Rotary Club lets the good times roll
BY JOAN JANZEN Your Southwest Media Group
Let the Good Times Roll is more than a song from the late 1970s; it’s an event hosted by the Kindersley Rotary Club. This year, Let The Good Times Roll was held at the Elks Hall in Kindersley on Saturday, November 26th. Cocktails were followed by a delicious dinner catered by Jackie’s Delicious Delights. Guests enjoyed viewing and bidding on a wide variety of silent auction items. Soon afterward, the casino tables began to get active, and the crowd was alive with visiting and conversing with friends.
Sharon Price, who is a Rotary club member, said the Kindersley club has twelve registered Rotarians, as well as a couple of friends of the Rotary that help them out. Kathy Strutt is the current president of the club. This year the club had the additional assistance of five Kin Club members at their casino night.
Sharon said in spite of the event’s smaller attendance, the club plans to use the funds to cover the cost of their youth programs.
“We give $1000 scholarships to high school students each year for their post-secondary education, a $1000 scholarship to the Great Plains College, and also support youth attendance at leadership camps. They also support the Kindersley Food Bank.
Shelterbox Canada believes recovery starts with shelter, and shelter provision has been consistently underfunded. Sharon said that sometimes the people who receive tents are still living in them years later.
Those are just a few programs that the Rotary Club supports, and they love to see their guests having fun while they support their efforts. It’s a win-win situation for our community and nations around the world.
Internationally, the club is a firm supporter of Shelterbox Canada, which goes where others (like the Red Cross) aren’t able to go. Shelterbox provides emergency shelter to those who have lost their homes to disaster or conflict and helps the most vulnerable families around the world who may not otherwise receive help. Emergency disaster relief is their specialty because every disaster requires a different response.
The casino tables were kept active throughout the casino night.
Jackie’s Delicious Delights! Jackie and helpers, Laurie, Dora and Gwen served a tasty roast beef dinner. | PHOTOS BY JOAN JANZEN
Kindersley RCMP Weekly Report
Between November 15th and November 22nd, 2022, Kindersley RCMP responded to 17 calls for service* including three traffic collisions, a residential break and enter, and two fraud related investigations.
With Christmas being just over a month away, Kindersley RCMP would like to remind you to safe guard your vehicle and holiday purchases. If your vehicle is stuffed with packages, gifts and valuables, it may attract the attention of some grinchy criminals. If you have to store purchases in a parked vehicle, put them in the truck or out of plain view. As always, make sure your doors are locked and the keys are removed when your vehicle is unattended.
To report suspicious activity in your community, please contact the Kindersley RCMP Detachment by calling 306-463-4642. You can also submit information anonymously, by calling
Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or submit a tip online using the P3 App (https://www. p3tips.com/206) or at www.saskcrimestoppers. com.
*For more information on the calls to service please contact the Kindersley RCMP Detachment.
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OPINION
CHECK IT OUT with Joan Janzen
When Bill C-7 becomes personal
Ateacher asked her students to use the word “beans” in a sentence. One girl said, “My father grows beans.” A boy said, “My mother cooks beans. A third student spoke up, “We are all human beans.” And all of those “human beans” have a personal story to tell.
The government draws up legislation for those human beings, but people often don’t pay attention to new legislation if it doesn’t affect them personally. Bill C-7 became personal for one Canadian in particular.
This bill expands Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID), which was previously meant for people with a terminal condition who had been in profound suffering and facing a natural foreseeable death. Bill C-7 removes the section that says a death must be reasonable and foreseeable.
Canadian Andrew Lawton, a senior journalist at True North and host of The Andrew Lawton Show, said
the changes may seem insignificant until you consider people with mental illness are now eligible for MAID. It has become a personal issue for him.
“In 2010, I nearly succeeded in killing myself,” he admits. “I had been battling depression for years, very serious. I was in the system; I had been trying to get better. I had been seeing a psychiatrist until not long before my suicide attempt. I was suffering. I had been on antidepressants. I was convinced there was no hope, that life would not get better. I felt what I was going through was grievous and was convinced I’d be better off dead. I didn’t have a reasonable, foreseeable death, but that doesn’t matter according to Bill C-7. I was convinced that life would not get better.”
In 2010, Andrew’s family was by his bedside, praying for him, while healthcare workers worked tirelessly, dedicating themselves to
saving his life. “I very nearly didn’t make it,” he said. “The reason I tell this story is because the same healthcare system that worked to save my life in 2010 will facilitate ending a life like mine in 2023.”
He goes on to say there are people out there who have family members who are struggling. Those family members could quietly and secretly go through the process, and their loved ones would never know about it until after they were gone.
“I’m not imposing my values on others. I’m talking about people who do not have the capacity to consent to their own death,” Andrew said. “Their desire to end their life is a symptom. Since when do we appease that symptom by giving them what they want?”
Andrew said it’s difficult recalling that time in his life. “It’s so unrecognizable to the life I live now, and that’s part of why this is such a problem because I did get better. And the life I’m living is proof that it’s possible,” he reasons.
In many cases, there could be hope on the horizon, even if it doesn’t feel like it at that moment in time, which is why he finds Bill C-7 so troubling. He wasn’t alone; in 2021, a chorus of people expressed their concerns to the government. The Senate of Canada attempted to make changes concerning people with mental illness, but the government wouldn’t agree. Eventually, the bill was passed.
