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Preeceville Midgets acknowledged for contributions Courtesy of Preeceville Progress The Preeceville Pats Midget hockey players were acknowledged with awards for their dedication and hard work through the 201920 season. The season was cut short and ended with players not being acknowledged due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sponsors handed out awards over the course of several weeks which were presented on the grounds outside the Town of Preeceville administration building.

“To me it was just as important for the sponsors of the awards to get recognized for their contribution to our club on a yearly basis, as it is for our players to get acknowledged for their awards,” said Kirby Pankratz, head coach for the Midgets.

“I’d like to express well deserved congratulations to all the winners, I’m very proud to have coached them and see not only their accomplishments, but the success that the whole team had this past season. They were simply the best group that I’ve ever had the privilege of being a part of, and I don’t think any of them had any doubts

where we would’ve finished the year if it didn’t end so abruptly,” Pankratz concluded.

The annual Midget awards were based on regular season play, and were voted on by all five members of the Midget coaching staff which consisted of Pankratz, Conrad Peterson, Colby Wolkowski, Sheldon and Skylar Wallin.

Toby Olynyk of Buchanan received the Trent Paul Memorial Top Rookie award.

Coaching staff selected Olynyk as he showed his versatility in his rookie campaign, splitting time as a forward and defensemen for the Pats. He topped all rookies with 12 goals.

His speed, bullet shot and physical tenacity gives promise to years ahead for Pats fans.

Shae Peterson of Sturgis received the Karen Thiel Memorial Top Defence award.

Peterson was the leading all-time defensemen with 25 points, and was second on the team for plusminus at a plus 63. He played for the most part on a five man, big minuteeating defence squad and only was assessed four penalty minutes, stated the coaching staff.

Todd Pankratz of Preeceville received

the Marlin Romaniuk Memorial Top Scorer award.

Pankratz led all players with 24 goals and 60 points in the Pats 20game regular season.

Pankratz also received the Jack Prien Top Forward award.

In every statistical category in the regular season, he led all players, finishing a plus 67 with 24 goals and 60 points in 20 games. His 36 assists alone topped all but one player’s points total on the team, stated staff.

Brett Smith (goaltender) of Sturgis was voted as Most Valuable Player with Lorne and Colleen Zubko sponsoring the award.

“Playing every game all season and being the only alternative in the ‘pipes’ means you have to be on top of your game every night for the Pats to have the success they did this year. Smitty’s easy going character always turned to “strictly business” at game time. Finishing the regular season with two shutouts, 15 wins, three ties, and only two losses, he kept us in games we didn’t always deserve to win, but still got us the win,” stated staff.

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Ryan Bear of Kamsack received the Most Dedicated award.

“Ryan had the most miles logged to the rink by far of anyone on the team. He was an extremely coachable player who bought in to the role he was given, and that dedication with his work ethic gave him a lot of success,” stated the coaching staff.

Shelby Wallin of Margo received the Most Sportsmanlike award.

“A true leader, and great veteran voice in the dressing room and on the bench, he supported and pushed his teammates to be better and most importantly, to have fun, while taking a minimal 10 penalty minutes on a small defence squad playing big minutes,” stated the coaching staff.

Elijah Hort of Sturgis received the Most Improved award.

“Elijah transformed his game and rose to the potential we knew he was always capable of.

He truly ‘bought in’ to what was asked of him on the ice and worked his tail off to finish his minor hockey career as probably his most productive season ever,” stated the coaching staff.

Todd Pankratz of Preeceville received the Marlin Romaniuk Memorial Top Scorer award and the Jack Prien Top Forward award. Photographed from left, were: Cynthia Romaniuk (sponsor), Pankratz and Rudy Romaniuk (sponsor) of the Top Scorer award.

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the pins and plates that were needed.

“I expect it’ll be six months before I’m considered recovered.”

This month Smutt is celebrating his 16th year as a firefighter and EMT with the Airdrie Fire Department. Although he has been climbing “off and on, bits and pieces here and there,” for 10 years, he says he has been a “dedicated climber” for about two years.

The weekend before his fall, Smutt had been climbing with a partner and “free soloed” Mount Assiniboine in the southern Rockies.

Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of technical ice or rock climbing where the climbers (or free soloists) climb alone without ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment, forcing them to rely entirely on their own individual strength and skill, says an item on Wikipedia. Mount Assiniboine is a pyramidal peak mountain located on the Great Divide, on the British Columbia/Alberta border. At 3,618 metres, it is the highest peak in the Southern Continental Ranges of the Canadian Rockies.

Asked how his fall will affect his mountain climbing in the future, Smutt said that “this is just a slow down. I have bigger

peaks in my sights.”

He said that he has often climbed with Macey and her boyfriend, who normally live out of a van while climbing. Together they climbed Canada’s second highest waterfall, Takakkaw Falls, a waterfall located in Yoho National Park, near Field, B.C. The falls have a total height of 373 metres, making it the second tallest waterfall in Canada. The main drop of the waterfall has a height of 254 metres.

The son of Percy and Diane Smutt of Kamsack, Travis is a 2000 graduate of the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute.

He attended the University of Saskatchewan for three years and then took medical training as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in Fort McMurray, Alta. He joined the Fort McMurray fire department in 2004 and then the Airdrie fire department in 2011.

What does it take to be a mountain climber?

“You have to be a little bit of crazy and have a lack of fear,” he said. “You have to want to get to places few people get to go.”

Smutt referred fondly to the group of people called the eight-thousanders.

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that he was the first lead, with his partner following.

He was fastening his rope to a permanent eye bolt attached to the rock.

‘You clip on with the rope as protection so that if you fall, it prevents you from hitting the ground. I had clipped the last bolt and I could see the anchor, but I was getting tired because of the routes we did just before.

“I was about six feet from the anchor and realized I wouldn’t make it. I called Macey below me to say that I was going to fall so she could be prepared to help stop the fall.

“She didn’t hear me. I started to free fall, pulling the rope off her hand. She tried to grab the rope with her free hand, but I was heavier and it was more force on her.

“It happened in a blink of an eye. I fell 40 feet to hit the ground and Macey got pulled into a wall and then was yanked up as I was going down.

She received third degree burns to her hand and is now in rehabilitation with a plastic surgeon.

“Macey slowed down my fall enough for me to survive it.”

Because the area is a popular spot for climbing it has good cell service.

Because the terrain is too rocky to carry someone out, Smutt was air lifted to a nearby ambulance operated by Kananaskis Public Safety where he was stabilized and then rushed by ambulance to the Calgary Foothills Hospital about 45 minutes away.

“I’m on heavy painkillers,” he said. “Imagine trying to move around with a broken back and pelvis, it’s very, very uncomfortable.”

He said he expects to be laid up from six to eight weeks for his back to mend and a bit longer for his ankle to heal because of

This is a photo of Travis Smutt standing on the summit of Mount Assiniboine.

mountains that are more than 8,000 metres (26,247 feet) in height above sea level, and are considered to be sufficiently independent from neighbouring peaks.

“Every climber dreams of them,” he said, adding that so many of them are dangerous. “You know that there have been more people in outer space than have climbed to the summit of K2, a mountain in a range in Pakistan.”

To date, Smutt has confined his mountain climbing to peaks in Canada, the USA and Acatenango, a volcano in Guatemala, which is over 4,000 metres high.

There are a lot of schools and guiding operations for people interested in climbing, he said, adding that one falls into a circle of friends who climb. He said Marcy’s boyfriend is currently in the process of obtaining his guiding qualifications.

“You typically learn from friends.”

Before his fall in August, Smutt said that although he’s had many close calls, “in the mountains, we do everything to mitigate the risks.

“Last year I fell 40 feet

Travis Smutt was dealing with his ropes while on a route called Grey Waves (152 metres or 500 feet) on Kid Goat Buttress near Exshaw, Alta.

This is a picture of Travis Smutt on a route called Joy which took him up 606 metres or 2,000 feet on Mount Indefatigable at Kananaskis Lakes, Alta.

Climbing partners Tristian Ash, left, and Travis Smutt were in the middle of a route called More Cow Bell on the Delta Wall in Kananaskis, Alta.

A former Kamsack resident is recovering at home with broken bones and fractures after having fallen while rock climbing near Cranmore, Alta. late last month.

Travis Smutt, 38, was climbing with a partner at the Grassy Lakes climbing crags on August 26 when he fell to the ground about 40 feet below breaking his T12 vertebrae, fracturing his pelvis, dislocating an ankle and sustaining an open compound fracture of an ankle bone. He was released from the Calgary Foothills Hospital Trauma Centre on September 2.

“When I hit the ground and bounced off a ledge, I stood up and said ‘this is going to be a bad day,’” he said recently as he talked to the Times, about the accident.

“I can walk,” he said, explaining that he was wearing a temporary cast on a leg to allow for swelling. “It looks like a club, like a medieval swinging tool.”

Smutt said that having wanted to “go out and do some climbing,” he was at the Grassi Lakes climbing crags which is a collection of slabs of wall where sport climbing paths of varying difficulty are used by climbers. He had climbed the crags before and this time he was with Macey Lovelle, a climbing partner.

“Many climbers go to the crags to train, the access is easy,” he said, explaining that like in other physical activities, one begins with an easier route to warm up, and then moves on to harder grades, before cooling down at an easier climb.

“We did a few warmups on Gardener’s Wall, where the difficulty increases,” he said, adding

Travis Smutt was photographed as he was climbing the Delta Wall in Kananaskis, Alta. while ice climbing, but I stopped when I was caught six inches off the ground.

At Takakkaw Falls, a rock let go and cut a rope as we were mid-way down the mountain. If the rope had let go, I’d have fallen 700 or 800 feet and that could have been fatal.

