunity to meet you.

Interested parties, please apply to polarpork@hotmail.ca We are committed to workplace diversity.

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The family of

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Come & Go Tea to celebrate her

80th Birthday on Saturday, May 28, 2 - 4 p.m. at the Biggar Community Hall.

EMPLOYMENT TERMS: Full time JOB LOCATION: Bear Hills Sow Barn, located approximately five kilometres west of Perdue, Sask.

In lieu of cards, a small donation is welcome towards a local charity.

SKILLS: Applicants must be skilled in: -

Basic electrical.

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SATURDAY, MAY 24: 7 p.m., Biggar & District Family Centre Annual General Meeting, 220 Main St., Biggar.

Everyone welcome.

18c3 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1: 1:30 p.m., Biggar New Horizons Projects Annual General Meeting, @ Biggar New Horizons, 117 - 3rd Ave. West, Biggar, Sask.

20c2 FRIDAY, JUNE 3, SATURDAY, JUNE 4 & SUNDAY, JUNE 5: Town and Country Fair Days, parade, food, bake sales, games, church. Watch paper for further happenings or phone 306-948-6450.

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THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK - 13

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

ELECTRICAL

NCM Home Maintenance • Residential & Commercial Painting • Handyman Service • Labour Hire • 1A Certified Licence

Nick Maguire BIGGAR ELECTRICAL & REFRIGERATION SERVICES Commercial and Industrial Electrical Wiring Licensed Journeyman Adrian de Haan

306-948-5291

Goldburg Electric Ltd. • Residential • Commercial Contact Matt Craig

306.948.3325 PHILLIPS ELECTRIC s 2ESIDENCE s #OMMERCIAL 7IRING &OR FREE ESTIMATES Ph: 306-948-5393

WESTWIND ELECTRIC LTD. Perdue, Sask.

Peter Hofmeister Journeyman Electrician

Licenced, Insured & Bonded Over 15 years experience

• RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • FARM

306-951-8004

EAVESTROUGH NOW SERVING THE BIGGAR AREA

FREE ESTIMATES 5-inch continuous eavestrough

Derek Argue

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Box 277, Perdue, SK S0K 3C0

Home Improvements

MADGE ROOFING INC.

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Doctor of Optometry

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Biggar, Sask.

306-948-3389 Journeymen Plumber, Gas Fitter, & Electrician on staff

DENTAL

In Biggar Every Tuesday.

For appointments…

1-855-651-3311

LEGAL SERVICES

BUSSE LAW PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION Barristers & Solicitors

Phone:306.882.2123 New Patients Welcome!

BIGGAR DENTAL CLINIC

BIGGAR HOUSING AUTHORITY Housing for families and seniors Rent based on income

Call: 306-948-2101

PHOTOGRAPHY

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Portraits, Family, Weddings & Sports Photography Biggar, Sask.

302 Main Street, Biggar, SK

306-948-3346 …serving your community since 1972

Peszko &Watson is a full service law office that practices…

OFFICE HOURS Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

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Southeast entrance of Nova Wood Bldg.

Hours…

Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Friday, 8 a.m. - 11 a.m.

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Contact THE INDEPENDENT 306-948-3344

201B - 2nd Ave. West P. O. Box 1480 Biggar, SK S0K 0M0

Ph: 306-948-5133

RED APPLE

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES “Administrative Services to

Meet Your Business Needs” ~ One time projects or long term service

ÿWord Processing ÿDatabase Management ÿData Entry ÿSpreadsheets ÿResume Writing

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Criminal Law Commercial Law Family Law Real Estate Law Wills and Estate Law and our lawyers, Jason Peszko Lisa Watson Sophie Ferré look forward to assisting you and can be contacted at:

306-948-5352 or 306-244-9865

INVESTMENTS

223 Main Street Biggar Box 580 Biggar, SK SOK OMO

306-948-2183 Email: ddolack@sasktel.net Website: www.hrblock.ca

INSURANCE

Financial Planning Estate Planning Life Insurance 222 Main Street 306 948 5377

info@twhfinancial.ca www.twhfinancial.ca

to have your business listed here, …ask about special rates and sizes!

