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Fall walk for Terry . . . Biggar Central School 2000 students hit the Sandra Schmirler Olympic Gold Park walking paths, Friday, showing their support for the annual Terry Fox Foundation. Students were able to enjoy a beautiful day as the leaves change colour, and lend their support to a worthy cause.

(Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

RCMP investigating Wilkie B&E

Just gut it out and get through . . . Biggar Blazer ball carrier, Tanner Sawrenko pushes through the visiting Macklin Sabre defence, Friday at the Rec Complex. Blazers had a strong showing, but couldn’t

finish, falling to the visitors, 28-15. More pictures this Friday at biggarindependent.ca. (Independent Photo

Wilkie RCMP Detachment responded to complaint of a Break and Enter to a shop and cargo trailer several kilometres north of Wilkie on Highway 29, September 17.

Information was received that around the time of the incident there were two males observed on Highway 29 near the location of the break in. One male was on foot and the other male was on a bicycle. The RCMP are seeking further information that may assist in identifying these individuals that were reportedly seen in the area.

Persons with information about crimes being committed in the Unity/ Wilkie/Macklin areas are urged to call the Unity

RCMP detachment at (306) 228-6300; The Wilkie RCMP detachment (306) 843-3480; or the Macklin RCMP detachment at (306) 753-2171. If you wish to remain anonymous, you may also call Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, or *8477 on the SaskTel Mobility Network. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $2,000.00 for information which leads to the arrest of person(s) responsible for any serious crime. Crime Stoppers is anonymous and does not subscribe to call display, nor are your calls traced or recorded.

You can also submit a tip online at saskcrimestoppers.com.

by Kevin Brautigam)

Biggar in surplus moisture conditions, according to Ag Report Rain slowed harvest in most areas of the province last week, and for Biggar area farmers, that means a surplus of moisture.

Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report for the September 6 to 12 period rates Biggar as 22 per cent of cropland in an excess moisture state.

Rosetown and Kindersley areas are also at 22 per cent.

The most progress for harvesting was made in parts of the west-central and northeastern regions, where spotty rain showers

allowed producers to continue working in the field for a day or two. Thirtyeight per cent of the crop has been combined and 38 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report for the September 6 to 12 period.

The five year (2011-2015) average for this time of year is 44 per cent combined.

Regionally, harvest is furthest advanced in the southeast, where producers have 52 per cent of

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the crop in the bin. Fortyseven per cent of the crop is combined in the southwest, 29 per cent in the east-central region, 35 per cent in the west-central region, 33 per cent in the northeast and 17 per cent in the northwest.

Ninety-seven per cent of winter wheat, 89 per cent of field peas, 72 per cent of lentils, 30 per cent of durum, 29 per cent of spring wheat and 25 per cent of canola have been combined.

Durum grades are being reported as two per cent

1 CWAD, 17 per cent 2 CWAD, 30 per cent 3 CWAD and 51 per cent 4 and 5 CWAD. Pea grades are 25 per cent 1 CAN, 59 per cent 2 CAN, 15 per cent 3 CAN and one per cent Sample grade. Lentil grades are four per cent 1 CAN, 42 per cent 2 CAN, 43 per cent 3 CAN and 11 per cent Sample grade.

Precipitation ranged from nil to 43 millimetres in the Frobisher area. The Maryfield area reported receiving 36 millimetres of rain, Eyebrow 32 millimetres, Foam Lake 42

millimetres, Nether Hill 26 millimetres and Porcupine Plain 36 millimetres.

Provincially, cropland topsoil moisture is rated as 14 per cent surplus, 84 per cent adequate and two per cent short. In areas around Porcupine Plain, Tisdale and Arborfield, 62 per cent of cropland acres are reported to have surplus moisture. As mentioned, Biggar, Rosetown and Kindersley are at 22 per cent of cropland acres have surplus moisture.

Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as

eight per cent surplus, 86 per cent adequate and six per cent short.

Frost was reported in some areas in the northwest, with temperatures dipping to -2C; however very little crop damage is expected as the majority of crops are mature. Wet harvest weather continues to cause downgrading in crops. Bleaching, sprouting, fusarium and earth tag are causing grade loss.

Producers are busy harvesting and seeding winter wheat.

Armed suspects sought by RCMP ing half of their faces. One suspect was described as having a long dark ponytail and a second suspect was described as having orange curly hair.

Rosetown, Kindersley, Eston, Kerrobert, Unity, Biggar, Swift Current Rural and North Battleford Rural RCMP Detachments as well as Swift Current PDS and volunteers flying in planes responded to the call in the search for the suspects and suspect vehicle.

All schools in the area were placed on a hold and secure for precautionary measures but as of 3 p.m., September 19, has been lifted.