“My sister Chantel Smutt, who is a registered psychiatric nurse, drove out from Saskatchewan so that I wouldn’t be alone during my stay in the hospital. She is still with me, helping me with day-today life now that I’m at home.

“Without her, this journey would have been and would be much more difficult than it has been.”

Smutt says he has been in the habit of returning to Kamsack a couple times a year, typically in the fall to go hunting with his father, and he tries to return for Christmas.

“When playing in the mountains, you have to understand there is significant risk,” he said.

“You have to know your own skill level. The mountains don’t care. You have to play by the rules or there is catastrophe.”

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EDITORIAL Bringing film festivals outside of big cities It is the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Of course, having an international film festival in 2020 comes with its own unique set of complications, so the international part of the festival became surprisingly literal. While Toronto is the center of events, and will host several screenings, it’s not actually just in Toronto, instead being a festival which exists everywhere, as anyone can screen from home.

This isn’t without precedent - in fact, Yorkton’s own festival was going entirely streaming before Toronto - but one wonders if one of the biggest guns in film festivals going mostly online is going to set a precedent that lasts longer than just a single time of crisis.

It’s an experiment, of course, and one that TIFF organizers were backed into. But it’s an experiment that could be very interesting for fans of film as the festival is no longer localized.

It’s especially interesting in a city like Yorkton, as in spite of the city’s deep links to film and television, it’s not the easiest place in the world to watch a lot of the acclaimed work that premieres at festivals around the globe.

This isn’t anyone’s fault, but the city has a mere one screen in the local theatre and that means we get one movie a week. Because of this, the owners of that theatre are going to prioritize blockbusters, big summer fare and generally things that are massaudience friendly. If they

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by Chloe Zhao, for example, they’re going to bring in the upcoming Marvel film Eternals, rather than her decidedly smaller, but prize-winning film Nomadland, which premiered in Toronto to rave reviews. I’m not even so foolish as to claim that they’re missing out by not screening Nomadland, if you’ve got one screen you have to use it wisely.

However, having Toronto go to a virtual festival makes it possible to see these films at home earlier than we would be able to in most years.

Even if this experiment is a success it’s likely that TIFF will go back to being strictly Torontofocused when travel is recommended again.

Should it? Because the goal of a film festival is to get films in front of audiences, and there are many who can’t make it to Toronto, and many films which will never be screened theatrically in smaller centres.

Much as the Yorkton Film Festival’s online program was before TIFF’s, other things happening in Yorkton could, and should, be adapted

by Toronto. Specifically, I’m thinking about the DVD tours, which collects films screened locally into packages

which can be screened by different groups in the province. Using film as outreach could easily be adapted to a larger scale.

TIFF screens longer films, but why not have a TIFF tour? Send out “mini film festivals” that could be screened in smaller communities, possibly theatrically, possibly just on a one-off drive-in or school gym location. You would have films reach audiences which otherwise wouldn’t have a chance to see them, make a bit of extra money for independent filmmakers, and possibly partner with a community organization for concession sales. Not every film could be eligible, but there’s always a benefit to finding ways for films to make a bit more money for the studio, especially smaller budget and international films.

Watching film right now is simultaneously easier than ever and significantly more complicated, depending on the film. With film festivals going online, at least temporarily, it’s a good time to think about different things we can do to help the medium thrive. When people feel safe getting together again, it’ll be an opportunity to rethink these festivals.

Indigenous artist to receive recognition for handcrafted masks

By Nicole Wong - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Winnipeg Sun) An Indigenous artist from Manitoba will be getting various recognitions for the two masks that she handcrafted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cynthia Boehm has

been working as a beadwork artist for over four years, mainly making beaded mukluks and moccasins for sale. She was born and raised in Norway House.

One of the masks will be showcased in the Breathe. collection at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies this month while the other

has been commissioned by the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre in Scotland.

Breathe. is a project co-created by Métis artists, Nathalie Bertin and Lisa Shepherd through a Facebook group, inviting various artists to create masks that would reflect emotions felt during the Continued on Page 5

Our children shouldn’t have to pay for our excesses This year, “Earth Overshoot Day” came later than it has in 15 years — on August 22.

That’s a mixed blessing.

Increasing per capita consumption, population growth and rising greenhouse gas emissions had been moving the date earlier almost every year since the 1970s. It’s fallen in late July or early August for the past few years.

“Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year,” according to the organization behind the concept, Global Footprint Network. Even with the later overshoot date, we burned through a year’s resources in under eight months. That means we would need 1.6 Earths to support humanity’s current demands on the planet’s ecosystems.

Employing the many readily available and emerging solutions to “move the date” closer to year’s end is the goal, but this later-than-expected overshoot day was largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic rather than direct measures to address the climate emergency and other crises.

According to the Network, the global pandemic slowdown helped drive the world’s carbon footprint (that is, emis-

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Network president Mathis Wackernagel sees this year’s result as an encouraging sign that progress is possible, but cautions that it must be made “by design not by disaster.”

He compares our behaviour to a scam where current wealth must be repaid by others in the future: “Most countries have pretty strict laws about businesses running Ponzi schemes but somehow in the ecological domain we think it’s okay,” he says in the Guardian. “We’ve only got one planet and that’s not going to change.

We’ve got a very simple choice, one-planet prosperity or one-planet misery.”

This further illustrates the need for a pandemic recovery that goes beyond returning to “normal” and for measures to

address environmental crises that go beyond pandemic recovery.

Global Footprint Network focuses on five Continued on Page 5

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MASKS Continued from Page 4 COVID-19 pandemic. “It started from seeing the posting on the Breathe. page.

I saw that post in March, and I decided to make a mask to help me cope through the lockdown. I was thankful seeing that post because it got me beading again as I haven’t beaded since December,� said Boehm on Thursday.

Boehm’s first mask is called “Resilience,� because of what the word meant, which is the capacity to recover from difficulty. She wanted to make a mask that was traditional to the beadwork style in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Beforehand, Boehm was gifted with some rare antique

beads which she decided to use on this mask. The mask is made with black wool which is common during the 1800s.

She used a red fox braid cloth as the tie, which is also very common at that time.

The Resilience mask has been curated by the Glasgow Museum Resource Centre.

Boehm said she is very happy that the mask will end up in Scotland where her greatgrandfather, Donald McLeod, was originally from.

Each mask took Boehm around two weeks to complete. Together, it took her about a month as she started making her second mask shortly after her first one was done.

Her second mask,

“Optimism,� was selected to be featured at the national exhibit in Banff. The exhibition will run from September 24 to January 17, 2021. “In doing my second mask, I wanted to have positive energy while beading and the word optimism came to mind, being that optimism is a mental attitude reflecting a belief or hope that an outcome will be positive,� said Boehm. “The inspiration for the mask came from the mukluks and moccasins that were created in my home community of Norway House in the 60s and 70s. I remember as a young girl, a lot of people wore beautifully handcrafted mukluks made by their fami-

ly members. The mask is my interpretation of the beautiful mukluks that were created in Norway House. �

This mask is made with smoked home tan deer hide accented with decorative red lace and rabbit fur pom poms that were common in Norway House mukluk designs.

Boehm said as an artist, she is excited for her work to be displayed in several exhibitions “Beadwork is more than just beading, thru beadwork I celebrate my Cree and MĂŠtis Culture and I’m grateful for the precious gift that was passed down to me and the opportunity to practice my ancestors’ art form and share it with others,â€? she said.

One of the masks created by Cynthia Boehm during the COVID-19 pandemic.

EXCESSES Continued from Page 4 areas: planet, cities, energy, food and population. Its research and solutions align with the work of many organizations, including Project Drawdown and the David Suzuki Foundation.

Everything starts from the recognition that humanity depends on fertile soil and clean air and water for our wellbeing and health.

Because cities already consume 78 per cent of the world’s energy and produce more than 60 per cent of its greenhouse gas emissions, and we’re becoming increasingly urban, “City planning and urban development strategies are instrumental to balancing the supply of natural capital and population’s demand.�

The David Suzuki Foundation’s energy transition research concurs that decarbonizing the economy is critical to addressing climate disruption. Shifting to more local food systems and plant-based diets, avoiding processed foods and reforming agricultural practices are also important.

Rapid population growth is also unsustainable, although consumption is a much greater problem —evidenced by the fact that the world’s wealthiest 10 per cent produces close to half the world’s consumptionrelated emissions, compared to just 10 per cent by humanity’s poorest half.

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Project Drawdown estimates family-planning resources and education for girls (which, it notes, should be basic human rights) could slow human population growth by one billion by 2050, consequentially keeping more than 85

gigatonnes of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.

Although slowing population growth is important, we can’t resolve the climate crisis if we don’t reduce the amount of resources we consume, especially in the developed world. As Global

Footprint Network points out, we’re consuming resources at a much faster rate than Earth is able to replenish them. That’s led not just to the climate crisis, but also to a profound extinction and biodiversity crisis and continuing environmental devasta-

tion.

COVID-19 has put humanity on pause and exposed some of our current system’s flaws. It has also shown that we can slow consumption and move on to something better than the old “normal.� We’re at a crossroads and we must act

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New book from Bevann Fox one of hope, healing and her difficult journey through residential school Author member of Pasqua First Nation, originally from Piapot First Nation

By Shari Narine - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Windspeaker. com) For Bevann Fox, one policy created and implemented by Canada’s first prime minister had such an impact on her life that she was “mixed with so many emotions� when she saw coverage of the statue of John A. Macdonald hauled down by protesters in Montreal recently.

