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Para Play . . . Biggar Day Program kids were giggles and smiles Monday as they put an old parachute to good use. While these two kids took their turn looking for their friends hiding under the ‘chute, kids on the outside await their chance. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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Perdue Co-op said thank you to their patrons Tuesday with a noon barbecue and a visit from Saskatchewan Roughriders Derek Walker and Keith Price. The pair talked football, signed autographs, shared a few laughs with local diehards. Walker (top picture) signs a ball for Barry Hooper. Price (bottom left picture) also signs for Hooper. Price (left picture) and Walker pose for some pictures with a fan. Customers could get some great food or enter into draws - a great day for a great area business.

(Independent Photos by Kevin Brautigam)

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Council Minute highlights The regular meeting of Biggar Town Council was held July 21, at 7:15 p.m. in the Council Chambers. Attending the meeting were Mayor Ray Sadler, Aldermen Ron Arnold, Jim Besse, Alan Boyle, Penny McCallum, Eugene Motruk, and Kirk Sherbino.

Council resolved that the quote from OmniSport Inc. dated July 20, 2015 for the lexan advertising covers at Jubilee Stadium at a cost of $11,306.50, be approved.

Council resolved that the Town of Biggar accept the Offer of Financial Assistance and enter into an agreement with the Minister of Western Economic Diversification under the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program to renovate Jubilee Stadium.

Council resolved that the General Accounts Paid in the amount of $76,701.83 and the General Accounts Payable in the amount of $78,816.67, be approved.

Council resolved that the following financial reports for June 2015 be accepted as presented: Bank Reconciliation; Statement of Financial Activities; Budgetary Control.

Council resolved that the following correspondence be accepted for Council’s information and filed: Wheatland Regional Centre - Biggar Regional Centre Payout; Community Planning - Response; Flaman Investigations July 9 and 16 Reports; Saskatchewan Research Council - Irrigation Test Results; Municipal Officer P. Brown - Bylaw Enforcement; Prairie

Branches - Update; Lorass Environmental Services Ltd. - One-time Disposal; Chris Wileman - Supported Employment; Luckett Wenman and Associates - Tax Review.

Council resolved that Northstar Concrete Inc. be contracted to replace 107 meters of sidewalk on Fifth Avenue East at the cost of $23,540 plus GST. Council resolved that the application for sign installation in the urban sign corridor by Impact Energy Services be approved as his application meets the requirements of the Town’s Urban Sign Corridor Policy and conditional to the sign being located in the sign corridor at an annual fee fo $25 a sign for the calendar year as the sign will be used for advertising purposes.

Council resolved that the options from SaskTel for the Town’s LDK phone system maintenance agreement be reviewed.

Council resolved that the Letter of Understanding and Agreement from the RM of Biggar No. 347 in regard to recycling for the RM’s ratepayers, be approved for signing.

Council resolved that the Town enter into an agreement with Suncorp Valuations to conduct annual revisions from 2017 to 2021.

Council also resolved that the Town enter into an agreement with Suncorp Valuations for a full reappraisal of the insurable assets for the Town of Biggar, to be performed in 2016. s -EETING ADJOURNED AT 8:30 p.m.

Swim School . . . The Biggar Aquatic Centre began another session of swim lessons Monday, and with the wicked heat we’ve been experiencing, going to school ain’t so bad. With temperatures melting the

mid-30s, the Aquatic Centre looks to be the best place in town to beat the heat. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

Saskatchewan records 22 months of lowest unemployment rate in Canada

Saskatchewan’s unem- month the province has ployment rate was 5.2 had the lowest unemper cent (seasonally ployment rate in the country. adjusted) in “ To d a y ’s July 2015 S a s k a t c h e w a n ’s a c c o r d i n g unemployment rate n u m b e r s to Statistics was 5.2 per cent show SasC a n a d a , . . . This was the katchewan lowest rate among has mainAugust 7.

This was the provinces and tained the the lowest well below the 6.8 l o w e s t rate among per cent recorded u n e m p l o y ment rate in the provinc- nationally the country es and well for almost below the 6.8 per cent recorded two straight years,” nationally. July marks Immigration, Jobs, Skills the 22nd consecutive and Training Minister Jeremy Harrison said.

“We know there are gains and losses taking place in the job market, which is something we watch closely. However, consistently having the lowest unemployment rate in Canada means a sustainable and reliable job market that speaks volumes to business and industry when they are looking for jurisdictions to invest in.”

There were 575,300 people employed in July 2015.

Other highlights include: s -AJOR YEAR OVER YEAR gains were reported for health care and social Line dancing . . . Constable Andrew Park directs traffic last Thursday as a assistance up 6,100; line was knocked down on Main Street near the Subway. Drivers were redirected other services up 3,400; around the mess. Main was opened shortly after, and fortunately, no one was information, culture and hurt. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

recreation up 2,600; s /FF RESERVE !BORIGInal employment was up 1,300 (+3.0 per cent) for five consecutive months of year-over-year increases; and

s 9OUTH UNEMPLOYMENT rate was 9.5 per cent (seasonally adjusted), lowest among the provinces, and below the national rate of 13.2 per cent.