The investigation is ongoing and the RCMP asks that anyone with any information should call their local RCMP DetachWhole lot of helping hands for Perdue rink . . . The Perdue Community Agricul- ment. If you see the tural Project (PCAP) hit the field, September 14, for their harvest day, all raising cash suspects, you can also for their rink rebuild project. Many farmers took time off from their busy harvest for call 911. the cause, using their machinery for the lentil crop: Jeff Downey and Vern FeatherRCMP are urging the stone, Matthew and Nick Scarf, Michael Gray and Trent McMahon, plus Pam and Kelly public to not approach McMahon donated bin space for the crop. (Photo for The Independent by Julie Lemon) the three suspects.

Biggar RCMP are assisting in the search for three masked suspects who approached a man on a grid road near Fiske, September 19.

Rosetown RCMP received a 911 call at approximately 11:40 a.m.,

Monday, of three armed and masked men who approached the victim who was driving on a grid road south of Highway 7.

The three suspects approached the victim on foot with what was described as three hand-

guns. The victim immediately left the scene in their vehicle but was able to witness the suspects get into an older style black SUV. The three suspects have been described as unknown persons each wearing balaclavas cover-

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Prairie Notes began exercising their voices, September 14, readying for a season of heavenly singing. Like the first day of school, members reacquainted themselves with fellow musicians, new members, and the works they would be performing. By the sounds of emanating from the practice, it should be a very entertaining season.

(Independent Photos by Kevin Brautigam)

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Want to reduce dubious expenses? Post the receipts online

by Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation Last week, news broke that federal Health Minister Jane Philpott had spent $1,700 on a high-end car service for a single day of driving her around the Toronto area. Her office then revealed there were more in the same vein: a $2,000 bill for a car on the day the minister spoke at a July meeting in Niagara Falls; $3,800 for 20 trips ($190 each) to Toronto’s Pearson Airport before flying to Ottawa for ministerial business.

Worse still, Philpott knew the owner of the limousine company was a Liberal supporter who had volunteered on her election campaign. Within days, she had admitted this was unacceptable and agreed to repay taxpayers for the cost.

Minister Philpott is not the first politician to get caught soaking taxpayers, and she won’t be the last. She’s only the latest in what sometimes feels like a relentless current of wasted money. Senator Mike Duffy – who billed Canadians for the cost of his personal trainer, among many other dubious expenses – is one of the more infamous examples. And who could forget former Conservative cabinet minister Bev Oda – who dinged taxpayers for pricey limousine rides and hotel stays while on business in London, as well as her $16 orange juice.

(Oda later repaid taxpayers $3,000).

While Mike Duffy remains defiant as he returns to the Senate and returns to billing Canadian taxpayers, at least both Oda and Philpott conceded their mistakes after getting caught. And it’s certainly a good thing that a politician can at least admit when they’ve done something wrong.

The problem, of course, is that the wrongdoing needs to be exposed first. And under the current system of expense disclosure – which requires media outlets and watchdogs like the Canadian Taxpayers Federation to file endless Access to Information requests to get numbers and details – there’s little incentive for politicians to worry about getting caught. Sure, there’s always a small chance some enterprising reporter will stumble upon something scandalous. But more often than not, dubious spending will remain hidden, buried in an ocean of information that no one will ever ask to see.

Under the current system, which in some cases only requires aggregated figures or vague categories of disclosure, Canadians are left in the dark about most of the details. And the details matter: the reason Minister Philpott’s $1,700 limo bill is outrageous is because it’s for a single day; the same goes for Minister Oda’s $16 for a single orange juice. If these specific details had not been uncovered, and instead rolled into a month or year’s worth of ground transportation or meal expenses, no one

may ever have noticed in the first place.

It’s time we force Senators, Members of Parliament and their staff to pay more attention to their expenses before they incur them by requiring physical expense receipts to be proactively scanned and posted online.

Since politicians must already provide physical or scanned receipts to claim reimbursement, there’s little extra administrative work to do. It’s just a matter of posting them online. Nor is it uncharted administrative territory: it’s already done in the City of Toronto and in Alberta.

Such a policy would force politicians and their staff to look at every prospective expense and ask themselves: is this a reasonable expense? Does it pass the “smell test”?

If the answer to either of these questions is “no”, you can bet they will think twice about incurring the expense.

It is probably impossible to design a system that will completely eliminate cavalier expenses by politicians. But we can certainly tilt the odds in taxpayers’ favour by making sure politicians know we’re all watching them closely.

Reality of education spending in Saskatchewan

by Deani Van Pelt, Director, Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education, Fraser Institute and Jason Clemens, Executive Vice President, Fraser Institute School’s back in session, and parents may hear about “cuts” in education funding, the elimination of an education assistant, the state of class sizes, or perhaps even the closing of a school. So it’s an opportune time to understand the reality of education spending in Saskatchewan versus the convenient rhetoric.

It’s easy for administrators, politicians, and other apologists for public schools to blame the observed problems on a lack of funding. It allows education leaders to point the finger at someone else. The reality, however, is that the public school system in Saskatchewan has received large increases in funding over the last decade, which implies that the problems in the education system relate to organization and management rather than funding.

First, some facts about education spending on public schools in Saskatchewan. According to data from Statistics Canada, total spending on public school education in Saskatchewan has grown from about $1.5 billion in 2004-05 to $2.5 billion 201314, the most recent year of available data. That’s an increase of almost $1.0 billion in education spending

on public schools in just a decade.

