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The Saskatchewan Western Hockey League’s Macklin Mohawks have rallied to an SWHL championship.
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It was a weekend of tailgating and celebrating after a March 26 game in Wilkie that saw the team secure a 4-2 win to take the series.
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“Some of the guys still have headaches. It was such a big thrill,” joked Coach Al Neufield. “We beat the Wilkie Outlaws, something we’ve wanted to do for five years.”
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He said the reaction from the town – even the night of the win – was incredible.
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“Even though we got home from that road game after midnight, people we still waiting for us. It was just amazing,” he said.
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“We haven’t been through this as a group before. The last time something like this happened was in 2009 when the team won provincials.” He said.
“Even when we were tailgating, people were honking their horns or stopping to have a drink. Sometimes you’d catch guys just sitting there smiling. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced.”
The coach opened up about how he felt about their rivals and opponents, the Wilkie Outlaws.
“My hats’ off to them. They never made our lives easy. This has been a long-time rivalry, and they’re a quality team,” he said. “I’m sure they’ll be gunning for us next year. We aren’t used to having this target on our backs, but it was great to play them. They’re a classy team.”
They just won a championship, and Neufield expects to have the same core of guys back for next year’s action.
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In a game where the Mohawks were down 2-1 going into the third period, they rallied for a big threegoal performance when it counted.
A two-goal performance from Jared Hillis – including the game-winner – led the team to their championship.
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“In that final period, we got a few quick goals, which definitely helped us. But we started off slow,” he said.
“There were some quick talks about it. But it was mostly a night of celebrating, and we’re trying to enjoy it and give thought to it later,” he said.
“We aren’t used to winning this league. But it looks like the core will be here. Right now we’re just happy to celebrate.”
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He credits the Macklin crowd – who traveled to Wilkie to support the team during the away game – as a huge reason for the win.
“They were pretty amazing. It was just like a home game, and they even had airhorns,” he said. “I have no doubt the major reason we won that game was because of that support. You can’t replace those things.”
He expressed that the opposition they had in the Wilkie Outlaws was formidable.
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“They’re just such a good club. They weren’t going to let us have this easy, and they were firing on all cylinders,” he said.
“We just kept trying to grind them down, and it was a next-goal-wins kind of game for a while.”
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They’re still adjusting to being champions, and Neufield says the feeling is hard to describe.
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Before presenting the financial statement to his boss, the office manager asked, “Before I continue, you’re not one of those guys who blames the messenger for bad news, are you?”
Similarly, a cartoon illustrated Moses, preparing to read the Ten Commandments: “The first commandment is: Thou shalt not shoot the messenger.”
We’re hearing messages from a wide variety of sources, and everyone is using whatever platform they have to voice
their opinions. Even if you don’t watch Hollywood awards ceremonies, you will have likely seen Chris Rock on that platform, doling out his unique brand of humour. You also will have witnessed Will Smith’s response of punching him in the face.
Immediate online comments validated Will Smith’s actions, since his wife suffers from an autoimmune disease that caused temporary baldness. Hollywood appears to be sending a mixed message; Chris Rock’s
humour was labeled as violent, unacceptable speech, while Will Smith’s punch in the face was an acceptable, physically violent response. But don’t try to figure out the rationale; you’ll only get more confused. Meanwhile, other Hollywood celebrities are using their status to try and stop the Coastal GasLink pipeline, in spite of the fact that it’s sixty percent complete, would help reduce emissions, and lower dependency on gas from Russia. Unfortunately, those comments
made by celebrities are often uninformed and attempt to smear Canadian energy.
On the other hand, Sonya Savage, Alberta’s Minister of Energy, expressed different views during an interview on the show Full Measure.
“If you don’t look at energy security, you’re going to be looking at supply from places like Russia, Iran, Venezuela, places where we know we should be weeding out those barrels, not increasing their production,” she said. Her reasoning holds a lot of common sense value, as she continued to explain that Canada has the ability to supply an additional 400,000 barrels of oil a day to our neighbours.
Savage also said, that when the greater share of oil and natural gas production comes from autocracies, the security of supply is as important
as the environment. It’s an observation that holds much truth; nevertheless opinions are divided.
Division in society and discrediting of messengers are not new in our world. Many years ago a wise man astounded his peers with his wise words. As a result the government sent undercover agents who failed at trying to trap him in his speech. They even attempted to throw him off a cliff. Eventually his opponents caused his brutal death, but later discovered his grave was mysteriously empty.
