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Holding Court . . . St. Gabriel Junior Saint Jesse Garchinski goes for the layup while Biggar Central School Blazer, Austin Hooper looks to block, Saturday. BCS was hosting a fourteam tourney, getting athletes ready for the season ahead. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016

New Creation Community Players youth cast held their ode to winter, “Snow Biz” at the Majestic Theatre, December 9 and 10. The young actors really were a hit, making one and all take their minds off the cold, and focus on the joys of winter!

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Asquith Fire Dept breaks ground on new addition The Asquith Fire Department (AFD), Asquith First Responders (AFR) and the Town of Asquith officially broke ground on an addition to the fire hall, November 8.

Officials taking part in the ceremony included Fire Chief Colin Graham and Deputy Fire Chief John Dahlseide, Primary First Responder Diane Haugrud and Asquith Mayor Gail Erhart.

The need for an addition to the fire hall was identified in an operational review and strategic plan issued by AFD in 2011.

The addition will be able to house three fire apparatus that are currently stored outside, provide a dedicated indoor training area and accommodate a larger meeting room. As well, the extra space will allow AFD/AFR to expand their dispatch/radio centre

for future technologies.

The addition will be constructed wholly with proceeds from the various fund raising activities the fire department has held over the past few years. While the capital raised will allow AFD to build and enclose the addition, it will be far from complete.

From its modest beginnings, the Asquith Fire Department now has a protection area of over 600 square kilometres.

Due to the unique location of Asquith, the protection area includes regions in five municipalities - four RMs (Corman Park, Vanscoy, Perdue, and Eagle Creek) and the town proper.

While AFD is compensated for each call for service through negotiated agreements, the fire department only receives funding for maintenance/ capital expenditures from

The regular meeting of Biggar Town Council was held November 22, at 7:15 p.m. in the Council Chambers. Attending the meeting were Mayor Ray Sadler, Aldermen Alan Boyle, Penny McCallum, Kevin

McNicholls, Kirk Sherbino, Edward Young, and Ivan Young.

Council resolved that the following financial reports for October 2016, be accepted as presented: Bank Reconciliation; State-

the Town of Asquith. The operational review identified that the compensation received did not cover operating costs and that the fire department operates at a net loss year over year. These findings prompted the Asquith Fire Department and the Town of Asquith to contact the councils of the surrounding RM’s to arrange an audience with them.

Representatives from all of the RMs attended the first meeting on March 25, 2015. The meeting included a presentation on AFD’s response area, services provided, current apparatus/equipment, call statistics, population statistics, expenses versus revenue, future capital costs, and frank discussion on the issues presented. Everyone in attendance agreed these were important, pressing concerns, and requested

Deputy Fire Chief John Dahlseide, Primary First Responder Diane Haugrud, Mayor Gail Erhart and Fire Chief Colin Graham (left to right) were on hand to officially break ground on the new addition to the Asquith Fire Hall. (Photo for The Independent by Blaine Ganchar)

more information. Subsequently, smaller presentations took place at council meetings of the RM of Corman Park on May 11, 2015, and the RM of Vanscoy on August 11, 2015. Unfortunately, the RMs of Perdue

Council Minute highlights ment of Financial Activities.

Council resolved that the General Accounts Paid in the amount of $69,514.57 and the General Accounts Payable in the amount of $58,054.36, be approved.

Council resolved that the following correspondence be accepted for Council’s information and filed: Flaman Investigations November 10, 2016 Report; SUMA - Infrastructure Grant.

Council resolved that the following individuals be authorized to attend the annual SUMA Convention to be held in Saskatoon, February 5-8, 2017: Barb Barteski, Ray Sadler, Alan Boyle, Kirk Sherbino, Edward Young, Kevin McNicholls, Ivan Young.

Council resolved that the Town of Biggar Physician Locum Suite Policy P(8), approved December 3, 2013 by resolution number 13-558, be repealed and replaced with the Town of Biggar Physician Locum Suite Policy P(8), attached hereto and forming part of their November 22 minutes, effective November 22.

Council resolved that Ivan Young be appointed as representative for the Biggar and District Regional Park.

• Meeting adjourned at 9:45 p.m.

CORRECTION: Last week’s pictures of the Biggar Legion donation pictures listed Barb de Haan and Mary McGowan incorrectly. In fact, de Haan was representing Biggar Food for Thought, while McGowan, Secret Santa. We apologize for the error.

BCS students listen to harsh talk on meth . . .

Biggar RCMP Detachment Commander, Sgt. Colin Sawrenko (top picture, left) and Biggar EMS’s Doug Beeson (bottom picture, left) talk about some of the brutal realities of methamphetamine, Monday.

Students learned about how addicting the drug is and how desperate addicts become, seeing through the eyes of Beeson the medical side, and Sawrenko

the law enforcement side. Because we live in a quiet community, we are not immune. As both presenters stressed: use it once, that’s it - you are hooked for life; you’ll be consumed with your next fix at the expense of everything else. Honest and candid, the talk is much needed in a world which glamourizes on TV and movies, drugs and risk behaviour. (Independent Photos by Kevin Brautigam)

and Eagle Creek declined any further invitation or involvement in the process.

While the presentation of information and following discussions at both RM council meetings was well received and seemed to promise consideration for future investment in AFD, there has not been any changes initiated or put forth by any of the surrounding RM councils to date.