It was under Macdonald’s direction that residential schools were put in place. “Taking the Indian out of the child. I think people should be aware of that,� said Fox. “It’s important to know the history. But to honour (Macdonald)? Or his legacy? No. That was a terri-

ble crime that he did,� said Fox. “I was part of that system. I was to be destroyed.�

Fox is an award-winning local Indigenous leader, YWCA Women of Distinction Award winner and celebrated local Saskatchewan television personality with Access TV’s “The Four.� She is a member of Pasqua First Nation, originally from Piapot First Nation. Her book Genocidal Love hits the stores on Sept. 12.

Genocidal Love is fiction and truth woven together depicting Fox’s life in residential school in the character of Myrtle.

Fox’s initial intent was to tell her story as a memoir for her children and grandchildren. Then she decided she wanted to

reach a larger audience.

However, because in 2005 she accepted financial compensation from the government for her experiences in residential school, “nothing negative could be said about the Queen,â€? she explained. “That changed everything‌. I specifically detailed everything through Myrtle. I put some fictional pieces in there too to add to the story, some creative writing‌ It was an incredible process writing this book,â€? said Fox. “I’m now telling my story through Myrtle.

There are many Myrtles out there.�

Genocidal Love is a reworking of Abstract Love, Fox’s book, published in 2011, telling of Myrtle’s story.

Fox explains that Genocidal

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Love takes more of a linear chronological approach to the story than Abstract Love did.

The new title, she adds, also emphasizes the full impact of residential schools. “And calling it Genocidal Love, we have domestic violence so high, and addictions and I think it’s part of this genocidal process, genocidal effects from that residential school. Our children didn’t have to go there now, because now we do it to ourselves. We carry it. It’s a genocidal effect created by the residential school created by Canadian policy,� said Fox. Fox says her uncle was killed in residential school when he was young, and her brother died after attending residential school. “My brother died from genocide because he lived in the effects of genocide. It was really sad how he lived,� she said.

Fox also found herself getting into harmful relationships and not understanding why. “I was internalizing that genocide, the domestic violence, the addiction. I didn’t realize I was

doing it until later, realized I was doing it to myself. It’s what I’ve learned. A lot of people break that cycle and I’m happy to have broken that cycle,� she said.

Fox admits there are times when circumstances or situations still trigger painful memories.

However, she no longer processes it in a destructive way. Instead, she acknowledges it personally, sometimes writes about it or talks to a friend. “I self-care myself because everyone has their own way of taking care of it now,� she said.

Fox wants Genocidal Love to be read by both Indigenous and nonIndigenous people. For Indigenous people, particularly young people embarking on relationships, she wants them to understand their history and the legacy of residential schools. She also wants them to recognize that the behaviour their parents or grandparents may exhibit may be linked to their own residential school experiences.

She points out that some Elders who have read Genocidal Love have struggled with it. “Everybody who reads it goes through some emotion‌ whether it be anger or sadness or hurt or guilt. I know a few of the elderly ladies ‌ they read it up to a point and that was it, they couldn’t read it anymore. It was very, very traumatic for them,â€? she said.

For non-Indigenous readers, Genocidal Love offers an “educational piece� and builds on the work undertaken by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which

offered its final report on residential schools in 2015. “The non-Indigenous (people) ‌ don’t know our history. They don’t know where we come from even before the residential school. I think it’s important that they learn this. Racism is part of that whole (situation), coming from that genocide and that policy,â€? said Fox. In the preface to Genocidal Love, Fox writes, “The character of Myrtle is also bigger, though, than my own personal story. She represents thousands of other First Nations girls ‌ and First Nations women.â€?

It’s an important message from Fox. “Hopefully for the ones that have been through experiences like Myrtle, that they learn from this or heal from this book or it will help them to open up and start their healing journey or start talking about it, breaking their own cycles if they have any,� she said. “I just want this book to be inspirational for others, to be educational and healing. I hope it impacts others in that way.�

Genocidal Love offers an unique look into the process of healing and personal reclamation that follows Myrtle’s escape from genocide. It is a difficult journey, filled with hope and determination to take back the voice that was stolen from her when she was sent to residential school at the age of seven.

Fox will embark on a tour for her novel, most of which she expects will be virtual in this time of COVID-19.

The Sixties Scoop hid her identity, food is helping her find it Maki learned she is from White Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan

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What’s a pastry consultant? Who needs someone to tell them what pastries to eat?

It turns out a pastry consultant is someone who works with new and established restaurants.

Sudbury pastry consultant Tammy Maki explains what she does. “I go into a place that is looking to start a pastry kitchen or bakery. If they are starting from scratch, I help them with layout,

plan the kitchen flow, source equipment and contractors. If it is an existing business, I help with new (pastry) menus and do their costing.

Sometimes, a restaurant might need me to cover for their pastry chef who is on vacation.�

Maki is now in the process of setting up a new business, Raven Rising, Global Indigenous Chocolates and Pastries, an online business specializing in goodies. (ravenrising.ca) Her new business is born from the love of

food she got from her family, her skills and experience as a pastry chef. But it also, interestingly, comes from Indigenous traditions, she told Sudbury.com. “Food brings everyone together. I want everyone to eat and be happy,� she said.

Growing up in a Finnish-Canadian home, Maki learned how to bake from her mother. “My earliest memory is of being the kitchen with Mom and making pulla.�

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HARVEST PROGRESS 2020

Zero-till farming pioneer honoured with hall of fame induction Evan Radford, - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The LeaderPost (Regina) INDIAN HEAD — As a data and numbers guy, Jim Halford never intended to get into the blunt, greasy work of farm machinery; his graduate research in the 1960s at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) focused on the economics of farming.

And as a Nuffield scholarship recipient in 1975, he lived in the U.K. for five months to learn about that region’s farmleasing and land-rental system.

But by the mid- and late-1980s, Halford was up to his elbows in prototypes and patents for a seeder that could do what, on paper, he knew farmers and their soil needed: zero-tilling.

“What I wanted to accomplish ... was to be able to put all the fertilizer that was needed for that crop, but be able to keep it far enough away from the seed so it was safe,” he said. “You can’t put high levels of fertilizer with most seeds; it’ll damage the seed.”

A couple decades later, in 2007, he sold his air-pump, zero-tillage machine design to John Deere; the design used the same concept he patented back in the 1980s, what he dubbed Conserva Pak. Thanks to his work in bringing the practice — and its materials — to Saskatchewan, Halford was inducted this summer into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame, along with fellow inductees Jay Bradshaw, Dr. Bryan Harvey and Douglas Hedley.

Zero-tilling represents a distinct break with traditional ways of farming the land, referred to as tillage or summer fallow systems.

In the old way of farm-

ing, a producer would harvest their crop one year, then let a portion of its left-over bits (stubble, stems, chaff) sit unused through an entire growth and harvest cycle. “(It was) a means of saving a bit of moisture: Harvest a crop, have some of that moisture saved, control weeds with tillage,” he explained.

“Some people were maintaining 30, 40 or 50 per cent of the land in summer fallow and then cropped it next year.”

He wanted to find a better way to farm his family’s land, which sits in a valley and has light soil; he knew a fallowtillage system hadn’t worked in the past.

“We had land that drifted in the 1930s in the really dry years ... complete fence lines buried, like five and six feet of soil (covering) fences,” he said.

On other fields, “because we were in a valley that was at a slope, if you got a heavy rain and it was tilled land, the water would come down and wash out runways

Jim Halford, of Indian Head, Sask., was inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame in July of 2020. Halford, posing for a photo on Sept. 10, 2020, was responsible for bringing zero-till farm practices to Saskatchewan. into the field, because of the volume of water coming.”

He wanted to find a way to “keep something anchored in the soil.”

Hence zero tillage, which allowed him to plant a seed and a fertilizer underground, spaced appropriately, while reducing how much topsoil he disturbed.

In 1983, Halford tried his first prototype, which would be the basis for his Conserva Pak design: Each seeder head has three arms in succession — one plants the fertilizer, one plants the seed slightly higher than the fertilizer and the third carries a wheel that packs the soil on top. The heads are arranged in rows and

attached to giant metal frames, mounted on larger wheels, which get pulled by a tractor.

“We spent about five, six years building a new prototype every year just improving it, until we started selling seeders in 1989,” he said.

Support for the new practice came from local farmers, especially organized groups in Manitoba and North Dakota, but not from the wealthy equipment companies like John Deere, he said. “They aren’t going to venture into some high-level, new things unless they think there’s a market there.”

He had to manufacture and sell that equipment himself through his own company, right on his family farm, up until the 2007 sale.

“By 1993 we were selling in the U.S. and Australia,” he said.

Halford got an inkling of that support in January 1987, when he helped host the Manitoba- and North Dakota-based zero-tillage groups’ annual meeting in Regina.

“We had 1,200 people attend; it just kind of exploded,” he said.

Many of those members were actually farming in Saskatchewan.

The effect of Halford’s design is clear, he said.

Producers in four different Australian states adopted the practice, as did their counterparts in the northern U.S. and the pacific northwest, six states by his estimation.

He also cited a 2016 U of S agriculture economics research paper. The study’s authors found in 1985 approximately two to three per cent of farmers utilized a zero-tillage system in the three prairie provinces; in 2016 that number was 80 per cent.

Those using summer fallow techniques are now down to about five per cent.

Halford said being recognized, via his induction, holds a special meaning for him, especially being from Saskatchewan.

“I think (it) has done a lot in Canadian agriculture, for a long time.”

A day baling hay Farmers in the east-central region have made good harvest progress this past week with nine per cent of the crop now combined, up from two per cent last week and ahead of the five-year average (2015-2019) of four per cent, according to the province’s most recent crop report. An additional 17 per cent of the crop is swathed or ready to straight-cut, with the fiveyear average (2015-2019) being 16 per cent. For some the work on the farm still means being out in the field baling, as was the case for 77-year-old Rose Kienle who was out August 20, north of Quill Lake.