Since the changes take effect in three months’ time, Andrew urged Canadians to contact their MP and MLA. He said he’s convinced that if those laws had existed in 2010, he would not be
alive today. He would not have had the opportunity to turn his life around, host his own online show and bring issues like this one to the attention of his viewers.
“The message the government is sending is that life is not always worth living. The message they’re sending is that suicide is just a choice,” he concluded.
It was a choice that a Canadian man, Amir Farsoud, had made last month when he applied for MAID after fearing he would lose his housing and become homeless. CityNews had shared his story, which was followed by an outpouring of love from friends and strangers who donated to a GoFundMe started by someone Farsoud didn’t even know.
“I’m a different person now,” he said. “I had nothing but darkness, misery, stress and hopelessness. Now I have all the opposite of those things,” he told journalist Cynthia Mulligan of CityNews.
So remember to contact your MP about the changes to MAID, which will come into effect in March of 2023. Suicide is not a solution, but hope, generosity and kindness are.
Pop89
BY MADONNA HAMEL Your Southwest Media Group
In 2010 the Grammys decided to do away with the Polka category. “They can’t do that!” I complained to Carole, my producer, “Canadians clean up in that category!” What they replaced it with was this new thing called Americana. “And what is that?” I asked. “I mean, besides gun shows, snake-handlers, and twinkies? I think you should let me drive down to Nashville and do some investigating,” I half-joked. She took me up on it.
I drove, I did not fly, because, I figured, this new category of music was to the road what hip-hop was to the street. So I needed to take the bi-ways, stop at truck stops, talk to locals, “kick it old school.” I had to listen to stories along the way, knowing I would glean as much information from the journey as the destination. In fact, what I was doing was how Americana songs are made: through observation, playing with language and chords, listening to everyonenot just the celebs and the good connections. It still means being a bard.
While Americana is new in name, the tradition of the travelling bard is not. So, I prefer to call the category Bardic, from the ancient Greek. Or, I could
call it Vagabondus, a term conceived by16th century Scots. But they considered itinerant poets troublemakers, and it wasn’t until the end of that century the wandering singer-poet bard earned universal admiration.
Bards sing ballads, tell stories accompanied by everything from lute to lyre and, today, from guitar to accordion. Bards wander from gig to gig in broken-down vans or chartered busses. If you put in the hours of travel and bone-crushing exhaustion, you might be lucky enough to travel by plane. Many bards are American, but the tradition and the treasure is not restricted to the American experience. I often find myself wishing I’d challenged the new name. But the Grammys are American, after all. And no one now does PR better than America. And they did invent branding, so it makes sense that our southern neighbours might assume all bards come from the US of A. But it does bear repeating that the first drums in North America were beaten by Indigenous drummers living in my part of the woods - or grass - and by black slaves stolen from the west coast of Africa. New Celts, with their bodhrans, picked up the beat. Maybe a fiddler joined in; they’d arrived in Quebec -New France at
The Bard in Your Back Yard
the time - in the 1600s. It’s also possible an accordionist was not far away. Every country has its accordion music - from those beloved polka-players in Germany and Poland to the French chansonniers of France, to the reel-playing Celts. And when they crossed to Canada, they created new Acadian classics that later found their way, through capture and escape, to Louisiana and morphed into Cajun and Zydeco.
From a series of interviews in out-of-theway clubs in Nashville and an old Knoxville theatre, I managed to whittle a one-hour documentary called “Portrait of Lincoln with the Wart.” The title came to me as I was driving back to Canada in a snowstorm. A preacher on the radio was giving a sermon about “transparency.” He spoke of a portrait painter who, assigned to Lincoln, approached the subject of the president’s facial wart by asking: “How shall I paint you, sir?” Lincoln responded: “Paint me as I am.” “That’s it!” I declared, hitting the steering wheel with my hand. “This music is the portrait of Lincoln with the wart.”
There was a day when transparency, presenting oneself “warts and all,” was considered noble. The term “warts-and-all” also came from a conversation about a por-
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trait. Peter Lely was about to paint Cromwell, who supposedly said: “I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me… but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me. Otherwise, I will never pay a farthing for it.”
In a time of reputation rescuers and image handlers who are paid a fortune to make things go away, any form of art that treasures transparency should not be underestimated. When I asked musicians what they like best about being bards, they said things like: “You don’t have to wear hair gel.”
”You can get old.” “It’s salt of the earth music.” “It’s worn and scarred and bloody.” “It’s like the people I like: full of sweat and toil.” “There’s a variety of topics, it’s not just boy meets girl.”
The musicians I met were approachable unadorned folks, people who look like you and me. People exposed to weather and land-
scapes. They were devoted to their art, their families, their kitchens and gardens more than fame and fortune. Most spent more time in motels than resorts and in small cafes and bars than in revolving restaurants.
In the end, it shouldn’t really matter what we call a category that is, at heart, about impermanence. Authentic art reminds us that we are tiny specks on the long timeline of human existence. Our speckness permits us to relish the little things: like the way the late afternoon sunlight shines through the diner window on the empty salt shaker on the table. Our brief stay on planet earth behooves us to quit
comparing our insides to someone else’s outsides on Facebook and go stand under the awning and smell the rain.