While the Asquith Fire Department and the Asquith First Responders will always respond to any call for service, it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the level of service provided to customers outside of the municipal corporate limits.

This is were you, the reader, can help to maintain the emergency services avail-

able to you. Contact your local councillor or Reeve for the RM you reside in and ask these simple questions: Do my taxes pay for the RM to provide fire service coverage? If so, what location is the RM is that coverage coming from? How close is the nearest fire department to my residence? Does that fire department receive funding from the RM? If not, why not?

It is the hope that these questions may press home the importance of the services provided by AFD/ AFR to the elected officials that should be able to answer the questions.

The Asquith Fire Department and the Asquith First Responders thank everyone for their continued support as they strive to offer the community the very best emergency response service possible.

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Letter to the Editor…

Dear Editor: It’s December 2016 as I update my thoughts on war and current events.

I sure hoped I turn out to be wrong about the way I see the future.

I am so disappointed in the U.S. government and their desire to dominate the world through military might, on the land, sea and air. They are in a perpetual state of war.

What happened to “never again” after WWII. Why is building a U.S. empire so important to them?

I can’t understand all the “saber rattling” and deliberately provoking China and Russia with made up stories that the media runs with. It’s Iraq all over again and we all know how that it turning

out.

They are calling China an “adversary” and encircling them with military installations. China has matched the U.S. capitalism and apparently that is unforgivable. Russia has made attempts towards friendship and resolving issues by debate but they are ignored.

With so many nuclear weapons pointed at each other the danger of confrontation grows daily. A few buttons pressed accidentally or on purpose could make the earth uninhabitable.

Everyone loses. How sad.

On January 20 Mr. Trump takes over the reins. A new ball game.

Let’s hope for the best.

Bob Wiseman Biggar

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Education reform, not more money, is the answer to declining PISA scores Deani Van Pelt, Director, Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education, Fraser Institute and Sazid Hasan, Economist, Fraser Institute Student performance in Canada is stagnating or declining in key subject areas despite dramatic increases in education spending. That’s the main takeaway, in light of last week’s report from the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment

(PISA), which tests 15-year-old students every three years in reading, mathematics and science.

Consider this. PISA’s latest round of testing, conducted in 2015, included some 20,000 Canadian students from roughly 900 schools across the country. The average score in math dropped from a high of 532 in 2003 (the earliest comparable PISA year for mathematics) to 516 in 2015.

the PISA scores, said basically the same thing, acknowledging in 2012 the limited role money plays in improved student performance: “higher expenditure on education does not guarantee better student performance.

Among high income economies, the amount spent on education is less important than how those resources are used.”

For those interested in genuinely improving Canada’s education system, this is a critical point. Simply throwing more money at public school bureaucracies is not the answer. But instead, we should fundamentally reassess how we finance, deliver and regulate K-12 education in each province and territory.

Focusing on the real drivers of education performance, such as how schools are organized and governed, how teachers are educated and incentivized, the degree to which parents have choices in their children’s education, and how curriculum is designed and delivered, have the potential to deliver better educational outcomes.

The 2015 PISA results again demonstrate that more spending on education does not magically produce results. Structural reform will give Canadian students the best chance at success in the classroom, and ultimately, in life.

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Although Canada’s average math score is relatively high among OECD countries—Canada now ranks seventh in the world—the decrease illustrates an alarming and significant overall decline in math performance achieved by our 15-year-olds compared to a dozen years ago when we ranked third.

Moreover, average scores in both reading and science, when compared to scores in the earliest comparable PISA years, 2000 and 2006 respectively, showed no sign of improvement.

This drop in math, and flat-lining in reading and science—three crucial core subjects—took place despite dramatic education spending increases in Canada. Specifically, education spending (adjusted for inflation) increased from $9,689 per student in 2003 to $13,443 in 2014, the latest year of available data. That represents a 39 per cent increase in per student spending in just over a decade.

It’s one thing to spend more money and get better results, but it’s quite another when spending increases markedly yet test results either stagnate or decline. Simply put, additional government spending—paid for by taxpayers—has not translated into improved student performance.

Moreover, the OECD, which releases

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Christmas toys It is gift buying season. like a Yo Yo or even It may be my imaginaknow what to do with it. tion but it seems to be An interesting story getting harder and hard- about the teddy bear. er every year to choose.

President Theodore Particularly when shopRoosevelt was on a huntping for my grandchiling trip and refused to dren. shoot a defenseless black It’s not that they are bear. A shopkeeper in picky, nor Brooklyn ungrateful. heard Quite the about the opposite incident they seem and made to like a stuffed everything fabric they get. “Teddy’s It’s just bear�; put that the it in the choice of shop wingifts is dow and overwhelmcustomers ing so that loved it. you just I don’t know remember what to buy seeing anymore.

Shirley Peggy Hasein I thought Temple I would in black do some and white research into past times movies with a real charand find out about acter named W. C. Fields. popular toys of the day.

In 1934, the Ideal Toy Remember the teddy and Novelty Company bear. Or the Yo Yo. Well, manufactured a doll one of my granddaughbased on the child star. ters would still love to it was priced at $3 to $5 get a teddy bear but I’m which was a large sum of not so sure she would money in the days of the

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Great Depression. All in all, the dolls were popular and Ideal made $45 million in a seven year time span. In 2010 an original Shirley Temple doll sold on eBay for $1,500.

