Town of Kindersley Deputy Mayor Randy Ervine (left) and Councillor Dean Galbraith were on hand at Tim Hortons last week decorating Smile Cookies. 100% of proceeds from the sale of the cookies go to help support local charities.
Feeding farmers fabulous meals in the field
JOAN JANZEN joanjanzen@yahoo.com
Back in the day, harvest helpers took a leisurely hour off to enjoy a tailgate meal. Cooking pots filled with food were wrapped in towels to keep the food hot while being transported, and then plunked on the tailgate waiting for everyone to help themselves. Since then farming operations have exploded in size, and farm machinery transitioned to the equivalent of high tech computers on wheels, but feeding farmers in the field also rose to a whole new culinary level.
Calla McLean takes much time and expertise to prepare meals in advance for her husband Lee when he’s out harvesting near Eston. Early in August she’s prepping harvest meals, creating yummy pizza buns and an assortment of individually packaged meals. When it came time for delivery to the field, Calla said, “It took over an hour to get to the field, but my thermal bag didn’t fail. Still hot!”
However farmers who don’t have someone preparing their meals, have other delicious options to choose from. Laurie Kelly from Brock said, “There are many service industries that work along side farmers during harvest, like the new owners of Brock’s Little Store House. They make fresh meals and sandwiches every day for us. It is amazing!”
Owners, Lela and Mike McGuigan took ownership of the Brock store in the beginning of July, moving here from Ontario. “We make fresh sandwiches every day and hot meals like lasagne and shepherds pie; it’s not anything special,” Lela said, as if preparing home cooked meals for dozens of people every day is a cake walk. “My husband does all the cooking. We’re trying to make the town viable again. The previous owner had pre-packaged frozen sandwiches. I couldn’t get into that, so once they were all gone we started making our own. The farmers seem to be jumping all over it. And out of that demand, people were wondering if there were going to be any hot meals. We package and label the meals, so they’re ready to heat up in the microwave.”
Though the meals created at The Little Store House are amazing, what’s even more surprising is that Lela and Mike moved to the prairies without ever having been to Saskatchewan before. “We lived in Hamilton and we wanted to start our own business,” Lela explained. “This place kept popping up and it was in the right price range. We had never ever been west of Ontario until we came here. It’s great; I love it here.”
And the patrons of their store also love that the McGuigan’s came to Brock.
But there’s more meals available for farmers; Jackie Oswald runs a catering operation called Jackie’s Delicious Delights on her farm located between Eston and Kindersley. Jackie not only operates her catering business, but works for the RCMP from her home, where she manages to “juggle the two”, as she so simply describes it.
It all began three and a half years ago, when Jackie and her husband converted a free standing building into a kitchen. “I started with frozen casseroles. I also do hot pick-ups and catering. Since then it has escalated,” Jackie said. “It’s taken off like crazy!”
Jackie is not exaggerating! “I do at least 300 family sized casseroles,” she said. She prepared 100 casseroles each for two companies. “There’s such a need, with both husbands and wives working. And people don’t stop for conventional meals anymore; it’s go, go, go. A lot of people are loving these meals because it’s one less thing for them to do.”
Jackie has a menu posted on her facebook page, “but if they ask me to make something, I’ll make it,” she says. “I also do frozen soups so they can take them in a thermos.” Some people travel twenty-five miles to pick up Jackie’s meals, and they even bring back the dirty containers. “I wash and bleach them, and start them all again.”
Jackie plans a menu so she knows what she needs to buy. “I buy meat and vegetables from local Hutterites that have their food inspected. I run an inspected facility,” she said. With those ingredients, Jackie prepares something different every night. “It’s steak barbecue night tonight,” she told me on the phone. “Maybe you would like to do an in person interview?” Yes, I was thinking I could definitely make that work.
How does Jackie manage to juggle it all? “Loving what you do helps a lot. I guess it’s the love of cooking! I’m excited that I’m so busy during a trying time. Agriculture service industries have me cater their business meetings. The agriculture sector has been very good to me,” she concluded.
Why is it important that our farmers get catered to in the field? Calla McLean posted a note on facebook that was a fitting response. “Been super long days for so many farmers that work so hard to feed the world! I’ve learned so much these past five years about just how much hard work farming is. It’s not just seeding and harvest; so much in between that and afterwards. It’s planning and spreadsheets, marketing and selling. It’s fabricating and welding. It’s mechanics and constantly fixing something. It’s giving up your weekends and time you would rather be on your boat. It’s giving up the ability to plan your life and going with what the weather gives you. It really is so much more than a job; it’s a calling! So thank a farmer!”
And what better way to thank farmers, than to feed them delicious meals in the field!
Calla’s harvest meals.
Jackie’s harvest dessert.
Local business provides fresh produce all year round
Local residents have been enjoying fresh produce all year round thanks to Erin Pope and Food For Thought Farms located two miles north of Plato, Sask.
Erin’s business venture has been operating for four years, delivering farm fresh, chemical free veggies twice a week to Biggar, Rosetown, Fiske, Elrose, Kyle, Eston, Eatonia, Leader, Kindersley, Coleville, Alsask, Kerrobert, Luseland and Swift
Current. If you’re not home you can leave your cooler outside, ready for your vegetable delivery.
“We deliver to any community that is interested. We need to have at least ten people interested in regular subscriptions to add to our usual route,” Erin explained.
Erin operates out of a 5,000 square foot well insulated and heated greenhouse, with 8,000 square feet of hydroponics outside, which is the process of growing plants
in sand, gravel or liquid, with added nutrients, but without soil. She also plans on adding 10,000 square feet on to her operation next year.
“More and more people are going toward biological control, which uses natural enemies that are parasitism, predators and/or pathogens to manage insect and mite pest populations. It’s basically organic without the licensing,” Erin continued to describe her operation. “I’m all self taught. I read as much as I can; it’s a constant learning process.”
Erin explained how her business venture began. “I actually used to be a heavy equipment operator in the oilfield for eight years. It was hard to put up with the terrible selection in the local grocery stores. We’re so limited because we’re so rural. That was a big part of it. I’ve always been interested. I always grew stuff for myself. And I thought, if I’m thinking
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All smiles!
this way, there’s got to be other people thinking this way. I was born in Eston, lived in Alberta for about ten years, and have been pipelining all over. I came back to help my dad with the farm after I got laid off, and thought maybe now is the time for a career change.”
The closest biologically controlled greenhouses can be found in Regina, Saskatoon and Medicine Hat. Erin says her business enables people to buy their food directly from the producer. “It just brings back the farm to table relationship that people have lost. I’ve also got chickens, goats and pigs, and they get a lot of the extras. They’re pretty well fed.”
Erin manages to pull all this off with the help of one employee. “This time of year it would be nice to have another person. Hopefully when the world gets back to normal it will be easier to find staff,” she said.
Food For Thought Farms has a facebook page where Erin posts recipes like Mexican Grilled Corn or Garlic Dill New Potatoes, and she offers nuggets of information about various vegetables. But she also offers help in other ways.
“I donate quite often to food banks, and I gave some produce to Loaves & Fishes soup kitchen. When I was younger we ate a lot out of food banks. Fresh food is something you never see at a food bank, so it’s nice to see some communities have access to that.”
