Kerrobert’s Brent Roszell is having the last laugh after winning $100,000 on his Crossword Multiplier Zing ticket. Roszell was watching television with his friends when he discovered his big win.
“My friends are always beaking me for playing ‘my little puzzles,’ but look who’s laughing now!” he chuckled while claiming his prize. “I just started laughing at the two friends that were sitting with me.”
“The satisfaction was almost better than the money!” he laughed.
Roszell said his prize will help out financially, but he’s not sure what he’ll put the money toward just yet.
“Just a little gravy on the potatoes,” he said. “It will help out.”
Roszell purchased his winning ticket at the Kerrobert Reddi-Mart located at 346 Pacific St. in Kerrobert.
Sask Lotteries is the main fundraiser for more than 12,000 sport, culture and recreation groups in communities across Saskatchewan.
Kerrobert Recreation Director, Bobbi Hebron commented that Kerrobert is set to receive over $11,000 from Sask
Lotteries in 2022.
“This money is used for programming at our facilities including Public Skate, Twoonie Tuesday and Aquasizes at the pool, Forever in Motion at the PCC and KCS Curling.”
For farmers gearing up for the 2022 crop year, Five Seeds Seed Cleaning in Eatonia is available to help. The seed cleaning plant is located south of Eatonia, a half-mile east of Highways 21 and 44.
The owner/operator Matt Stimson said his plant’s first cleaning season was in 2017. “A few of us farmers sat around one day. We noticed a lot of local business around the Eatonia area were headed off in another direction,” Matt explained. “So we thought we’d build a seed plant and get the local business back.” Previously, farmers headed to Eston and Acadia Valley to clean their seed.
“Typically, we usually start as early as we can in the fall. We can do a bit in August or September, which is really nice to do. It picks up in October and November, and December, January and February are quite busy,”
Matt said. “Typically, we like to stay up and running as long as we can.”
One of the claims made by this seed plant is “We will try anything,” and they have proven this to be true. “I can clean almost anything,” Matt said. “We typically try to stay on one commodity for as long as we can. Within the commodities, we keep the varieties as separate as possible.
Within a month and a half, we could have up to
eight different varieties of durum. We do a big clean between varieties and clean between growers to make sure there’s no contamination between growers.”
The plant is capable of cleaning 350 bushels in an hour; however, pulse crops can be cleaned at a rate of 250 bushels per hour. “For mustard, canary seed and flax, it’s about 100 bushels an hour,” Matt explained. “If there’s a specific weed seed in a grain, it can slow us down a bit, depending on what we’re trying to take out.”
According to Matt, getting the seed cleaned really helps when it is time to put that seed into the ground in the spring. “If you have too much chaff in your grain, it won’t flow through your seeder very well. We try to make it as pure as we can so it goes through the drill nicely,” Matt concluded.
There is less of a fight over the desire to remove all restrictions than Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and others would have us believe.
Surely, getting back to the way things were before the COVID-19 pandemic began almost two years ago is what everyone wants. Why wouldn’t it be?
We’re all sick and tired of having our lives disrupted.
The real question, however, remains: How do we keep people safe?
It still comes down to getting vaccinated.
Vaccines were the marker Moe relied on when his Saskatchewan Party government made the decision on July 11th to remove all restrictions by virtue of 70 percent of the adult population 18 years and over having received at least one dose.
Yes, that 70 percent was an arbitrary number at a time when children under 18 were not yet eligible. And it didn’t
take into account that we always needed two shots to best prevent serious illness.
Yet we accepted it because we recognized that vaccination rates were the best marker available when it came to determining how safe we were.
As critical as hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths have been as measures of the battle against COVID-19, you don’t want to use these as a marker for the obvious reason: You want to avoid milestones like ICUs and deaths — not use them as markers.
Moreover, using vaccination rates as the marker was a great way to encourage more people to get vaccinated, which we all agreed was the best way out of the pandemic.
It all made more sense, so why wouldn’t we do something that just made sense.
It’s important to understand our vaccination ratesand perhaps why Moe and his government have suddenly
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decided they are supposedly no longer significant in government decision-making of removing restrictions.
Where we all can surely agree with the Saskatchewan Premier is that it’s been exceedingly difficult to get a small portion of adamant vaccine resisters to agree to finally get vaccinated.