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Politics and musings As we head into one of the longest federal election campaigns ever, there is still yet to be any sign of candidates or leaders in our riding. Nor is it likely any of the leaders will ever visit our little town of Biggar.

There was a time when it was a different story. In fact, the campaign has yet to engage voters in this area. I suppose if you are really interested you could find out by logging on to a website or facebook page but the truth is most people have better things to do with their time than login to anything political.

Plus, there is the hard fact: Canadian politics is boring.

On the other hand, the Americans -- notably the Republican party is dishing up its own form of entertainment.

You have to shake your head at Donald Trump. He is so disconnected from the ordinary voter yet he just continues to say what he wants. In spite of his obvious political incorrectness he is polling at the top of the pile.

Whether this trend will continue is yet to be seen. And, this isn’t even the general election!

Meanwhile, back in rural Saskatchewan, voters are left to wonder just what the party platforms are. They are even left wondering who the candidates are as they have yet to take measures to introduce themselves.

And, sadly, it is likely to stay that way.

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Canada’s public infrastructure gap will require a creative solution

by Glen Hodgson, Senior VicePresident and Chief Economist Forecasting and Analysis, Conference Board of Canada After decades of neglect, public infrastructure deserves to be made a much higher economic policy priority.

The issue of public investment in infrastructure won’t be ignored in the federal election campaign. It is already a hot topic in provincial legislatures and city council chambers across the country, and the overall political commitment to provide financial support must begin to reflect current needs and future opportunities.

Canada has underinvested in

its infrastructure for decades, and is now playing catch-up. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has assessed the condition of drinking water, waste water, storm water and road infrastructure across municipalities, based on 2009– 10 data. The estimated cost to bring these systems up to a “good” standard is $172-billion.

This high cost does not include public transit investment, nor regional and national infrastructure priorities like border crossings, ports and power distribution. The infrastructure gap can also be seen in the foregone economic potential in regions such

as the Canadian North.

Moreover, investment in infrastructure offers a good payback from public spending in terms of its immediate effect on the economy. Since most projects use a relatively small share of imports in their development, most of the GDP gains and jobs benefits are captured domestically.

More often than not, each dollar invested in infrastructure will lift GDP by more than a dollar. During the 2008–09 financial crisis and recession, federal and provincial governments relied on infrastructure to help support economic activity across Canada—public

infrastructure investment shot up to 4.6 per cent of GDP in 2009 and 2010. This share has eroded to below 3.6 per cent.

So if we have a huge infrastructure gap, and infrastructure investment provides strong economic benefits, what’s holding us back?

One key reason may be “sticker shock”—the scale and cost of public projects funded from current operating budgets. Another reason is budget limitations. For all three levels of government, vastly expanding the infrastructure budget can crowd out other needs—which can make for very challenging politics.

It’s time to put

on our thinking caps and develop additional creative approaches to financing infrastructure development in Canada—to treat it as a long-term investment, and shift funding away from current operating budgets. We should be taking advantage of low long-term interest rates while they last to begin funding an ambitious capital investment program.

One idea worth examining is the formation of a pan-Canadian infrastructure bank. It could be modelled broadly on the very successful existing Canadian public sector financial institutions like Export Development Canada (Disclosure: the

author worked at EDC for a decade).

Creating a panCanadian infrastructure bank would create a critical mass of funding capacity and management expertise in one body. Such an institution could be built on an equity capital base that is treated as an investment (and not a current expenditure). It could then multiply that capital base by borrowing in capital markets to build the full lending capacity of the institution.

We would expect the federal government to use its recognized ability to borrow in capital markets—at the lowest possible cost—as a key

backstop for the bank. However, Ottawa need not necessarily be the only shareholder, nor the sole backstop for borrowing.

Some provinces, major cities and the private sector could also conceivably participate in such a bank as shareholders or as partners.

Infrastructure development is a shared responsibility of all three levels of government. Furthermore, the private sector, including sources of longterm capital like pension funds, could play an important role.

A pan-Canadian infrastructure bank and its shareholder(s) would have to develop a financially sustain-

able business model. Some infrastructure projects, such as toll roads, could be commercial in nature and produce a revenue stream to repay the financing.

Others would require the continuing support of government borrowers. Moreover, the institution’s investment portfolio should reflect necessary adaptation to climate change and the emerging low-carbon economy.

Canada’s need for modern public infrastructure will only grow.

The pressure on governments to find solutions won’t abate either. We need some pan-Canadian innovation and creativity now.

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neymede, where the original document was signed in 1215, was attended by Queen Elizabeth and other members of the Royal family -- Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Royal, Archbishop of Canterbury, US Attorney General, senior judges and members of the American Bar Association.