It’s also nice to see a young entrepreneur run a thriving business, while providing a necessary service to the people in this region.
Erin Pope and Food For Thought Farms
SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Top: Town of Kindersley CAO Audrey Hebert and Communications Coordinator Anna Polsfut were happy participants in Tim Hortons “Buy a Smile Cookie” campaign last week. Bottom: Mayor Rod Perkins and Councillor Rob Anderson were also showing off their decorating skills to raise funds for community charities.
OPINION
How
JANZEN joanjanzen@yahoo.com
You know how to comfort a grammar fanatic? Pat them on the back and say, “Their, there, they’re!”
But how do you comfort Canadian taxpayers who are continually hearing about their tax dollars being wasted on frivolous things?
Though the WE Charity shut down its Canadian operations, it won’t eliminate the “scandal” which caused the
charity to cease operating in Canada. It also doesn’t appear to put a halt to further unearthing of more unnecessary federal government spending. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation had discovered more spending details.
The Mission Cultural Fund (MCF) is a government fund promoting Canadian “culture” to the world, and it is handing out millions of dollars. In 2017 celebrity rock star Bryan Adams was paid $52,000 for his photo exhibition,
where he took photos of his famous Canadian friends, and of course of our Prime Minister.
“Bryan Adams has plenty of money. I am sure he wouldn’t have noticed if he had to pay for that himself. Is this really a good use of taxpayer money?” Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, asked.
The art exhibit was showcased at an extravagant taxpayer funded event at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in May of 2017, at which Bryan Adams was present for the official unveiling. Although the Ontario provincial government already gives $27 million annually to the ROM, the MCF still managed to spend $51,145.59 on the fundraising event.
Much of the money spent was intended to raise “Canada’s global image” abroad. Would that explain why the MCF went over budget by more than $6 million in the first three years?
You may want to know what type of art is being funded by the MCF, and what kind of global image is being portrayed. One artist received taxpayer dollars for her first art show in Hamburg, Germany in 2019. The artist described the exhibit as “ ... based on a double sex toy called the double masturbator ...” The description goes on, but you get the idea. For this, the artist was given $8,813.70 from MCF.
Wudrick concluded, “The government seems to not care and they think people aren’t going to notice the little things. If you can’t keep the spending under control with the little grants, what’s going to happen with multi-billion-dollar programs?”
When The Canadian Taxpayers Federation reached out to MCF for a com-
ment, there was no response. Even Bryan Adams did not respond. How do you comfort disgruntled taxpayers? By signing a petition to abolish the Mission Cultural Fund. The petition is put out by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. You can find it on line at: taxpayer.com/petitions/abolish-the-mission-cultural-fund.
You can contact me at joanjanzen@yahoo.com
Province united behind Sask. Party
The province isn’t quite as divided as we sometimes think, which is bad news for Ryan Meili and the NDP.
For years, we have thought of Saskatchewan to be a province divided between urban and rural … and not without good reason.
It just wasn’t that long ago in Saskatchewan that it was just a given that the four biggest cities would vote NDP and the smaller cities, towns and farms would vote for anyone else.
It was a trend that started in the late 1970s when the NDP was already starting to losing farm still had bedrock support in Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and Prince Albert.
That all changed in 1982 when Grant Devine’s Progressive Conservatives not only swept most of the countryside but also every seat in the four major cities except for two in Regina’s core.
That city vote would revert back to the NDP in 1986 and remained solid NDP for the next four elections, including 2003 when the Saskatchewan Party, former in 1997 via a merger of PC and Liberal MLAs as a single, right-wing
alternative to the NDP, broke through with three urban seats.
But since the Sask. Party win in 2007, it’s grown its urban base to the point where it’s far less distinguishable from its rural base.
There were 31 Sask. Party seats in 2016 in which its candidates won by 2,500 votes or more. The significance of this is two-fold: You need 31 seats in Saskatchewan’s 61-seat legislature to form a majority government and winning a seat by 2,500 votes in the previous election is a pretty solid benchmark when it comes to holding that seat in the next election.
In Saskatchewan’s entire history going back to 1905, there has been 1,703 MLAs elected or re-elected in general elections or by-elections. In all that time, there has been a total of six riding elections in which a party that registered a 2,500-vote win the next election.
Interestingly, this rarity happened four times in 1982 when Grant Devine’s Progressive Conservatives shocked the NDP in the home of North America’s first social democrats by knocking off NDP heavyweights like Roy Romanow.
In the 38 years since, no party has come close winning a seat it lost in the previous election by 2,500 votes.
In fact, winning any Saskatchewan seat by 2,500 had been a rather unusual event in election rates … or at least, it was until the arrival of the Sask. Party and its stronghold on rural seats.
However, it’s not just rural seats in which the Sask. Party has established a huge voter base that makes suddenly losing that seat unlikely.
Of those 31 seats in 2016 that the Sask. Party won by 2,500 votes or more, six were in the cities. In fact, the Sask.
Party won a third of the all city seats in the one-time NDP stronghold that no other party could penetrate by more than 1,000 votes. A thousand votes is a very tough thing for any candidate to overcome.
It likely has a lot to do with fact that all voters in the province - rural and urban - have benefitted from the prosperity that has paralleled the Sask. Party years in power.
It’s worth remember that Ralph Goodale, the last Liberal MP in this province, was voted out of office a year ago in the federal election. So when Premier Scott Moe takes on federal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over support for oil and agriculture as he recently did in advance of the federal throne speech (and likely, the provincial election) there are city people cheering.
But, mostly, it’s a reflection of how rural and city people are maybe a bit more similar in their politics right now than some assume.
Always take the scenic route
KATE WINQUIST kate@yoursouthwest.com
My husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary last week. Twenty years of wedded bliss - it seems like only yesterday that my Dad walked me down the aisle on that sunny not-quite fall afternoon in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, to greet my soon-to-be husband, who got a bit teary as Dad “handed me over.”
Robert isn’t much of an emotional guy, and he’d probably tell you that he had gotten dirt in his eye, hence the watering. I cry at pretty much anything, but I held it together on that day, much to my brother-inlaws’ chagrin.
There was some side-betting going on as to when I was going to start to cry.
“$20 bucks says she’ll need Kleenex before she makes it down the aisle.” someone was heard to say.
“I’ll give her until the reading of the vows.” stated another bystander.
“My money’s on the wedding night!” joked another.
Well, much to everyone’s surprise, I did not cry at all during the wedding ceremony (or the wedding night), and two of my brothers-in-law were out a few dollars.
Ever since Robert and I started dating back in 1995, one of our favourite things has been going on road trips. It was nothing for us to hop in his truck and galavant to the mountains for the weekend. On our honeymoon, we had no specific plans. We decided to tour down through North and South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore, making stops at whatever caught
our eye. There were reptile gardens, wind caves, Bear Country USA, and at one stop, there was an amazing and brilliant chicken that beat Robert in a game of TicTac-Toe! (He will not appreciate me telling that story, but it is true).
Fast forward to 2020 during a pandemic. We’re living 200 km apart, and we knew that we would not be together for our special day, which is September 16, so we decided to make Saturday, September 12, the day that we would celebrate. Robert drove up from Gull Lake, and we got up early Saturday morning - even earlier than usual. We enjoyed our morning coffee and bagel on the deck and decided to take a road trip. Our daughter had no interest in hanging out with the two lovebirds, so we filled the van with gas and headed north.