The slinky is one of my favourites. It really doesn’t do anything but slide down stairs but it is kind of fun watching it slink down. The discovery of the slinky was an accident. Richard James, a mechanical engineer, accidentally knocked over some ship springs he was working on. He noticed they “walked� instead of falling. He invented a machine that coiled 80 feet of wire into a two inch spiral; his wife named it “Slinky� and the rest, as they say, is history. It is still a best seller today after 70 years and over 300 million produced.

I remember the Cabbage Patch Kids vividly.

My daughter and her friends just “had� to have these dolls one year. By the time she told me, the craze was in full swing

Sing Glory . . . Our Lady of Fatima Choir, Landis, were some of the many entertainers at the Biggar Carol Festival, December 6. The Majestic Theatre was filled with the sounds of Christmas, following up the earlier noon hour performance.

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and it was incredibly difficult to find one. After searching many stores, I did manage to find the elusive doll only to be told by the salesclerk that one does not “buy� a Cabbage Patch Doll; one has to “adopt� the doll. It set my back $30 to “adopt� the little treasure that now sits at the bottom of a box in the storage room. The very first year, three million of these “kids� found

homes. Retail sales hit $2.5 billion.

Another craze my daughter went through was Beanie Babies.

These stuffed animals went from children’s toy to a collector’s item.

Some of them are now “retired� thus adding to the value.

It is true she still buys one on occasion even today. Not so crazy really as I just learned a couple of years ago, one of her

friends bought herself a Barbie doll for Christmas a number of years past her 20th birthday.

Some traditions are hard to give up.

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You’re all wet, Bob The above title kind of calls for a wisecrack (and maybe some humourist will make one) but that title is actually a factual one, telling about the times that Yours Truly really was wet. Wisecracks kind of went out of style when Bob Hope (et al) disappeared after The Depression.

It is nice and comfortable up here as Y.T. writes this, because he keeps the room heat registers wide open (no one comes up to check since I put that warning sign on the door). But even the memory of some of those escapades makes me shiver yet. Brrr.

Although everyone has memories like these, not everyone feels called on to relive some of them in a column like this. So, Brrrr. Here we go again.

Y.T. would feel a lot better if only that every holidaying “muse” would flit back here from its Caribbean beach and whisper a few pertinent phrases in my ear. But no. Instead the reader has to put on an entire coat and shiver along with me as I tell about being cold and wet.

Yours Truly would like to start his descriptions from way back when we

were kids but because memories are valuable to some people (especially old people) it would maybe warm up the air a bit to tell this one first.

Every Saturday night, when we were kids, Mother got our our big round tub and put it on the kitchen floor right in front of the wide open oven door. She half filled it with nice warm water that Dad had melted from snow in the reservoir.

Wow, that was good.

And worth remembering.

As Dad came in from doing evening chores, a cloud of cold steam came in with him and Mother held a large towel around us.

We learned early on how much a caring family is worth, and thank heavens we never got over that.

It doesn’t seem many years later that these same small boys (who splashed water on the hot stove just to see it steam) found themselves pushing the family car down the slippery clay road in a cold rain.

Must Y.T. write Brrrr again.

It was quite a thing on those old clay roads (before gravel was invented) for a driver not to throw wet much onto any car pushers. By the time we got home from town we were so covered with mud that the “kindly lady” mentioned above made us take most of our clothes off in that little round tub again, but sorry -- we had outgrown those innocent days.

It’s maybe a good thing that people don’t outgrow most memories.

Maybe some readers will get a good laugh out

of this one. Not so much because it was funny, but because it is a kind of relief that it didn’t happen to them.

At Lac des Isles in Saskatchewan, Y.T. wandered into the brush onto some “shore stones” and started casting for fish by some reeds.

Suddenly he noticed that some of the stones were wet Bob Mason on top and he wondered why that could happen on such a nice quiet day.

Glancing back over his should he saw a great big bear (still dripping wet) standing there, nonchalantly wondering why I had scared it away from its favourite fishing expert. I’m not exactly sure what all the bear thought, but it startled Y.T. so much that he slipped off the stone he was standing on, and fell into three feet of water.

All the guys laughed when Y.T. went back into camp, dripping wet and told them. They told him that a big bear hadn’t been seen in those parts for years, but when “know-it-all Y.T.” pointed out that bears aren’t noted for being seen, they all took a boat next time they went fishing.

Anyone who has joined Her Majesties Forces, and thinks that they will be sadly (and sadly is the right word) mistaken.

Y.T. was in the army for a few years and though he did get a “worms eye view” of part of the world, the only “over pretty” girls that he saw were when he was sent over to scrub the officer’s mess.

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We did have the unglorious chance to get cold and wet now and then, (as a matter of fact the Canadians were known as the “water rats” at one time) and here are a few examples of those wonderful experiences. They forgot to put in their “join the army and see the world” ads.

In that spring of 1945, Yours Truly was attached to Colonel Fred Wigle as his signaller on a small “scheme” at Loon-Op in Zan Holland. Colonel Wigle had just come to the Regiment and wanted to familiarize a bit himself.

One day, while making a “training” attack across country we came on a six foot wide drainage canal right full to the edge with water. We were advancing . . .

“Come on Bob!” yelled the C,O, (Commanding Officer) who was a McMasters University athlete and loaded down with a Smith and Wesson revolver, as he cleared the ditch by over three feet.