Magna Carta means The Great Charter. This document and its sister document Charter of the Forest set the tone for other constitutions in the future. King John saw the document as a practical solution to the political crisis he faced

Chef Dez on cooking

Corn on the Cob

A much loved side dish with summer meals is good old fashioned corn on the cob.

Farm fresh corn during the summer is very abundant and popular in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia where I live, but I know that there are many other areas also rich in this agricultural gold.

No matter where one resides in North America, it always seems to be available fresh during the summer.

Whole corn on the cob should either be eaten on the day of purchase or stored in the refrigerator, as the natural sugars convert to starch faster in the presence of warm temperatures.

Corn can be a very healthy part of a balanced diet as its dietary profile includes vitamin B1, folate, dietary fibre, vitamin C, phosphorus, and manganese. Everything however should be consumed in moderation, including the amount of butter and salt that is applied to the finished product.

Fresh cracked pepper is one of my favourite toppings (along with the butter and salt) and is a great way to add tons

of flavour. Let your creativity run wild in the kitchen and discover what else you can top your corn on the cob with. The Internet and local libraries are full of great recipe ideas.

If grilling your corn on the cob instead of boiling it, try it over lump charcoal - the taste difference is amazing. I simply pull off the husks and place the cobs directly on the grill, while rotating them occasionally until mostly all the kernels are slightly charred.

The uses for fresh corn on the cob do not stop with just cooking whole.

By standing the corn on end, carefully take a sharp knife and run it down the cob to remove the kernels. This will allow you to enjoy the fresh taste of corn in any recipe that calls for kernels of corn.

One tip to catch the kernels efficiently is to use an angel food cake pan. With the cake pan sitting securely on a damp towel on the counter, stand the point of the cob of corn on the inner tube of the pan coming up the centre.

This will help to keep the cob steady and the falling removed kernels will collect in the cake

pan.

Try this compound butter recipe for something different the next time you have corn on the cob. One our favourites.

Tequila Lime Chili Butter 1 cup salted butter, room temperature 2 tbsp chili powder 2 tbsp tequila 1 tbsp fresh lime juice 1 tsp finely chopped lime zest Extra salt and pepper, if desired 1.) Place all the ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer.

2.) Mix at medium speed, gradually increasing to high speed until fully combined, stopping halfway to scrape down the sides of the bowl.

3.) Store at room temperature for a few days, or longer in the refrigerator. Spread on hot cooked corn and sprinkle with additional salt and pepper if desired.

Makes approximately one cup of compound butter.

Send your food/cooking questions to dez@ chefdez.com or P.O. Box 2674, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6R4. Chef Dez is a Food Columnist, Culinary Instructor and Cookbook Author. Visit him at chefdez.com.

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in democracy -- even affecting our lives today.

At his 1941 inaugural address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said this: “The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history . . . It was written in Magna Carta.”

This year the Magna Carta turned 800. At a ceremony in Surrey, England, Prime Minister David Cameron said this document “heralded modern democracy.” inspiring other documents including the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The ceremony at Run-

THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK - 5 It is regarded at the dian laws, and indeed, foundation of democour constitution are racy in England and built on this foundation. as such has played a Our Bill of Rights lays significant role in, what out some of the basic was at one time, Engprinciples of the 800 land’s colonies. year old Magna Carta.

As such many Cana-

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The Magna Carta.

I remember learning about this document in Grade 7 Social Studies. At that time it meant nothing more than something I had to learn to pass. So I memorized the basics that was needed -- the date and the fact King John signed it to avoid a civil war.

In a way many of my classmates thought King John was a bit of a “wuss” giving in to demands by rebellious barons. He did avert a civil war for 10 weeks. But in reality it was a peace treaty and the Magna Carta has played a significant role

and most of the 63 clauses dealt with the specific grievances at that time. There were, however, some fundamental values buried deep in the document.

It established the principle that everybody, including the king, was subject to the law.

The famous 39th clause gave all free men the right to justice and a fair trial. Another key principle is Habeas Corpus which gives individuals freedom from unlawful detention without cause or evidence. It talked about women’s rights (a widow could not be forced to marry and give up her property) which was a major step in the women’s rights movement.

The companion document outlined universal rights, key rights and protections for the common man. It set clear limits to privatization and the importance of stewardship for shared resources.

You can see how these basic principles have echoed through the years and influenced the constitutions and bills of rights for many countries around the world. It is true that many of the clauses were repealed in the coming years but the framework is still there.

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(Approximately October 13, 2015 - March 19, 2016) Groups or individuals interested in leasing or managing the operations of the concession booth must submit proposals with monthly lease willing to pay to: Biggar and District Recreation Board Box 1360 Biggar, SK S0K 0M0 or recreationdirector@townofbiggar.com Deadline for proposals is August 21, 2015.