Our first stop was Kerrobert, where Robert had worked a few years ago for a Pressure Testing company. We drove around, and he showed me the little house where he stayed. We had to check out the Nutrien facilities as my husband works for that company in Shaunavon. I made sure that I showed him the old Kerrobert Library building.
“It’s for sale!” I told him, saying that it would be an excellent place for me to set up my newspaper. After all, my love of history and old buildings. It would be so much fun restoring such a magnificent heritage site. In all of my excitement about the library, I forgot to drive him by the Courthouse!
We opted to head to Unity from there. I’ll be honest; I think I have only been through Unity once in my entire life. It looks like a pretty nice town. If we ever get through the COVID-19, I would like to visit their museum. It seems like I could spend at least a couple of hours there. We stopped at the local Subway for a bite, and I picked up a copy of the Unity-Wilkie Press Review. On the front page was a story that caught my eye. The Cut Knife Courier would be shutting its doors at the end of the month. That immediately made me sad. I told Robert that a couple had purchased it just a few years ago in hopes that it would be their retirement project. I knew for sure that I had never been through Cut Knife, so that would be our next destination.
We reached the end of the #21 highway and turned right. Cut Knife was just a few miles down the road. The first thing Robert noticed was the sizeable Nutrien facility. We turned into the community, and that’s when I saw it - a remarkably big tomahawk! I snapped a picture with my iPhone and texted it to my dear friend Trina to see if she knew where we were? She did - maybe due to the fact she spent her early years in North Battleford, which is only a hop, skip and a jump away. It brought back some fond memories for her! Instead of heading towards the Battlefords, we decided to backtrack through Neilburg and Marsden and then Lloydminster. Ironically my sister Valarie had just moved from Lloyd to Edmonton earlier this year. I hadn’t been to that city since the summer of 1985 when I babysat for her. We made a quick stop at Home Depot, where we hoped to find a piece for our shower to finish off a bathroom renovation in Gull Lake. Robert informed me that “porcelain” is the mod-
ern 20th-anniversary gift and suggested that he buy me a toilet. He’s such a romantic!
I forgot to mention that I was doing all of the driving this day. Robert tells me that I am so good at it, which I can’t deny, but I think maybe he’s blowing smoke just a tad.
The road took us through Vermillion and then down to Wainwright. That is where this paper gets printed. I was quite impressed with Wainwright’s historic downtown, highlighted by a big clocktower in the centre. We topped off our gas tank, picked up some Timmie’s and headed back to Saskatchewan.
The first community that we came upon was Macklin, home of the World’s Largest Bunnock!
“What the hell is a bunnock?” Robert inquired.
“I have no clue, I said, but it looks like a woman’s torso.”
Bunnock is a throwing game played with horse ankle bones, which are known as Bunnock in German. The game was first introduced in Canada by the Russian Germans. The World Championships are in Macklin, so, of course, they have the world’s largest Bunnock. It’s 32-ft tall!
We stopped at Luseland and then returned to Kerrobert to drive by the Courthouse. Robert wouldn’t let me go back to see the Library building.
Eleven hours of driving later, we arrived back in Kindersley, tired from our full day of site seeing, talking and laughing. Who needs flowers or even porcelain on your anniversary?
Sometimes all you need is your best friend and a full tank of gas.
- KW
The Cut Knife Tomahawk.
Macklin is famous for the World’s Largest Bunnock.
NOTICE OF CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Rural Municipality of Newcombe No. 260
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of:
REEVE
R.M. of Newcombe No. 260
COUNCILLOR
Division 1 - RM of Newcombe No. 260
Division 3 - RM of Newcombe No. 260
Devision 5 - RM of Newcombe No. 260
Will be received by the undersigned at the municipal office, 103 Road Allowance in Glidden during normal office hours until Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. local time.
Nomination forms and Public Disclosure Forms may be obtained from the municipal office in Glidden. Public disclosure forms must accompany nominations when nomination forms are submitted.
Dated this 14th day of September, 2020.
Monica Buddecke Returning Officer
Notice of Call for Nominations Municipal Election
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of:
REEVE and
COUNCILLORS, DIVISION 1, 3, 5 and 7
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 Office of the RM of Snipe Lake #259 at 213 Main Street South, Eston, Saskatchewan and during regular business hours from the date of posting nominations to nomination day at Office of the RM of Snipe Lake #259 at 213 Main Street South, Eston, Saskatchewan.
Nomination forms may be obtained at the following locations: Office of the RM of Snipe Lake #259 at 213 Main Street South, Eston, Saskatchewan, or at the RM’s website: www.rmofsnipelake.ca.
Nomination forms must be properly executed and accompanied by a Public Disclosure Statement and a current (within 30 days of submission of Nomination) Criminal Record Check.
Dated this 27th day of August, 2020.
Brian R. Shauf Returning Officer
$1,196,000
Certified Appraisal has been done on the property. Four miles North of Lancer and Two miles East.
Includes:
32’ x 48’ Pole Shed with power. 5 Steel Bins approximately 7000 bushels of storage.
Forward all offers and inquiries to: Brad Edgerton
Edge Realty Ltd. Box 1324 Kindersley, SK S0L 1S0
Ph: 306-463-4515
Cell: 306-463-7357
Email: brad@edgerealty.ca
Terry Fox during his 1980 Marathon of Hope. His wish to have the Marathon of Hope continue lives on in the annual Terry Fox Run, which is happening virtually across Canada on Sunday, Sept. 20. Photo from www.terryfox.org
PHOTO BY KATE WINQUIST
If you’re looking for up-to-the-minute weather in Madison, just look for the rock! I spotted this sign a couple of weeks ago while passing through the small commu-
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Kids are back at Friday FX!
Now that kids are back at school, the Friday FX senior youth also kicked off their first night back since early March. Friday FX is a non-profit group where kids, ages ten to eighteen can get together, usually meeting at 800 - 12th Avenue East in Kindersley. Friday FX Director, Scott Matchett was thrilled to be cleared for take off by the Saskatchewan Health Authority, enabling the group to resume having fun while following the required guidelines.
The 13-18 year old group got together on Friday, September 11th for a bus party, complete with music and snacks. “We have a new bus loaded to the nines with sound system, TV’s and more, so we are celebrating!” Scott said.
The bus was acquired with the help of Teen Challenge, a non-profit residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation program that not only helps overcome addictions, but has the participants working at restoring donated vehicles. As a result, a fully equipped bus was donated to the Friday FX group, to promote and show support for the kids and youth in this community.
The Friday FX kids were celebrating their new bus by driving around town, and finishing off the with with a bonfire. The following weekend on Friday, Sept. 18, the junior youth (ages 10-13) will get together and repeat the celebration.
There will be more fun to follow each weekend, as the kids get together for sports activities, games and all kinds of fun. Why stay home and be bored when you can have fun with friends at Friday FX?
Great Plains College to offer informational webinar series for prospective students
Great Plains College is pleased to announce that it will host a series of six online interactive webinars that will serve as an opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the program and course offerings that the college offers across its campuses.
The webinars will begin on September 23 and will continue until the beginning of December, with each webinar providing a different focus of information.