While about 80 per cent of this province’s total population are vaccinated (when you take into account little children under five years still not eligible) that remains
among the lowest rates in the country along with Alberta and the territories.
And convincing the unvaccinated has surely become harder instead of easier.
By the end of January, Saskatchewan only recorded 20,765 receiving their first dose, bringing the total number of people in the province with at least one dose to 963,399 people.
This is the worst monthly total in quite some time compared with 38,799 first doses doled in December, 32,272 in November, 48,047 in October and 41,948 in September.
Of those 20,765 Saskatchewan first dose recipients, 10,944 were recently eligible children five to 11 years old, and another 2,190 were children between 12 and 17.
When it comes to adults, January saw only about saw an average of 246 first doses a day — a fraction of the 1,000 or so a day average in November and December.
The problem is that what Moe is now saying and what his government is doing is becoming their own self-fulfilling prophecy.
It’s surely worth noting that the surge in new vaccine recipients we saw in September and October came after the government implemented vaccine passports.
Now Moe is saying that he doubts he can get many more vaccinated, that Omicron is responsible for Omicron, that vaccines don’t aren’t stopping the spread of Omicron and that the vast majority of people just want things re-opened.
Moe’s notion that vaccines don’t stop Omicron spread has outraged doctors. Others question whether this is more about the Premier looking for justifications to avoid doing what he admits is very hard.
Yes, it’s hard to get people the remaining people vaccinated. But vaccines have been and still are the way out of this pandemic.
The sign read in large red letters “Danger: Alligator!” Underneath was posted another sign in green letters: “No Lifeguards. Beach is open for swimming”. Now that’s a contradiction!
Speaking of contradictions, last year, our Prime Minister expressed his views regarding a mass protest by farmers in India, saying, “The situation is concerning. Let me remind you, Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protests. We believe in the importance of dialogue.”
Meanwhile when the largest convoy in the world’s history is on his doorstep, he is hidden
away at a secure location. His comment regarding the trucker’s peaceful protest was as follows:
“The convoy thing needs to stop.” This contradicts his views regarding the peaceful protest in India. But he had more to say ...
“Everyone knows I am the Prime Minister that is about unity and inclusion. Please do your part to make this stop. If you have family and friends that still haven’t been vaccinated do not allow them to family dinners. Do not speak to them on the phone. Do not reply to their texts. You need to do everything you can to make life difficult for them until they comply.”
His words speak for
themselves. The contradiction is blatantly obvious. I’m not sure how his strategy is working within his own family, since his half-brother Kyle Kemper, respectfully but publicly disagrees with Justin’s views. Kyle said, “I don’t believe in heavily centralized control and global government. When talking about policy there isn’t much connection between us. We have our differences. The convoy is a symbol of unity. Justin said their views are unacceptable, but unacceptable to who?
Justin makes assumptions about the convoy participants.”
A US talk show host observed, “Canadians
don’t do this kind of thing; they are calm and don’t get riled up.” So why are tens of thousands of Canadians participating in a peaceful protest? The common thread appears to be an intense dissatisfaction with Justin Trudeau’s leadership; Canadians have lost confidence in their government.
Those who Justin Trudeau categorizes as the “fringe” are everyday Canadians. The mainstream media is preoccupied with pointing out isolated incidents of people who have individually chosen to misrepresent the massive protest; those people are responsible for their own actions.
Meanwhile the convoy is working closely with the police to maintain a peaceful protest. To get a visual of how large this is, there are over 50,000 truckers in Ottawa, who all represent their own families. There are thousands of people who joined the convoy in Ottawa. Thousands more were cheering on the truckers throughout Canada as they travelled down the highways.
There were hundreds of trucks conducting convoys to all major cities throughout Canada - Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Regina, Toronto,
Winnipeg, Prince George, as well as numerous other smaller communities. Wherever they congregate, spontaneous outbursts of the national anthem show Canadians uniting as one. In Ottawa, Indigenous drummers led the crowd at Parliament Hill in a round of “O Canada”. Canadian truckers have inspired convoys to roll out from the United States, Europe and Australia.
Thousands of Canadians have managed to donate nearly $8 million to the cause, which will help truckers with their substantial costs. I’ve heard the money will also be used to ensure clean water for the Indigenous people, something they have been waiting for the government to do.