The Biggar Barracuda Swim Club would like to extend a huge thank you to our many sponsors of the Swim Saskatchewan Summer Swimming Provincials Swim Meet. Without the sponsorship and generosity shown by many businesses and people, the provincial swim meet would not have been possible.

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BRONZE SPONSORS Biggar Dental Clinic Biggar Insurance Services Biggar Super A Confederation Canadian Tire Home Hardware –Biggar Parrish & Heimbecker Special thank you to: BCS 2000 for the use of your photocopier to copy all of our programs and for the use of your facility for our lunches.

AGI Envirotank for the use of the generator and printing our sponsorship banner Confederation Canadian Tire for the use of the blue tents.

The Town of Biggar employees and the Biggar Aquatic Center lifeguards for all the hard work that they did to get the pool looking fantastic for the weekend!

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by Bob Mason

Pathfinder The following pun went out of style with button shoes but because this article is about “tracks”, Y.T. is going to repeat it anyway!

“Everyone has heard about the hunter who followed tracks into a hole in the mountains – and got run over by a train!”

Sob, sob groan, eh?

Mebbe we don’t do much “tracking” anymore, but not too many years ago a lot of our ancestors got much of their food that way!

Heck, when we were young (no wisecracks here, eh), we used to eat the odd cut of venison ourselves!

There were certainly no buffalo roaming around the lone prairies of Y.T.’s time (again, no wisecracks please!), but the grass-covered

grooves of their trails, were everywhere! The thousands of horizontal steps across the north slopes of the hills were evidence of how the bison grazed for centuries! When Y.T. was young he took a photograph of those trails, and that photo must be around here yet somewhere!

I clean forgot exactly what year it was (1932 or so!), but the whole countryside up across the river was interlaced by dozens of criss-crossing, well trodden, jackrabbit paths! We often cut out a small space on them, set our gopher traps in them, covered with tissue paper and a little snow, caught a few, stretched their skins and sold them for 25¢ a piece!

Big time operators,

eh?

We found a few weasel (ermine if you like!) tracks, lured and trapped them by using oil of anacide, and sold their pelts for a couple of dollars!

No wonder that the fur companies went out of business, eh!

One day, Oscar Gillette and Y.T. were tracking what we thought was a deer, when suddenly its tracks in the deep snow just disappeared! We searched all around and never found any until about 40 feet away they appeared again! We sure laughed when we realized that we had been following the tracks of a lazy weasel that had gotten tired of jumping through the deep snow and decided to burrow instead!

We never did get any deer that day!

It was during that same winter that Milt and Y.T., way back in the bush, came on a couple of “would be” nimrods brewing a cup of coffee.

“We know they are right around here,” says one of the guys enthusiastically. “Their fresh tracks just turned downwind and we know that they are down there somewhere!”

We never bothered to tell them that the deer

also knew that there were a couple of hunters on their trail, because only an animal with a low I.Q. could mistake the upwind aroma of that Tim Hortons brew!

Milt and Y.T. went upwind instead!

In these crowded times we don’t see many animal tracks in the snow very much, only the odd truck, car or snowmobile zooming past leaves any mark for us to see!

But last year, after a big storm, Yours Truly put on his old snowshoes and went downtown to get the mail! A short while later, as we sat on “Coffee Row” (They never miss anything on coffee row!), one of the guys was telling excitedly about some mysterious track he saw across the fair grounds!

Y.T. kind of laughed, just before he cried! The last time he wore snowshoes, ski-doos hadn’t been invented yet! Also, he is getting tired of hearing all those snide remarks!

What seems like not too many years ago, while hiking along the river with a troop of Boy Scouts (they are all grown up now!), all of a

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2015 sudden, in the wet sand about the kind of tracks near the water, we saw we humans leave.

“If your feet point some large seven-inch, almost human-like, straight ahead,” he said footprints – and a few knowingly, “that means that you walk a lot and smaller ones alongside.

“Look, look,” says if they point out a little one of the boys excit- that means that you edly. “Those tracks go don’t walk very much. right up into that creek This always goes on, and (Raspberry Creek). Let’s those who ride all the follow them and mebbe time have to go backward to get anywhere!” we’ll see them!”

He smiled a little as Young Boy Scout troops don’t have a leader for he puffed on his old pipe. nothing, so this grumpy, Mebbe it wasn’t much of miserable, spoil-sport a wisecrack, but it was stopped for a moment funny to him!

Mebbe we’d better before he said, “Let’s not!” – and their faces all leave this “footprint” fell a little, because here stuff to Robinson Crusoe was a chance to explore and Sherlock Holmes!

As we stumbled our some real nature!

“Those are the tracks way across Europe durof a big mother bear ing WWII, one time we and her cubs,” says their came on a 30-inch wide leader, “and the only safe tank track that covered way to visit them is in a both sides of the same road – a 68-ton Royal Sherman tank!”

