Luseland golf course online auction begins!
Bell Acres Golf & Country Club is a wellused amenity in the community of Luseland, with people coming from near and far to play the course. The popularity of Luseland’s golf course inspired the 14-person volunteer Golf Club Board to conduct an online auction fundraiser.
Ryley Magnus, treasurer/secretary, said this is the first online auction of this size. The auction starts on January 10th, 2022, “and we plan to have a monthly golf item raffle during the upcoming golf season,” Ryley said.
“The total retail value of all items donated is over $30,000 across almost 100 items and climbing,” he explained. “At the start, we set out with a goal to raise $10,000. Our generous donors are making that goal a certainty, and we hope to raise right to the total retail value of our items.”
There is a wide variety of items to choose from; everything from a fishing trip, combine demo, sprayer demo, crop inputs, antique paper money, tools, jewelry, to clothing and golf items. There is something for everyone!
“The funds are being used for improvements to Bell Acres Golf & Country Club, specifically for a bathroom addition on the club house, improvements to the watering system, purchasing an aerator, and hydro-seeding grass around our new synthetic greens,” Ryley said.
He acknowledged that the efforts of the current Board could not be accomplished without the decades of labour, time and commitment of previous Boards and their
volunteers. “The golf course was established in 1963 and has been a staple of our community ever since,” he said.
The current Golf Club Board is a group of young and ambitious individuals, who have brought new improvements such as rental carts, aeration and synthetic greens, thus increasing traffic on the golf course. Ryley noted it hasn’t been decided if an online auction will be held in subsequent years. “We want to run a successful auction, thank our donors, start and complete our golf course improvements, and then plan for the future for our next online auction,” he concluded. The auction closes on Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 11:59 p.m.
KERROBERT FOOD BANK
The Food Bank is located in the Kerrobert United Church, 320 Lanigan St.
The Food Bank is open for regular use the second Tuesday of each month
Please call one of the people listed for the month the Monday before to make an appointment.
Food Bank Schedule: February - July, 2022
Feb. 8: Boni Seffren/Karen Zinger 306-834-8001 or 306-834-5004
March 14: Lorraine Cholin/Yvonne Schlosser 306-834-5056 or 306-834-8292
April 12: Calvin Ressler/Carol Grosskopf 306-834-5389 or 306-834-2376
May 10: Karen Zinger/Yvonne Schlosser 306-834-5004 or 306-834-8292
June 14: Trina Duhaime/Calvin Ressler 306-834-7646 or 306-834-5389
July 12: LCarol Grosskopf/Lorraine Cholin 306-834-2376 or 306-834-5056
JOAN JANZEN Your Southwest Media Group
The Memory Tree held 166 precious names this year and raised $626.75 for the Kerrobert Cemetery. Thank you to everyone who shared names, they brought back special memories for those who read them.
A Proud History of the Kerrobert Memorial Arena
Looking to be inspired? The Kerrobert Memorial Arena just turned 74 years old. Learn more about it’s incredible story from a variety of sources ... Thanks to the Kerrobert Recreation Director, Bobbi Hebron for the share!
The Story of the Kerrobert Memorial Recreation Center
By W.B. Sample - 1948
Kerrobert is a replica of a hundred similar small incorporated towns scattered over the western plains. Is is a railway divisional and junction point on the Moose Jaw – Edmonton branch of the CPR, one hundred and twenty five miles west of Saskatoon, and was founded in 1910. It takes it’s name after Robert Kerr, at that time General Passenger Traffic agent of the CPR western lines, resident at Winnipeg.
It is the center of the Judicial District of Kerrobert, has a fine Courthouse, possesses unusually fine Churches, Public and High Schools, a Public Library, excellent Hospital, Theater, Stores, Garages etc. and the professionals are well represented as well. It is largely a wheat producing area, though mixed farming is extensively carried on.
Not the least of Kerrobert’s possessions, was a fine skating and curling rink---one of the finest in Saskatchewan—and municipality owned and operated. It was a source of pride to the citizens.
At six-thirty o’clock on the morning of Nov. 25th, 1946, the rink was discovered to be burning, the fire well advanced. It was a perfectly calm morning, clear, except for a heavy hoar-frost, and the thick smoke mushroomed to be a dense flat pall over the town. De-
spite a heroic pressure, the once fine rink was merely smoking rubble by nine-thirty a.m. and the gloom of the citizens was not less dense than the thick smoke that hung over the town all day.
However, at ten-thirty, the same morning, the Town Council under Mayor Roy Greer, and the Board of Trade, headed by President W.C. Stanley, with a score of other citizens, assembled in the Council Chambers, they were going to build a new rink at once. They were assured already, that the insurance, $10,000, would be paid forthwith. With this sum as a financial nucleus, organization quickly followed. By noon of the same day the provisional committee was in the telephonic communication with the Hon. J.H. Sturdy, Minister of re-construction for Sask., would he sell one of the fine large R.C.A.F. hangars, now vacated, at North Battleford, to the town of Kerrobert? He would – and within twenty-four hours of the destruction of the old rink, the deal was completed for $6,500.
Demolition of the unused hangar at North Battleford commenced early in the spring of 1947. Section by section, the great thirty-five-ton trusses were taken down, loaded on trailer-trucks, along with hundreds of tons of other material and hauled the hundred miles to Kerrobert. It was a terrific task – there were appalling difficulties, but grimly the crews stuck to the job and by the end of September, the material lay piled on the new rink-site, in Kerrobert.