Those were days of a divided society; a time when people were discredited and tortured because of what they said. Yet those words are preserved to this day, and during this season of Easter, that wise man, Jesus continues to be honoured by many people.
Although we all are entitled to our opinions, truth has a way of rising to the top and being preserved throughout history. Buddha once said, “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
On that note, I hope you enjoy preparing for the upcoming Easter holiday. I hope it includes Easter egg hunts for the kids, lots of chocolate, fun, sunshine, and a blessed time with family and friends.
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Last night we had our first community supper in two years. For twenty bucks you got a slab of roasted ham, a scoop of scalloped potatoes, fresh peas from the Hutterites, coleslaw and a slice of pie or a brownie. Plus a beverage. Need I add it’s homemade by the women of Val Marie in the back kitchen of the Seniors Community Centre, just two doors down from me.
I feel like knocking on the door of the town man whose trailer is parked between me and the hall, just to make sure he doesn’t miss out on an opportunity to dine among locals again. When I arrive there’s Pat at her old post, manning the cash box and reading a History magazine. I spot Annette and Jacquie and Ervin Sr. at one of the long tables facing toward the hills turning golden as the sun goes down.
“Dining out! Yippee!”
I say as I plop myself beside Jacquie, who is always game for an evening out. “You said it!” she laughs. We both wonder why anyone would order take-out, only to schlep back home and sit at alone at their table or in front of the tv. Annette agrees, and we grouse about how living alone means eating the same thing three nights in a row. Apparently, for us, cabin fever is worse than Covid, or maybe we just decided that this is the new normal, to use a hackneyed phrase. As if there once was a place or a state called normal.
I peek into the kitchen, half-hoping the old pancake breakfast gang will commission me and I can pull out the apron I stashed in my handbag on my way out the door. But the kitchen is already buzzing with efficiency. The women have everything under control. And
there’s Maurice too, who is always at the heart of the Centre’s events, tongs in hand, wielding them like an orchestra conductor. “Soon we can do pancake breakfasts, right?” I ask him.
The thought of reviving our Sunday tradition brings Paul Emile to mind, wandering from table to table and winking as he slips a capful of Bailey’s into cups of coffee. Tonight, Joy, his widow and Paulette, another widow, busy themselves filling plates with potatoes and slaw. And I think: here’s another of many firsts without their husbands. First supper at the Seniors.
Betty sets a plate on the table for me and I notice she’s given me a wee bit more ham than everybody else. Thankyou, Betty. I could eat a plate of just ham when it’s this tender and sweet. Apologies to the pig. The usual culinary discussions ensue: “ I can never get my ham this tender,” and “I love how he does his coleslaw”, and “Do you use mushroom soup in your scalloped potatoes?”, “The pie is perfect, not too sweet. I don’t like pie that’s overly sweet.” I find the talk as comforting as the food.
When’s the last time we all got together? we ask. “We all” being the village, which could fit into this room. Gosh, Valentine’s Day, I guess. Oh that’s right. I sat beside Jacquie then too. But mostly, we’ve been robbed of our community gatherings: No Lion’s Christmas Supper at Palais Royale, free for seniors, with its giant buffet of turkey and fixings and its concert of tiny violin-
ists on the stage where still sags the backdrop I strung from end to end for my performance of Mather’s Apron back in…whenever that was.
There’s been no casinos, no wedding receptions, and despite the alarming number of deaths these past winters, no funerals. Except for one. Women prepared sandwiches and squares, men delivered jars of pickles, only to see the trays still heaped with food after everyone left. Most of the mourners were squeamish about eating finger food. (Once again, I can’t say it stopped me. I will eat egg salad sandwiches by anyone willing to peel hardboiled eggs.)
Now that we’re midLent (for those who follow the Paschal calendar) I can’t help but reflect on Easters past. Usually I look forward to the preceding forty days of living a leaner, quieter, solitary life. But our lives have been so bereft of celebration and community for so long that I seem to have forgotten to fast this Lent. I want to go directly to the resurrection of past Easters spent in packed churches filled with spring flowers, followed by a feast shared by the entire family.
Still, it’s worth noting the importance of the fast. I’m reading a big fat book about “the station churches of Rome”. There are enough churches and chapels in the ancient city to visit one each day of Lent. And it’s only in the past fifty years, thanks to the insistence of Canadian, American and Australian seminarians, that the pilgrimage walk, every morning at 7am, to a
different station-church, was re-instated.