The crest fallen boys Panther tank manufacall stared at their old tured in Germany and knobby-kneed leader made to kill people – and and asked, “Mr. Mason, yet there it sat, a symbol what is a Sherman of how much we fool ourselves into thinking that tank?”

These boys may not we are in charge!

The tracks that we have been very good wisecrackers, but we’ve leave behind show us got to admit that they where we have been.

Let’s not go there had the makings, eh!

We were just young again, eh? boys when an old native guy up north told us

Jubilee getting facelift . . . Hard to think about hockey or skating with the recent heat wave, but the Jubilee Stadium is receiving some needed upgrades.

Board are being repaired with new lexan advertising covers installed while some of the facilities bathrooms are getting an needed refit. Summer is here but the season is ‘round the corner. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

New Horizons Activities

by Janice Foley The sun was still shining for the barbecue fund raiser held July 31 with a great crowd arriving for lunch.

Thanks to all that supported our fund raiser.

Pharmasave presented an informative session on healthy nutrition

practices last week to an attentive crowd and brought door prizes!

The August activities calendar is posted.

Reminder that exercise classes happen every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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Potshots at Potholes

by Calvin Daniels

Recently I had the opportunity to drive Highway 22 from Killaly to Lemberg, and a couple of weeks earlier had covered the stretch from Highway 10 to Lemberg.

To say the asphalt surface was a patchwork affair would be an understatement, starting with the fact you have to dodge holes which have yet to be patched.

Now granted they have undertaken work to upgrade a couple of small stretches where flooding was obviously an issue, but those

repairs were clearly made just to keep the highway useable.

As for the rest of the highways the expectation of it ever being filled or upgraded is realistically not on the books until the year two-thousand-and-never.

The stretch of highway though is a great example of how the system has changed over the years, and what the impact has been on Prairie infrastructure.

Towns on the Prairies sprung up in the time of horses, built at intervals which allowed a horse

and wagon to make a trip to town from area farms in a day.

As we evolved to trucks, towns were too close together, and many disappeared through the years.

Those that remained generally has a grain elevator served by a railroad. They were then connected with pavement, much of it to standards aligned to carry much smaller grain and service trucks than we see today.

Then came the great rationalization of the grain collection system that which occurred well within recent memory.

It was a two-pronged development which saw the Prairie landscape forever changed.

On one hand rail companies were allowed to abandon miles and miles of branch line.

At the same time grain companies began closing small elevators in favour of more centralized, high throughput facilities.

From a purely busi-

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ness perspective, that of the rail and grain companies, the moves made sense as a way to improve efficiencies and boost profits.

But there was a cost to the Prairies.

Without a grain elevator or rail line more and more communities died, a process which continues in the sense many which have hung on have little prospect of a sustainable future.

Grain farmers traded in small trucks for semi units, and headed ever farther down the

blacktop to deliver their grain.

Many of the highways were not designed to handle the constant heavier loads. They punched full of holes, and the coffers of the province are not deep enough to affect the steady repairs, or upgrades now needed.

Small communities trying to attract new residents have to now sell them on a move which may mean an obstacle course of potholes every time they leave home.

It is not a selling point.

Communities and the province have been left trying to find the cash to fix a road system illsuited to the system thrust upon it by business rationalization of the rail and grain collection sectors.

It’s not something that can be changed now, but the next time you bounce over a hole on a highway, remember to thank the rail companies and grain handlers before pointing the finger solely at the province.

Saskatchewan calls for full repeal of COOL July 30, Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart reiterated the importance of the U.S. Senate’s outright repeal of Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) for beef and pork.

“Frankly, this issue has been dragging on for far too long,” Stewart said.

“The expense and loss for our cattle and hog producers has been significant. The U.S. has had more than enough time to do the right thing and fully repeal COOL for beef and pork. If COOL isn’t fully repealed for beef and pork, we will get to the point where retaliation is inevitable.

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While the costs for both Canada and the U.S. will be enormous, the U.S. must comply with their trade obligations.”

The World Trade Organization (WTO) originally ruled in 2012 that COOL was discriminatory to Canadian hog and beef exports. A final ruling by the WTO in May, 2015 reaffirmed that the U.S. COOL measure is inconsistent with international trade commitments.

On June 10, 2015 the U.S. House passed a bill that would allow for the outright repeal of COOL for beef and pork while avoiding retaliation.

However, a new Bill calling for voluntary labelling has stalled efforts to get the Bill passed in the Senate.

“The proposed solution of voluntary labelling as introduced by

Senator Stabenow will not solve the problem,” Stewart said. “This proposal is nothing more than COOL reworded and will continue to result in discrimination towards Canadian cattle and hogs.”

Saskatchewan will continue to stand alongside the federal government in its efforts to resolve COOL, including the implementation of $3 billion in annual retaliation if necessary.

“The federal government has been persistent in their efforts to get COOL repealed for beef and pork, and we thank them for their work,” Stewart added.

Since COOL was introduced in 2008, Canada’s industry has estimated damages to be in the billions due to price declines, lost sales and added costs.