Here the Kinsmen Club enters the picture. In 1945, this aggressive group of young men had planned an Athletic Park in the center of the town, adjacent to the High School. In 1946, they obtained a large block of residential property (size 600’ x 260’) by purchase, removed two houses from it themselves, and by night and day, a huge “Cat” worked to reduce this rolling block to a perfect level for two ball diamonds, a football field, tennis courts, and swimming pool – 6,500 yards of earth was moved in leveling this block.
In the meantime, Kerrobert Memorial Recreations (KMR) had been informed with a capital of $50,000 at
$25 per share, no-par-value and non-interest bearing. The share-capital would be refunded commencing after Jan. 1, 1949. The the KMR, the Kinsmen then proposed they locate their new rink-building on the Athletic Park. This was promptly accepted and now the two great plans proceeded as one project.
LUSELAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Late in August, the actual work of re-construction of the great hangar (with some modifications) was started. Tens of thousand of tons of trusses, rafters, purloins, etc. had to be unscrambled, re-assembled, bolted and banded together, and distributed for raising as formerly erected. There was little time to lose if the rink were to be used this winter. Planned and master minded by Kay Pedersen, the supervising contractor, the work went steadily ahead, until the great trusses were ready for hoisting into position. This was done in little more than a week, by tow powerful winches. And now the “voluntary labour” forces came into action.
Back row (Left to Right)
Garrett Flueny, Jayden Olfert
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
Harvesting and fall work were practically done, and the farmers, many of them already share-holders, came in by the score, day after day, to add a powerful punch to the town forces, now straining to get the building closed in before the snow came. It was the old Kerrobert spirit at work again in these “volunteers”. They hauled cement, mixed cement, wheeled cement – a dozen farmers hauled by trucks, three hundred tons of rock for foundations. On one Wednesday half holiday, fifty employees from various business places loaded and unloaded the rock. Every business place released a man or two, at their own expense, to finish the job. Fifty high school boys got leave from their studies to drive nails, day after day as every day counted now if they were to beat “Jack Frost”. It was quite cold by this time, and then the young women, the W.H.O. Club (only the members know the secret of those letters) threw in their re-enforcements. They secured a trailer and from this, each day provided lunch and hot coffee to all workers.
Matthew Thrun, Garret Walford Christopher Brost, Kevin Sloboda
Austin Gleave, Adam Franko
Neil Kennedy, Koby Reiber
Keagan Bazylinski , Kirk Meyer
Shane Bardick
DEPARTMENT
From left to right Fire Chief Vic Sittler, Shane Kruesel, Jarret Johnson, Deputy Chief Grant Sittler,
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Patrick McGrath, Ryan Neumeier, Trent Nienaber, Travis Kennon
Tyler Srigley, Ryan Webber
On Armistice Day, Nov. 11th, the weather turned definitely cold. Fifteen below zero for a few days, but the battle won, it was a photo finish. Now the men could work inside and the work went steadily ahead.
A modern skating rink (192’ x 112’) seating fifteen hundred (with standing room for five hundred more) and without a single post to clock the vision, was finished.
A four-sheet curling rink (165’ x 64’) with glassed in galleries lies along side the skating rink. Along side the curling rink to the east is a large gymnasium and assembly hall (160’ x 48’) capable of seating five hundred. These three sub-sections are inter-communicating, centrally steam heated and are all under one roof. The overall dimensions of the building are two hundred and forty two feet by one hundred and ninety two feet and thirty two feet height. It covers one and one-sixteenth acres.
On Christmas day in 1947, the rink was thrown open for the first time for skating and curling. “Skipper” Pedersen had kept his word, “she’ll be open Christmas Day”.
Yes, the scoffers said “it couldn’t be done”, it would never be finished”, “Kerrobert has bitten off more than it can chew at this time” etc. They had forgotten the triumphs of past years by the people of this same district; how they had fought for and secured our magnificent Court House, a fine modern hospital, the local creamery, a fine Library, our fine churches and one of the finest theaters (also owned by the citizens) in the province. Incidentally, it was also the third rink built in Kerrobert.
Now a word about financing of this latest triumph.
Approximately $42,000 has been expended, to date on the new building alone. To the sum of $10,000 insurance, add donations of $10,000 and $22,600 cash from sale of shares. The shareholders to date number 193. Donations of cash and share purchases were received from former Kerrobert residents as far away as Vancouver. It will require approximately $20,000 to finish the original plan, most of which will be expended on the adjacent swimming pool in 1948.
It is proposed that shares will be refunded, pro-rata, beginning in 1949, for the community fund set up in 1938, when the citizens, as a community effort, built their own fine Memorial Theater, from which the Town derives annually, a rental of $1000. In 1945, a group of eight business men advanced the purchase price of the moving picture equipment in the theater, giving the citizens complete ownership now, the net annual receipts being approximately $4000 to $5000. The loan by the business men above mentioned was repaid in full within one year.
To list those citizens and organizations cooperating in this most recent effort would require too much space. Let it be sufficient to say that all extended great and loyal support in this ambitious scheme, and the whole-hearted support of the farmers was a magnificent contribution alone.
The project when finally complete, will stand as a permanent memorial to those Kerrobert district service men who fell in World Wars I and II.