Go find the bards in your backyards or bars. One named Maurice just pinned a poster on the Val Marie Hotel bulletin board yesterday. Hand-written with a ballpoint pen on yellow construction paper, it says: “Music Night, Friday.” A few of us will show up with guitars and harmonicas and rusty voices, and we’ll sing the old country tunes and maybe a few Christmas carols. And maybe some of the boys in the back will bring their beers over to our table and sing along.
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Highway 51 is finally complete
It has been a long time coming, but highway 51 from Kerrobert west to the Alberta border has been completed. Over the decades, many patch jobs and resurfacing have been done but failed very quickly. This time around, the base of the road was dug up and redone, so now the highway should last for many years to come. This highway is very important to the business sector of Kerrobert and other communities along that route, such as Major and Compeer. So many people have avoided that highway over the years simply because of the poor condition it was in, and continued to get worse and even dangerous to travel on. Anyone travelling to Stettler, Red Deer or Sylvan Lake etc., now has a brand-new highway to travel on. I know that Kerrobert will welcome the additional traffic coming through town, and hopefully, the people coming through will stop at our businesses and restaurants.
After a 2-year pandemic pause, we had a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, November the 9th, and at the top of everyone’s mind was our project of water line replacement and new pavement. With the completion of Phase 1 of our Street project, we have many questions as to why some neighbouring communities are doing similar projects for less money. I want to address this because even though it may seem like the projects are the same, the scope of the work and route to find money to even consider these projects aren’t always the same. One example to compare Kerrobert with is Macklin. I will talk about this because our residents bring Macklin up the most. The first thing is that Macklin started their project a few years before we did. The costs year over year increase substantially for the labour, gravel and asphalt etc. Even if we had started at the same time, we received a $4.5 million dollar grant from the Federal and Provincial governments. Macklin received $8 million. Macklin was able to secure gravel for a set cost for the duration of their entire project,
SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS AVAILABLE FOR RENT
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
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which we could not. The Town of Macklin can also do much of the digging themselves as they have the equipment and personnel to do that type of work. Kerrobert would need to rent or buy such equipment, and we don’t have anyone trained to utilize that type of equipment. There will always be differences in how each community can raise money and save money when doing these types of projects. All we can do is utilize what we have at our disposal and stretch our resources as far as we can.
The Town of Kerrobert had a special visitor on November 12th. The Kerrobert sports auction was put on between the Kerrobert Tiger senior hockey club and Kerrobert minor hockey. The guest speaker was Bryan Trottier, who played for 18 seasons in the NHL. Bryan played most of his career with the New York Islanders, where he helped his team win 4 straight Stanley cups from 1980 to 1983. After 15 seasons in New York, Bryan then signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins helping Pittsburg win two consecutive Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992. After his playing career, Bryan became an assistant coach and received a 7th Stanley Cup ring while helping coach the Colorado Avalanche. Bryan spoke about his playing days even before he played in the NHL. He almost quit playing hockey altogether while in juniors, but with encouragement from his family and NHL legend Dave “Tiger” Williams, he decided to continue playing, and it is a great thing that he did. He went on to have an incredible career. I must share one story about his visit and that evening that I will never forget. Bryan had a signed jersey that was up for auction. Local young resident Quentin Murphy had the highest bid and received the jersey. Later in the evening, Quentin found out that a young resident in Kerrobert, Grayson Nunweiller, was going to have to go through some more treatments for cancer. Quentin decided to donate his jersey back in order to raise money for Grayson, and the jersey would then be displayed at our arena. The bids were coming in fast amongst the crowd, so much so that Bryan Trottier, who was visibly moved by the gesture, brought up another jersey so that one jersey could be displayed at our arena, and the winning bidder would have a jersey to keep. The winning bid was secured by another young local guy, Luke Alberts. Not done there, Luke then donated his jersey to Grayson. Everyone was moved by the incredible gestures of these young guys, and it just made me so proud of the fact our future is in great hands, especially when we have our younger generations looking out for each other like this. Very well done!
Wayne Mock Mayor of Kerrobert
We are excited to tell you about a new program in Kindersley called FoodMesh, a collaboration between Kindersley Christian Fellowship and Buy-Low Foods. This program makes free groceries available to individuals in need by collecting surplus food and groceries from local stores.
Please see the details below on how you can access this program and get free groceries. Everyone is welcome and this program is operating every week.
When: Every week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Christian Fellowship Church (East Door) 800 - 12th Ave. E., Kindersley, SK
Please bring a grocery bag or box with you.
For more information, please contact Kindersley Christian Fellowship at 306-463-6146 or Barb at 306-460-9304.
Bayer Crop Science is seeking a highly motivated, Field Breeding Summer Student Associate to join our successful team for the summer of 2023.
This position is a 4 month term based out of the Coleville, SK Research Farm. Interested candidates can email: erik.nielsen@bayer.com with reference to “Field Breeding Summer Associate Coleville” to receive the full job description and other details on how to apply.