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by Rod Pedersen, Voice of the Riders It was a popular joke making the rounds in the Wheat Province over the weekend: “At least the Roughriders won’t lose this week!”

It’s true, the Saskatchewan Roughriders won’t lose in the upcoming Week 8 of the 2015 CFL season because they have a bye and the scheduled break has temporarily paused this disastrous start to the campaign which has the club at the bottom of the league standings at 0-7.

The latest defeat came at the hands of the Toronto Argonauts Saturday night at Rogers Centre, 30-26, before a surprisingly enthusiastic crowd of 20,642 in the Argos’ home-opener.

But the game itself was an eyesore.

It was the second-

for your friendly neighbourhood Green and White. It’s the same annoying story being played over and over again on a weekly basis.

Going into Saturday’s game I chatted with the exasperated General Manager of the Roughriders, Brendan Taman, on CKRM’s pregame show and he pointed out the biggest culprit in all of their losses so far.

“Turnovers,” Taman blurted, taking less than a second to answer. “(Going into the Toronto game) we’re minus-9, we’re the worst in the league, and you don’t win games when that happens. A big part of that is we’re not taking the ball away. Everybody associates the turnover ratio with offense, but we’ve had two takeaways all year on defense which, we’ve all seen, is below normal and that’s an understatement.”

The CFL record for the least amount of defensive takeaways in a season is 25, set by the 2006 Edmonton Eskimos. The 2015 Saskatchewan Roughriders are on pace for only six.

“I don’t know what I

highest penalty total in a single CFL regular season game with a whopping 24 infractions being assessed to Saskatchewan and 15 more flags being thrown at Toronto.

Yuck.

Even more disturbing is the fact observers noted three Roughriders touchdowns were called back due to penalties, ultimately leading to another demoralizing defeat.

“Write it like the other (games) and you have the same story,” Riders coach Corey Chamblin said after the game.

“Tight loss. We did some good things but negative things hurt us. Every time we had big plays, penalties killed us.”

And that, perhaps, is the most maddeningly frustrating thing about this horrendous season

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But it can’t take a prolonged hit and everybody is aware of that.

All I know is I’m glad I’m not the one who has to find the answers.

Oh, and the Riders won’t lose this week.

(Rod Pedersen is the voice of the Roughriders on 620 CKRM Regina.

For daily Rider news, check out his blog at RodPedersen.com).

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That really sums it up,” Taman continued. “The penalties and tackling are part of it but I think the turnovers are huge.

If we don’t take the ball away, we’re going to have issues to win games.”

So the football club couldn’t wait to get to this bye week to reassess and chart the course for the final 11 games. A playoff spot, remarkably, is not yet lost despite the record. Corey Chamblin has gone from Coach of the Year to Coach For The Year, and each mounting loss has those wolves back howling outside his door.

Last week in this space I noted that losing would not be tolerated by the decision-makers of this franchise however that notion seems to have cooled. Chamblin’s been given a vote of confidence by his bosses and that appears to have set him at ease somewhat in the days since.

However that hasn’t stopped the brain trust from holding emergency meetings and seeing how best to manage this crisis. Former Roughrider President Jim Hopson is rumoured to have offered a helping hand, with his replacement Craig Reynolds treading water in the deep-end.

To quote singer Glenn Frey, the “Heat Is On.” “Oh no. It’s been clearly stated that we’re in the business to win games,” Taman concluded. “We all get that. We’ve tried to tinker with the lineup, getting young guys in to play, and getting a change. We have to change what we’re doing.

We started that schemewise and lineup-wise with the Toronto game.

That happens when you lose.”

All the gloom and doom is understandable

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Cards of Thanks

Bonnie L. Cannon (nĂŠe Hardman)

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January 21, 1962 - August 4, 2015 Bonnie was born in Biggar, SK. on January 21, 1962 to Vivian Scobie and passed away suddenly on August 4, 2015 in Saskatoon, SK. at the age of 53.

Bonnie was a great woman with an amazing personality and, as some would say, a twisted sense of humour. She enjoyed time spent with family the most. Bonnie received her education at Biggar completing her grade eleven. Throughout her life, she had several different jobs all involving waitressing and customer service, and one very important job, being a Mom. Bonnie was married to Tony Cannon on August 25, 2001 in Saskatoon, SK. She loved Tony more than life itself and they spent 14 happy years together.

Bonnie lives on in her husband Tony Cannon; daughters Stacie Whiteford and Terri-Lynn Hesselberg; son R.J. Hesselberg; step-daughter Lisa Cannon; step-sons Lee and Nick Cannon; and ten grandchildren Taiya, Kaleb, Liam, Luke, Gage, Sky, Jack, Trinity, Finn and Jaxon.

Bonnie was predeceased by her grandparents Arthur and Emma Evans; her dad Johnny Scobie; and her son Richard Hesselberg.