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Sask. members bring diversity to youth council

By Evan Radford - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Regina Leader-Post) If the federal government is aiming for diversity in its new Canadian Agricultural Youth Council, it succeeded, at least in its selection of Saskatchewan-based members.

Sameeha Jhetam, Brent Kobes and Andrea De Roo come from urban, northwest and southeast regions of the province, all with different focus areas in agriculture.

They’re to help form the 25-member council, which will have direct access to Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau; the council is to meet with her in a virtual meeting planned for this month.

The three Saskatchewan members spoke with the LeaderPost to share their insights about the industry.

(Edited for length and clarity) Sameeha Jhetam, 24 Q: When did you first start working in agriculture?

A: I’m currently a master’s student; I’m in poultry management and welfare. I first got into agriculture when I went to (the University of Saskatchewan) to study a bachelor of science in animal bioscience.

I grew up in

Johannesburg, South Africa, which was an urban setting. So I didn’t grow up around agriculture, but I always had a love for animals or livestock. (As an undergraduate), I found a love for poultry, which pushed me to pursue a master’s degree in poultry management and welfare.

Q: What kind of work do you do in the agriculture sector now?

A: My master’s thesis is looking at the impacts of stocking density on the performance, health and welfare of turkey hens.

I’ve done a smaller research project looking at feed-related enrichment for turkey poults when they’re young, trying to encourage them to eat feed in the first few days of life.

I’ve previously worked for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency as a primary inspector. That was a good sector to work in, looking at meat processing and the importance of the CFIA in meat processing.

Q: Why agriculture?

A: What really drew me was the importance of science and research in advancing the agriculture industry to meet the growing demand for food, for livestock and poultry that are being raised under higher welfare standards.

Q: What is your earliest childhood memory of being exposed to agricul-

Sameeha Jhetam is one of three Saskatchewan-based people selected to the federal Canadian Agricultural Youth Council. Photo by Matt Smith/Saskatoon StarPhoenix ture or being on a farm?

A: I definitely was afraid of chickens when I was younger, I didn’t like birds. And so now my love of poultry was definitely surprising.

Q: Do you view yourself as having any significant role by being a Muslim woman in agriculture, in terms of being a role model for other women?

A: I definitely consider myself part of that conversation. I think being a woman in agriculture at first is already making a step in diversifying.

Being an immigrant woman of colour, a Muslim woman, it’s definitely bringing a lot of diversity to the industry.

I think it’s really important for others to see people they identify with or recognize to know there

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Q: What interests you in the animal welfare aspect of agriculture?

A: I think many people don’t realize animal welfare is one of the main focuses for producers. As a researcher, it’s centred around everything we do, because without healthy, well-cared-for animals, livestock is not profitable.

Producers are well aware of implementing proper welfare and handling of animals. By being in the research and science sector, you can help advance that and continuously help producers to improve animal welfare. With the increase in demand for food, there’s only going to be an increase in the amount of animals that people have to raise.

Brent Kobes, 23 Q: Did you go through the agriculture program at the University of Saskatchewan?

A: I was a political science student. I graduated in 2019.

Q: Do you work in agriculture now in any capacity, or have you in the past?

A: I grew up on a beefand a mixed, multi-generational-operation in Edam, Sask. I mostly grew up doing the beef side, then I had an uncle who did mostly grains.

I currently work for the Agriculture Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) as a researcher, so those are kind of my connections to the industry.

Q: Can you tell me a bit about your family’s farm?

A: It’s my grandparents, my uncle, my cousin and then my father: We all help out each other, and that’s how we run our operation. My uncle mostly does the grains and pulses sides, but then my dad and I are mostly doing beef livestock.

Q: How are you hoping to merge your political science studies with agriculture?

A: I do want to preface that I’m a member of the Canadian Agricultural Youth Council as a citizen and not as a member of APAS. Having a political sci-

ence degree does help you gain understanding of how the regulations and how policy actually do affect individual farms and how farmers and producers can hopefully make changes to improve their conditions.

Q: Are there any previous MPs, MLAs or local politicians who you look up to, who you’ve thought, ‘OK that was a good policy made by this person’?

A: There’s nothing I’m going to point to in particular that I thought was a really great policy, but I think when you have producers’ input into the creation of policy, it does sort of bring forward better-planned things, as opposed to just the topdown approach.

Q: Was there one thing that really pushed you to be a member of the Canada Youth Ag. Council?

A: I think when an opportunity presents itself you should apply, because the worst thing they can say is ‘no.’

And to ensure there is some voice from here in Saskatchewan to be able to raise the issues that procedures here in the province have to (Minister Bibeau). It is kind of direct access, which is pretty valuable.

Q: Is there a discussion point you hope to bring to the council?

A: I think the last few years the theme we’ve seen is a decline for margin. Thematically, understanding that when margins decline that really hurts families and it really hurts the province too.

I come from a farming background, too, and I know how good the good years are and how bad the bad years can be, so kind of remembering that margin stability and retention is important.

Q: What is one of your earliest childhood memories of farming?

A: I grew up on a farm, so there’s not much before that, but I do have a very specific memory of my dad purchasing my first cow when I was probably like three or four.

I was very, very set on naming it Simba, after The Lion King.

Q: Were you allowed to do that?

A: Yes, I was, even though it was a cow, not a bull. It was a gelbvieh.

Andrea De Roo, 29 Q: What’s your connection to the agriculture sector?

A: I was born and raised on a mixed-grain and cattle farm in southeast Saskatchewan.

I’ve been involved in the agriculture industry my whole life: Down on the ground as a producer and farming with my family now, all the way to working into some policy research groups as well as private entities.

(Now) we’re just south of Moosomin, and then I also live on an acreage in Indian Head where my husband owns it and we

rent out.

Q: Can you recall where you got your first work in the sector outside of your family farm?

What was that like and what did you do?

A: It would have been a local grain house. It tied really well with my passion for plants and food and vegetables; that would have been back in high school, probably in Grade 10. I had just got my license; I was 16 years old.

My first job in the industry would have been working as an agronomy scout with Cargill, out in Yorkton.

That’s where I really gained some more perspective on farming outside of our little bubble here on the farm.

Q: What does an agronomy scout usually do?

A: We spend a lot of time in the fields looking at crops, assessing plant health, threats from any pests that might be in the area, trying to understand decisions that need to be made in terms of products being applied or timing of harvest.

Q: For your master’s degree, what was the main topic you tackled in your thesis?

A: My research focused on weed science, more specifically cleavers, which have become a very problematic pest in canola fields; the seed of cleavers is actually the same size and shape as canola, so it contaminates the samples when not controlled, which then causes other issues and contaminates the product when it hits store shelves.

Q: Is there one discussion point you want to bring to the table to help create dialogue among yourself and other council members?

A: How do you get into farming now? When you’re young, you don’t have all the assets and capital behind you yet.

You face other challenges if you do get the opportunity, because you’re a bit of a high risk as a young farmer.

So, how can we move forward as an industry to get more young farmers out there, especially as our farmers are starting to age and move on?

Trying to find support for young farmers that are looking to take over the farm, those that may want to get into the industry as a producer.

Q: What’s your earliest childhood memory of farming, one that really stands out?

A: Family. I can remember being a very young kid, going to work with mom at an auction barn and all the guys there almost kind of babysitting me as we were watching cattle in the back.

Then I also remember days being spent with dad or grandpa in the tractor or in the combine and just in awe and amazement of it all.

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Harvest 2020 Harvest is a busy an and Jennifer Lindgren who were out in the field recently taking in the crop with four combines and the associated equipment need for harvest.

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How a bison herd is bringing hope to a Saskatchewan First Nation Willow Fiddler - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The Globe and Mail) Alongside a dirt road in Muscowpetung Saulteaux Nation, community members drive up with lawn chairs in tow to sit outside a fenced-in enclosure and watch a herd of 15 bison gnaw on the prairie grass.

“Oh my God, they love it. They’re visiting them every evening,” James Pratt said about the excitement over the bison’s return to the Saulteaux community, nestled among the rolling Qu’Appelle valleys in Treaty 4 territory northeast of Regina.

Mr. Pratt is a community helper in Muscowpetung and part of a team that worked to bring back the stately creatures that once roamed the Saskatchewan prairies. The herd was initially bought to bolster food security during the pandemic, but the animals are providing the community with more than a stockpile of meat.

They’re reconnecting community members with their past and revitalizing their culture. “At one point, these animals were just about wiped out

and now ... in the last probably 20-30 years, they’re starting to make a comeback, they’re starting to come into our territory,” Mr. Pratt said.

It’s estimated that more than 30 million wood bison and plains bison roamed the Great Plains of North America before the late 1800s, when their population was drastically reduced as lands were colonized and developed with treaties between Canada and First Nations.

Prior to their nearextinction, bison -- sometimes also called buffalo -- were a significant part of First Nations culture that has long revered the stately creatures as sacred with important gifts and teachings. “This animal has fed us, this animal has clothed us, this animal has taught us and this animal has basically been there for all of us,” Mr. Pratt said.

The Muscowpetung Bison Farm is now planning a four-year project to grow and manage a herd permanently to move beyond a pandemic stopgap measure.

“We didn’t realize the strength [the herd] would bring to our community,” Saulteaux Nation Chief

Melissa Tavita said, adding the return of the bison was also the vision of a late elder. “We’re going back to our roots and going back to our traditional ways.”

In preparation for the bisons’ arrival in July, Muscowpetung consulted with elders and knowledge keepers to ensure they followed traditional Saulteaux teachings and customs.