The officials of Kerrobert Memorial Recreations are as follows : J.E. Rodney (former Sheriff) – President; K. Pedersen – Vice President; W.R. Francis – Secretary; Wm. Schappert – Treasurer.
One other name should be mentioned, that of J.E. (Dutch) Shields, whose brain child the purchase of the hangar was, and whose daring and initiative cinched the purchase that hangar. And Kay Pedersen, a great Danish Canadian masterminded the great project to success.
Kerrobert Arena has a Long and Proud History
West Central Crossroads – Justin Kohlman - 1993
Left with no rink, and poor economic conditions, it took local car dealer Kay Peterson to come up with a plan. He made a deal to have a World War II airplane hangar moved in from Battleford and soon after, volunteers were funneling in from all over the area to help get the quire formidable project under way.
“It was a big undertaking to tear it (hangar) down and bring it home, but it was all volunteers. We never even got gas money or oil money, it was all on our own, “ said Squee Allen, one of the many volunteers.
“Everyone was sports minded at that time. They didn’t have any trouble getting help,” added Elise Allen, Squee’s wife.
Anyone offering their services were put to work immediately. After Peterson took men to North Battleford to take the hangar apart, Allen and a number of other volunteers were given the task of moving the wood back to Kerrobert. With only two ton trucks, the job of moving the hangar was a slow one. Each volunteer took about two or three trips a day stretching across two months.
“I probably made 100 trips there (North Battleford) and back, “said Allen. “The windows were so big, George Allen, (Squee’s brother) and I couldn’t get across the bridge. We had to go to the South Battleford bridge to get down there. And back it was all gravel and it was corrugated so bad that it shook everything. The roads were terrible.”
In order to ensure that everything was put back together in the right order, each truck was given a numbered paper in North Battlford, Upon reaching Kerrobert, the truck would then deposit the load with the other materials of the same number. Once the wood was all brought from North Battleford and put in piles, the job of re-constructing the building began. Working in reverse order from the way the building was brought down, the men began their job taking care to do everything exactly as it had been.
“It was a lot of work putting it back together, but it was built solid,” said Allen. “It was a hot job, we worked right from June 1st until freezing.”
By the time the mercury dipped below zero, the rink was ready, and to initiate the rink, hockey season had begun.
“We didn’t have a dance or anything, we just started playing hockey right away,” said Allen.
Soon after the rink was up, people had a reason to fill the seats.
“We used to fill that rink steady when we played, we turned away more people from that rink sometimes than we could let in.” said Allen.
A Historical Look at the Kerrobert Tigers Hockey Club
H.J. Thompson - 1975
(The Fire) It is said to have started as a result of an unattended stove within the building.
The community was pulling together towards a common goal. As the individuals put something of
themselves into the structure, they began to identify with the center and with their town once again. For people to get the most out of their investment the facility must be used to the utmost. The businesses had supported the building of the structure and were now prepared to continue their support of the programs which it would house. Just like a child with a new toy, we are sure that Kerrobert reacted to their new facility in much the same manner. The rink became the center of attention and activity again. What could be nicer than to skate or play hockey in a facility considered by many to be the finest facility for miles around? It’s location, being the center of town, on a main highway, close to downtown businesses and clearly visible for miles away made it an instant geographic success.
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OPINION
CHECK IT OUT with Joan Janzen
Promoting a culture of honour in 2022
Acouple was in court fighting over the custody of their daughter. When the judge asked the man to present his argument, he said, “Your Honour, if you slide a coin into a vending machine and a snack comes out, is the snack yours, or the machine’s?”
That’s an interesting argument. Amidst a culture which displays much ‘dishonour’, people may not realize ‘Your Honour’ is not only the proper way to address a judge, but honour is a valuable attribute. It’s defined as “high respect and adherence to what is right”. In 1850 the definition of honour went on for pages, but has been reduced to a few phrases in the past several decades.
I listened to a man reminisce about working at his dad’s service station after
school. His dad honoured his son by making him the night manager, giving him more responsibility. The son admitted he got the job because there was no one else to do it and he was working by himself so he didn’t have to supervise any employees.
During his first evening as night manager, he locked the outdoor washroom before closing the main building and going home. At 2:00 in the morning his dad received a call from the restaurant owner next door to the service station, who said there was an old man hanging out of the window of the washroom, yelling “I’m gonna die!” Apparently he had been locked in the washroom all evening, and the new ‘night manager’ had to go down and let him out.
In spite of this incident, the
young man’s dad continued to honour him with the title of ‘night manager’. Shortly afterward, the young fellow was backing a customer’s car out of the garage, and backed into a yellow, metal post. As a result he bent the passenger panel of the car.
“I didn’t want to tell my dad because I was scared I wouldn’t be allowed to get my driver’s licence,” he recalled. Nevertheless he decided he would tell his dad in the morning, but in the mean time the customer had phoned his dad, saying he would pick up the car late that evening after the garage closed. That night the customer got into his car,
not looking at the passenger side of his vehicle. He pulled his car out of the parking lot shortly after midnight, and someone from the lounge next door who had been drinking too much, pulled out and hit the side of the vehicle, caving in the whole side of the car.
When the young man found out he thought it was too good to be true! Now he wouldn’t need to tell his dad the truth.
“But I had to honour my dad,” he said, “I told my dad what I had done and he said I had to tell the customer. The customer actually laughed at the bizarre circumstances, but it took me quite a while longer to get my driver’s licence because of it.”