(Unlike Saskatchewan’s provincial budget, we’ve added pension and capital spending into overall education spending totals.)

Furthermore, because it ignores enrolments, that $1.0 billion increase underestimates the real increase in education spending in the province. Statistics Canada data indicate that over the same 10-year period, enrolment in public schools in Saskatchewan declined 1.5 per cent, from roughly 176,000 students to about 173,000 students.

Accounting for the higher spending levels and lower number of students means that the per student level of spending in public schools increased 39.0 per cent between 2004-05 and 2013-14. (And this data accounts for the effects of inflation). Specifically, per student spending in public schools in Saskatchewan increased from $10,476 in 2004-05 to $14,562 in 2013-14.

No other province spends as much per student, and no other province experienced a percentage increase as high as Saskatchewan over that period. Simply put, Saskatchewan is spending considerably more money now, on a per student basis, on public schools than it did a decade ago.

This is not to say that individual schools, school districts, and even

the province as a whole are not struggling with K-12 education.

Indeed, many parents (including the two authors of this article) are acutely aware of resource challenges at our local schools.

But the explanation for these individual resource challenges cannot be a lack of money. And it certainly can’t be from a cut in education spending, which as noted above, has actually been increased dramatically over the last decade.

Rather, for an explanation for resource challenges in Saskatchewan’s public schools, look to how the system is organized and managed. Public schools suffer from the same incentive and organizational problems as any other government agency or department, which leads to the misallocation and wasting of resources.

Archaic regulations, union monopoly (which helps create misaligned incentives for both bureaucrats and educators), lack of responsiveness to parental demands, and centralized, prescriptive curriculum are just a few of the many handcuffs holding back Saskatchewan’s public school systems. Consequently, the problems in Saskatchewan public education require a fundamental restructuring rather than simple complaints about a lack of resources.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The life of a zookeeper needs. But, you really I always wanted to be don’t realize the extent a zookeeper when I was until you walk growinto their home. ing up, For one thing and the ceilings I’ve are very high. wound Which, again up a is obvious, but zoojust one detail keeper! that you don’t I’ve compute until been you are in the workroom. ing Feeding them with was an experithe Los ence.

They eat Angethe leaves using les Zoo their tongue for 45 -- a very long years!

Peggy Hasein tongue.

I’m the They luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can’t ask for better than two things you love the seemed most.

Betty White quite comfortable with When we go to the zoo us humans. we see the animals all Not in the cute and cuddly (well, least leery. some of them anyway).

A zookeeper has But we never really see many responsibilities. what happens behind the Feeding, maintaining scenes. and cleaning the aniA couple of years ago mals, preparing their I was on a tour at the diets, observing their Calgary Zoo and one of behaviour, keeping the attractions was acturecords, making sure ally feeding the giraffes. their environment is safe It was sort of an eye and keeping the exhibit opener. First, you know they have long necks and area in shape.

Just imagine looking obviously have special

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after some 18,000 wild animals as is the case in some of the larger zoos.

Take for example, the simple task of weighing the animals. Penguins will hop one and off scales and have a visit with you as they are sociable. Also, they are not dangerous. But, how about having to weigh the lion. Different story.

Cleaning is another matter. You have to be prepared for all kinds of situations and make no mistake it will take a very special person to

like this kind of job. It’s not only the large animals but just think of it, you will also be in charge of reptiles -- specifically snakes.

After all, their cages need

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to be scrubbed down as well. Keep this in mind, an elephant can eat over 330 pounds of food a day and what goes in must come out, about 150 lbs. of manure per day per animal.

Feeding the animals is no easy chore either.

Bales of hay can weigh over 100 pounds and zookeepers move them on their own. They cut thick branches off trees and prepare various formulas for each species.

The animals need to be fed no matter what the weather so sometimes it could be 100 degrees in full sun, or it could be raining or freezing.

Zookeepers are babysitters. But, most love their jobs, despite all the negatives. One zookeeper said, “There’s nothing better than watching the animals enjoy themselves as they investigate -and sometimes rip apart -- what’s new in their environment. This part of the job is very rewarding.”

A very cool job for the right person.

New Horizons Activities With the coming of September, New Horizons starts gearing up its activities.

The sewing circle is once again occupying the lounge on Monday after-

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Come October, carpet bowling, shuffleboard, Wednesday evening kai-

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The End and the Beginning -- Sixteen Lost Years After Barry Broadfoot wrote the book Ten Lost Years about the Great Depression 1929-1939, he wrote another book entitled The War Year 1939-1945.

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editor (Hi Kevin) and obviously not a high class mathematician, he didn’t add them up for us (10+6=16) resulting in the above somewhat confused title.

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1939 marked the end of those Ten Lost Years (The Great Depression) but the grain was hardly in the bin when World War II was declared.

As he writes, all this stuff may be history now (in 2016) but long ago his history teacher told him that “history repeats itself� and being noted for his pessimism, maybe that be why he mentions it now.