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Enough already with gambling commercials
BY BRUCE PENTON Sports Column
time for the annual multiple-choice sports quiz:
1. Police, ambulance and heavy security is required at: a) An outdoor speech given by the prime minister; b) A Justin Bieber concert; c) A Flames-Oilers game
2. Milwaukee Bucks’ star Giannis Antetokounmpo has: a) An inside track to the NBA’s Hall of Fame; b) A per-game point average above 30; c) A surname that would stump even the world’s spelling bee champion.
3. Definitely not needed in Toronto:: a) More ‘Centre of the Universe’ references; b) Injuries to key Raptors, Leafs or Blue Jays players; c) A Stanley Cup parade planner
4. Sports television viewers could use less of: a) Replays and slow-mo shots of gruesome injuries; b) Shots of rambunctious fans brandishing silly signs; c) Gambling commercials
5. Another name for the LIV golf tour: a) The Multi-Millionaires tour; b) The Never-Miss-A-Cut Tour; c) The Professionals’ Retirement Tour
6. What goes downhill
at breakneck speed? a) A World Cup skier in the Alps; b) A car in the mountains with brake failure; c) Green Bay Packers Super Bowl chances
7, Ultimate success for an NHL team this year means: a) Capturing the Stanley Cup; b) Playing in front of capacity crowds at home games; c) Winning the Connor Bedard sweepstakes
8. Which team will free agent Aaron Judge sign with? a) The Yankees, because of the familiarity with his longtime team; b) The Braves, because of its ‘Aaron’ home-run hitting connection; c) The Giants, because the 6-foot-7, 282-pound outfielder is one.
9. Qatar is best known for: a) Hosting the 2022 World Cup of Soccer; b) Major oil producer but questionable record in the area of human rights; c) Not having a ‘U’ following the ‘Q
• Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “The Colts hired Jeff Saturday, who has zero coaching experience, as their coach. They should hire former baseball great Rick Monday, hockey player Tim Friday and Spanish soccer player Stephen Sunday as consultants. And Wednesday Adams while they’re at it.”
• Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel: “If Tuesday Weld divorced Rick Monday for cheating on her with ‘Our Girl Friday’ and then Weld married Jeff Saturday, the headline would be: “Tuesday moves past Monday and Friday to get to Saturday.”
• Bianchi again, on ‘Fat Bear Week’ in Alaska, when bears gorge on salmon before going into hibernation: “Hey, that sounds like Nick Saban on National Signing Day!”
• Sam Farmer of the L.A. Times, on Twitter: “When they are designing the statue of Justin Jefferson in downtown Minneapolis, I suggest having him catch Mary Tyler Moore’s hat.”
• Vic Tafur of The Athletic, on Raiders’ coach Josh
McDaniels losing to newly hired and inexperienced coach Jeff Saturday and the Indianapolis Colts in Saturday’s first game: “That’s like Garry Kasparov walking into Central Park and getting checkmated by a guy with mustard stains on his sweatshirt.”
• Retired NHLer Daniel Sedin, at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony where he and twin brother Henrik were inducted, from The Athletic: “I want to thank whoever it was that selected me to speak first. It reminds me of draft day.”
• Buffalo columnist Budd Bailey, during the recent major snowfall in western New York: “So one station in Orchard Park reports 66 inches of snow. To put that in perspective, Jose Altuve is 66 inches tall.”
• From the parody website The Beaverton: “Sidney Crosby: “I would never let my children play hockey. The risk of getting drafted by Edmonton is too high.”
• Jack Finarelli, at sports curmudgeon.com: “(Las Vegas Raiders) are not mathematically eliminated from the playoffs just yet but if those playoff chances were in human form, they would be in an ICU somewhere.”
• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Tines: “UFC’s Dana White is creating slap-fighting league — in which two contestants trade slaps — called Power Slap, set to launch in 2023 with an eight-episode series that airs on TBS. So will actor Will Smith be a first-round draft pick?”
• Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, to reporters, when asked about his relationship with NFL referees: “It’s not monogamous.”
• Another one from Mike Bianchi, on complaints about TV and big money holding too much sway in college football: “That battle was lost long ago when people were still using phone booths and sending handwritten letters.”
• Another one from Perry: “Mavericks star Luca Doncic and his mother, Mirjam Poterbin, are squabbling over who owns the trademark to ‘Luka Doncic 7,’ and have taken their case to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. In her defence, back when he was born she did have his original naming rights.”
Care to comment? Email brucepenton2003@yahoo.ca
Front Row (Left to Right) Nick Anderson Brad Galbraith (Captain) Matthew Rumohr (Chief)
Independent Grain and Special Crops Market Analysis
Governments restrict freedoms. Central Banks are destroying our standard of living. Fiat currencies are inflationary.
Have you heard this narrative before?
Readers of the previous three columns will remember my weekend with Capital Alternatives, Canada’s largest Ponzi scheme, promoting high-yield returns and the conspiracy-theorist nature of the participants.
The Capital Alternative representatives effectively promoted and shared their solutions to the aforementioned libertarian views on governments, Central Banks and fiat currencies to an approving audience lapping up the narrative.
The writing of Sherman Scholnick, Jeff Rense and the late-night
Coast to Coast with Art Bell Show listened to while truck driving prepared me for the libertarian viewpoints shared by the presenters.