The Lenten pilgrimage, writes the author George Weigel, is an opportunity to live a “second naïveté: the wonder of an adult on the far side of cynicism, grasped by the truth of legends, stories and myths.” And those stories repeat a theme of forty days in the desert, a desert full of temptations to power, to sloughing off responsibility, or to reject life’s inevitable sorrows. Whether experienced by Moses, Elijah or Christ, all the forty-day stories are examples of “confronting the darkness that impedes us from making our lives into a gift.” Of living in the light of love and kindness toward others.
Still, it’s hard to be a gift toward others when we can’t break bread together. And when we finally can, as we did at the Senior’s, we are all eager to roll up our sleeves and get silly in the kitchen with each other, as did those women last night. I coming to view the forty days of Lent as a metaphor for the twoplus years of Covid. And I look forward to the resurrection of the community and more community suppers!
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The Kerrobert & District Ag Society is excited to announce its upcoming 76th Annual Regional 4H Show and Sale. The event will be held on June 1st at the Kerrobert Ag building. Although last year’s show and sale was cancelled, “4-H members are very good at finding buyers for their animals. They worked hard, and all of them were able to sell their steers,” Janice Moreland said. Janice is secretary/treasurer for Kerrobert & District Ag Society.
The opening ceremonies will be followed by team grooming and heifer and cow/calf classes. Showmanship and market-finished beef (steer) classes will be featured in the afternoon, with the sale of steers beginning at 3:30 p.m.
“We have 59 4-H members,” Janice explained. Those members come from six 4-H Clubs: Bea Bank, Kerrobert, Handel, Major, Monarch and Ridpath.
The 4-H members are joined by numerous volunteers who help make the event possible. Town volunteers, parents of 4-H members, Ag Society members, and people from the community who step in to lend a hand all contribute to the show and sale’s success.
Everyone is invited to attend and stay for the sale, where there are 42 steers offered for sale. “It’s a great way to support local producers and fill your freezer with beef,” Janice said.
As of April 1st, the Seniors Hall in Kerrobert will see a few new changes. Lorraine Mullin will be the President, taking over from Lorraine Knorr, who had served five years. Thank you, Lorraine. Leona Barth is the new Vice President, Marie Heidt is the secretary, and Helen Murphy is the Treasurer. Marie Heidt does the hall bookings, so if you want to rent the hall, call Marie at 306 834 5345
Coffee is enjoyed for only a looney every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday at 9:30 am. This is for everyone. Join us anytime.
We have been having Coffee and Pie a la mode afternoons. Watch for that.
We will be hosting the Town Wide Garage Sale on May 14th. Come for your maps, and then starting at 11 am, there will be a hamburger and hot dog BBQ. with drinks and dessert.
Memberships are just being collected now, so for $20.00, anyone over the age of 55 can become
Kerrobert Seniors Centre
Wed., April 20
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Come and enjoy some great food and friendship at the Seniors Hall!
a member and enjoy all the things we do.
We have suppers, BBQs, and wiener roasts. We have card playing and pool playing. If you are interested in any other activity, tell us. We would be open to new activities and ideas.
Hopefully, we will soon be back to meeting with the other Senior clubs in our District, zones and provincially.
Come join us at 541 Atlantic Avenue.
Rural Municipality of Prairiedale No. 321 GRAVEL SPREAD TENDER
Tenders will be accepted by the Rural Municipality No. 321 for the RM’s 2022 gravel spread contract. This is an on demand contract. All tenders must be received by Monday, April 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m., local time.
Tenders may be submitted by the following means: Sealed with the words “Gravel Spreading” to the Rural Municipality of Prairiedale No. 321, Box 160, Major, Sask. S0L 2H0.
Faxed with a cover page stating “Gravel Spreading” to 306-834-1202.
E-mailed with the subject line stating “Gravel Spreading” to administrator@rmofprairiedale.ca
For details about this tender please contact Administrator Charlotte Helfrich at 306-834-1201.
The war in Ukraine is now a month old. It is not over, nor does it show serious signs of ending anytime soon, despite attempts at peace talks.
We, as a nation, have had a month to determine our response. Even if the shooting stops, Russia’s oil and gas exports must be replaced by that from other nations for the long term. You don’t give money to the bully to buy the stick to beat you with.