At the urging of their three growing sons, who had weathered the Dirty Thirties with them (and finally after 10 years a good crop) the folks bought a new car and we took off to visit our relations up north. When we got there, we drove into one of their fields where a threshing crew was working around a dusty old separator.

When Uncle Will saw us, he jumped right down from the old machine and the whole crew came over to greet us.

It was late on Saturday afternoon and Uncle Will yelled at the guys to shut down until Monday and everyone piled into our new car and empty hayracks, as we headed toward their old

were we wouldn’t print log house. We all knew, them. for a few There minutes must have that the been hun“good� dreds of times periods like were with this in the us again. history of Was it our civilizaever good tions but for us to compared see our to growing relations food the again and glory of war know seems to be that those quoted far Ten Lost more often: Years We would hadn’t not care to broken Bob Mason die in that the family man’s comspirit that pany, had held us all together Who fears our company so long. But when we to die with us. hugged our Aunt there And how can man die were tears in her eyes. better than in facing “Will,� she said as fearful odds she hugged her husThere is but to do and band. “The radio just die. announced that Canada For he who sheds his has declared war again.� blood with me today We all looked at each Will be my brother -- be other as we quietly went he ere so vile.� into the house and sat Meanwhile, I asked our down. We all knew what neighbour the other day that announcement how his crop was turning meant -- of the seven out, and he said, “So. So�

Mason boys present that So much for quotes. day, five of us would end Good times and prosup in the forces. perity come and with “Here we go again!� them some kind of Many years later, unrest that eventually someone tacked a large makes society turn on photo on the wall that itself.

The Independent has And start beating been kind enough to its breast. Why? And shrink and print below. through the thousands of Bill, the family years we still don’t know mechanic gearing up the answer. Why again? the old “Holt� combine Years ago, Y.T. read to take off some of that somewhere that “there 1939 crop.

Bill didn’t know it then, will always be wars and rumour of wars�. can it but for a few years he be true that we are going would run that whole in the wrong direction. I outfit himself. dunno.

Photos of what hapYours Truly almost pened next are not availsounds like he knew able, and even if they

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what to do. Sorry. He doesn’t.

A young fellow and I sat up one evening trying to solve this same question, we talked for hours and appreciated it from every human angle. Finally we just shook hands and went to bed.

If I remember right (and Y.T. isn’t noted for remembering things right). All this stuff has happened before. About the time that Joseph’s Seven Fat Cows were gorging themselves on Nile grass, a fellow named Samson hauled off and slew a thousand Philistines with a jawbone.

Methods of warfare and killing people may have changed since Samson’s time but the morals and lessons sure haven’t.

Surely, after all these years, the Biblical lessons of lean cow and jawbones should have been learned. But no.

It really was Sixteen Lost Years. Right after the Depression man started slaying his fellow man again, newer and better killing methods were used, and we didn’t learn anything.

It seemed to Y.T. that we hadn’t learned anything. He also knows that he was part of the problem as he stood by that old threshing machine in 1939.

Another quote: not too well remembered.

Old men forget, and all will be forgot But he’ll remember with advantages What deeds were don that day We few, we happy few We band of brothers.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Potash merger an eventual business evolution The idea of mergers has efficiencies in providing always been one that products and services are sends shudders through realized which in turn is whatever how a better sector overall botthe busitom line is nesses are attained. involved That said in. in the case of That is agriculture, with at and many least some other sectors good reaI am sure, son too. the savings Mergers are not genby nature erally passed reduce on to the competiconsumer tion. (farmer).

If two Mergers elevator Calvin Daniels create better combottom lines panies for investors merge, it means one less first and foremost. option for farmers to sell So it’s not a huge surtoo. prise when a report That is the same crossed the desk noting regardless of what sector Terry Boehm, chair of the merger is in. the Seed and Trade ComPart of the reason mittee of the National mergers take place is to Farmers Union, and past eliminate at least some president of that group, of the competition. It said the suggested mergis why big fish eat little er of Agrium and Potash fish.

Corp could have adverse Mergers also mean a impacts on Canadian shuffling of the deck in farmers. terms of services and In an e-mail from the local jobs.

NFU itself Boehm is When companies come quoted from an intertogether they move to view with CBC’s Peter consolidate, and that Armstrong, host of CBC almost always means News Network’s On The cutting out redundanMoney, saying “Our cies in service. To do less experience with mergers, would be folly, since it is whether it be in herbithrough such actions the

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cide manufacturers, seed companies, et cetera, has always led to higher costs to the farmer as we have very little power to negotiate as individual farmers, or even as small collectives . . . with these behemoths that are being formed.�

There is at least some rationale for the suggestion to be sure.

But farm groups, even one as ‘small farm-oriented’ as the NFU, must be careful in criticisms of mergers.

Few sectors have seen the steady, decades-long, trend of ever larger farm operations.

The bigger fishes gobbling up the smaller ones began sometime in the period book-ended by the two great wars, and has been continuing unabated to this day.

The multi-thousand acre farms today are a far cry from the quarter section homesteads which brought farmers to the Canadian Prairies in the first place.