Honour is many things, one of which is doing what is right, even if it will result in adverse consequences. It’s also about giving and showing respect. You don’t have to look much further than scrolling through comments on social media to witness dishonour. You’re sure to read hateful comments and nasty name calling, which aren’t helpful to anyone, encourage division and solve nothing.
Every day we hear news reports about everything that’s going wrong in the world. However we rarely hear about people honouring law enforcement, showing honour among different races or law enforcement showing honour in the community. There’s a lot of good out there that no one is talking about.
I heard a millennial say, “If we become accustomed to our own opinions, we won’t listen to the opinions of other people that could be offering really good advice. We have to tune out our own opinions and the way we feel we’re supposed to do things, so we can be mentored and taught by generations who have more experience.”
It’s important that the older generations instil honour in children and invest in the younger generations. The generations can learn from one another if we are willing to listen and honour one another. It could be a good path to pursue in 2022.
You can reach me at joanjanzen@yahoo.com
Latest COVID-19 wave brings old risks
BY MURRAY MANDRYK Political Columnist
Well, we clearly aren’t avoiding the fifth wave of this Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But while it is producing a staggering number of cases here in Saskatchewan and everywhere else, it doesn’t quite seem to be producing the same percentage of hospitalizations … or at least the same number of critical ICU cases.
Unfortunately, the sheer volume of Omicron cases means that it’s quite possible more people will be hospitalized, anyway — especially given that Omicron seems to affect even those who have been double and now triple vaccinated.
More fortunately, those who have been vaccinated who do contact Omicron are far, far more likely to have good outcomes. The mantra for 2022 will again be: Get vaccinated if you are not vaccinated; get your booster shot if you are, and get rapid testing if you have the slightest symptoms.
By the way: Happy New Year.
It would be great if we could talk about something else in 2022.
One gets that we are all just sick and tired of this, and this fifth wave seems to already be draining the spirit and resolve from everyone.
But until COVID-19 reaches the point where it’s no longer affecting every aspect of our lives, we will continue to have to follow the best practices we can and keep a careful eye on the numbers. Right now, those numbers are rather depressing almost everywhere.
Here in Saskatchewan, we are now seeing a record average of more than 500 cases a day, although — thankfully, so far — seeing only a minimal increase in hospitalizations and ICU admissions.
This means we are either seeing:
• A more contagious but milder strain that will, as the government hopes, pass through us quickly leaving be-
hind minimal damage to the population or the health system, or;
• The front end of what will be a massive problem to come in which ] sheer numbers of infected people (even if the percentage of serious infections is lower) will crush our health system through high hospital admissions down the road.
We all hope it will be the latter, and nobody is hoping this more than the Saskatchewan Party government that may again be ignoring the warning and not taking enough preven-
RCMP: Thieves steal $60,000 of oilfield pipe
Kindersley RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance in locating the individual(s) responsible for the theft of approximately $60,000 worth of oil field pipe. In the early morning hours of December 21st suspects entered a work site near the R.M. of Oakdale and stole a large quantity of oil field pipe. The suspects would have needed a large truck and trailer to move the pipes and required several trips to do so.
Kindersley RCMP are requesting anyone with information about this incident or who noticed anything suspicious around that time to contact the Kindersley RCMP by calling 306-4634642. Information can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or submitting a tip online at www.saskcrimestoppers.com.
LUSELAND CLINIC HOURS
January 4 Tuesday Dr. Wentzel
January 7 Friday Yvonne Veronelly
January 11 Tuesday Dr. Wentzel
January 14 Friday Yvonne Veronelly
January 18 Tuesday Dr. Wentzel
January 21 Friday CLOSED
January 25 Tuesday Dr. Wentzel
January 28 Friday Yvonne Veronelly
February 1 Tuesday Dr. Wentzel
Please note: Clinic hours are subject to change at any given time
tative measures — what it said wouldn’t do after the fourth wave.
What’s at stake for Premier Scott Moe goes well beyond the health and well-being of Saskatchewan’s citizenry. To guess wrong about this fifth wave will have consequences for a Premier and a government that already took a substantial 18-percentage point hit in the polls after guessing wrong about the fourth wave and removing too many restrictions too quickly.
But Moe and his government may not be the only ones unsure about the best course of action. A lot of people are struggling, including parents with kids going back to school.
As of the writing of this, we await a plan for schools from Education Minister Dustin Duncan and Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab.
Saskatchewan and the Yukon are the only jurisdictions now holding in-class learning during this Omicron wave —
Who remembers?
I am trying to remember the name of the grocery store that was on the corner where the KLD Health Clinic is now located. Would you have some records that can identify the name of the store? My family used to live in Kerrobert in 1964 and my brother and I cannot remember the name? Dennis Drechsler Victoria BC
surely, a gamble for this government if things go awry and we see rapid spread among children.
It will be especially bad for this government who basically took a two-week hiatus during the Christmas break instead of developing a plan for schools and how to better handle the Omicron wave in general.
The thing is, it’s just not a simple slam-dunk to close schools — a decision that’s created a massive backlash in other jurisdictions like Ontario, where working parents were caught off guard and are now scrambling.
Even Saskatchewan NDP leader Ryan Meili — who has advocated schools be closed another week — admitted inhome learning isn’t popular and didn’t propose many other alternatives.