I am coming at this as a father whose daughter is just turning 18 and graduating this June. She also has six years of experience as an air cadet. She is of perfect draft age, and the military these days is no longer a boys club. I absolutely do not want her to go to Europe to, as my late grandfather said, “stop a bullet.”
To the oil producer executives who are more concerned these days about dividends and share buybacks than increasing production, I say this: Give your kid a rifle, and tell them to pack their bags for Europe. Because that’s what this could come down to. This is not a joke or hyperbole. Unless you are willing to hand your own son or daughter a C7 should a draft be implemented, reconsider your priorities. You’re still going to make enormous amounts of money, just not as much as you will with your current shareholder-focused plans. Start focussing on the geopolitical issues here.
It is much better for Canadians to send tankers full of oil and LNG to Europe then tanks full of our kids. There needs to be a national imperative to do this. It may take orders-in-council. Hopefully most of industry can come it its own conclusions without being pushed. But to get the pipeline built, the federal government will have to say there’s no more fooling around. This is going to happen, now.
With all these caveats, this is the plan I am proposing Canada should implement to respond to the Ukraine War. Much of it is focused on our own energy independence, should global shipping become disrupted by Russian action. By becoming entirely energy independent ourselves, we free up global cargoes to go to Europe. Eventually, we would be able to export our own oil to Europe.
If any of this sounds familiar, its because these actions, particularly on Energy East, should have taken place eight years ago. We would be in a much better position today than we currently are if that had occurred.
1. Assume that every incremental barrel of oil produced in Western Canada and Newfoundland will displace one barrel of oil incoming to Eastern and Central Canada, particularly Saint John, NB, and Montreal refineries. Canada imports roughly 475,000 to 675,000 barrels per day (bpd). Two-thirds to three-quarters are from the USA. Overseas imports are ~160,000 to 250,000 bpd.
2. Every displaced barrel frees up a barrel that can go to Europe instead of Canada.
3. Federal and provincial governments need to suggest, cajole and implore oil producers to increase oil production across the spectrum, but particularly in
light oil.
a) Oil companies should shift their laser focus on dividends and share buybacks to increasing vendor workforce wages to attract people to the industry. There are lots of idle service rigs in Saskatchewan, but not enough staff to man them all. This is why the pay must go up substantially. They will still make lots of money, just not as much.
b) Additional service rigs will allow for increased production through workovers. This is the lowest hanging fruit to increase incremental production in the quickest time.
c) No tax incentives should be required. WTI is US$110 and WCS is $101 per barrel on any given day now. They will be making plenty of money and should not require additional incentives.
d) There are many drilling rigs in Saskatchewan that did not work this winter. Despite high oil prices, many companies, including Cenovus and Crescent Point, had dramatically reduced drilling programs. This needs to be reversed.
e) Enhanced oil recovery, such as waterfloods, can be implemented to boost production
4. The argument has been “We don’t have pipelines to tidewater.” The reality is by 2014, Saskatchewan had enough crude-by-rail infrastructure in place to ship every barrel we produce by rail, if we chose to. This needs to be reactivated to ship additional, incremental oil to Central and Eastern Canada. A typical crude-byrail train is around 70,000 bbls. Facilities here include:
a) Crescent Point Stoughton 45,000 bpd
b) Altex Lashburn 88,000 bpd
c) Altex Unity 29,000 bpd
d) Plaines All American Kerrobert 80,000 bpd
e) Kindersley Unknown but sizeable.
f) Additional sites https://www.oilsandsmagazine.com/projects/crude-oil-by-rail
g) Total 461,000 bpd province-wide if all implemented/reactivated
5. Alberta has also built sizeable crude-by-rail facilities including loop tracks at Edmonton, Hardisty and Bruderheim. Total 802,000 province-wide if all implemented/reactivated.
6. Manitoba has an idle 60,000 bpd facility at Cromer meant for Saskatchewan and Manitoba oil. It is directly tied to the Westspur System from southeast Saskatchewan.
7. Additional rail tankers and engines will need to be built and crewed.
8. Start by shipping incremental oil by rail to Montreal, and then St. John. Eventually all incoming tanker traffic will be displaced. At this point, Canada has become energy independent, and we have freed up 675,000 barrels from the world market for Europe. Russia exports 4.5 million bpd to Europe.
9. The same hardware that offloads oil from tankers should be capable, with minimal work, of loading tankers. As our production increases, we start exporting oil to Europe via tanker.