Farmers have merged, absorbed, bought out, and otherwise taken over their neighbours’ farms for decades on end. They have done so in the name of creating efficiencies which are supposed to improve their bottom lines. Producers, many of

Share the Road this harvest season Fall is upon us and harvest is underway. People travelling Saskatchewan roads are reminded to

be patient and watch for farm equipment so their trips are safe this season. “Agriculture is the backbone of the provincial economy and we want to ensure that families hard at work this harvest season get home safely,� Highways and Infrastructure Minister David Marit said. “Please remain patient and

watch for slow-moving or oversized farm equipment to avoid collisions.�

Farmers can avoid delays by checking for highway construction on the Highway Hotline.

If you have questions or need technical advice about whether your farm equipment is too heavy for a certain road or you are not clear about what safety measures are required while moving machinery, ask someone.

New highway construction scheduled to begin this week includes work on Highway 2 north of Wakaw, Highway 15 near

Semans and Highway 35 near Elfros. Motorists can expect minor traffic disruptions and delays.

Bridge work on the eastbound lane of Highway 1 over the CPR near Belle Plain has wrapped up.

More than 40 highway projects are ongoing across Saskatchewan that will improve the provincial transportation system. To stay safe and protect those working on our highways, people are reminded to slow to 60 km/h and obey all construction zone signage.

The Government of Saskatchewan has invested $6.3 billion in transportation infrastructure since 2008, improving more than 11,000 kilometres of provincial roads.

them at least, equate bigger with better in terms of what they can achieve in terms of making a return in investment and in the process a living for themselves.

It’s a motivation not so far removed from the

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ideas behind a potash merger, only those owners are shareholders, and the scale of dollars is much larger.

Whether it’s two potash companies becoming one, or one farmer absorbing another, the

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process is undertaken to generate efficiencies and better returns for the owners. That is really something central to the idea of business and farming is no more, and no less, than just another business sector.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Lord Asquith School news Principal’s Message

by Leanne Gruending Welcome back to a new school year. September is always such an exciting month with new arrivals, new hopes and an excitement felt by both students and staff.

As you may have noticed, we have had a few changes on staff since my June message. Mrs. Walker has decided to retire and will definitely be missed. Ms. Goran had kindly risen to the challenge and

offered to teach Grade 4 this year. With Ms. Goran leaving Kindergarten, it left an opening for a well known face around Lord Asquith School -- Ms. Neumeyer.

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Along with some staffing changes, the school day also looks a little different this year. LAS has decided to have a Reading Break from Kindergarten to Grade 12 from 1:45 to 2:05 p.m. During this time students and staff take a break from their regular day to read virtually any piece of text they have an interest in.

So, you might ask, “Why is LAS doing this?

What’s the benefit.”

The answer to that is as simple as you think -- literacy is important to us. Choice in regular reading encourages a like (and if we’re really lucky -- a love) of reading.

Readers are much more likely to be successful in school. We want all of our kiddos to have every possibility we can afford them, and this seems like a fantastic opportunity.

You are also more than welcome to come and join us during this time. The elementary teachers would love to have a few helping hands with our emergent readers, and the Middle Years/High School students would really enjoy seeing community members come together through reading.

I know there have been many questions around a recent provincially directed changes in School Fire Safety Guidelines. As soon as we have more information and have some solutions for our school, I

will be sending another note home. However, the provincial guidelines have made it very clear that microwaves are not to be used in classrooms or hallways.

Although we are looking for solutions around designating “lunchrooms” the microwaves cold be used in, students will inevitably have less access to microwaves.

Due to our current electrical capacity, we can likely only use two

microwaves in the designated elementary lunchroom and likely two microwaves in the designated Middle Years/High School lunch room.

This means long line up for students.

We would ask that students are sent with meals that do not need to be warmed up whenever possible. If students do not need to warm up their lunch, they will likely be waiting in line for a portion of their

lunch.

We are incredibly sorry for this inconvenience, but these are provincially mandates safety guidelines that we have no control over. If you have any questions, please contact me at the school.

LAS is hosting a Meet the Staff barbecue and informative night on Oct. 4. There will be time for meeting teachers, listening to information on PowerSchool for Parents, Making Math Make Sense, VTRA (hopefully our RCMP liaison will be present to answer questions.)

I really hope to see you there.

Extracurricular The sporting world at LAS is underway.

Our Junior and Senior volleyball teams are gearing up for the season.

The Senior Boys are hosting a tournament on Sept. 23 and 24, so come on and check out the action in the gym.

Cross-country running is in full swing as well.

You may have seen our students running around the community in preparation for the upcoming cross-country meet.