INVESTMENTS

rod.campbell@sasktel.net 122 Main St., Biggar, SK

Biggar Professional Building, 223 Main Street, Biggar

ROSETOWN DENTAL

115 - 1st Avenue West Rosetown, Sask.

• Bookkeeping • Tax Returns • Financial Statements

Ph: 306-948-4430 or 306-948-4460

Stuart A. Busse, QC Larry A. Kirk, LL.B.

PLUMBING HEATING ELECTRICAL

Box 323, Biggar, SK S0K 0M0

Danny Pickett Travis Poletz 306-230-4535 306-948-6570 saskwestconstruction@outlook.com

Kirk Ewen

CAMPBELL ACCOUNTING SERVICES

Roofing

306-717-2818

FOR RENT

Eavestroughing

ACCOUNTING

www.madgesaskroofing.com Biggar, Sask.

#ELL 306-221-6888

Cell 1-306-753-9807

ARGUE’S

PLUMBING & HEATING

OPTOMETRISTS

Contact us for all your insurance and financial services 306-948-3926 …located in the Professional Building 223 Main St., Biggar

INSURANCE

For all your investment needs, Visit…

Dean McCallum, CFP, CIM, FCSI

Lyndsey Poole

Investment Advisor Credential Securities Inc.

Mutual Fund Investment Specialist, Wealth Consultant Credential Asset Management Inc.

Pamela Eaton Mutual Fund Investment Specialist Credential Asset Management Inc.

5th Avenue 106th Street

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask.

Shop 306.446.3298

Fax 306.445.4275

Located at the Biggar & District Credit Union 302 Main Street, Biggar, SK • 306-948-3352 Mutual funds are offered through Credential Asset Management Inc., and mutual funds and other securities are offered through Credential Securities Inc. ®Credential is a registered mark owned

by Credential Financial Inc. and is used under license.

ÿ Auto & Home Insurance ÿ Farm & Commercial Insurance ÿ Health & Travel Insurance ÿ Life Insurance & Investments ÿ Farm Succession & Estate Planning ÿ Notary Publics Biggar Of¿ce Hours…

Landis Of¿ce Hours:

304 Main St., Biggar Phone: 306-948-2204 Toll Free: 1-855-948-2204

100 - 2nd Ave. W., Landis Phone: 306-658-2044 Toll Free: 1-855-658-2044

Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Mon., Tues., & Fri., 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Wed., 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Thurs., CLOSED

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“We’ll getcha covered”

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

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701 - 4th Ave. E., Biggar

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FAX

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available at The Independent 122 Main St., Biggar

• Cattle hauling with 21 ft. gooseneck trailer • round and large square bale hauling with step-deck or highboy semi-trailers • also buying and selling straw and forage • also machinery hauling Home • 306-948-2037 Alex • 306-948-7291 Dan • 306-948-7843 Biggar, Sask.

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Canadian Seed Institute Accredited Pedigree, Commercial & Custom Cleaning FULL line of Cleaning Equipment including Gravity Table

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For all your Cereal and Pulse Cleaning

Wally Lorenz

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306-948-3380 306-948-2234

SGI Safety Inspection

of The Battlefords Independently Owned and Operated

306-222-6081

Custom Cleaning of H.R.S. & C.P. S. Wheat

Open Monday-Friday

Farm & Acreage Salesperson (306) 948-4478 dave.molberg@hammondrealty.ca HammondRealty.ca

Danny Vogelsang

SEED CLEANING

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AUTOMOTIVE

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Teams, Corporate and Personal Attire

306-986-2600

403 Main St., Biggar

Licensed For: # # #

Custom Embroidery

1st Ave. West, Biggar

Call: Bill: Dale:

306- 948-2807 or 948-5609 948-5394

Plant located 8 miles south of Biggar on Hwy #4, Âź mile west on Triumph Rd.

SERVICES Your authorized

306.948.2700

Panasonic, Samsung,

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LG, Frigidaire, Shaw, Yamaha Audio Dealer;

Open: Mon.-Fri.