This is an historical event, the largest convoy in the world’s history. Crowds gathered near the parliament buildings, where an inscription on a stained glass window says “Freedom is the sure possession of these alone who have courage to defend it.”
A mom attending the protest said her threeyear-old was disappointed she wasn’t allowed to go into the “castle”. Sometimes wisdom is spoken out of the mouths of babes. Have our parlia-
ment buildings become castles where only the elite are allowed to have a voice? Why does our national anthem instruct us to “stand on guard for thee”? What does standing on guard look like for everyday Canadians? We have a Prime Minister who claims to believe in the importance of dialogue, but yet hides from the masses and instructs Canadians to shut out their own family members. The good news is he’s not a family councillor; the bad news is he’s leading our country. Are you happy with the direction our country is headed? Massive debt, massive division? When is the last time you remember hearing thousands of Canadians spontaneously singing the national anthem throughout our entire nation? It’s quite a contradiction to Trudeau’s divisive exhortations.
You can reach me at joanjanzen@hotmail.com
BY BRIAN ZINCHUK www.pipelineonline.ca
CYPRESS HILLS – Brad Wall is out, when it comes to consideration of who will be the next leader of the federal Conservative party.
The question of who would be the next leader of the Conservatives became acute following the Feb. 2 ouster of Erin O’Toole as party leader. With a minority Parliament, an election can be called at any time.
The afternoon of Feb. 3, Wall posted the following to his Facebook account:
I want to thank those folks who –with very kind comments – have been encouraging me to enter federal politics.
I am so very grateful for my 18 years in public life but I am also grateful for this time in the private sector and for a mostly private life – and will not be returning to elected politics.
Brad
Just as when Andrew Scheer left the leadership position, Wall was immediately one of the names mentioned as a possible contender. The National Post, for instance, included Wall in a list of nine possible contenders. In addition to Wall, list included Pierre Poilievre, Peter MacKay, Leslyn Lewis, Michelle Rempel Garner, Michael Chong, Jason Kenney, Derek Sloan and, no joke, “a truck.”
The initial posting of that story included a caption which misidentified Wall as “former Manitoba Premier Brad Wall.” It was later corrected.
Wall is an occasional opinion writer for both the National Post and Pipeline Online. He’s also likely never been a Bombers fan, either. Perhaps the National Post had never seen the banjo video.
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Canada’s energy weapon is an empty holster in dealing with Russia with regards
My late grandfather, Harry Zinchuk, and parents got on a boat in 1930, leaving Ukraine for Canada. They were following his much older brother, Steve, who had come over in 1929.
Harry was 13 at the time, having been born in May 1917, during the height of the Great War, what we’ve since come to know as the First World War. His family was evacuated from western Ukraine in the early days of the war to Saratov, north of what eventually was known as Stalingrad. My grandfather, in essence, was born a refugee, or at least an internally displaced person.
Another little thing happened in November 1917, by our calendar. According to the Russian calendar, it was October, and the thus aptly-named October Revolution took place. Communists overthrew the provisional government which had displaced the czar. Lenin quickly sued for peace with Germany, and the Russian Empire, which included most of Ukraine, fell to pieces in a civil war that lasted several years. For four of those years, Ukraine was an independent state until the Red Army said otherwise.
As if that wasn’t enough, the Spanish Flu pandemic swept around the world in 1919, when Harry was two years old. His eldest brother and sister survived, as did he. I once asked my grandfather if he had other siblings. Harry said to me that so many brothers and sisters had died in the flu pandemic and the return home, his parents never talked about it. Ever. He told me he didn’t even know how many brothers and sisters he had, so many had died.
I’m guessing the Zinchuks were evacuated from Ukraine around 1914/1915 by train, but I don’t know that for sure. They had to walk back, in the midst of the Russian Civil War, approximately 1,500 kilometres. For perspective, that’s about the distance from Winnipeg to Ottawa, as the crow flies.
So step forward to 1930. They came to Saskatchewan and settled close to Stenen, about 90 kilometres north of Yorkton.
Ukrainians didn’t need to eat
Only in recent years have I come to appreciate how truly fortunate they were. Perhaps prescient, even.
That’s because in 1932, Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union, decided that Ukrainians didn’t need to eat.
This is not something that we hear about much, here in Canada. I sure never heard about it in school. Indeed, it was hardly discussed at all, anywhere, until around 1986, after the Chernobyl disaster.