Signaller Mason came puffing up loaded down with a No. 18 strapped to his back, a Sten gun, shovel and a spool of assault cable and leapt ...

Sorry. He came down in the middle of that ditch. Colonel Wigle laughed as he came back and helped me out.

Officers were awful good a laughing at things like that. And Y.T. sure remembers a few of them laughing when Y.T. (fully armed) fell into a German cistern. I sure remember them grumbling when I walked into their H.Q. office and dripped all over their floor though.

We’ve all had wet-cold adventures and even though Y.T. is kind of old, we’ll have a few more. Rather, I think, we’d rather look back to that little round tub in front of an open oven door again.

Biggar bowling scores December 5-8 Monday mixed: MHS, Jason Raschke, 268; WHS, Cindy Watson, 229; MHT, Jason Raschke, 643; WHT, Jennifer Heimbecker, 544.

Tuesday Seniors New Horizons: MHS, Jack Eckart, 161; WHS, Donna Eckart, 187; MHT, Glen

Shockey, 432; WHT, Donna Eckart, 479.

Thursday Senior afternoon: MHS, Glen Shockey, 218; WHS, June Hoppe, 173; MHT, Glen Shockey, 555; WHT, June Hoppe, 462.

YBC -- December 7-8 Bowlasaurus: HS, Jonathan Crane, 71.

Pee Wee: HS, Everett

Danskin, 117; HD, Everett Danskin, 199.

Bantam: HS, Jordan Rorick, 136; HT, Jordan Rorick, 364.

Juniors: HSB, Julian Heimbecker, 155; HTB, Tristan Otterson, 448.

HSG, Madison Genaille, 184; HTG, Madison Genaille, 509.

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Perdue Ag Fair ‘people mover’ gets much needed facelift Twenty-eight years ago the Perdue Agricultural Fair built a people mover for the annual ag fair.

After soldiering on for that amount of time, taking eager fair-goers from one venue to another, the trusty mover was looking a might tired.

“After the fair this year, I looked at it and decided it was time for a face lift,� explained Garry Dennis of the Perdue Agricultural Society. “With the help of volunteers, we completely redid it with a complete paint job and new carpet.�

Dennis made special mention of Dennis Summach, Percy Keith and Kevin Clifton for performing the needed work. Cam-Don Motors and Moody’s Equipment donated the paint for the job, and Central Plains Co-op for adding the Per-

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by Chasity Kreutzer There were three tables for Kaiser on December 5.

Our first place winner was Joyce Colbert with 282 points, second place was Joanne Kral with 243 points, third place was Ken Pearce with 216 points, and fourth was Reg Turner with 194 points. The highest scoring game was Joyce Colbert and Ron Arnord

with 67 points.

We had carpet bowling on December 6 with the first place team consisting of Pat Turner, Agnes Small, Emily Liska, Jean Tweddle, Doreen Philips and Gail Herzberg. The second place winners were Florence Hammond, Marie Roesch, Mildred Henne, Judy Rickwood and Dinah Kegler.

On December 7 we had

our Craft and Bake Sale.

We managed to sell all of our baking in less than two hours! Thanks to everyone that donated crafts and baking to support New Horizons.

Due to a lack of numbers we will unfortunately have to cancel our bus trip on DEcember 14.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Christmas Messages

brought to you by Biggar Ministerial Association Nurture the spirit during Advent be a time of introspec-

by Biggar United Church Jan Richardson writes, “In the cave of our hearts, in the fabric of our lives, you continue, O God, to be born.”

Richardson holds the opinion that Christ was born in a cave. And we all carry a cave, a hidden place within us into which God longs to be born.

Advent is the season to enter that place, a time to turn inward and encounter the God who seeks to emerge through us.

As we prepare for the Advent season, we might remember that this could

tion. A time to savour the quietness and the slowness of the days - taking walks, reading, making notes for inner reflection, working at whatever it is that gives us life.

Sometimes it seems that we hardly have time to recognize Advent - but we can slow our pace in preparation - perhaps the season of Advent could be a time to nurture our spirit.

I read that this is the time that bears are gestating their cubs in their mountain caves during the long dark season of hibernation. The writer

thought that in this process she realized God lies in the small details of our lives. God lies in the details of all growth and making. Is Advent a time them to build a cave, a place where we can hide out and do what we need to do for ourselves?

Being bear-like is an opportunity to discover our wisdom in the cave of our hearts.

When we turn inward we give ourselves to the shadows of our unknowing, when we open ourselves to Wisdom, we are met by the one who will be a companion in the mystery and the dark-

ness.

This process could help us know what lies beyond the cave of our hearts.

That is the other piece of it: the cave of the heart is not a permanent dwelling but a necessary shelter along the way.

As we participate in the mystery, wisdom enters our lives. We are called to enter the cave of the heart, to trace images drawn on its walls, to find God lying in the details of our lives, and then to emerge with newfound wisdom to engage in God’s work.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light

Christmas Season Services ST. GABRIEL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, BIGGAR ~ SUN., DEC. 18… 11 a.m., Mass SAT., DEC. 24…

8:30 p.m. - Christmas Eve Mass DEC. 25… NO Mass SUN., JAN. 1… 11 a.m., New Year’s Day Mass

BIGGAR UNITED CHURCH ~ SUN., DEC. 18…11 a.m., White Gift/Music Sunday, all are welcome!