10. Concurrently, we build the Energy East Pipeline, or at least parts of it.
a) TC Energy has all the plans for Energy East sitting in storage, including all the surveys.
b) All the pipe from Hardisty to Kingston is already in the ground. When TC Energy built the Alberta portion of Keystone XL, they built it from Hardisty to the Bindloss Pump Station near the Saskatchewan border, including two pumping stations. That pump station is where Energy East was sup-
posed to begin using the existing TC Energy Mainline. It was no accident that TC Energy built that portion first. They clearly planned for this possibility.
c) Unless they have already disposed of it, TC Energy should have in its possession all or most of the long-lead hardware for the pumping stations that were meant for Keystone XL. This includes the pumps, valves, pre-fab buildings, transformers, etc. Re-deploy this to build the pumping stations through Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. KXL had 41 pumping stations planned, so most, if not all, of that hardware should be available.
d) The Cromer-Moosomin lateral would allow southeast Saskatchewan and Manitoba oil to be shipped on Energy East.
e) Build the Kingston to Montreal portion of new pipe, at minimum. In the interim, crude by rail could be used from Kingston to Montreal and Saint John.
f) Build the tanker terminal originally planned for Cacouna on the St. Lawrence River.
g) Continue the pipeline to the Saint John Ir-
ving Refinery, and switch it to entirely Canadian slate. This may require refinery upgrades such as a coker.
11. If just one Russian submarine sinks just one tanker, the entire global shipping network will screech to a halt until adequate convoy protection can be arranged. Even that might not be possible, given the atrophied size of NATO navies and the length of time it takes to build modern naval vessels and crew them.
a) The very worst Atlantic convoy battle of World War II was convoy PQ17, which saw 23 of 34 ships sunk for a total of 130,000 gross tons sunk out of 200,000 tons that sailed. The Ever Given, the ship which blocked the Suez Canal was, by itself, 220,940 gross tons, or more than the equivalent of the entire PQ17 convoy. A singular VLCC supertanker is even larger, meaning that just one of these ships lost to a singular torpedo would be the equivalent of sinking an entire WWII convoy.
b) If this were to happen, Eastern and Central Canada energy security could be in peril if inbound tanker shipments are stopped.
c) If one of the shuttle tankers from Canada’s offshore platforms to Newfoundland were to be sunk, it could entirely shut down offshore oil production. An occasional Russian sub off the Grand Banks would be able to stop all production by firing just one shot. Russia has lots of subs.
d) Even if we export nothing to Europe, Canadian energy security has now become a paramount consideration.
12. In summation:
a) Increasing Canadian oil production and displacing imported oil results in Canadian energy security in a world where energy security is now everything. We are taken care of and cannot be threatened.
b) Every displaced ocean-going barrel becomes one more barrel available for Europe.
c) Once we displace all incoming oil, we can begin exporting additional barrels to Europe, with the caveat that anything on the high seas is now at risk.
Brian Zinchuk is editor and owner of Pipeline Online. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca.
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MURRAY MANDRYK Political Columnist
Saskatchewan’s most recent budget has quickly become a reminder of a long-standing, hardto-accept reality for this province:
We are not as well off as Alberta.
This envy of our 1905 confederation twin has largely been dormant for the past decade and a half in which Saskatchewan was growing at a pace similar to what Alberta has always experienced for roughly the same reason: Oil and other natural resource wealth.
But after seeing Saskatchewan grow by more than 100,000 people in the early 2000s — a rate of growth unseen in this province in 90 years — Saskatchewan is suddenly falling into an all-too-familiar pattern.
Recent Statistics Canada numbers show Saskatchewan to be dead last in growth (Prince Edward Island is now attracting more people than this province) while Alberta continues to grow.
Worse, Saskatchewan is again losing people to Alberta (as it always seems to have done) when numbers suggest we should be doing okay.
After all, while Saskatchewan has taken a significant economic hit in the past couple of years of the pandemic, moredependent-on-oil Alberta took an even bigger hit.
One might think the two provinces would be about the same position as we move back into a period of $100-plus-US per barrel oil … or that Saskatchewan should be in an even better position than Alberta.
We have a lot more farmland, and Farm Credit Canada is reporting a 7.4-per-cent increase in the value of Saskatchewan farmland in 2021 — more than even 5.4-percent increase in 2020 and the 6.2-per-cent increase in 2019.