The herd was welcomed with a feast and pipe ceremony when they arrived from Alberta, and were released into an enclosure, where they will roam and graze until they are harvested for food in the event of a community lockdown that restricts access in and out of Muscowpetung.

“But for each time we slaughter a buffalo, there has to be some sort of cer-

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emony done to that as well,” Chief Tavita said.

Ron Steckly is the rancher from Carstairs, Alta., who sold the herd of his wood-plains-cross bison to Muscowpetung, the fourth First Nation to receive his bison.

Mr. Steckly grew up on a dairy farm in Alberta but took up cattle instead.

He bought his first bison in the late 1990s, but says he wasn’t making any money off them and had in fact sold most of his bulls and heifers to offset costs of keeping them. So when he was approached by a Samoan Christian group in Saskatchewan about donating a herd to Peepeekisis First Nation, not far from Muscowpetung, who wanted to revitalize the population for its cultural significance, he gave them 20 cows and two bulls at no cost.

Last winter, Peepeekisis had enough in their herd to move some cows and bulls to another First Nation that has also welcomed the bison back onto their territory.

Mr. Steckly will work out a similar agreement with Muscowpetung to deliver another herd this winter at no cost.

The rancher said the

bison program has led to new friendships and teachings. He initially had no idea how much bison meant to First Nations people’s identities.

“It is really something to experience when you drive into and you arrive at the destination where they’re going to be unloaded and there are people and more people and cars, and they’re all waiting and they all want to see the buffalo and they are excited about it and they’re emotional about it,” Mr. Steckly said from his ranch, where he has around 400 bison.

Mr. Pratt says bringing the bison back onto their territory is a teaching – from the elders for the young people and future generations – that, like the bison, First Nations are survivors of colonialism.

“As First Nations, I guess they tried to do away with us too in history,” he said about Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people.

Kevin Wesaquate calls the reintroduction of bison a movement to preserve a cultural identity that carries sacred teachings and stories that are hard to find.

Mr. Wesaquate, whose art and poetry often includes bison, is a Cree artist and poet from Piapot First Nation, next to Muscowpetung. He says Indigenous identity is connected to the ability to practice old customs, traditions and ceremonies that are coming back to First Nations.

“At one point, the Indigenous people had to hide away those ceremo-

nies. So they would take like, for instance, the Thirst Dance or the Sun Dance and they would practice those ceremonies within the bushes, deep in the bushes, and hide those ceremonies from people,” the artist said from Saskatoon, where he’s lived for 35 years. “[The buffalo] provide that sense of belonging, that sense of Indigenous pride that so many people crave,” he said.

Chief Tavita said the recent months have been stressful on the community, not just with COVID but other events, like a band election, which can divide members.

Seeing the bison helped the community feel that “we’re moving forward in a good way,” she said. “They really appreciated that there’s something to look forward to.”

The community with 500 on-reserve members and 1,600 off-reserve members was in lockdown in April and part of May, but restrictions limiting people going in and out of the community have since eased. There have been no reported cases of the novel coronavirus in the community.

But restrictions could be reintroduced, depending on the number of cases in the region.

Saskatchewan has reported about 1,600 COVID-19 cases, while Indigenous Services Canada says they’re aware of 92 cases on reserves in the province.

“When we can’t go offreserve, that’s when we’ll harvest the buffalo,” Chief Tavita said.

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The national average for farmland values increased an average

of 3.7 per cent for the first half this year. This increase is in line with mid-year results over the past five years, which showed single-digit increases for the full year.

“Given the global economic situation during the first half of 2020, Canada’s farmland market is showing remarkable resilience in the face of adversity and

uncertain times,” said J.P. Gervais, FCC’s chief agricultural economist.

“Changes to production and marketing plans induced by the pandemic have had a definite influence on profitability, yet the demand for farmland remained robust.”

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$134 million interprovincial agreement renewed for Western College of Veterinary Medicine Three provincial governments announced the renewal of their financial commitment to the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) today.

The British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba governments’ agreement with the University of Saskatchewan provides more than $134 million to the WCVM for the next five years.

The agreement helps to ensure that Western Canada has a steady supply of veterinarians with in-depth knowledge of animal health and public health, as well as an awareness of the standards and issues facing livestock, fowl and fisheries producers and pet owners. “Ensuring that educational opportunities meet labour-market

expectations is a Growth Plan priority for our government,� Saskatchewan Advanced Education Minister Tiny BeaudryMellor said. “This agreement allows Saskatchewan, and our partner provinces, to communicate admissions’ priorities so they are in-step with each province’s labour-market needs.� “The Manitoba government is pleased to renew our commitment to training in veterinary medicine and continue our long-standing partnership that provides high-quality education and training opportunities to Manitobans and helps meet labour market demand across the province,� said Ralph Eichler, Manitoba Minister of Economic Development and Training. “This is an important investment in

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British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Training Melanie Mark said. “This agreement helps us focus on equipping students from the western provinces with the expertise to return and practice in their home communities, where they are in demand.�

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Melissa Just said. “We’re excited to see what it will achieve with the renewed support of its provincial partners and our university.�

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The internationallyaccredited facility includes a veterinary medical centre, a provincial diagnostic laboratory and large-scale research facilities.

The college’s new interprovincial agreement is in place until 2025.

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The dirt on transformational soil and how it could help save the world

By Marc FawcettAtkinson - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (National Observer) Anastasia Fyke doesn’t have time for millennials. Sort of.

The fourth-generation buckwheat farmer from Manitoba (and a millennial herself) wants to help farmers transform agriculture from Canada’s sixth-largest greenhouse gas producer into a carbon sink. It’s an attainable goal, she said — with enough investment. “I hear a lot of flak, especially from my own generation, blaming farmers for all these climate things,� she said. “But people aren’t willing to pay for it.�

About eight per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions came from

farms in 2018, with the bulk originating from cattle and the degradation of agricultural soil.

Artificial nitrogen fertilizers, which are used extensively in industrial agriculture and emit gases such as ammonia, nitrogen oxide, and nitrous oxides, are also to blame.

Nitrous oxide is particularly potent: It is over 300 times more efficient at trapping atmospheric heat than CO2, and accounted for about five per cent of Canada’s total emissions in 2018.

These emissions are also increasing, climbing 22 per cent since 1992, a trend that’s predicted to continue over the next decade according to a 2020 report by the National Farmers Union.

That has farmers like Fyke concerned.

Environment Canada anticipates drought,

Photo by Damaris Reidlinger.

Healthy soil can be a carbon sink, but farmers need to invest in it. That’s difficult for many who are pinched between high production costs and low sale prices. floods, wildfires, and unpredictable weather will become more common in the next 50 years, threatening many farms’ financial and ecological sustainability.

And those natural disasters are only part of the picture, she said.

Canadian farms are already walking a razor’s edge when it comes to their financial viability,

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The situation has pushed many out of the business altogether.

Between 1991 and 2011, the number of Canadian farmers dropped about 25 per cent, a trend that continues today. It’s also preventing those who remain from pivoting to low-carbon agricultural techniques and, potentially, turn farms into carbon sinks. “Our agricultural sector is structured so the costs associated with improving the environmental status of

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Canadian farmers’ debt, like greenhouse gas emissions, has risen exponentially over the past 20 years, more than doubling since 2000 to reach $115 billion this year.

Meanwhile, their net incomes have steadily dropped, hovering below $10 billion annually since the mid-1980s — rates unseen since the Great Depression.

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Canadian farmers rely on 250,000 imported bees. This year, they almost didn’t come

By Marc FawcettAtkinson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (National Observer) Flying 250,000 bees across the Pacific is complicated. Especially in a pandemic.

It’s a challenge Rod Scarlett knows well.

When most international flights stopped in March, thousands of queen bees were stranded abroad, and Scarlett, the executive director of the Canadian Honey Council, had to figure out how to get them to Canada before the spring thaw.

“The early spring is when we really need queens from an area that can provide them. That is, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Chile,” he said.

Bees are essential to B.C.’s agricultural sector — the province’s $370 million blueberry, raspberry and tree fruit crops depend on them — and contribute an estimated $538 million to the provincial economy overall.

It’s a contribution that has become even more important over the past several decades.

Habitat loss and pesticides have decimated

native pollinator populations — for instance, bumblebees (a key native pollinator) have seen their relative abundance crash by 97 per cent, with the sharpest decline occurring in the past 30 years.

In contrast, honeybees aren’t native to North America. They hibernate to survive Canada’s harsh winters and aren’t always successful.

Beekeepers lose roughly 20 per cent of their colonies during the winter, Scarlett explained, and the colonies that aren’t killed can emerge from the season weakened — a major issue for Canadian beekeepers, and the farmers relying on them to pollinate crops early in the season.

“You have to have queens early in the year so that you have a productive colony,” Scarlett said.

Queen bees are a bee colony’s raison d’être.

They’re built from bee larvae and fed a special diet by the colony to become sexually mature.

Once they reach maturity, the young queen will fly out of the colony and mate, before returning to lay eggs for several years.

Those eggs become work-

er bees, who leave the colony each day to collect pollen and nectar, the ingredients for honey and the queen’s exclusive meal: royal jelly.

Without a strong queen, worker bees won’t leave the colony in search of pollen. That search leads to plant pollination — the sole purpose for the third of Canada’s

commercial bee colonies used for commercial crop pollination. These beekeepers need to know their colonies will be searching for pollen when the crops they’re hired to pollinate are flowering.

And so, Canada import bees — queens, or twopound packages of worker bees and queens —

from warmer (and beedisease free) places.

“We get a majority of these queens from a quarantined area in Northern California and from Hawaii,” Scarlett said — a problem when the pandemic hit.

“Flights became an issue, particularly Hawaii because all of a sudden, commercial flights stopped. And that’s how bees normally came in, was through commercial flights.”