Dealing with such COVID-19 issues will remain difficult for some time yet.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY RISK & COMPLIANCE OFFICER
Kerrobert Credit Union is committed to providing personal, friendly, quality financial services to fulfill the needs of members and the community.
We are looking for a full-time employee to:
• act as a resource on matters relating to anti-money laundering/terrorist financing compliance, privacy, market code and other related legislation.
• ensure compliance with established policies, procedures and legislation
• assist management with review of business plans
• oversee monitoring, investigation and tracking of internal control processes and losses due to fraud, forgery and theft
• assist in development of marketing and promotional material to build a positive community image
Knowledge of credit union products and services, computer literacy and dedication to ongoing self-development would all be assets. Salary will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, and competency.
We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however only those under consideration will be contacted.
Submit resume by January 25, 2022 to:
Trina Duhaime, General Manager Kerrobert Credit Union PO Box 140, Kerrobert, SK S0L 1R0
Ph: 306-834-2611 Fax:306-834-5558
Email: trina.duhaime@kerrobert.cu.sk.ca with ‘Risk & Compliance’ in the subject line.
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McNICHOL - Dorothy Elizabeth McNichol (nee Thomson)
Dorothy McNichol, 84, passed away peacefully on October 15, 2021 with family by her side in the Kerrobert Integrated Health Center (Long Term Care) in Saskatchewan.
Dorothy was born in Simpson, Sask. (Watrous Hospital) on Sept. 9, 1937. Her father Alexander (Sandy) came from Scotland and her mother Dorothy (Doris) came from England. They both immigrated to Canada where they met and married in 1931. Dorothy was very proud of her father’s service to Canada. He enlisted at age 17 in WW1 being assigned to the 13th Battalion of the Black Watch and later re-enlisted for WW2 with the Veterans Guard.
She was the middle child of four siblings: Alexander (Al), William
(Bill), Malcolm and Margaret (Jean). Her early childhood was spent on the farm and her teens in the town of Nokomis, Sask. She graduated in 1955 and held various jobs to help her family make ends meet.
Dorothy met Jerome Douglas (Mac) at a town dance and married in Nokomis in 1956. They took a honeymoon traveling thru the States and up to BC, then both worked in Vancouver for the winter. They returned to Nokomis district to take over the McNichol farm in 1957 and within seven years had four children. They farmed together for 12 years then worked off the farm for 2 years before selling. The family moved to Kerrobert, Sask after buying a hardware store (the B&M) and worked there for 11 years. October 20th, 2021 found them back together celebrating 65 years.
Dorothy had a busy life working and raising her family as well as volunteering and enjoying church, travel, sports, collecting, and sharing both a love of dance and golf with Mac. She enjoyed special time with family and friend’s playing cards, games, puzzling, reading and quilting as well as playing and watching sports. Wherever she went, her passion for volunteering and
supporting fundraisers in the community or beyond saw her involved in the golf course, Legion Ladies Auxiliary, Kerrobert Legion Branch #88, the United Church, Eastern Star, Cubs and Scouts of Canada, the Terry Fox Run and Jamboree Days. Dorothy also enjoyed many years working at the IGA grocery store, the Northern Lites Hotel, the Aud Cup and the Golf Course well into her 70’s. She was a mentor for many and an ambassador for the communities she lived in. She was a friend and supporter to all no matter what walk of life or time of day. Once she made her mind up about something, there was no changing it.
Offer thanks, take action and give generously. This was the life that Dorothy led.
Dorothy will be dearly missed and is survived by her children: Doug (Jan) McNichol, Sandra (Warren) Smith, Rick (Jackie) McNichol and Lynda (Dave) Friesen. A Special Grandmother of 11 to Patricia, Krystal, Dave and Jonathon; Jennafer and Garret; Jessica, Allie and Thea; Jake and Ryan. A Proud Great-grandmother of 13 to Trinity & Laileah; Kaybree & Max; Anita, Waylen & Sayler; Braun & Ophelia; Nora; Maya & Sullivan; and Maxx. A cherished sister
of Jean Todd and sistersin-law Marlene Thomson and Diana Thomson, and an adored aunt of many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Mac in 2014; her parents Sandy & Doris; her siblings Al (Jean), Bill and Malcolm. Also by Mac’s parents Louis John (L.J.) & Lalia and his six siblings: Ethel (Joe) Tien; Maude (Arnold) Menzies & children
Bob, Jack & Lois; Pat (Vic) Price & daughter Judi; David McNichol; Ede (Ingie) Borgford; and Evelyn (Fred) Godfrey & children Bill & Dan.
A memorial service was held for Dorothy on October 23, 2021 at the Kerrobert United Church. Urn Bearers were her sons Doug and Rick McNichol. The Eulogy was given by her daughters Sandra Smith and Lynda Friesen, and scripture read by grandchildren Garret Smith, Thea Michalski and Ryan Friesen. An Honor Guard was formed by Kerrobert Legion Branch #88 Comrades and the Legion Tribute followed at the Kerrobert Cemetery where Dorothy was laid to rest with Mac. May the wind of Heaven blow gently on a quiet and peaceful spot Where the ones we love are sleeping and will never be forgot.
Sports with Bruce Penton
Always room for more in sports
It’s a new year, and most resolutions begin with ‘I want more’ … as in, ‘I want more good health’; ‘I’d like to make more money’; ‘more wins for my favourite sports team’; or ‘more birdies than bogies.’