I personally never heard about the Holodomor, as it’s called, until former Deputy Premier Ken Kravetz made it his mission to make sure Saskatchewan knew about the millions who died as a result. Since 2015 there’s been a statue near the Legislature.
Since then I’ve listened three audiobooks, while not focusing on the Holodomor, they provided some enlightenment about it.
The first was the unabridged version of The Gulag
Archipelago, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, by Aleksandr Solzhenitszyn. The second was Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum. The third was Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, by Oleg Khlevniuk. In these books, the Holodomor was not the focus, but rather an incidental horrific event that was, in some ways, just one of many over decades of horrific events.
In their religious zeal of purging the Soviet Union of capitalism, the government kept coming for more and more classes of what were considered undesirable people. This included business owners, intellectuals, Cossacks, religious leaders, and various ethnic groups. This typically involved being dragged off by the secret police in the middle of the night and shipped by train to the Gulag. Usually these camps were in some of the most inhospitable places in the world to live. And if you didn’t like that, or they didn’t like you, a bullet in the back of the head was a common refrain.
Eventually in 1930-31 the zealous communists got to what they called the Kulaks, the successful farmers. If you had two or more head of cattle, you were a Kulak. That essentially meant that anyone who knew anything about farming – producing food from the land – was a Kulak. And most of them had their land and assets seized, and they were sent off to Siberia.
Instead, the land was gathered up in collective farms, and people who had no idea how to farm were told they were now farmers, so make it happen. Good luck with that.
As a result, collectivization failed on a massive scale, as could be expected when you imprison everyone who actually knows how to produce food. This led to a great man-made famine – the Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian).
It got to the point where the secret police would show up on these collective farms and seize the entire crop in the bin, not even leaving seed for next year.
There is little photographic evidence left of the Holodomor, but what there is includes photos of people who simply died of starvation in the middle of the streets. One minute they were walking there, then sitting, and then they were dead. By U. Druzhelubov. The date of death is impossible to determine therefore PMA is not known.
– Proletarskoe Foto (Proletarian Photo) issue 1 dated Feb 1933, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia. org/w/index.php?curid=69991318
What little crop there was went to the cities. If you had no food left, it was your fault for not being a good communist and producing your quota.
If you were found with a handful of grain in your pockets when the secret police came to seize all your food, you could be shot or sent to the Gulag.
There is little photographic evidence left of the Holodomor, but what there is includes photos of people who simply died of starvation in the middle of the streets. One minute they were walking there, then sitting, and then they were dead.
Depending on what source you look at, the number dead was well into the millions. It wasn’t just Ukraine – the surrounding regions were affected, too, but Ukraine was hit the worst. Britannica says, “Between 1931 and 1934 at least 5 million people perished of hunger all across the U.S.S.R. Among them, according to a study conducted by a team of Ukrainian demographers, were at least 3.9 million Ukrainians.”
There are other estimates that it was higher. Whatever the actual number was, it’s within the ballpark of the Holocaust of the Second World War.
I don’t know if the Zinchuk family was actually in the Soviet Union in 1930. Harry said he lived in a village that was almost all Ukrainian families, with a handful of Polish, but Polish was the language taught in school four days a week. Poland’s borders were a lot further east prior to 1939, and encompassed some of Ukraine. Maybe that’s why they were able to get out, because leaving the USSR was all but impossible in the 1930s. If it wasn’t, everyone would have left, if they could.
Today
So what does all of this have to do with today? Everything. If your people, your nation, suffered under the Russian boot as the Ukrainians have, how, exactly, would you feel with over 100,000 Russian soldiers on your borders, surrounding three sides? The Red Army mastered the pincer movement during what they called The Great Patriotic War, and it sure seems like they are putting their troops in place for a gigantic pincer action to take nearly all of Ukraine.
How enthusiastic do you think Israel would be of Germany invading it?
I don’t go out of my way in calling myself Ukrainian. In fact, I specifically don’t. I tell my kids the air force uniform both I and their mother wore said “Canada” on the shoulder. We’re Canadians, and so are they. But that doesn’t mean those ties to the “mother country” are gone, either.