It was an emergency for beekeepers and farmers across the country: How would several hundred thousand bees cross the Pacific?

There weren’t many options, especially because bees need to travel in climate-controlled cargo holds.

FedEx and UPS couldn’t deliver Hawaiian bees across the Canadian border. Chartering a plane to the U.S. state — let alone other bee-producing regions such as Australia, New Zealand and Chile — was prohibitively expensive.

And Air Canada, usually the main bee transporter, stopped flying all animals because of the pandemic.

“As COVID-19 began to reshape our reality,

there was a real possibility that the bees would not be imported,” wrote Marie-Claude Bibeau, the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agrifood in an op-ed. “The outlook was grim.”

Scarlett agrees. “It was a stressful two weeks,” he said.

The situation was serious enough that the federal government stepped in, coordinating an exemption for honeybees from Air Canada’s zoological travel ban that allowed bees to be flown into — and across — Canada.

About 202,000 queen bees had entered Canada as of Sept. 1st, compared to 236,000 last year, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Fewer packaged bees made it into the country, with 68 per cent less packages arriving this year than last.

Scarlett isn’t concerned by these lower numbers. After all, the situation could have been much, much worse: Had the bee supply chain broken, roughly $2 billion worth of crops Canada-wide would have failed.

That’s a lot worse than shelves emptied of toilet paper.

Software development will aid farmers SASKATOON— Accurate determination of the number of wheat heads (the grain-bearing tip) in a field is vital for estimating yields in wheat crops, but the usual method—manual counting from digital images—is a long and tedious job.

To address this problem, University of Saskatchewan (USask) computer scientist Ian Stavness and international partners at eight other research institutions organized a competition, the Global Wheat Head Detection Challenge, to develop a computer software model for more effectively counting wheat heads using image analysis—an advance that will benefit agricultural producers, breeders, and research-

ers studying plant traits (phenomics) for genetic improvement.

USask’s Global Institute for Food Security and Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre (P2IRC) together offered US$15,000 in total prize money for the top three winners. The challenge was to design a software model for accurately counting more than 190,000 wheat heads (also called “ears”) from diverse digital images from around the world.

“Competitors had to analyze pictures of wheat plants and identify all of the wheat spikes (heads) in the images,” said Stavness, a member of the P2IRC team.

“We collected images of wheat fields from around the world and the

main challenge was to find a solution that works across all these different wheat varieties and images,” Stavness said.

“We wanted to make sure that the software created from the competition will work not only for the university wheat fields in Saskatoon, but that it will work just as well for a farmer in Herschel, Saskatchewan or one in Lampman, Saskatchewan, or even for a farmer in Australia.

Almost all of the submissions used advanced ‘machine learning’ methods to solve the problem, which is why the competition is called a machine learning or data science competition.”

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Taking the big horses to the mountains

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Epic A small word to describe a very amazing, incredible trip.

“My husband Cameron and I have been fortunate to go on some pretty awesome adventures, but taking a team of our Clydesdale mares into the Rocky Mountains for a ride and drive tour of the highs and lows of the Panther River area truly was incredible,” related Twylla Newton who operates Tailwinds Clydesdale just south of Yorkton.

It helped to have a guide too.

“A friend of ours has camped and explored this area of the Rocky Mountains and gracious-

ly invited us to camp with him,” said Newton.

“Not to miss an opportunity we jumped at the chance to camp out for a week in the mountains with our Clydesdales.”

And talk about a big job packing gear for that week, but in the end the gear was assembled and the crew ready to go.

“Harnessed and hitched to our wagon, coming in at an easy 2500lbs, a total of five wagons and five outriders hit the trail,” said Newton.

From the outset the trek was a challenge.

“It is not 10-minutes into the trail and we are at our first of many river crossings,” said Newton.

“The rivers are very rocky and belly deep on

the Clydesdales, rushing with enough force to push a loaded wagon sideways.”

It wasn’t so much easier on dry ground either.

“Right after that the climb started – and it seemed like it never quit,” said Newton.

“This was not easy, but with lots of breaks in the climb to let the mares ‘blow’ and relax, we had the power and energy to get to camp.”

Being at camp just meant more work, with care of the horses coming first.

“The horses were looked after, and camp was set up,” said Newton.

“Within a few short hours the fire was going, tents erected, beds ready and all had a delicious supper.

“I can tell you that we slept very hard that night!”

The next few days were a tad less exhaustive.

“The next few days involved trail riding,” said Newton. “Our mares were saddled and ready to go.

“The trails were everything – but groomed!

“Sometimes the ground was soft, and the horses had formed a narrow trench for a trail, the big drafts literally put one hoof right in front of the other.

“Then add hairpin turns, steep inclines, straight down plunges, and huge fallen logs to step over – and it seemed like that happened all at the same time!

“The trees were so thick in spots that the lead horse, even only a few horse lengths in front, could not be seen through the bush.

“Opposite of the dense bush trails is the tree-less ridge riding on the shale rock.”

And, there were moments of pure awe along the way.

“Up on the ridge, the view is incredible, unless you look down, then it is just scary!” said Newton.

The trip wasn’t all from the back of horse of course.

“A really unique opportunity was to be able to swim in a ‘mountain top’ lake, yes it was a little cold, but just so clear and beautiful you could not help but go in,” said Newton.

The trip was one to never forget and has Newton recommending the locale, if not their

exact method to see it.

“If you ever have the opportunity to take in

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SaskPower encourages customers to “look up” this harvest Collisions between agriculture equipment and power lines increase during harvest As harvest begins, SaskPower is reminding farmers, producers, and anyone else operating large machinery to watch out for power lines.

Since January 2020, there have been over 200 incidents involving farm machinery contacting power lines and poles – each with the potential for serious injury or death.

“We’re reporting roughly

30 fewer incidents involving farm equipment from this time last year – which is encouraging – but that’s still too many incidents,” Kevin Schwing, Director of Safety at SaskPower said. “We still need to remind everyone to be extremely careful when operating equipment near power lines, and to get home safe at the end of the day.”

SaskPower reported 327 incidents involving farm equipment in 2019, resulting in damages in excess of $635,000.

Specifically, during the 2019 harvest (August 1 to October 31), 81 incidents involving farm equipment occurred.

All power line contacts are completely preventable.

SaskPower encourages operators to take their time, locate

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ground power lines.

In the event that a line or pole is contacted, an operator should remain in the vehicle or farm implement (if safe to do so) and contact SaskPower immediately at 310-2220.

For more information on electrical safety, including prevention and steps to take if you hit a power line, visit saskpower.com/safety.

DIRT Continued from Page A11 agriculture aren’t being rewarded by the increased price of food or an increase in the price the producer receives,” said David Burton, a soil scientist and professor at Dalhousie University who studies carbon sequestration in agriculture.

“Canadian farmers participate in a global food system that is mostly based on the least cost of input, reducing costs, so it becomes very difficult to add to these costs of production and still be competitive.”

But from an environmental perspective, those increased costs are outweighed by the benefits.

Benefits that lie at the heart of Canadian farms: In their soils.

Healthy soil is rich in organic matter like compost or dead plants, Burton explained. That’s what gives it the structural integrity that plants depend on to access oxygen, CO2, nutrients, and water. It also plays a key role in the biochemical reactions that help plants thrive, and provides a home to plants and other soil-dwellers.

Organic matter is why growing a garden on an old compost pile works well — the soil is already primed with the stuff, allowing plants to thrive.

It’s also a cheap and efficient way to sequester the carbon dioxide captured in dead plants into the soil instead of letting it escape into the atmosphere.

“The biggest impact our farm has had on emissions is just the increase year over year of the organic matter locked in our soil,” said Arzeena Hamir, a mixed vegetable farmer in B.C.’s Comox Valley.

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She relies on farming techniques that minimize the amount of soil she disturbs while consistently adding compost and straw to increase her beds’ fertility and structure.

Still, those practices aren’t widespread. Over the past century, industrial farming has eaten away at the organic matter in soils by cropping farmland and relying on artificial nitrogen fertilizers to feed the plants instead. It remains the predominant model for Canadian farms.

“That impacted the function of soils and their health,” Burton, the soil scientist, explained.

It was one of the factors behind the Dust Bowl and it has made farms both less resilient and sustainable.

Those practices have also made many farmers dependent on artificial fertilizers to replace the essential nutrients entwined with organic matter. Fertilizers that emit nitrous oxide, that are increasingly expensive, and lock farmers into a spiral with significant environmental and financial consequences.

“Investing in your soil is not something that you will benefit financially from in the short term,” Hamir said.

“You’re going to be reaping those rewards in decades. But initially, there’s a cost to that, be it seed or land, that’s not in production.”

She can afford that investment. Hamir owns her farm, ensuring she’ll reap the benefits of better soils, and sells directly to local consumers for

a premium price — a business model that’s largely insulated from global market pressures.

Many farmers can’t afford this kind of investment and need to maximize their land’s production each year. Breaking this cycle of high-volume, industrial production on a national scale will take experimentation and federal support and should be a priority for the federal and provincial governments as they develop COVID-19 relief funds, Fyke, the fourthgeneration farmer from Manitoba, said.

Hamir agreed.

“Right now, if you’re a farmer, you’re probably struggling to earn a living versus implementing innovative, climatefriendly farming,” she said.

FARMLAND Continued from Page A10 values for most provinces over the last 12 months compared to last year’s average, with the exception being in Alberta (8.5 per cent compared to 3.3 per cent) and Saskatchewan (7.9 per cent compared to 6.2 per cent). In general, the pace of farmland value increases over the past six months was slightly higher in western provinces and slightly lower in central and eastern parts of the country, with the exception being New Brunswick.