But ‘less than’, or ‘fewer than’ can also be something to covet … as in, ‘fewer annoying social media posts’; ‘fewer weather tragedies’; ‘less gibberish by sports announcers’; or ‘fewer injuries for the best athletes’.
So here’s a number of ‘more thans’ (and the occasional ‘less than’) to look forward to over the next 12 months.
Canadian Football League — More full houses in stadiums again. Nothing better than, say, a raucous full house at Mosaic Stadium in Regina for the Labour Day Classic; more wins for the Edmonton Elks, whose team fortunes have fallen on hard times; more attention given the league by the national broadcasters; less talk about the CFL abandoning its unique rules and adopting some U.S.-style features, such as four downs.
National Hockey League — More Connor McMagic. The Oilers star brings fans and viewers out of their seats or off the couch when he pro-
duces breath-taking Houdini-like moves; more calls for cross-checking, which is getting out of control again; more hope in Buffalo; one fewer team based in Arizona, where the Coyotes seem to be in constant peril.
Major League Baseball — More exciting young stars to join the likes of Fernando Tatis, Jr., Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., Ronald Acuna, Jr. (are all the young superstars ‘juniors’?), Juan Soto and Wander Franco; more complete games by pitchers; less use by managers of ‘the shift’; fewer televised Sunday Night Baseball games featuring the Yankees and/or Red Sox.
Professional golf — More televised coverage of LPGA events, giving exposure to international stars like Canada’s Brooke Henderson, Australia’s Minjee Lee, New Zealand’s Lydia Ko, South Korea’s Jin Young Ko and American Nelly Korda, the latter two the dominant pair as we head into 2022; less ‘contrived controversy’ surrounding Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau; more brilliance from Collin Morikawa; and more tournament sightings (one or two, anyway) of Tiger Woods.
Basketball: More playoff success for the Toronto Rap-
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tors, who captivated Canadian fans with their title run three years ago; more three-pointers by Golden State’s Steph Curry, the best pure shooter in the game; more updates on the next (or better) LeBron James, a 17-year-old Michigan player named Emoni Bates; and even more Canadians in the NBA (currently 25, but only three from Western Canada: Saskatoon’s Trey Lyles and Kamloops’ Kelly Olynyk of Detroit, and the Memphis Grizzlies’ Brandon Clarke of Vancouver).
Sports broadcasting: More Jay Onrait, less Jack Armstrong and those annoying Rogers 5G commercials; more Darren Dreger and less Jeff O’Neill; more Sarah Davis and less Kate Beirness; more Vic Rauter and less Glen Suiter, more Scott Oake, Evanka Os-
OVER $30,000 IN TOTAL RETAIL VALUE!
Items include: a fishing trip, combine demo, sprayer demo, crop inputs, antique paper money, tools, jewelry, clothing, golf items, and MUCH MORE!
Start: Monday, January 10, 2022
Close: Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 11:59 pm.
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Curtis Reschny: 306-372-7703
Darrell Kraft: 306-372-7748
Ryley Magnus: 306-372-7580
Send a text or leave a message. Bids over text or phone will be posted to Facebook once per day in the evening.
All funds raised go towards future improvements to: Bell Acres Golf & Country Club.
mak, Harnarayan Singh, Ray Ferraro, Amanda Balionis, Elliotte Friedman, David Amber and Farhan Lalji.
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• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Jackson State linebacker Abdul-Malik McClain allegedly filed at least $903,688 in COVID-related unemployment benefits. He faces 10 counts of mail fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft and very illegal procedure.”
• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg,via Twitter, on the 6.2 earthquake hit off the Northern California coast: “To give you an idea how strong that is, a 6.2 earthquake could shake a New York Jet into the end zone.”
• Another one from Kaseberg: “There are so many players being brought up to replace COVID listers, a phrase heard in an NFL locker room was, ‘Does the side with your name on it go in front or back?’”
• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “The IIHF has cancelled the World Junior Hockey Championship. Russia’s Matvei Michkov and Canada’s
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Connor Bedard showed some brilliance, but the Omicron variant skated away with a shutout.”
• Vic Tafur of the Athletic, on the Falcons’ quarterback: “Matt Ryan has somehow led the Falcons to seven wins this season, but he is slower than Heinz ketchup.”
• Another one from Dwight Perry: “Another reason it’s a shame actor John Candy died so young: His outsized persona would have been perfect for ‘Boom! The John Madden Story.’”
• Perry again: QB Ben Roethlisberger said ‘this could be it’ — on the Jan. 3 game likely to be his final home game after 18 seasons as a Steeler. “If anybody knows it’s time, it’s a guy known as Big Ben.”
• Corpulent Chiefs coach Andy Reid, to reporters, on whether he has any New Year’s resolutions: “I was going to say eat less, but then I’d feel like Pinocchio.”
• North Carolina football coach Mack Brown, to reporters, on his potential mayonnaise bath in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl: “If we won a game, I’d let someone hit me in the face with a frying pan. I don’t care.”
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1. The auction starts on Jan 10, 2022, when items are posted to Facebook. The auction closes on Feb 12, 2022.
2. Bidding takes place in the comments on each item’s post. Bidding can also be done by calling or texting. Bids over text or phone will be posted once per day.