SaskTel Mobility and

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8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

3AT s A M .OON

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YH Truck, Ag & Auto

216 Main St., Biggar

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306.948.1700 OPEN‌ Monday-Friday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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• trenching • trucking • water & sewer • sand & gravel • excavating Office ‌

Serving Perdue and area for the past 10 years

Rebel Landscaping 306-948-2879, evenings 306-948-7207, daytime Ed Kolenosky s $RIVEWAYS s #ONCRETE s 'ARAGE 0ADS s 0RUNING s 0LANTING

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THUR-O CARPET

CLEANING #LIFF &ORSYTH Box 736, Biggar

Bob Kobelsky

306-658-4474, Landis

Phone‌

306-948-5600

GOLDBURG GRAVEL LTD. • Pit Run • Base Gravel • Road Gravel • Crushed Rock • Top Soil

Certified Scale and Ticketed Loads Serving Rosetown & Biggar areas Phone‌ Leam Craig

306-948-2801/306-948-7279 BIGGAR & DISTRICT JOHN G. SMITH Junk Removal, FAMILY CENTRE Small Moves, pick up and delivery

½ ton truck & handy men

Ph: 306-948-3856 or Cell: 306-948-7896

220 Main St., Biggar

OPEN: Tues., Thurs., & Fri., 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

306-951-7860

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306-948-5699

Biggar Sand & Gravel

Landscaping, Snow Removal, Topsoil, Clay, Gravel, Sand Bobcats, Excavator, Gravel Truck

• Laser Engraving • Promotional products (mugs, mousepad, etc)

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THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK - 15

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

Five quirky facts about Canada you may not know

by News Canada With three coastlines, six time zones, ten provinces and three territories spread out over almost 10 million square kilometers, Canada is one of the most geographically diverse nations on earth.

We also have one of the most diverse populations.

As Canadians prepare for the 2016 Census, it’s worth looking back at some of the more interesting findings from the last census in 2011.

1. Grey power is growing. The number of seniors 65 and over has jumped 14 per cent to nearly five million. In fact, Canada has more seniors than ever before.

The fastest growing age group was people between 60 and 64, while the second fastest growing age group was those 100 and over, also known as centenarians (5,825). There are five female centenarians for every male one.

2. Reduce, reuse, and replace. Canadians seem to be boosting our population and having more babies. The number of children under four increased by 11 percent between 2006 and 2011, the biggest increase in 50 years.

3. There’s something about that Prairie air.

Saskatchewan had the

highest fertility rate and the highest number of centenarians of any province.

4. Land of the midnight sun shining bright.

Nunavut was the most youthful territory or province, with 32.7 per cent of the population under 14. The population of Nunavut also jumped 8.3 per cent since 2006.

In addition, the three most common nonofficial mother tongue languages in Nunavut were Inuktitut (67.8 per cent), Inuinnaqtun (0.9 per cent) and Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) (0.3 per cent) 5. Newfoundland and Labrador really is paradise. The town of Paradise had a 40 per

PUBLIC NOTICE Rural Municipality of Eagle Creek No. 376 Notice of Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Rural Municipality of Eagle Creek No. 376 intends to adopt a bylaw (Bylaw No. 1/2016) under the planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw 8/87 known as the Zoning Bylaw.

INTENT Minimum size of farm land holding shall be changed.

AFFECTED LAND These amendments shall apply to all properties in the municipality.

REASON To change the minimum farm land holding to 32 hectares.

PUBLIC INSPECTION Any person may inspect the bylaw at the municipal office between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday excluding statutory holidays. Copies are available at cost.

PUBLIC HEARING Council will hold a public hearing on June 7, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at the municipal office in Arelee, Saskatchewan to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaw. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing (or delivered to the undersigned at the municipal office before the hearing).

Issued at Rural Municipality of Eagle Creek No. 376, this 3rd day of May, 2016 Signed, Lloyd Cross, Administrator

cent increase in population since 2006, rising to 17,695. Population density in Paradise is 605.2 people per square kilometer while in contrast, Newfoundland and Labrador as a whole measures 1.4 persons per square kilometer.

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