Judging by the reactions of the other participants, the liberation ideology was well represented.
Images of the Ron Burgundy-esk gentleman nodding his head in approval, big fat, heavy pen in hand, are forever imprinted in my memory. Why?......
Coast to Coast with Art Bell was an entertaining show, and please, do not assume that my listening subscribes to the face on the moon theory and numerous pseudoscience content. I was a late-night driver, and the Coast to Coast show from the High Desert and the Great American Southwest kept this truck driver alert
and between the ditches. Art would often step outside for fresh air during a break. One break was longer than normal as Art’s first step outside was met with nothing but air as he forgot the front step was removed for repairs. Several minutes passed before Art recovered from the fall and returned to the air, which I find disturbingly amusing.
The viewpoints that governments restrict freedoms, Central Banks are destroying our standard of living, and inflationary fiat currencies have been circulated for decades and perhaps centuries. A quick review of social media revealed that several of the - for lack of a better term - doomsday callers continue to be active twenty years later. It is an active space, as negative headlines are
effective clickbait, suggesting some knowledge and foresight worth reading.
How many of the Ponzi scheme participants have the same viewpoints and are focusing time on the subject twenty years later? Or have they expanded their knowledge of the role of governments and central banks and the causes of inflation?
In the coming weeks, I will share more of this experience, what I learned and why it did not pass my BS detector.
In the meantime:
Trust your intuition.
Spend your time wisely.
Trent Klarenbach, BSA AgEc, publishes the Klarenbach Grain Report and the Klarenbach Special Crops Report, which can be read at https://www.klarenbach.ca/
The Klarenbach Report is sponsored by Kindersley & District Co-op
BY BRIAN ZINCHUK
ESTEVAN – If you’re reading this on your phone, tablet or laptop, it is being powered by a lithium battery. If you plan on ever owning an electric vehicle, it is almost certainly going to use a lithium battery, and a very large, heavy one at that. But actually, since it’s made of lithium, it will be lighter than any other battery commercially viable at this time.
And that’s why lithium is so important. And Saskatchewan is poised to play a major role.
As the world moves towards electrification, lithium has become one of the absolutely crucial minerals. Indeed, without lithium, the entire idea of an electrified economy is almost moot. That’s because you can’t beat the periodic table.
Lithium is the lightest metal, period. The only two lighter elements are hydrogen and helium. So if you want to create a battery that uses a metal, any other material will be heavier. It’s simple chemistry.
The heavier the battery, the heavier the vehicle or device. And in vehicles, a heavier battery means you need an even larger battery just to have the power to move the added weight. It’s like the rocket equation. The more fuel you need, the more fuel you need to move the initial fuel, until it gets so big as to be impractical.
Remember brick phones? They used nickel-cadmium batteries, and were much, much heavier, and much bulkier. An iPhone using a Ni-Cd battery would probably be the size of an actual brick.
So lithium’s important. But why do we care?
Apparently, southern Saskatchewan may have a lot of it, right under our feet. There’s currently a race to determine how much is there, and how to commercialize it. The prize is billions. Many, many billions. In the last ten years lithium prices tripled from $7,000 a tonne to $21,000 a tonne, and then tripled again to $65,000 a tonne. CONTINUED PAGE 14
It literally is the dawn of a new industry in this province. This is the first targeted lithium well drilled in Saskatchewan, drilled by Prairie Lithium. Since then, wells have been drilled near Coleville by Grounded Lithium and Stoughton by Hub City Lithium.
| PHOTO BY BRIAN ZINCHUK
Brian Zinchuk: Lithium in Sask Kindersley Museum of Lights
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Anyone familiar with oil extraction in Saskatchewan knows that over time, you’re going to produce a lot more water than oil. Sometimes as much as 98 per cent water. But that water is a salty brine. And depending on the formation, the dissolved salts may contain lithium.
There’s been one geologist working for the provincial government, Gavin Jensen, that’s been doggedly pursuing this for over a decade. For years, he spoke to nearly empty rooms at conferences. But at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in May, it was literally standing room only. Much of the exploration being done now is based on his initial work. He’s been talking about extracting lithium from the brines deep underground. Now, people are doing something to develop those brines.
Pipeline Online has spent the last year working on a series of stories about the prospects of lithium development in this province. Indeed, in the week before launching this website, I was present videoing and photographing the drilling of the very
first targeted lithium well in this province, and indeed Canada, at Torquay. The widely acknowledged leader in the field, Prairie Lithium of Emerald Park drilled that first well in later September, 2021. A few weeks later, they tested it.
Zach Mauer, originally of Weyburn, heads up Prairie Lithium. He launched it because the oil crash made prospects difficult for a recently graduated geologist. Now, in a manner not too different from Silicon Valley, the company is blazing the trail.
Prairie Lithium’s Dr. Ben Rostron was the scientist drawing the sample. Taking a picture of him processing that very first sample, I told him, “Ben, if this works out, it’ll be like taking a picture of Steve Wozniak inserting the first chip into an Apple computer.”
He smiled, and said, “I sure hope so.”