3. Bid increments are to be in whole dollars; no cents.
4. Bids must be greater than or equal to the minimum bid.
5. Participants may bid more than once on each item.
6. Bidding means you are obligated to buy the item at bid price.
7. The highest bidder will be contacted at closing.
8. Items must be paid for prior to pickup: cash, cheque, etransfer.
9. Items must be picked up at Luseland Credit Union on Feb 13, 14, 15, 19, or 20 from 7 pm to 9 pm. Delivery may be considered.
10. If the highest bidder does not pay or pickup an item. The Golf Club will decide on a course of action on a caseby-case basis.
11. Golf Club executive are allowed to participate in the auction.
12. All items are sold as: no warranty, no returns, no guarantees
2022 Pig Spleen Prognostication
By Jeff Woodward PSP
Forecast again this year was sourced from a single spleen from a happy free-range hog obtained from Jaime and Clint Cobler, raised near Gull Lake Saskatchewan (Southwest Saskatchewan ). Several Spleens were examined, and this one was by far the most telling.
On December 20, 2021, the Prognostication was completed at my brother’s house. No entertainment was present due to the Covid restrictions. But to ensure accuracy, some alcohol -namely, aquavit was enjoyed in the traditional Scandinavian fashion.
For a refresher course, in order to make a prediction, the spleen is divided into six equal parts, representing the months of the year from January through June. According to the tradition, you can’t do a forecast outside of this timeframe, or it violates the rules. Violating Viking tradition risks not getting into Valhalla, so the charlatans that might be pretending to make similar predictions might be careful.
There is fat on the spleen, that when appropriately interpreted, will tell you the temperature and weather expectations for the upcoming year. Any abnormalities in the spleen, like bumps or scars, signify cold weather or a significant weather event at that time
Last year the spleen had very odd characteristics , and we indeed had an odd year with all the shenanigans in the USA with Donald Trump at the start of the year and with Covid in general. This year’s spleen is rather unremarkable, meaning that we will see a gradual return to a more normal lifestyle as we get past or we get used to all the Covid 19 issues
Based on the fat on this spleen, the 2022 winter and spring will be colder than what we have been used to, and we will have more precipitation than normal.
One must keep in mind that this is a climate change pig, so even though the temperatures show colder weather than normal, the old-timers will say that this is nothing compared to what we used to experience. It will start out with below normal temperature in January but warm up significantly just before the middle of the month. After that, it will gradually get colder and generally remain colder until the end of April. May and June will be about normal but have little to no precipitation. Even though it will be colder than normal temperatures will be turbulent with drastic changes from warm periods bracketed by being very cold and with wind
January/February
January will start off colder than usual for about the first ten days, as the temperatures remain very cold until about January 12. After this, a significant warming trend will last for about a week, and then temperatures will gradually decrease again. Temperatures will drop each day until the end of the month, when it will warm up slightly and stay warm for a few days. Abnormally cold temperatures on
January 22 can be expected
The cooling trend will be accompanied by light snow and add more significant snowfall on January 26. Temps will remain cold toward the end of January and into February.
Temperatures into February will gradually improve over the month. Expect a warming trend on February 5 and 9, where snow , rain is again a possibility. There will be some snow again around February 20, which could become a blizzard and again at the very end of the month and into the start of March. Expect cold winds with the cold weather.
March/April
March will start off with snow at the start of the month and then again mid-month. There will be one or two very warm days around March 12 that will be followed by some snow in the next few days. In general, temperatures will gradually improve throughout the month, but it will be cold to colder than normal April will see continued improvement with temperatures remaining below normal but not as significant as in previous months. Expect a snow event again near April 7. April will have a tendency towards average to above-average temperatures until the very end of the month, when it will cool off significantly around April 27. The spleen shows one significant snow and rain event around April 21.
May/June
At the end of April, temperatures will very rapidly change to mild and more normal. There are rain events at the start of May around May 2 and again around the 22nd but not much following this, until the very end of June. June will be a normal month temperature-wise but dry until the end of the month.
“I used to cough to cover up the sound of a fart, but now I fart to cover up the sound of a cough.”
FOR SALE BY TENDER
The Town of Kerrobert is accepting sealed tenders for the following properties:
Town Council is permitted by legislation to reject any bid that is lower than the amounts shown above. Sealed tenders will be accepted until Friday, December 10, 2021 @ 4:30 pm. Tenders can be delivered to the Kerrobert Town Office (located in the Courthouse) at 433 Manitoba Avenue.
Tenders can also be mailed to: Town of Kerrobert – TENDER Box 558, Kerrobert, SK S0L 1R0
Faxed or Emailed tenders will be rejected. For more information, please call the Town Office at 306.834.2361 or email: kerrobert.admin@sasktel.net. Only accepting tenders until Friday, Jan. 28th.
Tara Neumeier, Chief Administrative Officer
SALE BY TENDER
1. The Village of Dodsland offers for sale the following property.
Property Description:
Lot 22 Block 2 Plan G390
Lot 23 Block 2 Plan G390
Lot 24 Block 2 Plan G390
2. A tender must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked “Property Tender” addressed to the Village of Dodsland Address
Village of Dodsland Box 400, Dodsland, SK S0L 0V0
3. Tenders must be postmarked by 4:00 p.m. on: January 31, 2022
4. A certified cheque to the municipality for 5% of the amount of the tender must accompany the tender.
5. Highest, or any tender, not necessarily accepted.
6. Successful bidder will have 30 days to provide the balance of cash to complete the purchase.
Dated the 10th day of January, 2022.