The world needs to wake up to what is going on. This Ukrainian thing is rapidly elevating to the closest thing to war with Russia since maybe the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This book has already been written
In recent years, I’ve discovered a geopolitical strategist and demographics expert named Peter Zeihan. I’ve watched nearly every one of his presentations posted on YouTube since 2014, and read all three of his books. His insight into how demography has been shaping our modern world is both jarring and eye-opening. From what I’ve seen, his batting average for predictions is about .800. He not only predicted Iran would attack Saudi Arabia, he even listed the specific oil facility Iran would hit, which it did in 2019. But Zeihan did miss on his prediction Alberta would be seeking independence by now, so he’s not perfect.
Several years ago, Zeihan started talking about how Russia would start expanding its borders to points it considers more defensible with a smaller army. Chapter 6 of his 2017 book The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America reads word-for-word like the headlines we are seeing in 2022. Zeihan said this expansion would eventually include “in whole or in part 11 nations; Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania (all NATO members), Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.”
Ukraine would be first, he said.
Where are over 100,000 Russian troops today? The border of Ukraine, precisely as Zeihan predicted, and in the order he predicted.
Here’s what he said about it on Jan. 31, 2022: Zeihan speaks about how the US is gearing up to
try to replace some of Europe’s energy needs, should Russia cut off its supply of oil and gas to Europe, their punishment for supporting Ukraine. Principally, the Americans are looking at shipping liquified natural gas (LNG) to Europe, as well as oil. So are other suppliers.
Canada is not one of them.
And why is that? Because Canada still does not have any LNG export capacity. And we killed the Energy East oil pipeline, which was initially supposed to have been in service by December, 2018. Most recently, in July, 2021, Quebec killed the Énergie Saguenay project. The Nova Scotia Goldboro LNG project is still up in the air, most recently considering doing it as a floating LNG project (FLNG). Do you know why they might do that? It’s like signing a prenuptial agreement before getting married. If it doesn’t work out, you can pull stakes and leave, and take your whole facility with you.
The net result is, there’s almost nothing we can do. We can’t send oil. We can’t send LNG. Our military has withered under Conservative and Liberal governments to the point of utter irrelevance. Zeihan had something to say about that, too, in a recent interview with Business in Vancouver on Jan. 6.
About the best we might be able to do is load up our five – count ’em – five C-17s strategic lift aircraft with what few anti-tank missiles we have and ship them to Ukraine. Maybe we can throw in a few pallets of Browning Hi-Power pistols we have left over from the Second World War that we are still using.
A far more potent form of assistance, not just for Europe, but Ukraine, too, would be the ability for Canadian oil and gas to displace Russian oil and gas. Taking away the markets, and revenue source, for Russia’s most significant commodities, would be much more devastating than any number of soldiers we could ever deploy against the Red Army.
Russia is adamant that Ukraine not join NATO. Think about it – if nearly every country in Europe that was once under your (Russian) boot has since joined an alliance specifically to protect themselves from you, you just might be the bad guy. For those who might have missed it, that list includes Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. That’s 14 nations with relatively recent experience of Russian control who fled into the arms of NATO. But whose counting? Maybe they know something we don’t?
Given what has happened before under Russian rule, specifically the Holodomor, no Ukrainian should ever wish to be subject to Moscow’s whims again. How many millions more bodies do we need to figure this out?
I’m just glad my family got the hell out of there when it did.
Brian Zinchuk is editor and owner of Pipeline Online. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca.
Canada’s status on the world professional tennis stage skyrocketed in Melbourne in January, but Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime still haven’t reached the peak of the mountain.
The two Canadians — virtual kids in the world of professional sports — both made the quarter-finals of 2022’s first tennis major of the season, and while both gamely battled against higher-ranked and more experienced foes, they both limped to the sidelines with only a few hundred thousand dollars bulging out of their pockets to salve the wounds of defeat.
The silverware will have to wait. But it seems inevitable that it won’t be long before baubles from either Melbourne; Paris, where the French Open is played; London, where Wimbledon is staged each July; or New York, site of late summer’s U.S. Open, are being lugged through Canadian customs by either Shapovalov or Auger-Aliassime.
Shapovalov, who was born in Israel to a tennis professional mother, grew up in
Greater Toronto (Vaughan) and is only 22 years old, still dealing with immature petulance and brattiness. His skill, however, allowed him to breeze through the first three rounds in Melbourne before facing Spanish star and eventual champion Rafael Nadal, now the owner of a record 21 Grand Slam titles, in the quarter-finals. After losing the first two sets, Shapovalov won the next two to force a deciding set and while momentum was seemingly on his side, the experience of Nadal won out, sending the Canadian to the sidelines.