With the war in Ukraine, the value of wheat production, oilseeds, and pulse crops are also likely to rise dramatically this year. And the spate of canola crushing plants and other agriculture-related projects will add to our economy.
This is great news for provincial budgets that have clearly floundered during the pandemic.
We can already expect a $500-million increase in non-renewable resource revenue to $2.9 billion in 2022-23 compared with what was forecasted for the fiscal year that just ended.
The most recent bud get also shows that pot ash revenues alone — something that Alberta doesn’t have — will near ly quadruple to $1.5 bil lion in 2022-23 compared with $420 million in 202122.
Yet the big story emerging from the Sas katchewan budget seems to be tax increases — spe cifically, the Saskatche wan Party’s decision to apply this province’s sixper-cent provincial sales tax (a PST that Alberta still doesn’t have) to everything from concert and football and hockey game tickets to gym and fitness club membership fees.
government considered using the list to which the federal goods and services tax GST) already applies “solely for simplicity instead of massive confusion.”
However, Saskatchewan’s Finance Minister emphasized that taxes on concerts, football games, gyms, and anything else would not be her first preference.
“I would love to remove the PST entirely and be Alberta, quite frankly,” Harpauer said.
“Unfortunately, in Saskatchewan, one dollar a barrel of oil (increase) is $14 million (in budget revenue). In Alberta, one barrel of oil is $500 million.
“So we are more reliant on taxes than Alberta is.”
In a nutshell, Harpau-
er neatly summed up both Saskatchewan’s current budgeting problem … and its long-standing one in relation to losing people to Alberta.
“We have to stabilize our budget,” she said. “We’ve seen in the past when resource revenues plummet and you’ve become too reliant on those revenues, then you are looking at scrambling and (dipping into) savings or cuts which truly doesn’t serve us well.”
One can argue that poor spending choices are also a big part of the problem.
But the bottom line very much seems to be as it’s always been — we are not as fortunate as Alberta because of oil.
This is still the biggest difference between the two provinces.
In explaining her choices, Finance Minister Donna Harpauer said the Saskatchewan Party
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Home Features and Outbuilding Information Available upon request.
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Notice is hereby given that the assessment roll for the R.M. of Eye Hill No. 382 for the year 2022 has been prepared and is open to inspection at the office of the Assessor from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the following days: Monday to Friday, April 8th, 2022 to May 9th, 2022 (except on statutory holidays)
A bylaw pursuant to section 214 of The Municipalities Act has been passed and the assessment notices have been sent as required.
Any person who wishes to appeal against his or her notice of assessment or classification is required to file his or her notice of appeal, accompanied by a $5.00 appeal fee which will be returned if the appeal is successful, with:
The Assessor, R.M. of Eye Hill No. 382 Box 39, Macklin, Saskatchewan S0L 2C0 by the 9th day of May, 2022.
Dated this 8th day of April, 2022.
Jason Pilat Assessor
Notice is hereby given that the assessment roll for the R.M. of Progress No. 351 for the year 2022 has been prepared and is open to inspection at the office of the assessor from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the following days: Monday to Friday, March 28th, 2022 to April 26, 2022
A bylaw pursuant to section 214 of The Municipalities Act has been passed and the assessment notices have been sent as required.
Any person who wishes to appeal against his or her notice of assessment is required to file his or her notice of appeal with the required $200.00 fee by the 26th day of April, 2022 with:
The Secretary of the Board of Revision Box 460, Luseland, SK S0L 2A0
Dated in Luseland, SK this 28th day of March, 2022.
Kim Adams Assessor
David J. Anderson D.D. & Caitlin Geiger D.D. 109 - 1st Ave. West, Kindersley, SK 1-306-463-4124 Call today for an appointment.
HOUSING
The Macklin Housing Authority has Senior housing units in both single and double bedrooms available for rent immediately. The units include a fridge, stove, washer and dryer. Rent is based on income. Included in the rental charge are heat, water and sewer services. Tenants are responsible for electricity charges and are required to sign up with SaskPower for service.
If you are looking for peace of mind, not having to worry about repairing your home or appliances, or having to cut grass and shovel snow, this is an excellent living arrangement for you.