SAT., DEC. 24…

7:00 p.m., Christmas Eve Service No worship service December 27 SUN., JAN. 1, 11 a.m., Sacrament of Communion and service. Join for potluck lunch following service!

BIGGAR ASSOCIATED GOSPEL CHURCH ~ SUN., DEC. 18… 10:50 a.m.

SUN. DEC. 25…10:50 a.m., Worship Service with Communion SUN., JAN. 1… 10:50 a.m.

a great light... on them light has shone.” Isaiah 9:2 and following.

During Advent we pray Come Lord Jesus. We want your light in our family, our community, our parish - we want your light deep inside each one of us. Jesus was born many years ago.

The Biggar and District Ministerial Association wishes you all the joy and blessings of the Christmas Season.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, LANDIS ~ SUN., DEC. 18… 9 a.m., Mass SAT., DEC. 24…

6:00 p.m., Christmas Eve Mass DEC. 25… NO Mass SUN., JAN. 1… 9 a.m. New Year’s Day Mass

PERDUE UNITED CHURCH ~ SUN. DEC. 18… 11:00 a.m., Readings and Carols Service SAT., DEC. 24… 5:30 p.m., Christmas Eve Service No services December 25 & tmonth of January.

ASQUITH UNITED CHURCH ~ SUN. DEC. 18… 9:30 a.m., Advent Four, Carols and Readings SAT., DEC. 24… 7:30 p.m., Christmas Eve Service

PALS COMMUNITY CHURCH ~ SUN. DEC. 18…

7:00 p.m., Lessons & Carols at St. Paul’s Anglican Church SAT., DEC. 24: Christmas Eve, 7:00 p.m.

Candlelight Service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church SUN., DEC. 25… 10:30 a.m., Christmas Morning Service at Redeemer Lutheran Church SUN., JAN. 1: 10:30 a.m.

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doorway to light.

I longer for light - I wondered which direction I should take. I walked carefully less I would trip over something.

Finally light - I was safe. All fear was gone: “The people who walked in darkness have seen

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by Father Michel Bedard, Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima, Landis and St. Gabriel, Biggar I once had the experience of being in a church basement with no windows and the power went off.

It seemed to me that I would never find the

He wishes to be born in us that we may present Him to others.

May God bless and protect and guide you all through 2017 and always.

Much love.

The Message of Christmas

by Rev. Bev Dyck, Biggar Church of God All through the years, at Christmas as we were going to open gifts, my father would read the Christmas Story from Luke 2.

He died a few years ago at the age of 91, so this was a tradition of many years.

Luke 2:14 says, “Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favour rests.”

This is what God has intended in the giving of Jesus - that mankind would know peace.

It was many years ago, and my husband and I were were farming on the family farm. Our four children were young - all two years apart and each one was so very special.

It was a mixed farm and we were milking cows and shipping cream.

And even though it was Christmas, the morning and evening chores still needed to be done.

We liked to open the gifts in the evening, because then we could put on all the coloured

lights on the tree and on the house, so that it looked very festive.

We had had supper, and milked the cows, and washed up ourselves and all of the little ones.

The chore clothes were hung in the porch and the warm barn odour was closed off as the porch door was shut. The children were tumbling over each other in eagerness, and tousling one another, and tattling on each other.

We sat down and my husband took the Bible and read Luke 2. We sang Away in a Manager, and the little ones were getting impatient. “When do we get to open the presents?”

“Soon”, was our reply.

We prayed together, thanking the Lord for the gift of Jesus, and of each other.

Then with the coloured lights twinkling and the warm glow of candles drawing us close together, one by one, we opened the gifts, each person being celebrated and each gift being enjoyed.

And I was struck with the though: “This wonderful feeling that

we have as a family at Christmas as we open gifts and express our love and thankfulness towards each other, why can’t we continue to have this all year long?”

Yes, Christmas is a festive holiday, with many special activities, and we can’t be doing these activities all the time - it would be too costly, and too much work and it then wouldn’t be special if these activities were everyday.

However, the closeness, the appreciation, the gentleness - is this not meant for all year round?

And since that time, I have consciously worked towards creating that dynamic in our family year-round.

How much more when we think of the message that the angels brought that first Christmas ‘Peace on earth, good will towards men”. Because of Jesus Christ, we can enjoy reconciliation with God, and we have His Spirit who lives within us, and His Spirit wants to bring about this loveliness with one another all year long!

This is the message of Christmas!

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The world cries for peace Pastor Doug Motz Biggar Associated Gospel Church No matter how hard the government leaders around the world work at making peace treaties, there still seems to be a great deal of unrest.

Yes, we in this country are more that blessed with peace. We enjoy the opportunities to be community whether it’s meeting in church on a Sunday morning, or in a variety of other activities - we can do so unhindered. We take our hats off to those in the police force, and others who help make this possible!

Even though outwardly we enjoy this sense of freedom and peace, yet the question needs to be considered; do we really know what it means to have “peace” in our hearts?

Maybe we need to determine what the word “peace” means.

Merriam-Webster’s online Dictionary says this: “a state of tranquillity or quiet; as freedom from civil disturbance,

harmony in personal relations.”

But does tranquillity, quietness, and civil freedom with no disturbances, as well as harmony in relationships between each other in our families and communities really bring “peace”?

With Christmas upon us, we enjoy singing along with the old and new Christmas Carols, many of which reminding us of the Birth of King Jesus.