The next day, the 21-yearold Auger-Aliassime, seeded ninth, was on the verge of upsetting No. 2 seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia, before faltering in the latter half of the match. Auger-Aliassime was up two sets to love before a rain delay slowed the Canadian’s momentum and gave Medvedev the chance to regroup. The Russian eventually prevailed in five sets.
Youth would seem to be on the side of the two Canadians, whose primary opponents on the world stage are all older.
Nadal is 35; Novak Djokovic, ranked No. 1 in the world but absent at Melbourne due to a Covid-19 controversy, is 34. Medvedev is 26. Other than Italy’s Jannik Sinner, who is 20, the two Canadians are the youngest among the world’s top 20 players.
With the emergence last year of Leylah-Annie Fernandez, who joined Breanna Andreescu among the world’s elite women tennis players, Canada is becoming somewhat of a world power in the sport. The Grand Slam breakthrough on the men’s side seems to be inevitable. How about a Wimbledon final featuring Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime? That would certainly have the Canadian flags flapping.
• Headline at the onion. com: “Lakers fans frustrated with volatile hot dog prices in Crypto.Com Arena”
• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “Aaron Rodgers is under trade rumours and the galloping joke is he’s taken so much Ivermectin he’ll have to play for the Broncos or Colts. This information could be
true; apparently it came from the horse’s mouth.”
• Blogger Patti Dawn Swansson: “Oh my, what was E-Town Elks GM/head coach Chris Jones thinking when he signed receivers Adarius Bowman and Manny Arceneaux? I’m not saying they’re old, but the only place you’ll find their rookie cards is at an archaeological dig.”
• Comedy writer Brad Dickson of Omaha: “Every time someone praises Patrick Mahomes for his ‘good decision making’, I know they’re not very familiar with his fiancee.”
• fark.com headline: “If you ever wanted to be an NHL goaltender, give the Buffalo Sabres a call”
• From SI.com: “Tom Brady on his first career unsportsmanlike penalty. ‘So I screamed at the ref to throw the flag, and he did. But I guess I need to be more specific with who he needs to throw the flag on.’”
• Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus, who recently joined Twitter: “Fantasy football is what guys played after I hit them.”
• Stanford play-by-play broadcaster Scott Reiss, on the Bills losing the OT coin toss against the Chiefs: “Pretty much the only mistake Josh Allen made in two weeks was call ‘tails.’ ”
• Islanders Hall of Famer Clark Gillies, who died at 67 on Jan. 21, when once asked where his native Moose Jaw was located: “Six feet from the moose’s ass.”
• Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com, on diva WR Antonio Brown still drawing NFL interest, apparently this time from Ravens QB Lamar Jackson: “It’s all part of the league’s strict superstar policy: ‘17 strikes and you’re out.’ ”
• Steve Simmons of SunMedia: “What’s in a name? The Chicago Bears fired a coach named Matt (Nagy) and a GM named Ryan (Pace) and turned around and hired a coach named Matt (Eberflus) and a GM named Ryan (Poles). There’s no truth to the rumour their next quarterback will be Matt Ryan.”
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Matthew Siwak (Lieutenant)
Steven Meissner, Brenden Obrigewitch
Devon Townsend
Front Row (Left to Right)
Nick Anderson Brad Galbraith (Captain)
Matthew Rumohr (Chief)
Missing:
Randy Gottfried, Brian Gottfried
Matthew Thrun, Garret Walford
Christopher Brost, Kevin Sloboda
Austin Gleave, Adam Franko
Neil Kennedy, Koby Reiber
Keagan Bazylinski , Kirk Meyer
Shane Bardick
From left to right Fire Chief Vic Sittler, Shane Kruesel, Jarret Johnson, Deputy Chief Grant Sittler, Deputy Chief Grant Christison, Michael Bowden.
Missing:
Steven McMillan, Caleb MacDonald, Cory Turk, Dean Ellis, Devon Lovenuk, Jordan Halter, Kaid Hoffman, Patrick McGrath, Ryan Neumeier, Trent Nienaber, Travis Kennon
Tyler Srigley, Ryan Webber