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Integra Tire comes up big for Kidsport . . . Biggar Integra Tire owner Chris Hooper hands over a cheque from the fund raising efforts to Biggar Kidsport’s Erin Poitras. The money - $594 - was raised at their annual Show and Shine event, September 10, and will go a long way to helping the local charity that gets all kids involved in sports. Good job, Integra! (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Tiger’s return a boost for pro golf

Blazers fall to Sables . . . Biggar Blazer QB Brock Thomson looks for a receiver, Friday versus the visiting Macklin Sabres. The Blazers were ahead at the

half 15-12, but were kept off the scoreboard in the final two quarters, falling 28-15. (Independent Photo by

The season-long race for the FedEx Cup has wrapped up and the Ryder Cup, a golf exhibition that creates more pressure for the players than any other event they play, is coming up this week, yet the biggest golf story of the day is about a player ranked No. 726 in the world who hasn’t teed it up in the past 13 months.

Tiger Woods - the man who moves the needle, the major media like to say - announced in early September he was returning to competition, scheduling three events over a three-month period to finish off the 2016

calendar year. Suddenly the pro game was worth watching again for more than the most dedicated of fans.

The last time anyone saw Woods in competition, he was finishing in the top 10 at the Wyndham championship in August, 2015. He then announced he was shutting things down, underwent a couple of back surgeries and faced loud whispers that he was finished. Over the hill after turning 40 last December. He had the ‘chipyips’ for a good portion of 2015. He shot 85, a Penton continued on page 10

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The road to provincials begins

Back row - left to right, Steven Redlick, Benson Garchinski, Ashton Larochelle, Nicholas Lovenuk, Josh Hawkins, Cole Whitford, Rick Garchinski (coach); front row - Anne Cote (coach), Jesse Garchinski, Nathan Hawkins, Landen Boisvert, Junel Villaneuva, DJ Ferre, Griffin Lehnert. (Missing: Ulric Massie, Joel Hanson).

Biggar Senior Blazers Ashton Larochelle, left, and Jesse Garchinski go for the block, Friday during their home opener. Blazers came away with Silver in their home tourney. More pictures this Friday at biggarindependent.ca. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

BCS2000 Senior Boys Volleyball team began their season journey this past weekend hosting their annual two-day tournament.

Visiting teams from Wilkie, Cut Knife, Unity, Kindersley, and John Paul II from North Battleford, filled out the sixteam round robin.

The boys first game was an afternoon start against Wilkie in front of a full gym of BCS2000 students and staff and St. Gabriel Grade 8/9s. The

hosts didn’t disappoint winning the game 25-23 and 25-14.

The 15 game round robin ended late Saturday afternoon with the Blazers and Cut Knife having an equal win/ loss record of 8/2. In the finals, Biggar took the first set 25-20; Cut Knife battled back in the second set thanks to strong hitting, winning 25-12.

The third set was a backand-forth contest that ended with a victory for

the visiting team with a two-point victory 16-14.

It was a good weekend of volleyball and the boys were pleased with the number of fans that came to support them.

Their next action will be September 23 and 24 at the 24-team Mega Volley tournament in Maidstone.

Mark your calendars -the Blazers will be hosting the 2016 Provincial 4-A Championship on November 25 and 26.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Tiger’s return a boost for pro golf Penton continued from of Player of the Year this page 9 season - has given the sport a Big 4. career worst, at the When Woods was in his 2015 Memorial. What prime, there was a Big 1 was once talk about posand then sibly overa bunch taking Jack of other Nicklaus for guys. the most At his major titles age and (Big Jack state of has 18, four health, a more than return to Woods) has Woods now been being the reduced to Big 1 is talk about unlikely, whether but milWoods lions might make of fans the cut at around the 2016the 17 season world opener, the Bruce Penton would Safeway love to Open, in see him back in the mix.

Napa, California in midPerhaps a Big 5?

October (he has also • NBC IndyCar commenscheduled a tourney in Turkey in November and tator Paul Tracy, not impressed with Andretti his own tournament, Autosport driver Marco the Hero Challenge, in Andretti’s skill set: December in the Baha“The only other ride I mas).

Pro golf has done pretty could see him getting is maybe with Uber.” well with Woods on the • Faux John Madden sidelines. Rory McIlroy, on Twitter: “Playing the Jason Day and Jordan Browns should be no Spieth jockeyed back problem for Carson and forth for the No. 1 Wentz; he faced similar spot in the world, and opponents in the MisDustin Johnson’s recent souri Valley Football play - the likely winner

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Conference.”

• NOTSportsCenter on Twitter, after the L.A. Rams 28-0 loss in their 2016 opener: “REPORT: Los Angeles officials have opened discussions with St. Louis about sending the Rams back, saying they’ve seen enough of them already.”

• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “From the Sometimes You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up file comes word that fibbing swimmer Ryan Lochte’s choice of music for his “Dancing with the Stars” debut was ‘Call Me Irresponsible.’”

• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “At ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Ryan Lochte was rushed by an audience member who was tackled by security. Or as Ryan described it, ‘I was attacked by an ISIS commando raid, but fought them off.’”

• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Argos pivot Ricky Ray is out after partially deflating a lung in the Labour Day game.

‘Will he get a four-game suspension?’ asked Gisele Bundchen.”

• Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: “For all their worries

about pollution, organizers of the Rio Games have to be happy that the biggest piece of trash in the water turned out to be an American swimmer.”