For more information and to get an application form, please contact: Macklin Housing Authority Attn: Marie Dewald, Manager PO Box 585, Macklin, SK S0L 2C0 • Phone: 306-358-4924
The Town of Kerrobert is currently accepting applications to fill an Operations Team Member position. This position offers many unique opportunities to advance through multiple avenues, competitive wage schedules, and training opportunities. Applicants must possess a minimum Grade 12 education and a willingness to obtain other training and certificates needed to perform the various duties required by the job. This will be a complete town wide position with training to facilitate working where most needed.
Job description and expected duties:
• Operate water treatment and distribution system, sewage treatment and collection facilities and take part in on call rotation.
• Operate heavy equipment - grader, loader, street sweeper, mowers, etc.
• Operate public swimming pool boilers and chemical feeders.
• Assist with the overal operation and maintenance of the arena during the winter season.
• Assist with the general maintenance and operation of all parks and summer recreation facilities.
• On-the-job training will be provided as required.
The Town of Kerrobert offers competitive wages and an excellent benefits package.
Only candidates chosen for an interview will be contacted.
Closing date: April 19th, 2022.
Please send your cover letter and resume to: Town of Kerrobert, P.O. Box 558, Kerrobert, SK S0L 1R0. Email: kerrobert.admin@ sasktel.net
The Town of Kerrobert works in a team environment and cross trains its employees to perform multiple duties.
The baseball season that almost went by the wayside is ready to go. And if you haven’t been paying close attention, the changes are many
For instance:
— The designated hitter, once the exclusive domain of the American League until the National League temporarily adopted it during the Covid-shortened 2020 season, will now be fully implemented in both leagues. Cue the complaints from the traditionalists.
— That silly ‘temporary’ rule putting a ‘ghost’ runner on second base to start an extra inning in a game tied after nine is now a full-time rule (regular season only, thankfully), virtually ensuring that a marathon 17- or 18-inning game will never be seen again.
— The ‘Ohtani Rule’ is now in effect, meaning that a pitcher who also serves as his team’s designated hitter will be allowed to continue to be the DH even after being removed from pitching duties. Were it not for reigning AL MVP Shohei Ohtani, that rule would not have been enacted, nor considered.
— Max Scherzer now plays for the Mets;
Freddie Freeman for the Dodgers; Josh Donaldson for the Yankees; Matt Chapman for the Blue Jays; Noah Syndergaard for the Angels; and Carlos Correa for the Twins, among dozens of player moves in the off-season.
— And the biggest change of all for Canadian baseball fans is this: The Blue Jays are definitely a legitimate contender and will give fans from coast to coast reason to watch the late-season pennant race with vital interest.
Of course, the 2022 season was in jeopardy for much of the late winter, as an owner-imposed lockout froze all baseball moves for three months while snail-like negotiations were taking place. The pace picked up in late February and a deal was finally struck in early March. As baseball — once North America’s No 1 sport — continues to lose its fanbase, a labour-induced elimination of the 2022 season would have been a killer. Judging by the immense free-agent contracts handed out (Freeman got $162 million for six years with the Dodgers; Scherzer will receive $130 million for three Mets’ seasons), it’s hard to take seriously
the poverty pleas from MLB owners, who indicated they might have to go out of business if an owner-friendly agreement with the players wasn’t negotiated.
But the focus has now shifted from the boardroom to the playing field. So let’s play ball!
• The late Lions Hall of Famer Alex Karras, asked to call heads or tails on a pregame coin flip after returning from a one-year suspension for gambling: “I’m sorry, sir, I’m not permitted to gamble.”
• CBS’s Stephen Colbert, via Twitter, on Bucs QB Tom Brady’s unretirement: “Brady got one taste of what it’s like to help kids with math homework and decided to return to being tackled by the largest men in the world.”
• Headline at fark. com: “Russell Wilson succumbs to thin Colorado air in record time, says he hopes to ‘win three, four more Super Bowls’ for the Broncos”
• Jim Nugent in the Global Golf Post, on the proposed shotgun starts in the 54-hole tournaments on Greg Norman’s LIV Golf Series tour: “That sounds like the one-day men’s member-guest at Duck Hook
Town and Country Club. Full bar service at the turn; closest to the pin on the par-3s; long drive contests on the par-5s; and beat the pro on No. 15 for pro shop credit.”
• Rob Vanstone of the Regina Leader Post, after the Saskatchewan government announced that a 6-per-cent PST would now be charged on tickets to sporting events: “Say this much for the provincial government: It can put up six points (PST) much more quickly than the Roughriders’ offence.”
