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Local parking blitz planned
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - Volume 16, Number 43
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– Dec. 16-20 in Yorkton By DEVIN WILGER N-R Writer If you’re not parking properly, now is the time to get things right. With winter now firmly established, the City of Yorkton is undertaking a city-wide residential parking blitz from December 16 to 20. Trent Mandzuk with Public Works says that the goal behind the blitz is safety, both for motorists and city crews. One of the main focuses of the tickets will be cars parked on residential streets for more than 24 hours, which cause a hazard to road crews as they attempt to clear snow. “We do get, every year, vehicles that sit for the duration of the winter, and those are the vehicles that are problematic for us,” Mandzuk says. “When we’re out doing snow removal, if there’s somebody parked on the street, the grader has to go around it, and if that car is there for the duration of the winter, it just compounds and narrows the street... It’s just a matter of time before it starts becoming a danger for traffic.” The goal of the blitz will be to enforce the bylaws that are in place and remind drivers to abide by them. Other infractions targeted by the blitz will include improperly parked vehicles and unattached trailers, as well as other general infractions. Fines will be an average of $30, but warnings may also be issued.
MUST BE SANTA – Christmas is coming, and Santa was at the Parkland Mall with Springers Gymnastics to meet the kids. Pictured above, Springers gymnasts Meaghan Pinnot (right) and Brynn Jarvis (left) have a visit with jolly ol’ St. Nick. Santa will be back at the Mall this weekend as well, Friday at 5 p.m. and Saturday starting at noon.
Record breaking year for Sask. crops By DEVIN WILGER N-R Writer It was a bountiful harvest in Saskatchewan this year, with 38.4 million tonnes. The record-breaking crop surpassed expectations, and Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart says that it exceeds the ambitious targets for 2020 laid out in the Saskatchewan Plan for Growth. “It takes a bigger investment and more risk on the part of producers to grow a super crop like this than it does to just grow an average crop. They invested big, and I am delighted for them that they got it,” Stewart says.
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The crop is up 40 per cent over just last year, and 48 per cent over the ten year average. A big portion of this year’s crop is canola, with the largest canola harvest on record at 8.9 million tonnes, a 37.5 per cent increase over 2012. “Canola is a big crop for a lot of the province now, and will continue to be in the future.” Stewart says that all of the credit goes to producers, but that he also sees this becoming a trend into the future, as producers invest in new technology and crop varieties as they become available. He says that this growing season began looking troublesome, and it was producers taking
risks and not just going for the minimal investment that caused a successful growing season. The big crop does highlight some issues which have to be addressed in the province, namely in terms of rail service and shipping. Stewart says that while he is optimistic that the crop will be able to reach port in a timely fashion, it’s clear that there needs to be investment in the nation’s shipping industry in order to handle successful growing years like this. “Before long, crops of this magnitude will be the norm before long, and they need to gear up to handle more prod-
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uct. Our producers can do this, while the weather varies and there will be peaks and valleys, before too long this will become the norm,” Stewart says. He says that there is continual improvement in the shipping industry, especially with expansions of ports and smoother rail transport. Stewart notes that car unloads are up, but is not where it needs to be. Stewart is confident with new technology crops of this magnitude will soon become the norm in the province, and he says this year is a reminder that the shipping industry now needs to catch up.
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