The live videoconference sessions will be hosted by a variety of Great Plains College staff including members of the recruitment team, program coordinators and student advisers. They will be available to anyone interested in finding out more about the college’s programs and courses, application processes, scholarship opportunities and specific college locations.
The sessions will last approximately 45 minutes and will include the opportunity for an interactive question and answer period. Every webinar session will offer participants an opportunity to win a $100 or $50 gift
card from a business/shop of their choice.
“We look forward to the webinars as another opportunity to support our prospective students in planning for their post-secondary education and other learning opportunities,” commented Eric Taseera Lwanga, recruitment coordinator. “Due to the challenges created by COVID-19 and the inability to speak in person to students at career fairs or provide on-campus tours, these sessions will serve as a great chance for students and parents to take advantage of real-time conversations with our coordinators and advisers. Great Plains has so much to offer to students and the webinars will serve as another opportunity for them to make well-informed decisions about their educational future.”
Webinars will be held on September 23 (Maple Creek Program Centre profile), October 6 (Kindersley Campus and Rosetown Program Centre profiles), October 20 (Biggar Program Centre profile), November 2 (Swift Current Campus profile), No-
vember 17 (Martensville Program Centre profile) and December 2 (Warman Campus profile). These college locations offer a variety of post-secondary certificate, diploma and degree programs and courses that target the educational sectors of business and administration, health care and humanities, trades and power engineering and university courses.
Registrations for each session must be completed in advance and can be done by visiting greatplainscollege.ca/events. An email with the access instructions for each webinar will be forwarded after the registration has been completed.
Individuals requesting more information about the webinars can do so by contacting recruitment coordinator Eric Taseera Lwanga via email at behere@ greatplainscollege.ca or by calling him at 306-816-0009.
Additional information on Great Plains College’s program and course offerings, scholarship program, application process and much more can be found by visiting greatplainscollege.ca.
Rural Municipality of Oakdale No. 320 NOTICE OF CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Municipal Election
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of:
Reeve and
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 R.M. office, 200 Main Street, Coleville, SK, and during regular business hours on September 21st to October 6th, 2020, at the R.M. office, 200 Main Street, Coleville, SK.
Nomination forms may be obtained from the following location:
R.M. office, 200 Main Street, Coleville, SK
Dated this 21st day of September, 2020.
Gillain Lund, Returning Officer
Harvest getting closer to completion
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of:
Mayor: Village of Prelate
Councillor: Village of Prelate Number to be elected Two (2)
will be received by the undersigned on the 7th day of October, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 306 Main Street, Prelate, SK and during regular business hours on September 22nd to October 6th, 2020 at 306 Main Street, Prelate, SK.
Nomination forms may be obtained at the following locations:
Village of Prelate Office 306 Main Street Prelate, SK
Dated this 17th day of September, 2020.
Joan Horne Returning Officer
Farmers made significant harvest progress again this week. Sixty-two per cent of the crop has been combined, up from 43 per cent last week and well ahead of the five-year (2015-2019) average of 48 per cent. An additional 27 per cent of the crop is swathed or ready to straight-cut. Warm and dry weather is needed to continue drying down crops. Harvest is most advanced in the southwest region, where 90 per cent of the crop is in the bin. The southeast has 77 per cent combined, the west-central 61 per cent, the east-central 51 per
cent, the northeast 33 per cent and the northwest 18 per cent.
Ninety-seven per cent of lentils, 94 per cent of field peas, 87 per cent of mustard, 72 per cent of barley, 86 per cent of durum, 69 per cent of chickpeas, 55 per cent of spring wheat, 42 per cent of canola and 28 per cent of flax has now been combined. An additional 47 per cent of canola is swathed or ready to straight-cut.
Durum grades are estimated as 55 per cent 1 CW, 33 per cent 2 CW, nine per cent 3 CW and three per cent 4 CW and 5 CW. Pea grades are
estimated as 38 per cent 1 CAN, 56 per cent 2 CAN and six per cent 3 CAN. Lentil grades are estimated to be 35 per cent 1 CAN, 58 per cent 2 CAN, six per cent 3 CAN and one per cent sample grade.
Most of the province received very little rainfall this week. The Nipawin area received the highest amount of rain with 25 mm. Topsoil moisture conditions in the province continue to deteriorate due to strong winds and minimal rainfall. Cropland topsoil moisture is rated as 30 per cent adequate, 41 per cent short and 29 per cent very short. Hay and pasture land topsoil moisture is rated as 26 per cent adequate, 33 per cent short and 41 per cent very short.
The majority of crop damage this week was
due to frost, wind and dry conditions. Damage from frost varied depending on the temperature and stage of the crop, with later seeded and less mature crops impacted the most. Wind continued to blow swaths and shell out crops. There were also reports of damage caused by wildlife, waterfowl and ergot in durum crops.
Farmers are busy combining, swathing, hauling bales and moving cattle. With harvest underway in Saskatchewan, we want to remind producers to exercise caution and remain safe.
A complete, printable version of the Crop Report is available online at https://www.saskatchewan.ca/crop-report. Follow the 2020 Crop Report on Twitter at @ SKAgriculture.
TOWN OF LEADER
Notice of Call for Nominations Municipal Election
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of:
MAYOR: TOWN OF LEADER
COUNCILLORS: SIX (6) TOWN OF LEADER
Nomination forms will be received by the undersigned on the 7th day of October, 2020 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 151 - 1st Street West (Town Office), Leader, SK AND
During regular office hours (8:30 am - 4:30 pm) from September 22, 2020 - October 6, 2020.
Nomination forms may be obtained at: 151 - 1st Street West, Leader, SK (Town of Leader Administration Office)
Dated this 10th day of September, 2020.
Erin Romanuik, Returning Officer
The west-central part of the province has approximately 61% of the crop in the bin. PHOTO BY KATE WINQUIST
Sports giving a boost to Canada’s spirits
Despite the 26th consecutive year without a Canadian franchise winning the Stanley Cup, and despite the Canadian Football League going dark for the 2020 season — thanks a lot, coronavirus — the state of sports in Canada is pretty darn good.
Three Canadian men made the round of 16 at the U.S. Open tennis championship in New York, confirming the developmental efforts put forth by Tennis Canada are bearing fruit. Denis Shapovalov, Vasek Pospisil and Felix Auger-Aliassime were the Canucks making noise at the Flushing Meadows Tennis Centre, and they’re all young and on the verge of better things. Don’t forget, too, that Bianca Andreescu was the defending U.S. Open women’s champ and unable to defend her title due to injury. While the Open was in progress, Eugenie Bouchard
of Montreal lost in the final of the Istanbul Cup, a World Tennis Association event.
In basketball, the entire country was on the Raptors bandwagon as they strived for two NBA titles in successive years. Their thrilling seven-game Eastern Conference semi-final series with Boston Celtics captivated Canadians, but they came up five points short.