Since then, two other players have drilled wells – Grounded Lithium at Coleville, and Hub City Lithium at Stoughton. Prairie Lithium has re-entered oil wells that were initially going to be abandoned. The pace is picking up, and there’s interest in both southeast and west
central Saskatchewan. That makes this a provincial play.
And two more lithium players are getting in the game, Lithium Bank and Living Skies Lithium. Over this past year, Pipeline Online has spoken to all of them.
Spaced out over the coming weeks, Pipeline Online will be running a series of stories exploring this, the newest frontier in the Saskatchewan energy sector.
This is going to be the most in-depth coverage regarding the development of Lithium in this province. There’s going to be well over a dozen stories. Once you’ve read them all, you’ll have a really good idea of just what exactly is going on in the race for lithium.
And it’s all being accomplished with oilfield companies and services.
As the world is telling us oil and gas must go away, lithium may prove to be the salvation for the companies and workers in the industry. From the drilling rigs and service rigs, to the tank rentals and geological expertise, it’s all oil and gas services and people. You may not have realized it, but several of the ads you’ve seen on this site over the past year were not shot on oil wells, but a lithium well. Right now, a lithium play is entirely indistinguishable from an oil play. You wouldn’t know the difference unless you saw the sign at the lease entrance.
If lithium is the
“just transition” from oil and gas, this series will give you a good idea of what it looks like. Helium may be a little further ahead, but lithium’s potential for Saskatchewan is much, much larger.
One more thing: right now, everyone’s trying to figure out where the lithium is. But no one’s really figured out how to successfully commercialize it in this manner. You’ll read about direct lithium extraction, or DLE. Everyone’s talking about it, but no one’s doing it, on a commercial scale, yet. And figuring out a successful DLE process is quite literally the multi-billion dollar question.
And then there’s a question we’re calling “primacy of rights.” It turns out that with development of helium, lithium, natural gas, oil and even geothermal energy, it is possible to get several of these products from the same wellbore. And the process and cost of getting the mineral rights to oil and gas is different for lithium and different again for helium. If Saskatchewan doesn’t get this right, it could lead to headaches, delays, and perhaps all sorts of legal conflicts. This series dives deeply into this subject as well.
On Nov. 7, Saskatchewan introduced an incentive to help out this fledgling industry. We’ll start there. Watch Pipeline Online for deep dive stories into this exciting new industry you won’t find anywhere else.
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SJHL Klippers looking to change their luck
BY JORDAN PARKER
Your Southwest Media Group
Despite their best efforts, the SJHL Ironhorse Kindersley Jr Klippers just can’t seem to catch a break this season.
When Your Southwest spoke to Assistant Coach Briar McNaney, the team had
just one win in five games and an overtime loss and shootout loss apiece for their efforts.
Going into the weekend – where they had games against Yorkton, Melville and Notre Dame – they were last in the league with a 5-11-1-4 record
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and 15 points. And yet, they were only four points away from a three-team leap in the standings.
“It’s disappointing to lose. It’s a difficult thing, but you just have to move on to the next game,” said McNaney following a 6-3 loss to the Melville Millionaires on November 23.
The Klippers were outshot 38-26, and Melville scored five unanswered goals –four in the third – to come out on top.
“We’ve been preaching this since the start – We need to get pucks on the net. Sometimes you miss, sometimes they’re blocked, and sometimes it’s a bad angle for a quality chance. But things happen,” he said.
“Earlier in the season, we were shooting 40+ shots a game. It’s a matter of us hitting the net and getting past opposing players’ shinpads. We need to find the space to take good shots.”
Though McNaney wasn’t happy with the outcome, he knows the team has to keep doing what they do best.
“We just need to stay the course. Some unlucky things hap -
pen in the third period, and we beat ourselves mentally. The mistakes cost us,” he said. “We need to keep going and get the guys to do these things the right way.”
One thing McNaney has been really pleased with is the goaltending from both of his newcomers: Logan Falk and Cody Jaman.
“They’ve both been playing well. We’re confident in both guys and happy to have high-end goaltending. That’s something some teams would love to have,” he said.
“They work so well together as a tandem. They’re best friends, they push each other, and they cheer each other on. That translates well on the ice.”
When asked if the coaching staff juggles lines often, McNaney said chemistry is important for things to go smoothly.
“We really love some guys as duos, and seeing them on the ice together is fun to watch. Obviously, due to injury and other things, the lines get switched up. But we try to keep chemistry together,” he said.
“For instance, the Paplawski twins (Spencer and Adam)
play so well together. It’d be pointless to split them up, and anyone who watches the game would agree.”
McNaney is sure the team can rise in the ranks and standings if they can push through the slump.
“We just need to stick to the process. We could move to a playoff spot with two weeks of great play here,” he said.
“We’re only a bit over a third of the way through the season, and when luck goes back to our side, all could be well.”
Rosetown native Kayden Ostrom echoed his coach’s sentiments as well. Ostrom himself has seen eight points in 15 games this season and says the team clicks well together.
“I think we’ve gotten really close as a team. We’re just pushing each other through and hoping to get over the slump soon,” he said.
Ostrom was a star at the Calcutta Shootout event for Parents Weekend following the November 19 Klippers win over Nipawin.