We are all quite familiar with this Baby born in a cow shelter. He was born of a virgin - Mary was her name.

But how does the birth of such a One - Jesus bring peace? He came as the incarnate Son of God, and Son of a Man - sent from the God of Heaven, creator of all things in heavens and on the earth. He came by no human intervention other that being planted into the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit of God. The question is, do we just celebrate the

most unique birth of a baby ever to be born of a woman? Or do we celebrate the birth of this Christ Child as the One and Only “Prince of Peace” as written in the Prophet Isaiah 9:6?

He was and is, and always will be the Son of God - whom God the Father sent to bring more than just outward peace; He came to bring inward peace within the hearts of all who choose to repent of their sins, and acknowledge their need for Him to live within their hearts and lives.

That’s why He came in the first place - because all humanity has been born into a sin from the time when Adam and Eve sinned till the last person on earth will be born.

The most important part of Christ’s birth at Christmas wasn’t just the manager scene, but it was a cross. Read the following passages of Scriptures: Romans 5:6 and 8; Matthew (chapters 27 and 28); John (chapters

19 and 20).

Remember that when this Jesus died on the cross for sins of all who would come by faith to Him. He was then placed in a tomb. But - but He arose on the third morning by the power of God the Holy Spirit. He then, ascended back to heaven, with a promise that He will come back a second time as King of kings and Lord of lords - at the end of time.

Just before Jesus went to the cross, He said this to His disciples: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6, New King James Verse Bible). Have you come to know this “ Prince of Peace”, Jesus? He is the only One who can give you “peace” within.

I pray you will celebrate, the birth of the Christ Child this Christmas, by knowing Him in your hearts and lives.

He alone is the world’s only answer to it’s cry for “peace”!

The smallest gift... or the biggest?

by Archie Jantzen, Per-

The Five Senses of Advent

by Rev. Dr. Jessica Latshaw St. Paul’s Anglican-Redeemer Lutheran Church Most adults cringe when the commercial onslaught of Christmas advertising begins a little earlier each year. How can we adults respond besides acting and sounding like Scrooge?

One thing we might do is to prepare “our sensory selves” for the gift of the Christ child.

Colour Look at your wardrobe.

Are you wearing mostly dark, sedate colours?

Sort through your wardrobe and try wearing a few bright coloured items. No need to alarm the neighbors by wearing orange and chartreuse.

Make the change more subtle but definitely begin to prepare for Jesus’ birthday party.

Smell Try different ways to fill your home with inviting fragrances. Like what?

1) Cut a large orange in half and seed

it with cloves. Bake 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

2) Place a drop of peppermint oil in a pan of boiling water.

3) Prepare a bowl of potpourri and place it on the dining room table.

Touch Place a bowl on your coffee table which contains different kinds of pine cones or different kind of stones or different kinds of beads or sea shells or postage stamps or samples of other kinds of collections.

When family members or guests pick up the objects, share how and why you have the collection.

Sound Most families have Christmas records that they enjoy. This year sit down while you listen and let the sounds surround you with deeplyfelt joy. Also consider attending a choir performance in the community. Or create a caroling group with a few friends.

Then visit and sing carols in a long-term care home

and/or shut-ins that you know.

Taste The sugar-laden indulgences for the holiday can be balanced with fruit and vegetable treats. Here are two examples: 1) Trim strawberries, roll them in yogurt, and freeze.

2) Heat frozen edamame beans in the microwave for about 2 minutes. Add a pinch of sea salt.

3) Make Veggie Pockets. Cut in half whole wheat pitas. Fill them with cut-up veggies and add dab of salad dressing.

4) Make Ants on a Log by spreading peanut butter on celery and then adding raisins.

Advent is a wonderful time in the liturgical year to vary our routines, try new things, and reach out to others.

Be creative and enjoy the season!

due United Church We were gathered in Grandpa and Grandma’s living room, near a big Christmas tree, as we did every year.

There were presents for everyone, as usual. A toy dump-truck for one cousin, a knitted sweater for another; a new set of canisters for one Aunt, an ornament for another.

Uncle Vernon got the tiniest gift of all.

It’s a good thing he didn’t lose the handwritten note when he removed the wrapping. I remember it well: it was a note from Grandpa, very concise - “The greys are yours.”

For a couple of years, Uncle Vernon had been using a team of large draft horses that belonged to Grandpa - using them and paying for them, a little at a time, whenever he was able. Now his remaining debt was cancelled.

What a beautiful gift!

My debt has been cancelled, too. The tiny gift of the baby, Jesus, born in that humble stable, was really a great, great gift.

I will never stop being thankful to God, for loving me (part of His world) enough to give the very greatest that He could. I guess it didn’t look like something very great to a lot of people back then. On the other hand, some shepherds recognized its worth; some “wise men” acknowledged the infant King; and, oh, how Joseph and Mary cherished Him! Let’s stop once again, to contemplate the manger, and to sing carols of praise, because all the wonderful facets of this season can never compare to the wonder of “Emmanuel.”

May you be truly blessed, now, and through the coming year.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016

Looking back at 2016: The best chuckles (Part 1) A collection of 2016’s best quotes, notes and anecdotes from January through June: • Brad Dickson of the Omaha World-Herald: “Chicago Bears offensive lineman Kyle Long gave Bears’ tickets to the trash collector who found his wallet. The trash collector said: ‘Uh, got any Panthers’ tickets?’ ” • Headline at fark.com:

“NFL can’t remember promising to fund concussion research.”