Canadians on the PGA Tour are no longer viewed as oddities. At last count, there were seven Canadian regulars on the Tour. One of them, Mackenzie Hughes, qualified for the 2020 Tour Championship — the top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings earn the right to play in this exclusive event — and wound up 14th, earning $620,000. Next year, the Canadian contingent on the Tour will be increased by one as Ontario’s Taylor Pendrith will have full status thanks to his great play on the developmen-
tal Korn Ferry Tour. And while Hughes, Adam Hadwin, Nick Taylor and Corey Conners all have PGA Tour victories to their credit, players such as David Hearn, Michael Gligic and Roger Sloan have full- or part-time Tour status, too. Brooke Henderson came within a whisker of winning the LPGA’s first major, the ANA Inspiration, but she lost in a playoff.
And then there’s Canada’s baseball sweethearts, the Blue Jays, who are young, filled with potential and on the verge of qualifying for this season’s playoffs, which have been expanded and modified beyond recognition due to COVID-19. Even without star slugger Bo Bichette for a good portion of the 2020 season, the Blue Jays (2020 home base: Buffalo) are a solid second in the A.L. East and are due to give Canadians some exciting playoff action. Slugger Teoscar Hernandez, take
a bow. You, too, pitcher Hyun Jin Ryu. Will Buffalo get the parade if the Jays shock the world and win the World Series?
So while the overall situation in Canada is glum — thanks to the virus, the economy and uncertainty about the future — Canadian athletes and Canadian-based teams continue to provide entertainment and positivity to a nation in need of uplifting news.
• Patti Dawn Swansson, the River City Renegade, after Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe declared Sept. 6 to be Roughriders’ Day across the province and for everyone to wear green and white: “A melonhead needs urging to wear green and white like a priest needs a reminder to say prayers on Sunday.”
U.S. Open after a ball he smashed in anger injured a line judge: “Bah! John McEnroe once beat an umpire to death with a piano leg and was assessed a double fault.”
• Baseball writer Mark Bowman on Twitter during the Braves’ 29-9 demolition of Miami Marlins Sept.9: “Braves lead 29-9 in the seventh. This seems safer than 28-3 in the fourth.”
• NOT SPORTS CENTRE, on Twitter: “BREAKING: Texans fans have opted out of the 2020 season, citing safety concerns of what watching Bill O’Brien coach for 15 more games might do to their physical and mental health.”
• Currie again: “Sorry Houston Texans: 20 points wasn’t enough to beat the Chiefs on Thursday Night (in the NFL opener). And it wouldn’t have been enough to beat the Atlanta Braves, who scored 29 the night before.”
• Jay Busbee of yahoo. com, on Houston Texans’ QB Deshaun Watson: “Watson can’t be thrilled that his No. 1 target, DeAndre Hopkins, left town for the NFL equivalent of some off-brand soup.”
• Comedy writer Brad Dickson of Omaha, on the eve of the NFL’s first game: “The 2020 NFL season kicks off tonight. I’m really looking forward to the next 12 days until the 2020 NFL season ends.”
• At Fark.com: “Padres’ Eric Hosmer suffers fractured finger. On the other hand, he’s fine.”
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• Comedy guy Steve Burgess of Vancouver, on Twitter after No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the
• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “The Raptors set a franchise record with 18 turnovers — 18! — in losing Game 7 to the Celtics. Much of the night they were bum Raps.”
• Chris Carlin of 98.7 ESPN New York, on the COVID face shield worn by Chiefs coach Andy Reid: “It’s foggin’ up like teenagers makin’ out in a car. Please, someone, get him a windshield wiper at halftime.”
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Impressive work has been done at the Elrose Cenotaph by Elrose Legion Branch 206. On July 27 a group of Legion members installed the 12 poles and banners which feature the twenty-four men on the community Roll of Honour who were killed in WWI and WWII. Everyone is invited to stop by to pay respects to those fallen servicemen and to read the details of their sacrifice on the banners.
Branch President Shirley Brown says the Elrose Legion is very grateful for the donation of the steel for the poles by Sask Valley Oilfield Maintenance, and also thanks area farmer Robert Ellis for the use of his shop and equipment to build the poles. Legion member Barry Rowley of Rowley’s Electric Ltd provided the Bobcat-mounted posthole auger and a scissor-lift used in the pole and banner installation.
A private donation by an Elrose resident made the manufacture and installation of the metal Canadian soldier silhouettes possible last October.
Lighting and possibly bench seating at the cenotaph are in the planning stage.
Ron Rowley, Jim Willinski and Barry Rowley on the scissor-lift, Shirley Brown.
Saskatchewan Drilling rig count climbs
to 9, but still less than a quarter of the last two years’ numbers
ESTEVAN – Drilling rig activity has started to slowly pick up in Saskatchewan’s oilpatch, but the numbers are still very low compared to any point over the last decade.
On Sept. 11, Rig Locator (riglocator. ca) showed nine rigs working in Saskatchewan. It was eight the previous day. That makes for a utilization rate of 9 per cent, out of a total of 97 rigs within Saskatchewan. And that number has, in recent years, dropped from a steady 120 rigs in the province. Some have recently been cut up for scrap.
Those nine rigs working are an improvement from the static three to five that were working from July 25-to Sept. 7. Drilling activity was totally flatlined at zero from spring breakup, when the COVID-19 crisis hit, until mid-July. For the past several years, Saskatchewan would see roughly 30 to 60 rigs working from May to mid-July.
While nine is an improvement, it is a shadow of even the last few years, considered downturn years, which saw an average of 40 to 55 rigs working throughout the province from late July to mid-September. To put that in perspective, from 2010-2015, there would typically be 60 to 90 rigs working during that period, and in August, 2011, a record of 122 rigs were in the field at the same time.
Things aren’t much better in Alberta, where there were 38 out of 359 rigs working on Sept. 11, an 11 per cent uti-
Precision Drilling Rig 195, working for Crescent Point at Huntoon, northwest of Benson.
As usual, Mosaic Canada had a rig show up at Esterhazy, Ensign Rig 689, working on potash.
In southwest Saskatchewan, helium drilling has continued for North American Helium Inc., which has Savanna Drilling Corp. Rig 629 working at Oxarat, north of Consul.
Vital Energy Inc. has Savanna Rig 419 working just west of Gull Lake, drilling for oil
Teine Energy Ltd. was the first company out of the gate drilling for oil in mid-July, and they’ve kept two rigs going since then. Ensign Drilling Inc. Rigs 351 and 356 are both drilling near Dodsland.
Prairie Thunder Resources Ltd. has also been punching a number of holes, and has Lasso Drilling Corp. Rig 6 working near Macklin.
lization rate. In 2019, one of Alberta’s worst drilling years in recent memory, there were 93 rigs working on Sept. 12. The year before that, the number was 157.
Manitoba is showing zero rigs working out of four in the province.
British Columbia is the only jurisdiction showing better numbers this year compared to last year. There were 14 out of 31 rigs working, for a country-leading 31 per cent utilization rate. On Sept. 12, 2019, B.C. had 12 rigs working, and on Sept. 12, 2018, the number was 17.
RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF ANTELOPE PARK NO. 322 PUBLIC NOTICE
Public notice is hereby given that the Council of the Rural Municipality of Antelope Park No. 322 intends to adopt a bylaw under The Planning and Development Act, 2007 to amend Bylaw No. 2017/06 known as the Zoning Bylaw.