A Celebration of Life was held on Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the Zealandia Community Hall.

Donations in memory of Bonnie may be made to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan, #1 - 345 3rd Avenue South, Saskatoon, SK. S7K 1M6. To send online condolences please visit shanidarfuneralservices. com. Arrangements entrusted to Pierre A. Charpentier.

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

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For appointments…

1-855-651-3311

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

Thurs., CLOSED

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M & N REPAIR 701 - 4th Ave. E., Biggar Open Monday-Friday Mike Nahorney, Interprovincial Heavy Duty Journeyman Mechanic

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Burnt Orange Solutions 207 Main St., Biggar

Excellent Quality at a Reasonable Price!

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1-866-664-5227

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LG, Frigidaire, Shaw, Yamaha Audio Dealer; and Your authorized

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1st Ave. West, Biggar

306-948-2879, evenings 306-948-7207, daytime Ed Kolenosky

Your authorized

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2015

Perdue Fair Cattle Show 2015 We had a beautiful day with a high of 30.

We had 40 head and the 17 exhibitors enjoyed the show and the sunshine. Our judge was Jim Wright Sr. From Melfort. Assisting him in the ring was Kaylee Morris from Delisle.

Jackpot Heifer: Arch Holdings, Speers, Flick.

Reserve Heifer: Peters Simmental, Perdue, GF’s Sweet Addiction 1B. 4-H Beef Heifer: 1st – Cole Reid, Hafford, Punky Brewster; 2nd – Wyatt Millar, Grandora, Bar-A Hot-Like-Me; 3rd – Wylee Vermette, Outlook, Rafter V Magnum.

4-H Cow/Calf: 1st – Wyatt Millar, Bar-A Lucy; 2nd – Dayne Whelan, Grandora, LZYD Rock-it-Gal; 3rd – Keaton Haynes, Biggar, Haynes Atlanta 1C. Senior Showmanship and Grooming: 1st – Wyatt Millar.

Intermediate Showmanship and Grooming: 1st – Dayne Whelan; 2nd – Brynn Whelan; 3rd – Wyliee Vermette.

Junior Showmanship and Grooming: 1st – Cole Reid; 2nd – Hayes Vermette.

PeeWee Showmanship and Grooming: 1st – Gavin Wright; 1st – MacKenzie Wright; 1st – Jack Archdekin; 1st – Dallas McAvoy; 1st – Taylor Reid; 1st – Tate Vermette; 1st – Darby Werezak.

2015 British Female: 1st – Haynes Angus, Biggar, Haynes Atlanta 1C; 2nd – Bar-A Cattle Co, Grandora, Bar-A Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

2015 Continental Female: 1st – Sunny Valley Simmentals, Hanley, SVS Black Jenna 518C; 2nd – Bar-A Cattle Co., Grandora, Bar-A Noleta; 3rd – Peters Simmentals, Perdue, WPT Caught Ya Lookin 12C. 2015 Commercial Female: 1st – Hillbilly Cattle Co., Asquith, Jaded Look; 2nd – Arch Holdings, Speers, Tiger Lily; 3rd – McAvoy Charolais, Arelee, Petchahtah.

2014 Continental Female: 1st – Arch Holdings, Flick; 2nd – Peters Simmentals, GF’s Sweet Addiction 1B; 3rd – Cole Reid, Punky Brewster.

Cow/Calf British: 1st – Haynes Angus, KH Insight 5C; 2nd – Haynes Angus, Haynes Atlanta 1C. Cow/Claf Continental: 1st – Bar-A Cattle Co., Bar-A Lucy; 2nd – Bar-A Cattle Co., Bar-A Noleta; 3rd – Peters Simmentals, WPT Candy Crush 16C.

Grand Champion British Female: Haynes Angus, KH Insight 5C. Grand Champion Continental Female: Bar-A Cattle Co., Bar-A Lucy.

Overall Supreme Female: Bar-A Battle Co., Bar-A Lucy.

2015 Commercial Steer: 1st – Arch Holdings, Hank; 2nd – Hillbilly Cattle Co., Bubba

Jay; 3rd – Arch Holdings, Haymaker.

2015 British Bull: 1st – Haynes Angus, KH Insight 5C. 2015 Continental Bull: 1st – Sunny Valley Simmentals, SVS Amarillo 535C; 2nd – Sunny Valley Simmentals, SVS Matrix 530C; 3rd – Arch Holdings, Slash.

Grand Champion Brit-

ish Bull: Haynes Angus, KH Insight 5C. Grand Champion Continental Bull: Sunny Valley Simmentals, SVS Amarillo 535C. Overall Supreme Bull: Sunny Valley Simmentals, SVS Amarillo 535C. Herdsman Award: Rafter V Ranch, Vermettes.

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The Sky This Month - August 2015

by Gary Boyle, The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Gliding along the Teapot’s steam

Undoubtedly the mega topic in the media and water cooler these days are the remarkable images beamed back from Pluto.