• Comedy writer Bill Williams: “Jeff Gordon, NASCAR driver has retired from racing.

His first week at home wasn’t so smooth. His wife gave him a stopand-go penalty for leaving the toilet seat up.”

• Jim Barach of WCHSTV in Charleston, W.Va.,

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• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Long-time Washington Huskies rowing coach Bob Ernst was fired after being given a choice: Change your ways or lose your job. In rowing parlance: either-oar.”

• Brad Dickson again, after a Stanford lineman proposed to his girlfriend after his team’s 45-16 Rose Bowl win: “The way things went that day, she was dating an Iowa lineman when the game started.”

• From BorowitzReport. com: “Cleveland fans apply to relocate Browns to Los Angeles.”

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle: “Donald Trump says NFL football has gone soft, a bunch of namby-pambies no longer allowed the constitutional freedom to use their

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO OUR MEMBERS Open letter to our members sent with cheques mailed December 19: The Board of Directors declared an equity repayment to all eligible members, including seniors and the general membership. The payment is based on 2015 purchases as stated on your January 30, 2016 equity statement. The cheques (514) range in size from the minimum $10 to $17,582, for a total of $369,062.

Following is a summary of payment details with comparison to previous years: 2013 2014 2015 2016 4-YEAR TOTAL General payment 278,795 294,698 297,130 245,002 Seniors, estates 121,585 101,646 117,661 71,359 Withholding tax 72,438 72,946 67,509 52,701 472,818 469,290 482,300 369,062 $1,793,470 This payment rewards the community for participating in the co-operative ownership of Duperow Co-op, Federated Co-operative Limited, the Regina Co-op Upgrader/Refinery, and the Co-op Retailing System.

Thank you for your support and we wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Ted Craig, Manager Wes Goring, President Don Morton, Secretary Collin Gabriel, Vice-President Robert Hammond, Director Andrew Haynes, Director Greg Eppich, Director

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heads as battering rams.

That’s easy for Trump to say. He goes through life with his head protected by a large, orange bale of hay.”

• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “Former Pittsburgh Steeler receiver, Antwaan Randle-El said he wishes he never played football because he is experiencing memory loss. When asked what he would have done instead, Randle-El said; ‘Instead of what?’”

• Randy Turner of the Winnipeg Free Press, on Twitter: “Shawn Horcoff getting busted for taking performance enhancing drugs is not a good endorsement for performance enhancing drugs.”

• Late-night TV funnyman Conan O’Brien: “Gisele Bundchen shared a picture of Tom Brady after he lost the NFL playoffs. It was a heartbreaking photograph of a handsome man being consoled by a Brazilian supermodel.”

• Dickson again: “The Cleveland Browns have named a new coach. This time they just called a temp agency.”

• Alex Kaseberg again, on the Broncos encountering a bus mishap and a player getting nabbed in a prostitution sting less than 48 hours after arriving for the Super Bowl: “Apparently their tour guide was Charlie Sheen.”

• Another one from RJ Currie: “Flames defenceman Dennis Wideman said his cross-check knockdown

of an unsuspecting ref Ontario, it doesn’t send a wasn’t positive mesintensage when the tional. back of your I’ve seen shirts say zebras “NO.” felled • Another one by lions from Nort h a t man Chad, looked on LSU basm o r e ketball player accidenBen Simtal.” mons and • Brad his lack of Dickattention to s o n , academics: on the “Seriously, if Belgian you gave him cyclist GPS, a photo Bruce Penton who got of the campus caught library and w i t h sat him down a hidden motor in her on the library steps with bike: “Other competitors a librarian, he couldn’t got suspicious when she find the library.” pulled into Jiffy Lube • Alex Kaseberg: “Peoduring a race.” ple are either excited • Norman Chad of the about the NCAA tournaWashington Post, refer- ment or oblivious. When ring to Steph Curry’s I told a woman I had outstanding season: Gonzaga falling out of “He’s Picasso and my brackets, she sugeveryone else is paint- gested I take Imodium.” ing-by-numbers.”

• Late-night funny• David Whitley of the man Conan O’Brien: Orlando Sentinel: ”Dur- “President Obama and ing the FIFA elections, Cuban President Raúl outgoing president Sepp Castro watched a baseBlatter announced he ball game between the won’t endorse any par- Tampa Bay Rays and the ticular candidate until Cuban national baseball all bribes have been for- team. The Rays won, so mally submitted to his the Cuban team was sent office.” to prison.”

• A zinger from the • Another one from RJ l e f t c o a s t s p o r t s b a b e : Currie of sportsdeke.

“Denny Hamlin won com: “Maria Sharapothe Daytona 500 by just va’s failed drug test led six inches. Not surpris- to the loss of several ingly, men who saw the sponsors: TAG Heuer photo thought it was called time out; Porsche more like a foot.” put on the brakes; Nike • RJ Currie again: “With chose to just not do it.” all due respect to the • Norman Chad again: Scotties and Brier curl- “LeBron James unfoling teams from Northern lowed the Cleveland Cavaliers last week on Twitter, which apparently was the equivalent of the Pope skipping Easter Sunday Mass for a bingo tournament.”

• Reader Andy, to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on the local QB situation: “Now that Robert Griffin is a Brown, will his new nickname be ‘RG III and out’?”

• Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel: “My operatives tell me that NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got fellow NASCAR driver Membership NOT Danica Patrick the same Valentine’s Day required to play! gift as always: A dozen long-stemmed socket wrenches.”

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016

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14 - THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK

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THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK - 15

RCMP looking for fuel thief in Macklin The Unity/Macklin RCMP are requesting the public’s assistance in helping solve a theft of fuel file that recently occurred in Macklin.

On Friday, December 2, 2016, at around 4:15 a.m., a vehicle entered a storage compound on Guardian Street where an undisclosed amount of fuel was stolen.

Video surveillance captured the suspect vehicle which appeared to be a light-coloured 1990’sstyle four-door Chevrolet Suburban.

Two suspects were seen in the video but have not yet been identified.

Anyone with information about this or any other crime is asked to call the Unity RCMP at (306) 228-6300, the Wilkie RCMP at (306) 843-3480 or the Macklin

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Video of the suspect vehicle taken in the early morning of December 2 in Macklin.

(Photo for The Independent by Unity RCMP)

RCMP at (306) 753-2171.

If you prefer to remain anonymous please call Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers with your information at 1-800-2228477, or *8477 on the SaskTel Mobility Network. Crimes Stoppers will pay up to $2,000 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.

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Biggar & District Arts Council celebrating 38 years presents …

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Tickets available at de Moissac Jewellers…

Adults/Seniors… advance, $20, at the door $25; Students… advance, $12, at the door $15; 12 and under, $5

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JAN. 13

7:30 p.m.

The Majestic Theatre, Biggar

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Biggar & District Credit Union

Biggar hosts junior tourney . . . Biggar Central School Blazer Andon Hawkins bursts around a defender, Saturday. Biggar hosted the basketball tourney, going 1 and 3 on the day. St. Gabriel School went on to top spot. (Independent Photo by Kevin Brautigam)

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Rise of the Machines: Robots taking over from human farmers a unit, at least for processes such as cultivation and seeding, 24-hours a day. Every producer will see that as a major opportunity to carry out operations over large acres in the time sensitive seasons of farming.

What will come next?

The likelihood of a fully autonomous combine seems likely. It may be

harder to convince producers based on the variables of harvest, but distance monitoring of gauges for multiple units by a single-desk operator will be the future.

Just as drivers are awaiting the arrival of fully autonomous cars taking us to work and the movies, farmers are on the cusp of robots ruling the

fields.

It is a future I have expected which draws ever nearer.

WATCH for

Doreen’s Discount Day @ Leslie’s Drugstore Biggar • 306-948-3397

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BIGGAR

Agriculture

It only makes sense that tractors will evolve to be fully robotic. Detailed field mapping and GPS certainly provides the grid for a robot tractor to follow, so a unit without a driver is nearly an expected step.

Even concerns over system troubles not being caught without an operator has faded as many new units have monitors which auto-shutdown units when mechanical issues arise.

So the eve of robotic tractors is upon us.

This summer Case IH showed off a 400-horsepower robotic magnum tractor.

Sister company New Holland did the same.

The two machines are a first in the sense of major lines ready to offer a big horsepower robotic tractor to the general producer.

The benefits are obvious, starting with not needing an operator.

With no operator needed, the potential to run

BIGGAR

But years ago I listened to a speaker who foresaw robotic machinery on the common farm.

We have seen that trend starting of course.

Combines are now a b l e to roll down a swath guided by global positioning technology, the operator a gauge watcher.

Calvin Daniels T h e grain cart rolls up to take the grain, and operation is taken over by the combine in what is pretty clearly a robotic link.

When it comes to spraying variable rate application across a field it is achieved by computer control.

HARRIS

by Calvin Daniels It has long been my expectation that farming would become a sector where robotic machinery would become a major element of operations.

Talk to producers and one of the major issues they face is finding reliable staff.

Operating field machinery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars require employees to be welltrained, and that training means good wages are required.

The problem for farmers is that the staff needs are focused from spring seeding through fall harvest. Good employees want full-time careers, and that doesn’t fit the reality of farms particularly well.

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Biggar Lodge News

by Karen Kammer, Recreation Coordinator Sending warm greetings to each and every one of you. Hope everyone is being healthy and enjoying the holiday spirit.

Monday at Biggar Health Centre we had exercises in the morning. In the afternoon we painting wooden Christmas decorations. The residents got to leave them in their rooms.

The Museum art group was here painting windows in the main areas of the building.

Tuesday morning was current events. The Landis Community Choir sang with us. It was

great hearing some old or even new Christmas songs. After they were done , the residents had an opportunity to shop for Christmas.

Wednesday afternoon the Grade 7-12 students from BCS SLIP class were here painting windows down each of the houses. It was very beautiful. In the evening we had birthday party night. Five residents celebrated their birthday.

Country II played for us.

The Leadership group from St. Gabriel School helped out and danced.

It was a great time. Nice to see different generations interacting with the seniors.

Thursday was our usual day of Bible Study, exercises and bingo.

Friday morning was Breakfast Club down Autumn. Very delicious.

At 10:30 members from PAL’s and Associated Gospel were here and sang Christmas carols with the residents. We had a card party after lunch.

Saturday was Home Sweet Home Bingo and movie.

Sunday was 1-1 time and the Sonningdale Pentecostal church was here for church.

Take care everyone and bundle up.

Have a great day

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