INTENT
It is proposed that the Zoning Bylaw amendment will:
• Provide a definition of “Solar Farm”;
• Provide development standards for satellite dishes and solar collectors;
• Addition of solar collectors and farms to Other Principal Uses for the Agricultural Resource District (AR)
• Addition of solar collectors and farms to Other Principal Uses for the Commercial/Industrial District (C/I)
• Increasing the minimum site area requirement for Agricultural Principal Uses in the Agricultural Resource District from 4.05 ha. to 16.19 ha. and delete the maximum site area requirement for Agricultural Principal Uses in the Agricultural Resource District.
• Create a new “H – Hamlet Residential District”.
REASONS
• To facilitate and provide appropriate development standards for satellite dishes and solar collectors within the RM.
• To amend the minimum and maximum site area requirements for Agricultural Principal Uses in the Agricultural District to better reflect the agricultural character of the Municipality.
• To provide a zoning district which will accommodate existing hamlet developments.
PUBLIC INSPECTION
Any person may inspect the bylaw at the Municipal Office, located at 20 1st Avenue North in the Village of Marengo, between the hours of 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays. Copies of the proposed bylaws are available at the Municipal Office.
PUBLIC HEARING
Council will hold a public hearing on October 20th, 2020 at 6:45 PM at the Marengo Community Hall, 13 Main Street in the Village of Marengo, to hear any person or group that wants to comment on the proposed bylaw. Council will also consider written comments received at the hearing, or delivered to the undersigned at the Municipal Office before the hearing.
Issued at the Village of Marengo this 21st day of September, 2020.
Robin Busby, Administrator
Nearly all of Saskatchewan’s drilling activity since COVID-19 hit has been on the western side of the province. Only a few holes have been drilled for oil in southeast Saskatchewan. But the increase to nine rigs shows one rig,
IPC Canada Ltd. has also been active this summer, and had Ensign Drilling Inc. working at Onion Lake North on a steam injection well.
Serafina Energy had Precision Drilling Rig 188 working at Prince, north of North Battleford.
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO REPEAL DESIGNATION AS MUNICIPAL HERITAGE PROPERTY
Section 17(2), The Heritage Property Act, R.S.S. 1978, C H-2.2, as amended
To: Rural Municipality of Milton No. 292 Community Members
Notice is hereby given that not less than thirty days from the date of service of this notice, the Council for the Rural Municipality of Milton No. 292 intends to pass a bylaw pursuant to the provisions of The Heritage Property Act, to repeal the Municipal Heritage Property designation of the following real property known as:
Merid School
legally described as: Lot 1 Block 1 Plan G414CNV Extension 0
and located: approximately 13.7 kilometres from the Village of Marengo using Highway 317, Highway 7 and Range Road 3284
The property was originally designated as Municipal Heritage property by Bylaw 3/89 read a third time and passed on the 3rd day of May, 1989.
The reasons for the appeal are as follows: The property was originally designated to ensure the building at that time would not be demolished;
The property owner has continued to renovate the property and keep as many period details as possible, but would like to continue to make some improvements to the property that are not in keeping with the period. Some of these include but are not limited to:
- The installation of windows on the north side of the building;
- Addition of a bathroom at the north east corner of the main hall;
- Potential construction of a mezzanine on the west wall
Removal of the designation will allow future renovations to proceed without requiring council’s involvement.
This matter is slated for consideration at the November 12th, 2020 meeting of council. Any person wishing to object to the proposed repeal must serve council with a written objection stating the reasons for the objection and all relevant facts not less than three days prior to consideration of the repealing bylaw.
For more information, please contact the municipal office at:
Phone: (306) 968-2922
Fax: (306) 912-8922
Email: rm292.rm322@sasktel.net
Mail: Box 70 Marengo, Saskatchewan S0L 2K0
In person: 20 1st Avenue North, Marengo, Saskatchewan
Dated this 21st day of September, 2020. Robin Busby, Administrator
PHOTO BY BRIAN ZINCHUK
This drilling rig, built by Totem Drilling, became a CanElson Drilling, then Trinidad Drilling, and finally Ensign Drilling rig. It spent the downturn racked in Crescent Point’s Stoughton yard, and was cut for scrap this summer , as seen on August 25.
BRIAN ZINCHUK Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Ten Saskatchewan-based drilling rigs cut up for scrap, Sask drilling fleet shrinks 7%
CARNDUFF – Like a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex tearing through its prey, a 52-ton excavator equipped with large hydraulic shears tore through the last skid-mounted building of what was once a Saskatchewan based drilling rig on Sept. 14. A hundred metres away, a large pile of tangled steel was once three complete drilling rigs, which used to punch through southeast Saskatchewan’s sedimentary rock to drill for black gold. What was once the combo-building, complete with a locker room and microwave, was now torn to shreds, lying in Fast Trucking’s yard in Carnduff. Similar scenes had already taken place in Carlyle, and near
Notice of Call for Nominations VILLAGE OF COLEVILLE Municipal Elections
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of:
MAYOR
Village of Coleville
COUNCILLOR
Village of Coleville - number to be elected
Four (4)
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 Village and R.M. office, 200 Main Street, Coleville, SK, and during regular business hours on September 21 to October 6, 2020 at the Village and R.M. office, 200 Main Street, Coleville, SK.
Nomination forms may be obtained at the following locations:
Village and RM office 200 Main Street, Coleville, SK
Dated this 21st day of September, 2020.
Gillain Lund Returning Officer
Stoughton. Waskada, Manitoba, was next.
This summer, Ensign Energy cut up 10 Saskatchewan-based drilling rigs for scrap. Several of those rigs were Kelly telescopic doubles less than 15 years old. Several would have had less than 10 years service on them, as they’ve been racked for the last five years. They initially cost between $5 and $8 million a piece –built in Estevan during the Bakken boom. Now, they will be melted down at Regina’s EVRAZ steel mill. Some of those rigs could end up as casing pipe, used to line future holes drilled by the survivors of Saskatchewan’s drilling rig fleet.
Ensign Energy’s Aug. 10 second quarter results press release noted they had 118 “marketed rigs” in Canada in June 2019, and 101 in June 2020. Their U.S. rig count went from 134 to 122, and international rigs went from 42 to 43. Overall, the company’s marketed rig fleet shrunk by 10 per cent.
The reason is obvious. Work that has largely dried up since the downturn hit in late 2014 truly withered this year, with the advent of COVID-19 and its destruction of oil demand. Drilling activity
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in Saskatchewan was flatlined at zero rigs working until mid-July, then ran around five rigs. Just in recent days, that number has climbed to 12 rigs working. In August, 2011, a record 122 rigs were working.
For the three months ending June 30, Ensign’s total drilling rig operating days dropped from 1,317 to 377 in Canada, a decline of 71 per cent. In the U.S. for the same period, operating days dropped from 6,451 to 2,214, or a fall of 66 per cent. International drilling rigs saw a 41 per cent decline in operating days, from 1,195 to 704.
“The financial results for the company’s Canadian operations decreased during the first half of 2020 primarily due to the oil price war and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global oil and natural gas industry as described above,” the release said.
For most of the last decade, Saskatchewan has had roughly 120 drilling rigs listed with the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC). That number now stands at 96. The scrapping of 10 rigs represents roughly 7 per cent of the fleet at full strength, and nine per cent for its
more recent size.