“Basically, billet parents drafted players, and we took shots. Whoever won, half
of the money went to the team, and half of it went to the billet parent who bought us,” he said. “My billet mom bought me and won her money back.” He echoed his coach’s sentiment about just getting shots on goal for now.
“(Head Coach Ken Plaquin) talked a lot about this. We need to crash the net and hope for some greasy goals right now,” he said.
“But knowing we’re getting outshot, we also need to lock down our defence and not give teams so many other opportunities.”
His first season with the SJHL has been an important, amazing ride for the young player.
“It’s just been awesome. It’s a great group, and the coaches are awesome. If we start winning, things will be even better,” he said.
“As long as we remain positive and keep a good morale, I really know things will be fine.”
The Klippers will take a break and be back with regular season play on Saturday, December 3, 2022. They play Notre Dame in Kindersley.
The Kindersley Sledge Hockey Tournament was held this weekend at both rinks in the West Central Events Centre. The Kindersley Klippers Jr. and Intermediate squads played host to teams from Medicine Hat, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon at the 3-day tourney. | PHOTOS BY KATE WINQUIST
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FLANAGAN - A Celebration of Life was held November 19, 2022, at St Paul’s United Church for Jerry Flanagan November 1, 1932 - November 9, 2022.
Jerry was born in Unity to Dora and Stanley Flanagan and lived in the country close to Reward Saskatchewan up to 1953 when Jerry moved to Kindersley to play ball with the Klippers and start work at Kee Sheet Metal while boarding at Don & Toni Staples for five years.
Jerry met Valerie Morgan, and they were married on August 6, 1958.
Jerry played many years for the Klippers, and several members of those teams are now in the Sask Baseball hall of fame, including both Jerry and his brother Irl Flanagan. After Jerry’s playing days, he helped coach his sons Jamie & Robin in minor ball and eventually, along with Stan Niles and John Bourne, started the Kindersley Royals, who were overall contenders in senior baseball’s SMBL, Sask Western and Canadian championships along with the big cash tournaments in western Canada. Jerry umpired and served as Sask Baseball director for zone 7 and, in the early 1980s, was looking to build a complex and host some world championships. Jerry chaired the 1984 World Youth Champi-
onships and the 1986 Pacific College Cup of Baseball. These events and the Royals’ success put Kindersley on the World Baseball map. If the gates were open at the ballparks, you could usually find Jerry handing out peppermint mints or life savers while either working on the diamonds or enjoying a game and friendships.
In winters, he refereed for 18 years while serving on the senior Klipper hockey teams board and coaching minor hockey’s Kindersley Quakers from bantam up to Juvenile division.
Ultimately, with all of Jerry’s dedication to Kindersley Baseball, he was very humbled to have the Jerry S Flanagan Complex named in his honour.
Jerry’s plumbing career took him into gas inspecting and then into plumbing and heating for 67 years in Kindersley. Jerry loved
to work/mentor and be around people. In Jerry’s last few years, he toured the town and surrounding areas for coffee, visits, and lunches and would bring home baking from the area bakeries - dubbed the Carrot Man at McDonalds for his love of their muffins.
Jerry was predeceased by his wife Valerie, his mother and father, and brothers Harvey, Allan and Irl.
Jerry loved his family and was very proud of our Irish heritage and will be dearly missed by his son Jamie (Sherri), Kayla (great-grandson Nate James Neumeier), Lacey (Josh), Sean (Maddie), son Robin (Brenda), Allyson, Dylon, Kelly.
Donations can be made to Kindersley & District Health and Wellness Foundation Box 195, Kindersley, SK S0L 1S0.
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Dear Friends in Saskatchewan, It’s that time of year again where I am making my Santa kits/letters for all the youth and adults that have been good this year. I have a friend in Saskatchewan where you can ask for information about these kits. Please feel free to message Gwen at santaskits@outlook.com for
mation.
BROCK
Sunday, December 4
• Christmas Market 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM at the Brock Community Hall. Lunch available. Sunday, December 18
• Santa’s Workshop 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM at the Brock Community Hall. $5 admission. Kids will receive a candy bag. Bring your camera and have your picture taken with Santa. Kitchen will be open. Call/text Shannon 306-460-0214 for more info.
COLEVILLE
Saturday, December 3
• Coleville Santa’s Hut 11:00 AM Rossville School. All Coleville kids 14 and under are under. All proceeds go to the Kindersley Crisis Center.
DENZIL
Sunday, December 11
• WHAT IF? - Our annual celebration of Christmas! The evning includes carol singing, special choir numbers, flute and the handbell choir. Lunch to follow. Denzil Sacred Heart Catholic Church 7:00 PM.
EATONIA
Saturday, December 31
• Eatonia Lions Club New Year’s Eve Dance. Special performance by Mitch Larock and the 4:54 Band. $35 per person; $60 per couple. Midnight Lunch. Tickets available at Eatonia Town Office or Eatonia Agencies starting December 1st.
HOOSIER
Sunday Service
• Hoosier Community Church 10:30 am at the Community Hall. Contact Joel Hamm 306-460-7056 or Curtis Kornelson 306-460-7327.