The mission started on January 19, 2006 with the launch of the New Horizon spacecraft. Weighing 478 kilograms and about the size of a baby grand piano, the stage was set for its nine and a half year flight.

At a breakneck speed of 50,000 kph, it passed our moon in only nine hours compared to the Apollo days of a four day flight. Thirteen months later it passed Jupiter and imaged the moon Io with a volcano in action.

What was then the then ninth planet from the Sun was quickly demoted by the International Astronomical Union in a short seven months after lift-off to dwarf planet status.

But no matter what category it falls in, its mission was a complete success. Although we have only seen a few images, the complete collection of data is slowly being sent back to Earth over the next nine months. Now New Horizons is now

setting its sights on the Kuiper Belt.

Who knows what mysteries will be revealed from Pluto and the Belt, populated by asteroids and short period comets.

The adventure has just begun.

As our summer sky darkens after sunset, cast your eyes to the southern horizon.

The famous eight stars that make up the imaginary Teapot should be visible as it sits a few degrees about the horizon. These distant suns comprise a larger asterism of Sagittarius the Archer.

To thoroughly enjoy the majesty of the night, check out this area from the countryside away from the dome of city light and any free standing light sources. Also plan to be out when the moon will be absent as its glow will interfere.

To accent the Teapot, look west of the spout.

What appears as steam rising from the pot is actually the glow of billions of stars too far to be seen individually. Our Milky Way Galaxy contains an estimated two hundred billion suns.

A good number of bright Messier objects can be found in Sagittarius and teamed up with the back drop of the Milky Way’s

glow (Teapot’s steam).

Let’s begin with the spout of the teapot or the tip of the mythological arrow.

The star is called Alnasl which comes from the Arabic meaning “the point”.

It is a third magnitude orangey spectra class K1 giant and resides 96 light years from us. Alnasl’s radius is 12 times that of our Sun and 64 times as luminous. In fact if you take the distance between Kaus Media and Alnasl (three and a half degrees) and continue west by that same distance from the ‘point’ star, you are now looking at the galactic centre.

From Alnasl move six degrees north to M8. AKA the Lagoon Nebula is a vast star forming region located 4,100 light years away.

This stellar nursery can be seen naked eye from dark regions so locating it should not be an issue.

Even simple binoculars hold a treat to the eye.

Along with its dusty nebulous regions we see tiny inky black Bok globules, which are pockets of dense gas and dust that sometimes condense to form stars.

East of this nebulous region will cannot help but notice NGC 6530, a cluster of very bright suns some 5,200 light

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2015 years away. At an estimated age of only 2.3 million years, these juvenile suns are young on the cosmic scale.

A bit north and west of M8 (one and a third degrees) is M20. The Trifid Nebula located 5,200 light years away is also a star forming area. It is however more than that.

The Trifid contains an open cluster, blue reflection nebula and dark nebula, dividing the target into three segments.

Continuing up the starry glow, you will come across the small open cluster M21 located 4,250 light years and only holds about 50 stars. Keeping moving up until you come to a duo of open clusters namely NGC 6568 and NGC 6583. Nudging the scope another degree and a half north east and you will have the planetary nebula NGC 6578 in your sights, well barely as this is the ghostly remains of a once shining sun only measure 8.5 arc seconds across.

We now end off the tour with two classic and star party favourites. First is M17 or commonly

referred as the Omega Nebula and is found four and a half degrees north of NGC 6578. Other names given to M17 are the Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula or the Horseshoe Nebula.

Which ever way you like to call it, this gem of an object is an estimated 6,000 light years away from us and is at the limit of naked eye visibility or magnitude 6.

This is a stellar nursery where stars are condensing gas and dust to grow in size. There is even an open cluster of star embedded in this cloud of gas and dust. It appears to contain some 30 suns.

The nebula itself contains hundreds of stars with hundreds more in the development stage.

And last but not least is the grand Eagle Nebula.

Moving up two and a half degrees from the Omega, the Eagle is an awesome sight in the eyepiece. Although we are now moving in Serpens, M16 is located about 7,000 light years away and is and same visibility as M17. The Hubble Space Telescope

first imaged this object in 1995 and centred on what was called the Pillars of Creation.

Considered as one of the best meteors of the year, the Perseids peaked on the night of August 12/13. About 100 meteors per hour burned up in the upper atmosphere at about 74 kilometres per second or a three second travel time between Ottawa and Montreal.

With new moon posted for August 14, the glow of the moon was not a burden this year.

As for the planets, Saturn is well placed for observing but is now setting after midnight local time on the first of the month and 10:30 on the 31st. Venus is in inferior conjunction on August 15 and too close and dangerous to been seen in the solar glare for most of the month. Do not take a chance in damaging your eyesight but it can be safely seen low in the east during the last week of August.

Until next month, clear skies everyone.

The “Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula. (Photo for The Independent by NASA)

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