According to Daily Oil Bulletin, in December, 2018, Ensign delisted 17 drilling rigs, including 14 mechanical telescoping doubles built between 1993 and 2011, with depth capacities ranging from 3,000 to 4,000 metres. Other recently-delisted Ensign rigs included two mechanical cantilever doubles (built in 1998) with 3,200- and3,500- metre depth capacities, respectively, and one mechanical cantilever triple built in 2005 with a 4,000-metre depth capacity.
In 2016, Ensign cut up 13 older rigs in southeast Saskatchewan. When they merged with Trinidad Drilling in early 2019, they acquired 13 additional rigs in the region. Now, they’ve cut up 10, most of which were part of that recent deal.
The rigs that have been cut up represent a varied history, as indicated by their paint schemes. Some are former Totem Drilling rigs, others are former Eagle Drilling rigs. At least one bore Trinidad’s teal paint, and another had Ensign’s dark blue.
its eight yellow rigs were built in Estevan. The two local drillers were purchased by CanElson Drilling in 2010. In 2015, Trinidad Drilling bought CanElson, and it, in turn, was acquired by Ensign in a merger in February 2019.
During all this tumult in ownership, the oil downturn sidelined many of these rigs for the last five years. Five orange and yellow rigs were cut up in the former Eagle Drilling yard in Carlyle this summer. A former Totem rig, which hadn’t moved from the Crescent Point laydown yard northwest of Stoughton for at least five years, was cut up in place at that location. Three more rigs were cut up in Fast Trucking’s yard at Carnduff. The last rig to get chopped up by the giant metal shears was racked at Waskada, Manitoba.
Notice is hereby given under The Tax Enforcement Act that unless the arrears and costs appearing opposite the land and title number described in the following list are fully paid before the 23rd day of November, 2020, an interest based on a tax lien will be registered against the land.
Note: A sum for costs in an amount required by subsection 4(3) of The Tax Enforcement Act is included in the amount shown against each parcel.
Carnduff-based Totem Drilling started in 2006 with three rigs, its first few rigs being built in China, and the remainder in Canada, at Do-All Industries in Estevan. Its rigs were orange with a black stripe. Carlyle-based Eagle Drilling fired up in 2005, and all
Canada’s drilling rig fleet, which for several years numbered over 800 and would see over 600 working during the winter, now numbers 506. In 2006, that number was closer to 950. Where individual oil and gas companies would employ a dozen or even a half dozen each, on Sept. 14, employing just two rigs put your company in a six-way tie for being the fourth-most active oil company in the country. Hiring a single rig now qualifies you to tie for 10th place.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that nominations of candidates for the offices of: Reeve and
Councillor for Division No. 1
Councillor for Division No. 3
Councillor for Division No. 4
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 21st to October 7th, 2020 at the municipal
Dated this 21st day of September, 2020.
Regan MacDonald Returning Officer
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Some of the items for sale at: Andrea’s 3R’s Shop, Unique Second Hand Shop, 138 Railway Avenue W, Eston, Sk. 306-962-4270. JVC Stereo, Dresser & Vanity, Vehicle Mats, Antique Irons and much more.
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Send resume and work references to: Bryden Construction Box 100, Arborfield, Sk. S0E 0A0; Fax: 306-769-8844 Email: brydenconstruct@ xplornet.ca www. brydenconstruction andtransport.ca
Municipal Administrator Required
The RM of Newcombe is currently accepting applications for an Administrator. The RM Office is located in Glidden, SK which is 26 km South of Kindersley. The incumbent should possess excellent communication, public relations, and time management skills, as well as accounting and computer experience. Knowledge of MuniSoft software would be an asset. For a complete list of duties contact the RM office.
The successful applicant should, at minimum, have or be eligible for, a Rural Class “C” certificate. The RM of Newcombe No. 260 offers a competitive salary schedule and a comprehensive benefit package.
Applicants should submit a detailed resumé, outlining related experience and qualifications, including references and salary expected. This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Apply to:
R.M. of Newcombe No. 260
P.O. Box 40 • Glidden, SK S0L 1H0
Phone: 306-463-3338 • Fax: 306-463-4748 Email: rm260@yourlink.com
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TOWN OF LEADER JOB POSTING RECREATION & PARKS DIRECTOR
The Town of Leader is currently seeking applications for the position of RECREATION & PARKS DIRECTOR.
This is a senior position that is responsible for providing direction, leadership, and oversight to the town’s cultural, recreational, athletic, and community health and fitness programs. This position also facilitates operations and upkeep of all town owned recreation facilities and parks. A self-motivated, enthusiastic, responsible person who has a highly developed leadership and supervisory skills would be best suited to this position.
LAND FOR SALE
Land for Sale R.M. 10. 480 deeded acres in 2,22,W2nd. 3283 acres. Lease available to qualified persons. Fenced and cross fenced. Lots of water and grass. All in one block. Inquiries/Offers to Box 40, Big Beaver, SK S0H 0G0
I am currenlty PURCHASING single to large blocks of land. NO FEES OR COMMISISONS
Saskatchewan born and raised, I know land, farming and farmland and can help you every step of the way.
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saskfarms@shaw.ca www.sellyourfarm land.com
Our ideal candidate would possess the following attributes:
• familiar with managing and mentoring subordinate positions
• exceptional written and oral communications
• previous experience with strategic and financial planning and programs
• be accessible on various evenings and weekends to perform job related duties
The successful candidate will need to have completed post-secondary education, as outlined in the job description, or equivalent experience and a Class 5 Driver’s License. The candidate will also be required to take courses dealer with operations of an ice rink and swimming pool.
This is a full-time, permanent position with full benefits. Salary will be negotiated based on education and experience.
A complete copy of the job description can be obtained by visiting www.leader.ca or calling the Town Office.
Applications for this position will be received until Friday, October 9, 2020 at 4:30 pm by the undersigned:
Erin Romanuik, Administrator
Town of Leader P.O. Box 39
Leader, SK S0N 1H0
Phone: 306-628-3868
Fax: 306-628-4337
Email: admin.leader@sasktel.net
We thank all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Pastor Jim sat on the front row of the church while the Tabernacle choir sang at the beginning of the afternoon service. The choir, singing a song composed and directed by his wife, was blessing him. Suddenly an inaudible voice in his head insisted repeatedly as he internally argued with it, that he immediately go up on stage, preach the gospel and make an appeal. Obeying that voice, he uncertainly walked up the steps, acknowledged his wife’s puzzled look, feeling very unsure of what he was doing. He was completely disrupting the original order of service that was planned. As the soloist completed the choir number, Pastor Jim asked him to share a bit of his conversion story. Then he shared the gospel for about 10 minutes, speaking of God’s love for the lost, then made an appeal for those to come forward who wished to accept Jesus as their Saviour. Many flocked to the front in commitment to Jesus. Then the regular order of the service continued. The pastor remained baffled about the disrupted service.