• Brad Rock of the Deseret News, in his ‘Rock On’ column: “A used mouth guard worn

by Stephen Curry sold for $3,190. Rock On will never again complain about the cost of his kids’ braces.”

• Another one from Rock: “Tim Tebow has joined the Mets’ minor league system. But experts predict it will be tough reaching the big leagues, especially since he’s never been beyond first base.”

• Headline at SportsPickle.com: “Life-insurance company drops Josh McCown after he is named Browns QB.” • Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg, after cameras caught QB Cam Newton flossing on the sideline during the Panthers’ season opener in Denver: “It even surprised the woman giving him a pedicure.”

• @RandyTurner15 of the Winnipeg Free Press, on Twitter, during the Banjo Bowl: “With all

the penalties the Riders are taking there won’t be enough Pilsner in Saskatchewan.”

• Kaseberg again: “The Cleveland Browns, whose mascot is a dog, may sign convicted dog killer, Michael Vick. That would be like the Miami Dolphins hiring Japanese fisherman.”

• Headline at thekicker. com: “Andy Dalton To

Kneel During Anthem To Protest Steelers Brutality” • Comic Torben Rolfsen, on Slovenia’s Alexsander Ceferino getting elected president of European soccer: “The title will be made official as soon as all the cheques clear.”

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Another lucky Travel Voucher winner! . . . Town of Biggar Rec Director, Erin Poitras, left, congratulates Victoria Senko on her September Travel Voucher $2,000 win. Shirley Schoeler was the lucky $100 winner. Congratulations to all! (Photo for The Independent

by Kathy Sarvas)

2016

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Biggar Lionel A. Jones Library is now accepting resumes for a casual Librarian position, about 8 hours per week and every third Saturday (6 hours). Start date by arrangement. You may drop off your resumes at the library -- Tuesday, Wednesday afternoon, Thursday; and Saturday afternoon at 202 - 3rd Ave. West or by mail to Box 157, Biggar, SK, S0K 0M0 on or before September 30, 2016.

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36c3 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25: St. Gabriel Parish Fall Supper @ Biggar Community Hall; 5-7 p.m. Doors open at 4:30; Adults, $15; Ages 6-12, $8; Ages 5 and under, Free. Take out $15; Phone 306948-2954. Order by 8 p.m. Saturday, September 24 35c4

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Many canvassers are needed.

If you are willing, please call: Michele @ 306948-7729; Donna @ 306-948-3659; or Mary Ann @ 306-948-2571.

Information sheets to prepare for canvassers are available for pick up at several businesses downtown. Canvassers, please pick up books at New Horizons Thursday, September 29, 2-6 p.m. Thank you for your support.

37c3 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16: Perdue United Church Fowl Supper, Perdue Community Complex; doors open: 4:30 pm.; supper 5 to 6:30 p.m.; Adults $15; 6-12 years $8; Preschoolers Free.

39c3 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23: Biggar United Church Fall Supper @ Biggar Community Hall, 5 - 7 p.m. Adults, $15; 6-11, $8; 5 and under, FREE. Take-out Meals, $15. To order take-outs until Sunday noon, call 306-948-2280 (please leave message); after noon, call Community Hall, 306948-3703.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28: Biggar & District Arts Council presents . . . “LISA BROKOP, The Patsy Cline Project”, 7:30 p.m. at The Majestic Theatre, Biggar.

Adults/Seniors $25 (advance $20); Students, 13 and older, $15 (advance $12); children 12 and under, $5.

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INVITATIONS Baby Shower FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Please join us for a Baby Shower to welcome Georgia Mae Sagon to this world! at the Westwinds Centennial Room, 7 - 9 p.m.

Proud parents are Mark and Stacey Sagon of Biggar.

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14 - THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Food adventures - tackle a new recipe I guess it goes without saying that I love to cook.

For me, a perfect Sunday afternoon would be in the kitchen, with music playing, and having fun with ingredients.

However, I do realize this passion is not shared by all.

Whether you love cooking or not, it is a part of your life that will likely never go away so you may as well embrace it to some degree. Food is life so I want to give you some ideas to make it fun by approaching it in a different manner.

What I am going to suggest may scare you at first, but bear with me.

Too often we rely on pre-made foods that we would never dream of attempting to make from scratch and I want you to drum up the courage to challenge yourself by making something that falls in this category.

Now, the items that I am Chef Dez talking about in this range will be vastly different depending on the individual. For example, a number people always make pancakes from scratch but just as many probably use a store bought mix. I know a number of people that

Chef Dez on cooking

make fresh pasta from scratch but most have never attempted it.

What I want you to do is to step out of your comfort zone, whatever that may be, and make something in the kitchen that you have never done before. I suggest this as part of a healing or growing process to bring you to the next level.

Why you may ask? It is all about making life exciting and trying new things.

Chances are you have a kitchen in your home and a necessary desire to eat food to stay alive, so let’s take it to the next level just for fun. This is important to remember.

I don’t want you to go into this with the mindset of it being a task.