Amy
Sittler
Administrator,
Village of Dodsland
Darcy and Vicki Ostrowski
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Bernadine and Doug Dommett
Cathy and John Timmerman/ Tanya Thiessen and Jessee McKinnon
Darlene and Keith Rumohr
Ray and Blanche Wack
Ron and Jackie Cook
Darren and Cindy Chotowetz/John and Leah Strong
Jeff Woodward bites the spleen of a pig as part of his yearly weather forecast. | Gull Lake Advance archives
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The family of the late DOROTHY McNICHOL would like to thank relatives, friends and neighbors for their sympathy and thoughtfulness during our time of mourning. Thank you for the food, flowers, cards, phone calls, sharing of special memories, donations to the Kerrobert United Church in Mom’s memory and attendance at her celebration of life on October 23, 2021. We would also like to thank Dr. J. Wentzel, Nurse Practitioner Yvonne Veronelly, the staff at the Kerrobert Integrated Health Center and long term care facility for the professional and loving care provided to Dorothy this year. Also much appreciation to the residents of Hillside Lodge for making her years there extra
special. Thank you to the Kindersley Funeral Home & Crematorium for their guidance and understanding during this process. A special thank you to all those who participated at Dorothy’s service notably Kerrobert Legion Branch #88 Honour Guard Comrades Stan Pitura, Joe Dubielewicz, Jack Snell and Lyle Busch; Soloist and Pianist Clem and Chandra Schraefel, Ushers Keith Smith and Wes Ternes, the Ecumenical Choir, the United Church Luncheon Ladies and Devin Charteris for technical assistance following the service. Our deepest heartfelt gratitude to Shauna Meek for officiating Mom’s service and blessing us with her words of comfort, kindness, prayer and recounting Dorothy’s life so beautifully. Thank you to those relatives and
Cfriends from out of town that were able to travel to the service, your presence made saying farewell so much more memorable. May God bless you All.
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Twice last week, SaskEnergy set new daily natural gas usage records, and we can thank Alberta for most of our supply
BY BRIAN ZINCHUK brian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca
Not only was Saskatchewan setting electrical consumption records during the cold snap of last week of December, we also set two consecutive natural gas consumption records, too.
According to SaskEnergy in a Dec. 31 release, “Extreme cold weather across Saskatchewan this week resulted in record-breaking natural gas demand in the province. On December 28 and 29, natural gas consumption surpassed the previous daily record of 1.57 petajoules (PJ) which was set in February 2021.
“A new daily record of 1.62 PJ was set on December 28 and broken again on December 29 with total system delivery of 1.64 PJ. Delivery numbers for December 30 and 31 are not yet finalized, but are also expected to exceed 1.6 PJ.”
The natural gas records coincided with record power consumption. On Dec. 29, SaskPower set another record in power consumption for Saskatchewan. At 5:27 p.m. on Dec. 29, 2021, Saskatchewan homes and businesses reached 3,868 megawatts (MW) in power use, according to the Crown corporation. The previous record of 3,792 MW was reached four years ago to the day, on Dec. 29, 2017.
Saskatchewan’s power production has increasingly shifted from coal to natural gas as a fuel source. In December, Boundary Dam Unit 4, a coal-fired generating unit, was retired, reducing the Boundary Dam Power Station to 672 megawatts capacity. On the natural gas side, Saskatchewan has seen the construction of several new natural gas-fired power plants. They include the baseload North Battleford Power Station (289 megawatts), Yellowhead Power Station peaking plant (also at North Battleford, 135 megawatts), the baseload Chinook Power Station at Swift Current (353 megawatts) and peaking plant Spy Hill Power Station (89 megawatts). Another 353 megawatt baseload
plant, very similar to Chinook, is under construction at Moose Jaw.
All of this added natural gas-fired power generation has, in turn, driven higher usage of natural gas during times of high electrical consumption.
The Crown noted that increased demand from SaskEnergy’s industrial customers, including natural gas use for power production, was the main driver of this week’s record-setting consumption.
SaskEnergy said it measures daily natural gas consumption for the 24-hour period from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. A PJ is a unit of measurement equivalent to one million gigajoules (GJ) of natural gas. An average Saskatchewan home consumes about 100 GJ of natural gas each year.
“SaskEnergy’s natural gas system design can accommodate additional capacity to manage increased consumption even on peak days,” SaskEnergy president and CEO Ken From said in a release. “Throughout the year, SaskEnergy employees inspect, maintain and enhance the system to support safe and reliable natural gas delivery in all weather conditions. In addition, employees monitor the system 24 hours a day to ensure sufficient system capacity to meet customer demand across the province.”
This province is now largely dependent on neighbouring Alberta to fulfill roughly two-thirds of our natural gas needs.
When natural gas prices took a tumble roughly 14 years ago, Saskatchewan’s domestic gas production fell off a cliff. Targeted gas drilling went essentially extinct, with next to no gas-specific wells being drilled in this province for most of the past decade. Our domestic gas production is now largely based on associated gas production that comes with oil production. As a result, Saskatchewan went from being a net gas exporter for the period of 1988 to 2009 to a net importer that year.
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We thank all interested candidates who apply, however only those being considered will be contacted directly for an interview.