The follow-up a few days later resolved the question that remained
in the pastor’s mind regarding his sudden change in order of service: A gentleman phoned the church office asking for the music that the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir used for that particular service. When he learned that the office secretary was Pastor Jim’s daughter, he shared about his visit to the Brooklyn Tabernacle. His 19 year old son was in a heedless, dangerous lifestyle which was deeply concerning to his parents. They planned a sightseeing trip with their son to New York which would specifically culminate in attending the Brooklyn Tabernacle church service. However, soon after they arrived at the church the father realized that the family would have to leave before the service ended in order to catch their flight home. They would miss the altar call at the end of the service—which had been the whole purpose of attending. The father was feeling frantic about his error in planning. What he had so carefully and prayerfully planned for his son would not be realized. Then, to his surprise, Pastor Jim Cymbala, stepped up to the platform, invited the soloist to share his conversion story briefly, made a few comments himself, and then made an altar call. The son had been moved as he responded to the Holy Spirit speaking through the ministry of word and song. He went forward, recommitting his life to Jesus. The father reported that his son was now a changed person, transformed by his en-
counter with Jesus, and he was a delight for his parents to behold. They were ecstatic that God had moved the pastor to change the service just for their son! (Told in electrifying detail in the book Fresh Faith by Jim Cymbala.)
Pastor Cymbala had preplanned the service carefully, but when he sensed the urgency of the Holy Spirit speaking to him, he obeyed, even though he didn’t understand the purpose of it all. He duplicated the experience of one of the apostles. There’s a story in the Bible of a similar prompting. An angel directed Philip, the evangelist to walk one day toward Gaza. As a particular chariot came down the road. “Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.” The rider in the chariot was reading a sacred scroll but couldn’t understand it. Philip directed the reader to Jesus and explained the story of salvation. The listener believed, and asked to be baptized as they passed a small body of water Philip baptized him, was caught away again by the Holy Spirit, and the converted man “went on his way rejoicing.” (Read the whole story in Acts 6:26-39).
The Holy Spirit spoke repeatedly ages ago, and continues to speak today. Let us be in tune to that still, small voice, as was the little boy Samuel when he responded, “Speak, for thy servant heareth.” (1 Samuel 3:10.) Then we also will have follow-up stories to share.
Obituaries
JOHNSON, James Victor “Vic”, LCol (Ret’d) CD, PEng
“It is a wonderful world, and I have seen some incredible things.”
- Vic Johnson
Vic passed away peacefully on September 9th in Ottawa ON. He had the constant care and love of his family throughout his illness. He is survived by Kaye (nee Faloon), his loving wife of 67 years. He was a loving and much loved Dad to his children, Jamie (Laura), Theresa (Rod), Kathleen and Garth, and an adored Grandpa to Jayson, Kassandra (Chuck), Tiffany (Adam), Andrew (Shannon), Scott, George (Emily), Kyle, Lil-
BURGARDT - Joseph P. Burgardt (Aug. 12, 1935 –Aug. 15, 2020)
Joe passed away at the Kerrobert Integrated Care Facility at the age of 85 on Aug, 15, 2020. Joe was born in Kerrobert and raised on the farm east of Kerrobert. During his younger years, Joe enjoyed playing guitar and singing with his brothers in a family band. They entertained at events at the hall and at barn dances out on the farm. Joe started work with
ly (Kyle) and Jessica. His eight great grandchildren (Pinxit, Atticus, and Leif, Andrew and Melody, Harry, Finn and Theo) always brought a sparkle to his eye.
Vic is survived by his brother Gary (Lois), sisters-in-law Doreen Johnson, Maimae Johnson and Bert Faloon, and brotherin-law Maynard Hanley. He was predeceased by his parents Jim and Lillian (nee Boberg) Johnson of Eston, Saskatchewan, and his brothers Shirl and Ken as well as his sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law Evelyn and Earl Armstrong, Helena and Ernie Leblanc, Doris Faloon, Bea and Jim Donnelly, Leah and Lou Steele, Hugh Faloon, and Ellen Hanley.
He was a graduate of the School of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. After a year working with the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, he enlisted in the Canadian Forces. He was soon deployed to serve in the Korean War. His career required frequent travel, and the family was posted to
Enbridge pipeline in 1954 as a pipeliner and eventually a high pressure welder at the Kerrobert station. When the maintenance crew was moved out of Kerrobert in 1969, Joe left IPL and was the owner and manager of the Kerrobert Paint and Body shop. Once the crew was moved back to town in 1971, he was hired back as a welder, and later became the foreman of the pipeline maintenance crew until he retired from Enbridge in 2001. In total, he worked for Enbridge for 43 years.
Joe was a big supporter of the Kerrobert community. He volunteered as Fire Chief from 1968 to 1985. He was on the town council for 21 years and spent 8 years as the Mayor of Kerrobert. He was a member of the Kinsmen club, active in the Catholic church and
Kentville and Halifax NS, Chilliwack BC, Whitehorse YT, Soest Germany, Nepean ON, Shilo MB, Montreal QC, and finally back to Nepean ON. Vic was also deployed to India and Pakistan on a Peacekeeping mission. His favourite time was the time he spent during the reconstruction of the Alaska Highway after the collapse of the Peace River bridge.
After more than 24 years as a member of the Corps of Canadian Military Engineers, he retired from the Canadian Forces at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He then joined the Department of National Defence as a public servant as the Director of Utilities and Municipal Properties.
After retirement, in addition to his devotion to his family, Vic stayed busy with his many passions and hobbies. He travelled to his beloved Ireland twice, and attended the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice in South Korea. He was a 40-year member of the Cedarhill Golf Club. He was
was member of Knights of Columbus. He was involved with the Kerrobert curling club and enjoyed curling for many years. Throughout these years, Joe spearheaded many projects for the community. He was also the Chairman of the Prairieland community Center for the last 23 years, just stepping down from this position this past November.
Every summer, Joe would enjoy time at the family cabin at Aquadeo Beach on Jackfish Lake. He enjoyed boating, fishing and golfing with his many friends and especially family. Family always came first, and he was very proud of all of his children and grandchildren.
Joe was predeceased by his parents Peter and Bertha Burgardt, and brother Gordon (Mag-
an active member of the Manordale-Woodvale Community Association for many years. He was integral in researching and writing the History of the Canadian Military Engineers, published by the Military Engineers Association of Canada. He volunteered his time to many causes.
He and Kaye have been faithful parishioners at St. Maurice church for more than 50 years.
He spent many hours researching the family trees for both Johnson and Faloon families. He met and kept in touch with family members from across the globe. His collection of material is a family treasure.
He excelled at photography, gardening, and woodworking. In addition to golf, he loved to curl and cross country ski. He enjoyed making wine and the Johnson crab-apple jelly recipe is famous. His love of the Saskatchewan Roughriders knew no bounds.
Donations in memory of Vic can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.
gie). He leaves behind his loving wife Kathy, his children: Sheila, Debbie (Gary), Bradley, Trent (Rhonda), Sandy (Greg), Brian (Kim), Trevor, and Darryl (Jessica). His grandchildren; Jacey, Brina, Cayley, Brittney, Jenelle, Jarrett, Chayse, Jordyn, Tanner, Camryn and Carson. Great grandchildren; Cori and Jack. Sisters: Shirley (Leo) and Gilda (Don), and brothers Don (Helen) and Rhinehart (Marion), and many nieces and nephews.
A funeral was held in Kerrobert at the Catholic Church on Aug 21.st, 2020 with Father Dan Yasinski officiating.
Joe will be deeply missed by all.
Donations to Kerrobert’s Pioneer Haven or West Central Abilities in Kindersley can be made in honor of Joe’s memory.
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