This is not something to stress about; there is no test at the end. It is merely an adventure into the unknown just for enjoyment only.

With the Internet on

our side, and the thousands of food recipes, videos, blogs, et cetera to help us out, there is virtually an answer at our fingertips on how to make almost anything.

Maybe it’s perogies you have always wanted to master? Or how about the potato pasta dumplings called gnocchi? Maybe you have always wanted to try to make corned beef from scratch? Or what about beef jerky?

The list of ideas is literally endless based upon your desire and level of cooking you are at already.

If you are still feeling uncomfortable with the idea of doing this, then maybe get a friend or relative to make this jump with you. Invite a bunch of people over for an afternoon of chatting and cooking. If you approach it as an opportunity to have a good time with loved ones, it will be easier to accomplish without having the main focus on the task at hand. At the end you can divide the finished product and everyone gets to take home a meal and a memory.

Who knows, it may even become a regular

tradition among all of you.

If everything was easy in life, nobody would be unique; we would all be good at everything. Not only that, but we would never be challenged.

Trials and tribulations in anything helps us to appreciate the good in things we already know and have, while offering us an opportunity to work towards something new and embrace the

feeling of accomplishment.

This can be done in any aspect of life, not just cooking . . . but as I always say “food IS life”.

Happy cooking!

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

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And that water’s cold! . . . Biggar RCMP Detachment Commander, Sgt. Colin Sawrenko goes for a dip in some icy water, Saturday, showing the bonechilling effects upon surfacing (inset picture). All for fun the local RCMP held their annual Family Fun Day at the detachment, raising money with the dunk tank for a local cause, holding a barbecue, bouncy castle and other fun events for kids and kids at heart. A great afternoon to get to know your local police! Check out biggarindependent.ca for more pictures of the day! (Independent Photos by Kevin

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16 - THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

There is always something happening at the museum

by Delta Fay Cruickshank of the Biggar Museum and Gallery Summer is leaving, the geese are arriving and

of our Culture Day event, Past Forward -- Artifacts to Apps. It is a wonder to view all the artifacts used over the past century here in Biggar; all functions of which are now replaced by one small little device, the iPhone.

Our volunteers and staff have been reviewing, collecting and displaying these artifacts for months, now we get In September 1966 Luxton’s on Main to show Street was closing and their building everyone. was leased to McLeods. At the museThe volum we have an exhibit on Luxton’s unteers Millinery. from the museum the colours are stunning. served at the Show ‘n Shine. It was a beautiHarvest is underway; ful day and all the parthat last frost knocked ticipation by the various out the squash, cucumservices and all those bers and tomatoes in my cars were appreciated garden. Nature is beginby many. Biggarites can ning to wind down for the long winter. I am not sure step up when it comes to supporting going to dread winter local fundraising events. this year, I plan to look We are busy digitalizforward to the nice snuging our photo collections. gling nights in front of a The plans are to have roaring fire and brilliant 500 of our collection brisk sun filled days. on the SAIN database And yet, here at the

by March. We will have museum, well, we are many more to do. We getting geared up for have discovered someone of our most busy of thing I believe we are all seasons. guilty of . . . we do not Right now, we are showing a sneak preview identify where, when and

who are in our photos.

We are having to really become historical detectives to describe many photos. If you have photos from the Baby Boomer decades of local people, events, buildings, could you consider donating them to the museum?

We are doing a little redecorating too. Next time you come in to the museum, check out the enlarged photos we have of buildings along our Main Street hanging on our walls.

Looking at the Biggar Historical Timeline, available in our gift shop, I see that in Septem-

ber of 1961, the library was reopening in the fire hall and that work had started on the new school. And in September 1964, heavy snowfall had blanketed the district. By September 1966 plans were underway for a new town office and library and Luxtons were retiring from their business and their building was being leased to a national hardware store. That is the building where McLeod’s True Value was for years and now The Dollar Store is.

A reminder of Luxton’s is represented in our museum in our permanent display known as Lux-

We have been decorating a bit . . . come on in and see the new photos we have hung up.

Jay has a new What’s It up the month of October.

Come in and see if you can identify these objects and win a bay of Biggar souvenirs. (Photos by Delta Fay Cruickshank of the Biggar Museum and Gallery)

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ton’s Millinery (remember the days when a lady would never leave the house without a hat on?)

Jay has another What’s It collections up; come on in and see if you can guess what they are, and stand a chance to win a bag of great Biggar souvenirs.

Our most wonderful summer student, Lauren de Bussac, created a brand new video for us.

We took a suggestion from a supporter and created a video on all the hospitals, churches, and schools that have been here in Biggar over the century. This new video will be ready for viewing

in the Majestic Theatre exhibit. Set to some great tunes, come and see the history of the places we all have spent some time in.

Art shows, school tours, Christmas Magic Silent Auction, cookie sales, Halloween and bus trips are just some of the events planned until the end of this year.

Our junior curators have ideas for more temporary displays in our gift shop, so even though we are now only open afternoons, we still would like to invite everyone in to see that there is always something happening at the museum.