• Ron Mintz of the @MintzGolf Twitter feed, on why Phil Mickelson isn’t playing in the Masters: “Mickelson didn”t withdraw . . . Augusta National officials either told him or strongly encouraged him not to come, according to
multiple sources. The last thing they want is Mickelson to drive down Magnolia Lane knowing the circus that was coming with him.”
• Comedy writer Torben Rolfsen of Vancouver: “The Leafs have worn five different uniforms in five different games. It’s almost like they’re trying to avoid detection.”
• Winnipeg Jets fan North End Rick, on Twitter, following the Jets’ 5-2 home-ice loss to Ottawa: “My dog got neutered today. I watched the entirety of that Jets/Senators game. It’s debatable, but my dog may have had a better day.”
• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Miami Dolphins players reportedly have a book of fines where one of the biggest
penalties is for passing gas. Think of it as a fragrant foul.”
• Dwight Perry again: “Skiing and shooting, hah! Let’s hear it for the real modern biathlon: filling out a March Madness bracket and playing fantasy football.”
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Saturday, April 23
- Denzil Steak & Lobster Fest. Supper seating at 5:30 & 7:30 pm Denzil Community Hall (lower level). Dance 9:00 pm - 1:30 am with Musical Guest Whiplash. Silent Auction. No Minors.
Monday, April 11
- Pie-n-Ice Cream 2:00 - 4:00 pm at the Luseland Pioneers Club. Pie, Ice Cream & Coffee $5.00. Everyone welcome.
Saturday, May 7
- Luseland Community Garage Sale 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Maps and BBQ available at the Legion Hall. - Farmers Market at the Luseland Salvador Hall
Wednesday, April 6
- Paint Night Party Fundraiser & Fun with Jared Fischer 6:00 pm at the Pioneer’s Haven. Tickets $60 (includes all painting supplies).
- Kerrobert Minor Hockey Awards Night 6:30 pm Friday, April 8
- Pioneer’s Haven presents High Tea afternoon 2:00 pm. Earl Grey tea, finger sandwiches, scones, tarts, cakes and a lot of great company! Semi-formal dress (think floral and colourful). $5.00 a seat. Donations accepted.
Saturday, April 9
- Kerrobert Spring Market 10:00 am - 3:00 pm at the P.C.C. (216 McPherson St.) Entry will be by donation with all proceeds going to Kerrobert Composite School swimming programs.
April 11 - 14
- Kerrobert Music Festival
Wednesday, April 13
- Parent & Tot - Library
- Spring Fling Bingo at KCS
Tuesday, April 19
- Pioneer’s Haven Soup & Sandwich Day 11:30 am1:00 pm. $10.00 for soup, sandwich, drink and dessert. Everyone welcome.
Wednesday, April 20
- Kerrobert Seniors Pie & Coffee Social 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Saturday, April 23
- Wildlife Supper & Banquet Night
Saturday, April 30
- Fire Department Hockey Draft
Wednesday, April 27
- Parent & Tot & Storyteller Reading 2:30 pm at the
Library
Sunday, May 1
- Sieben’s School of Dance
Monday, May 2
- Hunter Safety Registration
Sunday, May 14
- Kerrobert Town Wide Garage Sale
Wednesday, May 18
- Kerrobert Seniors Pie & Coffee Social 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Thursday, May 26
- SWG Author Reading - Library
Saturday, May 28
- Minor Ball Day
Tuesday, May 31
- Kerrobert & District Agriculture Society 4H Days
Wednesday, June 1
- Kerrobert & District Agriculture Society 4H Days
Friday, June 3
- Kerrobert Spring Market 10:00 am - 3:00 pm at the P.C.C. (216 McPherson St.) Entry by donation.
- Kerrobert Outdoor Market
- Pool Opening
Wednesday, June 15
- Kerrobert Seniors Pie & Coffee Social 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Thursday, June 30
- KCS Graduation
* Kerrobert events are submitted by Kerrobert Recreation Director and are subject to change. For more information call 834-8355 or 834-2344.
Friday, April 8
- Macklin Football Association Charity Sportsman Dinner & Auction at the Macklin Communiplex. Featuring Guest Speakers: Glen Suitor and Kelly Taylor (Comedian). Jim Hopson, Emcee.
Thursday, April 28
- Arts Council Concert Series
Saturday, April 30
- Sieben’s School of Dance Recital