Average farmland values have increased every year since 1993; however, increases were more pronounced from 2011 to 2015 in many different regions. In 2015, the average increase was 10 per cent, and since that

year, Canada has seen more moderate singledigit increases in average farmland values.

Low interest rates, the limited supply of farmland in the market and confidence among producers in the farmland market appear to be the main drivers behind the 2020 mid-year increase.

“Despite supply chain disruptions that have impacted some sectors, such as red meat, the pandemic has so far not significantly affected the agriculture land market,” Gervais said.

“In fact, the grain, oilseed and pulse sectors have performed well in the first half of 2020, supporting the slightly higher rate of increase in western Canada.”

Crop receipts (excluding cannabis) for the first six months of 2020 are 1.6 per cent higher than for the same period last year.

Gervais recommends farm operators should continue to exercise caution, especially in regions where the growth rate of farmland values significantly exceeded that of farm income in recent

years. He also recommends operators maintain a risk management plan to protect their business from unpredictable circumstances.

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Outdoor browsing An outdoor Farmers Market/Sidewalk Sale was held at Saltcoats Saturday. The event attracted more than 25 vendors selling a range of things from garden

produce, to baking, jams and jellies, crafts, jewelry and more. The event was held on the grass along High Street in the community.

SIXTIES SCOOP Continued from Page 6 Last Christmas, she rented the kitchen at Walden Arena to fill pulla orders. She makes the Finnish cardamom bread from scratch.

“It takes a few hours to do. I mix it by hand; I will never do it in a mixer. I need to feel the dough.”

Trained at Cambrian College, Maki did her pastry chef apprenticeship at Rim Rock Resort and Hotel in Banff, Alta.

After working out West for a number of years and “sponging” up as much experience and knowledge as she could, Maki returned to Sudbury to be close to her daughter and five grandchildren.

After her parents died, Maki began researching her background. She knew she was adopted and her birth mother was Indigenous, but she didn’t want to hurt her parents by asking too

Tammy Maki’s business, Raven Rising, is born from the love of food she got from her Finnish family, her skills and experience as a pastry chef and Indigenous traditions. many questions.

“When I was growing up, it wasn’t cool to be Indigenous. Not in my family, but some people made me feel bad about it.”

Maki learned she is from White Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan.

“I was part of the Sixties Scoop,” she said, taken from her birth mother and put up for

adoption, not by choice.

“I found many things I thought were not true. My mother did not give me up for adoption.”

Saskatchewan had an official Indigenous transracial (Métis) adoption program from the 1950s to the 1980s. Child welfare authorities took babies from single mothers and placed them in white middle-class homes.

Maki knows her biological father was of European background.

She can’t find any records about her birth mother, but she has found an older brother. He has helped her learn about her heritage.

“Now it is important to me to find out more about who I am and to share that knowledge.”

As she learns more about her Indigenous roots, she has been researching First Nations foods, which do not use refined sugar,

Should you stop taking that medication? It could be risky (NC) — Many of us have been tempted to stop or change a medical treatment on our own. But whether that’s because you’re feeling better, think the treatment isn’t working, are worried about its cost or are having uncomfortable side effects, stopping the use of a medication or medical device on your own can be dangerous. It can even make your condition worse.

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trans fat or artificial flavour.

Maki is developing recipes with fruit, berries, nuts and seeds.

She sources chocolate from Brazil and other parts of South America.

Chocolate comes from the cacao tree native to the Amazon Basin, although most of the cacao beans seeds used today are grown in West Africa.

As she prepares to launch Raven Rising in October, Maki is perfecting her all-natural cookies, made without sugar, and native granola sweetened with honey.

She has a recipe for a pemmican dessert made with dried bison, dried berries and chocolate.

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NEWLY RENOVATED 2 & 3br suites for rent. Call 306-715-5966.

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NOTICE OF CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF GARRY NO. 245 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that QRPLQDWLRQV RI FDQGLGDWHV IRU WKH RIÃ&#x20AC;FHV RI REEVE, COUNCILLOR FOR DIVISION NO. 1, COUNCILLOR FOR DIVISION NO. 3, COUNCILLOR FOR DIVISION NO. 5, will be received on the 7th day of October, 2020, f rom 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the municipal office, and during regular business hours on September 19 to October 7, 2020, at the municipal office.

Nomination forms may be obtained from the municipal office.

Dated this 18th day of September, 2020.

TANIS FERGUSON, RETURNING OFFICER

RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF CHURCHBRIDGE NO. 211

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations RI FDQGLGDWHV IRU WKH R൶FHV RI REEVE Councillor for Division No. 1 Councillor for Division No. 3 Councillor for Division No. 5 will be received by the undersigned on the 7th day of October, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time DW WKH PXQLFLSDO R൶FH 9LQFHQW $YHQXH (DVW Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, and during regular business hours on September 17th to October 6, 2020 DW WKH PXQLFLSDO R൶FH 9LQFHQW $YHQXH (DVW Churchbridge, Saskatchewan.

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Board Members:

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Appendix C FORM H [Section 66 of the Act] Notice of Call for Nominations (Municipal Elections) PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of FDQGLGDWHV IRU WKH RIÃ&#x20AC;FH V RI Reeve: Rural Municipality of Orkney No. 244 Councillor: Rural Municipality of Orkney No. 244 For Division No. 1 (One) -or- Number to be Elected 1 (one) Councillor: Rural Municipality of Orkney No. 244 For Division No. 3 (Three) -or- Number to be Elected 1 (one) Councillor: Rural Municipality of Orkney No. 244 For Division No. 5 (Five) -or- Number to be Elected 1 (one)

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Number of Board Members to be elected â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 member per subdivision Sub-Division No. 1

Representing the incorporated area of the Villages of Arran, Pelly and Togo, the Towns of Kamsack and Norquay, and associated rural areas

Sub-Division No. 2

Representing the incorporated area of the Villages of Endeavour, Hyas and Stenen, the Towns of Preeceville and Sturgis, and associated rural areas

Sub-Division No. 3

Representing the incorporated area of the Villages of Buchanan, Invermay and Rama, the Town of Canora and associated rural areas

Sub-Division No. 4

Representing the incorporated area of the Villages of Calder, Ebenezer, MacNutt, Rhein and Theodore, the Town of Springside and associated rural areas

Sub-Division No. 5

Representing the incorporated area of the Villages of Atwater, Bangor and Waldron, The Towns of Bredenbury, Churchbridge, Langenburg and Saltcoats and associated rural areas.

Sub-Division No. 6

Representing the incorporated area of the Villages of Duff, Goodeve, Grayson and Killaly, the City of Melville and associated rural areas

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Representing the incorporated area of the Villages of Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Point, Gerald, Stockholm, Tantallon, Westend and Yarbo, the Town of Esterhazy and associated rural areas

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Representing Key First Nation Reserve No. 65

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[Section 66 of the Act] FORM H

RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF INSINGER No. 275 Public notice is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of: REEVE, COUNCILLOR FOR DIVISION NO. 1, COUNCILLOR FOR DIVISION NO. 3, COUNCILLOR FOR DIVISION NO. 5. will be received by the undersigned on the 7th day of October, 2020, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the municipal office, and during regular business hours on September 18 to October 7, 2020, at the municipal office.

Nomination forms may be obtained from the municipal office.

Completed Nomination Papers must be accompanied by a completed Public Disclosure Statement as required by The Local Government Election Act, 2015 Section 67(6)(d).

Dated this 18th day of September, 2020.

Sonya Butuk Returning Officer

Nomination forms for Sub-Divisions 1 - 8 and for City of Yorkton at Large may be obtained at: Good Spirit Education Complex 5B Schrader Drive, Yorkton, SK, S3N 3Z4 On the Website â&#x20AC;&#x201C; www.gssd.ca

Nomination forms for sub divisions 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8 will be received by Jennifer Lizuck - Returning Officer or Keith Gervais â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Associate Returning Officer or other Nomination Officers appointed for the Good Spirit School Division on Nomination Day the 07th day of October 2020, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and during regular business hours (9:00 am to noon, 1:00 to 4:00 pm Monday through Friday) commencing the 21st day of September 2020 to the 06th day of October 2020.

Forms may be submitted: personally by the candidate or by an agent (must also provide an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Appointment of Candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Agentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; form), to the Good Spirit Education Complex, 5B Schrader Drive, Yorkton, Saskatchewan; by registered or ordinary mail to P.O. Box 5060, Yorkton, Saskatchewan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; S3N 3Z4; by fax at (306) 783-0355; by e-mail to elections@gssd.ca .

Representing the incorporated area of the City of Yorkton at Large â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Three (3) Board Members Nomination forms for City of Yorkton at Large will be received by Jessica Matsalla - Returning Officer, or Raelyn Knudson â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Associate Returning Officer, or other Nomination Officers appointed for the City of Yorkton on Nomination Day, the 7th day of October, 2020 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and during regular business hours (8:00 am to noon, 1:00 to 4:00 pm Monday through Friday) commencing the 21st day of September 2020 to the 06th day of October 2020.

Forms may be submitted: personally by the candidate or by an agent (must also provide an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Appointment of Candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Agentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; form), to the Returning Officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, City Hall, 2 nd Floor, 37 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Third Avenue North, Yorkton, Saskatchewan; by registered or ordinary mail to P.O. Box 400 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Yorkton, Saskatchewan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; S3N 2W3; by fax at (306) 786 -6880; by e-mail to elections2020@yorkton.ca . th Dated this 14 day of September 2020 th

Dated this 14 day of September 2020

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Election Headquarters â&#x20AC;&#x201C; City Clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office City Hall, 37 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Third Avenue North On the website â&#x20AC;&#x201C; www.yorktonvotes.ca

FORM H [Section 66 of the Act] Notice of Call for Nominations (Municipal Elections) PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates IRU WKH RI¿FH V RI Reeve: Rural Municipality of Wallace No. 243 CouncilloU Rural Municipality of Wallace No. 243 'LYLVLRQ 1R 2QH RU 1XPEHU WR EH (OHFWHG RQH

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R.M. of Wallace No. 243 th Ave. N., Yorkton, SK, S3N 0Y8 Dated this 16th day of September, 2020

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27 INCH Snowblower, electric start, $500 OBO. Phone 306-7838438.