KERROBERT
Tuesday, November 29
• Prairie Branches Community Coffee & Muffin Sale
9:30 AM at the Kinsmen Hall
Wednesday, November 30
• Cardmaking at the Library 6:00 PM. Call the Library 306-834-5211 to register.
Thursday, December 1
• The Kerrobert Courthouse Restoration Society presents “Winter Wonderland 2022 Festival of Trees.
• Storytime at the Library
Friday, December 2
• The Kerrobert Courthouse Restoration Society presents Winter Wonderland Town Christmas Party at the PCC. Tickets at the Town Office $60 each or 8 for $440. Music by Front Porch Roots Revue. Catering by Jan Taylor. Must be 19+ to attend.
Sunday, December 11
• New reception date for Art & Soul, an exhibition by Anna Polsfut, 2:00-4:00 PM at the Courtroom Gallery. Anna has brought a large body of work in a variety of mediums to share.
Monday, December 12
• WHAT IF?
- Our annual celebration of Christmas! The evning includes carol singing, special choir numbers, flute and the handbell choir. Lunch to follow. Kerrobert Catholic Church 7:00 PM. Everyone welcome. Wednesday, December 14
• Parent & Tots at the Library 3:00 PM Saturday, December 17
• Kerrobert Minor Hockey Day Wednesday, December 28
• Parent & Tots at the Library 3:00 PM Saturday, December 31
• New Year Celebration at the Kinsmen Hall 8 PM2 AM. $20 at the door. Performance by The Singles. Midnight Lunch provided. Guaranteed $1000 50/50. Fundraising efforts for Marty Huckabay.
* Secret Santa for Seniors. Look for the “Santa for Seniors” Tree at the Kerrobert Courthouse Festival of Trees. Choose a tag, which will include a local senior and their wishlist. Please return wrapped and labelled gifts to D’Lux Hardware by December 17. Gifts will be delivered to the Hillside Lodge, Pioneers Haven and Kerrobert Long Term Care residents. For more information contact Lori Zerr 494-7172 or Kimberly Wack 494-8006.
* Weekly Walk this Way at the P.C.C. 9:30 - 11:00 AM
* Weekly Shuffle Club at the P.C.C. 1:30 PM
* A Christmas Village located at 432 Atlantic Avenue (Downtown in former pizza place building). Opening night: December 1st 5:30 - 8:00 PM with Santa! Open until December 22nd. Thursdays 6-8; Saturdays 5-8; Sundays 1-4. $2 entrance fee (not for profit).
KINDERSLEY
Sunday, December 4
• Kindersley Christmas Carol Festival 7:00 PM St. Paul’s United Church. Free Will Offering. To participate, please contact Carmen Julseth at brio_music@ hotmail.com or Glenda Giles at 306-460-8031 or 306463-2524.
Wednesday, December 7
• New Life Church, Kindersley presents: “Laughing All the Way” A Christmas comedy and carols experience for the whole family. 7:00 PM. Tickets $20
Friday, December 9
• Women’s ‘Worth Shop’ 7:00 PM at the Seniors Centre 115 - 3rd Ave E., Kindersley. Free Admission. A Better Together Mental Health Initiative. Speaker: Shelley M. Christian. The goal of the “Worth Shop” is to up-
lift, equip and empower women to thrive mentally and emotionally in the midst of challenges and adversities facing them in their daily lives through awareness, education and interactive learning.
Saturday, December 17
• Tickets on sale for Kindersley Players Dinner Theatre performance of “The Foursome” by Norm Foster. Directed by Judy Lavoie. Advance tickets only $65 each or $520 for a table of 8. After Dec. 17th, tickets available at Labelle Boutique.
* Prairie Crocus Quilt Guild meet 2nd Tuesday of the month September to May at the Pensioner’s Hall (3rd Ave. E.) 7:00 pm. Contact Donna 306-463-4785 for more info.
* Kindersley Air Cadets meet every Thursday evening at 903 - 11th Avenue East. New recruits welcome. Call 306-430-7897 for more info.
* Monday Night Jam Sessions 7:00 - 11:00 PM at the Norman Ritchie Community Centre. All ages welcome. Call Keith for more information.
LUSELAND
Saturday, December 10
• Santa Claus Day. Lots of activities for the whole family all day in Luseland.
Wednesday, December 14
• WHAT IF? - Our annual celebration of Christmas! The evning includes carol singing, special choir numbers, flute and the handbell choir. Lunch to follow. Luseland Homecoming Hall 7:00 PM. Everyone welcome.
* Donations of $5.00 in memory of a loved one for the 2022 Memory Christmas Light Display can be made at the Delta Co-op Farm Supply. All donations will go towards the upkeep of the Luseland Cemetery. Please make donations by December 3rd.
MACKLIN
Friday, December 2
• Macklin Chamber of Commerce “Christmas In Our Town”
Saturday, December 3
• Chamber Community Christmas Party at the Macklin Credit Union Legacy Centre.
* The Macklin & District Arena Board in conjunction with the Macklin Recreation Board will be sponsoring a FREE Tot’s Learn to Skate Program every Thursday from 2:00 - 3:15 PM.
MAJOR
Wednesday, December 7
• Major CWL Ladies Christmas Party is back 7:00 PM in the church basement. Please bring a $20 gift for the gift exchange and a snack to share.