FOR SALE: 2 adjacent cemetery plots at Yorkton Memorial Gardens. A total price of $1,700 includes transfer fees. Phone 306744-2934 in evening.

FOR SALE: 4 snowblowers in very good running working order.

Phone 306-782-9131 or 306-6219783.

FOR SALE: Weedeater/Frenome Light Grass Whipper in very good running working order. Phone 306782-9131 or 306-621-9783.

2007 BUICK ALLURE CX. 3.8L, 4-door, auto, power seats, new tires, 116,000kms. Asking $6,000 OBO. Phone 306-621-7491.

Collectibles & Classic Cars ‘63 or ‘64 GALAXY, 4-door, automatic car. Asking $1,000. 204734-0572.

LUXURY TT 1987 T-bird coupe, low mileage, great shape. Asking $7,000 OBO. Phone 204-9372907.

Parts & Accessories USED 6.6 Duramax Turbo Diesel 225,000km/140,000 miles. Phone or text 204-734-8355

Trucks & Vans 2011 GMC 1500, Z71, SLT, White, all terrain, loaded with leather, 50,000 original kms, only summer driven, with cap on box, towing package. Phone for price 306-6218594.

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To prepare and cook all menu items in a fast paced environment.

Work with specialized cooking equipment (deep fryer, pizza ovens, dough mixer, etc.) Clean kitchen and work areas. Apply with resume to Trifons Pizza Yorkton, 290 Broadway, Yorkton or email trifonspizza_yorkton@outlook.com

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The Ministry of Environment is once again encouraging hunters to submit the heads of deer, moose and elk harvested this hunting season for chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing.

CWD is a fatal, infectious central nervous system disease in cervids that has no known cure.

“Last year, hunters submitted more than 3,300 heads for CWD testing,” Environment Minister Dustin Duncan said. “Their continued support of the CWD surveillance program is invaluable in helping us understand how this disease spreads, and for evaluating potential population impacts.

This in turn will guide the province in developing disease management plans.”

In particular, hunters in wildlife management

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Online Household Auction for Rhea Andrusiek and Guests Sept 18-21, 2020 Springside Skating Arena Featuring: 1994 Chrysler New Yorker 161,000km( Nice) Beautiful Antique Furniture - China Cabinet, Sideboard, Buffet, Wash Basin Set with Stand Household- Dining Room Table and Chairs, Leather Recliners( SGL, DBL), Filing Cabinet, Kenmore Fridge and Stove, Bedroom Suite, Starburst Clock, Deep Freeze, Futon, Inglis Dryer, Coffee Table, End Tables, Chest of Drawers, Chesterfield and Chair, Banjo, Blue Mountain Pottery, Toys and Games Garage- JD 520 20" Snow Blower, Craftsman Lawn Mower,Outdoor Furniture, New Flooring, Work Bench, Gun Safe, Plus Misc. Tools Sale Conducted by

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2020 BRAND NEW Closed-in Commander Trailer. 6’ x 10’, price $5,000. Call 306-783-6920.

Farm Implements 2009 MACK, just safetied, 485hp, 18spd, diff lock; 2001 Westward 9350 swather w/2004 36ft. headder; 1997 TR97, just gone through, field ready. Phone 778220-9285.

GOOD’S USED TRACTOR PARTS (204) 564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734 Roblin, MB

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181 SUNSET DR. N. Fri., Sept. 18 & Sat., Sept. 19, 9am-7pm. Final Low prices and offer clearance items.

FOR SALE: Polled Purebred 2 year old and yearling Charolais bulls. Some red factor. Phone 306435-7116. King’s Polled Charolais.

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zones (WMZs) 2W, 9, 10, 35 and 37 are asked to submit mule deer and whitetailed deer heads for testing. However, testing is available for all cervid species harvested in any WMZ in the province.

The ministry is hoping to collect at least 300 samples in each of these targeted zones to obtain additional information about the prevalence and spread of the disease in certain areas of the province.

Submissions from WMZs 50 and 55 are also requested to help evaluate the CWD risk in woodland caribou habitat in the boreal forest.

One way that hunters can help reduce the spread of CWD to new areas of the province is by properly disposing of animal carcass waste. In areas where CWD has been detected, hunters are encouraged, when possible, to quarter the animal in the field instead of transporting it from the area where it was taken.

In Saskatchewan, CWD was first discovered in provincial game farm animals in 1996. It transitioned to wild mule deer in 2000, and is now found in deer, elk and moose in 55 of Saskatchewan’s 83

WMZs. “With the help of hunters, the ministry has been monitoring the spread and intensity of CWD for more than 20 years,” Duncan said. “We appreciate their support and want to continue working together to better understand and address this wildlife disease.”

Although no human case of CWD has ever been identified, the province recommends that hunters avoid eating the meat until they receive their test results.

In addition, hunters are strongly urged not to eat, or distribute for human consumption, the meat or other parts from animals that are found to be CWD-positive.

Prior to dropping off heads, you must obtain your CWD Tracking Number from the cwdsk. ca website and keep that number with you. Heads can be submitted for testing at a number of designated drop-off locations across the province throughout the hunting season. The testing is free of charge.

For a complete list of drop-off sites and information on how to submit a sample for testing, visit www.saskatchewan.ca/ cwd.

Annual Charity Golf Fun Day held Big Brothers Big Sisters of Yorkton and area held its 11th Annual Charity Golf Fun Day at the Esterhazy Golf Course Aug. 22.

The event raised a total of over $26,480 in support of mentoring.

The organization thanked its sponsors, golfers and everyone who made a contribution, financial or otherwise, toward making this year’s event a huge success.

A special thank you went to the Paidel Family for helping to host the tournament, providing the flight prizes and for their generous support making this tournament possible.

People raising the highest pledges were; James Bielka $1250, Jerry Halyk $615.3 and Chris Haines $420.

Flight toppers were; First Flight; James Bielka, Riley Sherring, Mackenzie Shore, and Jayden Shore Second Flight; Megan Martin, Chris Martin, Chris Raiwet and Lesley Raiwet Third Flight; Dallas Norek, Grace Hyland, Colin Hyland and Michael Kaczmer Fourth Flight; Derek Paidel, Kendra Paidel, Rob Lissini and Blair Lissini Fifth Flight; Kirk Oleson, Karsten Loiesen, Ken Laroc and Tracy Powers Funds raised at this golf tournament support the Mentoring Programs in Esterhazy and area including Big Brothers Big Sisters matches, In-School Mentoring, and group activities.

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Signage prep at Brick Mill ongoing The Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society continues on upgrades at the mill site in the city.

On Sept. 5 and 6, volunteers; Alex Riddy, Paul Prokopiuk, Larry Pearen and Vern Brown were on site installing frames for a series of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;story boardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; telling the history of Yorkton planned for the site.

The plan is to have eight sets of eight-foot-by-eight-foot aluminum signs sharing local history.

Themes for the signs include First Nations/Treaty Four, York Colony, the railway and the mill, which are the first four themes and are in the works.

It is hoped to have those installed within two-to-three weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Submitted

Rhein firefighter receives provincial medal A Rhein firefighter is among the 103 recipients of the Saskatchewan Protective Services Medal for 2020 announced this week

by Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Russ Mirasty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In challenging times such as this, it is more important than ever to recognize the valuable work of our protective services personnel,â&#x20AC;?

Mirasty said in a release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wish to thank each medal recipient for their outstanding service to our province and I congratulate them on this well-deserved honour.â&#x20AC;?

The medal honours personnel with at least 25 years of exemplary service in Saskatchewan in protective services fields, including police, fire, correctional and border services, the Canadian Armed Forces, as well as mobile crisis and family violence outreach services.

Among the recipients this year is Captain Bruce Peppler of the Rhein Fire Department.

Peppler told Yorkton This Week Monday â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long grind,â&#x20AC;? to get to this point in the sense he became involved with

the fire department in Rhein when he was still a teenager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got over 40 years in,â&#x20AC;? said Peppler, now 60.

Originally Peppler said he became involved because community involvement was just something people did four decades ago.

ince. They will receive a circular medal surmounted by St. Edwardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crown and a certificate signed by the Lieutenant Governor, Premier and Provincial Secretary.

The medal bears the

Peppler said the force remains an active one with 15-20 members and a Fire Chief in Robert Engel that keeps things going. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for him (Engel) this place wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be running,â&#x20AC;? said Peppler.

As for the recognition, Peppler said â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is gratifying,â&#x20AC;? but quickly added he never did it for a medal someday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about recognition, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about helping out, doing what you can to help people out.â&#x20AC;?

Captains Allan Callfas and Donald Wenet of Melville Fire and Rescue are also 2020 recipients from the area.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recipients come from 26 rural and urban communities from across the prov-

motto Qui civitatem tuentur (who guard the citizenry).

While public health orders due to COVID-19 will prevent the traditional presentation ceremonies normally

held for this medal in Regina and Saskatoon, each nominating agency will receive a medal package and certificate for presentation to their recipient(s) in a physically-distanced internal

ceremony.

For more information about the Saskatchewan Protective Services Medal, including how to submit a nomination, visit www.saskatchewan. ca/honoursawards

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